This should chap Kirby’s ass.
Boom received a national coach of the week award for not being quite as ineffective managing a game as Smart was. That’s some low bar.
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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It is the “Bobby Dodd” Coach of the Year of the Week Award. It’s possible that any coach that beats Georgia in any given week would receive this award as a result.
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I’d like to see a Worst Coaching Job of the Week award for Kirbs.
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Sad to say he deserves it.
Like it or not, he bought an unranked team into Sanford Stadium and beat the (supposedly then) number three team in the country.
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I came here to post the same thing. I’m not registered with WordPress or any of the other social media sites, so consider this a “like.”
I don’t understand the Muschamp hate. Him mouthing off about Georgia is, at worst and at most, him insulting himself. He was a DGD as a player. As a coach, he deserves the Lifetime Overachievement Award. And the latter speaks more to the way coaches get hired and fired than any particular skill of Muschamp’s. Near as I can tell, college sports coaches are virtually the only people in America rewarded for anger management issues.
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How about the Kirby hate?
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He deserves the Lifetime Overrated Award. Is there an Asshole of the Week award?
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The Faint Praise trophy.
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Good for him. He came in and had his guys outplay our guys and his coaches outscheme our coaches. And our arrogance and stubbornness bit us in the ass. I’m having a hard time being upset about the loss; all of my frustration is pointed at the team and staff itself.
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Maybe this whole thing was a plan by Kirby to ensure that Agent Muschamp stays where he is?
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I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if Jimmy Sexton is handling the bag for the kickback?
Kirby got Gus 49 million, Ed took down a chunk, too.
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Texas was back off a Sugar Bowl win…..
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Calling Flying Peak Dawg…….
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Kirby is picking and choosing his opposing coaches and where they go (with an assist from Mr. Sexton). First 3 season he got coaches fired, now he’s making sure of who stays in place. 😉
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“BS awards gather dust…”
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Cannon shot?
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Yes. Someone on the Georgia staff didn’t think to aim it.
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Please, let’s don’t get the blogging flogger going this morning. There’s not a whole lot left of the dead horse! Between the “cannon shot” bullshit and berating of Mullen, the karma bitch is going to kick us in the nuts. NEVER take an SEC opponent for granted……
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Watch South Carolina come out with an uninspired noon effort next week.
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Can’t say he doesn’t deserve it. But neither can I say I’m going to be amused by all the Tech-esque “THIS IS IT! WE OWN THE DAWGS NOW!!!” asshattery that’s going to be dominating the Gamecock message boards for the next 389 days.
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Rambling Observation:
(Almost) no one thinks Kirby isn’t a GREAT (or at least very, very good) coach. They think he’s a STUBBORN coach, true, but all the criticism seems to center around the belief that he’s holding himself back because of his insistence on sticking with a given coaching philosophy, not his ineptitude.
Boom on the other hand….
I will note that I haven’t seen ANYONE who’s had a hot take such as “Saturday’s debacle is proof that UGA should have hired Muschamp instead of Smart.” And that’s because most people aren’t idiots.
We’ll see who gets the last laugh.
Why? It’s hard for me not to compare Kirbs to his mentor Saban. Why? Because I’m not original, okay….. but I think the comparison is worth noting.
When Saban took over a major Power 5 program (LSU) in 2000 he was 49-years old with five years of head-coaching experience (at Michigan State) under his belt. His first three W-L records at LSU looked like this:
2000: 8-4
2001: 10-3
2002: 8-5
Very good, but no on had yet crowned him the best coach of all time. At this point he was 51-years old with 8 years of (P5) head-coaching experience. By the time he finished 13-1 and won the Natty at LSU in 2003:
Saban was 52-years old
Saban had 9 full years of (P5) HC experience
Saban’s overall record was 73-37-1
His bowl record was 3-4.
My point? It is hard to over-state what Smart has accomplished so far, in comparison:
Smart is 45-years old
Smart has 3.5 years of HC experience
Smart’s overall record to date: 37-11
Smart’s bowl record: 2-1
Plus, UGA appearance in CFP and CFP Final.
Oh, and the one game Saban lost in 2003? He lost at home to UNRANKED Florida by a score of 7-19.
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To be clear, I’m not predicting Smart will win 6+ national championships at Georgia. I just think it’s waaaaaay too early to hang ourselves and declare the Smart experiment is over.
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If you are saying “Kirby’s still learning” I hope you are right. He has a lot of pride and this was a public humiliation. So hopefully he will be motivated to learn from it. CMR never did.
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I loved CMR. I was more than proud to have him as the face of the program.
At multiple levels, though, he just didn’t seem to understand (or care that much?) about what it took to win it all. Not so say I mean that justified his firing….
I have to admit I’m still conflicted about the decision we as Dawg Nation seemed to make in the end — that he should be run off because he just couldn’t get over the hump. (And I was one of the people who actually liked his line about rings collecting dust. =D)
I really liked the Smart hiring at the time, though, and needless to say I was very very very excited throughout the 2017 season (especially excited for veterans like Chubb, Michel, Smith, etc.), especially since I had thought it would take a few years to get to the CFP.
But my greatest fear was, and continues to be, that we’d show some obvious improvement under Smart (which we undoubtedly have) while still never winning a Natty. If that proves to be the case will the change have been worth it? Or would I rather have seen CMR coach till he was 65 and see if he could finally get that Natty at UGA?
I don’t know. But being conflicted is part of being a Dawg fan, I suppose.
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What happened to CMR was similar to what happened to John Cooper at tOSU. Even though he won a lot of games he couldn’t win championships and he couldn’t beat his primary rival (in Coopers case Michigan, in Richt’s case FU). I liked Mark Richt too—still do. But he blew to many games with bad in-game decisions. I lost confidence in him and was glad to see him go. Kirby is making the same kinds of in-game mistakes.If he continues to do it he’ll be gone too. And rightly so. When you get paid millions of dollars to make those decisions there is at least the implication that you are competent. Personally I can’t fathom how someone can play football and then coach football as long as Kirby has and make the kind of bonehead mistakes he does. I favor the AD just flat out releasing Kirby from game day decision making altogether and getting a successful retired HC to come in and do it.
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It was still the right decision not to spike it in the 2012 SECCG. 😉
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It was certainly a viable option, one he had thought through. I understand the other side of the argument, but not the loud group that feels that was the only option. I think we did the right thing, but it was like 60/40. It is the play result (an odd one) that everyone gets blinded by. We had time for 2 plays either way, I prefer them being on their heels and us with a head of steam. But ridiculing either option is pretty narrow, doesn’t matter which side you prefer. It isn’t hard to use rear view 20/20 and choose something else. I would only be concerned if our coaches didn’t know there were two choices and just went with no thought involved. Turns out Bobo and Richt made a decision based on their research, and the situation in front of them. I am good with that. Doesn’t matter that internet coaches wish we had done something else based on a play’s result after the fact.
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And you think Kirby would stay here under those restrictions?
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A legitimate point. I don’t know. All world recruiter. If he wanted to leave some other school would snap him up. But they also have to see his in game coaching liabilities. If I’m an AD I’d hire Kirby but it would be in the contract that he would have to bring Vince Dooley with him to all games and let VD make all the decisions. 😉
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The Zooker beat Saban in LSU’s championship year? Damn, that’s some good research right there. Well done, Jared.
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I have to admit, I was surprised myself. I didn’t remember that.
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Jared, you make some very good points and I pretty much agree with you. However, I don’t think Smart has proven himself a great or even a very good head coach yet. He definitely was a very good DC when coaching elite players. He is a GREAT recruiter. I think we will win at least 1 NC in the next 5 years, but Smart has a ways to go.
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Soon to be breakibg bews: GT/Collins claims this award was already part of the #404 Swag.
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Oh, we’ve definitely been the laughing stock this week. Everyone and even some I’d never expect have taken shots. It’s like this program has shitting the bed in it’s blood. It’s taken decades for me to realize that the pinnacle of Georgia football might be a title with a generational player and blowing another title to Bama on a bomb.
Maybe we’ll get over the hump but we’ve really made a name for ourselves through fantastical losses and letdowns. Sometimes I miss the simpler times of Goff. I’ve witnessed Richt and Smart elevate the program from the post-NC teams and, yet, these letdowns hurt much more than anything before them. Scary thing is that I wasn’t that shocked leaving Sanford saturday and I’m not all that mad or hurt. I don’t want to be indifferent but maybe that’s what is happening.
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“Scary thing is that I wasn’t that shocked leaving Sanford saturday and I’m not all that mad or hurt.”
It’s hard for us to be shocked, mad or hurt when the players and coaches act like it’s practically business as usual.
As much as we make fun Tebow (2x National Champion, 2x SEC Champion, 2x SEC Player of the Year, 2x Maxwell Award, AP Player of the Year, Heisman Trophy Winner, 3x 1st Team All-SEC) , but at least when he LOST AT HOME TO AN UNRANKED SEC OPPONENT by one point in 2008 he had the balls to stand up and passionately declare:
“I’m sorry. I’m extremely sorry. We were hoping for an undefeated season. That was my goal, something Florida’s never done here. But I promise you one thing: a lot of good will come out of this. You have never seen any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of this season and you’ll never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of this season, and you’ll never see a team play harder than we will the rest of this season. God Bless.”
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Fair points but there were definitely some players upset over the SC game. Tyler Clark was visibly upset, which I’m not surprised by after the play he made. I don’t know how many fans saw it because everyone getting the hell out of there, but a few of the players were about to throw down when SC players were trying to plant their flag on the G. It may or may not change anything but I do believe some guys took that loss to heart. I have to believe Kirby Smart did, too. That loss, trashing the hedges and and trying to plant the SC flag on the G kinda flies in the face of “commit to the G” that Kirby is always saying. We’ll see how they respond.
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Oh, we’re still harping on Richt. Even as we beat the dead horse from Saturday. Even after major letdowns in each of Smart’s seasons. I’m shocked and unsurprised at the same time.
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