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The man has a great football mind. He can evaluate talent. He has been a very good recruiter over the years.
The man's problem is he is burned out. You can see it in his face. You cannot coach over 20 years at the highest levels
like he has without taking a break in todays world. To compare him to every coach since Butch is a little unfair.
I didnt want him but he is a much more accomplished than all of the priors. Honestly, it's sad to see him go out
like this. He's not a wimp, he does want to win, but he needs to face it that he's fried.
 
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nycane said:
The man has a great football mind. He can evaluate talent. He has been a very good recruiter over the years.
The man's problem is he is burned out. You can see it in his face. You cannot coach over 20 years at the highest levels
like he has without taking a break in todays world. To compare him to every coach since Butch is a little unfair.
I didnt want him but he is a much more accomplished than all of the priors. Honestly, it's sad to see him go out
like this. He's not a wimp, he does want to win, but he needs to face it that he's fried.
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He does not have a great football mind. Why do people keep saying that. There is no evidence of this whatsoever.
 
If you are a fan of CFB you know that Richt was fired for never getting over the hump at Ga and lack of QB development.

Does any of this sound familiar? I am sick of hearing he is a great QB coach etc... show me examples? there are very few for as many years as hes coached.

He totally botched this season starting with LSU. He is an admirable person but there is no evidence after all these years that he is a great offensive mind. Ga had to force him to stop play calling or he would of been gone sooner.
 
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Babscanes said:
If you are a fan of CFB you know that Richt was fired for never getting over the hump at Ga and lack of QB development.

Does any of this sound familiar? I am sick of hearing he is a great QB coach etc... show me examples? there are very few for as many years as hes coached.

He totally botched this season starting with LSU. He is an admirable person but there is no evidence after all these years that he is a great offensive mind. Ga had to force him to stop play calling or he would of been gone sooner.
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I'm not sure how "admirable" Richt is. He seems to use his piety to his advantage whenever it suits him. I for one don't think it's honestly expressed. It's just a tool, a crutch.
 
He looked dead on the Georgia sidelines and was about to take a couple years off but instead got right back into it
 
nycane said:
The man has a great football mind. He can evaluate talent. He has been a very good recruiter over the years.
The man's problem is he is burned out. You can see it in his face. You cannot coach over 20 years at the highest levels
like he has without taking a break in todays world. To compare him to every coach since Butch is a little unfair.
I didnt want him but he is a much more accomplished than all of the priors. Honestly, it's sad to see him go out
like this. He's not a wimp, he does want to win, but he needs to face it that he's fried.
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Are you retarded? Great minds do not hire inexperienced coaches. Great minds do not hire an experienced quarterback coach, SON OR NOT. .
 
Older coaches tend to get lazy and not put in the effort to have a physical team. They prefer the cute passing plays to all the line of scrimmage emphasis from earlier in their career. I've seen it all my life. Shula got lazy and relied on Marino. Bowden late in his career rationalized that he could get away with a softer pass-oriented team. The defense collapsed alongside, once the offense was no longer hitting anybody. John Robinson in his second stint at USC was not even close to the same physical approach as his first run at USC.

When Richt arrived from Georgia I envisioned an offense like Wisconsin ran last night. In fact, I remember posting about a physical I formation approach with motion and wrinkles. A younger Mark Richt would have brought that type of thing. We would be in great shape.

I wasn't bright enough to realize that Richt was already in that late career lazy burnt out stage, and that he would prefer tinkerbell passing plays and flatfooted shotgun handoffs. What could possibly go wrong?

Nick Saban is one of the rare examples of a top head coach at older age who maintained brute physical superiority as his ultimate priority.
 
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nycane said:
its on um for plucking a burned out coach from UGA's trashbin.
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That is true. Just because one had a good offensive mind doesn't mean they always have that good offensive mind. Mark richt never had a great offensive mind.
 
SonnyLong said:
That is true. Just because one had a good offensive mind doesn't mean they always have that good offensive mind. Mark richt never had a great offensive mind.
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i had someone around UGA tell me that richt lost his edge when his wife got sick. i believe that. lets be reall the guy was a very good OC and HC early on. He is more accomplished than the previous hires but we hired him at the wrong time. hes finished.
 
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