Richt: ‘I have not talked to any other school about a job’
Georgia football coach Mark Richt expressed Saturday his gratification over UGA’s desire to extend his contract and intimated that, contrary to reports in Texas, he did not speak with Texas A&M about its coaching job.
“I’ve said many times Georgia is the place I want to be as long as Georgia will have me. That has never changed,” Richt said in a statement. “And it’s gratifying to know Georgia wants me.
“I have not talked to any other school about a job, nor do I have any interest in doing so. My interest is having a great recruiting year and start building toward next season.”
A report Friday in the San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle, citing an unnamed source, said Richt was “in the mix” for the Texas A&M job. The papers reported Saturday that Richt declined A&M’s job offer.
UGA athletic director Greg McGarity met with Richt on Friday to open discussions about extending the coach’s contract, which has two years remaining. McGarity said the meeting was planned before the A&M reports, which McGarity dismissed.
McGarity said he had not been contacted by A&M athletic director Bill Byrne and would have been if the Aggies were pursuing Richt.
Late Saturday afternoon, Texas A&M announced the hiring of Houston coach Kevin Sumlin.
McGarity said he and Richt will continue to talk about a contract extension. “He wants to be our coach,” McGarity said. “We want him to be our coach.”
Richt has a 106-37 record at Georgia, but his job appeared in jeopardy when the Bulldogs followed a 6-7 record in 2010 with back-to-back losses to start this season. The Dogs then won 10 consecutive games and the SEC East title.
– Tim Tucker
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John
December 10th, 2011
6:38 pm
I just want Richt to call the offensive plays again. His best years was when he was OC.
evil empire
December 10th, 2011
6:43 pm
yeah, Mark richt could coach at a service academy…his record of student athletes arrested is sterling…i hope ya’ll sign himn for life…
Texas Border Patrol Wants RIcht
December 10th, 2011
6:44 pm
Border Patrol will have a field day with all the A$$ kissing RIcht devoted idiots. They will have to build larger jails to put all the Hicksville UGA fans when they get Busted mainly for being Ed jo mo cated to the laws of the land…
Texas Border Patrol Wants RIcht == skid mark in toilet I just left
December 10th, 2011
6:47 pm
nuff said.
ARdawg
December 10th, 2011
6:50 pm
shankit
Hear hear!
Coach Ray Goff
December 10th, 2011
6:51 pm
If Coach Richt can beat Ga Tech most years, that’s good enough for most of us I’d say. Beating Florida once in a while doesn’t hurt either. I’m glad McGarity got a commitment.
Football Guy
December 10th, 2011
6:53 pm
How many times have we heard simalar words from so many other coaches. Richt is only one moving van away from going to A@M
Money Train
December 10th, 2011
6:54 pm
mcgarity better pay richt some huge money with a long term contract or he’ll be looking around for a big money job somewhere else.
m
December 10th, 2011
7:00 pm
mike 1st 2nd and 3rd:
get a life!
m
December 10th, 2011
7:02 pm
mike
it’s 1pm dude. push away from that bulldog key pad and do something constructive. haha
((((((((((((((( mike ))))))))))))))) hahahahahaha
m
December 10th, 2011
7:04 pm
Tech 68, UGA 56: What they were saying afterward….
m
December 10th, 2011
7:05 pm
mike
1pm of a Saturday afternoon and you…..you are typing on an AJC blog?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
((((((((((((((( mike ))))))))))))))) hahahahahaha
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December 10th, 2011
7:07 pm
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shankit
December 10th, 2011
7:22 pm
Saban is one moving van away from going to Jerry Jones,
they deserve each other.
Problem is, Saban’s statue is mounted on a trailer in Tuscaloosa,
he needs a small ball to go with his small hitch, to hook up with
his trailer. Note, to states he is hauling his latest statue to, his
tag is still registered in Lousiana
HeeHawDawg
December 10th, 2011
7:24 pm
Is it true Arizona State pulled the plug on the June Jones deal when they got a call from CMR’s agent?
Before you take another step there’s something you should know
About the years ahead and how they’ll be
You’ll be living in a world where roses hardly ever grow
Cause all I have to offer you is me
There’ll be no mansions waiting on the hill with crystal chandeliers
And there’ll be no fancy clothes for you to wear
Everything I have is standing here in front of you to see all I have to offer you is me
deaddog
December 10th, 2011
7:44 pm
Don`t keep Richt. All of us both dead and alive cannot stand more years of beatdowns.
Fire Richt to save the UGA`s.
Uga
December 10th, 2011
8:24 pm
Please go Mark. Give Georgia a chance to win.
tell me again
December 10th, 2011
8:39 pm
please leave Mark – we can’t stand averaging 10 wins a season in the toughest league in the country. And as for that LSU beatdown, yeah, we fell apart in the second half. But in the first half we left 17 points on the field and held the #1 team in the nation to 0 first downs and about 80 yards total offense. Oh, by the way – no SEC team has EVER been held for a half with no first downs . That was a first. Yep, we’re on a slippery slope. We do need some improvements to get to the truly elite level of the SEC, but I think, unlike some other teams fans who like to post on our board because there is nothing to talk about on their own boards, that we are on the upswing. We are deffinitely not sliding into the swamp. I know it’s hard for the Gators to admit it, but the glory days are quickly fading into the rear view mirror. Two years in a row of increasing losses is not a good sign = so much talent and so little to show for it – tsk, tsk…and I don’t believe any of these so called fans from other teams on here are really fans of theirs – they are just Tech fans using the names of other teams to try and stir the pot. Sad….really sad.
Oblama
December 10th, 2011
8:48 pm
Richt said on one of his TV shows that he does have an agent. I don’t Richt would say that unless it was true. I don’t think Richt is going anywhere but wouldn’t blame him if he did after all the whining and moaning from some of the idiots out there.
short memories
December 10th, 2011
8:50 pm
tell me again is grasping at straws by saying “we were in the game for a half”. Well so were other teams against LSU. Last season and the season before that stunk. We beat up on unranked teams but looked totally unorganized against ranked teams. We have no discipline, no clock management, a poor special teams coach (Richt) and no intelligence to adjust which is why we continually lost in the 4th quarter. Georgia is settling for continued mediocrity and when the season is over will be 0-4 against ranked teams this year.
IMHO
December 10th, 2011
9:00 pm
short memories == damn idiot.
IMHO II
December 10th, 2011
9:01 pm
Did I mention short memories is a damn idiot?
HeeHawDawg
December 10th, 2011
9:17 pm
Archie: “Junior, I heerd up thar in Noo York they’s a man gits hit by a car every thirty minutes.” Junior: “Lord, bet he’s getting’ t’ard a that by now.”
sports
December 10th, 2011
9:56 pm
HEY Tucker! What are trying to stirr up?
Sven Ottke
December 10th, 2011
10:08 pm
These are very cute semantics that Tim Tucker is playing. Yes, Richt didn’t reach out to Tx A&M. But if you think his agent didn’t, you people are fools. This was alot closer to being a hot deal than will ever be let on.
4.29 GPA
December 10th, 2011
10:19 pm
Robert Griffin III
Sam Bradford
Troy Smith
Jason White
Eric Crouch
Chris Weinke
Danny Wuerffel
Eddie George
Rashaan Salaam
Doug Flutie
Mike Rozier
Heisman Trophy is a JOKE. You will not know who the best player is in colege football any year until 9 January when the game this season is played.
Why the rush to name one, when it has been this bad ?
LET HIM GO!
December 10th, 2011
10:21 pm
There are many coaches who have talent who would love to come to Georgia. Why does the UGA administration sells the school so short! We need a coach who earns his keep and won’t embarrass us.
ray
December 10th, 2011
10:24 pm
Bulldogs fans are the GOP of college football. Just a bunch of dumb, arrogant hics with no idea the leader is taking them for all they are worth without having to deliver anything.
Congrats on another 10 years of being nothng but the biggest waste of talent in the NCAA.
There’s not another team in the SEC who’d let him sweep out the locker room.
Poor dumb dogs…bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
4.29 GPA
December 10th, 2011
10:27 pm
8-5 per year Kevin Sumlin at $ 1,350,000 is Texas A&M’s choice for head coach ? All those commericials everyday they run on every station about Texas A&M joining The SEC, and this is their choice ?
Curious.
As curious as is their 12th man BS about a scholarship football player on the team all season long who, when basketball season starts, quits football to play basketball at Texas A&M. Then, in the bowl game, the coach calls out on the PA for him to come on down. He goes down. They never play him.
Kevin Sumlin is their SECOND CHOICE, after Mark Richt 1st turned them down.
bitter dawgs fan
December 10th, 2011
10:30 pm
gog-darn TROLLS—-these love-fested trolls that —FIRE MARK RICHT FAN CLUB esrly in
—the year, have now become richt LAP DOGS.——-at least i’m as canded today as ever
—–COACH GRATHAM IS THE ONLY REASON –jaw-ger is nor 6-7 this year
—–offence was same ole same ole—beat weak teams and MURRY TURNING over the football
———every time he faced quality teams—— YOU TROLLS need to learn how to watch more georgia
————football—-and lay off the crow-face–weed.——–richt choked against every great team
———–this year——-fla–down year—–allburn—down year——–/////only the defence in the first
half of the LSU game keep the score from being more of a blow out
—————-grantham keep us in every game—–while RICHT AND MURRY tried to lose every important game————————fire richt
4.29 GPA
December 10th, 2011
10:32 pm
Mark Richt to Texas A&M. I have heard it all now. Over the last 13 years, since Texas A&M last updated their official won/lost record in 1999 (Prior to 1999 the NCAA mandated vacated victories as penalty and Texas A&M still hasn’t corrected those prior to 1999 season won/lost records.) Texas A&M has averaged a 6-Win season. 86 wins since 1999.
And, Mark Richt is supposed to what ? Fix all that with Texas A&M’s 39 percent win percentage all-time vs SEC teams ? Wish we had them in The SEC East. Let’s make them our permanent West opponent.
4.29 GPA
December 10th, 2011
10:33 pm
Mark Richt can recruit.
bitter dawgs fan
December 10th, 2011
10:37 pm
@ ray—tide troll go F-@#$%—-pu_nk—–go back to your single wide and adjust your bamma state
flower—-aka—-satilite dish—–hahahahah
GTBob
December 10th, 2011
10:38 pm
Kevin Sumlin is their SECOND CHOICE, after Mark Richt 1st turned them down.
Yeah, when the guy who would have cost 4 million a year turned them down they went with a guy for 1.3 million. Use some common sense. Richt was never a candidate there.
4.29 GPA
December 10th, 2011
10:40 pm
Nope. Not with their 6-win seasons every year starting 13 years ago.
4.29 GPA
December 10th, 2011
10:41 pm
Wait until you see these 12th Man SB Sports Blog they have over there. What a hoot. They don’t allow opinions there, only that which they lie about themselves trying to make themselves out to be great.
gadawg7781
December 10th, 2011
10:52 pm
Quit beating a DEAD HORSE! Coach Richt will retire at UGA and will have a NC within the next few years.
4.29 GPA
December 10th, 2011
11:06 pm
.500 batting average on that post.
TampaGator
December 10th, 2011
11:24 pm
@tellmeagain…….
“I know it’s hard for the Gators to admit it, but the glory days are quickly fading into the rear view mirror. Two years in a row of increasing losses is not a good sign = so much talent and so little to show for it – tsk, tsk…”
2009 – 8 wins and 5 loses
2010 – 6 wins and 7 loses
2010 – 8 wins and 5 loses
2011 – 6 wins and 6 loses
The first one was Georgia.
The second one was Florida.
so, “tellmeagain”……..your logic only applies to the Gators, right?
Truth…..last year, Georgia was a couple of pieces (and an easy schedule) from turning it around.
Truth…..this year, Florida is a couple of pieces (and not having to play LSU and Bama both) from turning it around.
GTBob
December 10th, 2011
11:31 pm
Coach Richt will retire at UGA and will have a NC within the next few years.
Amazing that some still think this is possible.
FLA DAWG
December 10th, 2011
11:39 pm
In the last two years we’ve beaten unranked or low ranked teams.
Our record is 16 – 8 despite the joke teams we’ve beaten.
Richt has two years left in his current contract and we are offering him a multi year extension after a slaughter by LSU and before we play one down against MSU!?
Richt has continued to support Bobo (need I say more?)
MCGARITY WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
GOD WILL GIVE ME JUSTICE………….. We can only hope so.
But all of the above is just my opinion.
Hap
December 11th, 2011
12:36 am
If I were Richt I would listen to anyone. This town doesn’t deserve him. The man loses two games to two of the best teams in country and you people want to run him out of town. He runs off ten straight and now he’s gold. I’m embarrassed to say I’m from the worst sports city in world.
Dawg Whisperer
December 11th, 2011
12:44 am
From my observations, the vast majority that diss coach Richt on these AJC sports boards are gator and tech fans. It’s kinda of like peeing in the wind. No matter how hard you try, you still get wet for all your effort. Coach Richt will be back (yeah, I know, you want UGA to sign him up for another 10 years-me too). Going to the SEC championship (4) years out of (10) years will get you a new contract at any SEC school.
Break out the kool-aid coach Richt, I’ll join you. It beats drinking whatever it is that SSIgator is imbibing.
Red Stick
December 11th, 2011
1:06 am
Of course Richt didn’t speak to A&M but you better believe his agent did.
Richt is not stupid. Why would he want to go in the West and face Saban & Miles each year?
My point is that he would have not taken that job. The East is ripe for the Dawgs to dominate for the next few years. Georgia has alot of talent coming back and has better players than South Carolina. Florida is down and won’t be back for a while as the jury is certainly out on Muschamp. I would be concerned if I were a Gator fan and I know many are.
Geaux Tigers
SEC Champions
dagnabit
December 11th, 2011
3:55 am
Where are all of those dawgfans who were wanting to get rid of Richt after the South Carolina game. You know who you are.
4.29 GPA
December 11th, 2011
4:25 am
I should like to discuss a player that the local press has completely ignored. There is 1 member of The Georgia Bulldogs’ Football team who is eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame.
He played basketball and was all-state. He is 6’ 3” and 241 lbs. He is eligible for The NFL Draft after the bowl game. He is a Redshirt Sophomore.
In 2009, he was spectacular but against Oregon he got his neck sprained severely.
After the 2009 season, he asked to be transferred to Mark Richt.
For Dell McGee, Carver High School Columbus Georgia, twice he was named All-America. 1 year he totaled 157 tackles. He made interceptions, sacks, tackles for loss, pass break-ups, forced fumbles, and fumble recoveries in route to Carver Winning the State AAA Championship in Football.
Journalism Major.
He is a fine student.
He is named to the Nagurski Award Watch List for 2011-2012, as a Sophomore.
Florida Gators especially found him a handful with 5 tackles including 4 sacks for minus – 27 yards, and he forced a fumble against Florida.
For the Season, # 29 for Georgia, led the team in tackles, 69, from his Outside Linebacker Position.
He also led the team in sacks, 10.5, eight solo, and this is # 1 in The SEC as well.
He is third in the nation in sacks.
He lived in the opponents’ back-field all season long, starting all 13 games.
He led the team in Tackles for a Loss with 19.5 for minus -103 yards. This also leads The SEC in TFL, and is tenth nationally.
42 Quarterback Hurries. 42 Quarterback Pressures.
2 Pass Break-ups.
2 Forced Fumbles.
Do you want to know why Georgia is so much a better defense 2011 than 2010 ?
Named All America 1st Team by Consensus of all All America 1st Teams is a Requirement to be in The College Football Hall of Fame.
1st Team All America AP, 1st Team All America Coaches’, 1st Team All America American Football Coaches’ Association, 1st Team Football Writers’ Association of America.
JARVIS JONES.
red&black
December 11th, 2011
5:06 am
@ 4.29 GPA:
Not that it’s going to happen, but I would really like to see what he’s like as a senior. I don’t know if it’s possible for him to get any better. The very thought of him being around for 2 more years has to strike fear in the hearts of the rest of the conference. With him, ‘Tree, Herrera, Vasser, Gilliard, Drew and Turene (if he gets it), that’s a serious LB corps. And what would make it sweeter, would be for Dillon Lee to change his mind about the bill of goods that Saban has sold him.
red&black
December 11th, 2011
5:09 am
I saw Dillon Lee in the state championship game Friday night. He recovered a fumble and took it to the house. This guy’s got skills.
4.29 GPA
December 11th, 2011
6:55 am
That is the only pre-requisite to be in the College Football Hall of Fame. You MUST be consensus All-America. How many sophomores have ever been named All America Consensus ? How many of them are not in the College Football Hall of Fame ? Drew Butler was Consensus All America in 2009. Then, in 2010 and 2011, he is not. He might win be NCAA Top Eight Award winner with OT Jon Stinchcomb 2002, OT Matt Stinchcomb 1998, and Rover Terry Hoage 1983 which was then the NCAA Top Six Award they called it for Academics. Drew Butler is close to that. Knowshon Moreno was Consensus All America in 2008 as a Sophomore, but we only got to see him 2 years. David Pollack was Certainly Consensus All-America as a Sophomore (and Junior and Senior) and he is SHO-IN for the College Football Hall of Fame when he comes up. Herschel Walker was Consenus All America as a Freshman and as a Sophomore (then again as a Junior before challenging the NFL) and he is the # 1 College Football Hall of Fame player Ever (not the “GPOE” Tim Tebow whose mom should have gone ahead.)
That is it for Georgia, red& black, for Sophomores who won Consensus All America.
Blunt Dawg
December 11th, 2011
7:27 am
Our DC would beat the snot out of your DC.