I've waited for this opportunity.
What it boils down to is that Coach had forgotten more about football by the time he was an OC then any sports announcer or write in the United States knows right this minute. This is, in fact, the case for every head football coach in the entire country. The coaches out there divide into two major camps: those who will suffer fools gladly (Richt is a prime example) and those who don't (here Coach joins The Great Satan, Bo Schembechler, Woody Hayes, George Welsh, Don James, and a legion of others).
I'm with him. There's no reason to suck up to fools just so people like us can read nice stories about our team. High school football coaches know the score on this too. Further, if we find some young man who decides he won't come to Tech because Coach doesn't suck up enough, then I, for one, don't want him.