sthorfinnr
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Do you think it's 'reasonable' to ask if you're a real Georgia Tech fan because you only have 47 posts on this board? I mean, do you have enough 'experience'? Wouldn't that come across as obnoxious as much as it does reasonable? Should people wait and see what you have to post before judging you? I think new coaches should be granted the same grace period.I don't think it's nitpicking or doubting. I think its a reasonable question. Did we add him to the staff just because he played at GT? Where's the college football coaching experience?
I can tell you this. We've spent the last two regimes putting a premium on 'development' and 'X and O' coaches. We've had some single season successes, but have averaged right around 7-5ish. But I don't remember during the last two hires there being such a hardcore contingent of fans looking to fault-find as much. It seems to be a small group of persistently dissatisfied people (whom I suspect are largely comprised of those unable to part with CPJ and/or his offensive scheme). Sure, both Gailey and Johnson endured dissatisfaction when their teams endured losses, but I've never seen somebody get hit with so much negativism as CGC before he even started.
Somebody gripes about outside coaches because 'they won't understand the challenges unique to Tech'. So then you bring in Tech people, and it's something else to be found wrong. The chronic fault-finding and negativism serves no 'reasonable' purpose.