re: Kirby getting defensive over a compliment by Gus

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As an on the field game day coach Richt was far superior to Smart, he just couldn't recruit as well and probably didn't manage the roster overall as well.

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One of the more accurate things I've read on the rant. I will add this though, Richt's teams could be LETHAL on gameday when he was on. Look at the '02 season, the '03 season with a largely freshman OL (until the wheels fell off when injuries piled up), games with LSU in '04 and '05, the second half of the '07 season. He had some gems in the latter parts of his career too. That '13 game with LSU was insane and the Auburn beatdown in '14 was ridiculous.

Richt also played Alabama's 2012 national championship team to a 4 point loss in an all-time SEC Championship classic that was anybody's game in the end with 70 scholarship players.

But Richt could throw some snoozers out when the team looked half prepared. Carolina multiple times. Tennessee in '06 and '07. Florida. Lots. It was maddening.

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I think it would be more accurate to call him a better recruiting Ray Goff

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Eh. Goff imploded and cratered on his fifth season. It's possible, but Goff never had the success Kirby's had through his first 4 years.