Im not sure what the point of that article was. Collins promised big, and hasn't delivered to this point. Not exactly insightful commentary. Felt like someone told him to write something about Tech and that was the best he could come up with at the moment.
Mark Bradley is highly respected at the AJC--they think he's one of the best sportswriters around. He probably has a good amount of latitude about what he writes but is encouraged to spread his columns around and does so willingly.
There is a split in the AJC sports pages--some of the writers are opinion writers (like Bradley), and some are beat writers (like Suguira). You're going to get more news from Suguira.
It reads like a column intended for people who haven't kept up with Tech football at all and aren't aware that we've had three painfully bad seasons. How many people like that read a Mark Bradley column on Georgia Tech is another question, but I think the answer is "not many".
If you've logged into this board and read a few posts, there's nothing newsworthy in that piece, other than the fact that Bradley thought the hire was promising back when it happened. Bradley is mostly a basketball writer and isn't going to get into the values of 12 vs 10 personnel or anything schematic in football and the roles that coaches or players fit within. He hardly does that in basketball.
One of the stats analysts I follow posted recently "if you want to understand what's happening in a game, diagram what's happening during the game or from a recording afterwards". That's the kind of thing that John Madden used to do during a football game. You get some of that from Tony Romo during an NFL game. You're not getting that in this article or from the AJC.
(I still recommend getting a subscription for local coverage, especially for local news)
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