Has anyone seen vinyarddawg since 2016? He had an amazing take

I bet he hated Stet and Bobo

I was an anti-Kirby troll in 2016 too. Especially after losing to Hugh freeze and ole miss that year.

Happens to the best of us

Wished I’d bookmarked it, but if I dig deep enough I’ll find a post where I said something like “Kirby Smart would be our version of Derek Dooley” from 2012 or so.

found it

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I was an anti-Kirby troll in 2016 too. Especially after losing to Hugh freeze and ole miss that year.

Happens to the best of us

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Weren't you wayxmafia on the old DawgRant?

A lot of people couldn't see the forest for the trees in 2016. I wasn't, necessarily, convinced that Kirby was the one that would lead us into the promised land, but I was always 100% convinced that he was, at least, our Moses, and would set us on the path. Richt, for whatever reason, inspired adulation from a large segment of our base, but seemed to struggle with inspiring our boosters and administration, much like a CEO has to inspire shareholders and the board. Kirby came in with the hot hand, in that regard, and was the right coach at the right time to lay out the foundation for a program that, at the very least, would be in better shape than the one he walked into.

I'm watching Cristobal do the same for Miami. Am I convinced that Cristobal can lead Miami back to the promised land? No. But, he has jump started the administration and boosters, and has them doing all the things that need to be done to have a successful program moving forward. He is the right coach at the right time. Ultimately, however, as with all coaches, he will be judged by his on field results.

2016 was a funny year. The Richt "miss me yet" memes, the the failure to acknowledge the roster depth issues that Kirby walked into, various players basically half-assing it and Kirby threatening to lose with players who want to be at UGA, rather than playing those who did not.

Then 2017 happened, and no one was more surprised than me, to get those results that early.

It also ended the Richt trolls from within the fanbase. And let's be honest, here: the trolls came from a place of love for Richt, rather than hatred for Kirby. A significant portion of the base was waiting for their "I told you so" moment.

Thankfully, they never got it.

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No one comes close to my hot take: “Kirby Smart will fail at UGA and never win shite.”

I win

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Kneehigh

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What was stateline's take on firing Richt and hiring Kirby? I'm sad that I never got to hear it.

Yeah I think deep down it was a Richt thing...but i was pissed cause we had just won 10 games and then lost to vandy, tech, and got blown out by Ole Miss. Definitely wasn't looking at the bigger picture.

And yeah that was me on old rant

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If I remember my mood correctly I was not anti-Smart as I was just against firing Richt.

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Just to pick your brain a bit (as I was pro firing Richt for a long time) did you ever have any kind of doubts about Richt which led you to think that, maybe, a coaching change would be in order? For me, my gripe was his cyclic inattention to positional needs with recruiting, and some of his coaching hires. His stubborn refusal to fire Willie Martinez was simply inexcusable and very Bowden-esque, as the end of Bobby's career was hastened by his refusal to fire his son as OC.

I just know that I ate a lot of shite for my unpopular opinion on Richt, maybe rightfully so, but the shite usually was due to the uncertainty of making a home run hire...

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He said Kirby would win 6 national titles. State was a huge Kirby fan after his 1st SEC Media days when he expressed the need for “dudes” on the LOS.

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Some of my fondest memories of the early DawgRant was when Wes and Stateline would declare that they were glad we lost so they could go sit in a deer stand on Saturday morning.

Glad to see he found some excitement with the program.

I'm not sure if I saw 6 NC's coming, but I certainly was excited to hear Kirby acknowledge the lack of depth there.

Several of things you mentioned also pissed me off especially the Martinez crap.

I would say I was for retaining him out of fear. Tenner, Auburn, Florida, etc... were are in a cycle of making bad HC hires and I was afraid we would hop on that same carousel of shite by firing a 10 win/season HC.

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Will admit tho that I wanted to keep Donnan another year so I was dead wrong there.

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Well, I liked Donnan (I mean, he wasn't Goff), but after that shite show of a final year and the Quincy Carter finger/cocaine bullshite, it was fairly obvious that his team was spiralling. I was okay with his firing, if not certain it was the right move.