None of us know the reasons behind Coach Searels leaving.
If as savannahdawg suggests . . . good riddance . . . takes me to what I think the real issue is. Lose every coach that we have and at some point the finger is going to point in the direction of the real problem.
It amazes me that these coaches were hired and I suppose either fired or left on their own. The head coach was responsible for the hiring of everyone of these men until McGarity arrived. Don't know what the policy is now, do know what it was prior to the new AD.
Is was at one point impossible for me to understand why Richt could not run the UGA football team like many successful coaches do at other institutions. Figured it out, he is not a leader. Apparently he can recruit and at one time he ran a successful offense at FSU.
I won't argue the fact that based on media ratings UGA has had some offensive line athletes that were supposed to be good or better than they have been at UGA. I will argue the point that there have been recent circumstances that say UGA athletes, not just the offensive line but the entire football team is not in shape. If you are not in shape and are a 5* athlete, that athlete facing you that was not rated coming out of high school, is in shape, will kick your butt at some point. Not once but until that final whistle blows.
An example of that might be, and this might be going back too far for some. Sonny Liston could hit harder than any heavyweight in his day, knocked out many good fighters. Along comes Cassius Clay, in terrific shape, does not have the power that Liston does. What happened made history, the athlete that was in shape whipped Mr. Bad Ass, no contest. Check the Vegas odds on that fight.
Who the heck was responsible for S&C? Richt's buddy. If he was so good why is he now on the outside looking in? Was Richt not aware of the shortcomings of the S&C program until McGarity arrived? Maybe Coach Searels was not the right man for the job . . . why was he hired? WM now in Oklahoma, was he not the right man to run the defense . . . why was he hired? There has been a lengthy list of coaches and assistants that have either left or removed from UGA under this regime in the past 5 or so years.
All will be fine however, Richt is now going to concentrate on coaching football. Bless his sweet little heart. Maybe he has found himself. He is paid to run a program, not run it into the ground. If Richt is not responsible for where UGA is now, explain to me why he is called HEAD COACH.
One more thing savannahdawg, you said . . . They seemed to lack that fight that you want out of your O line.
Maybe when you have a passive head coach, it could possibly rub off on the athletes.
AD5 said that when it goes bad, folks like me (more of less) blame everything from the water cooler not working to bug inspection on the head coach. He could not have been closer to the truth. You fix the water cooler, and step on the damn bug. Fix problems, don't continue to dig a deeper hole for us and yourself.
Go Dawgs, hire another coach, fire him or have him leave on his own, then watch him take a job at Texas. My, my what a come down that would be.