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What Kirby Smart said as Georgia football turns the page to Kentucky: âI worry about everythingâ
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What Kirby Smart said as Georgia football turns the page to Kentucky: âI worry about everythingâ
âAll right guys, itâs on to Kentucky for us. Our guys are fired up, got work done yesterday, and a bunch of them came in. I think when you see our guys, you realize how invested they are when they hurt.
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I'll give Stoops credit, he usually has his team ready when they face the DAWGS. But, i think the DAWGS will come out on a mission against uk, and de-claw those wildcats 42-7..GoDAWGS!
I want to see physicality we ain’t seen Since the Michigan game where Trayvon relocated that pulling center into 2 counties over.
I want to see jumping around kirby
and I want to see the dawgs run the table and play those toothless wonders to the west in the seccg and break their will
Lol Hey my Brother I said I was gone until maybe Friday but you know me !! Here I am !! Reading your comment and agree. I’m predicting that KY might fire Stoops end of season IF they continue to lose. IF that happens KS ought to be all over it and hire Stoops !! Many times a great unit coach doesn’t make a very good HC. Hire Stoops and make him Defensive Line Coach. I would easily say DC but I doubt KS would even demote Schumann less alone fire him. AND I’m not sure firing Schumann would be a good thing. He has abilities as a coach I’m just starting to question whether he’s a good DC or not. Good comments on you’re part as usual.
Good comments on your part as usual !! Like you I want to see that Fire back on the sideline to !! I kind of wonder with Much respect is KS still hurting over the loss of his Dad ? My Daddy was my hero, when he died I walked around in a cloud for a long time. I did my job and I tried to do it well as I was raised that way. But I was going through the motions for a long time, the zeal wasn’t there. I finally snapped out of it and got back to the normal Me.
Kirby’s Dad was also a football coach so sharing the same line of work makes it even more difficult. I think K remember reading that Kirby said his Dad coached him in HS. Even my wife said that Kirby doesn’t seem himself this year. Maybe he’ll get back. It’ll be Good for him And the team !!
Lol welcome back! If that situation arose with Stoops it might be interesting for UGA.Especially if Schuman were hired as a HC somewhere. I'd love to see Coach Boom come back as DC, if not, Stoops might not be a bad choice as a DC. But.. as Kirby stated, Stoops is 1 of his best friends.That hire may not go over well now since a lot already want the"buddy" coordinators run out of town 🤣 this is all hypothetical, it would take numerous things to fall into place for that scenario to even be possible lol
Now that you mention it, I haven't seen Kirby jumping around on the sideline either. Or they just quit showing him 3 feet off the ground lol
I feel good about the Dawgs coming back against Kentucky. As we're working on flushing this loss, will say it is a good point about the buzz downs for review. I mean, they stopped to review a play when McCray was obviously short of the goal line and absolutely no one thought he scored, but then there was no check on the 3rd and short play that looked a lot closer? That is just inexcusable inconsistency by the reviewing official at a much more critical point of the game.
Immediately after the Bummer game, I heard so many overreactions, particularly regarding Coach Smart. So. Many. Overreactions.
In the end, he knows this game, and he knows how to run a program. He is doing an EXCELLENT job with the talent in front of him, and is always focused on DEVELOPMENT. Sure, Kiffin can grab 100 guys out of the portal who have already spent five years growing at different schools, throw them together, and pretend that he's built at TEAM, but come on. We all know that he's just cashing in on other people's effort, and other people's money. This is not to say that CKS does NOT participate in this same sort of thing, but it IS to say that Smart is MUCH more about development than anything else. That's something that should be respected.
It isn't the same as, say, a Clemson, where the HC is naively vehement in his opposition to the changes the game has put before him (imagine a coach REFUSING to allow his QB to pass the ball forward because that just isn't how the game has been played to this point). It's just that CKS seems to actually respect the fact that CFB is an institution for learning and growing in the ability to play the game, and UGA is committed to growing the players that it believes in. Beyond that, he believes in his players' ability to execute. THAT'S the biggest hubris from Saturday's game, re: the C Jones situation. The coaches BELIEVED in a kid. Well. A group of kids. BELIEVED that, despite the fact that the same play had been run more than once and the side of the OL that was blocking him was hampered, the kids could make the play happen. It was a gamble. It wasn't the best decision. But it was a decision built in trust that people could get it done.
So much of what Mr. Smart said in this interview gives me the very hope that I need to know that UGA isn't going anywhere. Not for a lawng time.
Go Dawgs!
Kirby, quote: “No, staff’s been great. I think we’ve put together some really good game plans." Yeah, Admiral Yamamoto, Field Marshal Rommel and General Robert E. Lee all put together some "good game plans" but they lost. "Good" game plans are no longer going to pass muster. Georgia doesn't own the talent advantage anymore; NIL has seen to that, so "great" game plans need to be conceived. But a "plan" is only as good as it's personnel, if the personnel haven't been coached up and trained right, then even a perfect plan will ultimately fail. That's what we have here… As an old O Linemen, I'm going to call out Searels and his lack of acquiring talent and then coaching it up. O Line recruiting as follows:
2026: Two Low 4 * and Two 3* 2025: Two 4 * and Three 3* (Dontrell Glover High 3*) and finally in 2024: Three 4* and Three 3* (one of which hadn't played football since middle school) and the last time Searels brought in a 5* was back in 2023 in the person of Monroe Freeling.
Now, let's look at who's played and the results - Gaston (2025) - Too slow, misses blocks regularly; Glover (2025) a bright spot; Uini (2024) ineffective, benched in favor of Hughley; Jah Jackson (2024) experiment has failed so far; Freeling (2023) I'll give him a B+, so far; Hughley (2023) like Glover, a bright spot but needs to improve as a whole: Bobo (2022) I'll give him a B+ as well despite who his father is.
Not one 5* since 2023 with a majority of 3 * players recruited. In the 2026 cycle, Searels has lost out on two 5* linemen in the person of Jackson Cantwell (Miami) and Darius Grey (South Carolina). Cantwell took the NIL bag but losing Grey to South Carolina? Come on.
You want elite play, you have to recruit elite. I understand that NIL has to some extent crippled recruiting, but to not recruit 5* and high 4* Offensive Linemen, you're flirting with disaster because the war is won in the trenches. As Herschel Walker once said: "My job was easy, I just ran the ball and the ball ain't heavy. My linemen did the dirty work; blocking for me…"
If you don't have an elite O Line, even the perfect game plan isn't going to work. Searels needs to take the train…
I'll be at the game this week, and I'll tell you this, another piss poor performance against Kentucky like last year and the Boo Birds will be out… and I hate that.