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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.

Kirby's head coaching career should serve as an example for young coordinators who want to hop at the first major college job offer on the table.

Kirby waited and got his dream job after he had plenty of time to see how an all-time coach replicates success year to year.

Jeremy Pruitt hopped at the first SEC job on the table and it was an awful move. He wasn't their first choice. The job situation was not great. Tennessee seemingly turned themselves in to fire him for free and block him from ending up as the DC for Alabama or Georgia in the process.

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Posted by DawginSC

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Posted on 11/10/23 at 1:46 pm to Diego Ricardo

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Tennessee seemingly turned themselves in to fire him for free and block him from ending up as the DC for Alabama or Georgia in the process.

Agree with your post except for this part. I don't think UGA had any desire for hiring Pruitt. He had some non-football issues which poisoned him with the UGA administration despite being a good on the field coach. He's not likely to ever get a position at UGA (or FSU for that matter) in his future.

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