I tend to brace myself when Greg McGarity is in explanation mode, but this is downright weird.
Change was clearly on the mind of Athletic Director Greg McGarity back in mid-October when he began looking into search firms. McGarity revealed Monday that it was then that he made up his mind he was going to utilize Bill Carr of CarrSports Consulting — if needed.
McGarity was a panelist at the College Athletics Leadership Symposium at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Atlanta on Oct. 19 when approached by Carr and “three or four” other search firms after the meeting.
“Bill was one presenting that day,” McGarity said after introducing Kirby Smart as Georgia’s new head coach Monday at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. “They all anticipate (coaching changes). That’s the job of these firms. When you finally make a decision to contact one — and I’m sure they’ve done some homework themselves — those guys want work, too. … They’re doing their due diligence, too.”
So McGarity didn’t seek out search firms, they sought him out? Color me a wee bit skeptical on that happening out of the blue.
It’s a pretty good indication the decision to can Richt wasn’t totally based on this season’s record, though. That “on the way home from the Tech game” story of McGarity’s is just that.
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UPDATE: According to Chip Towers, the players didn’t see it coming.
Georgia’s players have had the air knocked out of them the past week. They went from not really believing that Richt was in trouble with the administration to dealing with him being fired, to rationalizing him bolting for Miami, to accepting a new coach.
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