{"id":489416,"date":"2026-02-25T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:31:11","slug":"video-emerges-of-kirby-smarts-initial-dig-at-mario-cristobal-sparking-viral-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/489416\/","title":{"rendered":"Video emerges of Kirby Smart’s initial dig at Mario Cristobal, sparking viral clip"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Miami<\/a> head coach Mario Cristobal<\/a> went viral for roasting Georgia<\/a>\u2018s Kirby Smart<\/a> and the SEC altogether at the annual Spurrier Awards in Gainesville, Florida. However, many people didn\u2019t realize Smart took the first shot at Cristobal.<\/p>\n

At the event, Georgia cornerback Ellis Johnson IV<\/a> was named Football Writers Association of America Defensive Freshman of the Year. While joking about Johnson\u2019s parents\u2019 birthday celebrations, Smart snuck in a jab at Cristobal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were talking about the 50th birthday party he got and the 50th birthday she got, and it wasn\u2019t quite the same, mama wins out,\u201d Smart said<\/a>. \u201cWe probably sponsored that trip with all the NIL money we spent; that\u2019s a good, safe bet. That\u2019s OK, they deserve it.<\/p>\n

\u201cMario is right behind them. If it was up to him, he would have paid a lot more NIL money. It came down to us, too, so I don\u2019t like you being too close to Mario, you know what I\u2019m saying. He\u2019s still got another year left. You gotta be careful around Mario, sometimes he\u2019ll take your players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smart and Cristobal coached together at Alabama<\/a> from 2013-15. When it was Cristobal\u2019s turn to speak, he didn\u2019t hesitate to snap back at his former colleague.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great piece to watch what a player like\u00a0Carson Beck<\/a>\u00a0can do with great coaching,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cNo, seriously, let\u2019s give it up for Kirby Smart. If wasn\u2019t for all his years of pre-NIL, we wouldn\u2019t have NIL right now.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 You gotta give a guy like Kirby credit. When you have all that time to sit at home watching us play on TV throughout the playoffs, when you don\u2019t take care of business\u2026 You know, congratulations on the SEC, the championship, that\u2019s awesome. We were 5-0 against the SEC, I don\u2019t know what you were.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fairness, neither coach only took shots at the other. They also went after Florida, with legendary Gators head coach Steve Spurrier watching from only a few feet away. In fact, Smart approached Spurrier while speaking to involve the 80-year-old in his roast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs your daughter a realtor?\u201d Smart asked Spurrier. \u201cIs she the best realtor in Gainesville? One of the best? OK, you\u2019re (looking at Jon Sumrall) the fourth coach I\u2019ve played since being at Georgia, so she\u2019s getting a lot of money selling houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s going through it! And, look, I have tremendous respect for this town. I had no idea how great a basketball town this really was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, Miami head coach Mario Cristobal went viral for roasting Georgia\u2018s Kirby Smart and the SEC altogether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,129371,120881,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-489416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-kirby-smart-95-bainbridge","tag-mario-cristobal-88-columbus","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}