It Just Means More: Kirby Smart Kept Georgia Fans From Rushing The Court By Making Money Signs, Reminding The Money Goes Directly To Florida
Just another night of SEC basketball. Florida, a team that is a 1 seed, on the shortlist to win the national title, all that stuff, goes to Georgia and loses. Let me clarify, they got their ass kicked for about 25 minutes before making a comeback and then Blue Cain sending a dagger:
Important win. Georgia is on the bubble. It doesn't matter they are 5-10 in the SEC. The entire SEC besides South Carolina and LSU are either in the Tournament or on the bubble. They are looking at getting between 12-14 teams in the Tournament. It's loaded whether people want to admit it or not. But this blog is about what happened at the end of the game. It's about a man who knows how important money is in the SEC.
Kirby Smart:
This might be the perfect SEC video. Two fans in Georgia Sucks shirts getting escorted out, the football coach coming to the student section telling them to not get on the floor because the money goes to Florida:
[Source] - The SEC's fine structure -- far more severe than any other conference -- is $100,000 for a first incident, $250,000 for a second, and $500,000 for a third and subsequent occurrences. When storms occur for nonconference games, the penalty amount is deducted from SEC payouts to the home school and redirected to the conference's postgraduate scholarship fund. For conference games, the SEC redirects the money to the visiting school, which can spend it at its discretion. That means teams like Tennessee and Kentucky get the money when Vanderbilt fans storm the court.
You don't think a multiple-time national champion doesn't know the rules? He's not going to give Florida some extra money. He doesn't want them to have a hundred thousand to give out in NIL when he's trying to fix what happened his past year. Making the money sign into the pocket is what an SEC coach should be doing. Even more impressive is he got a bunch of college kids to listen to him. They waited until Florida left and avoided the fine before celebrating
Always be recruiting, baby. Kirby Smart understands the money game.
Always be recruiting, baby. Kirby Smart understands the money game.