Prepare, Kentucky fans: the office Louisville fan will likely be ready to give you an earful tomorrow morning. Multiple outlets have reported that Georgia defensive coordinator,
Todd Grantham, will leave the school for the same position at Louisville. At first glance, this appears to be an impressive hire - the Cards have stolen a coordinator from a top-notch school after all. All is not as it seems, however, Here are a few tools you can use to combat their gleeful squeals if it becomes too much.
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Grantham's star was far from on the rise. After scrolling through various Georgia message boards, it is apparent that Georgia fans are uniformly ecstatic to see Grantham gone. A glance at the point totals from Georgia opponents this year shows that their happiness might be well-founded. Grantham's defense (UGA's injury problems were mostly confined to offense keep in mind), only held TWO opponents this year to under 21 points: Kentucky and Appalachian State (heck, even Kentucky's awful offensive attack managed to put up 17 points). In fact,
six times this season, Georgia's foes scored over 40 points. Grantham has continually been attacked in the media for fundamental shortcomings in his defense and he was routinely blamed by Bulldog fans for UGA's woes this season.
2. The above tweet followed another less-than-impressive showing from the Dawg D. Todd Grantham now makes exactly 1 MILLION per year and he will do so for the next five years (guaranteed). After a week full of high-profile names being tossed about by UL fans (Shannon, Chizik, Steele, etc.), the Ville finally settled on what would be at least their fourth choice if you believed all the rumors. One might reasonably think that the fourth choice wouldn't be worth such an outlandish amount of money. When coupled with the fact that Grantham has been terrible and was rumored to have been asked to look around by Mark Richt, the salary seems even more ridiculous.
Louisville football: where mediocrity at your last job will lead to untold riches.
3. It really is amusing to read the reaction of Georgia fans. Here is a summary of a few of my favorites:
-Best thing to happen to Georgia since Herschel
-Dear Jesus, don't let me get my hopes up and then get shot down
-Tennessee fan: Was hoping he'd be a lifer
-Gonna be some serious shootouts in Louisville next year with Petrino and Grantham running that team
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If you are a fan of UGA and the Falcons, we can now forgive Bobby Petrino
Enjoy your evening.
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