THE OFFICIAL Firing, House Cleaning, Night of Long Knives, Celebration, Disappointment Thread.

Just heard Thacker is staying... complete BS
Thacker has supposedly been demoted to LB coach. Additionally (and RUMOR only) the LB coach in Athens is being considered as Tech's new DC. He is supposedly really liked in Athens and a very good coach, whose name is often brought up as the mutt DC IF and WHEN the current DC leaves. Again, this is only RUMOR, but from a source who is seldom wrong, for what that might be worth.
 
I haven't looked into how his buyout is structured but we might not have to pay Mullen that much while he's collecting from UF since I'm assuming what he'd make here offsets that same amount in the buyout. Could possibly get away with signing him on for what Patenaude was making.
I haven't looked into this in several years, but the last time I looked into it, I think those kinds of 'offsetting' contractual provisions are becoming rarer and rarer. As coaches get richer and have more bargaining power, the dollars are more likely to be guaranteed. Meaning, in most cases, I think coaches are going to get paid the full buyout from the old school, regardless of their future employment.

(This is a comment about high profile P5 head coaches like Mullen, not for lower tier or asst coaches.)
 
Can confirm. JJacket and his luscious mane were there above the N in Johnson. A small smidgen of gold in what was an otherwise red sea.
It was more humiliating having the Gaggers pity me or basically just think of us as a pimple on the ass of their schedule than it was to have them just outright hate me. There wasn't even any taunting. No fighting. Nothing. They really didn't care.

It got to the point where, like I have done in the past back when we would blow out an FCS team, where even the gaggers were questioning our play calls, especially our wide open WR on one of our plays in the second half heading north. Likely a TD. I just made the comment that our QB is short and probably just didn't see it.
 
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Someone has already hacked Wikipedia and has Mullen as our new OC. Lol!!
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I also hope that Collins is forced to get rid of the extra stuff like ATL charts and money down. He needs to come up with a two deep chart and stop worrying about the fee fees of a bunch of college players who grew up in two deep charts, not some
stupid participation trophy system.
 
Some here seem to be under the mistaken impression that this is to appease the fan base. It’s not. It’s about trying to produce a winning team. The people making these decisions are absolutely positive they know more about what needs to be done the the fans and to that end don’t give a $&@! what the fans think. Burton and Pop were obvious. The secondary was atrocious. Difficult to evaluate the front 6 when you can hit a wide open receiver on 3rd and 8. I thought Thacker did a good job with the LBs but allowing the secondary to go downhill while he was DC is on him too. If he doesn’t get fired outright, maybe he’ll stay as LB coach and pick up STeams. If that happens, either we’ll hire a new DC or Collins will do it himself. On offense, we got better but pretty standard for a very young team getting another year of experience. Nothing too good or bad. Lots of injuries and not enough depth yet. Really don’t know what’s going to happen on that side but Ok with whatever they decide. You can count on the fact Colins isn’t going anywhere for at least another year. If so, he would have been first to go and the new HC would have a say in which assistants got booted.
Bottom line 9 wins in 3 years....they do not have a clue.
 
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