UGA President Michael Adams calls for support of football team, Richt
UGA President Dr. Michael Adams on Thursday called for Georgia football fans to unite in support of the team. His comments came during the fall semester meeting of the UGA Cabinet when asked to assess the job being done by 11th-year head coach Mark Richt.
Said Adams:
“I don’t believe I have ever commented on any coach mid season. You know the answer. What we do weith every head coach — every head coach, not just the high-profile head coaches – but at the end of the season the AD sits down and makes a judgment. Then he makes a judgment whether or not he needs to talk to the president about that.
“The issue for me right now is I think this is the time for all of us to come together and get behind this group of guys who played a heck of a game last Saturday and deserve our support. I’ve never folded on anything 15 or 20 percent into it, and that’s what we would be doing.
I’d love to see the stadium full Saturday for probably what will not be the most high-profile opponent we’ll play this year. I go to the locker room. I know these young men. I know a number of our student-athletes. We had a heck of an effort last Saturday. There’s nobody here who likes to win more than I do. But it’s time for us as a community to get behind this team, support them from now ’til the end of the season. And once the whole body of work is in, we’ll do what we do every year. We’ll see where we are.”
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Barrack Dawg
September 16th, 2011
5:03 pm
Screw Michael Adams. He is the one who should be fired for hiring Damon Evans and helping to destroy our program. So if you cut Richt loose this year – then we should go ahead and fire Adams as well. Had he brought in McGarity to start with when he hired Evans, we most likely would not be in this mess among other things. We would not have a half ass indoor practice facility. We would not have the red panty scandal. We would not be having this conversation.
Snoop
September 16th, 2011
5:14 pm
Amen, Brotha Barrack Dawg. Affirmative action gone awry again…
Fire Adams too!
The revolution has begun. Liberte, egalite, fraternite! Off with their heads!
T.
September 16th, 2011
5:22 pm
Always want the Dawgs to win,but there came a time
for Goff to depart, and then Donnan,that time is fast approaching for Richt.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 16th, 2011
5:25 pm
President Adams
How about a refund on donation money when we lose to FL again and teams lousy programs like Miss St and Colorado
Then fans might keep quite a little more
Snoop
September 16th, 2011
5:30 pm
Flat Tire, if all the Dawg fans and alumni had your outlook we would not be in the hole we are at the bottom of today.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 16th, 2011
5:35 pm
Snoop
I get my outlook because I listen to FL, AL LSU Texas fans etc that want to win championships not win the mythical 10 win season championship
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
September 16th, 2011
5:51 pm
Oh and those teams dont except losing to their main rival every year
TexasDawg
September 16th, 2011
6:43 pm
Considering, there are few if any UGA grads who like or respect Adams, his statements hold no water. I would gladly be ok with living in football mediocrity for another year with Richt if Adams got fired firstQ
CMR STINKS - Boycott and Boo the Dawgs!
September 16th, 2011
6:49 pm
I hope against hope the Dawgs will get burried this weekend and maybe kill of CMR. Needs to be run out of Athens and this state! Let’s get behind him and run him out of the state!
Agusta Dawg
September 16th, 2011
7:07 pm
Reading the post on this site makes me wonder why mark richt or any coach would want to be at UGA. If we got a new coach and won another sugar bowl. would you turn on him if he did not win another for 3 years.UGA was sugar bowl champs in 2007. If we stick with CMR they will be champs again if not this year the next.
Anonymous
September 16th, 2011
7:39 pm
Everyone needs to just calm down and take a deep breath. Mark Richt is one of the winningest coaches in College Football. (and QUICKEST to his record of achievement of almost ANY previous Coach, especially in the most difficult conference in the U.S.A.
Does anyone honestly believe there is a better *MAN* AND COACH out there than Mark Richt. Everybody better take a deep breath and slow down and be careful what you wish for…Every program goes through an ebb and flow…unfortunately in our age of “instant gratification”—this is all to conveniently forgotten.
Remember, if we bring someone else in, there will be a 3-year “re-building”. Do we REALLY want to go through that? I say we re-up Mark for 10 more years….the guy HAS NOT lost his MOJO….it’s simply a period of transition we’re going through.
old dawg fan
September 16th, 2011
8:23 pm
Who really cares what Adams has to say?
What does he know he put in Damon Evans as AD.
I say fire them all and start over, including Adams. The UGA Football Program has been decimated!!!!
It is a shame and embarassing!!!!
Pope UGA XXIII
September 16th, 2011
9:18 pm
Oh, ohh !! Contributions must be falling off if King Michael I
feels the need to issue a statement of support.
Kb
September 16th, 2011
9:42 pm
Well flat tire they might not accept it but bamas 3-7 vs auburn over the past 10 , you guys are beyond delusional.And Texas they didn’t even make a bowl last year.Being 5 different teams have won the SEC over the past 10 years someone might not be accepting it but they are living it. LSU 3 sec titles, ga, fl, auburn, 2 SEC titles each bama 1 sec title. No repeat champion in SEC since 97-98 Vols.You might as well start looking for someone else to back, because unless he has a losing season Richt will be at UGA.All of this talk about x number of wins and he has to beat one team or another is simply just not true, gives the delusional fringe something to whine about.
Tell Burke .
September 16th, 2011
10:00 pm
I don’t need to be called out. I’m a Dawg, win,or lose til the day I die ! I suffer when they lose and am happy when they win. Nuff said .
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dawgfan0617
September 16th, 2011
10:44 pm
For all the so called fans out there saying “give us a reason to support our team ‘. You are not a fan! I love my dawgs. When things are bad is when they need our support the most. This is a relly good football team and CMR is still the same guy that won 2 SEC championships. Trust me when i say that by the end of the season we will be the best team in the east. Our record may not show it but this team is young and there will be some growing pains. We can still win the east and next year we WILL win the east so dont sleep on this team OR their coach
Thomas Brown
September 16th, 2011
10:55 pm
There is no way these headlines, fit the words in the story thereafter. All we do around here is to beat cupcakes (and not all of them) and run up stats vs just the cupcakes. If they know what needs to be addressed why don’t they do it instead of losing every game vs good teams and sprinkling in losses to sorry teams too ?
No, I think the fans who try to make out that after the 2005 season, for these last six (6) seasons then, that the arrests and transfers out off the field and on the field # 30 in won / lost record are somehow the greatest we have ever experienced, are the problems with this program altogether by themselves.
What coach wouldn’t want to come here, where fans try to say we’re great just staring at all this off the field bad press yet again this 2011 season with the great exodus of our talent just leaving the program all of 2011 and on the field having once again not beat the good teams.
Now, we can go run up our stats vs cupcakes and tell everyone that we’re simply the best and better than we ever have been. What are we to measure ourselves by that which has been done after 1983 through today, or want to do more – and feel disappointed in the product actually provided ?
UGA grad 90
September 16th, 2011
11:38 pm
“There’s nobody here who likes to win more than I do.” Adams
Bulls1t! Adams is a liar. That like a queer saying, “there’s nobody who likes b00bs like I do.” Adams keeps loosing and the queer keeps grabbin’ balls.
Thomas Brown
September 16th, 2011
11:41 pm
“Spoke with #Chiefs LB Justin Houston the other day about U of Georgia. Asked him about Richt. He said it’s time for a change.”
“Houston said Richt is a good coach but that the Bulldogs haven’t won big under Richt. Said he’d like to see someone new in there next year.”
Thomas Brown
September 17th, 2011
12:20 am
I-A Wins 2006-2011 ( 6 Seasons )
1. Boise State 63 wins
2. Florida 58 wins
3. Texas Christian 56 wins
4. Oklahoma 56 wins
5. Virginia Tech 54 wins
6. LSU 53 wins
7. Southern California 53 wins
8. BYU 52 wins
9. Texas 52 wins
10. Utah 52 wins
11. West Virginia 51 wins
12. Wisconsin 51 wins
13. Missouri 50 wins
14. Oregon 49 wins
15. Auburn 49 wins
16. Alabama 49 wins on the field Ben Dukes (vacated 11 wins 2006 2007)
17. Penn State 48 wins
18. Hawaii 48 wins
19. Boston College 47 wins
20. Cincinnati 47 wins
21. Texas Tech 47 wins
22. Navy 46 wins
23. Ohio State 46 wins I thought they are supposed to be great ?
24. Tulsa 45 wins
25. Oklahoma State 45 wins
26. Nebraska 45 wins
27. South Florida 44 wins
28. Nevada-Reno 44 wins
29. Georgia tek 44 wins – outside Top 25 over these last 6 seasons now
30. Georgia Bulldogs 44 wins 2006-2011 – six (6) seasons
I-A Wins 2006-2011 ( 6 Seasons ) (on the field)
builderdawg
September 17th, 2011
12:32 am
auuuugh! BITE ME adams!!!!! go find another place in Costa Rica to purchace with our money
SEC Fan
September 17th, 2011
1:03 am
Kiss of Death. He’s done.
BigDawg
September 17th, 2011
6:50 am
Adams you are a joke. You ruined what Georgia football was about. You turned it into the mega money generating scam to line your pockets. The parking scam is shameful. If they keep losing games your income will take a hit. I gave up my four 40 yard line season tickets after you arrived. I hope those parking deck spots you force fans to buy start to empty. Mr. Adams you have created this and I can only hope it takes you down the drain with it.
Joey
September 17th, 2011
7:44 am
Thomas, you should know we averaged 31 points a game last season. Keep up (sarcasm).
Against teams with winning records, of which we won NONE, we averaged 18 points.
Bobo did a great job vs SC, and hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.
Joe
September 17th, 2011
7:51 am
No. You will get my support when you get leaders that are worth supporting. I will not support a lost cause and unfortunately that is what our program has turned into. What a pathetic story we have become.
Thomas Brown
September 17th, 2011
8:36 am
Amen to that.
Yes, Mike Bobo did a great job teaching his offense last week. Let’s see South Carolina scored 45 points, and 28 of the 45 points were not scored against Todd Grantham’s Defense. What does that tell about what a great job Mike Bobo did last week ?
Whose Kool-Aid posts, have you been reading ?
The same ones that are saying that this game against Coastal Carolina will make Mark Richt the all-time best coach with the all-time best coaching staff in the history of 1-A football as measured only in games against BCS conference opponents ?
Believe it or not Ben Dukes, says he bested me with that one.
Cobb Dawg
September 17th, 2011
9:47 am
Dear Dr. Adams,
UGA fans have supported their program as well or better than any program in the country. Asking for better results when you’re sending big bucks to the university for tickets does not show lack of support. On the contrary. We’re asking for better effort on the part of the coaching staff and would like to see a quality product on Saturdays. A couple of “tweaks” in staff personnel probably wouldn’t hurt either. But as for me, GO DAWGS!
Besmart
September 17th, 2011
10:08 am
@Dawgster and @nique, you both remind me of those people who believe everyone deserves a trophy at the end of the season, let every kid play kind of people. Also there was 5 minutes left in the game Saturday and south Caroline just recovered a fumble for a touchdown because instead of just taking a sack Muray tried to force a play that he had no chance in making. I do not blame fans for leaving, the beer left in cooler seemed more enjoyable then watching UGA try and come back, which by the way the last time I saw Georgia come back and when a close game at the end of the game was against Alabama in 2007. And for the mutt vs dawg fan statement you make no sense. I sure hope no one ever makes a comment about the falcons firing a couch or the braves because we have no ties to them. Almost all Georgia fans were born and raised a dawg fan and just because your girlfriend goes there doesn’t give you ties. We have the 3rd most active NFL players then any other university which are all making and impact in the NFL, but yes we haven’t won the SEC since 2005 or even came close for that matter. Something needs to change.
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meandog
September 17th, 2011
3:25 pm
Yeah….well, Ohio State’s prez supported its coach too. He ended up getting embarrassed by his support. College presidents should stick to the academic side of things!
Ohio State
September 17th, 2011
11:21 pm
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autotrader
September 18th, 2011
6:43 pm
Pres. Adams and Pres. BO both gave a pep talk. I am SO IMPRESSED! NOTTTTTTTTTTTT
Charlie Weiss
September 19th, 2011
2:30 am
I dont know about Dr.Adams,but i will have me a Sam Adams.
Dawg85
September 19th, 2011
12:00 pm
Alums, we ought to give 100 percent support to our program no matter what the win/loss record says. That would start with avoiding all the negative comments about the team and coaches. We have an investment in our institution and need to maintain it’s integrity and class not withstanding how our football team does. Our comments should reflect our commitment to UGA’s tradition and show the rest of the world our loyality to our school.
Non-alums, stop with you constant rants and degrading comments – please! Yes I love a winning program but not at the cost of the image these comments cast on my school. If the “G” doesn’t represent more to you than a saturday afternoon football game then find some other team to pull for.
Having been a student athlete we were told to play for the “G” on our hats and not the name on our backs. This could go along way with everybody. Pull for the Dawgs, give them support and be loyal for crying out loud. It great to be a Georgia Bulldog! If that isn’t your feelings (winning or not) then we won’t miss you support I’m sure. Go Dawgs!