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
Like I told the players, it doesn't mean anything if we get whipped this week, ... We have a pretty levelheaded group of seniors who know the jury is still out on us. We know we're good. We know we have a chance to do some special things. But how good can we be? No one knows for sure. We've still got a long way to go.
I was hoping we'd play about 2 p.m., but hopefully 5:30 will be enough. Hopefully, it'll be hot enough for everybody.
It doesn't surprise me. The guy's got all the tools you could ever hope for. He's very serious about becoming a great player.
Last year, I was just hoping the other team would kick it out of the end zone so we could get it on the 20, ... So, I guess I'm hoping now we'll be able to return it past the 20.
I watched film from Wednesday's practice, and he's just a really impressive back. He's just tough. He's just a player. He's a guy you can count on. He'll run block, he'll pass block.
I think he's still a relatively young kicker, ... It's good to have the confidence to know he can make that kind of kick.
I think he's done a great job and I would think he would roll into the fall as the No. 1 guy.
I think his goal is to be a coach and he'll be able to do some things as a student assistant coach that a lot of people can't do. He'll get a couple of years of training that a lot of guys have to wait for until after they graduate.
I thought he looked a lot like Shane Matthews. It was kind of eerie how much he looked like him. He looked like Shane Matthews as a second- or third-year player, not the first shot out of the cannon.
That was the biggest play of the game. We desperately needed a first down to get out of that bad field position.
That was enough adversity for a team without a lot of character and leadership to fold up, ... and they never did.
I wasn't as excited about the game after watching film as I was right after the game, ... they'll see things weren't as good as everybody is writing right now.
Jason is a talented kid and a tough son of a gun. He's going to play. We've always been pleased with him and he's stepped it up.
I think Florida's intentions were to use a lot of the things (West Virginia coach Rich) Rodriguez is doing, but Chris Leak's talents didn't really jibe with that.