Maybe choice has been made

If this is true, then I say good thing we just got rid of an AD who specialized in the hiring version of inbreeding so we could get another AD who goes straight to the hiring version of inbreeding.
 
BOB is a DUMB idea. What kind of contract you think we'd have to give BOB to honor us with his majesty? We want to circle back into another dead end? Same goes with other 'name' guys like Mullen. They want to come prove themselves on a modest budget before we start slobbering over them? Maybe but that ain't happening. This has to be a smart hire and yeah, J, we looking at you!
 
johncu said:
Ugh, I hope there’s nothing to this. People tend to overuse the Chan comparison, but I think it’s accurate here.
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Not really. Chan had almost no college experience, and spent the last 20 years before GT in pro football, which really hurt him. BOB has been a CFB head coach at a top program, OC at the #1 program, and spent almost a decade at Georgia Tech earlier in his career.

Our fans don’t like him because he has little personality and his chin resembles a cheap stripper’s asshole.
 
THWUGA said:
Great I can tell everyone is going to really get behind any hire we make, so long as it’s not everyone’s specific best choice. GT fans are gonna GT fan. Dumbbbbbb
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Every fanbase does that to some extent.

I am behind him, I'm just not excited by him.
 
EagleSting said:
If that is true, then Batt-man is a Bama homer and doing them a favor. There's not a Bama fan out there that wouldn't love to see BOB gone.
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The same Alabama fan base that didn’t want Kiffin as the OC? BOB is a solid choice for GT with a history of success.
 
BOB is an exponential upgrade over what we had/have. Plus he’s been immersed in “the process” as a coordinator. Could we do better? Maybe. Could we do a whole lot worse? You bet your ass we could.

We need someone who is going to get us back to playing football again. BOB can do that.
 
GTLiebs said:
I'm not so sure a Chan clone works as well in 2023 as it did in 2002.
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This is the big problem for us right now: college football has changed so much in the last 20 (and 10, and 2) years that the old comparisons and the old ideas won't work. Without investing in the program, neither O'Leary nor PJ nor Dodd himself would be successful in this environment.
 
BoB would be the most mediocre hire we could make. It would not rally the alumni or energize recruiting. He is an average OC and a curmudgeon. Have no idea what the fascination is with him. He is as average as grits (without butter). No thanks.

We should listen to the Bama folks… they’ve won a hell of a lot more football games than us.
 
CornerBlitz said:
BoB would be the most mediocre hire we could make. It would not rally the alumni or energize recruiting. He is an average OC and a curmudgeon. Have no idea what the fascination is with him. He is as average as grits (without butter). No thanks.

We should listen to the Bama folks… they’ve won a hell of a lot more football games than us.
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Bama folks haven’t won öööö. Saban has. And Saban had enough confidence in BOB to put him in charge of his offense.

He may be boring or whatever, but we just had exciting, goofy, attention whoreing style coach and that sucked. I’m willing to give boring a chance if it can win. I’d much rather have a football coach in BOB than a hype man in Deion.
 
THWUGA said:
Great I can tell everyone is going to really get behind any hire we make, so long as it’s not everyone’s specific best choice. GT fans are gonna GT fan. Dumbbbbbb
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My sense is most Tech fans got behind Collins initially, whatever their reservations may have been. I supported him even though his performance at Temple didn't look great and I thought his staff was young and dumb. I tried to focus on the positives I thought he brought--recruiting, Atlanta, the endorsement of O'Leary.

So I think people would get behind whoever gets the hire, including O'Brien. Now is the time to complain, before a choice has been made (maybe).
 
justafan said:
Penn State got worse under O'Brien, then they got better when he left. Mediocre to poor head coaching resume. Yes, scandal, so what. It's football, and it's not like there was some mass exodus of players.

Who else's prior college head coaching experience consisted of taking over a team for two seasons and doing worse? Hmm.

Then O'Brien was mediocre as a pro coach.

I see a weak resume. No thanks. Next!
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The hell are you talking about?

PSU:

2012 - 8-4 - BOB
2013 - 7-5 - BOB
2014 - 7-6 - Franklin
2015 - 7-6 - Franklin

Texans:

2014 - 9-7
2015 - 9-7
2016 - 9-7
2017 - 4-12
2018 - 11-5
2019 - 10-6
2020 - 0-4

He‘s had 1 losing season as an HC at the CFB and NFL level. 9+ game win seasons. That’s not a “mediocre” coaching resume.
 
2011 - 9-4 - Paterno
FightOn!Jacket said:
2012 - 8-4 - BOB
2013 - 7-5 - BOB
2014 - 7-6 - Franklin
2015 - 7-6 - Franklin
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2016 - 11-3 - Franklin
2017 - 11-2 - Franklin
2018 - 9-4 - Franklin
2019 - 11-3 - Franklin

Gailey-esque. We know Penn State 8-4 is a GT 7-5 or GT 6-6
 
I admit to knowing next to nothing about BOB, even though he has been at Tech before, so I am basing my thoughts on what I have read posted on this thread, and nothing more. But based on what I have read, both positive and negative, I say, thanks, but no thanks. Next !!!
 
justafan said:
2011 - 9-4 - Paterno

2016 - 11-3 - Franklin
2017 - 11-2 - Franklin
2018 - 9-4 - Franklin
2019 - 11-3 - Franklin
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Paterno was let go during the 2011 season. PSU was nailed by the NCAA. There was a mass exodus and a bowl ban, yet BOB had a 8-4, 7-5 run at PSU.

I like how you coincidentally didn‘t add in the past 2 seasons for PSU (4-5, 7-6). Franklin is a good coach, but there fanbase was ready to let him walk last year. PSU instead gave him a huge raise / extension when no one was really coming for him.
 
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