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Mark Richt's coaching tree
Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:33 am
Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:33 am
Looking back, the only assistant's I can think of were Bobo at Colorado State and VanGorder at Georgia Southern. VanGorder was only there for 1 year before he left for another assistant job like a 19 year old girl with daddy issues looking for novel attention.
Kirby already has Tucker, Lanning, Beamer, and Pittman.
Any thoughts on why he had so few assistant's get head coaching jobs? I always heard he thought of him self as a CEO and let the coaches make most of the decisions. I would think that would put them in position to become head coaches.
Edit: Add Jeremy Pruitt at UTk and Neal Calloway at UAB to Richt's coaching tree.
Kirby already has Tucker, Lanning, Beamer, and Pittman.
Any thoughts on why he had so few assistant's get head coaching jobs? I always heard he thought of him self as a CEO and let the coaches make most of the decisions. I would think that would put them in position to become head coaches.
Edit: Add Jeremy Pruitt at UTk and Neal Calloway at UAB to Richt's coaching tree.
This post was edited on 9/19/22 at 12:39 pm
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Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:38 am to Rex Feral
Was Manny Diaz a Richt guy?
Posted on 9/19/22 at 8:41 am to retooc
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Was Manny Diaz a Richt guy?
I think at Miami.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 9:19 am to Rex Feral
I think Richt was the OC until 2006. After VG he promoted his friend Martinez to DC. After that he hired Grantham who is basically a career defensive coach. Pruitt is the other tree member. He is basically a career defensive coach that landed one HC job. I think one of Richt's weaknesss could be seen as his coordinator hires.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 9:23 am to Rex Feral
Jeremy Pruitt is the only other name I can think of.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 9:37 am to Rex Feral
Short, disasterous coaching tree which is perplexing.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:07 am to lewis and herschel
Dooley didn't have much of a coaching as well and that's in 25 years.
The only assistants that became P5 coaches were his brother,Goff and Bill Lewis.Not sure about players
The only assistants that became P5 coaches were his brother,Goff and Bill Lewis.Not sure about players
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:08 am to Rex Feral
Kirby is a branch off of Richts tree
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:23 am to RD Dawg
He didnt even think Goff was ready to be a head coach back then. We were utterly inept systemically back then.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 10:25 am to K9
Sort of, to me the tree belongs to who a coach progressed thru the ranks with and that is Saban.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 11:07 am to lewis and herschel
Then I think the only one that would apply to smart is Lanning. Beamer only had one year here. Tucker was with Saban more years than Smart I think. Same with Pittman, he had been everywhere
Posted on 9/19/22 at 11:10 am to retooc
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Was Manny Diaz a Richt guy?
Diaz was DC here under Richt, I believe. Richt fired him, iirc.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 12:06 pm to K9
All but beamer spent several seasons with smart and ascended under his mentorship. All the saban ones will be claimed by bama anyway as they claim everything right or wrong....
Posted on 9/19/22 at 12:09 pm to DawgsLife
No, he left for Temple, Richt left Miami, and Miami brought diaz immediatly back.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 12:25 pm to Rex Feral
You left off Neal Callaway
Posted on 9/19/22 at 1:21 pm to lewis and herschel
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No, he left for Temple, Richt left Miami, and Miami brought diaz immediatly back.
You're right. I was thinking of Martinez. My bad.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 1:25 pm to RD Dawg
Not a P5 HC, but Erk Russell was a hell of a coach.
Posted on 9/19/22 at 2:53 pm to K9
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Kirby is a branch off Richt’s tree
Was he a GA here in 2005, or was he a paid RB coach on CMR’s staff?
Posted on 9/19/22 at 2:59 pm to UnderDog68
GA under Donnan in 1999 or 2000 I think.
RB coach for Richt in 2005.
It would be a little laughable to credit richt and his tree (considering the amount of time under Saban dating back to lsu days)
RB coach for Richt in 2005.
It would be a little laughable to credit richt and his tree (considering the amount of time under Saban dating back to lsu days)
Posted on 9/19/22 at 5:02 pm to lewis and herschel
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He didnt even think Goff was ready to be a head coach back then. We were utterly inept systemically back then.
Coaches obviously didn't move around as often back then but his tree isn't very impressive and you'd think some of his players over 25 year period woulda made
it through the ranks.
If you wanna look at an impressive tree
check out Lavell Edwards Includes 3 coaches who won Super Bowls among many others
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NFL Head Coaches
Brian Billick (BYU tight end 1974-77, Grad. Assistant 1978)
Mike Holmgren (BYU quarterbacks coach 1982-85)
Andy Reid (BYU OL 1978-80, Grad. Assistant 1982)
This post was edited on 9/19/22 at 8:21 pm
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