13

T

THWG16

Varsity Lurker
Joined
Oct 23, 2020
Messages
195
The number of seasons we’ve won atleast 8 games since Dodd left !! O’Leary won 61% of his game & PJ won 58%.

I’m all for a coaching change cause I think Collins is in over his head , but it’s really eye opening to see the limits of our football success when you look back over the years
 
THWG16 said:
The number of seasons we’ve won atleast 8 games since Dodd left !! O’Leary won 61% of his game & PJ won 58%.

I’m all for a coaching change cause I think Collins is in over his head , but it’s really eye opening to see the limits of our football success when you look back over the years
Click to expand...
O’Leary could have won more had he stayed. But he didn’t stay cause we didn’t pay him enough.
 
BigDanT said:
O’Leary could have won more had he stayed. But he didn’t stay cause we didn’t pay him enough.
Click to expand...
I mean when you name is O'Leary theres a decent chance u'd want to coach at POS notre dame
 
I think there are 14 seasons w/ 8+ wins post Dodd (guessing you didn't count 1970 as post Dodd era?)

by decade:
70s: 1 ('70)
80s: 1 ('85)
90s: 4 ('90, '91, '98, '99)
00s: 5 ('00, '01, '06, '08, '09)
10s: 3 ('11, '14, '16)

by coach:
Johnson: 5
O'Leary: 4
Ross: 2
Gailey: 1
Curry: 1
Carson: 1

Six of GT's nine coaches since Dodd had at least one 8+ win season. Only two (Collins and Lewis) did not have a single winning season. Pepper Rodgers posted 8+ win seasons at Kansas & UCLA, but never got above 7 at GT. Curry, Lewis, and Collins are the only three below a .500 career mark at GT post Dodd. Lewis was a little below .400 when he was replaced mid 94. Curry and Ross both won fewer games than Collins their first two seasons, but both posted winning seasons their 3rd year. Collins is currently .294 (10-24), which is 10+ percentage points below Lewis's and Curry's GT career marks.
 
gojkts said:
I think there are 14 seasons w/ 8+ wins post Dodd (guessing you didn't count 1970 as post Dodd era?)

by decade:
70s: 1 ('70)yeah must’ve missed one , but I guess my point is it’s not easy winning here
80s: 1 ('85)
90s: 4 ('90, '91, '98, '99)
00s: 5 ('00, '01, '06, '08, '09)
10s: 3 ('11, '14, '16)

by coach:
Johnson: 5
O'Leary: 4
Ross: 2
Gailey: 1
Curry: 1
Carson: 1

Six of GT's nine coaches since Dodd had at least one 8+ win season. Only two (Collins and Lewis) did not have a single winning season. Pepper Rodgers posted 8+ win seasons at Kansas & UCLA, but never got above 7 at GT. Curry, Lewis, and Collins are the only three below a .500 career mark at GT post Dodd. Lewis was a little below .400 when he was replaced mid 94. Curry and Ross both won fewer games than Collins their first two seasons, but both posted winning seasons their 3rd year. Collins is currently .294 (10-24), which is 10+ percentage points below Lewis's and Curry's GT career marks.
Click to expand...
 
gojkts said:
I think there are 14 seasons w/ 8+ wins post Dodd (guessing you didn't count 1970 as post Dodd era?)

by decade:
70s: 1 ('70)
80s: 1 ('85)
90s: 4 ('90, '91, '98, '99)
00s: 5 ('00, '01, '06, '08, '09)
10s: 3 ('11, '14, '16)

by coach:
Johnson: 5
O'Leary: 4
Ross: 2
Gailey: 1
Curry: 1
Carson: 1

Six of GT's nine coaches since Dodd had at least one 8+ win season. Only two (Collins and Lewis) did not have a single winning season. Pepper Rodgers posted 8+ win seasons at Kansas & UCLA, but never got above 7 at GT. Curry, Lewis, and Collins are the only three below a .500 career mark at GT post Dodd. Lewis was a little below .400 when he was replaced mid 94. Curry and Ross both won fewer games than Collins their first two seasons, but both posted winning seasons their 3rd year. Collins is currently .294 (10-24), which is 10+ percentage points below Lewis's and Curry's GT career marks.
Click to expand...
Add in the 7 win years when we played an 11 game schedule like 1972, 1975, 1978, 1989. 1997, 2004, & 2005. Some of these years include a bowl game.
 
THWG16 said:
The number of seasons we’ve won atleast 8 games since Dodd left !! O’Leary won 61% of his game & PJ won 58%.

I’m all for a coaching change cause I think Collins is in over his head , but it’s really eye opening to see the limits of our football success when you look back over the years
Click to expand...
Tech also went to 18 straight bowl games from 1997 to 2014!

GO JACKETS!
 
While we’re reminiscing some people suggest Dodd’s 7 win seasons in the 1960’s was mediocre but they only played 10 games. In a 12 game schedule that would equate to 8 wins and in a 13 game schedule 9 wins. I guess that was mediocre by Dodd’s standards.
 
GoldenIsle said:
While we’re reminiscing some people suggest Dodd’s 7 win seasons in the 1960’s was mediocre but they only played 10 games. In a 12 game schedule that would equate to 8 wins and in a 13 game schedule 9 wins. I guess that was mediocre by Dodd’s standards.
Click to expand...
And we weren’t playing western Carolina, citadel and Kennesaw! Rarely did o’Leary or Gailey get to pad an FCS win on their total for that matter!
 
The Champ said:
And we weren’t playing western Carolina, citadel and Kennesaw! Rarely did o’Leary or Gailey get to pad an FCS win on their total for that matter!
Click to expand...
What are you talking about? Gailey played Samford, Jax St. Connecticut, Troy and a bunch of other cupcakes and still couldn’t break the 7-win glass ceiling.

Not to mention losing to Duke when they had the longest ACC losing streak in ACC history.

Do your homework next time.
 
00Burdell said:
What are you talking about? Gailey played Samford, Jax St. Connecticut, Troy and a bunch of other cupcakes and still couldn’t break the 7-win glass ceiling.

Not to mention losing to Duke when they had the longest ACC losing streak in ACC history.

Do your homework next time.
Click to expand...
Samford was the only FCS school we played in Gailey’s tenure. 04 and 06. O’Leary played Furman and Citadel once. So, 4 FCS games in 14 combined years would indicated they rarely padded their record with an FCS win.

Stay hot, dumbass.
 
Gailey had the talent and usually a good defense to have won 8-9 games most of his years on The Flats. He was just to darn conservative on offense. The 2006 UGA game about drove me to drink, especially on 4th and 6 inches and UGA had no answer for Choice that night and Gailey kicks a FG.
 
The Champ said:
Samford was the only FCS school we played in Gailey’s tenure. 04 and 06. O’Leary played Furman and Citadel once. So, 4 FCS games in 14 combined years would indicated they rarely padded their record with an FCS win.

Stay hot, dumbass.
Click to expand...
Jax St is FCS, doofus and Gailey played them.
 
THWG16 said:
guess my point is it’s not easy winning here
Click to expand...
indeed, it’s a difficult job. O’Leary used to joke that GT expected to be MIT during the week and FSU on the weekend. But he embraced the challenge.

Collins made a big mistake with the non stop rebranding hype machine. Maybe the hype was inseparable from his recruiting strategy, but it also created expectations that we’d be more competitive than the later CPJ years (ie, more than 7 wins). His wounds with the fan base are largely self inflicted.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top