re: Kirby Smart to Georgia

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Just not dumping Richt for a guy who's never been an HC.

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The whole "He's never been a HC. So we shouldn't hire him" rhetoric is really over played. Bob Stoops & Jimbo were never HC's before landing jobs at major universities. Sometimes you hit and sometimes you miss on coaches.

Now if you want to question how strong of a DC he actually was under Saban for 9 years. That's a fair question imo.

Yeah, an established coordinator at an elite program doesn't seem like a huge gamble. It may not work but it's probably not from lack of HC experience.

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Muschamp is going to SCe.

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as what?

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Yeah, an established coordinator at an elite program doesn't seem like a huge gamble. It may not work but it's probably not from lack of HC experience.

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All of his DC experience is at Alabama under Saban. Everyone knows Saban is a defensive guy and probably has a big hand in the defense.

If I were considering Smart I would be more confident if he had been a successful head coach, a DC somewhere that didn't have a stud defensive coach as the head coach, or a successful DC at multiple programs.

All I am saying is it would be nice to see him perform out from under daddy Saban's wing. He may end up being great and Saban may have been the perfect mentor for him to jump straight to a head coach position at a top program nationally; however, that is a big promotion.

Muschamp didn't do it
McElwain didn't do it
Dooley didn't do it
Fisher didn't do it
Dantonio didn't do it

LSU has nothing to do with this conversation. I don't think Muschamp is a good hire after the way he handled things at UF. Remove the flukish 11-2 (7-1) from is resume and the guy went 17-19 overall and 10-14 in conference play. I don't really expect him to resolve the issues that USCe has.

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Who would you have hired?

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Sure as hell wouldn't have traded Richt for Smart

Love the hire from a couple of perspectives

1. Recruiting- We were never bad under Richt, but Kirby is one of, if no the best, recruiters in the country. The staff we will have if the reports are accurate will be quite possibly a goat at that portion of college football

2. New blood- UGA desperately needed something new. Anything. Richt was a good coach he had just grown stale and we needed to shake it up. Well if Smart is the guy we have surely shaken it up. I imagine he may have higher highs than Richt but will almost certainly have lower lows.

Defense- UGA has always been offense lot focused under Richt. I personally think it's time we change that. Great defense generally wins out, now this is contingent on who the OC is.

All in all this hire should allow us to keep most of our recruiting class intact, I've even seen we now lead for some of Bamas biggest recruits, it gives us a new direction, and the players and recruits are blowing up on Twitter with excitement about it. It's a chance for them to apart of something new. Now will it work or not time will tell, but no one can confidently say this is a bad hire just like I can't confidently say it's a home run hire. Richt was an OC when he came to UGA. No one knows. But hopefully a good OC is hired, our class (Eason) stays, and we get UGA to new heights.

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For some people it works out (Stoops,Richt,Fisher). For others, it does not (Muschamp).

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Stoops was a DC for Bill Snyder and Steve Spurrier.

Fisher was the OC for Nick Saban, Les Miles, and Bobby Bowden before taking the FSU head coaching position.

Muschamp was a DC for Nick Saban, Tommy Tubberville, and Mack Brown.

Richt was the only one who didn't really have coordinator experience under multiple regimes before the big jump. I think his experience was a little different under Bowden though.

I just don't see the decision of firing Richt to hire Smart the best decision off of the resume. He may work out; however, I would look to someone with broader coordinator experience or just a proven head coach. That is how I hope LSU handles it when they make their next hire in the future.