Tech’s Oliver to transfer
Georgia Tech basketball player Brian Oliver will transfer, leaving the Yellow Jackets with eight scholarship players for coach Brian Gregory’s first season.
In a press release issued by the school, Oliver, a forward, did not give a reason for leaving Tech.
“We are very appreciative of the two years Brian gave Georgia Tech and this basketball program,” Gregory said in a statement. “Brian is a talented young man and will do well, athletically as well as academically, wherever he lands. We wish him nothing but the best.”
Had Oliver returned, playing opportunity almost certainly wouldn’t have been a problem. Oliver was the third-leading scorer on last year’s team at 10.5 points behind Iman Shumpert (who left school for the NBA draft) and Glen Rice Jr. Further, Tech returns just one other forward, Kammeon Holsey. Incoming freshman Julian Royal, from Milton High, is the only other forward on the roster.
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GTPhenom
June 16th, 2011
6:29 pm
I’m not really sure where this is coming from. He would have easily had playing time next year and when he got hot, he was almost a sure thing outside of the three point line. Injuries and cold streaks slowed him down last year, but the guy certainly had the talent to stay in the starting five. Maybe someone behind him was making it seem like he wasn’t going to be “the guy,” or something like that. Although, now we get to listen to all of the hate from UGA fans saying that Gregory can’t hold onto talent . . .
GTPhenom
June 16th, 2011
6:30 pm
Ah well, either way, gotta thank Mr. Oliver for his time and effort while here at the program. He was dealt a crappy hand having to play under Hewitt for two years, and maybe he just wants to go somewhere for success seeings as this might be another rought B-Ball year . . . Either way, thanks for your time and effort Oliver, we’ll miss seeing you play in the Old Gold and White.
Tommy
June 16th, 2011
6:41 pm
Who is going to miss all of the shots next year with mfon and Oliver gone? How does the ticket office keep a straight face when they call me asking me to pay $300 and risk my life going to philips next year to watch a team that couldn’t win the southern conference?
Paul in RDU
June 16th, 2011
6:47 pm
Good luck to Oliver wherever he ends up. Kids transfer for a variety of reasons but I am sure that we’ll have a bunch of people speculating on here later.
Tokyo jacket
June 16th, 2011
6:52 pm
Things just keep getting better for Tech… #@%&!
Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
6:53 pm
this is just the start,When a program turns their back on a coach that the year before, made it to the ACC Championship game and won a NCAA game, It exposes the whole program…thats why GT was only able to hire a coach who was basically on the hot seat at Dayton…I know a another big secret that will come out next week also, it involves another Gt player…One of his former teamates play for the GREAT ATLANTA CELTICS and it has been confirmed..All of Gt players hate the GT fan base.Thats why Shump left early also…Next time please don’t let Mark Bradley determine who should be head coach!
Tokyo jacket
June 16th, 2011
6:54 pm
Seeing as he scored 10 ppg w/ Hewitt, I’m sure now that he’s moving on, he’ll actually develop and score more in his junior season than he did in his sophomore season, more in his senior season than his junior one. Of course, I hope that current jackets will learn that will happen under CBG too.
Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
6:59 pm
@Tokyo jacket
“Seeing as he scored 10 ppg w/ Hewitt, I’m sure now that he’s moving on, he’ll actually develop and score more in his junior season than he did in his sophomore season”
Stupid comments like that is the reason that next week you will be down to 1 guard on scholarship!!….ATl is a horrible sports city and Gt fans are the worst in college basketball!
dagnabit
June 16th, 2011
7:11 pm
Hewitt fans can go north with Hewitt.
Davis
June 16th, 2011
7:14 pm
I laugh at anybody who takes Hewitt Fan seriously. Don’t feed the troll!
GTJACKETS86
June 16th, 2011
7:15 pm
Is someone really on here defending Hewitt…I mean REALLY?? the man couldn’t buy an ACC Win in his tenure. What was he 17-61 on the road in the ACC? It was past time for him to go. So he made it to the ACC Champ game…HE DID NOT WIN. And he made it to the final 4…yes that was great, but this society is a what have you done for me lately. And lately he has not done any thing! Not sure what Oliver is thinking…he would’ve easily started and likely been go-to guy. Oh well. CBG Will be fine, next year will be rebuilding year as expected.
Worm
June 16th, 2011
7:19 pm
Gonna’ be a long season next year…Tech and wake battle for the basement.
Tokyo jacket
June 16th, 2011
7:20 pm
Hewitt fan, are you on crack? Never once in any highly recruited player’s career did he get substantially better after his freshman year under Hewitt. The only guy I can think of that got better in 10 years is Anthony McHenry, that’s it. Hewitt was causing the GTAA to bleed money and season ticket holders. It’s business dude, plain and simple. And, according to ESPN, we made one of the best off-season hires for a coach since all the “up and comers” decided to stay small market this year.
Now, that said I think CPH is a class dude and I wish him well. I hope a fresh start can help find a rebirth in his career. He’s always been a hell of a recruiter and a good ambassador for Tech.
Tokyo jacket
June 16th, 2011
7:25 pm
Hewitt fan, for the sake of argument then, tell me who got better under Hewitt’s watch? Jack had skills when he got to Tech. Aminu actually LOST talent under Hewitt (which is why his brother went to Wake). Young, Favors, J-Crit all played street ball for their one year at Tech. Who got better under Hewitt’s watch? The only coaches that were able to recruit more McDonald’s All Americans than CPH are in Chapel Hill, Durham, and Storrs. They won…a lot. Why didn’t Hewitt?
John
June 16th, 2011
7:32 pm
This is what happens when you hire a bad coach. DRad should have forked over whatever Mooney was asking.
collegeballfan
June 16th, 2011
7:38 pm
Eight scholarship players make it tough. But this is a “rebuilding year” because there is a new coach and a new systrem. GT will have a losing record just like UGA had with Fox in his first year.
And Duke with Coach K in his first year.
GT will have 2 scholarship players at each of the five positions.
Will Bobby Parks report? Ken where are we on Parks? Any idea?
Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
7:39 pm
@Tokyo jacket
I really hate arguing with a GT fan, they are so strange, but lets see
1.Big Luc, he came from Australia and could barely run, by his Junior year the ACC refs had to let teams just beat him to a near death to slow him down..He played in the NBA for a short period
2.Mario West, former WALK ON who under Hewitt got better and eventually played in the NBA
3.Will Bynum was horrible at Arizona, Hewitt used him perfect in the pick and roll, currently in the NBA
4. BJ Elder, I KNOW B.J PERSONALLY, from his days with the Celtics, i know for a fact that BJ game improved at GT, you don’t know him, you know Mark Bradley…
Well according to my sources, which is the AAU and high school basketball world, Everyone laughed that Gt fired a coach then hired a guy who had been to the NCAA’s 2 times in 8 years in a weak basketball conference, a guy who offense looked horrible at Dayton and was on the hot seat basically..GT could not fill the job with a decent coach because everyone knows mark Bradley brain washed GT fans…Hewitt found another job and Gt has another coach(lol) so it is over with, All i am saying is that GT will not be able to get any good players in the state for the next 5 years.Gt will have another player transfer either next week or early July..I heard it come out the guy mouth!..
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GTPhenom
June 16th, 2011
7:44 pm
Lol, give it up Hewitt Fan, everyone on here, hell even half the UGA fans have figured out for fact that you are clearly either stupid or on crack. Or both. You talk big acting like your some hot shot that knows everyone when in truth and reality, you simply dislike being wrong. Thats all I’ll say to you . . .
5150 UOAD
June 16th, 2011
7:44 pm
Hewitt Fan
Tell us your REAL NAME you P..SY. You are a fool. HEWITT SUCKS and it is the REFS fault right? UCLA will be great now right?
If you are so smart and ALL KNOWING please put your NAME on the Blog.
Born2Buzz
June 16th, 2011
7:44 pm
Maybe, just maybe it had nothing to do with the coach, old or new, the program or anything else basketball related. Maybe the young man realized that his chances for success beyond college ball are slim or nil and he realized he wasn’t meant for the GT curriculum. Maybe he wants to go to a college where he can play ball, not have to work his butt off in the classroom and still get a degree.
yes, next year will be a tough year, but probably not as tough to stomach as the last 5 years have been. no, you are not risking your life by coming to Philips arena to watch the games. no, we will not lose every single recruit that was or are associated with the atlanta celtics.
fan of Tech ball
June 16th, 2011
7:48 pm
CBG must be thinking “what was I thinking?”. His job already was to be difficult with all away games-now hardly has enough to practice…
sandysprings jacket
June 16th, 2011
7:50 pm
Hewitt fan nit wit, your hero now resides in DC with the masons, why don’t you go join him there and blog on thier site, you are too stupid to even be a THUGA fan.
5150 UOAD
June 16th, 2011
7:54 pm
sandysprings jacket
June 16th, 2011
He is a Hewitt fan but his real love in the McCray PI.P that used to coach the Atl Celtics and now is a coach at UCLA.
Hewitt fan is headed to the left coast to keep Sniffing ATL Celtic butt.
Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
7:55 pm
@Tokyo jacket
“Aminu actually LOST talent under Hewitt (which is why his brother went to Wake).”
Alade Aminu was never that good, he only took him to get his brother, stop lying, you are not an insider like me..Al-Farouq got arrested his senior year for aggravated assault and trespassing for shooting a woman with a BB gun from a vehicle, he wanted a change of scenery, he barely avoided jail time…, Alade is playing pro ball making good money..All of Hewitt’s former players make good money! But i guess Hewitt does not get credit for that!..i guess all of hewitt former players were NBA players in high school?…The ACC is ran by the refs, It is set up for Duke and NC to be at the top every year..thats why it has been 7 or 8 coaching changes in the last 2 years in the ACC..but i wonder why all the fired coaches get better jobs once they are fired..Haith went to Mizzou, which is a better job, and Hewitt went to George Mason , which is a better job than Gt…
5150 UOAD
June 16th, 2011
7:57 pm
I know HEWITT FAN was told by Coach K @ Duke that is son was too Ghetto, Stupid, and Ugly to play at DUKE. Hewitt fan now thinks Coach K is a bad coach and the Refs love Coach K because Hewitt couldn’t beat DUKE. Yes that is the reason right hewitt Fan!
GTBob
June 16th, 2011
7:58 pm
lol. I knew when I heard this news that Hewitt Fan would be all over it. Thanks for the entertainment man!
As for Oliver, it happens. Best of luck to him. He played hard, and it was unfortunate that he didn’t have anyone to teach him how to play basketball.
sandysprings jacket
June 16th, 2011
8:02 pm
Hewitt fan, the only thing inside about you is that your head is inside your arse. No one questioned PU’s recruiting although it yielded very little tangible results when the game began. Good recruiting does not equal good coaching, all those guys would have ended up in the league w/o PU anyways.
5150 UOAD
June 16th, 2011
8:02 pm
HEWITT FAN and UGA has more players in the NFL, but RICHT & BOBO can’t coach for CHIT either. Who cares what Hewitt’s players are doing in the NBA? He couldn’t get them to do it in the ACC. I know it is all the refs fault and the Tech fans didn’t yell at the refs enough. We have all heard your crying BullS..t.
StingerSplash
June 16th, 2011
8:05 pm
I was so hoping we would be through with the mindless ramblings and incoherent defense of Hewitt that HewittFan brings to the table once Tech finally showed that fool the door.
AAU basketball is a cesspool of shady characters, hangers-on and manipulators. Hewitt was the most overmatched coach in ACC history not named Dino Gaudio. All that talent, even the ones he allegedly made better (I just threw up in my mouth) and he has as many ACC titles as the coach from Teen Wolf.
Zero!
Elder was already a big time prospect. Bynum wasn’t exactly chopped liver when he got to Tech. West was a 20 point per game scorer in high school at Douglas County, playing in a good region. Schenscher was a project who progressed to serviceable. When you’re 7 feet tall and the NBA doesn’t really want you, what does that tell you? Slow him down? Really? That might be the most laughable contention ever posited by Hewitt Fan. And that’s saying something.
Hewitt’s gone and all are glad, except Hewitt Fan. Go grab some time behind the George Mason bench and watch the program circle the drain and collapse into free fall.
George Mason boosters should ask for a sanity test for the AD who said Hewitt was known “as a good X and O guy.” Apparently, he spoke to no one who watched Tech basketball for the last decade. In 11 ACC seasons, Hewitt’s teams had losing conference records 7 times.
Buh. Bye.
Not a Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
8:07 pm
Itll take two maybe three years, then the stink of hewitt and the NOT-SO-GREAT Atlanta celtics sgould be gone. their coach is going to UCLA, Hewitt is at George mason and now the boys on norht ave can focus on the future. No more street ballers who can hit FT’s, no more blaming refs and Duke. Its time for Ga Tech BBall to get right. Thank God its all over.
Not a Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
8:07 pm
correction CANT hit Ft’s…my typing is horrible tonite.
Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
8:08 pm
@GTPhenom
“Lol, give it up Hewitt Fan, everyone on here, hell even half the UGA fans have figured out for fact that you are clearly either stupid or on crack. Or both.”
Damn, i am on crack because Gt hired a coach that had been to the NCAA’s 2 times in 8 years?..that kind of attitude is why GT is in the shape they are in, with 5 scholarship players and a horrible coach who no AAU coach in the state would dare send a kid to play for..
@5150 UOAD
how are you?..long time no chat, it looks like you still have your tampon in too far, just relax, After next week transfer news, and the fact that Gt will not get any player ranked in the top 25 in GA for a couple years, Gt will be back to winning ACC titles, well, GT has only won 1 out right so never mind,
I talked to Coach Mc 2 days ago, UCLA is going to be awesome, they play in a solid conference where the refs let the kids play, Right now 3 of our top players on the senior team is now thinking UCLA very hard…take it easy man, enjoy life, I know i am!..
hewitt fan cleans toilets at mcdonalds
June 16th, 2011
8:11 pm
this is the same guy who was posting in ebonics and bragging that his ‘white’ wife had a gt degree. yes that guy.
i dare say that he had the same relationship with phewitt that anthony wiener had with that porn star….. i guess that when he text’d phewitt he got goose bumps all over.
what else would you expect from a guy that name drops more than he drops fries on the floor.
hey phewitt fan…. the reason we couldnt get a high name coach is because your best boy friend destroyed our program and took 7 million bucks as he slithered out the door.x
last time i looked the ‘thriller dome’ did just fine when we had a coach that could put a good product on the floor.
now go clean up stall no 4 in the mens room before you get canned.
GTBob
June 16th, 2011
8:16 pm
Brian Oliver’s stats:
Freshman Year – FG% .394 3PT% .380
Sophomore Year – FG% .360 3PT% .286
If Hewitt had stayed then who knows how low Oliver might have gone.
ebonics i tell you...
June 16th, 2011
8:18 pm
‘The ACC is ran by the refs….. ‘
‘3 of our top players on the senior team is now thinking’
next thing you know he will be ‘axing’ us to leave phew alone
ebonics i tell you…. ebonics.
5150 UOAD
June 16th, 2011
8:36 pm
UCLA awesome?
What did somebody did up Wooden?
The Atl AAU coach will have nothing to do with UCLA getting good. The Refs will just spoil McCray’s time in the PAC 10? 12? 27? Hell the PAC whatever. He will still SUCK. and G. Mason will SUCK even more. HEWITT can’t coach his lil Hewitt to come out of his pants when it is time to pee.
GT 1
June 16th, 2011
8:39 pm
I see Gregory is already setting the tone for Tech, whos next to bail ?
2HLLWGA
June 16th, 2011
8:49 pm
So we don’t really know what goes on in the locker room. Sometimes it is better to let people go.
Buzz Me
June 16th, 2011
8:58 pm
Bet he ends up at George MAson.
DOGFAN
June 16th, 2011
8:58 pm
People….People… We are family…. enough of the fighting………………….go dawgs…………
Always a Jacket
June 16th, 2011
9:00 pm
Brian, thanks for your 2 years at Tech. If you are not bought into the new system, then you should move on and good luck to you.
Coach Gregory will need time to get his system and players in place. I will be at the games now that Hewitt is gone, one or more transfers is not the end of the program. Hewitt was the death of the program. Gregory has a tough challenge ahead.
GT21
June 16th, 2011
9:02 pm
This is a start-over project anyway. Did anyone really think this was going to be a good year for Tech Basketball? I am excited about the new coach. I am just REALLY glad Hewitt is gone!! A good coach would have benched Oliver long ago 36% field goal shooting…pitiful…
Worm
June 16th, 2011
9:03 pm
Hewitt fan has AAU connections..That said, he doesn’t know jack and can’t evaluate talent..It’ll be refreshing to see the NCAA shutdown AAU ball…Bunch of thug coaches who hope to rise and leach off one good player…Good ridance AAU!
Outside Observer
June 16th, 2011
9:07 pm
I wish Hewitt fan could explain how Anthony Morrow, one of the best 3 point shooters in NBA history, could go undrafted after having a less than stellar career at GT? Maybe the “fantastic” coach didn’t let him take enough 3 pointers in college? So much wasted talent… Also, Mario West is one of the hardest working players to ever put on a GT uniform. He made the Hawks because of his work ethic. Paul Hewitt had NOTHING to do with the guy’s work ethic…. Hewitt fan, can you tell me how many winning seasons Paul Hewitt had in the ACC? I will give you a hint. It’s greater than zero and less than two. I know you have your conspiracy theories about Duke and UNC, but with those two making up only four games a season, max, why did Paul Hewitt fail to have more than one winning season in the ACC? Lack of talent? If he was constantly recruiting from “The Great Atlanta Celtic Program,” then talent obviously can’t be the issue. Could it be the coach wasn’t very good?
Milledgeville DAWG
June 16th, 2011
9:08 pm
I love it. Can’t blame him, does not want to be on a 20 loss team.
Outside Observer
June 16th, 2011
9:09 pm
On a side note, thank you Brian Oliver for two solid seasons. We wish you the best in the future.
Jo Bling
June 16th, 2011
9:11 pm
B.J. Elder stats:
PPG: Fresh 9.9 Soph 14.9 Jun 14.9 Sen 12.6
Same story with all the rest of his stats. He got progressively worse over the course of his career and is a key reason we weren’t even competitive in the championship. As a freshman and sophomore he appeared to be a shoe-in first-round draft pick. But after four years of mostly underperforming, he never got past the D-League.
Anyone who would argue that Hewitt’s record at Tech isn’t as disastrous as it seems, and that he actually improved the talent under him despite all of the empirical evidence to the contrary, is a complete fool.
Tokyo jacket
June 16th, 2011
9:17 pm
Hewitt fan, I’ll give you Mario West. His D got WAY better under Hewitt’s watch. But, to answer your other comment, YES, most of Hewitt’s players were NBA quality out of high school.
I’m done arguing…at no point have you made anything close to a coherent point, we are all dumber for having ready your comments, and may God have mercy on your soul.
BIG BEE
June 16th, 2011
9:37 pm
I thought this was about B. Oliver and not CPH. HUH?
Tommy
June 16th, 2011
9:50 pm
UCLA will be on probation in two years dealing with the Celtics. Hewitt lost 3 scholarships over the last 3 years by recruiting those guys who could care less about school and quit going to class after one semester like the great LewisClinch
Kauai DAWG
June 16th, 2011
9:51 pm
Yellow Snow all over Atlanta. Non story for sure. Does anyone even watch the Yech?
Go DAWGS!
tar and feathers party
June 16th, 2011
10:09 pm
So can I suit up and play?
Milledgeville DAWG
June 16th, 2011
10:12 pm
Can’t get the techies fired up tonight, what’s wrong? I guess you will attack me tomorrow when your sitting at your cubicles.
edgar
June 16th, 2011
10:23 pm
Ya’ll quite bashing on each other and stick to commenting on the story.
Brian, thanks for having been here and contributed. We’re sorry to see you leave, and hope your future works out for the best for you.
Oliver to transfer – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) | USA Baseball America
June 16th, 2011
10:43 pm
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Ken Sugiura
June 16th, 2011
10:44 pm
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Oliver said he likes and respects Gregory, but wanted to be closer to be home and was looking for a team with an offense that would fit his perimeter game better.
Tuna
June 16th, 2011
10:46 pm
LOL! Oliver is tired of all of the thugs roaming the streets of Atlanta, just like everyone else. This city is dangerous and sucks and everyone wants out!
Milledgeville ....
June 16th, 2011
10:50 pm
not all tech fans eat at mcdonalds so that limits your exposure.
now about those fries….
BartBuzz
June 16th, 2011
10:53 pm
My guess is that he couldn’t make the grades.
2011 Grad
June 16th, 2011
10:55 pm
Sad to see this. I had several classes with Brian and found him to be the about the only basketball player who cared about academics. He’s a real class act. Always polite. Obviously intelligent. Can’t say the same about the rest of the basketball team, though…
Paul in RDU
June 16th, 2011
11:16 pm
Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
7:55 pm
thats why it has been 7 or 8 coaching changes in the last 2 years in the ACC..but i wonder why all the fired coaches get better jobs once they are fired..Haith went to Mizzou, which is a better job, and Hewitt went to George Mason , which is a better job than Gt
—–
There you go again talking about ACC coaches getting fired. Frank Haith was not fired by Miami.
On Bradley’s blog you claimed that “7 or 8″ ACC coaches have been fired in the last 2 years (sounds like you are either not sure or just made the number up_. The only coaches fired after the last 3 seasons are Gaudio (WF), Lowe (NCSU), Hewitt (GT), Leitao (UVA) and Skinner (BC). Haith left Miami to go to Mizzou. Purnell left Clemson to go to DePaul. Gary W retired. Ole Roy, K, Hamilton, Greenberg are all still coaching.
Care to tell us who the other 2 or 3 are? I would have thought a self-proclaimed basketball insider such as yourself knows who the “7 or 8″ (sic) fired ACC coaches are.
Dawg 1
June 16th, 2011
11:45 pm
Anytime ‘any school’ changes coaches, there is ‘risk’ of losing your existing players. The really sad part is that they have to sit out a year because of the schools decision to remove the coach they came to play for. If the school makes a change, any player at any school should have the right to transfer with no penalty.
Give the new coach a little time before deciding his fate… He seems to be trying to recruit the state first – that’s a start.
New building coming – would be patient.
Tech Fan
June 16th, 2011
11:46 pm
This is bad news…but just for the near future…we will defenitly have a bad team this year. CBG needs to start landing some to get this thing going.
ACC’s Worst Team Just Got Worse « Big Duke Balls | A Duke Blue Devils blog
June 16th, 2011
11:49 pm
[...] There’s a stunning development down in Atlanta. Word is Georgia Tech’s Brian Oliver is transferring. [...]
let's go Jackets
June 17th, 2011
12:26 am
not surprised, Brian Oliver was named after the Brian Oliver of the Bobby Cremins era and 76ers great, If Gregory would shutup about the “Izzo regime” and Michigan State, Neither can hold a candle to anything Cremins accomplished. Yet Gregory keeps talking about this cr@p as if somebody is suppose to be impressed. Just shut up about it.
Alienating the past former great players such as the first Oliver is not going to help you either which reminds me Lethal Weapon 3 took care of your precious Michigan St on the way to the Final 4
buh bye
June 17th, 2011
4:37 am
oliver’s not that good—tech needs to clean out a lot of deadwood and start over.
Big Ol Stinger
June 17th, 2011
6:39 am
Lost to Kennesaw and Georgia (at home) with him. We can lose without him just as well.
See ya!
It Ain't Rocket Science
June 17th, 2011
7:33 am
Sounds like the young man knows what is a better fit for his talents. He seems like a pretty level headed fellow, so why do people on these blogs see a need to put him down? I don’t believe his actions are all that unique in the college world.
gt
June 17th, 2011
8:35 am
UCLA has got to be the Kentucky of the west coast. All three players that left North Carolina’s program last year ended up there. The Wear brothers and Drew, all three head cases and now they are babysitting this Celtic crowd too. These schools make it too easy for the NCAA to follow the dots.
As for Hewitt. Has anyone seen the stock of Iman Shumpert jump up the last few weeks? No man outside Mark Richt can hide talent better than Hewitt. Time and time again players have shown up in the NBA and shocked the league at what they had been hiding down here in Atlanta.
It is my guess Gregory introduced Oliver to his first real basketball practice. Maybe he taught them that the head is not a rebounding device and the ball does not have to bounce from the hands to the head to the opponent, whatever silly drill that was the Jackets like so much. Maybe he worked on practicing free throws, inbounding the ball and conditioning for defense. It would be enough to make any prim donna quit.
Roy Williams chases em off somehow and wins national championships, watch next year’s crop, may be the best they ever had at Carolina after losing three Hewitt type high school All Americans. If these guys had stayed at Tech that may have been the sign we didn’t want to see out of this new coach. The day Drew left Carolina and Marshall became the point guard was the day Carolina won the national championship next year. I got a feeling something like that is going on at Tech. It is call growing up. Watch Brandon Reed next year he is a winner.
Tech Fan
June 17th, 2011
8:42 am
Gt, I agree, I am actually suprised more haven’t left after they found out they would actually have to practice. For us Tech fans, this ought to be a sign of something good taking place at Tech.
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
8:43 am
@Paul in RDU
How has it been!…I remember you, you are the guy that bashed Hewitt, but you were also the same guy on the Ohio St GT game blog complaining about the refs the whole game..But after the game, you started bashing Hewitt like it was his fault that GT lost the game, although you clearly seen and stated that Gt did not get any calls the whole game..you are a hypocrite.If you are a true GT fan, don’t do Coach Gregory like that….
But anyway, Ok i was off by 2, but still the other 2 left the “mighty ACC” as soon as they could, neither was winning ACC games anyway, Purnell could not get a call to save his life…No other Conference has had a coaching turnover like that ACC..You simply cannot win on the road in this conference…I have a quick ?..
How do feel about the Coach Gregory hiring..GT let Mark Bradley run Hewitt out of town, but ended up hiring a coach who was on the hot seat, 2 nccas in 8 years, 1 year with Purnell’s talent and he had the financial support and fan support that he needed!..Why did GT hire this guy?
JasonGT
June 17th, 2011
8:48 am
The only way this can pan out now is if 2012 becomes a classic cremins-like recruiting year where our pitch is you’ll definitely start in one of the best leagues in the conference and we can build a new lethal weapon 3… Lethal Weapon 3.1?
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
8:52 am
@GT
That was the dumbest post i have ever read…Shump was awesome last year, If the refs would have let Favors and Lawai played, GT was a final four team 2 years ago The refs stole the ACC championship game and the Ohio st game, just ask your fellow GT buddy “Paul in RDU” ….But yeah Shump was horrible at GT lol..GT fans don’t have a clue!
Second-team All-ACC and a member of the conference’s all-defensive team.
> Became the 7th player in ACC history to lead his team in scoring, rebounding and assists … Is the 4th to lead in those three categories and steals.
Ranked 4th in the ACC in scoring, 15th in rebounds, 10th in FG and FT pct., 1st in steals (7th in the nation).
> Averaged 18.8 ppg, 6.0 rpg and 3.6 apg vs. the ACC … In ACC games only, he was 2nd in scoring, 15th in rebounds, 10th in assists, FG and FT pct., 1st in steals
Scoring average increased by 7.3 ppg over his junior year (4th-best mark in the ACC), rebound average up 2.3 per game.
Moobs Johnson
June 17th, 2011
9:06 am
Love the passion for the Tech B-ball fans. Time for you guys to realize that your program is at best middle of the pack in the ACC. Coach No Name will be nothing but an anchor to Tech. Have fun the next four or five years until you start the process again. Hopefully DRad is smart enough not to give this guy a rollover contract.
JM
June 17th, 2011
9:13 am
@ HewittFan: Luke, Mario, Will and BJ all grew as players because Hewitt had a very good assistant coach working with them at the time. Once he left Hewitt could not fill the hole personally or find another assistant who could.
Crazy Robert
June 17th, 2011
9:25 am
The dude just ain’t got nuff tattoos. See ya BO, and remember, I-75 & 85 are the roads that go where you need to be.
Techster/dogone
June 17th, 2011
9:27 am
Can you blame him for leaving ? No you can’t !!! Will we ever see the glory days of GT basketball again ? Probably not in the next 4 or 5 years. Unless we get a new coach in two years !!!
Good Sign - WIN/WIN
June 17th, 2011
9:39 am
This appears to be a good sign that things are changing from the CPH era. Apparently the changes do not apeal to Mr. Oliver and he is moving on. WIN
He will find a good place that suits him better. WIN
Time to rebuild.
Eileen Eulick
June 17th, 2011
9:41 am
U gotta be kidding me, another one leaving?? I knew it, typical when Hewitt leaves they all bail. He was the worse coach I have ever watched in my years alive watching GT basketball, except for the one lucky Final Four year, now he is gone, which ever true Tech alumni/fan I know was hoping he needed to be fired, got a new coach who we haven’t even seen coach yet but seems solid, and players just give up. What a joke!
ATL Sports Fan
June 17th, 2011
9:45 am
It suprises me that you keep mentioning Mark Richt hiding all this talent. I guess with him hiding all this talent and Tech still is not able to beat UGA should say something about your coaches not being able to develop talent enough to beat a team, who you say does less with more.
ormewood
June 17th, 2011
10:07 am
Hewitt Fan, the constant complaining about refs is lame. There’s no conspiracy, never has been. Tech was not a Final Four team two years ago. This just in, Duke and UNC have Hall of Fame coaches and really good players who tend to stick around more than a year or two. Complaining about refs is for losers. All teams get bad calls. Deal with it.
Oh, and Tech will really stink this season, as will Wake and BC.
GT Fan ...
June 17th, 2011
10:14 am
To the guy above who is obsessed with PJ’s “Moobs” …… Uh, DRAD isn’t the one who signed PH to a rollover contract … it was the spineless, bitter, can’t admit when he’s wrong, Dave Braine.
In regards to BO:
Grades? Not buying-in on BG’s system/plan? Hewitt’s in his ear? Who knows…
I agree with some of the folks on here saying get as much of Hewitt out of the system as possible then start with a clean slate.
I’ve got no clue what Hewitt was teaching these kids, but I darn sure know (from looking at his W-L record) it wasn’t much.
Honestly I hope BO’s leaving is b/c of academics. If it’s bad attitude towards the new regime, or Hewitt having some sort of influence then no telling how many more bad seeds are still in the program.
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
10:21 am
@ormewood
“Hewitt Fan, the constant complaining about refs is lame. There’s no conspiracy, never has been. Tech was not a Final Four team two years ago.”
lol, I wonder do you GT fans really watch the games?…When Favors was here, do you remember the first Duke game at GT..the refs made duke play and Gt beat Duke easily..Gani and Favors dominated the boards..the game at Duke was a sight to see..As soon as the ball was tipped Favors and Lawai both picked up 2 fouls in the first 2 minutes of the game!..Duke shot 36 free throws in that game!..No way around it!..The ACC championship game was the game that Favors decided to turn pro, I know him personally, he knew right then that the ACC was ran by the refs..He told me he and Coach Mc that he should have went to UGA and the refs in the ACC were worst then high school..the AJC did a story on Favors not being able to deal with the refs in the ACC…
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
10:27 am
Derrick “officials-ain’t-doing-him-any” Favors
10:18 pm February 18, 2010, by Carroll Rogers
First, a disclaimer. I’m not here to disparage ACC officiating, or to make any apologies for Derrick Favors. But…..I just…have…to…say….this: Doesn’t it seem like he’s got some kind of freshman hex going, where officials aren’t giving him the credit they might an upperclassmen in the post?
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
10:28 am
So I went to Gani Lawal today too, wondering if as a junior, he notices a difference in how fouls are called on him now vs. his freshman year.
That got a smile.
“With officials it’s like the weather, you never know,” Lawal said. “They may be good. They may be consistent. They may not be consistent. As far as earning respect for calls, I’ve been here three years; I still don’t feel I get the great calls. What I tell Derrick is the same thing I’ve been saying all year, just ‘You’ve got to play through it. That’s all you can do. If you get early foul trouble, when you get back in the game, try to dominate.’”
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
10:32 am
GT fans are the worst in the WORLD..Check out some of the post’s on that blog!
MorningJacket
February 18th, 2010
11:46 pm
Favors is just an overrated freshman. In his case, I wouldn’t put it all on the zebras. But your post raises bigger issues. When will someone in the press actually stand up to the joke that is officiating in the ACC? Can any visiting team get a fair call in Cameron (not that it would have made a difference for Tech this visit)? Even though a hostile Coach K screams at the refs every game, can anyone recall him ever getting a technical? Sometimes watching Duke ACC home games is like watching WWE….you could publish the score in advance. It’s no accident that Duke was destroyed at Georgetown…there were no ACC officials to rig the results. Why do reporters just accept that this is just the way it is. Why not show photos/video of the bad calls and document the abuses? Press the ACC senior officials for answers. Do something about it and don’tt just laugh and hide behind “objectivity,” which is really code for laziness or “I’m afraid I’ll lose my press credentials if I rock the boat.” I don’t think anyone at the AJC/Raleigh paper or Wash. Post has the cojones to do their job. (Why? See previous sentence.) And that stinks more than Favors’ foul shooting.
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
10:33 am
arge1
February 18th, 2010
11:46 pm
Good post. Derrick’s not whining shows his class. So many CRAZY calls against him but none hurt worse than the 3 quick ones against Duke up there. The officials made sure Derrick, then Gani, would not play any factor in the game’s outcome. I lost any (if I ever had any) respect for ACC “officiating.” I would like have the “job” of the head of ACC officials. Talk about a do-nothing job..
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
10:33 am
yellarjacket
February 19th, 2010
9:00 am
Sarge1, I agree. The Duke game at Cameron comes to mind when I think of bad officiating. Duke really needed to win that game and the officials did everything in their power to negate any type of advantage Tech had in the post. Gani picks up two fouls in 33 seconds and Derrick is sitting with 3 fouls at the 12:00 minute mark. Enter Brad Sheehan. Game over! I also found it interesting that Jon Scheyer played 39 minutes and only picked up one foul. Typical BS when playing in Cameron.
The two most inconsistent officials in the ACC are Jamie Luckie and Karl Hess. Anytime we get one or both of those guys calling our game, we end up several guys fouling out or in foul trouble early and it seems we never have a questionable call go our way. ACC officiating has been horrible all year.
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
10:40 am
Sid Harvey
February 19th, 2010
5:14 pm
A foul is a foul, is a foul, is a foul and that is the way the game should be called. ACC teams say, they must play a few minutes at the start of the game to see how the Refs are going to call, A foul should be the same for a Freshman or a Senior. ACC Refs have more to do with who wins the game than the players. This is a shame.
phewitt fan ... where is the
June 17th, 2011
10:51 am
ebonics this am? is somebody proof reading your comments?
hate to tell you but your boyfriend taught the ‘hack a shaq’ defense. that is why we lost to duke. matter of fact…. that is why your boyfriend couldnt win a winnable game in the last minutes to save his arse.
go look it up you basketball goober you. phewitt lost more winnable games in the last few minutes than any other coach in the country. due to his inane timeouts… his inane strategies… and the fact that his players never learned how to play to win. our unforced turnovers at the end of games was astounding.
even coach don nelson of the san fransico warriors where amo is playing said his college coach did a horrible job of teaching him fundamentals.
And to further prove that point home… how are your boys doing now eh? favors, an almost consensus top talent when phewitt got to coach *sic* him is now riding the bench most games. he was so expendable that they were going to package him up in a 2 fer deal for a real player.
this is not to say that he wont be a great player in the nba someday but to further point out that playing for phewitt set him back years.
i have a new nickname for you btw… the dope serving coke.
now where are my fries?
T3
June 17th, 2011
11:00 am
FACT: Hewitt had to go.
After Hewitt got his big contract after the 2004 season, he basically “mailed it in.”
The GT program went into a noticeable decline right after that.
The ACC turned over EVERY B-Ball coach in the conference excpet Hewitt and Coach K.
The “overall” performance of the ACC in B-Ball has been in a downtrend for the past few years.
So, even though someone would think that a weaker-performing ACC in general would open th edoor for GT to emerge at or near th etop, Hewitt’s eam performance kept getting worse and worse.
Hewitt NEVER had a winning record in he ACC. IN the great 2004 season, GT went 8-8 in ACC play.
After attending almost every home B-Ball game over the past 5 years, it was BLATANTLY OBVIOUS
that the B-Ball program was in decline. The past 3 years displyed some of the most attrociuos
B-Ball fundamentals I have ever seen.
The fans had alreayd voted with their feet and wallets. Hewitt had to go.
D-Rad made the right choice to Fire Hewitt.
D-Rad also made the RIGHT CHOICE to hire Brian Gregory.
2011 will be a re-building year.
But I am more confident now than I have been in 4 LONG years.
moboman
June 17th, 2011
11:12 am
Hewitt Fan — Im not gonna fling insults at you, because I respect your right to a point of view. Its admirable that so many Hewitt recruits are making good money, and I wont argue that CPH had to fight the ACC league “politics”. But that is the nature of the job he took over. Certainly Cremins had the same fight in his hands, as did coaches at Wake Forest who have produced better results.
The end result is that his teams didnt get it done, and his recruits often had holes in their games that didnt get better and continually cost us games. Lesser players at lesser schools often seemed to play at a more complete level that ours. UGA teams out performed us on the court and played a better style of ball with lesser players. When that is the state of your program, a change has to be made. My biggest knock on CPH is that his teams seemed not to have the confident fire in their belly that is required at this level of competition. That comes from the coach’s attitude.
I really hope that in a less prominent conference, CPH does well and can enjoy coaching in a less “frying pan” atmosphere. I just didnt see things getting better for him here. Its no way to live.
I wont be surprised if the transition is bumpier for the new GT coach than it will be for PH at his new job. Hope you are wrong about another defection, but if you arent, theres not much we can do about it. The change had to be made. PH’s job here was not just to run players thru the program that could make good money after they left, it was to produce a winning program as well. He only got half the job done. Not good enough. Nuff said.
Eileen Eulick
June 17th, 2011
11:14 am
Speaking of Richt, does anyone know if he bleaches his eyebrows or is it from over exposure to tanning beds?
GTBob
June 17th, 2011
11:41 am
lol, I wonder do you GT fans really watch the games?
Every single one of them. Win or lose. I’m amazed that you watch so many considering how much you hate GT and ACC basketball. If you watched all of the games the past few years and thought that the refs were the reason we had such terrible perimeter defense, and that we had considerable trouble inbounding the ball, and that we couldn’t shoot free throws very well, and that we had turnover issues, etc, etc. then I really feel bad for any kids you are trying to teach. GT over the past 5 years has to have been one of the worst teams in the country in offense fundamentals.
ormewood
June 17th, 2011
11:53 am
Hewitt had to go. Quite simply, he did not perform his job at an acceptable level. He had one winning season at Tech. Here’s a partial list of coaches that have departed the ACC in the last ten years who’ve had better ACC records: Skinner, Sendek, Gaudio, Purnell,
It has begun
June 17th, 2011
12:11 pm
GT BB is in the tank and we all know it. Forget the upcoming year, it will be a disaster.
Football is fast approaching and we all know that CPJ is in his last year. Over the last 45+ years, GT runs through new football coaches on average of every 4 years +-, Dodd through CPJ.
CPJ? He is entering his fourth year and it does not look good for him either and the law of averages is staring him in the face. He will be in yet another pathetic bowl and it will result in another pathetic loss.
UGA fan
June 17th, 2011
12:19 pm
I agree with Hewitt Fan. He is the greatest coach in the history of mankind and should have stayed at Tek forever.
Jacket Dad
June 17th, 2011
12:35 pm
Hate to see Brian go, but maybe it’s the best to get a fresh start. Thanks for your two years at GT and best wishes to you and your future.
We don’t know what actually goes on and can only speculate (except for Hewitt Fan who seems to be the end all, be all). We are definitely in a rebuilding phase but ANYTHING would be better than the pain of watching a Hewitt “coached” “team” (and I use both of those terms very loosely). I will be in attendance this year – win or lose.
Go Jackets!
just keep in mind....
June 17th, 2011
1:13 pm
that phew’s recruiting has been taking a nose dive. our prospects at filling 4-5 spots on the current roster were slim to non existent.
obviously there were those that didnt love phew like phew fan does.
his sorry teams and poor records and graduation rates were finally catching up to this poor excuse of a coach,
of course phew fan will say it was the fans fault that we lost so many games. it was the fans fault that gt teams lacked fundamentals and bb skills.
Hewitt Fan
June 17th, 2011
1:16 pm
@moboman GT fans are a bunch of punks!..How could the GT fan base sit back and let GT get cheated over and over!..Even Cremins never got any calls, in his last 10 years he had 2 winning seasons, with rosters full of nba talent!..only 1 ACC championship outright!..Gt is scared to stand up!..even if Coach Gregory gets good players to come to GT( which i know for a fact, he won’t) he still will not get any calls..And GT fans will be calling for his head!
When Doug Roberson asked CG this ? I just shook my head,
AJC: Lots of coaches come to ACC and get a whiff of Tobacco Road officiating and realize they can’t win, what makes you think differently?
BG: I don’t have any opinion on that because I haven’t gone through it. You are talking about two programs whose teams are very, very good. Teams that are good get the benefit of the doubt. I think it has more to do with how good they are more than anything else.
from a concerned citizen
June 17th, 2011
1:40 pm
Dear AJC … just don’t bother writing blogs about GT sports anymore. Clearly, as you can see on THIS blog among others … there is never any hope for a rational, mature discussion. The GT blogs get absolutely littered with hatred and childishness from UGA “fans”, or others such as “Hewitt Fan” (who needs to get banned permanently BTW). Why keep laying out a blank canvas for all the morons to keep littering with verbal graffiti?
moboman
June 17th, 2011
2:18 pm
@HewittFan My brother went to Duke, and I am constantly chiding him on the calls Duke gets and the no calls the opponent gets, the Duke “mystique” is hard to justify at times. Cant lay that on the GT fans. They boo plenty when the calls suck, but what can they do about it?
But there is no arguing that Duke wins because they play great sound fundamental basketball. They hit FT’s, and they run a visible offense. And they make in game adjustments. And Coach K leads with a fire in his belly that is visible on the bench and infects his players.
Im sorry, but CPH didnt get fired by the officials. He got fired because his performance no longer justified his tenure as coach. Theres no one else to blame in this business.
Genius Jacket
June 17th, 2011
3:17 pm
Hewitt Fan has an interestng perspective.
As an older Tech fan, I don’t care about basketball. We need to be good in football every year. I hope P Johnson can do it.
BTW, Tech fans need to stop calling Mark Richt a bad coach. He may be, but he can sure beat Tech.
T3
June 17th, 2011
3:52 pm
It has begun = UGAG Troll
0-26 with a smile
June 17th, 2011
4:30 pm
I’m fairly confident that we’re going to absolutely suck this year and I’ll sit through all of it with a smile knowing that Paul Hewitt isn’t our coach any more.
Expect deserters when coaches switch, not a big deal. It’s easy to play for a coach that doesn’t demand accountability of his players or even take accountability for his own coaching. Oliver leaving just proves that he needed to be weeded out anyway.
Hewitt Fan is awesome – I’m actually impressed with the research efforts in defending his argument. The logic is flawed but I’d rather he use his lack of life to post here rather than go out and picket with the Westboro church or something. Duke gets calls, yep – no news there but not sure how it relates to Hewitt. And I never really read Mark Bradley but apparently his opinion was shared by everyone here who had eyeballs and watched GT, so not sure how he brainwashed me to think that Hewitt was a terrible coach – I knew that a long time ago.
So kudos to you Hewitt Fan for trying to convince the world that the sky is purple. (I’d get a 2nd opinion before trying to form thoughts on anything important with that brain though)
Tech is Sad
June 17th, 2011
6:02 pm
The problem with some Tech fans and students is they think that they are better than everyone else in the world. I speak from experience because I attended Tech and have been a fan since I was a young child. The attitudes that you see presented here do not represent all of the Tech population. This seems to be a fringe element here that cannot let the Paul Hewitt thing go. He has moved on, it is time we moved on as well. Some of you say he can’t coach but he got us farther than any other coach ever did. His last few years were not so great, I understand, but stop with the attacks on him. Hewitt had nothing but good things to say about the school when he left. Why do some of you think that he would try to get some of the players to leave? The man cares about his players and former players. He would want Brian Oliver to stay and get his degree. Stop with the hate and trying to figure out who Hewitt Fan is. He’s probably Karl McKray, Korey McKray’s dad, just let him talk. We always did and laughed when he was done.
michael
June 17th, 2011
6:32 pm
we MOVE ON. remember cremins? he began to collect a paycheck. heck so did i. oh….i retired-MOVE on and let gregory try his dig!
Buzzzed
June 17th, 2011
7:24 pm
Hewitt Fan is right about ACC refs. They do have an agenda and its about keeping the big conference money makers on top at the expense of the other teams. The big money by far is with Duke and UNC. GT benefits financially from this too when we get our cut on the ACC pie. This won’t change with a new coach. It would be great if we could afford to leave the ACC or at least go independent with basketball. I don’t believe the ACC has a “favorite” in football though – thank God.
All the other stuff from Hewitt Fan is garbage, but he/she is dead on about the ACC refs.
It Ain't Rocket Science
June 17th, 2011
7:43 pm
Can this kid apply for a waiver out of the one year sit out, because his school changed the coach. I know if he goes to a lower div. he can, but am wondering whether he can get a waiver for DIV. I. I have read about a few football players doing it, but not sure what the requirement is.
Outside Observer
June 17th, 2011
7:50 pm
Rocket Science, to transfer without penalty, the player must have graduated from college and entering grad school, but in a degree that the current school does not offer. Like Greg Paulus transferring to Syracuse from Duke because he had graduated from undergrad, had a year left of eligibility, and took a Master’s Program not offered at Duke.
ormewood
June 17th, 2011
8:23 pm
Referees have zero to do with Tech’s mediocre record in a fairly weak ACC during the last decade. The following schools have somehow overcome ref’s calls and won 10 or more conference games in that span: UNC, Duke, FSU, BC, MD, NCSU, Clemson, VA, VA Tech, Wake.
The Price was right
June 17th, 2011
8:30 pm
I’ll give Gregory a fair chance but I still think Mark Price should have been hired as the coach. He would have been a great recruiter and motivator. Oh also a great coach. Hewitt blew it was a terrible coach. With the talent we’ve had at Tech throughout the Hewitt yrs. Tech should have had far better teams. Hewitt was a nice guy but sucked as a basketball coach.
yellow britches
June 17th, 2011
9:02 pm
GT basketball is and will remain a mess for a couple of years. I stopped going to the games after fifteen years because I just could not take it anymore. The identity of “Hewitt Fan” should not be all that hard to determine. Just look at the crowd pictures for the last five or six games that Hewitt coached. He or she or it would be the only person in attendance at each game. Narrow it down to five or six people. Say what you will about Paul Hewitt’s coaching skills. One thing we know for sure, he destroyed the fan base in Georgia Tech.
juvenal
June 17th, 2011
9:38 pm
like pro baseball, we get the tv $ now whatever…more interested in if CPH has ever heard of the words “innovation” & “flexibility”………….
Tommy
June 17th, 2011
10:30 pm
Tech is sad, Hewitt didn’t care about anyone getting a degree. If he did, he wouldn’t have gotten Tech put on probation twice for low graduation numbers
BehindEnemyLines
June 17th, 2011
10:38 pm
OMG, the troll just said something I actually agree with.
re: “if Coach Gregory gets good players to come to GT( which i know for a fact, he won’t)”
Sadly, GT replaced a chronic underachiever whose persistent incompetence removed all doubts about his lack of coaching ability with another chronic underachiever who has glaring questions about his suitability for even mid-major college basketball.
bobby cremins
June 18th, 2011
12:21 am
I have to agree with Hewitt Fan on Gregory…he is a terrible coach, on the same level as Hewitt and he van’t recruit which is a program killer! It will take 5 or 6 years to undo the damage caused by Hewitt/Gregory which might sink the basketball program all together considering how terrible the Tech fan base is when their teams start losing.
sports
June 18th, 2011
12:29 am
great move for that kid…you don’t want to hang with losers
Sorry Dogs
June 18th, 2011
7:10 am
Uhhh Bobby, the Tech fan base has been watching losing Bball for years under Phew. And yeah, they’re going to suck this year too. But at least there’s some hope for the future. At least Gregory appears to care about academics and graduating players. If we’re going to suck, at least have some academic integrity which is another thing Phew sucked at. Personally, I got tired of watching Tech lose with a bunch of tatted up hood rats who had no business at the Institute. If you can’t get out, you shouldn’t get in. And no it’s not a black / white thing. Tech should NEVER lose scholarships due to poor academic performance. To me, that was more embarrassing than the Won/Loss record under Phew.
It Ain't Rocket Science
June 18th, 2011
9:29 am
Thanks for the info. outsider. I did a little research on it later and he could have applied for that exemption also, if he were a true freshman and had never played for the team or in an unusual case, if he had a hardship case. I guess he figures it is better to sit out a year, than play under a system he might not be comfortable with. Good luck to the young man.
ToeMeetsLeather
June 18th, 2011
1:26 pm
I’m with you “Sorry Dogs”, bring back the atmosphere we had with the Harprings, Prices, Hammonds, Petways, Barrys, Ferrells, etc. Kids that played hard for four years and put the Institute’s interest above their selfish aspirations. Let the one-and-dones go to Memphis, Kentucky, etc.
That’s what those “schools” are there for. Why go to TECH if you have no interest in an education.
thanks to phew this is what he left...
June 18th, 2011
5:22 pm
‘On top of having only eight scholarship players, half of them are guards. All four walk-ons are also guards.’
this is what our team would have looked like even if phew had stayed. of course bo prob would have stayed.
this is the situation our 7 million dollar man left our team and program in.
for those of you who state that he had nothing but good things to say about tech i say…… give me a 7 million dollar buy out and ill like phew fans toes. than again….
but you get the point.
thanks paul for nothing…….
Stinger
June 18th, 2011
8:00 pm
It’s not like Oliver was a supertstar. He got worse the longer he played for Hewitt. If anyone else is not happy, let them leave too. Start from scratch and get the type players we need to rebuild the program.
Farewell B.O.
June 19th, 2011
9:45 am
Oliver had a beautiful stroke, could possibly have been one of the best 3 point shooters in the conference, but highly inconsistent. With Gregory’s focus on defense and running the floor, B.O. would have been out of his element, so maybe that was one of his reasons to go.
We will miss the numbers in 2011, but Gregory will rebuild this team. Don’t get all worked up if we lose to Duke and UNC next year. But wait 2 or 3 and we will give them a run.
At least we may come up with an inbounds play that works in 2011.
Hit a Single
June 19th, 2011
10:45 am
Oliver leaving, just another example of why Hewitt couldn’t win. He recruited prima donas that played with no heart. Oliver is just another example of me and not team.
bobby cremins
June 19th, 2011
1:35 pm
@farewell bo…..Unless Tech still planning to hire another coach after their done paying Hewitt’s buyout, they surely won’t be competitive in 2 or 3 yrs.
Trigeek
June 19th, 2011
1:41 pm
>>>>Hewitt Fan
June 16th, 2011
6:53 pm
this is just the start,When a program turns their back on a coach that the year before, made it to the ACC Championship game and won a NCAA game. One of his former teamates play for the GREAT ATLANTA CELTICS and it has been confirmed..All of Gt players hate the GT fan base.Thats why Shump left early also…Next time please don’t let Mark Bradley determine who should be head coach!
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Is this guy for real??? Hewitt’s last season with a winning record in the ACC was the 2003 – 2004 season…………….his ONLY season above 500 in the conference in his forgettable eleven seasons at Tech (72 – 104 overall). And only two NCAA appearances in the last six seasons. Those are the facts. And THAT is why the fan base is unexcited and no one comes to the games. Any respectable program without the fear of being labeled as racist would’ve fired him loooonnnnnng before he ran the program into the ground with ten of eleven losing seasons.
Stinger
June 19th, 2011
6:27 pm
Cremins use to win with 6 or 7 players. Gregory can too.
Farewell B.O.
June 19th, 2011
9:04 pm
“Next time please don’t let Mark Bradley determine who should be head coach!”
Actually, I think an 8-23 Kennesaw State team determined that.
Hewitt Fan
June 20th, 2011
9:01 am
Trigeek
“And only two NCAA appearances in the last six seasons. Those are the facts.”
If that makes you so mad, how do feel about your new coach?..CBG had been to the NCAA’s 2 times in 8 years, one year was with Oliver Purnell’s players in the ATLANTIC 10, and unlike GT fans, Dayton fans camed to the game and he had maximum support!..So basically he has a problem finding ball players, or he can’t coach!…Hewitt main problem was the refs, sure he had a couple of bad teams, last year was one of them, the year with Causey was another, but most years the guy just simply could not any calls in the ACC!
Clueless @ the AJC
June 20th, 2011
9:13 am
If it walks like a duck, it’s a duck and if it quacks like a duck well…………………this was a lame hire and everyone knows it, but this newspaper. (Same for the Tech Football) Neither program is going to be able to attract elite players because neither coaches are elite.
KeepDreaming
June 20th, 2011
9:32 am
Calm down nerds, we now know that Oliver only left the team to follow his coach. You watch, he’ll end up at G. Mason.
Jackets 2011
June 20th, 2011
10:20 am
Please punish me too, Hewitt haters.
Let’s see: he was working for us at 1.3 mil a year.
Now he gets, per his contract provisions, 1.7 mil a year from us plus whatever George Mason is paying him which is likely at least 500K.
So running Hewitt off actually obtained for him an approximately million dollar a year raise.
I’m channeling Hewitt as we speak and he wants me to tell you “thank you”.
GTVegas
June 20th, 2011
11:22 am
Hewitt had to go. His results did not justify his salary. I just think he changed once he got his Golden Contract. Only person to blame for that is Dave Braine. GT will suffer in many ways because of that contract, financlially initially and not being able to get the big name coach until that burden has been eased.
What do I think of Gregory? I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for 4-5 years, enough time to get past the Hewitt hangover and, hopefully show a positive trend. Was he the person I would have picked? Probably not, but every situation is different and the jury is still out.
Hewitt fan – I really do not know why you persist on justifying Hewitt staying? IF GT will never get “your” players and GT will never win because of the refs, why would we continue paying Hewitt’s ever increasing salary/buyout? It just doesn’t make any sense.
Hewitt was/is a nice, classy guy, but why should I pay a multiple for the same results?
last time i heard
June 20th, 2011
2:04 pm
phew hired Hewitt Fan to shine his shoes….
and cook his fries…. and clean his toilets…. and wash his brown stained underwear.
who says that loyalty doesnt have its rewards.
hell Hewitt Fan is not only getting a raise but a bump up from his current responsibilities as the local AAU basketball crack ho.
ok I admit it...
June 20th, 2011
2:17 pm
I am a Hewitt lover. My nic on the hive is IndianaJacket. Paul and I have been exchanging wiener pictures for years. Every time i get a picture from Paul I get goose bumps all over my body.
Stinger 2
June 20th, 2011
2:19 pm
Someone above said GT and Wake will battle for last place in the ACC.
It will be no battle. GT has already won last place. They will be lucky to win one or two ACC games.
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