A 2010 article by a UGA writer someone linked on here earlier
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/469429. Highlights:
-Inconsistent and underachieving offenses have persisted during Richt's tenure.
-At no point, not even during the 2002-2007 heyday when UGA was in the top 10 every season and won two SEC titles and two BCS bowl games, was it due to having some explosive offense.
-The idea that Richt was ever this great play-caller/strategist at his days at FSU is fiction, people. First Richt wasn't running the FSU offense during their best years, Bobby Bowden and other coordinators like former South Carolina head coach Brad Scott were.
-When Richt got the FSU offensive coordinator job, he didn't do anything especially groundbreaking or innovative at FSU. By then, FSU was already a powerhouse well into their record-breaking string of consecutive top 5 finishes. FSU's offensive success during a great deal of that era was mostly due to the fact that back then (the 80s and early 90s) they were the only big time southern program relying on the passing game.
-So, rather than Richt's being this great coach, it was often just the result of playing a different style than everybody was used to seeing and defending, and also having four and five star players at every position on offense competing against two and three star ACC recruits on defense.
-It's easy to look like a genius when people aren't scheming to stop you, and even easier when you have better players than everybody else. But by the time Richt got to UGA, everybody in the SEC had caught onto defending the passing game, because by then Steve Spurrier, Peyton Manning, Tim Couch, Hal Mumme etc. had been through the conference.
-Bottom line: Richt is basically relying on what he learned at Miami (where he was a player and coach) and FSU (where he was a coach) in the 1980s and 1990s at UGA
-The problem is what worked for Miami and FSU in the 1980s and 1990s is not going to work in the current SEC whether Richt or Bobo is calling the plays.
-Add that to the fact that it was Richt's decision to waste both last season and this season by starting Joe Cox instead of playing Aaron Murray.
Had Richt played the much more physically gifted Murray over the over-hyped recruit...UGA has about the same season last year as they wound up having anyway. The difference is that with a year of experience under his belt, Murray would have been a much better QB this season
-Not saying that Richt is a bad coach who needs to be fired. You can't accomplish what Richt did in the SEC from 2001-2007 by being a bad coach. Richt is a proven winner, and firing him always carries the risk of getting someone who isn't. Plenty of schools have fired a good coach looking for someone better and wound up with someone—indeed a string of people—much worse.
-Instead, Richt needs to hire a coordinator who can win without A) the gigantic talent advantage that Miami had over the Big East and FSU had over the ACC and B) in an SEC where polished QBs, WRs and pass-blocking offensive linemen are rare.
-Bottom line UGA fans: Richt is the real problem. It is time to apply pressure to make Richt solve it.
It's Groundhog Day, except we caught on quicker. Why wouldn't he want to do it differently the second time around after getting fired for underperforming the first time? Old habits die hard, I guess, especially when they're making you millions without winning titles.
