The real transformation of Nick Saban has been acknowledging that you need an elite offense to be dominant today — because you are always in the game. Yes, Saban has built a huge operations in Tuscaloosa that recruits (it is not all Nick and his assistants), trains and develops players, and brings game day planning to an elite level. The new team at UF better understand this. Kirby didn’t. Thinking that he could win SEC championships with a third rate QB or without an elite offense was and is his downfall. This was a result that was seeded along time ago when Kirby thought that Stetson Bennett could them over the hump with a great defense. He was doomed to fail. For all you Mullen-haters, bounce to the next thread… compare the UF and GA matchups with ALA over the past two years. Kirby got beat TWICE by 17 points. Mullen lost the SEC CG on a late TD, and then earlier this year on a missed two-point conversion. Mullen also had UF within a TD against the Joe Burrows-led LSU NC team. Mullen understood that to compete in these games you had to bring an elite offense. His problem is that he failed to do all of the other things necessary to be successful… so we have a new HC at UF… it was inevitable. But that doesn’t mean the critical lesson isn’t there. BN has a lot to do to resuscitate this program, but he better understand that he will need to bring an elite passing offense to win on the big stage. Kirby doesn’t get it. Nick does and BN better know it to.
Important cautionary lessons from SEC CG
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