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Has the search committee been formed yet………………….
In the last 12 months GT has reached a new low in its athletic programs. At this point in the 2001 season the football team was simply going through the motions of the game. They lacked any inspiration and were totally unmotivated. That attitude continues today. Who is to blame for a lackadaisical attitude? The coaches of course. The only motivated play came in the Seattle Bowl. Our head coach in that game was not even given serious consideration. The opposing coach in that game left his school, went to another and will probably be the Coach Of The Year in 2002. GT’s AD refused to try and talk with him. Oh, and the 2001 Coach Of The Year was a first year coach who came from GT. That is two coaches on the GT staff that the AD let walk away.
Chan Gailey has a proven history of not being able to hold a coaching job. He begin his coaching profession in 1974. Since then his head coaching career consists of tenures of 2 years, 1 year, 2 years and 2 years. He has not stayed in any coaching position as an assistant for longer than 2 years. He stayed with one NFL team 6 years and another for 4 years. With these two exceptions he has not ever spent more than two years with any team. Does this indicate that past employers have realized their mistake and corrected it? Unfortunately this won’t be the case with GT.
Gailey apparently has a huge ego that will not allow him to own up to the fact that he may have the wrong players starting. He refuses to give backups the valid opportunity to show whether or not they can perform more effectively. He named his starter at QB and refuses to admit that he may have a better player on the bench. This is nothing more that arrogance to prove he is right no matter how it hurts the program.
Bill O’Brien is showing his complete and total lack of understanding of offense for the second year in a row. He has been placed in a critical coaching position without any credentials to justify his hiring to this position. Basically he has no clue as to how to run an offense.
Dave Braine has proven his ineptitude with the hiring if Gailey and O’Brien. He is the one that is most directly responsible for the demise of the GT Football program. He is the one charged with the responsibility of the hiring and retention of the athletic staff.
Let me state clearly, “Yes I like to win, but life isn’t always about winning. Sometimes you lose. But if you must lose make sure you have given a total and unrestricted effort to every aspect of your endeavor.” Braine, Gailey and O’Brien are not capable of this kind of commitment.
There is an old saying “A fish stinks from the head down.” GT must make a tough decision and wipe the slate clean from top to bottom. If this move is not made immediately then the program will not recover for at least ten years. I realize that GT is committed to huge and very excessive salaries for these incompetent individuals but they will only lose a lot more money by not taking action now. GT already is going to have an enormous problem with season ticket sales next year. Wayne Clough needs to take the initiative and act now to insure that the tradition of quality that has been a part of our proud school remains at GT.
In the last 12 months GT has reached a new low in its athletic programs. At this point in the 2001 season the football team was simply going through the motions of the game. They lacked any inspiration and were totally unmotivated. That attitude continues today. Who is to blame for a lackadaisical attitude? The coaches of course. The only motivated play came in the Seattle Bowl. Our head coach in that game was not even given serious consideration. The opposing coach in that game left his school, went to another and will probably be the Coach Of The Year in 2002. GT’s AD refused to try and talk with him. Oh, and the 2001 Coach Of The Year was a first year coach who came from GT. That is two coaches on the GT staff that the AD let walk away.
Chan Gailey has a proven history of not being able to hold a coaching job. He begin his coaching profession in 1974. Since then his head coaching career consists of tenures of 2 years, 1 year, 2 years and 2 years. He has not stayed in any coaching position as an assistant for longer than 2 years. He stayed with one NFL team 6 years and another for 4 years. With these two exceptions he has not ever spent more than two years with any team. Does this indicate that past employers have realized their mistake and corrected it? Unfortunately this won’t be the case with GT.
Gailey apparently has a huge ego that will not allow him to own up to the fact that he may have the wrong players starting. He refuses to give backups the valid opportunity to show whether or not they can perform more effectively. He named his starter at QB and refuses to admit that he may have a better player on the bench. This is nothing more that arrogance to prove he is right no matter how it hurts the program.
Bill O’Brien is showing his complete and total lack of understanding of offense for the second year in a row. He has been placed in a critical coaching position without any credentials to justify his hiring to this position. Basically he has no clue as to how to run an offense.
Dave Braine has proven his ineptitude with the hiring if Gailey and O’Brien. He is the one that is most directly responsible for the demise of the GT Football program. He is the one charged with the responsibility of the hiring and retention of the athletic staff.
Let me state clearly, “Yes I like to win, but life isn’t always about winning. Sometimes you lose. But if you must lose make sure you have given a total and unrestricted effort to every aspect of your endeavor.” Braine, Gailey and O’Brien are not capable of this kind of commitment.
There is an old saying “A fish stinks from the head down.” GT must make a tough decision and wipe the slate clean from top to bottom. If this move is not made immediately then the program will not recover for at least ten years. I realize that GT is committed to huge and very excessive salaries for these incompetent individuals but they will only lose a lot more money by not taking action now. GT already is going to have an enormous problem with season ticket sales next year. Wayne Clough needs to take the initiative and act now to insure that the tradition of quality that has been a part of our proud school remains at GT.
