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Will FSU's Jimbo Fisher Be The Next Second Year Coach To Win A National Championship?
With the start of the preseason training camp one day away, and with the #5 ranking in the coaches poll and a similar ranking (top 8) expected in the soon to be released AP poll, increasing the already heightened expectations for the 2011 Florida State football team by some of the more rabid and...
Grading Mark Richt's First Ten Years With the Georgia Bulldogs (Part I)
Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to put 2010 behind us. I have reviewed my preseason predictions and my bowl forecasts, which leaves me with the duty to evaluate Mark Richt’s tenure as the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs after a full decade on the job. As I did last year, I will judge Coach...
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Gators?: Notes on Restoring Balance in the Georgia Bulldogs' Most Important College Football Rivalry (Part II)
In an effort to turn Bulldog Nation’s collective angst into a productive discussion, I have raised the issue of the Georgia Bulldogs’ ongoing struggles with the Florida Gators in the modern era of college football. Simply stated, the central impediment to Georgia’s gridiron success is the inability...
College Football History: John Cooper and Mark Richt
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Do I Still Have Faith in Mark Richt as the Head Coach of the Georgia Bulldogs?: A Reply to David Hale
David Hale (who, it should be stressed, was asking a question rather than advocating extreme action) called attention to such hardheaded coaching choices as the decision to put natural linebacker Richard Samuel in the offensive backfield for two seasons, and used such decisions as the jumping-off...
Is Rich Rodriguez Michigan's John Cooper?
I saw a picture of Rich Rodriguez this morning and had the damnedest thought: the guy looks a lot like ex-Ohio State coach John Cooper. The rain parka, chewing tobacco cheeks, and unfriendly scowl, are eerily reminiscient of the man I watched walk the sidelines as a young child in...
1984: Bad Breaks, Key Mistakes, and a Tough Decision to Make (Part Three)
Part OnePart Two Where we last left the 1984 Tigers, they were holding on by a thread. Three last-second losses to good teams had left them with no margin for error. To qualify for a bowl, they would have to beat the two imminently beatable teams on the schedule--Iowa State and Kansas--at home...
Profiles In Plagiar-Agism: John Cooper
Profiles In Plagiar-Agism is an offseason series being run to examine the history of exit plans. We will be analyzing some of the greatest football coaches of all time and determining any parallels between their final days and those that are facing Joe Paterno. Editor's note: I know, I...
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