Has gotten Georgia tech to#24 recruiting ranking. Good for him. I hope he finds a way to play and whip Mullen
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Has gotten Georgia tech to#24 recruiting ranking. Good for him. I hope he finds a way to play and whip Mullen
One leaves us for Florida, and we wish him the best. The other leaves us for Florida, and we wish ill will on him. Weird
Well, they both made lateral moves and both dress like they're 14 year olds....
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Haha forgot about that 1b thing. You're right, that was terrible. I wouldn't coach for a guy that chewed me out in front of everyone like Mullen did to him after the ole Miss game so as much as it makes me mad that he left after that, I understand it.
I just don't see how he's recruiting so well at GT. Do they have a lot of bag men that they just haven't utilized until recently?
I remember Collins catching some flak for his "lateral move".
Which is hilarious coming from Dan since he made the exact same lateral move three years later.
Both failed to coach the 2014 egg for a chance to participate in the first ever playoff.
I don't care if you have one foot out the door and think you're leaving but at least have enough integrity to finish the job you're at.
You've got it backwards. Part of that ass chewing was because Collins had already mailed it in. He was already out the door. That ass chewing didn't affect that decision.
And Georgia / Atlanta metro has plenty of talent. Couple that with plenty of playing time opportunities and it's not a hard sell.
Short answer is recruiting to the hip-hop cultural center of the south is not hard if you actually try. O'Leary had a Top 20 class in 2000, even Chan Gailey landed one in 2007. Paul Johnson hated recruiting more than Mullen and Hev.
Longer answer is that GT has a very powerful alumni base in corporate Atlanta. Until they left the SEC, they were the football power in GA, and there are still a number of people in powerful places that remember that and want to get back some of that. They also have a new university President that I think recognizes that to be competitive, GT has to be about more than engineering and that the growth of GA State (now the largest university in GA) has hurt them. This will be an interesting one to watch - especially with the potential for endorsements, etc coming down the pipe. They won't become Bama, but they could challenge the ACC structure easily.
Naw ... you got it wrong. Dan was the one with half a foot out the door and shopping himself. The whole team wasn't prepared. Then Collins lost his starting safety before Egg Bowl and the backup went down with ACL early in the game. That's why Ingram tore us up down the middle. On the long run by OM scat back, he was surrounded by like 7 or 8 of our guys and all of them slacked up waiting for one of the others to make the tackle looked like to me. And he exploded through all of them for the 96 yarder.
Collins got the offer from McE after the post-game presser where Dan blamed him for the loss. But Dan didn't have his offense ready either. One of my main criticisms of Dan (which aren't many anymore) is before Grantham, he'd chew the DC or the D out but never took the blame when he O wasn't performing like it should.
Collins is a good coach IMO. Had two top 10 Ds at FL (8 and 5). The 1B stuff ... most of the stats against us that year were garbage time when we had big leads. And we exploded out to a lot of big leads that year. But that D could clamp down when it wanted to. Only gave up 323 to a Bama O in TTown that was averaging around 600/game when playing in TTown. All while the O put them deep in the hole several times to start the game. Cooper had like 8 or 9 catches for 85 or so yards, with one of those being a 50 yarder (the only long completion of that game). The D didn't play well in EB or Orange Bowl either.
Yeah, I missed 1. And they have 1 more committed. Still, 5 GA kids is almost criminal. I get it's the #4 rated class, but I think it's not going to play well in-state and when push comes to shove may hurt UGA longer term. When Clemson and AU start whipping you with your own kids, UGA Fan will go ballistic. AU signed 8 of the GA top 50