Coach Mark Richt on Bobby Bowden, Recruiting Deion Sanders, Consistency and Success at Florida State and Georgia, and Leading the Right Way

The Highest Level Podcast with Evan Burk

Coach Mark Richt served as the head football coach for the University of Georgia and the University of Miami, as well as a longtime assistant coach for the Florida State University Seminoles under his mentor, Bobby Bowden where he was part of 2 National Championship teams.

In this conversation, Evan Burk speaks with Coach Richt about learning under Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden, impactful relationships with players built on discipline and compassion, and a coach's responsibility to set the example for teaching players how to become a man, husband, and father.

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Topics Discussed:

• How Howard Schnellenberger set high expectation at the University of Miami

• His 1st job at Florida State and developing confidence as a coach

• Earning Coach Bobby Bowden's trust

• The elevation of the Florida State football program

• How they avoided complacency during FSU's all-time great run

• His mentality going into his 1st head coaching job at Georgia

• The elevation of the Georgia football program

• Building resiliency within the program, with players, and "Finishing the Drill" at Georgia

• How the Georgia program evolved over 15 years

• Returning to his alma mater as head football coach

• Commonalties of the great teams he was a part of

• The importance of getting the buy-in of the players

• Teaching players how to be young men