Kirby Smart’s son Andrew received first scholarship offer, but it wasn’t from Georgia

Over the last 10 years Georgia fans have gotten to watch Andrew Smart, Kirby Smart’s son, grow up right before their eyes. He was a very young kid when his dad became the head coach at Georgia, but he just finished eighth grade and will begin high school this fall.

That means now is the time that his recruitment could heat up if he proved to be a good enough player, and it looks like that might just happen as Georgia Tech just offered him his first scholarship this week.

Andrew Smart’s anti-Georgia Tech history makes the Yellow Jacket’s scholarship offer very ironic

Most Georgia fans might not know this, but Andrew is a quarterback. Since he hasn’t even begun his high school career yet it’s impossible for fans to know how good he is, but this is their first sign that he has a chance to be great.

Division one colleges don’t just hand out offers to kids who haven’t even started high school. That is typically reserved for the best of the best, so maybe that means Smart will be a special talent.

Regardless it is quite ironic that Georgia Tech is his first scholarship offer. Yes they are one of Georgia’s main rivals, but his history with the Yellow Jackets specifically really stands out.

It’s become somewhat of a tradition after Georgia beats Tech for Andrew to get in on the celebration. And over the years he has been pictured holding a variation of a sign that reads “We run this state” while being carried around on the field by players.

Seeing Georgia Tech offer him now is quite funny because they feel like the last school he would want to play for.

Even if he may never play for the Yellow Jackets, this offer will make every Georgia fan have the same question. How realistic is it for him to play at Georgia?

How realistic is it for Andrew Smart to play for his dad at Georgia?

It would be very easy for Smsrt to let his son be on Georgia’s team once he goes off to college. Just because he’s on the team doesn’t mean he’ll ever play, but Smart has sacrificed enough for the program that if he wants his son to be in the team he can.

Look no further than a similarly impressive college basketball program in Michigan State and their legendary head coach Tom Izzo. Through the early 2020s he had his son Steven Izzo on their basketball team who never had a chance at playing any level of college basketball let alone at a program like Michigan State. But he let his son be on the team as a way to buy back some more time with him, and that is a beautiful thing.

Smart could do this same thing, but maybe Andrew is going to be a really good player and could actually play. Why else would Georgia Tech offer him already?

Let’s assume he turns into a really good player and is one of the top quarterbacks in the country in the 2030 recruiting class. If he is good enough to play at Georgia then Smart would absolutely want him to come play for him. Would Andrew even want to though?

There’s a scenario where Andrew would say no to Georgia because he wants to carve out his own legacy. If that’s the case then more power to him, but if he’s good enough to play at Georgia then it would be quite the story if he actually chose to play in Athens.

Andrew still has four years in high school to develop as a player, so right now it’s impossible to know what will happen. But this offer from Georgia Tech shows that there is a very real chance he will be good enough to play at Georgia one day.

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