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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 76609" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>A technical complaint on word usage but I never put "faith" in humans, that is reserved for someone higher. So I will read this poll as asking if I have lost "confidence" or "trust" in CPJ.</p><p></p><p>Short answer is "no."</p><p></p><p>Long answer is that the biggest factor in continuing to run the GT football program is winning games against the top yearly opponents faced as well as in conference and postseason games. He has not won enough of those overall. But, he has been very competitive and close to winning in <em>almost </em>all of them. Close may only count in horseshoes and hand grenades but in reality it does make decisions to fire coaches more difficult. This is because gut wrenching OT losses and letting teams come from behind <em>hurt </em>more than getting blown out and not being competitive to begin with <em>but </em>only the latter kind of loss make a decision to fire a head coach <em>easy</em>.</p><p></p><p>On the other components besides winning enough high profile games CPJ is clearly doing fine to better than fine. His recruiting has been historically typical for Tech overall but trending up and he has earned a loosening of reins by the Hill as well as convinced the AD to invest more in staff. He also deserves credit for trying to bring Joe Hamilton in very early in his tenure here and then giving him the second chance once Joe proved he deserved it. I like the way CPJ handles his business in that regard. He does respect tradition, the importance of continuity with a program's past and both disciplines players and staff as well as <em>forgives</em> them in a judicious manner. He seems to have pretty sound judgment overall. I know it is not the highest priority to have a coach who is not an embarrassment but in a conference that now has Petrino in it I actually value this aspect because as always I am a fan of the <em>program</em>, the name on the jersey and not any specific coach. </p><p></p><p>I do think that today of all days with what the NCAA decided to do about Penn State it is a day to be thankful that Tech has never seemed in danger of letting <em>any head coach </em>become bigger than the Institute itself and its educational mission. </p><p></p><p>Frankly, I can easily see my agreeing one day to firing CPJ and yet never have lost my confidence in him as a head coach. At some point too many losses can make a change necessary <em>despite </em>all the positives a coach has. I think this was the case with Cremins who is rightly remembered fondly and revered by Tech fans even when the overwhelming view was that it was time to make a change.</p><p></p><p>My preference is to never have that day come so it is still as easy as ever to root for Tech to win every game!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 76609, member: 231"] A technical complaint on word usage but I never put "faith" in humans, that is reserved for someone higher. So I will read this poll as asking if I have lost "confidence" or "trust" in CPJ. Short answer is "no." Long answer is that the biggest factor in continuing to run the GT football program is winning games against the top yearly opponents faced as well as in conference and postseason games. He has not won enough of those overall. But, he has been very competitive and close to winning in [I]almost [/I]all of them. Close may only count in horseshoes and hand grenades but in reality it does make decisions to fire coaches more difficult. This is because gut wrenching OT losses and letting teams come from behind [I]hurt [/I]more than getting blown out and not being competitive to begin with [I]but [/I]only the latter kind of loss make a decision to fire a head coach [I]easy[/I]. On the other components besides winning enough high profile games CPJ is clearly doing fine to better than fine. His recruiting has been historically typical for Tech overall but trending up and he has earned a loosening of reins by the Hill as well as convinced the AD to invest more in staff. He also deserves credit for trying to bring Joe Hamilton in very early in his tenure here and then giving him the second chance once Joe proved he deserved it. I like the way CPJ handles his business in that regard. He does respect tradition, the importance of continuity with a program's past and both disciplines players and staff as well as [I]forgives[/I] them in a judicious manner. He seems to have pretty sound judgment overall. I know it is not the highest priority to have a coach who is not an embarrassment but in a conference that now has Petrino in it I actually value this aspect because as always I am a fan of the [I]program[/I], the name on the jersey and not any specific coach. I do think that today of all days with what the NCAA decided to do about Penn State it is a day to be thankful that Tech has never seemed in danger of letting [I]any head coach [/I]become bigger than the Institute itself and its educational mission. Frankly, I can easily see my agreeing one day to firing CPJ and yet never have lost my confidence in him as a head coach. At some point too many losses can make a change necessary [I]despite [/I]all the positives a coach has. I think this was the case with Cremins who is rightly remembered fondly and revered by Tech fans even when the overwhelming view was that it was time to make a change. My preference is to never have that day come so it is still as easy as ever to root for Tech to win every game! [/QUOTE]
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