Smart came from humble beginnings, but his Georgia program has now supplanted Alabama as most successful in the country.
ATLANTA — Kirby Smart landed his first coaching job because the price was right.“We had only $8,000 to pay a guy,” remembered Chris Hatcher, the coach who gave Smart his break at Division II Valdosta State more than two decades ago. “We were the perfect match for a guy that had no coaching experience.”
But when you consider what Smart has done since taking over at his alma mater from Mark Richt in 2016, the journey takes on a far more impressive luster.That’s just what former athletic director Greg McGarity had in mind when he hired the guy who was Nick Saban’s defensive coordinator at Alabama but had never been a head coach.
Smart, of course, worked out just fine. Since struggling a bit in his first season, Georgia has posted a record of 72-10, lost only five regular-season SEC games, and — most impressively — supplanted Alabama as the nation’s most dominant program. “Once I got to know him and watch him him coach, I realized that — first of all, he’s extremely smart and he’s a tremendous worker,” said Hatcher, now the coach at Alabama’s Samford University. “And he brought to the team —- what’s the right word for it? — yeah, he’s a very intense guy, but it was more of a competitive spirit that he had about him.”
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