There is plenty to like about Georgia’s football outlook entering spring practice.
The Bulldogs are coming off a 12-win season that was capped with an impressive Sugar Bowl smothering of Baylor, and multiple key components from the nation’s top-ranked scoring defense elected to come back for their senior seasons. This past Wednesday, Georgia wrapped up the No. 1 signing class nationally, the second top crop for the Bulldogs in the past three years.
Georgia has developed a stout level of consistency with three consecutive Southeastern Conference Eastern Division titles, but the Bulldogs also have noticeable uncertainty moving forward with recent changes at offensive coordinator and quarterback.
Head coach Kirby Smart, who will begin his fifth set of spring practices in Athens on March 17, isn’t viewing this offseason as anything out of the ordinary from the standpoint of change.
“Having both coordinators leave last year was much greater than this offseason,” Smart said last week in a news conference. “We’re still in the offseason, so all things are not done yet. Being able to reinvent yourself, being able to reinvent your program and developing the players in it are what’s going to set you apart and make you different. There are still moves to be made for us from a hiring standpoint and moving people around.