Yet again the surface is only scratched. Grantham gets a pass, new coach, new defense, old players, Willie's recruits...while we are again treated to another 4 quarter dose of vanilla O....But behold,...Bobo/CMR have seen the light and are back to putting big numbers on the board...all is well in Athens!!!...
We rationalize and generalize a moral victory to the lizards and come out swinging for the fences against the tigerwareagleplainsmen, only to exhaust ourselves before the end...Has anyone considered the possibility that the Urban Cryer and Sleezy Chizik, as well as just about every other coach on our schedule, knew our weaknesses and exploited them? How is it that some can find a silver lining to ANOTHER defeat in Jax, only to have the LameCocks demean and belittle Urban's new fangled offense a week later? I've said it before and I will say it again...We can opt for the path already taken and relive the Willie nightmare, or realize that Willie, Jancek, Fabris, Calloway, Garner, Searels, Van Halenger and Grantham are mere symptoms of a terminal problem.
Talent has NEVER been a problem for UGA, or the great State of Georgia. Look at the rosters of other teams and you will find many from our state. While it pains me to admit, we've a growing problem with closing our boarders....wonder why???...Who among the long time posters here recall the conversations we had following CMR's hire and his PROMISE to close our boarders??? Anyone else happen to hear that much coveted recruit Cromwell wore Bama colors to the UGA/AU game???...There goes another home grown option across the stateline. This, like much of everything else discussed about this pathetic season falls directly on CMR's threshold!
I've read all the sunny sky analysis I can stomach, so here is what I believe will happen next year and beyond...Richt stays and like his Willie defense, CMR will rally for Bobo, who will likewise stay. We are likely NOT to see any changes whatsoever in coaching. Should we get fortunate enough to beat Tech, who actually sux much worse than we do, we will probably get an invite to some pathetic, mid-December Bowl...maybe...perhaps beat and equally pathetic mid-tier wannabe program and end the season feeling good and ahhh-shucks about what might have been...Another heaping helping of WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA!...Thank you sir, may I have another??? Green, Houston, Boykin and a few others will announce their NFL desires and quickly depart Athens for the money train, we will recruit another top 20 class, but someone...probably Buc, Sadler or I will note the marked decline from top 5 to top 10 to top 20...ahh but happy sunny days are certain to ensue again...G-Day will fill us with spirit and hope...Murray will again display his beastiness, the summer drought...then REALITY strikes!!!...Another season replicated...and Deja vu all over again.....
This is Mark's program, not the assistant's and players we look to point fingers. Coach Richt has a hand in every aspect of this program from recruiting, play design, playcalling to time management. Somewhere after 2005, Mark lost his way...and we began the slow spiral. A few years ago, I was one of the pumpers, refusing to see what was plainly in front of my face. No more! When pure talent can't get you over the .500 benchmark, its time!...When was the last time you heard about mat drills???...It showed Saturday!!!...When our program can field a mature, talent rich team which struggles mightily, while the LameCocks rise above and surpass them...it's time! We have descended to and are engaged in accepting mediocrity and I for one cannot tolerate it! CMR will have 2 years remaining on his contract following the 2011 season. Perhaps by then the pathway chosen will be clearer? I certainly hope so, otherwise statements from Sleezy Chizik about UGA becoming significantly irrelavant for the next 4-6 years, may come true!
GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!
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