Potential Head Coach Hires

[Em_Jae20]

"What some have been saying on here " has absolutely zero bearing on who will be hired. We all know that , right ??

Depends on who you listen to

 

[gtkevin12]

Mike Houston seems to have very little interest here. I'm curious why. He has been a HC for 8 years and has FOUR national championship appearances. Finished first in conference 6/8 years. Has proven he can win with lesser talent. (Beat USC-E while at the Citadel). Why wouldn't he be GREAT for Tech?

 

[GTThor]

My two choices are Jeff Monken, who I believe is by far the best candidate. I know he runs the same offense, but I also believe we were never the same when he left. I believe he is capable and willing to be more versatile offensively than Paul ever was.

The second is the sleeper. Someone mentioned him earlier and I was like "really?". I looked at him a little closer. He is a great recruiter. He is young enough to relate to kids. He has a background in running option football out of the gun from his years at GSU.
Lastly it would be a huge blow to our instate rival. Dell McGee.

He doesn't have a lot of experience, but neither did Dabo Swinney.

 

[upwgdrb]

Mike Houston seems to have very little interest here. I'm curious why. He has been a HC for 8 years and has FOUR national championship appearances. Finished first in conference 6/8 years. Has proven he can win with lesser talent. (Beat USC-E while at the Citadel). Why wouldn't he be GREAT for Tech?

He has the type of experience we need. A little concerned about not coaching in an academic environment. He is much better than the two candidates this board seems to be pushing for.


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[gtkevin12]

He has the type of experience we need. A little concerned about not coaching in an academic environment. He is much better than the two candidates this board seems to be pushing for.


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Agreed, although he has never coached with academic restrictions, the Citadel presents it's own challenges as a military institute. Not everyone wants to attend that "structure" and they don't accept everyone either. At least he is familiar with recruiting "challenges".

 

[33jacket]

We did with a Bill Lewis. Been there and sat through it. Sat thorough a Bill Curry learning how to be a head coach too. Not interested in repeating either of those.




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Oh. I thought lewis was hc at e carolina. He was. My point was we haven’t hired a Coord as head coach other than gol in forever and maybe its time to try something new rather than the constant old fogey route

We even skipped over spurrier

 

[iceeater1969]

Mike Houston seems to have very little interest here. I'm curious why. He has been a HC for 8 years and has FOUR national championship appearances. Finished first in conference 6/8 years. Has proven he can win with lesser talent. (Beat USC-E while at the Citadel). Why wouldn't he be GREAT for Tech?

I was hoping we would cut a deal w Coach to stay as a consultant and hire a guy like this to run the team. When business changes leadership ( friendly basis) this is common transition method.

Citadel guy is a good coach

 

[slugboy]

Oh. I thought lewis was hc at e carolina. He was. My point was we haven’t hired a Coord as head coach other than gol in forever and maybe its time to try something new rather than the constant old fogey route

We even skipped over spurrier

L***s was 11-1 and number 9 in the polls as head coach at East Carolina and national coach of the year before we hired him. Possibly the best pedigree possible. The hiring still seemed weird, but he wasn’t learning to be a head coach at Tech; he’d been there and done that.


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[MountainBuzzMan]

L***s was 11-1 and number 9 in the polls as head coach at East Carolina and national coach of the year before we hired him. Possibly the best pedigree possible. The hiring still seemed weird, but he wasn’t learning to be a head coach at Tech; he’d been there and done that.


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Yea, that was just Tech doing a really poor job qualifying the candidate. As we all know now, he had some great assistants to prop him up and did not have the skills to make a big step up to a larger school

 

[MikeJackets1967]

Yea, that was just Tech doing a really poor job qualifying the candidate. As we all know now, he had some great assistants and did not have the skills to make a big step up to a larger school

GT should have hired Bill Snyder in December 1991 instead of BL

 

[MountainBuzzMan]

GT should have hired Bill Snyder in December 1991 instead of BL

Yep, or the old ball coach.

 

[33jacket]

L***s was 11-1 and number 9 in the polls as head coach at East Carolina and national coach of the year before we hired him. Possibly the best pedigree possible. The hiring still seemed weird, but he wasn’t learning to be a head coach at Tech; he’d been there and done that.


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Ok. Never said he was learning here. Some other guy said that. I said i want us to be open to hiring a great asst with us as his first head job. Tons of good coaches like that. Uga did it. Oklahoma. Houston then to texas in herman. Etc

 

[BigDaddyBuzz]

Mike Houston seems to have very little interest here. I'm curious why. He has been a HC for 8 years and has FOUR national championship appearances. Finished first in conference 6/8 years. Has proven he can win with lesser talent. (Beat USC-E while at the Citadel). Why wouldn't he be GREAT for Tech?

Maybe bc he just took the East Carolina job

 

[slugboy]

Ok. Never said he was learning here. Some other guy said that. I said i want us to be open to hiring a great asst with us as his first head job. Tons of good coaches like that. Uga did it. Oklahoma. Houston then to texas in herman. Etc

Yeah, wasn’t saying you did (it looked like you were being ironic or something). It was just the end of that conversation


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[ibeattetris]

He’s just making a very valid point

His point was wrong. He said we had no players that fit two deep. It took me 1 second to come up with someone who would. I shouldn't have to defend our players. I hope we recruit better players in the future. No reason to drag the ones we currently have through the mud.

 

[gtkevin12]

Maybe bc he just took the East Carolina job

Unless you can provide a link, that's not true. Until now he has just been under consideration.

 

[lv20gt]

Mike Houston seems to have very little interest here. I'm curious why. He has been a HC for 8 years and has FOUR national championship appearances. Finished first in conference 6/8 years. Has proven he can win with lesser talent. (Beat USC-E while at the Citadel). Why wouldn't he be GREAT for Tech?

Absolutely no experience at the FBS level. Could do worse but that's a big thing.

 

[ibeattetris]

So you think CPJ was a good recruiter? You need to pull your head out of the sand and quit calling those who call a spade a spade PJ haters.

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With two recruiters on staff, I don't think I'd call CPJ bad...Other teams are in the 20s. I think CPJ struggled with recruiting, but attributing the blame on him personally is hard when he also wasn't given the resources. I hope we give the new coach every advantage and that he out recruits every coach we've ever had.

 

[ibeattetris]

Just like Tennessee

Jon Gruden would have united Tennessee's fanbase

 

[MikeJackets1967]

Jon Gruden would have united Tennessee's fanbase

He was playing around with Tennessee when he made it sound like he was interested in the head coaching job