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Will Searles be Richt's Willie Martinez at Miami?

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Richt at Georgia kept Willi Martinez at DC way too long at GA and it started the booster animosity that lead to Pruitt essentially being hired for him.

Richt has a history of blind loyalty to underperforming assistant coaches.

I would say that keeping Searles after the abomination of a performance this year( and the past 3 really) by the OL is another example of this Richt fatal flaw. I dont want to hear about talent. One thing is getting physically handled and one thing is your guys consistently showing poor technique.

There should be more pressure on Richt to let him go. The admin should pressure him to make a change.
 
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Richt is his own Willie Martinez with his blind loyalty to this embarrassingly archaic offense, which wouldn't suddenly start humming with a new OL coach. The problems run much, much deeper and they're self inflicted by Richt.

Richt's ego and stubbornness -- not just with playcalling, but more importantly running his 1994 offense in 2019 -- will define his tenure unless he proves he's willing to put this program before himself.
 
I’d be okay with giving Searles another year if Richt would change his offensive system. I think Searles has recruited well, I just don’t think we have the horses or will ever have the horses to run a championship caliber pro-style offense here.

If Richt would move to the spread full time, I think we might see a much different result at OL.
 
There should never be a circumstance where the AD or BOT has to tell the head coach what changes to make. If the head coach can't make the tough decisions, then they are a failure as a head coach.
 
brock said:
Richts playcalling is more of an issue than qb coach or oline coach and it’s not really close imo
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No its not.

The O line played unacceptably poor. From the personal decisions to simple technique issues like turning their heads to look for stunters.

The majority of the problems are indicative of poor coaching not talent level.

Yes we are lacking talent in the OL but not the level of their performance this year. St. Louis & Scaife were 4 stars, Gauthier a Senior, Boulware had SEC experience and the biggest case against Searles Donaldson who is a 5 star that played better as a Freshman than a Sophomore even after he was put back to his natural position. Its just damning.
 
If he can't see the issue he's blinded by loyalty. You should never hire anyone that you can't fire.
 
Canes1968 said:
I’d be okay with giving Searles another year if Richt would change his offensive system. I think Searles has recruited well, I just don’t think we have the horses or will ever have the horses to run a championship caliber pro-style offense here.

If Richt would move to the spread full time, I think we might see a much different result at OL.
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How can u say Searles recruited well, then follow it up saying Searles will never have the horses?

Which is it?
 
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Mico Jones said:
No its not.

The O line played unacceptably poor. From the personal decisions to simple technique issues like turning their heads to look for stunters.

The majority of the problems are indicative of poor coaching not talent level.

Yes we are lacking talent in the OL but not the level of their performance this year. St. Louis & Scaife were 4 stars, Gauthier a Senior, Boulware had SEC experience and the biggest case against Searles Donaldson who is a 5 star that played better as a Freshman than a Sophomore even after he was put back to his natural position. Its just damning.
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Sure would help the OL if the defense didn’t know what play was coming before the snap.

But your point is valid too. The whole things a mess.
 
1mg of Epi said:
How can u say Searles recruited well, then follow it up saying Searles will never have the horses?

Which is it?
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You can recruit decent talent (4*) without having the horses to dominate Bama or Clemson up front (5*) and run it down their throats as Richt wants to.
 
Bccrhp said:
You can recruit decent talent (4*) without having the horses to dominate Bama or Clemson up front (5*) and run it down their throats as Richt wants to.
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Ok.. I was thinking more in terms of uva and duke, since that’s who we do play, and can’t beat.
 
Brett Romberg after visiting Miami and the o-line group this season:

From his observations inside the building, Romberg said that what Searels has been teaching his players in the film room “is on point.”

“I didn’t see anything that was below the barometer of what is considered college football offensive-line coaching. I really didn’t,” Romberg said. “Initially, at the beginning of the season, I saw a lot of similarities between the way that these guys acted inside the film room between us and them — my generation and their generation. The comical center, Tyler Gauthier, with the mullet, I basically fell in love with the kid the minute I saw him.

“But then, they would kind of have a rough practice, and then they would go in the film room and the Coach (Searels) would say ‘What do you got on this? What do you got on that?’ And the kids were piping off like they knew it like the back of their hand. So, I don’t know if it’s like a ‘live bullets’ thing that makes them hesitant, non-communicative, but it just seems like not everyone is on the same page.

“That’s what we ended up doing (in 2001) that took us to the next level. We got on the same page. We were there, in the film room, for just the same amount of time on our own, our own personal time, as we were with the coaches. It just seems like now the mistakes being made, the false starts, that’s not a coaching thing. You can only coach a kid so many times to get to the line of scrimmage and get set and be aware of the snap count and identify your defense. When they’re out there and kids are having blunders, that’s not coaching.”
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So are the o-lines woes all because of Searles? Romberg sure doesn't seem to think so. I'd submit he knows a bit more about it than any of us here.
 
richt is too stubborn to learn from what got him fired at UGA because he was awarded 4 million a year and a family on the payroll within days of being fired.
 
No, Willie was actually a pretty decent recruiter for a while. That being said, your point is well taken.
 
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