No longer at Tech, Paul Hewitt is aiming really, really high
One Paul to another: "Good luck in future endeavors." (AJC photo by Johnny Crawford)
Faithful correspondent Wayne Brown of Tuskegee, Ala., passed along this nugget, and I must admit it made me laugh. The third paragraph of a Rivals post by Jeff Eisenberg contains this quote:
“There’s only one thing left for me to do in college basketball, and that’s try to win a national championship.”
The speaker? Paul Hewitt, formerly of Georgia Tech, now of George Mason.
I could be snide and say something like, “Well, you could also try to beat Georgia in Athens,” but I’ll let you read the article for yourselves. But I warn you in advance: There’s another quote that will give you pause.
Hewitt: “We had a pretty good run there at Georgia Tech in terms of player development.”
OK, enough from me. Read the article. You’ll enjoy it.
By Mark Bradley
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brenda
October 21st, 2011
6:42 am
I’ve got a prayer on my desk. It reads: “Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.”
GTodd
October 21st, 2011
7:11 am
Does this mean no more contract? If I recall we would have to continue to pay his annual salary ($7m over 5 years) unless another team hired him? And the new school would have to buy him out for something like $3m. So did they negotiate an out?
Gordon
October 21st, 2011
7:52 am
No, GTodd, that was only if he was hired away while working here. We’ll be through paying Hewitt in April, 2016.
Honest and Frank Discussion
October 21st, 2011
8:15 am
Ok, so I guess it WAS personal Mark.
The Big Apple Awaits
October 21st, 2011
8:24 am
There’s no reason to pile on Coach Hewitt. He’s a decent guy who gave Tech a good effort.
(Also no reason to start taking shots at Bill Lewis, Ray Goff, Chan Gailey, Whack Hyder, Hugh Durham, Pat Peppler, . . . .
indigo
October 21st, 2011
8:40 am
All the hatred directed toward Hewitt should be directed toward the previous AD, who signed him to such a lucrative contract. What was Hewitt suppose to do, say he was not worth it?
I liked Hewitt when he first came to Tech because he played exciting basketball: push, push, push, and played all of his players.Reminded me of that short period in Tech history when Craig Neal was the point guard and, despite Bobby C’s best efforts to control him, ran wild. Made me want Tech to hire Neal to replace Hewitt.
Back to Hewitt: his teams seemed to go down once Assistant Coach Warren left. Though I don’t think Warren has done all that well at Jacksonville, perhaps a tough place to be.
drmaryb .(*_*).
October 21st, 2011
8:51 am
I miss him already!!!!!!!
Tim
October 21st, 2011
10:29 am
Dang Mark, did Hewitt make a pass at your wife? Let it go.
bigdog58
October 21st, 2011
10:55 am
Stop all the crying GT fans. Coach Hewitt din’t make ya offer him the contract and he be a fool not to take it if it were offered. I don’t see you crying that Chipper Jones is holding up the Braves for another year at 15 million or when O’leary took your money and ran to Norte Dame with it, so grow up and deal with it. It all goes along in Big time baasketball but if you say GT is not bigtime to bad.