Kirby Smart Taking Steps to Avoid Complacency Amongst his Team

On the heels of back-to-back national titles, Kirby Smart is doing everything he can to ensure his team doesn't get too comfortable

When the Georiga Bulldogs won their first national championship in 41 years, Kirby Smart warned his coaches and players against growing complacent. Now that Georgia is coming off its second staright national title, Smart and his team are one again battling to avoid the hazards of growing "complacent".

Earlier this week, Smart spoke to the media about the measures that he himself had been taking to ensure that his players were giving maximum effort in practice. He included a story about an interaction that he had star linebackers Smael Mondon and Jamon Dumas-Johnson. Smart stated that he called both players into his office to discuss the effort that they were giving at practice.

“I had to call them in at one point because I didn’t think that they were practicing with the same ferocity that they would’ve been practicing with last year. I showed them some clips and said ‘Here’s your last spring. This is the way you were practicing when you had something to prove, and here are the first four practices of this spring. Is that the same two guys?’”

-Kirby Smart

Smart did mention that since his discussion with the two, the duo has once again been giving maximum effort in their practices. 

During Georgia's national championship season in 2022, Mondon and Dumas-Johnson were both leading tacklers on the Bulldog's elite defense. The duo combined for a whopping 146 tackles and 5 sacks and played integral roles in Georgia's success. With another year of experience under their belts and a head coach ensuring that they stay hungry. The duo could be in for a legendary season in 2023. 

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