To be honest about all of this I am a little surprised Richt was fired. I understand he hasn't won a NC, but he has won a lot of games in Athens and whoever we hire more than likely won't win 9 in 16. Our AD is awful, of course our fans call out names we have zero chance of getting like Chip Kelly, Gary Patterson, David Shaw, then there is the next group of Herman, Smart and Mullen. The AD has connections to Mullen and is probably who he wants, but if he hires him and we don't win 10 games next year, not happening, the AD would be out, none of the fans want Mullen. Smart is a top favorite on the list who might come, I don't know what kind of relationship Smart and Pruitt had, but word we get is Pruitt and Saban didn't get alone at all, no idea if true or not and you would certainly know more about that than me. I think SoCarolina on the verge of hiring Kirby sped up this process by a couple of years. Hiring Shotnheimer or ever how its spelled has turned out to be a disaster, worst offense I have seen in Athens since the Goff years, 7 offensive TDs in last 6 games, 10 in the last 8.