re: As of today, who’s the better coach: Kirby or Spurrier?

SEC East was quite weak during Kirby's run.

Spurrier played 2 of the top 10 programs in the 90s every single year. Plus he played Bama with Stallings most years in the early to mid 90s.

Not sure how much the Kirby had it tougher arguments really hold up.

And that's ignoring Spurrier's 10 to 11 win seasons at South Carolina during the absolute peak of SEC dominance.

Apples and oranges. Can’t judge on national championships. Spurrier heyday the polls were ill informed not every game was televised a lot of inference from reading box scores. The media had its darlings coaches and while spurrier was a great sound bite and won. He wasn’t held up like Tom Osborne, Joe Paterno, Bobby Bowden. And the SEC wasn’t nearly as revered nationally as it is now.

It's a good argument right now. It might not be when Kirby is finished.

Kirby is a great coach, among the best ever. Spurrier changed the game entirely.

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Not sure how much the Kirby had it tougher arguments really hold up.

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TLDR Spurrier by a hair.

I think another poster said it best - Kirby is a better program builder, Spurrier's the better in game guy. Spurrier would probably win you that one special game more often than Kirby.

From a "changed the sport" perspective, Saban & Spurrier also deserve the majority of the credit, as they were HC of their dynasties. Kirby played his part, but he was the DC for a guy already considered a defensive genius. Spurrier wins this one no contest.

*putting on the red & black glasses*

Kirby would've had a lot more hardware had he not lost to Saban in 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023 & lost to tGOAT team 2019 LSU (Spurrier did lose to the other GOAT, 1995 Nebraska). And as good as those 90s FSU & Miami teams were, I'm not sure they're beating the guy who's biggest revolution was stacking talent to the most ridiculous degree in NCAA history.

My biggest surprise is how strong y'all think Georgia was in 2016. There was a lot of fool's gold in that 10-3 record in 2015. IIRC we had something like 60-65 players because Richt refused to grayshirt/process recruits the way other programs were doing at the time. UGA was BAAAAD. 2015 had one of the softest schedules I've ever seen & 2016 lost to both Vandy & Tech at home. We also were starting a true freshman QB & cringily calling him the "savior of our program"

Spurrier…