Kirby Smart says NIL has not changed how he recruits quarterbacks

The NCAA’s new NIL incentive has not changed the way Georgia head coach Kirby Smart and the UGA football program recruits athletes, including quarterbacks. Smart was asked about changes to the process during Tuesday’s spring practice press conference in Athens.

“I don’t know that it’s changed. I mean we go about recruiting quarterbacks by evaluating quarterbacks,” Smart said. “We watch them play in high school, we bring them over here and have them throw for us, we watch their games which is by far and away the most critical thing we can have. It would probably be a bigger picture of ‘why are we singling out quarterbacks because NIL is impacted the recruitment of every player?’ In terms of where does that rank on their scale? It’s one of the first questions. Is that number one priority, is it number two, three, four, five, six? Do you list it that we way because you actually feel that way or because it’s the right answer?” he asked.