ATHENS, Ga. -- New Georgia head coach Kirby Smart is taking it upon himself to divert some of the towering expectations being dumped on freshman quarterback Jacob Eason.
With Georgia in need of vastly improved quarterback play and Eason enrolling early as the nation's No. 1-rated pocket passer, Smart wants to take as much pressure off Eason as possible as he transitions from the high school level to college this spring.
"The pressure's not on Jacob," Smart said during his national signing day news conference on Wednesday, "the pressure's on me. I'm the first-year head coach.