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I don't know if it has been said, but I think Richt's undoing was going 5-10 vs Fla and his last 2 seasons he got spanked by Jim McElwain. His last game vs Fla (2015) was a 27-3 beating that appears to be the straw that broke the camels back.

I don't think you can point to one specific thing as his undoing. My earlier post about the transition from BVG to martinez was the first major gaffe but we were still decent. I think he just got burned out and didn't give the job NEAR the attention that it demands and we suffered for it. Hiring schottenheimer was disastrous, as well as his entire tenure-long issues with not recruiting well enough on the OL.

Wiht that said, as crazy as it sounds, I don't think the UF thing was AS big a deal as you may think. Donnan would have stayed severla more years despite losing to UF if he hadn't also been losing to tech. And despite our struggles with UF, we still had ourselves in position here and there to compete for titles, just never got there. I do think, as you pointed to, that the '15 WLOCP was probably the final straw where everyone involved new it was time to move on. We had 2 weeks to prepare and even though greyson lambert was AWFUL, we went with faton bauta and didn't even both to suit the offense to his strengths (being his mobility). It was almost lik richt thought "ya know what, I'm pretty much done anyway so here's a hail mary and let's see what happens" and obviously it was an utter failure.