Georgia’s Kirby Smart shares challenges, benefits of coaching alma mater

ATHENS — Kirby Smart shared that the biggest pressure of being the head coach of your alma mater is not what you might think.

"Coach Smart's extremely detailed, maybe the most detailed and efficient man I've ever been around," Lanning said at the start of last season. "Every day he reminds me not to waste a minute."

"It's important to treat people right," Smart said Goff told him, "but you've got to understand that you only have so much time to get things done, and you can't make everybody happy."

Consider, four of the 16 head coaches leading their alma mater heading into last season stepped down or were fired.

It is sometimes amusing to see fans second-guessing coaches on personnel decisions, particularly when they don’t see the 20 hours of practice each week or understand the nuances of each position and game plan.

Smart knows there are a portion of people in each fan base who somehow disconnect from the head coaches’ burning desire to win.

Kirby Smart & Ray Goff, July 13

Georgia coaches who were UGA grads

1892- Dr. Charles Herty

1893 – Ernest Brown

1903 and 1905 – M.M. Dickinson

1923-1927 George “Kid” Woodruff

1961-1963 Johnny Griffith

1989-1995 Ray Goff

2016 (one game) – Bryan McClendon

2016-present Kirby Smart

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