As a flashback for how different the coaches are talking now, here's what they had to say just two years ago....
Georgia Tech
"Honestly, it's almost impossible to see a way in which Geoff Collins survives this season. Every good player on defense is gone or in the portal. The best player they've recruited is going to be starting at Alabama. They have a conference schedule that's tough on its own and a non-conference slate that looks like it was designed to get this guy fired."
"Three years in, coaches are beginning to question what the plan was on offense. The transfer quarterback will be a better fit for the new scheme. Chip [Long] knows what he's doing, but it's a really bare cupboard. The problem is, you can still see the transition out of the triple option on their tape from the end of last year."
"They've recruited a bunch of guys that other staffs think are overrated. That's fine, you have differences in evaluations, but they aren't a development program either."
"They had one of the worst secondaries I've ever seen last year, and all those guys are gone, so maybe that's a positive move? The bigger problem is that the guys up front who could help are gone, too, so they're going to need multiple unknowns to step up if they're going to do anything."
"The failure here has been recruiting. It's been the exact thing he made such a big deal about in the first place, recruiting Atlanta talent to stay in Atlanta. They're as much of a non-factor on legit talent now as they were under Paul Johnson."
It's also a far cry from last year's roundup of anonymous perspectives:
“Brent [Key] is a great offensive line coach and a great human being, but it’s gonna as tough on him at that place as it was on [former head coach Geoff] Collins."
"I think the difference is that Brent is an OL coach, and he won’t draw much attention to himself or that place."
"They have all the same recruiting problems, and they can’t work the portal as much as other teams because of academics."
"The positives there are that they played their asses off and won a few games because teams assumed the worst. That’s a backhanded compliment, but it’s the truth."
"It’s smart that he kept [defensive coordinator Andrew] Thacker; he gained a lot of respect for hanging on to that core who didn’t quit and job search when Collins got fired."
"This is still the same program with the same problems."
"It’s likely they hang on to Brent while the new AD figures out their long-term plans.”
