Mark Richt the OC

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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?

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.

Yeah.....can't see Blake James doing that to Richt. If he wasn't getting involved on Golden's decisions, you sure as **** know he ain't doing that to Richt.

 

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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]"

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?

if I recall correctly it started with Charlie Ward. I recall Bubah explaining that they had Ward run a hurry up/spread one time they were down in a game and had so much success with it they installed it as a base. Something we failed to do, and should have recognized, with Brock Berlin.

 

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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.

big difference between a "passive" 34 and an "aggressive" one. Our issue was more of passivity and allowing the play to develop and then reacting to it vs. just being disruptive and not let the play develop.