re: Kirby Smart done deal to replace Richt per AJC

My point is you never know you have to go on what you can see. Maybe he has the effect of a Herschel or a Payton or a Tebow. Maybe not. But to just cast him aside as just another 18 year old based on what we can see so far is foolish. If he turns out to be a Ramsey at least we gave him a shot. But as of now. In this point in time. He is important by himself and the effect he has on other recruits. How much of an effect did an 18 year Chubb have last year?

That's my piece on it.

I cross-posted this on a GTP entry, but don't feel like retyping:

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Here's why I might be okay with Pruitt going: With the previous coaching staff, Jeremy Pruitt was our Jack Nicholson from A Few Good Men. We want him in that (B-M) Hall. We NEED him in that Hall. In CMR's time in Athens, Pruitt was likely the lone voice in the wilderness asking WTF was going on, if everybody that says they want to win actually wanted to, you know, WIN.

The entire balance has shifted, now. The former NegaDawgs who decried CMR's nice guy to a fault, "Aw shucks" routine are now the Kool-Aid-swilling Disneys. A new day has dawned, and the new regime will likely be hand-picked by Col. Jessup's commanding officer. That tells me shite's about to get real.

Pruitt was only indispensable so long as he was the sole badass challenging the status quo. I know the players love him, and I think their admiration of a firm hand on the rudder speaks volumes in the face of what appeared to be Richt's Care Bear culture in Athens. I firmly believe that Kirby's bringing the antidote to that, and he'll have 9 hardass assistants behind him wiping the slate clean.

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/bow Thank you. I love what he's done for the defense in the post-Grantham Era as well. Pruitt's defense kept us in many a game that we likely should have lost. We could have been 5-7/4-8 if not for a superior effort by the defense.

My cautious optimism rears its head again at the prospect that Kirby-for-Pruitt is at worst an even trade. My hope is that the Defensive coaching staff will be even greater than the sum of its parts, and allows that unit to transcend from very good to elite.

The return of a Junkyard Dawg defense would buy our fledgling QB and revamped offense some much needed breathing room.

Good point on the metrics. I was more using the JYD moniker to signal a return to staggeringly-good defense.

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It's like Boom without the lunacy.

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Can we call them the Freak Dawgs? I like this moniker.

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I really want him, and think we land him, but our program will not hinge on where an 18 year old enrolls next month.

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and that's where you're wrong. 90% of the time I'd wholeheartedly agree with you, but not this time. If Eason comes, we'll take our lumps the first half of '16 (which honestly, probably wouldn't be THAT much worse than what we'll get from lambert anyway) but by the end of 16 the light should come on like it did for STafford the last part of '06. '17 and '18 we should be dynamic at QB and really set us up for success.

Compare that to if he leaves. We'll go into '16 with lambert, ramsey and no other scholarship QBs (as of now). Idc what you say about improvement or whatever, that is terrifying. And not good. At all. So now we go into '17 with a senior Ramsey (who at this point may not have ever even started a game yet, and couldn't beat out lambert) competing against a true freshman yet to be named (who knows if hockman will stick around...whether he does or doesn't we'll surely have a QB in the 17 class). There's yet another year of QB sucking. Then ramsey leaves so we go into '18 likely breaking in yet another new QB (assuming SR ramsey beats out a TFR). You're looking at 3 years of average to below average QB play with the only light in the tunnel being 2019.


Maybe more so than I can remember in a long, long time...this one recruit truly will determine the fate of our program for years to come.

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All of a sudden we're Tennessee.

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More like Florida. At least Kirby will leave the cupboard stocked for the next coach.

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and that's where you're wrong. 90% of the time I'd wholeheartedly agree with you, but not this time. If Eason comes, we'll take our lumps the first half of '16 (which honestly, probably wouldn't be THAT much worse than what we'll get from lambert anyway) but by the end of 16 the light should come on like it did for STafford the last part of '06. '17 and '18 we should be dynamic at QB and really set us up for success.

Compare that to if he leaves. We'll go into '16 with lambert, ramsey and no other scholarship QBs (as of now). Idc what you say about improvement or whatever, that is terrifying. And not good. At all. So now we go into '17 with a senior Ramsey (who at this point may not have ever even started a game yet, and couldn't beat out lambert) competing against a true freshman yet to be named (who knows if hockman will stick around...whether he does or doesn't we'll surely have a QB in the 17 class). There's yet another year of QB sucking. Then ramsey leaves so we go into '18 likely breaking in yet another new QB (assuming SR ramsey beats out a TFR). You're looking at 3 years of average to below average QB play with the only light in the tunnel being 2019.

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This was the risk we took when we fired Richt. No turning back now.

If Eason flips, we can figure out something else. Bama was mediocre at QB until McCarron. They still won.

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JPW and Mcelroy are both miles better than lambert or ramsey.

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Kinda hard to know that honestly. They were older than Ramsey when they played, and their teams were way, way more talented.

Point is not that Ramsey or Lambert are good. I'm not even talking about them in particular. I'm saying we can piece it together. Transfers, JUCOs, whatever. If Eason flips, we can still be just fine if we don't pout and make good decisions.