Georgia head coach Kirby Smart considers Mark Stoops a close friend. "Mark’s one of my close friends... I text him all the time," Smart said Monday. He probably should have stopped right there, luckily for us he did not.
So, when asked about Stoops's tenure at Kentucky, Smart offered what started as high praise before taking a hilariously wrong turn into brutal honesty.
Kirby Smart speaks the truth, and that truth hurts Mark Stoops
“It’s really amazing what he’s done at Kentucky... he’s done some incredible things, broken some records up there, been extremely competitive in our league.