A Canine Resurrection
Well Georgia fans, it seems that from the end of the Georgia Tech game, when I thought Bryan Evans was about to get the “Baco Raton Beatdown”, til yesterday, Mark Richt is apparently over it. He doesn’t like to lose. Neither he nor his staff are in any way “complacent”, as some dumbass “fan” suggested at Butts Mehre on signing day. How he got out alive, I’ll never know.
CMR has gone full bore for what he thought would right the ship. From pretty much cleaning house on his defensive staff to his hirings of late, he’s all “bizness”. As I stated a few weeks ago, there is nothing wrong with swinging for the fences and ultimately Coach Richt hit his homeruns with Todd Grantham and Scott Lakatos(click here).
Many look at the 2010 signing class as a disappointment. I really do not. Since I started writing this blog and paying attention to the Dawg Nation in general, most often I have heard the cries that our talent was not getting coached up. That problem has been solved on defense, so let’s move on.
I swear we have focused way too much on the numbers of stars in a bio and not enough on the intangibles that make a player great. Da’Rick Rogers was interviewed by Radi Nabulsi of UGASPORTS.COM a few weeks ago and a few things stood out to me(click and join). Although DR had his Georgia ball-cap on, he was already planning his trip to Knoxville. He down-played the significance of it all, but when asked about signing day, he said he would have a UGA hat, a Tennessee hat and maybe an Ohio State hat, “just to throw people off”. That interview let me know that he was enjoying the process a little too much, jacking people around. That’s not someone sold out for Georgia and that’s what we need, kids that take seriously the traditions and the future of THE University of Georgia.
When I started going through the recruiting process all those years ago, I was not a Georgia guy. There did come a point in early November 1976 that my conversations went from referring to “them” as “us”. I didn’t even notice it, my parents called it to my attention one night. I had not told them of any decision, but my paradigm had shifted, and I was all in. That fact did not change a month later when Notre Dame offered a visit to South Bend.
That’s what we need, but it’s tough to find. When a player’s focus is on who can get him to the next level(NFL), how can there be a seed of love for your school. It’s a means to an end. The Georgia Bulldogs will be much improved in 2010. I believe that with all that I am. But, it’s not always about getting what are perceived as the best guys, it’s about getting the right guys and I believe we did.
Go Dawgs!
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