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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Weatherdawg
November 28th, 2010
6:03 pm
I bet the collective IQ ,of the people wanting CMR to leave, is about 6. You people are pathetic and don’t deserve Richt as the coach of this team. What coach do you think would want to come here if UGA got rid of a coach with Richt’s winning percentage and class. I am a UGA fan(and employee), but this man does not deserve the trash being spewed his way by so-called fans and so-called football experts. And just a warning to those who would speak negatively about his faith, you really don’t want to go there! Go DAWGS!
Lester Miles
November 28th, 2010
6:06 pm
These other teams that inquire about Coach Richt’s availability know the value of a good coach while the neer do well fair weather fans that claim to be Bulldog fans just show their ignorance and stupidity. UGA coach is on the mark. Leave him alone finks. Have a great day.
Take the job, Richt
November 28th, 2010
6:07 pm
Go mess up some other young men’s lives. UGA won’t miss you. Go, go, go
iwehb
November 28th, 2010
6:09 pm
Richt will quickly announce he is not interested, as he did with Colorado and with Miami in 2006 because he knows no serious offer from a major NCAA team is ever going to come his way and he does not want the disgrace of being passed over. UGA is stuck with him. Welcome to a decade of mediocrity with the possibility of one good team in 30 years (can you say Vince Dooley). That is the hallowed UGA tradition.
kyle
November 28th, 2010
6:09 pm
Keep Bobo on as QB coach, he has done a great job developing Murray. But as far as playcalling, he is far too inconsistant to be reliable. We have to find a big time offensive coordinator. If CMR wants to keep his job then he knows that he has to get a new OC. He did the right thing by letting Martinez go, and he can’t wussy out about demoting Bobo.
Coffee Bluff DAWG
November 28th, 2010
6:14 pm
Does anyone really think that Richt would make a step up going to UM? There’s no way he takes over a mid-level ACC team.
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:16 pm
Gary Patterson is the answer for UGA
TampaGator
November 28th, 2010
6:17 pm
Coffee Bluff…..
vs. staying at a mid level SEC team that barely could beat a low level ACC team? I think, once Richt is approached about the Miami job and takes a close look at the talent assembled at Miami as well as the HS talent in the area he can recruit…..he is gone to sunny south Florida. And Georgia can go up to Knoxville and hire away another Dooley. I think that would be a good move for Richt and the Dawgs…and you would be getting one of the best, young coaches in America out of Knoxville.
Rainbow Dawg
November 28th, 2010
6:17 pm
Miami doesn’t want a coach who can’t beat the Gators once every seven years, which eliminates Richt and Bobby Bowden coming out of retirement, Phil Fulmer, Ray Goff, and the list goes on and on….
Notso Fast
November 28th, 2010
6:18 pm
I don’t think he will go unless pushed. I do think he thinks of Athens as home and would like to end there. His overall record is great and Florida shows that poor seasons are possible even with very good Coaches. He has a very good class coming in and a quarterback that will just get better & better. Why go?
TampaGator
November 28th, 2010
6:18 pm
Blue….Ratterson is not leaving Boise…for Georgia….or any other college team…..maybe the NFL some day. But he isn’t moving to Athens. Begin another dream….that can last you through the summer.
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:20 pm
Notso Fast thats the same story every year CMR has not won with his own players his success came with Donnan’s recrutes.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:21 pm
Dan Hawkins was great after he left the SPUDS
From Where I Sit
November 28th, 2010
6:21 pm
CMR, if you are smart, take the Miami job and get away from the bandwagon fair weather fans of UGAY!
Enough Said!
Northern Sympathizer
November 28th, 2010
6:21 pm
Don’t expect CMR will leave for Miami.
When are the Bobo bashers going to get off his back. The offense was solid the entire last half of the season. Time for these idiots to shut the hell up!
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:22 pm
@ TampaGator Gary Patterson is at TCU
TampaGator
November 28th, 2010
6:22 pm
Rainbow….
There are going to be a lot of “p-off’d” Gators coming into next year…hopefully with Jordan Reed or Jeff Driskell at QB, an innovative OC hired to replace the brain dead Steve Addazio, and Randy Shannon added to the staff as the Assistant HC in charge of the defense and lead recruiter for south Florida. I can dream too.
Rainbow Dawg
November 28th, 2010
6:22 pm
Richt would’ve been fired after this season (for sure if he lost yesterday) if the AD wouldn’t have got caught with his mistresses red and black panties in a wad!
TampaGator
November 28th, 2010
6:23 pm
Blue….sorry….but the post remains the same for him too. Ain’t leaving TCU for Athens. Better program at TCU right now and they are headed to a major conference real soon.
TampaGator
November 28th, 2010
6:26 pm
The Gators are looking for an assistant head coach in charge (overall) of the defense….with “Mac” leaving for North Texas as the HC….and Randy Shannon would fill that job nicely. Would get Florida big time into South Florida recruiting as well. I hope Meyer has already made the call.
Rainbow Dawg
November 28th, 2010
6:26 pm
Hey Tampa Gator,
It wasn’t all Addazio’s fault, Johnny Brantley looked like a deer looking at headlights, held the ball longer than and locked onto one reciever like Doug Johnson did. Driskel is the ticket and should take the reins and run with it with Burton and Reed mixed in occasionaly while Brantley holds the PAT!!!!!!!!!
Shannon won’t go to G’ville cause he could never shake Urban’s hand!!!!!!!!
uga 2010
November 28th, 2010
6:27 pm
Enter your comments here
Supes
November 28th, 2010
6:28 pm
I think he meant Chris Peterson from Boise State…
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:29 pm
@TampaGator hes a coach and wants to prove what he can do and would love to have a chance to coach in a BCS school that has a natural recurit base and boat loads of money. at TCU his home crowd is about 45,000. Money talks and UGA has a lot of it
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:30 pm
@ Supes
I meant Gary Patterson at TCU
ATDAWG
November 28th, 2010
6:31 pm
96-33 in 10 years(63 GAMES ABOVE .500) and you people are complaining?!? How LAME!
Rainbow Dawg
November 28th, 2010
6:32 pm
Georgia doesn’t have all that money, they’re still paying for the panty wad AD not to mention the installments to Hushel Walker from 30 years ago. Maybe Ray Goof’s available for a second tour of duty although I wouldn’t recommend him challenging Spurrier to an alley fight….
Rainbow Dawg
November 28th, 2010
6:32 pm
1-6 versus Meyer though, that’s why the complaining
poopdawg
November 28th, 2010
6:33 pm
Interesting the amount of people wanting to hang onto Grantham as the Def coor assuming next year will be better. I have not seen anybody on the UGA D that really gets it. No one wants to make a tackle, prefering to look for a blocker to play tiddly winks with. I hold Grantham accountable for our poor effort. We may not be that tallented on D but “want to” goes along way and Grantham is in charge of playing time and motivation. I am pretty certain i could field a better D with more “want to” just from 1 dorm at UGA ( probably Russell.) I believe Richt is Grantham’s boss. Richt looks good with a tan.
ATDAWG
November 28th, 2010
6:35 pm
and 9-1 vs Tech…6-4 vs Auburn, 6-4 vs Tenn….I think we should give someo of you “fans” the clipboard so you can show everyone how it’s done. He’s earned the chance to fix things…lay off the man. He’s a good coach and a good person. He’s done a lot more for this university than any of you.
Bob
November 28th, 2010
6:37 pm
Don’t go, Coach. A few dumbass blabbermouths on ajc blogs, and pundits trying to drum up hits to compensate for their lack of journalistic ability do not represent Dawg Nation, which appreciates you and wants you to stay and take us all the way, and be a cornerstone of our program for decades to come.
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:37 pm
@ Rainbow Dawg Money is no problem at UGA when the top 5 or 6 contributors decide its time for a change its done. Thats how it work The AD has nothing to do with it. What coaches make is very little to these people they each give 5 to 10 times CMR money yearly. they run the program
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:38 pm
Bob all the way to 65 arrest and a 0-12 season because that seems to be were we are heading
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:41 pm
@ poopdawg I can not understand how the defencive players have all those good play bones on their helmets
DonnieBrook
November 28th, 2010
6:42 pm
Richt will be a perfect fit at Miami. They like to play dirty too!
poopdawg
November 28th, 2010
6:42 pm
ATDAWG , i thought 2010 was the get it fixed year ?
Rainbow Dawg
November 28th, 2010
6:42 pm
The one thing Richt could do at Meeami is win easier, the All Coast Clear conf has no competition, recruiting Miami kids, kids in Trailerhassee, and then the inroads he’s made here in state, plus if he takes the recruiting cordinating whiz with him, just saying, easier to win in ACC then in SEC….
poopdawg
November 28th, 2010
6:44 pm
blue , Walmart has bone stickers 100 for $4. Who knew?
Boobie Bowden
November 28th, 2010
6:45 pm
dawgs versus canes in a closed cage match. Loser gets Richt and Grantham. Now that I will pay to see.
CourtneyF
November 28th, 2010
6:46 pm
Coach Richt, you couldn’t coach your way out of a bag and I’m a dog fan. Damon, where are my red panties?
Coffee Bluff DAWG
November 28th, 2010
6:47 pm
TampaGator,
Yes, we’re a mid level SEC team this year but GA also has a load of talent in this state.
catlady
November 28th, 2010
6:48 pm
Rainbow Dawg: And you know the directions to Gainesville, don’t you? Go east till you smell it, go south until you step in it.
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:48 pm
poopdawg I think CMR has started givien them out like when kids are 4 or 5 tears old everybody gets one so no ones feels left out
RW
November 28th, 2010
6:53 pm
CMR nice guy. This is one fan that is tired of watching this brand of bulldog football.I dont pretend to know the answers but i strongly suspect cmr doesnt either.
SnoopDawg
November 28th, 2010
6:53 pm
Richt’s record speaks for its self everybody has a down year. Ask Florida Texas USC Bear Braynt Vince Dooley Steve Spurier. There opinion means alot more to me then a bunch of fair weather fans.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:54 pm
Poor Mack Brown
RW
November 28th, 2010
6:55 pm
i will not get sucked into thinking next year will be significantly better.
blue
November 28th, 2010
6:55 pm
@ SnoopDawg not a fair weather fan just expect more and this is not A BAD YEAR it is 3 years now that is a trind
Office Space
November 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
Mark, you’re our man thick or thin. Just don’t lose the hunger to win.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:59 pm
I think that winning came real easy at first and nothing needed to change, A more proactive approach would have been better, but CMR gets another year to right the ship