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The "notion" that Richt/Manny doesn't play young guys

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AustinCane6688

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How quickly we forget. In 2016, we started 3 true freshman LB's, a freshman DE in Joe Jackson, a freshman CB in Malik (good chunk of the year), a true sophomore CB in Redwine and a true sophomore in JJ. What am I missing here?
 
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Yeah, I had the same thought. Maybe the staff thought the moment was too big to risk freshman mistakes. Either way, Diaz specifically praised some of the young guys after practice yesterday so I'd expect to see them more moving forward (Blades and Ivey).
 
AustinCane6688 said:
How quickly we forget. In 2016, we started 3 true freshman LB's, a freshman DE in Joe Jackson, a freshman CB in Malik (good chunk of the year), a true sophomore CB in Redwine and a true sophomore in JJ. What am I missing here?
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You're not missing anything. The doomsday people here are just reaching for anything and everything to criticize Richt about. Some of those criticisms are very valid; some like this one are utterly baseless and stupid. We have been playing tons of youth since the day Richt arrived. We had a bunch of true freshmen on the field on Sunday. Facts.

Just because Richt has not made the 100% switch from Rosier to one of the younger qbs, suddenly its "richt wont play any young talent over experience and its going to kill recruiting". GTFO

Again, stick to the valid criticisms. Stop with all this drama queen BS!
 
AustinCane6688 said:
How quickly we forget. In 2016, we started 3 true freshman LB's, a freshman DE in Joe Jackson, a freshman CB in Malik (good chunk of the year), a true sophomore CB in Redwine and a true sophomore in JJ. What am I missing here?
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In 2017:
Garvin, Bandy, Jennings, Wilder, D Smith, and Carter all played a good number of snaps. Not sure how many starts happened.

Ivey will play a ton when Bandy moves inside. Blades may get some of the snaps as well. Hall better move ahead of Knowles! Rousseau should get some PT at DE. Nesta needs some PT at DT. RS Freshman Steed better get on the field over Smith and Jennings!
 
Kendall Boy Cane said:
Yeah, I had the same thought. Maybe the staff thought the moment was too big to risk freshman mistakes. Either way, Diaz specifically praised some of the young guys after practice yesterday so I'd expect to see them more moving forward (Blades and Ivey).
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Bullsh*t. Knowles and Dean didn't take any snaps in the second half and hopefully that holds true moving forward.
 
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I don’t think it’s a question of necessarily playing young guys, but running JRs and SRs out there who make freshman mistakes when we have physically more talented freshmen on the roster. Gurvan Hall takes a poor angle, hey he’s young he’ll learn. We can live with that. Knowles takes the same poor angle and it’s the same issue with him over and over again. The team is not better today, tomorrow, or 2 years from now by Knowles getting meaningful Pt.
 
When Richt got here, the roster wasn't very good and short-handed. He had no choice but to play FR & So's.

Now that the roster is better & deeper, those players that were FR & So's are now upperclassman and he can bring the younger guys in at a slower pace and allow them to learn from the older guys.

I don't agree however that just because a player is an upperclassman, that player should get playing time just because of "seniority". Put the best talent on the field regardless of class.
 
423Hurricane said:
When Richt got here, the roster wasn't very good and short-handed. He had no choice but to play FR & So's.

Now that the roster is better & deeper, those players that were FR & So's are now upperclassman and he can bring the younger guys in at a slower pace and allow them to learn from the older guys.

I don't agree however that just because a player is an upperclassman, that player should get playing time just because of "seniority". Put the best talent on the field regardless of class.
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And who is to say the older guys aren't being played more because the coaches, who know exponentially more about the current roster and player development than anyone on this board, think it is in our best interest to have them on the field regardless of what we as fans are seeing in a few plays on game day? I know it doesn't fit the anti-Richt and staff narrative that is so trendy on this board right now, but it holds a lot more water than this absurd idea that the coaching staff doesn't give a **** about winning and just wants to play guys because they've been around longer.
 
Of course they started who else on the team was going to play over them, perry? Mike smith? Darrion “i love doritos system” owens? Grace was going to start so was AQM over joe jack and mccloud if they didnt get suspended, and djax was starting more than joe

And what other corners outside of corn were going to play? Ryan mayes? Henley? They started redwine over kerr and started Colbert who is a safety over both at one point

Richt has always put seniority over talent at every school he has coached at, if your statement is true perry or jarren would have started against LSU
 
cane since birth said:
Richt has always put seniority over talent at every school he has coached at, if your statement is true perry or jarren would have started against LSU
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Richt started three freshmen at QB while at UGA, bro. Your logic fails because it is based on the false notion that you (or anyone on this board) know more than the coaching staff about who was ready to start in an opener in Dallas vs LSU.
 
For_The_U said:
Richt started three freshmen at QB while at UGA, bro. Your logic fails because it is based on the false notion that you (or anyone on this board) know more than the coaching staff about who was ready to start in an opener in Dallas vs LSU.
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They never started from the start of the year brooooooo again if your logic made any sense (which it doesn’t) malik wouldn’t even be with the team
 
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cane since birth said:
They never started from the start of the year brooooooo again if your logic made any sense (which it doesn’t) malik wouldn’t even be with the team
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Yeah, you're right, you just inherently know more about the current players than the coaches who work with them every day. Makes a ton of sense.
 
The new notion is, Manny sits his star players because they get too tired....
 
They've played young guys in spots which has been great for us. But my issue is when the young guy is neck and neck with an upperclassman, we tend to go with experience instead of the young potential. (I.e. Gurvan/Carter over Knowles, anyone over Rosier, etc.).
 
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