re: A new HC - what are our expectations?

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Being the worst is bad.

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You are correct, sir. But we aren't the worst. We were virtually tied for 5th in the SEC.

I mean, if you are going to narrow it down to certain teams, then yes, we are the worst. However, if I narrow the SEC race down to Alabama and LSU, then LSU is the wrost team in the SEC. That's bad, right?

No, we excel at beating terrible teams, we're marginal at beating teams of comparable ability, and we fricking SUCK at beating teams better than us.

We haven't beaten a better team since Florida, 2012. Take a gander at the chart in this article and tell me how well we do with teams who are even or better.

*THAT* is the crux of the matter behind folks wanting CMR to walk.

Nothing defines recent richt more than 2011.

The mediocrity argument lives and dies with the very definition - Since CMR's last SEC title, Florida and Tennessee were up (2006-09), and UGA finished in the middle of the pack. 2010 saw the rise of SCar in the East, and Georgia had a losing SEC record.

Obviously 2011 and 2012 were better, but even in both of those years, the Dawgs had inexplicable Richtian losses - Clobbered right out of the gate by Boise State, boatraced by SCar, threw away a dominant first half of SECCG to LSU, blew a lead to Mich State in Outback Bowl and lost in 3OT; run the frick out of WBS in Columbia, and let Bama gash the DL for ~350 yards in SECCG.

Those were the GOOD years. For '13 & '14, Tennessee and Florida regressed, Mizzou emerges as the snoozer East champ for two consecutive years, SCar hangs around in the division races, and where is Georgia? Oh yeah, right in the middle of the pack.

Mediocre.

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Huh?SC finished 5th and LSU finished 12th in 2013.
If not for one of the biggest flukes in the history of flukes we als beat AU.

Clemson was damn good last year as well.

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SCar was the only of those games where we won by 2 scores. By my count, that made Georgia 2-2 out of those 4. Looks pretty average to me.

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the Dawgs had inexplicable Richtian losses - Clobbered right out of the gate by Boise State,

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Boise was ranked #5 in the nation.....inexplicable loss? I think we were ranked somewhere around 17 or 18. Come on, man. A #18 team losing to a #5 is NOT inexplicable.

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The problem with those things is that they are based upon rankings as the two teams play each other.

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That's why I don't predicate the argument on rankings alone. RD's case was that SCar and LSU were better teams than us. I have to assume he believes this based on their ranking at the time the game was played. At kickoff, SCar was #6 and UGA was #11. They finished #4 in the AP and we finished unranked after losing to Nebraska in the bowl game. After we played Carolina, we went on the injury spree, so the Georgia that ran out the last 8:30 in the 4Q wasn't the same team that lost the bowl game.

Even if critics concede the South Carolina win from 2013, that still means that it's been over 2 years since the team actually stepped up and accomplished something on the field. Auburn would have been the biggest comeback in school history (if the announcers were correct), but it wasn't to be. The LSU game in '13 was a practical dead heat between the teams, so I don't necessarily qualify that as a win against somebody they shouldn't have beaten.

The football team is run by a backup who never had to make the game his ultimate focus. That colors his entire development as a player as well as his career. The team has absolutely taken on the attitude of its coach. Some folks are okay with that. I'm not.

Honest question UGA fans need to ask themselves.

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

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?

I'll hang up and listen.

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Worst on that list of 5 best sec programs, which I bet is worse than where uga was under Donnan.


Possibly. I don't know and don't want to spend too much time looking all of that up. But I'd bet Donnan's was worse. I'd also bet that Donnan didn't play against as many Top 15 teams...or 25....or whatever the number was.

Hey look. We get it. You guys don't like Richt. You want him fired. If he does get fired, I just hope it works out for us.

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From 96-00, uga was 8-14 vs ranked teams.
From 10-14, Uga was 9-17 and so far 0-2 this year.