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lets say that we go 6-6 this season and next season we win less than 8 games, would you vote to keep chan or can chan. i would vote to can.
 
Keep him. Give him a chance to recruit and show what he can do with his players. I'm not a big fan of the SEC mentality of giving a coach 1-2 years to prove himself with the previous coach's players.
 
I think alot of it has to do with where I feel the program is headed... sometimes that cant be measured in Wons and Losses... GOL went 6-5 his first full season, followed by a 5-6 finish the next.. although I certainly didnt like the 5 win finish... I felt good about where the program seemed to be headed... the following year we went 7-5... with another 3rd place finish in the ACC.. followed by 10 in 1998... I think it took that for him to get HIS players in HIS system..

I think we have to give Gailey a chance... now if we dip to a 3 win season next year... start soliciting resumes...
 
I would never have hired him in the first place.
I thought we could win in spite of him for a while; but even that is looking suspect with unnecessary losses to klimpsum and wake and the meat of the schedule coming up.
Recruiting, so far, is looking rather dismal.
Sometimes you reap what you sow....hope there are plenty of loyal reapers out there.

Thought for the day:

Hiring a 'great' resume that can't coach is kind of like baking a 'great' recipe that just doesn't taste good....kind of ruins your supper or your program.
 
You guys are way to quick to judge a coach. 1st, with a new coach, you really shouldn't judge him by season #1, and almost should judge him by season #2. This season, he couldn't start his job until Janurary for reason I agree 100% with (you commit to something FINSH IT). That cost us some recruits. We have almost entirely new coaching staff and it take time to gel.

Let a new coach get through the 1st year, and judge him lightly his 2nd year. If by year 3 he isn't where he should be, then think about getting a new coach; till then, be PATIENT!
 
If we lose tonight just leave him in College Park and tell him to find his own way home. If we have to keep him because we cannot buy him out let's enroll him some coaching workshops.
 
This talk of canning or keeping Chan is way too premature. He's only half-way through his first year. This team is racked with injuries and trying to break in a new coaching staff. You expect miracles? Hollings is a Bo Jackson/Herschel Walker kind of runner that could have carried this team on his back if he weren't injured. Gathers was our pass rush guy and a damn good one at that. Even Manget has been hurt. Some of your people are too quick to jump on Chan's back. 4-2 aint bad considering what we've been through. I know we haven't beaten a good team yet, but with all the injuries, we've hung tough in every game.

Let's not forget that our defense is playing better and tougher this year than last. I think Chan deserves credit for that.

He's in a tough place with the QB situation he inherited. Bilbo is athletic but doesn't know the playbook and would probably be a work in progress for the rest of the year. Suggs hasn't produced during crunch time and is hampered by the fact that our best running back is out. No matter who we put in at QB, we're likely to have a tough time scoring this year. I think it's a no win situation right now.

Ask yourselves this. If Hollings and Gathers were still around and 100%, what would our record be? I think it'd be 6-0. Gathers was not himself in the first 3 games and we didn't know it until it was too late.

Finally, ask yourselves this....What did Gailey inherit? He inherited a 8-5 football team that went 4-4 in the ACC last year. He didn't inherit a conference champion. He didn't inherit a national champion.

Now, I'm not happy with all of their decision to this point. I wish they'd ran TH more earlier in the Clemson game. I wish they'd kept Bilbo in late in the Wake game. I wish they'd not played Gathers while he was so sick. He hasn't been perfect. But overall, I'm not worried about Gailey. I'm worried about this beat up, black and blue football team trying to get through the rest of the schedule.

After the season, we can talk about Gailey and his accomplishments or lack thereof. Right now, it's just too early.
 
bugboy, Appreciate your post. Well said!

Go Jackets! Beat those Turtles!!
 
Yellowjacket, I like your sense of humor.

By the way, I would vote not to retain him if he does not make some coaching changes after the Maryland game.

 
You cant compare O'Leary's early teams with this team. You can compare it with B*** L****'s teams. Bottom line...the team is not improving. This belongs on the coaches. We need a change somewhere. We have been a program on the fringe for two years now. We cant afford to post 6-5 seasons.
 
Way too early to even bring it up.
He deserves a reasonable amount of time (see: Beamer).

Do you can Chan guys also suffer from premature extrapolation? ;>)
 
Originally posted by beeware:
I would never have hired him in the first place.
I thought we could win in spite of him for a while; but even that is looking suspect with unnecessary losses to klimpsum and wake and the meat of the schedule coming up.
Recruiting, so far, is looking rather dismal.
Sometimes you reap what you sow....hope there are plenty of loyal reapers out there.

Thought for the day:

Hiring a 'great' resume that can't coach is kind of like baking a 'great' recipe that just doesn't taste good....kind of ruins your supper or your program.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif">i'm just glad that beeware is not our athletic director. phew

he would not have hired him in the first place. that's funny. beeware .. you're losing your edge buddy. and if you're a georgia tech fan .. then you're losing your sting.

'great' thought of the day:

having a 'great' fan who keeps hanging on to the past and cannot and will not try and accept the present while trying to be positive about the future is like having a 'great' helping of ice cream which only leaves you a 'great' tummy ache, which by the way i also get laughing out when i read the 'great' beeware's posts
 
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