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Mark Richt is the food commentator of the people

Miami’s coach has a thing now: sharing wisdom on intake of comfort foods.

NCAA Football: ACC Media Days
NCAA Football: ACC Media Days
Jeremy Brevard-USA TODAY Sports

Miami head coach Mark Richt has always had an accessible personality, down to his hobbies of amateur meteorology and nature photography. But lately, he’s been asked more and more frequently for dietary advice. It all started at 2017’s ACC media days:

The 10-bite sandwich

The best part: calling Bite 3 the “filet of the sandwich.” This man has put a lot of thought into sandwiches, as have all honest Americans. While we’re on the subject of American sandwiches ...

“Hot Dog Delight”

2018’s ACC media days saw more fun, including this horrifying recipe that ... I will try. Slices of bread, hot dogs, American cheese, and piles of beans, all “hammered” together and then “hammered” with a fork.

See, that angry comment you were about to leave about hot dogs and sandwiches? Coach has transcended all that by literally describing a sandwich by any definition, which includes hot dogs in it. Truly a uniter.

The first reply to this video:

Thanksgiving plan of attack

Now we’re getting into Les Miles territory. Both coaches have now laid out the order of Thanksgiving consumption operations, with Richt dropping a BLAM of mom’s spinach souffle first, massive turkey, “more massiver amount of mashed potatoes,” a corpse of butter buried deep within the potatoes, corn atop the taters, “a large amount of stuffing,” “gravy over everything — except for my mom’s spinach souffle,” an itis nap, and a turkey sandwich.

Again, Richt uses the word “hammering.” This is a physical eater.

And for dessert:

While selecting candy (York and Butterfinger) from a passerby, Richt expressed a detailed love of the candy corn process (spend your time with the white tip, and then just hammer the rest on in).

“Fruitcake is bad,” Richt added.

There’s also this method for adding some non-squishiness (chef term) to Peeps:

Also, his favorite movie has food in its title

Richt loves Nacho Libre at least as much as you like your favorite movie. This has long been canon.

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