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Top Row Dawg · (This post was last modified: 12-31-2025, 07:01 AM by Top Row Dawg.)

With Love for Uncle John Always!

Woof ....

COACH SMART: We don't really talk much about last year. We didn't talk about last year's games that we played other teams on the schedule. It's never really about last year for us. It's way more about living in the moment, how do we prepare for the moment. There's nothing about last year's game that's going to help us in this game. There's nothing about our last game against Ole Miss that's going to help us in this game.

I think every team is a work in progress. You're constantly trying to reshape and retool your team. We certainly grew in a lot of areas. We lost some players in some areas and had to replace them. I don't know that there was ever a point where I said, okay, this is a playoff team. It was a team that was in the playoffs during the year.

Because every game, every road game and every home game we play in our conference, is one game away from being out of it. You don't control a lot of the outside wins and losses of other teams. All you control is how you practice and how you prepare.

I was really proud of the improvement this team made. But they are a playoff team. They're an SEC championship team. And their next opportunity to play is in two days. You'll be judged by how you play then, not how you played in the past.

My goal every year -- I learned this a long time ago, Coach [Bobby] Bowden and Coach Saban and even my dad (Sonny Smart), is like did you get the most out of that team? Did that team get the most out of their potential? I think there's a little bit of flawed system out there. There's some coaches that get the most out of their team and they don't win a national championship. That's a hell of a year.

We used to be able to credit a lot of people with a hell of a year. It's unfortunately gotten to where it's win it all or nothing. And we don't evaluate our success that way. I don't. I look at it intrinsically, as did this team get the best out? And this team needed fire, passion, and energy. It needed the ability to run the ball and it needed the ability to stop the run. We haven't done that perfectly either, but we've done it at a little bit higher level than what we did in years past.

Why do you think Mike Bobos the right guy for Georgia and for that job right now?

COACH SMART: I don't think he's the right guy, I know he's the right guy. Like I've said multiple times, I don't really pay much attention to what our fans say, seek, what they feel like. I don't respond to them.

I don't work for them. Honestly, my job is to put the best product, the best football team I can out there.

I need motivators, leaders of men. I need people who have offensive experience, knowledge.

I put him up against anybody in the country because of his knowledge, his experience, what he's done, the staff he has. Mike doesn't do it alone. He's got an incredible staff who bring information to him, cutting-edge ideas. I love what they do offensively and how they utilize our players' skill sets.

You have to conform the offense to who you have, and I think they've done an incredible of that with the backs, receivers, tight ends, quarterbacks, the specialty pieces we have. He has utilized those guys' skill set. And I don't think anybody in the country has done a better job doing that than he has.

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