Georgia Bulldog football coach Kirby Smart met the media on Tuesday’s session of the SEC meetings that are taking place in Destin Florida. Coach Smart and his Bulldog football team are 94 days away from opening the 2024 college football season, in Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta vs the Clemson Tigers.
From Connor Riley, DawgNation…
It’s not very often that you have to answer for one of your players suing one of your rivals and fellow coaches.
Yet that is where Kirby Smart found himself on Tuesday afternoon when speaking to reporters at the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Fla.
On May 21, Georgia quarterback Jaden Rashada filed a lawsuit in the Pensacola Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against Florida head coach Billy Napier, Florida booster Hugh Hathcock and former Florida director of NIL Marcus Castro-Walker over a failed name, image and likeness deal.
Tuesday was Smart’s first public appearance since the lawsuit became public knowledge.
“I don’t really get caught up in that,” Smart said. “That’s outside of my bubble, and I worry about what’s in my bubble.”
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