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Syracuse, Jan. 21st 2023, Pre And Post Game Commentary
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<blockquote data-quote="AUFC" data-source="post: 932301" data-attributes="member: 3230"><p>At some point, $$$ investment overcomes how unappealing the job is. That's true that Auburn wasn't a desirable program to play for prior to Pearl, but the university showed commitment and Pearl wrangled more investors. He won with that money and it pulled even more people into the fold. Remember, he was dropping huge bags at Tennessee pre-NIL. A lot of those SEC schools took the football profits and brought the arms race to basketball around 5 years ago. I think most just conceded the conference to Kentucky for a very long time.</p><p></p><p>The revenue sports at Georgia Tech at this point are at a place where it's well understood you will earn a low-mid tier salary for a power conference and try to navigate several institutional issues ($$$, major selection, class requirements, etc) in order to win. Just not an appealing job for most top/up-and-coming coaches with big aspirations - Brian Gregory, Josh Pastner, Geoff Collins were all mediocre high-major coaches or got run out of their programs and threw the dice at Georgia Tech for their power conference chance. The Key hire is an interesting switch up given his alumnus status. Maybe Batt is ready to go all in on a basketball coach with Key being a budget hire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AUFC, post: 932301, member: 3230"] At some point, $$$ investment overcomes how unappealing the job is. That's true that Auburn wasn't a desirable program to play for prior to Pearl, but the university showed commitment and Pearl wrangled more investors. He won with that money and it pulled even more people into the fold. Remember, he was dropping huge bags at Tennessee pre-NIL. A lot of those SEC schools took the football profits and brought the arms race to basketball around 5 years ago. I think most just conceded the conference to Kentucky for a very long time. The revenue sports at Georgia Tech at this point are at a place where it's well understood you will earn a low-mid tier salary for a power conference and try to navigate several institutional issues ($$$, major selection, class requirements, etc) in order to win. Just not an appealing job for most top/up-and-coming coaches with big aspirations - Brian Gregory, Josh Pastner, Geoff Collins were all mediocre high-major coaches or got run out of their programs and threw the dice at Georgia Tech for their power conference chance. The Key hire is an interesting switch up given his alumnus status. Maybe Batt is ready to go all in on a basketball coach with Key being a budget hire. [/QUOTE]
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