Lots of tidbits about Chan Gailey/Tech from coacheshotseat

What makes you think Chan Gailey is on the hot seat?
Has anything from the Hill been announced?
Has DRad made a statement to that degree?
Not saying I wouldn't like a change but I haven't seen anything yet from the horse's mouth to make me think there is something in the brew.
Some of these "latest hot news know it all" publications have proved so wrong in the past that they should be held liable for false statements.

If something has come down from the Hill, please share.
If something from anywhere else that would be a reputable source, please share.
If not, we just had better get used to what we have or ....................what!!
 
Buzzfan said:
2002.....3
2003.....7
2004.....7
2005....10
2006....23
2007.....8 (current)
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I guess I'm somewhere between oldfoggy and the Hive on these losses. In Chan's defense, I can look up and down these UGA rosters and see far more NFL players than even GOL had at his peak in the late-90s. I could also say that Donnan was just a much worse coach than Richt and GOL correspondingly won three games in a row against Donnan but lost his one against Richt. And maybe I'm accepting mediocrity, but I'm also not of the school that "any competent coach" could waltz onto the field with GT's talent and beat a top-10 team.

Still, while GT's talent is unlikely to beat a top-10 team, it is equally unlikely for GT's talent to lose five straight to top-10 teams. Particularly in 2005 and 2006, the teams were matched up evenly enough to give GT at least a 50/50 shot in those games and Chan lost both. In 2005, with Reuben Houston back, I honestly think we had one of the nation's best defenses that year. In 2006, UGA lost to Kentucky and Vandy due to UGA's sheer number of recruits who never stepped onto campus.

With Calvin and many of the defenders from the 2005 team gone, we're now very unlikely to defeat a resurgent top-10 UGA team. Except for maybe his recruiting, I can't hold it against Chan for losing this year with the talent available. However, I can hold it against him for also losing each of the previous five years.
 
Before the 2004 game, I thought we had a shot at beating them, if the ball bounced our way.

Before the 2005 game, I thought we could hang with them pretty easily, but we'd still need to play well. I figured it was 50/50.

Before the 2006 game, I was sure we would destroy them.

This year, I'm not even sure I'll watch. We are THAT BAD this year. This is one of Chan's worst teams since he got to the flats. It would take an absolute miracle of coaching for us to beat UGA this year, not merely "competence" like that idiot rag seems to think.
 
Buzzfan said:
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:
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I don't know what the hell you are talking about with those references but I assume a lot of it was leather helmet football.

I know beating uga is no easy task but if it were impossible then EVERY OTHER TEAM on their regular schedule would not have beaten them at least once during Gailey's time here.
 
floridajacket said:
. I could also say that Donnan was just a much worse coach than Richt and GOL correspondingly won three games in a row against Donnan but lost his one against Richt.
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Richt is a better coach but I think we played some good uga teams with Donnan as the coach. Donnan faced a tougher SEC East IMO - the Steve Spurrier gators and the Manning vols not to mention Joe Hamilton.
 
buzzfan, the problem that Chan has is that it really doesn't matter how good ugag may be, he's still expected to win occassionally. You know, the old "you can throw the records out when these teams pllay" deal? If what we're really saying is "if ugag is ranked 15 or better we won't win, but if not look out" then lots of us aren't as interested anymore.
 
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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No it doesn't make any difference. You either man up and win around 40% of the time or leave. Based on this logic we should either accept the losses as we jackals to the mighty lion in the jungle.

Perhaps we should change our fight sone on this day to HAKUNA MATATA!

You have to win your share Chan, you just have to!

PS For all those who are sick of the season ending with another disappointing loss to the leg humpers, I have a proposal. Demand (to the point of not signing an extension of the contract) a move of the game to Labor Day weekend. You think that we shouldn't because of tradition. Think again! Three good things would happen:

1) The season doesn't end on a downer which means that recruiting doesn't suffer when we get our ARSE
beat.

2) Some of their key players are serving suspensions

3) Our depth, which doesn;t compare to theirs isn't worn down in September.

THINK about this, that is all i would ask.

Dem, thoughts on this?
 
romegajacket said:
What makes you think Chan Gailey is on the hot seat?
Has anything from the Hill been announced?
Has DRad made a statement to that degree?
Not saying I wouldn't like a change but I haven't seen anything yet from the horse's mouth to make me think there is something in the brew.
Some of these "latest hot news know it all" publications have proved so wrong in the past that they should be held liable for false statements.

If something has come down from the Hill, please share.
If something from anywhere else that would be a reputable source, please share.
If not, we just had better get used to what we have or ....................what!!
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demjackets has stated Dan is not happy.
 
beej67 said:
This year, I'm not even sure I'll watch. We are THAT BAD this year. This is one of Chan's worst teams since he got to the flats. It would take an absolute miracle of coaching for us to beat UGA this year, not merely "competence" like that idiot rag seems to think.
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. CBs, receivers and QB = one of Chan's worst teams. So to try to compensate, you have to run the ball on offense and blitz on defense. Not so?
 
So to try to compensate, you have to run the ball on offense and blitz on defense. Not so?
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Well that's clearly what we've done all season, except for VT. VT was, in many ways, us just getting what we've asked for, and seeing how bad it actually is. Like, "Oh really, you want us to blitz less and pass more? Think we're doing a bad job? Watch what happens when you get what you want!" And by "you" I most definitely mean "beej67" there. I wanted us to pass more and blitz less, and we got SMOKED doing it.

So yeah, we'll blitz a whole lot and run the ball a whole lot, and if we'da run more last year we'd probably have beaten them. But this year I just don't see it. I'd call it nigh impossible, bordering on looming embarrassment.

If I was self conscious, and not already resigned to my fate, I'd take the GT magnet off my mailbox. But thankfully I'm not, so I'll leave it on, and take my humiliation like a man.

That's how much I dread the UGA game this year. I'm predicting a blowout. A bad one.
 
I was leaning toward Muschamp before that debacle in Athens. Pelini goes to Nebraska, don't you think?
 
the last two games we were competitive--and I sincerely believe we were the better team those years, but we came up short. That has been the most bothersome thing about Coach Gailey for me. His ability to lose games while having the best team on the field. Had he just won those games he was supposed to win we would not be discussing his dimissal. The vexing thing is that he has won a fistful of games that we had no right to win--If he had won five or six games more over the six year reign, we'd be building him a statue--change two of those 7 win season to 8-4 and one of them to 9-3 wins and we would hang on to him--even if the string of losses to Georgia continued. This year Maryland and Virginia were his downfall. The losses to VPI and BC were kinda expected, but we looked so inept getting those L's that folks lost faith in the staff. Each year he had two or three cupcakes like Duke or Army or Samford, plus UNC has been horrible during his tenure, Miami has not been Miami of late, and we haven't had Wake or FSU on the schedule for four or five years. The way I see it, we've had a schedule that made us a lock for bowl eligibility and AT LEAST eight wins per year. We need to be mindful of UNC and Butch Davis or we will get a rude awakening.
 
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Buzzfan said:
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)
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I somewhat understand what you're getting at here --but I don't think the comparisons quite measure up.

The UGA teams of the late-70's/early-80's (with exception to '79) were very good teams.

During that same timeframe GT was just coming into the ACC after several years as an independent. Two one-win seasons (in '80 -Memphis and in '81 a huge win over Alabama but subsequent losses to Memphis, Tulane, Duke and Navy) --throw in 3, 4, 6 and 7 win seasons and that's what Tech had to counter with.

UGA has also had some very good teams of recent note --but it's not like GT has had nothing to counter with. An ACCCG team, teams that could defeat the likes of VT, Miami, Clemson, Auburn and hang close a couple of times with good FSU teams.

But along with these wins have been five losses to UGA; one blowout, one bad loss and three missed opportunities where IMO GT may not have had better talent --but the talent was pretty equal.

That's the difference in the Tech of 25-30 years ago to the GT of recent history in comparison to UGA.
 
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