re: Is Saban anything more than an awesome recruiter?

Scratch Georgia. Richt is the mold of coach they need to be able to even enjoy the long term moderate success we have since 01. He is a coach that can succeed, moderately, under major self imposed restrictions by the program. Will never be great under any coach. A coach like Saban would never take that job with those built in restrictions. He desires a program fully commited and one that will give him full control of the "process." Nobody will get that at "holier than thou" UGA. Richt has done as good a job as can be done because he fits the expectations perfectly. That is, win moderately and maintain the admin perception of doing things above the fray. He settles for that and seems okay with it.....which is the main reason he has never bolted. A coach with higher ambition and true elite aspirations would have exited Athens long before now. Saban wouldn't take the UGA job to begin with but if someone with a similiararities "process" did, he would bolt after two years when the first opportunity arose.