Okay BeeBad, let's go back and review some facts and history.
O'Leary lost his first game against UGA 10-48, a humiliation and not much different from Gailey's first loss. The very next year, O'Leary was humiliated by Virginia 14-41 and FSU 10-42.
Then next three years O'Leary was humiliated by FSU 3-49, 0-38, and 7-34. It appears the humiliation got worse instead of better. Gailey's first year against FSU was 13-21. Talk about humiliation!
In O'Leary's third full year he was beaten by Navy 26-36. Talk about humiliation, that is worse than being beaten by a Fresno State team in a bowl game.
In 1999 Tech, with the Friegden high powered offense, beat UGA 51-48. Forty eight points against us by UGA is only 3 shy of the 51 this past year.
Can you imagine how bad it would have been had we not had Friegden and was able to keep the ball on offense for a good portion of the game. Why, without Freigden, we might have lost 0-222.
Without Friegden, O'Leary and O'Brien embarrassed a superior Tech team by allowing an inferior LSU team to humiliate us in the Peach Bowl, here in our own back yard.
In O'Leary's last year, he made major booboo's by allowing an underdog Clemson team to beat us in Atlanta by the score of 44-47, because he could not adapt to one person, a quarterback, running the ball. Talk about humiliation.
In the same year, O'Leary humiliated Tech by giving away a game to Maryland by the score of 17-20 in Atlanta, because he could not manage time on the clock. What humiliation, when we already had the game won.
We were further humiliated by an undermanned and infererior Virginia team when we failed to manage the clock, nor could offer any defense, and let them beat us at the end of the game by the score of 38-39.
This was a team projected to be in the top ten and O'Leary lost the last three out of four games. We just barely beat a weak Wake Forest team by the score of 38-33. We could not even keep them from scoring. They tore us up on passing, and they were supposed to be a running team. Poor coaching, humiliating.
Had O'Leary coached the bowl game against Stanford, we might well have lost four out of the last five games. He quit before that happened.
Had he coached the bowl game and lost, he might have been run out of town on the rails, because most of the Tech fans were very upset he had squandered the best potential season in years and ran the program into the ground.
Now it is a fact Gailey's first year was the best in Tech history for a first year coach at 7-6. The only other coach to do this was Bill Fulcher. Both he and Fulcher also went to bowls in their first season.
It is also a fact O'Brien, with some of the best ever material at Tech, had a record of only 15-11 in two years. He accomplished the record of 8-5 in his first year with a quarterback trained by Friegden. In his second year, his offense was pathetic, and he could not train a quarterback.
Not only all of the above facts, but the history of O'Leary without Friegden is not good at all.
Without Friegden, O'Leary was 18-20 overall. He was responsible for only one bowl game, but did not coach in it because he quit Tech. He coached one bowl game that Ralph was responsible for getting us there, but O'Leary lost it to an inferior LSU team.
O'Leary's record against UGA without Friegden was 0-4. Ralph's record at Tech was 33-14 in four years, responsible for getting Tech to four bowls, and had a 3-1 record against UGA.
Now you can compare Gailey and O'Leary anytime you would like, but you will not change the facts that up to this point in history, Gailey's first year record of 7-6 exceeds O'Leary's first 2 1/3 years if 11-14 and O'Leary's first 3 1/3 years of 18-19.
Anytime you want to compare the two, I am available with the facts. Actually, I keep coming up with more, so let's continue the comparison's.
