Kirby Smart and Mario Cristobal roasted each other

Rival coaches Kirby Smart and Mario Cristobal roasted each other at a dinner on Monday night, and the two did not hold back.

Smart and Cristobal both spoke at the annual Spurrier Awards in Gainesville, Fla., and turned the entire thing into a roast. Smart was responsible for starting it off by joking about the Miami Hurricanes’ NIL spending.

“I don’t like you being too close to Mario, you know what I’m saying?” Smart joked to the parents of standout freshman cornerback Ellis Johnson IV. “He’s still got another year left. You gotta be careful around Mario, sometimes he’ll take your players.”

Cristobal hardly let the Georgia coach’s comment pass without a response of his own.

“It’s a great piece to watch what a player like Carson Beck can do with great coaching,” Cristobal joked of the former Georgia quarterback. “No, seriously, let’s give it up for Kirby Smart. If wasn’t for all his years of pre-NIL, we wouldn’t have NIL right now.”