Georgia Red Panties & Semi-Bribes: Muschamp Watch Goes Hypervigilant

Splendid.

Funny post, but this doesn’t seem like a cause for concern as far as Texas is concerned. A new AD doesn’t immediately throw the incumbent coach on the chopping block (or at least, in a rational world it wouldn’t.)

Now if the new AD were Richt’s ex-wife…

^great writing. concern & concerned in the same sentence. I apologize.

Team Edward? bravo. You have a bottomless literary quiver of poison-tipped barbs.

If you’re not earning money from your writing skills, then allow me to plagiarize so that I can feed my staving children and/or my online gambling habit.

Luckily they don’t have Alabama or LSU this year. Richt should be able to have a nice year and buy at least one more year.

so he was essentially going down between the hedges?

anonymous -
 
Unfortunately, UGA’s problem of late has not just been the big boys. They’re losing to Kentucky and such.
 
the technicals -
 
New ADs are susceptible to “something must be done” if there’s another disappointing campaign. A program that was just recently in contention for best program in the SEC is now miles behind Alabama and Florida, sweating Auburn and Ole Miss, and demonstrating a bit of a knack for losing to SEC dregs.
 
You’re right on the schedule though:
 
09/04 -Louisiana-Lafayette
09/11 -at South Carolina
09/18 -Arkansas
09/25 -at Mississippi State
10/02 -at Colorado
10/09 -Tennessee
10/16 -Vanderbilt
10/23 -at Kentucky
10/30 -Florida (at JAX)
11/06 -Idaho State
11/13 -at Auburn
11/27 -Georgia Tech
 
I see 8-4. Better win that bowl.

"If you drink and drive, you lose."

Pete Townshend’s barrister would get him acquitted on research angle alone.

DUI Fail.

As any golfprick will tell you:

If you’re shit canned, the only thing to do is clam up and start asking for an attorney after handing over your ID and registration.

Or put the Panties on your head and go out in blaze of glory.

"Hello officer, my niece and I are just returning from Twilight III. You Team Edward?" – Priceless

The only decision make of note in Athens is still Dooley. If he has the/a hand in the hire, then that bodes well for Richt. If this had happened a year or two from now and Richt was still viewed as underperforming then it would be of much greater concern to me.

Mack is about to close on a class that has MNC potential. I have to wonder if this could cause him to stretch his timeline for retirement. What will be the catalyst for him to hand over the franchise? He’s got this thing on auto pilot; that’s where any concern of mine lies.

I wouldn’t classify it as autopilot.

Bateshorn brings up a good point. I think a DUI tutorial from Golf Prick and/or Clipper is in order.

I just have to think Mack and Will have talked this shit through, otherwise he wouldn’t be passing up Auburn and Tennessee level jobs. Certainly Mack has promised him the gig in the next couple of years, otherwise Muschamp wouldn’t still be here.

I mean, right? Coordinators don’t say no to Top 10 programs. Ever. Can you think of another one? They also don’t turn down Top 10 programs that are offering a pay increase of 300%.

I think you are correct in part on the Georgia is as good as Texas is available thing but I think Georgia is outside tier 1. Maybe high tier 2. Of course since Muschamp went to Georgia it might make it seem tier 1.

“Coordinators don’t say no to Top 10 programs. Ever. Can you think of another one? They also don’t turn down Top 10 programs that are offering a pay increase of 300%.”

Unless it’s to return home!

hornin -
 
Name ten better jobs. You’ll start struggling around 8 or 9.

What makes Georgia better than the Tennessee job?

A new AD doesn’t immediately throw the incumbent coach on the chopping block (or at least, in a rational world it wouldn’t.)

This is the SEC we’re talking about here — and rational world doesn’t come to mind.

Don’t forget now that they are swimming in ABC/ESPN money it is easier to pay your mistakes to go away and to spend whatever you want on your next hire.

Coordinators don’t say no to Top 10 programs. Ever. Can you think of another one? They also don’t turn down Top 10 programs that are offering a pay increase of 300%.

Again, this is the SEC we ar talking about. Tennessee is not a Top 10 program, and as Scip pointed out Georgia is a better job.

Newy -
 
Georgia has a natural recruiting base.
 
Tennessee doesn’t.

What makes Georgia better than the Tennessee job?

Recruiting — Georgia turns out three times as many quality high school football players as Tennessee, and it shares a border with talent-rich Florida.

According to all time wins, Tenn is a top 10 job having won a National Championship as recently as 1998. It’s all semantics because Georgia comes in at Number 11 on all time wins and is essentially a top 10 program. It’s been a long time since GA won their only title and they have essentially been irrelevant on the national scene outside of 2 or 3 seasons under Richt since V Dooley left. What Georgia has that Tenn doesn’t is home grown talent. Georgia continues to have a tough time keeping that talent at home as Florida, Tenn, and even Alabama seem to win their fair share of recruiting battles within the state. Georgia desperately needs a coach to keep that talent at home while competing hard for the fertile Florida recruiting ground. Athens is a great town, Georgia is a good school and there are many other built in advantages where one can win titles at the school. Second tier? I think not.

Great minds think alike.

Regarding recruiting . . . It’s more than than a three to one advantage for the state of Georgia. In 2002, a Tennessee assistant told a friend that Gwinnett county in the northeast Atlanta metro area had more Division I prospects than the entire state of Tennessee that year. The Vols used to recruit Georgia well. In 1997, Tennessee signed the top three rated prospects out of Georgia (including Jamal Lewis). A lot of Richt’s success and lot of Phil Fulmer’s downfall was Georgia shutting down the border to the Vols. If you’ll remember, Fulmer’s best years came when Ray Goff and Jim Donnan were killing time between Vince Dooley and Mark Richt.

Eric Berry is the only thing the Vols have gotten lately . . .and that was primarily because Berry’s dad was a former player.

Since 2004-5, Georgia has failed to keep the following notable players in red and black: Calvin Johnson, Kyle Moore, Duke Robinson, James Davis, Eric Berry, Jonathan Dwyer, Cameron Hayward, Cam Newton, Josh Nesbitt, Jarvis Jones, Greg Reid, and two five star receivers from last year in Markieth Ambles and DaRick Rogers. That is some serious talent.

^ and it’s not like they can fill up a class of 25 of equal in state talent like Texas can when they let 2 or 3 studs go elsewhere

Lets say for instance that Muschamp does leave next year for Georgia or Lsu, assuredly that will force Mack to rethink his early retirement strategy. Especially with the cash UT would throw his way when they begged him to reconsider.

I have to think Muschamp knows full well that Mack Brown’s recruiting on defense went to a brand new level when Boom got there. For UT to force OU to change their recruiting tactics was unheard of. Muschamp has to know if he even gets half of the talent as exemplified on groundhog day’s list to stay, then he’ll have a legit SEC contender on his hands.

Nate had a good article about this here.

UGA is losing recruiting battles to GaTech. That is as much concern in Athens as their mediocre on-field performance.

Sharing the state with big-time SEC brethren is viewed as inescapable. Splitting talent with the Bees is a major no-no.

Interesting points and info. on Georgia recruiting. Where else can you get that kind of knowledge from posters?

Georgia has a lot of talent, but they still have to compete with SEC raiders, and Tech and the ACC raiders to a lesser extent. That is a lot of competition. Right now there is basically none in Texas. OU wins maybe one or two heads up a year and LSU very occassionally for an East Texas kid. A&M? Hahaha…. The only reason Mus would leave is if he is not sure about when he will take over. If he thinks it will be more than 5 years, his hand might be forced. Otherwise, he gets the big picture. Texas is where he wants to be.

If driving around Atlanta all likkered up with a panty-less stripper riding shotgun is wrong, well then I just don’t want to be right.

“2. It is best not to have Courtney’s red panties sitting on your lap. "

Does it get better or worse if, when said panties are on one’s lap, Courtney is wearing them at the time?

Does it get better or worse if, when said panties are on one’s lap, Courtney is wearing them at the time?

In Georgia? I would say worse.

I cannot fathom the embarrassment that Evans has brought upon himself. Wonder how quickly he sobered up during/after that traffic stop, as panic set in? Holy freaking cow. $550K/yr job in your thirties (!), gone. Wife and kids. DUI conviction. National laughing stock. How quickly things can turn around.

On the bright side, it gets former Horns out of the news.