EX-GEORGIA COACH WILL LAND SOMEPLACE … WHY NOT COLUMBIA?
The news that the University of Georgia fired … errr, mutually broke up with … head football coach Mark Richt obviously has major implications on the University of South Carolina program.
But could one of those implications be Richt taking the vacant Gamecock head coaching job?
Probably not … but the pros and cons of such a hypothetical are worth entertaining. So let’s entertain them …
PRO … Longevity. At fifty-five years of age, Richt has plenty of good coaching years left in him. In fact he’s five years younger than Steve Spurrier when he took the Gamecock job over a decade ago, and seven years younger than Lou Holtz when he became the Gamecocks’ head coach in 1999.
CON … Animosity. South Carolina fans have spent the last decade-and-a-half learning to loathe Richt. A lot of that contempt would be released in the event he were to don the garnet and black, but the first reaction of most Gamecock fans to his name being floated as a prospect would universally be negative.
PRO … Recruiting. Georgia has boasted numerous Top Ten and Top Five national recruiting classes under Richt – including the class currently committed to come to Athens (No. 7 nationally). Plus he has recruited most of his talent in Georgia, a place where South Carolina must reestablish inroads if it wishes to return to competitiveness in the SEC East.
CON … Timing. Gamecock athletics director Ray Tanner has said he wants to name his new head coach in early December. Obviously Richt will be coaching the Bulldogs through January 1 – which presents a major logistical problem.
PRO … Winning. Richt won 145 games at Georgia in fifteen seasons – averaging 9.7 wins per season. He’s won ten games nine times, eleven games four times, twelve games twice and thirteen games once. In other words he knows how to build – and maintain – a successful program in the SEC.
CON … Ceiling. Richt never won a national championship, and he hasn’t won an SEC title in a decade. Spoiled by two conference championships during his first five years in Athens, Georgia fans simply got tired of waiting for Richt to duplicate that success.
PRO … Integrity. Richt’s humble pie, “Jesus He Knows Me” shtick can be insufferable at times, but there’s something to be said for the fact he runs a clean program and has stayed out of trouble with the NCAA. Oh, while winning lots and lots of games.
CON … Management. Georgia’s press release announcing its parting of ways with Richt left the door wide open for him to take another position with the school’s athletic department. Obviously Georgia has a tradition of hiring successful head coaches to lead its athletic department, and with current AD Greg McGarity‘s contract expiring in 2017, the Bulldogs could be grooming Richt as their next AD.
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USCe – Where coaches go to end their coaching career.
Careful Squishy. You mean like Alabama?
Yeah, but at Alabama they tend to go out after winning a handful of national championships. USCe coaches can’t even win a conference division… and when they do they get rings, likely because it’s the only championship rings the players will ever see.
I heard one of the gamecocks players that is black lost his ring inside your mom. Its so wide in there William Perry actually put his fridge up her snatch
I must have hit home with you, or your mom, at some point while I was skull fucking you.
nah, the only fucking that happened was when I fucked your mom and wife in the ass in a 3 way.
Same for Clemsux. Not since Pell has a coach gone on to win at another school and Pell left for cheating. Odd how you forget that when you troll
I do remember the “Go to Hell Pell” bumper stickers back around 1977…..
Again, Pell was just another hired gun…..they’re a dime a dozen
“Dime a dozen”? Usually about 3 or for million each.
And you can reach in a barrel and easily pull out 4 or 5 of the fuckers………………
Danny Ford was a cheater.Clemsux cheats or they don’t win.Wait until they get dabo…..
Why in hell would a black athlete go to Clemsux and stick out like a sore thumb when they rape and pillage the campus…unless they were getting paid?
There was a rumor that DF struck a black player that was dating his daughter. I have no idea if it is true or not.
it is true, the girl was actually related to Squishy123. That’s why he hates black people so much, well that and penis envy but he is even jealous of Asians with that.
I knew Terry Allen quite well during that time, and it wasn’t true.
bullshit
“notma”?
Damn junior, if you want to be me at least try and get the spelling right.
Better?
You’re a prick either way, so sure.
that’s why you love me you little gay boy
Clemson ain’t won shit…Haley took the confederate flag down and why NCAA has Clemson #1.
Political correctness.
But it was worth it and it help Ole Miss when they got rid of the battle flag. Before we play in the CFP we need to change the name of Tillman Hall to Jeff Long Hall or Conde Rice Hall.
Worth what?Racial violence and tensions have been worse in this country since Haley bowed to the pressure of the racists, exposed herself as a liberal and shit on the people that elected her 2x’s, despite her character issues.
Tommy West, Memphis State.
he didn’t win there. All time overall losing record
Wow..you must love my name
wow, you must have loved my penis in your ass
Are you boys having a lovers quarrel?
Danny Ford – Arkansas
Ken Hatfield- Rice
SOS, Dr. Lou, Brad Scott, Sparky, Joe Morrison, Jim Carlen, Paul Dietzel….?
Again, not one of them had a winning record. You were asked to name one that had a winning record
The real ENS started this by noting that USC is often the last stop of a coach’s career(as a coach).
You, sir, moved the goalposts to “winning as a head coach” in a weak attempt to bring Clemson into the mix.
TBG is having none of it.
Good day, sir.
So in other words you cant answer the question?
The same sort of troll who tries to spoof other peoples’ accounts? The reason coaches never coach again after USCe is that no school in their right mind will hire them.
Holtz was 80 when he left, no no would hire him.
Spurrier was 70 when he left, probably no one will hire him.
Morrison died on the job.
Woods went to the pro’s as a coordinator.
Scott went to clempston as a coordinator.
aww what’s the matter hater tater troll, the truth hurts?
I hope Richt ends up at Carolina.
You can’t buy a championship. USC boosters need to stop trying to shortchange the hard work and time it takes to consistently win, poll, and recruit well. Stop with the multimillion dollar retread shortcuts already. Hire Matt Campbell and give him 10 years to get a championship. He knows football and his players will play their hearts out for him. The player who was DQed in the WM game burst out in tears while being escorted to the locker room…he let his coach and teammates down. You can’t buy loyalty; coaches must earn it. Then again Campbell may not want to coach here…who would want to?
Too late.
Toledo’s Matt Campbell becomes(Iowa State) Cyclones’ next coach.
http://espn.go.com/ncf/story/_/id/14252031/matt-campbell-leaves-toledo-rockets-become-iowa-state-cyclones-head-coach
Yea, I saw that. He is a damn fine coach and person. I also saw “Houston player: Tom Herman ‘killed the South Carolina thing’ and is focused on the AAC Championship”. Now Tanner is fucking desperate. WTF is it with Tanner and Spurrier? Get that Spurrier poster off our stadium and do not, do not hire Morris or Richt for HBC. Mangus can call the offense! Mangus can recruit! Hire Mangus and call it a day. Mangus as HBC with Morris as OC and Hoke/Ellis as DC.
Final answer.
He can still hire that idiot: Muschamp.
Interesting speculation, if Richt wants to extend his coaching career, it may be a good fit for him. South Carolina needs to get someone in the hopper right-a-away. The level of talent at USC can’t be very deep, because many top recruits supposedly deserted Steve Spurrier when they sensed he might not be around for a full four years that they would be in school. He could expand the recruiting to include Georgia with his knowledge of the state.
Many fans and Alumni may be pissed, if he is hired, but I suspect he is an honorable person and do the best he could if he took the opportunity at USC.
This guy is just one more hired gun among the many…..they’re a dime a dozen.
They don’t give a rat’s ass about the college they are hired to coach, It’s all about their personal accomplishment and how much money they can dupe out of the people who hire them not to mention the schlubs who froth at the mouth for their “football’ team without having ever played one minute of college football or even attended the university they are fans of in the first place………..
Face it, the days of Bear Bryant, Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry are long gone…
I agree. South Carolina needs a hired gun. Can we afford it? Can’t afford not to.
From personal knowledge disclosed to me by two assistant football coaches who came with the new head coach to Carolina: these two guys were under continuing psychiatric care because of the job pressures and stress.
That is the nature of coaching. Type A personalities that spin themselves up about many things….football being just one of them.
Coaching is a job but more pointedly, it is an industry. When coaches make a lot of money many more people and entities increase their money making ability as well as their power and prestige.
Don’t think for a moment that USC is hiring a coach for the football field only. Lots of people have a financial stake in the decision and the one thing you can know for sure is that the opinion of the average fan does not matter one bit.
Must have been Steve’s two sons.
No, this was long ago before Spurrier….
From what I’ve been told both Holtz and Spurrier never claimed or registered as South Carolina legal residents. I heard both kept apartments/condos in South Carolina but their legal residence (to include their driver’s license) was not in the Great State of South Carolina
Again, I don’t give a rats’s ass who runs any college football team – all are hopelessly corrupt (well maybe not Furman but then again maybe so – I don’t follow Furman like I used to but in their day the Furman athlete represented all that a student athlete is supposed to be as far as the relationship between academics and athletic talent is concerned – I did not attend Furman BTW). Plus, Furman is not primarly funded by the Great State of South Carolina
Until all state supported colleges require academic and sports scholarships to be awarded to bona-fide residents of the state who graduated from in-state high schools/home schools, and the coaching staff be legal residents of the state supported college they are coaching then this stuff is pure bullshit.
If that was a reality, then the people of that state would have a reason to have pride about their state supported college or university athletic programs – other than that the players & coaches are hired guns for the most part. The people of the Great State of South Carolina could say, “The Great State of South Carolina produced the best football team or class of engineers in the entire United States during the year 2015 and they were totally home grown” (as could any other state for that matter)
The way it is now that boast would be pure bullshit
That’s why both college and professional football and basketball and has become the modern version of the Roman Bread & Circus.
I’ve basically turned my back on the farce that college and professional football has become.
When was that, 1910?. Tennessee has been recruiting linemen from South Carolina for years. And South Carolina got their linemen from Pennsylvania coal mines back in the thirties.
They don’t mine coal, up there, any more.
your right, spurrier was “just passin through” his mom still lives in fla. there all $whores. cant get enough. they used to joke about that little keebler elf holth still driving a 1986 ford taurus with the manual windows. roll eyes
You’ve put some good thoughts in there….
“Interesting speculation, if Richt wants to end his coaching career, it may be a good fit for him.”
FIFY
Like I give a big blue rat’s ass one way or the other!!!!!!
Fuck a bunch of college & professional football (in either’s present form) is what I say!!!!!!
“Could Mark Richt Wind Up At South Carolina?”
SURE HE CAN.
He’s going bring Braxton Miller, Rich Rod AND Chad Morris with him!
The man simply asks a question and you answer with your normal bullshit? And to think people say I’m pathetic.
I love it when people use my ID, they’re not smart enough to come up with one of their own.
Don’t try to blame it on anyone else, we all know you wrote it! You are a POS
Con #1. Same as Spurrier. They hated him when he was at Fla. If Richt won at SC, they’d be lining up at Willie Brice to kiss his ass.
Kinda like Alabama hating Saban when he was at LSU and now they kiss his ass? So what’s your stupid point?
I hear Bobby Cremins is getting a look in as head coach :-)
That’s just wrong.
Where is Pam Parsons? She might be available.
Wow…had to go back in the time machine for that reference…and she is still available by the way
Everytime they bring up Danny Ford”s daughter rumors, I need to remind them of court established facts.
You sure are becoming a smart ass DICK for someone that is getting ready to have his ass handed to him….aka Clemson…:you and mamatiger92 must attend the same church…:)
Remind us of the Will Folks fucking Nikki Haley allegations and how that cost her ANY national political ambitions she had, just for old time sakes.
Will you be joining rest of Dirtpecker team and watching the rest of the season from your couch?
If you would take traitor Obama’s muslim cock out of your ass for just a moment, you would know that I am a fan of the UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS OF AMERICA-THE Ohio State University.
Yea he really beat the hell out of Terry Allen that day. He does claim the grandbaby though. In his KIA Cable TV advertisements in the Upstate, he mentions he drives out frequently to Texas to see his grandkid. In his new fine driving Kia of course.
guess she went black and didnt look back. damn waste ofa perfectly good white girl
Didn’t she and her sweetie settle down together and bake cookies?
That wasn’t until after they served time for perjury.
Apparently, they lie about their membership at the Puss ‘n boots club.
Thanks – I couldn’t remember the girl’s name.
The South American Bistro, “Toucan Chew” didn’t work out?
who wheres the strap on
Don’t know, but with a name like Buck, I could make a guess.
10++++++
Hell hire FITS, he knows everything.
Hey, Will! Where are your “sources?”
Not a chance. He will be headed to Miami. You guys should see if the Citadel’s coach is winning to move to Columbia
“winning” ..? Yep, you may be right…..
Dirtpecker Fans
Hate Spurrier – Love Spurrier – Hate Spurrier
Hate Richt – Love Richt???
Same with players, Connor Mitch was the second comming on Connor Shaw, until he flopped and now Dirtpecker fans want him out of Columbia. Why any player or coach would come here is crazy, the coaches might come if the money is right.
Biggest bunch of fair weather fans in the country.
Like you supporting Obama and then Hillary.
“Biggest bunch of fair weather fans in the country” similar to the 17 different shades of orange worn by the clempson fans? Or the lone sell out of the season is because of the ND fans in the area? Those fair weather fans?
I heard attendance at The Citadel game was 77,000. I didn’t realize that Williams Brice Stadium held 160,000, because the stadium was half full in the first half, and then less than that because you know USCe football fans only have to attend the first half so they can get back to drinking or beat traffic.
160,000 ..?? Maybe if you count the teams, staff, vendors, and the prostitutes and pickpockets in the parking areas…..
Kind of like Clemsux with loving Tommy Bowden then hating him or how they loved Chad Kelly or even Bellamy and some others when they got there but changed those minds when they either sucked or got in trouble even though even getting busted with cocaine at Tater U will only get a one game suspension. Bless your heart, you really have nothing else to live for other than trolling. It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
At least you’re not denying it.
As if Slurrier and Holtz didn’t play favorites, get in trouble with them and you might get held out of a practice before the Winthrop game.
why would I deny it, your point is as fucking stupid as you are. No player at USC pushed a woman down a flight of stairs only to be suspended for 1/2 a game, no player at usc got busted driving high, running up on a curb endangering lives, with and on pills only to miss the opener against a d-2 school, and no player at usc got busted jacked up on coke possession and driving to sit out 2 whole games. As for your denial you prove yourself to be “special” the only player that got in trouble like that wasn’t actually breaking the law. oh my, a 21 year old was drunk and NOT driving! lets kick him off the team for doing nothing illegal. But you are so pathetic and need to troll lets not let actual facts support what you say. I would feel sorry for your wife, but at least she gives me head from time to time so she can see what being with a real man is like.
There is nothing that long that you could write that would be worth reading.
same for you with your post just now
I love it when idiots pass themselves off as someone else. This idiot is arguing with himself.
Why would you call yourself an idiot?
Who was the Dirtpecker who got caught on campus a couple years ago with pot and a gun in the car? Don’t recall the name, but I bet if you see a big guy pumping gas that’s probably him. USCe Athletic Department has Joel Lourie on speed dial.
Just wondering, in Garcia’s seven times in trouble, how many games did he miss?? The same number as your iq, zero, until he finally pissed off mama slurrier and was kicked off the team. Hey Pot, you’re black too. -Kettle
Thank you, I liked Bowen, Bellamy and Swag.
I have been a Gamecock longer than your trailer mortgage. BTW, when you finally won a couple of games, post Bowden, then we started seeing the tiger tails reappearing from the trunks of the used orange Pintos.
Past performance doesn’t always dictate future success. Spurrier was hired because of his personal and coaching successes at FL and USC basically asked him to bring his national championship-winning coaching to SC and do the same thing here. Yes, he had a few 11-win seasons (the best in USC history), but he didn’t win a single SEC championship, let alone a national one. We need someone who can win and, more importantly, RECRUIT. If Mark Richt can recruit, get him. If Kirby Smart can recruit, get him. Whoever USC gets, they need to freaking recruit because if Dabo has shown us anything, it’s that you can be a shitty coach, but still have the number one team if you can hire great coordinators and RECRUIT.
Mark did not have to recruit at UGA.
Interesting most of the comments are negative. My positive take is Richt is a genuinely nice guy, runs a clean program with integrity, wins an average of almost 10 games a year, consistently goes to a bowl game, great recruiter, very good coach. Richt is the best coach available. SC could do much worse.
Kirby Smart may be a good recruiter and a good coordinator but there is no guarantee a good coordinator will be a good/great head coach. College football is littered with good/great coordinators who failed miserably as a head coach. Case in point is Gene Chizik (he was fired 2 years after winning a National Championship) and look at the success he is having today at North Carolina as their defensive coordinator.
Firing Richt was idiotic. Maybe they’ll replace him with Dooley’s kid. If that doesn’t work out… howsabout Lane Kiffen?
richt said it (the job, if thats what you call it) was getting stale. that and all those georgia pig farmers
HIRE Mark Richt—TODAY!!!
This is a no-brainer.
I hate GA second only to CU–but it is a close second.
But I never hated Richt. He doesn’t engender those emotions.
Richt will give us 10 wins seasons, an honest opportunity to beat CU on a regular basis, and a chance at the SEC East every year.
That is one helluva start!
I think CMR might just wind up with the job. He’s a far better option than anything else floated that is likely available. We could do far worse than to hire him, that is a certainty.
Mark is too smart for that. Plus, the man does not associate with heathens.
They could probably get Jamey Chadwell. He’s got a top-10 ranking and, even better, knows how to beat The Citadel. Otherwise, given USC’s prior hiring practices, look for Bobby Bowden to don the garnet next year. He ticks off all their boxes: former national champ, retired, not tied down to a TV deal.