Dodged A Bullet

GTFLETCH said:
So official offer? Probably Not. Negotiations with Fritz and Chadwell yep.... I have a GTAA source that they interviewed and couldn't come to an agreement. In writing the only thing you will find is in the abc article below.

From the link Below: Tech struggled to lure a big outside name because of the school's reluctance to guarantee large portions of the contract, with the amount of guaranteed money a nonstarter for some candidates.

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Sources: Georgia Tech targets Brent Key as football coach

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Let me translate that into something that makes more sense, "Tech wasn't going to get caught again in an absolute shit contract that could bury the program for good by panic buying into an obvious coaching salary bubble to lure "big outside names" and so the "big outside names" turned to other places that would."

If the amount of guaranteed money is "a nonstarter for some candidates" then there are no offers being made.... because it's a nonstarter.

Tech has done the right thing, especially given the uncertainty going forward with how NIL and portal transfer's are going to effect what happens on the field. All of CFB is a bubble going into the lunacy stage. I think the divergence between how Tech and Colorado handled their coaching hires epitomizes the extreme conditions emerging. A lot of programs are making bigger and bigger gambles.

The early results of some of these big gambles aren't looking good. MSU with Mel Tucker and TAMU with Jimbo Fischer are examples. Make no mistake, Prime Time and HCBK are both gambles. Any coaching hire is. But Tech has learned prudence the hard way and is better for it. For contrast purposes look at the difference between the size of these gambles:

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The AD for Colorado reportedly said they don't yet have the money for this gamble. They signed a very large contract for guaranteed money, that they don't yet have, with a coach that hasn't coached a single game in FBS. That's insane.

I personally think the Deon Sanders hire could end up being the Minsky moment in speculative college football coaching hires. Time will tell but I think this bubble is cresting and when it finally, gloriously pops there are going to be a lot of sad sacks holding a lot of beat up empty bags. Some of which may be Louis Vuitton.
 
GTFLETCH said:
Georgia Tech stuck with Brent Key cause nobody else wanted the job - THE Uncle Lou


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I enjoy Uncle Lou. 90% of his schtick is to get a reaction out of non-dwag fans. It's usually funny as hell. That said, he truly hates Tech and doesn't pass up an opportunity to crap on us. He didn't even know Brent Key is a former player and alum. His takes are sometimes good and often times way off target. It's pretty obvious he's way off target with this one.
 
GTFLETCH said:
Georgia Tech stuck with Brent Key cause nobody else wanted the job - THE Uncle Lou
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Well that clears things up, at least we now know that this was not the case. Going with sources you can trust is important like in this case you can trust the opposite of what a mouth breathing uga inbred fan says about Tech.
 
Joe DeLeone reacts to Georgia Tech promoting interim head coach Brent Key: "Brent Key is a lazy hire for Georgia Tech"


 
TAKEOVER SPORTS NETWORK: Breaking down Georgia Tech's hiring of Brent Key as head coach
Could this be like the WR coach who was hired as HC after being IHC? That was Dabo Swinney, Could CBK be the next great hire?


 
This guy is an idiot but he's not wrong. Tech doesn't care about athletics. Just going through the motions and accepting irrelevance. I think the goal for Tech athletics is to not be embarrassing. The Clown got us to embarrassment, hence why he was fired mid-season and a change was made.
 
Winning Cures Everything: How did Georgia Tech end up hiring Brent Key as their new head football coach?
Gary Segars breaks it down


 
Why Georgia Tech Hired Brent Key l The Athletic, Jeff Schultz l Chase Thomas Podcast 12/7
Per Jeff Schultz, Bill Obrien & J. Chadwell turned down GT AD. W. Fritz, turned down GT because they leaked the hire before the AAC championship game. VERY INTERESTING!



 
cincytechie said:
This guy is an idiot but he's not wrong. Tech doesn't care about athletics. Just going through the motions and accepting irrelevance. I think the goal for Tech athletics is to not be embarrassing. The Clown got us to embarrassment, hence why he was fired mid-season and a change was made.
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So we need to hire a coach who's only HC experience is a few years at an HBCU with absolutely no experience at a P5 school in any coaching capacity? I realize he'd set some gonads tingling......until a few losses into the first season. Hiring Deion could have buried GT football. I don't mind risk, but there is nothing pointing to him being P5 coaching material at this time.
 
JJacket said:
So we need to hire a coach who's only HC experience is a few years at an HBCU with absolutely no experience at a P5 school in any coaching capacity? I realize he'd set some gonads tingling......until a few losses into the first season. Hiring Deion could have buried GT football. I don't mind risk, but there is nothing pointing to him being P5 coaching material at this time.
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This is one of the places Uncle Lou misses the big picture. UGA's big gamble on Kirby Smart worked. They paid a buyout I'm sure to Saint Richt and I would guess Alabama to get Kirby and then floated a big contract with guaranteed money to sign him. I don't know what any of the initial numbers were but make no doubt it was big ass gamble. It paid off. So now it's easy for him to say any program that is "serious" about college football needs to go "all in" and simply pony up the money, whatever the price tag.

But there are only a handful of places these big bets have paid off and the potential downside to an athletic program can be crippling when the wrong hire is made, as they inevitably will be from time to time. Throw in NIL and portal transfers and the direction all of this is going is very bad for the long term health and stability of college athletics. It's becoming a simple economic war that ultimately no one will win except the small group of former coaches being paid to not coach.

It's obvious that the GTAA understands this and I think we still got the right coach.
 
cincytechie said:
You aren't fitting into the ST narrative that Key is amazing and is clearly the second coming
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Huh? Who said that?

cincytechie said:
Going 4-4 and getting trounced (albeit slightly less trounced) by your rival is the Tech ceiling now. We are officially Vanderbilt football now. We have stopped trying.
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No reason for you to say that. We could have had that same result with any hire and you have no basis for claiming any of that crap.
 
GEETEELEE said:
Huh? Who said that?

No reason for you to say that. We could have had that same result with any hire and you have no basis for claiming any of that crap.
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Tech wasn't "able" to hire anyone else. Stop this ridiculousness that Key is the best man for the job. He's the only one that would accept the job. Tech wasn't interested in fielding a competitive P5 offer to anyone even remotely desirable. There doesn't seem to be any plan to bring Tech football back to relevance. Just as long as the product on the field isn't embarrassing we will keep the train moving.
 
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