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re: Tray Matthews Aunt Brings The SmacK Down to Bulldog Nation
Posted on 6/18/14 at 9:47 am to parkjas2001
Posted on 6/18/14 at 9:47 am to parkjas2001
I'm not thrilled with taking second chance kids, but there isn't a ton of risk.
UGA takes bad apples out of high school, has tons of arrests, lets some of them linger, etc. I don't think any school is really different. If Matthews is a problem he'll be swiftly dispatched from AU.
As for Richt, I don't think he's responsible for someone like Matthews, but I do think a regime change will be needed to foster an environment where fewer kids are lost to persistent behavior issues. It's tough to go after really cocky high school kids and keep them in line, as we found with Chizik.
UGA takes bad apples out of high school, has tons of arrests, lets some of them linger, etc. I don't think any school is really different. If Matthews is a problem he'll be swiftly dispatched from AU.
As for Richt, I don't think he's responsible for someone like Matthews, but I do think a regime change will be needed to foster an environment where fewer kids are lost to persistent behavior issues. It's tough to go after really cocky high school kids and keep them in line, as we found with Chizik.
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 9:50 am to Pettifogger
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As for Richt, I don't think he's responsible for someone like Matthews, but I do think a regime change will be needed to foster an environment where fewer kids are lost to persistent behavior issues.
Richt doesn't have any control of UGA's drug test policies. That's really the main area where we have significantly more issues than our peers.
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It's tough to go after really cocky high school kids and keep them in line, as we found with Chizik.
AU still recruits the same players.
Posted on 6/18/14 at 10:02 am to Pettifogger
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As for Richt, I don't think he's responsible for someone like Matthews, but I do think a regime change will be needed to foster an environment where fewer kids are lost to persistent behavior issues. It's tough to go after really cocky high school kids and keep them in line, as we found with Chizik.
You realize that every school in the SEC and the country has kids that have behavioral issues and they get in trouble. The difference is, Richt doesn't keep in internal and punish kids privately. They don't really learn a lesson like that. That's why we have more suspensions than other schools. Because Richt chooses to act on things other coaches wouldn't make public.
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"He's kicking kids off the team where other coaches, many times, are keeping things in house," said former quarterback David Greene (2001-04). "It's a tough balance, because as college coaches, they're paid to win games. Some of the coaches treat it like the NFL and don't care about the kids. Coach Richt really, genuinely cares."
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"The perception outside the program is that people think Coach Richt is such a good guy that the players take advantage of him," said Greene, who co-hosts The David Greene College Show on 92.9 The Game in Atlanta every Thursday night. "The reality is the opposite. He holds his kids to a standard, and once you cross a line, he says, 'We have a policy here. You're not going to do this.'"
Richt explained his philosophy on discipline to B/R last month, and it can be summed up rather succinctly. He is going to "hit 'em where it hurts."
"We're going to hold them accountable," Richt told B/R in May. "Sometimes, in doing so, if you use playing time as a way to discipline, then it becomes a very public thing."
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