Reports: Mark Richt being recruited to run for Georgia governor

Georgia conduct football manager Mark Richt during a news discussion in Athens, Ga., on Nov. 30, 2015. (John Bazemore, AP)

On Sunday, he was let go as Georgia’s conduct football coachAJC and WSB-TV in Atlanta

The AJC

A prominent college football manager venturing into politics isn’t unprecedented, though. Nebraska’s Tom Osborne served 3 terms in Congress before losing a bid for administrator in 2006 after withdrawal a coaching ranks. Vince Dooley, after timid as Georgia’s manager following a 1988 season, quickly entertained a run for administrator in 1990 though opted opposite it. He motionless to stay on as a university’s jaunty executive and years after would sinecure Richt.

But another coaching position, unnecessary to say, seems a much some-more trustworthy subsequent step for Richt than perplexing to attain Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, who will be term limited.

Richt has already been approached by several schoolsThe Miami Herald

“Coach Richt doesn’t seem to unequivocally suffer politics, and we would be positively dumbfounded if he ran for any domestic office,” Tim Echols, a state Public Service Commission member who attends church with Richt, told the AJC.

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