Performance Review - Sewak

Do you terminate Sewak's employment?

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Do you fire Sewak or keep him for next season?
 
I can't tell if he's a bad coach or a scape goat. So I abstain.
 
He needs to go simply for the fact that we haven’t had a single season of decent pass blocking since he’s been here.
 
Too many sacks allowed, saw too many missed blocks and too many "that's not my guy" type scenarios where it's clear the kids aren't learning the game well enough to make play action adjustments.
 
I'm probably wrong, but I don't think he coaches up his players. I thought hiring Ron West would be helpful. I believe Sewak coaches the centers and guards and West coaches the tackles.....weird system. West didn't have much to work with this year. West may be the better recruiter of the two. If Sewak goes, I think you have to let West go too. CPJ has a tough decision to make, continue with our woeful offensive line performance or let two experienced coaches go and try to bring in a better coach. On the other side of the line, what about Pelton. His defensive line hasn't been much to speak of.
 
Fire him. This ankle-diving, fish-flopping, chop-blocking bullshit needs to stop.

Plus if we fire him, we'd get to see those long-lost pictures of CPJ ööööing a goat, since the possession of these is clearly the only reason Sewak still has a job.
 
I don't know how you judge the OL this year. Even if they blocked perfectly, the misreads would have made them look bad. Same thing with pass protection, this year how would you know? Why focus solely on Sewak, we hired him a sidekick a couple of years ago to help him coach things (I got blasted on here for being pessimistic about that hire on here by the way).
 
He has been with CPJ a long time. If you trust Paul’s judgment, he should have known a long time ago whether or not Sewak is the right guy to coach the line.
 
I have been wanting him gone for years but if he hasn’t earned his walking papers by now he will never be fired.
 
Sewak is Johnson's gay walking around campus everyday buddy. No chance Paul fires him.
 
I’ve not been on the Fire Sewak train (never gonna happen anyhow) but all those OL missing assignments in the Duke game has to fall squarely on his shoulders.

OTOH,I think pass pro has been pretty good this year. TQM’s gotta learn that an incomplete pass is better than running out of bounds for a four yard loss.

As infatuated with TQM as we all were after Labor Day, he struggled for much of the year. Dude’s good at running the ball. Other than that...
 
18in32 said:
I’ve not been on the Fire Sewak train (never gonna happen anyhow) but all those OL missing assignments in the Duke game has to fall squarely on his shoulders.

OTOH,I think pass pro has been pretty good this year. TQM’s gotta learn that an incomplete pass is better than running out of bounds for a four yard loss.

As infatuated with TQM as we all were after Labor Day, he struggled for much of the year. Dude’s good at running the ball. Other than that...
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But I believe he is being asked to make passes that he is not capable of making. If the passes he throws, all starting from under center, are not completed then someone in power (hmmmm?) can then say, “see, we tried passing more and it does not work”.
 
I believe that CPJ has a very good understanding of all the problems and, critically, has a clear picture of where in the priority stack each problem sits. I suspect that if CPJ thinks Sewak is a problem, he has also decided that Sewak is not a priority problem. Thus, CPJ expends his efforts on trying to address higher priority problems, many of which may be off-the-field issues.

I think the question is if you think Sewak is a problem, then is he enough of a problem that it is worth the considerable amount of time and effort required to replace him? CPJ would have to hire a replacement coach and then spend a lot of time with that coach making sure that the new coach understood everything he needed to know and that the new coach, CPJ, and the other OL coach were all on the same page. With the right replacement coach, assuming such a coach is available and would come to GT, it might not be so bad, though there would still be a transition and learning period.
 
bravejason said:
I think the question is if you think Sewak is a problem, then is he enough of a problem that it is worth the considerable amount of time and effort required to replace him? CPJ would have to hire a replacement coach and then spend a lot of time with that coach making sure that the new coach understood everything he needed to know and that the new coach, CPJ, and the other OL coach were all on the same page. With the right replacement coach, assuming such a coach is available and would come to GT, it might not be so bad, though there would still be a transition and learning period.
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That's a crazy way to look at it. I'm not sure how many discrete 'problems' you think the football program *might* have... but many of the possibilities are things — like GT's academic profile — that CPJ has very little affect on. The things he has the most obvious and direct control over are his coaching staff. Seriously, aside from play calling itself there's no one thing CPJ does that has a more significant impact on W/L's than hiring and managing the right assistant coaches.

So if Sewak is a problem, and if we have so many other problems that CPJ doesn't have time to fix that problem, then CPJ should definitely be fired. You can't keep your job as CEO if after a decade of your leadership there are so many serious problems that fixing an identified one simply isn't worth your time. That's pretty good evidence that you aren't up to the job.
 
The only reasonable excuse for Sewak still having a job is that he's CPJ's friend. There is no other way to explain him still being employed by Tech.

And if CPJ can't look past his friendships at on-the-field results, his own job will be on the line as a result.
 
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