OT Thoughts on UNC beating a Miami team with

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OT Thoughts on UNC beating a Miami team withAn entrenched starter and far more experienced players than us....

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Yep, I'm not convinced that our team would be doing any better this season had Richt stayed at the helm.

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Yep, I'm not convinced that our time would be doing any better this season had Richt stayed at the helm.

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People on Miami message boards already want Richt fired

They have a JR QB who has started since he was a freshman, an experienced OL, solid WR group, and an experienced defensive backfield. Their LB's are very young, all freshmen.

All in all, I think things would be the same under Richt right now. Probably would have beat Vandy but we'd have lost to UNC, is how I see it playing out. Could be wrong, but given how things shook out under Richt, that's my belief in our our season would have gone.

The loss to Vandy was inexcusable and is absolutely at the feet of our coaches. As a young HC, you have to hope Kirby can learn from this. We went super conservative against an inferior opponent and then tried to call a cute play with the game on the line. As I said before, I'm going to give Kirby the benefit of the doubt this year while he cuts his teeth but if he's still having these issues in year 3 then the administration needs to start the search for the next HC.

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Miami is far less experienced in the front 7

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Miami is certainly young there too, but most of our front 7 at any point in time during a game are freshmen and sophomores, so saying that Miami is "far" less experienced is just hyperbole. They're more experienced on the D-Line, we're a little more experienced at LB, I'd call it a wash.

UNC also got handed a TD that didn't actually happen. In a game decided by exactly one TD, that hurts.

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Who exactly are the starting freshman on our front 7?I know Rochester is getting
a lot of playing but not sure if he started yesterday.

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We rotate DL so much that it's not necessarily important who is getting the first snap, but there are a lot of times when some combination of Rochester, Clark, David Marshall and Michail Carter are on the field at the same time.

Our young guys on defense are coming along nicely. The defense in general looks pretty solid. Miami looks really good on defense as well; I was hoping we would go and get Diaz instead of Grantham. He's a good coach.

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An entrenched starter and far more experienced players than us....

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Seriously? We lost to VANDERBILT, and your take away is "Thank goodness Mark Richt lost?"

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They have a JR QB who has started since he was a freshman, an experienced OL, solid WR group, and an experienced defensive backfield. Their LB's are very young, all freshmen.

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An very few if any were as highly recruited as our players.

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All in all, I think things would be the same under Richt right now.

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That's the thing....we don't know, do we? Nobody can say one way or the other for sure. All you can do is "I feel". "I think" "We might"

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Probably would have beat Vandy but we'd have lost to UNC, is how I see it playing out.

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Not sure why you think North carolina would have beaten us. Richt might not have started Eason to begin, and would have stayed with a run heavy offense. That's what won the game for us.

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The loss to Vandy was inexcusable and is absolutely at the feet of our coaches.

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How about Nicholls? Ole Miss was a blowout worse than Alabama last year and they are currently a .500 team with another 2-3 possible losses. They are not as good as many thought they would be. While we are playing what if...who's fault was Missouri? They're not looking so spiffy, either. How about the close loss to Tennessee at the last second?

I realize we won some of those games...but Richt took heat for getting blown out by Alabama. he took heat for Auburn in 2013, because it was coaches fault they didn't knock the ball down. (Never mind that we misplayed the Hail Mary against Tennessee poorly. Richt took heat for our showing against Georgia Southern (who went to a bowl last year) yet Smart gets a pass for Nicholls?

The hypocrisy on this board is mind boggling. (Not pointed at you, Crispy, so much as those who rail against anybody that would dare criticize Kirby Smart for anything)