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Mark Richt is College Football's Charlie Brown
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:23 am
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:23 am
The Bulldogs fall to South Carolina, and the SEC's nicest coach adds to a legacy of inopportune loses
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Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:24 am to atlau
Sounds about right. He's the almost just there Coach.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:29 am to Navytiger74
ouch.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:38 am to atlau
This is completely true and would infuriate me if I was a Georgia fan.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:41 am to Tigerlaff
The fails have been piling up for Richt. It's such a Jekyll and Hyde thing. They win some big games and have nice ten win seasons but just cannot get over the hump. I think they will have to find another coach to do it for them.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:41 am to Tigerlaff
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would infuriate me if I was a Georgia fan
Why?
1) who cares what this writer's opinion is? He writes for the Rolling Stone, which isn't even a sports publication.
2) there's no point to getting infuriated. Me getting mad about it wouldn't change anything even if I wanted it to.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:41 am to atlau
"What makes Charlie Brown such a rich character is that he's not purely a loser. The self-loathing that causes him so much anguish is decidedly not self-effacement. Charlie Brown is optimistic enough to think he can earn a sense of of self-worth, and his willingness to do so by exposing himself to humiliations is the dramatic engine that drives the strip. The greatest of Charlie Brown's virtues is his resilience, which is to say his courage. Charlie Brown is ambitious. He manages the baseball team. He may be a loser, but he's, strangely, a leader at the same time. This makes his mood swings truly bipolar in their magnificence: he vacillates not between kinda happy and kinda unhappy, but between being a "hero" and being a "goat"." -Christopher Caldwell on Charlie Brown in an essay for The New York Times
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:43 am to atlau
Timeout.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:46 am to Crowknowsbest
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2) there's no point to getting infuriated. Me getting mad about it wouldn't change anything even if I wanted it to.
You guys really are the most reasonable among the SEC faithful. This has generally been my position since a certain game a couple of years ago.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:47 am to MrCoachKlein
Ouch, someone wrote a high school paper on Peanuts.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:49 am to Navytiger74
quote:The idea of Georgia as a team that comes close but cant quite get over the hump is overstated in my opinion.
Sounds about right. He's the almost just there Coach.
Auburn has come closer to winning two more national championships in the last decade than Georgia has to winning one. Auburn went undefeated in 2004 and gave up the winning touchdown with 13 seconds left against Florida State last year. Georgia hasn't had an undefeated season since 1980 and never even made it to the BCS championship game
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:54 am to genuineLSUtiger
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It's such a Hyde and Hyde thing
WHEN IT MATTERS
FIFY
This post was edited on 9/16/14 at 8:56 am
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:56 am to atlau
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Auburn Fan
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Mark Richt
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Bulldogs
Dawgsessed
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:57 am to atlau
Posted on 9/16/14 at 8:57 am to Navytiger74
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You guys really are the most reasonable among the SEC faithful.
You must not read the UGA board on here, they are one infighting bunch.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 9:00 am to MrCoachKlein
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"What makes the head football coach at Georgia such a rich character is that he's not purely a loser. The self-loathing that causes him so much anguish is decidedly not self-effacement. The UGA head football coach is optimistic enough to think he can earn a sense of of self-worth, and his willingness to do so by exposing himself to humiliations is the dramatic engine that drives the strip. The greatest of the UGA head football coach's virtues is his resilience, which is to say his courage. The head football coach is ambitious. He manages the team. He may be a loser, but he's, strangely, a leader at the same time. This makes his mood swings truly bipolar in their magnificence: he vacillates not between kinda happy and kinda unhappy, but between being a "hero" and being a "goat"." - listing for the vacant UGA Head Football Coach position
FIFY.
This post was edited on 9/16/14 at 9:02 am
Posted on 9/16/14 at 9:01 am to auburnphan23
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The idea of Georgia as a team that comes close but cant quite get over the hump is overstated in my opinion.
Auburn has come closer to winning two more national championships in the last decade than Georgia has to winning one. Auburn went undefeated in 2004 and gave up the winning touchdown with 13 seconds left against Florida State last year. Georgia hasn't had an undefeated season since 1980 and never even made it to the BCS championship game
Those teams' circumstances have very little in common. You guys "made it" both those years. In 2004, three teams had a legitimate claim and you were simply left holding the short stick. In 2013, you just lost a close championship game. You still far exceeded all expectations. Georgia's problems are an entirely different matter. You guys seem to come out of nowhere (Cam in 2010, with Gus last year). Georgia gets hyped, gets close, wins some huge games, and then loses to someone they should have destroyed on paper. Then they often finish 10-2, win a bowl, come back the next year in the top 10, rinse and repeat. We have more in common with Georgia than Auburn does, but we made it over the hump a few times.
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Posted on 9/16/14 at 9:02 am to atlau
My SO is a UGA grad and that is exactly how she describes CMR.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 9:03 am to Navytiger74
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Georgia gets hyped, gets close, wins some huge games, and then loses to someone they should have destroyed on paper. Then they often finish 10-2, win a bowl, come back the next year in the top 10, rinse and repeat. We have more in common with Georgia than Auburn, but we made it over the hump a few times.
This is becoming an interchangeable description of South Carolina, as well.
Welcome to Hell, Cocks!
Posted on 9/16/14 at 9:04 am to tylerdurden24
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This is becoming an interchangeable description of South Carolina, as well.
Maybe so but they beat UGA
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