Coaching, Recruiting Thoughts

The tire is not flat it is off the car at the shop and has been there a while I agree Buc time to hold Richt accountable for what has and is going own no excuse like wait till next year next year has not got here yet.With all the talent we have my bulldawg could win 10 games a year never under Richt we have been to the NCs game nobody wants to talk about that.The reason is we are geting out coached look at Boise no 4 or 5 stars and they made Richt and BoBO look like JR high coaches. GOOD MAN DOES NOT MEAN GOOD COACH! Have a good one! DAWGS.com makes it alot better since football is gone for right now thank's to all

Buc, you took the words right out of my mouth. I am 110% in agreement with you. I will admit that when we won 10 games in a row, made me think alittle different about CMR, but then looked at who we played and then looked at who we lost to. Did not take long to realize that nothing has changed, a middle of the road program and beat another middle of the road program. But put us up against a top 20 team, we hang for a half then get blown out or lose focus and make stupid mistakes.

I said it a few months ago, CMR will never win more than 10 games, will not win the SEC championship nor a NC. Aslong as LSU and ALA continue to stay the same or get stronger we will never compete. I beleive alot of players want to come to UGA for the tadition, and to play for the G. Sure I think some recruts come for CMR, but how many more could we get if we had a coach that knows how to win the big games. I say we are stuck with CMR this year, but after another lack luster 9 or 10 win season, let him go and lets start over. How can any coach leave schlorships on the table and say he is satisfied with the players he has. Shows you right there the man has no clue as to what he is doing.

duck there is no doubting many players come to Athens because of Mark Richt. Same thing can be said about Nick Saban. Two totally different coaches and coaching systems. From top to bottom.

The fire that we saw in our program for the past two years did not come from Richt, it came from Coach Grantham, and he was called down for that. Grantham coached under Saban and no doubt in my mind that a lot of that fire in the belly came because he had worked for Nick Saban.

We really have to ask ourselves whose system works the best. How is it that Saban can come into Georgia, not say a lot, does not get limp wristed around press folks, he scares the hell out of them. When he is through with that project, he takes some of the best we have to offer back to Tuscaloosa. Example again . . . reading press reports one would have thought that Dalvin Tomlinson was going to Georgia Tech. When all was said and done, he knew after Saban offered months back that he was going to Alabama. Think Saban did not know that, he sure did.

Next recruiting cycle there are some serious young men that have potential written all over them. Wonder how many will cross the Chattahoochee heading west. I have serious concerns at this point about Tray Matthews that has commited to UGA. This young man is a serious football player and could mean so much to us. It will not surprise me to see Tray change his mind. One very good reason to do so . . . . leadership. While Coach Grantham and Lakatos would be his coaches, they are not the leaders, they are Mark Richt's assistants.

Nick Saban will jump all over a player if he makes a mistake, even when his team is ahead by x number of points. Does that create an image that is so bad that players watching the game on TV or in the stadium as possible recruits back away from that kind of leadership. Most know that Saban dots the i's and crosses the t's. Not only because he wants the win, he is teaching the profession he has chosen to the ultimate. Sometimes a bit funny watching a 5'7 or 8" inch looking skyward and screaming at a player that is 6'5" and 275 pounds. That is coaching, not worrying about appearances such as President Adams and others at UGA are trying to project. Call it what you want, has nothing to do with integrity. If you have played the game for a coach worth his salt, he has crawled all over you at some point, any of you that played know that is so.

At this point appears to me that Mark Richt will stay at UGA as long as Adams is president. We might as well understand that not much will change and if we are going to be UGA supporters, live with it. Sure am glad that we got a good Christian man, I am a Christian and believe I could put some life into UGA football, would probably look more like what we see in Tuscaloosa. Heaven forbid we use some of Saban's methods to get there.

Great post, Buc.
No doubt Grantham has energized the base but he can't do it alone.
While Adams worries about appearances, a lot of us worry about the ENERGY of the program.
The excitement in Athens just isn't what it was.
Mark Richt has coached at Georgia a long time, particularly by today's standards.
He reacts when pushed, knew he had to turn it around last year.
When he faces criticism, he gets testy and rather condescending, thin skinned.
Probably one of his biggest weaknesses, stubbornness in the face of failures.
Some would call it optimism. I call it stubbornness. He talks about ups and downs.
I don't think he enjoys losing but he doesn't instill the confidence of a coach who refuses to lose, at least not on the face of it.
I don't pretend to know Richt, not judging his character, only saying what I see and hear from a whole bunch of people, Georgia fans or not.
Lane Kiffen is a slimy sleazebag but in one year he energized the Tennessee program, like him or not.

I read a lot but don't say much. I agree that it's a tactical error not to use all the scholarship's available it's kinda like leaving bullets in your gun during a fire fight. I read that Hines Ward said he would like to come back to UGA to coach. I'm not sure where we would put him special teams maybe but I say hire him.

DAWGtm wrote: I read a lot but don't say much. I agree that it's a tactical error not to use all the scholarship's available it's kinda like leaving bullets in your gun during a fire fight.

Yeah, that's exactly what it's like. I think looking at it through the military analogy of
guns and fire fights, we all better accept the fact that our HC is a conscientious objector more-so than a member of Navy Seal team 6.

DAWGtm wrote: I read that Hines Ward said he would like to come back to UGA to coach. I'm not sure where we would put him special teams maybe but I say hire him.

With the NCAA rules about the number of coaches you can have, it's not quite that simple.