"Kirby's best coaching job"

I say no way in hell.

This isn't the NFL, where the coach takes the ingredients that the GM and front office gives them and figures out the recipe. A college coach is the de factor director of player personnel and GM. If your players don't perform or if they regress, that's on you.

When you finish 1st or 2nd in recruiting every year, and you were trailing in 10 different games and end up losing 3 games, it's sure as frick not your best season. Should've done better with player development and training and coaching.

This was an upperclassman team. The chatter before the season was they we could break the NFL Draft record for most selections in one draft. We had way too many key players regress from last season.

I still trust Kirby to figure it out, however. Kirby is the ultimate details man, and he is really good at taking a 50,000 foot view (terrible expression) and assessing the entire organization. I guess we'll see.