Former University of Georgia head coach Mark Richt shared that his father, Lou, died on Wednesday. Richt posted a statement ...

Lou Richt, father of former Georgia coach Mark Richt, died on Wednesday, his son shared in a social media post Thursday ...

Lou Richt, father of former UGA football coach Mark Richt, died Wednesday at age 88 in Watkinsville, where he had been living in a nursing home.

Mark Richt coached at Georgia from 2001-15, winning two SEC titles and going 145-51. Lou, who was divorced from Mark’s mother Helen, moved to the Athens area in the early years of Mark coaching ...

Kevin Hynes, Mark Richt’s brother-in-law and former UGA chaplain, told the Athens Banner-Herald that Lou Richt had been living in Watkinsville nursing home. He was 88.