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Dino Babers.
Home run hire, that a real AD would have looked at. He was on our list toward the end of the golden reign.

Program isn’t going anywhere as long as the AD is incompetent. I’d venture to say the program may be dead. If not dead then very close to it
 
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I can't believe it's come to this and so soon.

For the first time since I became a cane fan, I will not watch the upcoming game.

After 3 straight terrible coaches, I just don't have it in me to watch this disaster unfold AGAIN.
 
The same admin that just gave him an extension through 2024?

The goose is cooked.
People haven’t realized it. The admin is the problem. It’s why the program may be done. You can’t run a football program with people like Blake James and the bot in charge. They simply don’t value winning above all else.
 
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.
All this.

I just can’t watch the entire games anymore man. It’s like watching Season 14 of a show that should have ended 7 seasons ago.
 
Home run hire, that a real AD would have looked at. He was on our list toward the end of the golden reign.

Program isn’t going anywhere as long as the AD is incompetent. I’d venture to say the program may be dead. If not dead then very close to it

Dino or Dana.

If, on the other hand, you think that Miami is comatose and needs a big ol rail of cocaine to jump start its heart, go for Leach or Kiffin.
Yes, it might kill us, but it would at least be fun for a little while.
 
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All this.

I just can’t watch the entire games anymore man. It’s like watching Season 14 of a show that should have ended 7 seasons ago.

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.
 
1. The last time local hacks like Barry Jackson used the no talent spin to defend a coach (and side of the ball), 17 defenders that were here under Golden and Dorito ended up on NFL rosters.

2. Not just the Saints, but the Chiefs, too. And Oklahoma. I talked about this last week. Richt thinks we just aren’t “executing” or “beating our man.” It’s all archaic Neanderthal talk. Our offense does nothing to make a defense hesitate, or take false steps, or get sucked in the wrong direction. We don’t create mismatches or make a team defend sideline to sideline. It’s pathetic.

Both are excellent points. On point # 2, I posted a thread that argues the point made about making a defense hesitate, just a little. I coached defense, and the one thing I HATED was when my guys had to think and recognize what they were seeing. New England does not give a defense the SAME FORMATION 2 PLAYS IN A ROW. Think about that and more importantly, WHY?

Well, to put just the slightest bit of hesitancy in the D's heads, and that for a defender is death.

Screens, mis-directions, roll outs, etc are done to compensate for lesser talent. The apologist act like its 22 guys out there randomly playing.

EVERY coach, ever, would prefer to roll out the football and just out talent the other guys. It doesn't always work out that way so a good coach adjusts to compensate.
 
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.

DMoney, excellent post.

I think this season is clear proof that Richt cannot get the job done. He’s a great ambassador for our program, but he needs to hang coaching up.

1. The LSU debacle to start the season was inexcusable. He had all offseason to prepare for that game, and we looked like unprepared, confused &hit. It’s one thing to lose respectably, but we were not ready at all. That’s coaching and it falls squarely in Richt.

2. Failure to have NKosi ready as a 2nd year player tells you all you need to know. Richt is not this QB whisperer that he tells himself he is. I’ve seen too many inferior teams with much less talented QBs perform better. That’s coaching.

3. What I can see is that Richt destroys his QBs. He micromanages and restricts them so much that they don’t play with confidence. Kosi looks too robotic and scared. Can’t play QB that way. The best QBs play like they have titanium balls thinking they can make every throw. Richt neuters his QBs.

4. Richt has to have a big, fast, physical team. He has to have a squad that can out physical the other team which covers up his coaching weaknesses. Richt is in trouble when he doesn’t have a dominant rushing attack.

5. Richt is stuck in the 90s. CFB used to be a running league but not any more. You have to air it out - even the likes of Bama, LSU, OSU and Wisconsin understand that. And his offenses are vanilla as &hit.

We don’t lose to UVA, BC and Duke because of lack of talent. Lousy excuse, Richt. Bad coaching and the team has quit on him. Sad to see.
 
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DMoney, excellent post.

I think this season is clear proof that Richt cannot get the job done. He’s a great ambassador for our program, but he needs to hang coaching up.

1. The LSU debacle to start the season was inexcusable. He had all offseason to prepare for that game, and we looked like unprepared, confused &hit. It’s one thing to lose respectably, but we were not ready at all. That’s coaching and it falls squarely in Richt.

2. Failure to have NKosi ready as a 2nd year player tells you all you need to know. Richt is not this QB whisperer that he tells himself he is. I’ve seen too many inferior teams with much less talented QBs perform better. That’s coaching.

3. What I can see is that Richt destroys his QBs. He micromanages and restricts them so much that they don’t play with confidence. Kosi looks too robotic and scared. Can’t play QB that way. The best QBs play like they have titanium balls thinking they can make every throw. Richt neuters his QBs.

4. Richt has to have a big, fast, physical team. He has to have a squad that can out physical the other team which covers up his coaching weaknesses. Richt is in trouble when he doesn’t have a dominant rushing attack.

5. Richt is stuck in the 90s. CFB used to be a running league but not any more. You have to air it out - even the likes of Bama, LSU, OSU and Wisconsin understand that. And his offenses are vanilla as &hit.

We don’t lose to UVA, BC and Duke because of lack of talent. Lousy excuse, Richt. Bad coaching and the team has quit on him. Sad to see.
100%
 
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.

**** good write-up, as quickly as he got us up he’s torn it down. **** shame, he was given the keys and a very nice budget to make some very nice experienced hires!

QBs look like high school players just down right horrible. Love the part about oline play, play those young pups. Also why is only Dallas returning kicks and no pope.

I laughted so hard when I saw those ****** jet sweeps, my 11 years team looked better, because they practiced it and ran it all season.

Guy has this ****** air about him, like he’s coaching Alabama. anyone saw all the sandlot play calling, they wanted to win with whatever play it took, yet this guy makes our players have to win at every posit
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.

Truth!
 
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I love ya D-Ummy, but it's time to unleash the goon squad and start doing what must be done. ******' AGAIN. For like the 4th time in the last 15 years. Send all the malcontents over to the WEZ asap.


Will we ever be great again? Cot**** depressing is what this is. Frig M0rk Pricht.
 
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You've been objective on the Richt hire the entire time. I remember your posts when Richt was mentioned as a candidate ... And you've been proven accurate.

I knew what he was at UGA, too. But held out hope the change of scenery and desire to prove UGA wrong would be to our benefit. Doesn't appear that will be the case.

Now, I'm just hoping he makes the right call on the next OC ...
I'm hoping it's not his call!
 
Only positive I could draw from this thread...a little Shakira...Kenneth would approve

 
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.
 
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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