Initial reactions to Paul Hewitt firing...
by BirdGT on Mar 12, 2011 1:38 PM EST
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PrintEnough with the past. Let's talk about the future. Who are our prospects? Are there any guys in our gun sights? What kind of money do we have after paying for Hewitt's
I'd like to see us go after a young coach that has shown success as a tactician not necessarily a recruiter. I feel like Georgia Tech's location would allow a good coach to recruit (top 10 NBA pipeline). And a young coach wouldn't require a huge chunk of change to pick from a Midmajor. I think the best advice I have for our fan base is to not get too enamored with our new coach at first. This may be blaspemous to say...but I feel like CPH and CPJ used great seasons as collateral to get bigger contracts despite the fact that no one was really knocking on the door to pull them from Georgia Tech. Mob rule gave them both insane raises not logic or forethought.
Let's see if we can make it through March Madness before we rush to pick out a coach. I think we're gonna see a lot of Midmajor noise with a relatively weak Big 6 field. Perhaps there will be some low hanging fruit to pluck from the Midmajor tree. Any thoughts out there on future coaching prospects?
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Tommy Amaker anyone?
Dook Blue Blood. All Everything ACC, All America, 45 years old, winning record, took over Michigan post probation and won NIT, 4 years Seton Hall/4 years post season. MBA, can recruit, understands Student Athlete (Dook and Hahvahd).
Yellow Tie and Blue Suit and I’m thinking Bobby Cremins redux.
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Mar 12, 2011 3:52 PM EST reply actions
Except he has no post season success
He did an admirable job at MI following sanctions but could never get the team over the hump and into the NCAA tournament. I just don’t see him as that big of an upgrade. I’d much rather take a risk with another coach without the track record of mediocrity in the Big 10.
by iamafirehazard on Mar 12, 2011 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
Not a bad choice.
I wish this would have happened a year or two earlier because Steve Lavin would have been a great choice.
by PhenomenalSwag on Mar 12, 2011 4:40 PM EST up reply actions
Didn't Johnson
go down to Auburn for an interview?
His contract isn’t open-ended, either.
This
Plus, it’s not like he is making heads-and-shoulders above other coaches in the conference, nor the country for that matter. I wouldn’t put CPJ’s contract in the same light as CPH’s contract. At this point, it’s really premature to say anything of at all.
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.
Never happened
Auburn was supposedly interested in PJ after the ‘08 season but it never got anywhere past some early talks. He wasn’t interested in the job.
Because my years of marching band have made me an authority on football.
Mark Price and John Salley as Co-Coaches....
Okay, that was a joke. The rest are mostly pipe dreams:
Dino Gaudio – currently unemployed
Mark Few – Gonzaga, probably too big a buyout
Brad Stevens – Butler, just extended his contract after last season
Bobby Cremins…..
Mike Davis – UAB, also did a great job at Indiana
Jeff Capel – former ACC player, great coach
I think this decision was much more unanimous
across the fan base than the Chan Gailey firing. Chan was the opposite of Hewitt. Top 25% of ACC football in production, bottom 25% in talent production. Hewitt was bottom 25% in ACC hoops wins but top 25% in talent production.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
Uhhh, maybe I'm just a youngin', but I have to disagree.
Completely. Sounded a lot to me like Gailey brought in a TON of now-NFL talent in his tenure at Tech. The whole time this Hewitt mess has been going on, Gailey was the guy I compared him to — can recruit like nobody’s business, and then come game time more or less says “run along now!” and is of minimal assistance from the sideline. Maybe I’m wrong, but all I ever really knew of Gailey was a guy who could bring in players and send them to the NFL, but could hardly win more than 8 games in a season to save his life.
Gailey's recruiting rep is based off of Calvin Johnson and the Derrick Morgan class.
If you go back and look at Rivals rankings, on the whole he was not an especially effective recruiter.
I am proud to be a Kennesaw State Fighting Owl. -- Vince Dooley
GT Fball under Gailey
Gailey was a top 50 talent producer with top 25 results. Hewitt was a top 10 talent producer with top 30 results. Hewitt’s situation was more favorable but his expectations ultimately killed him, I think.
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
As noted, he didn't bring all that many future NFL players to Tech
Curry had a lot of players go to the pros, too.
Gailey was a winner. He wasn’t a big, championship winner. Even late in his time at Tech he won the ACC West and made the championship game.
He wasn’t beating Georgia, but there were some bad luck and bad calls in there.
He won. He took the team to a bowl game every year. He was more successful than any coach since Dodd.
I wasn’t in favor of firing Gailey. Things have turned out well, and I’m glad Johnson is our coach now, but I didn’t think Gailey was doing a bad job.
so
what’s the final tab? (buy out?)
by twojackets on Mar 12, 2011 9:01 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I suppose
this means I’ll be getting more solicitation phone calls from the GTAA. On second thought, now might be a good time to buy BB season tix again. …..Love them contribution points!
by twojackets on Mar 13, 2011 7:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Grant from Alabama
He should get a look as well as the others mentioned above. Maybe Fisher at SDSU? Coached the FAB5.
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.
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