Richt says he hasn’t been approached by Miami, ‘absolutely’ plans to stay at UGA
(Updated 6 p.m.)
Georgia coach Mark Richt said late this afternoon that he has not been approached about the coaching job at Miami, his alma mater, and that he “absolutely” expects to remain the Bulldogs’ coach next season.
South Florida newspapers today mentioned Richt among possible candidates for the Miami opening that was created with Saturday night’s firing of coach Randy Shannon. Earlier this month, the Denver Post reported that Colorado would like to speak with Richt about its coaching vacancy.
“I’ve got the same answer for [the Miami speculation] as I had for the other one: Georgia is my home, and it’s where I want to finish my career,” Richt said.
Pressed on whether he would entertain the possibility of the Miami job if approached, Richt replied: “Just like I’ve been saying, man, Georgia’s my home, and that’s where I want to be. I don’t think you’ve got to go any farther than that.”
The Miami Herald today listed Richt among “potential candidates” to replace Shannon. The Palm Beach Post listed Richt among “possible replacements.”
The speculation was not surprising. Richt is a graduate of Miami, where he played quarterback under coach Howard Schnellenberger. Richt is 96-33 in 10 seasons as Georgia’s coach.
When the Miami job last was open after the 2006 season, Richt was mentioned as a possible candidate before immediately saying he was not interested.
Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity has said Richt will return as the Bulldogs’ coach next season.
Richt, who fired three assistant coaches in the week following last year’s victory over Georgia Tech, was asked today if he is considering staff changes now. He said he is not.
He expressed support for offensive coordinator and play caller Mike Bobo.
“If I’m not mistaken, we broke some kind of school record with [seven] consecutive games of over 30 points, and a lot of really good things happened offensively,” Richt said. “The bottom line is whoever calls plays is going to get critiqued, going to get criticized. It’s just the nature of the beast.”
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Hit A Single
November 28th, 2010
5:11 pm
Oh I forgot to say that I hope Coach Richt stays.
Andy in Blairsville
November 28th, 2010
5:12 pm
It’s just not an elite conference this year huh?
kc15aa
November 28th, 2010
5:13 pm
@ Joe B.
I admire your commitment to your team and know it is hard to see them struggle but do you really want to take a chance with a new face who you will not know about until 3 or 4 years in because you will truly see his players by then?
kc15aa
November 28th, 2010
5:15 pm
And for the Newton haters. Lets appreciate a good player when we see one. He had a good year and plays with passion in one of the toughest conferences in the nation. Give credit where credit is due.
Tech Nerd
November 28th, 2010
5:16 pm
Glad we have something to talk bad about to UGA fans……certainly don’t want to talk about losing again to those guys.
MichiganDawg
November 28th, 2010
5:17 pm
I think the college football gods know that if there was a college play off system it would be dominated year in and year out by the mighty titan teams of the SEC. I suppose one of the other conferences would have a team that would have a good day and make it through the gauntlet but mostly it would be an SEC team.
Hit A Single
November 28th, 2010
5:19 pm
Alot of us aren’t Newton haters, we just hate the trash that comes with him. Greedy parents that have no respect for rules.
Jerry Springer
November 28th, 2010
5:19 pm
Tim Tucker…you might fit in well with my staff writers!
kc15aa
November 28th, 2010
5:19 pm
@ MichiganDawg
I would just like to see the exciting matchups. Can you imagine Ohio State in Sanford stadium. How about Texas or Oklahoma. The matchups would be classic. I get excited thinking about it.
Hit A Single
November 28th, 2010
5:21 pm
Michigane Dawg – You are right. It is just like the college World Series they try to elimnate SEC teams before they get there.
Clayton
November 28th, 2010
5:21 pm
I’m honestly surprised by all the negativity towards Richt. He’s had 3 bad seasons in 10 at UGA. How many did Joe Paterno or Bobby Bowden have at their schools. The team is headed in the right direction. The defense needs to get better but you have a very good QB and TE, and O-line. Def will get better next year with more experience in the scheme. If Richt goes so do a lot of the good recruits UGA has coming in next year. If he had a bad year next year then I could understand all the arguments to fire him. Losing Richt now would do more harm than good. Not every next coach is better than his replacement, most are not.
kc15aa
November 28th, 2010
5:21 pm
@ Hit A single
Yeah I agree if what is alleged is true it is a shame to use your kid for economic gain.
Insider
November 28th, 2010
5:22 pm
Word is that Paul Johnson is interested in the Vandy job!!
No Swagger
November 28th, 2010
5:22 pm
Enter your comments here
M
November 28th, 2010
5:22 pm
You people are NUTS!!! If I were CMR, I would not want to stick around, where I am constantly bashed. Folks, he can coach, but he is NOT the ones making the lousy plays. I think he should stay and take over play-calling, if BoBo stays let him do something else.
Hit A Single
November 28th, 2010
5:22 pm
Teams should not be penalized for playing a tough nonconference schedule. They are afraid if they lose it will hurt BCS chances. Why take that chance?
voice of reason
November 28th, 2010
5:23 pm
First, no official at the University of Miami has said that Mark Richt is a candidate for the UM job. That was just some writer from the Miami Herald throwing out a few names because it’s his job to write a sports blog. Secondly, all of the Richt supporters who think that Richt can just settle in because he has a lifetime estate in athens as the coach of Georgia are dead wrong. McGarity came from UF and he has said that he wants the football program competing at a championship level and this program has slid big time in the last few years. If Richt has another season next year like he did this year then he probably will be fired. So if the UM does come calling then Richt will have something to really think about. If he stays and can’t turn it around then he is out of a job and will have lost a chance to coach Miami and recruit some big time talent. This is a real scenario to ponder.
kc15aa
November 28th, 2010
5:23 pm
M. I agree completely. I have thought CMR should have taken over playcalling a long time ago.
Hit A Single
November 28th, 2010
5:24 pm
M – How can you say that BoBo has done a bad job? Murray has gotten better and Dawgs have gotten better offensively. Heck he never knew who is running backs were going to be.
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:26 pm
blah blah blah….. all I hear is CMR is god and hasnt won anything.
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:29 pm
KC15aa
You got to be a Florida fan!!!!!!!!!!!! Heck yeah cause you want me to stay in Athens.
voice of reason
November 28th, 2010
5:30 pm
How did bobo look as playcaller before AJ came back? Wow some of you have short memories. Early in the season we were terrible on offense without AJ. How are we gonna look next year on offense with no AJ or Durham?
No Swagger
November 28th, 2010
5:30 pm
As a fan of the U why would we even think of considering your wimpy coach. If the U is trying to return to its glory days of old Richt definetly not a part of those plans. They might as well had kept the soft spoken Shannon he shows more life than Richt. I see now why your fans go crazy on these posts , you guys write some looney stuff. Mark Richt? I’d rather have Lou Holtz come out of retirement, Richt is so soft, the waterboys will run the practices !
MikeP
November 28th, 2010
5:30 pm
The coaches, fans and players from 11 otrher SEC schools will chip in to help UGA give Mark Richt a healthy raise. Just DON’T let him leave UGA.
After all, the next guy might actually win after getting top-10 recruiting classes year after year.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
November 28th, 2010
5:31 pm
Hummon, I can beleive the lack of respect and appreciation. Look at what Bobby Bowden did for FSU, Fulmer at Tenn., Penn. State is calling for Papa Joe to resign,. Football fans are the most fickle idiots in the world. Especally UGA fans. They’ve got all the answers (they think). UGA fans think all the big coach names are gonna line up at the personal office when a vacancy comes. I know CMR makes alot of money. Thats because after he had good teams in 2 years all these know it all fans say give him more money before another school hires him away. If he doesn’t win the SEC 5 seasons out of 6 and the National Champ. 2 or 3 times in 5 years they start holling at the moon. “our play calling stinks, fire this coach, fire that coach. And so it goes. Its almost funny.
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:32 pm
I got boat loads of Swaggar. Heck we invented the swaggar when I was there.
Pago Pago DAWG
November 28th, 2010
5:33 pm
Do you really think CMR or anybody else would to live/coach in that cesspool!!
DDG DAWGFAN
November 28th, 2010
5:34 pm
It saddens me to see that UGA has the fanbase that it has. I can’t believe that there is such negativity towards CMR. Granted, he has been on a slide for the past three years.
Being a Georgia fan, I must admit that we are not the Championship caliber that most of think our team should be. I make no excuses for anyone, but most of the idiots that blog don’t know what a trap block or swing pass in the flat is. We listen to what is being said and pile on.
Okay, let’s get a new coach next year. What will happen in three years when this coach can’t seem to win a National Championship. Most of you blogging idiots will be out for his head to. I can remember when CMR was the toast of the town. Let’s go back even further. I can remember when Jim Donnan was the toast of the town for a quick minute.
Change is Good…..but choose when you change wisely. Just because things aren’t going good now, they could always get worse.
Red Harrison
November 28th, 2010
5:34 pm
Be careful what you wish for. Say, Mark goes to the U and Mullen won’t leave MSU. Who’s out there? Woo-hoo, we can be the new Vanderbilt
voice of reason
November 28th, 2010
5:36 pm
We already are the new Vanderbilt.
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:37 pm
Whos out there? yeah who?
No Swagger
November 28th, 2010
5:37 pm
Are you UGA fans nuts, are you thinking about your posts before you type them? You guys are on here making excuses about the playcalling & it is not Richt’s fault, why the hell do you think Shannon lost his job. When you are the head coach at a major university you are ultimately responsible for every single aspect of that team, that is why they pay you the big cheddar. The ” U ” will be back & Richt is not in it’s future so stop crying.
Katharyn Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:37 pm
Mark just called from the bluetooth in his Ford truck and told me to say “The U”, what did he mean by that?
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:37 pm
My team is not even ranked in the top 25 so there are at least 25 better coaches then me.
wildbill
November 28th, 2010
5:39 pm
On the game last nite, featuring the Tech second string qb, and what a struggle it was for UGA to win. That should not have happened. So, it is time to pay the piper.
1. CMR goes, and takes the entire coaching staff with him.
2. That would do it.
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:39 pm
Hey Katharyn
Dont forget to get somemore Jesus Juice for me when you go to the Christian Book Store.
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:40 pm
Jesus Juice a.k.a. kool-aide.
No Swagger
November 28th, 2010
5:40 pm
Yeah Richt’s record against the Gators & Spurrier is gonna make that resume’ sparkle.lol Go Canes, this is a no-brainer
Runner up Richt
November 28th, 2010
5:43 pm
Special thanks and a bone sticker is presented to Scott Blaire for missing that extra point. You saved me.
Devil's Advocate
November 28th, 2010
5:44 pm
People, don’t lose your minds over CMR. IF he stays, just think how much money you can make betting against Georgia. Its a cinch that you will win all the big games!!! Remember, you heard it here first.
PaulieOldSchool
November 28th, 2010
5:48 pm
Richt needs to go ASAP. We need to make a break with this coaching staff pronto. Different direction, new (actual) leadership would be appreciated. Get a jump on candidates and start recruiting quality players.
Big Dawg
November 28th, 2010
5:54 pm
Be careful what you wish for? You got it. What I wish for then is to have a better record than 6-6 (all the while with a boat load of talent), and I wish for a better record than 2-8 over 10 years against our biggest rival, Florida. I was very careful and I will go out on a limb and say another coach could have done much better. And you know how I can tell with absolute certainty? With those kind of pathetic numbers, a new coach could not have done much worse! Unless of course they went 1-9 against Florida, and started losing to Idaho State and Louisiana Lafayette.
William C Smith
November 28th, 2010
5:55 pm
First of all I admit I am an Auburn fan. Therefore, all of you Harvard grads can condemn my opinion. At the end of the Auburn-Georgia game as we all know a fight broke out. Gene Chizik at that time sent a coach out to get Nick Fairley off the field. Also, at the same time he made it clear to the rest of the team to stay off the field. Mark Richt on the other hand played Civil War general and allowed his men to charge the field. At that time he was telling his team to get back. but at that time they were already on the field. I have heard that going onto the field during a fight can lead to suspension for the next game. Had the SEC enforced that rule Georgia would have been short 32 players for the Tech game. All the people say Auburn is a bunch of Thugs. However, it seems to me Chizik can control his Thugs better than Richt.
ATL
November 28th, 2010
5:56 pm
It doesn’t matter if CMR goes to Miami or not. Either way the Bulldogs will just keep getting worse and worse. It is you inability to accept responsibility for your own loses that does it. Compare and contrast: UGA loses because they got outplayed by Auburn and UGA fans and CMR complain and whine that Auburn played “dirty.” Because of all UGA’s whining, Auburn’s Fairley gets called for an unfair excessive celebration penalty in the next game. When asked if he blamed the officials, Chizak said “I never blame the officials, we have to take care of that.” That is why Auburn is undefeated and UGA is praying for a bowl invitation.
SuperB
November 28th, 2010
5:56 pm
Hey Mark: Miami just fired a coach with a 7-5 record. Miami’s facilities are among the worst in the ACC and they play in a stadium halfway to Ft. Lauderdale. This would NOT be a lateral move. Not in today’s college football world. Stay put!
burgfan
November 28th, 2010
5:57 pm
Richt is having his own issues. He has not turned Georgia’s program around so what make them think that he can do it for The U.
SuperB
November 28th, 2010
5:59 pm
Hey AT: If you are going to blog at least know what you are talking about– which you DO NOT! Nick Fairley has been playing dirty all year (ask Arkansas,) just no SEC ref had the guts to do something about him– including the refs in the Auburn game. Any good referee would have ejected him. Stick to whatever you know– which obviously is NOT CFB.
Mark
November 28th, 2010
6:01 pm
maybe Richt to Miami and Malzahn to GA.
Lester Miles
November 28th, 2010
6:01 pm
AJC sux. Why do you keep putting out rumors about our coach. Here is a rumor for you.TIM TUCKER. MARK BRADLEY. AND JEFF FUZZFACE TRADED TO MACON TELEGRAPH FOR A CAN OF SARDINES AND WE GOT THE BEST OF THIS TRADE. THREE STINKY FISH FOR A CAN OF STINKY FISH. GOOD TRADE. THROW IN THE SORRY DISGRUNTLED FANS THAT CUT COACH RICHT DOWN AS A BONUS. GOOD RIDDANCE. HAVE A GREAT DAY.
ATL
November 28th, 2010
6:02 pm
Then Why is it that nobody cried to the SEC except for CMR?