T-Stan

Why can't Tech just hire someone who knows wtf they are doing? They need to rummage harder in the bargain bin because there has to be someone that has been overlooked or deserves a 2nd chance at redemption in there. Stop hiring "Tech men!"
 
I would like to see TStan commit to hiring a black woman.

I jest! But I do think hiring a ‘Tech man’ at AD is marginally more important than hiring one as a coach. At AD “the best man for the job” means someone who can fundraise and I would think being an alum FB player would help there. It also means he’s probably less likely to pull a DRad and leave for richer pastures. I thought Curry would’ve been a good hire, and I was optimistic about TStan, though obviously the latter is looking pretty sketchy.

I think it is probably pretty hard to predict how good an AD is at hiring coaches. It is a major crapshoot for anybody anytime. And he has had some success at that… Nell has obviously been a major win. How different is *hiring* a WBB coach from a MBB or FB coach?
 
18in32 said:
I would like to see TStan commit to hiring a black woman.

I jest! But I do think hiring a ‘Tech man’ at AD is marginally more important than hiring one as a coach. At AD “the best man for the job” means someone who can fundraise and I would think being an alum FB player would help there. It also means he’s probably less likely to pull a DRad and leave for richer pastures. I thought Curry would’ve been a good hire, and I was optimistic about TStan, though obviously the latter is looking pretty sketchy.

I think it is probably pretty hard to predict how good an AD is at hiring coaches. It is a major crapshoot for anybody anytime. And he has had some success at that… Nell has obviously been a major win. How different is *hiring* a WBB coach from a MBB or FB coach?
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I'll take a hire that succeeds and eventually moves on to greener pastures over a Tech man who gives an unproven coach a seven year contract with a guaranteed payment of millions if he ends up running the program into the ground.
 
I wonder what Stansberry's memorial statue at ETSU looks like?
that's where he finally left after their football program was shut down.
 
My only concern is the lack of money and making a budget hire in both the AD and the Collins replacement. We're at a state that these need to be home run hires and I question if we have the resources available to do it.
 
18in32 said:
I would like to see TStan commit to hiring a black woman.

I jest! But I do think hiring a ‘Tech man’ at AD is marginally more important than hiring one as a coach. At AD “the best man for the job” means someone who can fundraise and I would think being an alum FB player would help there. It also means he’s probably less likely to pull a DRad and leave for richer pastures. I thought Curry would’ve been a good hire, and I was optimistic about TStan, though obviously the latter is looking pretty sketchy.

I think it is probably pretty hard to predict how good an AD is at hiring coaches. It is a major crapshoot for anybody anytime. And he has had some success at that… Nell has obviously been a major win. How different is *hiring* a WBB coach from a MBB or FB coach?
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Tech needs a ruthless and efficient business operator & people developer in the building. It's far, far easier to delegate or outsource fundraising efforts as AD particularly when you've got an org that supports its sports to their fullest potential.
 
ricejacket said:
My only concern is the lack of money and making a budget hire in both the AD and the Collins replacement. We're at a state that these need to be home run hires and I question if we have the resources available to do it.
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I'm much more concerned with who would be doing the hires. Sadly, I have little faith that the search committee/GT Prez will be able to make the quality hire needed for AD (and in turn a new football coach). The GTAA outside of a few years of DRad has been so poorly run and a wasteland. It is a minor miracle that it has had an success at all since the Homer Rice days (and of course, his terrible hire looks much better in comparison to what is going on now).
 
BuzzLaw said:
It really does boggle the mind that we hired someone to manage a multimillion dollar athletic department and he can’t even balance his own check book.
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Seems really strange in a world where some companies will do a credit check on someone before hiring them for jobs that don't even require budgeting skills.
 
We’re not even 365 days from an ACC title, we lost Alvarado and Moses who provided height and penetration which are two things we don’t currently have, and y’all are asking for CJP’s head and TStan’s head because because CJP and Collins are still not fired. Stay off the bottle for the rest of February, y’all sound more retarded than usual.
 
Liberty said:
If Stansbury is still here at summer break we’re screwed for an additional year in football
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Presumably the GT Prez makes this call (w/input from the so-called money guys)? He doesn't strike me as particularly interested in athletics. TDope is bad, but I have little faith in the committee that brought us him making a quality new hire.
 
Liberty said:
If Stansbury is still here at summer break we’re screwed for an additional year in football. The new guys needs to be in place and lining up HC candidates early in the season so we’re ready to roll 11/27.
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I’ve accepted the fact that everyone will still be here when the season starts. I’m trying to be optimistic, but I’ve obviously failed the past two days. Time for me to shut off my football posting again.
 
BuzzLaw said:
I’ve accepted the fact that everyone will still be here when the season starts. I’m trying to be optimistic, but I’ve obviously failed the past two days. Time for me to shut off my football posting again.
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Both will be here at the beginning of the season but if we start 2-4 or 1-5 I'd like to think that things will be put into motion during the off week after Duke
 
I've said it before, but Todd will NOT get to hire the next football coach. (Which I think will be happening in December.)
 
eneq said:
Maybe I’m biased cause I’m not a “Tech man”, but T-Stan has really seemed to öööö the bed recently. I supported him originally because he seemed to understand the unique requirements of Tech’s athletic department, and a lot of the alums were very happy with his’ hiring. However, the past few months have showed he’s way over his head, and he was probably hired because of his GT-past. The idea of hiring a “Tech Man” needs to go away, and the next AD and coach should be the most qualified candidates, not the candidate with the strongest ties to GT.
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As a Tech Man, I could not agree more. If Tech Man was the standard, we would have missed the greatest AD of my life - Homer Rice. God how I wish we would find another Homer Rice!
 
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