🏈 Georgia President Michael Adams' biggest regret? 'Not getting the final five yards against Alabama'

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"In my opinion, he has never said anything positive about Vince Dooley's ability as the athletic director."

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Michael Adams is set to retire June 30 after 16 years as president of the University of Georgia.
He talked with The Athens Banner-Herald recently about the mark he will leave on Georgia athletics.

He also talked about what he considers his biggest regret.

And it's not the way things ended with former coach and athletics director Vince Dooley.

"I don't have many regrets," Adams told the Banner-Herald. "You want to know what my biggest regret is? Not getting the final five yards against Alabama. To have gone out in the national championship game, and I felt that night that was the national championship game and I think the following events proved me right. I'm not sure I'm over that one yet."

Check out Alabama's and Georgia's 2013 opening-game lines here.

Speaking of Dooley, rightly or wrongly, Adams will be forever linked with Dooley's departure.

"Well, I guess the first thing I would say to you is that all that is over 10 years ago," Adams said. "I just don't think I've talked about it since then and I don't think I'm going to."

Barbara Dooley, however, didn't hold back on her feelings toward Adams about the way things unfolded with her husband.

"In my opinion, he has never said anything positive about Vince Dooley's ability as the athletic director," Barbara Dooley told the Banner-Herald. "He's comparing all of these great things that have happened after Vince Dooley. I take personal offense to that. You can certainly print that."

To read more about Adams and his tenure at Georgia, click here.

 

[TerryP]

Georgia's loss = College football's gain.

<strike>IF'S</strike> <strike>AND'S</strike> <strike>BUT'S</strike>

 

[jdpas29]

whole lot of underachieving been going on... to which one of those guys do you want to attribute such lackluster athletic prowess in the big games? take your pick

 

[bamaraider]

I hope the game still hurts.

 

[riz]

He should be really proud of allowing them to wear black jerseys, too. That worked pretty swell.

 

[TerryP]

whole lot of underachieving been going on... to which one of those guys do you want to attribute such lackluster athletic prowess in the big games? take your pick

I do believe a lot of it falls on Adams. Adams to Georgia is like Sorenson to Bama to Brand to the NCAA as a whole.

There have been numerous times he's been behind a move that would either hurt the game, or the SEC, in the end. The rest of the time he's been behind his own pulpit preaching a message that's senseless when you get down to the root of the message. Most recently, he's voicing concern about what it would do to the student athlete if the SEC moved to nine games. He's not talking about reducing the total of games played per season. He's talking about exchanging a weak OOC game with an SEC game.

What kills me is in the same speech he quickly turns around and talks about how the fans will fuel the decision. Then, moves to how it'll mean game like Clemson will go away.

My exposure to him leaves me with the impression he'd rather regulate the SEC with rules in order to create a more level playing field than have a staff in place willing to put in the work. As example? Him being one of the primary voices behind taking SEC coaches off the road in spring evals. Another? Same role, this time taking the kickoff out of the game.

 

[bearsnest]

I guess they will forever think they gave that game away, that they just dominated it from beggining to the end and we shouldnt have even been in the game with them and they just let us score and blah blah blah, (I am getting that Colt McCoy Texas feeling???) Heres the thing dawgs, we gave up several big plays that kept you in the game, if you want to get down to the rat killing we gave YOU the opportunies from our own mistakes, but WE had the WILL to win it! You did not dominate us and you did not GIVE US the game...go blow that our your Hershel