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UGA's Women's Golf Corch Fired

  • as predicted last week, UGA has fired Kelly Hester (Women's Golf Corch)

    Look for the structure of the golf program to be re-organized

    Iron Dawg34

  • i hope notice is being served to all of the other non-championship uga coaches out there that mediocrity cannot survive at uga.

    suwaneegeorgia

  • suwaneegeorgia said...

    i hope notice is being served to all of the other non-championship uga coaches out there that mediocrity cannot survive at uga.

    If any notice is being served it's that mediocrity is acceptable for some programs (baseball) and not for others (gymnastics, womens golf). How the distinction is decided is anybody's guess.

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  • I could offer a guess (or two).

    With baseball you have arguably the most successful corch in program history (multiple CWS appearances) playing in the toughest league in America, whose teams experienced bizarre and tragic accidents to key players two out of the last three years (one of which the team rallied to earn a NCAA tourney bid). This year's team lost a vital component (closer) right before the start of the season. The same corch also has a personal family medical situation that is being taken into consideration. I'm not advocating either stance (pro or anti) regarding Perno. However, the factors I just named are those purportedly being weighed heavily in the decision to retain his services. It's not like it's a no-brainer either way (regardless what opinion one may have) to retain him or replace him.

    With Women's Gymnastics, you had a long time assistant corch doing what NO corch wants to do: Be the corch who follows the legendary corch retiring after a handful of consecutive NCs. The replacement was never able to duplicate the legend's success, and there was little reason to believe he would do so in the future. Our gymnastics program was a dynasty. We replaced arguably the most successful gymnastics corch in NCAA history (the gym version of Bear Bryant for example) with an unproven corch who was unable to maintain the success of his predecessor to the point where the gymnastics team wasn't capable of making the gymnastics version of the BCS (Super Six). It reminds me a lot of replacing Steve Spurrier with Ron Zook. McGarity had a front row seat for that debacle, and much like our gymnastics program, that decision was made swiftly.

    With Women's Golf, you had a corch who was unable to maintain the lofty standards we have earned for our program over years of success. A re-structure of the entire golf program is supposedly in the works, and this move is just one of several that will supposedly take place. As future moves are announced, the direction and decision will become more clear.

    Again, I'm not advocating any position regarding these three programs. However, I think the suggestion that decisions are being made with no "rhyme or reason" is inaccurate. JMO.

    Iron Dawg34

  • Iron Dawg34 said...

    I could offer a guess (or two).

    With baseball you have arguably the most successful corch in program history (multiple CWS appearances) playing in the toughest league in America, whose teams experienced bizarre and tragic accidents to key players two out of the last three years (one of which the team rallied to earn a NCAA tourney bid). This year's team lost a vital component (closer) right before the start of the season. The same corch also has a personal family medical situation that is being taken into consideration. I'm not advocating either stance (pro or anti) regarding Perno. However, the factors I just named are those purportedly being weighed heavily in the decision to retain his services. It's not like it's a no-brainer either way (regardless what opinion one may have) to retain him or replace him.
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    I don't really want to re-hash this argument here, because we've gone on about ti ad-nauseum in other threads, but it's not all that arguable that Perno is "the most successful coach in program history." He's got one of the worst overall winning percentages of any UGA baseball coach, and frankly I'm not that impressed with three CWS appearances in nine years, especially given the talent he's got to work with. I'm tired of the excuses. Every team deals with injuries. That crutch has been overplayed FAR too many times with Perno, as has the excuse over players leaving for the MLB draft. The bottom line is that he doesn't develop talent, and is a poor roster manager.

    We haven't been good in four years. I don't know exactly what a "no-brainer" is in regards to a change in coaching, but if not being relevant since the last Presidential election isn't a "no-brainer," then what is? Good gosh man, South Carolina and Florida find a way to be COMPETITIVE every single year, so what's our excuse? Georgia just isn't a good state for baseball?

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  • oh i am not saying there is no rhyme or reason. i just think that we have somewhat selectively decided which programs we should make drastic changes to and have chosen to ignore others in many ways. i will say this though.........why should a baseball team comprised of about 25 players be so devastated when it loses 1 really good player every year? is that really legit? it's not like you're losing a triple crown winner or something. you're losing one starter out of 9. that has some impact, but should it have devastating effects? every team loses players. anywho

    suwaneegeorgia

  • suwaneegeorgia said...

    oh i am not saying there is no rhyme or reason. i just think that we have somewhat selectively decided which programs we should make drastic changes to and have chosen to ignore others in many ways. i will say this though.........why should a baseball team comprised of about 25 players be so devastated when it loses 1 really good player every year? is that really legit? it's not like you're losing a triple crown winner or something. you're losing one starter out of 9. that has some impact, but should it have devastating effects? every team loses players. anywho

    Exactly my point. There is an excuse every single year. Meanwhile South Carolina, Florida and LSU are national powerhouses but we inexplicably just have "bad luck" every year and are just one of those programs that is good once every three or four years. Even in Perno's "good" years, we'd have one good year and then one lousy year sandwiched in between another good one. He's never had this team winning consistently, and I just think the fact that McGarity just dismissed the idea that Perno's job was never in doubt belies the lack of regard we have for our baseball program. We play in a dump and are OK with only being good once every three years. That just irritates the hell out of me because baseball is UGA's oldest varsity sport and there's no excuse why it should be acceptable for it not to be advancing past regionals every single year. That should be the bare minimum. Not getting past the regional or missing the playoffs altogether shouldn't even be an option.

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  • But anyway, sorry, didn't mean to drag this thread off-topic.

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  • It's not debatable that our current baseball corch has enjoyed more success than all other UGA baseball corches combined. Now, he may have experienced a strong share of failure as well, but it simply cannot be debated that ANY other corch in UGA baseball history has experienced similar success. He has more CWS appearances than all the others combined.

    Are we a baseball power house? Not presently, no. Is our baseball program as good as it could be? Not presently. Has our corch shown an ability to succeed at the highest level in college baseball? Unquestionably.

    Therefore, it's a tough decision to make. I'm glad I don't have to make it, and that's why they pay GMac the big bucks?

    Iron Dawg34

  • Regardless, thanks to Kelly for her work and commitment to out program!

    GoldenIslesDawg

  • GoldenIslesDawg said...

    Regardless, thanks to Kelly for her work and commitment to out program!

    Yes, it was a critical period after the sudden firing of her predecessor.

    Born and bred Bulldog, living in Maryland since '88

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  • Iron Dawg34 had the scoop on everyone with this.

    Well-done ...

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  • Agreed. Best of luck to Kelly in her future endeavors

    Iron Dawg34

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