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Georgia’s Kirby Smart makes official statement: ‘Grateful and humbled,’ nation’s highest-paid coach
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Georgia’s Kirby Smart makes official statement: ‘Grateful and humbled,’ nation’s highest-paid coach
ATHENS — Georgia coach Kirby Smart is “grateful and humbled” after becoming the highest paid coach in college football.
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Earned it.
For 13M, he better not lose to Alabama again.
well earned. Kirby is the #1 coach in College football.
I love Kirby Smart. He’s the best thing that’s happened to UGA football in my lifetime.
But Kirby didn’t win the SEC last season, and had a great 10 year contract. His raise is more money than many college FB coaches make in a year. Going 12-0 and losing to Bama (again) in the SECCG and missing the CFP does not warrant a raise. Kirby should have refused it.
Go Dawgs!
It's almost out of control now. Think of what it would be later if UGA didn't do this and waited.
Dawggie, I kinda doubt you personally would have refused it if it was you.
Nothing exposes true character like success and money. It will be interesting to see how CKS handles himself going forward.
Is it that difficult to live in Athens on $11M/yr? Or was it about being "the highest paid CFB coach"? IF CKS plans to make Athens his home and coach of UGA his career I would expect a "home town discount" in subsequent contracts.
Talking about Smart's salary without saying anything about the Kirby Smart Family Foundation, which was founded shortly after Smart took the head coaching job at UGA, is a huge miss in this story. You don't have to skew it too much into a PR piece for Smart, but you really should at least acknowledge the fact that Smart is donating a portion of his salary to charity. And if he is only donating a small fraction of his millions, that would be a valid issue to take up in a story like this.
Kirby has never gotten one thing in his life that he didn't earn. His work ethic is really unique in itself. His ability to find workers with skills in one of his weaker and then delegate without worry, is incredible. David Pollack was right in '22.