Don't disagree with any of this. You can ask the hard questions w/o it getting personal. The issue I have with the OP is that he is a journalist that is asked to participate in podcasts and write pieces for this program and also wants to be Joe poster.
If he wants to do both, fine. But he should still be held to a higher standard as a poster because of his journalistic role that he at times is asked to take on this board. If he is going to engage in this dual role one will inevitably bleed into the other for better or worse. And unfortunately his obvious personal animus for Richt by taking these constant shots at him as a poster undermines for me whatever credibility he has when also acting as a journalist on here.
The poster mockingly writes in one of his posts for everyone to jump off the "Richtanic". And that, in a nutshell, is the crux of the problem. That ship has sailed and sunk long ago. Most of us jumped off already and have moved on. So this begs the question why the **** is he still on it?
I’m not sure who he is , and not familiar with his work.
It’s some people’s nature to dwell, I’ve moved on myself.
I think Rick did some good things, I think his intentions were honorable, but he was a victim of his stubbornness and unwillingness to change. I certainly think he did right by the school in terms of the way he left the program. He could’ve crippled us financially.
In the end, I think his three basic failings were stubbornness, unwillingness to change and accept new approaches to offense, and bad personnel decisions in terms of coaches. None of his offensive coaches did him any favors and he was literally doing too much himself and he wasn’t up to the task.
When the shlt hit the fan Rick had no answers. And none of his offensive coaches could help him. They were terrible offensive minds. Why do you think Manny fired each and every one of them?.
Had Rick been willing to delegate to a top notch offensive coordinator he would’ve probably made a pretty darn good CEO type head coach. For chrissakes Saban has OC and DC that have decent autonomy, within limits, from that little dictator.
Rick was trying to follow the SEC Alabama/Georgia model. Bruising running backs, simple offense. Flawless execution. When this is south Florida and we have a menu of offensive talents that need to be exploited.
But I agree with you I’m not a fan of the personal attacks, at the same time he’s not reading this and he could care less. I’m pretty sure of that. He made his mistakes and he paid the price by retiring in a way that quite frankly had to have been humiliating.