Official Geoff Collins Fired Watch Party Thread

5:58am as I type this.....is Pennywise still the coach?

GO JACKETS!!
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BrentwoodJacket said:
I do not want to hear that TStan and Collins care about Tech. They only care about how much money they can get from Tech. They both know it is in the best interest of GT that they resign. They both will stay to squeeze out the last dollar possible.

Bobby Cremins and Paul Johnson care about Tech. TStan and Collins only care about their bank accounts.
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And squeezing the last dollar is in their best interests. Collins will likely NEVER have another head coaching job. Tstan will likely NEVER be an AD again.

This is Collins' retirement. He can move somewhere, buy a decent home, put the cash in a mix of S&P indexed funds and conservative government bonds and T-bills and live the rest of his life comfortably and accumulate more wealth with what we are gonna give him. There is no reason, outside of pride, for him to resign and NOT take $10 million from us. Hell, any of us would do it. If the company you work for owed you $10 million contractually if they fired you, would you say "nah, keep your money. I did a bad job and needed firing"? Nope. None of us would.

The thing about the buyout is it is only an issue when a coach needs fired. Teams gleefully put them in contracts and then complain about having to pay them and want the coach to somehow decline it at the end of a tenure.

Not going to happen. We will pay an exit fee, in full, unless Collins is truly the stupidest human on earth. I suspect he is not. We were hoodwinked into believing he grew up with his eyes on GT. He led us to believe he cared about this program. He "rah rah'ed" his way into becoming a millionaire. It was essentially winning a lottery. He is now pretending to care so he can't be fired with cause for abandoning his position. This is the endgame. He is gone. Doesn't care about winning, but he has to pretend to.

The only reason to have left Sims in the game yesterday is to try to get other programs to look at him for his eventual portal transfer. That is a Collins favor to Sims. Sims should have been out third quarter and the two transfers given work.
 
Woke up expecting a new outlook on life, but looking things over, there's no gifts, just the leftover shame and throbbing anal pain from last night. Like that first Christmas morning at my step-dad's house.
 
madRazor said:
Woke up expecting a new outlook on life, but looking things over, there's no gifts, just the leftover shame and throbbing anal pain from last night. Like that first Christmas morning at my step-dad's house.
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Damn
 
madRazor said:
Woke up expecting a new outlook on life, but looking things over, there's no gifts, just the leftover shame and throbbing anal pain from last night. Like that first Christmas morning at my step-dad's house.
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PM Gold said:
Two words that can solve our coaching problem:


PRIME TIME!!!

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My honest opinion is we need a tested coach. I just have a bad feeling if we hired Deion we would be fighting over who decided to hire an untested coach like him and put him at a P5 school.

Maybe he would be successful, but right now, we need a coach who's is dead serious at coaching and is manically organized. Essentially, we need a George O'Leary to step in and snap the place back to taking every single part of the football day seriously.

Dammit, if GOL said something was gonna happen at 11 am, you bet your ass it was happening at EXACTLY 11 am or someone's ass is getting chewed. He was just a different level organizer squeezing the most out of a team and players.

I just have a suspicion Deion would be a disaster at GT, but I'd love to be wrong.
 
JJacket said:
My honest opinion is we need a tested coach. I just have a bad feeling if we hired Deion we would be fighting over who decided to hire an untested coach like him and put him at a P5 school.

Maybe he would be successful, but right now, we need a coach who's is dead serious at coaching and is manically organized. Essentially, we need a George O'Leary to step in and snap the place back to taking every single part of the football day seriously.

Dammit, if GOL said something was gonna happen at 11 am, you bet your ass it was happening at EXACTLY 11 am or someone's ass is getting chewed. He was just a different level organizer squeezing the most out of a team and players.

I just have a suspicion Deion would be a disaster at GT, but I'd love to be wrong.
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Right there with you brother. The idea of Deion both intrigues and scares the hell out of me. He’s either going to be a good coach who brings in players and eyeballs, or he’s going to be an amplification of all the clownish things that Collins does. In my lifetime, Tech thrives under hard nosed no bullshit football coaches like Ross, O’Leary, Gailey, and Johnson. I would prefer a no frills asshole who gets the job done over bling and slogans that are high risk/high reward.
 
savbandjacket said:
Right there with you brother. The idea of Deion both intrigues and scares the hell out of me. He’s either going to be a good coach who brings in players and eyeballs, or he’s going to be an amplification of all the clownish things that Collins does. In my lifetime, Tech thrives under hard nosed no bullshit football coaches like Ross, O’Leary, Gailey, and Johnson. I would prefer a no frills asshole who gets the job done over bling and slogans that are high risk/high reward.
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Looking through some of the articles regarding CDS it looks to me he is more disciplinarian than I expected. He seems to be a competent coach. He would have zero problem getting visits with any recruit. I would take the chance.
 
gtfan088 said:
I wouldn't be mad. The whole staff needs to go after the season, anyway.
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I'd be willing to give the staff another chance. Who knows what our tool of a HC has done to limit or restrict them.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
Fwiw, the booster I talk to who was pushing for him to be fired last year (and had offered up a large sum to make happen) told me earlier this week that it would be stupid to change course now, regardless of how much he'd disagreed with it last year, because we'd just be paying several million to save face for a few weeks. I tried convincing him that the reputation damage was worth the money, he told me that was easy for me to say when it wasn't my money and we laughed and changed subjects. I doubt this game changed his mind because the result was so predictable.
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I've been hearing from a guy that talks to those booster occasionally that they've pulled back their offer of support. I'm guessing they're after a whole sale purge of those that need to go asap. The best move is probably to renegotiate Collins buyout- for example instead of paying him & others a lump sum of $10M give them $1.2M over 10 years and call it a day. Yeah we'd pay for it for a long time like Hewitt, but we'd get the dipships away from our program. The damage they're doing is going to cause us to have the biggest rebuild in the history of college football at a time where the sharks are in the water figuring out who's in & who's out in the big college football restructuring. We're on the verge of doing what Joe Petit could not, either send us to D2 or eliminate football altogether and turn Bobby Dodd land into an area with office complexes for The Hill.
 
Jmonty71 said:
Actions. Losers give lame excuses and blame prior staff. Winners don't. From the moment he said "the greatest transition in college football", I knew...
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Let you in on a little secret, we all knew. Not one person is in disbelief.
 
I think we'll have a hard time pulling in a well tested coach to this chaos unless we are willing to accept a FCS or lower level coach; and if we pull in an FCS coach our fanbase will squeal like 5 year olds. Otherwise we need to find a young coach who has had recent success. Scott Frost maybe? The bright side is that it will be hard to find a coach who will be worse than what we have now. Even if the next coach is still a loser, I expect us to look more like a football team on the field. I don't expect our next coach to be some obvious home run that will win a natty in 5-6 years. We are back to the early Bill Curry days of needing a guy who can hopefully build us up to competitive and no longer being a joke.
 
Akinji07 said:
congratulations, you hated him before everyone else. You deserve a medal.
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I think he received a Silver Star for his service. Not sure he needs a Stingtalk medal, but after the 1st spring game it was pretty clear what we had on our hands.
 
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