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Is Rick just stubborn, or is it far worse?

Lester Burnham said:
Little bit of both probably. I think Rick thinks he's a lot smarter than he really is and is out to prove his scheme/methods can still be effective. I also think he's completely oblivious to the fact that the game is a **** hair from passing by (if it hasn't already) if he doesn't adjust. There is absolutely zero creativity in his offensive system. I legit believe the pass DJ threw was inspired by the two BC connected in on prior to that.

I don't think it's too late for him to be a successful HC here if he takes on a strictly CEO/Face of the Program type roll and leaves the X's and O's to dedicated coordinators who are given free reign to implement and run their systems.

But that would require him making the necessary changes to his staff, and I don't think he's willing to make those decisions.
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I think this has a lot to do it. Richt is a proud man, most coaches are. He may say a lot of nice things about UGA but we all know **** well he wants to prove them wrong. He wants to call the plays so he can look back at UGA and it's fanbaee and say see if I would have been calling plays we could have won.

But the issue is he has not evolved at all since his time of calling plays. He says these plays worked 30 years ago and we play like. Slow, establish the run to open of the pass. Don't take chances in the passing game. Throwing over the middle was dangerous back then because safeties would take your head off. He doesn't understand that the game had chabged. Look at the passing stats from now and 30 years ago in college and in pros. It's crazy that in this day and and look like a team that has yet to master the forward pass. You can't pass efficiently today and it's good night, teams will just load of the box and dare you to throw.
 
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moshated305 said:
I think this has a lot to do it. Richt is a proud man, most coaches are. He may say a lot of nice things about UGA but we all know **** well he wants to prove them wrong. He wants to call the plays so he can look back at UGA and it's fanbaee and say see if I would have been calling plays we could have won.

But the issue is he has not evolved at all since his time of calling plays. He says these plays worked 30 years ago and we play like. Slow, establish the run to open of the pass. Don't take chances in the passing game. Throwing over the middle was dangerous back then because safeties would take your head off. He doesn't understand that the game had chabged. Look at the passing stats from now and 30 years ago in college and in pros. It's crazy that in this day and and look like a team that has yet to master the forward pass. You can't pass efficiently today and it's good night, teams will just load of the box and dare you to throw.
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You said it. He’s delusional. He’s more invested in proving UGA wrong than in winning at UM. **** the evidence.
 
I think it's his mental capacity and he is not all there. I feel he doesn't completey understand game time decisions and he is having problems concentrating on the task at hand. If you see what I witness everyday he has most if not all the signs. I won't say it but you know what I'm alluding too.
 
moshated305 said:
I think this has a lot to do it. Richt is a proud man, most coaches are. He may say a lot of nice things about UGA but we all know **** well he wants to prove them wrong. He wants to call the plays so he can look back at UGA and it's fanbaee and say see if I would have been calling plays we could have won.

But the issue is he has not evolved at all since his time of calling plays. He says these plays worked 30 years ago and we play like. Slow, establish the run to open of the pass. Don't take chances in the passing game. Throwing over the middle was dangerous back then because safeties would take your head off. He doesn't understand that the game had chabged. Look at the passing stats from now and 30 years ago in college and in pros. It's crazy that in this day and and look like a team that has yet to master the forward pass. You can't pass efficiently today and it's good night, teams will just load of the box and dare you to throw.
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Im told that when Mark Richt goes jogging in the early morning, he still uses a Walkman to listen to his music

Same one he's had for 30 years....
 
The Franchise said:
People always talk about coaches being stubborn and having huge egos. Dumb coaches are stubborn. Bad coaches are stubborn. Good coaches who have self-respect and respect for their employers and supporters always adapt and stay on the cutting edge.

Look at the best in the business (Sabag). He used to feature 380 pound DTs and overweight LBs on his D and run an ultra-conservative offense. Then, uptempo teams like Old **** embarrassed him. So he immediately started recruiting more speed and emphasized size less. On offense, he broke away from what he did his entire career and is now wide open.

Would you call a surgeon using outdated equipment and techniques stubborn? Or would you call him a malpractizing idiot who should be jailed?

I understand football isn’t life and death to most sissies these days. But, at the very least, if you’re paying someone a lot more money than most surgeons make, then you, as the entity forking out the $4+M per, think football is incredibly important to your operation.

When the guy you’re paying all that money tells you he’s running the plays he ran 30 years ago and that explosive plays don’t matter and that it’s painfully obvious to everyone who has watched more than 2 football games that his system is antiquated basic garbage that clearly isn’t working, then shouldn’t that chump be subjected to immediate, swift and unequivocal consequences and mandates? Like any other incredibly highly-paid professional who admits to malpractice like Rick has?

Why should a coach making more money than 99% of the population have his malpractice excused away with “oh coach is just stubborn and has an ego?” If he had a legit ego he’d be embarrassed and humiliated by his own public persistent failure. And he’d fix the problem immediately to save his own legacy and reputation if nothing else.

It’s not ego; it’s outright lack of care or lack of the ability or willingness to make tough decisions. Either should be a terminal condition for a professional making over $4M per.
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The problem is that we have a doormat for an athletic director, and an absent BOT.

Richt is stubborn because he is allowed to be. Same as it was with Golden. Same as it will be for any coach that coaches Miami in the future.

We have the worst-run athletic department in America.
 
k9cane said:
Im told that when Mark Richt goes jogging in the early morning, he still uses a Walkman to listen to his music

Same one he's had for 30 years....
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.

A synonym for insane is delusional.
 
I cant remember who said it, @kryptonite or @orange&green84 or one of my other friends but the maddening thing here is that Golden truly sucked and wasn't better than what he did. Richt is more capable and knows better but he refuses to make the clear choices and do the right things for the right reasons. Goshdangit, he's gonna do it his way because his way cant be flawed...it's the execution. Lol.

I think he's destroying whatever legacy he had and he will end up in the corching abyss. He would be hailed as a smarter guy and a far better coach to recognize the need to do things differently and adapt. That's what the best coaches do.

Like Chise said... If the best in the biz in Tuskkkaloosa can do it, why can't Richt???
 
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Let's not forget the other players in this dynamic which is the AD and BOTs who are ultimately in control. So regardless if Richt is a narcissist or being too stubborn to make changes, they need to step in and force the changes in those areas that blatantly need fixing. Otherwise they deserve more blame than Richt.

In fact, fly banners directed at them for allowing this to fester if no changes happen in the off season. I would at least give Richt that remaining time to ponder his options. But at minimum he needs to step back from the offense and hire an independent OC who will relieve him of duties of play calling and planning. If Richt wants to still stay involved on the offensive side maybe he can just mentor the qbs.
 
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As 'Chise stated, if Nick Saban can see his offense and defense was getting passed by, why can't Richt? Saban didn't wait for multiple losing streaks. He could see his defense was too slow and adapted. He saw spread-variation offenses were the present and future, and adapted.

No doubt Saban has a monster ego but winning a new way solves not winning the old way.
 
So I have a 56 T-Bird. Love the thing. Restored it’s a work of art. When people ask me how it runs, I smile and say, “It runs like it was made in 1956.”
 
aight chise real question for you, and I don't want you jumping on me for this but..

what kinda threads did you end up posting last week about this situation?
 
Growing up near Tallahassee, I watched Bobby Bowden be one of the most admired coaches ever, from a national perspective. However, a lot of the locals thought he was one of the most egotistical and stubborn coaches to ever coach in college football. He routinely would put his personal judgement over the state of reality, regardless of the fact that everyone had a different take on reality.. and by everyone, I mean other coaches, players, fans, local/national media, etc... His family, was even more critical. I'm not going by what someone told me, I literally catered for his family for over 3 years. It's amazing the things you hear when you repeatedly enter into a person's home.

Bowden didn't give a f'uck about what anyone else thought, which ultimately lead to his demise.

Richt credits Bobby Bowden for shaping him into the man and coach that currently exist before our very eyes. The problem is Richt is taking on the personality of geriatric Bobby Bowden not thr younger version of him. To paraphrase the worst coach of all time, Richt is not rising to the occasion, he is simply falling back on his training!
 
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HC’s #1 priority is doing everything possible to win within the rules. Anything that distracts from that, or interferes with that in any way, runs counter to that priority.

Richt is simply failing at his job.
 
RVACane said:
I cant remember who said it, @kryptonite or @orange&green84 or one of my other friends but the maddening thing here is that Golden truly sucked and wasn't better than what he did. Richt is more capable and knows better but he refuses to make the clear choices and do the right things for the right reasons. Goshdangit, he's gonna do it his way because his way cant be flawed...it's the execution. Lol.

I think he's destroying whatever legacy he had and he will end up in the corching abyss. He would be hailed as a smarter guy and a far better coach to recognize the need to do things differently and adapt. That's what the best coaches do.

Like Chise said... If the best in the biz in Tuskkkaloosa can do it, why can't Richt???
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I literally couldn't agree more.
 
The Franchise said:
People always talk about coaches being stubborn and having huge egos. Dumb coaches are stubborn. Bad coaches are stubborn. Good coaches who have self-respect and respect for their employers and supporters always adapt and stay on the cutting edge.

Look at the best in the business (Sabag). He used to feature 380 pound DTs and overweight LBs on his D and run an ultra-conservative offense. Then, uptempo teams like Old **** embarrassed him. So he immediately started recruiting more speed and emphasized size less. On offense, he broke away from what he did his entire career and is now wide open.

Would you call a surgeon using outdated equipment and techniques stubborn? Or would you call him a malpractizing idiot who should be jailed?

I understand football isn’t life and death to most sissies these days. But, at the very least, if you’re paying someone a lot more money than most surgeons make, then you, as the entity forking out the $4+M per, think football is incredibly important to your operation.

When the guy you’re paying all that money tells you he’s running the plays he ran 30 years ago and that explosive plays don’t matter and that it’s painfully obvious to everyone who has watched more than 2 football games that his system is antiquated basic garbage that clearly isn’t working, then shouldn’t that chump be subjected to immediate, swift and unequivocal consequences and mandates? Like any other incredibly highly-paid professional who admits to malpractice like Rick has?

Why should a coach making more money than 99% of the population have his malpractice excused away with “oh coach is just stubborn and has an ego?” If he had a legit ego he’d be embarrassed and humiliated by his own public persistent failure. And he’d fix the problem immediately to save his own legacy and reputation if nothing else.

It’s not ego; it’s outright lack of care or lack of the ability or willingness to make tough decisions. Either should be a terminal condition for a professional making over $4M per.
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This is the Franchise we need.

BTW, did you drop your monocle in your Fernet as you typed this?
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