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Kirby got his arse beat a few times before he started winning championships.

While true, he won the SEC championship in year 2 in Athens. Year 1 had a lot of losses in it (five, compared to 4 that Kelly had in year 1). But the next year he won the SEC and made it to the national championship game.

He never lost more than 2 regular season games after that first season. He has had one or less loss in every regular season after his first other than the covid season (2 losses that season).

Kirby took a surprisingly small amount of time to find his groove as a head coach. Pretty much just took him one season.

While true, Kirby inherited a better situation than Kelly.

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Posted by diddlydawg7

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Posted on 11/10/23 at 2:06 pm to Lucado

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Kirby inherited a better situation than Kelly.

Kirby didn’t inherit such a fantastic situation either

2015 Starters

Bold indicates returning starter in 2016

QB: Greyson Lambert
RB: Nick Chubb
WR: Malcolm Mitchell
WR: Isaiah McKenzie
WR: Reggie Davis
TE: Jeb Blazevich
OL: Kolton Houston
OL: John Theus
OL: Brandon Kublanow
OL: Isaiah Wynn
OL: Greg Pyke

DL: Sterling Bailey
DL: John Atkins
DL: Josh Dawson
LB: Leonard Floyd
LB: Jordan Jenkins
LB: Jake Ganus
LB: Reggie Carter
DB: Aaron Davis
DB: Malkom Parrish
DB: Quincy Mauger
DB: Dom Sanders

And of those the only ones that contributed to the 2017 title run are Chubb, Wynn, Atkins, Davis, and Sanders. It’s not like he was given the keys to the kingdom

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