A serious question

Mike Honcho wrote: Everyone here knows I've been a Richt supporter...I can't do it anymore. In the SEC, more than any other league in college football, it truly is a game of inches. Separation between the best of the best is minuscule, at best. We all know that the separation typically happens in two places...in the trenches, and across the special teams. These are two areas that Richt obviously has no real plans of addressing. Last night, minus a blocked punt which got us exactly nothing, and a decent return from Malcolm Mitchell which also got us nothing, we were thoroughly beaten both in the trenches and across the special teams. We have great talent on this team and I have no doubt we'll continue to recruit great talent...however, under this staff, if we win anything of consequence it will be because superior talent overcame inferior coaching.

Mike, came back to your post a couple of times. If the truth has ever been expressed, you did so on the subject of the trenches.

Examples of winning year after year, one only needs to look at the teams/coaches that understand where a game starts and ends. When we talk or read about Saban, it is normally devoted to offensive and defensive lines being superior to others.

When we discuss LSU, it boils down to the majority of folks talking about the offensive and defensive lines, especially the defensive lines.

We can look at any program across the country and especially the SEC, the winning programs year after year understand good line play. This has been missing at UGA for a long time, and not sure the problem has been addressed.

Comments were made last night and today about our offensive coaches and their priorities in recruiting. One has only to look at the past several years and count the number of offensive linemen especially that have chosen universities outside the State of Georgia. Offensive side not doing a yeoman's job of pulling in big nasties compared to elite running backs. Someone needs to get the message to the offensive coaches that the two go hand in hand. Check last nights game out for verification.

OK I have a question for you, why is it that USC loses several key starters off their D and have not missed a beat. We return 10 starter from a 5th rank D to get blasted in every game except Vandy. I hear about the OL, well USC had a young OL just like us, and they put our great D on their A--. Last year we had experience and the biggest OL in the nation, they did no more than the OL this year.

I saw SS looked at the Misz and Tenn game films, and designed plays to explort our D and they scored at will. CMR had no such play to counter for USC D, we will just do our same old 4 or 5 plays and if everyone exacutes, we will be fine. I also have said that CMR will never take us to another SEC title much less a NC, this was the perfit year with our schedule. But on National TV, we were made to like like a top 40 team reather that a top 5 team. I for one saw the D quit by the middle of the 3rd quarter, some will say they did not, to me they looked like the bunch that quite 2 years ago against Fla.

I think AM is not the QB for UGA, he does ok in some games, but on the big stage, he chokes. He had a quote in this mornings paper, when asked about the game, well we'll just have to look at the file, and correct our mistakes. Sounds just like something CMR would say. Also heard CMR make excusses on the after game show, If Rambo would have intercepted the pass it may have been a game changer, if we would have scored before half might have been a game changer. Excuse after excuse!!!

As most on here have said, no changes will be made, our fan base is happy with 9 or 10 wins, they all like having a christian moral coach. We will sit by and watch SS take USC to a NC and just about every program in the SEC at is relevent, will have a NC except UGA.

One last thing, from what I have seem we will now be a 4th place team in the east, for Tenn is making progress, and Fla is already above us, so even this year, we are a 3rd place team. But our CMR said we can still back in to the SEC title game, hope thaat USC loses 2, we always have to hope someone can beat someone else, for we can not take matter in our on hands.

So if they have the "muzzle" or are holding CTG back and not letting him coach in the way he knows how to coach, it is time for him to move on to somewhere that will let him coach.

Me I am not buying that. CTG is not the answer for Georgia Football. Wish I knew the answer but what I do know it is not the current head coach or his staff. The look on CTG face in the 4th qtr. was defeat. He knows a lost cause when he sees one and he saw one last night around 8:30 of the 3rd qtr when Lattimore scored to make it 28 zip.


Ya know I am tired of beating this dead horse. Time for me to take a break from this board.

LimeyDawg wrote: Where do you people live? Were you asleep during the banking and housing melt downs? Do you know what really happens in the corporate world? Football is no different.

Should CMR be held responsible for his company's lack of performance? Yes, of course. Will he? No. He'll be given a contract extension for ten wins, which is good enough for the board of directors.

Mark Richt is like the guy in charge of a company with a patent for a device capable of producing free, unlimited energy. Only, Mark Richt continues to use that device to drive a line of those little monkeys who clap cymbals together and which are available at souvenir stands across the globe. As long as people keep buying the monkeys, all is well.

Nope. Football is more at a personal level with a tighter fan base. All it will take is people not filling the stadium, which started happening this season. Plus, banks don't have competition to make them look bad. Comparing the two is laughable at best.

Rdawg wrote:

LimeyDawg wrote: Where do you people live? Were you asleep during the banking and housing melt downs? Do you know what really happens in the corporate world? Football is no different.

Should CMR be held responsible for his company's lack of performance? Yes, of course. Will he? No. He'll be given a contract extension for ten wins, which is good enough for the board of directors.

Mark Richt is like the guy in charge of a company with a patent for a device capable of producing free, unlimited energy. Only, Mark Richt continues to use that device to drive a line of those little monkeys who clap cymbals together and which are available at souvenir stands across the globe. As long as people keep buying the monkeys, all is well.

Nope. Football is more at a personal level with a tighter fan base. All it will take is people not filling the stadium, which started happening this season. Plus, banks don't have competition to make them look bad. Comparing the two is laughable at best.

No. Would you pass up a chance to see the Dawgs play? I doubt many of the thousands who do not would pass up the opportunity either. One crappy loss won't impact income one whit. Neither will another season of no NC or even a sniff at the SEC East. I would counter you by saying that, BECAUSE of the personal level of buy in on the part of the fan base, forgiveness is easier to earn than, say, crappy service from Verizon. Also, Dawgs fans have zero substitution for their favorite product. You can get a substitution for everything in your life EXCEPT those things you're emotionally attached to. The AD makes a pile of cash every year regardless of performance on the field. I'll bet there are ten fans waiting for a chance to put their ass in a seat for every fan who decides to vote against MR by not showing up, so the point in moot when the action yields no change. In this game, you're as good as your last performance. Everybody, including most here, was singing CMR's praises after thumping Vandy. And that came after piss-poor performances against Mizzou and the Buffs. Now, two games later, "off with his head." How many of those types have stopped buying Georgia merchandise? How many have said "screw Georgia, I'm a tech fan now???" Not many on the first and zero on the second point.

LimeyDawg wrote: No. Would you pass up a chance to see the Dawgs play? I doubt many of the thousands who do not would pass up the opportunity either. One crappy loss won't impact income one whit. Neither will another season of no NC or even a sniff at the SEC East. I would counter you by saying that, BECAUSE of the personal level of buy in on the part of the fan base, forgiveness is easier to earn than, say, crappy service from Verizon. Also, Dawgs fans have zero substitution for their favorite product. You can get a substitution for everything in your life EXCEPT those things you're emotionally attached to. The AD makes a pile of cash every year regardless of performance on the field. I'll bet there are ten fans waiting for a chance to put their ass in a seat for every fan who decides to vote against MR by not showing up, so the point in moot when the action yields no change. In this game, you're as good as your last performance. Everybody, including most here, was singing CMR's praises after thumping Vandy. And that came after piss-poor performances against Mizzou and the Buffs. Now, two games later, "off with his head." How many of those types have stopped buying Georgia merchandise? How many have said "screw Georgia, I'm a tech fan now???" Not many on the first and zero on the second point.

I have plenty of accounts in which season ticket holders aren't buying season tickets right now. Same goes with friends coming to stay at my place, tailgating, and then going to the game. I normally have somewhere around 20 people that have yet to show their face in Athens for the past two years because of this. I have seen Friday night bar hopping decrease, I have seen empty seats at the games. I know what I am talking about.