Report: Preston a candidate for Hawaii job
Georgia Tech wide receivers coach Buzz Preston has reportedly applied for the head coach opening at Hawaii, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
Preston played at Hawaii and coached seven years with Tech coach Paul Johnson. A Star-Advertiser story said that 30 coaches had applied for the job as of Monday. The school reached a retirement agreement with former coach Greg McMackin after leading the Warriors to a 29-25 record over four seasons.
Utah offensive coordinator Norm Chow, whom Tech will face in the Sun Bowl, is also reportedly a candidate, as is Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.
Preston has coached at Tech since 2008, part of Johnson’s original staff, and has developed receivers Demaryius Thomas, Stephen Hill and Tyler Melton. Thomas, whom Preston coached two seasons, was the first wide receiver taken in the 2010 NFL draft, 22nd to the Denver Broncos. It would be Preston’s first head coaching position after 32 season as an assistant.
Johnson has had one Tech assistant leave to take a head coaching position, Jeff Monken at Georgia Southern.
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PLAYMAKER
December 14th, 2011
2:52 pm
I hope he gets it, then GT can bring back Ralph Fridgren.
carolinajacket
December 14th, 2011
3:01 pm
But Ralph is an offensive coordinator and Paul is an offensive coordinator who runs a completely different offense. I love Ralph, but don’t see how that could work.
GT Man
December 14th, 2011
3:17 pm
Please some retirement home for football vets hire Al Groh !!!!!!
juvenal
December 14th, 2011
3:19 pm
Technically Correct aside, Carvell did a nice piece early today on a QB commit,4…….
crackbaby
December 14th, 2011
3:24 pm
Having played and coached @ UH and being part of CPJ’s winning program, coach Preston will likely be considered but it is unlikely he will get the job unless he has serious support locally (that’d be in Hawaii folks).
Rich Miano, the interim coach, is considered a leading candidate but is not a popular choice among fans (i.e. season ticket). Norm Chow or Duane Akina are likely finalists for the UH HC job. Like a couple folks posted above, you need serious local support for the UH job. Credentials are secondary considering McMackin got the job after June Jones left.
crackbaby
December 14th, 2011
3:28 pm
@Playmaker
Ralph Friedgen is a pig. It hurts to look at that guy.
Sorry but your comment lacks any merit b/c 1) CPJ is the defacto OC, and 2) The Fridge won’t take a position coach job.
wrecked wreck
December 14th, 2011
3:36 pm
If tech pays part of his salary will Hawaii hire him?
The New ACC
December 14th, 2011
3:54 pm
Why does no one ever want a coach from uga? Things that make you go hummmmmmmmm….
wrecked wreck
December 14th, 2011
4:00 pm
10 out of 11 ………………………..wonder who’s had the better coaching hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
DawginLex
December 14th, 2011
4:13 pm
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For 5150. UGA grads
Nice try utoad 5150
December 14th, 2011
4:27 pm
comparing crime in Athens and Zone 5 in Atlanta.
BIG BEE
December 14th, 2011
4:48 pm
The reason everyone hates UGA fans is they never say anything nice about anyone/ Good school, good program, LOUSEY FANS.
UGASlobberknocker
December 14th, 2011
5:00 pm
Re; Hawaii..Preston is just as likely to get mugged in Hawaii by the natives who hate Americans. The good news though is there are actually good looking women there, so that will certainly be a change for the better from the tech black hole.
UGASlobberknocker
December 14th, 2011
5:02 pm
@Big Bee
although most tech grads dont know anything about football..they are pretty darn smart and for sure know how to spell “lousy”.
Admit it, youre an Auburn fan who just hates Ga so you pretend to be a techno geek when you are really a just a farm boy.
UGASlobberknocker
December 14th, 2011
5:04 pm
Look, Tech isnt my favorite spot on Earth, but can they help it the Atlanta police suck?
Supersize that order, mutt
December 14th, 2011
5:21 pm
thanks, slobberknocker. you’re definitely right on that one
ty webb
December 14th, 2011
5:43 pm
hawaiians are americans.
Spanky
December 14th, 2011
6:26 pm
“hawaiians are americans.”…………barely! LOL
Dawg48
December 14th, 2011
6:47 pm
Gorilla Biscuit
December 14th, 2011
1:00 pm
GT receivers coach. That just has to be the least impressive resume Hawaii received.
That was the funniest thing I have read all day!
I think I wet my pants a little…
Hey..........
December 14th, 2011
7:52 pm
That guy looks like a Viet Cong with that hat…………………
Really?
December 14th, 2011
7:58 pm
I guess the rumors about another ncaa investigation at the north avenue trade scool are true. It’s hard to believe that a school that loses as much as the trade school does cheats but where there’s smoke there’s fire. They already had their acc “championship” stripped from them, what will be next?
Really?
December 14th, 2011
8:00 pm
In actual news, congrats to The University of Georgia for discovering a cure for cancer. It’s great to see there is a school concerned with bettering mankind in our state.
1 4 GT
December 14th, 2011
8:43 pm
DawginLex. What got your shorts all twisted up. You and 5150 been fighting? I’ll grant you that you put up a good list of notable graduates from Georgie. But I imagine any school of higher learning could lay claim to just as impressive a list of their graduates. All it proves is that each school has some people that do very well. What else should we expect from the citizens of the world? There is a great diversity in humanity, some great, some good, some bad, some evil, but most just trying to live the best they can.
superDawg
December 14th, 2011
9:48 pm
Lex good list but it keeps going and going.tek sent a man into space and he found out there was a lot of space out there.UGA has discovered a cure for cancer and it may save a life.
superDawg
December 14th, 2011
9:50 pm
UGA has developed cloning so the last tek fan will not be alone.
1 4 GT
December 14th, 2011
10:15 pm
WOW!! REALLY?? SHAZAAMM!! I haven’t seen anything in the news about Georgie finding a cure for cancer. Why don’t ya’ll let someone know these things? That could be really huge!
Steve
December 15th, 2011
12:46 am
1 4 GT,
Just because you have chosen to troll here in the AJC comedy section instead of CNN, thereby missing out on real news about human welfare, does not mean that those UGA researchers have not discovered anything. You are a tool.
dry dirt road
December 15th, 2011
7:12 am
PJ should be applying and take his wreckbone offense with him so the real Tech can get the more productive shotgun offense. Maybe get Hamilton as head coach. He would know how to run it. Shawn Jones would know also. Tech needs to let it fly w/o apprehension, which they seem to have with the run only wreckbone offense. Other teams make a living with the shotgun, which means something and not nothing.
dry dirt road
December 15th, 2011
7:33 am
Hey Lex, I never heard Crawford Long was a Georgia grad. I heard he was an Emory student when he discovered anesthesia. CLH is a branch of Emory. I never heard any connection of CL with Georgia at all. Sure, there will be Georgia grads in Georgia. Tech is getting tired of losing to Georgia in football, and the time has arrived to drop the rivalry and take up a Heisman coached school as a rival, such as Clemson. Just change the ramblin wreck song to “To Hell with Clemson”. We can’t compete with Georgia anymore, such competition being an exercise in futility, and setting a bad precedent for attracting math and science study amongst Georgia school kids looking for a college, as reflected in their math and science test scores. We don’t want to compete with a school that boasts “We run this state” when they win, like some less than college level gang would boast. We don’t want any association with hoods like that.
Wal-Mart Retards
December 15th, 2011
8:22 am
Make me laugh… Keep dreaming mutts
DawginLex
December 15th, 2011
8:36 am
Just diggin at 5150 a little.
He is always commenting about our new recruit as the “next great lawyer coming out of Athens, LOL”. I thought I would provide a list of actual UGA grads who have done ok to further bury the stereotype.
Pensacola Nadlicker
December 15th, 2011
8:38 am
Nothing more
juvenal
December 15th, 2011
9:05 am
Lex, how did they rank as bulldawg club contributors? all that really matters, isn’t it? Merry Christmas!
WnE
December 15th, 2011
9:15 am
These are S. Hill’s career stats:
Stephen Hill
Receiving G Rec Yards yds/Rec Long TD Yds/G
2009 13 6 137 22.8 53 1 1.5
2010 12 15 291 19.4 79 3 24.3
2011 12 26 785 30.2 82 4 65.4
TOTAL 37 47 1213 25.8 82 8 32.8
Three Years into Hill’s college career, a 4* Recruit is only able to muster 26 friggin catches over a 12-game season, were it not for GT playing CUPCAKE CITY at the start of the season Hill would have fewer TDs and maybe 10 LESS catches.
I wonder is S. Hill still happy that he chose GT over uga?
Tyler Melton’s career Stats, if that’s what you want to call them:
Receiving G Rec Yards Yds/Rec Long TD Yds/G
2008 10 5 53 1.6 25 0 5.3
2009 10 5 46 9.2 13 0 4.6
2010 11 6 99 16.5 42 1 9.0
2011 12 14 244 17.4 66 0 2.3
TOTAL 43 30 442 14.7 66 1 1.3
After 4-yrs. of CFB Melton has only 12-catches over a 12-game season, maybe his College film of “diving at defenders kneecaps” will impress the NFL scouts.
The worst part is that Melton actually had pretty good hands & body control, had he gone to a place like Houston with their 4-WR sets he might have been able to get a look from NFL scouts asa slot WR.
GT the place where NFL Dreams go to DIE!
If this is what Coach Preston has done with GT WRs, then he LUCKY to have the GT job, mush less being deserving of a HC job anywhere even on the friggin’ HS level.
I guess CPJ is genius at putting together a BCS Level Coaching staff also………….NOT!
CoolBreeze
December 15th, 2011
9:16 am
No wonder I come here so seldom any more. Everything is hyperbole. An average position coach applies for the head job at his alma mater, and THIS is what follows? It ain’t much of a story to start with, but, then, you guys don’t need much to drip your drivel about, now, do you?
juvenal
December 15th, 2011
9:38 am
wne, Calvin is doing just fine, better to go somewhere you don’t get all beat up, you will last longer in the bigs…….
juvenal
December 15th, 2011
9:46 am
& though, as someone noted, Thomas dropped a 55 yarder, he made the SI cover catching a 10 yd TD pass that put the Broncos into OT…….& the nfl wants their WRs to block…..2 #1 WRs that the show found that did not have to get beat up in college…..
steverino
December 15th, 2011
9:54 am
Good luck, Buzz. Coach Preston is always a lot of fun to listen to at the Edge Center on signing day. If you don’t take/get the Hawaii job, see you on Feb.1 !!
Stingtalk cheerleader
December 15th, 2011
10:09 am
Will this mean more passing if we get a new replacement? Please say yes, please say yes.
G P Burdell
December 15th, 2011
10:11 am
Can we send Groh??
Stingtalk cheerleader
December 15th, 2011
10:15 am
GP, apparently Charlie Weis is showing interest in Groh. I speak for the entire STINGTALK dot com community when I say we aren’t happy with the coaching at GT. So this is great if they want our coaches, bring in the new ones as we all say on stingtalk!!!!
Albert
December 15th, 2011
10:28 am
Why does Tech need a wide receivers coach?
carolinajacket
December 15th, 2011
10:37 am
I would be most surprised if Groh goes anywhere. I imagine he is ready to settle down. It will help if he gets a couple of 300 pound defensive linemen.
Chuck Allison
December 15th, 2011
10:50 am
Well, he won’t be able to win the job based on performance. It is a joke to say that he is credited with developing Tyler Melton and Stephen Hill, because we are still hoping that those two young men will develop. Maybe Buzz is responsible for their failure to develop. Tech had zero touchdown passes in their last six football games. I hope he gets the job because we definitely need a receivers coach.
DawginLex
December 15th, 2011
10:54 am
If GTBob is truly one of your own, you all should be ashamed.
Bashing UGA student athletes on the UGA blog for graduating from UGA with a degree that he deems to be unworthy.
What a loser.
juvenal
December 15th, 2011
11:08 am
wouldn’t know, Lex, don’t go over there………what do you do with a housing mgt. degree?
Stingtalk cheerleader
December 15th, 2011
11:28 am
Lex, is this GTBob guy posting on a bulldog blog? He doesn’t sound like one of ours, at least not from STINGTALK, but hey we got a bunch of morons over there so who knows, could be one of our very own!
1 4 GT
December 15th, 2011
11:29 am
Dearest Steve. As my blog ID indicates, I am a fan of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Not just the athletics, but the school as well. I believe that makes this particular blog my home blog, especially since it is written to inform GT folks about what is going on with regards to GT athletics. Therefore, sir, that makes you the troll because your derogatory comment to me fairly screams Georgie fan at me. If you can’t recognize sarcasm when you see it, I will attempt to explain it to you. I was poking sarcastic fun at the Georgie guy that stated, “UGA has discovered a cure for cancer”. Now sir, I know that Georgie has some good schools over there in Athens that do good work. However, I believe that if someone affiliated with the University of Georgie had discovered a cure for cancer, every news organization in the world would be “all over the story” and have representatives in Athens clogging your lovely town up. Now maybe you can understand the humor in my comment on a “cure for cancer”. I know the time difference in our comments, but I sure hope you read this. I would for you to remain in such a state of ignorance.
juvenal
December 15th, 2011
11:30 am
seriously, hotel work is down-less PE in school-business?-a glut….we don’t do a good job training kids in this country anymore for jobs we need doing..if you can get a science or engineering degree, be a good idea for any young person today, & learn a 2nd. language.maybe the places they get criminology degreees have the right idea…….
Stingtalk cheerleader
December 15th, 2011
11:40 am
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