Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Sour Grapes

Ray Goff, the head coach that followed Vince Dooley, was asked by reporters what he would tell Will Musschamp if he were contacted by Mark Richt to become Georgia's new defensive coordinator.
"If he called and said he had a chance to be the coach at Texas in two or three years or go to Georgia, I'd tell him to stay at Texas. I'd tell him you are going to get fired one day because 99 percent of guys get fired. And if you get fired by your alma mater, you no longer have an alma mater. You no longer have a place to call home."
Sounds like a man that has been aliented by a family he loved.
Why is that the Georgia clan cannot get their arms around the fact that they've never been sucessful at drawing in vogue coaches. Not to besmerch the program, because I think coaches like Richt, Dooley and even Tubby Smith are top flight men, but they were all hired in before they became famous. These men developed their personas while at UGA. The Georgia slots will never match Kentucky in basketball, or Alabama in football. There is usually one program per major conference that has that kind of allure. This is not a we're better than you, GT versus UGA thing, Tech has the same problems with the additional complication of being a smaller program and therefore cash poor.
Great historical prorgams like Kentucky, Texas, USC, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Alabama can draw in the coaches they wish for simply by the prestige. Texas pulled Mack Brown away from North Carolina, North Carolina enticed Roy Williams away from Kansas and so on an so forth. When Notre Dame came calling on George O'Leary, do you think he thought twice about leaving?
Why in the world would Will Musschamp leave Texas for the same job in Georgia?

2 comments:

  1. This post is almost two years old and since a tracking change in June is my post with the most views. Georgia came up a great deal. In this last season Musschamp has moved to Florida and accepted an arguably a better job.
    Just sayin.

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  2. Four years after the fact, Musschamp is again available. Mike Bobo has left to Colorado State so the opening is on the wrong side of the ball. If Georgia Tech lost Ted Roof we should take a stab at the proven defensive coordinator.

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