Mark Richt, Former College Football Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Episode 344
Mark Richt is the former head football coach with the University of Georgia and the University of Miami (Fl). He played his college football with the Hurricanes from 1979-1982, serving as the backup quarterback to now hall of fame QB Jim Kelly. After stints in the NFL playing behind John Elway with the Broncos and Dan Marino with the Dolphins, Richt entered the coaching world in 1990, where he would serve as an assistant coach under Bobby Bowden at Florida State. He was a part of two national championship teams with Florida State in 1993 and 1999.
In 2001, he became the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs and was named SEC Coach of the Year twice (2002, 2005). In 2016, he moved to Miami to coach the Hurricanes. He was named ACC Coach of the Year in 2017, winning the Walter Camp Coach of the Year that same season. After the 2018 season, Richt announced his retirement from coaching and is now beginning his first year as a broadcaster with the brand new ACC Network.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Mark Richt about his decision to retire from coaching, watching football for the first time in 35 years instead of coaching, the powerful story of him coming to Christ during his time at Florida State, the impact coach Bobby Bowden had on him spiritually, and why adoption is so important to him.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.8 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with |
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| 1:29.7 | Really excited to have Coach Mark Rickt joining us here on the podcast today. He's a guy I've wanted |
| 1:34.7 | to have on for a while knowing his testimony and having met him a few times during my time |
| 1:40.0 | working at ESPN. Coach Rick, of course, the former college football coach, head coach at Georgia |
| 1:45.8 | with the Bulldogs in the last few years, 2016 to 2018. He was coaching at the U at Miami in Florida |
| 1:53.9 | with the hurricanes. And all of a sudden, December 2018, Mark Rick, no longer was coaching. He |
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