None of it really adds up. The timelines don't add up. Neither does the idea that UGA would rather be worse at football just to do it "the UGA way". Sounds like a pile of nonsense.
And if Richt let the AD tell him how to run the football team that's a very bad sign anyway. That's pretty feeble stuff.
Richt at any time could have told the guy "get your bytch *** back in the AD's office and leave me the fck alone, or I'm done here." He could have grabbed a HC gig somewhere else immediately with his résumé.
Instead, he willingly ate that facgit AD's ****? That's not great, man. You think Urb or Saban would let some facqit AD run their program?
People are just looking for excuses as to why he didn't win big. Truth is he just didn't, and we hope that he can get over the hump here. All of this post 2000 whatever is bull. Truth is, even if you want to blame things on the AD, Richt still **** the bed before the guy got there. In his second season, dude missed out on a national title opportunity because he lost to what was eventually a 5 loss Gaytor team. In his third season, he lost to a 5 loss Gator team again and got blasted by LSU in the SECCG. In fact, in his first 7 years dude was 2-5 against the gaytors and 1-2 against Ron freakin Zook specifically. Stop making excuses. It is what it is.