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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 991299" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I suspect the parameters of the contract had already been thought out for Whisenhunt. He’d have had that contract if the hiring process hadn’t blown up. He was a better fit in a lot of ways—“bring us NFL-style big boy football, and get rid of this high school offense”.</p><p></p><p>When we interviewed candidates, they were asked how quickly they could transition us away from the option.</p><p></p><p>If everything went according to plan, we’d have never interviewed Collins. There was a transition plan in place, and they leaked the new coach, and fans freaked out and thought Whisenhunt was “Chan 2.0”. Whiz backed out, and Stansbury interviewed coaches to fill the hole in the plan. Collins agreed happily to everything in order to get the job.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the things Collins did on day 1 were to make particular people happy. The contract was to make sure he completed the job.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Collins wasn’t Cortes here. He’s not the one who burned the ships. It was Stansbury and the big boosters. The contract was to lock in Tech fans into the transition. It was to make sure we didn’t hire Fritz or Monken after a year. Again, look at Georgia Southern.</p><p></p><p>Collins is just the coach who agreed to do the job. The contract was to lock the plan into place—Collins was along for the ride.</p><p></p><p>He was hired to make the “greatest transition in college football”. Collins used those words, but that was what he was interviewed and hired to do. The contract was for the coach who was making the greatest transition in college football, and Collins was the puzzle piece that filled the empty hole.</p><p></p><p>For his part, he got to implement his practices with DJs and the things that a lot of fans hated—“Money Down” and players lifting weights on the sidelines—but that was because he agreed to rip out his predecessor’s work abruptly and immediately and implement “Pro-style” things. He even tacked the words “pro style” onto the RPO offense to make the boosters happy.</p><p></p><p>A stronger willed and wiser coach would have had a plan to transition gradually from the flex option. That stronger willed and wiser coach was never going to make it past the first round of interviews, because “gradual” was the opposite of what was desired. [USER=6771]@stinger78[/USER] , anyone who met your definition was exactly the kind of coach who was going to get washed out of the process.</p><p></p><p>A lot of people are mad at Collins and Patenaude for doing what they were mostly told to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 991299, member: 282"] I suspect the parameters of the contract had already been thought out for Whisenhunt. He’d have had that contract if the hiring process hadn’t blown up. He was a better fit in a lot of ways—“bring us NFL-style big boy football, and get rid of this high school offense”. When we interviewed candidates, they were asked how quickly they could transition us away from the option. If everything went according to plan, we’d have never interviewed Collins. There was a transition plan in place, and they leaked the new coach, and fans freaked out and thought Whisenhunt was “Chan 2.0”. Whiz backed out, and Stansbury interviewed coaches to fill the hole in the plan. Collins agreed happily to everything in order to get the job. A lot of the things Collins did on day 1 were to make particular people happy. The contract was to make sure he completed the job. Collins wasn’t Cortes here. He’s not the one who burned the ships. It was Stansbury and the big boosters. The contract was to lock in Tech fans into the transition. It was to make sure we didn’t hire Fritz or Monken after a year. Again, look at Georgia Southern. Collins is just the coach who agreed to do the job. The contract was to lock the plan into place—Collins was along for the ride. He was hired to make the “greatest transition in college football”. Collins used those words, but that was what he was interviewed and hired to do. The contract was for the coach who was making the greatest transition in college football, and Collins was the puzzle piece that filled the empty hole. For his part, he got to implement his practices with DJs and the things that a lot of fans hated—“Money Down” and players lifting weights on the sidelines—but that was because he agreed to rip out his predecessor’s work abruptly and immediately and implement “Pro-style” things. He even tacked the words “pro style” onto the RPO offense to make the boosters happy. A stronger willed and wiser coach would have had a plan to transition gradually from the flex option. That stronger willed and wiser coach was never going to make it past the first round of interviews, because “gradual” was the opposite of what was desired. [USER=6771]@stinger78[/USER] , anyone who met your definition was exactly the kind of coach who was going to get washed out of the process. A lot of people are mad at Collins and Patenaude for doing what they were mostly told to do. [/QUOTE]
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