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Brian Kelley isn't going to make it through to next year
Interesting to think about why a coach like Kelly could be so successful and then get to ND with all their resources and recruiting advantage and fail so badBrian Kelley isn't going to make it through to next year
Well it appeared he had them going in the right direction at one time. Big mistake with the O'Leary fiasco. He would have won multiple championships and retired a legend.Interesting to think about why a coach like Kelly could be so successful and then get to ND with all their resources and recruiting advantage and fail so bad
How in God's name did Georgia Tech ever reach a point where 58% is considered successful?
I have maintained for years I do not care if we gain 10 yards running or throwing. So, yes, it does not mean another coach running this O would not succeed. Or fail. If such a person was hired, they would have very, very little time to convince the public (we best start selling more tickets) that this would have been the right move. But anyone thinking his philosophy has not impacted our entire team & recruiting process is burying their heads in the turf. It reduces the # of qualified recruits (already smaller than big state U) even further. And CPJ, as has been said many times, from day 1 never emphasized anything but his O. It has more than caught up with him, and us.
What I see at Alabama is interest is sustaining their "Alabama Way" of playing football.
They tried the football coach as hero model ... Perkins, Curry, Dubose, Shula, etc.
They feel like they have an approach now, that transcends the coach. Saban's Process.
Tech needs an approach to FBS that works for Tech. I've heard many say that Tech is "service academy" football. I don't know, but I don't disagree either.
Changing every few years is just very expensive and not very productive.
One of my college profs said, "many techniques will work. What's important is to pick one, commit, and excel at it."
I don't think we've ever done that.
Maybe we can get a chart like that for the GT - unc game?
Thank goodness we are running his masterful O. It keeps us in games (not wins them which is supposedly the goal. To wit record vs ugag, um, recent CU, recent unc, vt.).
I have maintained for years I do not care if we gain 10 yards running or throwing. So, yes, it does not mean another coach running this O would not succeed. Or fail. If such a person was hired, they would have very, very little time to convince the public (we best start selling more tickets) that this would have been the right move. But anyone thinking his philosophy has not impacted our entire team & recruiting process is burying their heads in the turf. It reduces the # of qualified recruits (already smaller than big state U) even further. And CPJ, as has been said many times, from day 1 never emphasized anything but his O. It has more than caught up with him, and us.
I am just too old for the new GT mantra.
I want to see GT win. Nobody is going to win like osu, mich, bama does these days. That is not what we are talking about. The new generation a GT fans are accepting of, at best, mediocrity. That was not what I was taught at GT. And then excuse upon whining excuse.
How in God's name did Georgia Tech ever reach a point where 58% is considered successful?
Anyone is free, and perhaps justified, in disagreeing with me. That is more than fine. But somebody best start thinking of the future and what can happen. I know you all love GT as I do.
P.S. Navy vs. n.d. does not have crap to do with GT.
If they feel they have a "process" that reduces the reliance on a coach, those folks over there in Tusks Are Loosa are smoking stuff they should be selling. Knowing them, they might be. That's just nuts.What I see at Alabama is interest is sustaining their "Alabama Way" of playing football.
They tried the football coach as hero model ... Perkins, Curry, Dubose, Shula, etc.
They feel like they have an approach now, that transcends the coach. Saban's Process.
Tech needs an approach to FBS that works for Tech. I've heard many say that Tech is "service academy" football. I don't know, but I don't disagree either.
Changing every few years is just very expensive and not very productive.
One of my college profs said, "many techniques will work. What's important is to pick one, commit, and excel at it."
I don't think we've ever done that.
If they feel they have a "process" that reduces the reliance on a coach, those folks over there in Tusks Are Loosa are smoking stuff they should be selling. Knowing them, they might be. That's just nuts.
Well, just an opinion but having a great coach and great recruiting territory and pliable if not complicit administrators along with almost unlimited money -- Alabama doesn't have much but it is willing to spend it all on football -- is not exactly a process. But a question, and I do not know the answer, but if he was to hire Kirby Smart, then what kind of coaching tree does Nick Saban have to justify faith in hiring the guy who is slipping and sliding over in Athens? Nick Saban may be a great college coach, but while Bear Bryant fans -- yeah, yeah, they all are -- can point to Bryant, Gene Stallings and Dabo Swinney in a direct line. What head coaches has Saban wrought?Yes, that's the word. The plan was for Saban to retire in 3 years and tutor Kirby Smart. That's not gonna happen now.
But Bama does want to avoid the constant see saws with basically, bad decisions on hires. Use Saban's Process to drive a more predictable way to run the program.
Alabama doesn't have much but it is willing to spend it all on football -- is not exactly a process. But a question, and I do not know the answer, but if he was to hire Kirby Smart, then what kind of coaching tree does Nick Saban have to justify faith in hiring the guy who is slipping and sliding over in Athens?