Kirby Smart issues statement after shoving Mississippi State quarterback

ATHENS — Georgia coach Kirby Smart began his remarks on Monday by apologizing for shoving Mississippi State quarterback Michael Van Buren in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game.

“I went back and watched it, and didn’t even realize that I had run into him,” Smart said. “But I reached out to (Mississippi State head coach Jeff) Lebby that night and talked to him, and he said the kid was great. And then yesterday, I talked to Mike and told him I had no intentions or ill will towards him at all. It was, if you’ve ever been on the sideline in a game, it’s pandemonium.

“It’s really pandemonium when you’re trying to change personnel and you only got three or four seconds to do it. And we were bad off in a bad personnel grouping against empty that we actually messed up the week before. And so I was trying to get to Schumann to get that changed.”

Smart further complimented how the Mississippi State quarterback played.

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