One thing that I have and continue to stand on is that Mark Richt is a championship coach...he just through cruel dealings of fate has no championship trophy to back it up.
As much as Kirby Smart has elevated the Georgia program since 2016, it had to be elevated up to be in that position. It got there under Richt, being at the highest level it had been since fans of generation had only heard stories of how magical the era of Herschel, Buck and Lindsey, and Rex were. What Richt did, especially through 2007, was what you could have only dreamed of.