Another one bites the dust Tuesday, 12/11/2007
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Wow, it looks like the shakeup in college football coaching jobs isn’t limited to college football.
How crazy is that? I mean, I know the Falcons are stinkin’ it up this year, but I thought he’d at least last another season. This one went down the crapper right from the beginning, which wasn’t his fault at all. The interesting thing is that the resignation is effective pretty much immediately. He’s not going to finish out the rest of the season.
Oh well, we’ll see what happens.
Jackets snag Navy skipper Sunday, 12/09/2007
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That was the headline of the AJC, that I thought was pretty clever. So, Paul Johnson is to be our new head coach. There’s an interesting article online, from the AJC, about the timeline between Gailey’s dismissal and Johnson’s announced hire.
So far, I think it’ll be a good thing. He’s got a pretty impressive record, and he comes from a college where academics are as (if not more) important (and difficult) as they are at Tech. Time will tell. We’re about to enter some “rebuilding years”, but I hope it doesn’t take too long to “right the ship” (to use another nautical aphorism). I think Gailey never really understood how to coach a college team. I think his skill is with the pros, and it just doesn’t translate well (look at Spurrier for the opposite effect). Anyways, that’s all I have for now.
BCS doesn’t work Tuesday, 12/04/2007
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Look, I’m a die-hard, dyed in the wool, Georgia Tech fan (and I even graduated from the place). Still, I think UGA got an unfair shake in the BCS. Basically, the same rule that’s putting Ohio State into the championship game is keeping UGA out. Now, I haven’t fully decided if UGA should be playing for the title, but how is it that one team doesn’t play for almost three weeks, and jumps up two positions, when another team doesn’t play one week and drops a position. That is, when the two teams above them both lost in the same week. In a purely theoretical sense, the way the BCS decides position should work. However, realistically, it just doesn’t. Either every conference in the BCS should have to have a conference championship game, or none of them should count towards BCS rankings. I know a lot of people out there will say that UGA should have won the SEC championship to go to the big show, but I say that Ohio State should have had to play in a conference championship game to go as well. Honestly, I’m of the opinion that post season games (ex: conference championships) shouldn’t be considered for the BCS rankings, since all conferences don’t have them.
Now, the real issue is that there should be a bracket playoff system in place. If that were the situation, it wouldn’t matter to me if conference championships were considered. In that case, those teams possibly penalized by that unwritten rule would still probably be in the top N teams, and would have a shot. I know they do a bracket in high school, and pro football is a lot more controlled (division, conference champions). So, why not in college? Too, other college sports are that way, like basketball. I know that life isn’t always fair, but it’d be nice if TPTB would at least look for a more fair system.
Anyways, until next time…
The other shoe has fallen Monday, 11/26/2007
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Well, those of us in the Yellow Jacket nation have seen this coming for some time. Apparently Gailey is out, Tenuta is the interim, and there’ll be a search started next month for the “right person” as AD Radakovich states.
Here are a few of the related stories:
And, apparently, our old defensive coordinator didn’t do too well with the Blue Devils:
I have to admit, I’m a bit torn. I think Gailey wasn’t the right coach for Tech and he made some crucial mistakes (at least as far as this armchair quarterback is concerned), but I think he’s a good guy. From all I’ve heard, the players loved him even to the point of defending him from time to time. I was even impressed when I saw him at church, although I haven’t seen him there at all this season. At least, it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
