Fair analysis of GT

[Novajacket]

I thought the analysis of our situation was very accurate of who we have been for a long time in this article. I would say it goes further back even then O’Leary.

The wreck at Tech

What is the Yellow Jackets’ brand, at least when it comes to football?

Frankly, it’s one of steady competence, or at least it was before Collins’s arrival. From 1997 to 2018, Georgia Tech went to 20 bowl games in 22 seasons. It finished with at least 10 victories in 1998, 2009 and 2014, which matches the number of times it finished below .500 (2010, 2015 and 2017) in that span.
The Yellow Jackets had three consecutive coaching tenures — under George O’Leary, Chan Gailey and Johnson — that saw them usually finish 4-4 or 5-3 in the ACC. Sometimes, they were better. Only once in those 22 years were they worse. It’s the sort of reliability fans and administrators tend to take for granted until they spend four years as a doormat.

Georgia Tech has some assets (geography) and some challenges (the academic options of a school largely known for its offerings in engineering, one of the few areas of study that might be more time-consuming than football). It probably isn’t going to annually contend for league titles. But it sure shouldn’t be 10-28 since the start of 2019, either.

 

[lv20gt]

General point is accurate but the portrayal is a little off to me.

For the first point the give a time period of 22 years from 97-98 and talk about the number of 10 win seasons being equal to the number of losing seasons.

The second point they go by tenures of coaches and talk about finishing 4-4 or 5-3 in conference. So why did they only bring up the 3 coaches for the second point? Because if they brought it up for the first point it'd be obvious that all three of the losing seasons were by the coach directly prior to Collins. Same way it's easy to talk about this as the 4th straight losing year, most likely. But it's also the 6th out of 8. For the 22 years talked about the first 13 saw no losing seasons. The last 9 saw 3.

We'll never know what would have happened had Johnson stayed or we stayed in his coaching tree. Maybe it would have course corrected back to the reliable bowl game and occasional great team. Or maybe we'd have continued the decline that was happening. No way to make any real headway in that argument. But portraying the current decline as starting with Collins in 2019 is more convenient than it is accurate and IMO we need to be viewing hiring Collins as more of a symptom of a deeper issue than the cause of all the issues.