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$4 million isn't elite coach money anymore. UGA paid Kirby $3.75 million when he took over for Richt as a first time HC. Now, Kirby makes $7 million. Based on this report, CMR is paid like a Top 25 Coach, not an elite coach: http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

We can re-visit next season. But the only way Richt gets fired next year is if this team misses a bowl game. Short of that, he's definitely getting 2 more seasons.

Assuming your number is accurate, the $4 million they paid CMR last year was a steal ... From the AD's business model perspective! Coastal title, turnover chain pub, Game Day host, New Year's Six bowl game. All of those things are positive impacts to the bottom line. Get beyond the fan...

I'm bumping this to help remind y'all of the current UM football expectations, since the recent signing day and transfer news has so many posters in their feelings. CMR is doing what he was hired to do. He won the Coastal last year. Played in a NY'6 bowl game. And even had GameDay come to...

I’m not saying be happy or accept it. But I am saying to look at the situation objectively. And, objectively, the administration has decided they aren’t competing to be a perennial football power. If it happens, they’ll take it. But they’re not giving the football team a blank check to do...

Exactly the point of the OP. It’s not excuse making, it’s a fact. Elite coaches aren’t fired. Elite coaches make much more than $4 million per year. Folks can’t get beyond their own expectations to see the truth of the situation.

Period. Richt was hired to run a clean program ... Help raise money for football ... Put a competitive team on the field ... Be a great face to the public ... And win the new coach press conference. He’s not getting fired, or even feeling a hotseat, because he’s doing what he was hired to do...