Nolan Smith won a pair of national championships at Georgia under Kirby Smart. A former 5-star recruit, the outside linebacker from Savannah was a key piece of 4 Georgia teams that went a combined 49-5.

That kind of dominance doesn’t happen overnight, and it certainly doesn’t happen if the foundation isn’t rock solid. Smart has built Georgia into a machine, a team feared by just about everyone else in the sport. Countless players who have come through the program all say the same thing: that’s a result of practice.

The best programs make weekdays harder than Saturdays. Practices determine performance, and Smart doesn’t let anything slip in practice. During a recent appearance on the Green Light with Chris Long show, Smith shared one of Smart’s non-negotiables as a player for the Bulldogs.

“If you don’t jog to the ball, forget the rest of everything,” Smith said. “If you don’t thud, if you don’t touch somebody during a defensive play, he’s gonna take you out, 100%. If you have a white shirt on at Georgia and you don’t touch anyone, from like a DB, anybody, he’s gonna take you out of the game or take you out of practice really.

“He wants somebody to hit people every time, every play, every time that ball is snapped.”

Each week, Georgia holds what it calls “Bloody Tuesday.” Long knew about it, and he asked Smith what it was all about.

“That’s the day when the cream meets the crop,” Smith said. “I’d say from the first drill after flex, after we warm up, we did this mock bracket drill and it was like a tight end and an OLB in the apex … and literally the tight end and the OLB would just be running into it each other. That’s Period 2.”

You can see the rest of Smith’s chat with Long below: