Search your soul and answer honestly: can Richt win a ship?

[LPK2006]

When it comes to the absolute cream of the crop in college football it all comes down to who has the best players. Yes, innovative coaches can make a difference but if you don't have the same caliber athletes as your opponent, most of the time, you'll lose. We've seen it for years when teams like Oklahoma and Oregon got to the championship game only to get trounced by SEC teams loaded with NFL talent. Clemson wasn't able to hang with the big boys until they started getting superior talent on their lines and even then they needed an incredible quarterback to get passed Alabama. You get the best players, you get a chance to win titles. Even then, you're not immune to losing to lesser talented teams. Ohio State got blown out by Iowa. Is anybody there wondering if Urban is the right guy to get them another title? Alabama and Georgia both lost to an Auburn team that lost 4 games. It happens.

If you look at every team that has won a title in the last 20 years, the common denominator isn't quality coaching, it's superior talent.

This. And of course Richt can win a title. In fact, I give him as good a chance as any coach we could have hired, probably a better chance, because I'd say he knows exactly what his team needs to look like in order to have a chance to get past a top tier SEC team. He is trying to get it to where it needs to be. And to your point about Clemson, I agree, and I think that is the route this team is going to have to take. I don't see Miami as the kind of team that is going to win titles with game managers at QB. We are going to need a dynamic elite QB to get it done...I'm pretty convinced of that.

 

[filmcane]

Although the potential is there for him to win a half dozen before he retires, I do think he can win a NC and I think he will win one before he leaves us. Whenever that season arrives, it will just be a magical season where almost everything comes together and the ball bounces the right away. Hopefully, whenever he leaves, the cupboard will be full and the program well organized and resourced.

So, to answer the question - yes, I do think he will win one, and he will play for and/or almost win another 4, but we will beat the rest of the Coastal like a rented mule and always be in the playoff discussion.

ADDITIONAL NOTE:

I very much see Richt as having a Mack Brown career (without the sexual shenanigans). He will recruit like crazy, be well-liked by the boosters, take the football organization to new resource and organizational heights, win one NC during one magical year, and lose a close NC game one year. Beyond that, be a national player for the vast majority of his time at UM (re: Texas).

 

[Consigliere]

If he insists on continuing to call offensive plays....I have serious doubts.

The sample size with Richt is large enough at this point that we can pretty definitively say what he is.....a good/solid NCAA coach. No better , no worse. He needs good coordinators around him and right now his stubbornness with regards to play calling is beginning to annoy me.

I don't know how anyone can see it differently. Waiting to see the staff moving forward.

 

[Consigliere]

Please don't reference Larry Coker.
Stevie Wonder could've coached that team to a National Championship.
He had the greatest collection of talent in the history of college football.

I don't know my answer to this question. All I know is, at some point we're gonna come across a team with similar talent to us, and we're gonna have to out-coach that team. Can we do that?

I watched that Clemson game and that wasn't just a difference in talent that I saw.
We also allowed Wisky to run up and down the field on us and we had more talent than them.

So when we finally stack our roster in a couple years...
Do we have to look forward to a let-down against an inferior opponent every season?

You mean like how Urban lost 55 - 24 to Iowa. Or how Dabo lost to Syracuse this past season and Pitt the year before?

Such a "deep" post though lol

Are you really comparing Richt to Dabo or Urban? Do you seriously think Richt is in that category?

When you're an elite coach, especially ones who have won an NC recently, you've earned the benefit of the doubt.

 

[IamaCane4Life]

Stupid post! This has been posted over 5 times in less than a week! How can we eliminate stupid posts, enough


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[deleted3746]

Some people here are trying way too hard to be pessimistic and are looking very stupid in doing so.

The guy won 10 games (should have been 11 against Arky State) with a roster that is not championship caliber. I can't wait to see what he can do with 3 and 4 recruiting cycles of his own talent to work with. I believe that it is inevitable that he will win multiple championships. Just have to be patient.

Looking at his body of work at Miami isn't pessimistic.

He had bad losses in year 1, bad losses in year 2.

Go ahead, spin away.

 

[KevinCaneFace]

We were a laughing stock in college football in 2015. If we’re nothing more than a top ten team be thankful.

 

[deleted3746]

We were a laughing stock in college football in 2015. If we’re nothing more than a top ten team be thankful.

Why settle?

 

[SmokeyRone]

Will we ever have a QB?

 

[Coach Macho]

Please don't reference Larry Coker.
Stevie Wonder could've coached that team to a National Championship.
He had the greatest collection of talent in the history of college football.

I don't know my answer to this question. All I know is, at some point we're gonna come across a team with similar talent to us, and we're gonna have to out-coach that team. Can we do that?

I watched that Clemson game and that wasn't just a difference in talent that I saw.
We also allowed Wisky to run up and down the field on us and we had more talent than them.

So when we finally stack our roster in a couple years...
Do we have to look forward to a let-down against an inferior opponent every season?

You mean like how Urban lost 55 - 24 to Iowa. Or how Dabo lost to Syracuse this past season and Pitt the year before?

Such a "deep" post though lol

Are you really comparing Richt to Dabo or Urban? Do you seriously think Richt is in that category?

When you're an elite coach, especially ones who have won an NC recently, you've earned the benefit of the doubt.

Thank you. Glad I didn't have to address his (usual) stupidity myself.

 

[Coach Macho]

Please don't reference Larry Coker.
Stevie Wonder could've coached that team to a National Championship.
He had the greatest collection of talent in the history of college football.

I don't know my answer to this question. All I know is, at some point we're gonna come across a team with similar talent to us, and we're gonna have to out-coach that team. Can we do that?

I watched that Clemson game and that wasn't just a difference in talent that I saw.
We also allowed Wisky to run up and down the field on us and we had more talent than them.

So when we finally stack our roster in a couple years...
Do we have to look forward to a let-down against an inferior opponent every season?

BoRtch had the same roster and couldn't win it all. CoRker did.

Anyway, I'm with you on Richt.

He's had bad losses in year 1 and year 2. That has me doubting his ability to win a NC.

Year 3 will tell us a lot...2 full classes, his QBs (unless Rosier starts again), no more excuses.

We got robbed Butch's last season. We should've been in the NC and we would've beat the **** out of OU.

But I agree with the rest of your post.

 

[Meat]

The one big worry I have is that Richt doesn't seem to give a single **** about defense.

Every time they ask him about the defense in an interview, he's like "huh?" Dude has no ******* clue.

It's like he delegated EVERYTHING - recruiting, scheming, roster management.... everything to Manny Diaz.

And as we're finding out, Manny Diaz has his pros, and he has his cons.

 

[Pearson704]

If he insists on continuing to call offensive plays....I have serious doubts.

The sample size with Richt is large enough at this point that we can pretty definitively say what he is.....a good/solid NCAA coach. No better , no worse. He needs good coordinators around him and right now his stubbornness with regards to play calling is beginning to annoy me.

Serious Q, do you think Saban gets 10 wins with this roster?

No...I think he gets 11. Our schedule is and has been very favorable during Richt's tenure and he's lost a few games these last 2 years we should have won.

I'm ok with him being the head coach...but in my humble opinion it takes a certain caliber coach to do both the head thing and the OC thing and he's simply not at that caliber. If he stays in his lane he can do well here but like I said before....his stubbornness is beginning to become an annoyance.

this won't age well.

Print it out and put it on your fridge. Like everything else I've ever posted on this site, right or wrong, I stand by it. I've been voicing concerns about his play calling for some time now so it isn't like this is some hot new take.

Let's see which stance ages better. Sample size is on my side. I'll be right here.

nah... You've already shown you know next to nothing about football and don't have a clue about Richt.

 

[CobaltBlueCane]

Will we ever have a QB?

Not as long as we continue to recruit Florida QB’s.

 

[tcgrad1014]

We were a laughing stock in college football in 2015. If we’re nothing more than a top ten team be thankful.

Not really. We went 8-5 (5-3). Got blown out by the national runners-up. We were mediocre in 2015. Richt has gotten us from mediocre to good.

 

[DTP]

Some people here are trying way too hard to be pessimistic and are looking very stupid in doing so.

The guy won 10 games (should have been 11 against Arky State) with a roster that is not championship caliber. I can't wait to see what he can do with 3 and 4 recruiting cycles of his own talent to work with. I believe that it is inevitable that he will win multiple championships. Just have to be patient.

Looking at his body of work at Miami isn't pessimistic.

He had bad losses in year 1, bad losses in year 2.

Go ahead, spin away.

Every single team besides UCF and Wisconsin lost at least one game to a lesser team in 2017. Bama and Georgia both lost to a 4 loss Auburn team. Ohio State got blown out by Iowa. Oklahoma lost to Iowa State. Every team besides the two I mentioned had "bad losses".

 

[Poco]

Some people here are trying way too hard to be pessimistic and are looking very stupid in doing so.

The guy won 10 games (should have been 11 against Arky State) with a roster that is not championship caliber. I can't wait to see what he can do with 3 and 4 recruiting cycles of his own talent to work with. I believe that it is inevitable that he will win multiple championships. Just have to be patient.

Looking at his body of work at Miami isn't pessimistic.

He had bad losses in year 1, bad losses in year 2.

Go ahead, spin away.

Every single team besides UCF and Wisconsin lost at least one game to a lesser team in 2017. Bama and Georgia both lost to a 4 loss Auburn team. Ohio State got blown out by Iowa. Oklahoma lost to Iowa State. Every team besides the two I mentioned had "bad losses".

We lost two games to inferior talent teams, and got curbstomped by the one team with talent.

 

[DTP]

Some people here are trying way too hard to be pessimistic and are looking very stupid in doing so.

The guy won 10 games (should have been 11 against Arky State) with a roster that is not championship caliber. I can't wait to see what he can do with 3 and 4 recruiting cycles of his own talent to work with. I believe that it is inevitable that he will win multiple championships. Just have to be patient.

Looking at his body of work at Miami isn't pessimistic.

He had bad losses in year 1, bad losses in year 2.

Go ahead, spin away.

Every single team besides UCF and Wisconsin lost at least one game to a lesser team in 2017. Bama and Georgia both lost to a 4 loss Auburn team. Ohio State got blown out by Iowa. Oklahoma lost to Iowa State. Every team besides the two I mentioned had "bad losses".

We lost two games to inferior talent teams, and got curbstomped by the one team with talent.

What I'm saying is that every team has bad losses. Of course, you want to minimize them but the argument that Rich has bad losses can be made against every single FBS coach.

 

[Poco]

I know what you are saying, but you are making a false equivalency when you try to make it seem like we had the same type season as Bama or OSU. We didnt. We started the season ranked in the teens, and ended the season ranked in the teens, with three bad losses.

 

[WhatTheHell]

I expect Georgia like results.

He's going to recruit top 10 classes, win about 10 games a year, and lose to FSU/Clemson in the ACCCG.

I think he lacks the necessary "dog" to win a title, but he'll have us in much better standing than we have been in years.