I wish we could hire Richt and fire him again for missing on Deshaun Watson
- Thread starter RedNBlackNtheDay
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Watching him play last night, I'm like what a bunch of idiots. But, they are offering scholarships to freshman at Frederica Academy and Savannah Christian. Hudson Mason didn't get one D1 offer except GA.
Right! Then we could fire his a$$ for special teams; fire his a$$ for clock management; etc.
That is all true. However, Hutson Mason was a godsend compared to Greyson Lambert and I would have killed to have Hutson Mason this year.
They didn't go after him hard. I had friends from Gainsville griping about it. They couldn't understand it.
The country club at Butts Mehre got blowed up. Why run a fly fok offense that only 5 qbs could run effectively in 15 years wtf.. While recruiting cam as a tight end and Marshall as a db...
Maybe like on Star Trek TNG where The Enterprise was stuck in a time loop and kept getting blown up, only to reset the day before the event, then blow up again.
That would be cool.
I wish people would stop saying that. Mark Richt WAS NOT the offensive coordinator during the Charlie Ward era. Richt was merely a position coach during the Ward years. The OC during the Ward years was Brad Scott. Richt got the OC job when Scott was hired as head coach at South Carolina based on his winning a national title with Ward. Scott DID try to recreate what he had with Ward at FSU with Anthony Wright (who had a decent college career and actually had a good NFL career as a backup ... taking over for the injured starter and leading Baltimore to the playoffs one year, and then getting a Super Bowl ring with the Giants). Richt became FSU's OC in the 2004 season. During the Richt era at FSU, FSU talked about the Ward era on the recruiting trail as often as they could to get the top dual threat QBs in the state and country to commit, and once they signed on the dotted line (and thereby no longer a threat to go to a school where they would no longer be a threat to beat FSU) they were moved to WR or DB by spring practice. There was this one kid that FSU and Richt literally had no interest in despite his being a nationally rated QB at a high school that was like 15 minutes from Tallahassee. FSU showed NO INTEREST AT ALL in him until he committed to Georgia Tech. As Tech was playing FSU hard (but generally losing) back then in the O'Leary/Friedgen era, FSU turned a full court press for the kid, promising to make him the next Charlie Ward (who was the kid's hero), so the kid wavered. Georgia Tech figured that they couldn't compete with FSU for any kid - let alone a practical hometown guy from Tallahassee - so they backed off. Then FSU lost the interest that they were feigning as well to go back back chasing the 5 star pro-style QBs they REALLY wanted. This kid - who was like a taller Joe Hamilton with a much stronger arm - wound up at Clemson where he was totally wasted, and ultimately finished up his career at the Citadel. Granted, the guy is now a very successful HBCU head coach; not a bad gig obviously but had FSU and Richt not meddled with him to keep him from going to Tech, he might have had a long NFL career and made millions.
So despite many claims and promises that they would do so to recruits on the trail, Bowden, Richt and FSU never put in the Charlie Ward offense again, and never intended to. The closest thing that he did was put in wildcat type packages for former high school QBs like Peter Warrick and Anquan Boldin.
Keep in mind: the whole Ward era at FSU was by accident (or providence depending upon your belief system). A very long string of bizarre stuff had to happen for Ward to ever play QB at FSU. Despite what anyone associated with FSU tells you, it was not something that they even wanted, let alone planned, but happened only because due to a series of unfortunate events there were literally no other viable options on the depth chart at the time (which is why Ward's backup at FSU was a freshman Danny Kanell) million dollar minor league baseball contract over uncertainty at FSU. That's why FSU never went back to the Ward offense under Richt even though it won them their first national title.
Watson's coach was a Clemson guy that put Morris on him in the 8th grade. I think Clemson had such a lead, Richt never had a shot with DW.. The visit was a courtesy call out of respect forthe UGA program, a respect DW still has..
Sounds like most of Richt's games against the top programs - they have leads to the point that Richt never has a shot...
Yea I read your thread , the "At Least Kirby Thread", sounds like you trying to talk yourself into Kirby being the right man for the job. That argument would work until Richt played us last year in Athens , we have done alright since then I guess..
