Coastal was 10-2 regular season last year. Sounds great, until you realize that they won 10 against teams with losing records and lost 2 to teams with winning records.
Coastal is currently No. 79 in Sagarin. Not far ahead of Tech.
Chadwell looks like the latest shiny object that can be hired cheap. He is not the "money is not an issue" guy that Cabrera promised. I can't say I'm surprised.
We will have to wait and see what happens, but the 247 guys are pointing to Chadwell--not that they have solid information.
Those guys are being very clear they are just stating an opinion.
It is entirely possible Chadwell is the latest shiny object. I don't think interest in him is because he's "cheap." That may be a nice side-effect of where he is in his career right now but not necessarily the driving motivation. I think interest in him is because of what he's been doing the last three years especially at Coastal, not just this year. Going back to 2020 his team they beat 2 ranked teams (I have to also acknowledge that was the COVID year so some of that is a bit skewed, but they beat all but one of the teams they played and that team was Liberty and they lost in OT to a team whose QB was eventually drafted in the third round) and finished with only 1 loss. In 2021 they only had 2 losses and both of those were to teams with winning records and they even beat Northern Illinois, something we couldn't do last year. They can only play the teams that are on their schedule and at least they are winning those games.
Personally I don't have a strong opinion about who should be our next head coach. I am so torn because every candidate brings risk. And some of that risk is more related to the uniqueness of GT than it is any of the candidates. I can find negatives for all of them. I can also find positives for all of them. We aren't going to get someone who has a 100% successful career as a P5 head coach. Those guys are out of many programs's price ranges. Certainly out of ours. If we want someone who has a lot of success on his resume then it's going to probably be someone from a lower/different division. If we want someone who has lots of P5 experience as a HC then it's probably going to be someone who has some warts like having limited success and/or being radioactively toxic for other reasons (and we aren't going to consider those kinds of guys, anyway... the radioactive ones). Then we look at current coordinators at the P5 level, probably, though it SEEMS like we are focusing more on current HCs at the moment (SEEMS because there's zero solid information about who we are interviewing so we could certainly be talking to some and I have no idea about it). And then there's Brent Key. All he's done as a leader is take a team that was in obvious distress and lead them to a 4-3 record (probably 4-4 after this weekend) when most people here would say the team would have lost every remaining game had Collins still been around and then that we could not change the "culture" around the team at all. His record HERE as an OL coach is certainly questionable though also obviously there's some mitigating factors of the Collins effect. So who knows what kept him from having more success with his OL.
