My question is how did Georgia go from recruiting great talent to this ..... this team that can't seem to get out of its own way. Or, as you wondered, is Richt better than we gave him credit?
First year is always a mulligan in my book. Two if the situation was especially awful.
Still hate that an in-state kid this talented got away from us. We had a spot open at the end of that class and offered him. He turned us down. Testament to Franklin's skill as recruiter. Any other coach and Auburn would have pilfered him like nobody's business.
Agreed. Clearly UGA is a high profile team, and as such expects and deserves a proven HC. It's definitely not a place where it's OK to hang around a few years for OJT. At the same time, CKS should have perhaps taken a job at a lower tier school in order to better develop his abilities as HC.
Saban assistants have been kind of a mixed bag as head coaches. The one thing worth noting is that the most success seems to have come from former offensive coordinators and not former defensive coordinators. I'm not a fan of Smart because of the whole luring a starter away thing, but that aside his success is far from assured at Georgia. He can't be mediocre and hang onto that job for long either.
That is fair. Nick lost to ULM after taking over. Way too early to be sounding an alarm.
Saban assistants also seem to get head coaching jobs at high profile jobs that are in a bad spot. McElwain is the only one, to my knowledge that has done the sensible thing and taken a job at a lesser institution and building it up while gaining valuable head coaching experience without so much pressure. Jimbo Fisher is the only one that made the leap to a high profile head coach with a great deal of success.
