Regardless of whether or not someone thinks he is a good, great, or bad coach, we were 5 yards from the MNC last year, and he helped get us to that point. A tipped pass and a instinctual catch were the reason we didn't play for it all. Yet, CMR is said that he can't get there. Yeah, the end result is the same, but nothing CMR did or didn't do caused that tipped pass on a high-percentage play that we ran successfully throughout the season. In spite of the defense getting rolled over during the 2nd half of that game, we still were 5 yards from glory.

I'm a realist. I'm not going to to say that I think CMR is the best coach around, but I understand that even the best coaches don't win it every year, if at all, and that even bad coaches sometimes have all the pieces fall into place to give them a title that they could never have won otherwise (Chizik).

Could we win it all with a different head coach? Maybe, maybe not. No one knows. I honestly think CMR can win us the national title if he has all the pieces fall into place. He just hasn't had that yet.

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Posted by Damn Good Dawg

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Posted on 11/5/13 at 12:07 pm to FooManChoo

About the 2012 argument I do think we did get some luck into that scenario. Same luck other championship teams are afforded. After getting completely annihilated in Columbia, which in and of itself was totally inexcusable, we had no shot at the title until KSU and Oregon all go down in one night giving us a mulligan. We got our shot and when the opportunity arose we gave up 350 yds rushing.

Idk, maybe it's just me who sees it that way but we've been given second chances. It's Georgia who has failed to capitalize.

His tenure speaks for itself IMO and I believe with ever fiber in my being we will not win a title with Mark Richt but he will be our coach until at least 2016-17. And if they promote from within I will personally burn down Butts-Mehre.

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Posted by Sanford&MunSon

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Posted on 11/5/13 at 12:31 pm to FooManChoo

I hear ya on the winning the conference is almost as hard as winning the mnc argument, but which pieces do you think need to fall into place for Richt to get over the hump?

Also the almost argument does nothing for me.

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Posted by davesdawgs

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Posted on 11/5/13 at 3:39 pm to FooManChoo

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Regardless of whether or not someone thinks he is a good, great, or bad coach, we were 5 yards from the MNC last year, and he helped get us to that point. A tipped pass and a instinctual catch were the reason we didn't play for it all.

Foo, while I agree to some extent, we were actually not as close as we should have been. We were out of timeouts so obviously timeout management was an issue. The play on the 5 yard line had little chance of success; even had the pass not been tipped, the intended receiver was well covered. I still believe spiking the ball and running a play with multiple options would have made more sense. Murray should have been rolling out with an option to keep it himself shuttle to Gurley or pass to an open receiver. The mere fact that Richt didn't come up with a winning play in that situation speaks volumes to the difference between a good coach who puts up a good fight against a defending champion and a great coach who puts together the winning formula to beat the defending champion.

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