Kirby Smart's Father Passes Away Just Two Days After Sugar Bowl

Before the Sugar Bowl kicked off on Thursday, the college football community learned that Sonny Smart, the father of Georgia coach Kirby Smart, was hospitalized. On Saturday morning, we learned that he passed away...

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"He’s taught me so much just about the way you handle things, the right way, the wrong way," Kirby Smart said. "Control the controllables. The moment’s never too big if you’re prepared. And I always watched the way he prepared our teams and our staff in high school. He was a very wise man, a man of few words. I tried to follow his mantra as a coach. I’ve certainly evolved from going to coach for other people, but a lot of my core beliefs came from the way he ran our programs in high school."

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(The Spun)