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The first few Mondays in May are probably my least favorite days of the year. My golf course is closed on non-holiday Mondays. Unless the Hawks are playing, I don’t like NBA basketball any longer. The Braves have not been able to get me excited, yet.

Opining and arguing about college football has become my number one time killer.

The topic de jour is the temperature of Coach Mark Richt’s chair within the confines of Butts-Mehre.

The drum beat begins in Alabama and echoes down from Tennessee. Like television advertising, eventually the constant bombardment, the relentless chanting, begins to have an effect.

Barrett Sallee, of College Football News, put it to me this way, “Richt isn’t necessarily on the hot seat, but he’s not untouchable either. So if #UGA goes 7-6 in 2010, how will your assessment of Richt’s job security change?

My answer was basically, “It depends.”

David Hale, referencing “the arena”, certainly did not place Richt on a fresh bag of ice, Uga style, this morning. It is a great read, a MUST read for all Dawgs. He closes with:

Or perhaps more to the point — will you stick by Richt if Georgia finishes 8-5 again this year, but does it with a more fundamentally sound D, a better approach to kickoffs and a duo at tailback that understands how to play the position?

My answer is “yes!” If the coaching is sound, Richt deserves our support.

Sallee and Hale are not making predictions, just posing honest, thought provoking questions.

While we may not have been using the phrase “hot seat” following the Oklahoma State disaster last year, we were all questioning the coaching. From play calling and personnel to the dad gum post game interviews, Stillwater shed light on a few cracks in our coaching foundation.

The second half of 2008 and most of 2009 were the low point of Coach Richt’s tenure. Coach Richt, better than any other, understood this and began the process of turning things around.

Would a 7-6 season spell doom? Probably, but the season must be judged by everything that happens. Adversity will be faced. Injuries, unfortunately, will happen.

If everything goes wrong, Coach Richt will still have my support. I love Georgia, want ‘em to win every game by a hundred. In my heart I know, my passion for Georgia does not hold a candle to Coach Richt’s.

For those very few of you that question the Teflon in Coach Richt’s shorts, who would you rather have? I would love to know.