Coaches to appear in national championship game since 2000 with W-L record in these games in parenthesis:
Bob Stoops(1-3), Bobby Bowden (0-1), Larry Coker (1-1), Frank Solich (0-1), Jim Tressel (1-2), Nick Saban (5-0), Pete Caroll (1-1), Mack Brown (1-1), Urban Meyer (3-0), Les Miles (1-1), Gene Chizik (1-0), Chip Kelly (0-1), Brian Kelly (0-1), Jimbo Fisher (1-0), Gus Malzahn (0-1), Mark Helfrich (0-1), Dabo Swinney (0-1).
So, there has been 17 different coaches to appear in a National Championship game since 2000. Take away coaches that aren't coaching anymore, or clearly aren't coaching at a high level (Bowden, Coker, Solich, Tressel, and Brown) and you are left with 12 current coaches. Take away coaches that we have literally 0% chance of getting this year (Saban, Caroll, Meyer, B. Kelly, Fisher, and Swinney) and all that leaves is:
Bob Stoops, Les Miles, Chip Kelly, Gene Chizik, Gus Malzahn, and Mark Helfrich.
So which of those coaches would you rather have than Mark Richt? The only two that should even be in the same conversation are Bob Stoops and Chip Kelly. However Chip Kelly was still the HC on the Eagles, and wasn't about to leave mid-season to head back to college, so that was never going to work. All that would leave in the "played for a title" category is Stoops, who just took his team to the college football playoff, so there was no chance Oklahoma was going to fire him.
Stop *****ing that he's never played in a Title game, neither did a single other coach we've ever won a title with.