{"id":21067,"date":"2022-07-21T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T08:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kirby-smart-renews-complaints-about-facing-florida-every-year-in-jacksonville\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T08:26:57","slug":"kirby-smart-renews-complaints-about-facing-florida-every-year-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kirby-smart-renews-complaints-about-facing-florida-every-year-in-jacksonville\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Smart renews complaints about facing Florida every year in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Okay, Kirby &#8230; we get it &#8212; you don&#8217;t like playing the Florida Gators in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart won&#8217;t give up on his thinly-disguised hints that he&#8217;d like to move the Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville to home-and-home, or a rotation between Jacksonville and Atlanta. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Gene Frenette:<\/strong> Slow down, Gators fans, give Billy Napier time to build something special<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>local help: <\/strong>Jacksonville-area players help Georgia to 2021 College Football Playoff victory<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smart harped once again on a tradition that will be played at TIAA Bank Field for the 87th year since 1933, a streak interrupted only three times, in 1943 by World War II and in 1994 and 1995 when the game went to the respective campuses because of the stadium renovation for the Jaguars. <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smart&#8217;s rationale: Georgia&#8217;s game vs.  Florida is the only SEC rivalry played at a neutral site and he can&#8217;t host recruits.  Neither can the Gators but Smart, coming off UGA&#8217;s first national championship since 1980, still isn&#8217;t happy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI&#8217;m competing all across the SEC, who host recruits at their biggest game,\u201d Smart said Wednesday on SEC Now, during SEC Media Days in Atlanta.  \u201cWhen Auburn plays Alabama, guess where the recruits are?  When LSU and Alabama play, that&#8217;s where the biggest recruits want to go.  It&#8217;s an opportunity for us to bring these kids, who fly in from all over the country \u2014 what game do they want to come see Georgia play?  They&#8217;d like to see Georgia play Florida, but they can&#8217;t do that.  It&#8217;s very important.  Recruiting is very important.  I just can&#8217;t get a Florida coach to agree with me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">However, there&#8217;s not much Smart can do.  Jacksonville will be in the second year of a five-year contract to host the game, running through 2025 &#8212; provided the schools exercise their option to keep playing the game in Jacksonville in 2024 and 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And playing Florida in Jacksonville doesn&#8217;t seem to have hurt Smart.  Depending on the recruiting service cited, the Bulldogs have had top-three recruiting classes the last six years and were ranked first in 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Georgia is 66-15 under Smart and has won the SEC East four of six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smart was not asked about the issue during his appearance before the assembled media at the College Football Hall of Fame.  But she revisited the issue during an interview with 1010-XL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He likely was frustrated that Billy Napier joins the list of UF coaches who don&#8217;t agree that the game should be pulled from Jacksonville, where it has achieved national fame as one of the three biggest neutral-site rivalries, along with Oklahoma vs.  Texas and Army vs.  Navy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I want to experience the game first, right?&#8221;  the first-year Gator coach said on Wednesday during his interview session.  &#8220;I&#8217;d like to see that game in Jacksonville, experience that game before I have an opinion on that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/30\/NFTU\/f68c0a2d-7633-400f-8134-10bb94d7f52c-FLGAI-052622-NCAA-FloridaH.JPG?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/30\/NFTU\/f68c0a2d-7633-400f-8134-10bb94d7f52c-FLGAI-052622-NCAA-FloridaH.JPG?width=1320&amp;height=880&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New Florida coach Billy Napier said he wants to experience the annual game against Georgia in Jacksonville before he forms an opinion on whether it should be moved.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Napier didn&#8217;t deny that the game would still be a huge hit if it was taken to Gainesville and Athens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of credibility to both, right?&#8221;  he said.  &#8220;The home-and-home obviously would be fantastic. But there&#8217;s also some tradition there [in Jacksonville].  There&#8217;s a rivalry there.  Time will tell &#8230; that&#8217;s above my pay grade.  But I&#8217;m looking forward to the opportunity to participate in the game.&#8221; <\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smart last popped off about moving the game out of Jacksonville during the SEC spring meetings in Destin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not conducive to recruiting &#8230; it&#8217;s absolutely not,&#8221; he said that time. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_fo__bet-best\" aria-label=\"Scores and odds from Tipico\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-type=\"comment\"><!--@pre<iframe class=gnt_em_fo_if src=\"\/tangfrag\/sports\/gaming\/bet-best?prm-embedded&prm-teamid=48&prm-gnteamid=30&prm-league=NFL#fhp-assetid=10113226002\" loading=lazy sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" title=\"Scores and odds from Tipico\"><\/iframe>--><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smart also said then that \u201cnothing is off the table\u201d in regards to keeping the game at TIAA Bank Field.  But the contract was renewed later that year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Smart can argue with his own success in Jacksonville.  Georgia has won four of the last five meetings against the Gators, and routed UF 34-7 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contact Garry Smits at gsmits@gannett.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, Kirby &#8230; we get it &#8212; you don&#8217;t like playing the Florida Gators in Jacksonville. University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart won&#8217;t give up on his thinly-disguised hints that he&#8217;d like to move the Florida-Georgia game in Jacksonville to home-and-home, or a rotation between Jacksonville and Atlanta. Gene Frenette: Slow down, Gators fans, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kirby-smart-renews-complaints-about-facing-florida-every-year-in-jacksonville\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kirby Smart renews complaints about facing Florida every year in Jacksonville<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20653,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/cant-get-a-florida-coach-to-agree-with-me-about-moving-georgia-florida-game-on-campus\/","url_meta":{"origin":21067,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Can&#8217;t get a Florida coach to agree with me&#8217; about moving Georgia-Florida game on campus","date":"July 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Georgia coach Kirby Smart offered some of his strongest comments yet Wednesday about wanting to move the Georgia-Florida football game to the schools' campuses rather than playing it in Jacksonville, Florida, every season.During an interview on SEC Network at SEC media days Wednesday, Smart said having the game in Jacksonville,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8121,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/florida-football-recruiting-four-star-2023-qb-marcus-stokes-flips-from-penn-state-to-gators\/","url_meta":{"origin":21067,"position":1},"title":"Florida football recruiting: Four-star 2023 QB Marcus Stokes flips from Penn State to Gators","date":"July 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Image Credits: Alexis Greaves \/ UAA Faced with uncertainty at the quarterback position in the Class of 2023 after their top target recently reversed course and pledged to a rival, the Florida Gators rebounded nicely Thursday with the commitment of four-star Marcus Stokes (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL). 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