re: More Success in Year 1. Smart or Richt?

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I will never understand the tolerance of underachievement by the majority of GA fans.

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just out of curious, how do you measure this tolerance? None of us posters have ANY say whatsoever in hiring or firing. A ned flanders, i love life kinda guy might be happy with 7-5 every year. Someone else may be pissed if we don't go 15-0 every year. Neither one has anything to do with our achievements or our future.

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What is irrefutable is dawgs always find a way to lay an egg when they have a chance to be great. 2002, 2007, 2008

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Ehhhh.

-2002 is undeniable. We lost to a worse team. But Miami and OSU both went undefeated, and entering the UF game we were behind both. A win over a pedestrian UF team likely wouldn't have jumped us over OSU.
-2007 we lost to 2 mediocre teams, but so did LSU. The only difference is 1 of their shitty losses came to an east team (a team we beat btw) so they got to play for the SEC. In addition, they were 7th heading into CCG weekend and ended the day 2nd due to what can only be described as a few minor miracles. They didn't do any better than we did that year, they just got a better break.
-2008 is the one that I will always refute because people only look at us. Our fans, as they often do, get caught up in media hype (preseason #1!!!!) and not look at the big picture. No reason to lose to tech, period. That's unforgiveable. But Bama was rolling under saban and went 12-0 in the regular season. UF was rolling under meyer/tebow and went 11- regular season. They also beat bama and won the title. Sometimes you lose to a better team. They were simply better.
2012- for some reason people always point to the SC game, but that game didn't affect us one iota in getting to the title game.