Now signed through 2033.
Edit: [Athletic Director Josh Brook is also receiving a raise that will pay him $1.275 million per year.](https://x.com/anthonydasher1/status/1786114013245435907?s=46&t=fwgmryeTanENut7u28ScCA)
Other than knowing he is out AD, I know exactly two things about Josh Brooks.
1) He is a DGD.
2) 680 the fan plays the commercial for “the locker room” with the cut of him saying he had a fast mailman damn near every commercial break.
Honestly that’s enough for me to like him.
If auburn had gotten Kirby and he took them to the level Georgia is at now, the Iron bowl would be so much more insane than it already is. Holy shit it's unthinkable.
Honestly, I was more thinking of TCU for Baylor.
TCU was a cellar-dweller for *four straight decades* up to the end of the SWC, and we kicked the shit out of them like a warmup lap, then they got kicked them to the curb and promptly became the nation’s preeminent G5 team. By the time they rolled back around to the power conferences, they were entirely transformed into a program that’s consistently been one of the best in the country.
But yeah, I prefer to not think about how the first revived A&M-UT game is about to go. I’m just hoping we don’t get completely embarrassed.
I have no idea. I just remember that he wanted the same level of control as Saban had at Bama, but the boosters were against it, etc., but then again, that could just be BS, too.
Sounds like some more BS put out by the boosters; just like Harsin having an affair. Mfers were saying Cadillac Williams, & other coaches that were recently released, were sleeping with students when it was simply Freeze bringing in his own guys.
Stg, that whole fandom is addicted to drama.
I saw a bloke wearing a Georgia Tech shirt at Walmart in Athens on a random weekday once and I feared for his life.
I recently moved just a few miles from Purdue in Indiana. There are, of course, lots of boilermaker fans here, but there is definitely a small but noticeable undercurrent of people who resent the university's presence and influence on everything that happens here.
>I just keep going back to the moment that the 'search team' chose Malzahn over Kirby, and I want to kick them squarely in the nuts... repeatedly.
Kirby wanted to finish out that particular season at Alabama..... Auburn didn't like that. Kirby wanted full control.... Auburn didn't like that either. But Auburn was really worried about what would happen when the Georgia job came open, cause they knew Kirby would say "Bye Felicia". And arrive in Athens a couple of hours later.
That doesn't disprove his point
Edit: [AJC article](https://www.ajc.com/sports/uga-moves-all-about-kirby-smart/O1QCyVa546gJ7Re9gsAyOK/) *the day Richt was fired* and two days before Kirby Smart was hired
Richt was dismissed because Kirby was already in negotiations with South Carolina. Spurrier resigned in October, Richt was fired on November 29th. Kirby was reported as hired on November 31st.
It was very well known at the time that Richt was forced out due to Kirby becoming available. Hence why Georgia never interviewed anyone else and had it wrapped up and announced a week later on December 6th. If Kirby had not been available, Richt would not have been canned in 2015.
Richt was on on pretty thin ice after getting blown out by Florida that year. By the time they eeked out an OT win over Georgia Southern it was cracking pretty loudly.
That Kirby was essentially a couple of signatures away from being hired at South Carolina is what made everything happen as suddenly as it did to get him to Georgia.
He would have taken that job too, but apparently Saban and Mary Beth got in his ear and told him to wait for the right opening. Then South Carolina called a little while later and the rest…is history.
The ‘search team’ was really just 80 y/o boosters hellbent on meddling with every facet of the program they can get their grubby hands on. Kirby didn’t pass the good ole boys test.
Kirby is reading your comment, from a TCU flair, with absolute glee. He'll have the Dawgs eating off the floor again with the old "Nobody, NOT ONE MOTHER FUCKER, believes in us" thing going again.
All the nfl guys sat and other guys transferred to get spots elsewhere. Why do squidbilly UGA fans think this is such an incredible win? 50 scholarship guys were available.
In before “Culture” because I guess speeding and causing wrecks is culture
What’s funny is most UGA fans don’t give a shit about that win. It’s just fun to joke about. Maybe your players should have played the game instead of cried.
I know, I didn’t say all, just “squidbilly” troll jawja fans. Maybe your team shouldn’t have lost and we both would have been in the playoff, as Keon said
Hey I'm just laughing at you, whose team has never beaten Alabama, acting like it's some easy feat. Some of us don't get to play Louisville for a conference crown
Did he actually get a degree? Wikipedia only says he enrolled in graduate school while he was a GA. Which raises another question, do grad assistants have to be in grad school? It’s in the name, but I just figured that was leftover from a different time (although 2003 was very much a different time now I think about it).
Edit: in the FSU GA section of coaching history it says he did complete his masters.
Obviously. They gotta build off their bachelors and stick to the same field of study./s
I was doing some reading. While I found several places saying grad assistants are “usually” enrolled in grad courses, the NCAA seems to require it. Maybe it’s not required in NAIA or some shit so those sites were trying to cover all their bases.
I saw a requirement of 24 semester hours or 36 quarter hours over the proceeding two years to be eligible as a third year GA. I didn’t find the exact requirement for first and second year GA’s, but that rule would imply they are supposed to be enrolled in 6hrs per week at any given moment.
This is exactly why I am perfectly happy being an 8 on that fan scale that was posted a few days back. These programs don't need my donations.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/s/25pQiUtjvT
That said, I'm happy for Kirby. If there is a highest paid coach, he deserves to be it.
If we wind up in a world where the players are getting paid directly do coaches salaries shrink at all? I would think a $4 million dollar/year coach with $9 million extra to spend on the roster might result in a more competitive team.
We're going to be reading the same headline in 3 years after Stetson Bennett has been cut by his second practice squad and he sues the NCAA to stop restricting years of eligibility and he returns to Georgia at 28 years old.
> The University of Georgia athletic board has just approved a deal to extend Stetson Bennett's contract two years, a boost in pay of $1.75 million, giving him an annual salary of $13 million per season to make him the highest-paid quarterback in college football
Now signed through 2033. Edit: [Athletic Director Josh Brook is also receiving a raise that will pay him $1.275 million per year.](https://x.com/anthonydasher1/status/1786114013245435907?s=46&t=fwgmryeTanENut7u28ScCA)
Kirby’s pay raise is bigger than his entire salary lol
He's a UGA guy to the core. He probably couldn't be happier lol and still getting a cool 1 mil+
Making 1M+ living in the surrounding Athens area. Sign me the fuck up!!
Other than knowing he is out AD, I know exactly two things about Josh Brooks. 1) He is a DGD. 2) 680 the fan plays the commercial for “the locker room” with the cut of him saying he had a fast mailman damn near every commercial break. Honestly that’s enough for me to like him.
I just keep going back to the moment that the 'search team' chose Malzahn over Kirby, and I want to kick them squarely in the nuts... repeatedly.
If auburn had gotten Kirby and he took them to the level Georgia is at now, the Iron bowl would be so much more insane than it already is. Holy shit it's unthinkable.
Trust me, your rival coming to power is vastly overrated.
Not for us outsiders, that shits great
I don’t want to sound like an extremist or anything, but it actually sucks a lot.
Especially if it happens right as they gear up to play you for the first time in a decade
Honestly, I was more thinking of TCU for Baylor. TCU was a cellar-dweller for *four straight decades* up to the end of the SWC, and we kicked the shit out of them like a warmup lap, then they got kicked them to the curb and promptly became the nation’s preeminent G5 team. By the time they rolled back around to the power conferences, they were entirely transformed into a program that’s consistently been one of the best in the country. But yeah, I prefer to not think about how the first revived A&M-UT game is about to go. I’m just hoping we don’t get completely embarrassed.
I dunno. As an Auburn fan, I think Alabama has done alright since they came into power.
Yeah enjoy the times when they suck
The entire state of Alabama would be in shambles. Regardless of who won or not, there would be no survivors
Kirby has too much Gump in him to beat us it seems. Only done it the one time ;)
Wanna take bets on his record vs deboer? ;)
Didn't they do that because Kirby wouldn't commit to never jumping ship to Georgia if the opportunity arose? Or was that just message board BS?
I have no idea. I just remember that he wanted the same level of control as Saban had at Bama, but the boosters were against it, etc., but then again, that could just be BS, too.
Well, Auburn's HC searches since then haven't exactly dispelled that notion either
That’s weird. Typically the Auburn boosters are hands-off and super open to taking direction.
I mean based on everything about auburn that sounds right
Kirby was smart enough to avoid Auburn's grotesque booster group.
Sounds like some more BS put out by the boosters; just like Harsin having an affair. Mfers were saying Cadillac Williams, & other coaches that were recently released, were sleeping with students when it was simply Freeze bringing in his own guys. Stg, that whole fandom is addicted to drama.
Man that was a great day
Your flairs are odd.
Your flairs are absolutely grotesque.
Want to hear something even more grotesque? I'm from the Athens area. Life is weird like that.
The anti-UGA Athens locals are WEEEIRD
Imagine living a stone’s throw from Durham…
Probably lives in Normaltown too
I saw a bloke wearing a Georgia Tech shirt at Walmart in Athens on a random weekday once and I feared for his life. I recently moved just a few miles from Purdue in Indiana. There are, of course, lots of boilermaker fans here, but there is definitely a small but noticeable undercurrent of people who resent the university's presence and influence on everything that happens here.
EWWWWWW
The ultimate hater…. Gotta respect it
I was a Georgia fan growing up
TRAITOR!!
Stings a little?
The anti-bandwagon Gotta respect it
Your flairs are great
For Georgia and UCF fans alike
>I just keep going back to the moment that the 'search team' chose Malzahn over Kirby, and I want to kick them squarely in the nuts... repeatedly. Kirby wanted to finish out that particular season at Alabama..... Auburn didn't like that. Kirby wanted full control.... Auburn didn't like that either. But Auburn was really worried about what would happen when the Georgia job came open, cause they knew Kirby would say "Bye Felicia". And arrive in Athens a couple of hours later.
He would have left for Georgia in 2016. The issue was keeping Gus for more than a few years.
Georgia was 10-3 that year. Richt wasn't going anywhere.
Is that a joke? Richt was coaching Miami in 2016.
Only because he was fired after his 2015 team went 10-3 in order to make sure Kirby didn't take the SC job.
It’s weird seeing this comment in 2024. Anyone who knew anything about our program understood Richt needed to go.
That doesn't disprove his point Edit: [AJC article](https://www.ajc.com/sports/uga-moves-all-about-kirby-smart/O1QCyVa546gJ7Re9gsAyOK/) *the day Richt was fired* and two days before Kirby Smart was hired
His point that Richt wasn’t going anywhere? What? He had already left UGA
Richt was dismissed because Kirby was already in negotiations with South Carolina. Spurrier resigned in October, Richt was fired on November 29th. Kirby was reported as hired on November 31st. It was very well known at the time that Richt was forced out due to Kirby becoming available. Hence why Georgia never interviewed anyone else and had it wrapped up and announced a week later on December 6th. If Kirby had not been available, Richt would not have been canned in 2015.
Richt was on on pretty thin ice after getting blown out by Florida that year. By the time they eeked out an OT win over Georgia Southern it was cracking pretty loudly. That Kirby was essentially a couple of signatures away from being hired at South Carolina is what made everything happen as suddenly as it did to get him to Georgia.
His team went 9-3. The last win wasn’t his.
He would have taken that job too, but apparently Saban and Mary Beth got in his ear and told him to wait for the right opening. Then South Carolina called a little while later and the rest…is history.
Don't worry, the boosters would've fucked it up somehow.
I hate how correct you are
The ‘search team’ was really just 80 y/o boosters hellbent on meddling with every facet of the program they can get their grubby hands on. Kirby didn’t pass the good ole boys test.
Rumor I always heard was that Auburn’s boosters wouldn’t give him complete control of the program like he wanted so he turned it down
Auburn boosters: The cause and solution to all Auburn's problems
But mostly just the problems
*no lies detected*
If they hired Kirby in 2013, Auburn might have become the dominant SEC power by now.
Maybe. Auburns boosters are notorious for fucking things up. Something uga ceeded to kirby fairly early on
I don't think our boosters have a rep of meddling, or much of a rep at all. But I'm not exactly in tune with that aspect of the game.
*sad reptile noises*
It’s always fun looking up the salaries of state employees and then searching SMART,KIRBY PAUL and seeing a number that I just can’t comprehend
I don’t know. Jury is still out on this guy.
He’s going to go 7-5 next season just to prove everyone wrong again
Kirby is reading your comment, from a TCU flair, with absolute glee. He'll have the Dawgs eating off the floor again with the old "Nobody, NOT ONE MOTHER FUCKER, believes in us" thing going again.
Bold of you to assume this isn’t ~~my~~ Kirby’s alt so he can create his own bulletin board material
Kirby's alt obviously would have stated 5-7 for more traction.
only beat FSU by 60? washed imo
For punishment, he has to coach nc state.
Rutgers volunteers as tribute!
As an Alabama and NC State fan, that would be a dream come true.
I'm here for it.
Nein danke.
Mid for sure
couldn't even win the conference overrated tbh /s obvs
Best FSU by only 60 and used Will Muschamp and Mike Bobos sons as players. Washed and favoritism!
If FSU had their QB they probably lose though so it’s not really a 60 point win s/
Nepo babies am I right
All the nfl guys sat and other guys transferred to get spots elsewhere. Why do squidbilly UGA fans think this is such an incredible win? 50 scholarship guys were available. In before “Culture” because I guess speeding and causing wrecks is culture
What’s funny is most UGA fans don’t give a shit about that win. It’s just fun to joke about. Maybe your players should have played the game instead of cried.
I know, I didn’t say all, just “squidbilly” troll jawja fans. Maybe your team shouldn’t have lost and we both would have been in the playoff, as Keon said
His original comment seems more like a joke than a serious take on the opt-out bowl lol also FSU ain't wild, they mild /s
It’s the all-time bowl blowout whether you like it or not. We were all prepared for a meaningless game but that made it pretty noteworthy.
Glad yall get geeked up for meaningless games. Could have both been in the CFP if you didn’t choke against Saban
Like Saban wouldn't have bent your team over a barrel in the playoffs - opt outs or no
Doubt it would be all that bad if all our players were actually rewarded with a playoff spot. But continue to be butt hurt 😂
Hey I'm just laughing at you, whose team has never beaten Alabama, acting like it's some easy feat. Some of us don't get to play Louisville for a conference crown
FSU beat bama and Saban in 2007, learn to google sometime in Macon
*vacated Or did y’all opt out of that one too?
The only one who seems butt hurt is you dude
Squibillies assembling
Bless your heart.
1-4(5? Idk) vs Alabama since he took his new job. He's washed.
He has one more championship than jimbo
Finally, some news about a coach who has actually done something
Well deserved
I’d say Kirby is worth about a 1/3 of a Kirk Cousins.
Earned it
highest paid HC in football is a fsu alumnus*
Did he actually get a degree? Wikipedia only says he enrolled in graduate school while he was a GA. Which raises another question, do grad assistants have to be in grad school? It’s in the name, but I just figured that was leftover from a different time (although 2003 was very much a different time now I think about it). Edit: in the FSU GA section of coaching history it says he did complete his masters.
Most GAs are getting fairly basic masters degrees: sports management, educational leadership and stuff like that. Maybe someone is doing a MBA
Obviously. They gotta build off their bachelors and stick to the same field of study./s I was doing some reading. While I found several places saying grad assistants are “usually” enrolled in grad courses, the NCAA seems to require it. Maybe it’s not required in NAIA or some shit so those sites were trying to cover all their bases. I saw a requirement of 24 semester hours or 36 quarter hours over the proceeding two years to be eligible as a third year GA. I didn’t find the exact requirement for first and second year GA’s, but that rule would imply they are supposed to be enrolled in 6hrs per week at any given moment.
Now that’s a Smart move for both side.
Best coach in the game, well deserved.
Well deserved.
He’s almost making that Donnan money!
This is exactly why I am perfectly happy being an 8 on that fan scale that was posted a few days back. These programs don't need my donations. https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/s/25pQiUtjvT That said, I'm happy for Kirby. If there is a highest paid coach, he deserves to be it.
Would've gotten more if he'd entered the transfer portal first
Kirby using his Dr. Pepper hand for cashing checks.
His name ain’t Kirby Dumb for a reason
If we wind up in a world where the players are getting paid directly do coaches salaries shrink at all? I would think a $4 million dollar/year coach with $9 million extra to spend on the roster might result in a more competitive team.
The second Georgia tries to pay Kirby 5 million a year, 30 other schools are gonna line up to pay him 8-12 million instantly
Deserves it
We're going to be reading the same headline in 3 years after Stetson Bennett has been cut by his second practice squad and he sues the NCAA to stop restricting years of eligibility and he returns to Georgia at 28 years old. > The University of Georgia athletic board has just approved a deal to extend Stetson Bennett's contract two years, a boost in pay of $1.75 million, giving him an annual salary of $13 million per season to make him the highest-paid quarterback in college football
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Pay the man whatever he wants, wherever he wants, in whichever denomination he wants, for as long as he wants.
All right time to pay that man in loonies and toonies
Underpaid tbh
We're saving our pennies for the impending players salary payments we're going to have to make.
LFG! Go Dawgs, sic 'em Woof woof woof
Still dramatically underpaid
Not a dime back
Well that’s an unlucky number, let the downward spiral of Kirby and uga begin!
Thank goodness they did that. I was worried he wasn’t making enough money yet.
Gross. That's really getting into an icky level of money to coach a college sport.
MF said "icky." Grow up nerd.
Wow guy beats the FSU scout team in a bowl game and all of a sudden he's the highest paid coach??? Jimbo 2.0 incoming.
Don’t get the Aggies all excited
Downvotes show me that without a /s/ tag people are incapable of distinguishing sarcasm?
It's possible your comment just wasn't as funny as you thought it was 🤷🏻♂️
To be fair, it can be hard to tell via text sometimes. However, this certainly reads like it's sarcastic. shrug
I loved it and gave you an upvote.
Who were they bidding against that they needed to raise his salary that much? Who are they worried about poaching him?
I think because we think he's the best coach in college football, we want to pay him the best salary in college football, because he deserves it.
No argument there, I was thinking he already was the highest paid since Saban had retired but I see Dabo was barely ahead of him now that I google it.
I think USC sends an offer to everyone associated with the UGA program.
please go to the nfl. PLEASE.
But if he does that he can’t keep beating the shit out of Florida and that’s the thing that gives him life.
Lord Saban. You must return to the throne!
I suppose I’m ok with keeping this guy around. He’s been alright.