Grantham on Vikings’ late TD: ‘What goes around comes around’
(Updated 8 p.m.)
So what did Todd Grantham, Georgia’s new defensive coordinator, think about the Minnesota Vikings running up the score Sunday on the Dallas Cowboys?
Grantham, Dallas’ defensive line coach until its season ended with the playoff loss to Minnesota, was asked in a postgame interview posted on the Cowboys’ Website about the Vikings throwing a fourth-down touchdown pass with less than two minutes to play and a 27-3 lead. An interviewer told Grantham he could be unguarded in his comments since the Vikings are not on Georgia’s schedule next season.
“No, they’re not,” Grantham said. “I wish they were, though.”
He continued: “I really can’t answer why they would do it because I’m not in their head. But I do know what goes around comes around, and they play the Cowboys next year.”
A few other notes:
– Word is that Connecticut’s defensive backs coach, Scott Lakatos, is a candidate for a job on the Georgia coaching staff. (UConnReport.com says he interviewed on Saturday.) UGA still has two openings on its defensive staff after hiring Grantham, who said late Friday that he and head coach Mark Richt “will be working throughout the weekend and next week to iron some of those things out. But anything like that would be premature at this time.” Call it Phase 2 of the coaching search. And this phase will not be nearly so protracted as the DC hire.
– Lakatos has been the DB’s coach at Connecticut the past six years. Before that, he coached the secondary at Rutgers for three years.
– It took Georgia 43 days to hire Grantham. It took the Cowboys 30 minutes to hire his replacement. The Cowboys on Friday hired Paul Pasqualoni, fired earlier in the week as the Miami Dolphins’ defensive coordinator, to replace Grantham after this season. Pasqualoni previously coached three years for the Cowboys.
– This could be the connection between Lakatos and Grantham: Lakatos played for Pasqualoni at Western Connecticut and later coached under him as a graduate assistant at Syracuse.
– Cowboys coach Wade Phillips, by the way, told Dallas reporters that Grantham was “grossly overqualified” to be a defensive line coach, his job the past two seasons.
– Derek Dooley is taking over Tennessee’s football program at age 41 –- 10 years older than his father was when he took over Georgia’s program in 1964. “My qualifications were 10 times less than Derek’s,” Vince Dooley says, “but the beauty of youth is I didn’t know I wasn’t the best hire in the world. . . . Being an administrator [later], there is no way I would have hired me with my experience.”
– Click here for a flashback to the start of Derek Dooley’s coaching career as an unpaid graduate assistant under Jim Donnan at UGA in 1996.
– The night before Derek Dooley became Tennessee’s coach, Vince Dooley, 77, was in Houston to receive the Paul “Bear” Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Yellow Fuzz
January 18th, 2010
8:34 am
Topp Dogg:
That Joke by Coke
1. KICKED yo azz in front of 92,000 speachless dog fans 14 short months ago (we even spoted you 16 points at half time)
2. Won OUR conference championship
3. Played in a BCS Bowl
4. Finished the year ranked 13th (out of 120).
YOUR only highlight was beating us 30-24 and I honestly think our players subconsciously handed you this because so many of your were near suicidal at the time. Hahahahahahaha. FINALLY when you beat us it’s YOUR “signature” win. Hahahahaha
Yellow Fuzz
January 18th, 2010
8:40 am
What does 100 empty Walmarts look like?
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img.allposters.com/6/LRG/15/1540/B4PBD00Z.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Sanford-Stadium-Posters_i1660015_.htm&h=322&w=400&sz=67&tbnid=QsVUomjkNVpK2M:&tbnh=100&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsanford%2Bstadium%2Bpics&hl=en&usg=__D9EQSYuTKVgfz5i5zPkbivWZ1JY=&ei=OGRUS7SCNMaXtgeC2LCtDA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&ved=0CAsQ9QEwAA
dawg85
January 18th, 2010
8:41 am
30-24. Georgia’s worst team in recent memory beat Tech’s best. I like that. As far as Grantham and Dallas are concerned — Dallas d played pretty good. Three turnovers by the Dallas offense plus a couple of missed field goals make things tough on any defense. Romo was also sacked six times too. Dallas’ defense played good enough to keep them in the game — they received no help from the offense.
30-24.
Yellow Fuzz
January 18th, 2010
8:58 am
Dawg85
“Georgia’s worst team in recent memory beat Tech’s best”- You’re welcome!
Tech also beat your preseason number one azzes the year before that! Hahahahahahahaha. In Stamford, with Stratford and Morino!
Yellow Fuzz
January 18th, 2010
8:59 am
45-42 started uga’s down hill slide!
Yellow Fuzz
January 18th, 2010
9:05 am
To borrow the DOG NATION’S most popular and abused phrase, “wait till next year”.
(((((45-42 )))))Hahahahahahahahahahaha
LearnToSpellNerdPatrol
January 18th, 2010
9:13 am
“Hahahahahahahaha. In Stamford, with Stratford and Morino!”
Are you retarded? 14 years old?
Stinger
January 18th, 2010
9:14 am
Grantham’s defense next year. Ahhhh, haaaa,haaaa. What a joke. LOL. If a 40 yr old quarterback can shred the defense like the Vikings did yesterday, Nesbitt will run for 200 yds and pass for 200 yds. I can’t wait.
kelly
January 18th, 2010
9:21 am
Geeez, sounds likes like a Richt guy already. Richt is the only coach I’ve ever seen that would literally sit on the ball for a quarter and a half with a 14 point lead. So obviously Todd would think what they Vikings did was bad. I can understand his point of view at the college level, but in the NFL those guys are getting paid millions to play a little kids game. I have no sympathy for the Cowboys. I don’t really recall them showing mercy on the Falcons now that I think about it….
Yellow Fuzz
January 18th, 2010
9:24 am
LearnToSpellNerdPatrol
I have great spelling. Just lack the respect to spell them correctly in public that’s all.
ernisTbass
January 18th, 2010
9:41 am
If they had waited a couple more days Wade phillips will be available
gman
January 18th, 2010
9:43 am
Yellow Fuzz is a “yellow turd”. 30-24 and a butt kicking in basketball is all that needs to be said…
Still running untouched
January 18th, 2010
9:53 am
If I was a tech fan I would worry about my own defense…the one ground to pieces against UGA and Iowa…by the way running it down your throat is not a scheme problem but a player talent problem, So I imagine we DAWG fans will see improvment on defense much sooner than the insects.
UGA71
January 18th, 2010
10:12 am
Yellow Fuzz, you are quite correct that no one on this blog respects you, but it is not because of your spelling.
Esteban
January 18th, 2010
10:18 am
If Grantham & the Cowboys didn’t like Favre & the Vikings “running up” the score then they should have stopped them. Quit whining & knock the lace off your panties. It’s PRO football. Favre & the Vikes did their jobs; Grantham & the Cowboys didn’t. Glad to see that UGA picked up a quality coach. GO JACKETS!
1-800-TECH-TIX
January 18th, 2010
10:28 am
(30-24) Eat it Buzz!
1-800-TECH-TIX
January 18th, 2010
10:29 am
(30-24) enough said!!!
Glad it hurts so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still!
indianman
January 18th, 2010
10:35 am
way to go vikings 34 to 3 is better than 27 to 3 quit crying cowboys your sour loser
indianman
January 18th, 2010
10:36 am
30 t0 24 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
clickdawg
January 18th, 2010
10:56 am
al groh, give me a break, he even gave up 49 points to tech.
Pants on the Ground
January 18th, 2010
11:41 am
Granthem is Willie 2.0. He got schooled against Favre. Big mistake for UGA
Mark Richt
January 18th, 2010
11:52 am
With his lack of experience as a DC…we will still have growing pains next year. But thanks to Kiffin leaving we should win 9 or 10 games next year simply on the basis of our weak schedule. We play nobody out of conference (Colorado is the only BCS school other than Tech) and we do not play LSU or Alabama. Cupcake city baby!!! This should help us heal our wounds from the past couple of seasons but we will probably be overranked by the end of the year since we will have lots of wins but against a fairly weak schedule. Only potential roadblocks to 10+ win season is South Carolina.
Hat turnt sideways
January 18th, 2010
1:01 pm
As Pants on the Ground says, “Grantham is a Big Mistake for UGA”. What will he do when Paul Johnson’s triple option puts up 500+ total yards and 50 pts. on his defense this November? Grantham could be the final nail in Mark Richt’s coffin. The only possible saving grace is the weakest schedule in the south. Other than GT, who do they play? Nobody, absolutely nobody.
mike's world
January 18th, 2010
1:36 pm
one of you idiots said “I will be watching Dallas today, will be interesting to see that scheme and how well it works for Dallas. Looks like that is what you are going to see teams in the SEC switching to in the next few years”. I wouldn’t want that scheme coming to UGA after a 34 point lashing from the Vikings but I guess that is expected at UGA defense allowing 34 points.
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Louie
January 18th, 2010
9:50 pm
I hear Grantham was REAL PI$$ED about the 4th down,rub it in your face TD by the old man.
Doggies better (and ctg too) get used to Fla., Tenn., Ky., SC., and oh HELL YES , the man himself CPJ puttin a drubbing on ya next year.
STILL L M F A O
BurningRedBleedingBlack
January 19th, 2010
10:13 am
Uga is going to be more than fine, grantham is just what we need. Al Groth is a good coordiantor but come on his resume isn’t anything like grantham’s. All these haters on here are just scared UGA finally made some big moves on the Defensive side of the ball as far as coaches go, Kids are loving the idea of a 3-4 defense especially linebackers, plus grantham was a NFL coordinator so he knows what it takes….big recruiting tool there.
BurningRedBleedingBlack
January 19th, 2010
10:18 am
hahahahahaha….oh man that cracks me up, tech we beat ya’ll with willie martinez, coach grantham is gonna make your option look like middle school football, please what a joke tech is. 30-24 in your back yard by a 7-5 team dont forget it. WE RUN THIS STATE, GATA
Louie
January 19th, 2010
9:57 pm
doggies hire desperately to get their new secondary coach, yeah cmr NEVER ( I SAID) NEVER heard of the man until GRANTHAM said HIRE HIM.
What happens if he turns out to be a bust?
cmr is the man.
STILL- L M F A O !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!