McGarity + Richt = What?

averagedawg wrote: When the seats are empty, maybe change will come.

I, for one, refuse to spend a couple of grand for a weekend in Athens to see us underperform and then listen to a whiny coach tell those who pay his salary some things are out of his control.

We have been taken for fools.

averagedawg, reading this pulled from the article and previous (many) posts on this board prior to what the ABH had to say.

Georgia gave Richt, now in his 15th season, an $800,000 raise and a contract extension in January after a 10-3 season. It has increased annual spending for the football program 35.7 percent and moved forward with plans for a $30 million indoor facility. Richt has helped attract a 2016 recruiting class, led by five-star quarterback Jacob Eason, that is ranked No. 8 nationally by Scout.com.

After reading the above paragraph from the ABH, goes to show that they are in the bag with the Public Relations Group. Reason for the Indoor Practice Facility . . . . SEC Network put millions of dollars in the vault. Without that money, there would be no IPF. Bet that, and a newcomer coach speaking to the need, not Richt. Fact.

All over Jacob Eason and the 2016 recruiting class, national ranking of #8 by Scout. Could be ranked #1, where the hell has that gotten our program in the past 15 years.

Another little item . . . . McGarity says he reads the emails. Mark Richt denies doing the same, has mentioned it more than one time.

Bobby Bowden, say it a lot, Richt is the duplicate copy except . . . . can't seem to win the big one. Can't seem to win the East, can't seem to develop great high school talent. Little wonder they go elsewhere.

Dr. Tommy Lawhorne and Fran Tarkenton played the game at a much higher level than most . . . . think they understand? There are others with "credentials" might post more.

Yeah, Buc, inconceivable to me all future hopes are tied to an untested high school senior.

Says a lot about the state of our program.

Mark Richt came into this league and made an immediate impact using Jim Donnan's recruits with a style of offense the SEC had never seen except when playing schools on a much less physical scale.

Then a funny thing happened... The SEC caught up to it. Faced with that fact, the country preacher turned to raw emotion and summer revival tactics by doing things like instructing his team to purposely go out and take an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty because they were actually able to score against UF before they were down by 17 points. When that was all said and done, Richt decided to get his teams prepared by again turning to the emotion of a uniform change.

Well the SEC DOESN'T PLAY GAMES LIKE THAT FOR LONG, and shortly thereafter put that nonsense in it's rightful place.

Richt, knowing he had shot his load and had nothing else to turn to, opened up his wagon and started selling himself and the program some serious snake oil by convincing everyone that he and we were about something more than winning.. See winning continually in the SEC requires a LOT of effort, and it wasn't something he was really willing to do.

So he went down that salesman's path of convincing us that emotions were bad, turning his back on the very thing that he had tried that proved his ultimate short-comings as a coach after the SEC had caught up to him.

So here we are years later having been sold a bill of goods by someone who doesn't have it in them to do the work necessary to win. How great it must be to be able to convince your bosses and a big portion of your fan base that you should not he judged on your ability to do what you are paid to do. How sweet to have redirected judgement of your job performance onto something where there is no clear barometer except for the narrative that you yourself put forward.

All of our jobs would be amazingly easy if we could get away with such.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." (H. L. Mencken.)

Here is another huge part of the BS narrative that Richt and his supporters have created.

They have created this notion that only Mark Richt is capable of doing things the right way.

Anyone else we bring in to coach the team will be evil incarnate and lead our good young men down the path of unrighteousness and sure to follow NCAA sanctions. If Mark Richt is gone, we might as well just go ahead and sell our souls to the devil, because that is the only alternative.

Sorry... but it's a BS story, a canard... an imaginary boogey-man waiting in the darkness... and it scares the masses into a blind faith of the alternative.

Looks as if Nick Saban plans to remain as Alabama's head coach for a while. Best chance for him to return for another shot at "another" National Championship or at least a Final Four.

Beginning to think in the direction of South Carolina. Would not shock me to see Kirby Smart land in Columbia.

All of us know that he is rooted deeply in the Southeast for top high school players.

Salary immediately moves up to 4 million or so.

Think it is a situation to watch closely. Nick would give Kirby his blessings to take a Head Coaching job in the SEC. Warned Kirby not to take the job offered by our head coach. Sometimes it "pays" to listen.

Just a thought. I know that some of the athletic directors around the SEC are aggressive, AD's like Foley in Florida. Alabama AD was very aggressive when he and the university wanted Saban.

Reading articles like the one below, there is usually something going on within the "inner circle".

Some of the folks that are deeply involved with Georgia football are not happy campers, realizing that we will face Kirby Smart on the "other teams" sideline.

touchdownalabama.net/why-a-kirby-smart-d...omsday-for-the-tide/

Talent like that shown below and we can't win the East with him playing in Athens.

Never has been a question of player talent in the Classic City.

www.stlouisrams.com/videos/videos/Highli...22-8ee8-c5feea5c38e0