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re: Nick Saban (2008-2014) vs Kirby Smart (2017-2023)
Posted on 11/24/23 at 10:40 am to Globetrotter747
Posted on 11/24/23 at 10:40 am to Globetrotter747
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While they are coaching, coaches follow money and opportunity. They don’t give a shite about their alma mater. They don’t give a shite about the restaurant scene in Athens or Austin or Baton Rouge or Oxford.
No head coach since at least the 1940's has left UGA to take another coaching job, either NFL or college. They've either retired or been fired.
People don't follow money and opportunity away from Athens. Yes, UGA does fire coaches who don't reach the level UGA wants. But it does say something that they all come back to retire in Athens because they loved living there so much as coaches. They could all go anywhere. By the beach, in the mountains, or in whatever city anywhere in the world that piques their interest. Instead, they go for Athens.
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Posted on 11/24/23 at 11:02 am to DawginSC
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No head coach since at least the 1940's has left UGA to take another coaching job, either NFL or college. They've either retired or been fired.
Yup... Wally Butts started as HC in 1939(I've heard that year mentioned often
)... UGA has only had 7 head coaches in the last 84 years, not sure about Butts and Griffith (will hafta look) but since '64 all gave lived in Athens...
7 Coaches in 84yrs and counting with CKS, UGA must be doing something right...
Eta:... Butts died in Athens in '73, Griffith went on to coach a few years at gt and passed away in Duluth Ga. Bout 40 miles from Athens...
This post was edited on 11/24/23 at 11:21 am
Posted on 11/24/23 at 2:18 pm to DawginSC
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People don't follow money and opportunity away from Athens.
Lanning and Monken have left in the last couple of seasons.
And considering there were no national titles and only two SEC titles between the Herschel Walker era and the Kirby Smart era, I don’t know how many big time programs were breaking the bank for UGA coaches.
Until Kirby’s very recent success, UGA has been an underachieving program. Maybe all the players and coaches have been too distracted by all the amazing things in Athens to focus on football.
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