Here it is late July and with conferences beginning their media days extravaganzas college football is becoming top of mind.Some coaches will get rock star treatment (Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll), others will get scorched by the press and then their are those who go into media days with a warm feeling on their backsides. Those on the hot seat.
I never thought Georgia head coach Mark Richt would be one whose seat is feeling kind of toasty right now but as I was driving through Alabama last week I caught Paul Finebaum's radio show and he raised that very question.
In today's Mobile (Ala.) Press - Register, Finebaum brings up the Richt subject in his column which you can read by clicking here.
Richt faces the press Thursday in Birmingham and it will be interesting to see the line of questioning he receives. A year ago Richt was getting rock star treatment. This year might be a little different.
OSG's Phil Cantor will be reporting from SEC Media Days and I'm sure brother Phil will add more to this.
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Mark Richt is absolutely on the hot seat. He is starting to sound more and more like Ron Zook everyday. Recently he was quoted in the ACJ as saying, "We backed off the way we’ve practiced every year since we’ve been at Georgia,” he said. “In scrimmage No. 2, we decided not to tackle. When the practice was over, I almost got sick. I almost threw up. I knew that wasn’t going to get us ready to play.”
How can the SEC's longest tenured coach still be facing such a steep learning curve? You have coaches like Urban Meyer and Nick Saban who are really starting to show Coach Richt that his Bobby Bowdensque philosophies are antiquated.
It is interesting that Mark Richt "coaches scared." Football practice without tackling? Are you serious? The fact that Richt gets sick and almost throws up after practice speaks volumes about the instability within his own mind. It could be a mental issue or it could be coaching scared. I wonder how he felt in Jacksonville last year. No wonder his coaching tactic last year was to flip off Urban at the end of the game(don't believe me, google it). After all, he never really got the chance to have the players storm the field. If I'm the UGA athletic director, I might consider sending Richt for a psychiatric evaluation. This clown's days are numbered and he knows it.
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