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You may be right. Geoff was hired to run into the burning building. If he saves the dog and the pictures, he’s a hero.

I don't think TStan has any mandate other than to keep the alumni base happy and giving money. If we go 7-5 every year, TStan will be there a long time. But ... He is betting the farm that he can get the big donors to up the ante at the expense of the current fanbase. I think that's...

This is just nonsense. Geoff is the MAN! He's going to get 30 five stars next year and we will win 5 natty's in a row. Jeez! Get on board the Geoff Train!

Where did I say anything about my standards? Or grabbing a player by the face mask? You can quote me if you want because I didn't. Collins has to have his own standards .. one he believes will make his team deliver the results he thinks is appropriate. Does he? Who knows ... he doesn't talk...

A friend of mine loves going to Duke. He says they don't even bother checking tickets when you enter the stadium.

I don’t think he’s in a no win situation. Tech is probably the least demanding job in the country other than Vanderbilt. If he isn’t enforcing standards, what message does that send? Not a good one.

will we return to normal? Not in 2021. A friend of mine had tix on the 45 yard line and won the lottery to attend the Saints game. Blew it off. I doubt we will see packed stadiums for many years, if ever.

I played baseball and basketball in high school. And worked for a lot of different managers. The successful ones insisted on dress codes, discipline, and rigor. The unsuccessful ones were fun, generous with compliments, and Big Picture. Bear Bryant once quipped, “When you act like champions...

Hard to say. Saban talks about running because of the line size but ... leads the country in yards per pass. Meyer measured kickoffs not to give touchbacks but to land between the 10 and the goal line. He wanted returns because of the long march odds. Every team needs an edge.

I count myself fortunate in that Georgia Tech’s winningest coach was Dodd (70%) who mentored under Bob Neyland (80%). I‘ve followed both programs. Both heavily advocated speed. We don’t see that at Tech anymore, but Dodd’s teams were FAST. Braun matters but Tech’s historical advantage was...

I had to chuckle. Reading about Coach Alexander, when he diagrammed plays he drew super small x’s representing Tech players and super big O’s for the villains. some things never change.

Heres the reality. You can go fishing and watch the replay at night. Almost every football game is replayed multiple times each week. I do think sports attendance will change in ways we don’t understand yet. Like you ... I’m playing golf by day and watching football by night. The big programs...

Here's an interesting factoid. I was perusing stats actually used by coaches rather than those used by data analysts to predict game outcomes. The number one stat with the highest predictive value for game winners? It's Net Yards per Pass Attempt. Passing. Not running. Even the best...

If my math is correct, Tech placed 143 players into the NFL since 1960. Of those, 24 were CPJ players.

Here are some facts. There are 300,000 seniors playing high school football. And ... 30 will be rated 5 star 380 will be rated 4 star 1328 will be rated 3 star 1859 will be rated 2 star 296,493 will be 1 star or not rated If you are a factory school with an NFL pipeline (e.g., an SEC school)...

No. I'm not. We might very well be. I think we are far closer to being Vanderbilt than we are to being a UGA. The gap between Tech and Alabama in 1980 was big, but it wasn't THAT huge. Now, it's the Grand Canyon. Tech has a breakeven AA budget (maybe in a good year. We will probably lose a lot...

The reality is no one knows what the goal is. Has TStan for example, ever said, “My goal is to win championships. And that is how you will measure my leadership.” I think it’s more vague than that. I would not be surprised to hear the AD goal is to play D1 well enough to get the ACCN revenue...

As I recall, Alabama is flooded with National Merit scholars. The percentage has changed, but sheer volume is up. Tech does not have this problem.

It was a Harvard study. I think this is it: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-067_86a0b712-f29e-423f-b614-0165b770dd65.pdf

I don’t think it’s academic snobbery. Studies show that schools with winning sports programs outperform those without. I think its the frustration is the realization that the gap between top schools and the rest is widening.