Looking at arguments against Hewitt

Well thought out and insightful comments. I don’t envy Dan’s decision.

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Are you comparing Dean Smith’s lack of National Championships to mediocre (that is being generous) play for 7 years in a row? Good grief you only proved everyone’s point on how big of a donkey F HEW truly is

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I challenge you to find a coach who has put more players in the NBA with a wose win loss record than Paul Hewitt. No one in college hoops has “done less with more” than him.

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I agree with Point 3… Hewitts ACC record is deplorable and embarassing. Bobby Cremins ACC record was134–150. Maybe Bobby’s winning percentage is not much better, but at least he had 10 winning or .500 seasons in ACC play. Hewit has had one (1) winning season in the ACC. ONE is 10years of coaching. It is embarassing to even refer to him as an ACC Coach. Please let him take his Helter Skelter gameplan to the SEC where it might just work.

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Not a bad point regarding the chaos of next season’s schedule. Let Hewitt stay through that while spending the next year contemplating various replacements.

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You missed one big point. Hewitt got Tech put on probation two years ago and we lost two scholarships. He survived that because he had Favors coming in the next year. DRad should have fired him then and he could have had reason not to pay the buy out.

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as do others year after year after year inspite of losing players early to the nba.

just another lame excuse that phew and his homers use.

just imagine….. we will have almost 30 million invested in hewitt over 11 years and for what?

and doug you need to actualy look at the real attendance at some of the games. they may show 6000 payed but we have seen gt fans pan the arena and if there was more than 3000 phew will kiss your butt……

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Doug, why don’t you add those astonishing graduation rates to the article??? I mean one couldn’t even match them even if it were their only goal.

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Your point about us playing away from home next year is a very valid one and may be the only way we keep Hewitt. The record against the ACC is enough to get him fired. He doesn’t seem capable of motivating the team for road games either. Plus we are about to have our 3rd losing season in the past 4 years and 4th in the past 6. The guy just can’t win.

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I don’t really agree with the comment that Tech fans compare Tech to UNC, and I don’t even understand your point in bringing up Dean Smith. We should cut Hewitt slack because Smith only won two national championships despite all his talent? That’s a pretty small part of Dean’s body of work. He is a legend of a coach. In 36 season he won the ACC 17 times. Hewitt is in his 11th year and only 1 winning record like you mentioned. No one is comparing Hewitt to Dean Smith, and no one is saying Hewitt needs to go because he doesn’t compete for national championships. It’s because we are bottom tier of the ACC.

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Doug, it really comes down to point 3 in your write up actually. No apologists needed. Coaches are evaluated on wins vs loses. Pretty simple actually. Hewitt is a good man who has represented Tech well, but you must win more than 41 percent of your conference games if you want to keep your job. Like Gregg Anthony said the other day, in ten seasons as head coach, Paul Hewitt has only had one winning conference season. That’s just not getting the job done. Bye.

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only reason he is still here at tech, is that we can’t get out of his contract. period, end of discussion. 13.1% of the operating budget… in real $’s its’s well over 7 million $.

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Doug, your summary is well written. My biggest problem has been the one and dones. Yes, it certainly makes sense to have the best talent, but the problem has been that these one and dones have disrupted the building of a consistent program for Tech. The great Tech teams for the most part have had players who spent at least three years in the Tech program. Tech academics are tough, but that is not the problem. You can be what you want to be with a Tech degree. I also believe, as I have stated before, that the entire Tech athletic program needs to be mentally tougher and raise the bar for expectations. This goes for administrators, coaches and student/athletes. I think this has been especially true of the basketball program in recent years and even the football and baseball programs too. We might have the talent on some of these teams from time to time, but I am not convinced they are always trained/coached to be consistent winners/champions. Duke has made a commitment to win basketball games and they tough their way to do it. While Duke may be on the verge of making progress in football, they haven’t in the past 40 years made the same commitment as in basketball and it shows. There is no reason Tech can’t have great basketball teams in Atlanta again, but commitment has to replace mediocrity. Commitment is not just one person’s job, but must include all of us Jackets.

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He’s not a good coach at this level. I can’t even watch anymore. He has got to go.

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Doug,
I think you have written a good post and tried mightily to keep it to facts and not opinions. Like some of the other bloggers I disagree with your comparison to Dean Smith. Dean coached in 11 Final Fours, won 13 ACC tourney titles and graduated 96.6% of his players – just a little better than Hewitt.
To me the biggest knock in Hewitt is that since the ACC expanded, not including this year, GT has the worst regular season conference record of any team.

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The only stat that matters now is attendence. You can’t keep letting your fan base deteriorate. How hard is it going to be to recruit top level players to come play in an empty arena?

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The point about other coaches doing less with more is kind of hollow (at best)- I don’t think any Tech fans are demanding National Championships every year from the talent Hewitt has brought in, just a level of consistent success. After this season, Hewitt will have had more losing seasons at Tech in just the last three seasons (2) than the three coaches mentioned suffered in 99 total years of coaching (1). I don’t think Tech fans demand National Titles or even ACC titles, I think Tech fans would be satisfied with simply qualifying for a postseason tournament every year.

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@RDU: thanks for pointing this out:

“To me the biggest knock in Hewitt is that since the ACC expanded, not including this year, GT has the worst regular season conference record of any team.”

And also as someone pointed out: ONE winning conference season during his ENTIRE tenure.

Championships are nice, but I just want Tech to be freakin’ competitive again!

Obviously now, the NC Game appearance was a fluke or a “Perfect Storm” of talent and high-achievers. Or both.

Consider Hewitt’s entire body of work and his non-competitiveness, save maybe two seasons, in the ACC and this is a no-brainer.

Oh—thanks Doug for pointing out that his buy-out would NOT be a lump sum. Didn’t know that. This makes it even more of a no-brainer when it comes to the financial side of the issue.

The Countdown is on! What is it, 22 days until Roll-Over or Get Lost to Paul Hewitt?

Please end the misery and disaster that Tech basketball has become. If by some incomprehensible miracle Hewitt is still here when the new place is built, the arena will be the biggest White Elephant in sports history.

BTW, could Tech do what some MLB teams do with some of their players and offer another school to pay a chunk of his salary if they take him.

Or may he will end his own humiliation, as well as that of Tech, and offer to negotiate a settlement if he leaves.

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ACC regular season records since expansion (doesn’t include 2010-11)

Duke 59-21 – 4 winning seasons, 0 losing seasons
UNC 55-25 – 4 winning seasons, 1 losing season
MD 46-34 – 2 winning seasons, 1 losing season
FSU 43-37 – 3 winning seasons, 2 losing seasons
CU 42-38 – 3 winning seasons, 2 losing seasons
BC 40-40 – 3 winning seasons, 2 losing seasons
VT 40-40 – 3 winning seasons, 2 losing seasons
WF 35-45 – 2 winning seasons, 3 losing seasons
UVA 32-48 – 1 winning season, 4 losing seasons
NCSU 30-50 – 1 winning season (under Sendek), 4 losing seasons
UM 30-50 – 4 losing seasons
GT 28-52 – 4 losing seasons
The results speak for themselves

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After years of disgust and embarassment, civility and level-headedness is not what we are looking for. We just want Paul Hewitt gone now or sooner! You didn’t even mention the worst graduation rate in the ACC or Paul’s extracurricular activities where he advocated that OL should not sign with schools that have white football coaches. He has also said that his passion is to help “black” players make it to the NBA, and he has never apologized for that.

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JUST FIRE HIM.

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Tech Forever, I agree completely. ” GO JACKETS “

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he is gonna drown your football program. you just dont see it yet.

he thinks he can outcoach everyone.

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Doug: You have made some good points on this post. The problem is that most GT baksetball fans are so flustrated
with Hewitt to the point they will not listen or even think rationally about any other aspects of the situation.

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“I’m just trying to bring some civility and level-headedness to your conversations”. Didn’t you just write about Tech making it back to the NCAAs? LOL

I think most Tech fans knew we were in for a long season when Kennesaw State beat us. I think they have won just eight games this year. Paul Hewitt is a good man, but we need to go in a different direction. Nothing trilling about the Thrillerdome anymore.

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What about the 1st kid Duke signed from Alaska……….I can’t remember his name……….

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“I’m not saying that Hewitt is the greatest developer of talent. I have no idea if he’s good at it or not.”

No idea? NO IDEA??

Then what on earth qualifies you to initiate a blog on this subject matter?

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It’s been more than 3 players from Duke leave early, but it’s time for change at Tech. This should be PH last year. Next season will be really like a transitional season for Tech (playing home games off campus), so this will be the ideal time to do a “complete” transition. The question is who’s the next coach? Look at NCST and WF just to name a few……..it’s not that simple.

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From what I understand, the “we are still paying Gailey” argument is not valid. He is being paid from donations made specifically for that purpose, so when he is paid off has no effect on the operational budget, including paying off Hewitt.

If we can’t afford to pay off Hewitt, then so be it. Until donors step up we will be stuck with him while our program slowly dies or he decides to leave for a lesser buyout. But the debate about whether he should stay based on his ability as a coach is long since over. I am thankful he has run a clean program and would rather have our situation than UConn/Calhoun, but our record speaks for itself. He did fine the first 5 years, but after Keener and Warren left he has simply failed. I believe the program will take a long time to recover if he doesn’t leave now.

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Regarding #2, we ALL knew Bosh, Young, and Favors were gone before they sat in their first calculus class. Only Crittendon caught people by surprise. If Hewitt thinks otherwise, then there’s reason number 47 to let him go.

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To your first point, I don’t really give a damn what Tech players do in the NBA. I don’t watch it. I care what happens when they are at AMC. Hewitt’s time at Tech is over.

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I want him gone….like two years ago, but who we gonna get? Is the Butler guy the answer here? Does he have ther inroads to recruiting here in the ATL? And will he let HIS asst coach, or just hold clipboards like the “genius” we have on the floor now?

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Here is a news flash! If Tech wins the fans will come where ever they play!
I personally will not watch on TV or go to any more games as long as Hewet is there as coach.
Also if he is there next year I will not renue my season tickets.
And as a side note I can’t even give my season tickets away this year thats how bad it has got!

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Just another short note why would he leave for a lesser buyout! He’s a bad coach but he is not stupid! He knows he can have his cake and eat it to! Who ever made this deal with him to start with was the idiot.

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@Ptjackets…..exactly…..this contract has put him in a situation where there is little to NO incentive to work hard to win. If I know I’m going to be guaranteed $7 million….no matter what happens it does impact behavior. We have incentive contracts to encourage behavior in the other direction. He’s got a contract that has essentially rewarded pathetic basketball for years.

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As a Tech grad living in Ohio, I recently went to a game at Xavier Univ. Looking around, I could not help but think about how Xavier is a better program in so many ways than Tech right now. But, even though XU is a top 25 team and they won that night, too, the atmosphere at Xavier was nowhere near the fervor of the Thrillerdome at Tech in years gone by. And, of course, no one would argue that the A-10 is a better conference than the ACC. The point being, Tech is still a program with tremendous advantages and potential – and yet it has consistently underachieved over the last five years. Doug, your facts are reasonable, but GT fans aren’t coming and won’t be coming because they see nothing to suggest that aforementioned potential of the program is being truly cultivated and built upon. They are renovating AMC? Who cares? Give GT fans a team that is competitive each and every game, each and every season, and those seats will be filled again.

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If the problem is the lump sum buyout how about this as a solution. Keep Hewitt and pay him his annual salary. Just give him other responsibilities and duties. He can file records, design stationary and sell refirgerator magnets with the Buzz logo on them. Just keep him away from the actual duties of the head basketball coach. Hire someone else for those duties and responsibilities and call him the “Commander of the Men’s Basketball Team at GT”.

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Yellow, I would make his life absolute h$ll! He would do everything in the athletic offices but get near that basketball team!

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The ? is how much the tech players lost by having hewitt as a coach and not getting drafted higher thus making a more lucrative nba contract.

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Yeah those previous tech coaches before blewitt didn’t have to coach against mike k, dean smith and gary w. they started coaching at 2000.

Oh and if anything paul hewitt has been lucky cause he got 3 years of unc without roy and of course the first year will be an easy one.

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CPH has lost the fans and right now it seems the players seem to be just waiting for the season to end. It seems there is no rhyme or reason to his offense and the defense is consistently breaking down. The games might as well be played on the playground because that’s the way the team is playing. DRAD has no choice but to say so long to CPH if he wants the fan base back.

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Fire Paul Hewitt = Cry over Tuitt

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Don’t make the AJC writers your enemy. They will write about you loosing your job night and day untill you do.

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what will the excuses be when shump goes on to succeed well at the nba while having 2-3 great games out of 35 per year in college. hewitt breeds lazyness, sloppy play, no fundamentals, little hustle. he would have been fired 3 years ago if that contract wasn’t in place.

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lets be honest people without duke and north carolina the acc sucks this year.

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Do you goobers not realize that Hewitt WANTS to be fired! Would you quit if you were doing a poor job and surrender the rights to 7 million, or would you wait for the inevitable firing and the 7 million check that comes with it?

Anyone with a brain can clearly see in Hewitt’s body language and indifference that he’s waiting to get fired…and paid well for it!

Good grief!

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1.when a idiot gt fan say he does not develop talent i laugh..Mario West and Big Luc are examples of hewitt developing players

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you can say that about every conference nash except for the big east. but watch for them to choke in the big dance as they almost always do.

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i have been with the GREAT ATLANTA CELTICS for 12 years…everyone in our program was pissed at how the refs did Favors..He wanted to stay 2 years..Gt will never get another CELTIC ever regardless of coach..Its the ACc we have a problem with…

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yeah and tech only has to play unc and duke once each this year nash. so we(ph) sucks even more

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how many national championships did Dean Smith win compared to all the talent that came through Chapel Hill? Jim Boeheim at Syracuse is another example. How many years before John Wooden won a title?

Conversely, how many losing seasons did these coaches have? How many 6-7 year stretches did these coaches have the worst conference record in their conference?

Oh, I see this is argument number 3, basically. For the record, I have no problem with recruiting potential 1 and done players. And what about cases like Morrow and West, who made the NBA, but never were All-ACC players?

The record, is obviously, the main reason Hewitt needs to go. But the problem with Hewitt may not be lack of player development, but lack of any offensive identity. To me, it’s pretty simple. GT’s offense (until this year) should have been 1. dump to Nelson/Bosh/Schensher/Dickey/Smith/Lawal/Favors in the post and work inside/out. 2. penetrate the paint with Jack/Crittendon/Miller 3. Isolations for athletic wings 4. Who cares? If 1 and 2 are mastered, the rest will come easy. GT has never needed to master anything like a pick and roll or some system like the triangle or princeton offense because they are atheltic enough to get things done just by pressuring the defense in the paint and have good enough shooters(Lewis/Elder/Morrow/Young/Oliver/Rice/I know I’m missing others) to keep defenses honest if they collapse.

The problem is how many times have you ever watched a Hewitt team in the last 5, 6, 7 years look like they have a game plan on offense? It’s rare. And whether it’s bad coaching or players who don’t follow the coaching, it still comes down to the coach selecting his players. He should be recruiting different players if they don’t do what he’s telling them to do. Also, GT has no idea how to apply full court pressure on defense or break full court pressure on offense. GT has no inbounds plays. Look at turnover numbers for GT the past 5, 6, 7 years, and they are terrible(another indication there is no offensive gameplan). To defend GT, either apply full court pressure or play a zone. GT will take care of the rest.

But really, the most important stat is winning and losing, and Hewitt isn’t getting it done in that metric.

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Hewitt Fan,
IF these guys get their feelings hurt reading anonymous comments on a sports blog, then we don’t want them at our school. Too bad…read any sports blog out there associated with ANY school and tell me it’s any different.

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Hewitt Fan, Favors wouldn’t even have come to Tech if it wasn’t for NBA rule that everyone has to go to college for a year so please stop with Favors wanted to stay bs. Hewitt flat out couldn’t coach him up. He had no idea how to utilize both Favors and Lawal on same court. Those two guys were probably the dream front line of 99% of NCAA coaches. In retrospect, I feel bad for those guys, especially Gani. If they had gone to a school with a better coach, they would have won more games in college.

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@RambleOn84

ok just watch..Our PG is headed to Ohio State…He loved tech…He loved hewitt..he hated ACC refs…100% true

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Your points about no home games and even lower attendance next year are excellent. Maybe DRad should just let Paul Hewitt ride that horse and wait until the revamped arena is ready. Next year is a bust anyway.

All I can do now is hope the football team produces. Next year will be interesting to watch.

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@GoJackets!
i should not respond..but you are WRONG..The only reason he chose Tech was Hewitt…Gani hated the ACc refs..I know both wayyyy better than you…GT will never get another CELTIC..just watch..We love Hewitt, the guy can coach, we hate the ACC.

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The truth is, we don’t need great players right now at Tech. For whatever reason, whether you want to speculate that they are selfish or whether you want to speculate that Hewitt can’t develop them, they have not pushed our team over the top.

I happen to like Hewitt very much as a person and I have been pulling for him to turn things around. But the record speaks for itself. He just can’t cut it at this level, whatever the reason. I wish him the best wherever he goes, but the situation is so toxic right now that I can’t imagine he would want to stay anyway.

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maybe tech fans need to find dave braine’s house and storm the gates for signing the guy to a long term deal that included a stupid buyout that was way too high.

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@RambleOn84

I gurantee right now we have 3 or 4 NBA players on the Celtics..you should see Nick
Jacobs..A beast..Its not just Tech though..We hated how Hickson was done at NC state also..He could not take it any more…the ACC is going down,down down….

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The overall ACC record is bad enough. Take the last 52 games, over which the Jackets are something like 7-45, and things look even worse.

Regarding the buyout … Yes, it will cost 13.1 percent of the GTAA budget. That has to be weighed against what it will cost to keep him, which goes back to the attendance. Tech fans will vote with their wallets, which ultimately could cost more than the $7.2 million. I’d be shocked if Radakovich can’t quote that number off the top of his head. And if Hewitt is indeed fired after this season, we’ll know that it’s more than $7.2 million.

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richfan…Braine’s dead.

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ref’s is a non issue..period

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@RambleOn84
you are missing the whole point..How can you develop or put up great numbers if you are in constant foul trouble..Jevaris was a shut down defender..he average almost 8 steals a game..best on the ball defender we had since Darius Washington(Memphis), but in the ACC they always call reaching..And honsetly you have no problem with that?

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People who blame their problems on the refs are too immature to play big-boy basketball…maybe the refs you had in your little league just let him get away with reaching in because he was a star.

If you want to show a tape of every play and assess them one-by-one, fine…I’m sure we can find plenty of bad calls, as you can at every level of basketball. But for you to claim that the refs were just out to get him or somehow don’t know the rules of the game is preposterous.

These refs are professionals and the ACC takes basketball very seriously. If they were as consistently bad as you claim, they wouldn’t have jobs.

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Doug,
I usually agree with most of your posts, but Dude you are way off on this one.

Hewitt is not only a mediocre coach, he has an arrogant attitude towards the fan base. He has lost the fans, lost the alumni, lost the students, lost the faculty, lost the team, and lost more games than anyone since Coach Morris. Now he needs to lose his job!

BTW I believe that the chaos of next year’s home games can be viewed as a plus for a new coach, it basically give him a year to build the program without the pressure to fill the stadium.

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Keep Hewitt until Chan is paid off. Then use that payment to fire Hewit.
The program cannot sink any lower. What is one more year?

When it is all ocer, I wonder what will be the total negative financial impact of Dave Braine to Tech?

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People keep talking about Hewitt’s ACC record, especially the last 5 3/4 years. But here is another amazing statistic. Since the beginning of the 05/06 season, we are 91-91 overall. Every year we play the majority of our games at home, play at least 8 games against teams like Niagra, Albany, or Arkansas Pine-Bluff, and over the last nearly 6 seasons we are a .500 team. If that doesn’t say it all I don’t know what does. Hewitt is in a field that is very results oriented, and the results are there for everyone to see.

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True, Gordon…we aren’t even beating the Little Sisters of the Poor consistently anymore…that is pathetic for ANY major conference team, much less one playing in the best conference in the land.

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Who really cares if he would stay have stayed or not…we’re looking at an entire body of work as evidence to why he should be fired. He’s got the worst record in the league since the conference expanded. WORST. The kid left school and made millions…I’m sure he really wishes he was back at Tech when he’s riding around in his Bentley…yeah right.

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Well I guess the lesson in all of this is that the “automatically renewing” contract is a horrible, horrible, horrible idea. I wasn’t a Tech fan at the time because I wasn’t yet a student… but jeez, I can’t imagine he did anything to deserve THAT kind of contract, and he certainly hasn’t done squat since that one run to prove it was anything other than a horrific idea.

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@Mark in ATL

i am done bloggin ..you guys are idiots..Keep believing that coaches are the stars of NCCA basketball…Get ready for a long 10 year period at GT..No Celtic will be at GT ever again..And unless you are Duke you have to have talent to win…

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hewitt fan
you and that other guy, the only two fans of blewitt out there, go play with your guns
everyone knew he was one and done you stupid idiot so stfu.
blaming the refs is the most asinine excuse to give. he left for the money moron. something you likely don’t have! whap..that sound was you getting slapped in the face loser.

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Sorry Doug, but you’re way off the mark. Here are the real reasons for firing Hewitt:

1. The team is non competitive.
2. The Offense looks like a clogged toilet.
3. The defense looks like the stuff in a clogged toilet.
4. The team has a garbage record in his tenure.
5. The school is losing money because the fan base doesn’t support him.
6. The players don’t play hard for him.
7. The team loses to inferior talent (Kennesaw and UNC Greensboro come to mind).

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Mark in ATL – good one dude lol

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@ga tech 92…..I’m sick of these arguments….when you have evidence in front of you that’s so obvious…

1. The guy can’t consistently win
2. The guy can’t create a program of winning…where one year builds on the next
3. The guy is all about one year wonders
4. The guy has lost the fan base…people don’t care and come any more
5. The guy only has a job because of his contract

These excuses are tired and old.

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@Hewitt fan: Don’t get me started on the corrupting influece that is AAU basketball. I’d rather do business with the MOB.

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Mark in ATL – I’m on your side bro. 3-4 years ago I quit my season tickets and started to be a Hewitt critic. 1-2 years ago I was just freaking amazed that the man still had a job and I became a fairly obnoxious blogger against Hewitt. 0-1 years ago I hit the ‘total apathy’ wall and basically gave up hope of anything ever happening, because any sane program would have fired him years ago. Now, I’ve got a sliver of hope again, but you must know as well as I that all your points were valid 4 years ago…3….2…1…yet here we still are…do we think this year is somehow different? They could have ‘nipped it in the bud’ before the die hards became apathetic about the program and it truely suffered. Yet…here we are. Is there some reason for us to believe he is going to be fired this year, if he wasn’t 1…2…3…4…years ago? Please say yes.

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@ga tech 92…there is one thing that has changed over the last few years that will impact him being here or not….the number of fans showing up at games and giving is down BIG TIME. A half full arena gets attention quickly.

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@Hewitt fan…..oh god please no…..your program has had such an incredible impact here at GT….please no…..you’ve given us so many all americans that have led to so many ACC titles and final fours…please say no.

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EVERYONE!!! Please raise your hand if you act like a victimized 13 year old middle school girl.

Hewitt Fan you can put yours down…..you smell.

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Wow, some little amateur league won’t send kids to Tech…we are officially ruined now. Might as well keep Hewitt…

ga tech 92,
Agreed completely. I don’t really care for Coach K personally (he has a dirty mouth and does not seem like a very nice man at all), but the man can COACH. It is no mistake that his teams are ALWAYS good, no matter the players. Hell, he could even shape the prima donnas on the US Basketball Team into a real team…and when he did, was anyone surprised? THAT is the mark of a great coach.

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Here’s the bottom line on the Atlanta celtics program…..YOU CAN KEEP ‘EM!!!!

I can think of no less than 9 or 10 players who went directly to the NBA, and I’m counting Favors and the other “one and done” kids who were always open BEFORE THEY WERE FORCED TO GO TO COLLEGE FOR ONE YEAR about their plans of getting to the NBA as soon as humanly possible.

Now should the Celtics go back to what the organization was 10 years ago and produce players the likes of Elder and Muhammad I’d be more than happy to change my tune. But today it’s nothing but a giant money grab minor league for the NBA….and you can have. Not one…NOT ONE…Celtics alum has won a National Championship and the kids at Tech in 2004 are the only ones I can think of who’ve played for one.

I want kids who want to play in college. THOSE ARE THE PROGRAMS THAT WIN!!! The Calipari’s of the world WILL NEVER get a Championship in this day and age unless they trip over it……like Hewitt almost did in ‘04.

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agt45, it anin’t about how your players do in the pros, it’s about winning college basketball games and graduating your kids. Hewitt’s done neither. time’s up.

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Be gone Hewitt!

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@Hewitt fan….send your kids other places then….best of luck to you and your kids. I wish them the best. If this isn’t the best place for them I’m sure they can find another for one year before they head to the NBA.

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@clay

You are angry and its because you are broke…Only broke white boys talk like you do..I stay in a white neighborhood I know my neighbors….White people with money dont talk like that..I have always felt if you are white and broke, you should kill yourself….no excuse…everything is handed on a platter to you and you still didnt make it..lol…We need a janitor to clean up our gym…

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Now that I think about it maybe the problem IS the Atlanta Celtics. They’ve never sent anyone to Duke. UNC. Florida. Michigan State, Kansas, UCONN, or Ohio State. Hmmmmm, maybe Hewitt really SHOULD go and take the freakin Celtics WITH HIM!!!!

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Did Mr. Anderson say something?

No? Must have been someone’s gas. Sorry for the confusion.

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here we go that the reason we want to get rid of Paul is about his race…not the fact that he losses consistently more than he wins…it’s about race. wow….

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warren, you and supporter need to play with your guns. pronto. don’t worry about any accidents. just fire away.

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My experience is that the first person to point the ‘r-word’ finger, is ironically the true r-word. Three fingers pointing back. No GT fan I’ve ever known cares what color the man is.

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Gailey is being paid from donated funds, not the GTAA operating budget.

That is where the Hewitt money will have to come from too.

If he isn’t gone, just prepare for about 1000 average attendance next year and 2-4k to open the new arena after that.

It is going to cost more in lost attendance than the buyout and the longer you wait, the longer it will take for the fans to come back. They find out that they can do without the product if they are away from it for long enought.

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Doug

If good writing is measured by the amount of response, you deserve a Pulitzer.

I agree with your points and I thank you for keeping the subject out there.

DRad needs to be reminded everyday until March 15, he has wasted years and cannot afford to let this contract rollover again.

A sports fan wants to start every season with HOPE that their team can compete and achieve success no matter the odds. Hewitt killed that hope in the fan base, years ago, for all the reasons you listed, plus many more.

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Ahh is a guy from the Celtics upset that gt fans no longer support the inept coach hewitt. Ahh.
That’s been the problem all along. Fire hewitt hire a competent coach and start recruiting kids who are motivated and let the celtic virus plague another school.

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I’ll cut CPH some slack on Crittenton leaving early. That’s the one that caught just about everybody by surprise. But Favors and Young … he knew he’d have them for a year and that’s it.
And what about the damage the one and dones do to the APR?

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Every so often, you have to win one your not supposed to. GT never does that anymore. On the flip side they lose all that they are supposed to. I think they resign themselves to that point too easlily. That is an attitude problem and comes from the top.

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Could Hewitt Fan really be Paul Hewitt?

I wouldn’t put it pass him. He kind of acts like him. Jealous of Coach K and talking up his NBA thugs he’s brought through GT for one year.

We know he’s not working on a game plan for UV.

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are you kidding me ? really? seriously? the last class act to grace our hardwood floor was bobby IMO.

phew is NO bobby.

as much as most folks love bobby they hate phew. if i had my way i would rename all the toilets at the new arena after phew and his clogged toilet offense. ‘ be right back i have to take a dump on paul’ has a fitting ring to it.

maybe my definition of a class act is different than some folks….

by my definition a class act would have stepped down (like bobby did ) or would have gone to st johns last year instead of continuing to drag the program through the muck like phew is now.

he put us on probation with nothing to show for it. And we have been made to look like a laughing stock on espn on more than one occasion.

after investing almost 30 million on this poor excuse of a coach over 11 years and he has the audacity to say his performance ok?

i call that CLASSLESS.

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If drad and donors just started betting against gt every week, he would have had enough to pay this leach off. gt favored by 5. take uva and the points. we need to get the announcers to comment on how empty the arena is too.

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All-Americans from ACC last 4 years
2010 Jon Scheyer Duke (2nd team) Greivis Vasquez MD (2nd)
2009 Tyler Hansborough UNC (1st team) Ty Lawson UNC (2nd team) Jeff Teague WF (2nd)
2008 Tyler Hansborough UNC (1st team)
2007 Tyler Hansborough UNC (1st team) Jared Dudley BC (2nd team)

According to Hewitt Fan only Duke and UNC have good players

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Doug the tech homer srikes again. To defend this coach’s record in the ACC, and to defend this coaches record in road games is a joke. This guy has been a total failure in every category, from player development, to winning % in ACC, to winning % on the road, to bench coach during games. Oh, he does get one out of every 10 top players in Atlanta every year, so i guess you can say he is not a total failure in recruiting. But tech homers are not in touch with reality, so wouldn’t expect much more from your blogs. But to compare this clown to Dean Smith, Coach K, or Roy Williams is unusual even for a tech homer.Why didn’t you compare his winning% in the ACC, or his winning % in road games to these other coaches? I guess that is too much to ask from a Tech homer. Next you will be defending CPJ and his great recruiting ability, and compare him to Jimbo Fisher’s, and Dabo’s recruiting abilities.

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Tech Forever
“K doesn’t recruit players he thinks there’s a chance of losing to the NBA after one year, or even 2 years”

You can’t be serious. Everyone and his brother knew that Kyrie Irving was never going to last more than 2 years. And have you heard of a guy named John Wall? – went to Garner HS in SE Raleigh, transferred to Word of God in Durham? Coach K went hard after him and made a scholarship offer

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Tech Forever
We do agree on one point – GT needs a new HC

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Paid attendance may be similar (slightly lower) than Cremins’s final season, but actual attendance is MUCH lower now.

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Honestly, I don’t think anyone Tech hires next could do worse than 3-13, probably 4-12 in ACC next year.

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1) Doug, I don’t see why you think that players in the NBA matters. Hewitt’s job isn’t to make players NBA ready. His job is to put an excellent product on the court and win for us. So when players suddenly seem explosive in the NBA, we question why the hell he couldn’t get that out of them here.

Lets look at team free throw percentage. We are consistently terrible in this area and while improving in recent years, still shoot a meager 70%. If Rice and Udofia were 80% from the line, the team would be at 75%. If we add in Shumpert and want 85% from them, we improve to 78%. Did I mention those guys are guards?

Why is it that the offense continues to look lost yearly? Or they struggle with decision making? Where is the defensive intensity that we had with Elder, Jack, and co? Some many little things just show up as signs of consistent lack of development.

2) You can’t build a program when some positions are just a revolving door. Look at point guard play – we’ve got a natural two guard trying to run an offense. Miller looks just as good numberwise and isn’t getting as many chances where as Udofia gets more minutes and is worse – bad A/T, miserable FT%. Schenscher took time to develop and he made huge strides in time. Same for Mario West. It starts to make you wonder if recent players WANT to win.

Constantly in interviews, he makes comments about how we’re a young team. It gets old – build an older team with players that stick around and then, play them. I have other thoughts about recruitment but they would not be well received.

3) It’s really about the 1 winning season in conference. I used to consider the ACC the best conference in basketball with the Big East a close number 2. Well considering the ACC has gotten worse in quality recently, we should be even more competitive. But we aren’t. And we can’t win on the road.

But Hewitt also has a weak (IMO) 70% success in non-conference games. Losses like Kennesaw, Sienna, or Charlotte just leave you confused. It’s happened other years as well.

I think Hewitt could have rebuild faith in the program in one of two ways. One, fire some assistant coaches. Two, renegotiate the contract. I think the latter would at least rebuild a little respect on the end of some of the fans. The former at least suggest he wants to try something new.

While I think fan numbers are an indicator of performance, Tech (and Atlanta) fans are the most fair-weathery fans out there. When you have a winning product, people want to see you. When you struggle, they just stop caring.

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Paul in RDU

You keep arguing against an example I used to make a point instead of arguing against the point I’m making. Fine, let’s say you’re right and K is as bad a recruiter as Hewitt when it comes to going after players he knows will leave early. I used a bad example in chosing K, but I used a good one in chosing Turgeon. The question is do you agree with the overall point I’m making or not? If not that’s fine, say so, but to argue that K is a bad example is about as deep as a tablespoon. It’s like me saying ‘that car over there is red” and you responding with “that car over there isn’t red, it’s candy apple.”

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Tech Forever
My point is that these days many top coaches go after players who are just getting ready for the NBA – you need these guys to win. Coach K is a great coach who knows how to build a team and he goes after 1 and dones as necessary. Ole Roy does the same (ever hear of Marvin Williams, Ed Davis, Harrison Barnes?). Jim Boeheim, Thad Matta, Jim Calhoun, etc. all have had their early leavers. Calipari is in a league of his own (one that I am glad is not emulated at GT).
Hewitt’s problems are much deeper than losing some early entrants to the NBA – “our team is young” is just an excuse for poor performance from the HC.

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There are no fans who love Tech basketball more than my friends and myself! From Hyder to Morrison to Cremins to Hewitt we have been there through all the ups and downs! We were excited when Coach Hewitt came to town and promised an uptempo offense with a pressure defense all over the floor and using his bench to wear down other teams! With the exception of the North Carolina game, where is any of this? No one believes we should win the ACC every year, but it would be nice to win a road game once in a while! The Tech philosophy is that you COMPETE and Coach Hewitt’s teams do not consistently do that for more than ten minutes a game! We are tired of the excuses(”We only have two scorers.” Give me a break!). It is too frustrating and depressing to go down there night after night and see them lose because they play bad AAU basketball! They do not rebound, play defense, move, or shoot free throws well! Coach Hewitt is retired in the position and is not earning his money! I have a VIP season ticket package in football, which I have renewed, but the athletic association has been told that the day after Coach Hewitt leaves, I will buy two possibly four or a VIP season ticket package! All my friends will buy too as long as they do not hire a crook like Calipari or Pearl. We will also show up in Gwinnett or Philips or any place they play as long as the change is made! My family and I would love to be at the Virginia game tonight, but we will not go as long as Coach Hewitt is the coach. It is the only way to make the point! It has been a miserable year for basketball in Atlanta with Tech and the Hawks playing so poorly and I hope next season is better!

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Dougie boy, you don’t Tech fans at all. We know we are more like Vanderbilt in basketball than UNC, but we also know that in recruiting kids that fit the Tech mold or meet Tech academic standards, Hewitt is doing both the kids and the school a disservice. Miller is the first white or hispanic kid in YEARS to get any significant playing time……at a top tier university….are you kidding me. No one will say it, but almost everyone can see it: Hewitt is a black racist.

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Amen, Veteran Jacket. and as far as WilsonD’s comments go, I don’t know what’s in Hewitt’s heart but everyone can see who’s on his team, and who plays.

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Paul Hewitt will be fired on or before March 14th. I know that for a fact. There has been initial talk with Hewitt. I know that for a fact.

Also a fact, the ACC is not among the top 5 rated conferences over the last two years and is slipping further. This year the ACC collectively lost 51 non-conference games before Jan. 1st. Last year they couldn’t even get a 10-6 team with 23 total wins into the dance. Embarrassing. Even more embarrassing is that Hewitt can’t win in a weak conference. That says just about all that needs to be said.

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Doug — I’m a UGA grad/guy so I’m not “vested” in the outcome however I see it much the same way you do. Some of the criticism leveled at Coach Hewitt is probably valid. Some probably isn’t. Some may be but maybe nobody knows.

However it’s becoming an untenable situation. When the fan base is fractured and attendance is down, then that’s when things go to hades in a hand-basket.

Teams can withstand losing however schools cannot abide empty seats for very long. It’s two different sports but empty seats are exactly what put the nails in Phil Fulmer’s and Randy Shannon’s coffins at their schools.

I’m afraid, for Tech, that this is the period of diminishing returns in retaining their coach. However, Tech is a quality institution and will hire a quality coach if they make a change.

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OK guys this is tech basketball & Hewitt is 4-7 vs UGA & 0-2 vs Coach Fox! I promise if you keep him you’re gonna get more of the same!!! What planet is Hewitt fan from?? Ranting about the officials….come on dude!!

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in 2006 FSU stood up for their program and not they get a fair chance every time
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The referees who worked the Florida State-Duke game were suspended for one game Monday for what the league said was an unnecessary technical foul on a Seminoles player.

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@clay
You said the GREAT ATLANTA CELTICS are a gang lol…no most who come through our program go on to make millions playing Bball or get a free education at good school
@Paul in RDU My point has been made , no 1st team All americans from any other school but Duke and NC…

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Just win a game please..

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@Travis

No team can win without talent except Duke…i wonder why..At least Nc has had some talent..other than brand,boozer, and Maggette, all duke players have been bust..how the hell does Sheldon williams dominate the ACC with no talent..the refs

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in the Acc conference title game last year Gt was bigger,faster,stronger and more skilled so….the refs put duke on the line…a lot!
…..It was fitting that Duke punctuated the game at the free throw line. The Blue Devils made 24 of 28 free throws, including 21 of 23 in the second half to offset a 6-of-22 (27 percent) shooting performance after the break and keep the Yellow Jackets in catch-up mode almost all game.
Singler shot just 3 of 15 from the field, though he did make 14 of 16 free throws — the 14 were a championship-game record — and finished with six rebounds.

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@Dadgum……

How can a team full of guys who cannot play win 9 out of 12 ACC titles? the refs..Just think people..coach K is not god..In the last Gt duke game, coach K got a tech on a play that was clearly a foul..I knew the game was over

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Hewitt Fan, Duan Dixon in 2002, Josh Howard in 2003, and Chris Paul in 2005 were All American 1st team.

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This years Duke game was over before they boarded the plane to Durham.

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Anthony Morrow in 3 years at Tech: 11.4 career PPG. 42.1% 3PT shooting.
Anthony Morrow in 3 years in the NBA: 11.8 career PPG. 45.5% 3PT shooting.

How does this guy only score 11.4 per game in his CAREER at Tech? Sounds like a coaching problem.

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@RAMBLE ON!!!

I know you are tired of hearing these facts

@GoJackets!
Man you had to go back far!

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Okay. So this past 4 years only Hansborough was an All American 1st team from ACC. I don’t see why it matters anyway. So UNC and Duke get a lot of talented players. Tech has too recently. While UNC and Duke actually go win Championships with those players, Tech has trouble getting to .500 and lose to Kennesaw State and the kind.

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Yeah Hewitt Fan, like the fact Gary Williams has a losing ACC record.

Or some yahoo from ESPN said Hewitt turned down the St. John offer.

I still waiting Hewitt Fan for how much money it was that St. Johns offer Phewitt.

Give me some facts, you can’t, you are a LIAR…and a idiot.

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Here’s the bottom line for me; read or listen to any impartial college basketball analyst, and you’ll hear words like “underachieving”, “undisciplined”, “out of control”, etc., etc. to describe the GT basketball team. (Of course, my favorite writer, Bill Simmons of ESPN, called Hewitt’s offense the “clogged toilet” offense, which was a tone-perfect phrase.) Not that they have bad attitudes, or don’t care, but that they are poorly coached. Period.

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@RAMBLE ON!!!
Republicans always run from the truth..you and I both know st johns offered him..so.stfu..gary williams has 2WINNING SEASONS in the last 7 years moron..can you read….500 is not winnning …you are retarded
2003–2004 Maryland 20–12 7–9 T–6th NCAA 2nd Round
2004–2005 Maryland 19–13 7–9 T–6th NIT Semifinals
2005–2006 Maryland 19–13 8–8 6th NIT 1st Round
2006–2007 Maryland 25–9 10–6 T–3rd NCAA 2nd Round
2007–2008 Maryland 19–15 8–8 T–5th NIT 2nd Round
2008–2009 Maryland 21–14 7–9 T–7th NCAA 2nd Round
2009–2010 Maryland 24–9 13–3 T–1st NCAA 2nd Round

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Georgia Tech’s Paul Hewitt turned down an offer to coach St. John’s, telling university officials Thursday he will remain with the Yellow Jackets after conferring with his family about its desire to stay in Atlanta.

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Hewitt Fan, that’s still a winning ACC record in that time period. 60-52 in 7 seasons. Meanwhile, Hewitt went 45-67 in same period. Do you know how many NBA talents Tech had while Maryland had maybe one or two players NBA even looked at? I’d be more than happy if Tech can have someone like Gary Williams as a coach.

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Clearly Phewitt Fan can’t read either. I said Gary Williams had a winning ACC record. I went back just to make sure that’s what I said, and of course it was.

So, yes, another example how big of a LIAR you are…must come from being a democrat, huh?

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Doug It’s much too late to discuss the fate of CPH. He’s history! Great guy-below average coach. It’s time to move on.

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I have a question for everyone saying “he’s history”. He should have been history, clearly, for 3-4 years now. He should have been history so long ago, that I gave up hope that sanity would take place. Why is it that “this year he’s history”? Attendance has been in decline for years…his coaching or lack there of has been cleary articulated ad nausium on these blogs for years…the money cost more today than it would have 3-4 years ago…why do you think it will happen now if it didn’t happen when it would have been cheaper 3-4 years ago? (”Cheaper” because we wouldn’t have paid him for 3-4 years PLUS the buy out, we would have just paid the buy out.)

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@ga tech 92………..DRad isn’t an idiot. Just go back to Gailey’s last year with the football program. Dissatisfaction was so bad with the program that last year it almost swallowed Radakovich alive. He listened and heard all the disaproval and made the necessary change. This year is strikingly similar to the Gailey issue in that fans are constantly calling for the ax on Hewitt and I think he will finally do the necessary deed and cut Hewitt loose.

I better knock on wood because I say that now and he probably won’t fire him at seasons end.

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ga tech 92, attendance has been in decline for years but it wasn’t this bad. It’s embarrassing to watch Tech games on TV. It’s barely 1/4 full. According to the public record, Tech basketball was still pulling $6 mil+ in revenue in 2009. Fans stopped showing and now sponsors are realizing it’s not worth spending money for this team as no one will see.

You never want to be the bad guy by firing someone who still took the team to only Championship game just after 2, 3 years. Add his roll over contract. You couldn’t just let him go. Everybody still wanted him to succeed knowing that, especially last year. Let’s give him one more year with top 3 recruiting class in addition to 2 All American talents. But the team went 7-9 and bounced off in 2nd game. This season you know what’s happened so far.

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Smoove Criminal – I’ve described it for years as “they won in spite of Hewitt”. Think back to that team…even they didn’t run a smooth offense either…it was fastbreak, one on one, or nothing…no offensive system to speak of that I could see. It felt like a turnover was possible any given second and that we would have to get steals/rebounds/fastbreak to get any points. Fortunately, those guys played crazy good D and hustled most teams out of the building…and had a couple on-the-floor leaders, as you pointed out.

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Smoove Criminal. In retrospect, yes it was a fluke year that resulted in the worst contract given out in NCAA history. It would have been little more bearable if Tech actually beat UCONN. It wasn’t even a close game. Still every Tech fan was hoping he could bring in another magical season or two. Everybody got fooled. But now I think everybody reached to a point it’s not just worth having him around.

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The AD who hired Heisman knew something.
All our ADs since seldon can recognize coaching skill.
If Tech’s other basketball coaches were any good, why do we have so few final four appearances?
It because you accept how lousy they were as coaches ansd remember them fondly for some reason beyond me.

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“Since many of you seem to think Tech should be the equivalent of North Carolina in basketball (and I can’t think of two schools that are more different)”

Not sure if this statement is regarding academics or not, but UNC, Duke and Tech are all great schools academically. Sure, maybe UNC offers a few more “right-brained” options course-wise, but all three schools admissions standards are pretty high (I know those same standards do not pertain to athletes). I just thought all three institutions were probably fairly equal academically, am I right? UNC may be just a tad behind both, but I can’t imagine it’s too far behind to the degree to say it’s completely different from Tech (other than Tech being an engineering school). Sorry, I’m a UGA grad just throwing in my two cents on this particular passage. I’m not trying to get ridiculed here.

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Your attempts at defending Hewitt and keeping him around are laughable. It seems that whenever someone mentions Tech’s 3 losing seasons in 4 years, 5 in 11 seasons, and atrocious ACC record, the typical apologist response is, “You expect Tech to be UNC, Duke, etc.”, when I have still never come across a person who expects anything close to that out of Tech.

You also mention that there are several coaches that have done less with more talent than Hewitt. Please name at least 1 or 2, because off of the top of my head I am really having a difficult time coming up with them.

With the revenue lost because nobody is showing up or really cares, at some point the decision has to be made that we can actually save money by cutting the cord now, since it is absolutely inevitable at some point in the future.

There really are no decent reasons to keep Hewitt around, unless GT simply can not come up with the 7.2 million.

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@Ramble on!!!
Are you retarded? Why offer when he said no thanks, they were very interested, it was clearly his job to lose he turned it down…damn you are a moron…On Gary Williams..either way you look at it its 2 WINNING SEASONS in 7 years.that is not good..4 ncaa apperances in seven years..Hewitt has done the same thing dummy ….no way around it….oh yeah GT WILL NEVER EVER GET ANOTHER ATLANTA CELTIC….just watch.last time we said no more, your hero Cremins was out of a job very quickly..We are the key to GT having any chance to win…we are teaching parents how the ACC really is…..
2003–2004 Georgia Tech 28–10 9–7 T–3rd NCAA Runner-up
2004–2005 Georgia Tech 20–12 8–8 T–4th NCAA 2nd Round
2005–2006 Georgia Tech 11–17 4–12 T–10th
2006–2007 Georgia Tech 20–12 8–8 T–6th NCAA 1st Round
2007–2008 Georgia Tech 15–17 7–9 T–7th
2008–2009 Georgia Tech 11–17 2–14 12th
2009–2010 Georgia Tech 23–13 7–9 7th NCAA 2nd Round

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The problem with Hewitt is basic: he’s not a good strategic coach. Last year is the high water mark for Tech talent-wise; that’s about the best we can hope for. But with two elite bigs, what does Hewitt do? Play the same crazy scrambling high-turnover low-efficiency game as always. He has no ability to change coaching strategies based on his talent. Last year we should have slowed down on offense, fed Gani and Derrick. Defense could have then slowed down, allowing Gani and Derrick to establish a defensive presence in the post.

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Hey Hewitt Man; Listen to what Greg Anthony, who knows a little basketball, has to say about Hewitt.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/video/college-basketball/Hewitt-on-the-hot-seat-1082989;_ylt=AuHurFz_9pCJ4HsP7uV5XW_evbYF

And,

Rivals yahoo write up on Tech: Georgia Tech – The Yellow Jackets were able to beat North Carolina and Virginia Tech at home – but not Clemson and Maryland. That kind of inconsistency is a sign of poor coaching. Paul Hewitt’s squad should be much better than this.

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Hire Jarrett Jack to be the main assistant coach when he is ready to retire from the NBA. He already lives in the Atlanta area and really knows basketball.

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I couldn’t disagree more Jack Rabbit. Why in the world would you keep a coach with Hewitt’s record? Tech is a proud ACC member so why should they settle for mediocrity. Tech, winners of three ACC championships, and outside of Maryland, was one of the programs challenging the big boys, Duke & NC. Heck, Virginia has won only 1 ACC championship ever, Maryland 3,Wake Forest,4, and NC State has won 9. But, Tech has only been in the league since 1977 so Tech was having a major impact in the conference. Now, look at the state of their basketball program. No conference road wins this year and only one last year. Fans are staying home while Hewitt has won only 40% of his conference games. Hewitt must go so someone(anyone) else can have a shot at resurrecting this once proud program.

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TomB, where the %$#^ do you get the nerve to say “settle for mediocrity?” Their program epitomizes mediocrity. In the last 25 years, they’ve had one 10-win season in ACC play (Marbury’s season). In the last 21 years, they’ve had TWO winning seasons in ACC play – the Marbury season and a 9-7 clip in 2004. Tech fans need to get over themselves, and get over their delusions of what this program really accomplishes.

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@Old Fashioned

Dont worry GT will never ever get another Celtic and if you look back the best players to play at Gt have been mostly Celtics…..James Forrest, Tony Adkins,Ismail Muhammad,Jevaris Crittenton, Bj Elder…Derrick Favors, Gani Lawai….dont worry though Gt will never get another one..It has already been decided…Oh yeah most of our former players have wayyyyyy more money than you..so who cares if they can read!

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Hewitt Fan, The mighty Atlanta Celtics has a BACK-UP point guard from my sons team playing for them. VERY IMPRESSIVE. Also, do you really think you speak for ALL Atlanta Celtic players? Let’s see, a choice between an ACC school or lower level school. The refs aren’t fair so i won’t go to the ACC. Yeah right……

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Dadgum, I think you’re right on with an exit predicted by March 14th. Given the 30 days notice and rollover deadlines, etc., it should be done by then. Since my birthday is the 13th, I’m looking forward to blowing out the candles on the cake and on Hewitt’s career at the same time.

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Oh Paul! Paul! Time for you and Hewitt Fan to come down from that treehouse! What are you two guys doing up there anyway? Time to pick up another paycheck so I can go shopping!

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Wait just a second, let me get up off my knees. As you all know I am a great Atlanta Celtic which makes me an expert on all things basketball. From my lofty perch I can see that the ACC Refs are in a conspiracy against Paul Hewitt and my fellow Celtics. They also shot Kennedy and spread AIDS through urban America to start a race war, but that’s another blog. I just know that kneeling down before Coach Paul Hewitt is so rewarding and filling….

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I accept the head coaching job at Georgia Tech and look forward to continuing on the same way Paul Hewitt taught me… Let’s toast.

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Nice call on the poster saying to bet against them. Talk about easy money. I took uva and the points. 1k

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Yeah,the refs made our guys miss all of those foul shots! (How do they do this?)

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“the best players to play at Gt have been mostly Celtics…..James Forrest, Tony Adkins,Ismail Muhammad,Jevaris Crittenton, Bj Elder…Derrick Favors, Gani Lawai”

You can’t make this stuff up!. Not one of these “best players” has done anything in the NBA (unless you count Javaris “Quick Draw” Crittenton) – Favors may be different
Somehow GT managed to have some passable players who never played for the Atlanta Celtics – Mark Price, John Salley, Kenny Anderson, Dennis Scott, Stephon Marbury, Matt Harpring, Matt Geiger, Travis Best, Chris Bosh, Drew Barry, Jarret Jack, Anthony Morrow, Thaddeus Young

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Awesome game. They really stepped up! And that coach. Wow is he smart!
And those clutch shots. Those free throws are so hard to make! 46% is just amazing!
37% fg %! Man those celtics sure know how to teach them playas to shoot dat ball!

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@Paul in RDU — Or Favors may not be different. What does it say about the value of his “potential” that he was quickly shipped off for a guy so hard to deal with that Jerry Sloan was willing to quit to avoid dealing with him any longer? Yeah, I know, Deron is an all-star, etc. but he also looks like locker room poison. Maybe the most recent 1-and-done is the next bust.

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dont be stealing my lines…. i was the first to coin ‘quick draw’ for crit. hehehe

anybody notice the attendance at the end of the game? had to be no more than 500 fans in the seats.

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hewitt sucks!!!

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I was sure that either Hewitt (because he sucks) or Radakovich (because he wasn’t able to bring in a decent coach) would be gone after this year. I didn’t factor in the no-home-games-next-year factor though, and I think that will keep Hewitt and Radakovich here for one more year.

Tech will keep Hewitt around just like a baseball manager keeps a flailing pitcher in the game to throw the intentional walk before bringing in the next pitcher. You don’t want to start the new guy off in a position of weakness.

In the end though, Hewitt sucks and must go.

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Bailout….Hewitt is gone. For the very reasons you stated that is the perfect time for a change. No expectations, no pressure. Done deal.

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ken – You are a racist idiot.
Ever heard of Leonard Hamilton? Tubby Smith? Lenny Wilkins? Doc Rivers?

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There are no arguments..he needs to go as soon as possible. GT’s basketball is the joke of the ACC, State and Fans. Fire Hewitt before the program is completely dead………..

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for those fans who dont know what the thirller dome has been reduced to under paul hewitt see the picture at the end of the thread.

http://www.stingtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=749636#post749636

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These Dawgs ( Thuga’s) do a lot of talking don’t they..Let me see, I don’t think their football,
basketball or even baseball teams have been the cream of the crop in the SEC. Get new coaches
in every sport and for sure bring back Ray Goff. THUGA’s

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I will gladly chip in a few hundred bucks to pay him to leave.

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@Paul in RDU

“You can’t make this stuff up!. Not one of these “best players” has done anything in the NBA (unless you count Javaris “Quick Draw” Crittenton) – Favors may be different
Somehow GT managed to have some passable players who never played for the Atlanta Celtics – Mark Price, John Salley, Kenny Anderson, Dennis Scott, Stephon Marbury, Matt Harpring, Matt Geiger, Travis Best, Chris Bosh, Drew Barry, Jarret Jack, Anthony Morrow, Thaddeus Young”

Atlanta Celtics have Done nothing in the pros?Dwight Howard,Joe Johnson(yes Joe was a Celtic)Travis Outlaw..Amare( yes he is a celtic)Josh smith all have been pretty good sir..All the Celtics that went to GT are playing pro BALL making pretty good money.I see nothing wrong with that..Favors was just the center piece of a deal for DARREN WILLIAMS…oh yeah i forgot BJ, and Ismail have degrees and are playing bball…but Hewitt graduating players and keeping them out of trouble mean nothing to “GT Fans”

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Who gives a flying F what they do in the NBA? We’re talking Georgia Tech hoops.

And Hewitt graduating players does matter to GT fans, and that’s another great reason to run his underachieving ass out of here. Besides the won/loss record, Tech’s APR for the basketball team is another embarrassment to the Institute.

Tell us Oh Great Celtic, how did the ref’s cause Tech to lose to UVA, even though we were AT HOME for God’s sake?

Do us all a favor and just stop posting like you said you were going to.
If you’re truly a representative of the Celtic’s (which I seriously doubt), I hope Tech never gets another player you’ve had anything to do with.

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What does the last good big man in the ACC have to do with Hewitt’s won/loss record or APR…….

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

From what I hear, Favor’s never went to class, so he wasn’t going to be at Tech another year either way.

Take your bull*&^% back where you came from. You and your group will be a great fit at UGA. And please (Please God hear my prayer!!!!)take Phew with you when you go! And for the record, you’re the only one throwing race around.

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Hewitt Fan

A good big man playing in the ACC who isn’t at Duke or UNC?
Just in the last couple of yeara there have been Alabi (FSU), Tracy Smith (NCSU), Booker (CU), Jordan Williams (MD)
And have you forgotten Favors and Lawal already?
How about Chris Singleton at FSU? You should know about him because he is an ex-Atlanta Celtic. I thought no Atlanta Celtics wanted to play in the ACC or is it just not at GT?

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@Paul in RDU
all those guys were good, but none dominated…I remember Draft night last year, when Alabi was drafted, Van gundy said ” the ACC refs were not kind to Alabi” he stayed in foul trouble and it hurt his development….. Singleton is more of an wing than a post player…Chris came out before Favors..I said no more Celtics will play in the ACC..maybe one, but its other factors with this kid..i refuse to throw him or the program under the bus..if you know what i mean…..Favors is a rookie and has a bright future,Gani will produce eventually.. Jevaris was in the Pau Gasol trade then he had the incident with Arenas..So i guess you are right….

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Well, when the guy (Hewitt) only has two or three people on here supporting him in any way, that says enough. The fact that attendance is so dismal says it all, Hewitt’s record speaks volumes.

The guy needs to go. Unless “Hewitt Fan” wants to pay all of the related costs that these empty seats cost GT, he really needs to be quiet.

The bottom line is attendance. It has been shrinking under Hewitt. He is losing his customers. It is a sad thing to see Alexander so empty. I was in School from 85-89 and going to b’ball games was a real focus.

Hewitt might be a good coach, but he hasn’t shown it, IMO, for many years. While he acheived financial stability with the contract from Braineless, he also acheived professional stagnation. In my opinion, that lifetime contract gave him no reason to excel and grow as a coach. He has been too stuborn to hire good assistants or to change anything because he doesn’t have to. He has no incentive to do well other than self pride. Well, obviously that is not enough.

I lost all respect for the man when he came out and said he would hire a less qualified black assistant over a more qualified white assistant as he thought it was his duty to give those kids more of a chance since their background probably did not lend itself to getting those chances on their own. Well, he had his lifetime contract, so there really was no cost to him to do that. He is the definition of reverse discrimination. The black vs. white does not bother me. It’s the fact that he openly said this and that he had absolutely no consideration for what might be in the best interest of his customers, us. His contract terms allow him to consider his own interests first while also allowing him to completely ignore those of his customers.

He may be a great coach someday, but it isn’t going to be at GT under these contract terms. He has no reason to be any better.

As for the ACC refs…we play other teams besides UNC and Duke to similar results. If you think they just don’t like Hewitt, well, getting rid of Hewitt solves that problem as well.

As for Hewitt being “in demand” because ST. John’s made him an offer, just how does that offer compare to his deal at GT. If I am in his shoes, I would be thinking “GT has got to fire me soon the way I am doing my job, so they will be paying me for five years. I can get another salary and still get the money from GT when they fire me, ala Chan Gailey.” St. John’s making him an offer that he turns down only means that his current deal at GT is too good to leave voluntarily. Hewitt is a crook.

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Go get the Butler coach

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