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eneq

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Maybe you should be treated for delusion. Collins has done a great job convincing everyone he wants to be here. Because I'm sure he does. The alternative was Temple. But if you think Tech is his dream job...
Clemson fans probably thought the same about their school before Dabo. Tech can easily become a desirable program to coach at. All it takes someone who truly cares. I think CGC is that guy.
 

originalwombat

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Clemson fans probably thought the same about their school before Dabo. Tech can easily become a desirable program to coach at. All it takes someone who truly cares. I think CGC is that guy.
And money. This caring individual will want to get paid.
 

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And money. This caring individual will want to get paid.
Last I checked he is. And the pit of money available to pay him should go up if he holds up his end of the deal and brings significant win totals. Get some wins on the board and we could be a very popular ticket with all of the positive energy surrounding the program.
 

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Top 25 every year will have us regularly playing for conference championships. It will also be short-lived, as any coach that can pull that off will leave for 3x what we can pay. I’ll take it, though.
You never know. He might want to raise his kids somewhere not called Tornado Alley.
 

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We also need for UF and UT to step up theirs recruiting games
Recruiting is a byproduct of coaching IMO... got to be great at something. Culture, scheme, leadership, whatever it is that sells for that school’s product/staff... Tennessee has been a turd in the coaching department since Fulmer left. Florida made a phenomenal hire with Meyer... shame they let him go and he went to OSU a year later. This year makes or breaks Mullen IMO but I get the impression he isn’t going to be the coach of the future in Gainesville.
 

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Maybe you should be treated for delusion. Collins has done a great job convincing everyone he wants to be here. Because I'm sure he does. The alternative was Temple. But if you think Tech is his dream job...
Possibly.

Or possibly he grew up idolizing Bobby Cremins and wants to be the Bobby Cremins of GT football.

And chasing dream jobs did not work out well for either Cremins or O'Leary and I doubt that was lost on our current coach. I can remind you of those two cases if you need a refresher.
 

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Maybe you should be treated for delusion. Collins has done a great job convincing everyone he wants to be here. Because I'm sure he does. The alternative was Temple. But if you think Tech is his dream job...
Collins is local, from Conyers. He has been employed by the oleary and Gailey regimes.

It's totally believable that GT is his dream job.
 

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Maybe you should be treated for delusion. Collins has done a great job convincing everyone he wants to be here. Because I'm sure he does. The alternative was Temple. But if you think Tech is his dream job...
He grew up here. He says it’s his dream job. I believe him. I certainly think he will be harder to pull away than the average coach.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If he’s winning ACC Championships and we’re finishing top 25 every season those are great “problems” for a Tech fan. Bring it on!
 

originalwombat

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Possibly.

Or possibly he grew up idolizing Bobby Cremins and wants to be the Bobby Cremins of GT football.

And chasing dream jobs did not work out well for either Cremins or O'Leary and I doubt that was lost on our current coach. I can remind you of those two cases if you need a refresher.
I don’t think you people realize just how high the demand will be for a coach that can turn Tech into a perennial Top 25 team. Hell, even one of our former players-turned-coach left for a hated rival after achieving less!

(I can remind you of that case if you need a refresher).
 

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I don’t think you people realize just how high the demand will be for a coach that can turn Tech into a perennial Top 25 team. Hell, even one of our former players-turned-coach left for a hated rival after achieving less!

(I can remind you of that case if you need a refresher).
Yeah but he had Bobby Dodd advising him to leave. Fortunately Bobby Dodd's minions are becoming fewer and fewer each year. I would bet in hindsight Curry can see how misguided Dodd's advice was. If CGC can turn this team into a perennial Top 25 team the city will get behind the program and he would be passing up an opportunity to become a legend if he leaves. O'leary made a huge mistake in leaving that I hope Collins saw and took note of.
 

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I have no idea whether he will stay here if he's successful, but those other coaches were trying to operate in a program that had no money and really bad facilities, that has changed since then and continuing to improve and I do think Atlanta gives us an advantage with athletes and especially the black athlete looking at his long term future. Think I will continue to enjoy watching us recruit well in the meantime.
 

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I'm a Collins fan but given last year, we should be able to hold onto him for at least 3 seasons and he would have to do great things: at a minimum get back to the ACC Champ game and finish near the top 10.

Also, who is he going to leave for? I'm not saying it is impossible but he does have a lot of ties to the Atlanta area, he has a staff that has a lot of ties to GT. He isn't going to leave for a lateral move. He isn't going to leave for any other ACC school. Big 10? What is the connection? Big 12? Same.

So we are likely looking at the SEC and like I said, not lateral, Tenn or Auburn could throw a lot of money at him but if there are willing to do that, then that means he has done great things here so GT will also be willing to up the payment. I figure he would rather stay at GT and the program he built over moving to a program where he would have to build it up.

So then we are looking at Bama, UGA, LSU, Texas AM and Florida. UGA is out. Not good connections to LSU and Texas AM, so Bama and Florida seem like the only obvious choices.

If Bama wants him, then they probably get him but they will have their pick of 100 coaches to choose from. The likelihood that Collins is their 1st choice is slim. Basically the same for Florida but I think they likely would only want him if his record is special. Florida fans like to think they are Ohio State and Bama so they aren't going to take Collins if he looks like a "reach".

This is one thing I'm not worried about in the least. Collins doesn't have obvious ties that would cause him to leave quickly. He is also old enough that he needs GT to be very successful if he wants to have a good HC career and even the opportunity to get another job. His record isn't established enough that he would get another HC job with mediocre performance at GT. He is important to GT but GT is also very important to Coach Collins.
 

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Yeah, the last time Bama took a former Tech coach, and Tech man on top of that, didn’t work out too well for either side. Yes, I know Collins has a history at Bama, but...
 

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I don’t think you people realize just how high the demand will be for a coach that can turn Tech into a perennial Top 25 team. Hell, even one of our former players-turned-coach left for a hated rival after achieving less!

(I can remind you of that case if you need a refresher).
And how did that work out for him? Would he have done it again if he knew the results? Yeah he got a paycheck but some people are in this for more than that.

Name the last time a GT coach voluntarily left for somewhere else and it turned out well.
 

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Name the last time a GT coach voluntarily left for somewhere else and it turned out well.
OMG. When you start thinking about them it is not just a series of "not well" outcomes. It is literally a list of exceptionally bad and notable trainwrecks.
 

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Yeah, the last time Bama took a former Tech coach, and Tech man on top of that, didn’t work out too well for either side. Yes, I know Collins has a history at Bama, but...
Collins was at Bama 1 year, that's not a history.
 

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Possibly.

Or possibly he grew up idolizing Bobby Cremins and wants to be the Bobby Cremins of GT football.

And chasing dream jobs did not work out well for either Cremins or O'Leary and I doubt that was lost on our current coach. I can remind you of those two cases if you need a refresher.
You left out Billy Curry.
 

originalwombat

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And how did that work out for him? Would he have done it again if he knew the results? Yeah he got a paycheck but some people are in this for more than that.

Name the last time a GT coach voluntarily left for somewhere else and it turned out well.
And I’m sure this is what governs Collins’ decision-making (“Before you do anything, Geoff, how has this work out for other Tech coaches...?”).
 

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Most coaches leave and fail, by most teams standards, unless you are successful at a factory school. Michigan State will continue to be a mediocre team regardless of coach. Saban could return and it wouldn't make a difference.
 
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