Are you kidding me? When would Tech needs a much weaker brand to "rebrand" us to become a winner?I have to wonder if Collins has goals for the program beyond wins and losses. He brought his brand manager from Temple to "re-brand" GT to excite the fan base and help recruiting. I see it as a distraction from the reality of the program. With 5 or 6 wins and an occasional upset win this might work. With three wins per season and no marquis wins the brand efforts just look silly.
I know you hear resources ($) are limited but, your telling me that Tech is more strapped for cash than Ga Southern? They can hire Todd Helton, a coach with big school experience and the best that Tech can do is a CGC, a coach that went 15-10 at Temple with Matt Rhule's players?
If we are just going bargain bin shopping, Bill Clark from UAB. I know GT's transition wasn't small, but Clark was able to resurrect the UAB program from actual death.I think we could find someone like Curt Cignetti at JMU. He's experienced and proven (Granted, in FCS): He's 97–30 as a head coach, 30–4 at JMU. Played QB at WVU and coached QBs most of his career. Coached WR and was a recruiting coordinator under Saban at Bama before getting a (DII) HC job. His next step would normally be a G5 job. (JMU is moving up to FBS in 2023 if he stays.) But he's 60 and making $425k at JMU. He's probably not working his up way to a shot at a plum P5 job at this point in his career. He'd probably jump at a chance to make low 7 figures and be a P5 head coach before he retires (with a chance to do something special.) He's got a hotshot young OC that's been on his staff the last three stops. It would be a jump for him and a somewhat risky hire. But he's shown he knows how to lead a winning team.
I'm sure there's other guys like that out there...
I’m not IBeeBallin. I think you’re only going to get a solid answer on whether it’s Thacker’s defense or Collins’ by being one of the people at practice and on the sidelines.Is Thacker running his defense or is is working CGC defense he used at Miss State and UF. I not picking on you I just really want to know which is the real problem .
Well first of all, they hired Clay Helton, not Todd Helton.I know you hear resources ($) are limited but, your telling me that Tech is more strapped for cash than Ga Southern? They can hire Todd Helton, a coach with big school experience and the best that Tech can do is a CGC, a coach that went 15-10 at Temple with Matt Rhule's players?
Collins digs in, he will never coach again, he negotiates out, he could problem pick up a recruiter/ coordinator position elsewhere.Best case scenario Collins takes a Director of Football Role to oversee recruiting and branding roll his salary long term and Todd is able to bring in a new coaching staff.
Worst case and most likely is CGC digs his heels in like he has, sees “nothing wrong”, gives lip to Todd who just takes it cause he’s a nice guy and wants to believe in anybody that remotely argues with him. And we continue the torture choo choo to nothing town.
At least you can still use the toilet.Collins can't leave. He is an elite motivator. Here's what he motivated me to do this morning:
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GT is probably a more attractive job than JMU right now, but the margin is probably not as big as you would think.I think we could find someone like Curt Cignetti at JMU. He's experienced and proven (Granted, in FCS): He's 97–30 as a head coach, 30–4 at JMU. Played QB at WVU and coached QBs most of his career. Coached WR and was a recruiting coordinator under Saban at Bama before getting a (DII) HC job. His next step would normally be a G5 job. (JMU is moving up to FBS in 2023 if he stays.) But he's 60 and making $425k at JMU. He's probably not working his up way to a shot at a plum P5 job at this point in his career. He'd probably jump at a chance to make low 7 figures and be a P5 head coach before he retires (with a chance to do something special.) He's got a hotshot young OC that's been on his staff the last three stops. It would be a jump for him and a somewhat risky hire. But he's shown he knows how to lead a winning team.
I'm sure there's other guys like that out there...
I think we're over 200 million dollars in debt.I know you hear resources ($) are limited but, your telling me that Tech is more strapped for cash than Ga Southern? They can hire Todd Helton, a coach with big school experience and the best that Tech can do is a CGC, a coach that went 15-10 at Temple with Matt Rhule's players?
I think a big point was that the salary we could offer would be a big bump for him, and he is the type of coach who might be worth a risk given that we can't entice top tier candidates.GT is probably a more attractive job than JMU right now, but the margin is probably not as big as you would think.
They are entering FBS, into a great fit of a conference where they'll be primed to compete right away, in a state with a lot of talent in which neither of the major programs seems inclined to recruit right now.
If jmu played UVA and Virginia Tech 10 games a piece, right now, JMU would win six or seven games out of those 20.
There is a world in which they are the next coastal Carolina.
(My brother played at JMU, so I follow them pretty closely, actually)
Something like it. Here’s a good read on the topic:I think we're over 200 million dollars in debt.
I read an article yesterday in The Athletic that talked about mid-season coordinator changes. Of course the point of the article was that they rarely work out but they used Ruffin McNeill taking over at Texas Tech mid-season one year and what he did to actually have success defensively. One of the things he said they did was have the entire defense meet either Thursday or Friday of every week and go over the game call sheet and if anyone found any play call confusing or they didn't understand it they should speak up and when that happened they would remove that play from that week's call sheet. Period. The goal was to prevent "cloudy mind, slow legs." That was his version of simplification.The defensive issues just reminds me so much of 2012, CPJ told Groh to simplify the scheme cause we kept turning so many recievers loose deep. He refused so he got canned and our D got better instantly. I’d prefer for these last two games we get the younger D players lots of snaps running mostly base schemes so they can get in some good practice for next year.