Knee jerk coaching hires led to where we are at in the SEC

The coaching in the SEC is abysmal because five of the so-called "Big Six" schools were too impatient for success. They saw what Nick Saban and Alabama were doing and figured they could emulate the success the Tide were enjoying in Tuscaloosa.

Auburn fired Tommy Tuberville which, but for two Cinderella seasons, has produced mediocre results.

Tennessee fired Phillip Fulmer and the Vols have been mostly irrelevant ever since.

Urban Meyer quit on Florida and the Gators did themselves a disservice by going after coordinators instead of trying to snag themselves a proven head coach. The results have been predictable.

Georgia fired Mark Richt and, while it's still too early to tell, Kirby Smart seems to have them going in the right direction. But, as I said before, it's still too early to tell.

LSU fired a coach who had won 77% of his games over 12 seasons and replaced him with a man whose record as a head coach can only be described as a joke. Enough said.

The bottom feeders, with the occasional success story here and there, remain bottom feeders fighting for pride and the occasional upset over a highly ranked SEC opponent.

In short, the war Saban began when he arrived at Alabama in January 2007 has finally overwhelmed the conference. We are seeing a repeat of what it was like to be a fan of an SEC school not named Alabama in the 1970s. You're just going to have to go with the flow until Saban's power weakens or until he retires. It sucks but there it is.