Georgia Football: Respect runs both ways with coaches.

Georgia Football has been lucky enough to have really decent men as their last 2 football coaches.

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Former UGA head coach Mark Richt is busy getting his Miami Hurricanes team ready for the upcoming season which is less than 2 weeks away. They open up the season on Saturday, September 2nd at home against Bethune Cookman. This is Richt’s second year as head man at the U after coaching Georgia Football for 15 years. No doubt this is one of the busiest times of the year for Coach Richt, just as it is with all head coaches of major college football teams.

So it was pretty cool that he took a little time to give our beloved Dawgs a shout out on Twitter. While the dismissal of Richt was an absolutely fiery occurrence within the UGA fan base,  it’s nice to see that the main man involved has moved on and seems to hold no ill will.

Kirby Smart, the man who took Richt’s place at UGA, is also in his second season. Richt knows how Smart feels with the year 2 expectations at a big time program like UGA, and the show of support from the Miami coach was obviously appreciated. Richt’s second year at UGA was perhaps his most successful, with his team going 13-1 and winning the SEC championship. Hopefully Kirby can duplicate that second year success. Coach Smart responded to the Tweet with one of his own that was pretty cool as well.

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The football season is now less than 2 weeks away. As much as winning matters (and it matters!), respect between people is what makes the sport special. Good on both of these guys for setting such a great example.