Questionable Thoughts About 2013, and Beyond

Buc wrote: Here comes some of the "fluff" that we have discussed on this board. Media hype. One paragraph in the article proved a point that has also been raised on this board.

McGarity trying his best to sound like President Harry Truman . . . . "Buck Stops Here". Truman lived by his words, Greg McGarity. Impressed with you . . . . why should I be? Your responsibility is to do as you are told to do by the "Group". If you are that powerful, face the head coaching and defensive coordinator situations. Can't do that, head coach will leave when he is ready to leave, Mr. McGarity. FACT.

“If I sit here and say, yeah, I’d be willing to go through a two-win season in order to win a national championship the next year, we’re in the if only world,” Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity said back in December. “We’re speculating here. Our charge has always been to show improvement every year. That is determined at the end of the day by me. That’s my responsibility. It lands at this desk.”

dogbytesonline.com/unranked-bulldogs-vie...4-projections-80164/

"The Manchurian Athletic Director"

Buc, agree about AM. He was very talented, but he did not rely on talents alone. One of his greatest skills to me is that he was very coachable. I can remember mistakes he made early in his career. He had a lot to learn with reading defenses, understanding how to attack zone coverage. He came a long ways. A great work ethic, and being coachable no doubt are talents not many have. AM did. That made him into what he was the last 2 years. Again, was just making a point that he must have been coached up quite a bit from his freshman year to his senior year. I believe any ways.

Really not that important because as long as we keep the defense the way it is, we will never be a contender. Don't care who and what is on the offensive side of the ball. No defense, No championship. Well unless we join another conference.

GO DAWGS - I could kick myself 100 times for backing CMR. Only reason for keeping CTG is to take attention off himself when the water starts boiling.

Totally agree with what wlayton said earlier in this thread. Really good "stuff" going on.

grantham in his last press conference is talking about the incoming "help" the defensive side will get. We are talking about "how much help" for the defense grantham? Will the "newbies" not have to learn your system? Seems several that you have coached for some time still don't know your system. Face it, your ego will not allow you to compromise.

If I am McGarity "the buck stops here man", when I hear those words presented in the context they were, his butt hits the street. grantham has more talent than most universitites have on defense. He likes to hammer the fact (when he does say something publicly) how good our defense is in the Red Zone. Leaves the rest of the game totally out of the conversation.

grantham is not suited to be a coordinator. He has been on a steady decline. That is not because what those of us say on this board. It amounts to folks above him at other places figured out quickly that his services were not needed. No one in the NFL knocking doors down for grantham's services.

AM is a strong headed young man. That is not a bad thing, in fact shows spunk in my opinion. When AM journeyed to the Manning Camp and then to Oklahoma to improve, he set a standard that had not been seen or heard of in Athens. That includes the head coach and all under him.

For the final spring break of his college life, Aaron Murray toyed with the idea of joining friends on a trip to Cancun or Key West. Instead, the 22-year-old Murray passed on a week hanging at the beach to spend his vacation time this past week in Norman, Okla., working morning and afternoon sessions with private QB coach George Whitfield, who had come to the Sooner State to help prep former OU quarterback Landry Jones for his pro day.

Reason I am bringing AM to the forefront is this . . . . Using a word that Nick Saban used last night when sitting on a panel at the National Championship Game. COMPLACENCY. AM worked and the rest fit into the word that Saban used.

Been that way for a long time, and will continue on the same path, under the leadership of I guess . . . . Greg McGarity. He did say the buck stops with him.

AM is of course gone, just trying to make a point that complacency surrounds Georgia Football in too many areas.

I hate Auburn.
However, Malzahn did wonders with a less talented bunch of kids than what Richt had.
Richt is the model of complacency.

Wartdawg wrote:

Buc wrote: Do I think that Hutson Mason will take us to the final four? No. Do I think that there is a better quarterback in Athens right now? Yes.

Will either QB in this sentence be able to make UGA the 2014 SEC champ and get us in the payoff as long as MR is coach? My magic 8-ball says ALL SIGNS POINT TO NO.

You may be 100% right Buc... FB may be the guy, but it wouldn't make a difference in my opinion as we have much bigger problems that
HM or FB can't fix. MR's inability to recognize that FB should be the guy is just another display of his shortcomings. Even if he comes around and makes FB the man.... it isn't going to get us there.

Believe me though.. no knock against your post or opinion as I certainly don't trust MR to make the right call on who should start at QB.

Buc wrote: Dyshon Sims will take one of the offensive line positions in 2014. Hold me to that. He has the same makeup that Kublanow has. A needed "nastiness" in Athens. Just need our head coach to stay away from their preparation, Coach Will Friend will allow the nasty, and wants nasty.

Dyshon Sims will probably be benched for being too nasty. "Nasty" is not "the Georgia way".

Wartdawg, no offense taken on my part. This is the kind of talk that needs to be "aired out" on this board, and others.

Quite frankly was hoping that scooby would join in, maybe he will later. That is not a shot at him, it is saying to scooby, you wanted real conversation . . . . here it is.

Not that the link below means all that, it however shows where others think our program is.

Mat drills really paid off this season . . . . Maybe put some of that effort in Special Team practice.

Just a suggestion.

www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2014/usa-today-final-coaches-poll/