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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 434641" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>1. Oh, so you think (apparently) that games won because of good luck or poor coaching decisions by the other side don't count? Or that losing big against a team that looked like it had Bama beat until the last play of the <em>national championship game </em>was, in some way, indicative of something besides the inevitable good years that all programs have? </p><p></p><p>2. <em>You</em> were the one who brought up big time P5 programs. I based my comparison on that. If you had mentioned Duke, I would have agree that we are having more trouble recently and point you to our overall record under Coach. That's 7 - 3, btw.</p><p></p><p>3. Which, I suppose, is what leads so many in your camp to compare Coach and Gailey's W -L records? And that answer is simple: Coach isn't "… better than Gailey." He's a <em>whole lot</em> better then Gailey. </p><p></p><p>4. This point hangs on a common misperception: that Tech can actually recruit with programs like Bama if we just <your favorite instant solution here>. Even if we reduced standards to the O'Leary days - that would be hard to do under present NCAA rules, btw - Tech would still have the problem of being an engineering school. As George used to say, "Tech wants to be Alabama on game day and Harvard the rest of the week." One reason - personally, I think it was the main one - that Tech picked Coach is that he was used to recruiting at a school with limited general appeal and had shown good success with the players he had recruited there. He's done the same at Tech, but you can't please some people; there's a persistent rant here that we should be in the top twenty every year. Shoot, FSU and Texas and any number of other programs can't manage that. We've had two rough years over the last four and won - please, remember this - 11 and 9 games in the other two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 434641, member: 265"] 1. Oh, so you think (apparently) that games won because of good luck or poor coaching decisions by the other side don't count? Or that losing big against a team that looked like it had Bama beat until the last play of the [I]national championship game [/I]was, in some way, indicative of something besides the inevitable good years that all programs have? 2. [I]You[/I] were the one who brought up big time P5 programs. I based my comparison on that. If you had mentioned Duke, I would have agree that we are having more trouble recently and point you to our overall record under Coach. That's 7 - 3, btw. 3. Which, I suppose, is what leads so many in your camp to compare Coach and Gailey's W -L records? And that answer is simple: Coach isn't "… better than Gailey." He's a [I]whole lot[/I] better then Gailey. 4. This point hangs on a common misperception: that Tech can actually recruit with programs like Bama if we just <your favorite instant solution here>. Even if we reduced standards to the O'Leary days - that would be hard to do under present NCAA rules, btw - Tech would still have the problem of being an engineering school. As George used to say, "Tech wants to be Alabama on game day and Harvard the rest of the week." One reason - personally, I think it was the main one - that Tech picked Coach is that he was used to recruiting at a school with limited general appeal and had shown good success with the players he had recruited there. He's done the same at Tech, but you can't please some people; there's a persistent rant here that we should be in the top twenty every year. Shoot, FSU and Texas and any number of other programs can't manage that. We've had two rough years over the last four and won - please, remember this - 11 and 9 games in the other two. [/QUOTE]
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