Do you still fire Richt if Dawgs win the SEC?

Suppose the following situation materializes:

Georgia loses to Mississippi State and Florida.

Florida loses to Alabama, LSU, and South Carolina.

South Carolina loses two SEC games, so Georgia wins the east because of the head to head matchup.

A 3 loss UGA then beats Bama or LSU in Atlanta and then loses the Sugar Bowl.

Four losses, but a conference title. Does Richt stay or go in that situation? I say he stays. You can't fire a coach after he brings home an SEC crown, no matter how ugly the journey is. It just isn't done. The primary job of an SEC football coach is to win SEC championships.

Now, I think you fire him if he loses the SEC championship game under those same conditions. Merely winning the east would not suffice.

Basically, at this point, I only see two ways Richt should be able to keep his job:

1.) Win the SEC championship (job safe regardless of record).

2.) Go undefeated from here on out, lose the SEC championship, but win the Sugar Bowl.

I think that short of an SEC title, 3 losses in any combination should get him the boot. Lose an SEC game in the regular season, win east, lose in Atlanta = gone.

Whatever happens, I hope he goes before A&M joins. I do not want Richt to still be running things when we expand to 14 teams. If we do not adapt and keep up with the times when the SEC grows, we could find ourselves in the cellar of the east for a VERY long time.

See that you still don't post in any threads other than yours UGAChemDawg. Read what you posted in this "new thread" a couple of different places today. The only thing important to you is apparently what you have to say. Calling you out again. Same thing happened a year ago, at that point you did post in a couple of different threads. There are some very interesting threads on this board . . . . other than yours. What do you have against participating with others?

I say yes:

He said that winning the SEC East has always been the goal..... wait a minute how about winning the national championship being the goal ! He couldn't even say winning the SEC was the goal.


My whole family and extended family are Auburn fans, I told them early on Auburn would never win the NC with Pat Dye as their coach, they laughed but it was the truth. He always found a way to lose games he wasn't supposed to. same as Richt. Since Dye left Auburn has had 2 perfect seasons. How many have we had?

Some people can't handle success, pressure, authority? They become self sabotaging and I sometimes wonder if Richt has this problem. As long as I got Willie and/or Bozo here I'll never be in a position to coach for the National Championship, don't have to worry about that being the goal. The only time he has done a good job coaching is after losses have put the National Championship out of reach or worse.

Regardless of rebuilding or replinishing players going in to every season the realistic goal at UGA should be to WIN the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP !

Anything less is just preparing for failure.

You regulars noticed I didn't post after the bowl season until last week. I read everyday just like you and admit I had my hopes up. Just couldn't bring myself to drink the kool-aid,and glad I didn't.

A change needs to be made, as I have said before, Richt doesn't want to change so UGA needs to change coaches. PERIOD !

UGAChemDawg wrote:

Suppose the following situation materializes:

Georgia loses to Mississippi State and Florida.

Florida loses to Alabama, LSU, and South Carolina.

South Carolina loses two SEC games, so Georgia wins the east because of the head to head matchup.

A 3 loss UGA then beats Bama or LSU in Atlanta and then loses the Sugar Bowl.

Four losses, but a conference title. Does Richt stay or go in that situation? I say he stays. You can't fire a coach after he brings home an SEC crown, no matter how ugly the journey is. It just isn't done. The primary job of an SEC football coach is to win SEC championships.

Now, I think you fire him if he loses the SEC championship game under those same conditions. Merely winning the east would not suffice.

Basically, at this point, I only see two ways Richt should be able to keep his job:

1.) Win the SEC championship (job safe regardless of record).

2.) Go undefeated from here on out, lose the SEC championship, but win the Sugar Bowl.

I think that short of an SEC title, 3 losses in any combination should get him the boot. Lose an SEC game in the regular season, win east, lose in Atlanta = gone.

Whatever happens, I hope he goes before A&M joins. I do not want Richt to still be running things when we expand to 14 teams. If we do not adapt and keep up with the times when the SEC grows, we could find ourselves in the cellar of the east for a VERY long time.

not going to happen...we win maybe 3 SEC games this year....Ole Miss (maybe) Vandy and Kenutcky lucky to go 5-7 but 4-8 is more like it

Lose to Florida and he is fired no matter what else happens.

UGAChemDawg wrote:

I think that short of an SEC title, 3 losses in any combination should get him the boot. Lose an SEC game in the regular season, win east, lose in Atlanta = gone.

If we finish with only three losses after the way we looked in week 1; they should throw a ticker-tape parade.