According to UGA, Mark Richt is not on the Hot Seat after all

Richt's critics point to the fact that he has never one a national championship. The last six national championships have been won by SEC schools and none of them were the Georgia Bulldogs. With that said, a closer look reveals that circumstances not coaching have kept them out of the BCS national championship game.

Three of the six SEC teams that won national championships during that period have done so with 13-1 records. Richt posted a 13-1 record in 2003 but the Dawgs were left out because of an undefeated Ohio State and Miami. If any of those 13-1 SEC teams had finished with that record when two BCS teams were undefeated they would have been left out of the game as well.

A fourth championship was won by LSU with a 11-2 record. Richt has three times had a record with two losses or less. The bottom line is four of those six championship winners could have easily been left out of the game like Richt was with similar records. It has not been coaching but timing that has hurt Richt.

Is Mark Richt on many fans' hot seat? Sure. However, Gary Hill made it clear that the fan dissension does not play into it. When asked about unhappy fans he stated the following, “You’ve got to listen; that’s why we serve on the board. But most of that doesn’t play into it. You evaluate the program independently and how the program is progressing. We’ve had a couple of down years. It will be very nice if he can improve that 6-and-7, at least modestly. But I think our program is in good shape.”