Georgia head coach Kirby Smart during the Bulldogs’ spring practice session on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, in Athens, Ga. (Photo by Steven Colquitt)CHUBB UPDATE
New Georgia football coach Kirby Smart said Tuesday that junior tailback Nick Chubb is right on schedule in his recovery from the torn posterior cruciate ligament he suffered in October at Tennessee.Smart then amended that, saying Chubb was ahead of schedule.“This guy is working tremendously hard,” Smart said. “He started doing a little cutting since we’ve been back from spring break, so he’s not just running straight ahead. We’re excited about where he is. He’s a kid that obviously overachieves anyway, but he’s overachieving in rehab as well.”Smart stopped short of forecasting that Chubb would be 100 percent by the first day of preseason camp. The 5-foot-10, 220-pounder from Cedartown has rushed for 2,294 yards in 19 career games for the Bulldogs, an average of 120.7 yards per game.
ATHENS, Ga. – In the last half century, only five University of Georgia football coaches have taken teams into the start of spring practice.
Kirby Smart became the fifth coach Tuesday afternoon, guiding the Bulldogs through a two-hour workout in helmets and shorts. Smart, who is following the 15-year run of Mark Richt, was a Georgia safety from 1995 to 1998.
“This has to be a dream come true for him,” senior free safety Quincy Mauger said. “It’s a dream for a lot of people to play at a school like this and coach at a school like this.”
The Bulldogs will be practicing this spring and this fall at the university’s Club Sports Complex due to the construction of the new indoor facility. The Club Sports Complex is a three-mile ride from the former fields behind the Butts-Mehre Athletic Complex.