Every time a recruit looks towards Athens, Kirby Smart gets his wings… er, uh, you know what I mean.
Georgia spent a total of $342,118.09 on recruiting travel by air and helicopter charter and the UGA owned plane from Dec. 7-Jan. 29. All but $43,381 were on charters. That’s for less than two months. Georgia spent $1.314 million for all of its football recruiting expenses in fiscal year 2015 when Mark Richt was head coach.
On the 21 days, Smart and his staff flew, the flights averaged $16,291 a day in cost with sometimes multiple planes in use on the same day.
Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and staff in a 12-day stretch in his first month as coach in 2015 had jet travels of more than $10,000 a day in value, according to USA Today.
Lookee there – Georgia outspent another school on something. Take that, Harbaugh!
Get The Picture 
I’ll wait till UGA outspent Bama though.
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Just win.
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Smart called riding in the helicopter “a little nerve-wracking.”
How come ADGM hasn’t told him that all he has to do to relax is sit on his helmet and never get out of the chopper
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And yet Richt flew red-eye coach to go see our #1 recruit. ADGM must have really wanted him gone.
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And I bet he(Richt) paid for the flight himself!
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He should have, he had stolen plenty enough to be able to buy his own plane.
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THATS a shitty thing to say. Man I hope Kirby wins.
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Well said.
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LOL! Hilarious.
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Even for an attempt at snark, that was a cheap shot.
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It certainly was.
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4 million this year alone..not a cheap shot.
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He didn’t steal it.
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You are conveniently forgetting the parts about 10 wins (ie he did his job), that Richt did not ask to leave, and it takes two parties to make a contract. Richt did the same thing you did, he negotiated the best deal he could and the market gave it to him. Since when is a contract “stealing”? I was on the fence about CMR but some of you guys are so irrational about his perceived shortcomings, blow everything out of proportion and give the guy zero credit.
It is worse than a cheap shot, it’s a damned lie.
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The reason I said it was a cheap shot is no way anyone with half a brain would say it to his face or in person to the men he was leading.
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Not sure if this was directed at me but I agree with what you said. I wasn’t implying he stole it.
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No, Vector, none of this was directed at you.
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yeah, 15 years and out of nowhere, he’s gone like dust in the wind.
I mean, how are we ever going to give a coach a chance at success if we yank the rug out from underneath every 15 years. Sheesh.
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Not sure what that has to do with the price of tea in China, but thanks.
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There was a box that said “Leave a Reply” and some blood in the water.
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With a part-time head coach, this was a necessity, given the limited amount of time we had to assemble a coaching staff and save a recruiting class.
Glad to see it happen. Would like to see some boosters pitch in as they do at other schools.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24640320/report-kentucky-racked-up-nearly-450k-in-private-jet-costs-last-year
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Where do you think the money came from? Boosters already paid for it.
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If the schedules can be worked out, it’s more cost-effective to use a booster’s plane and pilot than to contract for it.
Looks like Kentucky has figured out a way to do this on many occasions.
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