Swinging for the Fences
Well, I lied. I had told a lot of folks that I would not write about the Georgia DC search again until we reached the finish line. Yesterday Alabama’s Kirby Smart decided to stay in Tuscaloosa and the Bulldog Nation started yelping again. I understand that. It has been a frustrating process.
We’re about five weeks in and signing day is drawing nigh. So far, it appears we have not lost any commits because of the lengthy search, but we are vulnerable. Our enemies could certainly twist this into a reason to consider their programs.
Most Dawgs would agree that Coach Mark Richt has consistently gone for homerun hires. Virginia Tech’s Bud Foster, LSU’s John Chavis and now native son Kirby Smart. The fact is, just as in baseball, when you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out some. When CMR does make contact, it will be a homerun. We as Georgia fans just have to stay in the game.
The worst thing Coach Richt could do is “choke up” and just try to make contact.
Kippy Brown is the interim head coach for the Tennessee vols.
Mike Hamilton, vols’ AD, you are a joke, have been, and continue to be.
Where is Our UGA “Athletics Director” ? At least the vols’ AD actually makes decisions and runs the place. Too bad all his decisions are all wrong. I guess it is better to make NO DECISIONS EVER ON ANYTHING, than to branch out and try to do your job even if you have failures as a result. Damon Evans, how about getting us a “coaching staff” sir ? Coach Richt obviously has no clue. Our recruits are here because of us, not the “coaching staff” but, we have really not done well with only a 17-19 record against Final AP Poll Top 25 teams in 9 years with another 8 Losses to UNRANKED teams.
17-19 vs Final AP Poll Top 25 teams in 9 years and 8 Losses to UNRANKED teams.
We haven’t coached our recruits. We have not for 9 seasons now.
And, what is this that the students in Knoxville started a fire to keep Lame Kitten in Knoxville by leaving their trailers to burn their mattresses ? Hillbillies.
Please come back in here and put a spin on this vols’ fans.
I can’t wait.
Tell us all again of your moral victories ?
Lame Kitten 7-6 one season who beat no Final AP Poll or USA Today Coaches’ Poll Top 25 team, gone. When he was at USC, he was NEVER the Offensive Coordinator. That was 2 other guys, both now gone. Norm Chow UCLA now who was then replaced by Steve Sarkisian who left after last year to Washington. He was their assistant and he grinded on the players, other coaches, and media the whole entire time at Southern California and all the other places he stayed for a year thereafter, too. An impetuous impatient child smart-aleck know-it-all Spoiled Brat, and a huge big loose cannon who will step in at USC for all their NCAA Major Violations including Reggie Bush’s Court Trial which finally comes up with Sworn Statements finally now. And, the added issue of now not only Reggie Bush’s Mansion provided to his entire family under market value, but now too yet the rift between Pete Carroll and USC AD Mike Garrett over tailback Joe McKnight’s illegal use now of a vehicle not in his name. A Land Rover. At least at USC, it’s a Mansion and a Land Rover. Nice perks. Lame Kitten will fit right in there. These NCAA sanctions will happen this year. Why did Pete Carroll leave for a lousy Seattle team when he is failed as an NFL Coach at New England and the Jets 33-31 record ?
Lame Kitten Fresno State Quarterback who NO ONE LIKES, who NEVER was the Offensive Coordinator at USC. Never. Pete Carroll was the Defensive Coordinator, make no mistake of that, just like Nick Saban. At UGA, all we have is a damn CEO whose only job responsibility anymore is to hire a “coaching staff” which he has been totally miserable at doing for 10 years now this season.
Coach Richt Era 17-19 vs. Final AP Poll Top 25 teams in 9 years plus another 8 Losses to teams not even ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25, including David Greene 8-9 vs. LSU, Florida, vols, and Auburn. David Greene was 9-8 vs Final AP Poll Top 25 teams but dropped 2 games Losses to teams not even ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25, which is why then at 9-10 David Greene combined compared to Final AP Poll opponents, that Colt McCoy now holds the Record for the Most Wins by an NCAA Starting Quarterback in the Bowl Subdivision 1-A.
It’s NOT like we are something great s c dawg.
And, the problem is and has been the “coaching staff” all hired by Coach Richt including his first hire of Rodney Garner December 20, 2000. Brian VanGorder’s Falcons defense sucks. No coach with any NFL experience not 1 coach 1 day. Losing record against Final AP Poll Top 25. The real teams we played each of 9 years now. Only 3 wins against teams in the Top 10 of the Final AP Poll Top 25 in 9 years, and only 1 of those is David Greene. His 1st good win in 2001 which he never duplicated. The offensive woes of this Coach Richt Era are Legendary for all 9 years. At Sanford Stadium the entire crowd boos the play calls of Offensive Coordinator Mike Bobo. Not just once but often. Even the 2 years we did play Knowshon Moreno and not redshirt him again that year, we handed him the ball 13 times only in loss after loss after loss. Then, we actually run the ball against GA tek and low and behold, we win a game – so we KEEP Mike Bobo. I’m sorry Willie Martinez and Jon Fabris are hardly all our issues on this “coaching staff.” Are they the WORST 2 on his staff ? Yes. Which 1 is in charge of the 121 suspensions/arrests in 9 years now of the Coach Richt Era ? Who teaches a position as position coach who actually played that position as a damn player ? No one. Who is in charge of kick-offs and returns ?
vols of course, should have kept Chief. I tried to tell them that. I tried to tell Coach Richt to snap him up then too.
s c dawg, though knows so damn much more about all this than all of us and than God Above.
DISNEYdawg.
By the way, like UGA’s DC, Lame Kitten was Choice Number 4 at USC who finally settled on Lame Kitten after 3 whiffs. It is no better for him than it is for whomever Coach Richt gets off his butt and hires as his 4th Choice.
Don’t let the trailer trash door hit you on the backside on the way out Lame Kitten, you failure at 12-22 as a head coach all-time. He will do better in the PAC-ZERO which is why he left.
Lame Kitten gone because you only had an $800,000 buyout he has to pay.
Granddad Monte Kiffin, Defensive Coordinator, gone.
Ed Orgeron, Recruiting Coordinator, gone.
After all you said in here about how great Lame Kitten is, please put a spin on this for me vols’ fans. I eagerly await your B.S. now about Lame Kitten’s FAILURES, totally after all your attempted DEFENSE of him HERE.
Go ahead. Defend him again, or make an about-face and agree with me all along that the jerk Lame Kitten is a sorry NOTHING of a Coach and person. How is his entire only recruiting class, put in jail over armed robbery, drugs, alcohol, and weapons charges, doing ? Been by to see them at the jail, or are you waiting to leave your trailer only to burn your mattresses to keep Lame Kitten there. God Almighty. It’s been 8 Consecutive Seasons and Counting now that the vols have been ranked WORSE than The UGA Bulldogs in the Final Polls. Every poll. And, what now becomes of the NCAA Investigation of just 2 weeks ago of Lame Kitten’s orange Kittens leaving campus to pursue Ed Orgeron’s recruits ?
I don’t care that you obviously now will end up with a better coach; I just want you to admit The Spoiled Brat Little Monster is gone and that you burned your mattresses to keep him there you Hillbillies – along with the fact that I told you so, and you DEFENDED Lame Kitten : Choose : Defend him AGAIN, Admit I was right all along. Where is his win like our win over GA tek ?
01/13/2010 at 5:07 AM
Something is smelly in Athens……and it is not 3 day old fish. It’s easy for me to understand losing one, perhaps two Defensive Co-ordinators, but to have 3 decide to stay put makes me wonder just how deep the problems really are in Athens. No one wants to walk into a disaster and attempt to correct issues that have been festering a long, long time. I think that it is time for CMR to use his considerable skills to hand pick an “unknown” D-Coordinator to come in and make the wholesale changes that need to be made. After all, who had heard of Brian Van Gorder until he cane to UGA……
01/13/2010 at 2:08 AM
Tennessee’s new problems make ours look little.
01/13/2010 at 12:38 AM
Do you think Saban threatened Smart with his recommendation for a head job? While the Alabama papers drool over the Tide like NBC over Obama the AJC is axe-murdering UGA. Whomever gets hired will be an improvement. We seem to have forgotten that.
01/12/2010 at 5:46 PM
Andy McCollom. Prove DC. Great defense at Baylor when serving as DC. Great recruiter in GA and TX. KNOWS DEFENSE. Was in line to interview when Richt was hired.
01/12/2010 at 3:16 PM
There really is no rush. The worst case scenario is we lose a couple recruits. So what? We are going to have this guy for a couple of years hopefully… maybe more. It is worth making sure we get the right guy, who can then more than make up for any lost recruits in the future.
01/12/2010 at 1:37 PM
There are coordinators out there who have done good jobs with far less talent than any of the coaches UGA has tried to hire so far. Just look at the team defense stats for NCAA FBS.
Many home runs are hit when the batter is consistently hitting solid line drives.
01/12/2010 at 12:47 PM
The question I have is what constitutes a homerun? A name? No. Results for our defense is all that matters to me.
01/12/2010 at 1:16 PM
I never felt that good about the insistence from a segment of our fanbase – and certain not-to-be-named media trolls who are now laughing loudest at us – that CMR HAD to pursue a “proven DC” which is a solid goal on the face of it but was really a synonym for chasing a Big Name. Foster leveraged us. Chavis leveraged us. And Kirby Smart took us to the brink by even signing an offer sheet, it is widely reported, and then leveraged us. I won’t even dignify such an action by attempting to characterize it. But now that all this Big-Name-itis is out of our system (PLEASE, no rants about hiring Muschamp, whose Auburn Ds we beat like a borrowed mule, away from Texas or Van Gorder from the Falcons) CMR can proceed with a good, solid hire that most of us may not have heard of. Nobody had ever heard of his first DC hire 9 years ago, that didn’t turn out badly. And while I regret the wasted month of waiting to make our offer to the Alabama DC (who had plenty of opportunities to send a message that he was flattered but intended to stay where he was; chose to leverage us instead), this is STILL better than the 5-minute search that got us our LAST DC.
There is a certain equity among top-level programs. Last year the Kiffinator tried to raid our staff; it did him no good. Now we are seeing that it works the other way as well. All it does is get the taget a big raise at his current position, make us look inept (although that will pass much more quickly than it feels now) and drives a large number of our fans just nuts. I don’t like things being drawn out either, but…patience. 10 months from now all this will be forgotten and we will be comparing that moment with last fall. And liking the result.
01/12/2010 at 11:44 AM
Well said Rex. The media is trying to make this look bad for GA but he has gone for the homerun and I want him to do that. I am frustrated that Smart turned us down. When it took so long to get a yes I had a feeling this was going to happen.
01/12/2010 at 11:32 AM
Foster (strike one!), Chavis (strikkkkkke two!!) and Smart? Well, you know what comes next. Out, but not not for long. Top of the next inning when Richt steps up to the plate he’ll unload! I am not terribly worried about this search, like many others, I think the right person will WANT desperately to be the next DC at UGA and will hopefully bring hunger, excitement and a sense of urgency with them. Having said all of that, I don’t think KS should have let this go on as long as he did.
01/12/2010 at 11:14 AM
I totally agree. To me, there is no shame in being turned down by some of the best DCs in the south. It is better than only looking at hidden, unpolished gems and hoping it works out.
Just as long as we get a firebrand that can get the most from our talent, that will be improvement. It would be an added bonus if he is a schematic genius.
CMR will deliver.
01/12/2010 at 9:22 AM
We will never know how good Smart is or what we missed out on until he goes somewhere else. He is still on Saban’s bottle andprobably will be for awhile. I just hope he does not show on any UGA list for any position whether it be assistant job or the head coach position.
01/12/2010 at 10:58 AM
Good Morning Rex…It was a long afternoon…You are right and it is hard for “fans” to not to be “fanatical”…Rejection is always hard to deal with…So far we have just been looking at lateral moves…to major BCS conference schools money is not an issue, they just do not want to spend it until they are forced too…we just have to keep trying until we “hit”…once a dawg always a dawg…
01/12/2010 at 9:22 AM