The Mark Richt Victory Watch

by T Kyle King on Nov 12, 2011 11:21 PM EST in Georgia Bulldogs Football

It brings me great pleasure---bordering, really, on un-Christian pleasure---to bring you this week’s edition of the Mark Richt Victory Watch. I know I spend this week of the year declaring, "Auburna delenda est!", but, really, this was more of a dismantling than I ever imagined possible.

Accordingly, the Mark Richt Victory Watch now stands at 104, putting Mark Richt 97 wins shy of tying Vince Dooley for the all-time school record. Mark Richt’s 104-36 record and .743 winning percentage are the best ever for a Georgia Bulldogs head coach after 140 games. With the same number of contests under each of their belts, Wally Butts was 93-40-7 (.689), whereas Vince Dooley was 93-42-5 (.682).

I believe Coach Richt is officially off the hot seat.

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You are so right T. Kyle King,

I’ll fully admit it. I was a skeptic to start the season. We had not put together a good season since 2007 and even that great UGA season was marred by embarrassing losses to USCe and UT. But Mark Richt has totally turned this ship around. Say the league is down if you want, but you know what, we just won 8 straight games for only the 2nd time under Mr. Richt. Our team is young, it’s talented and frankly, it’s hungry as hell. I’m excited everytime this team takes the field and the defense is truly Junkyard in its makeup. I’m so happy today to be able to say that I’m confident for the first time in a really long time that Mark Richt will be the all-time winningest Coach in UGA history. Given everything that has happened at Penn State this week, is there a better and more respectable representative a university than Mark Richt. I think not – and that’s the most comforting thought to me. I’ve never been prouder of our great university than right now.

by GShock on Nov 12, 2011 11:26 PM EST reply actions

I don't like that 8 straights line

Sure, I know it means in a season, but its implication is that Richt has never had a winning streak longer than 8 games. We started 2002 with 8 straight wins. After the Florida loss, we rattled off another 8 straight wins split up over two seasons. Starting with the GaTech win in 2004 and into the first seven games of 05, we had nine straight wins. Then between the Tennessee loss in 07 and the Bama debacle in 08, we had 11 straight wins.

I’m not putting this on you. I know the media has now said this only Richt’s second 8 straight win streak. It’s just… It’s not. In a season, yes. But as an actual streak, it’s in a three way tie for his third longest.

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by The984 on Nov 12, 2011 11:57 PM EST up reply actions

I believe I may make this a main subject line on the next podcast.

Winning games is job one, but keeping the program clean is job 1.a. USC, OSU, Miami, PSU. UT in trouble. The big 12 crumbling. Dont want none of what they got going on.

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by tankertoad on Nov 13, 2011 12:07 AM EST up reply actions

After that Boise State loss, I was in the same boat.

Now I’m on the bus.

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by Spears on Nov 13, 2011 10:03 AM EST up reply actions

... which works out great, because

It’s really hard to get to the Georgia Dome by boat, but via bus unquestionably is doable.

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by NCT on Nov 13, 2011 10:57 AM EST via iPhone app up reply actions 1 recs

Also, Pat Forde . . .

. . . now has a bus he’s not using!

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by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2011 2:06 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs

Games like this should count for 2

by mbrd71 on Nov 12, 2011 11:39 PM EST reply actions

We could pull a full Cato the Elder

If we really wanted to make the destruction of Auburn complete, we could make a day trip to Auburn and salt the earth.

Then again, as desolate as that place is, the salt might actually help things.

by SG Standard on Nov 12, 2011 11:41 PM EST reply actions

Their trees are already poisoned - I say let them suffer in Auburn. It's bad enough

as it is. Let’s keep our heads high and realize that we totally dominated their team and didn’t have to resort to the kind of cheap, unbecoming tactics they had to last year.

by GShock on Nov 12, 2011 11:52 PM EST up reply actions

The greatest payback was an absolute beatdown in a clean game. And they held and pushed more than we did.

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by tankertoad on Nov 13, 2011 12:05 AM EST up reply actions

ESPN just refuses to do coverage of this game. I guess eating all that crow is too much.

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by tankertoad on Nov 13, 2011 12:54 AM EST reply actions

Yeah, I know right! I'm only up because I wanted to see how our game was

addressed and basically….nothing. Very disappointing. I guess we are going to have to beat LSU to get them to pay attention. Screw the SEC and prove the doubters wrong – sign me up!

by GShock on Nov 13, 2011 1:02 AM EST up reply actions

Noticed that also

part of me thinks it is due to the game being a CBS broadcast. Not that it matters, but we should get a fair amount of pub on ESPN the next two weeks since our games are on their stations. (both KY and GT)

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by Dawg in Beaumont on Nov 13, 2011 1:32 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah, that's exactly it.

ESPN doesn’t have anything in particular against Georgia, but the Worldwide Leader has a definite bias against any games not broadcast by the Worldwide Leader.

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by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2011 1:36 AM EST up reply actions

ESPN doesn't have anything in particular against Georgia, certain ESPN employees on the other hand...

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by RedCrake on Nov 13, 2011 6:38 PM EST up reply actions

The recent events at Penn State just underscore how fortunate we are to have Mark Richt at the helm.

He might be a little soft in dealing out punishments to the players, but his character is unimpeachable.

Buck Belue’s column deserves to be read: http://savannahnow.com/sports/2011-11-11/buck-belue-georgia-lucky-have-richt#.Tr9taTDlaLM

by Jake Walker on Nov 13, 2011 2:13 AM EST reply actions

I agree with every part of that, . . .

. . . except the part about his being soft in doling out punishments.

He has handed down meaningful discipline within 48 hours of learning of a player arrest every time for eleven years. He ran off Quincy Carter and kicked Jasper Sanks off the team before his first Georgia Tech game. He booted Michael Lemon, Demetre Baker, Zach Mettenberger, and Washaun Ealey. He suspended Justin Houston for the 2009 Oklahoma State and South Carolina games. He suspended Caleb King for the 2010 Liberty Bowl. He suspended Bacarri Rambo for the 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. Compared to his coevals in the SEC coaching fraternity, he’s practically a drill sergeant when it comes to discipline.

The “Mark Richt is soft on discipline” meme is based solely on a spate of ticky-tacky arrests involving scooter incidents, unpaid parking tickets, and the heinous crime of emerging from an alley. Coach Richt and Greg McGarity both stated plainly, and University policy clearly requires, that the three recent suspensions were levied for the first game following the emergence of the disciplinary issue. Assuming the reports of the reasons for those suspensions were accurate, most SEC schools (most certainly including Florida) wouldn’t even have required a suspension for such an offense.

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by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2011 8:40 AM EST up reply actions