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The Mount Shushmore of Coaches

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Yesterday, I posed to you all a question about who should fill out the final spots on an SEC Mount Rushmore of Coaches. Seems like many of you agreed with Spurrier and Dooley/Smart, with Smart taking a fourth spot when his career is done (fingers crossed).

So, as a Friday exercise, let’s test the inverse…who are the most overrated coaches of all time who belong on a Mount Shushmore of Coaches. For context, here’s this:

That’s a fair question, but you have to consider the coach. You also have to consider the assistant coaches on staff, considered by many some of the best brains in the business.

My Candidates:

Ryan Day:

James Franklin:

Frank Beamer:

Rich Rodriguez:

To Day’s credit, he won a National Championship, albeit in the expansion era that required an easy backdoor into it and he won against Notre Dame, the perennial “we don’t belong here” team of the century.

Other overrated candidates:

  • Brian Kelly
  • Gus Malzahan
  • Corch Ervin Meyers
  • Mario Cristobal
  • Kalen Deboer
  • Jim Harbaugh, although there needs to be a Mount Shushmore of Frauds, he’d be the main pick
  • Chip Kelly
  • Steve Sarkisian
  • Josh Bobby Hill Hype-ul
  • Lincoln Riley

What’re your thoughts. Who are your top 4 overblown coaches?

Thursday Thought Provoker: SEC Coaching Mount Rushmore

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In my never ending quest to find off-season fodder for conversation, I came across this:

The question boils down to what criteria you’d use. For perspective, as you dwell it, here’s some things to consider:

Winning Percentage (minimum of 10 seasons)

  • Saban – .849
  • Smart – .848
  • Frank Thomas (ALA) – .806
  • Bryant – .797
  • Neyland – .780

Wins (minimum of 10 seasons, again)

  • Bryant – 292 (33 seasons)
  • Saban – 254 (22 seasons)
  • Spurrier – 208 (23 seasons)
  • Dooley – 201 (25 seasons)
  • Vaught – 190 (25 seasons)

Bowl Wins

  • Saban – 19
  • Bryant – 15
  • Spurrier – 11
  • Vaught – 10
  • Richt and Smart – 9 (T) Note: Dooley had 8, though we need to consider the proliferation of bowl opportunities that existed in the later years

Conference Championships

  • Bryant – 13
  • Saban – 11
  • Vaught – 7
  • Spurrier and Dooley – 6
  • Butts – 4

To the best of my ability, I think that’s right. That’s a lot of stats and data, so you might go with numbers or you might go with feelings.

I would give a nod to Dooley, and while Kirby has had double the success with National Titles, it was a different conference in Dooley’s age and I’ve long held the unpopular opinion that Smart has enjoyed a space of time where Tennessee, Florida, and Auburn have been wretched, and Tech hasn’t been much better in his ten years with the program. I said it’s unpopular, but it’s also true. I love Smart and I love our golden times, but I wonder what happens when these programs correct themselves (note: here’s hoping they never do, fuck ’em) and wonder if Richt would’ve had the success in his days if the SEC East was as terrible as it has become prior to conference expansion (as well as our traditional old West foes).

I’d give a nod to Dooley for a face on the SEC Coaching Mount Rushmore, and a possible fourth, as much as it pains me to say it, to Spurrier, though Vaught has some impressive stats and, hell, he was at Mississippi.

What say you? Who are the four best SEC coaches of all time?

Your G-Day Game Reminder that Auburn Sucks: Adding a Fuzzy Carpet Covering to Grandma’s Toilet Seat Cover

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How do you turn a shit house into an outhouse? Easy. Just add some layers and fancy decorations and call it what you will. But it’s still just Jordan-Hare.

Another reminder that today’s your cheapest day to sit and enjoy football in the greatest stadium in the most glorious college town on earth. Get out and touch grass, Refugees.

Go Dawgs.

Golf Pairings Can Make for Strange Bedfellows

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I think I’d like to be a caddy just to overhear some of the conversations that would arise from these Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl golf outing pairings.

I think we are using the term “Legend” here liberally. Kirby Smart, as it pertains to the football world, is a legend. But to attach that to Freeze, Fishfry, Roof, and Chantastic?

I’ll leave my thoughts about Smart’s pairing to myself so as to not turn this into a Playpen Post, but I will say this is your Friday, April 17th, reminder that Auburn sucks.

Friday Night Frights

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My, how times have changed from my days in high school in the 1990s. If someone from your hometown got a sports scholarship somewhere, they were a hometown hero. Now, it’s about the guy from your hometown and their agent ($$).

Programs developing reputations in world of NIL

The big NIL spenders, according to high school prospects, are becoming clearly defined. The usual suspects like USC, Oregon, Texas A&M and LSU dominate the high-end offers, new programs are trying to enter the arms race.

UCLA, Cal and North Carolina were frequently cited as “most open” regarding NIL discussions with recruits. For UCLA and Cal, NIL is a tool to ignite fanbases under first-year coaches; for UNC, it’s about providing Bill Belichick the resources to improve the program’s fortunes in year two. Their pitch is simple: “This is your minimum offer, this is what it could grow to, and if you perform, we’ll reset the table.”

Conversely, Georgia was the program most frequently cited for offering substantially less than some of its peers. Kirby Smart‘s program sells NFL development as a long-term financial play that outweighs an upfront NIL check. (emphasis added)

The article also cites that high school kids are now seeing that their NIL valuation is $300,000 and they start upselling from there, asking for a million or more.

Whatever happened to the good ole days of getting a Trans Am and your family a fat stack of Benjamins in a McDonald’s back, huh?

Anyway, I can hear Kirby’s recruiting pitch now. “I’ll offer you the minimum, but by the time you leave you’ll be asking for the supermax at the draft. Max we can give is 2 million a year, max a NFL team can offer is limitless. One of these things isn’t like the other, and if you don’t believe me, I can put you on the phone with Roquan, Jordan, Ladd, Brock, Jalen…just ask. They’ll tell ya, the NFL scouts will tell ya, you’re gonna be rich someday, but it ain’t gonna be right now. You can make millions for a few years at the other place, but you’ll be working for $50,000 a year three years later as a staffer at a company somewhere, and you’ll watch the guys who came here playing on Sundays wishing “why didn’t I go to Georgia”. I’ll take care of ya, but you’re gonna have to fight for it. I’m not paying you more than the guy in front of you who has been going through five years of hell on earth we call Bloody Tuesdays and SEC games and you wouldn’t want that, either. Take it or leave it, it’s my way, and you gotta trust me on this.”

Woof. I’d buy that for a dollar.

Well Allow Me to Retort: Kirby Answers Steve Smith

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It’s been a wonderful week of slander to the Georgia wide receivers and Gunner Stockton, and Kirby’s had enough of this foolisheness.

Do your homework, asshole. And we don’t worry about what the pundits said, we worry about winning.

That’s a coach-speak I can get behind. Kirby’s on the mother, and Steve, he might be on your mother, too. Nyuck-nyuck.

Them Dawgs is hell, no?

Your Income Tax Eve Reminder that Auburn Sucks

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While it’s been a delight beating Auburn so routinely for so long, it does seem like it’s become less of rivalry to our younger audience. If you ever wondered why, take a gander at this:

I’ve got a child named Georgia who’s never seen an Auburn Victory over Georgia. Maybe she was the chosen one (I think she is, and she does, too). I have a total of three girls, and between them, ages 8, 10, and 12, they’ve combined only seen Auburn beat Georgia once, and two of them watched what Georgia’s response was to an Auburn loss in the SECCG in 2017.

I also have a young staffer who was born in 2000, and has seen it happen so few times but is old enough and wise enough (and also a UGA grad) to realize that this record during the new millennium is exactly the way it needs to remain until 2100.

“We beat the dawg crap out of them” was said, and we’ve never looked back. Here’s hoping we keep it going another 74 years.

Go Dawgs!

Proof that the 1990s Weren’t As Great as We Remember

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Man, that’s a lot of blue from 1990-2010.

Just think, we went 3-17 against the Gators in that span of time, and we still lead the all-time series comfortably.

Another note:

Since the 2010 season, we’ve gone 11-4 against the Gators and are 8-2 in the Smart era.

Let’s hope we keep the streak alive this season against Sumrall and Faulkner.

Will Driving Incidents at Miami Get the Georgia Treatment?

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Before your rush and say “but it’s one player and an isolated incident”, what’s clear here is that infractions are being covered up at Miami, so who’s to know how many other incidents have occurred?

So in Miami, a citation is given for a driving incident that involves careless driving, while in Athens, Georgia, driving on a learners takes you straight to jail. It could be the local adjudication of the law, it could be that someone just has a hard-on for reporting Georgia players and their driving infractions.

Or maybe people just hate Georgia. Case in point, a nyuck-nyuck that is Masters-related:

Sigh.

Around the Campus for Sunday, April 12th

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Good news: Dawgs beat Gators to even the series. After a disasterous single inning to open the series on Friday night, Georgia came back and beat the Hogtown ballers 5-1 on Saturday.

Now for the mystery of who the Day 3 starter will be to try to take the series. Should be intriguing…first pitch is at noon today on the usual outlets.

On to women’s tennis, who is still laying waste all those who dare to compete with them:

Women’s Softball dropped a 4-3 game to Missouri.

Georgia Men’s Tennis is having their Senior Day today and is facing everyone’s favorite, Auburn, to boot, at Magill. You’ve got one world of orange suck next door in the baseball stadium, so just come to the general area wearing red and you’re doing your part.

Go Dawgs!