Virginia Tech’s Bud Foster talks with Georgia about DC job
Any college football coach seeking a defensive coordinator probably should put in a call to Bud Foster, Virginia Tech’s esteemed DC. And Georgia’s Mark Richt has.
Foster has been contacted by Georgia about its vacant defensive-coordinator position, the veteran coach confirmed through a spokesman Monday.
“He said he has been contacted,” Virginia Tech associate athletics director Dave Smith said by e-mail, “but that’s it.”
Asked if “that’s it” means talks haven’t progressed beyond initial contact, Smith replied: “That would be my take, but the only other thing [Foster] said was there really isn’t anything else to say.”
Foster has been on Virginia Tech’s staff for 23 seasons, the past 15 as defensive coordinator. He won the 2006 Frank Broyles Award as college football’s top assistant coach. His defenses often have been among the nation’s best.
He has turned down numerous offers to leave Virginia Tech for other coordinator jobs over the years, including an offer from South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier two years ago.
If he’s interested in the Georgia job, Foster should rank high –- very high –- on a list of candidates believed to include Alabama’s Kirby Smart, Kansas State’s Vic Koenning and others.
At Virginia Tech, Foster is making $402,000 this year, according to a recent USA Today survey of coaches’ salaries.
Former Georgia coach Jim Donnan mentioned on his 680 The Fan show today that he was told by Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer that Foster is talking with Georgia. Reached later by the AJC, Donnan said that’s all he knows about it and that he doesn’t want to inject himself into the matter.
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sowegadawg
December 14th, 2009
5:16 pm
You people who keep calling for the hire of Sylvester
Croom do realize he has not coached on the D-side of the ball
since he was an assistant as Alabama many many years ago and has
never been a defensive coordinator. His defensive experience is limited to
linebackers. He played as center at Alabama, coached linebackers there
as an assiistant, has been a running backs coach, and offensive coordinator, and
a head coach, but never a DC
exNFLplayer
December 14th, 2009
5:19 pm
So I guess using some of the logic seen on this blog, nobody in the SEC would hire Frank Beamer or Jim Grobe because they coach in the ACC? Grobe might arguably be the best HC in the whole damn country. Where did Brian Van Gorder coach before Richt hired him? Bud Foster can coach anywhere. Grobes OC can coach anywhere. The SEC has Ellis Johnson, Tyrone Nix, Kirby Smart, and Monte Kiffin who’s back to the NFL when sonny bites the dust. Beyond those guys who else do you have? Who among the 3 that could possibly be had is considered better than Foster among football guys and their coaching peers?
Dave from GT
December 14th, 2009
5:22 pm
It doesn’t really matter who he coaches for. GT regularly beats him at VT and GT will regularly beat him at UGA.
The difference is: he will always lose to UF, UT, maybe LSU/AL…. and end the season with a more than like loss to GT.
So why move? Unless the $$$$ are great!!! But a move to UGA for this guy is career suicide.
He should look for a lower end head coach job, and double his salary… Probably would end up with a better W/L than if he goes to UGA, and would set himself up for a big payday…. when UGA fires Richt after losing the next 4 matches with GT, he can just step in as the head coach at UGA. Anyway, by that time Jimbo will have messed up at FSU, so Richt could go home.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:23 pm
Dan A., lol, UGA is over. Done. Well done. Last year, Tech beat the MOST TALENTED UGA TEAM EVER. This year, we were huge favorites against you leg humpers. Yeah, dogs won, just goes to show that anyone can win a rivalry game. That was your Super Bowl, just like 2008 was our Super Bowl.
But look at your program: it sux. Who’s your QB next year? Whoever it is, he wasn’t good enough to beat out Cox this year. Sad.
Yeah, nice win leg humpers, but now you dogs need to stay on the porch while the big dawgs play (in the BCS games). Enjoy.
dawgcrzy
December 14th, 2009
5:24 pm
If Bud Foster is making 402,000 a year and we offer to double or more his salary and he turns it down then he is a fool. VT is not going to come close to that.
Dave from GT
December 14th, 2009
5:24 pm
Say it ain’t so…. Joe!
Todd - Dacula
December 14th, 2009
5:25 pm
CMR should hire one of you… after all it sounds likethere are 20 or 30 DC’s on this blog…h
kauai dawg
December 14th, 2009
5:27 pm
Great to hear of the candidates. Would love to see Foster bring back the Junkyard “D”. I think he is on to something…. 3-4 star recruits who want to play for the University. They have more than talent, they have heart! Foster appears he can bring some passion to the “D”
Go DAWGS!
11Dawg
December 14th, 2009
5:27 pm
Check your facts, Bob. Zook left in 2004, we won the SEC in 2005. We even lost to Florida that year.
exNFLplayer
December 14th, 2009
5:28 pm
Bob UGA won an SEC title while Nick Saban was at LSU.
Dan A.
December 14th, 2009
5:29 pm
Peter – we played Alabama in the 2 consecutive years prior to when you played them, so don’t give me that crap .
Bob – it was 2005, and Meyer was at UF, so again, you’re a moron. We also tied for 1st in the East in 2007, and Meyer was at UF then as well.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:29 pm
VT is a little higher profile school than UGA.
Sorry mutts, get your heads out your a$$ES. Outside of Georgia, no one cares about UGA. VT plays nationwide. UGA NEVER ventures out of the southeast.
Dave from GT
December 14th, 2009
5:30 pm
You’re right 11, the Zooker is the guy. Hire the Zooker… Please, Please.
Anybody but Foster….. Australian for beyah!
chemdawg
December 14th, 2009
5:31 pm
“Dave from GT” – Do they teach statistics at GT? Tech has lost 1 in a row and 8 out of 9 (most of those games with Willie at the helm of the Def). I don’t see how that projects to Tech winning anything more than a game or two a decade.
wishful thinking
December 14th, 2009
5:31 pm
BREAKING NEWS! New conference scheduled for 8 PM. Foster to be introduced as New DC!
dawgcrzy
December 14th, 2009
5:31 pm
GT JOE you my friend are a complete dum azz! 2008 was your superbowl you have a ring to prove it.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:32 pm
See, Foster can get 3 star guys to perform because his 3-star guys can read/write. UGA’s 5 star guys can/t read or write. Hence, it’s a lose-lose for Foster.
Nashville4UGA
December 14th, 2009
5:32 pm
Bystander
it wasn’t that his defenses were getting worse.
ranking # from year to the next doesn’t necessarily indicate that his defenses gave up more points from one year to the next. if the scoring D is within the top 15-20 nationally which is less than 20 pts per game in scoring D we are going to be OK. I’d be ecstatic with that hire. if the o can average over 30 and the D under 20 that’s alot of W’s.
Total Defense:
2004 – #4 in the country—268.0 per game
2005 – #1 in the country—247.6 per game
2006 – #1 in the country—219.5 per game
2007 – #4 in the country—296.9 per game
2008 – #7 in the country—279.4 yards per game
2009 – #14 in the country–300 yds per game
Scoring Defense:
2004 – #2 in the country–12.8 pts per game
2005 – #2 in the country–12.9 pts per game
2006 – #1 in the country–11.0 pts per game
2007 – #3 in the country–16.1 pts per game
2008 – #13 in the country–16.7 pts per game
2009 – #11n the country—-15.8 pts per game
Dave from GT
December 14th, 2009
5:32 pm
Chemdawg, who cares?
The rules of physics changed for you guys when GT won the ACC.
You are done. Can you say Shreeeeve pawt!?
chemdawg
December 14th, 2009
5:33 pm
UGA played Arizona State and Oklahoma State in the past two years while GT opened with Jacksonville State…
Fuuf
December 14th, 2009
5:33 pm
I love all the Techies obsessing over UGA and trying to put us down on this blog. Does that help your inferiority complex?
Dan A.
December 14th, 2009
5:33 pm
GT Joe – don’t run your mouth about crap you don’t know anything about, it makes you look stupid.
Aaron Murray will be our QB next year, and he was one of the top 5 QB prospects in the country in his recruiting class. He didn’t play this year for the same reason that Matt Barkeley SHOULDN’T have played at Southern Cal this year. Don’t worry, we’re not going anywhere. It’s hilarious that you’re trying to act like you’re the big dawgs (ironic that you used that word) when we have been to 3 BCS Bowl games this decade and have a 6-2 bowl record. You ever hear that phrase “act like you’ve been there?” Well, in your case, you can’t, because you haven’t.
BitDawgBarking
December 14th, 2009
5:33 pm
Here they come! All the little GT sissy boys that ought to be on the GT AD website buying Orange Bowl tickets are here buzzing in terror at the thought that UGA is about to hire a top notch DC and they still have Womack. They see the handwriting on the wall and it scares the sh&t out of them.
Billboy
December 14th, 2009
5:34 pm
Ummmmmmm and why….he wont be head coach anytime soon….same for Kirby Smart….do not see it happening as it is a step down….VT and Beamer vs. UGA…VT easily….sorry…..UA and Sabian or UGA…same answer
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:34 pm
dawgcrzy: ahh yes, a true dog fan. Can’t read. I wrote in my post “2008 was our Super Bowl”. It was. Not denying that. Just like 2009 was your super bowl.
In 2008, our #1 goal was to beat UGA.
2009, goals changed. Win the ACC, win a BCS bowl, NOT beat UGA (although that would be nice).
GT doesn’t obsess about your mid-tier program anymore.
chemdawg
December 14th, 2009
5:34 pm
Yes Dave, I think Caleb King and Washaun Ealey rewrote the rules.
Dan A.
December 14th, 2009
5:35 pm
GT won the ACC and nobody cared. That’s a fact. ACC championship game = worst ratings of any conference championship game, and both title contenders were beat by 7-5 SEC teams a week before. Man, you should really be proud of that.
BitDawgBarking
December 14th, 2009
5:35 pm
And before that it was Boise State chemdawg.
Opinion
December 14th, 2009
5:35 pm
He needs to go to Georgia Tech if he wants to coach for a winner
Dave from GT
December 14th, 2009
5:36 pm
Foster is to VT as Mickey Andrews is to FSU.
Hire the Zooker ! Hire Tenuta !
BitDawgBarking
December 14th, 2009
5:36 pm
Uh Billboy. Check your facts. Beamer has never beaten Richt but RIcht’s beaten Beamer.
Dogbyte
December 14th, 2009
5:36 pm
“Peter”
Alabama is rotated on and off the Ga schedule with the other western teams except Auburn. Get your facts straight…that is, if you have any.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:37 pm
BitDawgBarking: Oh, so you’re saying the ACC has “top notch DCs”?!?! I thought we were the A she she?!?!
Sadly, an A She She coach is about to turn down the chance to get a double wide trailer in Athens, GA.
Opinion
December 14th, 2009
5:37 pm
#1: Alabama
#9: Georgia Tech
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#41: UGA
Enough said
BuLLdawg
December 14th, 2009
5:37 pm
LMAO…An SEC Superpower raiding the lowly ACC for some defensive assistance.
That’s right, L. M. A. O.!
Oh yeah….SHREEEEEEEVE – A – STINKIN – PORT!
chemdawg
December 14th, 2009
5:37 pm
30-24 –> finals at GT must be over
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:38 pm
Hey Dan A.: can’t wait for the shreveport bowl ratings! It’s not even on a major network, not even on ESPN! It’s on ESPN2 for christ’s sake! LOL
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:38 pm
30-24
Billboy
December 14th, 2009
5:39 pm
Bit…..and that really matters because??? One game does not a program make…I know you guys like to think your a top 10 program…..but you aint….VT an UA are
GT Armed Robbery
December 14th, 2009
5:39 pm
30-24
LOL
dawgcrzy
December 14th, 2009
5:40 pm
then why are you on this blog running your tater masher? put together at least two wins in a row before you jump your ignorant azz on this blog and talk about nothing.
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:40 pm
Dan A: the BCS says GT is WAY better than UGA.
Dog fans remind me of the 1980s Braves fans: “Wait til next year!”
Opinion
December 14th, 2009
5:40 pm
Again for you UGA fans, you might of been the better team for one day out of the year but for the rest of the year, you need to take a look at this:
#1: Alabama
#9: Georgia Tech
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#41: UGA
and…..wait on it…..the Advocare Inventory V100 Shreveport Bowl…..hahahahahaha!!!!
GT Joe
December 14th, 2009
5:41 pm
dawgcrzy: okay let’s talk about “something”. Anyone know if the Huddle House in Shreveport takes reservations?
Fuuf
December 14th, 2009
5:41 pm
Billboy, you need to get your head out of your ass.
Compared the resume of this decade and UGA trumps both VT and Bama.
chemdawg
December 14th, 2009
5:42 pm
Well if the BCS says it, then it must be true.
P.S.
30-24
Opinion
December 14th, 2009
5:43 pm
wait on it…..the Advocare Inventory V100 Shreveport Bowl…..hahahahahaha!!!!
BitDawgBarking
December 14th, 2009
5:43 pm
I don’t care where the next DC comes from GT Joe. It’ll be a top notch coach and you’l still have Womack. UGA has bit%h slapped you girls around for 45 years and that will never change. You saw your future against UGA this year and that was with Willie Martinez. GT will always be UGA’s bit%h.
Fuuf
December 14th, 2009
5:43 pm
GT Joe
How many major bowl games has GT won since 1965?
The answer? ZERO.
can he make the adjustment from
December 14th, 2009
5:44 pm
peter are you a baton twirler from tech? and what was the score the last time your team played Georgia ?