Your choice for Head Coach

[wesgt123]

This is my issue with Key. He SHOULD have quit and then told the GT fanbase why. He sat there for 3 plus years and watched his school get destroyed by 1 man, Whether or not he gets the job he owes us an explanation about what happened, I just don’t understand why it is so hard to simply give your opinion. All Key has to say is “the previous coach didn’t have a clue and he ran ineffective practices which led to losses on game day”. A statement like that would put it to rest. But this code of silence leads me to want a clean break from anyone associated with Collins.

This is my issue with Key. He SHOULD have quit and then told the GT fanbase why. He sat there for 3 plus years and watched his school get destroyed by 1 man, Whether or not he gets the job he owes us an explanation about what happened, I just don’t understand why it is so hard to simply give your opinion. All Key has to say is “the previous coach didn’t have a clue and he ran ineffective practices which led to losses on game day”. A statement like that would put it to rest. But this code of silence leads me to want a clean break from anyone associated with Collins.

You're still dying on that hill I see. We know. You've been complaining in every thread about your personal grudge. Give it a rest.

 

[WreckinGT]

https://247sports.com/Article/Colle...ders-Colorado-South-Florida-report-198224540/

For the "Deion ain't going to come here" crowd. If he's considering these two, he certainly would consider gt. Feeling might not be mutual, but I'm pretty sure he'd pick us over these 2.

South Florida choosing between Deion and Jon Gruden certainly isn't something I saw coming.

 

[Techster]

https://247sports.com/Article/Colle...ders-Colorado-South-Florida-report-198224540/

For the "Deion ain't going to come here" crowd. If he's considering these two, he certainly would consider gt. Feeling might not be mutual, but I'm pretty sure he'd pick us over these 2.

Be careful this time of the year. Agents get paid well for what they put out there this time of the year.

 

[GTMom]

I didn't take offense to anything you said. I just wanted to share a little bit on Zach's exposure, or lack of, during the recruitment process for him. And honestly after going through the process that he did, I am very grateful he wasn't a TL or JF. I cannot even imagine the amount of frustration their parents felt during their process. It's so cut throat and at times, unethical it's sad.

More than anything I just wanted people to see Zach is at GT for a very specific reason. He knew what he was looking for in a school and GT checked a lot of those boxes. He's won a lot of football games in HS and was fortunate to play on some really good teams. I think he's excited, and super motivated, to come in and help GT become become a championship caliber team.

Looking forward to having him back. I could tell from game one he played in that he is super motivated and has the fight in him that’s necessary to win games. Wishing him a speedy recovery. Both my sons are Tech alum. They played football at a small Georgia high school and both had the opportunity to play at the next level but their top priority was an education from Georgia Tech. I think Zach made the best decision for his future and we are blessed to have him.

 

[BCJacket]

Any suggestions who you think Key would want to bring in instead?

Here's another issue - wasn't Long a Key recommendation? If we don't like who Key recommended enough to give him a 2nd year and a chance, isn't that somewhat of an indictment on Key? Do we trust Key's decision making on hiring coaches? Stansbury was basically just fired because we couldn't trust him to make the right hiring decision despite being a Tech man and former player.

IIRC, What was rumored at the time was Key's reputation and word was instrumental in getting Long to accept our crappy job. Long was mostly seen as a good hire, given the situation. What established, proven, OC would want to step in to a staff that's on the hottest of hot seats?

Long might not have had the best resume. But it was better than the previous guy. And better than we should have expected. Heck, A lot of people had him pegged as the coach in waiting for when Collins got fired. Nobody* foresaw that the offense would be, arguably, worse this year under Long.

It seems like, as talk of Key as the permanent head coach has heated up, a narrative has developed that the OC hire was somehow Key's choice. And also, by some implication, that we had a whole lot of options of who to hire; not that we were limited by money and offering a warm seat on a smoldering dumpster fire. The second year/buyout was also related to getting him to take the job with the likelihood of being fired with the rest of the staff, not just because Key liked him so much.

I definitely think that questions about staff are important for ADJB to ask of any potential hire. If Key is a believer in Long and wants to keep him, then that's a forward looking issue. But criticizing Key looking backwards because Collins didn't hire a better OC doesn't seem reasonable.

(*There's always at least one smarta** though.)

 

[JacketFan137]

IIRC, What was rumored at the time was Key's reputation and word was instrumental in getting Long to accept our crappy job. Long was mostly seen as a good hire, given the situation. What established, proven, OC would want to step in to a staff that's on the hottest of hot seats?

Long might not have had the best resume. But it was better than the previous guy. And better than we should have expected. Heck, A lot of people had him pegged as the coach in waiting for when Collins got fired. Nobody* foresaw that the offense would be, arguably, worse this year under Long.

It seems like, as talk of Key as the permanent head coach has heated up, a narrative has developed that the OC hire was somehow Key's choice. And also, by some implication, that we had a whole lot of options of who to hire; not that we were limited by money and offering a warm seat on a smoldering dumpster fire. The second year/buyout was also related to getting him to take the job with the likelihood of being fired with the rest of the staff, not just because Key liked him so much.

I definitely think that questions about staff are important for ADJB to ask of any potential hire. If Key is a believer in Long and wants to keep him, then that's a forward looking issue. But criticizing Key looking backwards because Collins didn't hire a better OC doesn't seem reasonable.

(*There's always at least one smarta** though.)

we could fire chip long yesterday and i wouldn’t bat an eye but it has to be an uphill battle when you have a line as porous as ours has been

 

[Spalding Jacket]

Long is making what 850k a year, What’s stopping him in offseason from spending 60 hours a week watching and learning Chadwell’s offense and how to implement for spring practice?

 

[slugboy]

Long is making what 850k a year, What’s stopping him in offseason from spending 60 hours a week watching and learning Chadwell’s offense and how to implement for spring practice?

There’s such a difference between two OCs with the same playbook, that it’s hard to describe. That’s a little like saying “how hard is it to pick up playing the violin in the off season “?
Plus, he’s already working full time in the off season

 

[Gtech24]

Long is making what 850k a year, What’s stopping him in offseason from spending 60 hours a week watching and learning Chadwell’s offense and how to implement for spring practice?

What are you implying lol are you saying we would keep Key and Long to run Chadwell's offense? Or are you saying we would hire Chadwell but keep Long as OC? Either way this is ludicrous

 

[GTNavyNuke]

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" - Old Chinese proverb

OMG. That saying is English. You should lose your vote if you didn't vote for my person.

origin of a bird in the hand two in the bush - Google Search

 

[stech81]

Long is making what 850k a year, What’s stopping him in offseason from spending 60 hours a week watching and learning Chadwell’s offense and how to implement for spring practice?

Chadwell would not want him his has an OC

 

[bobongo]

OMG. That saying is English. You should lose your vote if you didn't vote for my person.

origin of a bird in the hand two in the bush - Google Search

Thank you for the correction!

 

[Randy Carson]

OMG. That saying is English. You should lose your vote if you didn't vote for my person.

origin of a bird in the hand two in the bush - Google Search

Oof. Tough audience. I mean, you're right, but yeah.

 

[leatherneckjacket]

Thank you for the correction!

Next, they will tell us that "Revenge is a dish best served cold" is not an ancient Klingon proverb.

 

[slugboy]

Next, they will tell us that "Revenge is a dish best served cold" is not an ancient Klingon proverb.

Or that Shakespeare wrote in English and not Klingon!

 

[Randy Carson]

Or that Bird in Hand is a not a township in Pennsylvania.

 

[leatherneckjacket]

Or that Shakespeare wrote in English and not Klingon!

Or that Shakespeare was actually a 19th century French author named Eugène Sue. Since he was French, I am assuming he was not Klingon.

 

[Techster]

Long is making what 850k a year, What’s stopping him in offseason from spending 60 hours a week watching and learning Chadwell’s offense and how to implement for spring practice?

I can buy the same paint set as Michelangelo, I can promise you I would not get the same results on canvas.

 

[slugboy]

Or that Shakespeare was actually a 19th French author named Eugène Sue. Since he was French, I am assuming he was not Klingon.

Klingons are more polite than the French.

{not true. I know charming French people}

 

[leatherneckjacket]

Klingons are more polite than the French.

{not true. I know charming French people}

I have never met an impolite Klingon though.