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Ranking the Coaches on The SEC Hot Seat

This year was a weird year in the SEC, because only one coach was hired in the offseason, and that was the utterly polarizing, utterly dislikable Hugh Freeze by Auburn. We mourned the loss of Mike Leach, but almost immediately DC Zach Arnett replaced him, and then got the permanent job. So who’s job is under pressure in the SEC. We go from 1-12. You can predicted No.12 pretty easily. But if you didn’t, it’s Kirby Smart. Sam Pittman (Arkansas): The whole “Yessirrrrr!” thing has suddenly gotten old. The pass defense was one of the worst that Fayetteville has ever seen, and the Razorbacks went backwards from a 9-4 season to a 7-6 season, with a 3-5 SEC record. This

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I’m sorry, Alabama and Georgia’s hires underwhelmed us

This cycle, Alabama and Georgia were once again dominant in the recruiting game. Nick Saban was told that Alabama’s time was done, and Kirby Smart’s swear-fest at the National Championship didn’t turn out to be true, but **** that, it was a blast. And both teams are going to have players in the first round in the NFL. But this offseason, it’s hard to be thrilled by their coordinator hires. ALABAMA WHO LEFT? DC Pete Golding (to Ole Miss as DC) and OC Bill O’Brien (New England Patriots OC) WHO ARRIVED: Kevin Steele (new DC), and Tommy Rees (OC) There was no great love for Golding when he was in Tuscaloosa. His detractors were many, and the team’s jacked-up defense

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Texas & Oklahoma to come to SEC in 2024

Finally, we know when Texas and Oklahoma are coming the SEC. It will be in 2024. The deal with the Big 12, ESPN and FOX was thrashed out, with Fox – who would lose a bunch of game inventory – including the Red River Shoot-Out in 2024 – being the major losers in the situation – finally coming around to a deal where they would be ‘paid back’ in inventory. I’m sure that FOX also ensured themselves on ‘first pick’ of Texas and Oklahoma’s non-conference games or something like that. Apparently, there was a deal in which the match-up between 2024 and 2027 between Michigan will now start in Ann Arbor and move to Austin three years later. Also, Fox

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Alabama in hunt for OC as O’Brien leaves

Alabama offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien is returning to the NFL after two years at Alabama, various sources have told ESPN. With that, Alabama is now – again – looking for an offensive coordinator, to go with the defensive coordinator’s job it is looking for now Pete Golding has moved to Ole Miss to work under Lane Kiffin. The list for a team like Alabama, who has the pedigree and the unlimited resources to get who they want in college football is seemingly endless. Here are the Top 10 people Nick Saban should speak to: Joe Brady (QB coach, Buffalo Bills): After his incredible year at LSU, Brady came down with a thump at the Carolina Panthers, where his OC job

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Settling the whole Georgia 2022 v LSU 2019 debate

Since Georgia won the 2022 National Championship and became the first back-to-back Natty winners since 2011-2 Alabama, people are asking: Would this 2019 Georgia team beat the ‘unstoppable’ LSU team of 2019?   OFFENSES QUARTERBACK JOE BURROW V STETSON BENNETT Burrow’s stats (2019): 402-507 (76.3 completion percentage), 5671 yards, 60 TDs, 6 INTs. 361 yards rushing, 5 TDs. Heisman Trophy. 1 SEC Championship. 1 National Championship. Bennett’s stats (2022): 310-455 (68.1 completion percentage), 4127 yards, 27 TDs, 7 INTs. Rushing: 250 yards, 10 TDs. Invited to NYC for Heisman Trophy. 1 SEC Championship. 1 National Championship. Burrow’s numbers in 2019 were staggering (He broke the record for total yards in a season and touchdowns in a season that year). The

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That was a Kirby-Stomping, Dawgs

At the start of this season, after Kirby Smart’s baptized Dan Lanning’s debut at Oregon with an annihilation in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Georgia coach about his former defensive coordinator’s team: “He knows we have better players. He’ll never say that, but he knows we’ve got better players.“ At the time, it sounded punch-in-your face arrogant, and prime bulletin-board material. Before the 65-7 beatdown of TCU, Kirby Smart was thinking the same thing. After the 65-7 beatdown of TCU, you KNOW Kirby Smart – although he probably didn’t admit it – was thinking the same thing. The talent differential was so wide that even what TCU brought it back within three (10-7), there was never panic stations for the Bulldogs.

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Georgia is Thanos, Get out of the way

When Kirby Smart started rolling out the classes that he did, Georgia fans went from the ‘expecting-but-really-hoping’ type to ‘expecting’ type. This season, with Alabama disappointing as much as they did, Georgia has become inevitable. Inevitable teams in college football don’t sideswipe others out of the way. Remember Thanos had his struggles with The Avengers before eventually taking things over. Georgia’s struggles weren’t with the best of ’em. They were plain bad against Kent State and even worse against Missouri, but came through those battles. And the war against Ohio State? The much-vaunted Bulldogs defense was shredded for most part of that game, but they came back. The missed field goal from Ohio State at the end of the game

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SEC Review: The good and the bad

It’s 2023 and Georgia’s going to the National Championship, facing off against little-fancied TCU for the Big One. But the SEC has had many other games. To save the embarrassment of (deep breath), Florida, Missouri, Kentucky, South Carolina, Ole Miss (and nearly Arkansas), we won’t be talking about the bowl losses. We also won’t be flapping our hands about Tennessee’s Orange Bowl win over Clemson despite being down two of the best wide receivers in program history, because we are focusing on the REGULAR season, when everyone hadn’t gone off in a huff and headed into the transfer portal (Shane Beamer’s refusal to have players who had put themselves in the portal play the bowl was F***ING AWESOME, BY THE

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Mike Leach just died. And we’re sad.

“Mike Leach died”. I got the text message about 10 minutes ago, and I’m stunned. It was weird, because it was coming. The updates from Steve Robertson at Mississippi State’s 247Sports indicated that he was going downhill fast, and then the skiing stopped, and Mike’s healed in Heaven. ‘The Pirate’, as he was affectionately know, was in charge of some of the most high-powered offenses college football ever seen. He made the ‘Air Raid’ offense so damned exciting, and prompted a whole new wave of people to get on board. Suddenly teams everywhere were dropped 40 or 50 points, going five wide, and making – to misquote Nick Saban – football as we would have all – secretly – like it to be.

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