Kirby Smart: ‘looking forward’ to next season with Tide
Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, whom many Georgia fans would love to see in the same job in Athens, made a rare appearance before the media today and said he is “looking forward” to being with the Crimson Tide again next season.
Smart, who like other Alabama assistant coaches is normally kept off-limits to the media by head coach Nick Saban, was made available at a news conference advancing Thursday’s BCS national championship game.
According to this Mobile Press-Register report from the news conference in southern California, Smart did not categorically deny interest in Georgia’s open defensive coordinator position, although that might have been because he wasn’t directly asked about it.
Here is some of what Smart did say at the press conference, according to the Press-Register:
“It’s been great. It’s been great having these players and doing this, and I’m looking forward to it next year. I mean, we’ve got a lot of good players coming back. We’re losing a lot of good ones too, but it’s something that’s special to be around, because these guys bought in and they went through some hard times. And now they’re reaping the benefits, which they deserve.”
On his head-coaching aspirations, he said:
“To be honest with you, I don’t ever think about it or worry about that. I think [longtime Florida State defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews] had a hell of a career. He’s a father figure to me. I worked for him for two years, and if I ended up coaching at Alabama for the next 30 years or however long he was at Florida State, I’d think my career was a pretty big success.
“My lifelong goal was to ultimately be a defensive coordinator, and if I ever got a chance at a head job, that would be great. But that’s not something that I’m going to draw my career and say I was a failure, I didn’t get to be a head coach or whatever. I’d be completely content with that. If a better opportunity presents itself, then obviously that’s something down the road. But young as I am, I’m happy to be where I’m at and happy to be at the University of Alabama.”
Since Georgia’s Dec. 2 firing of Willie Martinez, Smart — a former UGA player (1995-98) and assistant coach (2005) — has been at or near the top of just about every rumored list of defensive coordinators that Mark Richt would or should pursue. And if the Georgia job remains open after Thursday’s national-title game, perhaps that possibility would heat up. But to this point Smart still has given no indication he would leave Alabama for another coordinator’s job.
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YOU EARNED THE RAZZING
January 3rd, 2010
5:50 pm
Only a Tech fan (who claims he is in Florida for the first tech BCS bowl ever) would be so obsessed with UGA that he is on his computer and is ther first blogger on an article pertaining to UGA. Now that is deep envy and a deep sickness. Think about it folks. What UGA fan in the same circumstances would give GT one second of thought? ZERO
$1.4 since you got nothing beter to do but serf UGA blogs and porn sites I’d just like to remind you 30 to 24… 8 of 9 and 60/39. Iowa will make it 5 bowl losses in a row for the maggots…Glad you are obsessed with the DAWGS and glad it hurts so bad.
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
5:51 pm
Still circling I-285
Dennis
January 3rd, 2010
5:52 pm
Children should not be playing with their computers on such a beautiful day. Even though it is cold. Please go outside and get some exercise before you become fat, stupid, and bald. Oh, too late.
yoda
January 3rd, 2010
5:52 pm
Techies…I hear that when the Tech women cheerleaders hit the field….all of you scream “How ’bout them Dogs”
south
January 3rd, 2010
5:52 pm
Bo- you’re driving through SC and GA to get to your job – that’s where the stupid is coming from on you’re truck I’m guessing.
Might make sense though so you can visit with mom who is working at the interstate truck stop.
FIRE LANE KIFFIN
January 3rd, 2010
5:54 pm
I am a Big Orange fan for life bit Kiffin needs to go— FIRE LANE KIFFIN– He will ruin us!!!!
Ten-a-sissy Fan Here .........
January 3rd, 2010
5:56 pm
Kiffin is sniffen unemployment.
Ten-a-sissy Fan Here .........
January 3rd, 2010
5:58 pm
Be in my orange jumpsuit bright and early tommorrow pickin up Colt-45 cans near Knoxville.You might say Ihate orange
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:00 pm
Still on this damn I-285
birddawg92
January 3rd, 2010
6:01 pm
Altamaha-Having to re-post with edits b/c the AJC thought police is evidently taking exception to some of my original word choice:
altamaha, instead of re-writing everything i’ve written on my blog about CWM the past 2+ years and blogged here on AJC the past five, I invite you to review my mainly fire-CWM blog (see link end of this post), to read my EXTENSIVE case against CWM, long before anyone else was saying it, I might add. What I will say here was at least on pass plays, there were some UGA defenders in the picture on most attempts, which was hit-or-miss to say the least with CWM, and I’m thinking the dumb penalties were way down too.
I agree on the erratic O—but people forget that it was about the same with Richt. At least Bobo doesn’t give lip-service to the run. Personally, my next bone to pick is the O-line—we should’ve been a dominant unit this year, and we weren’t even average. Will be interested in how that shapes up, along with the rest of the team, in the spring.
http://www.saturdayinathens.com
Toe Meets Leather
January 3rd, 2010
6:02 pm
I don’t know why a smart guy like Smart wouldn’t want to move to Athens. Why, you can see the whole town by driving just a mile. And where else are you going to get a chance to see Shreveport in December? Well, maybe College Station, but that’s not SEC.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
January 3rd, 2010
6:03 pm
I got a call from Duke but they want to paint me blue. I’m not going for that. I might as well stay at Georgia and make the occassional trip to Shreveport. What kind of school paints a dog’s a$$ white, anyway?
Summit Dawg
January 3rd, 2010
6:05 pm
Hey Bo Williams, Try flying to Fla!!
Clint
January 3rd, 2010
6:08 pm
Umm, UGA fan we have actually fared well against both Bama and LSU lately. Florida is a different subject though so I’ll give you that one. The only reason the 30-24 is brought up so much is because all you heard from the Nerds last year was 45-42. This past year was tough on UGA fans so you can expect them to talk junk to the Techies all year long.
Summit Dawg
January 3rd, 2010
6:08 pm
Hey Toe Meets Leather!!!!
It’s not the size of the town……but the size of the program, and the records!!!!
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:13 pm
adjusted to life with a 10 foot razor wire fence around your campus.
THE INSTITUTE aka LIL’ GITMO
wishful thinking
January 3rd, 2010
6:13 pm
1.4 you better enjoy since it will be some 50 years before you get this chance again, rather than the DAWGS who will be back asap! We are used to it you kind of need to enjoy this once in a lifetime experience! Go DAWGS 30-24
Gatorguy
January 3rd, 2010
6:14 pm
BTW, buttsniffers
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((41-17)))))))))))))))))))))))))
7 out of 9
17 out of 20.
You SEC wanna-be.
Big Sack Dawg
January 3rd, 2010
6:15 pm
To Summit Dawg – Right on brother!
Bo Williams
January 3rd, 2010
6:15 pm
South, don’t use that moniker, you give 200m people a bad name.
Big Sack Dawg
January 3rd, 2010
6:17 pm
gaytorguy (or tekkiie liar)
Do you have a head coach for next year,boy?
nter your comments here
TUCK FECH
January 3rd, 2010
6:21 pm
Tech can’t even fill thier High School stadium every game in Atlanta while the DAWGS sell out the biggest stadium in Georgia every game! Tech is the Joke by Coke!
Barkin'Dog
January 3rd, 2010
6:22 pm
As a Dawg fan, I look for anything about the Dawgs at AJC Sports Online, and love to read about them, and blog about them. But I rarely go to the Tech blog(s), and if I do I never post a comment. How many Dawg fans in these blogs actually go to a Tech blog and POST? Go ahead, fess up! No complaints or disrespect paid. I doubt there will be many who admit it, but I know there are a few (and a lot of them are as obnoxious as the Tech posters here). My question/point is this, why are there so many Techies obsessed with UGA, and what is written, that they have to come over here and post their nonsense… not just once, but over, and over, and over, and over… WHY? An inquiring mind needs to know. There is only one word… obsession. If Tech is so hot, go get a degree, a job, a life.
TUCK FECH
January 3rd, 2010
6:22 pm
Gator guy DAWGS still lead the series!
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:22 pm
Like Bo Williams- going the wrong way on I-285
CatsFly
January 3rd, 2010
6:23 pm
Talking about DC’s and defenses, “The news first broke on Twitter over the weekend, as several Tar Heels revealed the developments on the social networking site, and on Sunday ESPN offered further confirmation: all of UNC’s junior defensive stars will return to Chapel Hill for their senior seasons.” No. 6 in total defense in 09 with no seniors. Look out LSU and Tech! (Tech will be in CHapel Hill in 2010. Got theirs handed to them in Chapel Hill in 08.)
Gatorguy
January 3rd, 2010
6:23 pm
Big sack dawg (not just the bugs hate you guys)
Don’t you worry, boy, we’ll have a coach…and he’ll do what the last 3 have done to your over-rated teams.
You’ll still be our biyatch!
((((((((((((((((((41-17)))))))))))))
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:25 pm
wanting to be like Barkin’Dog
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:26 pm
gay like the Gaytor guy (BOY)
Gatorguy
January 3rd, 2010
6:27 pm
Tuck fech
You’re still suffering from dinosaur bites???? You buttsniffers are always screaming “series record” ONLY when it favors your sorry little team—-How bout your “series records” against BAMA? LSU? TENN? Didn’t think so! Go ahead, it’s 1980!! LMAO!
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:27 pm
Crying like Teblo
Gatorguy
January 3rd, 2010
6:29 pm
7 out of 9
17 out of 20.
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:31 pm
wishing we played little Cincy like gaytors did. Yea, roll up 50 and padTimmy’s stats. Reminded me of the crap Spurrier used to pull. Real class a$$WIPES.
GT stands for G-U-N Toters
January 3rd, 2010
6:31 pm
The pride of the BBall Coliseum at Tech …………Crittendon an NBA GUN TOTER. Nice and that fits with Taliban U. Gooooooooooooo Taliban. Get it? GT? Go Taliban. HAHAHAHAHA
1-8, 4-16 and 30-24 and Dwyer’s 33 yds and Nebitt’s 45 total yds and BAYBAY’s board hands. HAHAHAHA
Besides, UGA’s Wooten DID DROP a full stride TD at the 35 earlier in the game. THAT DROP would have been a TD. BAYBAY ’s drop just blew a first down and Nesbitt would have been sacked for a 25 yds loss on the ensuing plays. HAHAHAHAHA
It hurts so good Jackets. AHHHHHHH, AAH HAHAHAHAHA
Barkin'Dog
January 3rd, 2010
6:31 pm
Gatorguy — January 3rd, 2010 6:14 pm
BTW, buttsniffers
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((41-17)))))))))))))))))))))))))
7 out of 9
17 out of 20.
You SEC wanna-be.
————————————–
BTW, GatorGuy…
Schizoid HC (or none at all)
No Tebow
28 Arrests
New DC
Leaving Players
Confused recruits
Did I mention lying HC
Expectations of diminished record
Jorts
The Tide is turning… and they’re playing for the title this year and not you.
Even the Tide will suffer next season when the Dawgs hire their DC.
That’s right. Beware of Dawgs! We’re comin’ to getcha! WOOF-WOOF!
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:32 pm
Passing the Kleenex over to urban crier and teblo.
Gator Guy II
January 3rd, 2010
6:33 pm
Meyer is only holding on so as to minimize the exodus of any Gators. He is toast and so is Florida.
HAHAHAHHA
Greene Hornet
January 3rd, 2010
6:33 pm
All I can say to the Tech fans who come here to bash the Dawgs is you should wait to talk as that we already won our bowl game, you haven’t. You may in S. Florida and we were sent to play in Northern LA, but we weren’t sent there by GT! As I remember it, a top ten Tech team couldn’t handle an unranked Dawgs team. Nothing you say changes that even if you win or lose! Your top ranked team lost to us!!!! 30-24… I would say good luck, but I’d be lying.
TECH1969
January 3rd, 2010
6:33 pm
Big Sack Dawg — Leave the white hood off this blog; nobody on here is a “boy”.
yoda
January 3rd, 2010
6:33 pm
Gtaorgay…is it true that Teblow didn’t circumise those boys in the PI but instead did the Gator neuter
Gatorguy
January 3rd, 2010
6:33 pm
Tech Real Fans
Wish your little team had played “little Cincy”, but instead you played a big “6-6″ team. Wow! How impressive!
BTW, what would a mutt know about “class”? LMAO!
Hawkeye Bob
January 3rd, 2010
6:34 pm
Orange Bowl Game final score….Iowa-34….Bugs-17….and it won’t even be that close. Ga. Tech has been living on borrowed time.There wins this past year have been unimpressive.The only two teams they played that had decent teams beat them handily.Believe me I can name at least three to four other teams in the Big Ten that would take Tech to the cleaners. Iowa will manhandle Techs offensive and defensive lines and control the game by beating Tech at their own game..controlling the clock. Tech has what we in the Mid West call “a nice little team” but when you have to run an offense like they do its because of one thing…your talent level is weak. We’ve had a month to prepare for Tech.Believe me after the first half this game will not be close.
Tech Real Fans Are..
January 3rd, 2010
6:34 pm
Sucking thumbs cruising around I-285 with gaytor boy in trunk.
Gatorguy
January 3rd, 2010
6:36 pm
Barkin (no bite)Dog
YYYYYyyyyyyyyaaaawwwnnnnn……..
Greene Hornet
January 3rd, 2010
6:36 pm
30-24………………… and for those that say we only say that because Tech beat us two years ago, then 7 out of 8 years of us beating you ain’t that bad….
Bo Williams
January 3rd, 2010
6:36 pm
The other problem I run into when I go to Fl., (besides the aforementioned “stink”), is that because my truck is red and I have a bull dog that rides with me, I get my doors blown off and my dog jumps out the window wimpering, “ain’t no way I’m going near Jacksonville and getting my ass kicked again”. So what am I to do, I can’t go through Alabama or Tennessee. They kick bulldog ass as well.
Greene Hornet
January 3rd, 2010
6:37 pm
We can’t beat the Gators and I’ll take it like a man- the Gators are much better than us, but we are better than Tech! No matter if they win the Orange Bowl, they did not beat us!!!! Goooo Dawgs!
Greene Hornet
January 3rd, 2010
6:39 pm
Yup, that’s right- we lost to Bama a bit ago and got smacked by Tenn. But we beat Tech and Auburn…., especially Tech on their home field…
Big Sack Dawg
January 3rd, 2010
6:40 pm
tech69- your name or current position?
Any way, what the hell does boy have to do with white hoods you friggin idiot?
gaytor is a Boy, Punk ,Fool and so are you.
John
January 3rd, 2010
6:41 pm
I thought this was about Kirby Smart. Just shows how studid some of you are. Why should Smart leave Ala? He works for a coach that don’t let his thugs run wild.