Mark Richt
Mark Richt
Mark Allan Richtis an American football coach and former player. He currently is the head coach at the University of Miami, his alma mater. He was the head football coach at the University of Georgia from 2001-2015. Richt played college football as a quarterback at University of Miami. His previous coaching affiliations include 14 years at Florida State University where he served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and one year as offensive coordinator at East Carolina University, and 15...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth18 February 1960
CityOmaha, NE
It's been talked about a lot, probably more than most (openers) for us, and that's because we're playing a great team. It's a team that wins almost every time they play.
It's just different from anybody we've seen. Thankfully, we've had time to practice and prepare for it.
It's a big game for us, I can promise you. They have done a wonderful job of stopping the running game and that's our strength going into this season.
I try not to be too hard on him. We have a good time when we get together.
It wasn't quite the way we designed it with Joe stumbling, ... That's not the way it was supposed to go. I'm sure people would have been talking about that play for years if we'd won.
It's not very often in our league that one team will become a dominant force in any given year for more than a year.
It's a lot more fun to be in it than not, and it's a lot more fun to win it than lose it.
It may even roll into a little of the season before you can really be sure because when you get to the point of who you think it is, and he's the man, how will he handle being that guy? It's just hard to say when it will finally settle.
It was more of a day of how can you manage things when things are going well. It was more of a damage control day for them. I thought they did all right.
I've had a lot of great ones, but I've never had a guy that tall, that fast and that strong. He's gaining confidence, too. I don't think we've seen him play as well as he can play. I don't want to put any extra pressure on him, but he's a special player.
I wanted to make sure he knew I believe in him. I hope he knows that, but sometimes, in that moment, you need a little encouragement.
That's exciting to us to know that there are some national blue-chip players who are interested in Georgia and feel like they can make great things happen here. I think there are certain guys that we signed, certain guys that we got visits from, that we probably never could have gotten five years ago.
That's a great advantage over just showing up when two-a-days begin in the fall. He'll have a good working knowledge of the system. He'll get used to the other players. He'll get used to the college life. He'll be able to work out over the summer with the team and build a good rapport.
Every time you turned around, somebody was out. We were really struggling today just to line up in some of our personnel groupings.