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<blockquote data-quote="Stinger90" data-source="post: 156848" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>First off, Coach Hall's job is safe. Second, I respectfully disagree with finding an equal or better coach. There's a lot of coaches that would love to have this job if it ever came open. If it wasn't for Ray Tanner, coach Hall wouldn't even have this job. It was his recommendation that got him here. Here's the story:</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">“It’s really interesting, the job opened up at an unusual time,” Hall said.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">He called Ray Tanner, then the head coach at NC State, asking if he thought there was a front-runner for the job. He also asked Tanner if he was going to go after the job.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Tanner told Hall there wasn’t a front-runner – top assistant Rick Jones had just left Tech for the head job at Tulane – and that he wasn’t interested. He asked Hall: Do you know who Randy Carroll is?</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Carroll, a former Tech All-American, was influential in helping Morris build the Yellow Jackets into a national program through fundraising and attracting advertisers. Tanner told Hall that Carroll was heading the search committee for athletic director Homer Rice. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">“I had a Georgia Tech media guide in my office for whatever reason,” Hall recalled. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">In it, he stumbled across an ad for Mountain National Bank, led by Randy Carroll. Hall called the bank and introduced himself to Carroll, who advised him to send a resume and cover letter to him and Rice. Hall hurriedly sent his life’s work via Fed Ex and called Carroll back to confirm that he received his package.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 12px"><img src="http://www.collegebaseballinsider.com/12Pics/GT_DannyHall3_Large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Hall remembers Carroll’s response.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">“He says, ‘Just about everybody who has applied for this job, I’ve either seen them play against Georgia Tech or coach against Georgia Tech. I don’t know a damn thing about you.’” Hall said.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Carroll, now the executive chairman of the board and director of business development at Buckhead Investment Partners in Atlanta, said, “I didn’t know Danny Hall. I’d been contacted by so many people over a few days. I was pretty straight forward about it. I guess I was pretty blatant, I hate to say it now.”</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">But Carroll and Rice gave Hall a look. They enlisted former Tech player Cam Bonifay, newly minted general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and a member of the search committee, to check on Hall among professional scouts. They checked in with college coaches who had played against Hall’s Kent State squads. Everywhere they called, the answer came back the same: He can recruit, and he can coach.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stinger90, post: 156848, member: 302"] First off, Coach Hall's job is safe. Second, I respectfully disagree with finding an equal or better coach. There's a lot of coaches that would love to have this job if it ever came open. If it wasn't for Ray Tanner, coach Hall wouldn't even have this job. It was his recommendation that got him here. Here's the story: [SIZE=3]“It’s really interesting, the job opened up at an unusual time,” Hall said. He called Ray Tanner, then the head coach at NC State, asking if he thought there was a front-runner for the job. He also asked Tanner if he was going to go after the job. Tanner told Hall there wasn’t a front-runner – top assistant Rick Jones had just left Tech for the head job at Tulane – and that he wasn’t interested. He asked Hall: Do you know who Randy Carroll is? Carroll, a former Tech All-American, was influential in helping Morris build the Yellow Jackets into a national program through fundraising and attracting advertisers. Tanner told Hall that Carroll was heading the search committee for athletic director Homer Rice. “I had a Georgia Tech media guide in my office for whatever reason,” Hall recalled. In it, he stumbled across an ad for Mountain National Bank, led by Randy Carroll. Hall called the bank and introduced himself to Carroll, who advised him to send a resume and cover letter to him and Rice. Hall hurriedly sent his life’s work via Fed Ex and called Carroll back to confirm that he received his package. [LEFT][IMG]http://www.collegebaseballinsider.com/12Pics/GT_DannyHall3_Large.jpg[/IMG][/LEFT]Hall remembers Carroll’s response. “He says, ‘Just about everybody who has applied for this job, I’ve either seen them play against Georgia Tech or coach against Georgia Tech. I don’t know a damn thing about you.’” Hall said. Carroll, now the executive chairman of the board and director of business development at Buckhead Investment Partners in Atlanta, said, “I didn’t know Danny Hall. I’d been contacted by so many people over a few days. I was pretty straight forward about it. I guess I was pretty blatant, I hate to say it now.” But Carroll and Rice gave Hall a look. They enlisted former Tech player Cam Bonifay, newly minted general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and a member of the search committee, to check on Hall among professional scouts. They checked in with college coaches who had played against Hall’s Kent State squads. Everywhere they called, the answer came back the same: He can recruit, and he can coach.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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