And more than a few people have noticed that Georgia hasn’t landed many. “That’s what we’re trying to sell is come hang out with Travon (Walker), Jordan (Davis), Nakobe (Dean), George Pickens, all those guys, and you’ll be like them one day if you work,” he said. Kirby Smart, like many coaches, is trying to navigate the new world of college football in the age of immediate transfers. It’s hard, but if you buy into hard, you’ll be like those 10 other football players in there that are playing in the National Football League right now that are shaking their hands. They don’t want to bring a high school kid in because they’re worried they’re going to leave, so you’d better do a good job of farming your own place and make sure they understand that it’s not easy here. “You’re always exchanging a transfer for a high school kid that you could bring in here and develop, and that’s a lot of college coaches’ fear right now. “If you don’t feel like somebody upgrades your roster, then don’t do it,” Smart said. He then addressed the balancing act between a traditional high school recruit, and a transfer. “Once we lost out on the players that we thought improved our team, we weren’t going to take a transfer so that I wouldn’t have to answer a question about not taking a transfer. But Kirby Smart is all about his players performing to a standard. It really is the least schools like Georgia can do.“I think it’s awesome to get a transfer that can help your team somewhere, and we lost out on some guys that we wanted to get,” Smart said. ATHENS Georgia football is in no danger of losing to Sanford on Saturday, and probably not until November, for that matter. NIL merely ensures they can make money off of themselves, separate from what they should earn on the field alone. Players are still not even paid an actual wage from the football program. UGA head coach Kirby Smart spoke to the media upon their matchup with Samford.Smart got a question about the difficulty of retaining players on the roster with the nuances of the transfer portal and was asked if it was hard to keep younger players around, especially at the quarterback position. This is far from the era of player empowerment. If a major college football program does not accept NIL, or makes it clear they are against it, why should top players choose to go to school there? While the ruling does open up any number of rabbit holes for college football - and will surely only make it more top-heavy - programs only have one choice, or else they’re behind the time. In terms of NIL, there really is only one argument at this juncture. Georgia football: Kirby Smart on the right side of NIL argument Four outstanding Georgia football players who earned helmet stickers. He led the SEC in interceptions during his final season. Earlier this week, Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart spoke again on why his.
He finished his career with 13 interceptions, a mark that still ranks sixth in UGA annals, and paced the Bulldogs with six interceptions in 1997 and five in 1998.
It’s more about the depth of our deals than the total amount,” Smart said. As a Player Smart was a four-year letterman at defensive back for Georgia, where he was a First-Team All-SEC pick as a senior. But I don’t think it’s about marketing that and selling that. I would rival anybody in the country with 95 NIL deals coming off a National Championship and pretty gaudy number total that we’ve been able to give out. “He’s able to send money back to his dad who is on dialysis. Smart shared the story of Georgia Bulldogs offensive tackle Micah Morris, who sends his NIL money back home to his ill father. Doing so should help he and the Dawgs with recruiting - not that he needs it anyway. Georgia head coach Kirby Smart and players during post-game trophy presentation following the Bulldogs’ 49-3 win over Oregon in the 2022 Chick-fil-a Kickoff Game played September 3rd in Atlanta. There probably isn’t too much exceptional about Kirby Smart and UGA LB’s Coach Glenn Schumann talking to a bunch of football coaches about defensive strategy in its own right, but this talk is exceptional in that it ended up on YouTube. Georgia coach Kirby Smart made a smart comment on Wednesday at SEC Media Days, planting his flag firmly in the ‘Pro’ argument for NIL. Back in 2018, Kirby Smart presented at a coaching clinic and talked about defending modern college offenses. Georgia football coach Kirby Smart sees the positive side of NIL, which allows players to make money off their name, image and likeness.įor those old heads who think college athletes making money is ruining the game itself, this is not the story for you.
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