Re: I don\'t know if Hawkins would come to Tech.
Techie, if you're going to use history, at least use ALL of it. Yes we were 26-9-1 from 89-91, but we were 5-17 in Ross' first two years. (we were 20-11-1 in the 3 years before he arrived so you can make a pretty good argument that Ross may have had the worst two first years of any coach in Tech history.)
We were 27-7 from 98-01 under O'Leary but we were also 18-16 in the three years prior to that. Going back a little further, prior to '85 the last time we won 9 games in a year was '70. Before that it was '66 and before that it was '56.
None of that is to excuse any losses or poor records. It's simply to say that you can't pluck two 3 year periods over the last 16 years and use it to prove anything, except that our football success has been pretty fleeting.
Techie, if you're going to use history, at least use ALL of it. Yes we were 26-9-1 from 89-91, but we were 5-17 in Ross' first two years. (we were 20-11-1 in the 3 years before he arrived so you can make a pretty good argument that Ross may have had the worst two first years of any coach in Tech history.)
We were 27-7 from 98-01 under O'Leary but we were also 18-16 in the three years prior to that. Going back a little further, prior to '85 the last time we won 9 games in a year was '70. Before that it was '66 and before that it was '56.
None of that is to excuse any losses or poor records. It's simply to say that you can't pluck two 3 year periods over the last 16 years and use it to prove anything, except that our football success has been pretty fleeting.