re: Buccaneers interested in speaking with Kirby Smart

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He's a fine coach.

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Is he? I hope so. He's had - and blown - several huge opportunities through perplexing lack of readying the team and even worse in-game decision-making.

Auburn round one in 2017 and LSU this past season are examples of inexplicable collapses. Maybe we could write the latter off to injuries but that was a game where getting blown out of the water made little sense.

Maybe you blame the coverage collapse in the 2017 playoffs to young, dumb DBs but there was an admitted lack of preparation for the contingency of Tua playing. Meanwhile the 2018 collapse against Alabama was truly the worst example of a team choking that I've seen in a long time.

Kirby is still getting a pass from most people because his overall performance in 3 seasons would be the envy of most programs.

But if we're still talking about horrible play calls and unwarranted collapses after four or five seasons, I'll bet the luster will wear off. I'm sure he'll get some mileage out of losing key juniors for 2019 but we're still going to have one of the best teams on paper in school history. Can Kirby put together an entire season and close the deal?