College football coaches wear plenty of hats in their day-to-day, but a surprising one is the niche Miami coach Mark Richt has carved out for himself: Amateur meteorologist. Perhaps it’s fitting given that he coaches for a team nicknamed after a literal weather event.
Mark Richt is actually college football’s greatest weatherman and nature photographer
You wish your coach had weather takes like Miami’s current head man.
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The impetus is no doubt a recruiting pitch.
Part of a head coach’s job is to incessantly market the program. Richt does that by bragging about one of The U’s greatest calling cards.
He doesn’t just tell, he shows as well.
Wouldn’t you?
He does so in the most dad way possible, by tweeting screenshots of his apps, rather than just the pictures themselves.
ENHANCE
(Pay close attention to the selfies)
Observe to the date stamps here too.
While much of the rest of the country was being pelted by the cold this past winter, Miami was, uhh, not.
But his meteorological tweets didn’t start when he got to Miami.
Georgia isn’t exactly Siberia. Richt made that known.
I’m not sure what Richt’s issuing a correction for in the Tweet below, but he would like you to know that it was hot on this day in 2012.
The next day, he’d like you to know that it was still hot, but that he certainly kept hydrated to stay camera ready during a commercial shoot.
He showed off more than just an appreciation for sun as well.
Northern Georgia is much closer to having four seasons than South Florida. He’s here to give you some timely updates on precipitation too.
Richt set the tone for his weather tweetin’ with one of his very first posts. And it shows that it’s not always fun in the sun.
No matter where he coaches, he wants fans to show up “rain or shine.”
And remember, he’s particularly deft in the rain.
But despite Richt’s tweets and what NOAA might claim, there’s the reality of his situation at Miami.
If you’ve ever been to Florida between May 1 and October 1, you’ll know two things. One, it’s really damn hot. The other, is that at 3 p.m., it’s probably going to rain. It could be for 10 minutes or it could be for three hours, but you can hang your hat on it. He said as much as while raising donor support for Miami’s pending indoor practice facility.
It’s gonna be huge just for us to know that there’s not one day that we’ll miss because of weather. We know that we can get the work done if we need to get it done. We know that if we need to give our guys a break from the heat that we can get it done.
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When it’s time for pro day, our seniors — our draft eligible players — to show the NFL what they have at our place we don’t have to worry about it raining or lightning ruining the day.
Miami’s real advantage over the Ann Arbors, South Bends, and Columbuses of the world is from October to May when there is perhaps no more idyllic locale in the continental United States.
It’s worthy of a strong flex, but Richt is gonna give us weather takes no matter the atmospheric conditions.
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