C wasn't a particularly groundbreaking or future building language either. It basically just took a bunch of well known features from some popular languages at the time and packaged them together in a way that directly made it easier for Ritchie to solve the problem he was working on at the time (developing and porting Unix).
So as such Go and C have much in common.
edit: Originally wrote Kernighan instead of Ritchie. Kernighan as far as I know had nothing to do with the design or creation of C.
FWIW, I love C for what it is. When I learned C, I came from Assembler so C felt like a perfect fit; its thin layer of abstraction wasn't too much of a learning curve and a very welcome addition to the tool chest. I just would have hoped for Go to make a “bigger” jump than C did at its time.
So as such Go and C have much in common.
edit: Originally wrote Kernighan instead of Ritchie. Kernighan as far as I know had nothing to do with the design or creation of C.