When United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said the ultra-low-cost airline model was dead, he may have been sort of right.

Sonny Smart, the father of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart, died Saturday after complications from hip surgery after falling before the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, the school announced.

Our sympathies go out to Kirby Smart and his family and to all who knew his dad.” He also coached at Alabama’s Holtville High School from 1977-81 and had a 26-25-1 record.

Sonny Smart, the father of Georgia head football coach Kirby Smart, died Saturday in New Orleans after complications from hip surgery, the University of Georgia stated in a release. Sonny Smart ...