Monday Thought -- Coach Smart is Serious

“You can never have enough bodies on the offensive line,” he said. “I think that’s what we’ve always struggled with at Georgia is our coaches never trusted more than about seven of us in a game. If they can get 10 guys that they can throw in there, that’d be pretty big.”

Houston talking with Towers made the above statements.

Statements like the above are coming to us from young men that played between the Hedges. Houston for many years was either in the film room, practice field or between the Hedges. Wild career. Who better to speak to "coaching" than this young man?

Thus far, the coaching change has seen more movement in building an offensive line than the previous 15 years, actually more than that.

The closer I look, the larger the mess appears. Bet this, folks in Miami and the supporters of the "U" will not put up with the same methods that Richt employed in Athens. Worth 4 million dollars a year, plus "bennies" . . . . Millions of dollars and the "bennies" got us exactly this . . . . teams that were never total "teams". That is not against the players, that belongs to the ex head coach. Thus far, seems to be following the same path in his new job.

Buc knowing you have a bit of saltwater in your veins you

Will understand .......

Having restored a wooden cruiser I became familiar

With the term.....dry rot....... You can look at piece of

Wood on a boat and it looks fine,,,, take a knife blade

And press it against the surface and push...if dry rot

Is present it will sink to the handle....inside has turned

To powder....... BM and previous HC filled with dry rot

Only fix is totally replacement ..... Major cause of dry rot

Lack of attention to maintaining ....neglect....

Go Dawgs

Thanks Steve....Cameron didn't want to go to college just

To go... Massive debt with no defined goal...

Marines offered him both schools he had interest in

So ....give them Four and get experience in life..

Makes a great first employer on the resume....

Big. Dawg fan.... Understands commitment....

Go Dawgs

yd1, your post #73049, really like the way you laid your thoughts out.

Sometimes what we think we see does not meet the true test. Look closer, shiny objects can be deceiving.

First few years after the calendar turned to the 2000's, we were greeted with a smile, shiny new head coach. Lord knows it was needed, from a coaching standpoint and a moral standpoint.

Seems to me that the moral standpoint was taken a bit too far in a direction that did not stand up to time. That statement can be backed up easily when we look at "some" of the "problems" that we got to see, but there were many that we were not privy to.

My opinion the "dry rot" had been in our program prior to the Richt hiring. Really started to get out of hand with the "Red Undies" incident by the Athletic Director after the Richt hiring.

Again my opinion . . . . Our program was being handled by a group of folks that did not recognize the "dry rot". Or, refused to move from wood to different materials that replaced the "dry rot" problem.

Differences of opinion as to what year(s) our program became outdated under Richt. Regardless of which year one chooses, much like the boll weevil once ruined crops in South Georgia, there needed to be a change or fix. Has been said here that empty seats were beginning to become more apparent. Some higher ups sat on the fact that all was ok, but all was not ok. Again, money has a way of getting every ones attention. Butts in the seats were discussed on Dawgs.com several years back.

Guess the question is whether or not we will see improvement in the direction of Georgia Football . . . . mention only football because it is the Bell Cow, Golden Goose our program and many others.

Side note . . . . Believe I read somewhere that Alabama Sports profited 51 or so million dollars this past season. Maybe I dreamed that, will check after I post this. So, Alabama understood dry rot, and boll weevils. Kirby Smart had nine years under the man that turned that program around again . . . . the Bear did that once upon a time. Seven (7) million dollar investment and the numbers from the football program basically turned into 50 something million.

Realize I am all over the place again, but . . . . old folks like myself have had enough of waiting for those that supposedly run the sports programs in Athens to show improvement. They expect improvement on the football field, might want to do some "house cleaning" at the upper levels. I said that. I believe that.

This podcast was posted 53 minutes ago. 3/1/2016.

Sounds like what many have said on this board since the arrival of Kirby Smart. Interesting.