ATHENS — Kirby Smart doesn’t have any hard evidence there is any tampering when it comes to college football.
He simply doesn’t have the means to produce proof.
“I don’t have a phone tap on anyone’s phone,” Smart said. “I don’t have a wire. I am not the feds. I don’t know. I can only tell you that when kids come in to see me, they have a plan. They either did some pre-planning or something occurred. It is really almost impossible to navigate, monitor or police.”
And he knows his fellow coaches well enough to know they’d love nothing more than to nab a talented player from his roster. All 18 scholarship Georgia players that left via the transfer portal in the most recent window ended up at other Power 5 schools.
At a place like Georgia, the transfer portal always looms large. With so many talented players on the roster and only a finite level of snaps available, Smart recognizes how easy it is for his players to get a wandering eye.
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