Didja see the championship game last night? I didn’t watch the whole thing because it was past my bedtime and I knew Georgia would lose. We in Atlanta are cursed, and yes, I consider UGA to be an Atlanta team. This game was just like the Falcons in the Super Bowl last year. In the first half they were the better team but the evil genius Saban put his own freshman quarterback in and the momentum shifted. Saban is now 12-0 against his former assistants.
It was a hell of a season for the Dawgs and they made the right choice by firing Richt and bringing in Kirby Smart. He got the Dawgs to the championship game his second year. Richt was Richt at Miami. His team was doing well and then folded down the stretch by losing its last three games. Richt was a good coach at Georgia but he couldn’t win the big games. I expect the same thing to happen at Miami. Smart won two big games his second year: the SEC Championship and the Rose Bowl. Two out of three ain’t bad.
Smart is a good recruiter and hopefully he can stockpile talent like Saban has at Alabama. I would have liked to have seen the players who stuck around for their senior year rather than opting for the NFL, notably Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, to have won a championship but it wasn’t to be. Alabama has the talent and has the coach.