A couple positives in the grand scheme of things

Last year, I was not someone who wanted Mark Richt to get fired. I thought he was a good coach, and he was going to have one of the best recruiting classes in his time at Georgia. That being said, I'm incredibly thankful he was fired last year.

Our current team does not have a ton of talent (understatement, I know) and despite some errors that Smart has made, I have a really hard time believing that Mark Richt would be any better than 5-3 (best case scenario, 6-2) at this point in the season. The team would still have been blown out by Ole Miss, and we would be a middle of the conference SEC-East team once again. There is no way, IMO Richt would have been able to survive one more season, with all of the pressure on him. He would have been fired, and we would be looking for a HC with Kirby probably 1st on the list once again.

So firing Richt last year, just gave us a full year head start on Kirby's first full recruiting class, that could help lead Georgia back into the spotlight as one of the better teams in the SEC.

I do still think there are plenty of things we need to work on, but we all knew this was not a team that was going to be good this year. Eason has shown he has potential to be a great QB, good young RBs, a couple decent young targets for Eason, and we have young players contributing all around the defense. We have a very promising future if we can figure out the OL, and despite how poor we've been this year I do believe that Pittman is the right OL coach to get the job done.

Sorry for the little mini-rant. Go Dawgs.