Top 5 knee-jerk Georgia message board reactions after rivalry loss to Florida
The sun will come up tomorrow for Bulldogs fans, but Saturday’s disappointing loss to Florida left a bad taste that may linger for weeks. Mark Richt has lost 15 of his last 20 games against nationally-ranked teams and this latest one all but ended Georgia’s shot at a division championship this season.
Keyboard warriors wasted little time joining others in Internet bashing after the game.
Thread titles collected from various Georgia-centric message boards.
5. There’s always the ‘I told you so’ fans no longer in Richt’s corner:
4. A devout Christian, Richt didn’t have divine intervention in Jacksonville:
3. Potential coaching candidates? The fan base has its favorites:
2. Like this would ever happen … it’s Georgia for goodness sakes:
1. Captain Obvious reveals ‘Georgia Football’ actually ended this season against Alabama:
Sooner or later, they have to recognize that CMR is just too nice of a guy, too good of a human being. We had our Mike Shula. Everybody loved him, but he couldn’t get the killer instinct in the players to boil over. UGA needs a ball-biter to shake things up and get their blood boiling.
Amen. It’s not the win- lose record, it’s the lack of competitiveness. There’s no fire in these kids on offense to stay in the game.
You know, it’s just irritating. I can handle a competitive loss. Say a touchdown or a hard fought 17-10 game. I can even handle the occasional blowout I.E. Alabama earlier this year.
What I can not handle is the sheer and utter lack of emotion from Richt. The ONLY time this man got aggressive at Georgia was in 2007. And I don’t mean in just the Florida game that year. We got beat bad by Tennessee and he took it out on the players. Undefeated and finished #2 that year.
Today, he had no emotion on the sideline. He hasn’t had any all season. Bauta throws a pick. Nothing. We block the PAT after Floridas first touchdown. Nothing. Same straight lined face. How can the players get behind that? How does that make them hungry?
It doesn’t. Good men don’t guarantee a good coach.
UGA is my 2nd team that I pull for in the country. I really like CMR as a person and hate to see this happen to the Dawgs. Yet, I have a bunch of friends that are UGA fans and I have said this for years now. UGA will never win a National Title with CMR due to him being to nice. I have been for sure about this every since Stafford, Marino, King, Green and that stellar line didnt do it. Finally, to all the UGA fans (with respect) who would come to UGA?? I say this because if you get rid of your coach, you better be ready for a roller coaster,… trust me all us Tennessee fans know but we are finally getting there and it took 3 coaches and 10 years almost. Just keep that in mind,……
In my wildest and craziest fantasies, Richt goes to Miami to replace departed Al Golden. Opens the door pretty wide to back a dump truck of cash to Kirby Smart’s front door.
I say that, and yet Kirby is more like two or three on my list. I’d really like to make a run at somebody largely considered unobtanium first, like David Shaw. I think it’d be BAD to chase some of the candidates that are coming up for the SC job like Temple and Memphis’ head coaches.
We’ll see though. I bet not much of anything happens.
Sorry, but I don’t trust you. You went on a roller coaster ride because you had a substandard athletic director. Hiring coaches with a losing record is self defeating. Lane Kiffin 5-15 and Derek Dooley 17-20. We hope our AD is not that incompetent.
The problem with uga is that they trust assistant coaches to run their football program. Did you know that Jim Donnan is the only experience hc(D-2) to ever be hired by the university of ga? Alabama, Florida and LSU did not get over the hump hiring assitant coaches to run their football program! Alabama got over with Paul Bear Bryant(exp), Florida got over the hump with Steve Spurrier(exp) and LSU got over with Nick Saban(exp). Those programs won their national championships with experience D-1 Head Coaches who had winning records. UGA need to go the D-1 Experience Way >>>> David Shaw, Gary Patterson, Justin Fuente, Tom Herman(won nc @ohio st) or Kyle Whittingham etc. Uga has the talent that most programs don’t have so recuiting will not be an issure for those coaches.
>>>>>>>>>got over the hump<<<<<<<<<
Coaching defense under Saban doesn’t mean you’re a great coach, just look at Muschamp. I would really question hiring Kirby Smart.
Its not a knee jerk reaction to say Richt’s time is up. UGA will likely lose to the remaining schedule, KY, Aub and Tech while only being favored vs GA Southern. But a warning, remember that GSU beat Florida several years ago at Florida. It could happen in Athens this year.
It was knee jerk 5 or 6 years ago when ppl first started saying it. Not now.
CMR fans think losing Eason will hurt; wait until all the qualified coaches are swiped up by other schools currently looking for replacements. Now is the time to create a vacancy at UGA.
But can Georgia risk a change? If they change coaches, auburn will drain the talent instate at a time when that state is loaded.
Coach Richt is UGA’s Johnny Majors. Doing well enough not to get fired year after dreary year.
The job pays millions. I think the fans deserve a chance for a top qualified Coach. I believe the best Richt has ever given the team is about 75%. He always manages to lose at least one game to a pasty team a year by not having his team up for the game. Especially Fla. Last losing streak we had to them under Richt was broken by a player, whom fired up the team in the locker room, not Richt~! He has made enough money to last a lifetime.