Kirby Smart's Lamborghini joke makes crowd erupt with laughter as he poked fun at NIL deals

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Georgia head coach Kirby Smart is usually the hard-nosed football coach that is all business when his Bulldogs are on the gridiron. However, in the offseason, Smart knows he can joke around from time to time. 

That was the case on Monday night in front of the Macon Touchdown Club, where he joked about taking another form of transportation from Athens, Georgia, to Macon after a turbulent flight. 

"It was the bumpiest plane ride, windiest plane ride I’ve ever been on, so I was thinking. Could I have gone in the parking lot, my players parking lot, and maybe got a Lamborghini and drove down really fast?" Smart said. 

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Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart reacts in the first half against the Samford Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium on Sept. 10, 2022 in Atlanta. (Todd Kirkland/Getty Images)

The joke hit the audience, but Smart noted, "That’s an inside joke for some of you."

"I thought about it, I don’t think I could drive one, I don’t think I could fit in one of those.

"(But) there’s definitely a different parking lot when it comes to players in the world we live in right now."

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Of course, name, image and likeness (NIL) deals being allowed for student athletes to profit off their own personal brand is the talk of college sports, especially in the football realm where many top stars in the game are being paid big bucks to play at their respective schools. 

The inside joke goes even further, as Smart’s quarterback, Carson Beck, bought himself a Lamborghini after negotiating to stay on for