Who would you hire if you could hire anyone?

If you could hire any head coach right now

  • Nick Saban

    Votes: 5 71.4%

  • Jimbo Fisher

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ryan Day

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Kirby Smart

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Dabo Swinney

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Lincoln Riley

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Luke Fickell

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    7
MarineUKFan said:
I'm sure you just ran out of room in the poll before you got to him, but......

Mark friggin Stoops
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I can't argue with that. I should have added Harbaugh because he won his conference and made the playoff, but I didn't see anyone choosing him. What Stoops has done at UK is, at minimum, phenomenal. He needs a SECE championship to make the list. I also considered adding Sam Pittman. What he's done at Arky in 3 years, IMO, is more impressive than what Jimbo has done at A&M in 4.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
I can't argue with that. I should have added Harbaugh because he won his conference and made the playoff, but I didn't see anyone choosing him. What Stoops has done at UK is, at minimum, phenomenal. He needs a SECE championship to make the list. I also considered adding Sam Pittman. What he's done at Arky in 3 years, IMO, is more impressive than what Jimbo has done at A&M in 4.
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Did you read what you just wrote and think on it? A KENTUCKY coach has to win the East at a minimum to be desirable to other programs....a KENTUCKY coach!! The bar has been raised in Lexington and I love it.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
Fully understand. #metoo. I made the poll for all those other guys that ain't us.
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If Saban retired tomorrow, Kirby is who I would pick. I think Saban has one more Natty in him, very possibly this year. Kirby has one, and time will tell if it is sustainable. I think it is, but winning even one is damn hard and requires not only skill, but a little luck as well.
 
MarineUKFan said:
Is it just a funky year for them, or has Dabo just fallen off a cliff recently?
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I think he’s a GOOD coach who had GREAT assistants and was able to sustain that continuity by keeping his staff intact. I also think people figured him out and he didn’t make the required changes which made him predictable. It didn’t hurt playing in a weak as hell ACC to work out some kinks before he played a game that mattered. Oh, don’t forget having a generational talent at qb.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
IMO, Dabo is gonna struggle. Venables was his crutch.
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RTR...USN (ret) said:
I think he’s a GOOD coach who had GREAT assistants and was able to sustain that continuity by keeping his staff intact. I also think people figured him out and he didn’t make the required changes which made him predictable. It didn’t hurt playing in a weak as hell ACC to work out some kinks before he played a game that mattered. Oh, don’t forget having a generational talent at qb.
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I agree with all this. Dabo, to me, seems more of a cheerleader/decent coach than THE MAN that is the reason for all that goes on around him. He did a remarkable job keeping that staff together for as long as he did, but I'd venture to say that the ACC is gonna be more even at the top half now (UM, FSU, CU, VT, UNC....NC State)
 
MarineUKFan said:
Really, it SHOULD be again this year and I'm liking what I'm hearing from spring practices. Aren't we all though??
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Well the game is in Lexington this year. IMO, UK pulling @Ole Miss and home versus MissSt is a bit tougher than UGA pulling @MissSt and Auburn at home. Both should be favored in all the SECE games. It's possible that UK will be an underdog in Oxford. Other that that, I see both UK and UGA running the table in the East. A UK win in Oxford would be another top 10 matchup and potential GameDay game in Lexington. Stoops needs to make the best of that opportunity. Gonna be a damn fun season.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
Well the game is in Lexington this year. IMO, UK pulling @Ole Miss and home versus MissSt is a bit tougher than UGA pulling @MissSt and Auburn at home. Both should be favored in all the SECE games. It's possible that UK will be an underdog in Oxford. Other that that, I see both UK and UGA running the table in the East. A UK win in Oxford would be another top 10 matchup and potential GameDay game in Lexington. Stoops needs to make the best of that opportunity. Gonna be a damn fun season.
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I'd reckon that UK will definitely be a dog in Oxford and probably against UT as well. Maybe also against SC. We tend to be dogs more often than not regardless and it would not surprise me at all if we're dogs against UF in game 2 in the swamp as well.

Glad we have you guys at home this year....said the same thing to my neighbor down the street a while back when I swung by to congratulate him on y'alls Dawgs NC.

I am really looking forward to the season though.

Gonna be a long summer (this I think we can all agree on lol)
 
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