Hey Richt, keeping doing the opposite

On one episode of Seinfeld entitled “The Opposite,” George Costanza came to the realization that everything he did was wrong. To remedy this situation, he did the opposite of every impulse he had, thus leading to a better life. Perhaps Mark Richt came to this realization himself immediately following the Liberty Bowl and maybe just maybe the Bulldog Nation will see OPPOSITE Mark Richt.

The reason I have surmised this is that the Georgia Bulldogs are CLOSING in recruiting for the first time seemingly ever during Richt’s tenure. The Bulldogs’ usual MO under Richt has been to get the class locked into place well before National Signing Day and just cruising towards the first Wednesday in February, maybe picking up a spare part or two but nothing major. National Signing Day 2011 will be different however. Not only will Georgia hear about tailback Isaiah Crowell, but defensive tackle John Jenkins will decide a few days after NSD. A few years ago, the drama would have been over around Labor Day but this year defensive end Ray Drew just declared last week, just days after Malcolm Mitchell and Jay Rome announced they too were becoming Bulldogs.

This late surge has led to the Bulldogs shooting up the recruiting rankings from the mid-teens to No.6 in one of the latest rankings, and the Dawgs could move up again should a combination of Crowell, Jenkins, Jeoffrey Pagan and/or a few others decide on Georgia.

And maybe the Bizzaro-Richt will continue into the season. Perhaps that means Georgia gets off to a HOT start instead of the slow start that killed the 2007 season with losses to South Carolina and Tennessee which cost the Dawgs a shot at the title. Perhaps that means Bizzaro-Richt will finally reverse the Georgia/Florida rivalry and get the upper hand on the Gators. Perhaps that means Richt will not kneel on the ball, up 14 with eight minutes to go against an overmatched FCS opponent. Perhaps he’ll want to run the score up the way he used to when he was OC’ing for Bobby Bowden and FSU. Perhaps he’ll take the SEC by storm by doing the opposite of what he’s been doing for the last few seasons.

It is worth a shot because the last two years have been awful. So far the opposite thing has worked for recruiting. Maybe it would work as well on the sidelines.