I am a UGA fan and was checking out the board and this post compelled me to register and give my opinion as a Dawg fan; so may be long. My guess is he coaches at the U another 8-10 years unless things are going very badly. Just to give you the insight at UGA. We loved the guy at first; and most still love him. What really became apparent after Jeff Van Gorder left is that Richt had some loyalty issues; like he was loyal to a fault. Martinez was the next DC and he stunk. He stunk really bad and he was good friends with Richt. He ended up staying 2 more seasons than people wanted and McGarity forced him begrudgingly to fire him. 2nd is Richt is stubborn. Richt finally turned over Bobo to be the OC after again the rumors that McGarity forced him. Again being stubborn, Richt's never really strayed from a pro style offense to any degree. We had vast stretches where the offense could not score and again he would not change. 3rd, there were just too many WTF moments. Games where we flat out did not show up. The year Richt almost won the NC, we got blown out by SC; and I mean BEAT. The last year Richt put in Batou at QB vs Florida and the big boosters and AD decided they couldn't take it any more. As widely known Richt has a huge involvement in the church and many folks at UGA though he would go into the ministry. The rumor floating around last year is that Richt was grooming Pruitt to take over as HC as Richt was burnt out. Anyhow, hope Richt can make it happen at the U and win some bigtime football games.
If your fans had that much beef with Rick, then your really gonna hate that imbecile Kirby Dumb.
And I doubt Rick was grooming Pruitt because they apparently didn't get along and nearly came to blows.
We definitely didn't get the stubborn Rick. He tinkered with the offense a lot this year.