Honestly, I think he will probably do well just focusing on D. He wasn’t ready to be in charge. I have no idea what the dynamic of UNC staff is, but he could be very successful if he finds himself in a spot where he is told, “coach the D and don’t worry about anything else.” It might be a good reset.
My friend group recently had a girl make a fool of herself, double down, and eventually create enemies with everyone because she couldn’t swallow her pride and apologize. She pointed blame at others and claimed zero fault, sound familiar? Been months since we last saw her and we mostly joke about her now- but ultimately feel bad.
In the case of narcissism, unless there is some physical hardwiring of the brain that didn’t occur, it is usually caused by poor attachments with parents at an early age. Expectations to succeed are high with little emotional support and role modeling that combines lack of empathy with selfishness as a strategy for surviving in the world. By adulthood the patterns are too ingrained to be undone apart from intense therapy which has little chance of success because resistance to self criticism is already baked in.
If he can accept the fact that he is not head coach material, and not keep looking for that next opportunity, stay in his lane and accept some direction and mentoring, then, who knows. But he would have to grow past his sense of grandiosity.Honestly, I think he will probably do well just focusing on D. He wasn’t ready to be in charge. I have no idea what the dynamic of UNC staff is, but he could be very successful if he finds himself in a spot where he is told, “coach the D and don’t worry about anything else.” It might be a good reset.
If he has the ability to pursue lots of stuff outside of “coaching the D,” it could be another setback…. Unless, somehow he has a renewed sense of perspective.
I mentioned elsewhere that there are way more guys like Collins in the corporate and business world than I would ever have imagined before starting my career. One of the hallmarks or dead giveaways imo is that they have to keep moving around. You want to stay one step ahead of the posse apparently. I think broad experience is great but a resume that never had ANY single job of 5 years or more went into my trash can. That's probably outdated thinking but it was a good way to avoid the salesman disguised as a coach, engineer, manager, etc.
Failure is hard to deal with for most people. Most cannot accept their role in their own failure. I do not care to divine what exactly TFG is thinking, but he probably thinks his failure is not his fault, was unfairly judged for it, and was not given enough time or resources to deliver the desired results. He also probably does not understand the vitriol directed at him, so he is punching back at Tech fans. Just one idiot's opinion.
I agree.
I have never been fired (knock on wood) nor do I expect to be in my short remaining time before official retirement. However, if I did AND received a compensation package like he got I imagine I wouldn't spend alot of time thinking or worrying about things or what might have gone wrong. I have changed jobs several times and was never one to look backwards.
Unlikely. Those pants would crush any woman’s lady bits.
Our hiring process at that time killed our program.
So lather, rinse, repeat blandishments from his time at Tech?Gluten free, here.
- Lots of jargon. Very vague
- Too many compliments. Felt like an Eddie Haskell interview
- If he does what he promises, then why didn’t he do that when he was here?
- He has a lot more hair than when he was here. Hmmm
[it’s either a transplant or rogaine or both]
I don’t think TFG has eaten too much humble pie along the way. I am sure he still believes that he is elite.
It's who he is. His success (and failures) have always come with this exuberant, confident personality, so he won't change. I'm not sure he could change it. With that said, I will be very surprised, as others here have mentioned, if he can somehow have significant success at UNC since even GC (and remember, Mack Brown was a DC as well) wasn't able to ever field a good D at UNC.
To me, that seems like the kind of blanket short-sightedness that misses gems. Often time visionaries and innovators have a quick burn and stay long enough to make a highly positive impact and move on to the next challenge. I don't know your industry, so I'm not criticizing you, but it's been my experience that you can separate the wheat from the chaff pretty quickly in the first couple of minutes of the first interview.
I’ve worked with my share of “fake it ‘til you make it” people. They just assume that everyone is doing it.
I don’t think he will ever improve as a coach until he looks in the mirror and admits he FAILED at GT.
