georgia football

i'm as georgia red and black as they come, and i live and die with the bulldawgs. i love them dawgs, and i usually hate all the homers that say we could beat anyone in the nation blah blah blah. the same fools that called for mark richt's head when he had one losing season.

but recently, i've started changing my mind. i think mark richt is probably the nicest head coach in all of football. he's a stand up guy and a good football coach. and that's the thing, he's a good coach, not a great one. i've done some independent research and come up with these numbers:

lifetime:
vs top 10 teams: 7-12 (37% winning percentage)
vs top 25 teams: 30-28 (52% winning percentage)

and the most atrocious of them all:
record vs florida: 3-8 (27% winning percentage)

he hasn't won the sec championship in 7 years. while the lsu, bama, and floridas (again) are all passing us by. i still want to give him some time. hopefully, he can make a believer out of me again, but if you're not moving forward in this conference, you're moving backwards, and that's what i feel like we're doing. grantham was a good pick up, but i'm not sure bobo is the man for the job. and for the love of all that is holy, can we PLEASE get a dedicated special teams coach. UGGGHH.

here's some more disturbing numbers/facts that i came up with:

mark richt's first 5 years (2001 - 2005)
vs. top 10: 4-3 (57% winning percentage)
vs. top 25: 16-12 (57% winning percentage)
2 sec conference titles
3 division titles
(fucking awesome first 5 years)

mark richt's last 5 years (2007 - 2011)
vs. top 10: 3-8 (27% winning percentage)
vs. top 25: 11-15 (42% winning percentage)
1 divisional title
(wtf)

i don't want to see him go yet. but i'm starting to feel like the bulldawgs are the atlanta braves of the sec. always good, never great. we have the talent, but something is missing, and i want mark richt to find it. soon.