Kirby Smart Reacts To The Latest NIL News In The State Of Georgia

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp recently signed an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting the NCAA from enforcing NIL rules, which gives schools in Georgia legal cover to immediately begin paying their athletes directly.

Georgia head coach Kirby Smart talked about the news this week. Per On3:

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“Appreciative,” Smart said. “Want to be competitive as we can be in our field of endeavor, this world we live in. And it’s not just us, apparently, it’s the whole state of Georgia. Very appreciative of Governor Kemp and his staff for allowing us to be competitive in putting us on a level playing field, and continues to support our student athletes. This is going to benefit the student athletes and very appreciative of them supporting them.”

“It’s all about what you have available,” Smart said in a Tuesday press conference. “Some people are willing to spend beyond their ability to raise it. Unfulfilled promises. We’re not gonna have unfulfilled promises where guys reach back out and say, ‘They said they could do this and they didn’t. They said they would do that and they didn’t.’

“So we’ve lost some in those regards, but I don’t know that it was an inability to do it. It was a not gonna step over our skis or our body and put too much out there and say, ‘OK, we’ve committed to this’ and you can’t do it. It’s a hard world out there because you don’t really know what you can and can’t do. People make promises and nobody has a bounty sitting out there that big where they can pay everybody that.”

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