I have brought this point up before. I have stated in the past that I was disappointed in the hiring of CG. The main reason is that I was not a fan of his offensive philosophy in the NFL. My opinion has not changed.
That being said, he is the HC at GT so I certainly have supported him and want him to have a successful run at the Flats. While I have been disappointed with the ups and downs of the program, right up to these last two games where I truly felt GT had the better team and should have come away with two W's, CG has now been HC for half of the 10 straight winning seasons, with 37 of the 79 wins during that span. Bobby Dodd won a total of 37 games in his last five years at the healm (of course he played fewer games).
I'm 41 years old, I remember GT being a little better than a .500 team under Pepper Rodgers. I remember Billy Curry's first two years in '80 & '81 to defeating UGA in '84 and the great season in '85. But just two years later Bobby Ross' second and third seasons saw GT fall to the cellar of the ACC, to then rise up two years later and win the '90 NC.
Ross left and the Bill Lewis years made 1990 seem like a decade-and-a-half ago. George O'Leary came in and after a couple of years had the program back up to where you felt like his team had a chance anytime it took the field (if Joe Ham & co. could put up 30+ that is, which they did more times than not, often putting up 40+).
While I have not been happy with the consistency of inconsistency that thus far has defined the CG era, he has kept the program away from sub-.500, and this was an exciting year up until really the UNC game. The biggest problem I have with CG is pretty evident, he hitched his wagon to RB and that really was a mistake, a mistake that hopefully he can overcome in the next year.
