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Brent Key walks the walk where Collins simply talked the talk. Collins claimed to be part of the Nick Saban and Urban Meyer coaching trees, but he never actually coached players directly under either of those men. He can rightfully claim to be in the Meyer tree, but upon closer inspection...

I like Bryan Ellis. If we’re keeping Weinke coaching the QBs, I like the idea of Ellis as OC/WRs. Unless we’re cutting someone loose from the defensive staff, we’ll need an OC who can double as a position coach too.

If the rumors about Long not calling plays are true, then it depends what responsibilities were retained. If he was still constructing the playbook and developing game plans, then it might be worth keeping him in that role (assuming Key doesn’t think his TE coaching is good enough to keep around...

The optimist in me hopes that Brent Key was in strong contention the whole time and that the holdup was Batt making sure he had interviewed enough other strong candidates to be sure that he was following a sound decision-making process. Not sure how likely that is though.

I try not to think ill of Tech players, but I can’t help but be frustrated that he didn’t decide to transfer until after his first year of noticeable production. Forget Willie Fritz. Let’s hire Jeff Monken or Ken Niumatalolo. It’s already bad enough that college football is a feeder league for...

I doubt it. Batt is smart enough to know that it’s better to get the right guy in a week than the wrong guy today. He came from a program that was always in conference championship games and the playoffs, so he would understand the importance of not leaving the team before a conference...

After thinking about it a bit, I’m all for hiring Fritz as HC and McGee as OC, especially if we can have a good defensive staff too (or even just keep the guys we have). Fritz would coach up our guys, McGee would address recruiting concerns, and we could find ourselves being a terror for the...

For reasonable, self-aware people, it would give J a mulligan, but these are likely the same people who pushed for Collins and then pretended otherwise when Collins turned out to be a train wreck. Batt needs to go with whoever he thinks will do the best job. If that happens to be the donors’...

While I wasn’t initially thrilled about Fritz, he does have a rather impressive resume. We could do much worse than him, and I really hope the donors don’t make the GT job more radioactive than it already is.

What worries me most about the rumors is the idea that Key might have been higher on the list than Fritz until the donors pushed too hard. I’m all for keeping them in check, but Batt’s job is to make the best decisions he can for the athletic department. Our athletic department can’t afford to...

If the rumors are true that the donors wanted Key, and Batt truly has hired Willie Fritz to be our new head coach, then we had better be making bowl games immediately and be improving each year or having 8+ win seasons by year 2. Fritz (and the decision to hire him over Key) will not be given...