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PSU Cane said:
Except nobody else had done it to date and definitely weren't offering their own money. So while one would think it would have gone up regardless, Richt still deserves the credit.
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Absolutely not....Get credit for a 40 million dollar IPF because you put in 1 Million of it??....Nah....Was it an absolute Generous & classy thing for CMR to do??...Without question...but it was still going up...
 
I don't hold grudges against any of our former coaches or players for that matter. At least not that I can recall.
 
caneinorlando said:
IPF was going up regardless...Stop it...
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Donors went kicking and screaming. Richt donated $1 Mill and said it was needed. Lemonis jumped on board shortly after. A campaign to get fans to donate was launched and still fell short of its goal. Finally, the Soffer family stepped in.
 
Was a good coach and a good man here. Ran out of gas and the wheels came off at the end, but did more in that span for us than anyone in 15 years. Put us in a position to be relevant again had we gotten the right coaches to follow him
 
Mnhurricane said:
Was a good coach and a good man here. Ran out of gas and the wheels came off at the end, but did more in that span for us than anyone in 15 years. Put us in a position to be relevant again had we gotten the right coaches to follow him
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He was not a good coach...gotten the right coaches to follow him??...Lol...follow what??....The Garbage coaches Richt hired and then got raises for ineptness??...Gotcha
 
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Some people who claim to be "fans" are great at burning bridges. Richt did some great things while here. He also did some average things, some poor things, and some good things too. All in all he's a Cane who still reps us all the time especially on the ACC network. He loves this program. I'm thankful for his impact on the program.
 
Liberty City El said:
- Got the IPF built
- Won us our first Coastal title ever since joining the ACC
- Won us our first bowl game ever in a decade
- Gave us our first 10 win season since 2003
- Beat FSU after having a 7 year losing streak to them
- Beat Notre Dame for first time since 1989

No Richt wasn't a great HC & didn't win us the ACC or a natty, but he did more for us than the previous 3 HC's & had he hired a Spread OC from the jump he would've won a great deal more here.

He made plenty of misjudged mistakes, starting with making his 25 year old (at the time) son the QB's coach, recruiting a bunch of kids in Perry, Weldon & Williams who were knucklehead fck ups that valued getting high more than being great QB's, hiring Seashells as OL corch & not hiring a Spread OC to run this offense. He also made a huge mistake pushing Kaaya out the door prematurely & hired too many green coaches on Defense that can't recruit. And that god forsaken Onside kick vs UVA smh... Still can't believe he did that.

But, with all that said, Pastor Richt wasn't a bad dude at all & did help us regain some relevance after the 5 year embarrassment of the Folden era. Yes he made mistakes & cost us some winnable games, but he was solid coach for us, he doesn't really deserve to be bashed by fans, especially when you line him up next to Shannon & Folden.

It can be debated whether or not he should've even been hired after being fired at UGA & Miami ending up being his final back 9 before retirement, but even in that case, he doesn't deserve to be bashed imo.
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This.
I will also add that no one could question the man that he is.
 
Rick did nothing of note here. He was paid a boatload of money and delivered nothing. When your finest hour as coach is quitting and not robbing the school of another wad of cash, then you puked on yourself. I have a decent memory of him only because he quit.

Some of you fellas remind me of the old Chris Rock bit on dudes looking for props for doing anything they’re supposed to do. “I take care of my kids!” Rick took $20M in a short time here and barely managed to do what he was supposed to do a few times. Major flop.
 
harphong said:
Spoke at our awards ceremony bc we transported him to hospital when he had his Cardiac.
Lookin slim and was super nice.
Joked with my coworkers was gonna give him the biz for JR.
Threw him the U when I presented my division's awards.
Cool dude and I got to thank him for what he did for the U.
Didn't wanna bug for pics.
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great man. great leader. great coach for us. he would have gladly taken a picture with you. he gave us a glimpse into what it is like to win and beat ND on a national stage. even greater man for realizing his time was done and resigned in dignity and took not a penny more...
 
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caneinorlando said:
Absolutely not....Get credit for a 40 million dollar IPF because you put in 1 Million of it??....Nah....Was it an absolute Generous & classy thing for CMR to do??...Without question...but it was still going up...
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It was not still going up. Richt pressed for the IPF to be built during negotiations as well as more money in the assistants salary pool. If we hired some group of five head coach, the IPF would have never been built.
 
HTXCane said:
It was not still going up. Richt pressed for the IPF to be built during negotiations as well as more money in the assistants salary pool. If we hired some group of five head coach, the IPF would have never been built.
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More money in the assistant pool so he could set his son up with $250K/year when his son had never even coached PeeWee ball and had never made more than $32K in his life.
 
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