Smart, Alabama’s defensive coordinator, has been widely reported to be the next coach at Georgia.
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The Georgia Bulldogs are getting a new Bulldog coach to replace Mark Richt, who got fired this weekend after coaching the team for 15 seasons. If that comes to fruition, CBS Sports, citing Alabama color analyst (and former Cleveland Browns GM) Phil Savage, is reporting that Smart will continue to serve in his role as Alabama defensive coordinator in the postseason. UGA officials say Richt informed the team this afternoon.
Richt was excited about coaching Georgia in its bowl game before he found his new job at Miami, his alma mater, so quickly.
Less than a week after Georgia and Richt said they would be going their separate ways, the first domino fell with star linebacker Leonard Floyd telling reporters, “I’m gone, too, by the way”, after a team meeting Sunday night.
Alabama faces Florida in the SEC Championship Game. “It’s not there. You all speculate and create things and then you want people to respond to it. You can get this bottle to respond to it because I don’t know anything more about it. I told you everything I know so you can ask the bottle but don’t ask me”.
“It’s not my real position to confirm any of this stuff, and I really can’t confirm it”, Saban said Wednesday.
Richt is still supposed to coach one more game at Georgia, in the yet-to-be-determined bowl. The University of Miami is hoping that Richt cannot only develop certain players to play at the next level, but to restore Miami to the powerhouse program that it was in the 1980’s and early-2000’s. But once news of the hire hit the web, Hurricanes fans, current players, former players, recruits, and school employees celebrated.
According to WSB-TV’s Zach Klein, Richt was emotional when telling his players, saying he meant to coach them in the bowl game and wanted to take a year off. He compiled a 145-51 record with the Bulldogs, including an 83-37 mark in conference play.
Richt will inherit Miami’s two sophomore sensations in quarterback Brad Kaaya and running back Joseph Yearby.
But let me stop telling you how good Richt and his staffs have been at Georgia, I’ll just show you instead.
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Richt was mentioned as a potential fit for Miami nearly as soon as the Hurricanes fired Golden in October, with five games left on this year’s regular-season schedule and one day after the Hurricanes endured the worst loss in school history – a 58-0 defeat to Clemson.
