Three reasons Kirby Smart deserves to be highest paid coach
Kirby Smart won the first national championship in 41 years for Georgia football
The most obvious reason head coach Kirby Smart deserves a raise is for winning the first national championship in four decades. He did what so many others couldn’t do and did it with a team of guys unwilling to succumb to any adversity that got in their way.
Smart made this happen with a former walk-on quarterback with an offense depleted with injuries. However, the star of the show is that historic defense that showed up each week ready to bully their opponent into submission.
In six seasons, Smart has made two national title appearances, and in his second, he won it all. Not many head coaches can say that, so that alone is worthy of a hefty raise.
Smart loves his job and would likely be content with his salary if his staff got raises themselves, but at this point, the university needs to find the money to pay them all because they earned it. A national championship is so hard to win, and Smart found a way to do it.
Georgia needs to make a statement with this raise and show the rest of college football that the Dawgs aren’t going anywhere and that Smart will be causing problems for a long time to come. If things continue like they have the first six years, Georgia is onto something special, and Smart is leading the charge.
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No one deserves to be the highest-paid coach, outside Nick Saban, then Smart because of what he has done since getting to Georgia. Some of those names on the top-10 are excellent coaches but haven’t done what Smart has, and that should also be enough to give him a raise. He is the next star college football coach, and it’s time the Dawgs pay him like a king.