Miami football is hosting its Paradise Camp, the Hurricanes’ annual recruiting camp in Coral Gables. Miami head coach Mark Richt executed a perfect backflip off of one of Miami’s high dives on Friday night. If you’re afraid of heights like me, pulling something like this off would be completely terrifying.
Mark Richt’s backflipping from high dives tradition lives on
He’s been doing this since his days at Georgia.
Richt was even able to convince Hurricanes cornerbacks coach Mike Rumph to jump off of the high dive on Friday.
You see, this high dive backflipping is a tradition for Richt. He started doing it while at the University of Georgia, where he was for 15 seasons before his firing in 2015. Here was his first backflip as Miami’s head coach last summer.
The ones he executed while at Georgia weren’t any less impressive, either.
And another angle from the dive from two years ago:
In an interview with Campus Insiders last summer, Richt, the former Hurricanes quarterback from the 1980s, revealed that he learned how to dive like that to...wait for it...impress the ladies.
Richt and Louganis both enrolled at the University of Miami in 1978, and the future Hurricanes’ coach and his teammates would hang out at the university’s pool, where Louganis and the diving team would practice.
“We would watch him,” Richt said. “You’d go to the pool, because that’s where the girls were, right? So we’d watch the divers work out and say, that guy’s pretty good. Turns out he was the best in the world, like, ever. I had a lot of respect for him.”
His diving skills have evolved into a fun tradition that he has thankfully carried on with him as he moved to his new Miami gig.
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