After spending over a decade together on the same coaching staffs, you would think Alabama head coach Nick Saban and Georgia head coach Kirby Smart would have a very close relationship. According to comments made by Smart on Tuesday, that’s not necessarily the case at the moment with the college football season fast approaching.

During a radio interview on SiriusXM, via the Athens Banner-Herald, Smart did his best to describe the current relationship between the two coaches.

“To be honest with you, since I’ve been here leading this program, I’m concerned with this program and I know he’s concerned with the same,” Smart said on the air. “He’s doing what he’s got to do to make the University of Alabama the best. I’m doing what I’ve got to do to make the University of Georgia the best. That’s ultimately two separate entities so there’s not a lot of conversation back and forth.”

Of course the two are currently butting heads over the right for senior defensive back Maurice Smith to take advantage of the graduate transfer rule and leave Alabama for Georgia. Smart briefly touched on that subject and described it as a “situation that’s kind of fluid and it’s ever-changing so we’re kind of going with the flow.”

With the two coaches now standing on opposite sides of the field, their relationship looks to be far from cozy after going against each other off the field the last several months.