re: Which first year coach is off to the worst start?

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Dude...I read several threads in the offseason saying people were overlooking the Vols talent level.

Butch consistently landed top 10 classes

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Replace Vols with Dawgs, Butch with Richt, and consider that Kirby lost 5 games with UGA in his first year, coming close to losing to Nichols State.

Talent means nothing if you have gaping holes at certain positions (o-line being the most glaring) and if there is a system change that doesn't jibe with the players that were recruited. Also consider that the talent came to play for the previous admin, and may or may not buy in to the new culture (there is an inevitable culture change that comes with a new administration).

Kirby had a ton of transfers after year one, and I suspect these coaches will also. Stop looking at the talent of the kids that were already there, and start looking at what is being done to get kids to buy in to the new culture...or removing the ones that do not.

Year One is only important for a coach on that level. Wins and losses matter much, much less. Kirby struggled because of the massive deficit at o-line and because he followed a players coach, Prince Valium of the Sky Fairy Worshipper Association. Perhaps the kids playing under these new coaches have loyalties that lie elsewhere, or do not fit well in a new system. They will be culled, then we can judge.