It took a miracle run through the Southeastern Conference tournament last season for Georgia's Dennis Felton to save his job.
This season the Bulldogs, losers of five in a row, are 9-9 and headed nowhere.
Mark Bradley of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says it's time to send Felton packing.
Bradley writes: "Hired in April 2003 to sweep up after Jim Harrick, Felton hasn’t yet had a 20-win season or a winning record in SEC play. (His record in regular-season conference games is 26-57.) He has made the NCAA tournament only once. And, if he hadn’t made it when he did, a different man would surely be coaching Georgia today."
He adds: "It was understandable that Felton would struggle to sign players in the post-Harrick years, but Harrick has been gone from Georgia longer than Bill Self has been coaching Kansas. Felton has had time, and now his sixth Bulldog team looks only slightly more polished than his second, which finished 8-20."
Bradley writes that the state produces a slew of big-time talent, but little of it lands in Athens. He has a suggestion on who Georgia should hire:
"It’s time now to give a different man — Dayton’s Brian Gregory, say — that chance. Felton has five seasons plus 18 games, and it just hasn’t worked."
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