Monday Thoughts - Why Kirby Smart will be a Success: Culture

Monday Thoughts - Why Kirby Smart will be a Success: Culture.

Mentioned in my first post in this thread that there was a lot to be discussed. Really got my interest. Getting down to the "why".

Kirby Smart said . . . .

“I’ve got a lot of respect for high school coaches. They don’t do it for the money, they do it for the love of the game and a lot of those coaches are just as good or better than me, but they weren’t given the same opportunities.”

Sonny Smart, Kirby Smarts Dad said . . . .

“He’s been in every situation,” Sonny Smart said. “He was at Florida State when Coach Bowden was kind of at the end. Then he goes to LSU when they had just won a national championship. Then he goes to Alabama when they’re down and coming off probation. He’s been there from the start with Coach Saban. He’s as ready as he’ll ever be to be a head coach.”

Father Smart says . . . . Alabama coming off of probation. Testimony to what has been accomplished by Nick Saban and his right hand man, along with many others. Again in the Final Four.

Bleeding hearts, still read some of your "stuff". As has been said in this thread, bleeding hearts waiting for the right time to pounce. Got some news for you, and I know that many bleeding hearts read Dawgs.com . . . . The "stuff" that has surrounded our football team has been removed, removed from the on field coaching level. There is still some work to be done, but I believe there is enough peer pressure above the football coaches, meaning big time donors that will not return to the BS that has been UGA football for too long.

Some of my friends in Florida, gator boosters are beginning to comment on Kirby Smart's return to Athens. Most of the conversations are about the overall East Side of the SEC, conversations about the head coaches and . . . . their hires.

Football talk on this board and others is going to be elevated in 2016, no doubt with the hiring of Smart, Muschamp and McElwain. The East will soon be looked at in a different light.

Another reason that I would like to see more than a "Final Four". There are going to be teams in the East and West that are better than some that will play in the "Final Four". This old bag of bones believes in many things pertaining to football, and strength of schedule in my way of thinking is very important.

Anyone that doubts the "rest of college football", outside of the SEC, not wanting to see us knocked off of our pedestal, we are in disagreement.

Add this . . . . Much of the SEC dislike was caused by none other than . . . . Nick Saban. To me, that is a very good thing, meaning, thanks Nick Saban, you took the SEC by storm and still have your foot on the pedal. Facing off with Michigan State in the Final Four. . . . another head coach that spent time with you and much admired by me.

Believe now it is our turn to reap the benefits of a Saban trained coach. Pruitt we had and he proved to be very good in Athens. Fail to see how Kirby Smart will not be very successful not only in Athens, but in D1 College Football. Maybe sooner than some are willing to concede.

Bouncing around again, this thread has me reading all of the posts over and over. Just a good effort by SouthernDawg to spark football talk that opens up real talk by those that are not "bleeding hearts".

Say again, welcome home Kirby Smart.

Buc wrote: Some of that can be witnessed with a couple of players withdrawing their commits from UGA soon after Pruitt leaving. Have heard more being said by recruits and players about Pruitt leaving than Richt moving on. There is a story there.

I don't have any malice or ill-will for players that de-committed because of Pruitt going to Bama. There are two types of recruits: ones that come to a school because of the program and ones that come to the school because of forged relationships with the coaches. Both are valid reasons and I can understand if a player grew very close to a father figure type that they would want to follow him elsewhere. JE proved in his commitment that he was of the former, not the latter type of recruit. Others have their reasons. I still say that before the smoke clears and the dust settles, we're going to see some flips from Bama to UGA.

I find it a tad bit interesting that very few recruits have followed the previous coach to his new location.

Buc wrote: Some of my friends in Florida, gator boosters are beginning to comment on Kirby Smart's return to Athens. Most of the conversations are about the overall East Side of the SEC, conversations about the head coaches and . . . . their hires.

Yep me too. I was talking with a Gator friend of mine back home this morning and he was commenting on just how good he thinks UGA will be under Smart and how much respect Coach Mac has for Kirby. He said he listened to a presser with Coach Mac last week where he said he was thrilled for Kirby, knows he will make UGA into a national contender, but just wishes he'd have gone to the other side of the country. That says a lot.

The East is no longer going to be a pushover. As much as I'd like to see Muschamp fall flat on his face at SC, he won't. He's a muscular recruiter and knows how to get the job done in the living rooms across the South. I do think his antics will be toned down at SC if he wants to retain his job there, but I think his intensity will come out in the players and give fits to the teams he plays against. Let's not forget the defense he built at FL and the recruits he got that McElwain inherited that took him to Atlanta.

Yes, you are 100% right on where you said other conferences want to see the SEC in the crapper. There's so much SEC hatred outside the SEC that it's palpable. Being stuck in Big10 country right now, anytime I'm wearing my G gear, it sparks a conversation which almost always devolves into the-sec-ain't-all-that. Makes me long for home where I don't have to endure that crap, but it's fun nonetheless to hear the jealousy and hatred for the SEC in these people.

I love the, "the SEC 'ain't all that" talk.
They love it when we don't win the NC so they can say "see I told you so".

Look at these teams though...

Alabama
Auburn
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
LSU
Miss State
Arkansas
UGA
UF
Tennessee
SC
Missouri

At any given moment, you can find any, most, or every single one of those teams in the top 25.

5 of them can be in the NC hunt during any given year and no one would find it unusual or out of place.

The only reason why both of those things isn't true every single year is because we consume ourselves playing each other.

No other conference can even come close to that, so let them "talk" all they want.

SEC. Football.....is college football at its best....

Top to bottom in the conference...as Wart correctly

Pointed out we beat on each other like no other

Conference in D1,,,,, survival..... Brutal... Looking at

The new coaches don't see that changing....

Southerndawg....just smile ....Go Dawgs

Great post Wartdawg! You can have your cake & eat it. Not sure Kirby can do it. Must wait & see.
As always, GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!