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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True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:28 am
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
January 5th, 2012
10:25 am
True Dawg Fan
Back to pour more kool-aid for a fanbase thats finally woke up and isnt drinking it no more
you call these ppl the fan base???? ahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Majority of ppl here like urself are cry baby fringe fans that are never impressed regardless of what happens.
The real fans know that McGarity has it under control and that he a plan to fix the OC crap and special teams. I have a very hard time believeing that the extension doesnt come with clauses for those two areas and then clauses to fire Bmac and demote Bobo.
ARdawg
January 5th, 2012
10:28 am
3 years, 5 total
DawginSewer
January 5th, 2012
10:29 am
Richt just floated by. Says he got 5 more years. Choakdawg got two more Krispy Kreme shops. Saban will get 3 more national championships.
Vanderbilt is our new daddy in waiting.
monty
January 5th, 2012
10:30 am
Beat the bad teams + lose to the good teams + recruit well so that there is always that carrot dangling that says “one day were going to get to the mountain top,see look at our recuits”(dream team) = a pretty good pay day for CMR. Lots of style points but not much else.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
January 5th, 2012
10:31 am
Tom in ATL
UGA has never been a perinial national title contender
Do some history; if you count titles like Notre Dame and AL does UGA has 5 and as for season expectations
I expect a coach paid $3 million a year with the recruiting base the state of Georgia has to beat a top 20 every year not once every 4 years
Get a clue MORON
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:31 am
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:27 am
True Dawg—-
Look you are embarassing yourself here. Then you wanna name call on on top of it and act like a 10 year old.
Im embarrassing myself?????? ahahahahahah thats hillarious.
first off I dont give a crap what ppl on this blog think of me or my opinion. Not even a little.
What you dont like to be called names??? Then dont act like an idiot and stop your crying. Its pathetic. U can sit there all u want and cry to urself and be pessimistic but dont spew ur garbage here.
dawgfan
January 5th, 2012
10:32 am
“What – exactly – were your expectations coming into this season?”
A couple of big wins. We had none. Florida? They were horrible. Auburn? Average at best. Tech? LMAO. We haven’t had any big wins in a long long time. When was the last time you woke up on Sunday morning and thought “Wow!! I can’t believe we won that game!!!” I can’t even remember its been so long. If this was to truly be a turnaround year we should have had some big wins. But again, we had none.
I don’t think beating the 10 teams that we beat is any big deal at all. That should happen every year.
Thanks.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:32 am
monty
January 5th, 2012
10:30 am
Beat the bad teams + lose to the good teams + recruit well so that there is always that carrot dangling that says “one day were going to get to the mountain top,see look at our recuits”(dream team) = a pretty good pay day for CMR. Lots of style points but not much else.
Hey DA the dream team were all freshman and they didnt all play. Look for them out their next year with some experience. Its gunna be fun to watch
Jim
January 5th, 2012
10:33 am
BULLCRAP!!!!! McGarity is drinking the Kool-Aid. Did he watch West Virginia last night and see what a GREAT offensisve coordinator can do. We have our defense togerther. Bobo must go if we have any chance against with top 20 teams.
Recruiting MUST improve in a state with the 3rd most 4 and 5 star high school players. We can’s continue to undersign. We have no depth.
It is not negative when the comments are the truth.
DawginLex
January 5th, 2012
10:34 am
How is bama still recruiting players with 24 commits and only 18 available scholarships????????????
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:34 am
DawginLex
January 5th, 2012
10:34 am
How is bama still recruiting players with 24 commits and only 18 available scholarships????????????
they plan on signing 30 and cutting players to make room. Will be huge in JJ decision between us
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:35 am
dawgfan—
Exactly!!!
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:36 am
DawginLex
January 5th, 2012
10:34 am
How is bama still recruiting players with 24 commits and only 18 available scholarships????????????
FYI you should try out leatherhelmetblog.com if you havent yet. Great recruiting articles on there. much better than rivals.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:37 am
True Dawg—-
If you didnt care what I thought of your opinion why are you responding?
evil empire
January 5th, 2012
10:38 am
How is bama still recruiting players with 24 commits and only 18 available scholarships????????????
they will keep doing it until they are told to stop…its working and they are winning…welcome to big time college football….
Zoomie
January 5th, 2012
10:38 am
“Blair Walsh kicks a 42-yard field goal and we’re sitting here feeling great about ourselves,” Not really; I’d be thinking UGA dodged a bullet.
“But would we have solved our running game problem?” This is key. UGA’s offensive line (biggest average o-line in football) got manhandled for 60 minutes by a Big 10 defensive line. I mean, they were absolutely dominated. And UGA is losing experience on the line next year. Be afraid for 2012 conference play. Be very afraid.
“Would that have solved them being able to go on an 85-yard drive with no timeouts?” Completely unfair — to the point it should be publicly retracted. The UGA defense showed up to play, and more than pulled their weight. When they have to also pull the weight for an o-line that played like a bunch of schoolgirls, and a QB who seems to break under duress, the D can be excused for being totally gassed in the last minute of the game. The D more than did their part to win the bowl game.
“. . . 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.” Okay, I understand the political position you’re in, so you can’t air dirty laundry, but I hope as you negotiate Richt’s extension, you go over the film of the Little Debbie-sponsored oafs who stood around with glazed eyes and hands-on-hips while watching the green-and-white streaks destroy the offensive backfield and ask the man just who he has in mind for coaching the o-line in 2012.
“The first thing you should do when you get beat is give the other team credit . . .” Absolutely. MSU took a less-talented team and ripped UGA’s game plan to pieces. Definitely credit the MSU staff for having their team well-prepared.
“That was pretty impressive, as was the way they defended us in the second half. Unfortunately people never give the opponent any credit.” Not exactly true. I credit the MSU staff for understanding what UGA is doing and making keen adjustments, that’s their job. Just like it’s the job of UGA’s staff to adjust to the opponents, which rarely seems to happen effectively. UGA got a name-brand DC two years ago, and it shows — bigtime. Time for a name-brand OC; I believe that’s just as evident.
Here’s the bottom line: I believe its opponents fear the talent UGA fields, but have a lot of confidence in their ability to win by outcoaching the UGA staff. It happens a lot. Too often.
As the AD, I respect Mr. McGarity’s comments. On its face, the 10-4 record looks respectable. After having watched every game, I still see lingering issues which make the the team too soft to win against talented, well-coached teams. These same issues have been evident and persistent since, at least, 2008. Mr. McGarity, you guys got a good start cleaning out the football program in the past two off-seasons. That makes the lingering problems more apparent, so don’t stop the shake-ups now.
What was that mantra a few years back? Oh yeah: “Finish the Drill.” I hope you will, Mr. McGarity
real commom sense
January 5th, 2012
10:38 am
Oh yes, those emails to Greg are read and they do sway him, absolutely.
Something will be done with Bobo after signing day, he will likely be demoted. So folks will be happy, and the team will have a real OC in CMR. Or the may go hire and bring in someone to help with Offense , its clear to everyone but CMR…. bobo is not up to the task. He is not smart enough to adjust. He took over 3 years ago, need I say more?
heck…w/o Todd G. this team would have won only 6-7 games this year. That is troublsome.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 5th, 2012
10:39 am
True TOOL Fan……is playing well with others again today I see. He is STEALING money from whoever employs him.
Twooten
January 5th, 2012
10:39 am
Yep, it was all Walsh’s fault. Yep, thats it.
RTR22
January 5th, 2012
10:40 am
Keep CMR!!!!! Who else is any better? Who can recruit another dream team? How many of those guys played anyway….. Lost to every team you played with a winning record and get BLOWN out in the SECCG. At least you get one more year of the weakest SEC schedule available. Maybe you can win 10 again in 2012. Jawja on my mind lol……
Charlie Hayes
January 5th, 2012
10:40 am
This is exactly why we will not win a National Championship in the next ten (10) years. A complacent mindset will not help strengthen the team. Imagine if McGarity were defending Willie Martinez still to this day instead of making the needed change and hiring Grantham. Everyone can see the improvement on defense that the change made. The offense is a major concern (i.e. no running game, continually missed blocks, horrible interceptions, negative yardage in one of every three plays, and etc.) and for the life of me I cannot understand why the cement hasn’t been broken around Bobo’s feet. Defense wins championships. Next year the Bulldogs will have the best defense that has played in Athens since 2002. However, the offense is not growing and the games this year proved that we cannot keep the offense on the field and are relying on our defense to stop the other team. When the other team makes big plays (or are handed pick-6’s) then the defense cannot help us no matter how strong they are. The offense needs some serious adjustments and if McGarity nor CMR can see that then we will again have a wasted year for a shot at an SEC title and possible National Championship. Could you just imagine having Grantham in year 2 of the 3-4 defense when Stafford, Moreno and Green were putting up all those points per game? It is a shame that we cannot see the forest for the trees. Come’ on Man!
duronimo
January 5th, 2012
10:41 am
Performance or lack thereof normally falls squarely on the CEO. But that’s in real life ,,,, not in sports. McGarity is apparently happy with perpetual mediocrity and willing to “play it safe”. But just as Richt’s ultra-conservatism in the second half of games is fear-based, so is this decision. With easy schedules and mediocre play, the Dogs under Richt will win 8 to 10 games a year. That’s enoujgh to insure that everyone continues to get their checks. Life is good with the status quo. Why risk taking it to the next level?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
January 5th, 2012
10:41 am
PMC
If your going to say its a team loss then say its a team loss
Dont say if Walsh makes the field goal fans arent upset
How about saying if Richt and Bobo have the better sense to try to get a first down instead of 3 running plays up the middle we would have won and Walsh would have never took the blame
Or if Murray doesnt throw a pick 6
Or if Richt steps on the gas after the half instead of doing like he always does and keeps teams in the game
But to sit there and bring up Walsh without mentioning lousy coaching is a PUNK move and he should appologize to the kid and for every reader on the AJC
monty
January 5th, 2012
10:41 am
“Who would you rather have running the UGA football program? Dabo – who just gave up 70 pts to a big East team? Little Dooley? Chuky Gruden? You’re not getting Saban, or Spurrier, or Miles, or Peterson. ”
And therein lies the problem, it’s not that Dabo or Chucky couldn’t come in here and do what CMR has done, I believe anyone off the street could, with the recruits we get(hyperbole) but you get the point, but the fact remains that the top 4 coaches in America are in our conference the 5th left for OSU. CMR will never be as good as Saban, Miles, Spurrier, or even Petrino(who I can’t stand). CMR has won off of the talent pool but he isn’t the kind of coach that could take yours and beat his or his and beat yours.
DirtyDawg
January 5th, 2012
10:43 am
It could be worse…we could be Clemson.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:44 am
Smart—-
He can’t help it, you can’t fix stupid.
real commom sense
January 5th, 2012
10:44 am
evil empire…
its working to an extent. but they have one naty champ in 20 years. so what they risk, and the moral issues that can be a problem, is it worth it? Is it really working?? LSU and Florida have more titles in the last decade than Bama has in 20+ yrs.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:46 am
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:37 am
True Dawg—-
If you didnt care what I thought of your opinion why are you responding?
to let you know I dont care.
real commom sense
January 5th, 2012
10:46 am
monty…
Petrino? what has he done, not on that list my man. he is 1-1 vs UGA. and cant beat saban or miles period.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:48 am
evil empire
January 5th, 2012
10:38 am
How is bama still recruiting players with 24 commits and only 18 available scholarships????????????
they will keep doing it until they are told to stop…its working and they are winning…welcome to big time college football….
will be shut down eventually. They have made special rules for Sabans tactics. Since he has found a way around it this year, I expect more chanegs to come to block the loophole he apparently found.
Charlie Hayes
January 5th, 2012
10:48 am
Go back and listen to John Gruden talk about the OC’s at West Virginia and Clemson and how they both took an out of the box approach to learn new offensive schemes to make their play calling better. Why isn’t Bobo taking the initiative to do the same? Is it because he has some many kids that he doesn’t have the time to devote to getting better in designing/calling plays? Or is Bobo just stuck on his style and feels it will pay off if he continues to run the same plays over-and-over again. I watched West Virginia roll-up a ton of yards last night running the spread, power-i, wishbone and shotgun (no backs). They looked like Oregon with all of the different sets and looks that they were throwing at Clemson. Why can’t Bobo take a page from their book? I feel like we have another Willie Martinez deal occurring in front of our eyes with Bobo. Come’ on Man!
Joey
January 5th, 2012
10:48 am
You fans that think Bobo is getting fired or even demoted are, well, what techies call DELUSIONAL. Bobo is just doing what Richt wants him to. He even said last season in the postgame comments, “I like the way Bobo calls plays.” Period.
McGarity doesn’t have the balls to make Richt demote Bobo, and even if he did, Richt is still the guy who decides when to shut down the O, and try to rely on the D to win a game.
Richt is the man. Blame him for the offensive woes vs good teams – not Bobo.
MCDAVIDDAWG
January 5th, 2012
10:48 am
It’s going to cost Georgia a lot of money to extend Richt’s contract. Richt is not going to survive and paying him to leave will be costly. We need a real, working coach. We’re already paying to much for what we’re getting. Georgia should still be talking about replacing him not an extension. And the AD doesn’t seem to get it. The slowing of contributions will eventually force change. Money rules. Came very close to not renewing my 8 season tickets.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 5th, 2012
10:49 am
True TOOL Fan don’t care about LOW. He will spend all day telling how much he doesn’t care about you too. LOW hell he doesn’t care enough about his job to give them a good days work so you know he can’t possibly care about you right?
RedandBlackDAWG
January 5th, 2012
10:49 am
I think the new recruiting rule allows you to recruit a maximum of 28 players, that being 25 for the current year and 3 players from the previous year, if there is room. Not 30 total players, only 28. Unless that changed, I think that is what they voted for last summer.
If you bring in a kid for a spring time commit, I think you have to have room for him from the previous year when you didn’t have 85 players, or 25 from the previous year. But I think that spring recruit still count against the total of 28 that you are allowed to recruit for the current year. Marshall will count against that 28 and UGA does have room because they don’t have 85 people on scholarship total or a full class from 2011 of 25. I would assume Alabama is in the same position as well. I don’t know how many gray shirts they have.
Does anybody know, if you have a guy sitting out a year, if that counts against your 85 limit or your current years limit? Do red shirts and gray shirts count against the recruiting total and are they considered part of the 85 total a school can have on scholarship?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
January 5th, 2012
10:50 am
Then go get Gary Paterson
or find someone else, there is always someone out there that can win games.
a decade ago no one was talking about Saban, Miles, Meyer,
But to hide your head in the sand and say Miles, Saban, Spurrier are in this conference and we cant get no one to come in and turn things around is just stupid
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:50 am
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:44 am
Smart—-
He can’t help it, you can’t fix stupid.
ahahaha anyone agreeing with anythign that moron has to say cant be too bright themselves. Smart has been owned every day he comments.
So using logic makes ppl stupid huh???? wonder if everyone knows that. Better broadcast that and stop hogging that info to yourself. We could have saved many ppl from stupidity had you just spoken up sooner that using logic makes you stupid.
duronimo
January 5th, 2012
10:50 am
Zoomie makes a great point that our opponents fear what our athletes can do on their own but not our coaching. If you think back you will see the games we win are usually because one of our 4-5 star atheletes makes an individual play(s)…. like what Boykin did…. almost beating M. State by himself. How many games do we win by out scheming an opponent or making better adjustments at half time? Georgia is a frustrating team to watch because you know they should be doing betters with the athletes they have. Please, McGarity, give us more of the same.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:51 am
Bobo doent have enough time to learn a new Offensive system in the offseason! The man is to busy with his 10 kids!!!! He is a baby factory not a football factory.
True Dawg Fan
January 5th, 2012
10:51 am
A person SMART enough to know……
January 5th, 2012
10:49 am
True TOOL Fan don’t care about LOW. He will spend all day telling how much he doesn’t care about you too. LOW hell he doesn’t care enough about his job to give them a good days work so you know he can’t possibly care about you right?
why do you even try still?? have you not been embarrassed enough??? Lucky for you I have a conf call in 10 min.
JB
January 5th, 2012
10:52 am
Hadn’t been said in 50-60 post…..here ya go………”YES, BUT HE’S SUCH A NICE GUY”
evil empire
January 5th, 2012
10:52 am
real common sense
what moral issues?? the game has changed, like it or not…if the kid can’t cut it, cut him loose…players are now revenue streams…deadwood costs money…and it is working…bama is in its second nat champ game in 3 years…lsu in its third in 8 years…oversigning works…uga doesn’t do it…results tell the tale…
Will
January 5th, 2012
10:54 am
McGarity should not have thrown Walsh under the bus like that. The loss was CMR’s fault 100% and he knows it. I wish our weak governor would fire Adams & McGarity. They are our problem. I’m not sending you hacks anymore money!
JB
January 5th, 2012
10:56 am
Wish we had the President of Maryland or Miami running things.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 5th, 2012
10:56 am
JB now that was funny. You get free airfare to join Richt & Water Girl on the summer Mission just for that statement alone.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
January 5th, 2012
10:57 am
True Dawg Fan
I bet your “that guy” when the boss has an idea even though every knows it wont work your standing in applause wiping tears from your eyes saying what a smart plan boss
Lowcountry Bulldawg
January 5th, 2012
10:57 am
True Dawg—–
Ok lets cut to the chase. You said UGA could have beaten Bama and Arkansas.
My view is that is illogical based on the evidence we all witnessed this season.
My evidence—-
0-4 against upper tier teams.
Points allowed by AM
Missed FG’s by Walsh
Special Teams not being special
Playing 30 minutes, not 60
Or..Inability to put teams away
So in your cornflake world none of those things apparently happened and UGA will just show up and play a perfect game. Again where is your logic?
Bruce
January 5th, 2012
10:58 am
It seems so funny to me for all these people calling for a new HC. In all honesty, who do they think will come in & be an improvement immediately? You can’t rely on someone with no previous HC experience like Smart. Who is available that will be better than Richt? Replacing a coach is like a crap shoot. For those complaining about our weak schedule, look at last yrs schedule. Not alot different than this yr. We won 4 more games. No one is complaining about Alabama’s weak schedule. Who did they play other than LSU, Ark and a pretty bad Penn State? You have no control over what your SEC schedule is or what the record of those teams you play are. I agree that our offensive calls make no sense (keep running up the middle when each carry gives you a 3 yd loss). I would like to see a new OC. Keep Bobo for a QB coach & recruiter. We also need improvement at the RB coach position. Let’s just see how next yr goes before making snap judgements on our HC.
JB
January 5th, 2012
10:59 am
After 11 wins next year McGarity will announce that the extension should of been 10 years………GEEZ.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
January 5th, 2012
11:02 am
Bruce
Get a clue
Ask Texas, USC, FL, Ohio St, AL , AUB , LSU, Oklahoma, and the list goes on when they went out and tried another coach what was the result