Mark Richt out as coach at Georgia

Many of Georgia’s 17 commitments opted to go with no comment, including three-star linebacker Jaleel Laguins and three-star receiver Darion Anderson. In four seasons with the Rockets, he is 35-15.

If that had happened, we wouldn’t be having this conversation about what Georgia football is, what it wants to be and how it ousted its 15-year head coach who engineered the longest period of sustained success in program history. For those contributions, we are sincerely appreciative. It had become a nice program in every way to the point of being passive and pushed around, the type of program that was never going to win a national championship or consistently compete with the likes of Alabama.

Other fans said the firing, just the latest firing this year, doesn’t come as a huge surprise given the climate of college sports. Perhaps Georgia brass saw that result as a power shift in the East; indeed, Florida went on to earn a spot in Saturday’s SEC title game against Alabama.

A news conference was scheduled for Monday. Meanwhile, Georgia will likely offer the head coaching job to Alabama defensive coordinator and former Bulldog Kirby Smart. 715 clip to rank first all-time among Georgia coaches in the 83-year Southeastern Conference era.

Following Sunday morning’s news, many of Richt’s current and former players took to social media to express their thanks to Richt for his influence off the field.

A person briefed on the decision told The Associated Press that Toledo coach Matt Campbell will be Iowa State’s new football coach.

London’s contract runs through 2016. When Georgia’s McGarity was an associate athletic director at Florida, Mullen was an assistant coach for the Gators.

The Rockets started 7-0 this fall, including a 16-12 victory over Arkansas in Little Rock, before a loss to Northern Illinois.

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU athletic director Joe Alleva said Les Miles will remain the coach of the Tigers. President Robert Barchi announced that Patrick Hobbs, dean emeritus of the Seton Hall School of Law, will take over for Hermann.

“They have a good coach”, he said. If Smart proves himself to be an effective head coach at SC, you can always hire him away later. Between 2001 and 2008, Richt posted six top-10 finishes and two SEC titles.

In fact, 2007 is the last season in which the Dawgs reached a major bowl, defeating Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech’s coach since 1987, announced in November that he would retire after the season when the Hokies were at 4-5 and out of ACC championship contention for the fourth straight year. Bauta isn’t known for passing, yet he threw the ball 33 times and got intercepted four times as Florida won 27-3. But rumors that he could be fired had been making the rounds all season, although some hoped he would last another year after ending the regular season with a 9-3 record.

Virginia Tech hired Memphis’ Justin Fuente as its next football coach, bringing a quick end to its search for a successor to Frank Beamer.