Was Saban sending a message to Smart?

I think Saban’s comments confirm two things: 1) That Smart is considering the Georgia DC job and 2) Saban is worried about losing him to Georgia.

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hahaha, sinking ship? bama fool, you must be out of your mind boy! We’ve had one bad year out of ten, and that’s all you’ve got?

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And Georgia has played for HOW many national championships under Richt? Answer: the same number they will PLAY for in the future….ZERO. Oh yes, tell me how you got cheated out of one that year you didn’t even win your division. Thirty years and counting…..

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Is anybody besides me tired of the “Coach in waiting” phrase. It is so lame. Kind of like a Tech student who has never kissed a girl calling himself “Stud in waiting”.

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The “Grass is always greener over the septic tank” is an Erma Bombeck comment. It is official, Nick Saban’s Dad was Erma Bombeck. Look up a picture of her, you can see the family resemblence.

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I do not believe SUNTAN can woo Kirby Smart….if truly is smart!

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trust me Bama lovers, Saban is planning his next move now. The man gets bored real easy and thre ain’t much to do now that he has reached the top. Hope it was worth it.

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We want to get smart.

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Kirby is coming to UGAg. He loves Shreveport and looks forward to spending lots of time there.
Its great to be a UGAy bulldawg… 1980 Natl Chumps baby

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Saban’s a great coach and a egomaniac, so what he says shouldn’t matter. Kirby is good young coach and I would like to have him at UGA, but Richt would be wasting his time. Kirby is a flight risk! Richt is probably the most stable coach in the SEC. I’m sure it killed him to fire CWM. Richt wants to maintain stability. FLA is in turmoil, TENN is about to be on probation, Miles is on his last leg at LSU, Saban is about to lose his 2/3 of his defense to the NFL, Richt needs to bring in a DC that will coach his a$$ off and stay awhile. If Grantham fits those needs go get him! The Dawgs could have a special year in 2010.

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Fleischman…Does that mean that you wouldn’t be able to hang in Shreveport considering we whipped your tail on your home field? Maybe Tech does belong on the Blue Turf.

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Bama Fan.. Keep hitting them… They are simply jealous and vindictive.

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Richt can’t get anyone to come to the septic tank? Hmmm…2-7 vs Florida have anything to do with it. Gotta love GA fans with there excuses.

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JEALOUSY…………………………..UGA will never experience what BAMA just experienced. SABAN for CMR and 10 million dollars. Done deal for all of the UGA fans.

Going from Miami to BAMA is a step up. BAMA to UGA………………………A sad step down. You UGA fans crack me up along with the BARNERS ON THE FARM. You still can not beat Florida.

In 3 years SABAN wins a National Championship. What has CMR done. 2 National Championships at 2 different Schools for SABAN. To much PRIDE for you DAWGS to admit it.

Face it. SMART knows this will be a step down. He is only considering it due to pressure from the fans and Alumni.

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To P. Bull Terrier:

Angry……………………..Are you kidding me. You guys are hallarious. I laugh at you guys every single day how no one wants to come to your great football school…………BARF.

As long as Urban Meyer is there at Florida, you will never play for a SEC Championship.

UGA football would make a great comedy skit.

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UGA……………………..It irks you guys to see the last National Championship was in 1980 for the DAWGS.

Alabama last 2 were 1992 and 2009. Thirty years is a long time. The ghost of Vince Dooley. Must be sad to see CMR ponder why no one of any magnitude wants the DC job.

Smart can leave and the line for his job will be very long ……………………..not like the sad situation you have.

You guys are so funny. 2nd rate program who will never catch BAMA in any statistic for NC nor SEC Championships.

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After reading the comments posted on here, I cannot remember why I pulled so much for Alabama. Actually, almost all the UGA fans I spoke with before and after the game pulled for Alabama. Now that the game is over and we see the real class of Bama, it makes one wonder.

The game was OVER with 47 seconds left, but classless Saban had to run up the score instead of showing class and taking a knee inside the 5 yd line. The spontaneous comments listed above to his assistants are unbelievable and sound as much a threat as advice.

Coming home to your alma mater with a raise is NOT a lateral move. Saban has to be a helluva coach; no doubt about it. He deserves all the credit for pulling this program out of the outhouse to the top in such a short time. (Bama fans act like they have been on top for the last 50 years). He is an egomaniac and must be hell to work for. What other coach runs ahead of his team onto the field? What other coach prohibits his assistants from talking to the media? It may be good training, but at what a price. Wonder what the stresses on the family life are in Ala compared to UGA?

We cannot know the true inside situation. Kirby has been in Athens and in Tuscaloosa and I am sure he will make the decision he feels is best for his family and his career. Hope there are not other personalities in Athens that would present an obstacle. Would welcome any move to improve the team, but not just to satisfy someone’s ego. If he doesn’t want the job and I hope it is an aggressive offer, I am confident CMR will find the right guy.

Go Dawgs!

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01HAWK, You made me very sad and hurt my feelings. I know I’m not as strong and powerful as you since I don’t have a man crush on Nick Saban, but when you say no one wants to come to my great football school it just makes me want to cry.

The only thing that makes me feel better is that Urban Meyer isn’t at Florida any more, so maybe we CAN play for the SEC Championship soon.

Oh, wait…he was just kidding?
Or is he really gone?
Or half way out the door?
Or half way in the door?
Or never really left?

It’s just so confusing to me how things work with the gods of college football. I guess simply needing a new DC isn’t so bad after all.

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*metaphor

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If Kirby does come back to Athens, he’ll be here a long time after ‘Brother’ Saban has split for parts yet to be determined. He left Miami because, like Petrino, he found that his coaching style just wouldn’t work with adults. So long as he can intimidate kids that are afraid of losing their scholarships, or coaches that are afraid of losing their jobs, he does just fine. Then there’s that ego. Tide fans, the worst thing that could have happened to you and your new ‘hero’ is for you to have won the NC. The man has now added that notch to his personal list and will be easily lured to the ‘next big thing’…USC?…maybe…back to the Big Ten…doubtful…but gone from Tuscaloosa in two years…I’ll bet on it and you guys will be back making excuses like you were under poor Mike ‘I don’t have a clue’ Shula, or having to fire coaches before they ever even coach a game…and you’ll deserve it because the one thing that Bear didn’t leave you was ‘class’ or ’style’ – and no, hounds-tooth ain’t the kind of style I’m talking about.

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Tim Tucker, what do you mean was Nick Saban sending Kirby Smart a message ?

God.

Who the hell else ?

Texas Tech is NOT better as head coach than DC at Alabama.

NOT.

UGA Bulldogs is NOT better as DC than DC at Alabama.

Sorry.

Tell it like it is.

Nick Saban for all his faults, absolutely tells it like it is.

Always has.

Good lesson to learn yourself Tim Tucker.

Mark Bradley, I will give you credit for that admission. Big XII is 2-5 in BCS NC Games and SEC 6-0.

Big XII hype.

SEC is 3-0 over Big XII in BCS NC Games including last year AND this year.

3-0 also all bowls SEC over Big XII this year.

3-0 also all bowls SEC over Big XII last year.

Stick to basketball, you know nothing about football. Nothing.

Never have.

I said Alabama would KILL TEXAS, who BEAT NO ONE.

37-21.

That will work.

1 SEC NC is once.

2 SEC NC in a row is REPEAT.

3 SEC NC in a row is HAT TRICK.

4 SEC NC in a row now is The Golden Sombrero.

Mark Bradley, you would know sir.

What is it called when The Mighty SEC wins the NC again next season for our 5th in a row, sir ?

3 Polls 3 Final Polls have UGA Bulldogs ranked in the Top 25 at 22, 22, and 24.

UGA Bulldogs are ranked in Several of the Official BCS Polls Final Top 25 :

Number 22 Kenneth Massey Official BCS Poll Final Ranking 22 UGA Bulldogs.

Number 24 Peter Wolfe Official BCS Poll Final Ranking 24 UGA Bulldogs.

Number 24 Jeff Sagarin ELO-CHESS Rankings.

GA tek fans, did you get that ?

SAGARIN RANKS UGA BULLDOGS NUMBER 24.

SAGARIN ALSO RANKS SEC # 1 CONFERENCE, Big East 2nd, then PAC-10.

Where is the STINKING ACC GA tek fans ? Jeff Sagarin RANKINGS.

Remember ?

3-4 ACC Bowl Record

2-5 PAC-10 Bowl Record

6-4 SEC Bowl Record including UGA Bowl Win number 26 three have more.

Big XII ? Not even a Winning Bowl Record.

ACC and Big XII had a LOSING BOWL RECORD coming into this season.

ACC and Big XII BOTH still have LOSING BOWL RECORD.

ACC added to it.

Coach Richt and Rodney Garner have PULLED the scholarship OFFER to B.J. Butler a 3-Star undersized 240 lbs. Defensive End who has 4.65 speed in the 40-yard dash. He has committed to Charlie Strong at Louisville.

This opens up a Scholarship Offer.

Give it to Mack Brown.

Starting 1997, Mike Bobo’s brilliant Senior Season, UGA had been ranked every year for 13 Consecutive Years in the Final AP Poll. We had not been ranked every year in the Final Coaches’ Poll. There were other polls we had not made the Top 25 of. Frankly, we have had several seriously flawed, underachieving, and greatly disappointing seasons since the day DJ Shockley graduated with Honors from UGA following the 2005 Season and SEC Championship.

We have messed up in Recruiting.

We have had serious holes, demanding 4 and 5-Star Commitments, and have failed miserably at filling those glaring obvious holes. We have done this while we have instead stockpiled our 85 Scholarships at positions where instead we were already 5 Deep.

GLARING HOLES :

Defensive Ends, for example. Signing 5 in 3 weeks now will only make this WORSE.

Safety, for example.

Cornerbacks, for example signing only 1 a year for 5 consecutive years now.

Defensive Tackles now having only gotten 1 year 5 years in a row now.

Fullbacks after this up-coming season.

Also, it appeared obvious that we would have to move stockpiled receivers to defensive backs and failed miserably on that as well.

And, we should have long ago not waited until recently, moved stockpiled linebackers to Defensive Ends.

Of course, Coach Richt has had a real problem in his decisions of coaches’ on his staff, surrounding himself with YES MEN, buddies, college roommates, and out-of-position position coaches with zero experience at the position Coach Richt put them in, and not one coach on his staff with 1 single solitary day of NFL Coaching Experience.

He still doesn’t have 1 single coach with NFL Coaching Experience.

Not 1.

We did not play Knowshon Moreno, instead redshirting him, and therefore only got to see the best running back in UGA history over the last 25 seasons, 2 years. Very sad decisions, all of these.

We did redshirt Washaun Ealey, and then three-quarters through Game 5, ripped the Redshirt OFF Washaun Ealey. Another blunder in personnel for a brain trust that frankly has had way too many of these.

But, we have played a very tough schedule, and as I predicted all along, we have ended up outside the Final AP Poll Top 25, and outside the Final USA Today Coaches’ Poll.

There is nothing that you can do about that.

Playing Texas A&M who ends with a losing record 6-7 on December 28 in the Bowl Number 11 of 35 bowls, is not going to get you ranked no matter the 44-20 obliteration. And frankly the losses to not 1 but 2 unranked 7-6 teams who otherwise would not have had a winning record for 2009-2010, Tennessee vols and Kentucky Wildcats, sealed our fate, despite the win over Number 13 GA tek.

This gave us SEVEN (7) LOSSES to teams NOT RANKED in the Final AP Poll Top 25 in the Coach Richt Era.

We have to cut that crap out.

BAD LOSSES. 7.

Frankly, you can add the LOSS to GA tek 2008 to that list of BAD LOSSES too, although they barely did end up in the Final AP Poll Top 25 in 2008. But, they would NOT have, had they not beat UGA in 2008.

But, it is quite clear that Coach Richt has 7 Losses to teams NOT RANKED in the Final AP Poll Top 25.

Kentucky and Tennessee vols both at 7-6 at no point this season were going to end up in the Final AP Poll Top 25. How do you lose to such teams who otherwise would not have even had a winning record. A study of both teams shows that NEITHER KY nor the vols BEAT ANYONE.

And, they beat Coach Richt.

HOW DO YOU LOSE TO A TEAM LIKE THAT ?

BAD COACHING STAFF.

Also :

7 LOSSES to teams NOT RANKED in Final AP Poll Top 25 Coach Richt Era.

18-20 against teams Ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25 Coach Richt Era.

I don’t have to tell you these are NOT the results of an Elite Program with Top Broyles Award Type Coaching Staff in the Coach Richt Era.

9 years, you don’t have 7 Losses to UNRANKED Final AP Poll Top 25 teams.

9 years, you don’t have LOSING RECORD 18-20 vs Final AP Poll Top 25 teams.

Coach Richt Era.

You don’t have EITHER of these absolute facts, and be Elite.

Your Coaching STAFF in total is to blame.

Coach Richt has done a SORRY JOB of hiring a Coaching Staff for him to be CEO over.

None of his entire coaching staff have ever coached in the NFL 1 day.

We pay him enough money that he should either take back over making play call decisions, which is his only claim to fame and why we hired him, or he has to hire an ENTIRE COACHING STAFF made up of current NFL Coaches.

Do I mind if he hires a Defensive Backs’ Position Coach from the NFL and makes him the Defensive Coordinator ? Oh, I think that is exactly what he must do.

He whiffed on Chavis last season, when I told him he had to go get Chief.

He didn’t listen.

A lot of that is the blame of the other UGA Bulldog posters, who had all these wild nasty statements they wanted to make about Willie Martinez ALL LAST SEASON, when they could have instead, gone past that on to the SOLUTION.

And, you were not unified what you wanted.

Congratulations though.

By doing what you have been doing for several years now, harping on just only Willie Martinez, you got him FIRED.

Coach Richt’s college roommate Willie Martinez FIRED.

It was a tough choice for an SEC Head Football Coach, who has said for years, that he would NOT be making ANY changes on his staff.

I told him he could either make wholesale changes to his coaching staff, or he could leave with the lot of them.

I pointed out our issues on Offense.

I pointed out our issues on Recruiting.

I pointed out our issues on Special Teams.

I pointed out our issues at DE and Safety and Cornerbacks.

I pointed out our issues with well over 120 suspensions by Coach Richt in his 9 years.

You ?

Willie Martinez sucks. Fire Willie Martinez.

Congratulations.

You got what you wanted.

Moreover, the real issue remains that Coach Richt has surrounded himself with YES MEN, and has 0 with 1 day NFL Coaching Experience.

Excuse me, Coach Richt SUCKS at HIRING A COACHING STAFF.

He has sucked at it for 9 years and counting.

He SUCKS AT HIRING COACHES TODAY JANUARY 9, 2010.

3 WEEKS AND 1 DAY before NATIONAL SIGNING DAY.

No Defensive Coordinator.

No Defensive Backs Coach.

No Defensive Ends Coach.

No Linebackers Coach.

No Special Teams Kick-Off Coach.

No Special Teams Kick-Off Return Coach.

No Special Teams Punt Return Coach.

Have you read the quotes of our Commitments ? Have you ?

Florida HIRED A GREAT DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR, YESTERDAY.

Coach Richt WHIFFED ON THAT ONE TOO, and Coach Richt SHOULD HAVE HIRED HIM BEFORE Florida even knew they needed 1. Coach Richt fired his Defensive Coordinator A FREAKING MONTH before Charlie Strong LEFT as Florida’s Defensive Coordinator.

We ain’t beating no Florida, us with our staff and them with their staff, by DIRECT CONTRAST. We can’t get THOSE RECRUITS. They want THOSE COACHES, not Coach Richt’s assemblage of nobodies all out of position to teach them what they need to enhance their career. And, they are NOT SURROUNDED by the players Florida has, not here. We have no one in our entire Secondary like we always used to have my whole lifetime.

Stacy Searels better get off his butt and do something with all these Offensive Linemen we already had here when we hired him. He has NOT lived up to his billing. Has he ?

When you open the UGA Media Guide, the 1st thing you see if the COACHING STAFF.

Then, the players.

WE DON’T HAVE A COACHING STAFF AND HAVE NOT HAD ONE, AND COACH RICHT DOESN’T GIVE A CRAP.

3 WEEKS AND DAY BEFORE SIGNING DAY, and NO DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR ?

God Almighty Above.

We have a former UGA wide receiver whose dad was a great tailback for us as Running Back Coach.

We have a former running back at UTC Chattanooga who then became running backs’ coach at several places including South Carolina, who is our Wide Receivers’ Coach.

We have an Offensive Coordinator who has never worked anywhere but at UGA (except 1 year as QB coach at Jacksonville State) who has never held the position of Offensive Coordinator anywhere in his lifetime. His play calls are BOOED LOUDLY by Sanford Stadium fans all the time.

All the time.

He gets in 3rd and long and runs the ball.

We have a Tight Ends Coach who can’t figure out that Orson Charles is our Best Tight End. This Tight Ends Coach is in fact a former Quarterback. God Almighty is all I can say. What the hell does a freaking QB know about Tight Ends ?

OR ANY OF THESE OTHER ALL OUT OF POSITION COACHES ?

Not 1 of them has 1 day experience coaching in the NFL.

That’s it for Coach Richt’s Coaching Staff.

There isn’t anyone else.

THAT STAFF has taken the Number 7 Recruiting Class we, the fans of UGA Bulldogs, have handed them.

AVERAGE NUMBER 7 RANKINGS BOTH RIVALS AND SCOUT.COM EVERY YEAR FOR 10 YEARS IN A ROW NOW OF THE COACH RICHT ERA :

And gone :

18-20 vs the Final AP Poll Top 25 for 9 years now.

7 Losses to NOT RANKED teams in the Final AP Poll Top 25 for 9 years now.

Don’t give me this B.S. this CRAP that all we need is a Defensive Freaking Coordinator.

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UGA can pay smart a lot more cash than Bama will pay–Kirby should make the move, get rich, with tons of benefits!!! At Georgia, he’ll make at least $1 mil per year with tons of perqs, incentives, etc. At bama, he’ll make only $300-$400K–chicken feed for the best D coordinator in the U.S.!! Come home to Athens—the money’s waiting!!!!

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CPJ will hire a DC faster than Richt and he will be a better DC.

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Ask old Nick Boy where he built his home away from Tloosa. LAKE BURTON, JAWGA! He does speak with forked tounge.

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Anybody awake yet out there this a.m. ? Hello?

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