Look guys. I'm an outsider. I came in with Paul Johnson, and I checked out with Paul Johnson. Georgia Tech is a top tier athletic institution with a reputation that reaches around the globe.
Meanwhile, Alabama is known around the world (sports world I guess) as the equivalent in football.
If Alabama tried to compete with Georgia Tech in academics, you guys would all die laughing.
I think a lot of you don't realize what the typical 5 star kid is like. And I don't mean 5 star quarterbacks, I mean 5 star athletes. They barely qualify, get drool on their ACT, and have to have their high school coaches stay on their butts just to keep them eligible for HIGH SCHOOL.
Saban creates an entire staff who's job is to baby these guys until they're mature enough to go to class on their own and get their degree is general studies or recreational management. Those guys wouldn't stand a dog's chance of staying eligible at GT.
The key to winning is to do it different or do it better. I give GT all the credit in the world for doing it different with Johnson, and it paid off. But as I've said many times, you're never going to beat Georgia at their own game. You have to beat them the GT way, by being smarter. And like him or not, Johnson was smarter (talk to his peers in the coaching community if you disagree).
Collins is a great recruited and has been a successful defensive coordinator, but what worked at Temple won't work at Tech. He needs to hire an OC who thinks differently and isn't cookie cutter. Doesn't matter if it's run or pass, it can't be the same thing everyone else does.
GT will always be competitive because it attracts kids of the highest character, and those kinds of kids are hard to beat.