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Kirby Smart - Still a Corch?

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Sure would have been nice if UM had considered hiring a highly regarded coordinator from a championship caliber program instead of immediately zeroing on a former player without conducting a proper coaching search. I couldn't understand why anyone thought hiring a coach who had been fired because he consistently fell short of expectations (and despite having almost unlimited resources) was a good idea.
 
TimeBum said:
Sure would have been nice if UM had considered hiring a highly regarded coordinator from a championship caliber program instead of immediately zeroing on a former player without conducting a proper coaching search. I couldn't understand why anyone thought hiring a coach who had been fired because he consistently fell short of expectations (and despite having almost unlimited resources) was a good idea.
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Bro, does the name Randy Shannon mean anything to you???
 
Noliaboi said:
Not a lot of crow in this thread… but it’s proof that a lot of fans watching football don’t know football.

Hopefully many of our fans end up being wrong about Mario as well.
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Strange flex to come strong and then end with weak hope…

If Mario adapts and surrounds himself with strong assistants he’ll build the program.

If he doesn’t, your hope won’t help any of us.
 
TimeBum said:
Sure would have been nice if UM had considered hiring a highly regarded coordinator from a championship caliber program instead of immediately zeroing on a former player without conducting a proper coaching search. I couldn't understand why anyone thought hiring a coach who had been fired because he consistently fell short of expectations (and despite having almost unlimited resources) was a good
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He consistently fell short of expectations at Oregon?

What were people expecting him to do at Oregon that he didn’t do?

Mario was literally a highly regarded coordinator at Bama before he got hired at Oregon where he was successful and won multiple conference titles.


I’m not happy with how the season went either but what you’re saying is kinda silly
 
Angry Ibis said:
Strange flex to come strong and then end with weak hope…

If Mario adapts and surrounds himself with strong assistants he’ll build the program.

If he doesn’t, your hope won’t help any of us.
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I don’t think many questioned his hires At assistant..but many ppl (again) overrated our talent based of hype..old enough to remember numerous preseason heisman and All Americans..and here we all are
 
305to954 said:
I don’t think many questioned his hires At assistant..but many ppl (again) overrated our talent based of hype..old enough to remember numerous preseason heisman and All Americans..and here we all are
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They excused the hires failing to admit he missed on his first and second and maybe other choices…

Everyone said: he needs to hire elite assistants
 
JD4 said:
He consistently fell short of expectations at Oregon?

What were people expecting him to do at Oregon that he didn’t do?

Mario was literally a highly regarded coordinator at Bama before he got hired at Oregon where he was successful and won multiple conference titles.


I’m not happy with how the season went either but what you’re saying is kinda silly
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I was talking about Richt. Cristobal didn't get fired. My issue with Cristobal is he seems to be as stubborn as Richt when it comes to belief in his archaic offensive system and refusal to fire underperformers. Richt was also a turrrrrible talent evaluator across the board and made poor choices at coordinator. Cristobal has demonstrable success in evaluating OL so he has one up on Richt. Still, it's interesting to consider where we'd today if Aranda had accepted the UM DC job under Richt instead of choosing LSU.
 
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TimeBum said:
I was talking about Richt. Cristobal didn't get fired. My issue with Cristobal is he seems to be as stubborn as Richt when it comes to belief in his archaic offensive system and refusal to fire underperformers. Richt was also a turrrrrible talent evaluator across the board and made poor choices at coordinator. Cristobal has demonstrable success in evaluating OL so he has one up on Richt. Still, it's interesting to consider where we'd today if Aranda had accepted the UM DC job under Richt instead of choosing LSU.
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Gotcha

Richt was our most successful coach since Coker though. He did a ton to modernize our program that a lot of people have no idea about

His son as OC was a mistake, but he was solid besides that. If he was healthy and had only had daughters he’d probably have built us into a consistent 10 win team easy
 
JD4 said:
He consistently fell short of expectations at Oregon?

What were people expecting him to do at Oregon that he didn’t do?

Mario was literally a highly regarded coordinator at Bama before he got hired at Oregon where he was successful and won multiple conference titles.


I’m not happy with how the season went either but what you’re saying is kinda silly
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Mario was never a coordinator at Bama, only OL coach and associate head coach. He was OL coach/co-OC/rb coach at Oregon for that year under Taggart before taking over as HC.
 
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Gsugradcanefan said:
Mario was never a coordinator at Bama, only OL coach and associate head coach. He was OL coach/co-OC/rb coach at Oregon for that year under Taggart before taking over as HC.
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Mario Cristobal was the assistant head coach offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Bama. He wasn’t an OC or DC, but he was he high level guy there
 
Angry Ibis said:
They excused the hires failing to admit he missed on his first and second and maybe other choices…

Everyone said: he needs to hire elite assistants
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The only report we know on him missing was at OC because he wanted briles at Arkansas who got a raise and extended to stay..and briles At Arkansas doesn’t run anything much different than what Mario want and Gattis tried..the trenches needed to be addressed..also wanted the WRs coach who ended up at UGA (if memory serves me correctly..but those are the only “misses” anyone can confirm..still don’t recall anyone Questioning, Steele, Addae, Or bringing Gattis from Michigan at that time until the results showed
 
Richt could’ve probably done what Kirby has if he was willing to unleash the $$ and get dirty in recruiting. Kirby a better X & O coach on his respective side of the ball although they have been vulnerable against equivalent talent. Only difference I’ve seen between he and Richt so far.

They have 6 recruiting cycles of those top 3 classes and this is now the fruit of that labor.
 
Not a corch. Has won 11 or more in 5 of his 7 seasons in Athens. While one of the less than 11 was the crazy and shortened covid season. No signs of slowing down either. Adapted to the NIL age w/out missing a beat.

I want for us what he's done for UGA.

Go Canes! :11263272045-489f4f7972-o:
 
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