Tech

By Navigator

January 19, 2007 06:55 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe that radakovich was applauding a coach that was trying to leave his job, but came back when no one would hire him. Do you think that would be the reception at LSU, Notre Dame, USC, OSU, Alabama, Forida. I hope you got the idea, but how can they do that. A coach that can’t beat the cross state rival (when they tried to give it away this year). He was afraid to pull Reggie, when he wasn’t afraid the pull his senior QB. That senior QB had just as good of record than Reggie. He was forced to give the offensive coordinator job (from Radakovich). He barely has a winning record at Tech. After I said all of this, I can’t believe he’s still there. Georgia had no problem getting rid of coach that average 8 1/2 wins during his five years. I think this time the losing starts at the top, as none of the management at Tech wants to show case the sports program at Tech (being above .500 is sufficient to keep you’re job). In all of this, no one is talking about Tenuta. I can’t believe he hasn’t left here, having saved most of those wins that Gailey has.

By reality check

January 19, 2007 07:14 PM | Link to this

As one of the founders of Fans of Chan let me be one of the first to say how happy I am Chan Gailey is staying. He is a fine man and the perfect coach for Tech.

By John Conklin

January 19, 2007 07:24 PM | Link to this

We need to ralley around this coach and team. We are in a new era (post-reggie) and will have a new offensive coordinator to boot.

By Alan

January 19, 2007 08:13 PM | Link to this

I just don’t get it. Our coach pursues two NFL coaching opportunities, does not get either, and then is applauded because despite his obvious desire to leave, he is remaining as our head coach. A coach, by the way, who can’t beat Georgia, can crack the top 25, is delusional about his ability to direct the offense, can’t manage the clock, and plays a struggling QB when a very adequate backup is on the bench. A coach who can’t keep his key players academically eligible, and who himself sounds like a rube when interviewed on TV or the radio. I recognized that given the financial issues that GTAA has that eating Chan’s contact would be difficult. But this charade must stop. Applaud the guy. That’s just BS.

By BWH Dawg

January 19, 2007 08:22 PM | Link to this

What a pathetic, moribund program GT is. Your Head Coach tries to leave and cannot get hired away. Your Offensive Coordinator leaves in a lateral move to the University of Miami. You have lost 6 years in a row to your chief rival. Your new AD will most certainly head to LSU when he finishes his cup of coffee and the current AD, Skip Bertman, retires. Man, GT’s football program is the envy of the entire nation.

By Navigator

January 19, 2007 08:55 PM | Link to this

BWH Dawg, I hate to say it, but you’re absolutely right. Will somebody please shoot me!

By BWH Dawg

January 19, 2007 08:57 PM | Link to this

One thing’s for sure: My team sure isn’t the envy of the entire nation.

By TomJoad

January 19, 2007 08:58 PM | Link to this

This is a nightmare. Gailey’s staying and, moreover, he’ll probably be calling plays again. A nightmare.

By reality check

January 19, 2007 09:15 PM | Link to this

TomJoad, you must be clairvoyent. Right after you posted there was an article to the effect Chan is going back to calling the plays.

I must tell you, as a founder of Fans of Chan, that is almost as good as the announcement he is staying.

By TomJoad

January 19, 2007 09:41 PM | Link to this

Reality Check, you are either crazy or sarcastic. I think you’re being sarcastic. At least I hope so.

By rcheck is a dog

January 19, 2007 10:01 PM | Link to this

anybody care what a dog thinks? didn’t think so.

By BUZZ

January 19, 2007 10:04 PM | Link to this

Godsey for OC!

By reality check

January 19, 2007 10:14 PM | Link to this

Tomjoad, take a deep breath and calm down. Coach Gailey is the perfect fit for Tech. Under Gailey Tech has become the most consistent program in college football, and perfectly aligned with the objectives of Tech’s president and administration. Seven wins and an occasional nine or ten year season is their stated goal.

Get with the program or change your allegiance to someone with different objectives!

By Ralph

January 19, 2007 10:18 PM | Link to this

BWH,

You Muttlanders win a couple of of SEC Championships when the real powers in the league are having down years. Now you can’t beat UT or UF, but you come to the Tech blog to post. To me, that sounds like you are scared of Tech vice scared of UF or UT. They should be your object and focus, not us since they are the folks as you write, keeping you from reaching your goals.

You people never cease to amaze me.

By jabster

January 19, 2007 10:46 PM | Link to this

I hope Radar makes darn well sure we hire another OC. No more Chan calling plays. Period. Been there, done that.

By dadgum

January 19, 2007 11:03 PM | Link to this

Folks….let me tell you I would have FIRED GAILEY. That is a slap in the face and I have talked to other ACC alumni and let me say that their take is utter disbelief. Now that Nix is gone (and good luck) Gailey is on a short leash. GT has a black eye right now.. you can’t sugarcoat it. Gailey has to go on the offensive and mask the effect that his EXPERIMENT has brought to the Flats. Hey Rad…grow some balls and fire Gailey. Start your own legion ….now is the time!

By Navigator

January 19, 2007 11:14 PM | Link to this

Reality Check - You smell a lot like an admin clown. If your people had half a brain you would understand that you are not MIT, and never will be. Michigan, Texas, UVA, even UC Berely understand that a great football program brings the Institution huge amounts of publicity. Students understand what they see, a failing football program shows an administration that to fails the students. If you want mediocrity, then you’ll get it in ways that you can’t even imagine. Why even have a main campus, why not spread the school in different parts of the state. Georgia’s president Adams knows how much that publicity helps the school, not you near sighted wannabes of higher learning.

By mtraininjax

January 19, 2007 11:15 PM | Link to this

Settle down buzz fans. Tech does not have a black eye, Gailey was never leaving. So he used the NFL as leverage with Raddy. Dan and Chan can play this game all day/night long, I don’t care if Mr. Potato-head is our HC, I just want the knucklehead to win. Just win Baby!

Fire Gailey? Now, a few weeks before national signing day? Are there good coaches waiting at the Temp Office? Some of you people need to lay off the booze, you are acting like UGAg fans and its not pretty.

By ArkyTech

January 19, 2007 11:47 PM | Link to this

Coach Gailey interviewed for 2 NFL head coaching jobs and some of you “fans” act like he was trying to get another job in the ACC! Let’s say you interviewed for a more prestigious job with a)people you had previously worked for that would b)more than double your salary c)it was your first interview in your 5 years at that job and d)you were 55 and this was probably the last opportunity to go and build something new. If you didn’t get the job, would that mean you were working at a place where you had a “serious desire to leave”? Puh-lease.

It’s obvious those of you glass-is-half-full whiners out there already have a dislike for Coach Gailey. That’s fine, but stop being so dramatic with the circumstances. Do you really expect us to believe that you know more about coaching football than people that hire for the NFL?!

Look at is this way: No one from the NFL has contact the UGAgs about hiring their coach!

By kdc

January 19, 2007 11:52 PM | Link to this

Is Goose really available.

By Pitbull

January 19, 2007 11:58 PM | Link to this

Even though I am a UGA person, I was always under the impression that Tech people had pride, even if they did not have a good team. I just cannot believe that Tech allows its head football coach to go out and openly campaign for two head coaching positions while leaving Tech in limbo, and the Tech people applaud him when he returns as a rejected applicant by the other organizations. Now that is pathetic. At least you used to get some respect. What happened to you people?

By $$$

January 20, 2007 12:14 AM | Link to this

Stop your incessant whining about Chan Gailey. Feel good that your team’s football coach actually got a sniff from two NFL teams with great histories and your OC was hired away by a top tier program in Miami.

Navigator - “Do you think that would be the reception at LSU, Notre Dame, USC, OSU, Alabama, Forida.”

That statement proves how much of an idiot you are and please stop spreading your doom and gloom. If Charlie Weis, Pete Carroll, or Urban Meyer interviewed with an NFL team but were turned down and came “crawling” back to their universities you think their AD would give them the boot? Either you are naive or just plain dumb because everyone else on this blog knows that the fans of those schools including the AD would be applauding them at their press conference until their hands fell off.

Anyway, Chan is the man at Tech so stop your complaining. Get over it or just shut up already.

By $$$

January 20, 2007 12:16 AM | Link to this

Chan Gailey never actively campaigned for the job. Pittsburgh and Miami called him.

By surfrider

January 20, 2007 02:14 AM | Link to this

Hope Gailey appreciates Tech as the only place of substance that will hire him as Head Coach. But there is some good and bad with this. First the good Nix is gone. Yes he was better than Gailey but he was the QB coach and offensive coordinator and was guilty on playing Reggie for three years. The bad is this gives Gailey, a control nut, to take control over the play calling again. This time it may be different with Bennett and the others waiting at QB. That said coach has only 4 years left on his contract. He will not be extended and probably will take some pro job in the next few years if he shows improvement on the flats, which can happen with a new OC and new Qb’s. Gailey also needs to learn how to deal with success. It’s o.k. to win more than 7 a year. It’s o.k. to make big bucks. It’s o.k. to have a great recruiting year. Enjoy it Chan. This is the best part of your career.

By Mark

January 20, 2007 07:55 AM | Link to this

Tech is keeping the 3rd winningest coach in the last 60 years of it’s history. Congratulations guys!

By DanD.

January 20, 2007 08:05 AM | Link to this

Chan was a good hire and is probably the best coach Tech could have that will stay. He wins his 7 every year and has never had a losing record. I don’t think any other coach in recent or not so recent Tech history can say that. He might even beat UGA once every 10 years or so, which in reality is all any coach at Tech can hope for in the Richt era. Even George O’Leary saw that handwriting on the wall when Richt handed him his as^ 35-17 in their first meeting as HCs. Anyway, congratulations on keeping Coach Gailey.

By Dr. Ming

January 20, 2007 09:04 AM | Link to this

Wizened Georgia Tech faithful: When confronted by the agricultural college 45 minutes removed from civility, recall the words to the King who asked,”What would you say of the man who is liked by all of his fellow townsmen?” “That is not sufficient,” was the reply. “What is better is that the good among his fellow townsmen like him, and the bad hate him.”

By smitty

January 20, 2007 09:08 AM | Link to this

$$$….you’re the idiot……chan got courtesy interviews from two former teams where he had friends ( i bet $$$$$ HE asked them through back channels)…..and chan is no weis, carroll, or meyer………that’s ridiculous comment….and after reading all the pro chan comments, as someone earlier remarked, chan is the perfect coach for GT

By Get Your SEASON TICKETS...To HELL

January 20, 2007 09:36 AM | Link to this

OK all of you “Fans of Chan” and “Chan’s The Man” and Chan-Huggers across the Southeast — You get to KEEP your darling Coach, because NOBODY ELSE WANTS HIM…Even 2 clubs he formerly worked for! This HAS to be the biggest DISASTER for GT Football since the hiring of Bill Lewis. Don’t you KNOW why GAYly was CRYING? Because he had to come back HERE after he’d already burned his bridges and cut the ties — HE IS NOW A 4-YEAR LAME-DUCK COACH, in addition to being just his normal LAME coach.

Everyone now expects you Chan-Huggers to PONY UP and put your wallet where your mouth is and BUY THOSE SEASON TICKETS to Tech Football…You’re going to have your CHOICE of seats…If you think Tech has had a problem FILLING SEATS, you’re now going to have Grant Field ALL TO YOUR PATHETIC SELVES!

Acceptance of MEDIOCRITY fuels the engine of DECLINE…And the failure of the entire Tech Fan Base to DEMAND BETTER THAN THIS COACH will give you exactly what you desire — More of Chan GAYly:

More Academic Ineligibilities

More Punting Away ACC Championships with 2 MIN to play

More of the coach who brought you “The MOST Ineffective 4-Year Starter In College Football HISTORY”

More “you PUNT instead of a 54-yd FG” in Gator Bowl 1, to “trying an IMPOSSIBLE 54-yd FG with 5 MIN to play” on the same field with the same kicker and same field conditions a month later in Gator Bowl 2

More “I don’t make substitutions once I’ve made my mind up who my STARTER is going to be”

More of LOSING to UGAy, whose Fan Base and HEAD COACH are BIGGER FANS of Chan Gailey than most Tech Fans

More of a coach that nobody would hire, even though he treated everyone at TECH like he was already gone…Kind of makes you *CRY doesn’t it Chan?

More of a coach who couldn’t hold an 18-pt LEAD in the Gator Bowl

More of a coach who PUBLICLY BLAMED HIS PLAYERS for “not being ready to play” in the ACC Championship Game

More _____ (fill in the blank)

NOW IT’S STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN with this “we’re going to worry about recruiting FIRST and then who’s calling the plays”…WTF is that??!! Can’t he DELEGATE ANYTHING…Like reruiting those who’ve ALREADY committed? He should be ACTIVELY PLUGGING THE OC HOLE, given that it’s nearly February. Of course, that’s what you’re going to get FOR 4 MORE YEARS with coach GAYly…ENJOY, because it’s what YOU asked for!

I can’t BELIEVE when I read that TECH “Fans” are HAPPY with a coach that “wins 7 games a year”…You should go outside and shoot yourselves.

By GoldArchie

January 20, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this

Chan-haters remind of the American Idol contestants that are terrible at singing but then get mad when Simon is honest with them. I think its called dilusional. Chan is right for the job, he has won with a program that needed overhauling when he arrived. In his first year with all his recruits he won 9 games, not a common feat I remind you, he has put together a great staff and a top 10 recruiting class for the first time since God only knows when. He has brought in the classiest most talented player in Tech history, CJ, and he has the highest respect in all football corners of the world. Chan is the man! I am proud he’s our coach and I wish him the best. Go Jackets! Welcome back Chan, it is an honor for you to be flattered by the NFL but I am glad you are back, now let’s get to work!

By TomJoad

January 20, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

As “rcheck is a dog” pointed out, these folks are dog impostors. There are no Chan’s the Man clubs, or whatever. Naive me.

Oh, well, maybe we’ll go to the Dust Bowl this year.

By The Chan Fan Club

January 20, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

We will be holding the “Chan Didn’t Leave Celebration” at the IHOP on Lumpkin Ave in Athens this coming Saturday night from 8pm until whenever. The fact that the celebration is in Athens is totally by coincidence.

By jacketgold

January 20, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

Any sports fan that publicly supports a coach uho repeatedly loses 4-5 games a year and loses 6 straight to their main rival, IS A NATURAL BORN LOSER, A NERD AND AN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By ROAD SCHOLAR

January 20, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

Allright you whiners, when you want your next job, quit your present job before you interview so that you do not show disrespect and upset your present bosses. What a bunch of crap you d*******. All teams cannot go undefeated always; look at all the powerhouses. Having a winning (consistently above .500), entertaining, honest, and respected program is minimum criteria for success.Combined with respected and stellar academics, Tech is achieving the goal of what college sports are all about. And doing it without retread junior college athletes (rent a player) that get by on the skin of their teeth is even more appealing.

By gtne80

January 20, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

By the way, I believe that Wayne Huizenga interviewed Pete Carroll for the Miami HC job. I don’t hear any dissatisfaction from that camp.

The worst news from all of this is that Chan is now back to calling the offensive plays. Do we really have to repeat that disaster?

And, has anyone asked the obvious question of why Patrick Nix went to UM on a lateral move? Perhaps he was tired of Gailey portraying in public that Nix had the play-calling responsibilities while (behind the scenes) meddling and over-ruling his calls? Maybe just using Nix as a “fall guy”?

By Gailey ALWAYS has a "Fall Guy"

January 20, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

Fall Guy? What do you think Reggie Ball was for 4 straight years — Chan “the Man’s” Fall Kid. He would throw him out on the field, let him twist in the wind until even RB’s parents would wonder (repeatedly) “when, oh when, is he going to take the poor kid OUT?” Never…

Taylor Bennett won’t QB for Tech because he’s too productive for Gailey…Then Gailey’s management of the Offense would come into question, and he’s not going to allow that. He wants another 4-yr starter — exactly like RB — so he can sacrifice another kid to take the bullets for him. Watch and see…

WOW, Tech fans…A head coach to be proud of: He’s a “finalist” for the Miami job, and even loses that in the final minutes — Which is this coach’s M.O.: “Give me the slightest opportunity and I’ll lose in the final minutes!”

Personally, I think it’s all smoke and mirrors anyway. Nobody at either organization was even interested in him. How could he possibly be “the Front Runner for the Miami job” on Thursday…Then on Friday, they don’t even give him a courtesy call telling him they gave the job to someone else? Is that “respect”?

This is just Radakovich’s way of forcing Tech fans to be thankful for what they’ve got, because he can’t do anything about it. He comes into office and sees a 5-YEAR contract, and Radakovich couldn’t fire Gailey if he wanted to. I’ve got the e-mail from him that proves it. He’s just a Figurehead…A nameplate on the door of GT Athletics. POWERLESS & IMPOTENT. No wonder Nix wanted out of that MESS! Even taking a lateral move and moving away from his family and friends…THAT’s desperation!

This is a dark period for GT Football. After 4 more LOSSES to UGAy and after UGAy no longer even wants Tech as a token win on their schedule because it’s like beating up your little brother every day (sooner or later it’s not fun anymore), THEN see how much you Gailey fans like and respect your MORON of a coach!

Oh, and mention Pete Carroll as if he and Gailey are somehow equals…You have no CLUE! Gailey is a coach who shoots his own foot off after he reaches 7 wins because he magically forgets how to win. Under Carroll “USC’s teams were the AP’s NO. 1 team for 33 consecutive polls”…Does that sound like Chan Gailey, who can’t even FINISH in the Top 25 in 5 years???

And BTW, Pete Carroll turned down the Dolphins job (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16550594/)…So like I said:

It’s ALL Smoke & Mirrors! Gailey was never even in the running — And he and Radakovich KNEW IT every step of the way! They’s playing you ignorant Tech fans like a violin at the Annual Saps Convention! They’re feeding you MEDIOCRITY and have you eating out of their hands…Morons!!

By smitty

January 20, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

gtne80, i bet you’re on the money as far as the nix move………after 4 years of the chan offense we finally see some improvement in the offensive production under nix and he’s gone, leaving chan to ponder a return to play calling…..i’m gonna be sick……I just wonder how many times PN asked chan to play TB……thats typical of chan though…..let someone else take the fall, whether its RB, PN, bell, or any other convenient goat to deflect any attention from him……i would love to hear from PN or any of his associates on what he really thinks of chan…….maybe
bradley or schultzie are working on that story right now

By statelinejacket

January 20, 2007 01:04 PM | Link to this

I don’t know what is more disappointing, Chan Gailey staying at Tech as head coach and his contempt for the fan base……or the realization that Dan Radakovich is turning his back to what is best for Tech ….publicly endorsing in a charade of a press conference that Gailey will return as head coach.

Didn’t DRAD learn anything at LSU about football? Could’nt he see the mistakes Gailey is making at the quarterback position and with his meddling of Pat Nix’s offense? Why the hell else would Nix bolt unless he had a similar experience that Billy O’Brien had back in ‘02 when he wanted to play Damarius Bilbo instead of AJ Suggs?

I know and have come to expect that Gailey will never get it right at Tech. He is a combination of too stupid and too stubborn. But Radakovich? I expected much more. I expected after 1 season he would see what the majority of Tech fans know. That Gailey is a damn fool of a football coach. He should have been fired at the end of the season……not giving a orchestrated, pompous, rewelcoming after failing to land either the Miami and Pittsburgh.

By GT90

January 20, 2007 02:13 PM | Link to this

By gtne80

January 20, 2007 11:39 AM And, has anyone asked the obvious question of why Patrick Nix went to UM on a lateral move? Perhaps he was tired of Gailey portraying in public that Nix had the play-calling responsibilities while (behind the scenes) meddling and over-ruling his calls? Maybe just using Nix as a “fall guy”?

Wrong gtne80. Patrick Nix played big time college football. He knows second tier when he sees it. He made that lateral move because Miami has the capability to return to national prominence. Patrick Nix just sowed the seeds to be a viable HC candidate somewhere. At Tech he knew he risked dead ending his career.

By Planters

January 20, 2007 02:51 PM | Link to this

By statelinejacket

January 20, 2007 01:04 PM

Didn’t DRAD learn anything at LSU about football?

statelinejacket, I think there may be a reason that “DRAD” is running an athletic department and you are doing whatever it is that you do other than hurling comments from the peanut gallery. Maybe you and some of the other “faithful” should apply for his job and straighten out the dysfunctional football program at Tech. Better yet, give that loud mouthed Taz Anderson the job and see if he and his over inflated ego could do what real football men haven’t been able to do do at Tech over the last 60 years. Chan Gailey is the 3rd winnigest coach over that 60 year period. Go ahead and run him out of town. It might fall under the category of “be careful what you ask for, cause you just might get it.”

By BUZZ

January 20, 2007 03:31 PM | Link to this

kdc, Goose is the QB coach at UCF w/ O’George. Didn’t know if u knew.

By mark richt supports chan

January 20, 2007 03:38 PM | Link to this

Congratulations to Chan and to Ga Tech. I am so plaesed that Chan is staying and will be doing the play calling again. Now I get to kick his a** for 5 more years.

By gtne80

January 20, 2007 03:39 PM | Link to this

GT90,

You could be right. Like “smitty”, I’d just like to hear what Nix would really have to say about Gailey if he really put it out there. Maybe Tech is currently “second tier” as you say. But I would add that part of the reason for that is Chan Gailey and our willingness to continally accept his mediocrity.

By Chan Gailey

January 20, 2007 03:41 PM | Link to this

I am the head coach at Tech and if you losers don’t like it you can take a hike. I will interview with anyone I want at any time I want and I will play whatever player I want. It is my team. I am angry because I did not get my first two choices for a job (Pittsburgh and Miami)and had to settle for my only other alternative, returning to Tech.

By exNFLplayer

January 20, 2007 04:20 PM | Link to this

Tech fans, I am with you in being baffled by the Reggie Ball fiasco. But I can say this with confidence. To be a coordinator in the NFL with 2 premier franchises and the HC of the Dallas Cowboys, taking that team to the playoffs, you have to know some football. There is something definately wrong at Tech, and it can’t possibly be all Chan Gailey. I can also tell you that Dan Radakovich is a good football man that can over time fix the mess at Tech. But he can’t eliminate all those years of mediocrity overnight. GT is a VT type project. It is going to take a long time and continuity to do what VT did. If the Tech fan base doesn’t develop a long haul philosophy and the patience to stay the course, believe me. You will be mediocre forever.

By Nobody Wants Poor Ol' Chan -- Weep, Weep, Cry, Cry -- Oh, GT Does!

January 20, 2007 04:26 PM | Link to this

Planters, where’ve you been? Gailey just TRIED to run out of town…NOBODY WANTED HIM! Me thinks that anyone who’s seen the magnificent coaching jobs of the final 3 games last year (not by GAYly, but the opposition) have to be scratching their heads wondering how ANY Div 1-A school could have such an inept coach calling the shots.

Run him off?!? Good Luck:

1) He’s got an iron-clad 5-YR contract.

2) Dan Radakovich is the most ball-less Athletics Director I’ve ever seen at GT and he’s trying to “insert language” INTO GAYly’s contract to KEEP him 4 more years.

3) NOBODY WANTS the stubborn old man! If he can’t be hired by his former employers when he’s TRYING to get off the Tech Campus, that should give you GAYly supporters a CLUE just how UNDESIRABLE he really is — Except by you morons.

The ONLY REDEEMING PIECE of this entire episode is waiting for you Fans of Chan to wake up from the GAYly Kool-Aid and come back here and Start Admitting You Were WRONG, that he really, truly is The MOST Ineffective Head Coach In College Football HISTORY…But isn’t that kind of what you expect from a coach who proudly groomed and produced The MOST Ineffective 4-Year Starter In College Football HISTORY?

Other things I’ll look forward to:

1) Which coach will GAYly make ACC Coach of the Year next year? He GAVE it to Grobe with that 4th Down Putsie Punt with 2 min left…Bye bye ACC Championship.

2) Watching Radakovich pack his bags and leave GT…Anyone who comes in as new AD and SCREWS UP like this (losing Nix & keeping GAYly) is destined to be cleaning up his resume soon…

By Pitbull

January 20, 2007 05:12 PM | Link to this

Here is a solution for Tech: Did anyone in the Tech AD office bother to check the accuracy of his resume before hiring him. If there are inaccuracies and he pulled an O’Leary, then you might have grounds to can him. Of course that would be mighty embarrassing to Tech considering the nonqualified football players fiasco, the NCAA probation, the R Houston 100 pound pot bust, 4 years of Reggie Ball, and the last 3 games of 2006. But then again it might work.

The only other alternative is to admit that you fired David Braine for being an honest man and telling the truth: Tech is indeed a 7 win lower bowl program that will occasionally have a 9 win season when everyone else is down.

Man what a bummer. I don’t think I would buy tickets to see a coach run out on the field with the team, knowing that he would rather be somewhere (anywhere?) else.

Hope this helps with the perspective.

By smitty

January 20, 2007 05:15 PM | Link to this

someone earlier said that the good to come out of this was that nix was gone because he played reggie for three years, was the QB coach and then OC but then follows that with the bad being that since chan is a control freak, he’ll want to take over the play calling duties again…..the problem all along is that chan IS a control freak and i’m freakin sure that he kept Nix on a tight leash, telling him to play RB, what plays to call, etc, etc, etc,…….I don’t think nix had any say at all with the offense except playcalling on game day and granted, i think he made his share of mistakes…..but i think he did a pretty good job being forced to use RB……anyway, Nix got out of town while he still could; if chan miraculously lucked into the miami job, then nix is likely gone too; and he probably couldn’t stand the thought of coaching under chan any more…..it’s lose-lose for him …..it will be interesting the next time miami plays GT ………gt90 and gtne80, i think you’re both right……. I think what we saw with GT’s offense in the gator bowl was a small glimpse of what ‘might have been’ and I’m betting nix flourishes at UM…….good luck PN

By Jimmy

January 20, 2007 05:18 PM | Link to this

Again, this whole situation just goes to show you that the football “business” is like no other business out there. In what other line of work could you openly campaign for another job, NOT get it, then come back to your current job w/ open arms waiting?? Unbelievable. While i’m not an alum of Ga.Tech, I’m still embarrassed for the university(or fans rather) that they accepted back a man who if he had his first choice, simply wouldnt be there.

By It's the Contract, STUPID!

January 20, 2007 05:30 PM | Link to this

exNFLplayer…All you have to do is watch the UGA, WAKE and WVU games and you’ll see precisely what is wrong with Tech Football. It’s the Head Coach. Apparently having a 5-YR Contract Extension makes you: do everything within your power to alienate your Fan Base; play a sub-mediocre QB while a superior QB sits on the bench; lose any will whatsoever to end the losing streak against UGA; punt on 4th down with 2 min to play in Tech’s 1st ACC Championship Game; frustrate your OC until he makes a lateral move to a conference rival to escape your obsessive/controlling personality; forget how to learn from your mistakes so you’re doomed to continue repeating them (see RB + UGA game, 4 years for more info); leave Seniors to their own devices and they deserve to flunk out if they can’t handle it; start crying at your Press Conference because nobody would hire you away from the place where you HATE to coach; and wither away as a Stubborn Old Man who has lost the 4th quarter killer instinct necessary to put up a W instead of an L in Big Games…

And “develop a long haul philosophy and patience to stay the course”?!? Are you KIDDING? You obviously didn’t go to Georgia Tech! I’ve heard that same lame excuse since I was there during the Curry Years…

The TRUTH is: The Athletics Department has to DECIDE that it whole-heartedly COMMITS to WINNING! Where’s the mystery? Just watching those 3 games will show anyone that Chan Gailey is NOT a coach committed to WINNING. Urban Meyer, Pete Carroll, Jim Tressel, Chris Petersen…They are the DIFFERENCE between mediocrity and greatness.

Chan Gailey - He is the DEFINITION of Medocrity in College Football Coaching. The fact that the NEW AD is busy trying to “insert language” to keep him is a CLEAR SIGNAL TO EVERYONE that mediocrity is now acceptable at GT. The fact that 60% of Fans (including those UGA fans and GT Athletics Employees who vote every hour) are happy that Chan is still their Man also says that mediocrity is now acceptable to the GT Fan Base too. Long haul? Try forever haul.

USC, Michigan, Ohio State, etc are NOT cake-walk schools like UGA (see Fundamentals of Basketball 101 for more info)…But they EXPECT TO WIN and they do what is necessary to put the pieces in place to make it happen. GT should’ve WON 12 or 13 games last year…We didn’t because of one stubborn old man who put his pride and one player above everyone else. It’s NOT differential equations…It’s player substitution. Something this coach does NOT know how to do…And he won’t change in another 4 years because there’s no accountability.

The INACTION of this Head Coach was responsible for LOSSES that should’ve been WINS…The INACTION of this Athletics Director kept “the bad” of the offense and let “the good” get away. The Head Coach then has the gall to say, “…the bottom line is you need to win football games. That’s the way to make sure you endear yourself to the fans.”

So, watch the UGA, WAKE and WVU games and see how many ways you can find that this Head Coach TRIED TO LOSE those games. GT Football is doomed. Worst of all, it was preventable…Until someone awarded this Head Coach a 5-YR contract extension.

By RLDA1336

January 20, 2007 05:52 PM | Link to this

Nix leaving? Great! I sat through Wake Forest game in the rain at JAX and watched the most dull offensive game plan in Tech history.

By ChanSux

January 20, 2007 07:26 PM | Link to this

Tech is the only team that is willing to give doofus a head coaching job, even as he whimpers back. If he takes over OC again, then no matter what recruits Tech gets, droopy will have a governor on them. And he will lose to UGA again. Richt vs Gailey is like Hulk Hogan vs Goober Pyle.

By TomJoad

January 20, 2007 08:34 PM | Link to this

I was down on Nix at one time too. After watching Bennett against WV, however, I think the problem throughout the season was that we had a QB who couldn’t progress thru the reads. WF game Ball threw ZERO passes to tight ends or running backs—all passes went to wide-outs, mostly long. In the WV game, Bennett threw 6 passes to TE’s and RB’s, three each by my count.

So maybe Nix was/is a decent OC. He was just stymied by a head coach, and consequently a QB, who couldn’t bring a game plan to fruition if their lives depended on it.

By Gator Man

January 20, 2007 09:41 PM | Link to this

You know I used to squeeze dawgs till they sqeeled like a pig. But after readin this putrid bunch bee whinning, I think I’ll give the dogs a break. You Tech vomit aint nuthing but losers. You deserved that Gayboy coach you got. Thank goodness you aint in the SEC anymor, because I’d grab me a bunch a girly bees and make them sqeel like the pigs you are.

By statelinejacket

January 20, 2007 09:48 PM | Link to this

Plantars….I am no more qualified to be a AD than 99.9 percent of the fans out there. Never the less your comments are BS. The usual fall back line. DRad was being counted on to make a thorough assessment of the job that Gailey had done. A poor job is most fans thought. Most of the media’s thought also. Why no heat from Rad? Rad should have fired Gailey at season’s end, not throwing kisses at Gailey’s a* yesterday.

By old gold engineer

January 20, 2007 10:02 PM | Link to this

Gator Man, keep in mind that Chan Gailey is a University of Florida alumnus. Not sure what his degree is in, however.

By Nix Was In A NO-WIN Situation

January 21, 2007 05:26 AM | Link to this

Hey RLDA1336: You think the WAKE game was a dull offense, just wait until Gailey starts calling the plays again!

By most accounts, he was undermining everything Nix wanted to do with the offense anyway…So don’t blame Nix 100%. Nix was also the QB Coach, so he KNEW Bennett’s talent. In fact, the Gator Bowl was an excellent display of what should’ve been the GT Offense for 2006!

But if the Stubborn Old Man won’t play the more talented QB, then what’s Nix to do? He was FORCED to try and adapt an already limited offensive scheme to a NOW INJURED Reggie Ball.

The fact is Gailey announced in October that Reggie Ball suffered a severe leg injury in the Maryland game, but HE REFUSED TO PLAY BENNETT in his place. That kind of INEPT coaching IS Chan Gailey’s calling card. Just like when you’re DOWN by 3 with 2 minutes left in the ACC Championship Game and it’s 4th down…So Gailey PUNTS TO LOSE!

That PUNT was PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE that Gailey TRIED TO LOSE the Championship Game, and WAS successful…What OC would want to work his arse off for a WIN, only to see the Moronic Head Coach GIVE THE GAME AWAY?

Gailey should’ve been FIRED right after that game…Instead, the Moronic Athletics Director choreographs some silly and embarrassing Press Conference where the Athletics Dept is CHEERING and CLAPPING for this coach like he’s the next American Idol!?!?

Of course, there are LOADS of Tech “fans” who are buying every piece of BS that Gailey and Radakovich put out there for consumption. The VIDEO doesn’t lie…GAILEY TRIED TO LOSE the final 3 games of the season and he can’t hide from it! That would be reason enough for ME to leave (along with 1/2 of the Tech Fan Base and our CONTRIBUTION DOLLARS).

Of course, Gailey probably told Nix that Hell would freeze over before he would play Bennett at QB next year…And Nix just had enough. He’s going to take that Miami Offense and shove it straight down Chan Gailey’s THROAT next year until it comes out his ARSE. I bet they score 50 points or more (while Bennett sits on our bench).

Radakovich is no savior because he’s stupid. Straight out of Gailey’s Playbook, he’s “hitched his wagons” to Gailey and ALIENATED EVEN MORE of the Tech Fan Base than Gailey could ever alienate on his own. That’s how The Cycle Of Destruction accelerates…

Unhappy Fans (everywhere) vote with their wallets…As the Tech donations dwindle, then he will realize his strategic mistake (if he’s still here). He’s not a Tech Man either…He’s from PA and went to Indiana U.

I’m not falling for the Smoke & Mirrors, and I’m not supporting a head coach who gives Fans “the finger” and HATES coaching here…I simply WON’T contribute another dollar to my Alma Mater while Gailey is head coach. I teach my boys to excel at everything they do, and that’s the way it was when I was at Tech…Obviously the standards there have changed.

Chan Gailey did everything in his power to LOSE the UGA, WAKE and WVU games, almost like HE KNEW HE WAS LEAVING GT…I guess the joke’s on him, huh? And after those PATHETIC displays of “coaching” to end the season, I’m sure there are many other Fans and Alums who’ll also be redirecting their Tech contributions to causes that they believe in and fully support…

By Senior Citizen

January 21, 2007 08:14 AM | Link to this

MAYBE TECH SHOULD manage the football team by committee. Then it would not have the proverbial ” A* to kick or soul to curse “. But then where would the bloggers be, perhaps out of a job?

By statelinejacket

January 21, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Nothing makes sense…DRAD doing the inexplicable and arranging a private rewelcoming party for Gailey…. instead of firing him for many reasons…. the latest and most glaring being mismanagement of key personnel….playing the ‘coaches favorite card’ and using Reggie Ball instead of a rapidly improving Taylor Bennett throughout every game that QB play lost or nearly lost us the game. I believe that is why Pat Nix left for Miami. KUDOS to Nix for having the balls to bolt to the ‘Canes.

By smitty

January 21, 2007 01:53 PM | Link to this

yeah, nix needs to teach a few of the idiots by the hill lessons in courage and show em how to kick mediocrity in the A……unfortunately, in the good ole boy network that is college and professional football, you can’t burn any bridges so he’ll have to zip it and spit out the usual blather about the great experience and opportunity he had to work with an offensive genius like chan…i’m choking again…..anyway, he’ll just let the miami offense be his voice next season………..sure wish we could hear more and see the actual press conference……..the whole image reminds me of JT’s song “line em up” about all the white house staff lining up to say goodbye and dutifully applaud nixon as he left the big house in scandal after his resignation……except in chan’s case, they all lined up to welcome the scoundrel home

By Bobby Dodd

January 21, 2007 02:45 PM | Link to this

Maybe Nix Was In A NO-WIN Situation really is on to something.

If Chan thought he might get fired after blowing the last 3 games and would be free and available to hook up with any NFL HC positions that are available, then he has a way out of Tech. All he had to do was not try at the end of the season. He just didn’t count on the Tech AD holding on to him, even with him openly courting some NFL jobs.

By jacketnation

January 21, 2007 04:10 PM | Link to this

HEADLINE: Michael Vick to get own smoking section; Airtran annouced today that pro spokesman Michael Vick, will have his own smoking section on all his flights, an Airtran official said today; It’s just a small “token of our appreciation. Vick also signed a contract to endorse a new brand of drinking water called; “High Marks”. The water will be bottled by a company in Miami. The bottle features a picture of Michael Vick making an obscene jesture with his middle finger. It also has a special compartment for “particulants” and can double as a water bong. The product along with Michael Vick will be advertised in the magazine; Hightimes.

By jacketnation

January 21, 2007 04:21 PM | Link to this

HEADLINE: Michael Vick becomes **Valtrex Spokesman; Yet another endorsemt for Vick, as he will be the official spokes-person for the anti-virial medication. A new advertising slogan features the star QB; “When I take Valtrex, I ain’t got no SO(Sore), so it work well for me and my HO.

By $$$

January 21, 2007 04:36 PM | Link to this

The Chan haters on this blog are so delusional it makes me want to puke. They turn any fact or opinion against Chan Gailey. They seem to magically know that Chan overrode Nix’s play calling. If I was to believe anything they type I would think that Chan Gailey is some kind of sadistic, control freak that sets people up to take the fall for his incompetent decisions, and he doesn’t even want to win, just be barely above .500 on purpose.

I have to call you all out on this one… I can’t even take you seriously when you say “why did Nix take a lateral move to be the OC in Miami”.

You have to be kidding me. Are you that delusional to think that going from Tech to Miami is a lateral move? You people are delusional morons. You think that moving from a team that has been lucky to break the top 25 for the past 50 years (we had one miracle year 17 years ago) to a team that is consistently in the top 10 including BCS games and national championship appearences in the past 20 years is a lateral move? I will take a quote from Napoleon Dynamite, “Ugh! Idiot!”

By 91Wreck

January 21, 2007 05:33 PM | Link to this

Stop trying $$$. Their hatred for Chan has blinded them. I can understand wanting to get rid of him, because at BEST he is a SLIGHTLY above average coach. But I can’t understand why people hate him so much. It is clear that the kids love him. It is clear that the recruits are happy that he is staying. Rivals just reported that Burnett is now solid - I am sure that had nothing to do with Gailey staying.

I have also heard people say what a great recruiter Gailey is. Chan-haters say that not becasue they are trying to praise Gailey, but becasue they don’t want to admit that he has coached talent up.

The facts are clear during Gailey’s recruiting tenure. Over a five year period (not including this year) his average class rating is as follows:

1. Rivals: 58th
2. Scout: 43rd

Chan-haters will try and get you to believe he is a great recruiter that has coached talent down.

A field general Gailey is not, but neither is Paul Hewitt. But I don’t hear people screaming at the top of their lungs to get rid of him.

By statelinejacket

January 21, 2007 05:55 PM | Link to this

Nix to Miami is a lateral moue…..no doubt about it. Stingtalk poster states Tenuta had alot to do with Nix leaving. But I don’t buy it. If Tenuta was upset with the offense he would have b!tchslapped Gailey a long time ago. Why wait 5 long years to finally explode? Gailey is a loser who will toss anyone under the bus to keep his hide.

By jacketnation

January 21, 2007 06:53 PM | Link to this

Gailey does not want to be here. That he has proven.

By smitty

January 21, 2007 07:09 PM | Link to this

i have no hatred for chan, a strong word….there’s chan the man, nice guy, goes to church, good family man, never misses sunday school even after away games, bakes cookies for his players, yadayadayada…..please, i’d go fishing with the guy, but chan the FOOTBALL coach is absolutely, without a doubt, TERRIBLE…….the kids love him, at least according to you, but all kids love their coach, and why?….because he controls that all important part of the game, playing time…….show me a kid who doesn’t say nice things about his coach, ie, kissing you know what, and i’ll show you a kid sitting on the bench……..and as far as recruiting, which is it? “he’s a great recruiter”, or “people say” as you report, so what happens when those great recruits arrive….or he’s a great recruiter per the “chan-haters” who are merely saying that so they can tear him down….puhleeze….he’s pulled in alot of QB recruits hasn’t he? or he’s a terrible recruiter (whose fault is that? nix?) and he has to coach up all those awful recruits he gets….give me a break…….my head is spinning from all of the chan-hugger spinning……you said it yourself, his recruiting classes rank 58th and 43rd and that’s supposed to support your case for chan?……what a loser……oh that’s right, i forgot, we have tough academic standards so that’s why chan can’t recruit…………it never ends with you guys…….and $$$, your diatribe on nix’s ‘lateral move’ to miami, and i quote, “moving from a team (GT) that has been lucky to break the top 25 for the past 50 years (we had one miracle 17 years ago) to a team consistently in the top 10 (miami) including BCS games, etc etc etc was perfect…..i could not have said it better……should we not aspire to that (miami) or as you seem to indicate, “this is GT’s lot in football life, get used to it” and chan is the man we need to maintain mediocrity and he does it so well….we don’t hate chan, we love GT and GT deserves so much better

By 91Wreck

January 21, 2007 07:59 PM | Link to this

Smitty,

Alright, I believe you don’t hate Chan. Then believe me when I say I don’t love him either. I like him as a person and I can tolerate him as a coach. I am not happy with mediocrity. I want us to get back to what we were in the late 90’s. Despite the academic restrictions put on our kids, I think until this year he has been a terrible recruiter. I’ve already said I don’t believe that he is a good field general.

AND I TOO LOVE GEORGIA TECH. If I thought that firing Chan would make our program better, then I would help him pack his bags. I think we can be better with him. With that said, with the players we have coming back, if he can’t win 10 games next year, I will join you in calling for his head.

By 91Wreck

January 21, 2007 08:12 PM | Link to this

jacketnation you said (speaking of Vick and his deal with AirTran):

*It’s just a small “token” of our appreciation.

ROTFL!

By $$$

January 21, 2007 10:48 PM | Link to this

Chan is not a great coach, but I believe he is a good coach. I don’t see all the “great” coaches knocking down the door submitting their resumes to take over the head coaching position at GA Tech. Tell me who else was interviewed seriously when Tech picked Chan as the next head coach? Obviously no great coaches because I can’t even remember who. Chan has been coaching up 11th place in the ACC recruiting takebt for the past 4 years and now he finally gets a great class, which I give huge props to the change in recruiting coordinator to Giff Smith. I want to see what Chan can do with top 20 talent. I want to see what Chan can do with a QB that is actually top 100 recruit material in the US, not some QB that should have been a strong safety or special teams player at best. I do fault Chan for hanging on to Ball for so long and some clock management issues late in a few key games (too conservative for my taste). But I firmly do not believe that firing Chan Gailey will make Tech a better football program. If we fire Chan Gailey Tech will end up with a head coach who is…

A. Like Chan Gailey, never quite cut it in the NFL, but respectable.

B. A young guy from a smaller college or an assitant at a bigger school that had a good season or two - reminds me of Bill Lewis…

C. Same coach as in B but does much better than Bill Lewis so he bolts to a big name school in 3-4 years leaving Tech hanging.

So as you can see the options are not that great and I think getting a coach like Chan is a better option in the long run. I’m sure option C would be more exciting in the short run though. I guess you pick your poison as a Tech fan.

By The Campus Has Been Gailey-ized!!!

January 22, 2007 01:34 AM | Link to this

What about:

D. A coach who actually WANTS to coach at Georgia Tech and one who knows how to WIN and one who appreciates the Fans instead of despising them and one who WANTS to beat UGA and one who knows how to substitute players and one who doesn’t punt away a Conference Championship with 2min left and one who isn’t humiliating his employer by publicly interviewing anywhere he can, etc, etc.

I don’t buy this GARBAGE that “we’re Ga Tech and we should be happy that ANYONE wants to play here or coach here”…Have things REALLY gotten that bad around the Campus?? Because that kind of crap is PATHETIC.

And high-caliber coaches don’t just “knock on the door” when you have a current coach under a 5-YR contract…Get it? You also need an Athletics Dept that goes after and signs a “great” coach instead doing as you suggest and waiting for them to show up with their resume in hand. You must be a student…

And you ALREADY got to see what Gailey can do with a talented QB: He leaves him on the bench while his starter goes 6-for-22 for 42yds (PASSING, not rushing), 2 INT and 1 FUMBLE (returned for a TD) against the in-state rival that Gailey had already LOST TO 4 YEARS IN A ROW! AND after another dismal showing in the ACC Game, he STILL named this QB the starter for the Gator Bowl before he committed Flunkacide. AND after seeing Bennett’s Record Setting Bowl Game Performance, Gailey said he STILL wouldn’t have played him AT ALL in ANY GAME during the season.

And you call that a “GOOD COACH”? Geez…I guess things really are that bad around there, because a coach like that is nothing else BUT absolutely PATHETIC!

By NIX was a recruiter

January 22, 2007 01:49 AM | Link to this

Nobody seems to be giving Nix credit for his part in this recruiting class. He’s the main reason Calvin came to Tech. His recruiting results are going to be missed, along with his offense that fit a pocket passer like Bennett “to a T”. I don’t understand why Gailey can’t start seriously interviewing for an OC now instead of spending all of his time recruiting this late in the game. It’s like he doesn’t have any other coaches or assistants or he doesn’t trust them or he just has to have complete control over every single thing. Control-freaks ultimately fail because nobody wants to work for them, and anyone who finds themselves working for one just does the bare minimum to get by. It’s how an organization stagnates or even reverses previous years of progress. I see it all the time in my consulting position. I see it now in Tech Athletics.

By Sam

January 22, 2007 06:43 AM | Link to this

By The Campus Has Been Gailey-ized!!!

January 22, 2007 01:34 AM | Link to this D. A coach who actually WANTS to coach at Georgia Tech and one who knows how to WIN and one who appreciates the Fans instead of despising them and one who WANTS to beat UGA and one who knows how to substitute players and one who doesn’t punt away a Conference Championship with 2min left and one who isn’t humiliating his employer by publicly interviewing anywhere he can, etc, etc.I don’t buy this GARBAGE that “we’re Ga Tech and we should be happy that ANYONE wants to play here or coach here”…Have things REALLY gotten that bad around the Campus?? Because that kind of crap is PATHETIC.

I haven’t seen Chan in here bashing you sorry as^ Tech fans everyday for 5 years. You guys have a well earned rep that has hurt you badly when it comes to coaching hires. Go to the games how about it! Fill that cracker box you call a stadium like all the other programs you are so envious of. For the first time in eons you are getting quality recruits. Under who morons? Gailey that’s who. And yes YOU ARE TECH! Truth hurts doesn’t it

By moc

January 22, 2007 06:49 AM | Link to this

By The Campus Has Been Gailey-ized!!!

January 22, 2007 01:34 AM | Link to this

What about:And you ALREADY got to see what Gailey can do with a talented QB: He leaves him on the bench while his starter goes 6-for-22 for 42yds (PASSING, not rushing), 2 INT and 1 FUMBLE (returned for a TD) against the in-state rival that Gailey had already LOST TO 4 YEARS IN A ROW! AND after another dismal showing in the ACC Game, he STILL named this QB the starter for the Gator Bowl before he committed Flunkacide. AND after seeing Bennett’s Record Setting Bowl Game Performance, Gailey said he STILL wouldn’t have played him AT ALL in ANY GAME during the season.

And you call that a “GOOD COACH”? Geez…I guess things really are that bad around there, because a coach like that is nothing else BUT absolutely PATHETIC!

This foaming at the mouth idiot is exactly how the rest of the country percieves Tech fans. This imbecile is the reason Tech is what it is. As long as you have this lunatic fringe associated with you, good luck ever doing any better than your present mediocrity. Coaches see guys like this crapping in these blogs with their chronic diarhea of the mouth. This guy is the exact reason that you are dysfunctional and always will be.

By StingerSplash

January 22, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

It could have been worse. We could have hired Brian VanGorder.

By Stinger

January 22, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

I wonder what it will be like next season to see Coach Gailey run out on the field with the team at Grant Field, knowing that he would rather be coaching somewhere else?

By INcredibility

January 22, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Well, I can’t say I didn’t see it coming - but I wish it wasn’t true. Now we have a coach who we don’t want - and who obviously doesn’t want us. What a wonderful mix for the 2007 season! I am really looking forward to another loss to UGA, as well as a pounding in South Bend. It’s going to be a great year!

By reality check

January 22, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

Navigator, you are obviously very bitter. Calm down boy, your AD has made it clear he is going to do whatever it takes to make Chan Tech’s coach for life. Get with the program.

To respond to the other part of what you wrote, I didn’t go to Georgia. I went to Emory and Emorrhoids get to support whatever team they like. I am a Georgia fan who also supports Tech when they aren’t playing Georgia.

Supporting Tech has become harder for me over the years. That’s not because of the team’s performance. The propensity for Tech people to belittle the education at other schools, including UGA is offensive. It isn’t accurate and does nothing but make you look foolish and childish.

Tech is an excellent school and so is Georgia. Graduates of both schools are sought after in the job market. Where someone went to college means almost nothing as a predictor of career success.

Grow up.

By INcredibility

January 22, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

Hey reality, I actually agree with you. Mostly. I’m a Tech grad but find it hard to tout my education over other schools in the state (including Emory, which is an awesome school, alebit totally different from Tech or UGA.)

As a Tech supporter, I seriously wish the person who is so loud and obnoxious would own up to one screen name instead of constantly changing theirs so they don’t have to answer for their comments. You are embarassing us. Have a calm, rational, and accountable conversation for once, instead of blinding shooting off any posts you want and never answering for them.

This is why we have a bad reputation.

By INcredibility

January 22, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

Correction: blindLY shooting off posts.

By moc

January 22, 2007 01:33 PM | Link to this

By statelinejacket

January 20, 2007 09:48 PM | Link to this

Plantars….I am no more qualified to be a AD than 99.9 percent of the fans out there. Never the less your comments are BS. The usual fall back line. DRad was being counted on to make a thorough assessment of the job that Gailey had done. A poor job is most fans thought. Most of the media’s thought also. Why no heat from Rad? Rad should have fired Gailey at season’s end, not throwing kisses at Gailey’s a* yesterday.

Have you ever considered the fact that Radakovich may have made some calls? He did say if Chan left that he would not be caught flat footed. Obviously he is not going to fire the only coach in recent memory that hasn’t had a losing season (and that is really saying something at Tech) when there is no viable replacement. Tech fans will never admit it, but you will not have quality coaches dying to coach a team with a high school size stadium and a fan base that is arguably the worst in college football. And furthermore, until you alums actually muster the clout that it takes to get what you want, well, you are like the tree falling in the forest. Nobody hears you talkin…or ranting. UGA fired a better coach than you have right now. Give em a call and find out what it takes to finish the drill.

By INcredibility

January 22, 2007 02:19 PM | Link to this

“UGA fired a better coach than you have right now…” yeah yeah yeah, UGA this and UGA that. Typical. We are not UGA, nor should we compare ourselves to UGA in any way/shape/form. We don’t WANT to be UGA. We want to have a coach who actually wants to be our coach. Is that too much to ask? I am not whining, and I am not pointing fingers. I am simply asking. I’m sick of the same ole’ arguments and excuses. So is everyone else associated with Tech. It’s our prerogative.

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 22, 2007 02:51 PM | Link to this

reality check, nice posts my friend. Excellent point about the education. I have always respected Tech as an academic institution. Both Tech and Georgia are excellent universities and both excel in their respective courses of study.

Boy did the AJC stir things up during the “Chan I want an NFL HC job Tour”. I think the paper did a disservice to both the school and Chan with the polls and the blog topics. Hard to avoid but I would have hoped that the AJC would have steered clear of topics that would bring out all of the, no other word for it, vitriol. Man it has been brutal. Nix probably read all that stuff and figured he was better off getting shot in Miami than hung in the ATL.

Seriously, coming off a 9 win season (sure should/could have been more, maybe?) and in a prime position to repeat next season. Excellent running back, looks like a competent QB, and some good recruits. Give the guy a chance without RB there.

By moc

January 22, 2007 02:55 PM | Link to this

Maybe not INcredibility. But you would eat your first born or pimp out your wife to beat UGA more than once per decade wouldn’t you?

By INcredibility

January 22, 2007 03:14 PM | Link to this

No, moc, I wouldn’t, because to me, there are many important things in life than football…at any school. Sure, beating UGA would be nice, but it’s not the end of the world if we don’t. If I had wanted to be a UGA fan, I would have gone there. I didn’t. And I don’t fault people who did. I do, however, fault morons from both sides of the ball for their ignorance and belligerence who makes comments just to incite the riot that follows. Your attitude exhibit just that, so, I fault you.

By coach

January 22, 2007 04:22 PM | Link to this

It’s not that I hate Chan. I think he is a very nice guy. However, I believe that he is at best an average coach and Tech deserves a very good coach.

By Gailey New Cowboys Head Coach

January 22, 2007 05:02 PM | Link to this

With Parcells out of the picture and only 3 days after Radakovich’s charade of a “re-acceptance” of Gailey at Tech, maybe Gailey will get on another flight to another interview with another former employer.

Hopefully this will be a ONE-WAY ticket out of Atlanta!

By USC95

January 22, 2007 05:45 PM | Link to this

Unfortunately, when a sub-par coach is actively interviewing in just about as public of a way as you can, I think that says more about the Institution and its Athletic Staff than any loud-mouthed Blogger ever could. Especially when you consider that the same staff did everything but roll out the Red Carpet and drop to their knees and praise said coach. It really, really doesn’t look good. Even over here on the other side of the country.

Which is probably why there are so many loud-mouthed Bloggers sounding off for something, anything, to be done about the state of your Athletics. I had quite a bit of respect for Georgia Tech athletics, since I know it’s hard to have a tough Academic Program and compete in Athletics. Going to the NCAA Finals a few years ago was the kind of attention you want.

Having a supporter base split almost down the middle by a head coach in football (according to the “poll”) is not what you want. I came over here to read about Vick, but read alot of stuff about Gailey here too. I saw the ACC game vs Wake Forest on TV and dropped my beer when GTech punted on 4th down with like 2 minutes to play. I mean, it’s not a regular game. A Championship game is special. Maybe because your school’s never been to one, the coach doesn’t know how to win one. You sure don’t win by punting when you’re behind on the scoreboard.

Anyway, I hope you guys get some resolution because you won’t go very far if half your supporters don’t like the coach (and it sounds like the coach doesn’t like the supporters either). He said something like he didn’t think he needed to apologize to fans for his interviewing over the past couple of weeks. If he really said that, then I start to understand why people are frustrated. He should apologize, I mean what’s the harm? Sometimes in a public position you do things not because you necessarily “need to” but it’s just the right thing to do. And it’s a mistake to underestimate the power of loud-mouthed fans because they usually get what they want in the end or they destroy everything in their path.

By moc

January 23, 2007 07:11 AM | Link to this

Gailey’s mistake in that game was expecting a defense that has not stopped anyone with the game on the line all season long to stand up for just 4 more downs. Would anyone really expect for the 2nd week in a row that a defense would allow a TRUE FRESHMAN QB to drive the field on them and win a BIG GAME? When tested Tech’s D showed lack of heart in the biggest games of the year.

By Tech GirlieFan

January 23, 2007 01:52 PM | Link to this

moc, only Dawg fans, uninformed GT fans and GT athletics dept employees would blame this loss on “Tenuta’s D” to deflect the blame from where it belongs: Coach Gailey’s miserable end-of-game decisions and clock management.

The Defense held Wake to NO TDs in a Championship Game. I think that’s pretty incredible and a loss is not their fault. I checked the game stats and was shocked to find out there was only 2:02 left when Tech punted and gave the ball to Wake!

I might have been slightly intoxicated that day, but I always thought there was 4 or 5 minutes left. Who punts with only 2 minutes in the game and the other team is up by 9-6? I’ve never in my life seen a coach do something like that!

Wake didn’t have to “drive the field on them” to win. They only had to pick up 10 yards. They got 27 and just ran out the clock.

What would Tech players and fans think of an opposing coach who gave them the ball with 2 minutes to play and if they just pick up 10 yards then they win the ACC Championship? They’d probably be calling him an idiot! No wonder Nix flew the coop. I’ll try and sugarcoat this but that has to be one of the stupiest things I’ve ever seen this coach do in 5 years of being at GT!

By moc

January 24, 2007 07:04 AM | Link to this

Tenuta’s D collapsed in every crucial situation they faced in 06. That is fact. In the 3 biggest games of the year they choked in crunch time. UGA, Wake, WVU. I know you remember those 3 games. The last drive of the UGA game Tenuta was absolutely clueless. A True freshman QB and a rookie OC took him to school.

By moc

January 24, 2007 07:25 AM | Link to this

By Tech GirlieFan

January 23, 2007 01:52 PM

What would Tech players and fans think of an opposing coach who gave them the ball with 2 minutes to play and if they just pick up 10 yards then they win the ACC Championship? They’d probably be calling him an idiot! No wonder Nix flew the coop. I’ll try and sugarcoat this but that has to be one of the stupiest things I’ve ever seen this coach do in 5 years of being at GT!

Could it be that Chan believed that vaunted D of yours would stand and deliver? What you techmites aren’t considering is that if Tech goes on 4th and doesn’t make it, game over. Wake has the ball with good field position maybe puts another 3 on the board, makes a 1st down, etc, game still over. Even if Tech stops them 3 and out Wake punts putting Tech 80 yards or more with time running out and Reggie Ball at QB. Game over. Wake wins. If Tenuta’s D held 3 downs and Wake punted, Tech is one big play from being back in FG range with a chance to tie the game. Tech had the time outs available if Tenuta’s D had done it in crunch time. I bet that if Tech goes on 4th and doesn’t make it you Tech fans would still be calling Chan an idiot. Come back when you learn a little football.

By DawgBite

January 24, 2007 07:30 AM | Link to this

Can you gnats say, Stafford to MoMass? Tenuta still sees it in his dreams.