Re: College football writers have become the dumbest amongst us

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I don't like Kirby but I do believe he's legitimately

Feb 1, 2024, 1:20 PM [ in reply to Re: College football writers have become the dumbest amongst us ]

a fantastic coach. You can point to all of Georgia's built in advantages, but the fact is that they went 30 years between titles before Kirby won two in a row. Beyond that, they went 25 seasons without ever even going into the postseason with a shot at a title until Kirby got them to the title game in his 2nd season. Richt was universally considered a good coach and he couldn't get it done there.

And, yes, it's pretty easy to recruit top 10 classes at Georgia, but Kirby isn't just doing that. He's recruiting at a level that even Saban was struggling to match, and now Saban is out of that picture.

There's also the fact that Kirby was a helluva DC at Bama, and he has seemingly taken that defense with him to Georgia. Saban was obviously a defensive genius in his own right, but I don't think its a coincidence that Bamas record breaking defenses (2011, 2016, etc) were under Smart and that their level of play dropped a bit after his departure.

People like to pretend that a monkey could win titles at certain programs yet there are so many examples of just how untrue that is. Even the best programs with all of the advantages need the right coach to win titles.

-Pete Carrol is the only coach to win a title at USC in the last 46 years

- Mack Brown is the only coach to win a title at Texas since 1970

-Ohio State didn't win a title from 1968 until 2002

-Texas A&M, despite all of the money, hasn't won a title since 1938!

-Notre Dame, with all of their history and their own TV network, hasn't won since 1998

-Even Bama had a 17 year dry spell between 1992 and 2009

When you look at the list of coaches that have won national titles there are alot more HOF-type coaches than there are Gene Chiziks. The lost of coaches that have won multiple titles is even more exclusive. We are very fortunate to have Dabo Swinney, but Kirby didn't just fluke his way to two national titles, and he's showing no signs of slowing down either with his current level of recruiting and his biggest road block retiring.

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stacked in your favor. Kirby Smart has about $50 million a year above and beyond what Clemson has to work with, just from SEC tv money alone. Not to mention the ESPN Shills of the world constantly promoting the SEC as the best football conference, bar none. I believe some kids are actually brought up brainwashed to believe they cannot be successful or have a path to the NFL that does not include playing for an SEC school. NIL and the unlimited transfer rule have just increased the disparity between the "haves" and the "have nots".

And yet, Dabo Swinney has won two Nattys, both times knocking off the GOAT among college coaches, and in the 2018 season, knocking off what the Pawl Finebaums and Stephen A. Smiths of the world said was THE GREATEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM OF ALL TIME, 2018 Ala-BAMA.

Now, the noise says that Clemson is done, due to our culture of actually DEVELOPING players, rather than beaming in talent that is somehow superior just because they wear the badge "transfer". Current recruiting and future commits say "Not so fast, my friend!" 9-4 was indeed a down year, but it was only a temporary aberration. We are on the road back to the top of the mountain, starting in 2024. And, Kirby Smart and his pack of mangy mutts will be the first victim. Harrumph.

College football writers have become the dumbest amongst us