re: UGA AD is retiring

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What’s the issue here? Mullen’s a better coach. Seems like a smart man.

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Even if you think that, Smart has been able to get things done politically at UGA that Mullen never would have been able to accomplish. Mainly increasing the financial commitment to winning in football.

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0% chance Justin Fields leaves Dan Mullen

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Yeah bc he would be banging Mullens wife like the rest of the team.

It is pretty common knowledge to anyone w/any insight into UGA that McGarity wanted Mullen while Billy Payne, Dan Leeburn, and the other 2 or 3 most influential boosters all wanted Kirby. And McGarity also did NOT want to give up his micromanaging of the program, I.e., forcing Kirby to hire the assistants he wanted like he did w/Richt. And it almost cost us losing him to S.Carolina. It wasn't until Payne and Co.basically threatened to fire his arse and completely stripped him of anything to do w/the football program that Kirby came. And here's some more for you of just how bad Howdy Doody has been as AD and why today is a glorious day to be a Georgia fan. I got this from another poster on this site:

"Lol yeah I'm sure richt looked around the sec and decided "nah, we don't any of this stuff even though we're the only one without it". You seem to think mcgarity was always ready with the checkbook and was simply never asked, while ignoring the fact richt was having to help pay assistant's salaries out of his own pocket. But I'm sure that's how he wanted it right? We were busing to atlanta to fly to away games and coaches were driving their Tahoe's all over the state to recruit instead of flying. All of this was bc mcgarity was a cheap bastard.

And let's just PRETEND that richt actually wanted to be at a disadvantage and also help pay his staff on his own...shouldn't it be the job of the athletic director to take a look at our peers and say "whoa hold on... we're clearly lagging behind here we gotta make some changes"?

This is the guy that absolutely and utterly whiffed on his first like 10 coaching hires. It wasn't until we got Kirby, which had nothing to do with Greg, we started hiring like we wanted to win. Under mcgarity we lost the tennis National title host that we'd had for years. Our women's bball, gymnastics, and baseball programs went into the shitter under his watch. We still give zero fricks about foley. Baseball and basketball have absolutely no business being the way they have under him considering the talent in state in both sports. He made zero effort to rectify us playing at Auburn back to back, and before the argument of "but the schedule rotations are already set!" Florida and lsu made it work a few years ago when a storm displaced the game and they had to go 2/2 instead of 1/1. He also allowed the dsor to move which helps us zero and only serves to help make Auburn's schedule easier on themselves. He's a hair dyed buffoon that had no business holding his position as long as he did. Good riddance"

Fields would’ve never committed to the hunchback.

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McGarity was terrible for the Dawgs imo.

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FIFY

Outside of football I feel like every other program has slipped under Ears.

Y’all finished 8th in the Director’s Cup in 2018. You got that fast white boy from Texas on your track team now. UGa sports looking bright!

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SteelerBravesDawg, what you're saying is way out in left field somewhere and I have no idea where you got any of that crap from. Your Mullen claim honest to god is the first time I've ever heard that.

McGarity moved on Kirby quickly after Spurrier quit mid-season. Kirby would've been South Carolina's guy. Spurrier set everything in motion. That's pretty much common knowledge by now.

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Wanna know how I know you don't know shite about UGA football.

Some of the criticism of McGarity is misplaced, but he was objectively no better than mediocre at his job on his best day. He *absolutely* was attempting to push for Mullen to UGA and was more or less told to sit down and shut up. Most of McGarity's "successes" have been in spite of his own actions/preferences, rather than because of them.

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Wasn't the prior President of UGA the real problem during the days of Mark. The guy was cheap.

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He was an outsider. Salesman (scheister type) who could fundraise with the best of them. I've never heard president Adams accused of being cheap. Alumni accused him of being an outsider who didnt share the same interests as the faculty and student body (mistreatment of Vince dooley. No treatment for herschel. Rubbed all of the old guard wrong. Fired them and replaced with yes men. Basically a wet dream for the board of regents who only cared about dollars coming in).