Kirby Smart is for his players taking advantage of NIL opportunities, and the Georgia coach has gotten advice from an unlikely source.
Smart, while visiting with reporters during Tuesday’s session of SEC Media Days, shared a text exchange with rapper Quavo, a Georgia fan, that took place just days after NIL went into effect.
“The first text I got was two week after NIL started and he said, ‘Coach, please tell the players, be selective, who they put their brand with. Don’t just do it’, and he used the term thirsty,” Smart explained. “‘Don’t be thirsty. Be selective in what you want to do, selective in how you handle your branding. You’ve got tax issues now you’ve got to deal with.’ There’s a lot of education we’re doing in-house to make this an advantage for our young men. That’s something that we continue to drive home and they understand.”
While the message appears to be sound advice, Georgia defensive lineman Jordan Davis couldn’t help but joke his coach has Quavo’s number.
“I think definitely him and Quavo having a connection is cool, but I don’t think Kirby could name a song that Quavo has been on,” Davis joked.
“Just having that connection is nice. The fact that Quavo was talking about NIL just shows you how tremendous this thing is and how easy it is to get deterred from the main goal.
“Everybody, every fan in Dawg Nation wants us to win, but you just have to – you know, he was right in saying that. You have to keep the main thing the main thing. You don’t want to be too thirsty for these deals where you pass up or miss out or slip up during the season.”
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Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.
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