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By Rob

February 16, 2007 04:47 PM | Link to this

If We lose DRad it will be a huge loss to our atheletics program. Remember how positively his hiring was received? That is because everyone knew the amount of talent and experience he brought to the Tech family. I hope this doesn’t materialize even though I fear it will.

By Ramble ON!

February 16, 2007 05:12 PM | Link to this

DRAD, must stay…please. I like him even though my season tickets just went up 50%

By WillGT

February 16, 2007 07:33 PM | Link to this

This would be an awful thing for DRad to do if he even talks to LSU. It would certainly make his comments from when he was hired seem awfully silly.

By GT96

February 16, 2007 08:02 PM | Link to this

Can D-Rad achieve all of his personal and professional goals at The Georgia Institute of Technology?

By Dan Rad the MORON

February 16, 2007 08:55 PM | Link to this

Is LSU in his future…LET’S HOPE SO!!!

By Navigator

February 16, 2007 09:36 PM | Link to this

Why’s everyone on Danny Rad’s case? He was brought in to be a fanny kisser, and he’s done an ‘A1’ job. Today’s AD is not a leader, but answers to school leadership. He doesn’t make waves, and when necessary finds a coach (assuming one leaves). He makes sure that the sports programs are clean, and meet the NCAA standards. So far old Danny’s done that, so why’s everyone on his case?

By GT55

February 16, 2007 10:51 PM | Link to this

DRAD must stay if we must pay him more. I see great thing to come if he stays.

By Tech82

February 17, 2007 08:06 AM | Link to this

Could we blame him if he went? He probably had no idea that Tech nation was in such disarray.

By BadgerDawg

February 17, 2007 09:34 AM | Link to this

Why would he not leave to go to a big time program? Tech is a stepping stone to a good job, nothing more. Would Georgia Southern fans really have a complaint if their guy went to Tech? Same thing here, just one notch higher.

By Disappointed

February 17, 2007 09:34 AM | Link to this

I’m willing to pay more for him to stay! :-( “Pay the Man, Tech!”

By ben

February 17, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

It seems they made the wrong hiring decision if this was on the horizon all along.

By Badgerdawg's DADDY

February 17, 2007 02:41 PM | Link to this

Badgerdawg is right. Would UGA fans really have a complaint if their guy went to Florida? Same thing here, just a few notches higher.

By Ripme

February 17, 2007 03:23 PM | Link to this

Keep the man $$$$$Pay what it takes. We finally get a good AD don’t lose him

By BadgerDawg

February 17, 2007 04:27 PM | Link to this

I agree the UF job would be a step up the way they are going right now. Is there any better at this point? However, the difference in the two jobs is much narrower than the examples I gave. UGA is a top 10 job, Tech is a mid-major-type gig. Just like with football, if Tech is hiring someone who isn’t aspiring to a bigger job, the chances are he wasn’t worth hiring anyway. Enjoy the good hires while you can before they move on. They ineveitably will.

By BadgerDawg

February 17, 2007 04:31 PM | Link to this

Sorry “DADDY”,didn’t catch the obvious sarcasm implying Tech’s job is better. I initially thought it was another comparison between two jobs and didn’t notice the implication that UF and UGA were below Tech. Very funny. I like stupid humor, and man that was about dumb as it gets. On a serious note, I’ll stand by my statement that Tech is about halfway between Ga Southern and LSU, and that leaving for LSU would be about as obvious as someone from GSU leaving to take the Tech position.

By GT78

February 17, 2007 05:11 PM | Link to this

Hey Badger Dumb Mutt, go shovel some snow and get off our blog. Tech may not be a dumb jock school like UGA and LSU, but we do compete successfully at the highest levels of incollegiate athletics. This must obviously anoy you greatly. Have a nice winter in Wisconsin!

By RDU GT

February 17, 2007 09:45 PM | Link to this

go blog yourselves. D Rad is a fine AD and his roots lie w/ LSU. I don’t blame him. Nothing against Tech, but he came from LSU, hence, if he gets the chance….he’s gone. Tech will survive as it has for over 100 years. If you want to exert any more energy this year, do it rooting for the men on the hardcourt.

By Tech Deserves BETTER

February 18, 2007 12:35 AM | Link to this

WOW…Lots of reasons to get into a bidding war to keep someone who’s had such an impact in his 1st year at Tech:

1) WON’T fire Gailey.

2) WOULDN’T fire Gailey if he could.

3) Another academic embarrassment with 3 SENIORS inelligible for post season play on his watch.

4) Allows Gailey to go on a very PUBLIC and embarrassing interviewing tour (but even his former employers don’t want him back).

5) Orchestrates a PUBLIC Gailey @$$-kissing press conference complete with cheering and applause by AD Employees after Gailey was rejected everywhere he tried to go in order to leave Tech.

6) Raises FB Season Ticket prices (which the gullible Tech Fans accept as mandatory “donations”) by up to $450 PER SEAT! LOL

7) Faced with declining attendance at Tech Home Games, his “solution” is to raise 78% of season ticket seats by up tp $450…Uses Baton Rouge mathematics to conclude that there will be no decline in the number of season ticket sales this year.

8) “Inserts language” into a Head Coach’s contract to keep him at Tech for 4 MORE painful years (even though he has a less than 50% approval rating among Tech Fans), but he loses a talented (and often victimized by a tinkering Head Coach) OC and loses a primary recruiting coach to the SEC.

9) For some reason, he can’t see the Tech Athletic’s current financial situation as a “crisis”…

10) Fiddles in his AD office while Tech Athletics burns…

What a GREAT find! A MEDIOCRE AD to Alienate the remainder of the Tech Fan Base that hasn’t already been alienated by Gailey…He praises an incompetent Head Coach who puts an inferior product on the field and then slams the long-time Tech Faithful in the wallet to cover up a problem that he lacks the balls to solve.

Come on all you Tech Fans who’ve been conditioned to accept whatever you can get “because you’re Georgia Tech”…Sign him to another famous 5-year contract extension before he skips town too! Nothing will get any BETTER for Tech Athletics until a Tech Man is running the show. It makes me want to puke…

And you all have your wish to “pay him more to stay”…You can start by putting in your order for 4 season tickets on the 50-yd line. Anything less and you’re just a bunch of putsies who talk the talk but can’t walk the walk…So put up or shut up!

By surfrider

February 18, 2007 01:23 AM | Link to this

This is one reason why many were for Bill Curry in the sense we knew that LSU would eventually put Dan back on it’s short list and why Tech would go with a three year risk is beyond me knowing the financial gap that now exists. That said, I for one have been impressed with Dan and think he has done an excellent job so I hope he stays but if he does’nt let this be a reminder to younger alums to listen to the older alums who have been in the business world longer and that includes the administration. Tech has a financial deficit and fundraising was Bill Curry’s strength. The other problem looks like it’s getting fixed and that is football recruiting and a more exciting offense.

By Art

February 18, 2007 09:17 AM | Link to this

By Tech Deserves BETTER

February 18, 2007 12:35 AM | 8) “Inserts language” into a Head Coach’s contract to keep him at Tech for 4 MORE painful years (even though he has a less than 50% approval rating among Tech Fans), but he loses a talented (and often victimized by a tinkering Head Coach) OC and loses a primary recruiting coach to the SEC.

You guys have got the best Coach that you can get. No one of existing stature has to even consider Tech. And you will always lose guys to the SEC. It is the big time. Unproven coaches go to Tech and use you as a stepping stone to a better job. Your history bears that out. And besides, what if VT had ditched Beamer when he had about 5 rough years. Places like VT and Tech have to stay the course with a coach to have even a remote chance to succeed.

By GTGreg

February 18, 2007 10:56 PM | Link to this

“Tech deserves BETTER” is “Bulldog” posting under a different name. Same convoluted garbage.

D-Rad is awesome, and I hope he stays.

Tech fans that let mooks like “Badgerdawg” get under their skin should remember that diffeq’s were 10 times harder than entertaining an argument with a Dog fan, and that we have more important things to do anyway. UGA a top10 athletic dept. job? I can hear it now… come live in glorious cesspool of Athens, GA and work in a building called Buttsmear! If you have any slip-ups, be prepared to deal with a gigantic horde of the stupidest band wagoneers on God’s green earth! Where do I sign up?

By Spike

February 19, 2007 03:20 PM | Link to this

He’s gone. Who can blame him?