After a heartbreaking loss that may have ended its national title hopes, Georgia football had an interesting guest at Monday’s practice – former pro wrestler Lex Luger.

Luger, legal name Larry Pfohl, was a teammate of coach Mark Richt’s during his time at Miami, and although the “Luger Era” in pro wrestling was several years ago, current players still knew he who was.

“I used to have a video game on Nintendo 64, WCW Revenge,” defensive back Asher Allen said, smiling. “I used to play that with the Lex Luger character. I went undefeated with him.”

Richt said he once took recruits to Wrestlemania to see Luger when he was a coach at Florida State.

And Allen remembered one Luger’s signature moves that helped him win a pair of WCW heavyweight championships.

“Torture rack, man. Torture rack,” he said.

Richt ‘not interested’ in leaving

With Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer, the dean of SEC coaches after being in Knoxville since 1993, stepping down following this season, Richt was asked Tuesday if he could see himself in Athens for that long, or longer.

“I would hope so. My goal from the very beginning has been to have this be the very last coaching job that I have,” he said. “It’s certainly going to be up to whoever’s in charge of making that decision, but for me, my goal was to, if I moved from Tallahassee, move one time. I’m not interested in telling a bunch of young men that I have a better place to be than to be with them.”

If the Bulldogs were to win Saturday against Kentucky, it would give Richt 80 wins in his first eight years in Athens.

No NFL talk with Stafford, Moreno

Many college players forego the NFL draft for the chance to win a conference or national championship at the college level (Richt cited Florida State’s Warrick Dunn and Chris Weinke as examples).

With Georgia needing just short of a miracle for either Matthew Stafford or Knowshon Moreno to stay in school beyond this season, Richt said he hasn’t yet spoken with either regarding their thoughts on leaving school early to go to the next level.

“I haven’t gotten into the conversation with those guys,” he said. “I hate to set a timetable where I’m going to talk to them because then everybody’s on me like crazy, and I haven’t set a time yet, but it would not be all that unlikely to talk to them for sure during the bowl practice time.”

- Tyler Estep