The entire east side of the stadium was a total mess. In the past, they have had separate lines for season ticket holders, but I guess with the new tickets-on-your-phone method, there is no way to determine season ticket holders. Although, to be fair, there was really no way with the paper tickets either, but they at least had separate lines. So honesty was, I guess, the key
Please provide a list of coaches who showed interest in the GT job in the months following Johnson's resignation.
Don’t discount Easterby and the stupidity of Cal McNair
I hear ya, but most schools don’t have to start from scratch like we did. It’s one of the reasons Collins got 7 years.
No, no... We didn't start from scratch. This is a bad talking point that hides the truth. We were thin on the line, but we didn't start a new football program.
Ok, so you're cherry picking numbers. The 19 class was a disaster for OL, but that wasn't Collins class. Hard to show up in December and materially effect a class. He did add some decent pieces late, but no big uglies.
Pretty sure there was one for the gate on North Ave. I may be wrong, but I do know there was one "special" line for something.
Collins negotiated? my guess is he had someone that could put a few sentences together that made sense - and they negotiated for him. If his negotiation skills are anything like his pressers - he would have been paying GT for the privilege to be the HC at the Institute.I found this from the AJC:
That's $23.1 million total.
Geoff Collins’ contract averages $3.3 million annually
Georgia Tech coach Geoff Collins’ seven-year contract averages $3.3 million and begins at $3 million for the 2019 season, about $152,000 less than former coach Paul Johnson was scheduled to make in this coming season. Collins’ pay will increase by $100,000 over the life of his seven-year...www.ajc.com
I think 2018 was the last extension CPJ had which made the contract through 2022. 5 years, at about $3 million, that's a $15 million contract.
Paul Johnson’s contract extension finalized
The contract extension for Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson has been completed, Tech announced Friday afternoon. Athletic director Todd Stansbury and Johnson’s Atlanta-based agent Jack Reale had been working on the extension since the 2017 season and reached an agreement in principle in January.www.ajc.com
Before that, he had a 6 year contract after 2014, so let's just say approximately $18 million total.
I think we overcommitted to Collins considering he didn't even have any proven success at Tech unlike CPJ after 2014. Many criticized this at the time. I think it was a fair cliticization. Obviously, Collins negotiated well, it is what it is...
Wouldn't we all love to do that.
I am in the upper east (225), and at my age (LOL), it's easier to go up the ramp at the North Ave gate than climb those stairs at the other end. I definitely relate to the squint and sunburn.
Hardly any at all left in the upper now too. The upper (as well as all over the stadium) took a big hit the year DRad started the ticket fee, and it's gone steadily downhill ever since.
His mistake. I would have scoured everywhere for 5 OL. JC, transfers, HS, poached programs that fired coaches, brought some from Temple, or anywhere else.
To be clear, we were effectively starting from scratch on the oline because of the poor recruiting year in ‘19 and different types of athletes needed for the new scheme.