Kirby will always be Nick II

I'm good with that.

Except UGA defenses cant defend dual threat QBs

Kirby is doing great but he has a long way to go to be anything like Saban.

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Bama’s defense couldn’t defend anything this year. Imagine letting Hendon Hooker dunk on you.

Kirby's success is part and parcel of the greatness of Nick Saban...how that is a bad thing or somehow a slight of Kirby Smart is beyond me. He may surpass Saban, highly doubtful but he could, but his doing so would be directly attributable to Saban. Thus us the way of the world and teachers / mentors.

I bet Smart doesn't coach more than about 15 years. It is far more of a grind than it was when Saban started and the money is far greater....hard to imagine anyone be willing to work that hard when theyre already financially set for a couple of generations at least....it would be nearly impossible to imagine anyone doing that hard work at a high level for more than 10-15 years or so....

And that is a bad thing?

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Except UGA defenses cant defend dual threat QBs

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Duggan sure never took off and ran the ball in his career. TCU should have worked some of that into the offense, who knows they might have lost to UGA by no more than 20 points like LSU did....

Does Bama go to the Kirby Smart tree when replacing Saban?

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Kirby is doing great but he has a long way to go to be anything like Saban.

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7 years in and it’s almost even

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Kirby is doing great but he has a long way to go to be anything like Saban.

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While true... he's still very young.

Kirby is 47.

At 47, Nick Saban had just finished his 5th year as a head coach, his 4th at Michigan State. He had 0 national championships and his best year at MSU was a 7-5 season.