Highriser987
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Man I'm getting ansy! Has Whiz decided yet?
680 reporting Whisenhunt offered the job
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txsting
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Admittedly leaning that way, but out of prudence I will wait for the cheesesteak video before I commit. I hope you understand.
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I think the 48 hours thing is some 680 the Fan BS. If Whisenhunt has indeed been contacted about the HC position at other NFL jobs, Tech's going to give him a few days leeway to explore all opportunities and make sure it's a good fit for him & us.
I think he'll decide by closer to the weekend or we'll move on to other choices at that point.
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I think it was also 48 working hours, meaning the traditional 8 hour work day (9 hours with lunch). I also believe it started from 8 am this morning so he has until the end of the day next Wednesday since Saturday and Sunday aren't counted as work days.
I hope I have cleared things up. I am an SPSU grad so I got smarts real good
18in32
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Actually that’s 48 game hours. With injuries and TV time outs it’s about a week of spectator time.
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Dammit, I was comparing it to regular work not coach work. It sucks that TStan has to watch that fat guy in the red shirt come out and hold things up looking at his watch. I hear that TStan will listen to a bit of the GT Band in his office while waiting, but he gets interrupted by phone calls from the AV lady asking him if he wants women's basketball season tix then she plays Zombie Nation over the phone for him.
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This may be the single dumbest thing I've seen posted today.
So Stansbury offers him the job and then Green Bay calls him up to talk about their just vacated HC position. If you're Whisenhunt, are you saying you wouldn't honestly consider coaching Aaron Rodgers? And you think Stansbury should have somehow known ahead of time that was going to happen?
Holy cow I'm glad some of you have zero to do with the decision-making process at Tech.
THWUGA
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Preach. And substitute KW for Bobby Dodd himself if he rose from the damn grave, still applies.
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I kinda do think Whisenhunt is angling for one more big NFL head coaching gig. Having your name involved in one coaching search tends to create more interest.
18in32
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Hey that fat guy is a friend and a good Tech guy. Once shot a robber in his parents c store.
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I did not know that. Can he just say "no" to commercials sometime when we get on a roll?
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This. Only problem for KW is that I don't think they've offered it to him yet. They just reached out for him to interview. He's trying to juggle that, "Do I hold out and try for the Green Bay job and maybe not get it? Or do I take the guaranteed job at my alma mater?" Either way, I can't fault the guy for considering it. If he didn't, then he's too dumb for us to be considering him as a head coach.
And FYI for many that may not know, Ken Whisenhunt graduated from Tech with a degree in Civil Engineering, not management. So if he comes back as HC when he sings the words in the song, "I'm a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech and a hell of an engineer", he is.
I'm not 100% sold on the guy as our HC but I surely am not going to bitch and moan if it happens. Hopefully, he'd hire one hell of a recruiting staff and then do like Saban does and come in as the closer to bring in the recruit, promising to use his connections in the NFL when/if the player gets an opportunity to play there.
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If he is thinking about an NFL job and holding us up then he needs to be out. Basically, we are risking him coming here, having one or two good seasons, and leaving for an NFL job quickly. Yes, I want him to do well enough to have other teams inquire, but I also want a coach that looks at GT as a career job, not a stepping stone to somewhere else. If we get a coach that wins games, 11+ a year, we fill up our stadium. We sell more merch. We earn more revenue. More folks donate money. We reward our coaching staff with the money to keep them in place.
i_like_money
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Any coach we get that actually gets great results will only use this job as a stepping stone to a bigger opportunity. That’s just the way the game goes.
It was one of the really good things about CPJ, we knew he wasn’t a flight risk.
OmnipoTech
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Indeed he is, his daughter went to Tech too if its been the same guy all these years. I got to be on the field during pregame warmups and when the Wreck came out back when Boston College and Matt Ryan played Tech at Grant field because of him.
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One thing I wonder is how good of seasons does he actually need to get another NFL job? He might also end up saying no without getting the GB job if he thinks there is a chance at a different head coach job within a year or two. And we'd probably want him to in that case, however bad people think he'd be, it would be even worse if he came for one year or less then left back to the NFL.