Coaching, Recruiting Thoughts

I keep hearing who would do a better job than CMR, well we could probably hire a division 2 coach and with some imagation and the players with the talent we have could probably have us in the NC game in 2 years. Seriously, I don't know, but me personally anything would be better than CMR. You bring in someone with a fresh mind set, and someone with a offensive mind for play calling and who knows. We will never know if we just keep hanging on to the past, and say yes we are winning against lessor teams, but we are getting closer to beating a top 20 team. I am so tired of wait til next year, next year will be the year of the dawgs ect.

Yeah... I remember our last real "wait till next year".

It was after our 2007 squad which might have been the
most talented team in the nation came up short because of inexplicable losses to SC and UT.

Wait till next year... 2008. Pre-season #1.

Pretty sure what happened next was we went up against 'Bama with our game plan being uniforms. Oh yeah and then UF paid us back for our bush league antics from the season before. (not to mention watching Tech shred WM's D... who would still be our DC if CMR had his way)



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Oh and just for the record... despite all that I have never said we will never win the SEC again and/or never win a NC as long as Richt is our HC. I have my doubts, but I've never made those claims. I just stand pretty firm on my assessment of the program in the past few years, and
1 season of being "pretty good" hasn't erased those feelings; Especially after what I saw from the sidelines
during our bowl game (Yep it ticked me off that much),
plus some stuff that really chaffed me about our recruiting season.


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Wart, I agree, Willie's D was shredded all to often. However, I keep seeing where people say CMR didn't want to run Willie off. CMR fired Willie under Damon Evans. I don't think there was an abundance of pressure like many want to claim. I just don't think CMR is nearly as dumb as many on this board want to claim him to be.

CMR also made the final decision to hire CTG. Kirby was his first choice. I believe Kirby was everybody's first choice. Heck, I would be ok watching him back on our sidelines. Said all along if Richt is going to be gone, bring in Patterson, or Kirby. Now, believe CTG is a year or 2 away from stepping up. Believe he knows that too, or else he would have chased that opportunity.

In all honesty, if I was an outsider looking at this board, I would have though CMR had done nothing good for UGA. That's just being honest. Believe many forget where our program was at before CMR took over. I can tell you in my time, we were never relevant in the SEC east until CMR. I wasn't around for the Dooley days.

GO DAWGS

Below is a post that I made on October 26, 2007, after the Tennessee game. There are some here that don't like to discuss the state of affairs with our football team down to the nuts and bolts. That is fine, their choice. There are some of us that have seen this same act recurring year after year and have said enough is enough. Still talking about offensive lines and other areas as the post from 2007 suggests.

I totally agree that it is not a player problem, has been said over and over there have always been talented players in Athens. It was and is still a coaching problem. Show me the leadership between 2007 and now. We have one decent year, trying to not say much about the "other" years.

It seems, or it is true those that continue to say we are one or two years away from a great team have been saying the same thing since 2007. Have the posts to prove it if anyone wants to step up to the line. Facts are facts.

There is not one person on this board that wants to win anymore than I do. We can lose, but not like we did to Tennessee in 2007 and other teams since. Take it any way you wish, we have seen one big change since Wille Martinez left and that is Coach Todd Grantham, our fifth choice for defensive coordinator. We need leadership and it is sorely lacking from the top.


Heartbroken... and Saddened Good Evening ALL DAWG FANS . . . . . .
I am 67 years young, grew up in the state of Georgia and have always and will always love my Dawgs. There have been many up and downs in my life with the Red and Black, and for the most part . . . . .ups.

Today, without question was one of, if not the worst whippings I have ever seen the UGA team take. Losing is not the question with me in this thread, it is the WAY that our team lost.

During the 50's, 60's, we had some problems. Some of us were glad to make the Sun Bowl with VD, which seemed to get us on the right track and back into the times of Trippi and the like.

Sad for me to say, but this team gave up, repeat GAVE UP. I do not think that there is a lack of talent on our team, I just do not see the motivation needed to play up to the potential that I think is represented by the talent on this team.

We all knew going into this season that this was going to be a Dawg Fight. Today, the Dawgs were there, however there was no FIGHT.

I have been very careful not to say too much on this board about coaching, but here I go. Erk Russell, rest in peace, thank God you did not have to witness what WM put up as a defense today. Never in all of my years have I seen such pathetic ARM (if you choose) TACKLING. Today we looked like Ohio State in the game with Florida for all the marbles for the national championship.

We knew going into this year that we had problems, especially with the offensive line, just did not know that the defense would play like this. The road gets no easier for us, there are some teams out there that play with the same intensity that the Vols did today.

My heart is broken, never did I think that I would witness the UGA football team giving up. I apologize to all of you that take this to mean anything other than one old farts opinion.

Go Dawgs!

Buc, Remember that debacle of a game all too well.
Had to endure a lot of razing that year.
I remember the end of that season, all the NC talk.
Sorry to admit, the Tn fans had a great point, how could we be considered for a spot in the NC game after that whipping?
Willie finally left, rather classless in his departure. So much for loyalty to your friend who kept you employed in the face of mediocrity.
I accept the fact CMR is going to be here awhile. My hope is that he can shake a little of that thin skin and constantly evaluate the team's direction and NEVER be completely satisfied with the team's performance.
Never quit coaching, 24/7/365. That's why we pay him the big bucks.
No time for pats on the back. We aren't even close.