The Mark Richt Victory Watch

by T Kyle King on Nov 24, 2007 8:46 PM EST in Football

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time once again to update the Mark Richt Victory Watch, in which we count down each successive win on Coach Richt's inexorable march to the all-time school record for career victories.

The Mark Richt Victory Watch now stands at 71. Coach Richt is just 130 wins shy of matching Vince Dooley's school record of 201 career victories.

With 90 games now under his belt as the Bulldogs' head coach, Mark Richt has a won-lost record of 71-19. At the same point in their respective careers, Harry Mehre (55-31-4), Wally Butts (65-23-2), and Vince Dooley (61-25-4) all trailed Mark Richt.

Yes, but has Mark Richt beaten Georgia Tech for seven straight seasons? Yeah, we've been there, done that, and gotten the T-shirt.

Although the heartbreaker in Lexington earlier in the day was a bit disappointing, it's tough to complain about any season in which your team beats its three biggest rivals by margins of 12, 25, and 14 points, respectively.

Go 'Dawgs!

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Threadjack

I know this a UGA site, but a lot of people are talking about whether or not Chan is going to be fired. The stupid ones, say Chan needs to go. The rational ones- well, for the most part- suggest replacements. Scanning the AJC site for as much as I could take all the crap these were the names I heard (and my thoughts):

Chris Petersen (not going to settle for Tech when he could cash in at a bigger, better school)
Randy Edsall
Paul Johnson (I think he can get a better gig that GT)
O'Leary Part 2 (interesting and honestly, I wouldn't want him to come back)
June Jones (intriguing)
Ken Whisenhunt
Tenuta (I've heard that some don't think he is head coach material)
Charlie Strong (last year would have been a better time for Strong to have made the jump to HC)
Jimbo Fisher (I have to think he is looking to replace Bobby, God, let it be true)

The thing is that as everyone knows, there are probably going to be quite a few jobs open this year and several at high(er) profile colleges than Tech, so I don't know if Tech can reel in a coach that is markedly better than Chan.

Kyle, you wanna take a shot at this?

by fotodog on Nov 25, 2007 7:24 PM EST reply actions

Intriguing . . .

I find especially interesting the George O'Leary prospect. If Georgia Tech wanted to rehire him---which they don't; if they did, they'd have taken him back after his four-day stint as the only undefeated head coach in the history of Notre Dame football---I would personally drive the U-Haul down to Orlando and help him load up the truck to bring him back to Atlanta.

The contrast between the George O'Leary record with and without Ralph Friedgen as his offensive coordinator is stark. As long as The Fridge remains in Maryland, Georgia fans need have no fear of George O'Leary.

Furthermore, O'Leary's success at The Flats occurred simultaneously (and not at all coincidentally) with a long-running scandal during which multiple Yellow Jacket athletes (pretty clearly including Joe Hamilton) took the field despite being academically ineligible. To the extent that his success at Georgia Tech was attributable to something other than Ralph Friedgen, that something else was cheating. A second tour of duty by the man whose success punctured the sanctimonious hypocrisy of that prisspot, Bill "Bring the cheaters to their knees, except when we're the cheaters!" Curry, would be a welcome opportunity to renew all the old jokes.

Finally, Thomas Wolfe was right: you can't go home again. John Robinson returned to U.S.C. Johnny Majors returned to Pitt. Bill Walsh returned to Stanford. None of them enjoyed anything even close to the same success the second time around that they had experienced during their initial tenures at their respective institutions. Lightning simply does not strike in the same place twice.

Steve Spurrier knew this, which is why he chose to go to South Carolina when the bulk of the Gator faithful were clamoring for the Evil Genius to return to Gainesville. If George O'Leary and Georgia Tech are too dumb to recognize this reality, I am all for it.

George O'Leary was 3-5 against the 'Dawgs in the record book and 1-7 against the 'Dawgs on the field . . . and even that one gives undeserved credit for the lone win achieved by cheating which did not also require obviously blown officiating calls to obtain.

Georgia Tech wants to rehire a coach who had a losing record against Ray Goff and Jim Donnan so he can be sent into battle against Mark Richt? If so, can't we just eliminate the middleman and go straight to marking the 'Dawgs down for a twelve-game winning streak in the series?

by T Kyle King on Nov 25, 2007 8:20 PM EST up reply actions

Another totally irrelevant threadjack...

What in the heck was Southern Miss thinking when it fired Jeff Bower this morning? I can think of a few high school coaches who may want that job, but a lateral move? Forget it. Talk about headed to the next level in the wrong direction.

by MSLawDawg on Nov 26, 2007 4:09 PM EST reply actions