{"id":538312,"date":"2023-01-10T09:05:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/georgias-kirby-smart-matches-nick-sabans-elusive-alabama-feat\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T09:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:05:06","slug":"georgias-kirby-smart-matches-nick-sabans-elusive-alabama-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/georgias-kirby-smart-matches-nick-sabans-elusive-alabama-feat\/","title":{"rendered":"#Georgia&#8217;s Kirby Smart matches Nick Saban&#8217;s elusive Alabama feat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9cf471861\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9cf471861\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/georgias-kirby-smart-matches-nick-sabans-elusive-alabama-feat\/#%E2%80%9CGeorgias_Kirby_Smart_matches_Nick_Sabans_elusive_Alabama_feat%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Georgia&#8217;s Kirby Smart matches Nick Saban&#8217;s elusive Alabama feat&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGeorgias_Kirby_Smart_matches_Nick_Sabans_elusive_Alabama_feat%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Georgia&#8217;s Kirby Smart matches Nick Saban&#8217;s elusive Alabama feat&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 A year ago, Kirby Smart became just the second of Nick Saban\u2019s assistant coaches to beat him. On Monday, Smart became perhaps the first coach since Saban re-entered college football back in 2007 who can lay claim to owning the sport in the way he has for so long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each and every time someone has looked likely to put a halt to Alabama\u2019s year-over-year dominance, Saban endured and his opposition faded. There was Dabo Swinney\u2019s Clemson, which twice beat Alabama in national title <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s, but sans-Trevor Lawrence hasn\u2019t made it back to the playoff. There was Jimbo Fisher\u2019s Florida State and Urban Meyer\u2019s Ohio State. Ever so briefly, there was Ed Orgeron\u2019s LSU. All success stories. None relevant for nearly as long as Saban\u2019s Alabama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now? Smart has done what no one could since Saban all the way back in 2011 and \u201912. He\u2019s won two straight national titles, the second of those coming on Monday night at SoFi Stadium with a 65-7 mauling of TCU. Alabama\u2019s season finished all the way back on New Year\u2019s Day with a victory in the Cotton Bowl, the sort of game long rendered irrelevant by the standard Saban has set in Tuscaloosa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"739\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_editorial_NCAA_Football_CFP_National_Ch_13705163cf.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kirby Smart celebrates after Georgia's national championship win.\" class=\"wp-image-25302696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_editorial_NCAA_Football_CFP_National_Ch_13705163cf.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_editorial_NCAA_Football_CFP_National_Ch_13705163cf.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_editorial_NCAA_Football_CFP_National_Ch_13705163cf.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/shutterstock_editorial_NCAA_Football_CFP_National_Ch_13705163cf.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kirby Smart celebrates after Georgia\u2019s national championship win. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Baus\/CSM\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1453508500.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Nick Saban\" class=\"wp-image-25302695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1453508500.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1453508500.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1453508500.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/1453508500.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Nick Saban was the last coach to win two straight national titles. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alabama will be back, of course. Saban hauled in the No. 2 recruiting class in the nation last month, and no one in their right mind expects the Tide to go down easy. But at least as of Tuesday morning, it\u2019s Smart whose program sets college football\u2019s standard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe disease that creeps into your program is called entitlement. I\u2019ve seen it firsthand,\u201d Smart said, not an hour after reaching the mountaintop. \u201cIf you can stomp it out with leadership, then you can stay hungry. And we have a saying around our place: We eat off the floor. And if you\u2019re willing to eat off the floor, then you can be special.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That might as well be the Saban of yesteryear talking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gets everything out of us,\u201d receiver Kearis Jackson said of Smart. \u201cWe\u2019re all on scholarship and he\u2019s gonna get that scholarship out of us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This national championship game domination looked remarkably like Saban\u2019s 42-14 shellacking of Notre Dame in 2012, another decimation that delivered a back-to-back title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That one saw Alabama cement itself as the center of the sport. This one saw Georgia take up the Crimson Tide\u2019s mantle, with Saban relegated to sitting and watching as an ESPN analyst. Right down to players citing imaginary doubters postgame, though, this was a work of art out of Saban\u2019s book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally just instilling in us that we\u2019re not gonna be hunted here at the University of Georgia,\u201d right tackle Warren McClendon told The Post about Smart\u2019s impact. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna be the ones doing the hunting. And we\u2019re gonna be the aggressors and we\u2019re gonna come at our opponents every week.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Smart\u2019s Georgia, that\u2019s the right mindset to have against anyone. Sonny Dykes\u2019 TCU, certainly. And yes, even Saban\u2019s Alabama.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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