Would You Rather Be Brian Kelly or Mark Richt on Monday Morning?

0-2.

It’s quite possibly the scariest number a college football coach will ever see.  

An 0-2 record represents something that every coach dreads.

Climbing out of that kind of hole is a daunting task, and it’s one that few teams can rebound from.

In recent years, we’ve seen numerous head coaches start off in the dreaded 0-2 hole, never recover and, consequently, fail to keep their jobs by the time the end of the season rolls around.

Admittedly, a lot of times college football fans and the college football media will be too shortsighted when they declare that a head coach is on the hot seat. But sometimes, 0-2 is just 0-2, and whenever you're left staring at that kind of a record, the chatter is bound to commence.

There are now two prominent college coaches who find themselves sitting in the 0-2 hole, Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly and Georgia’s Mark Richt, and you better believe that neither fanbase is all too pleased with them.

The main problem is, this is the second year in a row that both coaches have gotten off to slow starts. Last year, Kelly stumbled out of the gate with a 1-3 record in his inaugural season before rebounding to guide Notre Dame to an 8-2 finish.

Richt, on the other hand, started off the 2010 season in even worse fashion, falling to 1-4. But luckily, he had the built-in excuse of breaking in a freshman quarterback and having to play without suspended star receiver A.J. Green.

Now Kelly and Richt have run out of excuses.

Kelly can’t chalk up his team’s sloppy play to being a rookie head coach anymore because that just isn’t going to work.

And as for Richt? Well, let’s just say that you don’t want to be Mark Richt right now.

Georgia fans were just about fed up with the Bulldogs’ decline over the last two years, and early losses to Boise State and SEC East foe South Carolina to start this season have sent them over the edge.

Losing to Boise State, a team that every SEC fan has ragged on for years, in your own backyard left a sour taste in the disappointed Georgia fans’ mouth and coming up short at home to South Carolina could have just been the final straw.

Brian Kelly will be given some time to right the Notre Dame ship this season, but I’m not sure if a win over Coastal Carolina this week is going to cure the animosity that Georgia fans have for Mark Richt right now.

Richt has delivered some big seasons and exciting wins at Georgia over the last 10 years, but it seems like every one of those 96 victories have been erased from the minds of the frustrated fans.

Richt went into the season sitting firmly on the hot seat and he’s only managed to turn up the temperature after two tough losses. If the Bulldogs don’t get back on track soon and start beating some notable SEC opponents, this will likely be the last hurrah for Mark Richt at Georgia.