re: Kirby became fastest coach in SEC history to win 100 games

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Kirby took over a much better than than Saban.

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I have no clue how to obejctively say which was which, and it's impossible to definitively say one way or the other. So I won't even try. What I will do is say it's laughable that our rivals try to pretend that our 2016 squad kirby inherited was some kind of elite squad. Without fail theri go-to is "they won 10 games in 2015!!" but that's just lazy as shite.

-let's dive into that 10 win team shall we? They played 2 temas in the regular season that were ranked and went 0-2 being outscored by 52 points. they scored 1 total TD in those games.
-the losses are bad and already well known. How bout the wins? We won 9-6 over missouri in a gme without a TD being scored. We scored 1 offensive TD in a 20-13 win over a bad AU team. We went to overtime agianst ga sotuhern for crying out loud. Scored 1 TD in a 13-7 win over tech. This was a bad football team that just so happened to have a defense scrape by just enough to miraculously make it to 10 total wins

Ok so 2015 sucked but I mean richt was a good recrduiter right? So surely kirby had a lights out roster to work with?

-Our starting LT in kirby's first year was a guy from frickin rhode island.
-We were forced to play a guy at guard due to depth issues that was more fit to be a tackle, which is where he'd spend his whole NFL career
-Our QB options were greyson friggin lambert or a true freshman
-We had nick chubb who just 10 months prior had his leg bend at the knee all the way in the direction its not supposed to
-Entering the season our best WR prosepcts were a JUCO transfer, a guy only known for being calvin ridley's brother, terry godwin, and a bunch of young guys
-the defense featured a whole lot of guys that would eventaully go on to be decent but hadn't really proven shite yet at the conclusion of 2015. It also featured a multitude of shitasses that pruitt loved to recruit which would require a full culture-detransition. Fun fact: the real reason we lost to UT on the 2016 hail mary is because a dumbass from memphis that was one of pruitt's boys ran on the field without his helmet after the eason TD bomb which caused us to kick off 15 yards further back. If not for that penalty UT doesn't get in position for a hail mary.

Anyways I'm rambling here, but the point is that it's a comically incorrect take to think that Kirby inherited some kind of rolls royce of a roster simply by looking up a google search of our 2015 final record.

I see Saban as more of a revolutionary coach, like a football version of Newton or Einstein or Darwin or (Edmund) Hillary or Columbus or Lewis and Clark. Someone who grabbed the machete and cut the trail that made it easier for others to make progress.

Saban’s long road to greatness helped make Kirby’s short.

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Saban’s long road to greatness helped make Kirby’s short.

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What Saban did before 2007 helped both him at bama and Kirby at uga.

Georgia loves Richt. But we knew we could do better than a 10 win average for 15 years and a bowl every year. And we did. Kirby was a good hire to say the least.
Richt loves UGA too. He now lives in Athens and has appeared on the field where he was honored by the UGA crowd. He is a great coach and an even better human being. He has held charity events with UGA.
In fact all living UGA football coaches live in Athens and Vince Dooley is buried near the stadium where he coached and served as AD for 40 years

100 wins total. He has only been at UGA since 2016

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Let me add that Saban had Kirby to help him reach 100.

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Didn’t he lose to Vandy his first year?

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Yes, it was his first year as head coach, ever, anywhere, stepping into a pretty big position.

Deboer has been HC at several programs, sure it's his first year at Bama, but not his first time being a head coach. An experienced head coach with a tradition of winning at all his previous schools taking over a stacked Bama team and losing to Vandy is different than Kirby losing to Vandy in 2016. Both embarrassing, but they are not the same.

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Didn’t he lose to Vandy his first year?

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Yes, that counts in this stat.

Saban lost to UGA his first year. And it was in Tuscaloosa.

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What Saban did before 2007 helped both him at bama and Kirby at uga.

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Obviously.

I have much respect for Kirby, but I see Saban as more of a coaching pioneer when it comes to program building and management. Saban created the blueprint and Kirby was able to replicate it and have success with it by being exposed to it at a young age, building a name for himself as DC under Saban, and going straight to a premier job like UGA at 40ish because of it.