UGA Football coach Kirby Smart Gives Heart-Felt Send Off to Jalen Walker, Tate Ratledge

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NEW ORLEANS - UGA Football coach Kirby Smart wanted to be certain to express his appreciation for Jalen Walker and Tate Ratledge in their final game in Silver Britches.

Here’s what Kirby said: I don't know who picked these guys to come, but they would have been the guys I picked, because when we do our captains, and rarely have I ever seen this where we did our captains, and two guys got more votes than anybody we've ever had. A combination of an offensive player and a defensive player.

Well, that's picked by the 130 players on the team. So they picked these two guys at about a 95% rate, meaning out of the 130, 95 guys put these two guys in their combination.

So what they did with this team in the toughest year of at least my tenure, easily the toughest year, they dominated the room, they controlled the room, they led the room through hard games and situations.

There were some hard games and situations.

I'll never forget this (Walker) against Georgia Tech chasing everybody down telling them to stay in the game, hope still alive. (Ratledge) doing the coin toss and saying we're about to win this game in overtime.

And I know today will be written about and that's fine, but these two guys right here are as special as they come. Thank you, guys.