re: Mark Richt First 3 Seasons vs Kirby Smart First 3 Seasons

There's a gulf in ability between the teams Richt had and the ones Kirby have put together.

2001 Georgia 11.51 SRS
2002 Georgia 18.18 SRS
2003 Georgia 17.46 SRS

2016 Georgia 3.64 SRS
2017 Georgia 22.47 SRS
2018 Georgia 22.64 SRS

The last two Georgia teams have had a higher SRS than numerous national championship teams such as 1998 Tennessee, 2000 Oklahoma, 2002 Ohio State, 2003 LSU, 2006 Florida, 2007 LSU, 2010 Auburn, 2014 Ohio State, and 2016 Clemson. Kirby's basically put together teams that would have won national championships in a lot of years. They've just fallen short.

Richt has NEVER put together a national championship caliber team. His best team in terms of SRS was his 2014 Georgia team that had three losses. They definitely weren't national championship caliber. His second best team was 2002 Georgia. They had a SRS of 18.18. That SRS is the second lowest SRS by a national champion since 1984. Only 2002 Ohio State had a lower SRS. Even the 2007 LSU team with two losses had a higher SRS than 2002 UGA. And before people bring up back up 2012 UGA, that team wasn't that great. They had a seven point win against a 5-7 Tennessee team that was historically bad defensively, a 5 point win against a 2-10 Kentucky, and was blown out by South Carolina. And the only reason why the SEC Championship was so close was due to Nussmeier having his head up his arse and refusing to run the ball down UGA's throat until they got down. Bama ran for 350 yards and almost 7 YPC against them. They dominated that game but an inexplicable special teams TD and terrible playcalling kept UGA in the game.

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Who couldn't win the Big Game hence why he was fired. Make no mistake about it Georgia hired Kirby Smart to win a National Championship something Georgia hasn't done in forever. From the data we have so far Kirby suffers from the exact same problem(s) that the guy they fired did. There is very little to no difference between the two. Does this help you understand it better?

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The fact is Richt continuously underachieved. Smart has overachieved in 2 out of the 3 years he's been at UGA. Before the year started everyone said UGA was propped up by a weak division and wouldn't come close to the playoffs after all their seniors left. Then smart takes his team of freshman and sophomores and puts them in a position to the make the playoffs and then the narrative changes to Smart having a stacked team and should've been better this year than last. Nick Saban's record his first 3 years of coaching: 9-2, 6-5-1, and 6-6. Nick Saban's first 3 years in the SEC: 8-4, 10-3, and 8-5. I get that its your schtick to shite post UGA because that's literally all you do, but it's pretty crazy to act like Smart is a bad coach who has done poorly at UGA.

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Jake, I want you to post this at least six more times to go along with the six times you posted it on Saturday.

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Well you are going to have to wait until after the bowl game for that. A loss would be devastating for Kirby in this comparison.

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UGA was propped up by a weak division

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This hasn't changed and is evidenced by Kirby's 4-5 record (with 3 blowout losses) against the West and his 15-3 record against the mediocre SEC East. Florida is starting to show some life again and the Jury is still out on Tennessee.

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Well you are going to have to wait until after the bowl game for that. A loss would be devastating for Kirby in this comparison.

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It is really odd that you are so preoccupied with a coach who is no better than Richt, especially when he does not even coach a rival.

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This hasn't changed and is evidenced by Kirby's 4-5 record (with 3 blowout losses) against the West and his 15-3 record against the mediocre SEC East. Florida is starting to show some life again and the Jury is still out on Tennessee.

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False. If UGA was propped up by a weak division and weren't actually good then Bama would've slaughtered them. So either UGA was actually a good team regardless of playing in the East or Bama was just exposed by a "bad" team that only looked good because they played no one.

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False.

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What part about Kirby being 4-5 (with 3 blowout losses) against the SEC West do you not understand and how that is compared to his record against the SEC East and what the results tell us? Did you fail Statistics in High School?

Kirby is a better recruiter.

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Kirby is a better recruiter.

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I haven't seen anyone post otherwise.

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What part about Kirby being 4-5 (with 3 blowout losses) against the SEC West do you not understand and how that is compared to his record against the SEC East and what the results tell us? Did you fail Statistics in High School?

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God you are slow. I'll try this again. Was UGA actually good despite playing in the East or was Bama just exposed by a bad UGA team? It's one or the other. If Bama just went to the wire with a team that you think is bad then you should be worried about playing teams you think are better than UGA.