Georgia head coach Kirby Smart has taken a little bit of heat this week for shoving Mississippi State quarterback Michael Van Buren during the teams’ most recent game. But one Alabama legend believes that Smart may have deserved more than just a scolding.
Appearing on The Triple Option, former Alabama running back Mark Ingram said that Smart is lucky he didn’t get beaten up for shoving Van Buren out of the eyes of the officials. Ingram reminded his colleagues that Smart used to be one of Alabama’s assistants during his playing days and made it clear that if Smart ever tried to shove him or his teammates, they would not have tolerated it.
“The SEC lucky there wasn’t an (expletive) whooping,” Ingram said. “I know Kirby perfectly. He was my defensive coordinator when I was at Alabama, and he knows if he would have touched any one of us alphas like that, then he would have been squared up on. If he would have tried to push Rolando McClain, Courtney Upshaw, them cats like that. Me, like Julio Jones, like I would have been trying to get at Kirby.
“I would have been trying to get at Kirby. Now it was on (their) sideline, so I don’t know if I would have been able to get to him, but I damn sure would have tried. Kirby knows what would’ve went down. That’s somebody’s child, man.”
Smart has already apologized for his actions ad stated that he has reached out to Van Buren to express his regret over his actions. He explained that he wasn’t trying to behave violently towards Van Buren but was simply trying to push his way towards defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann.
Even so, if he had done that at a rival stadium he would be getting absolutely crushed.
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