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Mark richt on fixed problems at Miami

423Hurricane said:
I've formed a habit through the years of always trying to say things in the "proper" context when speaking to others - especially in group settings. Drive myself crazy sometimes. I've given speeches and had question and answer sessions that, unless your quick on your feet, can be difficult to keep things in the proper context.

Not making excuses because Richt was a HC for 18 years, but when speaking off the cuff in an interview situation, I'm sure context can get lost in the shuffle.

They I think was a reference to the team in general. We seemed to me as a generalization that included the football program as a whole. Using we doesn't throw former regimes under the bus. Using They in that quote would have specifically placed the onus on a former regime.
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I can see that;

However, let’s be real....dem boys weren’t eating right under his watch, either. DJ, Pinckney, Ford, Miller, Nest....none of them looked in shape. They looked better than the Golden Boys, but see what Feeley is doing now compared to how these boys looked last yr???! Sheesh.
 
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TitansHope said:
yep. i mean, compare where we are right now to where we were when golden got the boot. it’s not even close.
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Save the platitudes...
You guys forget how we felt the day after we got *** whooped by Wisconsin in December..... this program was spiraling down the toilet.... recruiting blown up, players transferring,...

Thankfully, Richt and son quit...
and Manny just pulled off a Houdini in the last 6 months... otherwise we would have been dead in the water for next 5 years..

Hopefully Manny's results will match his hype..
 
caneworld said:
Save the platitudes...
You guys forget how we felt the day after we got *** whooped by Wisconsin in December..... this program was spiraling down the toilet.... recruiting blown up, players transferring,...

Thankfully, Richt and son quit...
and Manny just pulled off a Houdini in the last 6 months... otherwise we would have been dead in the water for next 5 years..

Hopefully Manny's results will match his hype..
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I like Richt and appreciate what he did for us. He is a good man and I will always love him for those memorable 2017 beatdowns of ND and VT. But you are absolutely right on this point. Before he stepped down we were looking at a really bleak future. Manny was off to Temple, some of our best players and most promising talents were looking to jump ship to other programs, and we had no recruiting momentum whatsoever. That 2018-2019 season was nothing short of a disaster as a fan, especially entering in with such high expectations. We are lucky Manny and his staff have worked their *** off to pick up the pieces and give us some positive traction again, at least for the time being.
 
k9cane said:
This is like the captain of the Titanic taking credit for improved safety regulations on boats.

He was more shot than Muhammad Ali vs Trevor Berbick...
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We are almost always in lock step on the old school fight references. Ali/Berbick was precisely the fight I had in mind when I said Rickety was a shot fighter.
 
He left us with a far better roster, infinitly superior facilities, found Manny Diaz and was the ultimate Cane at the end, walking away from millions for the good of the program.

And some of you are whining about how and when he was talking about meal plans?

Ok.
 
The Franchise said:
LOL at dudes thinking Rickety was taking blame; he was taking credit. He thinks he fixed the strength program with *******.

Just another example of him being out of touch. Glad he quit and stopped stealing checks, but he was a shot fighter.
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During Richt's last several weeks of his tenure, you posted comments about concerns for his overall well being. Many of us had the same concerns. I posted a link on post 24 of this thread of an interview he did with Joe Rose yesterday morning. Joe asked some pointed questions and Richt's responses were fairly revealing and gave some credence to the aforementioned concerns.

Not defending Richt by any stretch. But that interview with Rose yesterday does answer some of the questions we all had straight from the horses mouth. TIFWIW
 
IndayArtHauz said:
I don’t think he was referring to his tenure when he says “we”. I could be wrong, but as others have said I think he was referring to Golden’s staff.
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That is how I took it, cause I see him taking some ownership, but also not wanting to back the bus up over Golden's corpse
 
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The Franchise said:
We are almost always in lock step on the old school fight references. Ali/Berbick was precisely the fight I had in mind when I said Rickety was a shot fighter.
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Another season and it would've been Meldrick Taylor fighting in the early 2000's for this program...
 
Rellyrell said:
Yeeeeeeeeah.....

Listen, I appreciate Richt being open and honest, but dude.....you've been a head coach for 16 yrs prior to accepting our position and coached under arguably one of the best CFB coaches of all time in Bowden at two big time programs, respectfully. How does this happen under your watch w/ that type of experience? You hand picked your head trainer b/c of your familiarity w/ his work, so I'm just saying what happened?
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He was talking about when he first arrived. If you listen to the interview, he says "these are the things that were in need of fixing when I got here." Talks about how the players (Swasey, without mentioning him by name) weren't involved in a true S&C program and the training table was no where to be seen.

He was not saying "the players didn't eat right while I was their coach."
 
If Manny at some point wins it all here, Richt better get mentioned as the guy before the guy, who easily could’ve crippled the program and taken what he was entitled to, but didn’t.
 
Coach richt is real with it, he knows he wasnt perfect but good leader recognizes flaws, at the end of the day, coach richt came in an upgraded in my opinion all area's of the football program, including the S&C dept. To those who got amnesia, just go and replay the tapes from when, before coach richt got here. No matter what coach gus did or didnt do, he got better results than in alot of years prior. That's a major reason why the team speed started showing up again. Had to trim the pig 10 fat weight program, so in 3yrs, great job. Now manny gets to take it to the next level!
 
ThomasG954 said:
If Manny at some point wins it all here, Richt better get mentioned as the guy before the guy, who easily could’ve crippled the program and taken what he was entitled to, but didn’t.
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You guys are getting awfully dramatic over a dude who stole checks for the last year and half, was on the verge of completely submerging the program, and gave his dopey son a $250k job for 3 years.

He flopped here. The fact that he didn’t completely destroy his alma mater over a few extra million when he just fleeced us for $15M, gave his son a $750k seed, and has more money than he can ever spend is nothing to build a statue of him over.
 
The Franchise said:
You guys are getting awfully dramatic over a dude who stole checks for the last year and half, was on the verge of completely submerging the program, and gave his dopey son a $250k job for 3 years.

He flopped here. The fact that he didn’t completely destroy his alma mater over a few extra million when he just fleeced us for $15M, gave his son a $750k seed, and has more money than he can ever spend is nothing to build a statue of him over.
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You sound like the one embellishing here. We all know he was far from perfect and could’ve avoided his retirement entirely had he made a couple different staff decision.

He had his flaws, but you know 9/10 guys would’ve taken their buyout or asked for some ridiculous Bobby Bonilla treatment. No one’s asking for a statue, but to have the self-awareness to see his faults and how he was hurting us toward the end isn’t easy. We’re better off than we were before he walked through the door, so yeah I think his name should get mentioned.
 
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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Nutrition wasn’t the issue with Richt. Not hiring a top notch OC from jump, in the end, was his fatal mistake. Had he hired someone equivalent to Manny as an OC, it would have been a better outcome. Although I don’t think he would have ended up coaching for more than 5-6 years anyway, max.

But fate is fate. It was all meant to happen exactly as it did.
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He wouldn’t have come to Miami at all without controlling the offense. He mentioned it multiple times in the begging. He said the main reason besides it being Miami was he wanted to call plays again. Georgia took that power from him. He had too much pride and couldn’t face the facts that the offensive game passed him by.
 
k9cane said:
This is like the captain of the Titanic taking credit for improved safety regulations on boats.

He was more shot than Muhammad Ali vs Trevor Berbick...
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‘When that thing happened, the berg, ice, I, uh, uh, I, ice, ... we addressed the, uh, the processes, see, we improved them, fixed how these things are handled, so that the lines for the lifeboats, they were better, straighter, and if there had been any lifeboats, the guy, the lifeboat guy, if we had time to get him, train him up, then those lines would have helped a lot.’
 
BeastMode said:
He wouldn’t have come to Miami at all without controlling the offense. He mentioned it multiple times in the begging. He said the main reason besides it being Miami was he wanted to call plays again. Georgia took that power from him. He had too much pride and couldn’t face the facts that the offensive game passed him by.
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And our AD couldnt recognize that he was awful at being an OC, and couldnt manage the program as a ceo either, so giving him that combined power was a terrible idea destined to fail.
 
Rellyrell said:
Yeeeeeeeeah.....

Listen, I appreciate Richt being open and honest, but dude.....you've been a head coach for 16 yrs prior to accepting our position and coached under arguably one of the best CFB coaches of all time in Bowden at two big time programs, respectfully. How does this happen under your watch w/ that type of experience? You hand picked your head trainer b/c of your familiarity w/ his work, so I'm just saying what happened?
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A coaches wishes just aren't magically granted. They offer suggestions to the AD, it has to pass there, and then eventually it is fed up the chain.

A coaches list is long. Some are granted, others aren't, and they all take time. So while there may be a problem, the solution if known, isn't always available until later on.
 
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