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Richt reminded of most important aspects of life

HOOVER, Ala. - No matter what this season brings, Georgia coach Mark Richt is prepared to keep it all in perspective. A life-threatening illness to Richt's wife this summer has helped him remember what he has known all along: Football is just a game.

Richt's wife, Katharyn, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in March as the couple approached their 19th wedding anniversary. The diagnosis set off a monthlong battle for Katharyn that reminded her husband what's most important in life.

"My wife went from having a routine checkup to having some suspicious tissue, to taking a sample of that and finding out there was cancer, to having a radical hysterectomy, to checking lymph nodes for more cancer," Richt said. "Then, waiting for that pathology report to finally hearing they feel like the cancer's gone. All that happened in about a month's time."

Suddenly football didn't seem so important.

"I pretty much shut down for about two months," Richt said during the first day of SEC media days Wednesday. "She handled it really better than I d

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A Gridiron Love Story

Episode Transcript

Katharyn: We talked a lot, we were actually best friends but I had never thought he would, have fallen for me.

Mark: We started out as buddies.

Katharyn: Yes.

Mark: In the beginning I wasn’t sure she would be the one that I would marry, although I liked her a lot. So I spilled my guts to her and I told her everything, every gory detail. She knew every possible thing you could know about me. The good and bad which was more bad than good and she still hung around, and saw something good in me. So I was thankful for that.

Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, August 27th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife Dennis Rainey and I’m Bob Lepine. We’ll hear Mark and Katharyn Richt share a great love story today.

Welcome to FamilyLife Today thanks for joining us. I have had the sense this week, that maybe I’ve seen your allegiance shift a little bit; I mean you went to the University of Arkansas didn’t you?

Dennis: Yes, that’s correct.

Bob: And you’ve been a Razorback

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Mark Richt

American football player and coach (born 1960)

Mark Allan Richt (born February 18, 1960) is an American former college football coach, player, and current television analyst. He was the head football coach at the University of Georgia for 15 years and at the University of Miami, his alma mater, for three. His teams won two Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships, five SEC division titles, and one Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) division title. He was a two-time SEC Coach of the Year (2002, 2005), the 2017 ACC Coach of the Year, and the winner of the national 2017 Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award. On January 10, 2023, he was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame as part of the 2023 class.^[1]

Richt played college football as a quarterback at Miami. As an assistant coach, he spent 14 years at Florida State University, where he served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Bobby Bowden, and a year as offensive coordinator at East Carolina University.^[2]

Early years and playing career

Richt was raised in a blue