DMoney said:

I didn’t expect to be here this fast. Richt isn’t Golden, but this is a Golden season. We just flipped sides of the ball.

What hurts the most is hearing the spin regarding talent. It sounds like the Golden era, minus the sanctions excuse. The class is collapsing and a quick fix (i.e. an offensive version of the Manny hire) is unrealistic. Richt came here to call plays and he is going to see it through. This is a bad time to be a Hurricane fan.

Some scattered thoughts:

- Richt has botched the QB position, and we shouldn’t be surprised. That’s what got him fired. Personally, I focused on his prior successes and hoped the way it ended in UGA (with Greyson Lambert and Faton Bauta) was an aberration. It wasn’t. This might just be who Richt is in 2018. When I watched Cam Newton and Deshaun Watson win games on Sunday, it only drilled home that point. There is a disconnect between Richt and the modern game.

- It’s even more concerning to hear Richt talk about Jarren’s redshirt. Now, Jarren isn't going to save the offense. He might not even be ready to play. We don't know. But the redshirt shouldn’t be entering Richt’s mind. If Jarren is good, he won’t be here in five years. If he’s bad, he won’t be here in five years. Or he’ll be Malik. Either way, the fifth year should be irrelevant. I’m worried Richt’s mind is stuck in another era that no longer exists.

- The fans have been screaming for more motions and jet sweep action since last year. Richt dismissed it. But in Week 10 of the season, there it was. He is reacting, as opposed to getting ahead of the trend. And as you'd expect, everything looks haphazard and thrown together. Darrell Langham, who can't run, faked the jet on multiple snaps. Why not use Homer, Dallas, Harley, or Pope? We have guys that can scare people, but we don’t use them in a manner that scares anyone. And when we lined up for a jump ball to end the game—the classic Langham scenario—we pulled him and sat him on the bench. I just don’t see any reason or rhyme to what we do.

- Deejay Dallas is another example. Duke scored on us with a jump pass. Meanwhile, we have one of the most versatile players in the country being utilized like a one-dimensional runner. Where is the throwing threat? Where is the receiving threat? He might as well be Gus Edwards.

- Much has been written about how we ran out of time with four minutes left and two timeouts. It was an embarrassment. And it’s just a continuation of what we’ve seen the last two games. Why is there no urgency coming from the QB position? Can you imagine Drew Brees or Baker Mayfield carrying themselves like our guys? It’s not an experience thing, because Malik is even less urgent than Perry. It is coming from the head coach and the quarterback coach.

- We need to do a better job of self-scouting. Everybody knew Malik’s limitations going into the year. And on our pre-camp podcast, me and Lu spent a good chunk of the time describing how Mahoney and Jones were not talented enough to start for us. We had an absurdly easy stretch after the LSU game. Why didn’t Scaife and Perry start until conference play? Why were we so consistent with our first-team offensive lineup early in the season? If the upperclassmen aren’t talented enough—which was obvious before the season—we need to fast-track the young talent and take our lumps early. That did not happen.

- One last thing on the talent spin job. You are seeing it all over Twitter from the media and staff. The New Orleans Saints played the LA Rams yesterday. Biggest game of the year. The Saints have one of the best QBs of all time, the best OL in the league, and two RBs that combined for 3,000 scrimmage yards last year. If anybody can line up and “out-dude” the opposition, it’s them. But on a crucial fourth and one, Sean Payton called a reverse pass to put the ball in the hands of Taysom Hill. It worked. Nobody is just lining up and beating guys man-on-man. The state of football is too advanced. You need to always be looking for an edge. We aren’t looking for that edge right now. We are just looking for excuses.

Anyways, I'll be watching on Saturday. This November, like so many other Novembers of the past decade, is about seeing young talent develop and learning from failure. I thought we were past this stage.

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TaylorCaneOrDie said:

I really don't think this program is that hard to fix but it will take CMR to go against what he's always done. Go get a local baller at QB who is a straight dawg (think Winky Flowers or Lamar Jackson) and allow him to flourish in a spread system. This will make our offensive line look a lot better than they are, utilize our team speed, and become attractive to local kids again. This can all be done in one year but CMR is stubborn as ****, so don't hold your breath.

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ssvir said:

Not sure why people keep bringing this up. If a guy transfers he still must sit out a year.

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gatorsSUCK! said:

I had thought they changed that...glad that’s not the case..thanks

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SFbayCane said:

Why in the world did the AD extend Richt after two years? What did they have to gain there? His initial contract ran thru 2020 already?

Jimmini F,ucking Christmas!! Blake James with yet another self inflicted wound.

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The Franchise said:

Stick a fork in this program. Just like Rickety proved what he was for 15 years at UbaGA, UM has proven what we are for 15 years. We are UVA/BC. We eek out wins against them one year, and then they get us the next time.

We are so galactically far from teams like Alabaga and Clemson it’s not even worth discussing greatness and championships anymore. We’re not even on the same planet as those teams.

****, we’re not even as good as teams like Texas Tech or Wazzou. Arizona State, with a brand new coach everyone ridiculed, would wipe their asses with us.

Rickety is another God squad fraud just like his **** mentor, Booby Bowel. He’s got no real character or moral fiber. He’s all about himself and has put his desire to play house as an unqualified outdated play caller above what is best for this program. This is more egregious than what Folden did with Doritos because Folden was a carpetbagger; Rickety is an alum.

I appreciate D$’s optimism about some sort of return to the “magic” of 2016, but we sucked for the majority of that season on offense. We had a couple good games after a debilitating 4 game skid that had everyone calling for Rickety to hire an OC. But, make no mistake, that offense was spotty all fcking year with a veteran QB who was a pretty accurate passer. We’d get hot for a quarter then disappear for 2 quarters.

If Rickety has any inkling of honor or morality he’ll insist that we hire the best spread OC on the planet the minute this **** season ends. A top guy like Briles would turn this offense with these same players around in one offseason.

I don’t expect that to happen because, like I said above, we’ve proven who we are as a program over the last 15 years. We are slow, reactionary, conservative, and way behind the times and trends in modern football. That’s who we are. And I don’t see that changing. Rickety has hammered the final nail in UM’s coffin.

Unlike a lot of you guys, I’ll watch every game until the bloody end because this is my alma mater, and it means too much to me. But after this last moribund streak I’ve come to accept that we’re just a middling Coastal team.

Unfortunately, the way this works is when you don’t hand out bags in recruiting you have to stay hot and relevant. The minute you lose that heat and the fans get hopeless and turn on the coach it’s over at a place like this. Our recruiting will completely tank, and we’ll have to resort to stealing FIU and FAU recruits like we did at the end of the Folden Error.

It’s coming. Because that’s what we do, and that’s who we are. If Rickety can’t win with this roster then guess what he’s going to do when our recruiting bottoms out.

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Earnest T. Bass said:

One thing you deserve credit for...you subscribe to the old adage...play to your audience.

Of course, that route requires no courage. Next year's team, Coached by Mark Richt, will reinforce that you are a fool, but for the time being, enjoy the accolades you knew you would receive.

Laughingly, you would have written similar ill-informed garbage about Dabo Swinney during his 3rd year as head coach of the Clemson Tigers.

You don't know, what you don't know!

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LuCane said:

If you want to make it sound really bad, we were setup for a rocketship ride this year. The schedule couldn't have looked sweeter - with or without a first-game loss to LSU. The ACC coastal is perhaps at its lowest point I've ever seen. FSU is in shambles. BC away is incredibly beatable. ****, they used multiple trick plays in their 1st half and were still in a dogfight with our inept offense. Our byes were in perfect shape.

None of it means we'd beat Clemson, but we could have realistically gone 11-1 and walked a young, talented team led by a well-groomed Frosh QB (whichever would be better trained and validated after various in-season experiments) into the ACC 'ship. Win or lose there, the program is still rising. Instead, this was a launch and re-launch failure.

Makes it truly ugly because all the concerns have become reality. I'll keep watching every game till 00:00, but only because I'm an idiot.

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DMoney said:

I think there are a couple things missing from 2016. For one, Kaaya is much better than Malik. I've always been a Kaaya guy, but that should be an obvious fact by now.

Second, Richt adjusted after the four-game skid to call quicker pass plays and mitigate our pass protection issues. I don't see any meaningful adjustments now. Maybe four losses is the sweet spot before we change anything.

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The Franchise said:

Stick a fork in this program. Just like Rickety proved what he was for 15 years at UbaGA, UM has proven what we are for 15 years. We are UVA/BC. We eek out wins against them one year, and then they get us the next time.

We are so galactically far from teams like Alabaga and Clemson it’s not even worth discussing greatness and championships anymore. We’re not even on the same planet as those teams.

****, we’re not even as good as teams like Texas Tech or Wazzou. Arizona State, with a brand new coach everyone ridiculed, would wipe their asses with us.

Rickety is another God squad fraud just like his **** mentor, Booby Bowel. He’s got no real character or moral fiber. He’s all about himself and has put his desire to play house as an unqualified outdated play caller above what is best for this program. This is more egregious than what Folden did with Doritos because Folden was a carpetbagger; Rickety is an alum.

I appreciate D$’s optimism about some sort of return to the “magic” of 2016, but we sucked for the majority of that season on offense. We had a couple good games after a debilitating 4 game skid that had everyone calling for Rickety to hire an OC. But, make no mistake, that offense was spotty all fcking year with a veteran QB who was a pretty accurate passer. We’d get hot for a quarter then disappear for 2 quarters.

If Rickety has any inkling of honor or morality he’ll insist that we hire the best spread OC on the planet the minute this **** season ends. A top guy like Briles would turn this offense with these same players around in one offseason.

I don’t expect that to happen because, like I said above, we’ve proven who we are as a program over the last 15 years. We are slow, reactionary, conservative, and way behind the times and trends in modern football. That’s who we are. And I don’t see that changing. Rickety has hammered the final nail in UM’s coffin.

Unlike a lot of you guys, I’ll watch every game until the bloody end because this is my alma mater, and it means too much to me. But after this last moribund streak I’ve come to accept that we’re just a middling Coastal team.

Unfortunately, the way this works is when you don’t hand out bags in recruiting you have to stay hot and relevant. The minute you lose that heat and the fans get hopeless and turn on the coach it’s over at a place like this. Our recruiting will completely tank, and we’ll have to resort to stealing FIU and FAU recruits like we did at the end of the Folden Error.

It’s coming. Because that’s what we do, and that’s who we are. If Rickety can’t win with this roster then guess what he’s going to do when our recruiting bottoms out.

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ADELPHI said:

Blake James propagandist hard at work here.
Comparing a man coaching in his 3rd year as head coach to one that is in his 18th year. Comparing a younger man who is full of passion and fire to one who has the energy of a two-by-four. Dabo understands how to be a ceo and Mork doesn’t. Why do you insist on making this ridiculous comparison?? You sound really stupid.

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dycane said:

I think it was this optimism that really ****ed Richt. He wasn't smart enough to realize Malik was straight garbage. As soon as teams got ahold of multiple game film, they realized how to paralyze our offense with him at quarterback by the end of last year. The first half of last season was fool's gold and Richt proved to be a fool. He thought he could be "safe", go with the veteran, be super conservative on offense, and ride the defense to ACCG with such a weak schedule. No matter what anyone says, he never called games last year even remotely as ****** and conservative as he has this year.

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SinCityCane said:

I'll always believe this entire season would have gone differently had Richt gotten Jarren ready to play right away like I thought he would. A lot of what we're seeing now is basically the team on a huge letdown & not playing with the necessary excitement/confidence. They're going through the motions. They're done buying what Richt is selling. There are other problems, but a lot of them would be masked by a better passing attack considering our D. Richt's high school offense would have looked a lot better. Talk about shìtting the bed. Way to go, coach. This season has turned into a massive setback because he's too set in his antiquated "start the senior, redshirt the freshman" ways, which he still hasn't budged from. At this point, I think he's hiding Jarren because he's gonna make him look like an idiot for keeping him on the bench when he sees the field. He'll play him over the last few games & will try to sell us on some "he just wasn't ready to go" bs when he shows how much better he is than any of our other "quarterbacks", which will happen immediately. Watch.

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Earnest T. Bass said:

It is important to consider the source when fielding criticism...I've done so...and besides laughing at you, I accept that your lack of knowledge expands far beyond football. Remember to ask those good people if they want fries with their burgers. Be well, Chico!

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Earnest T. Bass said:

One thing you deserve credit for...you subscribe to the old adage...play to your audience.

Of course, that route requires no courage. Next year's team, Coached by Mark Richt, will reinforce that you are a fool, but for the time being, enjoy the accolades you knew you would receive.

Laughingly, you would have written similar ill-informed garbage about Dabo Swinney during his 3rd year as head coach of the Clemson Tigers.

You don't know, what you don't know!

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ADELPHI said:

Interesting. Your posts have a real “ delusions of grandeur “ tone to them. I’m going to guess that your some wrinkly old man with an exaggerated sense of self who has way too much time on his hands. You try way too hard in your posts which is painfully obvious. And there’s no need to deride the good people working hard to get you your burger or their ethnic makeup. That’s pretty irrelevant to the topic here.

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mdcane77 said:

Why are you such a clueless idiot?

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Earnest T. Bass said:

Well, to be honest with you, anytime I read your posts my IQ level drops 10 points. So, your stunted intellect has not only given you a life that deserves an ocean of pity, your special brand of stupidity negatively impacts anyone that comes within a hundred yards of you. I hope that answers your question.

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