re: Serious discussion about SEC Coaches strengths, weaknesses, and futures. First 5 coaches

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It's my opinion Kirby is a good coach who fell into a dream situation and made the most of it. Kirby has the drive and grit in his gut to reach the summit. But he's not a coaching messiah. He makes dumb mistakes at crucial times and sometimes just schemes wrong - or doesn't get his team mentally prepared. I respect Kirby and think he'll win several more NCs - but I don't think he's a coaching genius. I think he worked for a coaching genius and took all he could from the experience - and built a monster from his blue collar approach to coaching to build the perfect storm of UGAs locale and all the talent in close proximity.

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Smart has won 2 nattys in his first 7 years as a head coach in an era where winning a natty means beating 3 pretty good teams at the end of the season. By year 7 of Smarts career as a HC he had not won a single natty.

Smart has also lead a team to a 15-0 record. Saban has not done this yet.

I am certain if you dissected Saban's first 7 years as a head coach you could find a lot of mistakes that were made.