I have hoped that Collins would somehow turn things around at some point because I wanted him, like any coach at tech, to succeed and the team to succeed. But this is over. And not even just the win/losses at this point it’s just that the program is dying.
Collins strong suit was supposed to be media and recruiting, which was the opposite of Paul pretty much and I think a lot of why he was hired. To be a national face of the program and generate a lot of buzz and recruiting. But recruiting will be nose diving now from a level of pretty mediocre the last couple of years. You can’t be a showman/salesman after 4 years of crap results. You have nothing to sell at this point. The excuses have run out.
I’ve never seen in my life of watching GA tech, which is a little over 30 years, the way we are now clowned on by announcers during games. It has been multiple games about how bad we are, how many mistakes we make, poor execution, etc. we have become a laughing stock nationally.
Players have checked out or tuned out at this point. You can tell by the comments from the players in the presser, especially daunte’s comments were very telling. I don’t blame all of our poor play on just Collins, guys have to make plays when they are there, and we don’t. On offense - sims is playing mediocre at best in his junior year and our OL is atrocious again for a 4th Straight year. On D- Too many missed tackles and missed sacks in the backfield. Lack team speed to make plays in space, especially QB scrambles.
Hopefully a change is made but for the program who is always broke and poor on resources/revenue not sure how we have the $ to fire him and hire another coach. It is now what it has been the last 3 seasons…when does basketball start?