Top Dawg: Mark Richt and the Revival of Georgia Football

This is a great book for fans of Mark Richt -- and I consider myself to be among his biggest fans, so I loved this book. The author captures very well the frustration that Georgia fans felt for so many years prior to the arrival of Richt -- as well as the elation at the success of the team since his arrival. It really is a great book, and I highly recommend it. Incidentally, while this book does a great job portraying our current coach and what he means to Bulldog fans everywhere, I just read another book that includes the entire history of Georgia football -- and by entire history, I mean just that. This book covers everything in a very unique format, and if you like Georgia football, or know someone who does, then you should definitely pick up this book as well: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOOTBALL: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports (Sports by the Numbers)

Rob Suggs has crafted an excellent book about the paths Mark Richt and the Georgia Bulldogs have traveled over the last 30 years. Top Dawg will hold an honored space on my bookshelf right next to Glory! Glory! and Clean Old Fashioned Hate. This is a must read for all of Bulldog Nation. I'd also recommend purchasing extra copies to give as Christmas gifts for Tech neighbors and coworkers, that they might see the error of their ways (or if nothing else have yet another reminder of 7 in a row and 51-7).

Rob Suggs' central theme - that the right man came to Georgia football at the right time - is demonstrated ably in this well-written and timely book. This isn't just a rehash of Georgia football and Mark Richt. The author talks about his own personal anecdotes briefly in an introduction, which should ring true with Dawg fans, but he follows with very interesting parallels between the fall and rise of Georgia football following the Herschel Walker years, and the eerily corresponding fall and rise of Mark Richt's personal life and career. I don't want to write too many details, but I'll say that ours is a lucky fanbase. We had a Lewis Grizzard writing for us. We have had a Jack Davis drawing for us. Now, we have another gifted professional bringing us a book that he's written as both professional and fan. It's one we all wish we could write. If you're a Georgia Bulldog, this book needs to be on your shelf.

Great story of the history of UGA football during the Mark Richt era. Not only a story of great football, but a story of creating good men.

The ideal combination - a wonderful storyteller in Rob Suggs telling a wonderful story - the rejuvenation of Georgia's football program under Mark Richt. As a football fan I was naturally drawn to this book, but it is more than just a football story - it is the story of one man's odyssey from his (occasionally misspent) youth to his - sorry to use an old cliche - rendezvous with destiny in Athens, GA. No one but Suggs could tell the story so well!