Richt not on the hot seat, Adams and Evans say (UPDATED)
DESTIN, Fla. — Is Georgia football coach Mark Richt on the hot seat?
Yes, according to several media-conceived lists of coaches whose jobs could be in jeopardy after the 2010 season.
No, according to Richt’s bosses.
In separate interviews at the SEC spring meetings here Wednesday, UGA President Michael Adams and athletics director Damon Evans rejected speculation that Richt will enter the season with the heat turned up on his job security.
“I don’t pay that stuff any attention,” Evans said. “Mark is a good football coach. I’m glad he’s our football coach. He’s had a great track record here.
“I think when they see a little adversity, people want to jump on it and attack it,” Evans said. “There is no need for that because he’s not on a hot seat. Mark is in a good place with us.”
Said Adams: “I don’t know whose hot seat he is on. He’s got a pretty nice long-term contract, seems to have the AD’s support, and I don’t have any reason to know where a hot seat would be.”
Adams acknowledged, though, that Georgia’s 2009 football season (8-5) was substandard and noted that all UGA coaches face high expectations.
“Did anybody think last year was a great year in football? No,” Adams said. “But most people would say I’ve had a year or two that weren’t too hot, too.”
Among the publications and Web sites that have put Richt on off-season lists of coaches who are believed — at least by those making the lists — to be on the proverbial hot seat are the Orlando Sentinel and the Mobile Press-Register. CBSSports.com gave Richt a “hot seat rating” of 3.0, meaning “on the bubble — you never know.” ESPN has weighed in about the topic on various platforms.
On Tuesday, Richt professed not to be aware of any of this, saying he didn’t know his name had appeared on such lists. “Is that true?” he asked. On Wednesday, he declined to delve into the issue, saying cheerfully: “I’m just doing my job.”
Georgia has averaged 10 wins per season in nine years under Richt, going 90-27 and winning two SEC championships. On the other hand, the Bulldogs’ most recent SEC title was in 2005, and they are 2-7 vs. Florida under Richt.
Although rejecting the hot-seat tag, Adams referred to comments Evans made at last week’s UGA Athletic Association board of directors meeting in which he expressed disappointment with the school’s all-around sports year.
“There are very high expectations at the University of Georgia,” Adams said. “We feel like we have the fan base, we have the financial resources, we have the facilities, we have the capacity to recruit. … Here we finished second in the SEC [all-sports standings], and nobody was satisfied because we did feel like it was a year where several teams underperformed. And I think if you asked any of those coaches they would say the same thing.
“I think people need not lose sight of the pressures that are on all of these folks to compete, just by nature of the expectations. And that’s fairly characteristic now of the whole university. We expect business professors and physics professors to publish and to teach well. … I don’t know of anybody who thinks we’ve not made adjustments as were needed [in football], and we’ve made adjustments through the years in other sports and we will again if they don’t perform at a high level. But I don’t think characterizing Mark as being on the hot seat from my standpoint is fair.”
Asked if that would change with another football season like last fall’s, Adams passed.
“You know me well enough [to know] I don’t deal in … hypotheticals,” he said. “I think we’re going to have a good year. I think we have a good, solid team. I think the defense is going to be improved. We’ll just have to wait and see, but let’s also not forget that this is by any measure the most competitive football league in America. … We want and expect to win, but you’re just not always going to win.”
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One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:13 pm
Hard to get invited to bowls at Bowling Green. Has Richt ever built a program from almost nothing to a BCS game winner? Meyer did with Utah.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:14 pm
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don’t take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:12 pm
What does Auburn have to do with this?
Was Richt secretly coaching them?
Don’t make me go to the head to head on you again!
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you mentioned Meyers record against someone and I did the same. He has a 1-4 record against UGA and has an ohfer against AUBURN.
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Tell me again how Meyer made USC lose.
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:15 pm
Patrick,
You’ve already answered that one for us. He did the Jedi Mind Trick. He’s got it like that!
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:16 pm
1-4 against UGA? You must be referring to Dog Dickey, not Meyer. Hell, even the Zooker had winning record against UGA!
GaGator
June 2nd, 2010
6:17 pm
Bottom line Patrick Florida got in the BCS Championship game and Richt didn’t. You can cry all day long and it’s not going to change, so give it a rest.
You are beating a dead horse.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:17 pm
GaGator
June 2nd, 2010
6:12 pm
Patrick,
It’s nice that your stats make you feel so warm and fuzzy, for me I enjoy
winning 17 out of 20. And it looks like it will be 4 for 4 over the next four years with
your #26 class playing the #1 class in the country. But you just keep looking at your stat book.
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UGA last 200 recruits (most still playing)
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5 Star = 9 or 04.5 %
4 Star = 105 or 52.5 %
3 Star = 79 or 39.5 %
2 Star = 7 or 03.5 %
1 Star = 3 or 01.5 %
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Care to list Flas?
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:18 pm
UF can’t beat auburn but UF knows how to beat THUGA every year don’t they hi there?
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:18 pm
GaGator
June 2nd, 2010
6:17 pm
Bottom line Patrick Florida got in the BCS Championship game and Richt didn’t. You can cry all day long and it’s not going to change, so give it a rest.
You are beating a dead horse.
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how did he get USC to lose?
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:19 pm
12-1 and a SEC title needing a team to lose is not better or worse than 12-1 a SEC title and needing a team to lose.
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How did Meyer get USC to lose?
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:21 pm
so Meyer is better than Richt because USC lost its last game and Meyer beat Northern Ill five times more in nine years.
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Nevermind the fact Richt has finished ranked top ten 6 times to Meyer’s 4
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GaGator
June 2nd, 2010
6:23 pm
Patrick,
how did he get USC to lose? There’s that dead horse again. Patrick tell me just how that
# 26 class of Georgia is going to against the Gator’s #1 class the next four years.
Is that in your stat book??????????????????
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:25 pm
Gagator? 17-20?
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Remind me…didnt UGA and Fla play each other before 20 years ago?
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MVP
June 2nd, 2010
6:26 pm
Urban coaches all those top recruits up…….What does Mark Richt do with all those so called top recruits? He coaches them down.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:26 pm
GaGator
June 2nd, 2010
6:23 pm
Patrick,
how did he get USC to lose? There’s that dead horse again. Patrick tell me just how that
# 26 class of Georgia is going to against the Gator’s #1 class the next four years.
Is that in your stat book??????????????????
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is that class going to be the only class playing? No? (by the way rivals have USC at number 1)
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lets compare ALL players on each team…me first.
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UGA last 200 recruits (most still playing)
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5 Star = 9 or 04.5 %
4 Star = 105 or 52.5 %
3 Star = 79 or 39.5 %
2 Star = 7 or 03.5 %
1 Star = 3 or 01.5 %
..
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ur turn
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:28 pm
MVP
June 2nd, 2010
6:26 pm
Urban coaches all those top recruits up…….What does Mark Richt do with all those so called top recruits? He coaches them down.
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dude….charlie strong and Tearblow is the reason he has been successful….neither are their today.
MVP
June 2nd, 2010
6:31 pm
it’s called coaching.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:31 pm
by the way UGA is 15th in recruiting not 26…
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.Over Rich’s first nine years, Georgia finished outside Rivals’ Top 10 only once. A year-by-year look:
• 2001: Sixteenth nationally, third in the SEC.
• 2002: Third in the nation, second in the SEC.
• 2003: Sixth in the nation, third in the SEC.
• 2004: Sixth in the nation, second in the SEC.
• 2005: Tenth in the nation, second in the SEC.
• 2006: Fourth in the nation, second in the SEC.
• 2007: Ninth in the nation, sixth in the SEC.
• 2008: Seventh in the nation, third in the SEC.
• 2009: Sixth in the nation, third in the SEC.
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ur turn
Pi$$onaDawg
June 2nd, 2010
6:32 pm
HUTSON MASON can be the next great MLS Right Wing for the US National Soccer Team if Richt and Bobo are coaching him.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:33 pm
I said USC was first by rivals….I meant Scouts
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:34 pm
THUGA can’t make it to the big dance with all those weak wins.pathetic
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:34 pm
“neither are THERE today” not their
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:36 pm
yep…. hi there got that uga education….
John G
June 2nd, 2010
6:36 pm
Bryan G, I hate Tech more than anyone, but that was out of bounds. They are just kids and are in critical condition at Grady. If you are a UGA fan, do the rest of us a favor and show a little class.
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:36 pm
Patrick,
What’s the head to head record?
Will I get an answer or a long drawn out “two-step”?
Place your bets!
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:38 pm
hi there needs a spell checker..
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:39 pm
now GaGator…lets talk about the last time UGA had a class out of the top ten in recruiting and track how those shiity players are doing
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it’s kind of funny that 2000 was UGA’s last substandard class…wonder how it turned out…hmmm…let me see….
Reggie Brown…still in the NFL
Chris Clemons…still in the NFL
Nic Clemons…in the NFL for a while
David Greene…had to settle for big, slow guy when Jason Campbell opted for Auburn
Arnold Harrison…still in the NFL
Sean Jones…still in the NFL
Musa Smith…great college RB
Johnathan Sullivan…better college DT than Stroud or Seymour (a NFL hall of famer for sure)
Will Thompson…3 year starter
Horace Willis…always will owe him a debt of gratitude…after he got busted burning some weed, got kicked out of UGA before practice started…wound up being the DB beaten by Michael Johnson for the 2002 Auburn win…
All in all, I hope that the 2010 class turns out as badly as 2000 did…
Pi$$onaDawg
June 2nd, 2010
6:39 pm
HIgh here: and what has that got RICHT? 5star talent coached by BOZO and WILLIE. UGA players coached by pick Paul Johnson or any of the middle 25-35 coaches and you still get 9-11 wins a year. RICHT ain’t nothing Special. No team is beating down the door to get BOBO like Willie.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:39 pm
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don’t take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:36 pm
Patrick,
What’s the head to head record?
Will I get an answer or a long drawn out “two-step”?
Place your bets!
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How did Meyer get USC to lose?
Will I get an answer or a long drawn out “two-step”?
Place your bets!
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:40 pm
hi there what a moron.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:41 pm
Pi$$onaDawg
June 2nd, 2010
6:39 pm
HIgh here: and what has that got RICHT?
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2 SEC titles (same as Meyer)
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90 wins in nine years…same as Fla
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9 bowls (7-2) better than Fla
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6 top ten finishes in nine years…twice as much as Fla
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Next stupid question
MVP
June 2nd, 2010
6:42 pm
richt coaches his players down. just like phil did at tn
GaGator
June 2nd, 2010
6:43 pm
Patrick,
Your are right, Georgia was #15 until they lost a 4 star and a 2 star————-NOW THEY ARE #26!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:43 pm
Meyer didn’t do anything to make USC lose. They got beat by their biggest rival….just like UGA does almost anually.
What’s the head to head?
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:46 pm
cmr all those wins and a big fat zero for nc and heisman @ THUGA. NICE!
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:46 pm
Not even a two step?
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:46 pm
Pi$$onaDawg
June 2nd, 2010
6:39 pm
HIgh here: and what has that got RICHT?
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a 24-7 record against the SEC West.
28-16 record against the SEC East.
38-4 against record nonconference opponents.
8-1 against against Georgia Tech.
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a 3-1 record against ALA
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a 6-3 record against Auburn
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Next stupid question
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:48 pm
Next stupid question (s):
What’s Mark Richt’s head to head record against Urban Meyer?
What’s mark Richt’s record against UF?
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:49 pm
Patrick,
Your are right, Georgia was #15 until they lost a 4 star and a 2 star————-NOW THEY ARE #26!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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this is the most current list….after all players signed or decommitted.
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UGA is 15…before those players left they were top ten
http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:52 pm
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don’t take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:48 pm
Next stupid question (s):
What’s Mark Richt’s head to head record against Urban Meyer?
What’s mark Richt’s record against UF?
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LOL so using a SINGLE stat that is OVERWHELMED by other facts is akin to saying Robert E Lee winning at Chancellorsville means the South was better than the north. Funny guy
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:53 pm
hi there what was the score Oklahoma State vs Georgia 09 game ?
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:53 pm
I answered your question, so answer mine.
I know you know the answer. You can do it!
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don't take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:54 pm
By the away, it’s not a stat…..it’s a matter of RECORD!
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:54 pm
Mark Richt ranks third in winning percentage among active college coaches that have coached for at least five years, now that Pete Carroll left USC for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.
He is 90-27, trailing only Urban Meyer (four of those years were against Claxton High school) (97-18) and Bob Stoops (117-29).
Mark Richt is one of only six coaches to win two SEC football championships in their first five years coaching. He is also one of only five head coaches in SEC history to record four straight 10-win seasons
Coach Richt’s Red and Black outfits have never posted a losing record in conference play and six of his last eight squads have finished 6-2 or better in regular-season SEC contests.
Mark Richt’s overall success in Southeastern Conference action—including two SEC titles, three conference championship game appearances, and four finishes of no worse than tied for first place in the East, with no losing records in the process—is without parallel in Georgia football history.
Pi$$onaDawg
June 2nd, 2010
6:55 pm
HI THERE: and the most arrested players and GOVT./taxpayer Paid jobs? HAHAHHAHAHA. RICHT is the DALE EARNHARDT JR. of college coaching. All the crap to make him a champion, but he is better selling crap, looking good for the Advertisers/money backers, and stil not win anything that REALLY matters. If you win the SEC why ain’t Richt playing for the MNC? HHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH.
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:56 pm
richt goose eggs for national title.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:56 pm
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
6:53 pm
hi there what was the score Oklahoma State vs Georgia 09 game?
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another Robert E Lee comparison LOL
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I should hasten to point out that he is 21-4 against
Arizona State,
Boise State,
Boston College,
Clemson,
Colorado,
Florida State,
Georgia Tech,
Michigan State,
Oklahoma State,
Purdue,
Texas A&M,
Virginia Tech,
West Virginia, and
Wisconsin.
Even if we factor out Division I-AA teams, Sun Belt squads, and similar schedule fodder, Coach Richt is .840 against teams from automatic BCS-qualifying conferences other than the SEC. (Yes, I’m going ahead and counting the Broncos in that category because the Mountain West will get a guaranteed bid as soon as Boise State is invited to join.)
Pi$$onaDawg
June 2nd, 2010
6:57 pm
UGA is going to wear all ORANGE JAIL HOUSE JUMPSUITS for the GATOR GAME.
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
6:58 pm
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don’t take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:53 pm
I answered your question, so answer mine.
I know you know the answer. You can do it!
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u did? I missed it…how did Meyer get USC to lose?
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and I answered ur question see the R E Lee answer
hi there
June 2nd, 2010
7:00 pm
One, two, free, fo, fi, them der Gator don’t take no jive!
June 2nd, 2010
6:54 pm
By the away, it’s not a stat…..it’s a matter of RECORD!
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defined………The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from RECORDS.
everybody hates THUGA
June 2nd, 2010
7:01 pm
THUGA GOT BEAT BY A BIG 12 TEAM.HAHA