Richt’s former UGA players ‘surprised’ by the news

UGA coach Mark Richt
Many of Mark Richt’s former players at UGA expressed “surprise” after hearing about Sunday’s firing.
“I was his (Richt’s) first recruit to Georgia,” former UGA quarterback DJ Shockley told the AJC’s D. Orlando Ledbetter on Sunday.
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