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Dave Braine.
Lots of questionable business decisions from his time saddled GT to the point it affected the next decade of coaching and business decisions.
Remembering Hewitt
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Dave Braine.
Lots of questionable business decisions from his time saddled GT to the point it affected the next decade of coaching and business decisions.
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I'm uninformed about these character issues. What did he do that was uncharacteristic of a coach in a similar position?
Was he accused of any activities that we've actually seen at other major NCAA schools (like Louisville, UNC, Arizona, et. al)?
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I believe the uninformed club is full.
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Did nothing with Tadric. Fortunately for Okogie he was never coached by Gregory. Poole left high school early to rescue at bad team and sucked himself before transferring. Carter didn't develop at all and then transferred. MGH was good but Gregory didn't figure out how to best utilize him until the 2nd half of his senior season.
And most of those recruits came early when Tech still had a decent rep based off of Hewitt's time as coach.
Aye CuseJ, just between me and you, edit your post to start with "What if I told you ..."
Make it an epic GT 30-for-30 opening. I'll just put it on your ever-growing tab.
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I never had an issue with Hewitt personally, it was just time for a change and frankly should have happened a year earlier.
The bigger issue with GT basketball has not been the coaches it has been the administrators, especially Braine and Radakovich. They both made decisions that combined to create a lost decade for GT.
Just because things have been worse since Hewitt left (and they have), doesn't mean it was the wrong decision -it just means the decisions since then have been wrong.
I'll just leave with this thought. Until GT is committed to playing ACC basketball and recruiting it might as well keep Pastner. Other wise all we are doing is making a change, spinning our wheels and repeating every 5 years. We can't keep paying well below market rate and expect to have above market results.
The bigger issue with GT basketball has not been the coaches it has been the administrators, especially Braine and Radakovich. They both made decisions that combined to create a lost decade for GT.
Just because things have been worse since Hewitt left (and they have), doesn't mean it was the wrong decision -it just means the decisions since then have been wrong.
I'll just leave with this thought. Until GT is committed to playing ACC basketball and recruiting it might as well keep Pastner. Other wise all we are doing is making a change, spinning our wheels and repeating every 5 years. We can't keep paying well below market rate and expect to have above market results.
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A statement that deserves being repeated.
Not to mention BG burned a year of Pooles eligibility while the ****ing kid WAS INJURED
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I watched that game & was stunned!!
It's not hard to explain. Apparently Jarrett Jack coached all his successful teams. The teams before Jack arrived and going back to Sienna too, I guess.
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Tho Jack was a helluva player! That was a really good team.It's not hard to explain. Apparently Jarrett Jack coached all his successful teams. The teams before Jack arrived and going back to Sienna too, I guess.
I don't disagree with any of this. I disagree with people who suggest Hewitt wasn't coaching the team.
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Lol... there's no way anyone can debate this.
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The people who hate Hewitt with a passion don't try to debate. They get baffled if you don't think he is the suckiest sucker who ever sucked then get their feelings hurt.
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Like I said, the issues are much more inflicted by the administration than the coaches.
Hewitt was given the automatic rollover because GT couldn't afford to up his salary too much and they were concerned about losing him to other programs or the NBA (of course there was an out for the Knicks in the contract anyways). What they should have done is had a non rollover buyout, but included a longevity bonus. That way if he kept producing there would be a pot for him after so many additional years.
Then of course once DRad decided to fire him, Drad changed the terms of the buyout. Instead of a 5 yr, 1.4MM/per buyout is was modified to an 8 yr, 900K/per buyout. I think this was done because DRad was worried about cash flow, but the long term effect was to increase the length of purgatory for GT from 5 yrs to 8 yrs.
DRad didn't really give a damn about the basketball search and left it up to Eddie Fogler. FWIW, when Gregory was hired he almost turned down the job, because he was concerned he wouldn't have enough money for assts. That was how bad the last couple of AD's had messed up the finances. The scary thing is that among the finalists for the position, Gregory was the best choice.
When Gregory was fired because DRad changed the buyout terms instead of having Hewitt off the books, you still had 3 more years to go and $2.7MM to pay out. This impacted the search which eventually landed Pastner. Which was also flubbed to a degree by Bobinski.
in his final year if he gets the whole contract Pastner would be at $2.3MM, that would still place him in the bottom 2.
GT should just stay the course until they want to get serious about basketball. If they are planning on offering less than $2.5MM and really closer to $3MM, they shouldn't even bother.
Hewitt was much better his first five years than after that, but he at least had some success. FWIW, you can thank Cliff Warren for the guard play during that time and Dean Keener was the coach in charge of the defense at that point. Jack can tell you about how Cliff Warren made him a much better PG.
Hewitt was given the automatic rollover because GT couldn't afford to up his salary too much and they were concerned about losing him to other programs or the NBA (of course there was an out for the Knicks in the contract anyways). What they should have done is had a non rollover buyout, but included a longevity bonus. That way if he kept producing there would be a pot for him after so many additional years.
Then of course once DRad decided to fire him, Drad changed the terms of the buyout. Instead of a 5 yr, 1.4MM/per buyout is was modified to an 8 yr, 900K/per buyout. I think this was done because DRad was worried about cash flow, but the long term effect was to increase the length of purgatory for GT from 5 yrs to 8 yrs.
DRad didn't really give a damn about the basketball search and left it up to Eddie Fogler. FWIW, when Gregory was hired he almost turned down the job, because he was concerned he wouldn't have enough money for assts. That was how bad the last couple of AD's had messed up the finances. The scary thing is that among the finalists for the position, Gregory was the best choice.
When Gregory was fired because DRad changed the buyout terms instead of having Hewitt off the books, you still had 3 more years to go and $2.7MM to pay out. This impacted the search which eventually landed Pastner. Which was also flubbed to a degree by Bobinski.
in his final year if he gets the whole contract Pastner would be at $2.3MM, that would still place him in the bottom 2.
GT should just stay the course until they want to get serious about basketball. If they are planning on offering less than $2.5MM and really closer to $3MM, they shouldn't even bother.
Hewitt was much better his first five years than after that, but he at least had some success. FWIW, you can thank Cliff Warren for the guard play during that time and Dean Keener was the coach in charge of the defense at that point. Jack can tell you about how Cliff Warren made him a much better PG.
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Can we hire Cliff back as an assistant?