Hire Brent Key

The Wasp said:
Key is the best man for the job. One, he knows the program and the rebuild can occur more quickly. Two, he has earned it. He took over a dumpster fire and won games with alot of injuries and inherited some bad attitudes (Sims for example). Three, he wants the job and is affordable. Four, he has Chip Long in place of the offense. Five, he handles himself like an adult and it is refreshing to see someone on the sidelines that coaches football and eliminates all the rah rah. If he is not given the job, we bring in yet another unknown. Given some time to overcome all the *#* left behind by Collins, he will be the coach we need.
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All good points, but ultimately, Key just doesn't have a resume yet to anticipate that he could advance the program beyond the status quo. A lot goes into being a head coach, and if a P5 team can attract an established head coach with a winning record, they usually prove to be the better choice. Nobody knows for certain, but the odds are better with the more experienced and successful guy. Too many fans think a couple of nice wins equals a great resume.
 
jacket67 said:
All good points, but ultimately, Key just doesn't have a resume yet to anticipate that he could advance the program beyond the status quo. A lot goes into being a head coach, and if a P5 team can attract an established head coach with a winning record, they usually prove to be the better choice. Nobody knows for certain, but the odds are better with the more experienced and successful guy. Too many fans think a couple of nice wins equals a great resume.
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O'Leary didn't have a resume either, but Tech named him HC, and we see what happened there.
 
Since Key took over, we have beaten 2 ranked opponents. The last 2 GT teams to beat multiple ranked opponents won 11 games and went to the Orange Bowl. We lost to a good FSU team on the road with out backup QB and our QB get knocked out of the game in the other 2 losses. To turnaround a team like this in the middle of the season when everything looked like it was going devolve into a complete dumpster fire is remarkable. If Key does not get the GT job, there should be other programs looking at him at this point.
 
andrew said:
Pinning a hiring decision on how a sub-.500 team starting its third string QB plays on the road against the undefeated national champions who blow out top 10 teams doesn't make much sense to me.

I don't think next Saturday has any bearing on the decision at all. If you use it as a reason not to hire Key, then you didn't really want him in the first place. Which is fine and understandable.
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Get outta here with all this reasonableness. Don't you know where you are?

I think Key has earned some serious consideration. The key (pun intended) is, as always, who our other options turn out to be. There are probably names listed on ST over and over who don't want the job. It is not as attractive a position as our gold-colored glasses think. Hopefully the new AD makes all the calls, but we as fans never know who all we were choosing between. My suggestion: no matter who is hired, donate, wear GT gear, show up to games, and be loud.
 
andrew said:
If Key is going to be the guy I think we'll see it announced this week.

The result against U[sic]GA won't play into the decision at all, because realistically we should be blown out just like 90 percent of other teams would be. And it would make sense to want to announce it before the blowout.
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Yes then we can get an early start on fire Brent Key threads.
 
gtchief said:
The twitter account you linked in a post I referenced calls it a triple option.
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Triple option is a play, not a scheme. That offense has variations and setups where you can’t run a TO play. I wonder what Chadwell calls it. I wonder how strange he will find that GT fans (and some media) put a huge amount of importance on what his offense is called.
 
Walton said:
Triple option is a play, not a scheme. That offense has variations and setups where you can’t run a TO play. I wonder what Chadwell calls it. I wonder how strange he will find that GT fans (and some media) put a huge amount of importance on what his offense is called.
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About as strange as he would find our obsession with uniform color combos.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
O'Leary didn't have a resume either, but Tech named him HC, and we see what happened there.
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O’Leary was a very successful coordinator with NFL coaching on his resume. Key doesn’t have that and in fact, his one year of being OC was awful and bothers me. Especially given that is tenure at GT included his year includes awful offensive production.
 
Walton said:
Triple option is a play, not a scheme. That offense has variations and setups where you can’t run a TO play. I wonder what Chadwell calls it. I wonder how strange he will find that GT fans (and some media) put a huge amount of importance on what his offense is called.
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Chadwell himself doesn't call it triple option. Even if he did, there were more passes thrown in the clips than PJ basically did in his entire career. The public at large and their opponents also do not call it triple option. Since they play the other team I follow, I've seen enough of them. If you're watching Coastal in hopes of being reminded of PJ, you might see enough to scratch that itch, but that's about it.
 
The Jacket said:
But he is right. You guys are acting ööööing ridiculous. Some of you definitely know it, but others are so authentically ööööing insane that you believe it when someone says in the afterglow of a hyper rare upset, "Key has it."

If you are on board with passing on Chadwell for Key and tonight's win is what made this so, then you are every bit the dumbass Braine was when Gailey's "can we win a title?" question ignited a fateful fire in his dusty loins. You're all willing to go back to Gailey as long as it means leaving Collins behind. But one year from right now, when you're ööööing sick of Gailey again, we'll begin the long multi-year process of languishing in mediocrity while college football continues to pass our desperate-to-be-deceived dumb ööööing faces right on by, and we will bicker and bitch about how we could have ever ended up in this situation again.
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Hear! Hear!
 
EagleSting said:
Chadwell himself doesn't call it triple option. Even if he did, there were more passes thrown in the clips than PJ basically did in his entire career. The public at large and their opponents also do not call it triple option. Since they play the other team I follow, I've seen enough of them. If you're watching Coastal in hopes of being reminded of PJ, you might see enough to scratch that itch, but that's about it.
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If we do hire Chadwell, we would do ourselves a service not to brand it "triple option". Other schools will do their best to do so. I would if I was in their shoes. We don't need to help them.
 
Walton said:
O’Leary was a very successful coordinator with NFL coaching on his resume. Key doesn’t have that and in fact, his one year of being OC was awful and bothers me. Especially given that is tenure at GT included his year includes awful offensive production.
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The comparison to O'Leary is silly. He and his staff were born out of Ross', and both of them were so ööööing loaded with coaching ability that recent comparisons can only be found at the top of the factory food chain. Some of Saban's staffs, maybe Mac Brown's at Texas and Carroll at USC in the 00s.
 
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