re: Kirby vs. UF this year is the same point in his tenure as Richt was for the 2007 UF game

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Didn’t we start to win more in the series when we started getting our bye the week before? I feel like UF always had a bye before our game and we waited years to get it too.

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Correct.
I think 2006 was the last time that we didn't have a bye before playing Florida.

8-7 against the gators since then.

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That he needed a gimmick, or fake juice, to beat an inferior UF team?

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telling the 11 guys who scored a TD to get really fired up and he didn't care if they got penalized isn't fake juice or a gimmick.

And if you're one of the dullards that think he orchestrated what actually ended up happening, then you aren't worth even continuing the discussion with since that line of thinking has been proven wrong time and time and time again.

I've "followed" UGA football since the 70's, Sonny.

UF had two losses going into that 2007 game, and was in the middle of a rebuild, having lost much of the previous class. They finished 9-4 and was arguably the worst UF squad under Meyer while that 2007 team had the makings of one of the better squads under Richt.

None of which says anything about the bottle of "fake juice" St. Mark the Pious uncorked on that field that day.

But, Richt will always have his apologists, and no one can deny that he was a better coach than Donnan or Goff, so it's hard to argue with his defenders.

Me? I tired of him early on, shortly after Senor Willie was promoted. No matter how good Richt was, or how close he got, there was always the feeling that he was still doing less with more at the University.

His recruiting has a nice facade to it, but if you looked past that you'd always find the holes in those classes: too few OL in any given year, too few DL, etc. Richt was, to me, the face of "wait til next year" and you'd actually believe it when you said it.

He was the Lucy to our Charlie Brown.

But, all that aside, glad to have the Bainbridge Bearcat running the program. No fake juice or skin shedding there.

"Are you sayin' that?"

-Mark Richt

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Cheer, you are a real piece of shite.

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"Are you sayin' that???"

Why, thank you Lewis.

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Respect the man and his faults for bei g an amazing leader of young men.

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Not to be argumentative, because I realize I'm arguing against an image of a man that is deeply ingrained into the minds of the majority of the fan base, but Mark Richt presided over a lot of arrests and bad behaviors during his tenure.

We get a lot less "god speak" out of this administration, and a lot more results.

I'll take the latter.

You will always have the bad apples, no matter how "fine" of a man you believe to have at the helm.

Anyway, 2007 WLOCP followed by the AU blackout a few weeks after. That was certainly a time where I believed Richt had finally put it all together, and I tried, again, to kick the football Lucy was holding at the start of 2008.

Good grief!

Anyway, we always stand upon the shoulders of those who came before, and I guess it could be said that Kirby has had an easier go of it than Richt. I will concede to that, somewhat. Still, there was no excuse for the gaping holes in Richts recruiting classes.

Wow! You sound like a horrible human being.

Richt should have been fired in year one after the inexplicable ending goal line call against Auburn at home. That sloppy shite Tuberville was laughing his arse off.

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Richt should have been fired in year one after the inexplicable ending goal line call against Auburn at home. That sloppy shite Tuberville was laughing his arse off.

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Maybe there was some foreshadowing for years to come, but I felt he needed to go after the 2009 season. Richard Samuel as our featured back and losing to UCF in the bowl.

Nice. Too bad it took 15 years to figure it out

Anyone who was a fan from 1984- 2000, would have and should have given Richt some slack based on the team on the field. Cheer clearly forgets that the UF win in 1997 was likely the pinnacle of UGA football in that time period preceding Richt in Dooley’s mail it in, Goff, and Donnan years… The team became a lot more relevant under Richt. As far as support, imagine if Richt had the admin support Smart does? Richt was paying assistants under the table with his own money. There was a lot wrong with the ADept and Richt’s teams, but his support was strong because he was likable and he was the guy who made us relevant again. Too bad he never won a Natty.