McGarity: Outback Bowl loss won’t impact negotiations with Richt
Georgia’s loss to Michigan State in the Outback Bowl will have no impact on contract negotiations between UGA and football coach Mark Richt, which remain at least “three to four weeks” away from completion, according to Athletic Director Greg McGarity.
Georgia AD Greg McGarity said the Bulldogs' overtime loss to Michigan State did nothing to change his opinion on the direction of the football program under coach Mark Richt. (UGA photo)
“We plan to meet as soon as we can get together,” McGarity said Wednesday. “But I don’t see anything, certainly not a signed document, anytime soon. We’ll start the process of digging into the details of our extension and it will be determined in the near future.”
McGarity also urged fans upset over the Bulldogs’ 33-30, triple-overtime loss to the Spartans to keep the defeat in perspective.
“Blair Walsh kicks a 42-yard field goal and we’re sitting here feeling great about ourselves,” McGarity said. “But would we have solved our running game problem? No. Would that have solved them being able to go on an 85-yard drive with no timeouts? No. So, I mean, the dynamics haven’t changed. It’s not going to matter diddly-squat when we start lifting weights in three weeks. If anything it’ll add more incentive for next year.”
Georgia lost back-to-back games — including a loss to LSU in the SEC Championship game — to finish the 2011 season 10-4. Richt, 51, is 106-38 heading into his 12th year as the Bulldogs’ coach.
McGarity said there is no rush to complete a new deal with Richt, who has two years remaining on an employment agreement that pays him $2.81 million annually. Including bonuses and outside income from endorsements, Richt earns more than $3 million a year.
Richt is expected to receive an extension of at least three years, which would keep him as the Bulldogs’ coach through December of 2016. McGarity said he and Richt already agreed in principle when they met last month.
“This is an important recruiting time and I told Mark after the SEC Championship game that he could go to these high school kids and tell them he’s going to be their head coach,” McGarity said. “We felt it was very important to send out the message that we haven’t worked everything out but Mark’s going to be our coach. That was the immediate need, to go ahead and address the future of our program. But we didn’t get into any details or anything like that that’s kind of where we left it. He wants to be here and we want him to be here.”
Any renegotiation is unlikely to include a significant pay raise for Richt, however. Richt is sixth among SEC coaches in compensation but that ranks No. 11 nationally. Alabama’s Nick Saban ($4.8 million), LSU’s Les Miles ($3.75), Auburn’s Gene Chizik ($3.5), Arkansas’s Bobby Petrino ($3.1) and South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier ($2.88) currently make more than Richt.
“Longevity is the first priority and then compensation would follow,” McGarity said.
McGarity said he has received about 50 emails in the wake of Georgia’s loss this past Monday. He said “about half” of those fans complained about coaching decisions made as the Bulldogs let a 16-0 at halftime lead slip away. Michigan State scored a touchdown with 14 seconds left in regulation to tie the game at 27-all and send it into overtime.
Walsh missed a 42-yard field goal attempt that would have won the game in the first overtime, then had a 47-yard attempt blocked in the third OT.
“Any time you lose a game, especially one as gut-wrenching as that one was, people get frustrated and they vent in various ways,” McGarity said. “If the game was lopsided, if we had lost 42-0 or something, then there would be some concerns. But to point the finger at a player or a coach or offense or defense or special teams is a waste of time. That was a true team loss. There are plenty of second guessers out there, but there are so many what-ifs on either side it could have gone either way.”
What McGarity hasn’t heard is enough credit being given to the Spartans, who recorded back-to-back 11-win seasons for the first time in school history.
“What I have not seen in one email is anyone giving any credit to the Michigan State team, and that’s very unfortunate because they made the plays they needed to win the game,” McGarity said. “The first thing you should do when you get beat is give the other team credit, because they’re working just as hard as you are. Kirk Cousins, look what he did in the last two minutes of the game with no timeouts. That was pretty impressive, as was the way they defended us in the second half. Unfortunately people never give the opponent any credit.”
McGarity said it’s important that Georgia fans rally behind the team, which he thinks has a chance to do some great things next season.
“We go from 6-7 to 10-4 and we’re looking forward to 2012,” McGarity said. “We’ve got a lot of kids coming back, a great nucleus and a great group of leaders. There’s a segment of our fans that want to play the blame game. But when you have a loss like that, everybody shares in it. I’m sure everybody on that field felt like they if they could have done something differently, coaches and players, we might not have lost the game. But that’s just part of the deal.
“What is important is for people to know that Mark Richt is our football coach, and he and his staff and these players spend so much time in an effort to bring championship football to Georgia. . . . The more negative people become, the more it distracts you from being successful.”
NOTES: Georgia’s annual G-Day spring football game has been set for April 14. No other spring practice dates have been set. . . . Junior noseguard John Jenkins sprained the AC joint in his left shoulder late in the Outback Bowl. However, the injury is not expected to require surgery and he will be available for spring practice. . . . Freshman wide receiver Chris Conley will undergo wrist surgery this month. . . .Redshirt freshman tailback Ken Malcome suffered a concussion early in the fourth quarter against Michigan State and did not play the rest of the game.
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ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
3:02 pm
Ex-Con
It’s going to happen. a 3 year extension with a salary bump for 5 years total. Doesn’t mean much. If he ever came to the level of firing, contracts won’t stop them. My problem with it is the reward for mediocrity
Jacket99
January 5th, 2012
3:02 pm
ARDawg
Don’t know why my post was gobbled up. I’ll try to keep it brief. I don’t disagree with you about the defense being gassed. However, I think the old adage is true. The team that wants it more will win. To me, it is one of the more compelling aspects of college football.
Stinger2
January 5th, 2012
3:02 pm
McGarity, in a nice way, told the huge number of Rich/Bobo haters to back off. Hopefully at least some of them will understand the message and just try to be fans instead of trying to run the UGA program. I am a GT fan but I also like UGA and wish CMRand the UGA team the best until the next Sat. after Thanksgiving
aldogg2121
January 5th, 2012
3:04 pm
One question I would really like answered is who was responsible for the ultra-conservative play calling at the end of regulation? Richt or Bobo? Why not try to pick up a 1st down and salt the game away on offense? Why put it all on our D’s shoulders? There was 2:00 remaining in the game…despite the fact that they had no timeouts, that is still a lot of time in college football.
Remember the Florida game when we threw it late to keep the chains moving? Where was that mentality???????
MJ
January 5th, 2012
3:04 pm
Georgia needs to decide whether they want a high profile guy like a Saban or Meyer, who MIGHT win a championship or two and be gone after 5 – 7 years leaving the talent pool depleted, or Richt, who will have a strong contending program every year. If you want a guy who will go 12-0 every year, CMR is probably not your guy. If you want sustained success and 10 – 2 or 9 – 3 seasons, with the possiblity of a SEC championsip and National title, then he is your guy. Pick your poison Dawg nation. There are only a few Saban’s, Miles, Stoops, Brown’s out there.
ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
3:04 pm
Jacket99
*hands in the air* MSU beat us. They were the better team. No argument here. I really struggle to say that “that was Georgia football”. But, it was. I don’t like it.
rhbDAWG1
January 5th, 2012
3:07 pm
Who do you think we’re going to get who will do any better. Before you answer, think about what happened to Michigan with Rich Rodriguez and look at Florida’s great hire. Don’t forget Tennessee getting rid of Fulmer. I saw Vince Dooley replace Johnny Griffith and remember him having several losing seasons before the NC in 1980. Urban Myer took Ron Zook’s recruits and won a NC – what has happened to Florida since? We’ve had great teams under Coach Richt and will have them (possibly NC(s) again. Most of you loudest complainers never played organized football and certainly not at a winning high school or college level.
AltamahaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:10 pm
Just to be clear, that person was not you ARdawg. That aside, How was that disingenuous? I get that some of those teams were not as good, BUT that person was specifically saying “coming into the season”. He wasnt talking in hindsight. Beating UF, TN, GT, AU (and I would add MSU that everybody thought would give us fits) all was indeed a tall task to him, at the time he claims to have expected a couple of big wins.
If he wants to talk now in retrospect, it’s mighty convenient to now ignore that the “just a couple of big wins” Is against 4 of the top 10 team, none of whom have won less than 11 games, and needing to beat half of them. How many teams did do that?
. I agree, we need to get back to the point of doing that. ……but to suggest that its just a miserable failure to meet minimal realistic expectation THIS year…..come on!
I would say that its a lot more realistic to say that we were/are pretty close to doing that, than to suggest how horrible it makes us not to.
Jacket99
January 5th, 2012
3:13 pm
ARdawg
Be careful. You will be picking a fight with True Dawg Fan with talk like that. MSU was the better team that day, but it could be a different story any given Saturday. I’m just expressing an opinion that things could be much worse for the Dawgs if you get rid of your coach (ala UT Vols). If I was a Dawg fan, I would look at the positives. McGarity is a good AD. Richt is a good man. Grantham has turned the defense around. For every Crowell you recruit, you get a Marshall and a Drew. The bowl losses were embarrassing, but I think both the Jackets and the Dawgs will be better in 2012.
rhbDAWG1
January 5th, 2012
3:15 pm
“Bobo is not the problem” Why do you want to go 12 and 0 every year? That will mean you are on probation and cannot go 14 and 0 every year. I, of course, want to go 14 and 0 every year, but I surely don’t expect to (and neither does any rational human being). Coach Dooly had several years where we won 6 or 7. From your posts, you seem to regard that as a “losing year”.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 5th, 2012
3:16 pm
Vince may have has only 1 losing seasons but he had a few 6-6 & 5-5 seasons.
69, 70, 74, & 77 was the 5-6.
Be a Man about it
January 5th, 2012
3:18 pm
For the record, 9 of 14 teams had winning Records. UGA beat 5 of them plus all with losing records
steven
January 5th, 2012
3:19 pm
Hey dawg with bags how about cutting holes in it so you can see out of it.The coach coach’s the players excucute the plays blame the players not the coach idiot.What do you expect the coach to do hold their little hand?
Will Smith
January 5th, 2012
3:21 pm
Since Mike Bobo became OC, (50 games) UGA is 32-18. Since Nov 2008, UGA has beaten only 2 teams that finished ranked in the top20, GaTech in 2008, Auburn 2011. We’ve beaten only 1 team that had a defense ranked in the top “50”, FLA this season 2011 and remember, that was a 24-20 final against a 6-6 team!
This season 2011, we have 10 wins against teams with a combined record of 56-64. Exclude Non-FBS school Coastal Carolina (7-4), our opponents were 49-60! Our 3 losses, all against ranked teams who combined for 33-3 records were embarrassing. 21 of the 32 wins since Mike Bobo became OC have come against;
Vanderbilt (4)
Ga Tech (3)
Kentucky (3)
Arizona St (2)
Central Michigan
Coastal Carolina
Georgia Southern
Idaho State
Louisiana Lafayette
Mississippi State
New Mexico State
Mississippi
Tennessee (2011) They stunk
Tennessee Tech
That leaves UGA 11-18 against teams like, Ala, Fla, Lsu. Usc, Aub, Tenn, Including embarrassing losses to non conference Ok St. 10-24, Colorado, 27-29, Boise St. 21-35, & USF 6-10, Mich St. 30-33.during this 50 game stretch.
Joey
January 5th, 2012
3:22 pm
“Then CMR is not my guy. I want to go 12-0 every year.’
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Then you better start pulling for Bama.
The majority of Bulldog fans are completely happy with 10 wins (no matter how many we lose). I’ll admit I was pretty happy with 10-2. Then to watch UGA get embarrassed in the next two, with atrocious coaching from the sideline, was just sickening.
Oh well, the sooner I get in my head that this is as good as it will ever get while Richt is here, the better. We’re a joke again in the national sports press.
Thanks, Coach Field Goal. One question, though – since you made that dramatic improvement in ‘11, are you gonna continue with that cutting edge studying? Just wondering when we maight see a little . . .
Enjoy your new contract and raise.
TampaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:22 pm
Bobo is Not the Problem
January 5th, 2012
3:12 pm
“I saw Vince Dooley replace Johnny Griffith and remember him having several losing seasons before the NC in 1980.”
Your memory is wrong. Dooley had exactly ONE losing season in 25 years.
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True, but how many seasons at .500 did he have? The point is still the same.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
3:23 pm
Jacket99
January 5th, 2012
3:13 pm
ARdawg
Be careful. You will be picking a fight with True Dawg Fan with talk like that. MSU was the better team that day, but it could be a different story any given Saturday. I’m just expressing an opinion that things could be much worse for the Dawgs if you get rid of your coach (ala UT Vols). If I was a Dawg fan, I would look at the positives. McGarity is a good AD. Richt is a good man. Grantham has turned the defense around. For every Crowell you recruit, you get a Marshall and a Drew. The bowl losses were embarrassing, but I think both the Jackets and the Dawgs will be better in 2012.
Thats doesnt make me mad. what angers me is the constant crying on here. It was a tough loss to swallow and I have no problem admitting that they won and should have won the way we played. Better team that day yes, overall not really.
I say not really bc with the talent on the team we should be able to put up great numbers on both sides of the ball. But Bobo takes his foot off the gas to quickly, and he had a game plan that would have won the game had he stayed with it. Put in the fast guys at RB and do sweeps to the outside, mixed in with some short passes to account for the lack of running game. But up 16 he put on the breaks and went back to running up the gut and cost us the game.
tony
January 5th, 2012
3:24 pm
TampaDawg
January 5th, 2012
1:48 pm
Ok troll, you don’t have to at all actually. Just turn the tv off.
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I am no troll young man. Trolls are those who are attacking fans for expressing their displeasure about the way Mr.Richt is destroying our team. Rather he stays or goes, they need to hire a brilliant OC who can motivate, has his own playbook and will have sole control over the offense.
tape worm
January 5th, 2012
3:25 pm
I think next year will be much the same as this season. The defense should be very good but how affective do you think two freshmen RB recruits will be in the SEC, the same for Theus on the offensive line. Georgia really has no outstanding talent on the offensive line to help bring him along. History tell us that Murry is not a very good game manager. No great seasons until we recruit top offensive line talent, then another two years.
Joey
January 5th, 2012
3:28 pm
Don’t be a HATER, Will Smith.
In case you didn’t know, official statisics putting Richt and Co in a bad light, even if they are absolutely true, makes you a HATER.
And by the way, Bobo calls the exact plays that Mark Richt want’s him to call. He wears a headset and could overrule a play call anytime. Mark Richt owns that offense.
ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
3:29 pm
Altamaha
I understand. It wasn’t me but, it could have been. I would have been happier than a pig in slop if I had known we’d beat the FL, TN and AU at the beginning of the year. The idea being they were the toughest teams we’d face. The toughest team this year were the ones out of left field Boise, SC LSU.
My sour note this year is kind’a like much of the tone on the blog, we didn’t beat anyone good. That said when one looks at us honestly, we’re just not that good. I think we should be. We’re just not
Coon-Dawg
January 5th, 2012
3:29 pm
Mich State stopped us in the 2nd half because our play calling is so predictable that we are easy to defend ! … Stop giving excuses for Bobo ! … He’s got to go !!!
AltamahaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:30 pm
I don’t know if Mcgarity was asking any Richt/Bobo basher to back off. He knows the nature sports talk. In fact in I thought he was saying the opposite in a very insighful way.
What I can’t understand is why more folks aren’t patting him on the back for those comments. He basically said that even if we win that game (and none of the bashers are to be found), we still would need to fix X,Y,and Z.
TampaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:30 pm
Tony
“I am no troll young man. Trolls are those who are attacking fans for expressing their displeasure about the way Mr.Richt is destroying our team. Rather he stays or goes, they need to hire a brilliant OC who can motivate, has his own playbook and will have sole control over the offense.”
Richt is destroying the team? Really? Compare where it was when he took over to where it is now and get back to me (thanks for the young man thing by the way, I could use it at my age). Compare the state of the UGA program to the current state of the UF program.
tape worm
January 5th, 2012
3:33 pm
TampaDawg – I believe UF won their bowl game and played a much much tougher schedule!
tony
January 5th, 2012
3:34 pm
The dawgs need a motivator like this man>>http://youtu.be/ENJyS1OOzfM
tony
January 5th, 2012
3:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJyS1OOzfM&feature=related
Lakedawg
January 5th, 2012
3:41 pm
True Dawg Fan—I again award you with the Dawg bone of the day–Nobody can clear the board of trolls like you can.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 5th, 2012
3:42 pm
lakedawg you better take that Dawg bone back and shove it up True TOOL Fan’s butt.
AltamahaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:44 pm
Saying how good we are relative to how good we “should” be is a pretty loose criteria, but I get that you think we should be in better shape in the big picture. That we should be better overall the past few years (with resources/money/talent). Agree.
What I do not get is why be so damning NOW, as if it’s a logical disappointment about not being a top 10 team at the end of THIS season. And not be upset about that 15 weeks ago. We finished as good or better than anyone realistically thought we would be then.
TampaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:45 pm
Joey
January 5th, 2012
3:28 pm
Don’t be a HATER, Will Smith.
In case you didn’t know, official statisics putting Richt and Co in a bad light, even if they are absolutely true, makes you a HATER.
And by the way, Bobo calls the exact plays that Mark Richt want’s him to call. He wears a headset and could overrule a play call anytime. Mark Richt owns that offense.
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NO COACH DOES THIS!!
It’s the first rule of leadership. If you want to empower leaders, you have to let them lead. Even if they fall on their face, you have to let them and work with them afterwards. Eisenhower even came up under that philosophy. The first time CMR “overrules” Bobo mid-game, he will lose credibility in a heartbeat.
wins-by-a-link
January 5th, 2012
3:46 pm
Don’t give up on McGarity, No documents have been signed, I still believe the AD will push Richt to make changes on offense, Namely a new OC, I think McGarity is a low key type person and any discusions on coaching personnel will remain confidential, Richt will be the one to announce changes but McGarity will be the one who forced Richt’s hand.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
3:48 pm
Lakedawg
January 5th, 2012
3:41 pm
True Dawg Fan—I again award you with the Dawg bone of the day–Nobody can clear the board of trolls like you can.
I do what I can for the sake of the blog and the real fans on here for UGA
TampaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:49 pm
tape worm
January 5th, 2012
3:33 pm
TampaDawg – I believe UF won their bowl game and played a much much tougher schedule!
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Of course they did. They beat an OSU team that couldn’t even beat Miami. They also lost to UGA and a mediocre FSU team. Good for them.
Dawg48
January 5th, 2012
3:49 pm
There is not a problem going conservative with a 16 point lead.
Only if you can run the ball and get some first downs and run the clock.
UGA does not have the running backs or the O line to do that.
As soon as LSU got a 2 TD lead on us in the SEC champ game, they just ran the ball downhill killed the clock and wore down the defense. We need a O line and running backs!
ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
3:51 pm
I was upset 15 weeks ago
I wanted a turn around worse than anyone and felt pretty good with the 10th win. I’m not bandwagon here. I’m just calling them like I see them. We do have an increased number of wins over last year. I’m glad for that but, I still see where the program is wallowing in the mediocrity. I am afraid FL and TN will be back before we are and we’ve been down longer than either of those
AltamahaDawg
January 5th, 2012
3:51 pm
That’s not to say I am not very disapointed to not beat those team too. I am. We actually could have and didn’t. (the other side is that we could have lost a couple more and didn’t too, which we DID last year). So really, the disapointment was that we almost showed WAY more improvement than anyone guessed.
I just think there is a difference between disapointment and indictment.
Dawg48
January 5th, 2012
3:53 pm
UGA does not have a problem scoring points. We put up points in every game!
The problem is keeping the lead, we need linemen and running backs and fullbacks.
It’s hard to run out of the power I formation with no fullback and C Thomas.
We need to sign 3 backs this class to go along with the fullback that is committed.
Also sign the O line!
ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
3:53 pm
I suppose I personally would feel better if Richt was on the hotseat as opposed to celebrating him with a raise and an extension for what is at best, modest improvement
Dawg48
January 5th, 2012
3:55 pm
Don’t dream of a NC for next year. LSU will be even better next year.
Joey
January 5th, 2012
3:59 pm
Oh bull, TampaDawg. What’s the headset for then, his looks? I have seen head coaches rush to call time-outs, then talk nonstop on the headset. You think they were discussing the weather with their OCs?
I can just see Urban Myer or Nick Saban biting his tongue when the wrong play at the wrong time is called, for the sake of “credibility of the OC.”
Geez . . .
AltamahaDawg
January 5th, 2012
4:00 pm
Feel better, but not best for the program. You might just have to suck it up for the good of the team there.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
4:00 pm
Dawg48
January 5th, 2012
3:53 pm
UGA does not have a problem scoring points. We put up points in every game!
The problem is keeping the lead, we need linemen and running backs and fullbacks.
It’s hard to run out of the power I formation with no fullback and C Thomas.
We need to sign 3 backs this class to go along with the fullback that is committed.
Also sign the O line!
But there are other ways when you dont have the personnel needed to run the ball down someones throat. We have too much speed to not have a way to kill the clock by keeping the chains moving. With Mich st all we had to do was keep boykin or smith in the back field and run the toss sweeps or jet sweeps to the outside. It was working when it was called but was abondoned instead for CT up the gut.
So it isnt a necessity to have the biggest and best o line or RBs. Bobo has to be able to deal with these kinds of things and change the game plan to fit whats going on. So far he has shown he cant come close to doing this for us.
But it sure would be nice to be able to power run the clock down and eat the clock up. But fact is right now we dont have the ability to do so and need to have another way to get the same result.
GulfShoresDawg
January 5th, 2012
4:01 pm
Greg is the best AD in the country…He and CMR will be leading UGA for many years to come…and I will be a season ticket holder for many years to come…trolls, idiots…top tier program…118 D1 schools and UGA virtually stays in the top 25…I think we are always top tier!!!
BillDog
January 5th, 2012
4:01 pm
BOBO MUST GO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TampaDawg
January 5th, 2012
4:02 pm
ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
3:53 pm
I suppose I personally would feel better if Richt was on the hotseat as opposed to celebrating him with a raise and an extension for what is at best, modest improvement
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I think at the beginning of the season, after going 0-2, if someone would have told you, me or anyone else that the team would win 10 games, beat UF, AU, UT and GT, and go to the SECCG, we would have hardly called that a modest improvement.
bruce mac
January 5th, 2012
4:02 pm
I think anyone that has watched UGA the last several years realizes we must upgrade our Offensive Coordinator position. Mr. Bobo is a good coach and recruiter, he should be in charge of Quarterbacks. I know for a fact Mr. McGarity is a smart man, learned from the best and is extremely capable of making good decisions, even if they are hard ones. He cannot come out and say we are going to replace the OC, he has more class than that. Just let him do his work, you will be happy in the end and UGA will win the SEC in short order.
ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
4:03 pm
I’ve sucked up up for years now and I will for as long as I need too. I would like a breather or two in there. And yes, I’ll by.tch and belly ache the whole way
Joey
January 5th, 2012
4:04 pm
“UGA does not have a problem scoring points. We put up points in every game!”
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Yeah, til we play a good defense. How many points did our O score in the last two games? Even with good field position multiple times in both games?
I ain’t looking it up but probably 2 total TDs in two games – 3 at the most.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
4:04 pm
Joey
January 5th, 2012
3:59 pm
Oh bull, TampaDawg. What’s the headset for then, his looks? I have seen head coaches rush to call time-outs, then talk nonstop on the headset. You think they were discussing the weather with their OCs?
I can just see Urban Myer or Nick Saban biting his tongue when the wrong play at the wrong time is called, for the sake of “credibility of the OC.”
Geez . . .
wow you couldnt be anymore wrong here. Richt doesnt get to overrule plays. All the plays on the sheet are his, but Bobo has final say on what play is run period.
Thats like saying Richt can also at anytime over rule CTG on a def play call?? It just doesnt happen It shows a complete lack of faith in the OC (Granted there is no faith in Bobo). But you cant show that in front of the players by changing the call.
The only plays I see Richt having any say so over are ones that are called during timeouts, or the scripted plays run at the beginning of the game.