Top Dawg: Mark Richt and the Revival of Georgia Football

by Rob Suggs

Top Dawg is the inside story of how Georgia Football returned to dominate the SEC with new life and new fire. Mediocrity followed the Georgia Bulldogs for two decades after the departure of Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. Meanwhile, a bright young leader was learning his craft just over the Florida line. Top Dawg is a story of tradition and of a tactician and how when the two converged the result was the emergence of the Georgia football program as one of the nation's top programs. After a powerful 2007 season, capped by a Sugar Bowl victory, Georgia is slated to start the 2008 season ranked in the top five. Top Dawg is the story of Georgia's return to glory with input from the players, coaches, and insiders. Filled with highlights, important games, the behind-the-scenes stories, Top Dawg will be a must read for every Georgia fan.

Genres: Football, Sports

231 pages, Hardcover

First published September 9, 2008

About the author

Rob Suggs is an author, editor, and collaborator based in Atlanta, Georgia, where his family has lived for four generations. He is the author of several books of his own, and a great many books in collaboration with authors such as Dr. David Jeremiah, Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, Dr. Bill Bright, Lee Strobel, Coach Les Steckel, Dr. Ross Campbell, and many others.

Reviews

[Camden Brannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Top Dawg was a story of how Head Coach Mark Richt transformed Georgia football and how Georgia did during his tenure there. I thought that the book was good for the first few chapters but got repetitive when it went into detail in the games and the offseason. Overall I thought the book was good but repetitive at times.

[Brian Marston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great insight on the philosophy of Coach Richt and Georgia Bulldog football. I also enjoyed reliving the 2001-2007 football seasons.

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finished this book back in February of this year and I have to say, that I love it when authors name drop football players and put forth the effort to describe different eras of a college or pro football team. And Rob Suggs did those things within this book.

Me being a lifelong California football follower (high school, college and pro), I am so far away from Georgia. But through TV, the media and of course this book I got a refresher course on UGA football.

It sucks that even though Mark Richt did a heck of a job as the UGA head coach from 2001-2015, it was never good enough for the UGA fans or administration. I hope he kills it at Miami as to rub his success in the UGA fans and administration's collective faces.

Yes I'm a grown man and I know how the coaching game works in the SEC. You don't win or challenge perennially for SEC division and/or conference titles, challenge for or win a National Championship then whatever you're doing as a coach aint s*** to SEC fans, administration, and media.

Rob Suggs' writing style and all those facts and name drops he laid out in this book, made it hard for a football obsessed person such as myself to put this book down.