If today's reports are true, our priorities...

[Jacket59]

should be...

1. keep Giff
2. have PJ convince the recruits and returning players that we aren't going to run some antiquated offense that leaves them little chance to make the nfl...fact is, recruits want a chance to play in the league...I believe PJ will adapt his O accordingly...what say you all?

Man, I hope we haven't lost Rad in all this...but that's a different topic altogether.

Our Most Hugestest #1 priority should be to keep Jon Tenuta!

 

[knoxjacket]

Geoff Collins is one of Johnson's Southern boys isn't he? Maybe we can get him back as a coach?

 

[ParkinJacket]

Because he is not the man in charge and because he has been sold a bill of goods about having to get a finanical model for GT that worked. He's been told something for two years and now one or two big guys can write big checks and not only alleviate the "crisis" he has been solving but hire who they want regardless of who he recommends.

Drad is a leader and leaders need to lead so he is outta here IMO.

Once again, we have rumors that everyone's getting in a tizzy about.

 

[fattyjackson]

Because he is not the man in charge and because he has been sold a bill of goods about having to get a finanical model for GT that worked. He's been told something for two years and now one or two big guys can write big checks and not only alleviate the "crisis" he has been solving but hire who they want regardless of who he recommends.

Drad is a leader and leaders need to lead so he is outta here IMO.

Don't think he's going anywhere. He was hired to fix the financial situation long term. This is probably an incident where a few big money guys stepped up and said we'll donate money for the coaching search.

D-Rad was hired to make the AA profitable again. He is doing that. Several million dollars going directly to the coach is not going to change that.

 

[aeromech]

.....Div 1A football is all about fat cats writing big checks. I would love to see how this whole thing played out. I wonder how much was DRad getting played and how much was him squeezing cash out of those same fat cats. We ended up spending 50% more than what everyone was expecting.

Could be true. DRad may have went up and said, 'Hey, for less than $1M a year your best coaching option is Coach 'Boom MoFo Yeah Bulldawg'; .if you want an established coach who can win here you need to cough up some cash.'

Of course all this can be fixed by simply increasing the most excellent TECH Fund prices next year.

 

[GTYellowJacket12]

I don't know how you cannot consider Josh Nesbitt a bluechip QB recruit. He was top 8 in the nation for his position.

I do consider Josh a great QB but the dual-threat types have a harder time adjusting to the College game than the drop back types, most of them get moved over to other positions. Besides my point was about now having better conventional QB talent than at any point in the previous tenure only to potentialy drive them away because we mioght not implement a system that suits them.

Disagree. I think it is the exact opposite. They are excited to see a winner who has a great offensive mind.

All that is fine and dandy but ends don't justify means, the man in a winner in a different context (Div II and with a Service Academy). We have to consider the results, but also the methods that got him there and how those apply to our situation. And when I do that I find a man who tends to run an offensive style that I doubt can work in the ACC. Maybe it can, maybe he tweeks it to not have a 6/1 run/pass ratio, maybe he implements a conventional offense, but all I have to go by now is his history and in my book it doesn't translate well to our current situation.

 

[MaconGTfan]

Lol, like our previous offenses of the last 6 years? We're currently in "Come to play for Tech! We can teach you to complete 45% of your passes!" mode. The flexbone triple option is a vast improvement over that, especially for tailbacks and fullbacks. And it's not like we've recruited a blue chip QB in recent memory.

The only coveted RB position in a flexbone formation is the fullback (aka tailback in a normal offense). Playing wing back kind of sucks.

 

[beej67]

He's been told something for two years and now one or two big guys can write big checks and not only alleviate the "crisis" he has been solving...

Fwiw, the donations are essentially venture capital, not income.

 

[beej67]

I don't know how you cannot consider Josh Nesbitt a bluechip QB recruit. He was top 8 in the nation for his position.

...and perfect for the flexbone.

Guess that ends the myth that blue chip QBs won't play for 3O teams.

 

[thwg]

I'm not buying it for a second. Tech has just make its largest statement ($14 million) about its football program since stadium expansion.

Stadium expansion was the DUMBEST one we've ever made in my lifetime so hopefully this one doesn't rival that one.

 

[thwg]

Fwiw, the donations are essentially venture capital, not income.

the donations are not venture capital. How can someone's donations with a 0% expected return (other than tax stuff) be compared with a world that wants 50% ROI in 2-3 years?

If it's venture capital, that means Gt is actually bgorrowing this money to pay PJ and has to pay it back at a high interest rate.

Please tell me this isn't true.

 

[Essobee]

Stadium expansion was the DUMBEST one we've ever made in my lifetime so hopefully this one doesn't rival that one.

We haven't had a losing season since expansion. It means a lot to recruits when you show them commitment.

After PJ fills the stadium up maybe you will change your mind.

I see your occupation is non-profit finance. Hence, a different perspective.

 

[beej67]

I don't think stadium expansion was dumb at all, if we plan to be a major football program.


thwg - may bad, poor analogy. A better one would be a government bailout. Not something you count on, on a balance sheet.

 

[thwg]

We haven't had a losing season since expansion. It means a lot to recruits when you show them commitment.

After PJ fills the stadium up maybe you will change your mind.

I'm fine with PJ. I'm not fine with being in debt above our eyeballs so more UGAG fans and ND fans come watch their team in ATL.

We had 6 winnings seasons in a row before expansions so that variable is a non-issue. We actually had more success in the five years before expansion than we've had in the five years since so using your ratinale expansion actually hurt our program.

 

[Essobee]

I'm fine with PJ. I'm not fine with being in debt above our eyeballs so more UGAG fans and ND fans come watch their team in ATL.

We had 6 winnings seasons in a row before expansions so that variable is a non-issue. We actually had more success in the five years before expansion than we've had in the five years since so using your ratinale expansion actually hurt our program.

Opps! :o

Actually, the recruits were told of our expansion plans and shown models long before the stadium was expanded. Part of the expansion was necessary. The lower east stands were pathetic...probably dangerous. The north stands could have been delayed but at a greater cost later while losing the additional gate revenue that came with expansion.

Bottom line, however, is that GOL set the stadium expansion as a condition of him staying at Tech.

 

[BeesballH1986]

I don't think stadium expansion was dumb at all, if we plan to be a major football program.


thwg - may bad, poor analogy. A better one would be a government bailout. Not something you count on, on a balance sheet.

Yeah, I think (and sorta hope) you're right about that. It seems like it was money that wasn't necessarily coming in there in the near future.

 

[thwg]

We haven't had a losing season since expansion. It means a lot to recruits when you show them commitment.

After PJ fills the stadium up maybe you will change your mind.

I see your occupation is non-profit finance. Hence, a different perspective.

Last I checked the GTAA was a not for profit. BYW, our not-for-profit will make a lot mroe than the GTAA this year. i think I know how to make money and stadium expansion was not a way to do that.

 

[PreventOffense]

I'm fine with PJ. I'm not fine with being in debt above our eyeballs so more UGAG fans and ND fans come watch their team in ATL.

We had 6 winnings seasons in a row before expansions so that variable is a non-issue. We actually had more success in the five years before expansion than we've had in the five years since so using your ratinale expansion actually hurt our program.

No. Boring ass football is the problem. Winning and exciting football go hand in hand to fill BDS up. Simple as that. We go 7-5 with more exciting games, there will be more people than today's attendance watching a boring as 7-5 Gailey team. We have anticipation of the possibility of big winning and exciting football, more will buy tix. My expectations are for next year to be tough in the W-L record but at least the excitement of whats happening. I think its crazy to pay this much, but now we know DRAD is saying ACC Championships are the only justifiable goals (not 7 or eight wins.) Exciting football that is not predictable makes for better entertainment value, more tix sold. Once people see it-if it happens- then more tix sold as well. Once it looks like exciting football is leading to ACC Championship, more tix sold. Its that simple. But the old if you win they will come is not true- obviously. We have to win and it be exciting for people to come. They are joined at the hip

 

[GTBandit22]

Ditto prevent