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Rellyrell said:
The next OC will be him. Again, Richt was in on retirement. We begged him to come by upping his money (this is the most he's made as a head coach, period. Gave him autonomy over the offense, and allowed him to hire his son, something he's wanted for a couple of years now, but UGA wouldn't allow it (go figure). Nothing is going to change, and stupid Blake James had the audacity to extend this dude for no reason.
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Something has to change and blake punk *** knows it. Miami aint uga. Uga fans are going to show up to the games regardless. Miami fans will stop going to games and will make the situation toxic as shît around the program.
 
DMoney said:
I didn’t expect to be here this fast. Richt isn’t Golden, but this is a Golden season. We just flipped sides of the ball.

What hurts the most is hearing the spin regarding talent. It sounds like the Golden era, minus the sanctions excuse. The class is collapsing and a quick fix (i.e. an offensive version of the Manny hire) is unrealistic. Richt came here to call plays and he is going to see it through. This is a bad time to be a Hurricane fan.

Some scattered thoughts:

- Richt has botched the QB position, and we shouldn’t be surprised. That’s what got him fired. Personally, I focused on his prior successes and hoped the way it ended in UGA (with Greyson Lambert and Faton Bauta) was an aberration. It wasn’t. This might just be who Richt is in 2018. When I watched Cam Newton and Deshaun Watson win games on Sunday, it only drilled home that point. There is a disconnect between Richt and the modern game.

- It’s even more concerning to hear Richt talk about Jarren’s redshirt. Now, Jarren isn't going to save the offense. He might not even be ready to play. We don't know. But the redshirt shouldn’t be entering Richt’s mind. If Jarren is good, he won’t be here in five years. If he’s bad, he won’t be here in five years. Or he’ll be Malik. Either way, the fifth year should be irrelevant. I’m worried Richt’s mind is stuck in another era that no longer exists.

- The fans have been screaming for more motions and jet sweep action since last year. Richt dismissed it. But in Week 10 of the season, there it was. He is reacting, as opposed to getting ahead of the trend. And as you'd expect, everything looks haphazard and thrown together. Darrell Langham, who can't run, faked the jet on multiple snaps. Why not use Homer, Dallas, Harley, or Pope? We have guys that can scare people, but we don’t use them in a manner that scares anyone. And when we lined up for a jump ball to end the game—the classic Langham scenario—we pulled him and sat him on the bench. I just don’t see any reason or rhyme to what we do.

- Deejay Dallas is another example. Duke scored on us with a jump pass. Meanwhile, we have one of the most versatile players in the country being utilized like a one-dimensional runner. Where is the throwing threat? Where is the receiving threat? He might as well be Gus Edwards.

- Much has been written about how we ran out of time with four minutes left and two timeouts. It was an embarrassment. And it’s just a continuation of what we’ve seen the last two games. Why is there no urgency coming from the QB position? Can you imagine Drew Brees or Baker Mayfield carrying themselves like our guys? It’s not an experience thing, because Malik is even less urgent than Perry. It is coming from the head coach and the quarterback coach.

- We need to do a better job of self-scouting. Everybody knew Malik’s limitations going into the year. And on our pre-camp podcast, me and Lu spent a good chunk of the time describing how Mahoney and Jones were not talented enough to start for us. We had an absurdly easy stretch after the LSU game. Why didn’t Scaife and Perry start until conference play? Why were we so consistent with our first-team offensive lineup early in the season? If the upperclassmen aren’t talented enough—which was obvious before the season—we need to fast-track the young talent and take our lumps early. That did not happen.

- One last thing on the talent spin job. You are seeing it all over Twitter from the media and staff. The New Orleans Saints played the LA Rams yesterday. Biggest game of the year. The Saints have one of the best QBs of all time, the best OL in the league, and two RBs that combined for 3,000 scrimmage yards last year. If anybody can line up and “out-dude” the opposition, it’s them. But on a crucial fourth and one, Sean Payton called a reverse pass to put the ball in the hands of Taysom Hill. It worked. Nobody is just lining up and beating guys man-on-man. The state of football is too advanced. You need to always be looking for an edge. We aren’t looking for that edge right now. We are just looking for excuses.

Anyways, I'll be watching on Saturday. This November, like so many other Novembers of the past decade, is about seeing young talent develop and learning from failure. I thought we were past this stage.
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Sobering, and you said the most painful aspect, so far as fan expectations, right up front.

This is Richt's offense. These are his calls. It's outdated, reactive and unimaginative. This is going to be an epic crash and burn the next season and a half.
 
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Cane Dynasty said:
The same admin that just gave him an extension through 2024?

The goose is cooked.
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That's why I included Flake in there. He has as much responsibility for this crapfest as Rich does. I smell what you're stepping in and agree. The admin is f*cking horrific top down. In my opinion though there is no way they let 5-7 and no bowl slide. The vitriol will be too much for them to sit on their f*cking hands. This is sub Al Golden sh*t going on here currently.
 
hasena75 said:
I will always watch the Canes take the field, but recently I’ve been watching with absolutely no emotion whatsoever. The good, the bad, it just happens. I don’t expect anything from the rest of this year, but as stated above, I wanna see our young talent take the field and gain experience.
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I’ve found myself doing the exact same. I’ll always watch but I’m no longer excited for them. Although it’s still really hard not to get frustrated watching Malik run out there every drive when all I want is to play for next season and for young guys to get experience
 
Good ole Gus is carrying the Rock for the Ravens. I know that would shock some people. Golden had so much NFL talent.
 
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Worst part is I find my self feeling right at home.. Comfortably numb.

F this program.
 
DiegoCane said:
Richt is an underachieving, no energy, fossil. The game passed him by many years ago.

That's why it was disgusting to see everyone fellate Flake James a few years ago over an easy, uninspiring hire that was destined to fail.
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I think people were just so happy to be rid of Golden and after being so down for so long....it was only natural to be a little optimistic

Unfortunately that’s how the hiring process went as well. Something safe, uninspired, and lazy.

We have this rich history of being successful doing the opposite, and being completely ****** when we do it. It’s not even about looking outside for inspiration, just look at ourselves.
 
At my age, it’s just over completely. No way I will live long enough to see this program win again, if it ever does. #### it.
 
If you want to make it sound really bad, we were setup for a rocketship ride this year. The schedule couldn't have looked sweeter - with or without a first-game loss to LSU. The ACC coastal is perhaps at its lowest point I've ever seen. FSU is in shambles. BC away is incredibly beatable. ****, they used multiple trick plays in their 1st half and were still in a dogfight with our inept offense. Our byes were in perfect shape.

None of it means we'd beat Clemson, but we could have realistically gone 11-1 and walked a young, talented team led by a well-groomed Frosh QB (whichever would be better trained and validated after various in-season experiments) into the ACC 'ship. Win or lose there, the program is still rising. Instead, this was a launch and re-launch failure.

Makes it truly ugly because all the concerns have become reality. I'll keep watching every game till 00:00, but only because I'm an idiot.
 
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DMoney said:
I'm not an Xs and Os expert, and I don't expect Richt to step down and hire a hot spread offense name. But my general thoughts are this:

1) Identify your championship-caliber players and play them. Richt has privately told people that he expects the team to make a big jump when guys like Cleveland Reed and John Campbell are ready to play. Well, the time is now. We have Florida as the season opener next year. LSU scared him into leaning on under-talented seniors throughout camp. We can't make the same mistake twice. Same goes for Jarren.

2) Build on what worked in the second-half 2016. RPOs. Tunnel screens. Short passes into the hands of your playmakers. All of these things play into the strengths of our returning personnel. Guys like Cager and Langham not only lack threatening speed, they are bad YAC guys. The loss of Ahmmon hurt us in both areas. Let's get guys like Thomas, Pope and Harley on the field at the same time. Our returning QBs have the arm strength to make strong horizontal throws to the field side. Use our advantages and make life easier for our QB.

3) Tempo. If we are going to be static, we need to play faster. We move like Stanford without the same personnel. That doesn't fit our strengths.
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I think the collapse of this recruiting class is going to scuttle any changes richt potentially makes. He simply won’t have the depth to win at an adequate level. We needed this class to build depth and richt needs as much talent as he can get his hands on.

Bad combo
 
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Well thought out D. Now I am very very happy that I drank every drop of Kool Aide last year. It appears that it might be the best we see maybe forever.
 
hasena75 said:
I will always watch the Canes take the field, but recently I’ve been watching with absolutely no emotion whatsoever. The good, the bad, it just happens. I don’t expect anything from the rest of this year, but as stated above, I wanna see our young talent take the field and gain experience.
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This is exactly how I have felt since the Virgina game. I watch with the same emotion as Richt coaches.
 
dycane said:
I think we're done. The fans gave the program one last shot after the Shannon and Golden abortions. Richt blew it -- and it's now clear the admin blew it with the hire of Richt (contrary to what I believed). This will end up being one of the worst classes we've had in recent memory. This program can't afford that. And I, for one, cannot stomach the idea of another 5 year "rebuild," waiting another two years for Richt to be fired.
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Yep.
 
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