gillette, read this on Chip Towers Blog. Ealey is mentioned along with some other points.
Columbus Dawg
April 28th, 2011
6:30 am
If I were Richt I would not be bragging about the Hartman Fund. It’s pretty obvious that he’s not up on the history and goings on in Athens since the Dooley era. I can remember like it was yesterday, in the Goff days the fan base in general started making noise first, just like now. Then when Goff’s Bulldogs continued to slide how it was then that the large donors followed suit. Sanford Stadium then started to show big holes in the seating all over the stadium. It was ugly, and a very disturbing time for Bulldogs everywhere.
Richt has always been the type that likes to cover up the reality in things, kind of like Obama. If he did not think that he had something to gain, he would not have harped on the Ealey thing. My hope is that Ealey will indeed man up and become the back that he was hyped to be after his great high school career. I know that Richt feels like he can lean back and wait on Crowell to come and save him, but that could come back to bite him.
Hopefully Richt does feel the heat, and I mean the real heat. I do not know whether McGarity actually told Richt that he would be fired if he lost the first two games, but I do know for a fact that there were hard and fast demands put on Richt, and this pressure was put on the powers that be in Athens by the very people who make the Hartman Fund grow larger every year. Adams knows this and McGarity knows this. Now that being said, I hope that Richt can turn this thing around, but the mediocrity won’t be tolerated for much longer I can tell you.
Richt’s friend Willie was able to muster enough D for the Dawgs to finish 2007 as the best team in the nation, even though they did not get credit for it. It will take another run like that, minus the early season shortcomings that UGA had that year with SC and Tennessee to keep that Hartman Fund where Adams wants it. In my opinion Richt needs to humble himself and quit trying come up with false positives to cover up the shortcomings.
