NFL Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton, a former captain and All-American at the University of Georgia, has kept a close watch on the Bulldogs this season and he isn’t happy with the coaching staff.

During an appearance Tuesday on 680 The Fan out of Atlanta, Tarkenton didn’t hold back in his assertion of the current situation in Athens:

“This staff that is over there today — and I am going to be very kind about it — it is not functioning properly,” Tarkenton said, according to DogBytes. “I think the culture there of the staff is not functioning properly. As we all know Mark Richt is a good, fine, wonderful person. I think there are things going on inside of his staff that are unsavory.

“If you don’t have your whole staff and your whole organization of respect and understanding the roles of everybody, things happen badly. We’ve got troubles in our program over there that needs to be fixed. It’s not about play-calling, it’s not about a defense-calling. It’s about a culture that has the right culture of love, respect, together.”

Tarkenton, who’s also one of Georgia’s top-level boosters, wasn’t close to being finished.

He chastised the lack of cohesion within the staff and singled out defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt as the source of Georgia’s season-long issues.

“I think he has come over and been very boisterous, been very loud,” Tarkenton said. “I think he’s taken advantage of things over there. He personally has hired four of the assistant coaches over there including the weight guy. I’m not a great fan of Jeremy Pruitt. That has not been a good, workable solution.”