The oddest part of this marriage? It's not the smiles on Miami fans, because Mark Richt checks all the boxes. He wins consistently. He has a squeaky-clean image. He comes from a big-boy college in a big-boy conference, meaning no training wheels are necessary.
What's not to like? Richt also is a local kid from Boca Raton and a University of Miami alum from the days this championship stuff started.
Good man. Good move. Good heavens, someone fly a banner over campus saying, "This is off the Richter Scale!"
Which leads to the underlying oddity in Wednesday's hiring: Miami's eight-win season wasn't enough to allow Al Golden to make it to the end.