Georgia Coach Mark Richt

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Wonder if we could get him? - bet he's taking alot of heat in Athens right now
 

he'll be available after the season. the chances that he stays after going 0-3 in the SEC are slim, and any further conference losses make it a lock that he's gone.
 

he'd be a kill shot-but very, very unlikely he'd come to minny; although the relative reduction in pressure to win (here in GA, an 8 win season is considered a down year and raises eyebrows) against much easier competition could make it worthwhile for him to justify-would be considered a huge step down, akin to a move from MN to USD....UGA is more than a relevant program, ours, not so much
 

No Chance

He's not coming or getting fired and we couldn't afford him anyway. Would be the perfect hire though.
 

tjgesquire said:
He's not coming or getting fired and we couldn't afford him anyway. Would be the perfect hire though.
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my Facebook stream full of Georgia fans would all disagree about the getting fired part. they want him gone, and it will only get worse after they lose to Florida in a year that Florida is looking vulnerable.
 


I think people are wrong when they say we cannot afford certain coaches. If the right coach were interested the money can be found. They found money for Mason. We pay Brewster less than Mason was paid 10 years ago. We made a mistake in when and how we fired Mason. At the time, Brewster seemed worth the risk. It didn't work out. What do you do? You move on. In many ways this team is in better shape than it was under Mason. Academic support is better and we have more coaches. The nonsense about us having the lowest budget is just that, nonsense. If we want a better football program, we don't have tear down and rebuild, we just need to make some additions to budget and staff.
 

Original Hire

Richt was hired to replace Jim Donnan...who was averaging 10 wins a year but no SEC championships after 5 years. My Bulldawg brethren have been grumbling under the Richt regime for some time now as UGA has not been consistently in the SEC hunt.

Side note...recall that Glen Mason was Georgia's coach for one week...when he backed out and Donnan was hired. When Mason was hired by UM...with me knowing that he had been selected to be UGA's coach...that led me to become a Gopher fan.

We could do much worse than Mark Richt at the helm.

Go Gophers! Beat the Wildcats!
 

I'd be very happy with Richt. He's 50, a 75% winner overall and a .670 winner in SEC competition. He'd bring discipline and football intelligence to the job, plus a good recruiting base. Originally from Nebraska (but mostly raised in Florida), he might be willing to return to the Midwest. For what it's worth, a friend told me Maturi was in Georgia recently.
 

I'd be very happy with Richt. SportsByBrooks keeps saying the AD will give him at least another year. I think he would be a huge hire here, and I don't know if he wouldn't want to hold out for a bigger job. This is all assuming he does get fired at the end of the year.
 



BilldGopher said:
Richt was hired to replace Jim Donnan...who was averaging 10 wins a year but no SEC championships after 5 years. My Bulldawg brethren have been grumbling under the Richt regime for some time now as UGA has not been consistently in the SEC hunt.

Side note...recall that Glen Mason was Georgia's coach for one week...when he backed out and Donnan was hired. When Mason was hired by UM...with me knowing that he had been selected to be UGA's coach...that led me to become a Gopher fan.

We could do much worse than Mark Richt at the helm.

Go Gophers! Beat the Wildcats!
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Billd need to check with a buddy of mine he is Georgia alum. Richt seems like a great hire to me.
 



Richt would be a great hire but he's not coming here. The day we get Richt is the day we hire a coach in basketball who has won a National title before.
 




We need a football fund

gophmeister said:
I think people are wrong when they say we cannot afford certain coaches. If the right coach were interested the money can be found. They found money for Mason. We pay Brewster less than Mason was paid 10 years ago. We made a mistake in when and how we fired Mason. At the time, Brewster seemed worth the risk. It didn't work out. What do you do? You move on. In many ways this team is in better shape than it was under Mason. Academic support is better and we have more coaches. The nonsense about us having the lowest budget is just that, nonsense. If we want a better football program, we don't have tear down and rebuild, we just need to make some additions to budget and staff.
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How could we not afford a top coach? Alumni kicked in $200 million for the stadium. Maybe we need to start a special fund for football donations to inrease the overall football budget and pay top coaches , and keep them with solid contracts. Heck a start outin the fund of $10M would get some notice from other coaches.
 


gophmeister said:
1) They found money for Mason.
2)We pay Brewster less than Mason was paid 10 years ago.
3) Academic support is better and we have more coaches.
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It seems that these are probably all related. If you're spending less on your head coach you have more money to spread around the rest of the program. If you're looking to make a big hire you need big money and that will have to come from elsewhere in the football program or a booster.
 

im tired of people saying theres less pressure to win here. youre all just used to losing i guess that its been ingrained that subpar is ok. its really not. yes were not asking for a national title, but to compete and be respectable and maybe crack the top 25 every once in a while would be nice
 


gopherphan said:
<b>im tired of people saying theres less pressure to win here</b>. youre all just used to losing i guess that its been ingrained that subpar is ok. yes were not asking for a national title, but to compete and be respectable and maybe crack the top 25 every once in a while would be nice
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Didn't you just describe the very definition of less pressure for a coach coming from Georgia?
 

All we'd need to do is have Tubby Smith talk to Richt. "Mark, get this team to 5-3 in the Big Ten, 8-4 overall, a January bowl game every other year, you'll have the fans, and even the local media, bowing before you in this town."
 

Richt made $3.5M last year and his assistants took in another $2M for a total of ~$5.5M. The Brew Crew is making ~$2.4M total. If Richt is fired the whole $5.5M might not be needed but even if he took a million less where would the U get the ~$2.1M? The ideas of "take it from another sport", "the boosters can pay it" or "sell alcohol" are unrealistic. Increasing ticket prices is another option but we already might have trouble getting fans to fill the seats (think Monson) and given today's economic climate you're risking some bad publicity. If you think the U should pay more money for the coach where specifically are you going to cut or how are you going to raise the extra dough?
 

Like you stated, those are last year's numbers. Since then, UGA has shelled out $750K for their DC alone. This year's numbers are probably closer to $6M+. In reality you are looking at having to come up with somewhere around $3M more. I think they have to find a way to come up with this money. It won't guarantee success for the FB program but it makes the odds much more favorable than once again taking the cheap way out and trying to find the guy no one knows that you hope will turn into Urban Meyer.
 

Donovan said:
All we'd need to do is have Tubby Smith talk to Richt. "Mark, get this team to 5-3 in the Big Ten, 8-4 overall, a January bowl game every other year, you'll have the fans, and even the local media, bowing before you in this town."
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It'd be an improvement over 4-4, 7-5 overall and a trip to Nashville every year. :D
 

How about Tim Mcgraw? His wife Sandra Bullock recruited the guy who stared in the "Blindside". We could get all that valuable recruiting edge we need in the deep south with him at the helm.
 

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