Got a close buddy with Miami ties

This is surely not true. I have a hard thinking of any one less likely to want to coach GT.

I think he's a pretty amazing person, and a decent coach. He was a victim of his own success, not unlike CPJ. And for the moment he's done more with Miami than any coach of theirs since the Butch days. I can't imagine he'd want to walk away from that after only 1.5 seasons.
 
gte490v said:
No thanks. Was good, not great, at UGA with a lot of tailwinds. Would be older, less effective, and with more headwinds.
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Why do people keep acting like age matters? Some of the best in the game are up there in years.
 
If his goal is to be a HC AND the OC, GT has already shown that we're cool with that. Doubt it's true, but the man could develop QBs and was built to recruit the south, despite some other boneheaded decisions. But people learn from bone headed mistakes, and we could do much worse at HC.
 
Bottom line on Richt is this, briefly. He inherited an 8-win program in disarray and made it a 10-win program. He left it much better than he found it, particularly in that it was stocked for the run Smart made last year. Richt is indeed a "good man," I know him personally, and he does a whole lot of things quietly, away from the media, that back that up. I recall he gave his coaches raises out of his own salary because the AD wouldn't do it. Players and assistant coaches love him. Our AD definitely did not. For whatever reason, he was an elite head coach in his first seven years, and not thereafter. Lots of theories why--his wife has had cancer and he's had some other family issues. But his attention to detail in the program flagged seriously during his last seven or eight years. I don't know whether he's interested in getting back to this part of the world, but I'm curious to see what he accomplishes at Miami.
 
MoverofFridge2 said:
that tells me Mark Richt is interested in the GT job if it comes open. I basically told him he was full of shat, but he says Richt doesn't think Miami is the UM it used to be.

I dont buy it for a second, but I wouldn't mind seeing him on The Flats even though he did coach the nad lickers.
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Great Britain has made the term "fake news" illegal now.:lol2:
 
I saw Marc Richt at a grocery store in Miami yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.”

At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me.

I don’t even think that’s a word.

After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Real classy guy.
 
CiraldoForever said:
IF CPJ resigned & Mark Richt really wanted to come to Tech, which I really doubt, I would be all for it. When he was at UGA, I always wanted to beat him, but I also always thought he was a very good man and coach. I still think Georgia will regret letting him go. Kirby Smart is a great recruiter and has won many games for them, but when the Georgia fans go to bed, they think about the last seconds of the Alabama game last year & the Tech game in 2016, not to mention the LSU loss two weeks ago. They're predicted to go to the Peach Bowl this year, which is great... but probably not what they had in mind, when they hired Mr. Smart.
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'regret letting him go" ? Georgia just lost and dropped to #7
 
Never known MoverofFridge2 to just troll for the hell of it. But I don’t really see any scenario where Richt would want to come here or be welcomed here
 
saxondawg said:
Bottom line on Richt is this, briefly. He inherited an 8-win program in disarray and made it a 10-win program. He left it much better than he found it, particularly in that it was stocked for the run Smart made last year. Richt is indeed a "good man," I know him personally, and he does a whole lot of things quietly, away from the media, that back that up. I recall he gave his coaches raises out of his own salary because the AD wouldn't do it. Players and assistant coaches love him. Our AD definitely did not. For whatever reason, he was an elite head coach in his first seven years, and not thereafter. Lots of theories why--his wife has had cancer and he's had some other family issues. But his attention to detail in the program flagged seriously during his last seven or eight years. I don't know whether he's interested in getting back to this part of the world, but I'm curious to see what he accomplishes at Miami.
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Have you lived in Miami in the last dozen years? Not visited, not vacationed, not gone there on business. But actually lived there? Very different than Clarke County, Jawjaw. And you leave Miami to work in Belle Glade, South Bay, Pahokee, Lauderhill, Riviera Beach, Hypoluxo, Davie. Three years might be enough.
 
BuzzLaw said:
Never known MoverofFridge2 to just troll for the hell of it. But I don’t really see any scenario where Richt would want to come here or be welcomed here
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He’s not even the real moveroffridge.
 
whenyousaybud said:
I saw Marc Richt at a grocery store in Miami yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.”

At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me.

I don’t even think that’s a word.

After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Real classy guy.
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My strong suspicion is that the person you met, based on what you've described, was actually Helen Hunt.
 
Diseqc said:
Yeah, I’m not believing it.

He’s on the retirement tour. Making a good salary and living on the beach. Why on earth would he give that up to return to our situation.

We’re going to need a young coach that wants to put in the work to rebuild.
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Everything this man says
Not buying it for a second
 
Could be he wants to stick it to UGAg in his final years of coaching.

Not saying it's going to happen, but I'm sure he could recruit well for us with his ties in GA. He also could groom a coordinator to take over once he leaves/retires.
 
Richt's back story is hellacious. It's a wonder he didn't go insane. Former co-worker knew Richt well and told it to me about 12 years ago.
I've met Richt once or twice and he's not a bad guy at all. I just wonder if he could stand not getting factory kids and not having the bag money to drop off to get the 5 stars.
 
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