Georgia, Mark Richt part ways after 15 seasons

The news coming just a day after Georgia’s 13-7 win at rival-Georgia Tech (3-9) to finish their season at 9-3. He does, however, still plan on coaching the Bulldogs in their upcoming bowl game. While you are serving us, we are banging away this summer trying to get about 130 guys ready to play for the Georgia Bulldogs this fall.

Georgia coach Mark Richt is stepping down after 15 seasons in what is being called a “mutual” decision.

The tremendous success Nick Saban’s had at Alabama has made life more hard for every other SEC head coach.

Gamecock athletics director Ray Tanner has repeatedly said he wants to have South Carolina’s new head coach in place by the beginning of December. They won two conference championships and six division crowns, but they’ve been held out of the SEC Championship Game for the last three years.

“Mark’s record on the field was outstanding; however, his impact on college football goes well beyond the gridiron”, McGarity said. Georgia’s last SEC championship was in 2005. Georgia had been favored to win the SEC East. Getting rid of your coach is one way to try and change your outcome in the future, whether or not it will end up being the right move is up for debate.

Richt said during the news conference that he expected to “have a lot of options to weigh”. “I love my alma mater, the U. No doubt about it, but there’s been nobody calling or writing or texting or anything like that”.

Richt met with his players Sunday night.

“There may be more opportunities that come in the next few hours, 24 to 48 hours, that type of thing”, Richt said.

But as well-wishers lined the room to witness Richt’s final address on Monday, Georgia’s decision served as the latest reminder that winning is the ultimate barometer in college football.

“I always wanted to be a head coach”. He used to be head coach and now he’s doing a secondary job for Georgia? He has four years remaining on a deal he made in January that raised his salary $800,000 to $4.1 million. Here’s hoping Miami, a program in disarray after Al Golden struggled mightily like Richt to win the big games, reaches out to their former clipboard holder and asks him to come home.

While Georgia has continued to win consistently, it has been unable to keep pace with the elite teams in the SEC.

CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd on Sunday provided this look at options Richt could have if he wishes to continue coaching immediately. He quickly responded that he’d be “more concerned about, from my perspective, when we lose three games, what’s going to happen to me”.

“I think that expectations have been built to a point where if you don’t win a championship, it’s kind of miserable around here”.

Other names that have been mentioned by UM insiders regarding possible candidates still include Texas coach Charlie Strong; former UM defensive coordinator and former Rutgers coach Greg Schiano; Mississippi State coach and former Florida offensive coordinator Dan Mullen; and Rob Chudzinski. The Nebraska example is the one that gets mentioned the most, because it’s a program that has twice gotten dissatisfied with coaches who consistently won nine games and fired those coaches, only to be reminded that winning nine games is not a birthright, and there are worse ways to go through a football season. “He’s so lucky and blessed, more so blessed than lucky – especially teaching at a powerhouse like Georgia”.