Wiedmer: Is Georgia headed down same path as post-Fulmer UT?

Weep not for Mark Richt today.

The former University of Georgia football coach will have at least $4.1 million reasons to feel good about life after being shown the door by athletic director Greg McGarity on Sunday.

But should he want to coach again in the near future, someone – possibly his alma mater, Miami – will surely be quite happy to hire a coach who has won 74 percent of his games, played for five Southeastern Conference championships in 15 years (winning America’s toughest conference twice) and accomplished all of that without anyone whispering a single disparaging word about him or his program.

Instead, weep for the man who will replace Richt. Not only will he have to slightly better those numbers to justify his pay, he’ll have to do it in an SEC East that figures to become far tougher than the one Richt struggled to dominate in recent years.