By now some of you have heard that Georgia Football Coach Mark Richt is selling his Lake Hartwell property and that it is a sign of him getting ready to leave UGA. The bloggers and others who have speculated that as being the reason are wrong.
Coach Richt may or may not be on the hot seat at Georgia but his position as head coach has nothing do with his decision to list the property. No his decision to sell is based on a higher calling and more noble reasons. After he read a book, “The Hole in Our Gospel,” written by Richard Stearns, it altered the coaches life.
His noble reasons for selling the lake house are simple, he and his wife saw that it would free up more cash for them to donate to charity, to make a positive impact on the lives of those less blessed.
My source for this information comes from the UGA Sports Blog in an article written by Chip Towers posted on May 25,2011.
Rather than tell you what Mark Richt said I will copy and paste from the article.
“Within the last year, I read this book, “The Hole in Our Gospel,” written by Richard Stearns. He’s the president of World Vision, U.S. I think people understand who World Vision is but, basically, they help the poor. Through their organization, you can help children, you can help build wells, you can buy them donkeys, whatever people need. World Vision helps people across the world. Well, anyway, there was a lot of statistical data in there about the amount of people that live on a dollar a day around this world. Billions of people. So I’m reading this book and it really affected me. It helped me realize that what we have is way more than we need and that our ability to give is hindered by this property. I guess that’s the best way to tell you. We just wanted to be in a better position to give and bless people that don’t have anything. We felt like this was one way to be able to do that.”
Richt went on to say the reason he delayed his decision to list the house was he knew the speculation it would cause so he delayed till after recruiting season and spring ball.
I have long known that Mark Richt was a class act and a credit UGA and college football. Now he is even more, the man is a stud who walks his talk. This summer he and his family are taking a trip to Honduras to watch World Vision in action and help dig and develop water wells for the people there. Thanks Mark Richt for being who you are, a wonderful role model on and off the field.
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