Pity the poor Georgia Bulldogs. They are so starved of success they’ve started to go crazy. They haven’t won a national championship in football since 1980 - that’s 37 seasons and counting! They begin every season with the dream of ending that drought, only to have those dreams invariably dashed. They’ve been especially cursed with bad luck since the turn of the century. After firing Jim Donnan — a national championship winning, college football hall of famer — the Bulldogs hired young Mark Richt away from Florida State, where he’d been offensive coordinator for the past seven years.
A promising hire, Richt fell far short of expectations in Athens.