GREENSBORO, Ga. – Georgia football coach Kirby Smart is about to get a new deal, and it’s going to be among the highest-paying in college athletics.
Everybody knew that already, but UGA President Jere Morehead put a timeline on it Thursday during the Georgia Athletic Association’s board of directors meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge. Morehead asked for the board to move into “executive session” to discuss undisclosed “personnel matters.” After emeritus board members, athletic department personnel and media were dismissed from the room, he advised the full board that a new deal — “commensurate to other championship coaches” — is in the works and should be finalized in the “coming weeks.”
“It will be commensurate with what you would expect compensation to be for a national championship coach,” Morehead told reporters in a question-and-answer session after the first day of the two-day meeting was adjourned. “We’re close to finalizing those arrangements. I don’t think anybody will be surprised.”
