re: Kirby Smart does not have to coach this year

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You don't believe our talent is 2 points better than Nicholls? Nicholls is 1-2 this year. they were 3-9 last year. They were 0-12 the year before that. Theyw ere 4-8 the year before that. if Nicholls has a 2 point margin of talent with us, we are in trouble.

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I do believe that our talent is better, but I guess I would go back to the 2007 Alabama comparison. In 2006 Alabama was a 6 win SEC school, and in 2007 Nick Saban starts at Alabama in his first year and loses to a 6-6 UL Monroe team. Shouldn't a 6-6 Alabama team from the year before have had enough talent to beat a 6-6 team from the Sun Belt? Maybe that was a lack of preparation too...

Kirby is not above reproach, and probably deserves some of the blame. I don't think there is really a double standard going on here though, and it's impossible to gauge if a team is being prepared properly just a few games into a coaching season/career.