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re: Scathing Rolling Stone article
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:38 am to DaveyDownerDawg
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:38 am to DaveyDownerDawg
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And yet every year, we continue buy into Georgia; every year, they land in preseason top-10s by virtue of the sheer talent they accrue in one of the richest states for college-football prospects in all of America. Every year, we think, Maybe this is the season that propels Mark Richt into the elite. I suppose it is a measure of our naïveté as sports fans (and a measure of my own naïveté, perhaps, that with a four-team playoff looming, I'm still not entirely convinced Georgia is out of the national title picture), and I suppose it is a measure of one coach's ability to con us all into believing that nice guys may someday finish first, even in a sport as openly brutal as football. There is no doubt you're a good man, Mark Richt, but in a profession as nasty as this one, and in a conference as relentlessly vicious as the SEC, I'm not sure that's much of an asset.
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Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:39 am to DaveyDownerDawg
Wouldn't this guy look stupid, if Georgia wins the National Championship this year?
Who cares what the Rolling Stone magazine says?
They panned almost every album Led Zeppelin ever made.
Richt is not Charlie Brown.
The dawgs record against their biggest rivals over the past 3 years is 8-1.
Not many coaches can say that. Few teams have that many rivals which makes it especially hard for Georgia to win championships compared to other teams.
Who cares what the Rolling Stone magazine says?
They panned almost every album Led Zeppelin ever made.
Richt is not Charlie Brown.
The dawgs record against their biggest rivals over the past 3 years is 8-1.
Not many coaches can say that. Few teams have that many rivals which makes it especially hard for Georgia to win championships compared to other teams.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:41 am to samson'sseed
This writer sounds like a disgruntled UGA Alum
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:46 am to Sandwich
quote:FWIW...Reminds me a lot of DGD.
This writer sounds like a disgruntled UGA Alum
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:23 am to dallasga6
I feel like this article represents where most of us were at five to seven years ago. He's late to the party, and frankly I'm tired of reading public criticisms of Richt because it's such a broken record at this point it's ridiculous. Had this come out in 2008, I would think differently. But now, screw it. Call me, Rolling Stone, when you've got something original to add. Until then shut the hell up because we've heard it all a thousand times over.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:27 am to FinleyStreet
.... 
Finley speaks the truth...
This post was edited on 9/16/14 at 8:31 am
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:32 am to dallasga6
Also they've started on this on the SECR... Why don't we just let them bleed out & don't bite their shiny hooks for a change...
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:32 am to dallasga6
Scared to read it. The Dawgs broke my heart Saturday, my high school alma mater (17 time state champs) is 0-4, first time that's happened since 1974.....and I'm a Raiders fan.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 9:24 am to dallasga6
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FWIW...Reminds me a lot of DGD.
Definitely. If anything it's like what Finley said in that it was me a few years ago. I posted a comment on another site that instead of just claiming Richt was unlucky actually explained why I think he has failed to make it over the hump.
Thing is my mindset hasn't really changed the past few years. I move a few inches either way but right now I have no less faith in Richt than I had more faith in him after Clemson. I am still optimistic for the future because the Pruitt hiring, IMO, showed that Georgia was finally playing ball in the SEC. Problem is that our decision to take the sport as serious as the rest of the SEC is far more reactionary than it is proactive.
Also, it's fricked up that I kind of take pride that when people see this article they think of me
Posted on 9/16/14 at 9:25 am to dallasga6
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Finley speaks the truth.
Although I hate the saying, "It is what it is" and I'm going to keeping on the track to wherever it leads. If it leads to the land of Crystal Footballs then great. If it doesn't then it wasn't meant to be. But I'm not going to let that define a large portion of my life and love for UGA. I'm still going to be critical when we lose a game we shoulda, woulda, coulda won. But unlike years past where I would just stew on it, I'm done with that. Eventually the blind squirrel will find a nut and UGA will win a Natty before I leave this world. Just got to keep the faith.
Onward and hopefully upward, Gentlemen.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 10:47 am to dallasga6
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Also they've started on this on the SECR... Why don't we just let them bleed out & don't bite their shiny hooks for a change...
It's ok.....the official spokesman of the University of Georgia is passionately explaining why the article is weightless.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 10:52 am to DaveyDownerDawg
I posted this in another thread yesterday, but it seems like it bears repeating here...
The thing that makes the Bamas and the LSUs of the world different from other programs, (read: Ours), is that the kid that takes up the 85th scholarship likely could compete for the backup spot on their respective roster position. UGA doesn't do that. With the projects and the feel-good schollys that CMR hands out, we're effectively on par with USCreal while they've been on sanction.
There are easily 20 kids on the football team that can not and won't ever contribute to the team. That alone puts us at a competitive disadvantage with many of our SECw counterparts. Stricter than most drug policy, and a quick tendency to show a miscreant the door widens the gap even more. I'm not saying that the team isn't better on a moral basis because of it, but when the Auburns of the world are willing to take any player who hasn't been explicitly convicted of Murder One, then it makes an already daunting challenge of competing in the toughest league of CFB even tougher.
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I like CMR as much as the next guy, but unfortunately for us, there's a degree of complacency that comes along with his tenure. We're not going to break through that glass ceiling of mediocrity until they sign someone with an attitude and/or temperament like Pruitt's at HC. Not saying that it's gotta be CJP, or that he should get a shot at a Top 25 school as his first gig, but it's going to take that level of intensity coming down from the very top, and it'll need to filter down through everyone involved in the program till it comes out the pores of the kids 4 deep in the rotation.
That takes time and commitment, and the odd aligning of planets that results in the AD making the right hire. Sadly that clock doesn't start till CMR decides that he needs to go save the heathen souls of the Pygmies more than he needs to hug college kids around the neck and love them first. Losing 3 games a year is de rigeur until then, and at least two of those games must be ones that we should have won.
The thing that makes the Bamas and the LSUs of the world different from other programs, (read: Ours), is that the kid that takes up the 85th scholarship likely could compete for the backup spot on their respective roster position. UGA doesn't do that. With the projects and the feel-good schollys that CMR hands out, we're effectively on par with USCreal while they've been on sanction.
There are easily 20 kids on the football team that can not and won't ever contribute to the team. That alone puts us at a competitive disadvantage with many of our SECw counterparts. Stricter than most drug policy, and a quick tendency to show a miscreant the door widens the gap even more. I'm not saying that the team isn't better on a moral basis because of it, but when the Auburns of the world are willing to take any player who hasn't been explicitly convicted of Murder One, then it makes an already daunting challenge of competing in the toughest league of CFB even tougher.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 11:00 am to VoxDawg
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convicted of Murder One
Posted on 9/16/14 at 11:04 am to rb
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It's ok.....the official spokesman of the University of Georgia is passionately explaining why the article is weightless.
who?
Posted on 9/16/14 at 11:32 am to VoxDawg
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The thing that makes the Bamas and the LSUs of the world different from other programs, (read: Ours), is that the kid that takes up the 85th scholarship likely could compete for the backup spot on their respective roster position. UGA doesn't do that. With the projects and the feel-good schollys that CMR hands out, we're effectively on par with USCreal while they've been on sanction.
There are easily 20 kids on the football team that can not and won't ever contribute to the team. That alone puts us at a competitive disadvantage with many of our SECw counterparts. Stricter than most drug policy, and a quick tendency to show a miscreant the door widens the gap even more. I'm not saying that the team isn't better on a moral basis because of it, but when the Auburns of the world are willing to take any player who hasn't been explicitly convicted of Murder One, then it makes an already daunting challenge of competing in the toughest league of CFB even tougher.
Spot on! If I hear one more person tell me that "talent is not the issue with UGA"
Sorry,It's a HUGE issue along with depth at UGA COMPARED to Bama,LSU and now A&M. Hell look at AU last year.Two #1's on BOTH side of the LOS. When was last time we had an OL taken in the 1st rd? LSU had11 underclassmen declare in after '12 and still had 6 guys drafted off last years team.
We had a grand total of 2 guys draftet last year.
You guys can point to the '12 class all you want but '12 is close to a normal class for schools like Bama.LSU and now A&M.
Hell compare 4 and 5 stars on our roster compared to those schools and get back to me.
Oh,BTW you're welcome Chip Towers and or Tony Barnhart...I promise you'll hear these exact same talking points in the coming weeks.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 11:34 am to WG_Dawg
This article could have been written in 2006,2008,2009, 2010, shite it is a broken record. We all know that. Richt's an idiot, we've known that. Hey, what channel is Gossip Girls on? I will have to watch those two! I wish i was that ice cream cone!
Posted on 9/16/14 at 11:51 am to RD Dawg
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Spot on! If I hear one more person tell me that "talent is not the issue with UGA"
Sorry,It's a HUGE issue along with depth at UGA COMPARED to Bama,LSU and now A&M. Hell look at AU last year.Two #1's on BOTH side of the LOS. When was last time we had an OL taken in the 1st rd? LSU had11 underclassmen declare in after '12 and still had 6 guys drafted off last years team.
This has been my mantra for some time now. Also, though UGA typically has top 10 recruiting classes, our toughest competition has top 5 classes and considering the high attrition on our team, the realized team on the field is definitely not top 10 for way too many games.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:22 pm to RD Dawg
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Hell compare 4 and 5 stars on our roster compared to those schools and get back to me.
Some of it is just plain bad luck with and/or bad analysis of the recruits we get. As someone else said: "The younger a sport's participants, the more insane the expectations are. Since young athletes have little in the way of a track record, you can project all kinds of unreasonable future accomplishments for them. Every year, every coach on every team thinks to himself, 'By golly, this team has a chance to be special.' And they NEVER are."
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:24 pm to davesdawgs
I've mostly stayed away for the last couple of days. Was the melt down that bad?
Posted on 9/16/14 at 1:42 pm to Sanford&MunSon
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Was the melt down that bad?
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