ATHENS —Kirby Smart doesn’t hesitate to show respect and appreciation Nick Saban, even as Smart looks for his Georgia program to overcome Saban’s Alabama football dynasty.
Smart spent 11 years of his career working at Saban’s side, including nine years at Alabama from 2007-2015 which featured four national championship seasons.
That’s quite an accomplishment, and some might feel even more so after a recent ESPN article claimed that working as Saban’s defensive backs coach could be the hardest job in football.
To that point, former Michigan State head coach and Saban assistant Mark Dantonio once revealed he wasn’t even allowed to run his own defensive backs meetings while serving in that role for Saban for two years.
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