Bound Richt won’t coach Georgia in bowl

Former Georgia coach Mark Richt is expected to be the new football coach at Miami.

“That can be a general feeling for a lot of assistant coaches who have worked under really good head coaches”, Donnan said, “like someone who was Steve Spurrier’s offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator under Gary Patterson”. He was well loved at Georgia, having taken the Bulldogs to bowl games all 15 of his years coaching them, and has led them to at least nine victories in 11 of those years.

Miami also interviewed former head coach Butch Davis, Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen, and former Miami assistant and Rutgers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano. ESPN and the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart was Georgia’s selection late Tuesday night. Georgia boosters, fans and administrators, however, apparently got exhausted of waiting for the team to take that next step, as the Bulldogs have not won an SEC title since 2005.

Plenty of college football coaches have gone this route before so it’s not a total surprise, especially considering Smart and the Crimson Tide could be playing for a possible national championship. He is a South Florida native and played for Howard Schnellenberger at Miami, graduating in 1982.

“When I first got there, you always try to analyze guys, and he was much faster than he looked”, Donnan said Wednesday. Richt said at the news conference. I was all for that. “If it wasn’t offered to me, I would’ve asked for it. Very excited about that”.

Virginia Tech: The Hokies already hired former Memphis head coach Justin Fuente to replace Frank Beamer after the bowl game. That would make for extra drama with Richt’s former players facing his new team.

Richt was mentioned as a potential fit for Miami nearly as soon as the Hurricanes fired Golden in October, with five games left on this year’s regular-season schedule and one day after the Hurricanes endured the worst loss in school history – a 58-0 defeat to Clemson.

Essentially fired after a win over his biggest in-state rival, it was a symbolic end to Mark Richt’s Georgia career, in that simple success was never enough.

Richt’s record at Georgia was 145-51 with two SEC championships in 15 seasons.