Let's look at what Mike Bobinski has accomplished in two years as AD at Georgia Tech (hired January 16, 2013), please feel free to add in things I'm missing:
HIRING:
A) Didn't give Paul Johnson a vote of confidence prior to 2014 season. But renegotiated contract slowly, as if it depended on Georgie game.
B) Renewed Brian Gregory's contract. Which will cost us an additional $1 million if we fire him this year.
C) Did the right thing and extended MaChelle Joseph's contract on October 21, 2014 to run through 2019-20 season.
D) Shelly Hoerner, softball. Has losing record.
E) Machelle Collier. In one season, went 13-18 and 6-12 in conference.
FIRING:
A) Sharon Perkins. Softball. Three time ACC COY in 7 years, led team to NCAA tournament every season but last. Won 3 ACC titles.
B) Tonya Johnson Volleyball. mediocre results?, 85-72 overall, 50-50 in ACC.
Attendance: Not sure that we've seen improvement in football attendance. That's not on the coaches. Our best attended game was Georgia Southern. Only 49,378 showed up to watch our ranked team play ranked Clemson. 52,221 showed up for Miami, 45,403 for Wofford, 44,281 for Duke, and 46,657 for UVA.
This year in basketball our best attendance home game was Georgie. 8,127. The next closet was 7,831 showing up for the Syracuse game. For the 12-13 season, we averaged 7,365. For 13-14 that number was 6,584. This past year we dropped to ~5,960. This is lower than when we did not have a basketball arena to play in . We averaged 6,095 that season.
Financials: FY 13 saw us with an operating loss of $1,850,000. FY 14 saw us with an operating loss of $348,000. In FY 14 we drew 11.8 million from our endowment. And the Tech fund generated 5 million (slightly less than student fees). GT threw in 2.034 M in subsidies of the athletic department on top of the student fees.
Expansion: No new sports were added. We maintain the minimum number of sports teams required by the ACC (15). There is no movement on this front.
Facilities: Plans to expand the basketball arena, etc. were in place and already had money raised when he got here. What has he done?
Fundraising: Does anyone know if we've gained or lost ground?
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The bottom line is, after two years, have we seen anything to show that this AD is proactive? That he can raise money? That he can help our current coaches improve their programs? Every single facility improvement was underway before he got here.
Our football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, golf mens and womens tennis, volleyball, and softball coaches were in place when he got here. He's replaced softball and volleyball coaches.
I'm open to persuasion. But after two years we knew what Radokovich wanted. What does Bobinski want? Is he even treading water?
HIRING:
A) Didn't give Paul Johnson a vote of confidence prior to 2014 season. But renegotiated contract slowly, as if it depended on Georgie game.
B) Renewed Brian Gregory's contract. Which will cost us an additional $1 million if we fire him this year.
C) Did the right thing and extended MaChelle Joseph's contract on October 21, 2014 to run through 2019-20 season.
D) Shelly Hoerner, softball. Has losing record.
E) Machelle Collier. In one season, went 13-18 and 6-12 in conference.
FIRING:
A) Sharon Perkins. Softball. Three time ACC COY in 7 years, led team to NCAA tournament every season but last. Won 3 ACC titles.
B) Tonya Johnson Volleyball. mediocre results?, 85-72 overall, 50-50 in ACC.
Attendance: Not sure that we've seen improvement in football attendance. That's not on the coaches. Our best attended game was Georgia Southern. Only 49,378 showed up to watch our ranked team play ranked Clemson. 52,221 showed up for Miami, 45,403 for Wofford, 44,281 for Duke, and 46,657 for UVA.
This year in basketball our best attendance home game was Georgie. 8,127. The next closet was 7,831 showing up for the Syracuse game. For the 12-13 season, we averaged 7,365. For 13-14 that number was 6,584. This past year we dropped to ~5,960. This is lower than when we did not have a basketball arena to play in . We averaged 6,095 that season.
Financials: FY 13 saw us with an operating loss of $1,850,000. FY 14 saw us with an operating loss of $348,000. In FY 14 we drew 11.8 million from our endowment. And the Tech fund generated 5 million (slightly less than student fees). GT threw in 2.034 M in subsidies of the athletic department on top of the student fees.
Expansion: No new sports were added. We maintain the minimum number of sports teams required by the ACC (15). There is no movement on this front.
Facilities: Plans to expand the basketball arena, etc. were in place and already had money raised when he got here. What has he done?
Fundraising: Does anyone know if we've gained or lost ground?
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The bottom line is, after two years, have we seen anything to show that this AD is proactive? That he can raise money? That he can help our current coaches improve their programs? Every single facility improvement was underway before he got here.
Our football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, golf mens and womens tennis, volleyball, and softball coaches were in place when he got here. He's replaced softball and volleyball coaches.
I'm open to persuasion. But after two years we knew what Radokovich wanted. What does Bobinski want? Is he even treading water?
