By Janel Davis and Craig Schneider - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Staff writers Brad Schrade, Greg Bluestein, Russell Grantham, Virginia Anderson and James Salzer contributed to this report.
UGA Athletic Director Greg McGarity told the world he was quietly driving home from Atlanta last Saturday — after Georgia defeated Georgia Tech — when he finally made up his mind: coach Mark Richt had to go.
That may be true in the strictest sense. But in fact the carrion birds had circled over the University of Georgia’s football coach for weeks, possibly months.
