It was an issue in year 3 for Bobby Ross. They overcame it by not playing a bunch of the guys who were causing the problems. They knew who they were in year 1 and 2. They just didn’t have anybody else to replace them with until year 3. Maybe CGC should have done the same.
And then if the new coach took the experienced talent at Tech and succeeded -he would turn that into a huge payday at a bigger school
Sadly, College football is now limited to a small # of teams that will compete for championships. It started w the crazy recruiting rankings, HS kids thinking the own the world before they ever take a snap in college. Now those kids and parents are only about the $$. Its over for all but maybe 5 schools who have the money to pay the players. Schools like GT, will never win another National title. Unless some GT fans pony up to pay the QB a mill and guarantee players 50K a year. GT lost one of their best players to Alabama. Alabama has deep pockets. College football is dead.
If we got some good years out of him and a nice buyout at the end, I'd take that.
I dont know how dissent in the locker room can be avoided when the new coach has announced to the world that the old coach left him a load of trash to play with. I wouldn't be happy were it me.,
Yeah, that's not what he said and we all know it. Go ahead and continue with this revisionist history.
No, he didn’t use those words but he said things that if I were a player I would not like. He was pretty vicious to the offensive linemen especially. On here we could all be philosophical and analytical but these were real human beings we were talking about who were being told in so many words you are the reason we are not going to be able to win the first few years and the sooner we replace you the better. Student athletes at Tech are not dumb. They heard the press conferences and they knew who was being talked about.
And you weren’t in the team meetings and OL rooms with the coaches to hear what message was being shared. He never said the guys weren’t good enough, EVER. He still continues to play a walk-on from CPJ days that is not built for his idea of what he wants for OL. Bottom line is if you perform, regardless, you’ll play.
...or the ignorance and audacity of his detractors?
bulletin: all history is revisionist. and we can't "all" know it because I don't. The paraphrase is close enough for government work.
Any time you have a coaching change you will have a number of players not happy that is life. If CGC doesn't work out the next coach will have problems with some players.
You are right. He did not say those exact words. But his deliberately worded message was clear. It's all fun when you have a clean slate. Looks pretty dumb when you put the product on the field that he has.
Thanks for the reminder that I might be stupid. I’ll take it into consideration.
I'm not so sure I'd go as far as insinuating he's a liar. He just talks about stuff that he hope was so, it just isn't. GT fans tend to be a bit more black and white & that makes his inaccurate proclamations seem worse than they are particularly when viewed thru the lens of his record.
I agree with the first comment, totally disagree with the second, as I think you do know it wasn’t what he said. Definitely not close, as your interpretation has an implied connotation that his words didn’t.
If I remember correctly, and it was said a number of times a number of different ways, what he said was that CPJ built a line designed for a different offense, with different needs, requiring different skills, and that he needed to recruit a totally different kind of player. He needed kids that were 6’5” 320+ With long arms and reach, and that wasn’t the current makeup of the OL.