Great read and 100% spot on IMHO!
Entering 2022, I have one piece of wisdom for Todd Stansbury and Geoff Collins:
You can’t get to where you want to go without being honest about where you are.
Overpromising and underdelivering has raised the ire of the fanbase
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Robert Binion@robert_binion Dec 17, 2021, 10:00am EST
Geoff Collins on August 6th:
Hm. Then why did he say that exact same thing December 15th? What exactly does it mean that the coach said the same thing about changing his focus from culture and branding to football before the season started and after it came to its desultory ending?
Here are the season-sending PFF Grades for the 9 guys who played significant snaps on the offensive line this season: 63.7, 55.9, 37.6, 56.2, 61.4, 64.3, 46.0, 68.0, and 55.9. Either the recruiting, the development, or both are simply not in a really good spot.
This player made 6 tackles all year, none for a loss.
Geoff Collins on August 16th
These two players ended the year with 55.3 and 62.3 season-long PFF grades.
All season, we heard about how many communication and trust issues there were on the backend. Putting the cherry on top: Georgia Tech ended the season ranked 130th in EPA/pass allowed and Opponent Pass Efficiency Rating.
See above.
In the first two years of the Collins era, the defense finished 71st and 58th in SP+. In 2021, that sunk all the way to 102nd. They weren’t elite before, and they certainly weren’t better this year.
Geoff Collins on August 24th
He finished the year 0/4 from 40+ yards, topping out with a 37 yard make.
Geoff Collins on August 31st
He had 6 tackles all year, none for a loss.
Those “really successful Temple offenses” finished 90th and 76th in Offensive SP+ in 2017 and 2018.
Geoff Collins on September 4th
Geoff Collins on November 9th
Todd Stansbury on November 29th
Apparently, Collins and Stansbury got a hold of a week by week look at GT’s ranking in the Binion Index and thought higher was better. That’s the only way you could convince yourself that progress was happening over the course of the season.
Geoff Collins on November 6th
This was his explanation following a game in which Miami had a 21% success rate advantage.
Geoff Collins on November 13th
Boston College’s early downs success rate was equal to its third down success rate. Phil Jurkovec averaged more than 1.0 EPA/dropback on 23 dropbacks.
Todd Stansbury on November 29th
Technically, that was true at the time. But citing it as a reason for keeping the coach for another season then requires revisiting if it is no longer true. Where do things sit as of today? GT ranks 41st, and that still includes the current top commit Janiran Bonner, who surprisingly didn’t sign on Wednesday and now almost certainly will sign elsewhere. GT will fall to about 50th without him.
Geoff Collins on December 15th
He’s a 3 Star and is the 422nd ranked player in the country. That’s a fine player, but it’s not one of the highest recruited guys in the country.
Something has gone very wrong then, as these three years at GT have produced defensive SP+ ranks of 72nd, 58th, and 102nd.
Collins took over a team that had been the 28th ranked team in SP+ in 2016. Temple proceeded to finish 71st and 60th in his two years at the helm.
I’m mad. A whole lot of other GT fans - from the most influential boosters to the most invisible sidewalk fans - are mad, too. And the more I think about it, the more the anger has risen proportionally to the level of overpromising that has come from the mouths of the Head Coach and the Athletic Director.
Link
Overpromising and underdelivering has raised the ire of the fanbase
www.fromtherumbleseat.com
