Kirby Smart is not one to hide away from issues that his team is facing. He understands exactly where the Georgia Bulldogs program is more than anyone else. At SEC Media Days on Tuesday coach Smart kicked things off immediately addressing the elephant in the room,

Greg McElroy, the former Alabama quarterback and now an ESPN/SEC Network analyst, opined Monday that Saban, who retired after the 2023 season, could get back into coaching. McElroy downplayed it later, but by then SEC coaches were being asked about it, especially those who worked for Saban.

There were recently a stream of reports that defensive analyst Will Muschamp had left the Georgia coaching staff. Now, Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart has pushed back on that. The main reason for those reports stemmed from Muschamp being left off the Georgia coaching staff.