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The Georgia Bulldogs will be playing Michigan State in their bowl game this year. Despite what the national sports media says, Mark Richt in Athens, does not have a comfy seat. His 10 game win streak did nothing to change the Bulldog Nation in Georgia. All this Georgia team had to do at the end of the year, was to beat Kentucky to go to the SEC Championship Game. As big as this game was for the Bulldogs, Richt did not bring a well-coach team in for this game. In fact, if not for a crucial turnover in the game, the Wildcats from Kentucky would have went to the halftime locker rooms leading this game. It was a series of field goals for the Georgia Bulldogs and that was their offense for this game. At no time, did this team really run the less talented Wildcats team off the field. This is a perfect example of a football game, in which Mark Richt fails to get his players up for the magnitude of the event. What should have been a blowout game or at least one, where the Bulldogs threw everything (including the kitchen sink) at Kentucky, they really came in with a vanilla game plan.

Then go to the LSU game for the SEC title. Mark Richt coached relaxed and let the boys play. Since there is a lot of talent in Athens, it was clear, the Bulldogs are a much more athletic team than the LSU Tigers. We saw the real Bulldog team in the first half of this game or maybe the first 25 minutes of the game. Once Georgia had a little success in this big southern game at the Georgia Dome; that is when Richt got nervous and begin to play Mark Richt football. He just doesn’t turn his guys loose on Saturdays. He doesn’t trust them. He doesn’t convey to his players the importance of things and how to deal with certain situations, when there is 2 minutes or less left in the half or the game. Mark Richt coaches a “scared game of football” and this is why he has not been able to push the Dawgs all the way to the BCS Championship Game and win it. Let these guys from Athens play, like you did in the first half, with creative play-calling, on-side kicks, and going for it on 4th down and this team can hang with anyone in the Nation. Let them play in the Mark Richt system and you will get blown out. Its been like this for years in Athens and Richt needs to move to another position for this UGA football team.

Don’t forget the first 1st down the LSU Tigers got, was due to Mark Richt telling the referees to enforce the penalty on the Bulldogs team. The referees in the SEC Championship Game had awarded the Bulldogs sideline a timeout. Yet, Richt did not want to lose a timeout in the early part of the 3rd quarter and allowed the Tigers to get their first (or maybe 2nd) first down of the game. There was no need to save this timeot, since the game ended and the Georgia Bulldogs still had a timeout in their back pocket. This did not get mentioned on the National TV Coverage, but the cameras did pick up Mark Richt and you saw him telling the referees, to take the penalty and not award him the timeout. This turned out to be the dumbest call of the game and it was the beginning of the end for the Georgia team in the Georgia Dome that night.

The way he led his team out of the locker room, from the Georgia Dome, for the first game of the year, the horrible play against Kentucky, when an SEC championship appearance was on the line, and his scared play-calling in the 2nd half, with his refusal to take the timeout and give the Tigers a 1st down and 5. It was a long list and combination of things like this in 2011, which has kept Mark Richt on the hotseat.

He admits he never heard anything from the A.D. (athletic director) at Georgia about his job. Now he is caught up in the national media hype that his job is safe and he is now off of the hot seat. FAT CHANCE! Mark Richt is a nice guy, nice coach, and can coach a descent game. He doesn’t have the guts to call games in the SEC or take chances in the toughest division in football. He has recruited well and it would be nice to see him stay in Athens and let him help with the recruits, who want to play in Athens, Georgia. The top freshmen class in the country came in to the Georgia Bulldogs football program in the 2011 season. Another super class of studs have already gave verbals to UGA and it looks like several of the big names this year, are going to be coming to Georgia again. The most talented team in the NCAA next year will be the Georgia Bulldogs. If they want the perfect season, they will need for Richt to step down, take away Mike Bobo from the offensive play-calling, or change the current situation in Athens; which has been in place for a long time now.

Good luck to the Dawgs in their bowl game this year against Michigan State. These two teams will match up in the Outback Bowl. It should be a fun game for the Georgia team, since they did get an easy opponent. Here goes my prediction for the game below and congrats to the Crimson Tide and Tigers for representing the SEC in the Big Game this year.

Georgia – 44

Michigan State – 9

*I pick the Bulldogs in the Outback Bowl and they should win by 35 points or more