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Richt wants to call plays and coach qbs? Yes please.

"He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 1994 upon the departure of Brad Scott. Under Richt’s direction, Florida State had some of college football's most explosive offenses. In his seven years as offensive coordinator the Seminoles ranked in the nation’s top five scoring offenses on five occasions, were top twelve in total offense five times and top twelve in passing offense five times. The 2000 Seminoles offense finished the regular season ranked first nationally in total offense (549.0 yards per game), first in passing offense (384.0 ypg) and third in scoring offense (42.4 points per game).

During his tenure as an assistant coach at Florida State, Richt coached two Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke respectively and was part of two national championships (1993 and 1999).[3]"
 
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FSU's offensive woes began as soon as Richt left and Boobah replaced him with his kid. Richt seems to be one of the better offensive minds when it comes to playing to the strengths of his offensive personnel. It's been a too long. Welcome home Coach Richt.

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As amazing as the work Richt does with QBs, I'm more excited for what he does with the RBs. He loves to run the ball. Imagine if we had Richt here to close on Dalvin Cook and then coach him for 3 years. With the kind of talent at RB we get in SFL I don't even think we'll have to pass the ball.

Also, I feel like it's underappreciated how great of a fit his offense is here. Everyone has been clamoring for a HC that will run a pro-style offense. Richt's offense from what I've read so far is as good as it'll get in that regard. Runs the football with the QB under center, uses a combination of short passing routes and drags with deep routes, uses tight ends in the passing game, puts players in motion before the snap, and goes hurry up at beneficial times. We already have high expectations but this could easily be a top 5 offense with him calling plays.
 
I believe that Richt started his tenure at Georgia as the playcaller. Does anyone have a good breakdown about how long he remained playcaller and how Georgia's offense produced during that span?
 
Richt may not be an "elite coach" but he is an elite offensive mind and anyone who says otherwise doesn't know football
 
gcane44 said:
I believe that Richt started his tenure at Georgia as the playcaller. Does anyone have a good breakdown about how long he remained playcaller and how Georgia's offense produced during that span?
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Not really a breakdown but I know that Georgia's AD when he was hired pulled Richt off of the playcalling aspect and wanted him to be more of a manager. This was in 07 I think - that's when the offense started really sputtering.
 
ghost2 said:
gcane44 said:
I believe that Richt started his tenure at Georgia as the playcaller. Does anyone have a good breakdown about how long he remained playcaller and how Georgia's offense produced during that span?
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Not really a breakdown but I know that Georgia's AD when he was hired pulled Richt off of the playcalling aspect and wanted him to be more of a manager. This was in 07 I think - that's when the offense started really sputtering.
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Thanks. It appears Richt handled playcalling duties and was the real OC (while the OL coach had the title as his right hand man) up until 2007. In 2007 Richt handed over playcalling duties to his longtime QB Coach, Mike Bobo. Bobo had been the QB Coach at UGA under Richt for Richt's entire time at UGA. He had never called plays before, so he was basically groomed by Richt to take over the role. Bobo was the OC from 2007-2014 when he became HC at CSU.

It seems that the chatter indicates that the AD kind of forced Richt into a less hands-on approach. Would love some confirmation of that. And if anyone can do research on the success of UGA's offenses while Richt called plays, that'd be awesome
 
Richt was really, really good as the OC at FSU....

I'm very excited about him being hands-on with the offense. That would put us in solid shape on that side of the ball and assure us of difference makers at every position.

That leaves the defense - hopefully we get a good one as the DC....

terdferguson said:
Richt wants to call plays and coach qbs? Yes please.

"He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 1994 upon the departure of Brad Scott. Under Richt’s direction, Florida State had some of college football's most explosive offenses. In his seven years as offensive coordinator the Seminoles ranked in the nation’s top five scoring offenses on five occasions, were top twelve in total offense five times and top twelve in passing offense five times. The 2000 Seminoles offense finished the regular season ranked first nationally in total offense (549.0 yards per game), first in passing offense (384.0 ypg) and third in scoring offense (42.4 points per game).

During his tenure as an assistant coach at Florida State, Richt coached two Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke respectively and was part of two national championships (1993 and 1999).[3]"
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terdferguson said:
Richt wants to call plays and coach qbs? Yes please.

"He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 1994 upon the departure of Brad Scott. Under Richt’s direction, Florida State had some of college football's most explosive offenses. In his seven years as offensive coordinator the Seminoles ranked in the nation’s top five scoring offenses on five occasions, were top twelve in total offense five times and top twelve in passing offense five times. The 2000 Seminoles offense finished the regular season ranked first nationally in total offense (549.0 yards per game), first in passing offense (384.0 ypg) and third in scoring offense (42.4 points per game).

During his tenure as an assistant coach at Florida State, Richt coached two Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke respectively and was part of two national championships (1993 and 1999).[3]"
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Richt one of the architect of FSU's compplete change in offensive philosphy? They went from pro style offenses with solid RBs (think Amp Lee, etc.) to going after smaller/shiftier RBs (Dunn, Rock Preston, et al) and a spread style offense?
 
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terdferguson said:
Richt wants to call plays and coach qbs? Yes please.

"He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 1994 upon the departure of Brad Scott. Under Richt’s direction, Florida State had some of college football's most explosive offenses. In his seven years as offensive coordinator the Seminoles ranked in the nation’s top five scoring offenses on five occasions, were top twelve in total offense five times and top twelve in passing offense five times. The 2000 Seminoles offense finished the regular season ranked first nationally in total offense (549.0 yards per game), first in passing offense (384.0 ypg) and third in scoring offense (42.4 points per game).

During his tenure as an assistant coach at Florida State, Richt coached two Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke respectively and was part of two national championships (1993 and 1999).[3]"
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A couple of points:

1. We have been so pathetically inept for quite some time that many of our fans would be ok with Richt being OC, DC, QB coach, WR coach, etc.;

2. I think UM would have agreed to most reasonable demands from Richt to land him;

3. While I understand why Richt wants to be more hands on, there were reasons why UGA wanted him to play CEO more than very high paid OC with head coaching duties;

4. Much like Gruden's ALLEGED demand to have his brother at a huge salary and guaranteed head coach in waiting, I similarly cringe when family members become necessary components of a deal. I'm sure the merits are there, but when UM says they are ready to come out of pocket for quality assistants, it is a little scary to hear the OC will be little more than what Coley was at F$U, and a position will be taken to groom a family member further. Regardless, I remain optimistic;

5. We have, in my opinion, had a crisis of not enough experience in a head coach and assistants. If we over spent for Richt and made the deal because he wanted to get more involved to cut staff corners...I will be worried. I want to see some serious dime dropped on a bad *** DC...that goes without saying. That said though, I want, for the first time in a while unlike most college ball powers, a dedicated QB coach and a qualified OC Richt can bounce things off of and trust to run practice in his stead so he can adequately perform what we so desperately need...a true CEO.

I don't believe it will happen, but after a 15 year stint in the grungy SEC, the last thing I want him to feel like is that this is a later in life more casual gig where he can just coast while still collecting a bad *** check.

Just my opinion.
 
Here are some articles I found:

Mark Richt’s 2004 Georgia Offensive Playbook | James Light Football

This is a link to literally UGA's playbook from 2004. Cool little read if you wanna thumb through it.

Coach Mark Richt on the Shallow Cross Series | Bleacher Report

Description of his "shallow cross" passing concepts:

The shallow cross features five eligible receivers (not all WRs) and is run out of the shotgun with only a five-man offensive line protection scheme, meaning it has to have built in hot routes to handle any blitzes or the QB will get drilled. The routes are packaged in a manner such that the play will generally have at least one open route versus whatever defense the opposition plays.

However, the play requires both precise and quick reads by the quarterback. Despite possessing just medium arm strength, for example, former QB Charlie Ward ran this play to perfection and it was a big reason for his success in college football. FSU averaged 520 yards per game and Ward threw for just over 3,000 total yards passing with a 69-percent completion rate when he won the Heisman Trophy in 1993.
 
Just from watching games, and hearing what was going on in Athens, I don't think he was happy. My wife, a long-time season ticket holder, feels like he had four million reasons to be happy. I really think that with him back doing it the way he wants to, he's going to do well. He was winning more games in the SEC, just going through the motions, than Miami has for a while. He's a big-time recruiter. My one concern is QB recruiting. He has landed some big ones, like Stafford, Murray, Mettenberger, but then has left huge gaps where the team has struggled.
 
jakeman1 said:
Just from watching games, and hearing what was going on in Athens, I don't think he was happy. My wife, a long-time season ticket holder, feels like he had four million reasons to be happy. I really think that with him back doing it the way he wants to, he's going to do well. He was winning more games in the SEC, just going through the motions, than Miami has for a while. He's a big-time recruiter. My one concern is QB recruiting. He has landed some big ones, like Stafford, Murray, Mettenberger, but then has left huge gaps where the team has struggled.
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Having Kaaya now is huge in that regard. Develop kaaya even further...bring in Allison or Eason...develop them and then you will have QBs banging down your door to come here.

If richt has a QB and a defense he will win big here...obviously
 
We used to be QBU, but it is a very tough game recruiting QBs. After Gino we had a long stretch without a great QB. We kind of got lucky with Dorsey who was headed to UT until Simms committed there. Then we had a long stretch from Dorsey to Kaaya. Coley is an abysmal play caller and maybe should not even be an OC. He is a masterful recruiter of QBs though. I was shocked at how well Rosier played, and Shireffs looks like he's going to compete for the job here no matter who shows up. The good news for Richt is he shows up with good QBs on the team and a really good one coming. You really need to make sure you recruit "the guy" at QB every 2-2.5 years on average. Coley looks like he can do that 4 out of 5 years.
 
Kaaya, Allison/Eason... It'll be 2019 before Richt needs to find a QB =P
 
Richt has made it a habit of hiring the wrong defensive coordinators and ultimately firing them. This has prevented him from winning National Championships. Based on our defensive debacles the past few years(D'Onofrio), we need a much stronger defense in order to get to the mountain top.
 
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twalcott5 said:
Richt has made it a habit of hiring the wrong defensive coordinators and ultimately firing them. This has prevented him from winning National Championships. Based on our defensive debacles the past few years(D'Onofrio), we need a much stronger defense in order to get to the mountain top.
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At least he fires them though lol. Also Grantham and Pruitt are both good hires.
 
Not quick enough though. Richt is extremely loyal to his staff and of which ultimately may have cost him his job at Georgia. He pays a lot more attention to the offensive side, "His Love", than to the defensive side of the ball. I hope he has learnt from this, and most importantly that he understands the defensive struggles we have had over the past few years. He uses the 3 4 a lot, which as we know has not worked for us. We need a 4 3 balling ball hawking DC that cuts our kids loose, pounds on quarterbacks on every play and whereby our kids only have to cover 20-30 yards rather than 100 like dumb A..s D'Onofrio used to make us. I have followed Richt's career at Georgia over the years and understand his tendencies and weaknesses.
 
FWIW, folks on the Georgia boards are saying that Richt would probably take Lilly and McClendon with him and between the 3 of them, they'll take care of the OC duties. In fact, their fans are saying that those 3 dudes could run a very formidable offense.
 
From what I've heard talking to UGA people, Richt felt he was forced to give Bobo "too much" control, and UGA's results started to decline after 2007 under the new AD. I'm thrilled with Richt being hands on.
 
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