re: A new HC - what are our expectations?

I Went to the last game in which we wore red pants, and the next year, to a bowl game in Atlanta fulton county stadium.

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Would Nick Saban have come here if we offered the same $ back when he came to Bama?

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No. He could and did look for the perfect storm. Bama was on an extremely short list of teams that could have drawn him away from Miami.

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Did Bama just hire a coach like Saban and that is that or was it part of an overall financial commitment to spend their way back to the top?

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Yes.

We get it. We aren't hiring Saban. But neither was anyone else outside a short list. shite, UF and many other schools have never landed a "Saban". They certainly did not this last go around, reaching down to the mid-majors to grab someone with upside.

The prestigious, can't miss coach is a rare bird indeed.

Not the ones Mike wore in Tampa though... Mine are older.

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Yes.

We get it. We aren't hiring Saban. But neither was anyone else outside a short list. shite, UF and many other schools have never landed a "Saban". They certainly did not this last go around, reaching down to the mid-majors to grab someone with upside.

The prestigious, can't miss coach is a rare bird indeed.

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I agree, but there also seems to be a correlation to programs willing to spend money and those who win. We have to play a lot of these teams too.

Maybe it is just wishful thinking, but regardless of who our coach is in a few years, I feel like the culture of cheap may finally be behind us. Coaches can come and go and have good runs, but to win at the level we want to win... Consistently, we have to have the facilities and support staff to accomplish this. And we need to recruit in the top 5 instead of the top ten.

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No, that part isn't, but the overall lack of execution by the team was.

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Sometimes a lack of execution by a team is just because the opponent is good. And because they are good they stop their opponents from executing.

I remember in High School one year we played a team that very good. They had two players that went on and played in the NFL.....one played fro Georgia. (Larry Kennebrew and Ray Donaldson) We fumbled 5 times inside our own 20 yard line. Got blown out 30-0. Were they good? yes. Were they 30-0 better than us? No. We finished the year 9-1 and ranked, faced them again in the playoffs and they beat us again....10-0. They intercepted a pass and ran it back for a TD. We played them evenly, in short. We weren't poorly coached. We just had things go wrong in the first game and it snowballed. We just couldn't recover. Sometimes things like that happen. That's what happened to UGA in 2012 against South Carolina. It just happens sometimes.

I certainly see your point, but the cornerstone of the argument against Richt isn't that we lose to better teams, but rather that:

1) You can set your watch to at least one headscratcher of loss, every year, and relatedly

2) If #5 Boise was "supposed" to beat #18 UGA in 2011, why is it that Richt-led Georgia teams find new and inventive ways to forget to show up for the games where they're the metaphorical #5?

If you believe the last ten years of evidence, Georgia is more guilty of Clemsoning than Clemson. The fan base as a whole is reaching a breaking point with respect to this being an acceptable result from their football team and its head coach.

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1) You can set your watch to at least one headscratcher of loss, every year, and relatedly

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This is true. Seems to happen every year. I haven't checked....but I wonder how often it happens to other teams. Also, Some of those losses have occurred to official errors, judgement on the part of players, etc.
I have to admit that there are times he makes a call that is truly a head scratcher, though.

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2) If #5 Boise was "supposed" to beat #18 UGA in 2011, why is it that Richt-led Georgia teams find new and inventive ways to forget to show up for the games where they're the metaphorical #5?

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See my example above. Sometimes things just fall that way. How in the world has Ole Miss beaten Alabama two years in a row? How did Toledo beat Arkansas earlier this year? If we get upset, we usually get upset by an SEC team, at least. We haven't really had a really, really bad game that I recall. (I am not counting the UCF game because they had a really good team with Bortles as their QB)

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If you believe the last ten years of evidence, Georgia is more guilty of Clemsoning than Clemson.

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And yet, they are the #1 team in the nation right now. Why? because we simply have not gotten any breaks, mainly. Ok.....some poor playing and bad decision making has helped!

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The fan base as a whole is reaching a breaking point with respect to this being an acceptable result from their football team and its head coach.

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I understand that. But...remember when the braves won the World Series? It wasn't nearly as satisfying as most of us thought it would be. Why? because when you are on the outside looking in, it seems better than it really is. And when you are having success, you don't appreciate it nearly as much as you really should. People simply do not appreciate what Richt has done, and how good we have had it. And, if we win a NC, we will not get that great rush we thought we would.

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#18 beating #5 is possible.

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Especially when those numbers are pre-season rankings, as there's really nothing to go on yet; it would be more difficult at the end of a season, when both teams are known quantities.

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Mark Richt is luckless and doesn't seem to compete in the big games.

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Ed Zachary. I get it when folks say that every NC team needs a degree of luck on their way to the top. Sometimes you win a squeaker of a game, maybe it's a fluke play or the ball bounces your way for once, but dammit man, somebody tell me that I'm not the only one who feels like CMR catches ZERO breaks.

NEVER.

frickING.

EVER.

Literally the man hasn't had luck favor him in ten years. The whole Charlie Brown thing is the perfect characterization. I heard it said a few years ago, "Mark Richt loves him some Jesus... but I'm not sure the feeling is mutual."

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NEVER.

frickING.

EVER.

Literally the man hasn't had luck favor him in ten years. The whole Charlie Brown thing is the perfect characterization. I heard it said a few years ago, "Mark Richt loves him some Jesus... but I'm not sure the feeling is mutual."

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People used to point to the Edwards drop in '02 against UF as an example of Mark Richt not catching a break. I always countered that he made his own luck (bad) by running an offense that went 0 for 13 on third down conversions.

Seriously. 0 for 13.

Luck is a ball bouncing the wrong or right way on a divot. Not being inept...