I'm not sure what you think you're agreeing or disagreeing with. I agree with most of what you've just said. My only contention has been that UGA will not make a decision about Mark Richt based upon next year's recruiting class, much less a single recruit, which was in reply to your assertion that Richt will be the coach for UGA in 2016 because of the #1 QB recruit commiting to UGA. Your retort to that was to point out that a QB may be the only missing piece for Richt, and there's where we differ, apparently. As I've pointed out, Richt has had excellent QB play in the past, and still only has a couple of SEC championship to show for it, both of which were awhile ago.
To go further, I think we've learned everything about Mark Richt that we're going to learn. He's been at UGA since 2001, which I think is plenty large enough of a sample size. I don't believe that he's suddently going to reinvent himself into a championship coach, nor do I think that he's just one special player away from winning the whole thing. We've seen Richt's ceiling, and we've probably seen his floor too, so the only question now is whether or not UGA is happy with that spectrum.
Your point about firing the good-but-not-great coach is exactly what UGA's conundrum is. The issue is that UGA's fanbase believes it deserves championships. Whether or not their history is worthy of those expectations is largely beside the point; the expectations exist nonetheless. At this point, if they were to keep Richt, UGA's administration is either 1) not in agreement with its fanbases' goals or 2) woefully blind to how far Richt can take UGA.
