because we just watched Marcus Freeman run circles around Kirby Smart, something many other teams that annually played Georgia or play Georgia every other year can’t even SNIFF of doing. right when this happened, guaranteed every fanbase in the SEC cheered then said “what the heck are we not doing that ND is doing”
@@GoatedAtNFSnobody looked at anything besides the score would say ND „ran circles around georgia“. There were bad playcalls and ND stopped Georgia‘s running game fairly effectively. Thats pretty much the explanation of why they won. And the score doesn’t reflect accurately how the game really was.
@@GoatedAtNFSKirby’s father was fighting for his life in the hospital during the Sugar Bowl and passed away a few days ago. Call it an excuse if you want but some things are bigger than football.
Not mentioned enough but… in the midst of the ND game, Kirby’s dad was literally in the hospital fighting for his life and passed away the next day. And UGA was still competitive in the game but made mistakes you can’t afford to make. (The D played well and only gave up a short field TD and a few field goals). With the receiver group leading the country in drops, the O line being more injured and regressing heavily in some areas (hello Ernest Greene where did you go?)… I think this was Kirby’s finest coaching job to date. Winning the SEC and being in a position to contend for an NC is incredible given everything occurring.
I'm a Big 10 guy and its fair to say Georgia and Kirby Smart are at the top of NCAA football. Georgia has been the most dominant team in the country the past five years. Built a dynaysty with back to back championships. Recruited and developed a lot of high end NFL talent. Kirby Smart went head to head against Saban to get to the top. That proves he can coach and lead a program at the highest level. That said, college football is in a new world with NIL and transfer portal. Georgia will continue to be a contender -- and can win more titles -- but will be hard to get back to the dominance of a few years ago.
You may be right, but it's too early to make that call. As legal battles continue, we do not yet know how the portal and NIL will play out over the next few years. Assuming that schools will be allowed to pay athletes from the funds made by athletics, the top programs will still be able to pay, on average, far more than the non-top-tier programs.
I Agree they are an elite team and were the top dawg but rn they aren’t. They haven’t won a playoff game since 2022. Cool they won the sec chip which is still good but if you haven’t won a playoff game in 2 years you ain’t the top dawg at the moment
@@johndoger8860 Not my definition or opinion -- but back-to-back championships or three titles within a six-year span is a consensus acclimation of a team's stature as a dynasty.
Let us not forget that Georgia was also handed a gauntlet of a schedule that they had to run this year. Clemson, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and 4 of those 5 were not at home. Could you imagine how better rested and healthy Georgia would have been if they had a schedule like Texas’.
That schedule wasn’t as tough as Bama and Georgia has had Cup cake schedules since Kirby has been in Georgia,welcome to a real schedule,Georgia is looking at 2 to 4 losses again next season,Georgia and Alabama is not going to keep that depth due to NIL and Transfer Portal new world professional college football
Man stop!! You're talking about the all time great GEORGIA! I don't want to hear about being healthy... your fan base thrive off of "next man up" because yall recruit just that good.
@@johnlee4763 imagine someone actually believing that Bama had a tougher schedule than Georgia or, even worse, believing that Bama doesn't perennially have more of a cupcake schedule than Georgia usually does...that delusion seems to have festered to the team(no wonder they lost to Vandy)
@@richnation8799nah Texas tried to come in our hood in the first year and win the sec and we beat em, but they’re still a good team . I need Ohio state to just finish with the chip so we can put this season behind us
UGA fan here, Kirby is one of only two coaches to my knowledge (correct me if im wrong) to have a National Championship ring. In fact, he has two of them. (Ironically, the other coach has two of them). Now this Georgia team this year was not great. They were below average. But to take that below average team through one of, if not, THE toughest schedule in CFB history and come out with only two losses, 3 wins against top 15 teams, and then beat one of those 3 (a top 5 team, the only team to beat them thus far) a second time to win the league. Yes he actually won the conference with this below average team. That is truly remarkable. Not too many coaches could do that. I, for one, don't know how he did this. Kirby is the best coach in CFB. But he has to learn to adapt to the new RIDICULOUS NIL/transfer portal format if he is to continue to be successful, and i think he is poised to do so. Oh i forgot to mention the injuries and off field stuff he had to overcome also to coach this football team
Is there a scenario where the head coach of the national championship doesn't get a ring? If not, Saban has three, Kirby and Dabo both have two, and Urban Meyer, Ed Orgeron, and Jim Harbaugh each have one.
If people are really being honest, they would say Kirby is the best coach. There’s really no other option unless someone passes him over the next two-three years. To say otherwise, you’re either delusional or just not being honest lol
Kirby is already going lethal in the transfer portal. Got Zachariah branch from USC & Noah Thomas from A&M. This was our weakest area this season and he’s already addressing it, not even a week from that ND loss. This feels like a Ryan Day type of off season start. Add the loss of his father to it…Dawgs coming for it 2025.
@svnti1239 not me. Neither texas nor it's fans have any loyalty to the sec. I don't care who wins but not pulling for texas either. Any other sec team would have my support. Auburn and florida included.
I send My Most Prayerful Condolences to both Coach Kirby Smart and the surviving Families of those who lost their Lives on New Year's Day in New Orleans.😔😭🙏🏿❤B.W.
As a buckeye I freely admit Georgia is a powerhouse and will stay that way for a while. Every team has injuries, it happens and the HC is still top 5 in the country
Much respect. Even though we didn't make it that far. I was circling OSU. That was going to be a game. Thinking yall are gonna get the Natty. The midnight game against yall was still one of the best I've seen. Good luck going forward. Rooting for the Buckeyes!
I'm no Georgia fan, but a 2x defending national champion, who haven't lost in 2 years, left out of a national championship game, much less a 4 team playoff, simply because they lost the SEC title at the very end of the game, to what is widely regarded as the best football coach of all time, to a team that has so recently been a dynasty the likes of which can easily be argued to have been the greatest of all time, is absolutely fucking absurd. It's objectively ridiculous in every sense of the word, and I still can't believe it happened
@@ronjbalast year was very strange. There were many teams that could make the argument to be included. Georgia lost at the most inopportune time. Don’t spend time lamenting the past. You end up being Florida state.
Don't play a week schedule. As Kirby and Josh Pate have both said, they were the 2x champions they were not defending anything. It is not a king of the hill match where until someone knocks them off the top, they can't be replaced. It may give them a leg up in rankings the next year but playing a schedule that is weak enough that it does not allow any losses will knock you out of those rankings also.
Kirby is still on top of the coaching mountain. He won the SEC, beat Texas twice, and won the second game with a backup QB. I would argue that no one else has proven worthy to take his place yet
The fact that Kirby led a very mid team to an SEC championship and bye in the playoffs is insane lol. Would’ve won the natty last year if the Bama game went their way.
That's true. He is still a great in-game coach. But what's happening with the team management and player development? Kirby is the one who made this team mid, especially with zero offense.
Georgia had the talent but they underperformed for reasons that were mostly beyond Kirby's control . They still had a season most fan bases would kill for.
As a UGA fan and an avid college football fan I genuinely don’t understand how you can have a dominate program to the point where even losing 1 or 2 games is considered bad? We have no doubt in Kirby and what he is doing with the program. Do we want to get a natty? Sure. But just because you don’t always get one doesn’t mean anything is wrong when clearly you are dominating the field. I feel the same way for instance for Alabama those times when Nick was there and he lost like 2 games and everyone was outraged. Same with Ohio state they have had dominate teams respectively yet they lose 1 or 2 games and all hell breaks loose
When you are on top you, have a bullseye on your back, and will get everyone's best shot. Bad breaks and injuries play a big part of any teams season. Have to wonder how much Kirby's dad being in the hospital affected him and the team.
We had really good players, just not on the offensive line which is where it matters the most. Hence the losses, which can all be traced back to a crappy o-line and turnovers.
@ no game breaking tail backs, mediocre wide outs, underwhelming tight end play, and no one consistently elite on defense either. Starks and CJ both regressed.
Kirby is as close to Saban that there will be! Of course they will be back!!! As a Bama fan I've missed Kirby every day hes been gone from Bama!! Kirby is still the top Coach!!! Nothing but respect!!!
I think Kirby is the best coach and I do think UGA would have won the title last season if they get by Bama(I'm a Bama fan) in the seccg. That being said I don't think they caught a bad break this season. they hung on by a thread in multiple games.
I feel like when we (UGA) hired Monken we were finally moving in the right direction with our OC coaching philosophy. Then we fell back to the old ways of thinking with Bobo, once again. I know they are best friends, but we need some fresh blood. Cant just maintain what you have had and expect it to play out the same every year. You end up with deformities and issues like in pure bread animals. Hire coaches from outside Kirby.
@@markgelbart5889 They’re going to blame someone. Some of these “fans” said we’d never win a natty with Stetson Bennett too. Some were quite adamant and upset with Kirby playing Bennett. Glad he didn’t give in to the naysayers. I’ll stick with Kirby and how he wants to run his program. Go Dawgs!
I hear you. Before NIL/Portal or even at the very beginning of it, Georgia could recruit and retain talent 3/4 deep at every position. You add OC Monken with his NFL resume and you get back-2-back Natties. Now, with NIL/Portal in full speed, talented players are not willing to wait 2 years for their turn to play. They get bought and hired away while waiting. Georgia will never likely have the collection of talent we had in 2021-2022 ever again because of NIL/Portal. Moreover, OC Bobo is a decent college level coach but he likes to keep his play calling simple and that sometimes become predictive/obvious by really good opposing team's DC staff. They can pick out tendencies and patterns... The best example is how Georgia O-Line was put on skates by Notre Dame's DC Golden (he has NFL resume). He took what Ole Miss did against Georgia (using stunt technique) and added Mesh Gap Assignments typically used in NFL. Georgia O-Line could not just "line up" and attack using its bigger/heavier bodies. This shows the upper ceiling of OC Bobo and the fact that having more talent at the O-line does not really help when opposing team can out-scheme you.
@@YT5052 It wasn’t just Notre dame and Ole Miss we struggled with on the oline. Anyone watching our games should know and be able to understand the shortcomings of our oline. Need work there and that’s not on Bobo. LOL. We had the worst running game by far out of our last seven seasons. Oline. We were limited by the type of plays we could run effectively. Oline. Our worst year out of the last 7 years as a team, 40 drops by receivers, and statistically, the most missed tackles by our defense since Kirby took over as head coach and yet we still won the SEC, still finished in the top 8 of the CFP playoff. Apparently to some, we’re doomed and desolate. LOL. Simply delusional. The sky isn’t falling and we’ll be right back at the heart of college football in 2025. SMH.
Georgia should probably move down to Division II as I'm not sure if they can even win a Power 4 game again. All joking aside, in spite of what some people are saying on here, Georgia did not have an average or below average team, they had an above average team. Still a lot of talent, just not as talented overall as the national championship teams. They still played at a very high level but when your margin for error is smaller then you have years like this where just a few injuries, a bit of untimely luck, and you have 3 losses. It's actually a sign of a program that still had a very good year and is in good shape. The hardest part for Kirby will be two things, does he continue to adapt and replacing coaches. Saban was incredible because he kept losing coaches, replaced them, and stayed successful even though not every hire was a home run and as you mentioned he was always willing to adapt. He hated it but did it anyways. I'm sure Kirby saw that under Saban and now we get to see how good he is at it. He's won two national championships, he has a reputation as a guy who coaches players well, the money Georgia has, I think he'll easily be able to attract top coaches, it's more of picking the right ones and I'm sure he'll get at least a few correct. Will he be stubborn and less adaptable? We're about to find out but as of now, still the best coach in college football until someone proves otherwise and I think he's easily #1 right now.
Because of NIL and the Transfer Portal, you’re not going to see absolute dynasties year after year anymore, like Alabama recently had. The powerhouse teams will still win their fair share as usual, but I think that the NC trophy is going to be changing hands a lot more, from now on, than it used to. I say this as a hard core Dawgs fan. It’s simply the new reality of college football.
To me the biggest inflection point is whether UGA will change its NIL philosophy. The $$ is there but the strategy isn’t to lead with NIL like other programs are doing. UGA is middle of the pack competitive but not at the top end of spending. Top tier athletes are choosing the $$ over development and NFL readiness now so will a strategy adjustment take place at UGA happen is my biggest question
When kids go to an inferior school and conference and still be rewarded with million dollar deals and heisman's why get your body beat up in a real conference every week.
I think one of the things that gets overlooked the most is the OC… When UGA had those dominant 2-3 years, Todd Monken was the OC… Monken had the ability to play off an athletes attributes, when Mike Bobo is taking some of these same athletes and exposing their weaknesses… When Monken was there, Carson Beck & Stetson Bennett was battling for that starting position when JT Daniels went down…Now, since Beck is the guy Mike Bobo’s offense has tanked Beck’s draft stock… Don’t get wrong, Beck is responsible for his own decision making, but I just feel like the OC isn’t helping him either.
DAWGS fan here. The definition of luck is when opportunity and preparation meet. Ohio St. missing a field goal wasn't luck. It was their lack of preparation and UGA's opportunity to take advantage of it that led to the win. As a UGA supporter, I'm very happy with Kirby, but I am quick to point out that he's not in a class of his own as there are several head coaches right there with him. To climb to the top of the mountain in college football is a brutal and all-consuming endeavor for a school, but to remain there is damn near impossible. Alabama's past dominance is a rare occurrence. To put it in simpler terms, just look at Ohio St. Who wouldn't trade their program's record with Ohio St the past 54 years, and yet they only have 2 national championships in that span? The landscape of college football is drastically changing by the day becoming even more complicated and competitive than ever before. With coaches like Marcus Freeman and Sherrone Moore, Ryan Day, Kenny Dillingham, and a lot of up-and-coming FCS coaches on the horizon, I find it hard to name a top coach but would definitely consider Kirby Smart to be in the conversation. Best of luck to all the remaining teams.
WR bench being filled with better talent does not help much when the O-Line is out-schemed by opposing team DC staff with NFL resumes. Notre Dame used Stunt techniques used by Ole Miss against GA and added Mesh Gap assignment technique often used in NFL. Georgia's bigger/heavier O-Line could not just line up and attack... they were put on skates the whole first half. That is why Georgia could not run or throw and what little we did was not helped by WRs dropping balls... Georgia needs better coaches as well as more talented players.
UGA faced the hardest schedule and second hardest record of the year. The running back room was cut in half at the start of the season. Carson hit skids in the middle of the season. Top ranked recruiting class this year with OL that's as good or better stepping up. Probably the best WR room UGA has had in years next year and an amazing set of tight ends. We will NEVER have another Brock Bowers. But we will be in the playoff next year and in the hunt for the SEC title again. People need to relax.
Kirby just had a bit of a down year. He’ll be fine. But Bama, I’m not so sure about. Saban retired because he could no longer control 100% of the narrative, IMHO
If somebody doesn't get control of "the narrative" college football will be ruined forever. The current situation isn't sustainable. The donors paying these crazy salaries will pull back if they don't results.
We now, after this year, have as many SEC Championships as National Championships. More Natties than SEC Titles was a crazy stat and I'm extremely proud of the fight the team showed to get the SEC Title, despite this year's shortcomings. Please everyone, convince yourselves that Kirby Smart isn't him anymore. I'd love to see what we'd cook up in the event y'all do that.
UGA needed help. Each year they won the championship they weren’t the best team but instead was the beneficiary of key injuries. This year they were the one with the key injuries. If Beck is healthy they probably beat ND
Kirby and Dabo make too many Buddy Boy hires. Doesn’t work. Or it doesn’t work in regard to winning NC’s. Make the best hire, and most of the time, that means going outside the box.
As a Georgia grad and rabid fan, I'm not happy that the same assistants are still in place. Bobo, Searels, and Coley are not up to the standard. This is an inflection point, and I have my doubts that Kirby is meeting the moment the right way.
Kirby has a problem with adapting. Josh made a great point that I’ve been complaining about for years..everyone likes to blame bobo but Kirby’s offense has been the same mundane o since 2016. The two years georgias offense was a little more electric they had Brock and Ladd(who are the 2 best rookies in the league) and Stetson (a dual qb). Saban adapted his team from tough defense with a game manager qb to realizing electric offenses are gonna score regardless of how good your D is and since then has had the best receivers and dual threat qbs. Kirby is still living in the AJ McCarron era of football
Kirby is already going lethal in the transfer portal. Got Zachariah branch from USC & Noah Thomas from A&M. This was our weakest area this season and he’s already addressing it, not even a week from that ND loss. This feels like a Ryan Day type of off season start. Add the loss of his father to it…Dawgs coming for it 2025.
I love Mike Bobo, but we need more creativity in the play calling and drawing up plays to get people open. We can't just rely on WRs to get open. We have to schemes them open. That is up to the OC and his assistants.
OC Bobo is decent COLLEGE level coach but he has a very limited ceiling... He cannot beat opposing team's DC with NFL resume when NIL/Portal evens out the odds. Georgia O-Line having bigger/heavier bodies did not provide an advantage against NFL level schemes in defeating the GA O-Line. DC Golden took what Ole Miss did against GA, using stunt techniques and added NFL Mesh Gap assignments on top of that and turned the dial up to 11. That was why we could not run or pass much of the game.
It remains to be seen if old-style college football coaches will successfully adapt to the new paradigm, semi-pro football. The talent coming into colleges today is self-centered, profit-oriented kids who are not team-oriented but me-oriented. In college football, the players were more amenable to coalescing as team players. Today's players have an attitude that if they can't get what they want now they will just jump in the transfer portal for more money and recognition.
A bit off topic but I think it's time to eliminate scholarships for any player with an NIL deal worth more than the scholarship. Why are the taxpayers footing the bill for guys driving a Lamborghini at 18?
The Last 4 years they are basically finishing the season Champ. Champ, #5, #5/6. Georgia is fine, but like everyone else they need to continue to grow and develop, because winning is hard.
DAWGS are still the number one program in college football. Even Nick didn’t win every National Championship. Come on Guys, with the way the NIL and portal is now days it’s gonna be hard for any team to keep winning. GO DAWGS!!
Bobo is one of if not the best oc in the nation. He was able to navigate to the playoffs with a team that had no recievers, no running backs and a terrible o line. Beck was the only thing that was great.
Agreed. GA will never win another NC with Bobo as OC. Bobo is a DGD and his love for GA is not questioned. what I do question is his ability to think outside the box to create a dynamic, imaginative offense that gives DC's nightmares. Bobo couldn't do it under CMR and he can't do it under CKS. Bobo will be the downfall of GA and CKS the next few years.
OC Bobo is a decent COLLEGE level coach but he has tendencies and patterns that opposing DC staff can pick out to use against Georgia (you can guess a few things Bobo likes). Also, Notre Dame DC staff has NFL resume coach (DC Golden) and it showed up in how Notre Dame defense put Georgia O-Line on skates the entire first half. Notre Dame Defense was the one doing all the HUNTING on dawgs. We need coaches with NFL resumes like we used to have with OC Monken. Bobo has a limited ceiling on what he can do and against NFL level DC coaches in college ball, Bobo is at a disadvantage. Georgia has more talent on roster but with less than elite coaching, the NIL/Portal takes away the roster advantage so we need better coaching to out-scheme the other teams in 2025.
Kirby is usually conservative. He got aggressive at the worst moment. Go to half 6 3. 2nd half kickoff not kicked in the endzone as usual. Turnovers and special teams that couldve been avoided
I think Kirby is doing fine. This year was plagued by missed catches, missed tackles, turnovers and an iffy offensive line. Get those ironed out and we are right back at it.
@davebryant8050 to a point I agree. You can't make people complete passes or tackles. That's on the players. The o line struggles may boil down to coaching, but Becks nearly 20 interceprions aren't kirbys fault. Looks like NIL got to his head this season. I put the o I one failures on Bobo myself. Looks familiar to last time with him.
Most didn't want him at qb anyway so I'm guessing they'll be fine. Stockton looked okay to me. Bama would have loved to have Stockton rather than the joke we had. Maybe 2025 will be better to both teams but DeBoer doesn't give much hope.
Two things can be true at once. Kirby yes is the best coach in the CFB. But UGAs run of dominance is over. What lead to that is NIL,TP, and the new Collegefootball playoffs. Plus now with how the SEC schedule is done. You aren't playing the same eastern teams like you use too when you had divisions. Again much respect to Kirby and all he has done. Best coach in the CFB. But things have changed around him and it has hurt UGA. You can clearly see it.
There is more to it than that for Georgia's performance in 2024 but you're not wrong. Georgia has the NIL budget to be top 5 every year even with NIL/TP but the issue - in my opinion - is the coaching. With having talent stacked 3/4 deep on the roster every year before NIL/TP, having decent college level coaching was good enough to win. With NIL/TP, even if we have 20 Million NIL budget, our coaching is not elite to compete. College teams are hiring coaches with NFL resumes now and OC Bobo is decent college coach but not elite enough to complete with NFL coaches playing at college level. Notre Dame DC Golden beat OC Bobo at LOS all game long. I saw it clearly.
Kirby Smart is still the top coach in the country. So, Georgia fans, don't dump on Kirby. Remember, the Richt years were way too inconsistent, and the Bulldogs underachieved heavily during Richt's time.
Who is asking this question?? Georgia is thee most stable top tier program……..Dawg fans are disappointed, who isn’t after a lose but I don’t hear anyone questioning Kirby and if they are welcome to Georgia sit back and watch a few seasons nobody, nobody has more wins the last five seasons at this level, nobody.
What is funny is that not so long ago most thought Kirby Smart was secure while Franklin and Day were teetering on the brink. I think with NIL and the transfer portal, we are going to see a lot more of who gets hot like TCU a couple of years ago rather than dynasties or "best coaches" for a while.
@@johnlee4763 Nah, OU had one years ago. Nebraska had one once upon a time. USC had one years ago. Bama has had the most recent but they weren’t the only one. If you would have said in recent years, you’d have been correct.
@@jansonroberts2616 You missed the spirit of my post, in that how fast things changed. Just the very nature of the video we are commenting on indicates that. I didn't mean to imply Kirby was not secure at UGA, only that he is not the king of the hill he was thought to be this time last year.
The ranking we have yards rushing…..,is embarrassing. If that does not get fixed, we will continue to have down years. Offensive line can’t block and running is practically impossible. 2nd down year in rushing…..should get new O Line coach at least. Otherwise we will look the same in 2025
everyone says the landscape will be more even, well Texas isn’t going anywhere and currently are building a machine. and if Georgia continues to have hard schedules like this year and the next, Georgia might not reach a championship for a little while
Georgia's future under Kirby Smart is limitless. Top of the chain as far as college coaches go. Georgia's and ALL of college football's future under current NIL and transfer portal.......straight to the bottom.
Who would be number 1 if not Kirby? I’ll wait…… nobody bro, it ain’t Ryan day, it ain’t dabo, it ain’t Marcus fucking freeman lmao 😂😂😂 , sooo…. Who are you left with? You would rather have Kirby than ANYONE ELSE
We're getting our answer this offseason as to how Kirby manages the changing CFB landscape. We're already seeing big and necessary pickups in the transfer portal from Georgia. A couple transfers out, but that's a given in today's world. Many players going to the draft, but a couple big players returning (Dillon Bell, Christian Miller). The real question is what coaching changes are made. I'm not a Bobo defender by any means but I think he needs one more season before we can pass judgement on him. WR drops and OL have been the issues this season, not scheme. Coley needs to be "promoted" to head of recruiting so a competent WR coach can come in. And Searles needs to be gone.
@@jansonroberts2616 Check out the 2025 class. We have an absurd receiver group coming in. Problem is our WRs on the team now can't catch or create space to save their lives. That's at least partly bad coaching. Coley is well known to be a great recruiter, he's just not a great coach.
@@jansonroberts2616 You are aware that Coley has been WR coach for one season, right? He was named to the position last February. You know what that means? It means he is responsible for coaching the guys currently on the team as well as landing next year's WR recruits. You know what he's done a great job at? Landing WR recruits. You know what he's done a poor job at? Coaching and developing the current WRs. I didn't think I'd have to spell it out for you but I know critical thinking can be difficult.
@@eliwaddell If you can’t catch by the time you get to college, doubtful a coach is somehow going to miraculously teach you how in 1 season at that level. Coaching should be able to help in route running technique and ability to get separation but having the ball hit you right in the hands or chest and you dropping it is on you, not your coach.
Saban was 1 of 1 I think everyone judges everyone against him which is a losing battle. That said UGA fans were talking like they were invincible since those 2 chips. They are Clemson of 2018-2019 right now. Great run that has ended now can you pivot to a new style?
There's a reason Mike Bobo got fired 15 years ago. UGA needs to recruit and actually keep 5 star recruits at QB and bring in better WRs like they did just a few years ago with guys like aj green and George Pickens. Kirby thinks he's gonna win with a qb like Jake Fromm with Bobo calling the dump off plays but teams like Bama, Ohio state, Oke Miss Notre Dame and Texas when the go to Arch will pass them by.
We still won the SEC Championship, which is a big deal. Especially given how bad we played all year. The Georgia “faithful” who think we are supposed to win the natty every year, are delusional and probably a bandwagon fan to begin with. We went further this year than we probably should have. That being said, full confidence in Kirby. Here’s to 2025.
All you have to do is look at the talent he lost to the NFL last year to see how it impacted play. Brock and Lad are killing it as rookies in the NFL. We had both and they made Beck look great. We also did not have an NFL Caliber running back. If kirby recruits Georgia will win. But we have had several once in a lifetime teams. Georgia may struggle to out spend some of the billionaire schools like Texas and Michigan. Not sure Georgia will be a the top of the food chain in the NIL day. Salad days of recruiting are over. Kids want cash, not nice facilities. I don't even think they care about winning anymore.
Kirby is still the best coach in college football. This may have been collectively his worst roster since 2016 and he still won a sec championship with it.
Kirbys issues now is college roommate..groomsmen and underperforming coordinator. A ring bearer walk on son of coordinator that likely will likely somehow start on offensive line.Nepotism? Just slightly..
Anyone that don’t think Kirby is not top five coaches crazy we won sec and had so many injuries let me ask you this question then who you think is better than I wait no one he wins
This is absolutely pathetic, even the deficiencies that Georgia had, they had more drop passes than any team in college football and they also committed more turnovers this season than they have since 2013 while playing the toughest schedule in college football and steal one 111 games an SEC Championship an appearance in the college football playoff quarterfinals and people honestly have enough nerve to ask if Kirby is still a top coach???😂😂😂
Bobo has to go if UGA wants to continue being at the top Just like our rooster is top notch, head coach, out defensive staff, our OC needs to be … good doesn’t cut it
Only in today’s college landscape can a team win the SEC championship and people start questioning if we’re still a top team.
because we just watched Marcus Freeman run circles around Kirby Smart, something many other teams that annually played Georgia or play Georgia every other year can’t even SNIFF of doing.
right when this happened, guaranteed every fanbase in the SEC cheered then said “what the heck are we not doing that ND is doing”
Well the SEC and its sycophants made it about national championships or you’re a loser so we’re all just playing by their rules.
@@GoatedAtNFSnobody looked at anything besides the score would say ND „ran circles around georgia“. There were bad playcalls and ND stopped Georgia‘s running game fairly effectively. Thats pretty much the explanation of why they won. And the score doesn’t reflect accurately how the game really was.
@@GoatedAtNFSKirby’s father was fighting for his life in the hospital during the Sugar Bowl and passed away a few days ago. Call it an excuse if you want but some things are bigger than football.
They got in bc other teams blew their own destiny... bama unfortunately 😢lol
Not mentioned enough but… in the midst of the ND game, Kirby’s dad was literally in the hospital fighting for his life and passed away the next day. And UGA was still competitive in the game but made mistakes you can’t afford to make. (The D played well and only gave up a short field TD and a few field goals).
With the receiver group leading the country in drops, the O line being more injured and regressing heavily in some areas (hello Ernest Greene where did you go?)… I think this was Kirby’s finest coaching job to date.
Winning the SEC and being in a position to contend for an NC is incredible given everything occurring.
I'm a Big 10 guy and its fair to say Georgia and Kirby Smart are at the top of NCAA football.
Georgia has been the most dominant team in the country the past five years.
Built a dynaysty with back to back championships.
Recruited and developed a lot of high end NFL talent.
Kirby Smart went head to head against Saban to get to the top. That proves he can coach and lead a program at the highest level.
That said, college football is in a new world with NIL and transfer portal.
Georgia will continue to be a contender -- and can win more titles -- but will be hard to get back to the dominance of a few years ago.
You may be right, but it's too early to make that call. As legal battles continue, we do not yet know how the portal and NIL will play out over the next few years. Assuming that schools will be allowed to pay athletes from the funds made by athletics, the top programs will still be able to pay, on average, far more than the non-top-tier programs.
Georgia is in now way a dynasty. Back to back championships are not a dynasty, just a good couple year run.
@@johndoger8860 having only what 6 losses in 5 years is legit a dynasty. Ohio State can’t say the same
I Agree they are an elite team and were the top dawg but rn they aren’t. They haven’t won a playoff game since 2022. Cool they won the sec chip which is still good but if you haven’t won a playoff game in 2 years you ain’t the top dawg at the moment
@@johndoger8860 Not my definition or opinion -- but back-to-back championships or three titles within a six-year span is a consensus acclimation of a team's stature as a dynasty.
Let us not forget that Georgia was also handed a gauntlet of a schedule that they had to run this year. Clemson, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Ole Miss, and 4 of those 5 were not at home. Could you imagine how better rested and healthy Georgia would have been if they had a schedule like Texas’.
yep
That schedule wasn’t as tough as Bama and Georgia has had Cup cake schedules since Kirby has been in Georgia,welcome to a real schedule,Georgia is looking at 2 to 4 losses again next season,Georgia and Alabama is not going to keep that depth due to NIL and Transfer Portal new world professional college football
they have the same schedule next year
Man stop!! You're talking about the all time great GEORGIA! I don't want to hear about being healthy... your fan base thrive off of "next man up" because yall recruit just that good.
@@johnlee4763 imagine someone actually believing that Bama had a tougher schedule than Georgia or, even worse, believing that Bama doesn't perennially have more of a cupcake schedule than Georgia usually does...that delusion seems to have festered to the team(no wonder they lost to Vandy)
My reply to this question is did Bama win the title every year NS was there? Every team has down years
As a bitter Texas fan, I have to give it to Kirby. He is a hell of a coach.
I almost hope Texas wins National Championship now, because Georgia can always say "yeah we beat you 2x that year"
@@richnation8799that would be funny, but osu will beat the ever living shit out of texas
@@richnation8799nah Texas tried to come in our hood in the first year and win the sec and we beat em, but they’re still a good team . I need Ohio state to just finish with the chip so we can put this season behind us
Kirby then signs Noah Thomas, the Branch brothers, 5 star WR Talyn Taylor. It's an inflection point that Kirby seems to be well ahead of.
UGA fan here, Kirby is one of only two coaches to my knowledge (correct me if im wrong) to have a National Championship ring. In fact, he has two of them. (Ironically, the other coach has two of them). Now this Georgia team this year was not great. They were below average. But to take that below average team through one of, if not, THE toughest schedule in CFB history and come out with only two losses, 3 wins against top 15 teams, and then beat one of those 3 (a top 5 team, the only team to beat them thus far) a second time to win the league. Yes he actually won the conference with this below average team. That is truly remarkable. Not too many coaches could do that. I, for one, don't know how he did this. Kirby is the best coach in CFB. But he has to learn to adapt to the new RIDICULOUS NIL/transfer portal format if he is to continue to be successful, and i think he is poised to do so.
Oh i forgot to mention the injuries and off field stuff he had to overcome also to coach this football team
Is there a scenario where the head coach of the national championship doesn't get a ring? If not, Saban has three, Kirby and Dabo both have two, and Urban Meyer, Ed Orgeron, and Jim Harbaugh each have one.
@@ThemeParkRowan i think he talking about active coaches. Mack Brown also had one but he just got fired.
@@tomdemay6147 That is what I'm referring to. "Active" coaches.
If people are really being honest, they would say Kirby is the best coach. There’s really no other option unless someone passes him over the next two-three years. To say otherwise, you’re either delusional or just not being honest lol
Like 👍 the warm look!
The Norte Dame’s coach carried Kirby to school!!!😂😂
@@williamhumphries706 so by that logic the NIU coach is better than the Notre Dame coach 😂😂😂
The problem is Mike Bobo. He runs when he should throw and throws when he should run.
Mike Bozo bc that guy is a clown.
Mike Bozo you mean bc he is a clown.
Kirby is already going lethal in the transfer portal. Got Zachariah branch from USC & Noah Thomas from A&M. This was our weakest area this season and he’s already addressing it, not even a week from that ND loss. This feels like a Ryan Day type of off season start. Add the loss of his father to it…Dawgs coming for it 2025.
I wouldn't ever doubt Kirby or GA. -Texas fan
@ agreed. Hope you guys bring it home to the SEC this season! Horns up🤘🏼
@svnti1239 not me. Neither texas nor it's fans have any loyalty to the sec. I don't care who wins but not pulling for texas either. Any other sec team would have my support. Auburn and florida included.
And he did it with his dad unfortunately passing away
Talyn Taylor looks like a future star. He does not drop catchable passes.
Winning the SEC with this schedule, and the injuries UGA had, I’d say it was one of his best coaching jobs.
I send My Most Prayerful Condolences to both Coach Kirby Smart and the surviving Families of those who lost their Lives on New Year's Day in New Orleans.😔😭🙏🏿❤B.W.
As a buckeye I freely admit Georgia is a powerhouse and will stay that way for a while. Every team has injuries, it happens and the HC is still top 5 in the country
Much respect. Even though we didn't make it that far. I was circling OSU. That was going to be a game. Thinking yall are gonna get the Natty. The midnight game against yall was still one of the best I've seen. Good luck going forward. Rooting for the Buckeyes!
@ thx, Georgia would probably have won it if not for the injury
I'm no Georgia fan, but a 2x defending national champion, who haven't lost in 2 years, left out of a national championship game, much less a 4 team playoff, simply because they lost the SEC title at the very end of the game, to what is widely regarded as the best football coach of all time, to a team that has so recently been a dynasty the likes of which can easily be argued to have been the greatest of all time, is absolutely fucking absurd. It's objectively ridiculous in every sense of the word, and I still can't believe it happened
Thank you. It was ridiculous.
@@ronjbalast year was very strange. There were many teams that could make the argument to be included. Georgia lost at the most inopportune time. Don’t spend time lamenting the past. You end up being Florida state.
Who should they have gotten in over?
Don't play a week schedule. As Kirby and Josh Pate have both said, they were the 2x champions they were not defending anything. It is not a king of the hill match where until someone knocks them off the top, they can't be replaced. It may give them a leg up in rankings the next year but playing a schedule that is weak enough that it does not allow any losses will knock you out of those rankings also.
UGA has lost like 3 games in the last 2 years what are you talking about
just a down year still won the SEC and made the playoffs.
Kirby is still on top of the coaching mountain. He won the SEC, beat Texas twice, and won the second game with a backup QB. I would argue that no one else has proven worthy to take his place yet
The fact that Kirby led a very mid team to an SEC championship and bye in the playoffs is insane lol. Would’ve won the natty last year if the Bama game went their way.
That's true. He is still a great in-game coach. But what's happening with the team management and player development? Kirby is the one who made this team mid, especially with zero offense.
@@saeyeulpark9063 If any coach or team had everything go their way they'd win the natty, right?
Georgia had the talent but they underperformed for reasons that were mostly beyond Kirby's control . They still had a season most fan bases would kill for.
As a UGA fan and an avid college football fan I genuinely don’t understand how you can have a dominate program to the point where even losing 1 or 2 games is considered bad? We have no doubt in Kirby and what he is doing with the program. Do we want to get a natty? Sure. But just because you don’t always get one doesn’t mean anything is wrong when clearly you are dominating the field. I feel the same way for instance for Alabama those times when Nick was there and he lost like 2 games and everyone was outraged. Same with Ohio state they have had dominate teams respectively yet they lose 1 or 2 games and all hell breaks loose
When you are on top you, have a bullseye on your back, and will get everyone's best shot. Bad breaks and injuries play a big part of any teams season. Have to wonder how much Kirby's dad being in the hospital affected him and the team.
uga didnt say that when bama jato went down in the natty they claimed next man up remember
Dawg fan here, I’m shocked that we only lost three games this season, with the lack of really good players and daunting schedule.
We had really good players, just not on the offensive line which is where it matters the most. Hence the losses, which can all be traced back to a crappy o-line and turnovers.
@ no game breaking tail backs, mediocre wide outs, underwhelming tight end play, and no one consistently elite on defense either. Starks and CJ both regressed.
Kirby is as close to Saban that there will be! Of course they will be back!!! As a Bama fan I've missed Kirby every day hes been gone from Bama!! Kirby is still the top Coach!!! Nothing but respect!!!
I think Kirby is the best coach and I do think UGA would have won the title last season if they get by Bama(I'm a Bama fan) in the seccg. That being said I don't think they caught a bad break this season. they hung on by a thread in multiple games.
I feel like when we (UGA) hired Monken we were finally moving in the right direction with our OC coaching philosophy. Then we fell back to the old ways of thinking with Bobo, once again. I know they are best friends, but we need some fresh blood. Cant just maintain what you have had and expect it to play out the same every year. You end up with deformities and issues like in pure bread animals. Hire coaches from outside Kirby.
LOL
@@jansonroberts2616 People who blame Bobo really suck.
@@markgelbart5889 They’re going to blame someone. Some of these “fans” said we’d never win a natty with Stetson Bennett too. Some were quite adamant and upset with Kirby playing Bennett. Glad he didn’t give in to the naysayers. I’ll stick with Kirby and how he wants to run his program. Go Dawgs!
I hear you. Before NIL/Portal or even at the very beginning of it, Georgia could recruit and retain talent 3/4 deep at every position. You add OC Monken with his NFL resume and you get back-2-back Natties. Now, with NIL/Portal in full speed, talented players are not willing to wait 2 years for their turn to play. They get bought and hired away while waiting. Georgia will never likely have the collection of talent we had in 2021-2022 ever again because of NIL/Portal. Moreover, OC Bobo is a decent college level coach but he likes to keep his play calling simple and that sometimes become predictive/obvious by really good opposing team's DC staff. They can pick out tendencies and patterns... The best example is how Georgia O-Line was put on skates by Notre Dame's DC Golden (he has NFL resume). He took what Ole Miss did against Georgia (using stunt technique) and added Mesh Gap Assignments typically used in NFL. Georgia O-Line could not just "line up" and attack using its bigger/heavier bodies. This shows the upper ceiling of OC Bobo and the fact that having more talent at the O-line does not really help when opposing team can out-scheme you.
@@YT5052 It wasn’t just Notre dame and Ole Miss we struggled with on the oline. Anyone watching our games should know and be able to understand the shortcomings of our oline. Need work there and that’s not on Bobo. LOL. We had the worst running game by far out of our last seven seasons. Oline. We were limited by the type of plays we could run effectively. Oline. Our worst year out of the last 7 years as a team, 40 drops by receivers, and statistically, the most missed tackles by our defense since Kirby took over as head coach and yet we still won the SEC, still finished in the top 8 of the CFP playoff. Apparently to some, we’re doomed and desolate. LOL. Simply delusional. The sky isn’t falling and we’ll be right back at the heart of college football in 2025. SMH.
The future is bright. No doubt
Georgia should probably move down to Division II as I'm not sure if they can even win a Power 4 game again. All joking aside, in spite of what some people are saying on here, Georgia did not have an average or below average team, they had an above average team. Still a lot of talent, just not as talented overall as the national championship teams. They still played at a very high level but when your margin for error is smaller then you have years like this where just a few injuries, a bit of untimely luck, and you have 3 losses. It's actually a sign of a program that still had a very good year and is in good shape. The hardest part for Kirby will be two things, does he continue to adapt and replacing coaches. Saban was incredible because he kept losing coaches, replaced them, and stayed successful even though not every hire was a home run and as you mentioned he was always willing to adapt. He hated it but did it anyways. I'm sure Kirby saw that under Saban and now we get to see how good he is at it. He's won two national championships, he has a reputation as a guy who coaches players well, the money Georgia has, I think he'll easily be able to attract top coaches, it's more of picking the right ones and I'm sure he'll get at least a few correct. Will he be stubborn and less adaptable? We're about to find out but as of now, still the best coach in college football until someone proves otherwise and I think he's easily #1 right now.
Because of NIL and the Transfer Portal, you’re not going to see absolute dynasties year after year anymore, like Alabama recently had. The powerhouse teams will still win their fair share as usual, but I think that the NC trophy is going to be changing hands a lot more, from now on, than it used to. I say this as a hard core Dawgs fan. It’s simply the new reality of college football.
To me the biggest inflection point is whether UGA will change its NIL philosophy. The $$ is there but the strategy isn’t to lead with NIL like other programs are doing. UGA is middle of the pack competitive but not at the top end of spending. Top tier athletes are choosing the $$ over development and NFL readiness now so will a strategy adjustment take place at UGA happen is my biggest question
Wait! Dabo doesn't lead with the nil and portal, and yall call him a bullshit coach because he won't do like most other coaches.
When kids go to an inferior school and conference and still be rewarded with million dollar deals and heisman's why get your body beat up in a real conference every week.
I think one of the things that gets overlooked the most is the OC… When UGA had those dominant 2-3 years, Todd Monken was the OC… Monken had the ability to play off an athletes attributes, when Mike Bobo is taking some of these same athletes and exposing their weaknesses… When Monken was there, Carson Beck & Stetson Bennett was battling for that starting position when JT Daniels went down…Now, since Beck is the guy Mike Bobo’s offense has tanked Beck’s draft stock… Don’t get wrong, Beck is responsible for his own decision making, but I just feel like the OC isn’t helping him either.
DAWGS fan here. The definition of luck is when opportunity and preparation meet. Ohio St. missing a field goal wasn't luck. It was their lack of preparation and UGA's opportunity to take advantage of it that led to the win. As a UGA supporter, I'm very happy with Kirby, but I am quick to point out that he's not in a class of his own as there are several head coaches right there with him. To climb to the top of the mountain in college football is a brutal and all-consuming endeavor for a school, but to remain there is damn near impossible. Alabama's past dominance is a rare occurrence. To put it in simpler terms, just look at Ohio St. Who wouldn't trade their program's record with Ohio St the past 54 years, and yet they only have 2 national championships in that span? The landscape of college football is drastically changing by the day becoming even more complicated and competitive than ever before. With coaches like Marcus Freeman and Sherrone Moore, Ryan Day, Kenny Dillingham, and a lot of up-and-coming FCS coaches on the horizon, I find it hard to name a top coach but would definitely consider Kirby Smart to be in the conversation. Best of luck to all the remaining teams.
2:00 “that’s luck.” I’m pretty sure that was Georgia’s defense dropping Ohio State for a loss before they had to kick the FG.
Literally lmao they act like dude missed a 30 yard field goal our defense forced a very long field goal that their kicker didn’t have the leg for.
Check out GA’s stacked wide receiver room now. I think you already have your answer, Josh
WR bench being filled with better talent does not help much when the O-Line is out-schemed by opposing team DC staff with NFL resumes. Notre Dame used Stunt techniques used by Ole Miss against GA and added Mesh Gap assignment technique often used in NFL. Georgia's bigger/heavier O-Line could not just line up and attack... they were put on skates the whole first half. That is why Georgia could not run or throw and what little we did was not helped by WRs dropping balls... Georgia needs better coaches as well as more talented players.
offensive scheme has to change .. that’s when we’ll consistently get the best QBs to commit & they will bring the best skill players
UGA faced the hardest schedule and second hardest record of the year. The running back room was cut in half at the start of the season. Carson hit skids in the middle of the season. Top ranked recruiting class this year with OL that's as good or better stepping up. Probably the best WR room UGA has had in years next year and an amazing set of tight ends. We will NEVER have another Brock Bowers. But we will be in the playoff next year and in the hunt for the SEC title again.
People need to relax.
Kirby is still the top coach in college football!!
Proud of my Dawgs despite the ending to the season. To have only lost to three teams since 2021(?) is remarkable.
Kirby just had a bit of a down year. He’ll be fine.
But Bama, I’m not so sure about. Saban retired because he could no longer control 100% of the narrative, IMHO
If somebody doesn't get control of "the narrative" college football will be ruined forever. The current situation isn't sustainable. The donors paying these crazy salaries will pull back if they don't results.
What's with the Blue - Josh is going Corporate - The White T is what I tune in for
We now, after this year, have as many SEC Championships as National Championships. More Natties than SEC Titles was a crazy stat and I'm extremely proud of the fight the team showed to get the SEC Title, despite this year's shortcomings.
Please everyone, convince yourselves that Kirby Smart isn't him anymore. I'd love to see what we'd cook up in the event y'all do that.
UGA needed help. Each year they won the championship they weren’t the best team but instead was the beneficiary of key injuries. This year they were the one with the key injuries. If Beck is healthy they probably beat ND
The UGA faithful have been moaning about Beck since he got there so I'm not so sure about that.
CKS biggest issue is kids getting in trouble off the field we loss our 2 top WR to offseason issues
Kirby and Dabo make too many Buddy Boy hires. Doesn’t work. Or it doesn’t work in regard to winning NC’s. Make the best hire, and most of the time, that means going outside the box.
speaking of missed field goals that's the only reason they won the SEC this year. Texas missed 2 of them
WR and RB position needs an electric boost at UGA! Go dawgs !
As a Georgia grad and rabid fan, I'm not happy that the same assistants are still in place. Bobo, Searels, and Coley are not up to the standard. This is an inflection point, and I have my doubts that Kirby is meeting the moment the right way.
Kirby has a problem with adapting. Josh made a great point that I’ve been complaining about for years..everyone likes to blame bobo but Kirby’s offense has been the same mundane o since 2016. The two years georgias offense was a little more electric they had Brock and Ladd(who are the 2 best rookies in the league) and Stetson (a dual qb).
Saban adapted his team from tough defense with a game manager qb to realizing electric offenses are gonna score regardless of how good your D is and since then has had the best receivers and dual threat qbs. Kirby is still living in the AJ McCarron era of football
Plus the off field issues...its still a good season though.,
The DAWGS 2021 and 2022 class on offensive line did not have the body’s we needed Let’s hope the 2023 class and some new body’s step up.
Kirby is a great coach and 2025 will be a great year for the DAWGS
It won't.... they drop 3
@@hitwonder101 You are insane, just watch
Kirby is already going lethal in the transfer portal. Got Zachariah branch from USC & Noah Thomas from A&M. This was our weakest area this season and he’s already addressing it, not even a week from that ND loss. This feels like a Ryan Day type of off season start. Add the loss of his father to it…Dawgs coming for it 2025.
If y’all think UGA were not elite this year because Beck was out one game, y’all don’t know ball
I love Mike Bobo, but we need more creativity in the play calling and drawing up plays to get people open. We can't just rely on WRs to get open. We have to schemes them open. That is up to the OC and his assistants.
OC Bobo is decent COLLEGE level coach but he has a very limited ceiling... He cannot beat opposing team's DC with NFL resume when NIL/Portal evens out the odds. Georgia O-Line having bigger/heavier bodies did not provide an advantage against NFL level schemes in defeating the GA O-Line. DC Golden took what Ole Miss did against GA, using stunt techniques and added NFL Mesh Gap assignments on top of that and turned the dial up to 11. That was why we could not run or pass much of the game.
It remains to be seen if old-style college football coaches will successfully adapt to the new paradigm, semi-pro football. The talent coming into colleges today is self-centered, profit-oriented kids who are not team-oriented but me-oriented. In college football, the players were more amenable to coalescing as team players. Today's players have an attitude that if they can't get what they want now they will just jump in the transfer portal for more money and recognition.
A bit off topic but I think it's time to eliminate scholarships for any player with an NIL deal worth more than the scholarship. Why are the taxpayers footing the bill for guys driving a Lamborghini at 18?
Have to find a way to make that mountain top a plateau.
The Last 4 years they are basically finishing the season Champ. Champ, #5, #5/6. Georgia is fine, but like everyone else they need to continue to grow and develop, because winning is hard.
DAWGS are still the number one program in college football. Even Nick didn’t win every National Championship. Come on Guys, with the way the NIL and portal is now days it’s gonna be hard for any team to keep winning. GO DAWGS!!
Who's the alternate choice? Waiting...
We do have someone standing in our way. Mike Bobo
Bobo is one of if not the best oc in the nation. He was able to navigate to the playoffs with a team that had no recievers, no running backs and a terrible o line. Beck was the only thing that was great.
@@benjaminsaturday8300 This man loves screens
Agreed. GA will never win another NC with Bobo as OC. Bobo is a DGD and his love for GA is not questioned. what I do question is his ability to think outside the box to create a dynamic, imaginative offense that gives DC's nightmares. Bobo couldn't do it under CMR and he can't do it under CKS. Bobo will be the downfall of GA and CKS the next few years.
OC Bobo is a decent COLLEGE level coach but he has tendencies and patterns that opposing DC staff can pick out to use against Georgia (you can guess a few things Bobo likes). Also, Notre Dame DC staff has NFL resume coach (DC Golden) and it showed up in how Notre Dame defense put Georgia O-Line on skates the entire first half. Notre Dame Defense was the one doing all the HUNTING on dawgs. We need coaches with NFL resumes like we used to have with OC Monken. Bobo has a limited ceiling on what he can do and against NFL level DC coaches in college ball, Bobo is at a disadvantage. Georgia has more talent on roster but with less than elite coaching, the NIL/Portal takes away the roster advantage so we need better coaching to out-scheme the other teams in 2025.
@@kingtate3698 I do love the screen, It is what made us national champions 2 years in a row. UGA would have beat Mich year 3 with the screen.
Kirby is usually conservative. He got aggressive at the worst moment. Go to half 6 3. 2nd half kickoff not kicked in the endzone as usual. Turnovers and special teams that couldve been avoided
Won SEC with the Top SOS, I think we Dawgs are gonna be just fine.
I think Kirby is doing fine. This year was plagued by missed catches, missed tackles, turnovers and an iffy offensive line. Get those ironed out and we are right back at it.
I think that could be said of any coach. It's his job to coach player up so the buck stops with him.
@davebryant8050 to a point I agree. You can't make people complete passes or tackles. That's on the players. The o line struggles may boil down to coaching, but Becks nearly 20 interceprions aren't kirbys fault. Looks like NIL got to his head this season. I put the o I one failures on Bobo myself. Looks familiar to last time with him.
A down year is barely missing the CFP last year and losing in the CFP this year?! We're spoiled.
Question is can they find a qb that can replace beck
Most didn't want him at qb anyway so I'm guessing they'll be fine. Stockton looked okay to me. Bama would have loved to have Stockton rather than the joke we had. Maybe 2025 will be better to both teams but DeBoer doesn't give much hope.
Never underestimate Bobo ability to screw up a sure thing.
Two things can be true at once. Kirby yes is the best coach in the CFB. But UGAs run of dominance is over. What lead to that is NIL,TP, and the new Collegefootball playoffs. Plus now with how the SEC schedule is done. You aren't playing the same eastern teams like you use too when you had divisions.
Again much respect to Kirby and all he has done. Best coach in the CFB. But things have changed around him and it has hurt UGA. You can clearly see it.
There is more to it than that for Georgia's performance in 2024 but you're not wrong. Georgia has the NIL budget to be top 5 every year even with NIL/TP but the issue - in my opinion - is the coaching. With having talent stacked 3/4 deep on the roster every year before NIL/TP, having decent college level coaching was good enough to win. With NIL/TP, even if we have 20 Million NIL budget, our coaching is not elite to compete. College teams are hiring coaches with NFL resumes now and OC Bobo is decent college coach but not elite enough to complete with NFL coaches playing at college level. Notre Dame DC Golden beat OC Bobo at LOS all game long. I saw it clearly.
Kirby Smart is still the top coach in the country. So, Georgia fans, don't dump on Kirby. Remember, the Richt years were way too inconsistent, and the Bulldogs underachieved heavily during Richt's time.
Who is asking this question?? Georgia is thee most stable top tier program……..Dawg fans are disappointed, who isn’t after a lose but I don’t hear anyone questioning Kirby and if they are welcome to Georgia sit back and watch a few seasons nobody, nobody has more wins the last five seasons at this level, nobody.
Knew exactly when he posed this question this hater would bring up luck in comparison to the missed OSU FG and Jameson Williams injured.
Dabo is the number 1 coach still coaching today just the facts.
That's funny. He'd be lucky to win 6 games at any sec school. The ACC is the new Big East conference.
What is funny is that not so long ago most thought Kirby Smart was secure while Franklin and Day were teetering on the brink. I think with NIL and the transfer portal, we are going to see a lot more of who gets hot like TCU a couple of years ago rather than dynasties or "best coaches" for a while.
Kirby is secure. Not sure of your reference with him.
Georgia has never been a dynasty,Alabama has been the only dynasty to ever exist in college football and there will never be another
@@johnlee4763 Nah, OU had one years ago. Nebraska had one once upon a time. USC had one years ago. Bama has had the most recent but they weren’t the only one. If you would have said in recent years, you’d have been correct.
@@johnlee4763 who said georgia was a dynasty DUMMY
@@jansonroberts2616 You missed the spirit of my post, in that how fast things changed. Just the very nature of the video we are commenting on indicates that. I didn't mean to imply Kirby was not secure at UGA, only that he is not the king of the hill he was thought to be this time last year.
Gotta fire Bobo
People need to accept that no 1 SEC team is going to dominate anymore with the talent and $ sharing going on. The 12-0 days are over in SEC and BIG 10
People always seem to remember the Ohio missed field goal and calling us lucky but never bring up our two missed field goals.
Or the fact UGA was down 28 points (2 times down by 14 points) and came back to be in a position to be decided by a FG.
The ranking we have yards rushing…..,is embarrassing. If that does not get fixed, we will continue to have down years. Offensive line can’t block and running is practically impossible. 2nd down year in rushing…..should get new O Line coach at least. Otherwise we will look the same in 2025
everyone says the landscape will be more even, well Texas isn’t going anywhere and currently are building a machine. and if Georgia continues to have hard schedules like this year and the next, Georgia might not reach a championship for a little while
When Monken laft the O started regressing. If changes are not made, the O will continue to get worse. That is reality!!
Last year the o was the best in the nation. The team was the best in the nation. They lost a nail bitter by 3 with all their playmakers injured.
Everyone can pay players now so Georgia will be in trouble. We now get to see how good Kirby really is.
now?
Georgia's future under Kirby Smart is limitless. Top of the chain as far as college coaches go.
Georgia's and ALL of college football's future under current NIL and transfer portal.......straight to the bottom.
Nil has level the playing field. Alabama Georgia and Ohio State don't get all of the top recruits. Kirby still a great coach.
Who would be number 1 if not Kirby? I’ll wait…… nobody bro, it ain’t Ryan day, it ain’t dabo, it ain’t Marcus fucking freeman lmao 😂😂😂 , sooo…. Who are you left with? You would rather have Kirby than ANYONE ELSE
No one who knows anything about ball, thinks Kirby fell off.
We're getting our answer this offseason as to how Kirby manages the changing CFB landscape. We're already seeing big and necessary pickups in the transfer portal from Georgia. A couple transfers out, but that's a given in today's world. Many players going to the draft, but a couple big players returning (Dillon Bell, Christian Miller).
The real question is what coaching changes are made. I'm not a Bobo defender by any means but I think he needs one more season before we can pass judgement on him. WR drops and OL have been the issues this season, not scheme. Coley needs to be "promoted" to head of recruiting so a competent WR coach can come in. And Searles needs to be gone.
Which of those WR’s did Coley bring in?
@@jansonroberts2616 Check out the 2025 class. We have an absurd receiver group coming in.
Problem is our WRs on the team now can't catch or create space to save their lives. That's at least partly bad coaching.
Coley is well known to be a great recruiter, he's just not a great coach.
@@eliwaddell Again, which of those current WR’s that played this season did Coley bring into the program?
@@jansonroberts2616 You are aware that Coley has been WR coach for one season, right? He was named to the position last February.
You know what that means? It means he is responsible for coaching the guys currently on the team as well as landing next year's WR recruits.
You know what he's done a great job at? Landing WR recruits. You know what he's done a poor job at? Coaching and developing the current WRs.
I didn't think I'd have to spell it out for you but I know critical thinking can be difficult.
@@eliwaddell If you can’t catch by the time you get to college, doubtful a coach is somehow going to miraculously teach you how in 1 season at that level. Coaching should be able to help in route running technique and ability to get separation but having the ball hit you right in the hands or chest and you dropping it is on you, not your coach.
Saban was 1 of 1 I think everyone judges everyone against him which is a losing battle.
That said UGA fans were talking like they were invincible since those 2 chips. They are Clemson of 2018-2019 right now. Great run that has ended now can you pivot to a new style?
Georgia still recruits a lot better than Clemson.
Clemson didn't go back to back try again!
There's a reason Mike Bobo got fired 15 years ago. UGA needs to recruit and actually keep 5 star recruits at QB and bring in better WRs like they did just a few years ago with guys like aj green and George Pickens.
Kirby thinks he's gonna win with a qb like Jake Fromm with Bobo calling the dump off plays but teams like Bama, Ohio state, Oke Miss Notre Dame and Texas when the go to Arch will pass them by.
We still won the SEC Championship, which is a big deal. Especially given how bad we played all year. The Georgia “faithful” who think we are supposed to win the natty every year, are delusional and probably a bandwagon fan to begin with. We went further this year than we probably should have. That being said, full confidence in Kirby.
Here’s to 2025.
All you have to do is look at the talent he lost to the NFL last year to see how it impacted play. Brock and Lad are killing it as rookies in the NFL. We had both and they made Beck look great. We also did not have an NFL Caliber running back. If kirby recruits Georgia will win. But we have had several once in a lifetime teams. Georgia may struggle to out spend some of the billionaire schools like Texas and Michigan. Not sure Georgia will be a the top of the food chain in the NIL day. Salad days of recruiting are over. Kids want cash, not nice facilities. I don't even think they care about winning anymore.
Please release Bobo!!!! Bring Monken back!!!
They have a Bobo problem. We all have seen this play out before when Bobo runs the offence. Just think about the past.
Kirby is still the best coach in college football. This may have been collectively his worst roster since 2016 and he still won a sec championship with it.
Holy Shit, if you listen to every one else in the country Georgia,Alabama and the whole SEC needs to fold , they’re finished.🤦🏻♂️
Georgia was literally 2 bad plays from beating Notre Dame
Losing is a bad break?
Kirbys issues now is college roommate..groomsmen and underperforming coordinator. A ring bearer walk on son of coordinator that likely will likely somehow start on offensive line.Nepotism? Just slightly..
Anyone that don’t think Kirby is not top five coaches crazy we won sec and had so many injuries let me ask you this question then who you think is better than I wait no one he wins
13 million $ a year? Really?
And that Folks, is why they play the game . . .
This is absolutely pathetic, even the deficiencies that Georgia had, they had more drop passes than any team in college football and they also committed more turnovers this season than they have since 2013 while playing the toughest schedule in college football and steal one 111 games an SEC Championship an appearance in the college football playoff quarterfinals and people honestly have enough nerve to ask if Kirby is still a top coach???😂😂😂
Bobo has to go if UGA wants to continue being at the top
Just like our rooster is top notch, head coach, out defensive staff, our OC needs to be … good doesn’t cut it
Missing more field goals than the other team but still winning is “luck”
Pate has gone full blown casual. It’s sad to see
Kirby cant develop because the draft takes players away is one of the most head up the ass takes ive ever heard.
One of the problems is Bobo