What does Chan need to do to move this program forward?

It would have been an interesting combo if Tenuta and PJ were here together. I could see them getting along for the most part, and then boom, Sean Glennon throws for like 5,000 yards against our D and that ends the relationship.
 
carober18 said:
It would have been an interesting combo if Tenuta and PJ were here together. I could see them getting along for the most part, and then boom, Sean Glennon throws for like 5,000 yards against our D and that ends the relationship.
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like UGAg did last november ?
 
Nope, that was Glennon later in the year. I think there were other VT players who had to borrow our jersies that night too.
 
Ish said:
I don't know about you, but these flashback threads always make me a little depressed.
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They don't depress me. They just remind me how the Chan-bashers were eventually proven right in the end. We could have had regime change probably 3 years earlier if more fence sitters had jumped on the bandwagon trying to run Chan out of town.

But too many people chose to continue giving Chan a chance. And a lot of that was not because they had great love for Chan, but that they simply could not stomach the idea of the Chan-bashers being proven right.

As happy as every Tech fan is now with the state of our program, I know it still sticks deep in the craw of a lot of people that those who kept calling for Chan to be canned were proven right in the end. I like that.

That is something they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. I like that they will carry that guilt around with them, knowing that they were part of the problem all along. These days I live my life as Johnny Cash sings about, "like a satisfied man."
 
Bunger Henry said:
That is something they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. I like that they will carry that guilt around with them, knowing that they were part of the problem all along.
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Yeah, I'm sure they lose a lot of sleep at night. :rolleyes:

Bygones, ya'll. Let it go.
 
Bunger Henry said:
But too many people chose to continue giving Chan a chance. And a lot of that was not because they had great love for Chan, but that they simply could not stomach the idea of the Chan-bashers being proven right.
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I was one of those people. Oops.

But, it had nothing whatsoever to do with the Chan bashers.

It was never about you. It still isn't.
 
Bunger Henry said:
They don't depress me. They just remind me how the Chan-bashers were eventually proven right in the end. We could have had regime change probably 3 years earlier if more fence sitters had jumped on the bandwagon trying to run Chan out of town.
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3 years earlier and we probably do not get CPJ -- been at Navy for too short a time at that point. So maybe everything worked out for the best? So in 2006, who would we have hired instead? Gene Chizik? (2006 was his first season at Iowa State -- and we all know how well that went)

List of head coaching hires from 3 years ago:

http://www.collegegridironboss.com/2007/03/2006-new-coaching-hire-rankings.html
 
Bunger Henry said:
That is something they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. I like that they will carry that guilt around with them, knowing that they were part of the problem all along. These days I live my life as Johnny Cash sings about, "like a satisfied man."
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Maybe you need a new perspective on life?

BuzzMD: Well enough to be hired by Auburn? :)
 
Bunger Henry said:
But too many people chose to continue giving Chan a chance. And a lot of that was not because they had great love for Chan, but that they simply could not stomach the idea of the Chan-bashers being proven right.

As happy as every Tech fan is now with the state of our program, I know it still sticks deep in the craw of a lot of people that those who kept calling for Chan to be canned were proven right in the end. I like that."
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Moronic post of the year to date. What's scary is you actually believe what you write.
 
If you look at a prediction thread at BBBBBuzzoff during the Chan years, every single game 90 % of the posters were predicting a loss, whether we were playing Duke or UGA. The Chan-bashers (your words not mine) wanted to drop Chan for the most idiotic of reasons, like not keeping O'Leary's chaplain or some other such nonsense.

They were wrong more often than any other group of Tech fans. I guess you could say they were "right" about firing Chan, but they completely neglect timing and budget concerns. Remember we had to pay all of the rest of Chan's contract AND we had to pay a big premium for CPJ, neither of which was feasible two years or maybe even a year earlier.

There's also the fact that Chan is not the worst coach on the face of the earth. He was too loyal to personnel, both staff and players, and he had trouble inspiring players at the college level, but he was an above-average X's and O's coach and he generally did better than our recruiting classes suggested we should have.
 
floridajacket said:
There's also the fact that Chan is not the worst coach on the face of the earth. He was too loyal to personnel, both staff and players, and he had trouble inspiring players at the college level, but he was an above-average X's and O's coach and he generally did better than our recruiting classes suggested we should have.
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Honestly I'd say he would of still been here without that last season. What I think it did was show us there with this guy there will probably be a ceiling. I mean it seemed like we were poised to go up a step. We had just gotten to the ACC champ game and had one of the best recruiting classes in years. It might of been reasonable to see us at least competing against most of our better opponents, but the division champs from that year made us look pretty bad.
 
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