Official Geoff Collins Fired Watch Party Thread

andrew said:
If hardcore football fans are unwilling to give to the GTAA because of its incompetency and the worry that the money won't be used effectively, there's zero chance that GT itself is going to divert money from the academic side of things.
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If the school can’t pull their weight then öööö it, I guess I’ll go fishing on Saturdays in the fall.
 
So this guy goes to a newsstand every day to buy the morning paper.
The clerk hands it to him, he peruses the front page and then throws it in the trash.
This happens every day, and the clerk eventually asks him why.
He replies that he's looking for an obituary.
The clerk explains that the obituaries aren't on the front page.
"Ah, but the one I'm looking for will be!"

This is now me, every morning when I log into StingTalk.
 
clapper said:
The school is very limited in the financial support they can provide. They can reduce rent on the stadium and pay things like power bills, but they can't outright fund salaries and buyouts.
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I’d like to hear this from Angel and how he can’t do anything.
 
samsgt02 said:
How about the school, and not the gtaa, pony up? I know I’ve had it with giving money to a bunch of incompetency. Angel needs to figure out this is embarrassing for the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an investment in sports is an investment that benefits the school too. A successful football program instantly helps all other programs, including the women's teams.
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I don't think that any of the GT leadership in my lifetime has ever understood or cared to this connection. The school seems to be 100% focused on research dollars. Having hot garbage sports programs (at least the revenue ones) doesn't register or show up like a blip on the radar.

GTLiebs said:
Thing is, I could see the academic mindset saying "if football is embarrassing the school, then get rid of it" instead of "making it not embarrassing"
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I could see this 100%. GT needs to make a decision to either compete or move on. What's the point of bumping along with minimal to no investment and simply being Vandy/Duke ?
 
GT98 said:
I don't think that any of the GT leadership in my lifetime has ever understood or cared to this connection. The school seems to be 100% focused on research dollars. Having hot garbage sports programs (at least the revenue ones) doesn't register or show up like a blip on the radar.



I could see this 100%. GT needs to make a decision to either compete or move on. What's the point of bumping along with minimal to no investment and simply being Vandy/Duke ?
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God, I think I am going to puke. Please don't let us become that.
 
daBuzz said:
Lot of you fellas don't wanna hear it but he ain't wrong that fans are part of it. How many of you live within an hour drive of the stadium but don't have season tickets? How many of you have net worths approaching or greater than 7 digits left of the decimal, yet donate less than 4 digits per year to athletics? How many of you talk about the need for the 'big money donors to step up' and pay out the $10 million buyout yet you are miserly or not-at-all with your own donations to the GTAA?

I could go on but you get the point.

Now, that has nothing to do with Collins and the ineptness he's shown. But until Tech fills the stadium every week, paying off the debt on the stadium won't happen. Until that happens, the athletic association will always be cash-strapped.
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I used to sit in a section of fans where the low end was probably donating $5k/yr. I’m left, the couple to my right, a guy 9 seats to my left and that’s it. People to the left of me are new, the entire row to the right of me save the 2 friends to my right are all gone. The entire row behind me is vacated, including the lady and family that had season tickets there for 40 years. It was a great section, now it’s decimated. Probably $150-200k of annual donations near me walked already.

I live more than 400 mi away, the guy to my right is outside Charleston, the guy to my left is local as was the 40 yr lady that abandoned the program. We had fans. Stansbury neglected them like we owe GT support they don’t earn/deserve. He’s systematically destroying legacy fan loyalty and you don’t replace that.

I quit on him this summer when he was laughing about the state of the football program with baseball, softball and track/field parents. He thought I was part of that group. You’re the AD. You’re #1 money sport is in the crapper and you think it’s a joke is not good.

Stansbury and Collins killed our program. They ridiculed our student athletes (not fit for P5 football), they denigrated us older loyal fans saying they didn’t need us any more, they made a mockery of our program with their infantile antics. A new exciting brand of football was coming to The Flats and either get on the bus or get the hell out. Many did. Here we are.

Turn the page Cabrera. We don’t need those bastards on our campus 1 second longer.
 
I keep refreshing my “Geoff Collins” search on Twitter and having to mute actual guys names Geoff Collins. Just world problems.
 
Instead of appealing to the academic side of the school for help with the buyout, what about asking the ACC for help? We are more of an embarrassment to the ACC than to GT academics. Write the head of the ACC and ask him for help pushing GTAA to fire T-Stan and see if that moves the needle.
 
aeromech said:
Instead of appealing to the academic side of the school for help with the buyout, what about asking the ACC for help? We are more of an embarrassment to the ACC than to GT academics. Write the head of the ACC and ask him for help pushing GTAA to fire T-Stan and see if that moves the needle.
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I mean, they already gave us a schedule that seemed designed to get someone fired.

I also think ESPN may be trying to push for Collins at least to go. Never seen broadcasters öööö talk a coach so much across multiple games.
 
MACHETE said:
This 100%. You telling me the GTAA can't find 50 boosters to put up $200k each? If that is so, we are truly ööööed.
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Why should any booster pony up any money right now? At some point, a failing business has to show SOMETHING in return for their request for more capital. Even if that's just a coherent hopeful strategy that has a 5-7 year goal. They had that when they hired G**** C******, to get some support. But what can they possibly say at this point?

1. You've got a school who has always given the middle finger to the football program instead of understanding the very basic, absolute truth that the football program is the "face" of the university to the national public. What is Cabrera going to do to start changing that, from both a financial and operational/oversight point of view?

2. What is Cabrera going to do about the GTAA's leadership? I wouldn't invest a dime with this management team.

3. Big picture, let's demand that The Hill communicates their goal(s) with respect to the GTAA (which really means the football program,, given the $$ picture). I have always thought that if GT wants to be recognized as a top tier school, we should aim for that in all respects, including the athletic program and its traditions/history which are inextricably linked with the academic institution -- and when our athletics are good, even enhance the recognition of the academic institution. But I don't think that view is shared on The Hill. Either way, the Hill's objectives with respect to the GTAA should be communicated -- if boosters are fighting battle that CAN NOT BE WON because The Hill doesn't want it to be, then why the hell should anyone invest their money to goals that WILL NOT BE ACHIEVED no matter the dollar support? (We really miss Wes Durham when it comes to conversations about this type of stuff, BTW.)
 
This is how Tech alumni fix problems:

Problem: We don’t have enough money to hire a competent coaching staff.
Solution: Let’s gamble on an unproven head coach and some Tech men.
Problem: Unproven head coach and Tech men ööööed the program worse.
Solution: Let’s give less money to the program until it’s fixed.
 
What’s going on at the Hive? Do they have the wagons circled around Tud and Gef per protocol? I don’t even know how to get to the Hive anymore.
 
Akinji07 said:
This is how Tech alumni fix problems:

Problem: We don’t have enough money to hire a competent coaching staff.
Solution: Let’s give less money to the program until it’s fixed.
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I've simplified it for you.
 
coit said:
I've simplified it for you.
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