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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DawginLex
December 15th, 2011
11:58 am
juvenal
Property managers???
My degree is in accounting so i am just guessing
1 4 GT
December 15th, 2011
12:00 pm
Since some Georgie people want to claim that a cure for cancer has been discovered at the University of Georgie, I wanted to verify the validity of this claim. Here is a list of cancer research centers in the state of Georgia presented in the order they are listed on the web page I found. You can draw your own conclusions as to the importance of the research centers by their place in the list at your own peril. I might add, nowhere I did see that a “cure” for cancer has been found. Georgia Cancer Coalition Clark Atlanta University Emory University Winship Cancer Institute Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia State University Medical College of Medicine Memorial University Medical Center Mercer University Morehouse School of Medicine University of Georgie
scott
December 15th, 2011
12:01 pm
what the hell is a receivers coach at tech? our receivers never looked like they had a position coach,it was more like “run out there and l’ll throw the ball to you somewhere see if you can catch it .
what we need is an oc that can keep the option and still put a passing game together , and a motivater. had we gone into every game pumped up and played our A game we would be undefeated this year. we could have beaten georgia good if we had taken our A game with us,our B or C game won’t beat good teams.
1 4 GT
December 15th, 2011
12:17 pm
scott—-I agree with you. It the guys had played the entire season like they did against Clemson, they very well could have been 13-0 right now. I know the Georgie fans are yukking it up over that belief, but that’s ok. If they are true fans of the game and actually “know” football, they have to acknowledge the possibility. Would GT have been undefeated? Maybe. Would GT be top 10 or better worthy? I don’t personally think so. I never thought they were #12 worthy. All of that would have shaken out on somebody else’ sayso. Certainly, no one here would have a vote on that. Just saying!
juvenal
December 15th, 2011
12:34 pm
a lot of properties vacant & foreclosed-you got a good job, Lex, when the local carpet mill closed, the accountants stayed over after every body else left to close the books-now my accountant buddy will be doing income taxes……just saying schools not preparing most kids, not just S-As, for the real world….
juvenal
December 15th, 2011
12:36 pm
1 4 GT, thought the original cancer blog was also meant to be sarcastic……pretty sure real cure for it would make the home page…….
1 4 GT
December 15th, 2011
12:41 pm
juvenal You may be right. I’m not sure the mutts are smart enough to be sarcastic though.
1 4 GT
December 15th, 2011
12:48 pm
3rd try with these frigging filters. DawginLex. Be careful saying your degree is in accounting. Your mutt brothers will think you’re one of us. A “ne rd”. LOL
1 4 GT
December 15th, 2011
12:49 pm
same basic message 3 times—-big difference was splitting ne rd
ARdawg
December 15th, 2011
5:36 pm
1 4 GT
You are correct. There are many giggles over that remark. Undefeated? Top 10 or 12? Really? Of course this is all contin.g.ent on that they played the other 11 games like they did against Clem.p.son huh? Too funny guy. You ne.rds like to refer to us as dre.a.mers?
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December 15th, 2011
8:57 pm
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