If it was at Kirby Smart, university football would be centered around “fire, passion and energy” and None of these changes modifying the landscape that sport has endured In recent seasons. The Georgia coach is a guy in football, after all, forced to be concerned with new standards of personality changes and players of players Because he saw him in his own elite program.
The defending double and winner of the title in title has achieved several wider points on Tuesday during the days of the dry media, stressing the quantity of university football which continues to evolve with null and the sharing of income and the stress which it puts on the construction of a team at the level of the championship.
“You can say what you want, but there are more people in university football today, especially in the dry, who are comfortable with their situation,” said Smart. “It’s a very good life.” I earn $ 200 a year. I am very comfortable. “And you don’t reach your objectives at ease.
Here are some of the key points of Smart during his stay on the podium and the escape rooms and what we think it means for the DAWGS in the 2025 season.
Georgia in search of coachable elite talents
Question: fire, passion and energy are program pillars. Can you name players who have exposed it so far and why have you added this off-season?
Smart response: “Why is it important to identify it now? Because culture in university football changes slowly. You have to remember, I was part of a nine-year program and a nine-year race (in Alabama) which was one of the biggest of all time in university football. Don’t’t’ Hightower, Rolando McClain, Julio Jones and Trent Richardson and Mark Ingram (Georgia) Roquan Smith in Nolan Smith, Jordan Davis, George Pickens, Jake From … by Andre Swift.
Translation: If you come to Athens looking for a pay day and not wanting to work, Georgia is probably not an adjustment. Smart, who had more than first round NFL draft The choices (20) that losses (19) during his stay in Georgia had to adjust his recruitment approach a bit in recent years With other programs offering significant guarantees with elite level prospects. He reiterated the same point on Tuesday that he made Ad Nauseam throughout the offseason: the signature with the Bulldogs is a game to future Gains. He mentioned several former first -round choices as guys who saw the situation as a whole and who were not simply “satisfied” to be a high -level football player.
On the QB decision of Georgia
Question: What has Gunner Stockton have accomplished since the end of last season which made you bring it here to dry media days?
Smart response: “He does it in the right way. He commands the room and works his buttocks. I say all of this because Ryan (Puglisi) is also doing an excellent job, and these guys will continue to compete. One of the leaders of our team. Better.”
Translation: Head for the fall camp, Stockton is Georgia QB1 according to what he showed during spring training And as the backup of Carson Beck last season. Smart selecting Stockton as one of the three representatives of the Bulldogs players in Atlanta signals his confidence in the fourth year player. That said, Smart did not tell Stockton that he was going to start in the first match against Marshall and that he still had to put his best foot in August to lead the Mike Bobo first team unit.
Enough speculation on Nick Saban
Question: The hot rumor yesterday was Nick Saban who returns to training. I was wondering if you could share your reaction?
Smart response: “I heard all the Scuttlebutt and everything about it. I almost laughed. It was as if someone needed something interesting to talk about it, so they chose to go to the Saban coach to do it. The game is better with him involved. He is involved. He is passionate about this. His brilliant in many ways is around football. Around, another way to do something.
Translation: Do not believe anything you hear and only half of what you read. Smart is skeptical – He does not think that Saban is interested in a return to coaching Unlike the “source” of Greg Mcelroy earlier in the week. Smart joked by saying that he called Saban and offered it Muschamp’s released position on staffBut he was overqualified. Smart spent nine years to Saban staff in Alabama, including eight as a defensive coordinator, and the two always speak of defensive game plans and schematic details.
What are the weaknesses of Georgia – what are they?
Question: What is a position group on both sides of football that you expect to be better this year compared to last season or which must be better?
Smart response: “Yeah, I don’t like the question, I’m sorry. There is not a position group in which we don’t need to improve. I mean, just me being Frank with you, we have to get better with everyone. You can say that it’s Coachespeak, but if I choose one, I leave someone. We must improve all around.”
Translation: Georgia – Currently with the third best chances of winning the university football playoffs, according to Draftkings Sportsbook – is not there that it must be at the moment if the Bulldogs are planning to return to Atlanta, the CFP and, potentially, the projectors of the national championship. Do you think Smart was going to conceptualize two specific areas of improvement in his football team? It is the same coach who, like Saban, insisted to meet his coache staff two years ago after beating 58 points in the final to formulate a recruitment plan since the Bulldogs were behind. The only thing that makes smart happy is improvement and not resting position groups perceived as Stout entering the season.
The revenge match with the Alabama will be sweet
Question: just curious to know your global analysis of Kalen Deboer and his first year in Alabama.
Smart response: “I am not qualified to give an analysis of another head coach of our league for whom I have an enormous respect for … Whenever you enter a situation where he entered behind Nick in transition, it will be a new agreement. Think that he is a great coach. Obviously, we played in his place and they did an exceptional work everywhere on us. A lot of respect for the training coach and the work.”
Translation: No bulletin equipment will be obtained in the 2025 sec media days, at least not in the changing rooms in Georgia. The 9-4 arrival of Alabama last season under Deboer did not drop expectations of the playoffs, but one of these nine victories was against the Bulldogs impressively. Smart mentioned Tuesday that it was impatient to welcome Crimson Tide in Athens, but stopped in step any guarantees or details of the match plan. As if he had managed to do it with a question centered on a force test in Auburn, Smart was complementary to his enemy of rivalry and did not go further.
No shortcuts when building depth
Question: How do you see the change within your organization, accelerate the development of depth with the impact of the transfer portal and zero?
Smart response: “First of all, you will not accelerate development. It is an unfit term. If you want to accelerate development, you are probably looking for shortcuts that do not exist. We cannot reproduce representatives more quickly. We cannot accelerate the transition of a guy. The transition that it takes to become a good football player is different for each child, and I have been the chance of the last 19 years in university football.”
Translation: There is no remedy or magic potion used to fill the holes on the list when you try to develop and build depth in both depths, especially the portal. There is a reason why the bulldogs have been selective transfer under smart and did not sign as many transfers as the other elites in the top 10. Georgia has not been as concerned with recruits as, for example, Dabo Swinney in Clemson, but the message is clear of Smart: Portal additions must be the additions of the portal must be the additions of portal must be the addition of portal must be the portal additions must be the portal additions Being the addition of the portal must be the Perfect Adapt between hedges to work.
