A prescient article
Since 2017, UGA football has finished no lower than No. 3 in the recruiting rankings and has signed two consensus No. 1 classes.
dawnofthedawg.com
"In many ways, Mark Richt was the right coach at the wrong time. He was a fantastic coach for an era of the sport which had already passed. In the 1980s and 90s, college football was arguably at its most diverse schematically.
The best teams of this era included Miami and Florida State with their pro-style, balanced attacks; Nebraska with its I-bone option; Oklahoma with the wishbone option; Notre Dame running the split-back veer; and many others centering their offense either around a downhill rushing attack or an early spread passing game.
This diversity was reflected in recruiting. Teams recruited players to fit their systems. There’s no point in signing a big arm pocket passer when you run the wishbone. Why sign a fleet-footed fullback when most of your calls are passing plays out of an ace formation?
As college football entered the mid-2000s, elite teams began abandoning single-scheme offenses in favor of offenses that blended multiple schemes. Again, this change was reflected in recruiting.
Teams no longer tailored recruiting around their offenses, rather, teams began tailoring their offenses to the skillset of their roster. This concept has even spread to the defense.
Nick Saban and Urban Meyer spearheaded this change at the highest level, with more coaches adopting this new style as years went on.
Mark Richt and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo dabbled with some of these changes, but they never went all in.
When Bobo left Georgia, instead of hiring a new offensive coordinator who would keep Georgia’s offense progressing, Richt chose Brian Schottenheimer. Georgia’s offense actually regressed in 2015 and Mark Richt was fired after the season."
The similarities between Richt and Cristobal are remarkable.
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