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For Petrinos and Richts, coaching is all in the family
- Updated: June 1, 2016
11:49 AM ET
When the inevitable bad news of injuries or academic concerns filters through the football offices at Miami, there is no question about whose job it will be to inform the head coach. The fingers are all pointed at the rookie — quarterbacks coach Jon Richt.
After all, he said, he’s got the best job security in the country.
“It’s not just that I’m his son,” Jon said of Miami head coach Mark Richt, “but I’ve got his only granddaughter.”
Indeed, there are some perks to being kin to the man in charge, but as Jon Richt and Louisville quarterbacks coach Nick Petrino have learned, the key to success working for dad is all about fitting in and doing the job well. There’s no such thing as favoritism here. It’s all about wins.
“He expects the same amount of effort and knowledge out of all of us, but I think there’s always a little part of it where, me being his son, he might expect a little more from me,” Nick Petrino said of his dad, Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino. “That’s something I’ve picked up on, but it’s good. It pushes me to want to be better.”
Both quarterback coaches are in their first years as full-time college assistants, and though Richt and Petrino have taken different paths to this spot, they share an inherent drive to win and an innate understanding of how their boss wants to get the job done.
For Petrino, there has never been much doubt about his future. From an early age, he knew he wanted to coach, and he’s spent nearly every year of his life learning the tools of the trade from his dad and uncle, Idaho coach Paul Petrino.
“I feel like he’s been with us forever,” Bobby Petrino said of his son. “When he was in high school, he’d come and throw with the players all summer long.”
From there, Nick Petrino played for his dad at Arkansas, then worked as a graduate assistant at both Western Kentucky and Louisville. Coaching was in his blood, and even before he’d wrapped up his playing career, his focus was on a career as a coach. When a full-time job …
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