Call it Like it is . . . .

Wartdawg wrote:

Buc wrote: Interesting article below. Brings several questions to my mind. One thing that stood out to me was Alabama being at the bottom of the pile, meaning, fewer penalties on the field. Coaching, me thinks.

Couple of comments by Richt that shed some light for me, again, on win loss records.

Not a downer post, just the facts being presented.

bleacherreport.com/articles/1972268-geor...fforts-to-discipline

...and there we have it again:

"For Richt, who is outspoken about his faith and beliefs away from football, off-the-field issues and on-the-field struggles are not evenhanded. As he explained to a Fellowship of Christian Athletes event in February 2007, winning is not Richt's only goal.

You have to win enough games to stick around and we know that we have to have success on the field in order to get paid in order to stay around, but we just have to make sure that we do not make winning the only goal. To win at all cost so to speak. I think that my philosophy is if we build good men, then we have built a good team. If we build a good team we will have success on the field.

For Mark Richt, building young men and building a football team are two cooperating but separate objectives, but one comes before the other


Sorry, but UGH..

I think other coaches put winning first, and then try and build good men through the concepts of winning team work and commitment to a goal. Richt wants to build the good men first, and then hope that translates to a good team.

It's a subtle difference in the way of thinking that translates to a big difference in results. People like holding up
MR as some sort of Holy Grail, but I DON'T THINK FOR ONE SECOND that he builds "better men" than anyone else. It's just a concept of do you put the chicken first, or the egg.

Thank You.

His discipline off the field sure isn't building discipline on the field as that article states what we all know... we're one of the most penalized teams in the SEC and we are every single year.

Let's try going the other direction... see if building discipline on the field might translate off the field.

Felt it would be a good thing to post the two links concerning what is often discussed on this board. Meaning, Louisville with grantham and Richt's coaching philosophy.

Is there any reason to doubt just how far our program was allowed to slip with the two coaches on the same team?

Recent hires will calm the masses for a period of time, but football is not based on one side of the football or the other.

What has happened under our head coach is one side or the other seems to have to carry the load in different years. The way I have seen it.

I believe and know that there is enough talent on both sides of the ball in 2014 to change the way UGA has played football the past 13 or so years. Actually goes further back than that.

Said by many, show me. Not a kick butt post, just looking for answers that make football sense.

Wartdawg wrote: His discipline off the field sure isn't building discipline on the field as that article states what we all know... we're one of the most penalized teams in the SEC and we are every single year.

Let's try going the other direction... see if building discipline on the field might translate off the field.

Thanks again.

Buc wrote: Interesting article below. Brings several questions to my mind. One thing that stood out to me was Alabama being at the bottom of the pile, meaning, fewer penalties on the field. Coaching, me thinks.

Couple of comments by Richt that shed some light for me, again, on win loss records.

Not a downer post, just the facts being presented.

bleacherreport.com/articles/1972268-geor...fforts-to-discipline

Great article Buc, thanks.

You could take a middle of the road team that doesn't turn the ball over, good on ST's with very few penalties and they'll beat a lot of people.

Smaller details can get you BEAT.

wlayton wrote:

Buc wrote: Interesting article below. Brings several questions to my mind. One thing that stood out to me was Alabama being at the bottom of the pile, meaning, fewer penalties on the field. Coaching, me thinks.

Couple of comments by Richt that shed some light for me, again, on win loss records.

Not a downer post, just the facts being presented.

bleacherreport.com/articles/1972268-geor...fforts-to-discipline

Great article Buc, thanks.

You could take a middle of the road team that doesn't turn the ball over, good on ST's with very few penalties and they'll beat a lot of people.

Smaller details can get you BEAT.

Continue to "nose" around wlayton, and you mention something in the above post about Special Teams, which you have done a lot for some time.

Here is a taste of some of the gathering I am doing.

Jeremy Pruitt "requires" his Special Teams players to tackle and control their area. No doubt in my mind about Pruitt letting Richt know that Special Teams is a must. Pruitt has brassies and I am sure starting in the Spring the young men coming off of Matt Drills will move into the Pruitt "second stage" of learning how to play SEC football. Again, no coincidence that Pruitt coming on board is the reason for the "sudden interest" in Special Teams.

Said before, don't think that Pruitt gives a hoot as to someone else getting the "glory". His place in the coaching world right now is in the Classic City. He knows that the talent available in Athens will move him closer to that goal he wants in three years or less. Pruitt is on a mission.

Also, seems that some of the young men that have played for him, both Alabama and FSU must meet the Special Teams Test. More than one young player under him has played Special Teams and that earned them the playing time they want on Saturday regular snaps.

What that shows me is . . . . Pruitt said the young men will "earn" their playing time. Also points in the direction of, no favorites. That has been a "problem" at UGA far too often, under different assistant coaches. Don't think I have to point fingers, all of us have seen it.

Lots of little tid-bits out there, just have to hunt to find out more about coaches and players.