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re: Kirby Smart to....Nebraska??
Posted on 11/21/13 at 6:07 pm to bamasgot13
Posted on 11/21/13 at 6:07 pm to bamasgot13
I thought Les Miles was coach in waiting for Alabama? Isn't LSU Alabama's farm club?
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Posted on 11/21/13 at 6:18 pm to Adam4LSU
hillarious
Posted on 11/21/13 at 6:19 pm to Adam4LSU
Jim Tressel can't coachin college for at least a few more years.
Posted on 11/21/13 at 8:34 pm to Swm323
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This x1000. There is no comparison to the two situation. Dubose got the job because fans remembered good ole number 54. Smart has been under the tutelage of the best for several years and does his own game planning.
Smart does not deserve being compared to Dubose, but there is one HUGE similarity in the two situations - neither have been a head coach before, and being a highly successful assistant at Alabama under a popular coach makes us want to overlook that.
I would feel 1000x more comfortable with Kirby Smart if he went somewhere like Nebraska for 2-3 years as the head coach first. Alabama is a horrible place to get on-the-job training of the pressures of being the head guy.
Put it this way - every head coach to win a national championship at Alabama in the modern era was a head coach at a major program before coming to Bama. Not one exception to this among Ray Perkins, Bill Curry (Ga Tech is not major imo), Dubose, Fran, Price, and Shula. Since Coach Bryant came in the 50's, there have been exactly three head coaches at Alabama to have been in charge of a major college football program before taking over at Bama - Bryant (A&M), Stallings (A&M and NFL), Saban (Mich St, LSU, and NFL).
I just don't believe this is coincidence.
Posted on 11/21/13 at 8:40 pm to TreyAnastasio
So he is going to constantly ride the coat tails of other coaches would you not want to make your own statement as a head ball coach
Posted on 11/21/13 at 8:49 pm to Crimson Legend
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Smart does not deserve being compared to Dubose, but there is one HUGE similarity in the two situations - neither have been a head coach before, and being a highly successful assistant at Alabama under a popular coach makes us want to overlook that. I would feel 1000x more comfortable with Kirby Smart if he went somewhere like Nebraska for 2-3 years as the head coach first. Alabama is a horrible place to get on-the-job training of the pressures of being the head guy. Put it this way - every head coach to win a national championship at Alabama in the modern era was a head coach at a major program before coming to Bama. Not one exception to this among Ray Perkins, Bill Curry (Ga Tech is not major imo), Dubose, Fran, Price, and Shula. Since Coach Bryant came in the 50's, there have been exactly three head coaches at Alabama to have been in charge of a major college football program before taking over at Bama - Bryant (A&M), Stallings (A&M and NFL), Saban (Mich St, LSU, and NFL). I just don't believe this is coincidence
Very good points. I am not sure who else out there I would like better. No one knows the "Process" better than Smart. I am a little nervous to "try" another approach I guess. Let me say this though, I do agree with him maybe leaving to get experience and returning when Saban leaves in a few years. I was just saying if Saban left this year I am not sure if Smart would be a bad hire.
Posted on 11/21/13 at 8:53 pm to ohiovol
He absolutely can. It's a show cause order, not an outright ban.
Posted on 11/22/13 at 10:08 am to randomways
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He absolutely can. It's a show cause order, not an outright ban.
He can, but I doubt any major program would want to put up with that right out of the gates.
Posted on 11/22/13 at 11:23 am to Adam4LSU
Smart is waiting for MIZZOU to open up.
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