Hewitt is staying: Tech fans, how do you feel? UPDATED

Thank goodness. GO Dawgs

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And Im not dissapointed. He has one more year and I think he should have one more chance. But if it doesnt go to well then he should go

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Yeah! I hope Coach Hewitt stays!

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Pissed

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As usual with Hewitt, he teases us and then lets us down!

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Any chance Michele Joseph can coach the men and Hewitt the women’s team?

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Its a safe bet that most Tech fans are sick over this development. We have just been stunted at least two more years before we can begin to rebuild our program. Hey look on the bright side…we should finish 11th or 12th in the ACC this year and losing to NC state wont be an upset. Oh well

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There will be plenty of room to spread out in the stands at GT BB games next year. No sitting elbow-to-elbow with other fans. Just like 1976.

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what does this say about his thought process ? Is he staying to prove the fans wrong or is he staying because of the sweet never ending contract ? He will say its because of his family and love of georgia tech but wouldn’t it make more sense to go home where you and your family are from ?
i think its because of the never ending contract he knows he gets 7 million or whatever it is when he wears out his welcome.

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Money to stay and no pressure-what a contract!
A letdown…

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Didn’t Paul Johnson start out coaching High School basketball? Why doesn’t DRad double his salary and let him coach both football and basketball?

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As an alumni
of St. John’s University, I have heard many names been thrown around for our vacant men’s basketball position. In my opinion, I think that the Red Storm should hire current ESPN Analyst, Steve Lavin. He has a great resume and will help rebuild St. John’s into a powerhouse.

I found this link, http://lavin4redstorms.com/, that some students at SJU have setup for Lavin’s support. Your thoughts on Lavin @ SJU?

Sam
http://lavin4redstorms.com/

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D’oh! Don’t listen to your wife! Who wears the pants in your family?!?

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I think most of us feel like crap.

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I’m glad he is staying. I would have like to see how far this years team would have went with a competent point guard. Also glad to see him stay because of the name callers on here.

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St Johns has better Lawyers than Tech. They don’t offer never ending contracts and they don’t pay other schools $3.5 Million for the privalege of hiring their worn out coaches.

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I mean seriously? Doesn’t the guy understand that NO ONE WANTS HIM HERE?????????

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UGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Mark, keep killing him. This was an easy out for him. Where will he be next year after he gets fired? He won’t get another job then. Sitting on the beach counting his $s. Horrible news. There will be crickets in AMC next year.

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Why would he want to leave Tech? He has a great contract right now.

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FIRE HIM!!! Maybe his wife would like the St. John’s job better if he didn’t have one at Tech!!!!!

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if true, this is great news for st johns.

and every other acc team.

and uga.

tech, not so much.

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When you publicly flirt with another girl- it kills your credibility with your wife/girlfriend.

Paul is going to have less support that what little he had now. He needs to only say positives about Georgia Tech and what he doing to address the turnovers.

After that he needs to shut up and prove all his critics wrong. If not- he is in for a miserable existence.

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This is terrible. Tech needs to sue Braine for breach of fiduciary duty in putting Tech in this position to begin with.

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How do I feel? I feel like a hostage to this man. I’m sick of his mediocre performance, his excuses, his unwillingness to take responsibility for anything, and the arrogance that underlies it all.

Coach Hewitt, please understand. ALMOST NOBODY wants you to be our coach anymore. You are ONLY here because of your ridiculous contract. Your continued employment is bad for our basketball program and bad for our school. You are too selfish to do what’s right and resign honorably. Ultimately, we will only be rid of you by paying a $7 million ransom. That’s money that could be used to help our athletic programs by building facilities and paying coaches who have the desire and ability to succeed at Georgia Tech.

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“Let’s give him one more chance”. Seems like I kept hearing that about Chan Gailey, too, from those who think if you just keep doing the same thing, in the same way, maybe you’ll get different results.

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His going to St. John’s would have raised the standards of both schools.

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can’t take it anymore

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AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HATE MEDIOCRITY!!!!!!!!!

CAN’T……TAKE IT…………..ANY………MORE………….

BYE, BYE SEASON TICKETS!!!!!!!!! GTAA WILL NOT GET A RENEWAL FROM ME!

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who would want to move to New York. Remember what John Rocker said. He nailed it.

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I am sending Drad an email now telling him I will NOT renew next year and I will not donate another dollar to the GTAA until he is gone.

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Mark Bradley what have you unleashed? I haven’t seen a reaction like this since Health Care passage!

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I personally am pleased Hewitt is rumored to stay. According to NYT, the Atlanta media
is cited as a factor pressuring him. The media’s apparent support for Tubby at
Tech does not represent the interest of the school’s alumni. How about writing
an article about Hewitt’s strengths…He’s done a much better job than UGA’s coach,
IMHO, over the past few years in terms of recruiting among other factors…

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This is GREAT for Georgia basketball.

Hilarious that Georgia fans want him to stay and Tech fans want him out of there.

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Jackets, we need to remember that we are not Duke or UNC. The fact is, whether you like to admit it or not, that we have a mid-teir program that is struggling to break in to the top 20 every year and that considers it a “win” for us to get to the tournament. We had better stop pretending to be a Final Four lock and just be grateful Hewitt stayed. Otherwise, we would suck even worse next year than we will already.

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This just proves that Hewitt is an idiot! He must be living in a bubble. He is not wanted at Tech! Back to underachieving and no hope!

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As a Georgia alum and fan, I love it. But I think it’s pretty stupid for CPH as it seemed to be a win win for both teck and him. If he fails to make the tourny next year he’ll likely be fired (assuming they can afford to do so) and without any immediate prospects for a job.

Had he left, he’d at least have stability for a few years. Now, what would be really great is if teck was really in such bad financial shape that they COULDN’T fire him and they were actually held hostage by Hewitt. That would be hilarious.

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SoWeGa Jacket….

You have developed a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome. You’re simply empathizing with the captor (Paul Hewitt) and are not thinking clearly.

Remember that Paul Hewitt has finished sub .500 in ACC play over the last 6 years, and that’s WITH those good recruits you point as a “bright spot”. Better?

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Mark:

I don’t believe teh Tech fans can comment at this time, they’re both at a Star Trek convention.

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Posters here are so dumb. He turned down $11M guaranteed over 5 years to stay at $7M over 5. I wish he had gone, it would have been better for us and them. However, money was not the issue. Try to be smarter when you post.

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A very sad day and probably the saddest of so many for the last 6 years.

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What yall need is a gimmick offense like the football team. oh yeah 30-24 all year.

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This makes me want to puke. Sorry Georgia Tech, but I will not support Paul Hewitt. I will support Georgia Tech, but not Hewitt.

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I believe this is horrible news for Tech and Hewitt. For Tech, season ticket sales will continue to plummet and there is no excitement in the program anymore. For Hewitt, this is the worst decision for him professionally, as this was the opportune time for him to leave while he still has some market value. Financially, Hewitt can’t lose either way. Bad decision for both.

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He stayed because he knows he will get his A$$ handed him to him in the Big East. His coaching ineptness would be exposed quickly there. Calhoun, Pitino, Boeheim, Huggins, and more were licking their chops at the prospect of this arrogant “coach” coming north. He will be booed out of the arena next year…with what few fans are there.

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Now who went and stirred up all these bees again? And it’s just been 4 days since that bad old Brutus the Buckeye got’m all stirred up, dang it!

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all that is on these blogs are idiots primarily UGA that wants Hewitt around forever. No reall GT fan beside 5% wants this to continue. 2-14 in the 2009 season was the last draw. I am also sick and tired of comments about be thankful GT got in the tournament, blank that crap. GT can do much better ….

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I am sad either way. Bottom-line is that I wanted nothing more than for Coach Hewitt to be successful and take Georgia Tech to a higher level of consistent winning. At this point I’m like many who are convinced he’s a great person, great recruiter, great representative but just not a great teacher of the game.

I believe we have seen the ceiling with Coach Hewitt. We will never be a regular season power (even 1 year out of 10 would have been nice). Our hope will always lie in winning enough just to get to the dance and hoping to catch lightening in a bottle. It happened 1 time in 10 years. There were many other years I just wanted to hit the bottle.

Coach Hewitt will work hard, recruit hard and push his players hard. He’ll do it with class and integrity. He’ll also lose more close games than he wins. He’ll have more one-and-done players than anyone else, primarily because he’s so good at getting them, but also because at Georgia Tech, they just don’t stay.

On every day of the year he’s the right guy for Georgia Tech, except on gameday. However, I’ll say it again – I want Coach Hewitt to be THE guy who succeeds here. He gets “it”. He understands what Georgia Tech is about.

So I am a bit sad he’s staying because I don’t see another mountaintop……. and there was going to be sadness to see him go. The sadness is just a reflection on years of great players but too much standing around waiting for lightening.

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Our one chance . . . gone . . . just like that. Well, that is it then. He has this one lifeline left. He F’s this up, not only will he have little hope left from the GTAA, he will be RUN out of Atlanta. This was our chance out of the never ending contract, and him not taking this opportunity to get out instantly changes the eggs he WAS walking on into spikes. Screw it up, and things get even worse. He thinks people (myself included) are angry now? You come back and dissapoint, and people will be gunning for his head.

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Season tickets at tech? What a joke.You guys are funny.

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Never tick off your wife…

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wow, bradley, you must really be torn! but look at it this way, if he stays then you get to keep your favorite punching bag!

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There’s nothing left to do but help him succeed, with assistants or whatever resources he needs. If he fails, our program is in the dump, and no one will hire him away. He’ll just stay forever. We’re stuck.

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This was probobly the only smart coaching decision Hewitt made since letting Bynum take the last shot against OK State….oh wait, Marvin Lewis was the one who called that.

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NickJ, if UGA basketball sucks, and they BEAT you nerds, what does that say about Tech basketball? Hmmm. Don’t be jealous over the true college in this state.

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This is like the relative who won’t take the hint that you want him to leave. Maybe DRad can:

Change the locks on his office door without telling him
Give away his parking space
Paint the floor in Georgia State colors – Hewitt thinks he’s at the wrong arena and leaves forever
Change arena’s nickname from Thrillerdome to HewittMustGoDome
Host bingo tournaments in new Zelnak center when team is supposed to practice
Buy him an I (heart) Seton Hall lapel pin
Give up and hire 8,000 Academy Award seat-fillers to attend all home games

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It sounds like his family was the determining factor, but what happens after 2010 if they fire him or worse, 2012 he’s out no matter. I’ve always said he didn’t have a firm grip on reality, but this proves more than anything that he doesn’t.

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Ok, i am a new tech football fan, and as well as a long time tech basketball fan. Although i do feel we could have done better this year, who would we get to replace hewitt. If we do get a replacement are we pressuring them to win right away? If not why not, we are pressing Hewitt to win now. I understand but this is a very young team. Outside of Ganni and Peacock and oK Bell, everyone else is at best a two year player. I say give hewitt two more years, then pay him out. But lets think, who is going to take over this job with possibly loosing favors, and loosing Gannni, and peacock. I think Hewitt can do a great job at attempting to keep favors, who may stay if hewitt does, then he will have Udofia, Oliver, Rice, Favors, and my favorite who had to sit out this year hosley. That in itself can be a top 10 team next year. OK Hewitt two more years, and we have a final four team. I SAID IT FIRST

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I am glad he is staying. He is good for GT

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As a tech fan Im glad he is staying. This is really a non issue and MB just seems to not find anything else to cover. Who really cares.

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GTBlogScott- well said

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Hey Steve, it says that you get your whole team excited for your biggest game of the year and to GT you are just another game on the schedule. It’s like when UK beats YOU in football. Or Vandy. Surely you can relate. Unfortunately, you are not the BIG game on Florida, Tennessee, or Alabama’s schedule.

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Made my day!!!!!!

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I have been ready to see him go for several years. They don’t look like a well coached team – can’t even bring the ball in!

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I havent had this much fun since the saturday after Thanksgiving .

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This was a win win for both sides, and Hewitt has missed the boat. I am not going to renew by season tickets for next year – I love basketball and this is too hard to watch. After another few years, he may not be hurting for money but he won’t get another head coaching offer.

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You know what.
I wish there was a blog I could read that took place during the Kansas meltdown.
Their guards were goose egg for 11 from threeville.
Why didn’t the genius Bill Self bench them?
Why hadn’t he instilled the decipline in them to pass the damn ball to someone else?
Had some of you been Kansas fans, the whining would have reached a crescendo probably never to be approached ever again on a blog.

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I went to 2 Tech BB games this year (I did not pay for the tickets, they were given to me). The place was only 3/4 full for ACC games. Doesn’t the head coach have some responsibility for that? Hewitt’s decision to stay has really ruined my day.

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Anyone who knows anything about basketball, and has been following Tech, should be devastated that Hewitt did not take the St. John’s job. He is a nice guy and a terrific recruiter, but he can’t coach a lick, and he does less with his talent than any coach in the ACC. Tech will never have a quality program as long as Coach Hewitt stays in Atlanta. Any of you who think otherwise need to take off your rose-colored glasses and come back to reality.

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If I were DRad, I’d try to renegotiate the contract to pay him more now (based on incentives) in exchange for removing the automatic rollover. I don’t know if it would work, but I’d try. It’s the only way out.

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This just sux. It really is all about the money. He can blame his family if he wants, but he’s just a greedy SOB. Why stay where you aren’t wanted? $$$

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GTBlogScott – excellent post.

Hewitt turning down St. John’s sounds like a family decision to me – I wonder what would have happened if he hadn’t moved his parents to Atlanta last year? One thing is for sure, if GT doesn’t have a good record next year and a trip to the NCAA the pitchforks will be out on North Avenue.

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choke!!!!

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crap!!

March 25th, 2010
2:09 pm
The difference between UGAY bball and GT bball is that when UGA beats GT, their season is made, as evidenced by these people on this blog. You’re not even in the freaking NIT! Shut up and go make out with your cousin you red neck bumpkins. You will NEVER be relevant in bball. NEVER!!!

Hey Crap, if my memory is correct didn’t Tech’s senior football players in 2008 have rings made and then have the score added on there? Seems to me that whenever GT beats UGA not only your fans but your players have to have rings made like they are champions and better yet add the score of the game when you beat UGA to make your season.

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Yall suck. get over it.Talk to yall nerds later. I havent been this amused since Reggie’s 4th down throw away.

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Wait wait wait. Is this an early April Fools Joke? If so well played

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I have mixed feelings about this. If Hewitt takes the criticisms to heart and doesn’t just dismiss the complaints and works hard to improve the obvious shortcomings of his recent teams then I think it will be OK. But if we continue to see a lack of discipline, sloppiness and no attention to detail then I’ll wish he left. Hewitt has become a very polarizing figure. I’m just the lonely moderate, lol.

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And we havent been this amused sinse , well! Since uga choked starting at the beginning of there football and sports program history. Rednecks!!!

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I think I am now in favor of blowing up the program from within.

We don’t give any scholarships anymore, don’t put a dime into a renovation of the coliseum, refuse to allow any assistant coaches, they can go by the cheapest means possible to away games.

Who cares anymore, just do whatever it takes to kill it.

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You miss my point.
These blogs often give vent to panicked fans and I’ll bet the farm it would have been funny to listen to Kansas folks panic.
That’s all I’m saying.

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I think whatever rich boosters there are out there, should go and fork up the cast, and escort Mr. Hewitt out of the building. with that contract, will be a continued bone of contention until whenever. I wish we could sue No Brain Braine to recover the funds.

We may get periods of luster, but the fact is continued winning is simply not in the cards..

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Kansas fans during meltdown in greater agony than Dawg fans last year losing to hated Kiffen?
That’s a question.
Close call.

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First of all I am only a casual GT fan. I have loyalties to another school but have admired this program since Mark Price came here. I do however, hate all things UGA. I agree with jason…GT football fans do have their season made when they beat UGA in football and that speaks to the consistancy of their program just like your getting all giddy like a school girl when UGA beats GT in bball. This is a sad day for GT. Hewitt is overwhelmingly mediocre. In his mind he will forever ride a 5 game winning streak 6 years ago to justify his job. And by the way, UGA bball plays in a toilet.

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Andy – GT has 2 trips to the Final Four in the last 20 years – that would be 2 more than UGA and tied for 3rd in the ACC with MD.
The expectations are not for GT to be equal to UNC and Duke but to be in the upper half of the conference

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All Tech has to do is get all 3500 football season ticket holders to give $2000 each…$7M and your done.

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Sanford is a dump, I thought you had to be smart to be a Tech graduate? If that was the case you need to do some research because UGA has 5 football national championships……..1927, 1942, 1946, 1968 and 1980.

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You guys may be right and I may be wrong about our rich alums paying for a byeout at some point.
All I can be sure about is that I will not make a contribution.
So maybe I’m not that great a Tech fan.
I can accept that.
Ya’ll don’t need me anyway.

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Hewitt is not welcome here. That will be abundantly clear next year in the half-empty dullerdome. We don’t want him, and if his family is the reason he stayed, we don’t want them either.

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I guess St. John’s got lucky after all, and they don’t even know it.

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Maybe I’m being selfish guys.
DRAD has promised me a different cheerleader every game to get me to renew.
So heck yea I coming back.
lol.

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It is real simple. His players don’t play as a TEAM. They act as if they are just on exhibition for the NBA and play street ball.

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Mark, can you at least confirm these rumors? Is ESPN always accurate?

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Among the tears and disappointment and curses and insults and threats and frustration and exasperation from Tech fans, we’ll see how many of us actually renew our season tickets or our Tharpe fund contributions or ….. Everytime we refuse to give money to pay for Hewitt’s contract or for other athletics that indirectly benefit Hewitt, make sure you write down “because of Hewitt” on your form or voided blank check.

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He is staying because of his family not because he is happy with the job. The GT alum need to step up with the money and end this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jacket2010: he’d have to promise me a new car, at least, I already married my cheerleader.

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Terrible news. Please leave coach. We don’t want you

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typo. show the Tech fans that we are wrong and win! Win the games that count! Ramblin Wreck!

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When I saw the report that Coach Hewitt is staying, my heart sank. Let’s see if his actions match his words. With Favors gone for sure and Lawal probably to follow, it will be interesting to see if he can deliver on his statement. History says he won’t.

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Did Auburn just sign UTEP’s coach?
With a new palace, that was the best they could do.

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jasont13 – I love your claim that UGA won the MNC in football in 1968. UGA went 8-1-2 that year and were picked by someone called Litkenhous. Every poll you have ever heard of picked OSU.
Thee Ohio State University was the only unbeaten, untied team in the nation, going 10-0, blowing out Michigan and then USC in the Rose Bowl. The 1968 OSU team was probably Woody’s finest and is on most lists of top 10 teams ever.

Keep telling yourself that UGA has 5 NC’s.

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Whew, now we all can exhale…….Thank you Paul Hewitt. Glad you are staying. If only Reggie Ball could come back for another season as GT QB? That would be the answer to another prayer.

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This dithering is reminiscent of the offense his basketball team runs — the what, where are we going, you mean now? offense.
I feel like I’ve been stabbed in the back — by his decision to stay!
It’s obvious he’s lost the fan base. It’s looking like even the administration is cooling toward him. You know, the writing is on the wall, Coach. Maybe you’ll figure that out just after you figure out how to execute/defend an inbounds play.

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Tech will really suffer next year with no inside game. They lose a majority of their big men, and they don’t have much of a recruiting class coming in …. I’m not sure he will be around after that. Unless there’s something in his contract that stipulates Tech has to pay him if they void the contract. But I don’t want to talk contract because Hewitt might take that to mean I have an agenda to get him fired.

Here’s there recruiting class for next year (so far)
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recruiting/tracker/school?schoolId=59

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Does Mark Bradley actually think that random, anonymous internet comments, most written by sad dawg fans who don’t have a men’s basketball team to follow, constitutes some sort of consensus by fans?
Bradley needs to go badly.

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He’s here, we’re stuck with him, so I’m gonna support him and the team and hope for the best. I used to love the guy, it would be great if he could turn things around and make me love him again. Since there’s nothing I can do about it, I choose to be optimistic.

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Government taking over healthcare.

Public UNions demanding a takeover of ALL private retirement plans and 401ks.

White House wants Amnesty(Citizenship) for 15 Million Illegals in country.

And now….the lowest of blws……Hewitt is staying.

And the hits just keep on coming.

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Damm, we can’t even give him away. Where are all those insiders that said it was a sure deal and he was gone.

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Sad day for GT..I wish the GT players the best!! I truly wish them the best!!!

No Favors No Lawal and possibly no Shumpert.

Fans need to promote GT as a baseball/football power at this point.
GT basketball has killed itself. This is sad……..very sad.

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Look at what DRad said … “Paul’s credentials as a human being, a family man, a leader and a builder of character are impeccable. All of us at Georgia Tech are committed to assist him in providing an outstanding men’s basketball program.”

Nothing about his coaching ability. Maybe they can “assist him” with some new assitant coaches.

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I was among many who wished that Hewitt wasn’t our coach the past couple of years, but who trusted Radakovich to make the best decision for the Institute considering all things, including the finances. It was getting to the point where the diminishing crowds and growing antipathy (along with apathy) were making it clear that soon the financial cost of keeping him would outweigh the cost of paying him to leave. But once this deux ex machina called St. John’s offered to deliver us from him I really can’t brook his coming back another year. Do what it takes, DRad, just get him the hell out of here.

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Dear Mr. MB–I didn’t know exactly how I felt about Hewitt staying at Tech since I keep track of basketball in only a casual way, have no relation with Tech(other than the fact that my son graduated from it), and don’t know a thing of any significance about Hewitt, but since you asked, I decided to stop what I was doing (diagramming sentences) and think about it for a bit to see what I could find out.

I guess I could say that, in a way, I’m completely indifferent. I think first that it might be pleasing to some people but not to others. Fifty-fifty, I guess; so I can’t decide on those grounds. Then I considered what it might mean for Tech basketball; decided I didn’t have the foggiest. Maybe, I thought, it might matter a great deal to his family, but then I realized I don’t know whether he even has a family. So, who can tell? What does it mean for Georgia, as a whole? Who knows? America? Not much, I guess. That’s about it, I guess.

I was about to make some Vichyssoise before I got sidetracked on this, so I had better get back to it. Also, it’s started raining.

Thanks for asking; I hope I’ve been some help to you and your readers.

Your pal, Leland

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You’re talking Final Four next year. Bank on it!

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Never has there been a Coach saying he was going to stay at a school which was met with such indifference or anger. I really thought he would go as it would have been in both parties best interests for fresh start. CPH has Tech over a barrel and he knows it.

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I was surprised at my own feelings, when I thought CPH was leaving. I have mentally quetioned his qualifications on the bench, died with every turnover and more so with every in bound play.

Then I got out the scales. On one side, as Dan Radakovich said, “Paul’s credentials as a human being, a family man, a leader and a builder of character are impeccable”. No one can question the talent of the recruits he brings in. Many of the most admired coaches and managers in sports bring those traits AND some excellent subordinate coaches to their teams. I am glad he didn’t leave. Hope he finds some good assistant coaches that can teach basics and energize the players.

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to the poster (sorry i cant remember her name) that said tech had 4 championships in football and uga 1 . remember backdated and WWE championships dont count so its really uga 2 tech 0

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“I am committed to returning the Tech basketball program to the level of success our fans have come to expect.”

That’s what we are afraid of, Paul.

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morning jacket you must be kidding, this newspaper is all about UGA and will always be

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Hewitt should have never agreed to listen to ST. JOHN’S if he wasn’t prepared to take the job. If he’s happy here and his family wanted to stay then why even listen. All he’s done is open up an old wound with Tech fans especially in light of his recent twitter comments and then his criticism of the AJC. Tech fans must feel like they been on an emotional roller coaster. Most Tech fans were excited at the possibility of landing a new coach.

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you can thank that idiot Dave Braine. here’s to another 2-14 ACC record

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His picture at the top of the story is how I feel. The final disappointment to another disappointing season of Jacket hoops.

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We’re screwed again, took Gailey forever to be fired, now we’ve got to pay Hewitt all this money to keep us at the bottom of the ACC

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A POINT I MADE EARLIER TODAY

WHO WOULD WANT ANYTHING THAT COMES FROM THE DRUNKEN WRECK FROM GA TECH

ST. JOHNS SURE DOESN’T

BLAH HA HA HA HA HA HA AH AHA HA HA AHA H

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My first reaction is disappointment…. but, you know what? The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. There is no guarantee we’d be better off with Hewitt gone… although most of us really wanted to find out!

Since he’s staying I hope the man will change how he does some things. He needs to lose some of his stubborn streak (what you’ve been doing since 2004 isn’t working, Coach…. it’s okay to admit that), clean house with the assistant coaches (ball handling and free throw shooting are killing us and this is where you get the help to make it better), and don’t be afraid to chew some player butt on the sidelines. Anyone notice how he went off early in the Maryland game in the ACC tourney? It turned into the best half of basketball we played all year.

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This makes me mad as heck. I may even curse!

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small johnson I agree , I am just saying that real national championships that are not disputed is 2-0 in favor of UGA

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Radakovich must not have pushed hard enough. Next year will be like reliving the Duane Morrison glory years.

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@ God and Grayhound. Perfect comment. You would think a guy who has made excuses and shortcuts all year (10 years) would definetly make an “excuse to shortcut” and go coach st john’s.

I dont get it..Hewitt cant see he is walking on thin ice…
I cant believe he didnt take this “out” while he had a chance.

Hewitt has GT bball by its “cahones” with a pair of vice grips!!!

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IF Hewitt actually changed (radically) the way he coached and if he would start recruiting real STUDENT-athletes and if he could somehow change his attitude towards the fans and learn to actually assess his own and his team’s performance objectively….IF he could do all those things then I might one scintilla of hope upon his return. But history proves otherwise.

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This is very disheartening on many levels. Setting his record aside, this was an opportunity to get out from a contract that absolutely hamstrings the GTAA and GT fans. There is no accountability whatsoever in this contract. Hewitt takes absolutely no risk. GTAA can not afford to fire him for almost any reason, other than cause I would suspect.

I accept the fact that GT is not Duke or UNC and needs to have realistic expectations. I would be happy with a mid-tier coach as long as he has a contract that requires him to earn his payout.

People work harder and put forth a better effort when there are consequences involved.All Hewitt does is make lame excuses. Not once have I heard him say that he needs to do a better job. To do so has no impact on his contract. It’s a matter of ego.

Hewitt has lost any respect I may have had for him. He should voluntarily renegotiate his contract with reasonable measurables and give himself something to work for other than his ego. He sure doesn’t have to work for his paycheck.

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FOOTBALL FAN

I KNOW

IM JUST SICK OF HEREING ABOUT THE 4 TITLES THAT THEY WANT TO COUNT THAT IF THATS THE CASE

THEN YOU HAVE TO COUNT THE OTHER 3 WE HAVE THAT ARE SHARED

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I have to admire coach K at Duke, he does not go after one and dones, he wants players that he can improve and every year they are in the Championship run, Hewitt will get us some more overly tattooed players, that cant get the ball in and we’ll be sitting at the bottom of the ACC for the next 4 years. Now baseball season is here, Danny Hall will have another top 5 team and choke in the playoffs again.

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SEE WHAT I MEAN

NO ONE HAS SIGNED YET

CMON TECHIES WHERE ARE YOU.

JUST REMEMBER HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR CHAN

PLEASE SIGN BELOW IF YOU WANT HEWITT GONE.

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BLHA HAHA HA AHA AH AHA AHA HAHAHAHAHA THE JOKE BY THE COKE

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I thought we were catching a break here but it appears we will not. No other school is going to court Hewitt so it looks like we’re stuck with his mediocrity and his $7mil buyout.

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so when the statement was released aobut Hewitt staying and his credentials were mentioned were his coaching credentials left out of that statement on purpose ?
what do you think

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Watching the disciplined and team-oriented play of teams like N. Iowa, Cornell, Xavier, W. Virginia, and St. Mary’s just reinforces how unprepared Tech is game after game. This should have been a make or break year for the coach with this team’s talent. A good person, just not a good coach.

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Hewitt talked to St. Johns because he was interested. There is no other reason other than to see if their offer was better. Obviously, they did not even need to get to that point. What does that tell you about the market value of Hewitt related to the contract he currently enjoys. He can’t get a better deal anywhere else, so he stays and we are stuck with him for life.

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I cant believe he decided to stay!!!!!!!! Why couldn’t Mrs. Hewitt agree to move back to NYC!! Does she not know that no one at GT wants him here? Oh well, back to mediocre and losing seasons, the life of a Tech fan.

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This is bad for GTech. I use to be a s season ticket holder during the Cremins years. That excitement has left the thrillerdome… If the students do not want to attend, that sends a message. Our Football program needed change, now our basketball program needs change…. DRAD will get it right……

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Any person would be insane to walk away from a lifetime deal like that for a less than lateral move. He’s got to make some changes and get his guys playing more like a team but he would be crazy to walk out on 7 Million dollars. People shouldn’t be upset with Hewitt over his contract. They should be upset with Dave Braine.

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Maybe Drad has found a loophole in the contract that will allow him to fire Hewitt without paying the buyout. He was just hoping St Johns would be dumb enough to pay us the $3.5 million so now he will have to resort to plan B.

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Change doesn’t have to mean paying a 7 million dollar buyout either. He has shown in the past he’s capable of turning things around. He can get players in here. He’s just got to get some better guard players and he really likes the job and wants to win at Tech.

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POAD.
I thought Tech fans had enough sense to leave race out of this argument.
I am wondering if an imposter has taken your name.

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If anybody wanted to punish GT, former AD Dave Braine did. He hires his old friend Gailey, who set GT football back til PJ rescued it, then hes gives Blewitt a buyout clause, that digs into the athletics funds to deep to try to buy him out—wow r.i.p. Braine

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Why did anyone think he was leaving? Not only is he staying but his banana republic cabinet called assistant coaches stay with him. He has got us by the short hairs, the next two years will be torture, and there is not a thing we can do about it but pay this man. They will continue to play blind-man’s bluff with foul shots, and bringing the ball into play will be like trying to smuggle drugs into this country. It is like divorcing you wife and haven’t to still live in the same house with her. She brings her boyfriend home and makes loud love in the bedroom next door while some judge has you paying her alimony. What was the question, how do I feel?

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Hewitt’s got the cheese touch……

as long as 8-8 in the ACC every year is “good,” then he’s our man. But don’t ask for more. 10 years is a long time in one place. Guess Mrs. Paul said they’re sticking around town. GT missed an opportunity here……

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Time to open up a lemonade stand.

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While it is the student-athlete’s primary responsibility to access the education he is being provided, it has long been held as common practice and in legal precedent that the coach and AD, acting as agents of the school, bear some responsibility for encouraging the student-athlete and facilitating his/her access since the demands of their sport may otherwise hinder them. Hence, tutors, direct reports from faculty, counselors, academic advisors, and numerous other methods and personnel are routinely “forced” onto the students. But when an athlete is recruited with the assurance that he will not be held accountable academically and is implicitly or explicitly told he will not be held to the committment of the scholarship contract it violates every principle and justification for an Athletics Association to exist on a university campus.

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Hewitt; “I strongly believe in what Georgia Tech can do for young people.” Well, what can it do for Derrick Favors now that basketball season is over? Was he required to go to class after he passed the first semester and thus was safe for the rest of the season academically? Compare Dick Bennett at Virginia who suspended Landensberg, his best player, apparently for not fulfilling academic obligations. Would Hewitt have the guts to do that (not that such a move would have gained any fans from those on this blog who want his head for weak basketball performance)? And as for all this talk of Hewitt having such great character, to my way of thinking, his response to the news media criticism was not very classy at all. I think he will regret the day he turned St. John’s down.

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I apologize for being so long of word and tooth, but it needs to be said. Paul Hewitt may be an outstanding young man, but he does not represent the university well and is a failure as an executive in an academic organization. And, Mr. Radakovich, your pragmatism is admirable, but you could use some of Dr. Rice’s principle as well.

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This sucks!! I think im gonna be sick. Finally thought we would get a new coach to ressurect the program, but no, the same old crap. Hewitt sucks. Its all about the money. When he blows it again next year and DRad finally fires him he wont have any school calling for his services. It wont matter though because he will just retire with his $7 million and laugh at Tech all the way to the bank. This is the worst day ive have since Tech got beat down in the Orange Bowl. I feel like im going to a funeral…

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Hewitt will now need to recruit players and fans. He won’t see me in any seats next year. I choose to vote with my money and as an alumni the basketball program won’t be getting a dime.

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well next year will be another crap year with a missed tourney. no coach hewitt will lead this team back to the bottom of the acc. if i was rice and the other freshman, i would transfer.

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And so it goes…every blogger seems to want him out of here. My my, no one complained when the contract was made. No one complained when we went to the final four. People forget that we play 25% of our conference games against the best programs (UNC and Duke) and play in undoubtedly the best conference in game. We will have 2 possibly 3 first round picks come June and one of the leaders in the BCA on our sidelines. Hewitt is a classy, well liked leader. We’ll be better next year and beyond because Hewitt stays.

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Hewitt and Herrick the Biggest JOKE in Major College Basketball. One is a Coach that made it easy on Black players to pass a class and the other is a Coach that made it easy on Black players to get on TV to go to the NBA. COACH HEWITT do I need to TXT that to your TEAM or they all together being a TEAM? No they are not a TEAM they are CRAP living on the net and just showing-up

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JJ- when do fans lose the “fickle” label? CPH’s tenure minus the Final Four run has been abysmal.

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And its great to be a pencil pusher
And its great to be a slide rule holder
And its great to be a wanna bee loser
And its great to be a wanna bee contender
And its great to be a nobody program

Its just great to be a DRUNKEN TRAIN WRECK FROM GA TECH

BLHA HA HA HA AHA HA AH AHA AHA HA

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Take away Ross’s NC year and what have you got?
Terrible is what.
Takeaway Bill Curry’s best year (9-2-1) and what have you got?
I’m afraid to check there but I will.
Hold on a minute.

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COULD SOMEONE PLEASE PASS THE SLIDE RULE

IM STILL HAVING TROUBLE FIGURING OUT THIS WORD PROBLEM ON HOW TO BECOME A WINNER IN SPORTS

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Why do you need a slide rule for a word problem?

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Sigh——-You know if I told my wife I was leaving I doubt she would take me back if I told the other woman no thanks. We should change the locks on the basketball dome. Maybe it’s time we Tech faithful start collecting $ to enhcourage Hewitt to reconsider. St John’s will take him still.

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Yeah Stone, I am listening to him now and I am about to throw up. Has Kinkaid ever watched Tech play?

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Jackets2010,

Good points. A truer pciture would be to remove both the best season AND the worst season.

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This is the worst news possible for the future of Tech Basketball. This was probably our only shot to get out of his contract without losing $7+ million. I guess we’re in for another few years of underperforming teams. Its going to be interesting to see what the attendance at the games is like next year.

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Where do GA Tech fans expect this team to be in the ACC? You will not be better than Duke or UNC on a consistent basis. The next tier of ACC teams are MD and Wake. Then Clemson, FSU, and BC. That’s where GA Tech hoops competes, in the third tier. You will be between 5th and 8th every year with occasional finishes in the top 4 and deep runs in the ACC tourney if you are lucky and . You seem to be kidding yourself if you think this team will ever contend regularly for the ACC title. Don’t think any coach could come in and have GT in the top 4 on a regular basis.

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You clowns bashing hewitt just amaze me

Realistically, WHO could you get to come here to GT and be more successful than Hewitt???

Ofcourse he could’ve done better with the talent he had, but losing Hewitt at this point would mean a MAJOR MAJOR step backwards (like 5 years to recover from STEP BACKWARDS) for the GT BBall program

And if one of you idiots toss out a name like Calipari or Donovan or Bill Self or hell Coach K then you just should hit ‘control-alt-delete’ and click ’shut down’ because you’re kidding yourself

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I agree completely TECHPROF. In light of GT’s academic stature and reputation it needed to be said. Thanks.

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Tom, Cremins was run off by angry alums who wanted more.
They blamed him also for one and done players.
The ugliness was worse than Hewitt’s sos far though maybe it will be matched.
I hope not.
Had Hewitt told Favors to go elsewhere, the exact same people screaming about one and done players would turn on a dime and scream the other way.

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One season with a winning record in the ACCA-One!

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Weismuller- where did anyone mention seriously those names in regards to the Tech job?

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GTProf, thanks for your words. Very insightful.

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If Coach has decided to stay, the honorable thing for him to do is to take a pay cut so GT can hire some better assistants to help him. When we are 3/4 into the season and the team looks like it has never practiced how to break a press or how to inbound the ball we have got problems. The other issue is let’s be honest Ian Sch is not a point guard. It would help our offense to play Ian on the wing so he can score more. Mo Miller is the best point guard on the team. Let him run with it. This seems to be a no brainer. If Coach cannot see that we also have problems. Mo was player of the game against MD in the ACC tourn. and after that he was used sparingly. Go figure.

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I appreciate your energy and vigor, Mr. Jackets2010. I wonder if that is your class year or just a temporal reference to the present? My class year goes back quite a few decades when I took my degree at the Institute. After earning graduate degrees from another quality university I returned to Georgia Tech to teach because I love it here. I can not blame Coach Hewitt for not wanting to go. I do not see the logic of comparing Coaches Curry, Lewis, and Ross to Coach Hewitt, but as I previously said, there are other factors besides wins and losses to consider. If you do choose to compare them then please see it from my perspective, which is all I am promoting here. I would still contend that the three football coaches from several decades ago that you mentioned were far better in executing the academic portion of their leadership responsibilities than Coach Hewitt. This is evident not only in the empirical data of classroom and graduation performance rates, but also in the subjective evaluations and comments of the players who grew up and developed under their guidance. Further evidence is the success of so many of them. Bless you for being a Tech supporter and for caring passionately about the Institute, the teams, and even the staff, which includes Coach Hewitt and myself. But please see, too, that Coach Hewitt has academic responsibilities as well as athletic ones. His achievements on the court are debatable, as seen on this site. Sadly, his failure as an academic leader is indefensible.

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I am extremely disappointed in his decision to stay. Braine’s actions continue to haunt Tech. I’m still amazed St. John’s was dumb enough to actually make him an offer.

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You guys did not seriously think he would leave did you?

A lot of Tech basketball fans are like UGA football fans, you think you have a national championship program. In fact both Tech basketball and UGA football are middle of the pack programs. You both need to learn to live with it. You are what you are.

I do not like the way Hewitt coaches offense. Other than that I have no problem with Hewitt. I am looking forward to next year, 3 big guys in the 4 & 5 slots and 6 solid perimeter players. Should be another
season with 20 plus wins.

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I include this final comment to demonstrate that I am not always quite so longwinded. Go Jackets! and good bye.

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Johnny Weissmuller: I couldn’t disagree more. Please tell me why Hewitt was hired? He had three years of head coach experience at Siena before his hire at Tech. Only one year at Siena did he go to the NCAA tournament so where were the credentials that made him a head coach candidate at Tech. And this was after Cremins put Tech on the map and made it a very attractive job. Now if the only criteria was hiring a young black head coach then you have your answer. Why couldn’t we hire someone today(black or white-who cares as long as they can coach) with more experience then Hewitt had ten years ago? We can and everyone knows it.

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Techprof.
My first Tech game was a 14-7 win over Tenn in 1960 at the age of 12.
I want to make clear I respect your point of view.
One of the usual bloggers posted some racist remarks and I posted against his bringing race into the argument.
We would had a respectful debate in person I am sure.
I do not see what we can do about the contract Braine gave Hewitt.
You are aware of the rollover and 7.1 million he will get if fired?

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collegeballfan- What 3 “big guys” are you talking about returning for Tech? Are you including Brad Sheehan?

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It’s a GREAT DAY to be a Georgia Bulldog!!!

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Simply cannot decide which is funnier. The moron navy fly by or Tech being STUCK with CPH awhile longer. Hmmm?

Can you help me? I am splitting a gut giggling about this. You all got a grin outt of Richt’s D coach overtures, so excuse us UGA fans if we just laugh it up at YOUR EXPENSE.

Tower to Hornets, Dobbins tower to Hornets, um, ah you buzzzzzzzzzzzed The Varsity, you morons. Pull up and get ready to PUMP JET FUEL.

B-U-Z-Z-Z NOW takes on an all new meaning forever clown. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzzzz

Maverisk and Cugar??????????? Try DUMB and DUMBER
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAHAHAHHAAH

Go Dogs.

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As your Coach, I just want to promise all the GT Basketball supporters that I will continue to put the same Quality teams (effort & W-L wise)that you have been accustomed to during my tenure at GT. I look forward to being the Coach at GT for a very long time……………………..

Now… $7.1 million or STFU… I run this school….Call Mike Carmandy(my UGA grad lawyer when you have my money),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LMMFAO..Paul.

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TomB I recall a lot of hostility towards Cremins’ lack of production in March Madness.
Like Hewitt, he only had one year of overproduction there and many seasons ended in disappointment.
Cremins and Hewitt are a lot alike I am sorry to tell you.

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I disagree with one poster I think with a different coach tech could be competing with duke and NC every year and always be in the top 15. I think tech can be a national power year in and year out with the right coaching . I am a proud DAWG fan but I am also a fan or any great basketball and I would like to see it at tech except for one game a year of course.

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How can you be a Hewitt supporter. Yes he maybe a great recruiter but he can not coach to save his life. as long as hewitt is the coach we will have a losing record in the acc and never get to the sweet 16. It feels like Chan Gailey is our basketball coach.

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Bobby Cremins and Mark Price must be rolling over in their graves.

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Jesse Stone

Im hiring you to figure out the 100 year mystery in ATL

Here is the case.

There is a college located in downtown ATL

ATL is ranked 4th in football recruiting and 1,2, or 3 in basketball recruiting.

Yet they cant seem to win in either sport and consistantly lose to their big brother in beautiful Athens a small town east of ATL.

They never can fill their highschool sized stadium located in the middle of 5.5 million people and yet year after year their big brother in rural Athens continues to fill and add on to a stadium that is the 6th largest on campus stadium in the country.

They think they are so academically smart and yet they still cannot win.

Jesse Stone

I just think they are a bunch of wanna bee losers whose campus needs to be relocated out of the high crime area and rebuilt to look more like a campus instead of state prison.

Jesse Stone will you take this case and get back with us with your findings

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I bet Mark Bradley is off Hewitt’s Christmas card list.

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A UGA fan saying GT Basketball is in the middle of the ACC pack and we can’t get better? HAHAHAH And UGA football is in the same BOAT but you think you are SEC FOOTBALL GODS. AHHAHAHA. RICHT is the SEC football version of Hewitt in ACC basketball so STFU.

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One more word …………..the LOOK on tech’s graduates when they left the BD stadium after a lousy, lousy UGA football team physically put a bad A– whuppin on the she men from Tech. Your DE Morgan ? He is vastly over rated as are Dwyer and baybay ( um, ah boardhands ) and Josh Nesbitt, um your passing QB.

LOL at tech.

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Hewitt has lowered bar of Ga Tech basketball plain and simple. He has been at tech long enough to build a resume of inconsistency. Time for him to go and give someone else a shot. He has not come anywhere near what Cremins did.

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We could do alot worse. Let’s let him build on this year with another good recruiting class. Unless there’s another Paul Johnson of basketball in the wings then Hewitt should continue. But he does need to beat UGA. (See Chan Gailey) I was much more upset about the basketball loss to UGA than losing the Orange Bowl to Iowa (on the same night)

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Hewitt is near universally loathed at Tech by fans and administration ain’t too fond of him, either, best I can tell. I think he just wants to stick it to Tech, collect $7 million and go on his happy@$$ way.

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Hewitt wants to be fired, there is no doubt. He can be an analyst for a few years while Tech continues to pay him. He knows next year is his last year imo.

He made a smart move for himself that’s for sure, because next years team will be awful.

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TomB

Sure there are more talented HC’s out there, but that’s not my question.

Which one of those HCs REALISTICALLY could you get at GT?

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Hewitt has not the % of wins as Richt in their respective sports. Richt is the ONLY COACH IN THE ENTIRE HEMISPHERE to have WON 8 or more NCAA ( big boy ) football games over the last 9 years and with Donnan in there it grows to over 13 years for UGA.

Um, ah, with Chan The Man in there, um tech and CPJ are laughable over 3, 5 years or 15 years or 25, or 35 years or even 45 years and 50 years, even back to Dodd’s last MISERABLE YEARS.

Hewitt? STUCK WITH HIM and UGA LOVES IT. Man were the looks on tech grads leaving Athens worth a steak at Outback after that B ball game. AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHA

“Our men gone on to be OFFICERS in the US NAVY” ………….um, ah do not go there.

Duck, hide, there goes another stolen car and a bullet. Look out! Be very, very, very careful techies.

Sirens, cop car blue lights, muggings, pistol whippins, knifings …………..ah the good life at college.

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If SJU had offered him a similar “almost-can’t-be-fired-ever” contract with a golden parachute, he would be announcing his new college home tonight. But no one else is stupid enough to give him the kind of sweetheart deal he has right now. So no, he won’t be going. He’d be an idiot to leave unless they double or triple his salary. Otherwise, why leave one of the better jobs in the best conference with the best job security for a mediocre opportunity in a worse conference with no job security? It is sad, because to watch Tech these days is to see how much a coach can impact a team of young men (or not). I really want him to go, but unfortunately he won’t….

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Arrh, Me thinks the wreck we have come to know as Tech is nothing more than a sinking Ghost Ship

Batten down the hatches boys and get ready for that whippin in November.

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Johnny Weissmuller, who can GT get better than Phewitt?!?

Really, I mean REALLY?

He has 1 ACC winning season at GT IN ELEVEN YEARS!!!

You tell me, WHO CAN DO WORSE THAN THAT. Dear lord.

Wall, meet head. Head, meet wall.

there, thats better…

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Since he’s not going to leave by himself, can we possibly demote him to assistant coach? Let’s allow each player to take a turn running the team for the first 10 games or so and then appoint a player/coach like Pete Rose used to be. Maybe we can shame him into reducing the buyout.

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RAMBLE ON!!!

Give me a name. Give me a realistic name.

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You know I know you techies love to talk about the convict players at UGA. Thats fine.

Just remember if your campus wasn’t located in one of the highest crime areas of the country we would be hereing all the time of the player arrests that take place.

We all know your athletes are not passing those tough engineering classes

Unfortunatley your mess is drowned out by all the murders, stabbings, drive by’s, etc that occur right around the corner.

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Tubby would jump at the chance to coach at the Atlanta Federal Pen if was warm and the money was right. Seriously, The ACC is a tough place for basketball…..he’s lived that at Kentucky….He mat pass on something to hard…..

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I don’t think Tech had a very good alternative if Hewitt did leave / was let go. I’m hoping he makes some coaching changes on his staff to beef up the focus on fundamentals and discipline that we have been sourly lacking the last 5 years. I think Coach is a great recruiter, but an average day-to-day coach, which means he needs the staff to support his weakness.

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I am an SEC fan from BAMA, but pull for GA Tech because I am fans of all teams in GA. I like GA Tech and think overall Paul has done a decent job. yes I know about the losing ACC record and all that, but he has value. Heck the Red Storm wanted him and not to mention today’s AD’s comments show how they wanted Paul to stay. I think you, Mark, need not to make this personal. yes you can say all you want that this not personal, but it really is. You are a writer that needs to get press to sell more newspaper, which you accomplished. But it not fair to keep attaking a good guy with good values. How many other coaches take a team to the National Championship? And before you say this, “well they have so many lottery picks on the team now that only went past the 1st round this year”, so what? Could you do a better job coaching? You think some mid-major coach that took is currently in the NCAA tourney or take their team there would be any better? NO. You want find any better right now. GA Tech fans, you have a good coach so lay off him. So he doesn’t kiss your butt like others do. So what.

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As a UGA fan…. we are SO GLAD he is staying! And can you be sure that CPJ stays as well? It’s a great day for us!

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I reallly, really hate to say this, but I just have a sick feeling in my stomach. Will not be looking forward to the basketball season next year. I sincerely hope I am wrong about the future of our program.

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Jackets 2010: That’s true but no one was trying to run Cremins off at that time I promise you. If you are going to compare Hewitt to Cremins then please back it up with stats. The honest answer is Cremins success should have made the job for Hewitt much easier. Before Cremins arrived from AS, the Tech program was a disgrace and honestly not even on the map. Tech entered the ACC in 1979 and Cremins was hired in 1981. In four short years, Cremins had won an ACC championship and his team advanced to the elite eight in the NCAA tournament. He went on to win two more ACC championships and this should be how an ACC coach should be judged. Cremins left Tech a very successful program and to be honest this should have made Hewitt’s job easier. The result: No ACC championships since Hewitt arrived on the Tech campus.

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Pisson, I guess I missed those two Conference Championship CPH had. The only thing similar to CMR for CPH is that he is a coach of a team in Georgia.

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It seems to me that one of the most under-appreciated aspects of the last week is the fact that, because of media reporting, Coach Hewitt’s family is the same kind of built-in excuse as the youth of his team. Now they are the reason why he’s disappointing fans from both universities. He wanted to go, but his family has put down roots.

It’s awfully similar to: the team is young, plagued by injuries etc. as the reason why almost every team for the last six years has failed to play as a team, failed to make free throws, excelled in turnovers. I mean, come on, look at how they ran that Junior-High I-formation inbounds play when it first showed up in the last few weeks of the season. Players ran to a spot and stopped.

Now as my memory holds, Bobby didn’t really begin to disappoint until after he turned down South Carolina when he really wanted to go, 1993. We’ve had a similar situation since Coach Hewitt turned down St. John’s in 2004. Sometimes mental loyalty to a school and its mission is not the same thing as heart-loyalty. It is not that he’s phoning it in for the money. It is that his heart isn’t in it. His brain is loyal to Tech. But that’s not enough.
Tech2010, I have a hard time believing t

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Bunchahomers

Buddy, I’m on the same page with you, but no one seems to be able to asnwer my question

Give me some names of coachs that D-Rad could REALISTICALLY get to come to GT and be more successful than Hewitt (Taking in consideration ALL the factors; i.e., the $7.5M it will take to buy Hewitt out, the academic and ethical standards at GT, the level of difficulty of the ACC having to face UNC and Duke every year, etc)

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I have young kids as well and can appreciate Paul not wanting to raise them in NYC. When you fired Gailey you sent a strong message that being average is not the standard at Ga Tech. Tech grads don’t tolerate average. If so they woudl have attended UGA. Dan Rad, Your the boss. Take control of this mess Braine created and fix it. Hewitt needs to move on. He is not committed to winning. He just like the comfort of living in Atlanta and the golden contract. I have not felt this bad since we lost to the mutts in football.

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bring bobby back

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Hire Tubby Smith

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SHOCKED and SICK–Tech is held hostage to a hideous contract.

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I literally feel ill at the thought of Paul Hewitt staying when we were so close to unloading his program-crippling contract. I take this as a sign to stay off of these blogs and avoid reading about the hoops program for a while. A long while. Until the catalyst for my illness is gone from the Flats. D-Rad, as I informed you last year, I will not renew my season basketball tickets, nor will I be contributing to any Athletic Association program that directly or indirectly feeds the basketball program and thus, Hewitt’s contract. I do not do so maliciously or with animosity, but because it is the only material way to express my displeasure. I will see you at the Spring Football Game, but I dare Coach Hewitt to show up and face the response he is bound to receive.

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Oh —-! He’s gonna stay.

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his contract rolls over automatically. he never has one more year to go. he gets about 7.5 million if he’s fired. he OWES Tech about 3.4 million if he quits. do the math. he’s not leaving on his own.

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I just finished reading Techprof’s (rather lengthy) posts above from earlier in the day, and I am surprised more fans did not respond favorably. He makes an excellent point about the dual role of a coach in a university setting. I believe even he acknowledges that a coach must win to be effective, but I am disappointed that more Tech fans don’t hold Radakovich and Hewitt both accountable for the disgraceful, yes, disgraceful, academic performance of the players under Hewitt’s care.

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Hewitt’s like that employee that you can never get rid of no matter how hard you try.

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I am so glad Coach Hewitt is staying. No doubt loyalty to his players was a big factor. Tech may have had a mass transfer or draft of the underclassmen if Coach Hewitt had left. I am hoping his loyalty to the team will be repaid by another year of Favors, Lawal, Shumpert, and all.

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I don’t like this at ALL. More mediocre, underperforming basketball. Losing to teams every year that we shouldn’t. Poor fundamentals, poor play, more disappointment

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No!!!
The contract is awful and a record of 67-93 in the ACC is unacceptable.

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I’m glad he’s staying.

He represents the school well. His players stay out of trouble (at least until they get to the NBA). He recruits well. Every once in a while he gives us a wild run that shows what he’s capable of.

On the down side, his players don’t have an enviable graduation rate. He doesn’t win enough conference games. He sometimes gets pissy with the media. Do I wish we’d win more consistently? Well, duh, yeah!

Could be worse. Could be raining. Or we could have Calipari (sic?), who gets great players, wins a lot of games, and leaves a stench everywhere he goes. I would rather have a second-level program that is above-board.

I am convinced that he and Drad had a conversation over the past couple of days, and if Drad had said something along the lines of “you’ve got a good chance to get out of here, take it,” Hewitt would have taken it.

I’m trusing Radakovich.

P.S. I don’t care if UGA runs this state. That rivalry is overrated. We play baseball, basketball and football in the ACC. I love winning the historic rivalry game, but in any given season I’d rather have a win that gets us into any sport’s ACC championship game than a win over UGA in the same season.

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I for one am glad Coach Hewitt is staying at Tech. He is a class guy and now we need to get behind him and the program and support him. Yes, I am a Tech fan.

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I want Tech to win, CPH is not Cremins, but if he can get out of recruiting “the one and done” player and get a commitment for longer, we will win. If he left, who would we get? Most likely, a mid tier coach or worst, so support our guy another year, did go 3-1 against the Divas of the ACC in the regular season.

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Mark,

would you offer to renegotiate the contract if you were in his shoes?

I sure as hell wouldn’t. 7.1 mill is 7.1 mill.

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Its all my fault… In May of 2004, I stood at an alumni event in Austin and had a 1:1 conversation with CPH for 15-20 minutes… well 2:1, my wife (also an alum) stood by for morale support. This was the height of CPH’s success… fresh off the final 4. We talked about developing student athletes, finding players that fit in at Tech, and the struggles to build team chemistry when players come and go so quickly. If you recall, this was a few months after the story broke at UGA around the famous final exam questions. I told CPH that I didn’t care if he ever won a championship (ACC or NCAA), just don’t embarrass GT with that kind of scandal. On that front, he has kept his end of the bargain… sorry about that… I’m still 100% behind CPH.

Would I like to see some changes… absolutely…

I certainly would like to see team chemistry be a focus. Plenty of good coaching books on that topic… maybe even ask Zinger his secrets for Ryder Cuppers. I was shocked to learn that it took taking their cell phones away during the ACC tournament before they would talk to each other…

On the basketball x’s and o’s- well, I wish we’d adopt some new tactics… I love the way Ohio St pushes the outlet pass off the rebound. We very, very rarely push the ball up off a missed shot. We were complacent to wait for the traffic to clear, and then beat our heads against a set half court defense. Our bigs ran the floor as well as any team, so I don’t buy the argument that it would take away from their touches. I also don’t buy the argument that we’re sloppy with the ball and it would lead to more turnovers. We certainly didn’t avoid turnovers running our set plays. Next year’s team will have to rebound by committee, so we need to have a style that allows an Oliver or Rice to lead the break like the Ohio St’s guards.

I wonder how much of the 2004 credit belongs to the assistant coaches… maybe we need to hire a former Duke point guard to teach how to protect the ball, how to value every possession, how to get the lead and not let the other team back into the game, how to break down the other team’s weakness and exploit it. (This was talked about a lot in 2004… assistant coaches building specific game plans.)

I think CPH can right the ship, he just needs to get back to coaching the team and not individual skills. Mark B… call off the attack and go focus on whether Bobby Cox should be fired for picking his nose on TV.

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The biggest problem with Hewitt is the excuses he keeps making about being a young team of predominantly freshman and sophomores. He has been using this excuse for the last 3 years I know of. When I e mailed him on 2/20 after they lost a game with 1.5 seconds on clock and his team played like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, he e-mailed me back and told me I was clueless. He then gave the same excuse about being mostly freshman & sophomores. He also told me that they had put together 3 very good games in a row. Didn’t bother to say they had lost 2 of the 3. Also told me they would close this season strong and go into NCAA’s with momentum. Guess what? They lost the last 2 regular season games.

Tech needs to stop turning over the ball so much and learn to shoot free throws. Doing those two things and they would have won at least 5 or 6 more games.

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No, I am not happy he is staying, because I do not believe he will do the following:

INSTILL TOUGH ACCOUNTABILITY & DISCIPLINE

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7.1 million fot a losing ACC record…………
…………………………………….what a bargain in these tough economic times !

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We’re stuck with him, at least until the GTAA gets out of it financial funk!!!!

I’m very disappointed … same old Tech Basketball to come …!!!!

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DRad:

I suggest you take 7 million out of the 45 million you look to raise for renovation of Alex Memorial Coliseum to get rid of Hewitt!! Renovating the place won’t get fans into the seats, but removing the problem will.

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Great news….for Dawg fans.

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No team south of the mason dixon line has enough “lack of common sense” to hire this guy.

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Here’s the real deal. Perhaps the real reason for the loss is the lack of support by us. What is most important is that the program is successful. We’ve had some bad luck and some disappointments, but we are primed for a great run. None of this year’s starter played together last year. 3 Frosh, 1 Jr. and one returning from surgery. Next year will be different and, I think, even better. Look at Cornell – 8 Seniors = Sweet 16. Let’s support the team, including the coach. We are starting to sound like the losers up the highway.

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Hewitt shouldnt be blamed for recruiting great players. No coach can put together a solid team when every NBA team is pulling his players before they start the problem is with the NBA signing rules

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We are better-off with him than without him. People that want to make his life a “living hell” are very sick and remind me of the UGA fans we make fun of.

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My problem is more with the NBA. Hewitt recruits talent, but then you have the horrible situation with the NBA using colleges as one year 5-on-5 talent camps. But Duke doesn’t seem to lose as many players after 1 year, so maybe Hewitt recruits too high. Fewer McDonalds’ All-Americans may be an answer.

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Let Doogie coach the damn team!

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Flash Forward: Just think that in 2050 when Hewitt finally retires, his $1.3 million will be only worth about $100k.

I’m not sure that I can wait that long. Let’s see his ACC record then should be something like 400 wins and 1250 losses. ( I don’t think he will get better, just worse, no incentive to do better with a contract like that). Alexander Memorial coliseum will then have been reduced to 1000 seats, but only half sold out. Shades of Dwayne Morrison…….

Only 40 more years, I can’t wait….

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Awful news for Tech. And we thought we had a miracle to get us rid of an awful game coach and his golden contract.

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What a loaded question? I bet about 75% of fans (not bloggers) will ADMIT they are disappointed. I imagine about half of the remaining 25% are quietly disappointed but they’re just putting on a smiley face like D-Rad asked them to.

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Just heard on the news that Hewitt claims that since he’s received “20 or 30 blackberry messages” supporting him he is sure there are far more supporters than critics of his return. Now I don’t care who you are, that is funny.

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It is not surprising that Hewitt loses to UGA, he is doing all he can to bring us down to their level. Academically, their maligned basketball program is better than ours (by narrow margins in classroom and graduation metrics), and that includes the Harrick years. Not even counting the NBA defectors, Georgia Tech has the lowest graduation rate in the ACC for the decade Hewitt has been here. IF they’d had more than one winning season in the conference during that time, it might be understandable, but not excusable. But hell, we’re both stupid and sorry, and that is something we should never have to admit to with UGA sitting across us in the same state. We can’t play the “academics” card anymore as long as we have coaches like Hewitt on board.

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He is absolutely ignorant of what his situation really is. No one wants him here now, next year when he complains about whatever the excuse is he will be kicked out the door.

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You said it AMG! He is oblivious to the facts and absolutely delusional about his failures. IF you can’t see your flaws, you can’t fix them. He can’t change because he doesn’t even realize he needs to.

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Now, I wonder which one Paul Hewitt resembles?

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all i have to say is………………..damn…………………………!

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bawahahahahahaha!!!!!! Yech has the two most overrated coaches in their respected sports and I love it!!! CPJ and his gimmicky offense has been exposed. He can’t win the big game unless it’s against an equally pathetic ACC team and his own recruits sucks since he’s forced to hang on to Gailey’s. Hewitt is the master of one and doners and he manages to do less with more than even Yech’s annually overrated baseball team!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

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Hewitt is a classy guy and good representative of GT. However he has proven time and again that he cannot coach college kids how to play offense. I personally thought that a separation from GT might be the best situation. Since that is not going to occur at this point, I think he must do the next best thing which is admit where he has weaknesses and find others to help you fill the gaps. There is nothing wrong with not being able to effectively coach all aspects of the game. However, once you recognize that weakness you must find someone to come in and strengthen that part of the coaching. Please Mr. Hewitt make changes to the staff that will bring in someone that can really help the offense flow rather than the current clogged toilet we see most of the time.

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Thanks for staying Coach Hewitt. We look forward to kicking your @$$ for years to come.

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Gross. He needs to leave. Don’t buy tickets next year. You want to go and watch the same old stuff?!

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I have purchased season football tickets for 44 years, basketball season tickets for 25 years and contributed to the Tharpe Fund for 44 years. I will no longer do any of these. One may ask why punish football and the whole athletic program, but it is the only concrete way I can put some meat behind my protests to fire Hewitt. Pay him his $7 million. We will lose much more than that in loss of season ticket sales in football, basketball and contributions. This is the saddest day I can remember in Georgia Tech athletics. Hewitt does not live in reality when he says we have a good team returning. Losing Favors, Lawal, Bell and Peacock and we will have a really good team. Right with Hewitt coaching. What a joke and mess.

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VERY disappointed he didn’t take the job!! Rad’s hands are tied because of the GTAA’s financial situation, which by the way was left by Dave Braine and President Clough who agreed to his contract.

Hewitt has run his course at Tech and Tech fans have had enough. There is absolutely no reason to believe he all of sudden becomes an outstanding coach. In the meantime, GT fans have to endure mediocrity!

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ode to a coach

there once was a coach named hewett
who some would prefer to call blewett
his record’s a mess
the fans are incensed
but what can we do except rue it?

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Question…Was he offered the job to begin with? Hewitt stated that he was never offered and only had that one conversation with SJ while all the news coming out of NY was that he was offered. I am confused.

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Why is he referred to as a coach? He has a top 5 talented team and can’t hardly coach them to be a top 5 ACC team. Granted he is a very good recruiter, but what results has that produced? A losing ACC record, and hasn’t been a serious contender for the NCAA tournament since 2004.

His counterpart on the football field is producing results with less talent. If you look at the 4 & 5 star recruits UGA gets year in and year out, they should absolutely kill Tech every year. Instead they beat their chest (like they had anything to do with it) when they eek out a 6 pt victory over a less talented squad.
I think Hewitt needs to go if he doesn’t show improvement this next year!

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As much as I pull for Hewitt to succeed, after watching how a well coached team (Butler) plays I am disappointed that he is not leaving. I know we run the risk of doing worse than Hewitt or finding a good coach that can not recruit. All I know is that Butler is still playing basketball without any McDonalds’s All-Americans or lottery picks and we are done for the year. I’m willing to take the risk and I wish DRad would pull the trigger.

The way Butler moved the basketball, ran offensive sets, and played defense was inspirational to this basketball fan. I don’t even recall the coach’s name (he looked younger than the players), but he is going to be a GREAT basketball coach.

Go Jackets!

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I’m very disappointed Hewatt is remaining at Tech. He presents a good image, and seems to be a nice person……however, the Jackets are going no further as long as he remains in charge. He’s been a Tech for ten years and that’s long enough to determine whether or not he can get the job done in the ACC. Numbers don’t lie.

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When the Tech football team could not stop anybody the head coach fired the defensive coordinator and started over. Things were broken. The basketball team has lead the acc in turnovers per game and worst free throw percentage (for several years). Things are broken on the basketball team. Time for Hewitt to make some changes

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I have been very disappointed with Hewitts coaching style as well as the results. He is clearly an excellent recruiter (GT has been in the top 20 of the recruiting polls every year). I think MB pointed out a very serious issue with the lack of tallented assistant coaches. He has to hire real coaches, not office staff acting as coaches.

The best recommendation by MB for Hewitt to gain some credibility with the fans (I have been a season ticket holder for 13 years) is to offer to renegotiate his contract with increased pay and removal of the automatic renewal. This gives the AD and fans the belief that Hewitt will actually work for his job since it will not last forever. And, he gets a significant pay raise. Win-Win.

As for his coaching style, I don’t know what has happened over the past 10 years. When he first started, I noticed the warm up drills the players did were different from the norm, focusing on ball control and touch passes. He was known for coaching/teaching throughout the game. Now, when he calls timeout, he spends most of the time outside of the huddle chatting with the refs or other coaches before going into the huddle for the last few seconds. When Duke played at GT this year, I noticed the difference in the two styles of coaching. Coach K was in the middle of the huddle, with his court board drawing out plays…you know..coaching. Hewitt started off at the free throw line talking to the refs, then went in to chat with the players. Coach K, with all his years of success at Duke still has the passion. Hewitt needs to regain that passion.

There is no excuses for the players. We have had some problems with injuries, signing going to pro baseball, early departures to the NBA, etc. Still, we have always had enough talent to make up for that. Hewitt needs to coach his players. GT Football has always been know to do more with less – coaching UP their players. Hewitt needs to do the same with his team.

I think Hewitt staying can be a good thing, if he realizes he has work to do to regain the support of the fans. Winning will do a lot, and the run through the ACC tourney helped. Hewitt should take MB’s advise on all points (I can’t believe I just said that MAB was correct on all points?!?!? LOL). He needs to get himself out and talk with the fans at the dinners and luncheons. I have heard that he is a great guy to talk to and has a great personality. He needs to use it to get the fans back. it was embarassing that the games were not packed full each week. It always was when I was a sudent in the mid to late 80’s.

In short, meet with the fans, hire better (real) coaches, work harder at the job.

I don’t think the real problem is the lack of winning (though it is a part). I think it is the perpetual contract with the apperance that CPH doesn’t really care. I doubt that is true, but it looks that way.

CPH is an excellent coach when he wants to be. Our players never gave up. How many times did the score seem to be out of hand and our guys won, or at least made a game out of it??? There were a number of games that we lost by less than 4 points. Had we won those, GT would have at least 28 wins. Then, what would we be talking about?!?!

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Succinctly, I am disappointed that Hewitt did not leave.

Now, when things get bad enough, Tech will have no real choice but to fire him and pay the buy-out.

By the way, has anyone else ever heard of a contract with this kind of really nuts clause in it?

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Dan Radakovich is right about Hewitt’s great as a family man, a leader and a builder of character. Witness what ten years in the ACC will do for you-he has gone grey. Poor coach having to deal stinking articles like Mark Bradley’s who basically ran Cremins away from Tech for the very same reason. Power of the press is a mighty thing-wonder if he ever thought of positive build up? Also my hat’s off to Hewitt who, like Cremins, deals with superstars going to the pros and who are not about teamwork, Tech, nor going to class to better the brain. If the news would focus on a player’s sorry ass performance and mistakes rather than a coach’s, the fans might see a turn around.

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Hewitt is kinda like our politicians in Washington…a great cheerleader with little substance!

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