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Tommy_Taylor_1972 said:
Something needs to published, even if the departure is for personal reasons or whatever. The impression is that it is for performance issues. Something similar happened last Christmas break when an assistant basketball coach was "departed" without reasons given by the head coach. I assume the players were told something and eventually it will be leaked out if not made public by the GTAA.
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Similar to how things happened with Mike Daniels. As far as I know nothing has ever leaked about what happened with him.
 
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RonJohn said:
Similar to how things happened with Mike Daniels. As far as I know nothing has ever leaked about what happened with him.
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RonJon, this must be a bigger one. I went back in Swarm and read Mike Daniels departure mystery which consumed 5 pages of comments. We are already on page 6 and it only a day old.Speculation will run rampant for the next few days, since we are in a bye week in football and basketball will not start until next week. Golf and volleyball are the only sports going til then. So I will be a bit longer here on the two other assistant coaches that "resigned" for unexplained reasons, a total of three in two years at Georgia Tech.

BTW, Mike Daniels is now in Columbus, OH as an NFL Senior Advisor - Consultant. The average pay for that job is around $80,000 annually. Pretty sure he did not leave Tech in 2022 for that job, but he seems ok with it. Sounds more like him moving back close to home in Ohio to care for parents (or not being able to get back into college coaching).

Very similar announcement as Coach Brumfields' announcement from GTAA last December on departure of another assistant coach, without explanation.
To quote the AJC "Assistant basketball coach Terry Parker, Jr. is no longer with Georgia Tech's men's basketball program. Associate director of player personnel and Georgia Tech alumnus B.J. Elder has been elevated to assistant coach for the remainder of the 2023-24 season. Dec 16, 2023". Another article said he resigned for personal reasons. Terry's linked-in states he is self-employed in Atlanta as a basketball researcher and says he looking for work, after 17 years in coaching college basketball at D1 schools.

Coaching is a harsh business to be in, especially these days with paying players and player transfers, with pressure to win, and zero-defects culture. Even in the more stable time 40 years ago, I coached in three schools in 5 years while in the Army reserves. For family stability, I resigned from my last head coaching job and rejoined the active Army for stability and spending time with raising kids. After Army retirement and having moved up in the defense industry to a senior executive position, I resigned again after 12 years to care full time to my oldest son, who had traumatic brain injury from a horrific fall. I understand and have empathy for resigning for personal reasons and stepping aside. Someone always took my place and all was well.

I do think six pages of guesswork is enough for reasons for coaches resignations and departures. I believe sound decisions were made by both employers and employees for mutual benefit, and that all will be fine. Coaches, having been in the arena as both players and coaches, are pretty tough and resilient and flexible to change. They know that when they enter coaching as a profession. At times, life happens to change their azimuth to achieve happiness.
 
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Those first 3 years were pretty awful 1980-82, a little effin around might have helped the record..
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Coach Curry had a lot on his plate during those dark years. Far worse than what Coach Collins had to deal with or Coach Key. The worst facilities in division one, absolutely no depth. Tech did not even have a weight training facility other than free weights located under the North stands. It was a long, hard, road back to respectability that took every bit of four years. Curry's one saving grace was persuading Don Lindsay to come to Tech to be defensive coordinator. Robert Lavette, Pat Swilling, and a couple more were well above average recruits but it was very hard to recruit top shelf high school players to come to Tech.
 
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GT7378 said:
Those first 3 years were pretty awful 1980-82, a little effin around might have helped the record..
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he took over a AWFUL situation from Pepper, and those two one win seasons still had a tie with ND and a win over Bama.

In '82 he went 6-5. By '84 he had us beating Georgia again.

Was Bill the best coach we've ever had? Hell no, far from it. But I won't accept any HBC slander. Just a true Tech man.
 
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Regardless of what did or didn't happen, it's better for GT Athletics and for Coach Brumfield if the details never come out. If it's a personal issue, it's no one's business. If it was something negative, it's no one's business and there's no positives for the details coming out. IMHO, it's best for everyone involved to never know.

From a fan's perspective, we all want to know the details - but it's better if we don't.
 
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AugustaSwarm said:
Regardless of what did or didn't happen, it's better for GT Athletics and for Coach Brumfield if the details never come out. If it's a personal issue, it's no one's business. If it was something negative, it's no one's business and there's no positives for the details coming out. IMHO, it's best for everyone involved to never know.

From a fan's perspective, we all want to know the details - but it's better if we don't.
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This is good insight.
 

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Tommy_Taylor_1972 said:
RonJon, this must be a bigger one. I went back in Swarm and read Mike Daniels departure mystery which consumed 5 pages of comments. We are already on page 6 and it only a day old.Speculation will run rampant for the next few days, since we are in a bye week in football and basketball will not start until next week. Golf and volleyball are the only sports going til then. So I will be a bit longer here on the two other assistant coaches that "resigned" for unexplained reasons, a total of three in two years at Georgia Tech.

BTW, Mike Daniels is now in Columbus, OH as an NFL Senior Advisor - Consultant. The average pay for that job is around $80,000 annually. Pretty sure he did not leave Tech in 2022 for that job, but he seems ok with it. Sounds more like him moving back close to home in Ohio to care for parents (or not being able to get back into college coaching).

Very similar announcement as Coach Brumfields' announcement from GTAA last December on departure of another assistant coach, without explanation.
To quote the AJC "Assistant basketball coach Terry Parker, Jr. is no longer with Georgia Tech's men's basketball program. Associate director of player personnel and Georgia Tech alumnus B.J. Elder has been elevated to assistant coach for the remainder of the 2023-24 season. Dec 16, 2023". Another article said he resigned for personal reasons. Terry's linked-in states he is self-employed in Atlanta as a basketball researcher and says he looking for work, after 17 years in coaching college basketball at D1 schools.

Coaching is a harsh business to be in, especially these days with paying players and player transfers, with pressure to win, and zero-defects culture. Even in the more stable time 40 years ago, I coached in three schools in 5 years while in the Army reserves. For family stability, I resigned from my last head coaching job and rejoined the active Army for stability and spending time with raising kids. After Army retirement and having moved up in the defense industry to a senior executive position, I resigned again after 12 years to care full time to my oldest son, who had traumatic brain injury from a horrific fall. I understand and have empathy for resigning for personal reasons and stepping aside. Someone always took my place and all was well.

I do think six pages of guesswork is enough for reasons for coaches resignations and departures. I believe sound decisions were made by both employers and employees for mutual benefit, and that all will be fine. Coaches, having been in the arena as both players and coaches, are pretty tough and resilient and flexible to change. They know that when they enter coaching as a profession. At times, life happens to change their azimuth to achieve happiness.
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I know both Mike Daniels and Terry Parker personally. Neither left on their own and from my conversations with them, the “allegations” were personal for their head coaches to share publicly.

But they were serious enough that neither could land another coaching job.

Daniels was looking at any roles outside of football. Parker is looking to get out of NCAA coaching, but is having a challenging time finding work for an NBA team.

I was also told that GT is still paying out the remainder of their contract. At least for one.
 
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4shotB said:
I suspect we will never know the details (as it should be in these matters). This got me to thinking....back in my day, the telling phrase in all HR personnel announcements was " So and so has resigned to pursue other opportunities". I am curious if that piece of jargon is still around or has it been updated?? If so, what is the current version that tells you someone has been fired without saying they have been fired.
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"parted ways"
 

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Quote from Ricky's agent in the AJC.

“Ricky needed to take a step back for personal reasons and to be with his family,” Endebrock wrote. “This industry takes a toll on people — especially coaches — in more ways than one. He’s healthy and in great spirits, just was time for a change!”

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Ricky Brumfield’s agent on departure from Georgia Tech staff: ‘Time for a change!’

Ricky Brumfield left the Georgia Tech football staff mid-season after skipping the team's trip to Virginia Tech.
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