Lots of tidbits about Chan Gailey/Tech from coacheshotseat

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9. Chan Gailey– The good news for Gailey is that he knows exactly where he stands. Gailey must win his last two games against North Carolina and Georgia to keep his job, and since both games are at home there is no reason a competent coach in his sixth season at a school should lose those two games. There is the rub, Gailey has not been competent in his job up to now, and if this keeps up Webster is going to start posting Gailey’s picture alongside the word mediocre in the next editions of their dictionary. Just imagine, in two weeks Gailey could be 8-4 and more than likely have a job in ’08 (of course, Gailey will probably be looking for a NFL job in the off-season anyway), or he could lose both games and end up 6-6. If he goes 6-6 in his sixth season at Tech there is no reason he should keep his job. Gailey should do well in these games, because nothing focuses the mind as the thought of losing a job that pays you excess of $1 million dollars a year.

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5. Chan Gailey - Anyone paying a guy over $1 million dollars a year who has a .575 record in almost 6 seasons is someone getting ripped off, and Georgia Tech is getting ripped off big time! Gailey is 0-5, yes that is 0-5 folks, against his main rival Georgia, and you have to believe that Gailey's tenure in Atlanta is about to come to an end. What can Gailey do to save his job? Win out and hope that the Tech AD cannot find a big time coach who wants to take the Georgia Tech job. If he does, you can bet Gailey will be back in the NFL, which gauging by his actions last January is the place he really wants to be

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Georgia Tech – There is just no excuse why a Georgia Tech football coach should have won only 58% of his football games in his sixth season. If a 58% winning percentage is good enough for Yellow Jacket fans, then they might as well sell all of the football equipment to the local Army-Navy store and put all the footballs away, because Georgia Tech football is dead. Tech is a very tough school academically, but there are enough smart kids these days in a recruiting hotbed that Georgia Tech sits right in the middle of to find 22 guys who want to play the game of football.​
Who Georgia Tech should hire: Charlie Strong​
2nd Choice: Paul Johnson​
 
I just don't think Charlie Strong is the answer. I'm also not sold on Johnson.

I fink there's some knee jerks in there that we kneed to avoid.

Who? I dunno.
 
Well, seeing how coacheshotseat.com pretty regularly misquotes their links and outright lies, I wouldn't put much faith in their objectivity.

That said, they're pretty much saying what we've been saying here. Looks to me like they just summarized prevailing Stingtalk opinion and posted it as fact.

*shrug*
 
I would expect Bo Pelini and Will Muschamp before Charlie Strong.
 
Holy Crap, I think a Buzzoff'r contributed to those articles. Any competent coach should be able to win the last 2 games...one which includes a top-10 team?
 
this will be his 6th try to beat the dawgs and it doesn't look good this year either. euff is enuff!
 
Bogey said:
this will be his 6th try to beat the dawgs...
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And unless KY upsets them this weekend, it will be 5 out of 6 times that they've been a Top 10 team (current for this season, final rankings in prior seasons)

Not that that should make any difference though, right?

:rolleyes:
 
Buzzfan said:
And unless KY upsets them this weekend, it will be 5 out of 6 times that they've been a Top 10 team (current for this season, final rankings in prior seasons)

Not that that should make any difference though, right?

:rolleyes:
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Well, I think the point is, that after 6 years a coach should have his program at a level to compete with his chief rival. Can't really argue with that.
 
ncjacket said:
Well, I think the point is, that after 6 years a coach should have his program at a level to compete with his chief rival. Can't really argue with that.
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You don't think we've "competed" with them the last couple of years?.......or are you speaking in code?

I can argue with that plenty.....but it's lost on those who wish it to remain lost.
 
BeerNutts said:
Holy Crap, I think a Buzzoff'r contributed to those articles. Any competent coach should be able to win the last 2 games...one which includes a top-10 team?
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Regular misquotes and outright lies.


coacheshotseat.com caters to a particular brand of fan, "people hoping their coach gets fired." They are neither objective, nor a remotely good source of news or insight. They're just saying whatever they have to say to get angry fans from 10 some odd colleges to log on there daily and copy/paste links into their discussion forums. It's their business model. And they'll fabricate whatever nonsense they can to promote that business model, like "Any competent coach should be able to beat Top Ten ranked Georgia with a Georgia Tech squad who can't pass, can't catch, can't cover, and can't keep from turning the ball over."

The true indictment on Chan isn't that he should be able to beat Georgia this year, because honestly he shouldn't. The true indictment is that he should have been able to beat them last year, and he should have been able to steal a victory in one of the 4 years previous to that. The indictment is his overall record. But that doesn't make for an easy sound bite to crosspost to forums full of angry fans.

ncj: We most definitely 'competed' the last three years, and should have been able to squeeze a win in one of the three.
 
Buzzfan said:
You don't think we've "competed" with them the last couple of years?.......or are you speaking in code?

I can argue with that plenty.....but it's lost on those who wish it to remain lost.
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Like Oleary used to say. Its not a rivalry until the other team wins once in a while.

And yes we competed in the literal sense of the term the last 4 years on the field. The 5th year we didn't (51-7). However, as a series you haven't competed without winning. We need to win to say we have been competitive in THIS series. Otherwise in the W vs L column, we HAVE NOT COMPETED.
 
Many of you guys are young and don't remember somethings but way back when, ALA 3 TECH 7. Yes Alabama competed but the score remained the same 3-7. To compete is not to win and as I recall we have lost 6 in a row to UGAG. Gailey is the only coach in Techs proud history to have accomplish the feat of 5 in a row.!
 
oldfoggy said:
Gailey is the only coach in Techs proud history to have accomplish the feat of 5 in a row.!
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Ah yes, the five-in-a-row albatross.

Let's (conveniently) ignore the ranking and quality of the mutt teams during that stretch, as to do otherwise takes something away, doesn't it?

The last time ugag had a string of teams/seasons approaching the current?.....Dooley's late-70's eary-80's squads.

Final AP rankings for ugag's recent teams....

2002.....3
2003.....7
2004.....7
2005....10
2006....23
2007.....8 (current)

Seems to me Coach Aleck managed only 2 W's in 14 years (1929-1942), but...hey, at least he got those two over Mehre's '35 6-4 juggernaut and Butts' 1st-season 5-6 team.

And who can forget Coach Dodd's decisive victories over Griffith's charges in '61-'63? Hey, those ugag teams were 10-game winners (if you combine the 3 seasons, that is). Good thing we got those W's....would've had a 12-game string of L's otherwise.

:rolleyes:
 
OK have it your way. Gailey didn't lose 5 games, that's all in the imagination of the faithful. Well like it or not it's true. Make every excuse for Gailey, I guess I do not understand the love you have for Gailey after now almost 6 years of coaching ineptitude. But, have it your way.
 
Yeah, we have competed and I should have worded it differently. The problem, as you stated, is that we haven't beaten them. If we had a win or two in the last 5, playing them a competitive game would probably be alright this year. Chan's problem is he's painted himself into a corner.
 
ncjacket said:
Yeah, we have competed and I should have worded it differently. The problem, as you stated, is that we haven't beaten them. If we had a win or two in the last 5, playing them a competitive game would probably be alright this year. Chan's problem is he's painted himself into a corner.
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No argument, there. A win or 2 would've made a huge difference.
 
beej, you have the "yes" man thing down pat! How did you ever manage to rub BB the wrong way?

:>)
 
See, ncjacket is a reasonable dude. He posted something somewhat inflammatory, that wasn't quite accurate. Someone corrected him on it, so he revised his statement. The new statement was accurate, and even the people who corrected him on it could agree with the corrected version.

I did a fair chunk of 'correction' at BO, which was construed as 'hit and run posting' and 'personal attacks,' and got banned for it. Which was funny, because I started early on by posting some pretty heinous personal attacks and didn't get banned for those, hehe.
 
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