My 2 obvious impressions from Sanford....

Exactly my point Sadlerdawg. Good coaches lose games they shouldn't. I am not saying Richt is a great coach. I think he is a good coach. I give an example, after the usc game, we managed to rip the coaches, same pattern after every loss. The offense scored 42 pts against a pretty good defense. Somehow, it was the play calling and coaches fault. Then, look at how we lost. How do you coach against those mistakes. Saban couldn't do it last year against au. No coach can.

My point is, every week it is a Richt and staff bashing. It doesn't even matter if we won the game. Have the coaches deserved some ripping? You bet they have. Have the earned all the bashing I have seen. No. I am pretty sure if they ran out of gatorade on the sideline, some would blame Richt.

Am I impressed with the wins. No, but at the same time, they were wins in the SEC. I was probably more impressed with the way the team played against usc, than I was in the 2 wins. Played a really good game minus 4 plays. I don't believe most of the blame should be on the coaches in that loss. Bsu, they should take all the blame. Will agree with that. Kids weren't ready. That is coaching.

GO DAWGS

My 2 obvious impressions from Sanford?

1. We won
2. We won


I know I'm looking through "slightly rose-colored glasses" here but the "victory cup" I have that gets a cold Miller Lite poured into it after every win hasn't gotten much use in the last 12 to 24 months. Sure, I could pick apart the offense, the coaching, Cornelius Washington, etc. Instead, I'm going to wear a sheepish grin behind my rose-colored glasses and save the negative talk for the next time we lose a game...hopefully sometime in 2012. GO DAWGS...KICK SOME VOL @$$!!!

Lets make it 2013 Mike, we need an SEC championship this year and a NC next year. SIC EM you hairy Dawgs!!!!!!!!

Richt gets ripped even in a win because the incompetent characteristics that have been visible for years are still there. Richt is still soft. He still needs to go lead a church group and leave the men work for the men.

MikeH and AD5, I'm glad that you guys can be happy with just the fact that we won, and I'm not saying that is wrong, but I'm not like that. Yes we won, but there were far too many coaching blunders going on that are going to get us beaten by better teams, and some of us feel that if those mistakes are corrected, we might not lose these other games. EVERYBODY sitting around me in the stadium KNEW we were going to pass on 2nd and 3rd downs after we got the ball on their 15. Everybody wanted to just run the ball and try to score. Question--since we all knew what was coming, do we think the MS coaches might have known? And do you think maybe the offense quits, maybe even subconsciously, after Richt shows ZERO faith in them by not going for it on 2 4th and inches in a row?????
A win is win in my book as well, but simply winning because we are playing far inferior competition doesn't make me giddy and I will point out the mistakes the staff makes over and over.

With our issues over the past few years, I don't think it's unfair to analyze the state of
the coaching and give an honest opinion. Most of us have been very fair about the SC
game. We know the mistakes made by the players, and we know our offense put up 42 points.
We admit Richt is able to recruit good talent at the skill positions, but we still see
issues that need to be addressed. I don't think talking about the coaching issues even after
a win is unfair. I'm as happy as a lark we got those two SEC wins, but I'm a realist. Ole
Miss isn't good at all, and Miss State went into this season highly overrated. We still
made a lot of mistakes in those games, and there's really not that much meaningful conversation to
be had if all we are going to do is high five each other on the win.

Talking sports is a lot like political debate.. people tend to talk most about unresolved
problems. I think if people want to see the negative Richt talk subside, they are going to
have to wait until we start beating the higher level competition... or at least until we
see our offense play well for at least 3 quarters for more than 1 game. 1 half of good football on that side against mediocre competition isn't going to earn anyone a free pass for the week.