HC Candidate/Rumors/Info Thread

[awbuzz]

Pissing off anyone willing to donate money to the GTAA sounds like a recipe for disaster for a cash strapped program. Tech is not capable of an IPTAY type program as we just don't have the base to support that. We can't even raise 2.5 million for a scholarship fund.

Need to start winning first and getting the small donor contributions before you tell the big dollar donors to f off.

 

[D-man44]

More fuel to the fire.

 

[SteamWhistle]

i don't get the age argument, particularly. maybe because I can see his age from here.

Hard to recruit when you are getting your first big gig at 62 years old so you have no name value or legacy like other coaches at similar ages

 

[MountainBuzzMan]

Maybe the short runway is a feature, not a problem.

Can’t personally imagine a turnaround at 62, but that’s me. I did a startup turnaround in my 40s, no way at 62. By 62 I had zero patience (maybe a bit like CPJ) which is probably typical. But some folks keep pushing to 70+. We’ll see. Mack Brown is 71.

That's on you. I plan on wrapping up this startup in the next few years and have every intention to start my next one at age 62. Saban is what 72? No reason why Fritz could not coach for 10 more years if he has Tech cranking and it is all working out.

 

[SteamWhistle]

More fuel to the fire.

Music to my ear hair

 

[Techster]

More fuel to the fire.

Doesn't take a genius to figure out. If it's not coming from the GTAA (Batt/Cabrera), and not coming from the candidate (Fritz), which other group would want to blow this up?

 

[Jim Prather]

So here is the ultimate conspiracy theory… donors sabotage the Chadwell hire so you leak that you are going to hire Fritz - who is an older incarnation of Chadwell - in order to get your first choice after all?

 

[bobongo]

Need to start winning first and getting the small donor contributions before you tell the big dollar donors to f off.

Eh, but there's the rub. Before you start winning, you have to hire a coach who will do that. And if you have to tell the big donors to f off to get the right guy, you've come full circle...
Who did the big donors like last time, and where did he leave us?

 

[Techster]

So here is the ultimate conspiracy theory… donors sabotage the Chadwell hire so you leak that you are going to hire Fritz - who is an older incarnation of Chadwell - in order to get your first choice after all?

Game of Thrones...GT style (without the gratuitous sex, zombies, and dragons).

 

[BainbridgeJacket]

Here's a thought: are we not being clear during the interview process and setting salary expectations is being misconstrued as final salary negotiations? That seems like such a GT thing to do.

 

[gtg936g]

FWIW the Tulane beat reporter is saying Fritz did not interview today.

 

[wrmathis]

More fuel to the fire.

in thte comments he said the reports that Fritz has interviewed with Tech is not accurate

 

[gtg936g]

Also Ken has retracted his post

 

[bobongo]

So here is the ultimate conspiracy theory… donors sabotage the Chadwell hire so you leak that you are going to hire Fritz - who is an older incarnation of Chadwell - in order to get your first choice after all?

Okay, I'm getting dizzy. Must be what Hamilton Burger went through trying to keep up with Perry Mason.

 

[SteamWhistle]

It’s clear so many want the Anti-Collins to be our next head coach but y’all could do way better than a 62 year old that’s 41-45.

 

[lv20gt]

It’s clear so many want the Anti-Collins to be our next head coach but y’all could do way better than a 62 year old that’s 41-45.

Fritz isn't the anti-collins hire. There is one candidates who is pretty much sold entirely on being the opposite of Collins.

 

[bobongo]

in thte comments he said the reports that Fritz has interviewed with Tech is not accurate

Hasn't even interviewed? Sheesh.

 

[Jim Prather]

We need a program builder after TFG ran us into the ground. He fits the bill

 

[BainbridgeJacket]

Who did the big donors like last time, and where did he leave us?

Just to clear the air on this a little: TStan made that hire in an absolute vacuum without anything resembling a formalized process and that's why he got fired. He should've been fired years ago, but water under the bridge. The old boys club wasn't consulted at all last time.

 

[awbuzz]

Okay, I'm getting dizzy. Must be what Hamilton Burger went through trying to keep up with Perry Mason.

9 out of 10 of the under 50 crowd and didn't have the old WTBS are wondering what that means