Kirby Smart on COVID-19 issues in Georgia program: ‘I’m as concerned as I’ve ever been’
By Adam Spencer
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Georgia was without it’s top trainer, Ron Courson, on Saturday against Clemson as he deals with a breakthrough case of COVID-19.
That’s something that is happening around the Georgia program, which Kirby Smart discussed on Monday during his press conference.
Smart said Courson is doing better, praising his work ethic:
“Ron’s doing good, he’s had a tough run,” Smart said of Ron Courson, Georgia’s executive associate athletics director for sports medicine. “Ron’s the hardest worker I’ve ever met in my life, and he’s never not been at this building on any day. Never not been here 2 days in a row, including spring break and off time and it’s killing him, I think, to not be here. His health seems good and hopefully he’ll be back.”
However, Smart added that he’s as concerned as ever about COVID, as several others are having issues with breakthrough cases:
“But I’ll be honest with you, I’m as concerned as I’ve ever been because we have 3 or 4 guys out with COVID and we have a couple staff members that have been out with COVID here recently. For us, we’re at our highest spike. And people are talking about vaccinations, well these are people that are vaccinated. We’re talking about breakthroughs, and so that concerns you not only for the players on your team that are unvaccinated that are playing and not playing because we want everybody to be safe. But it concerns me for the players that are vaccinated that we could lose them.
“This is the highest we’ve been since fall camp right now. I think there’s this relief that you guys feel like everything’s back to normal, well it’s really just not for us right now.”
Will the issues continue to have an impact on Georgia on Saturday against UAB? We’ll see how this situation progresses as the week moves on.
Adam is a daily fantasy sports (DFS) and sports betting expert. A 2012 graduate of the University of Missouri, Adam now covers all 16 SEC football teams. He is the director of DFS, evergreen and newsletter content across all Saturday Football brands.
