Is Kirby Smart leaving Georgia for Texas A&M? Exploring Bulldogs HC's coaching rumors

Georgia coach Kirby Smart is one of many rumored to be part of the Texas A&M Aggies coaching search. Texas A&M is widely believed to be in a similar situation to what the Georgia Bulldogs were in 2015 when Smart took over.

Georgia was underachieving in the Southeastern Conference. Smart has turned them into serial winners and they are on a 28-game winning streak heading into Week 13. They also have two consecutive national championships on the ledger.

Could Smart be able to produce a similar turnaround for the Aggies if he were to take up the coaching position there?

They paid a record $76.2 million buyout to get former coach Jimbo Fisher out of the program. It is now only a matter of what the Texas A&M Athletic Department and its boosters are willing to pay for the next coach of the football program. But would Kirby Smart actually consider leaving the Georgia Bulldogs for the Texas A&M Aggies?

At first glance, there doesn't seem to be much credence to the rumors, which seem to be a way of linking one of the top coaches in college football with a prominent program.

What will make the move even less likely is if the program does win its third consecutive national championship. It's a feat that has not been achieved since the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the 1930s.

There are realistically only two reasons why Smart may even consider such a move: power and money. However, the Georgia Bulldogs are going to give him that.

Smart is in the second year of a 10-year contract where he will receive $122.5 million, the most for any coach in the United States. He also holds a lot of power in the program, so that is not something that he is lacking.

Right now, it would not make sense for him to leave the Bulldogs as he establishes himself as the next Nick Saban to run the SEC into the future with a dynastic run of his own.