forums

What did Richt do in the offseason to address special teams?

terdferguson

terdferguson

Junior
Joined
Oct 8, 2012
Messages
1,678
Our special teams were absymal last year. Worse this year, but still really really bad last year. So, between the end of the last year and the beginning of this year, what did Mark Richt do to address this glaring issue? As far as I can tell nothing. No coaching change was made. Maybe he announced that he or another coaching staff member was going to help Hartley out? I don't recall hearing anything like that.

If nothing was done, how could he have looked at what we did last year with this unit and said, "We're good here. No changes needed."??? Does anyone else find that extremely disconcerting? That our head coach can't identify and address such a glaring issue?
 
Advertisement
Richt is clueless when it comes to STs. I don't think he even thinks of that as a priority.... not part of his 30 year old coaching manual..
 
caneworld said:
Richt is clueless when it comes to STs. I don't think he even thinks of that as a priority.... not part of his 30 year old coaching manual..
Click to expand...

Thats the part that i was told by many UGA fans he doesnt value special teams, thats why he says that young players must earn their start on special teams. Up until last game we had very few starters on special teams. I get worrying about injuries but special teams cannot look this bad.
 
DemCanesByke said:
Thats the part that i was told by many UGA fans he doesnt value special teams, thats why he says that young players must earn their start on special teams. Up until last game we had very few starters on special teams. I get worrying about injuries but special teams cannot look this bad.
Click to expand...

Frightening. If he doesn't value special teams, then he's a moron.
 
terdferguson said:
Our special teams were absymal last year. Worse this year, but still really really bad last year. So, between the end of the last year and the beginning of this year, what did Mark Richt do to address this glaring issue? As far as I can tell nothing. No coaching change was made. Maybe he announced that he or another coaching staff member was going to help Hartley out? I don't recall hearing anything like that.

If nothing was done, how could he have looked at what we did last year with this unit and said, "We're good here. No changes needed."??? Does anyone else find that extremely disconcerting? That our head coach can't identify and address such a glaring issue?
Click to expand...

I'm beginning to accept the notion that Richt hired a bunch of Yes men as coaches and just got lucky with Manny and the new DL coach that replaced Kol. Remember Manny had a good defensive plan if he could get the players but he was no star coach before he got here. Manny has made himself by implementing his aggressive style with these SFL recruits, and it's working and running like a fine tune machine!!

Richt has the responsibility of fixing the offense but can't bring himself to the realization that his ability to create for the play-makers on this team is very very antiquated! Richt lacks imagination and suffers from the SEC re-flux syndrome. His DNA to the run run and a cloud of dust is killing this team and the athletes on that side of the ball and they are not happy. His stubbornness will be his down fall if he dosent get a new OC. His end will be the same as not letting go of DiNofrio was Golden's downfall!!

Maybe we are witnessing the erosion of Richt in plane sight. The guy just might be washed up and can't really fix it!
 
Last edited:
Advertisement
I dont think he really sees it as an issue, he brushed aside any questions majority of time and either said guys look good in practice or they will get it.
 
DemCanesByke said:
Thats the part that i was told by many UGA fans he doesnt value special teams, thats why he says that young players must earn their start on special teams. Up until last game we had very few starters on special teams. I get worrying about injuries but special teams cannot look this bad.
Click to expand...

The worst part is that we don't even need starters on ST to be good. We've got enough talent sitting on the bench to be very good on ST.
 
He has guys out there that clearly don’t want to be. We have starters out there that look like they’re trying to conserve energy &/or trying not to get hurt.
 
Sadly, it takes a colossal failure in STs for him to see that it needs to be improved. The frustrating part is that ALL aspects of STs is a mess:

- Punter
- PR/KOR coverage
- PR/KOR blocking
- Right personnel (the personnel on PR coverage is woeful and slow)

We can't do basic things well.

kryptonite said:
The worst part is that we don't even need starters on ST to be good. We've got enough talent sitting on the bench to be very good on ST.
Click to expand...

Yep. I keep beating this drum. If you have bethel, DJax, knowles, walk on LS, mike smith, dean making up your PR coverage units, you are going to allow some major returns. You need more guys like DSmith, Romeo, Jennings, Steed, et al on those teams.
 
If you go onside and get it, it’s glorious. If you go onside and you don’t get it, usually the guy gets tackled right there.
You can debate that both ways. If there wasn’t the penalty it wouldn’t have been a thought. We would have kicked it deep. You kick it deep, get a three-and-out, get the ball back, better field position. You’ve got some timeouts to work with.

Could have gone that way or we might have got it and everybody would have thought it was a great idea. That’s how it is on those type of decisions. When they work they’re brilliant. When they don’t work you question them.
 
Back
Top