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3 things: Football expertise makes Georgia AD Josh Brooks good fit for Kirby Smart
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3 things: Football expertise makes Georgia AD Josh Brooks good fit for Kirby Smart
New Georgia director of athletics Josh Brooks has experience working under Nick Saban and Mark Richt, and appears to be the perfect fit for Kirby Smart
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We'll see. How quick will he react when we have four years in a row of top 5 recruiting classes, 10 wins and no NC?
I'm very happy to have Mr. Brooks at the head of our athletics! I have never thought much of McGarity and still don't. I didn't like him before the crass way he handled firing Mark Richt. Obviously, it turned out that a change was needed but the low class way it was handled was embarrassing. I have a family connection to a prior women's soccer coach who was fired in a very similar, though unpublicized, manner. That coach has moved to a nearby university and had her teams in the NCAA final playoffs regularly.
Brooks understands football better than most, having served as Mark Richt’s director of football operations at UGA (2008-11).
Good. He should fully understand how the administration Richt served under let him and the program down by vastly underfunding the whole program, from facilities to coaching salaries..
Sounds like a good hire for UGA.
"Win at Everything" If that is the standard for all sports, then Brooks needs to accept that MONEY begets championships in most cases. Programs that spend huge are more likely to lure the elite athlete and winning is all about having better athletes than your opponent - case and point - UGA football over the past 5 years. I have no idea what other universities spend on other sports, but better get ready to open up the checkbook.
Brooks was a solid upgrade. He is young and full of ways to advance UGA athletics. Likely football may well subsidize other UGA sports programs. He does not mince his words but wants it understood he invests in championship sports programs across the board. Lofty goal. He knows football, likes Kirby, so leg up already.
I love this guy! Finally a guy who gets it! Now we need to see the commitment to winning from his office and from the other coaches, give them the tools to be successful and hold them accountable.