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What was the third most? “Have they done it before” as a predictive metric is fairly uninteresting for all the situations where there is no candidate with perfect proven experience (not just at GT football, but for anyone who ever has to hire or promote a new manager).

Speaking again of Collins and the wholesale transition to a different offense… that always struck me as more a reactionary move than a strategic one. I hope we have more of a long term roadmap with whatever direction we go into now. There should be plans now around what we do next if the hire...

The more I think about it the more that FG drive at the end of the first half is standing out. Can’t see the team/coach pulling that out in the first three weeks. Trying to drive downfield even right after a big negative play in a limited clock situation vs just waiting on the second half… good...

Agreed it was a big play and I always want the team to fight for every single point. But at the same time this is one of those hard to know what-ifs where if they make that and it’s 28-22 you probably don’t go for two so it’s 28-23 and then after the next TD it’s 28-29 and you DO probably go for...

Winning despite a pick 6 and a punt return TD is always really nice to see. Allowing less than 300 yards with 463 of their own? Excellent change

I thought Gailey got a bad rap at the time but the debate between nostalgia for his years vs for Johnson's years is missing one other key thing: Gailey didn't run those team's best unit. Johnson, on the other hand, was in charge of the best unit. If a post-2007 Gailey team had lost Tenuta at...

At the top levels they pay a lot of money to people to figure out how to stop ANY type of system. UGA’s defense last year shut down plenty of “non gimmick” offenses. Why would the secret to beating top defenses be to have *less* success against regular defenses? On the other hand, if the AD...

There are clear examples on that list of people who are valuable as fifth year seniors who weren’t draft picks after four years. Thomas, Carter, Smith are the three that jump out immediately. Not everyone is still here, but I think the marginal value of one more game of a Pyron type this year...

If coach contract structure shifts in favor of the athletic programs it’ll take a while, GT‘s search this year is too early in the portal era for there to be a big difference. It wouldn’t change overnight, it would take years of coaches negotiating differently (eg like a Chadwell type trying to...

Calvin not being a 5 star was a big source of discussion in 2004-2006 on GT boards. Best I can remember by 2005 or so Scout definitely had him showing as a 5-star, but folks did get re-evaluated sometimes (less so after the start of their freshman year) and I can't say for sure what he was rated...

You don’t need a plan nobody has seen before. You need one that fits well against what everyone else is going. A good coach will adapt to that (Saban is a good example). But let’s be real - we’re not likely to hire a coach who’s going to be here for ten, twenty years. So one who’s doing...

“That’s a real nice basketball program you’ve got there, shame if something happened to it if you made trouble for our football super league plans for FSU and Clemson…” That’s the mafia movie silly version of it, but in business there are contracts, but then there’s also power. Things are...

i just don’t see how this makes the small classes look better. Even then it’s not too-25 even average rankings and not enough of it anyway. If the next coach is hired in part on recruiting ability I hope they execute better and more consistently.

About as bad as ever, generally https://georgiatech.rivals.com/news/by-the-numbers-looking-at-georgia-tech-recruiting-ranking-history Even the small class problem has been around for a while… recruiting is a numbers game since it’s about your hits more than your misses, so consistently going...

Sadly I think “the entire ACC gets left behind for football and eventually everything else” is more likely than anything more dramatic, but… 14 years is a long time, if anyone gets desperate things seem like they could get real fun to watch. Or maybe by 2030 everyone just recognizes it’s a...

Why would that long a term ever be agreed to by anyone aware of trends in these things over the past few decades? Was this paranoid by ACC management to prioritize term to try to prevent certain teams from being poached more than trying to maximize long term revenue opportunity? That’s the only...

Does Steven Threet count? Lol

A good defense is going to have a good shot at slowing or stopping any offense. Not a lot of teams did BETTER against the good defense teams GT played in 2014, for instance. Seven years in. Clemson and UGA both got better coaching and better athletes shortly after that and left GT behind, but...

Someone told me when I was at Tech that it was the only top-rated binge drinking school that wasn't also a top-rated party school - so you got the hangover but no fun before it, just drinking to forget your exams... 🤣

I often wonder if Reggie Ball's development was spoiled to an extent by Calvin Johnson (and Nix's usage of them, ofc). His only year above 50% completion was 2003 without Calvin. Even in 2006, his best year for TDs and TD:INT, there wasn't a ton much more development than "throw a deep jump...