Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
I am very thankful for Kirby. I vividly remember Christmas of 1995 and the Mason/Donnan hirings. I’m ashamed I thought Georgia was going to win championships with Donnan. I hope Kirby is the coach til he’s 75.
Yeah I expected much from Donnan. To be fair he improved the program. Not sure how much support he got from BM. I know he loved Georgia and wanted very badly to be great. After the tech disaster he had to go.
CMR arrived with his speed offense that the SEC quickly stopped. If there would have been a four team playoff he certainly would have gotten teams in it. He definitely did not get the support needed from BM. In the end it was time for a change.
I had high hopes Kirby Smart was the long awaited solution. He did unlike the last two coaches get his wish list filled by BM. Never did I expect Georgia in my lifetime to have the best HC in all of college football. Or be the team everyone else wanted to be.
Kirby seems to just be entering his prime. He’s also become the very best at clock management, knowing how and when to use time outs. There’s nobody close to his halftime adjustments that he just shrugs off as no big deal. There is no finer coach in land. In Kirby I trust to do everything possible to put Georgia in the best position to win. I’m here to enjoy every win for as long as this golden age run lasts.
Donnan’s first game was one of the great all time disappointments as a Dawg fan…. Full of excitement, a new era, and then lay an egg against Southern Miss – it was a l-o-n-g ride back home that evening….
There was a lot to like about the offensive side of the football during his stay. I still love the split backfield check off to the speed option. Nearly impossible to defend.
I though Georgia was going to win with Donnan. Like scuba said, I think that he improved the program. He brought in a lot of talent and some of it unfortunately just didn’t work out. But a lot of the guys, like Jasper Sanks, that didn’t work out were guys that everyone in the country also wanted. For whatever reason, Donnan’s teams just couldn’t get over the hump and never, in my opinion, reached the potential that they should have with the collection of talent that Donnan was able to amass.
Man, I’m so glad to be living in THE glory years of Georgia football. I was lucky enough to be in school with Herschel and Dominique, to see Kirby come in and raise the program to the top is amazing. I’m enjoying every game because one day this ride will be over.
Happy birthday, Coach! How ’bout them fucking Dawgs!
Really, really impressed with how Kirby responded to last year’s disappointments. We all saw what the problem was and for him to see it, call it out, name it, and address it so effectively has been very impressive. To see it all manifest so beautifully in the seccg is a program highlight right up there with any of them. You just don’t see many teams take proud, talented programs steal their lunch money and stuff them in a locker like that. Just really surreal to witness it.
I had doubts about whether he could replicate what Saban had done in Tuscaloosa. I didn’t think we could sign top 3 classes every year and just overwhelm people with superior talent. He did that.
Then, as NIL leveled the talent out, he’s done the much harder job of creating a program culture and identity of playing LOS football. While our competitors cater to the prima donnas and the gentleness of the modern teenager, we’re getting mean af.
I remember when I was a young fan believing and knowing that we could, on any given Saturday, beat anyone out that. Coach Dooley had created a culture that could do that.
We didn’t do it consistently enough tho because Dooley was never that interested in out recruiting everyone.
Kirby gives us the best of both worlds. A tough disciplined football team that is never going to be any fun for an opponent to play and with a greedy approach to talent acquisition.
He’s the best out there now. The best we’ve had at Georgia and if he keeps at it, he could retire being thought of as the best whoever did it.
We already have the best football player in college football history, why not add the best head coach?
Happy Birthday Coach.
Now get on a treadmill or a peloton for 30 minutes a day, please. I never want this to end.
B2B…damn, just damn. The college football industrial complex is doing everything it can to prevent this type of success. No more dynasties. NIL, free agency, more conference games and expansion of the CFP are specifically intended to level the playing field and more importantly spread the wealth. More likely we’ll forever have to argue Kirby could have passed Saban given the same opportunities but he’s never going to get them. Still, GOAT of our Era has a nice ring. How. ‘Bout THAT Dawg!
Indeed, if the powers that be had not intentionally destroyed the entire template he had built, we were likely to rip off a run that would have rivaled his mentor. Damn near did anyway. Still might.
I was still laying in bed this morning in a nola when I clicked on the halftime speech. Buddy let me tell you, I was ready to bust down that mf’n hotel door and go smash the hell out of some beignets
I am very thankful for Kirby. I vividly remember Christmas of 1995 and the Mason/Donnan hirings. I’m ashamed I thought Georgia was going to win championships with Donnan. I hope Kirby is the coach til he’s 75.
Yeah I expected much from Donnan. To be fair he improved the program. Not sure how much support he got from BM. I know he loved Georgia and wanted very badly to be great. After the tech disaster he had to go.
CMR arrived with his speed offense that the SEC quickly stopped. If there would have been a four team playoff he certainly would have gotten teams in it. He definitely did not get the support needed from BM. In the end it was time for a change.
I had high hopes Kirby Smart was the long awaited solution. He did unlike the last two coaches get his wish list filled by BM. Never did I expect Georgia in my lifetime to have the best HC in all of college football. Or be the team everyone else wanted to be.
Kirby seems to just be entering his prime. He’s also become the very best at clock management, knowing how and when to use time outs. There’s nobody close to his halftime adjustments that he just shrugs off as no big deal. There is no finer coach in land. In Kirby I trust to do everything possible to put Georgia in the best position to win. I’m here to enjoy every win for as long as this golden age run lasts.
Scuba…let’s not give him an A+ on clock management just yet. He still has a couple of WTF pre-half series per year. Nobody’s perfect. 😜
You’re correct as usual. I was comparing him to his first couple of seasons.
Donnan’s first game was one of the great all time disappointments as a Dawg fan…. Full of excitement, a new era, and then lay an egg against Southern Miss – it was a l-o-n-g ride back home that evening….
You didn’t enjoy the plays that took 7 seconds to develop in the backfield as much as I did?
FYI Coach Richt was hired on Boxing Day 2000….
IF and its a big capital IF, Donnan had:
1) not fallen in love with Quincy AND
2) gotten the DC job filled sooner
who knows?
There was a lot to like about the offensive side of the football during his stay. I still love the split backfield check off to the speed option. Nearly impossible to defend.
Pre Kirby, “the greatest assembler of talent” IMHO!
I though Georgia was going to win with Donnan. Like scuba said, I think that he improved the program. He brought in a lot of talent and some of it unfortunately just didn’t work out. But a lot of the guys, like Jasper Sanks, that didn’t work out were guys that everyone in the country also wanted. For whatever reason, Donnan’s teams just couldn’t get over the hump and never, in my opinion, reached the potential that they should have with the collection of talent that Donnan was able to amass.
Man, I’m so glad to be living in THE glory years of Georgia football. I was lucky enough to be in school with Herschel and Dominique, to see Kirby come in and raise the program to the top is amazing. I’m enjoying every game because one day this ride will be over.
Happy birthday, Coach! How ’bout them fucking Dawgs!
Same for me and lived in Dallas in the ‘90s so got to ride the Cowboys Express to distract me from the Dawgs.
First off, Happy Festivus one and all. https://youtu.be/1njzgXSzA-A?si=gEld4GKWTHY4Wpnz
I too am very thankful for CKS. DGD to the core.
No airing of grievances, HM?
Check back after the next game😉
I’m hoping our site management team remembers the Senators Christmas Day tradition songs from the Pogues and Robert Earl Keene.
the florida audio never ever never ever gets old. it should be played on a constant loop in Butts Mehre.
Really, really impressed with how Kirby responded to last year’s disappointments. We all saw what the problem was and for him to see it, call it out, name it, and address it so effectively has been very impressive. To see it all manifest so beautifully in the seccg is a program highlight right up there with any of them. You just don’t see many teams take proud, talented programs steal their lunch money and stuff them in a locker like that. Just really surreal to witness it.
I had doubts about whether he could replicate what Saban had done in Tuscaloosa. I didn’t think we could sign top 3 classes every year and just overwhelm people with superior talent. He did that.
Then, as NIL leveled the talent out, he’s done the much harder job of creating a program culture and identity of playing LOS football. While our competitors cater to the prima donnas and the gentleness of the modern teenager, we’re getting mean af.
I remember when I was a young fan believing and knowing that we could, on any given Saturday, beat anyone out that. Coach Dooley had created a culture that could do that.
We didn’t do it consistently enough tho because Dooley was never that interested in out recruiting everyone.
Kirby gives us the best of both worlds. A tough disciplined football team that is never going to be any fun for an opponent to play and with a greedy approach to talent acquisition.
He’s the best out there now. The best we’ve had at Georgia and if he keeps at it, he could retire being thought of as the best whoever did it.
We already have the best football player in college football history, why not add the best head coach?
Happy Birthday Coach.
Now get on a treadmill or a peloton for 30 minutes a day, please. I never want this to end.
B2B…damn, just damn. The college football industrial complex is doing everything it can to prevent this type of success. No more dynasties. NIL, free agency, more conference games and expansion of the CFP are specifically intended to level the playing field and more importantly spread the wealth. More likely we’ll forever have to argue Kirby could have passed Saban given the same opportunities but he’s never going to get them. Still, GOAT of our Era has a nice ring. How. ‘Bout THAT Dawg!
Indeed, if the powers that be had not intentionally destroyed the entire template he had built, we were likely to rip off a run that would have rivaled his mentor. Damn near did anyway. Still might.
Happy Birthday Kirby! Best coach in football. Period so proud he a Dawg.
I heard the details about the 50th celebration in Athens last Friday night from someone who attended. Sounds like it was quite the party
I was still laying in bed this morning in a nola when I clicked on the halftime speech. Buddy let me tell you, I was ready to bust down that mf’n hotel door and go smash the hell out of some beignets