Evidence is mounting that we need to deploy the airforce again over the baseball stadium.
Thoughts?
When do we stop embarrassing the brand and start trusting the administration to make the right decision? Serious question. I'm saying this because Blake James and Julio Frenk appear to know what they are doing.
This is by no means an endorsement of Jim Morris.
If the banner crowd got their way in 2015 Donnna Shalala would've hired another football coach and buried this program for good.
My post isn't about Jim Morris per se, it is about the
bold part above.
So a few things:
1. Golden should have been fired after 2013. [In general] Even if you choose to ignore the evidence and wanted him to remain for 2014. He should have been fired during the season in 2014 or shortly thereafter and there is no reason he should have remained after or to coach the 2015 season. None of this has anything to do with Richt. The coach failed and failed and failed again. Instead the admin kept him.
2. You can't say who we would have got after the 2013 season or the 2014 season. You can't. You can speculate and bullchit but you can't say we would have gotten X or Y. Even though I hate Shalala and her impact on the program, we needed to fire Golden way before it was actual done.
3. [In general] The same logic you make about Shalala hiring
"another football coach and buried this program for good" applies to her hiring Blake James. If you're going to say that admin shouldn't hire a coach, then they shouldn't hire the AD.
4. The real issue is we haven't, and still don't, have a competent AD who has the power to run the actual athletic department. If a long time ago, instead of hiring Hocutt, we did a proper AD hiring and gave that AD control and autonomy, it wouldn't have taken that long to "fix" things. I assure you this AD would not tell Coach L to send me your resume (this wasn't Blake, this was Eichorst).
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As for my personal feelings about Blake. I think it is laughable how he landed this job or fell as$ backwards into it. AD
#1 leaves, we hire AD
#2 . AD
#2 leaves and instead of properly hiring AD
#3 (for the first time in a long time), we promote from a failed regime within. Logical.
I don't see the appeal of him. I don't think he is qualified for this gig and I don't think he has a logical plan for this program. I appreciate Frenk for forcing the late decision of firing Golden. So Golden is fired, 2 years too late, but he is fired.
Then Blake is tasked with picking the next coach has a plan to hire ___________ (insert list of atrocious names here). This was the plan. To hire from that list. Then UGA fires Richt and we give him a call. That isn't a plan, that is luck.
But for UGA, we have a coach that would be laughable as that was Blake's plan. Just like Blake fell as$ backwards into his job, Richt fell as$ backwards into our lap. Again that isn't a plan, that is luck.
Please note I am not including my thoughts of Morris or Richt. It isn't relevant to the discussion of the above.