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On Tuesday, Kirby Smart raised concerns about the "reverse system" of name, image and likeness deals and his frustration with the recruiting calendar.
At the Texas High School Coaches Association convention in San Antonio, Smart was asked if he was tired of answering questions about NIL.
Smart said that people were tired of hearing about that.
He was concerned about the amount of players getting too much.
Smart said that he was one of the biggest advocates for the name, image and likeness rule to be in place. It's not for everyone. Everyone won't make the same amount of money off of it. Different men will have different pay scales. I can deal with that.
I can't accept someone getting $10,000 a month for four years or three years of college. That's a lot of money. Do you think he's doing anything with that? Is that going to make him a better person? If you gave me $10K a month in my freshman year of college, I wouldn't be where I am today. I think that's true.
He believed he had to fight, scratch and claw for opportunities, even if it was not having money to get out of an ATM. He said that if he had been given $10K, he wouldn't have had to work so hard.
Smart said that you could say that he deserves it. He might get that if he earns it. I'm all for taking care of the guys that have been part of the program if he plays. The bottom coming in is being rewarded more than the top coming out. That is difficult.
Smart was asked by a coach if he could prevent jealousy in the locker room if some players got more lucrative offers than others. At last year's keynote session in San Antonio, Alabama's Nick Saban told the high school coaches that his quarterback was close to a million dollars in NIL deals.
"Our quarterback has already reached ungodly numbers and he hasn't even played yet," he said. It's close to seven figures if I tell you what it is.
It's better for these things to be out in the open and for the players to know that.
The key to NIL is education. You start with an athlete. The left guard makes more than the Lamar Jackson or DeshaunWatson. That is the price they want. The market value is what they want. If you educate players on that, they will understand why the next guy might not get as much endorsement money as the current one.
He said that the team has to have success in order to get an NIL deal.
It's a disease that can destroy our team. Losing is the fastest way to get no NIL. Last year, we had an example of that. There were 85 players that had some type of NIL deal. It's not all equal. They won't be the same. They had a chance to use the NIL.
The onslaught of recruiting visits last year was a test, according to Smart.
Smart said that he was ready to leave. I was finished. From June 1 to June 28 we had kids. We had caravans showing up from the Atlanta airport at midnight and they wanted to go in our indoor and work out at midnight because they had to go to another school at 7 in the morning.
We wouldn't be able to see them if we weren't there at midnight. Do you do anything? Is it possible to say no? The kids are from two different states. Our staff was crazy because we were there with them.
Four weekends in a row with 10 to 12 official visits has been the norm this year.
Smart talked about sunup to sundown. What are you going to do?
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