Why does everything have to be success or failure? So ******* dramatic? It's year one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, Richt has been a coach for 16 years, but it's year one at Miami without "his" players. Now, before you jump down my throat, like you ****ers will anyway, I'm ****ed about the 4 game losing streak. I know Richt and the team could and should have won those games, or at least most or 3 of them. I didn't expect them to win all, I always thought we were set up for failure in the VT game (5 days after UNC, coming after FSU and UNC, on the road on Thursday night, etc....whatever). I think Richt deserves some or even a lot of the blame for the offense in that streak. He was conservative, and he relied to heavily on the RPO and the run game.
Now, I will stress something that a lot of others refuse to admit. He's not entirely to blame. The OL looked G-d awful. Kaaya looked G-d awful. The WRs and TEs didn't always help when Kaaya made good throws or good plays were called. The blame goes all around. Was Richt covering up for Kaaya's sucking with some of the plays? Yes. Was Richt covering up for a ****** OL with some of the plays? Yes. Did Richt design some bad gameplans and call some puzzling plays? Yes. Did Richt make adjustments as the season wore on? Yes. That's why I don't understand why people won't give him any credit. Did it come against worse competition? Yes, but it doesn't matter. He did. Good coaches do. It worked. Do I think he's going to be an amazing OC? No freaking idea. Am I convinced he won't? No ******* way.
Do I think Mark Richt is Nick Saban? No. Do I think he's Al Golden? No. He won 9.7 games per year at UGA. Why won't he do that or more against a weaker schedule once...once he gets it rolling? Again, this isn't Golden or Shannon. This is someone who proved he can win consistently with his system at the highest level. This is someone who won 5, 7, 6, 6, 6, 4, 6, 6, 4, 3, 7, 7, 5, 6, 5 games each year in the SEC, not the ACC. We've won 6 games in the ACC once, in 2005 under Coker, when we still had players he recruited based off of our reputation being a national power. I don't know how could Richt will be, and din't know if it'll happen next year, but I am confident in 1-3 years we'll be winning 6-7 or 8 ACC games per year and 9-11 games per year, playing in the ACC title game game more often than not and winning it too. You can call me an apologist if I don't cry that it didn't happen this year (though it could/should have) and might not next year (our secondary, aside from 2 guys is like a girls JV team, and I still don't trust our OL). Yeah, it might sound like Golden defending, but it is different, and if you can't see it, you've been blinded by Golden-hatred. Excuses aren't just excuses. Sometimes they are valid. Could Richt have done more with what we had? Yes. Was he going 12-0 or 11-1 this year? Maybe, but to expect it was absurd and super fan dumbasshattery.
So, what the **** have I been saying? Everyone's season's a failure...Richt's a corch...Richt sucks, posts are dumb. Also, everyone who blindly defends him are dumb too.
I've said all along there's enough blame to go along. As much as you don't want to wait, you might have to wait. Every coach, at every school gets more than 6 games before people call him a failure. But, since Shannon and Golden, everyone thinks they know when a coach sucks from day one, and everyone thinks you need to give a coach half of a season before deeming him a failure. Guess what, that's ******* retarded.
