Richt tells callers he’s staying and wants ‘Dream Team’ recruits to join him
Mark Richt was outspoken on two topics on his radio call-in show Monday night –- his intention to remain at Georgia and his aspirations for this recruiting season.
- On the recruiting front, Richt reiterated his vision of signing an in-state “Dream Team” that, he said, could make an impact as soon as Georgia’s Sept. 3 season opener against Boise State in Atlanta’s Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.
“We’re trying to recruit guys right now that can make an impact so when we play in that Georgia Dome next year and open against Boise State, we can introduce those kids to the college football world and make a difference at the University of Georgia,” Richt said.
“When you talk about in-state kids, that’s why I’ve been talking about this Georgia ‘Dream Team’, this team of guys that I think are the best players in the state of Georgia. And I believe if they will stay in the state and come together, we can prove to the United States of America that we have the best football in the country [in] the state of Georgia. We need those Georgia kids to stay at home and do that thing for the Bulldogs, and I think everybody is going to get excited about that.”
- In light of recent reports that Colorado and Miami might pursue Richt for their open coaching jobs, one caller implored Richt to “hang in with us, don’t leave us now.”
Richt replied: “I’m definitely going to do more than hang with Georgia. Georgia is going to thrive, and Georgia is going to have a tremendous future ahead of us. And I’m excited to be here.”
Another caller had two questions: Will junior linebacker Justin Houston enter the 2011 NFL draft? And will Richt stay or “jump ship” to his alma mater, Miami?
Richt said he doesn’t know what Houston will do but suggested he could be a top-five or top-10 NFL pick in 2012 if he plays another season of college ball. Houston faces a tough decision, Richt acknowledged.
As for the caller’s second question: “For me, I don’t have a tough decision,” Richt said. “Georgia is the greatest place in the United States of America for me and my family.”
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Blue Chip Reporter
November 30th, 2010
2:52 pm
Massengill Nozzle (QB – Summer’s Eve High School) was spotted in the stands wearing tech gear this weekend
Looks like Vandy is going to lose his commitment
UGADaddy
November 30th, 2010
2:52 pm
UGA DEVELOPS RB’S & QB’s.. IF WE LEARN TO DEVELOP WR’S.. WE’LL BE SICK. AJGREEN WAS JUST RAW TALENT… NO HELP NEEDED
harold
November 30th, 2010
2:55 pm
GEORGIA HAS ACCEPTED MEDOCRITY. DREAM TEAM IS A NIGHTMARE! LOOK AT THE RECORD.
OkefenokeeDawg
November 30th, 2010
3:13 pm
AltamahaDawg, Lane Kiffin absolutely said, “Georgia is the easiest team on our schedule to prepare for,” BEFORE the ‘09 game.
If you failed to read that, sorry, but don’t call me a liar, please.
Dill
November 30th, 2010
3:19 pm
I’m willing to give CMR at least another year. The defense improved every game and will probably be even better next year. Our new DC will get it nailed down. With Murray it could be a great season coming with the initial smack down of Boise State. GO DAWGS!
bitter ""hershal talker"l
November 30th, 2010
3:31 pm
TEXAS has all top players from there state and they lost 7 games this season????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? O.K. football is not a perfect science, boise st use’s 2 and 3 star player to live in the top 10 year end and year out so dont blow smoke up my as—- coach richt, dream team is every years class for every team, AKA tcu, boise st, navada ect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! good coaching and kids that work hard and simply Dream big!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, PS 1979 5-6, 1980 12-0 nat champs, yo or yaaw, hard work brings a shot at greatness
Andy in Blairsville
November 30th, 2010
3:35 pm
Interpretation: UGA football sucks so bad your green butt will be able to play immediately and as added bait you get to play in the dilapidated Dome where the successful Falcons play. In closing, please don’t let AL, AUB, LSU, SC, CLEM, FSU and FL embarrass me once again by taking the best recruits out of GA. I beg you!
AltamahaDawg
November 30th, 2010
3:38 pm
Well obviously I don’t think you just made that up to be an outright liar. But mistakingly taking things out of context is pretty easy to do. Those comments WERE about about the defense. I know he had penciled in the UGA game and our recruiting base as a target that year. I have no doubt he said a lot of things out of less than respect.
Georgia has put up plenty big points over the years on plenty of teams/coaches, so not sure why those very good coaches struggled with such an easy game plan as smartass little Lannie Kiffin seemed to know all about.
On that subject I think every coach goes into every game pretty much knowing exactly what the other guy is going to do, and it doesnt take 10 yrs worth of film to figure that out. Everybody knew exactly what Bama was going to do lasy year. Knowing it, and stopping it is different. It’s also possible to stop offenses with absolutely no idea what they are going to do.
UGA Alumnus
November 30th, 2010
3:51 pm
@Buckeye
November 30th, 2010
6:42 am
don’t you mean, “Techie”.
DawgGoneFishing
November 30th, 2010
3:56 pm
Vince who?
JD
November 30th, 2010
4:01 pm
Why would any great running back want to come to UGA when the back is used only to block and run only on a few occasions?
OkefenokeeDawg
November 30th, 2010
4:02 pm
Kiffin’s comments were about the offense, and the reporter in the Athens Banner-Herald said it should provide Richt some good blackboard material. Jonathan Crompton’s remarks AFTER the game were about the defense, where he laughingly said he couldn’t believe it, but UGA never adjusted to his rollouts.
I despise Kiffin, but he (or more accurately, his daddy) backed up his pre-game comments, holding Bobo’s offense to two FGs.
JD
November 30th, 2010
4:04 pm
What ever happened to building or coaching a team up to become a dream team?
JD
November 30th, 2010
4:05 pm
Bobo? A head coach? Are you kidding?
cadawg
November 30th, 2010
4:11 pm
@steve w: i take your point, but i think it’s easier to find 1 good NG than 2 shutdown corners.
OkefenokeeDawg
November 30th, 2010
4:11 pm
JD, don’t laugh – Bobo’s probably waiting for Richt to retire so he can take over . . .
UGA VIII
November 30th, 2010
4:14 pm
Geez,
Yet another win really brings the copy/paste crowd out in full force. I cannot fathom posting long paragraphs of the same drivel on a rival blog month after month…..now year after year. Frankly, I would never even post or even visit a tech blog. Losing to us year after year must sting so freakin bad and I am glad it does. With Richt or without him the Dawgs will be back on top and the haters (losers) will continue to obsess. It will always be great to be a Georgia Bulldog!
DAWGMAN
November 30th, 2010
4:59 pm
One fine person above observed that we need “to get from 6-6 back to 10-2″. Don’t want to win ‘em all now do we? Guy sounds like a Cubs fan. Dream team…My Aunt’s Fannie. Just another gimmick. You folks please stop drinking the Kool-Aid. Please ,Coach ,go to Colorado or Miami. The coaching level has gone up in the conference. You haven’t kept up. I believe you have no coaching to do this weekend. Just run off for a few days. Call someone, let them phone it in for you. Ford Truck not showing your mug on its commercials around here. We are a 3d tier football team in the SEC now. Enough!
PHIL
November 30th, 2010
5:05 pm
Everyone raise their hands that think they could run a major college athletic team, any sport. Then tell me why you aren’t doing it.
Okee Dawg so which is it? You tell me we played a bunch of patsies and then you tell the Buckeye guy the SEC is full of teams that could beat him. You’re not an attorney are you? Not much a a debater.
And have you ever in your life stepped foot on a college football field besides the time your pee wee team got to walk out on the field pre-game?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 30th, 2010
5:07 pm
Why not Bobo be our head coach
I mean we love mediocrity around here now
Everyone jumps for joy now if we beat Tech and says we are not good enough to compete with FL
Im all for having to triple our donations to get season tickets and hopefully parking will cost a minimum of $1000 to park, drinks will be $20 at the conscession stand
Please take my hard earned money UGA
Man that will be great and hopefully we can win 5 games a year, beat Tech, and be on the level of Vanderbilt and Kentucky, everyone will want to come to UGA then
cp
November 30th, 2010
5:10 pm
sick em mark go dawgs
gts9550
November 30th, 2010
5:28 pm
He has been talking about the dream team 2011 class since early this year….it going to happen just wait first hand off to crowell in the dome on national tv vs boise! Cant wait to see Jarvis Jones play some linebacker also!
truedawg
November 30th, 2010
5:40 pm
Richt needs to let Bobo go get the recruits have them stay home Drew also needs to stay home go dawgs
Marcus
November 30th, 2010
5:56 pm
Record for Murray: Worst QB in Georgia History–When It Counts:
#84 in red zone passing accuracy
#89 on 3rd downs passing accuracy
#99 in NCAA in first quarter passing accuracy
#84 in 4th quarter passing accuracy
LAST IN THE NCAA ON 3RD AND 10+ PASSING ACCFURACY
THANK GOD CHRISTIAN LEMAY WILL BE ON CAMPUS IN 31 DAYS.
ENOUGH OF THE CHOKE PRONE QB’ING.
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mountainman
November 30th, 2010
6:18 pm
WHAT UGA FOOTBALL NEEDS IS A “DREAM” COACH, NOT A DREAMER WHO HAS HAD DREAM TALENT BEFORE THAT COULDN’T BEAT OTHER “DREAM” COACHES. GET REAL!!!!!! FIRE RICHT AND FIX THIS PROGRAM OR READ UM AND WEAP ANOTHER YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawg89
November 30th, 2010
6:37 pm
Go Dawgs and Go Richt. I am glad he is our coach. Even Dooley had down years. I’m willing to stick it out with him at helm.
Marcus is a dunce
November 30th, 2010
6:38 pm
Marcus, you are a dunce.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 30th, 2010
6:40 pm
Watch and see if Tenn wins the East next year
Then I want all the kool-aid drinkers to explain why we didnt
Marcus is a dunce
November 30th, 2010
6:48 pm
I would bet you a spare tire that UT won’t win the east next year. But, Marcus is a Dunce.
independent
November 30th, 2010
7:25 pm
Finishing order of the SEC east next year. 1.Florida 2.Tenn 3.S.Car 4.Kentucky 5. georgia 6. Vandy
The dogs continue their role as SEC patsy
T'ville Dawg
November 30th, 2010
7:26 pm
I am a huge Richt fan and a faithful Dawg. It is beyond belief that naysayers will trash CMR and wish him gone. I have heard nothing negative concerning Mack Brown at Texas or Paterno at Penn State during the times their programs were less than stellar. Even the great coaches, such as Dooley or Bear Bryant had slump years that had to be overcome.
Five star college coaches are not growing on trees out there. Calling for a coach to be fired leaves the question “Replace him with whom?”
Get behind CMR and our new AD McGarity and let them improve the program. I have the feeling that when the new defensive scheme matures, the DAWGS defense will again become dominant. Enjoy the flashes of talent that we do have and trust that the future teams wil gel and we will be very competitive playing the many superb teams in the SEC.
In short, quit the whining and get behind the DAWGS. For those of us who truly love the University of Georgia, that is our present job.
independent
November 30th, 2010
7:26 pm
dooley had many 7-4 and 8-3 seasons and the nutty dogs consider him a legend. Face it, you have always been a second tier program and nothing has changed. Accept it
Bob
November 30th, 2010
8:26 pm
Those are all welcome words!
Miserable Hater
November 30th, 2010
8:30 pm
You know what makes me miserable? Being 6-6. They don’t put up with this crap at school with fans who really care about football. At Georgia we’ve become a glorified Ole Miss.
Daniel
November 30th, 2010
8:50 pm
Georgia has to recruit for starters now because the running backs they have now have not performed very well. Their defensive line also needs immediate help. They need a solid nose guard and defensive ends to help anchor the d-line. This problem gives Coach Richt a lot of leverage he typically doesn’t have because if you recruit a player right out of high school and
tell him he will be starting Sept 3rd, on national TV, on prime time, against Boise State…that
is a tremendous recruiting advantage.
AltamahaDawg
November 30th, 2010
8:53 pm
Tell you what, in previous years when I suggested in here that maybe the offense should share some of the blame in a loss, you could have heard crickets chirping.
AltamahaDawg
November 30th, 2010
9:06 pm
so hater, you would say that the 6-6 record is some reflection on you personally?
AltamahaDawg
November 30th, 2010
9:09 pm
Marcus, who was next to last on 3rd and 10+, and who was #1 in that category? Aw hell, give us the top 10 and bottom 10. thanks.
bank walker
November 30th, 2010
9:12 pm
Hahahaha buckeye, you are out of your league here. Take your weak game back up North and talk football with your sister about your PowderPuff League, hahaha.
Sautee Dawg
November 30th, 2010
9:18 pm
AltamahaDawg
Oracle of Marietta
November 30th, 2010
9:27 pm
I am a life-long UGA fan. Went to the Sugar Bowl in ‘81. Hearing the ongoing crap out of Richts mouth has caused me to just not care anymore. He is poison for this storied program. Makes me sick to hear his excuses.
WJM III
November 30th, 2010
9:30 pm
As a University of Georgia graduate and sports writer in the state, we are boosting up some players mighty high in our signing class that weren’t even great high school football players. That’s a fact. Oh yeah, Crowell is gonna sign with Alabama in 11 days. I hate to ruin the surprise.
WJM III
November 30th, 2010
9:33 pm
I meant to say Crowell will commit to Alabama, not sign.
WJM III
November 30th, 2010
9:35 pm
We also whiffed on not going hard after a GREAT high school football player — Gainesville’s A.J. Johnson. All he did was make plays for four seasons, but obviously not good enough for our Bulldogs. Our loss in Tennessee’s gain.
C from Marietta
November 30th, 2010
9:41 pm
My question to the fans of other schools coming to this board. Are you really that lame?
Bama Bill
November 30th, 2010
9:44 pm
Richt is “dreaming” about other SEC schools/teams ! What a con job on the young 17-18 year olds ? This is a cheap marketing ploy at best.
C from Marietta
November 30th, 2010
9:46 pm
To OkefenokeeDawg,
Neither Kiffin or Crompton said any such thing. If he did, please provide proof or shut the h*ll up.
tl
November 30th, 2010
9:51 pm
Whatever makes you feel more hopeful I guess.
However, when has UGA had problem with recruiting?