After 110 games and 3-1/2 seasons, Georgia under Tom Crean is, according to Ken Pomeroy’s rankings, the lowest-rated team among the Power 5 leagues plus the Big East. In ordinary times, that’d be enough for me to say, “Next.” I can’t in good conscience say that today.
Crean’s Bulldogs are 47-63 overall, 15-46 in SEC play, and the arrow isn’t pointing up. Georgia was (KenPom again) the nation’s 95th-best team last season; entering Tuesday’s game against Alabama, this edition was 229th.
It would be no shock if Georgia opts to move on without Crean, who was hired by athletic director Greg McGarity, now overseeing the Gator Bowl. The separation between football and hoops has never been wider. Two days before Kirby Smart’s Bulldogs beat Michigan by 23 points, Crean’s Bulldogs lost to Gardner-Webb by 17. If AD Josh Brooks believes he has seen enough, I’d understand. It isn’t, however, what I’d do.
