“Football season’s over,” Courson said. “But COVID’s not.”

The 2020 season may not have been the on-field success we hoped for, but the Georgia football program definitely did well combating the pandemic.  As Seth Emerson notes ($$), there never was an outbreak that spread through the team and only one staffer was hospitalized.

No doubt there were plenty of reasons behind that success — one that I assume the staff has trumpeted on the recruiting trail to parents, and why not? — but the biggest one is something pretty simple.  The program took the thread of the pandemic seriously.

Inside the building, there was no politicizing of mask-wearing, social-distancing or otherwise.

“That was nonexistent,” said Josh Brooks, the deputy athletic director who was promoted to athletic director earlier this month. “It never became a political issue here. It became a safety issue.”

Naturally, that started with Smart, but everyone followed his lead.  Well played, y’all.  Keep up the good work.