They want Kirby Smart in there... Badly.
Smart has been one of the names tossed around as a possible/hopeful replacement to Spurrier at Carolina.
Jim Donnan is available, and they wouldn’t even have to pay moving expenses. Ray Goff is probably available, as well. Steve Spurrier probably should top the list. Petrino was doing pretty well at Arkansas. And Mike Leach had a good program at Texas Tech.
Other possibilities would include Willie Fritz.
Yes!
Not the fans.
Dedicated fans don’t want him or Mullen, but the knuckleheaded administration has set their course and will try to get one. sad.
Kirby Smart may prove to be a latter-day incarnation of Knute Rockne or Bear Bryant. Or he may follow the trajectory of “can’t miss” coordinators who can never quite make the adjustment to the big job.
This is beginning to look (and sound) like another delusional fan base, at the University of Tennessee. Back in 2008, they were convinced they could do better than Phil Fulmer, who led the program to a national championship a decade earlier. They brought in Lane Kiffin, who decamped for USC after only one year. Next up was Derek Dooley, who obviously didn’t inherit his father’s coaching genes. Seven long years later, UT is finally returning to respectability under Butch Jones.
There are also credible reports that the UGA athletic director wants to hire Dan Mullen from Mississippi State (he worked with Mullen when he was at Florida, as Urban Meyer’s offensive coordinator). Mullen would be an absolute disaster at Georgia, but hey, the big money donors believe anyone could do a better job than Mark Richt.