Kirby Smart Era Begins with a Unique Dawg Walk

The Kirby Smart era of Georgia Football has already begun, but the inaugural walk into Sanford Stadium for Coach Smart will be celebrated with a unique Dawg Walk.

Social media was buzzing this morning after Greg McGarity appeared on WSB-TV’s Georgia Bulldogs segment and announced that G-Day, also known as #93Kday on Twitter, will feature a Dawg Walk.

#Dawgs McGarity announced today on @WSBbulldogs that there will be a Dawg Walk prior to the G-Day game. #93K4GDay pic.twitter.com/5fqnCzroT2
— GATA National Champion Dawgs (@BassinDawg) March 12, 2016

The Dawg Walk is a pre-game ritual for the Georgia Football team, but that ritual is typically only honored during the regular season.

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There has never been an official Dawg Walk on G-Day, so this is a first time occurrence likely orchestrated by Kirby Smart and McGarity in order to increase hype for the annual spring game. This announcement comes after Smart has developed a high profile presence on Twitter.

Smart created a Twitter account back in December, almost immediately after his announcement as head coach. Since then, he has developed a strong presence on the social media platform by earning 56.3 thousand followers in approximately three months. The new head coach is more active on the platform than previous head coach Mark Richt was, and he is currently using it to hook more fans on to the Smart train, which is on a direct route for G-Day.

The G-Day game typically has a smaller audience than any regular season games. It easily doubled during the Mark Richt era, but that audience was still only filling about half of the stadium every year. Last year, attendance was approximately 46,815.

This year, Smart wants the stadium filled to capacity and, potentially, past capacity. Recent reports out of Athens say Smart wants 100,000 fans at Sanford Stadium on April 16th, which would be 7,000 overcapacity for the Bulldog’s stadium.