Awsi Dooger
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I approve of this hire. Georgia has allowed less than 6 yards per pass attempt during the past two seasons and 3 of the last 5. Those coaches seldom become available.
Granted, it hasn't been a consistent tendency. They've had excellent pass defense years mixed with some very poor ones, like 2012 and 2013. Even during their uptick defensive years they have blown games that seemed winnable.
Still, get me in the starting gate and I'll take my chances. Posters around here act like 9 or 10 wins is an abomination. At that level your power rating is within striking distance of the big guys. Georgia was favored over Alabama this season. That was the first underdog status for Saban in something like 4 and a half years. You can blabber over the result or grasp how significant it is to be favored in a game like that, and therefore relevant. Oh yes, elusive relevance.
It's also a glorious recognizable power based offense and not sideways crap.
Besides, I remember Mark Richt as a Cane. In particular I recall the sad loss at South Bend in 1982. That was supposed to be our year. "Go For It." Then the steamy loss at Gainesville. Later Jim Kelly got hurt. There were suspensions. Heading to Notre Dame I didn't have much hope. Mark Richt was very gutty that day. He really cared. I forget some of the details other than he connected on a gorgeous bomb that gave us the lead. It ticked closer and closer to the wire until Notre Dame pulled it out in the final seconds. We weren't exactly mopping up on Notre Dame in those years. I remember being impressed with Richt's post game interviews, and thinking he should have earned a nice niche in Canes history with that win at South Bend. Obviously I had no idea what would transpire beginning a year later. There was no reason to dream of such nonsense.
Granted, it hasn't been a consistent tendency. They've had excellent pass defense years mixed with some very poor ones, like 2012 and 2013. Even during their uptick defensive years they have blown games that seemed winnable.
Still, get me in the starting gate and I'll take my chances. Posters around here act like 9 or 10 wins is an abomination. At that level your power rating is within striking distance of the big guys. Georgia was favored over Alabama this season. That was the first underdog status for Saban in something like 4 and a half years. You can blabber over the result or grasp how significant it is to be favored in a game like that, and therefore relevant. Oh yes, elusive relevance.
It's also a glorious recognizable power based offense and not sideways crap.
Besides, I remember Mark Richt as a Cane. In particular I recall the sad loss at South Bend in 1982. That was supposed to be our year. "Go For It." Then the steamy loss at Gainesville. Later Jim Kelly got hurt. There were suspensions. Heading to Notre Dame I didn't have much hope. Mark Richt was very gutty that day. He really cared. I forget some of the details other than he connected on a gorgeous bomb that gave us the lead. It ticked closer and closer to the wire until Notre Dame pulled it out in the final seconds. We weren't exactly mopping up on Notre Dame in those years. I remember being impressed with Richt's post game interviews, and thinking he should have earned a nice niche in Canes history with that win at South Bend. Obviously I had no idea what would transpire beginning a year later. There was no reason to dream of such nonsense.
