Kirby Smart reacts to Mark Stoops’ comments about Georgia buying players with NIL
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Kirby Smart provided his thoughts on Mark Stoops’ recent comments regarding Georgia’s NIL tendencies.
Smart merely acknowledged that Stoops is just trying to garner more financial support from the fan base, something that virtually every college football coach is doing nowadays.
“Much to do about nothing really,” Smart said. “I think Mark is trying to garner interest and money from his fan base … We’re all trying to do the same”
When asked about Kentucky’s struggles vs. the elite teams of the SEC, Stoops responded by saying that Georgia “bought some really good players” on his weekly radio show Monday. He fully admitted that Georgia is allowed to do that and called on his fan base to “donate more” in order to enable UK to reach the level of the Bulldogs.
“I encourage anybody that’s disgruntled to pony up some more,” Stoops said. He did also go on to say that fans do have the right to complain about results, but that they are also able to have some level of impact on the makeup of the Kentucky roster nowadays.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart on Mark Stoops’ comments about Georgia and NIL: “Much to do about nothing really … I think Mark is trying to garner interest and money from his fan base … We’re all trying to do the same”
Said he talked to Stoops pre-game on Saturday about NIL
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Parker is currently the sports editor for the Enterprise-Journal in McComb, Mississippi. He's a graduate from Mizzou who has experience covering the Tiger football and basketball beats for SB Nation, and he's worked for a variety of sports news outlets in the past.
