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Kirby Smart reaches out to old friend, CSU coach Mike Bobo following upset over Arkansas
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Georgia head coach Kirby Smart and Colorado State coach Mike Bobo have been friends for decades, and while they may coach in different conferences on different sides of the country, they still stay close.
On Saturday, Bobo’s Rams took down Arkansas, and Smart felt that no one should have been surprised.
“I texted (Bobo), I told him, ‘you better never count a Bobo out,'” said Smart on Tuesday afternoon via 247Sports. “I’ve been in many battles with him, against him and with him. Lifelong friends. Grew up right down the road from each other. To see what he’s endured and his family’s endured, it’s been amazing. To go through two losses like he had and then to come back and beat an SEC opponent to win it. At some point in the game they were like 99 percent probably to lose out of ESPN Stats and he comes back and wins. Then to see him with his dad afterward and get to see him hug his son, that’s really what it’s all about.”
“Don’t ever count him out, I can promise you that. He’s a great football coach and a really good person.”
Bobo has had a tougher start to the college football season than maybe any other coach. In August, he took a leave of absence for medical reasons, and then lost back-to-back games to start the season against Hawaii and Colorado.
It seems now that the tables have turned for Colorado State and coach Bobo, and the teams left on their schedule have received their fair warning from Smart:
“You better never count a Bobo out.”
Jordan Dajani covers SEC football for Saturday Down South and is a University of Tennessee graduate. He also has experience working in the NBA and with ESPN.
