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"randomsportsfan"—I missed one! Report me to the warden ASAP.
misspelled a couple letters there.
Straight F’s for lines of scrimmages. The 4th and 2 debacle in the 4th was a failure by every definition and having so many batted balls 🤦♂️.
Coaching: a big fat F- !
What we all witnessed last night was embarrassing in all phases of the game, especially coaching and in game decisions that kept putting our players in terrible situations. Kirby does not have that killer instinct anymore.
I think Gunner's toughness and ability to make something out of nothing is one of the main reasons we even had a chance yesterday. Our players are awesome. Kirby is awesome. We are not going to do better, as I don't think there is a better head coach out there. Having said that, in the last 3 years 11 teams have won a CFB playoff game. UGA is not one of them. I'm not smart enough to know what's gotta change (coordinators, recruiting, etc.). Only smart enough to know something needs to if UGA wants to win another one in the next few years.
where is the grade for coaching? OK, I’ll help. F.
B- for the WR's? Where were Bell and Thomas?! Zero production. This was one of the most puzzling games I've seen UGA play in a long time for so many reasons. Coaching gets a big F for that screwed up 4th down call. How does the guy touching the ball not know what he is supposed to do?!
@UGA66 No, you shouldn't question the coaching. You should question the recruiting philosophy. I get grief on here for not being a Georgia fan but sometimes an outsider perspective helps. I have been pointing out for weeks that UGA lacks big plays on offense: whether vertical passing plays or long runs. It isn't coaching that sets those things up. It is tailbacks and WRs with the ability to outrun the defense and QBs with the ability to out throw it. You shouldn't be surprised. Kirby Smart is in year 10 in Athens. In all that time he hasn't recruited a single 1st round pick at QB, WR or RB, whether from high school, JUCO or via portal/NIL. It isn't for lack of resources. UGA isn't some tiny private school in Montana. Instead, Smart really doesn't seem to want those guys. He certainly doesn't go out of his way to attract them. Instead Smart prefers players who remind him of himself: guys who rely on effort and smarts as opposed to big time ability. When those guys turn out to be Stetson Bennett IV and Ladd McConkey, great. But they're far more likely to turn out to be London Humphries, who Smart just had to have out of the portal from Vandy because he made a single big play against a bored UGA defense in a 37-20 loss. Contrast that to Ohio State, who took a guy who rushed for 1560 yards and 16 TDs in the SEC as a true freshman out of the portal and used him to win the national title. If Ole Miss had Quinshon Judkins last year, they probably win the national title instead of Ohio State. Exactly what is getting guys like Humphries, Trevor Etienne and Dom Lovett from the portal - and relying on guys like Dillon Bell, Arian Smith and Cash Jones for years - going to accomplish in the playoff against programs that have future NFL players at every level on defense?
Smart and company have done this great job constructing this "no stars" line, with the idea that all the selfish players interested in big stats, the NIL and getting to the NFL go to the "bad programs" to play for "bad coaches." It makes no sense because UGA has never had a problem with "stars" at the positions that Smart acknowledges that big time ability is a need and not a want: OT, DT, pass rusher and DB. It is absurd to think that it is bad to have a WR who wants to have 1000 yards receiving and catch a bunch of downfield passes because "he isn't a team player and UGA isn't about that" but to have LBs who lead the SEC in tackles and win the Butkus Award year in and year out like UGA has under Smart is perfectly fine. Having Heisman candidates at RB and WR? Can't do that at UGA because those guys are selfish! But all those Outland trophies that UGA offensive linemen win? Those are great!
Year after year Smart tries to win titles without the firepower at QB, WR and lately RB that other contenders have. And the only two years where this actually worked were 2021 and 2022 when UGA had generational talent on defense AND Brock Bowers on offense. (Don't say SB IV, because the guy was part of the 2020 debacle where UGA lost the SEC East.) At some point someone needs to call out the "trying the same thing and expecting different results" thing. Especially if you look at the 2026 recruiting class and see how light it is at top 100 WRs and RBs. Which, the 2025 haul at WR aside, is the new normal. And of course, as top 100 high school WR recruits saw how UGA's big time WR recruits weren't allowed to get on the field for a team where only Zachariah Branch had more than 27 catches, please no one call future WR recruits who decline a similar experience in Athens "selfish" OK? Only in Athens does Cash Jones have more catches than Talyn Taylor, CJ Wiley, Jaden Redell and Thomas Blackshear combined.
@randomsportsfan You make some very good points. However, coaching is relevant. Indiana has ZERO 4 and 5 star recruits. ZERO! Bama, like UGA, is loaded with 4 and 5 star recruits. Indiana is not the most talented team I’ve seen this season. Indiana is the best coached team I’ve seen this season.
I watched Indiana destroy a much more talented team 38-3. Yes, I would like to see us have a QB who is bigger, faster, etc. But, make no mistake, our players are more than good enough to win big games. Horrible play calling, poor O Line technique, and less than stellar game planning is why we lost to an Ole Miss team coached by PETE GOLDING for crying out loud.
Coaching Staff F+
$13 mill a year will change a coach. Totally correct about no killer instinct
Just heard Bobo say that his goal is to build men of character.
Coaching = F
4th and 2 from your own 33 yard line -
“We screwed that up a little bit,” Smart said in his postgame news conference. “We had a misfire. It was a changeup from a look we had done twice and we knew teams were going to sit back and not honor us because we had not snapped it on those plays in two different locations, two different times. And the ball was not supposed to be snapped in that situation. But that was on us as coaches, that was on me and our guys, it’s not on the players. And Gunner and those guys did a nice job executing it.
“We did feel like we had lost momentum at that point and the book says we need to go for it. There’s probably another way I’d like to have gone for it but we did not execute the situation really well there. It’s a situation where it gave us an either or, we didn’t have to snap it. We can take a delay, sit back and see what happens just to take a chance.”
Ole Miss scored a touchdown two plays later when QB Trinidad Chambliss found Harrison Wallace III in the end zone to extend the lead to 10 points.
What book is he reading that he needs to throw away? 3 point game with over nine minutes to go. Pulling a DeBoer.
Go back and watch the game or any game this year, what you will see is a QB that was limited in his abilities to read progressions and push the ball down the field. You will also see that Bobo and Kirby did not trust him to do that. He was always late and he did not have the imagination to see recievers open or throw them open. Remember Bennett was older and just a special player that grew into the role. He was different than the Aaron Murray types that had been the UGA QB for many years limited in ability but decent in being a QB. Beck was a different type of QB, but limit in his communication skill when it was right it was ok. When it was wrong he was not able to lift the team. Gunner was a return to the Aaron Murray, Jake Fromm types and it showed. Maybe Bobo did not help with his conservative play calling or myabe he know more than we do. I watched all year and knew we were leaving points on the field. Case in point: On the last drive to Delp a good QB and a good coordinator would have had option 1 Young and option 2 Branch as his progressions or vice o versa. Gunner locked on to Delp even though he was never open not at no point yet he threw it any way. A QB has to have a lot of faith in the receiver in that instance hoping he makes a play. Young was open but you had to be percise and move the db with you eyes. Gunner did neither. Don't get me wrong I am not bashing Gunner he is and was the QB. He had an off night. None of his throws were perfect even the touchdown to Branch was an adjustment by him. Where do we go from here only Kirby knows, I can question his time and game management, but I will not question him as the right coach.