Kirby Smart gives Alabama a big compliment they may not deserve

Alabama was the No. 1 program in all of college football during the 2010s. Even if they are nowhere near the level they once were, what the Tide accomplished during Nick Saban's prime was nothing short of spectacular.

Kirby Smart had a big influence on that success as he coached at Alabama from 2007-2015. So even though the Tide have become a big rival of his today, he has every right to be proud of the success he helped bring to Alabama.

He recently spoke about those teams in the 2010s before he became the head coach at Georgia and he unsurprisingly he said that they were some of the best teams in college football history. But it was his comment about how they would "beat the dog" out of any team today which wasn't completely fair.

Kirby Smart made an unfair comparison between prime Alabama and the best teams today

It's only been a decade since those prime Alabama teams were running college football, but the sport has completely changed since then. No only is NIL dominating college football, but so too is the Transfer Portal and that is why this comparison isn't fair.

Before the Transfer Portal it was easy for teams like Alabama to stack immense talent on their depth chart. Even Georgia got to experience that in 2021 and 2022 when they won back-to-back titles, but those days are long gone thanks to the portal.

The portal allows these talented players to hit the road and head elsewhere instead of sitting on the sideline patiently waiting their turn. This has caused the talent to be spread across more teams which means the best teams today would struggle to compete against prime Alabama.

Nothing Smart said was inaccurate, but it isn't a very fair comparison to make because of how different college football is today. But hopefully some new rules will come into place that will allow schools like Georgia the ability to stack talent like they once could.

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