Kirby was asked about the thought process behind his decision to return and coach at Alabama. Here are a few quotes.
On the thought process of doing both over the next month:
"First off, both President Moorehead and Greg were very supportive of me doing this the right way. It's very important to me that I finish things the right way over there. A lot of these young men playing for the University of Alabama I sat in their homes three, four, five years ago and convinced them to come to the University of Alabama. And I don't think it would be doing justice to turn and walk away from those kids.
I think that President Moorehead and Greg both supported me fully, continuing to finish that, I'll at the same time honor my duties here. Regulating your time will be very critical in the next probably month while we get ready for this game, and also recruiting is in an active period right now. So it will be a challenge, but a challenge I'm up to."
Also asked about how he will handle his recruiting duties for Georgia...
"The dynamics of handling, I'm going from here to go out and start recruiting and use every minute I have of this contact period, in fact I'm ready to go right now to see some guys. I've got to go see them. I've only got so long to go see them and then it gets dead again and we go back to work on our bowl games and bowl preps. So we have a detailed list of people we're going to see and attack and see them one last time before it goes quiet again."
And asked more specifically about when he'll get back to Tuscaloosa...
"It's not set yet. It's probably until Monday, Tuesday of next week when we start bowl practice. I think University of Georgia, Bryan McClendon and them are starting around the same time we are. So I'll head back over to Tuscaloosa to start bowl prep with them. Even while I'm over there, I've got a lot of good mentors in this business, and one guy I want to thank is Dan Quinn of the Falcons. He called and said, hey, look, if there is anyway I can help you, I went through a similar process when he was with the Seahawks and also trying to take over the Falcons. He talked about time management and managing your time the right way. Spending every free moment you have and having people help you. I've got a great organization and support structure here in place to help me time-wise to have calls set up and ways for me to manage it better and utilize that time to be fair to both places."
On the thought process of doing both over the next month:
"First off, both President Moorehead and Greg were very supportive of me doing this the right way. It's very important to me that I finish things the right way over there. A lot of these young men playing for the University of Alabama I sat in their homes three, four, five years ago and convinced them to come to the University of Alabama. And I don't think it would be doing justice to turn and walk away from those kids.
I think that President Moorehead and Greg both supported me fully, continuing to finish that, I'll at the same time honor my duties here. Regulating your time will be very critical in the next probably month while we get ready for this game, and also recruiting is in an active period right now. So it will be a challenge, but a challenge I'm up to."
Also asked about how he will handle his recruiting duties for Georgia...
"The dynamics of handling, I'm going from here to go out and start recruiting and use every minute I have of this contact period, in fact I'm ready to go right now to see some guys. I've got to go see them. I've only got so long to go see them and then it gets dead again and we go back to work on our bowl games and bowl preps. So we have a detailed list of people we're going to see and attack and see them one last time before it goes quiet again."
And asked more specifically about when he'll get back to Tuscaloosa...
"It's not set yet. It's probably until Monday, Tuesday of next week when we start bowl practice. I think University of Georgia, Bryan McClendon and them are starting around the same time we are. So I'll head back over to Tuscaloosa to start bowl prep with them. Even while I'm over there, I've got a lot of good mentors in this business, and one guy I want to thank is Dan Quinn of the Falcons. He called and said, hey, look, if there is anyway I can help you, I went through a similar process when he was with the Seahawks and also trying to take over the Falcons. He talked about time management and managing your time the right way. Spending every free moment you have and having people help you. I've got a great organization and support structure here in place to help me time-wise to have calls set up and ways for me to manage it better and utilize that time to be fair to both places."
