Brian Gregory under the gun?
Sports Illustrated writer Seth Davis gave his thoughts on this year’s crop of basketball coaching hires and put Tech’s Brian Gregory in the category of “under the gun.”
Davis’ rationale was that Gregory doesn’t have recruiting ties to the South and also “the Yellow Jackets are going to be really bad next year.” That said, he also wrote that “I believe Gregory will do a very good job at Georgia Tech because I have known him for a long time and have seen him in action.”
Facing pressure from the jump
He also said it would help that it would help his cause if he could sign a prominent local recruit to assuage the fan base, which I don’t think will happen this year (not including Milton’s Julian Royal).
He could have also included that Tech will be playing games at Philips and Gwinnett arenas. It probably bears mention that Gregory addressed the recruiting ties issue by hiring two coaches, Josh Postorino and Chad Dollar, with strong ties to the area.
Unrelated, but interesting. Using something called the Efficient Production Index – a formula rating players on their per-possession production — the ACC Sports Journal found Iman Shumpert to be among the most underrated players in the league last season. Shumpert had the second-highest EPI but was second-team All-ACC.
EPI is fairly proficient at identifying top players. Past players with the highest RPI in the ACC were Greivis Vasquez, Tyler Hansbrough, Al Thornton and J.J. Redick.
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63 comments Add your comment
george burdell
April 27th, 2011
12:45 pm
Come on Seth – don’t make such stupid remarks….
greattobeafuzzybee
April 27th, 2011
12:47 pm
He hasn’t even coached his first game yet and he is under the gun?
What are you a dumba** or a uga grad?
FullMetalJacket
April 27th, 2011
1:10 pm
I have modest expectations for next year but I think the SI piece is way off in suggesting the Jackets will be “really bad.” Gregory is a good coach and there is some talent coming back. Iman is the key between a .500 year and a tourney appearance…. With a lesser coach and lesser talent, SI might be right, but they underestimate our current players’ ability to adapt to the new coach and system.
Dave Braine
April 27th, 2011
2:14 pm
I think you should proofread your blog.
michael
April 27th, 2011
4:37 pm
we’ll be fine for three or so years but it’s all a wash. kids, kids, kids…..
Jack SQUAAAT!...
April 27th, 2011
4:57 pm
That’s what Seth Davis knows!
Who did Mr. Davis have in his final 4, since he’s such a NCAA BB genius?
“Under the Gun” … “Really bad next year” ……. Seth, send me the Powerball #s for Friday’s drawing please.
Phil
April 27th, 2011
4:59 pm
Our non recruiting stone age football coach Paul Johnson is under the gun.He is gone after this season!!!AND GOOD RIDDENCE TO THE NON RECRUITING STONE AGE IDIOT!!!!!!
QB/DB
April 27th, 2011
5:53 pm
I don’t thinl Coach knows what he is getting into in the ACC. North Carolina will have more talent then some Pro teams next year and Duke will be DUKE. The coaching changes in the ACC will increase the competition. Coach must recruit Ga. and get kids nationally from New York, Chicago, New Jersey, Ohio and Ind but so far he is just concentrating on Ga. GT is just a beast and a back-up PG away from next season being very competitive. But Coach keeps talking about 2012 recruits in Ga. He has to get off to a great start for the fan base to get electric, he has to go hard for a few 2011 prospects to round out this squad. Hewitt was a great man and a godd Coach, Gregory needs to prove he can do better if GT truly wants to get the metro area excited and not just the GT alums who look through gold colored glasses!
Milledgeville Dawg
April 27th, 2011
7:38 pm
What a stupid comment.
Jack
April 27th, 2011
10:30 pm
Really bad next year? Doesn’t; he mean this year. can’t be any worse than this past season and blewitt’s record in the acc since 05 which is the WORST in the conference
Butts Wagner
April 27th, 2011
11:17 pm
This is an interesting post and shows just how much potential Tech has as a bball program and how much talent GT has had over the past 20 years.
Mark Richt's tanning salon
April 28th, 2011
10:30 am
Give the man a chance, he hasn’t even started coaching yet! I think he will do great things, just watch.
TechRon
April 30th, 2011
5:09 pm
Here is a very common game situation: You have the ball out under your offensive basket. There are ten seconds left. You are down by one basket or tied. You have to score. Tell me why, year after year, I could teach 9-10-11 year old kids 4 different in bounds plays that will get at least one man wide open for a shot and Tech could never do that under Cremins or Hewitt? Because I don’t think either one of them really coached the team on gameday. I think they recruited great players and watched them play. Both ran into trouble when the great players started bolting for the NBA too soon. Then they were forced to coach and they could not (or would not) do that. I pray the new guy is a little better.