My thoughts on Gailey

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Just another worthless internet opinion, but I will probably be writing to Dan about it as well.

I have always defended Gailey to people. Have never thought he was the greatest in the world, but wasn't quite ready to see him go. Listed the typical excuses about flunkgate and such. Placed the blame on the defense when it broke down. Told people how great of a guy he is. Told people how much better in recruiting we were doing. Told people that I thought it would be worse if we were to go and try to find someone else.

I am going to stop defending now. I will not go over the top in campaigning for a new coach, but I think his time has come. Hopefully DRAD agrees and will pull the trigger.

On the field peformance *at times* has not been what anyone has expected this year or prior years really. Up and down - go from world beaters to nobodies. Lack of preperation and motivation. Taking time outs on the first play after having 10 freakin days to prepare. That frustrates me, but is not even my main reason for wanting him gone (although it directly relates to my issue - cause and effect I guess). I didn't really expect us to win last night - but I did expect much better.

A large part of the fanbase is not happy. I felt horrible last night for our guys on the field to have to hear the entire stadium erupt into boos multiple times. I can only hope that they know who the boos were really directed at. On national tv, our home stadium was shown erupting into a chorus of boos on multiple occassions. Everyone in the country already saw it once this season against BC, but at least we were booing the refs that time. Last night though we were booing the coach. The guy that these players look up to to lead them. The guy that sat in these players house and told them how they should come to GT to play for him and grow as men.

A boneheaded call - he gets booed. Subs in a player - he gets booed. Comes on the jumbotron to tell people not to drink and drive and gets loudly booed. I am not calling out others - because I was booing too. I wish this morning that I hadn't let emotion and alcohol get the best of me, but that doesn't change the feeling that I have that I actually WANTED to boo.

I think the tide is rapidly turning and you are going to have a hard time finding anyone who will stand up for him - myself included. I will never quit on this team and sell all my tickets, but I don't think I can support this coach any longer.

If you made it this far, thanks for letting me rant :)
 
I think the tide is rapidly turning and you are going to have a hard time finding anyone who will stand up for him - myself included. I will never quit on this team and sell all my tickets, but I don't think I can support this coach any longer.
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This is his most talented team by a fairly good margin, and is turning into the most disappointing season. We are not a good football team at all.

Like you, I've defended him in the past, thinking he would be the shortest route to get to championships, rather than starting over. Methinks it may be time to start over.
 
Even in the face of this morning's clear NAUSEA at a performance that couldn't have POSSIBLY been worse, I still say what I said after Maryland, that Chan keeps his job at 8-4 regular season with a W over UGA.

...especially since now the only path to 8-4 is with 3 consecutive wins, including a win over UGA...


But I don't see that happening. I read a pretty good book a while back, sci-fi deal, but it had some great 'words to live by' sprinkled all through it. This one stands out:

You are
What you do
When it counts

We are clearly a bunch of Screw-Ups.
 
I am sadly in agreement with you Lee. I have always supported Gailey here and to others personally. I jumped on the fence after UVa because I considered him responsible for taking a chance to win the game away from the team with his boneheaded calls at the end.

After Maryland I fell to the I don't care what happens side of the fence when we manage to lose to a clearly inferior team. After last night I really feel he must go. There is no good explanation for the team to look so ill-prepared, both emotionally and strategically in that situation.

It is sad and difficult because he is a good man and an admirable representatiive of Tech. But it is time to realize we aren't getting any better on the field in any way, sahpe or form.
 
There are so many things wrong about our approach --our preparation --and of course the end result from last night. But I want to hit on one thing that --looking back this morning-- was a forshadowing of how this game would go.

It was the onside kick that turned the game around for the night --putting our defense right back on the field after a long drive. It appeared to me that no one on our KO return front line had any inkling to at least think about an onside kick. I assume that it wasn't talked about in practice --and it must not have been mentioned in the huddle prior to the KO return team taking the field.

But I've gone off on a tangent --the onside kick was not the forshadowing I wanted to talk about --it was the time out at the 14:54 mark of the first quarter --prior to the first snap of the game --after a bye week!
 
Welcome to the dark side...Or I guess after last night the only side. I joined too after the UVA game after a long time of hoping. I am glad others have had enough too.
 
beej67 said:
You are
What you do
When it counts

We are clearly a bunch of Screw-Ups.
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True.

The time out I just mentioned --first play from scrimmage after a bye week.
Not being prepared for a possible onside kick against a team --a coach-- who is known to do such things. I mean everybody just turned and peeled --the VT kicker had covered 10-12 yards before anybody realized what was going on. Watch the da#! ball!
The offsides on the defense on VT's first scoring drive --I think a 3-6 became a 3-1.
JW-D getting beat and getting 'out-athleticized' most of the night on the corner.
Passes to wide open receivers that 'just miss' --interceptions (yes, they're gonna happen) at the most inopportune times (and two really horrible throws in that mix).

etc. etc.
 
Law Dawg thinks if Hillary were president, GT would have won by 3 td's.
 
I didn't boo last night and, while I didn't like his hiring initially and have never been a supporter of Chan's, I have defended him quite a bit. I'm done now. Having said that, the whole lot of them need to be run. That includes Tenuta and even Giff. This house needs to be cleaned out completely.

And frankly, if this is our most talented team, then they deserve a considerable amount of the blame as well, because, poor coaching or not, these guys are underperforming, and that goes from Wheeler on down. The only exceptions I see are Choice, Dwyer, Brooks, Blair, M. Johnson, and Cox. I won't boo college students, especially our own, but damn, boys, you just cost your coach his job.
 
clapper said:
I didn't boo last night and, while I didn't like his hiring initially and have never been a supporter of Chan's, I have defended him quite a bit. I'm done now.
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clapper our mindsets are in synch when it comes to Gailey. I was not happy when he was hired --yet he is the head coach at GT so I have supported him. Although I have not defended him, I have supported him.

I have though tried to rationalize a justification for keeping him as our head coach:

A continuation of consecutive winning seasons that now sits at 10 --the bowl streak --fourth best in-conference winning percentage since 2002 --the big wins over the like of Auburn, Miami, VT, Clemson --the upswing in recruiting.

But I am also done now --I have climbed down from the fence --where I've been honestly struggling to keep from falling for a couple of years now. But I just hit the ground on the other side --I'm now quite ready for a change.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
There are so many things wrong about our approach --our preparation --and of course the end result from last night. But I want to hit on one thing that --looking back this morning-- was a forshadowing of how this game would go.

It was the onside kick that turned the game around for the night --putting our defense right back on the field after a long drive. It appeared to me that no one on our KO return front line had any inkling to at least think about an onside kick. I assume that it wasn't talked about in practice --and it must not have been mentioned in the huddle prior to the KO return team taking the field.

But I've gone off on a tangent --the onside kick was not the forshadowing I wanted to talk about --it was the time out at the 14:54 mark of the first quarter --prior to the first snap of the game --after a bye week!
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The fact VT was able to execute THAT onside kick was due to a poorly prepared and coached return team. The guy over the ball is supposed to stay over the ball til the ball was kicked. He bailed early and often, and VT saw that on film and saw an opportunity.

THE FACT VT SAW THAT ON FILM, AND IT WAS NEVER CORRECTED, IS A COACHING MISTAKE; and summarizes chan gaileys teams on the flats.
 
SMoney said:
Just another worthless internet opinion, but I will probably be writing to Dan about it as well.

I have always defended Gailey to people. Have never thought he was the greatest in the world, but wasn't quite ready to see him go. Listed the typical excuses about flunkgate and such. Placed the blame on the defense when it broke down. Told people how great of a guy he is. Told people how much better in recruiting we were doing. Told people that I thought it would be worse if we were to go and try to find someone else.

I am going to stop defending now. I will not go over the top in campaigning for a new coach, but I think his time has come. Hopefully DRAD agrees and will pull the trigger.

On the field peformance *at times* has not been what anyone has expected this year or prior years really. Up and down - go from world beaters to nobodies. Lack of preperation and motivation. Taking time outs on the first play after having 10 freakin days to prepare. That frustrates me, but is not even my main reason for wanting him gone (although it directly relates to my issue - cause and effect I guess). I didn't really expect us to win last night - but I did expect much better.

A large part of the fanbase is not happy. I felt horrible last night for our guys on the field to have to hear the entire stadium erupt into boos multiple times. I can only hope that they know who the boos were really directed at. On national tv, our home stadium was shown erupting into a chorus of boos on multiple occassions. Everyone in the country already saw it once this season against BC, but at least we were booing the refs that time. Last night though we were booing the coach. The guy that these players look up to to lead them. The guy that sat in these players house and told them how they should come to GT to play for him and grow as men.

A boneheaded call - he gets booed. Subs in a player - he gets booed. Comes on the jumbotron to tell people not to drink and drive and gets loudly booed. I am not calling out others - because I was booing too. I wish this morning that I hadn't let emotion and alcohol get the best of me, but that doesn't change the feeling that I have that I actually WANTED to boo.

I think the tide is rapidly turning and you are going to have a hard time finding anyone who will stand up for him - myself included. I will never quit on this team and sell all my tickets, but I don't think I can support this coach any longer.

If you made it this far, thanks for letting me rant :)
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I didn't boo but I left. i think it says a lot but not quite as negative. you should have heard Curry get boo'd his last year at UK. It was like 35 degrees. It's raining and windy, maybe 35,000 people there and they have 00 points at halftime with Tim Couch running the option. It was borderline funny to hear that place boo so loud.

I have never ever read a post on any message board about UK being classless even though they boo'd a great guy right out of town. don't feel bad about it; lots of folks do it, many of whom I respect a lot. Note, though, i have personally never done it so perhaps you think I'm better than you. don't be ashamed. You showed emotion and didn't use an F bomb like thousands of others.
 
There was an alumni caller last night on the radio show after the game stating that he would not be back next season if Chan was coaching. Several callers stated the same feelings about the Team trying, however the Head Coach and OC were misleading the players or not Coaching them properly for what we the Alumni desired of a Div 1 team.
 
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