Kirby Smart Press Conference Before 2024 Spring Football
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00:00 Yeah. Yeah. Welcome back, guys,
00:17 and we're getting ready to
00:18 start. Spring ball feels like
00:19 we just finished and we've been
00:20 transitioning doing a lot of.
00:24 Work football work meetings,
00:26 lifting running. It's been
00:28 January. We go out recruiting,
00:30 so we don't get to see our.
00:32 Young new players. I think we
00:34 got around 30 between portal
00:36 calling new and mid years. So
00:38 big group of guys. It's almost
00:40 1/3 of your team that keeps
00:41 turning over each year, so
00:43 that's really critical to me.
00:44 We don't get to spend much time
00:45 with him. February. We got to
00:47 spend more time with them, but
00:48 that's also a time that we as a
00:51 coaching staff don't have
00:52 recruiting on campus, so we try
00:54 to spend time with our families
00:56 and spend time with our team.
00:57 So this is when March hits and
00:59 we get to actually go out there
01:00 and practice football and be
01:02 around our players and implement
01:04 our systems and I love spring
01:06 practice because you get the day
01:07 off in between. So you know
01:09 there's a big recovery day.
01:10 There's a big install day.
01:12 There's a lot of information to
01:13 be shared, so I want to be able
01:15 to provide you guys with as much
01:17 information as possible. A lot
01:19 of updates. As you know, we have
01:22 postseason surgeries. We had
01:24 guys that had pre bowl games
01:26 surgeries, post bowl game
01:28 surgeries, so a lot of medical
01:30 information to be given out
01:32 there. I think they come into
01:33 practice on Thursday or when are
01:35 they coming out there?
01:36 >> Thursday.
01:37 >> Thursday. So you'll probably
01:38 see a lot of that stuff Thursday,
01:40 but I'll try to do this as
01:42 quickly as I can and then you're
01:43 free to ask about whatever you
01:45 need to ask about, but I'm going
01:46 to try to hit on some of these.
01:48 Bo, Hughley, Bo had left
01:50 shoulder surgery after the
01:51 season to repair a labrum.
01:53 We've had on average I think four
01:56 labrums a year. I think we're
01:57 right on that this year. Bo will
01:59 be out for spring. He should be
02:01 ready for fall camp, but he had a
02:03 good fall, but we had to repair
02:05 the surgery, so that's been done.
02:08 Ty Ingram-Dawkins had a left foot
02:10 navicular fracture. He had
02:12 surgery following the season.
02:13 He's progressing well. He's going
02:15 to miss spring practice, but he
02:16 should be ready for fall camp.
02:18 If you remember, he dealt with
02:19 that a lot during the year. We
02:21 were able to get him back and
02:22 let him play, but felt like it
02:25 was best now with the downtime to
02:26 go ahead and have that surgery
02:28 done. Chris Jones, you know, the
02:31 midyear young kid, he gave up
02:33 the back half of his senior
02:35 season to have surgery on his
02:37 foot. He's progressing well.
02:38 You'll see him out there
02:40 practicing, doing things, but
02:41 he'll be limited some with what
02:43 he's doing. Christian Miller
02:45 didn't -- he had a meniscus
02:47 prior to the Orange Bowl. He had
02:49 surgery post-Orange Bowl. He's
02:51 progressing back into activity.
02:54 He should be fine, but he's been
02:55 limited a little bit as well.
02:57 Smile underwent his stress
02:59 fracture to his navicular to get
03:01 it fixed. He's going to miss
03:03 spring ball, but should be ready
03:04 for fall camp. As you guys know,
03:06 he decided to return this year.
03:08 That played a large part in that
03:10 for him returning to be healthy.
03:12 Branson, that was a significant
03:14 injury. If you remember, the
03:16 patella tendon rupture, he's at
03:18 nine-month recovery. I think
03:19 he's at seven or eight. So he
03:21 looks good, running straight
03:23 ahead, but he's not going to be
03:24 cleared through spring. He's
03:25 going to do a lot of walk
03:26 throughs and a lot of things,
03:28 and at nine months, he should be
03:30 ready to go, which should be
03:31 around the end of spring.
03:33 Malachi had a shoulder surgery.
03:35 He'll be limited a little bit in
03:37 spring. He's going to be able to
03:39 do some things, but he won't be
03:41 full go. And then Rah-Rah still
03:43 coming off his foot injury,
03:45 which he's out there repping and
03:47 doing things. He won't be full
03:49 speed. Damon Wilson, who missed
03:52 his knee, he's doing a lot of
03:53 things. He's doing a lot of
03:55 venous repair. He's doing
03:57 full activity now and doing some
03:59 good things. The mellow is
04:01 dealing with a little bit of a
04:03 hamstring. Colby is dealing with
04:05 an ankle. But they're both out
04:07 there working, just limited in
04:09 some ways. I think that updates
04:11 most of the post-season
04:12 surgeries. The one update and
04:14 probably the toughest note for
04:16 us is Pierce Sperling is going
04:18 to have to take a medical
04:21 leave. He's going to be out
04:22 there with us now helping, but
04:24 it's just too much at risk for
04:26 him. So he will not be able to
04:28 play. And I really hate it for
04:30 the kid because he was going to
04:32 be a really good football
04:34 player. He got a lot of
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