Miami introduces Mark Richt as its new football coach

In the interim, and because he’s the classy person that he is, Richt personally informed his now-former players that he will be accepting other responsibilities at another university and will not be their head coach for the Bulldogs’ bowl game, wherever that might be.

There’s much for Miami to handle in the next couple days, including getting financial parameters with Richt done as well as a budget for a staff. Players had not received any official word as of Wednesday evening, largely because the school still did not have a signed deal in hand. “He’s been in this position before”.

Get one roundup of college football stories, rumors, game breakdowns, and Jim Harbaugh oddity in your inbox every morning. “It is part of who we are”. University of Georgia Athletic Director McGarity said in a statement released by the school the two “mutually agreed that he would step down as head coach”. “Oh man, I was very, I was very thankful for the opportunity”, Richt said Monday.

Georgia’s coaching search could be headed for a swift end.

All of those things are expected to give him a boost in one of the nation’s most fertile recruiting areas.

“Miami was such a power in the ’80s, the early ’90s”, Bowden told the Palm Beach Post.

Welcome back to prominence, Miami. Other reports indicate that Richt was chosen over Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen and former Rutgers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano for the job. They hit a grand slam. Secondly, he was an assistant at Florida State for 15 years going head-to-head with Miami during those legendary battles in the ’80s and ’90s. “It’s a tremendous move”. LSU needed a defensive backs coach, and assistant coach Will Muschamp recommended Smart, who had been a player at Georgia when Muschamp was starting his coaching career. In one of Richt’s years at Miami, his teammates included Kelly, Vinny Testaverde and Bernie Kosar and quarterbacks coach Earl Morrall. “He played here, so he can float in it”.

Miami spent more than five weeks searching for a new permanent coach, and reached out to Richt – “to gauge interest”, he said – shortly after Al Golden was sacked in October.

Richt is a South Florida native and played for former Oklahoma coach Howard Schnellenberger at Miami, when the Hurricanes were just becoming the program that would win five national championships in 19 seasons.

Richt returns to his alma mater after 15 seasons at Georgia, where he was 145-51 with a pair of SEC championships. “I guess that’s the nature of the business”.

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