I called his agent late Thursday afternoon to check into whether Friedgen had talked to Georgia about becoming the offensive line coach/running game coordinator.

"I don’t think there’s any truth to that," Jack Reale said. . . .

Reale said Friedgen and Richt know each other, but he had not heard that they had spoken.

"I would simply say that that’s pure message board stuff," Reale said. "I have no idea where that kind of thing came from or from whom, but there’s no basis in fact."