Richt believes

It's no secret that Mark Richt and Mark Fox are close friends, so it shouldn't shock you that Richt is a believer:

“I come whenever I can,” Richt said about basketball games. “And I’ll say this. The timing is right for a really, really good season.

“Coach Fox has got, like we said, the top five scorers back. And if you watch them play, they’re not just slingin’ the ball around and doing a bunch of creating on their own kind of stuff. They are running a set offense, and it’s pure execution.

“They play great defense. It’s great basketball.”

He backs it up, too.  He attends quite a few basketball games every year, and has done so even when the team is terrible.

Also in the same article, a hint that some change is coming:

“I do think it’s a great idea to allow people to get closer to the floor and fill those seats. If it’s a 9 o’clock game, for instance, I think it’s a brilliant idea. Some of these late starts, an issue’s developed, and I think we’ve got a great solution to it.”

This conversation has been spurred on, in particular, by the Vermont game.  The Dawgs NIT performance was...less than inspiring, but if it leads to a logical and fan-friendly general admission policy for some games, it just might have been worth it.  The atmosphere for those two games really was special.

h/t Seth Emerson