Much has been made the past few days of the booing that took place during portions of last Saturday’s win over Kentucky. According to head coach Kirby Smart, it’s simply not a big deal to him.

During a scoreless first half, many fans exercised their displeasure with some of the play calls by offensive coordinator James Coley. They let Coley and the rest of Georgia's offensive coaches know it by showering them with some of the loudest scorn heard at Sanford Stadium in a few years.

Although the fact boos took place at all has certainly been a topic of conversation among fans, Smart said earlier this week that as he sees it, it’s part of the game.

“Nah, I don’t really address it, I mean, I’m sure they're aware of it. But our kids are pretty mature. I don’t think it’s something to address or talk about. They know they’re not really booing at them,” Smart said. “The players are not upset or hurt by it. If they are, that’s their opinion. But we don’t let outside forces control what we do inside.”

Running back D’Andre Swift, however, wasn’t afraid to voice his opinion.

“We’re going to do what we need to do to win games,” Swift said. “If people don’t like what we're doing, they shouldn’t come to the games.”

Ultimately, however, Swift said it’s not something that’s going to affect him or the team moving forward.

“We’re playing for whoever’s on that team, 11 guys on the field, 11 guys on the other side of the field,” Swift said. “If they boo us, they boo us. I’m fine. As long as we’re winning games.”

Senior tailback Brian Herrien agreed.

“That stuff doesn’t really faze me. I’m not here to please too many other people in the stands,” Herrien said. “We knew going into halftime we weren’t playing as good as we should have been playing. We just take what we get and go to work.”

That’s just the focus Smart wants to see.

“I’ve been around a lot of good coaches, and it isn’t the first game I’ve been in that somebody booed, and it won’t be the last,” Smart said. “So, we try to control what we can control, and our message to our team is just go out and get better, and our kids adhere to that.”

Herrien said the back spasms that forced him to sit out two weeks ago against South Carolina are no longer an issue.

“One day I just woke up with back spasms. I didn’t know what it was,” said Herrien, who returned to action last Saturday against Kentucky.

“I’ve had them before. I was probably about 10 years old, so I knew what they felt like.

I thought it was just a little bruise, but then it got worse and worse,” he said. “I couldn’t move.”

Fortunately, it’s not an issue he believes will return.

“I don’t feel like it'll be something that comes back,” he said. “I think it was just a one-time thing. It really did hold me out, though. It was tough.”

Of Georgia’s 16 current verbal commitments, only four are listed as natives of the state of Georgia.

The rest hail from all parts of the country, from Washington D.C. (Mekhail Sherman) to Clovis, Calif. (Kendall Milton) and all points in between.

So, does that mean Smart and his staff have changed their approach as it pertains to in-state prospects?

Not on your life.

“I would never change how we recruit the state of Georgia. It's home base, it’s primary, it’s A-number-one, most important,” Smart said. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to get every kid. I mean, there are some good players in the state who have left, and we’ve fought to get them.”

Last year, of the Bulldogs’ 24 signees, eight were Georgia natives.

“I want the best players in the state to stay home,” Smart said. "We’ll never change how we recruit the state of Georgia. Why would you ever do that? There are too many good players here.”

"We’ve got to execute, of course. We’ve got to make sure we execute the plays that are called, the best we can. Watching that game, sometimes we didn’t execute, sometimes we didn’t focus, and sometimes we were complacent about who we were and what we were doing. We’ve got to get better and keep going forward. We can’t think because of who we are, we can just go out there and win the game.” – Brian Herrien on the offense

On his impressions of Florida quarterback Kyle Trask

“He’s a good quarterback. He’s more athletic than you think he is. He does a good job running it, and he’s got a good core of wide receivers, but to be honest, I haven’t looked at them exclusively. We’re looking at them as well as some of the other teams we play. I think if you look across the board, they’ve got a really, really veteran receiver group—probably one of the best wide receivers, if you include the tight end in that, in the country. And Kyle’s done a tremendous job coming in and taking over, not skipping a beat, and Dan (Mullen) has always done a great job with his quarterbacks.”

On the cause of the offense’s struggles

“I think 50 percent of that would be conditions with the Kentucky game. It was the biggest struggle. It was just tough for anybody to palm a ball and throw a ball and effectively catch it. I mean, we had DB’s dropping balls all over the place out there, interceptions late. It was tough on both sides. So that’s 50 percent of it. When you go back to South Carolina, there’s a lot of passes in that game for a Georgia football team. There were a lot of opportunities to pass it. In those cases, some of it was route running, some of it was quarterback decision making, there’s a lot of things. But there was a lot of opportunities in the South Carolina game to throw it and some of that was a little bit of continuity and chemistry; some of it was accuracy, and some of it was protections. So, it was a combination of things.”

On the sense of urgency to bounce back against a top-10 opponent

“I think our whole team is looking at the opportunity to play a Top Ten team in Jacksonville, regardless of how we have played or what we have done offensively, defensively, or special teams. You’re always looking forward to playing a top-10 team that’s a really well coached, good football team. Our guys are preparing for just getting better right now. We’re ‘going to see the doctor’ as I call it, because we’re trying to get better at everything we do, not just Florida. We’re working on Georgia more than anything these practices to try and get fundamentally better.”