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<blockquote data-quote="RamblinRed" data-source="post: 143864" data-attributes="member: 1776"><p>For me there is a distinction that some are bypassing.</p><p>I didn't think Gregory was a good hire when it was made- thought it was a 'meh' hire made because the AD ha $1M to spend on a coach.</p><p>Gregory avg almost 20 per season at Dayton and had only 1 losing season while rebuilding. That is actually pretty good. Not great - he lost too many conference games and didn't make enough NCAA's - but not awful either.</p><p>He is not a good coach at the ACC level - but that is different than not being a good coach. He's just not a successful coach at the level GT is trying to play at. Whenever he is relieved of his position he won't be out of work long. He'll either get hired as an asst at a P5 type school or a coach at a lower level mid major type.</p><p></p><p>I certainly get the frustration and was quite angry that first week - but i'm passed that. Was never really angry at Gregory though as ultimately the main issue at GT is not coaching - it's administration (Dan Wolken had a great tweet yesterday about how bad administration at TN had turned that from a top 3 SEC job into a dumpster fire). Same issue at GT. We have to fix the admin issues before we can worry about the coaching ones.</p><p></p><p>First the school has to decide if it wants to compete in college basketball. The institute as a whole has plenty of money to take care of the buyouts and spend the money on a new coach that can compete. But it has chosen not to. It has decided it is not willing to take a short term loss for a potential long term gain. The Institute and some of the donors are willing to let the situation continue for awhile longer. I'm not surprised, the school has continued to move more toward an academic focus and one on SA's getting an education - can't fault them for that.</p><p></p><p>I'm starting to understand where ND AD Swabrick is coming from when he says he believes an eventual split is coming in Div 1 athletics different from what the prognosticators think. He believes it is going to be more of an academic split than a have and have not split. He mentioned that Stanford and Oregon are competing for the same prize but going about it completely differently. He sees a future where there are 2 divisions. One that is basically running semi-pro sports and not really worried about academics very much and the other being a more academic focused group who aren't interested in running a semi-pro league. He made it clear he believes ND would be in the latter - if it ever comes to that I would fully expect GT to chose the latter as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RamblinRed, post: 143864, member: 1776"] For me there is a distinction that some are bypassing. I didn't think Gregory was a good hire when it was made- thought it was a 'meh' hire made because the AD ha $1M to spend on a coach. Gregory avg almost 20 per season at Dayton and had only 1 losing season while rebuilding. That is actually pretty good. Not great - he lost too many conference games and didn't make enough NCAA's - but not awful either. He is not a good coach at the ACC level - but that is different than not being a good coach. He's just not a successful coach at the level GT is trying to play at. Whenever he is relieved of his position he won't be out of work long. He'll either get hired as an asst at a P5 type school or a coach at a lower level mid major type. I certainly get the frustration and was quite angry that first week - but i'm passed that. Was never really angry at Gregory though as ultimately the main issue at GT is not coaching - it's administration (Dan Wolken had a great tweet yesterday about how bad administration at TN had turned that from a top 3 SEC job into a dumpster fire). Same issue at GT. We have to fix the admin issues before we can worry about the coaching ones. First the school has to decide if it wants to compete in college basketball. The institute as a whole has plenty of money to take care of the buyouts and spend the money on a new coach that can compete. But it has chosen not to. It has decided it is not willing to take a short term loss for a potential long term gain. The Institute and some of the donors are willing to let the situation continue for awhile longer. I'm not surprised, the school has continued to move more toward an academic focus and one on SA's getting an education - can't fault them for that. I'm starting to understand where ND AD Swabrick is coming from when he says he believes an eventual split is coming in Div 1 athletics different from what the prognosticators think. He believes it is going to be more of an academic split than a have and have not split. He mentioned that Stanford and Oregon are competing for the same prize but going about it completely differently. He sees a future where there are 2 divisions. One that is basically running semi-pro sports and not really worried about academics very much and the other being a more academic focused group who aren't interested in running a semi-pro league. He made it clear he believes ND would be in the latter - if it ever comes to that I would fully expect GT to chose the latter as well. [/QUOTE]
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