No. I know coaches who I think could be good for us, like Chadwell. But that is ultimately irrelevant here. I think you all bemoan the death of college football when you're the willing target audience for its nationally broadcast slow-slaughter. You're still trying to get back into the big boys club and you'd hoped Gofef could talk our way in, which didn't work. Now you think that if we're hanging on the arm of a guy like Deion Sanders, we can sneak in. If you've already given up on football and just want a spectacle during our sad descent, just say so and stop pretending this some obvious slam dunk.
You spend years whining about all the ways Tech has been lagging behind or poorly imitating the real players in college football. Then the moment arises where you not only have the opportunity to hire a new coach and athletic director, but apparently the president is also inclined to drop a couple stacks in the bucket as we endeavor to engineer the biggest goddamn slingshot in the history of giants or underdogs. And you are all ööööing beside yourselves to get the Prime Time meme signed as head coach before anyone else can.
Why? If you're going to take a chance on anyone, take a chance on the guy who can at least make you feel excited for a season or two? Maybe he actually is a tremendous coach and is the guy who can make Tech a successful program - I would love to understand what has given you guys so much confidence that this is so. If there is good reason to get behind Sanders as the guy, then I am in. But right now all I see is the same bullshit I've seen during every coaching search since 2001 where there's that one big and familiar name which makes for easy fantasizing, easy memes, and mindless hype.
Party after we stop sucking. öööö.
FFS moron, there are 25 pages littered with reasons why this is a no brainer despite being a huge risk. It might sound like an oxymoron, but you really can have a no brainer decision that is a huge risk.
The number one problem facing GT right now is not W/L. Nor money nor shifting landscapes nor UGA signalling the coming of Hell on Earth. The number one problem facing GT right now is apathy. When you have the hardcore fans on here, who drive hundreds of miles for decades to use their season tickets not only not driving up but not even bothering to turn on the game on TV... When you have lots and lots of decades long season ticket holder streaks ending.... When the stadium had more fans at the peak pandemic than now... It is time to panic. That is what got us to eat bigtime money for us and fire his ass in week 5 and what got the AD fired as well. They have to get the fans back. Firing everyone definitely stopped the bleeding. Angel coming out and reassuring us that if it is possible to make us relevant he is going to get it done is a huge step at reversing the apathy.
But in the end, Deion addresses the apathy like nobody else. They like to keep this öööö private, but in our case the GT fans need to be able to hear Deion turn us down if he turns us down. It might seem stupid considering it would be an L, but from a "do we believe angel" that move is a big fat datapoint that maybe he is not snowing us.
Who a team hires tells you who they are. A team like Alabama or Texas or OSU simply goes out and writes an insanely large check to steal a big name successful coach from someone else. FFS
Arkansas did that. If we were that team we would hire the guy at Kansas. He would excite the fanbase. Nobody says his name with GT because we are not that team.
The closest we can get to that team is hiring the hot proven guy from the G5. That is Coastal Carolina. It was Bill Lewis. It was CGC if you were blind and dumb. It is Monken at Army.
The tier below that is hire the hottest assistant. Other than Deion or Chadwell, that is who we are. That is not going to address the apathy. People who dropped season tickets this year are going to take a wait and see approach if we hire Monken from Georgia or the OC from FSU or whatever. You let them do that and I bet 90% of them don't ever come back as STHers. But after Deion and Chadwell those are the names being thrown about.
There is the wildcard of taking a guy on the sale rack (i.e. a guy with a scandal) like Freeze. IMHO, offer Deion. If he says no offer Chadwell. If he says no then we need to call the other retreads and the guys with black eyes like Freeze.
