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Dick Yarbrough: UGA is about much more than just football
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As my sweet mama would say, “Things just get curiouser and curiouser.” That is the best way to describe the recent events at the University of Georgia — or more specifically — the athletic department at UGA. Kirby Smart, who has morphed from a Bainbridge High Bearcat to an All-SEC defensive back at the University of Georgia to nine years as defensive coordinator under Nick Saban at the University of Alabama, is the new head football coach at Georgia. He will succeed Mark Richt, who in 15 years on the job won 145 games — second on Georgia’s all-time wins list — and two SEC championships, was one incomplete pass from perhaps a shot at a national championship and took his teams to a bowl game every year.