What would it take for Georgia to fire Mark Richt?
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Depends...do they turn around and lose to UT? Yeah, maybe. Or do they turn around and somehow win out and go 11-1 and lose again to Bama in the title game? I doubt he gets fired for 11-2 (bowl game pending), but stranger things have happened.
I think you can fire him ONLY if you have another good coach off the record that will take the job. Then you do it. The guy has been there 1.5 decades...it is just what it is at this point. Good coach, never gonna win the national title or probably another SEC title. To be fair, NO ONE is from the east in the forseeable future though. It is a JV cupcake division compared to the SEC West.
I think you can fire him ONLY if you have another good coach off the record that will take the job. Then you do it. The guy has been there 1.5 decades...it is just what it is at this point. Good coach, never gonna win the national title or probably another SEC title. To be fair, NO ONE is from the east in the forseeable future though. It is a JV cupcake division compared to the SEC West.
He is 140-48 with only one losing record, 6-7, in 2010, over 15 years. He is 9-5 in bowl games. UT couldn't wait to get rid of Fulmer either........He is a good coach. One game is never the reason to fire a coach, he is losing to the obviously better team.
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His only sin is he hasn't won a national championship.
God I wish they would. Does no one remember how bad the coaches were before he got there?
He had a better record than Vince Dooley. If not for that one year with Herschel he'd be the best coach in fifty years, no question.
Yes Georgia. Fire mark richt. You won't hire another Ray goff or Jim Donnan. You are entitled to national championships. Nick Sabans are a dime a dozen. Start firing coaches until you find the one worthy.
God I wish they would. Does no one remember how bad the coaches were before he got there?
He had a better record than Vince Dooley. If not for that one year with Herschel he'd be the best coach in fifty years, no question.
Yes Georgia. Fire mark richt. You won't hire another Ray goff or Jim Donnan. You are entitled to national championships. Nick Sabans are a dime a dozen. Start firing coaches until you find the one worthy.
I think he is their Tubby. Wins just enough not to fire him on top of being a good man. It's hard to get rid of someone like Richt.
Besides, hasn't he already said he is leaving soon to do mission work in Africa?
Besides, hasn't he already said he is leaving soon to do mission work in Africa?
FWIW, 90% of the fan bases in this country would take Richt in a heartbeat...
I like Richt. Runs a clean program and has a good team year in and year out. Georgia just can't get through the first six games of the season without dropping one somewhere and that is usually what keeps them out of the title hunt. In 2013 they had Alabama on the ropes in the SEC title game, but couldn't beat them.
This. Richt is a hell of a coach. He's just not going to win titles. Right now Georgia doesn't have an obvious answer that would do better. Firing Richt without an obvious replacement means you would likely do worse not better.
But difference is Tubby coached for greatest program in college basketball. He took over a school that went to three final fours in five years.
Georgia is not royalty. They don't have a grand history of championships. 1 in 70 years. 12 conference championships in 100 years and he's responsible for two of them. They had gone 18 years without paying in a major bowl.
He's not their Tubby. He's their Thad Motta.
Georgia is not royalty. They don't have a grand history of championships. 1 in 70 years. 12 conference championships in 100 years and he's responsible for two of them. They had gone 18 years without paying in a major bowl.
He's not their Tubby. He's their Thad Motta.
I think the answer was written all over the faces of those fans.
Always the bridesmaid and never the bride, that seems to be the Dawgs fate.
Always the bridesmaid and never the bride, that seems to be the Dawgs fate.
I don't think he gets fired because of today's game. 2 things, 1 Bama is better than us, but the other was unexpected, they were on fire, the qb was hitting every throw. With their running game and the qb that hot they will be tough for anyone to beat. Outs was off bad, a lot to do with Bama. They are clearly the best team, but should have been closer.
As for as recruiting, yes lots of talent in state, but every big program in the country recruits Georgia hard. Unlike many states Georgia's population is full of alumni from other schools and kids didn't grow up in UGA households, No ties to the state at all except they work in Atlanta.
But back to what you orginally ask. With all the things being added for football, he could be encouraged to start his missionarey work in a couple of years. I still think we win the east, and if we have to play Bama again they won't.play any better than they did today.
He is an underachiever..he can drive 5 hours in any direction and get the best recruits in the country...give me one reason he didnt win the sec east the last few yrs...especially the last 2..I'm not talking one game. He's not a bad coach but he isn't all that amazing either.
This is very true. It's not losing games to Alabama today that make him an underachiever the past few years, but losing to last year's FL team and letting a mediocre Missouri program take the East two years in a row is pretty pathetic. If they win the East this year all is forgotten about today, unless they get hammered in the title game by Bama again.
I won't argue any of that, football isn't the most important thing in his life, it might not even be top 5.
Afraid I need to change part of that, UF is looking awfully good against OM tonight. But without getting a lucky bounce, a missed called, and 5 turnovers Bama beats them as bad as they did us today.
Havent you heard? Its not Richts fault. It used to be Granthams fault, Im sure they have found someone else to blame now that he is gone. Georgia has wasted more talent than anybody out there outside of maybe Clemson. I keep hearing how they are an elite program but I havent seen anything elite out of them in 30 years.
SO he is the Tubby Smith of the SEC football world. Im sure GA is as thrilled with that as we were with Tubby. I think Richt rides off into the sunset "on his own" kinda like Tubby did, likely in the next few seasons. Look for a "health" issue to arise or a job "he couldnt pass up". At the end of the day the name of the game at a school like GA in football is bring home some hardware. Richts trophy case is pretty thin unless you consider all the participation trophies (bowl wins). Big bowls might fly at a UK, UL, Boise, etc but a GA you better be in the hunt more often than not.
He's a good guy, and genuinely one of the only coaches in this league that wins the right way, as far as he knows. This is what winning the right way in this conference looks like.
I truly believe that. It's an insanely hard conference and he's not a criminal or a crook.
Brooks had a similar experience here, especially in that 2007 year. We were winning, recruiting, and doing everything incredibly clean only to get 8 wins, yet again. SEC football is a beast if you do it clean.
He also has a great record at Georgia, save winning it all.
I truly believe that. It's an insanely hard conference and he's not a criminal or a crook.
Brooks had a similar experience here, especially in that 2007 year. We were winning, recruiting, and doing everything incredibly clean only to get 8 wins, yet again. SEC football is a beast if you do it clean.
He also has a great record at Georgia, save winning it all.
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From the day he was hired, also a coordinator from FSU, he has said he wasn't going to coach until old age, that he and his wife wanted to do missionary work while they were still young enough to make a difference. That could have changed with his wifes illness but I don't think so. If he gets pressure to step down I think that will be the public reason.
I don't pretend we are pure as the driven snow, but he runs as clean a program as any in the country.
