This. I know we all focus on the on-field results - as well we should. But one also needs to consider the realities of being an AD - it's not just about hiring a couch and getting him to win. It's about juggling, or shifting a ton of Tetris pieces around to get the best possible fit and achieve the goal of keeping the game going for all sports. I think TStan has done a good job of that - although I'll be the first to say football hasn't lived up to expectations.
I hate to be the guy who says “but this is different,” but darned if it isn’t different. We brought CGC to be a recruiter and a seller and most importantly, a closer. We all wanted better Saturday results but we (the program) doubled down on jimmies and Joe’s, not Xs andOs. Recruiting was the emphasis and in terms of selling a vision within this program, he did it and did well. I full well respect the debate of recruiting vs coaching but I think we all agree we erred to the recruiting side with this hire and hoped for the best otherwise. Regardless, he recruited well and then the recruiting game was turned upside down by the portal and NIL. The primary thing we hired him for was upended almost as quickly as he got started. The game changed. I don’t know if we’d be better off if NIL and the portal didn’t happen but it sure feels to me that we made a decision based heavily on parameters that changed overnight.
I agree with this. If recruiting is now suspect based on NIL (and on field performance), I think we need to find a coach who can actually coach up his players and make them outperform their star ratings. Obviously Paul Johnson did that. By no means am I saying we should go back to a 3O, just making the observation that coaching skills of both the head coach and the staff need to be a key priority if recruiting in today's world will keep us more in the 40 to 50 range and below a lot of our opponents. Maybe our major turnover in staff will prove to have more coaching skills than our past staff. If not, we need a fresh start. In terms of TS being able to hire that type of coach, I am concerned. But he has done well in other areas so I don't think it is automatic he is gone if Collins gets fired.
Didn't put a number of wins out there, but said more wins are required. Political speak, but I get it. Win 5 decently and get bad breaks in the others (injuries to key players at one time, int or fumble on game winning drive, missed chip shot fg by a kicker who is making 80%+ etc) I think he survives. Getting a bowl and winning guarantees CGC is back, which will somehow pissed off a large portion of our fanbase. Im not sure if mid season firing is a good way to go, but another poor showing and he's fired on the bus ride back to ATL after CoFH.
I don't remember actually seeing a quote from any booster who said that he knew the funds were available. There was an AJC article that paraphrased an anonymous source with "inside information", that said the funds were available. After that, there were articles that referenced that AJC article. And then there was a booster who didn't relate information known to them, but referenced the AJC article. It is amazing to me that one paraphrased statement from one anonymous source can become widely accepted as absolutely true. Especially when the paraphrased anonymous statement is relayed by a reporter who doesn't always get the facts precisely correct. Not trying to bash Ken, but he does often get exact stats, exact quotes, etc. wrong. His human side reporting is much much better than his factual reporting.
Understand football, but basketball? ACC champions last year. Women's team making alot of good noise. And record fund raising for the GTAA.
You’re right in the sense that there is no excuse for that but I also think those two games are going to be irrelevant and I don’t point to either of them as a measuring stick one way or another. I think we’ll win them but the reaction is “so what?”
No objection there. My point is that we went “all in” for recruiting right before the whole dang recruiting game got nuked. Extraordinarily unfortunate timing for us in particular, and to your point, now we desperately need Xs and Os. Recent Xs and Os results haven’t been encouraging but maybe we have a little offensive innovation coming that will allow us to feature a little more of the defensive “mayhem” we were hoping to see. For better or for worse, this feels like the year that something has to happen.
