You're right,stech81,there will be no honeymoon period for Ken Whisenhunt3 year but with CKW 1 game or the Spring game only.
Tech has been rebuilding since 1956. What's a few more years?
We have no T.E's. I am pretty sure any offense will need them except the 3O. You have to give the new coach several years no matter who it is.
A little different angle from the other coaching threads.... Because GT has run the option for 11 years, and recruiting season is essentially over for 2019 season, if a coach is brought in with a pro-style system or spread passing system, it is possible that the team is terrible next year... As in, 2 wins terrible.
However... if you brought in Monken, Ken, Lunsford, Bohannan, Debesse, etc you would presumably keep going with a pretty good team next year. Probably win at least 8 games and compete for the division.
I guess the question is... how much rebuilding are you willing to tolerate as a fan? 1 season? 4 seasons? none?
I've been thinking about what is asked in this thread and, frankly, my tolerance for "rebuilding" is very, very low. We'll have to beef up the tackles and put more emphasis on pass blocking but otherwise why would we expect to be "rebuilding" coming off a 7 or 8 win season? That's make no sense to me at all.
We have to give the new coach 4 years to get out of this mess. Our talent level is ridiculously low. So low that Johnson, who I believe is a great college coach, went 24-24 over the last 4 years.
He also went 35-27 over the last 5 years, and 21-15 over the last 3. Neither of those would be described as a mess. You can cherry pick stats to make almost any point though.
There are two major differences between 2008 and 2019. For starters Johnson inherited a tremendous DL that we really leaned on in 2008. Had Johnson inherited the same level of defense we had in 2018 he doesn't win 9 games. He probably wouldn't have won 7. Simply put, the next coach doesn't have the same level of inherited defense. Also, while Johnson was instilling a new offense he did inherit the right pieces for it. There is a good argument that he inherited the best RB, WR, and QB of his tenure. And IMO only really QB is debatable. Sheer talent carried that team on offense in year one at times. And that situation really isn't true now. We have a couple of good backs, but no notable WRs, and a QB who may or may not fit well. At the time people were willing to give Johnson time to get his system in place. It's only in retrospect that we know how good of a situation he inherited. It could be the same with a new coach, but we know for certain he won't inherit the same level of defense, and none of our recent classes has been best of the past 20 years good either.