Marc Weiszer has more details on Smart’s contract. Check this out:
Here are the performance bonuses for Smart:
–$150,000 for reaching the SEC championship game or $400,000 for winning the SEC championship.
–$200,000 for finishing top five in either AP or coaches’ poll.
–Postseason bowls (whichever is greatest)
–$1 million for winning national title
–$600,00 for playing in national championship game.
–$500,000 for reaching national semifinals
–$200,000 for playing in Sugar, Roe, Orange, Cotton, Fiesta or Peach bowls
–$100,00 for playing in Citrus Bowl.
–$75,000 for playing in TaxSlayer, Outback, Belk, Music City, Texas or Liberty bowls
–$50,000 for playing in Birmingham or Independence bowls.
-Academic/other:
–$50,000 if team finished in top third of SEC teams in Graduation Success Rate and Academic Progress Rate.
So, making the Belk Bowl is a more lucrative priority for Smart than good APR.
If this is a Jimmy Sexton vs. The Georgia Way battle, Sexton appears to be winning.
Get The Picture 
Yeah, the optics of that contrast (academic achievement < mediocre bowl) are pretty 😦
I’m guessing that’s the case in many coaching contracts around America.
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Roe Bowl? Sounds fishy to me. A game for small fry?
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Nicely done.
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Or Fish Fry Johnson. At least they’d be going to a bowl.
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It’s interesting to note that Jimmy Sexton got his start while a junior equipment manager at the University of Tennessee. Roommate of Reggie White, he later helped Reggie get a contract with the USFL. After graduating from Tennessee he came across Scottie Pippen and helped him with his contract. It was Bill Parcells that pointed Jimmy in the direction of representing football coaches. You’d be surprised what you can learn by grilling up hamburgers for a bunch of 2Ls cramming for exams.
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Ahhhh, the life of a 2L cramming for exams.
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Good deal.
Have a coach.
Long week.
Anxious to see staff.
Who is going to recruit a QB.
Pruitt recruited Coker.
Bama has a major task in Cotton Bowl.
Go ahead and say good-bye Clemson.
Could UGA win bowl, and in Top 25.
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Was that a Haiku?
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No. Way too many syllables.
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William Shakestranean Sonnet.
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Kirby’s comin” to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And we’re all out of bubblegum in Athens, GA.
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+1. Who doesn’t love Roddy Piper references?
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Nice to see McGarity is consistent. Is there a $4.38 per player arrest penalty?
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How does South Carolina hire Muschamp.
He and Elliott should be electric on the sidelines.
Best candidate was Lincoln Riley.
Texas would be smart to hire him.
One week of recruiting left before dead season
Curious how many willing to stay as a commit.
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Texas will beat out Auburn for the Tom Herman Sweepstakes this time next year.
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I’m curious as to the status of Coach McClendon. Has there been definitive word on when Coach Smart takes over?
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$75k for playing I the Belk bowl is an outrage. I’m with Normaltown. Belk bowl means immediate firing, and he owes us the rest of his contract in gold bars.
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I guess you don’t get autonomy to hire staff in writing.
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^^This is really what is concerning me. Did Kirby Smart trade off control of hiring/firing and other important HC matters so he can work at Bama ’til Bama wins or is out of the four team playoff? If so it was a fool’s bargain–and I don’t want a fool running our program. FWIW Smart needs to be in Athens working on recruiting, not in Tuscaloosa doing the bidding of a rival program.
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The whole “working at Bama until all that’s done” part is a bone in my throat. I don’t know the precedent and am too lazy to look it up; for all I know, that’s what you do if you’re a coach going to the playoffs. I mean we have, after all, a whole year of precedent in this format. I think it’s selfish and dickish if Saban’s demanding it, and it speaks badly of Smart if he volunteered it. If he’s coming to coach Georgia, by God, he’d better be eating, sleeping and drinking that shit for $3.7 super-large a year. Or at least appointing a coaching (and RECRUITING) staff this year and siccing them on the world.
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Richt did it. He coached FSU as OC in the Nat’l Championship game after accepting offer. I remember watching the game all excited to see the work product of our coach and his high-octane offense that he’d be bringing to Athens. FSU scored only 2 points on a safety and lost. Zero points for Richt’s offense. We should’ve withdrawn the offer then (I’m only kidding, sort of).
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In even more recent history, McElwain did it. Saban was fair with him too as there were certain days he was in Tuscaloosa and preparing for the NC game with time built in for him to fly to Colorado to work on CSU.
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In the lower half of sec HC’s, but heavy on team performance incentives. Did McG REALLY have anything to do with the negotiation?
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Saw pictures of Kirby already on the recruiting trail.
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Who’s he recruiting for? Georgia or Bama? Just sayin.’
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Georgia talking to Big Ben and flying to see Eason in his UGA duds.
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https://www.dawgnation.com/football/recruiting/new-uga-head-coach-kirby-smart-wastes-no-time-getting-in-touch-with-key-targets
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I have always been intrigued by coaches moving from school to school and how quickly they can change the recruiting song.
The joke about the man who asked the woman to sleep with him for a million dollars, she said yes. He then asked her to sleep with him for 50. She said no, what do you think I am a prostitute. He said yep, we have already established that, now we are just working on the price.
Kinda like college coaches changing jobs
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I hope I’m not the only one who noticed there’s an article about the Georgia new hire on the Billings Gazette website today.
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You da man, squirts.
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We hired him TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS!! Independence Bowl and Birmingham Bowl and Music City Bowls, etc. do not mean a thing. We should not reward mediocrity and pay him $3.825 milion to produce a frigging Music City Bowl season.
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