Sometimes it’s easy to forget Kirby Smart has only been a head coach for four full seasons.
The 44-year-old former Georgia football player accepted the head coaching position after just seven years as Alabama’s defensive coordinator. Prior to being a defensive coordinator, Smart had spent the previous nine seasons as an assistant coach or graduate assistant on six different football teams.
Yet, in four years at Georgia, Smart’s teams have won 44 games, three-straight SEC East Championships, one SEC Championship and even played in one National Championship Game. Lack of experience didn’t seem to be a problem for Smart going into 2019, but that ended up being the year where inexperience plagued him the most.