ATHENS, Ga. – The Georgia Bulldogs held the dedication ceremony Tuesday for their recently completed $80 million expansion and renovation project of the Butts-Mehre football complex. That the ceremony was conducted inside the same $31 million indoor practice facility that was dedicated only five years ago says a lot about where UGA Athletics is these days.
That the dedication came four months after coach Kirby Smart brought Georgia its first national championship in 41 years probably won’t hurt the Bulldogs’ recruiting efforts either.
“We have done incredible things here in terms of catching up with facilities,” Smart told a crowd that featured fans, donors, state legislators and various dignitaries. “But we can’t be done yet. We will not be complacent. We will not sit idly by and let other people pass us by. It’s been a catch-up game for us for quite a long time. We feel like we have caught up, but now we have to maintain and continue to grow.”
