Kirby Smart voices his concern with Georgia losing spring camp: 'To not get those practices, that's tough'
Watch out SEC, South Carolina and Vanderbilt could be on the upswing once the 2020 season arrives.
In a roundabout way, that’s how Kirby Smart sees it as the Georgia coach expressed his opinion that the SEC teams that managed to participate in the majority of their spring camps will be at an advantage this offseason.
“I think if everybody didn’t have it, it probably wouldn’t bother me as bad, but it is certainly, you know we got a new office coordinator and new quarterback coming in, whoever it’s going to be, and to not get those practices boy, that’s tough,” Smart said during a Thursday appearance on The Paul Finebaum Show. “But not very many people got a lot out of it, you know, on average, I think we got three to four practices are what some of the SEC teams got in before they shut everything down.
“In the grand scheme of things, that’s not a lot but I certainly think, you know, some young players, some mid-year guys that came in thinking they were going to get a leg up on people, that may not be as big leg as they thought because they weren’t able to have those practices.
“If you were fortunate enough to have spring practice early, like some programs do, I certainly think that helps to get, you know, 10 or more practices in is huge.”
It would be fair to say Smart may have a point if several SEC teams managed to go through spring game but the list of teams that had two practices or less far outweigh those that got on the field a handful of times this spring.
Georgia wasn’t alone in not seeing the field this spring as Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, LSU, Missouri, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Mississippi State did not have a single practice in football pads this spring.
The two league teams that got the most spring practice before all activities were halted? South Carolina and Vanderbilt, which finished with a combined 4-12 SEC record last fall.
Somehow, someway, Georgia will likely survive this disadvantage.
I’m really doubting any of this matters…I just don’t see any way we’re going to have a season this year… I have been going to games since I was 5 years old in early 80’s…but as someone with health issues…I just don’t know if I’ll ever trust going to another game…it’s going to be a long time before life gets back to normal for any of us…
The big money is from TV revenue.
If 97K people tightly packed into a stadium is still a public health concern/threat this fall I think the games will be played for TV.
To much revenue to lose and people will be starved for the entertainment. TV ratings would be off the charts.
Yea, there’s no realistic way College Football plays until fall of 2021 at earliest. Not with fans in the stands, not without fans just for TV, nothing. None of us will be doing anything that requires us to be within 6 feet of each other until we are substantially immune as a nation. That could be immune because almost all of us have had covid19, or because most all of us get a newly approved vaccine.
No football, sex or even entertainment!!! You can’t shut the world down no matter how you try to do it…people WILL not take it too much longer.
Tell that to Covid19
Whatever happens to the 2020 SEC Season…The Dawgs needed the Spring Practices a lot…breaking in four(2) new O-Line players and a new Quarterback. Without the new o-line guys working together, Newman will have to use those legs, if the 2020 Season is played…and I for one truly believe that the season will be played(the early games may be a little rusty)…but the Show Must Go On….Hopefully.
Anxious to see how Newman performs in the SEC – good luck to him and UGA especially 9/19. Would be a shame to not have that game, although a later date would surely benefit the Dawgs.