re: Mark Richt is College Football's Charlie Brown

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"What makes the head football coach at Georgia such a rich character is that he's not purely a loser. The self-loathing that causes him so much anguish is decidedly not self-effacement. The UGA head football coach is optimistic enough to think he can earn a sense of of self-worth, and his willingness to do so by exposing himself to humiliations is the dramatic engine that drives the strip. The greatest of the UGA head football coach's virtues is his resilience, which is to say his courage. The head football coach is ambitious. He manages the team. He may be a loser, but he's, strangely, a leader at the same time. This makes his mood swings truly bipolar in their magnificence: he vacillates not between kinda happy and kinda unhappy, but between being a "hero" and being a "goat"." - listing for the vacant UGA Head Football Coach position

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