A UGA playbook in the Muschamp household? Why Kirby Smart isn’t too concerned
At some point, a copy of the Georgia Bulldogs’ offensive playbook will make its way into South Carolina coach Will Muschamp’s household.
His son Jackson made the call to play for his old friend, Kirby Smart, as a walk-on quarterback in Athens.
UGA will come to Williams-Brice Stadium next season. The Gamecocks handed the Bulldogs a 20-17 loss on the road last season, a defeat that cost Smart’s team an undefeated regular season. But Smart said he wasn’t too worried in an interview on CBS Sports Network alongside Muschamp.
“I tell you this, I’ve always thought that’s overrated,” Smart said before Muschamp was fully on the zoom call. “There’s a lot of paranoia in coaching. What I realized is a lot of that stuff’s overrated.”
What’s more, they’ve already talked a little about that, and Jackson Muschamp, who grew up a Georgia fan, isn’t exactly angling to give his pop the edge.
“He said, ‘Coach, there’s nobody I’d rather beat in my whole life than my dad.’” Smart said. “He goes, ‘We play pickup basketball. We play everything. We compete against each other.’ He said, ‘The last thing I’m worried about is trying to help him beat us.’ He said we’ll do all we can to beat him.”
In a sense, Will Muschamp is in a small way giving Smart a hand this summer. The Gamecocks head coach is putting both his sons through four days of workouts a week, including throwing around with offensive coordinator Mike Bobo and his sons and pushing cars around their childhood home.
Bobo also played with Will Muschamp and Smart at Georgia.
