Seal: Kirby Smart Should Get $13 Million A Year At Georgia, But He Can’t Lose Being The New Nick Saban…

Kirby Smart Should Get $13 Million A Year At Georgia, But He Can’t Lose Being The New Nick Saban..

A week has passed, and everything still makes sense. On Kirby Smart’s back, University of Georgia administrators placed a bullseye—that is, a bull$eye—the size of Stone Mountain. They paid their college football coach $13 million a year, the largest wage ever for his profession.

 

For the Bulldogs, Kirby has won two national titles in the last three years; he just needs to win two, three, or four more.

This is the reason why: The first Nick Saban was unmatched, winning six of his seven national championship rings at Alabama before stepping down following the previous campaign. Kirby is The New Nick Saban. At $11.4 million annually, he was the highest-paid college football coach prior to Smart.

 

I’ll do the arithmetic for you. Kirby surpasses Saban’s previous yearly total by about $2 million, indicating that the Georgia captain has the arrows pointed in his direction due to his newfound wealth and his desire to pull off the almost impossible: He will have to devote the next ten or more years to becoming Georgia’s Saban-Alabama dominating in a college football environment that will not permit such an endeavor.