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UGA springing forward under Kirby Smart with practices shifted off site due to construction

Kirby Smart’s first spring practices as Georgia’s head football coach will have his Bulldogs being displaced because of continuing work on the indoor practice facility.

A view of the new Georgia football practice field at the University of Georgia Club Sports Complex on South Milledge Avenue, photographed on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. (AJ Reynolds/Staff, @ajreynoldsphoto)

The team in the past has occasionally been inconvenienced by construction projects at the Woodruff practice fields like when the Butts-Mehre building went up at a cost of more than $12 million and was completed in 1987, but didn’t have to go elsewhere to practice.