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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juvenal
October 20th, 2011
11:00 am
under 20 world results?
juvenal
October 20th, 2011
11:04 am
5th…..
Mark Bradley
October 20th, 2011
11:09 am
We’ve been having some technical issues today. Hope they won’t mar your reading experience.
Greg
October 20th, 2011
11:14 am
missed again
Nick
October 20th, 2011
11:16 am
Paul Hewitt is gone. Your personal issues with him should go with it. Let the man coach in peace. You lose your credibility when you take jabs at someone which everyone around Atlanta knows are personal.
Greg
October 20th, 2011
11:16 am
Hewitt didn’t develop anything but a bad coaching regimen
GIVE ME A BREAK
October 20th, 2011
11:20 am
Hewitt is still a ” BLOW HARD.” I would say that he developed nothing.
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Ace
October 20th, 2011
11:23 am
I didn’t know Mr Bradley had ANY credibility?? Seems every article is “Let me throw a meaty headline out followed with some fluff and see how many comments I can get in the blog” No real reporting ever in this sports section.
Not Disappointed
October 20th, 2011
11:23 am
Best of Luch Coach Paul Hewitt
Ramblin Wreck for life!
Not Disappointed
October 20th, 2011
11:23 am
typo: Luck!
RAMBLE ON!!!
October 20th, 2011
11:34 am
Paul Hewitt is the lowest of lowest. He sat on his fat cat a$$ after getting his ridiculous contract and did nothing expect recruit one-and-doners and he couldn’t even win with them.
He didn’t give a rat’s A$$ about GT and road out his 1.3 million each year to GT finally fired him, which was about 4 years too late. He didn’t care. He knew he was going to get fired 2 years before he did and was OK with it because he knew he had 7 million coming to him.
He Hijacked GT Basketball and destroyed a once powerful program.
Now he’s off to George Mason which has most of the returning starters from a very deep tourney team last year. He’ll choke in the tourney and 2 years from know we’ll never hear about GM again.
We’ll have to endure this moron “Hewitt Fan” talking how great Phewitt is cause GM is in the tourney and GT isn’t.
If Blewitt was an honorable man, he’d pay back some of the season tickets owners with his millions for having to endure the worst display of fundamental basketball ever seen in NCAA history.
Get ready GM, Coach Excuses will destroy your program.
BigTimeTechFan
October 20th, 2011
11:34 am
“There’s only one thing left for me to do in college basketball, and that’s try to win a national championship.”
I don’t think that’s a bad goal for a head coach.
Also we really don’t care about your issues with Paul Hewitt, leave him be, just write about sports, not your personal problems
JT
October 20th, 2011
11:37 am
Ace, Bradley is a columnist, not a reporter. Go to the beat writers if you’re looking for someone to break the latest sports news.
Ace
October 20th, 2011
11:39 am
I think they should suspend Mr Bradley for atleast a week for poor journalism. The only real articles in any of his headlines are the links he post!
IndyGT
October 20th, 2011
11:42 am
Must be a slow day today – what’s the point of this? Yea – Hewitt was bad right at the end of his GT tenure, and the contract (don’t even get me started). But, he did represent Tech well, his players didn’t get into trouble (While they were at Tech), and he was a class guy. People that followed Tech ball – knew tht he was SUPER optimistic. What’s he supposed to say, can’t wait to get fired again?
juvenal
October 20th, 2011
11:44 am
blogger responses said it all on that site……nice guy, wish him the best, but 2 probations? D-rad missed the boat not pulling the trigger when he had the chance…..
GT Dude
October 20th, 2011
11:46 am
All I can say is Good Luck to Hewwitt, glad he is up there and not here
RaleighJacket
October 20th, 2011
11:48 am
I thought that what he was supposed to be doing at Tech…hmmm.
Dragon
October 20th, 2011
11:49 am
Actually, he did a great job with player development. if the point of Georgia Tech is getting a good-paying job when you graduate, which is nothing if not the ethos of Georgia Tech, he was aces. he got them great jobs after one year and had more pros than anyone in the ACC other than Duke or UNC.
In that measure, he was hugely successful. By other measures, not so much……
oldfart
October 20th, 2011
11:52 am
Mark, don’t go all Kwame on us.
juvenal
October 20th, 2011
11:52 am
you know, Mark, a lot of people know how to do my job better than me, too..great to live where everybody is an expert, so much feedback to improve with(i think you do fine)……
ben pines
October 20th, 2011
11:53 am
I say we don’t talk about Hewitt anymore. He is gone so leave it at that. We have a new coach who needs our support so Mark no more Hewitt talk.
rich
October 20th, 2011
11:53 am
Something he couldnt do at Tech…..’recruit white players’
IL Jacket
October 20th, 2011
11:55 am
Paul Hewitt is a class guy who represented the Institute with a great deal of integrity and honesty. I wish him nothing but the best at George Mason.
I also have to agree with Nick, however. Let it go Mark, it makes you look small.
Hankie Aron
October 20th, 2011
11:59 am
Irrelevant rich. Every coach tries to recruit talented guys that fit into a scheme and hopefully will represent the school. Color is skin is not of material use.
GTBob
October 20th, 2011
12:01 pm
Paul Hewitt was a good guy and a great representative for Ga Tech. He stayed classy even after losing his job. I wish him nothing but the best at George Mason. I would be excited for him if he did win a championship there.
RambleOn84
October 20th, 2011
12:03 pm
What is he supposed to say?
“Because I sucked so bad at Tech, I know I’ll never achieve anything here?”
You’re reaching, Mark.
RambleOn84
October 20th, 2011
12:04 pm
I echo the others here. He wasn’t right for Tech anymore, and I’m glad we parted ways.
But I wish him the best now that he’s moved on…as long as it’s not against us.
Let’s embrace the Gregory era and let bygones be bygones…GO JACKETS!
GIVE ME A BREAK
October 20th, 2011
12:06 pm
Thanks, Mark, for the article. Maybe Tech will see Hewitt again down the road.
CPJ we'll keep!
October 20th, 2011
12:13 pm
Hewitt is disgusting. Why waste the space on here to talk about him!?
Hayseed Dixie
October 20th, 2011
12:13 pm
I’m speechless.
He’s gotta be high. That’s the only explanation I can come up with.
Was THE PREMIER CONFERENCE IN BASKETBALL AND A BUDGET AND FACILITIES THAT MOST D-I COACHES DREAM OF HOLDING YOU BACK?
I hope to God I never see this man in the street.
nickj0321
October 20th, 2011
12:21 pm
Thanks for the laugh Mark
JacketFanMarcus
October 20th, 2011
12:22 pm
Hmmm….as a former season ticket holder, I found it hard to watch his teams play. Frustrating. Wasn’t a great coach, but projected a great image.
But when I was at Tech, people complained that Cremins couldn’t coach, only recruit. It’s hard to find someone that can do both!
Tech Fan
October 20th, 2011
12:27 pm
Just the Headline alone is laughable….
RAMBLE ON!!!
October 20th, 2011
12:28 pm
I had a nice rant that didn’t get published.
To sum it up. He sucks, and destroyed our Basketball program.
I wish him no good will and George Mason has destroyed their BB program. Yes they will go to the tourney this year due to all the starters returning but will eventually lose early because they can’t in bound the ball and make any free throws.
He ripped GT off and has been laughing his way to the bank.
GT71
October 20th, 2011
12:30 pm
Not sure which is a bigger laugh – Hewitt and his ‘aim’ or Bradley and his unprofessional ’stick it in’ style.
But then, one is a jock chaser and the other is a jock writer (of sorts).
Remember too, that MB had his little court, judge and jury act going for the execution of one Cam Newton. Had the kid laid out and buried. Now he’s laying out TD passes in Charlotte. And where is MB? Still churning out the effluvient fluff.
Thx for writing
October 20th, 2011
12:34 pm
Again Mark you continue to show why you suck at life.
RAMBLE ON!!!
October 20th, 2011
12:34 pm
Last time I saw Phewitt, he was testifying for one of the players he developed convicted of murder.
Yeah, great Representative of GT…NOT!!!
Harvey D. Pooka
October 20th, 2011
12:37 pm
GTBob. I salute you, for being as classy as Coach Hewitt.
Sonny Clusters
October 20th, 2011
12:40 pm
Markkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, what knid of techhhniiicaaallllllllllllllll isssssssssues?
RAMBLE ON!!!
October 20th, 2011
12:40 pm
Real easy to be “classy” when your stealing 7 million dollars for losing.
GIVE ME A BREAK
October 20th, 2011
12:43 pm
Funny, Sonny. lol
Birmingham Jacket
October 20th, 2011
12:45 pm
Mark,
Why do have such contempt for Hewitt?
He seems like a nice guy.
Ernest T. Bass
October 20th, 2011
12:45 pm
“I’ve played football and been around football all my life,” said Robert Geathers Sr., who played in the NFL for 13 seasons has has two other sons playing professionally, “and if you watch it you see this kid speed up while everybody else is slowing down and he’s locked in on my son’s leg. If you look closely you can see the guy give a thumbs up to the sideline and the coach telling him ‘good job.’ I was, like, ‘Wow!’ I could be sitting here today telling you how my son’s surgery went.”
And the AJC spun that into Grantham and a UGA scandal.
Shameful
GIVE ME A BREAK
October 20th, 2011
12:48 pm
Hewitt coaches small schools up and big schools down. Glad he’s gone.
Hewitt Fan
October 20th, 2011
12:55 pm
I am still lmao that Gt fans ran away the best coach in Gt history due to Mark Bradley!…He complained and complained and thought Gt was going to get a good coach..But Gt was only able to get a coach who had been to the NCAA’s twice in 8 years and was on the hot seat!.i think after Hewitt wins big at GM, now that he no longer has to deal with the ACC refs, and CBG is fired after 3 years, GT fans will never listen to Bradley again!
Outside Observer
October 20th, 2011
1:05 pm
Glad to see Hewitt fan is still around. I forgot it was the ACC officials fault that Tech couldn’t run an in-bounds play, shoot a free throw, develop an offensive set, or use the enormous amount of talent to put together a successful run of seasons. I liked Hewitt as a person, but it was past time for the two to part ways. I wish him the best in the future.
Gordon
October 20th, 2011
1:10 pm
He accomplished one of his goals in 2004 which was having a team with a winning conference record (9-7). After doing that, what else is there to prove?
KBP
October 20th, 2011
1:11 pm
I am a Dawg fan who likes Hewitt and his record against the Dawgs has nothing to do with it. Now, I do not agree with his player development statement because with the exception of Schumpert, who else stayed long enough to actually get better? Maybe Jack? Bosh and Favors were going pro if I had been there Coach. Also who did Calipari develop? Tyreke Evans, Derrick Rose, and John Wall were going pro if I had been there Coach also.(I am not a coach) Neither of them could shoot when they signed on with Calipari and they could not shoot when they left. Most every kid that is one and done has enough talent to go pro without collegiate experience. So Hewitt, Calipari, Donovan, Williams and the rest STOP IT with your I’ll get you to the pros. Now Tyler Hansbrough, developed into an NBA player, so did Matt Harpring. The had raw talent but actually stayed in college long enough to develop the necessary skill to play NBA ball and I will say coaching played a big part in that. By the way, I am one of those rare Dawg fans who root for Tech except when they play the Dawgs.
Hewitt Fan
October 20th, 2011
1:16 pm
KBP
October 20th, 2011
1:11 pm
GOOD POST!…Gt fans don’t have to worry about landing top talent any more,thats over..Hewitt players all were drafted high and all are having good careers in the NBA!…Gt fans trust Bradley over anything, and that trust landed them coach after coach turning down the GT job and then CBG was hired even though he was on the hot seat at Dayton!
Gordon
October 20th, 2011
1:20 pm
Hewitt Fan,
In Gregory’s last 6 years at Dayton, he made 4 post season appearances to Hewitt’s 1, and won as many NCAA games (1) as Hewitt did in the same time. He also made the NIT 3 times and won it once. He won more games in the last 4 years (97) that Hewitt did in the last 6 (93) with FAR less talent. I wish Hewitt well, but the results speak for themselves. I’m looking forward to the new Gregory era at Georgia Tech.
Hewitt Fan
October 20th, 2011
1:29 pm
Gordon
October 20th, 2011
1:20 pm
Bottom line is 5 years losing record in the Atlantic ten, when Purnell’s players left, he had only 1 year over 500 in the ATLANTIC TEN..Hewitt took Cremins players to the NCAAS his first year..CBG was clearly on the hot seat at Dayton, The fans were jumping in the street when GT hired him!.. his offense was terrible, defense average and unlike Hewitt, he teams were veterans teams!..So now that he is in the ACC, and will have to beat the opposing team and the refs, I think that Gt just made the worst hire in college basketball in the last 20 years..Roberson asked him about the ACC refs and based on his answer i think he will fully accept getting cheated game after game…If you don’t believe me read it for yourself!
AJC: Lots of coaches come to ACC and get a whiff of Tobacco Road officiating and realize they can’t win, what makes you think differently?
BG: I don’t have any opinion on that because I haven’t gone through it. You are talking about two programs whose teams are very, very good. Teams that are good get the benefit of the doubt. I think it has more to do with how good they are more than anything else.
Okefenokee
October 20th, 2011
1:31 pm
Hard to mistake Wes Durham’s WIDE-LOAD profile in the background.
His butt must weigh 250 lbs. all by itself.
Gordon
October 20th, 2011
1:44 pm
Hewitt Fan,
Hewitt had 10 years out of 11 of non-winning records in the ACC (!!!) and you are worried that Gregory had 2 losing records (6-8, 7-9) in the Atlantic 10 in 8 years? Gregory’s second worst year in the Atlantic 10 (7-9) was as good or better than 7 of Hewitt’s 11 years in the ACC at Tech.
Hewitt DID do a good job the first 5 years at Tech. But then his top assistants left and he was exposed for what he is: a good recruiter who can’t coach. There is a long term record here, not one off-year. He had 5 losing seasons in 11 years at Tech, while Gregory had one in 8 years at Dayton.
By the way, Gregory has already signed a 4-star recruit and is in the mix for a 5-star so your statement about him not being able to get talent to Tech has already been disproven. And maybe signing a few 3 and 4 stars and coaching them up might work out better than signing 5-stars that leave after 1 year.
Ted M
October 20th, 2011
2:04 pm
“There’s only one thing left for me to do in college basketball, and that’s “TRY” to win a national championship.”
“TRY”…Seems right to me, it never appeared he “tried” to at GT.
At some point along the the way Hewitt said something like; His job was to advance black men.
IL Jacket
October 20th, 2011
2:05 pm
KBP, thanks for the post!
RambleOn, Tech has moved on and we should also. Hewitt did not destroy Tech’s basketball program any more the Bobby Cremins did. Let’s try to take the high road and look forward to success under CBG.
Always a Jacket
October 20th, 2011
2:29 pm
Please remove Hewitt’s picture from the GT sports page
All I'm Saying Is....
October 20th, 2011
2:49 pm
AMEN TO WHAT “NICK” SAID AT 8:16 A.M.
YOU ARE A CLASSLESS, MORON, BRADLEY, ON THIS MATTER AND CLEARLY SOMEONE WHO DOESN’T KNOW WHEN TO TURN THE PAGE.
Dontavius Supremo
October 20th, 2011
3:05 pm
As for Bradley vs. Hewitt: Who still has a job in Atlanta, and who doesn’t?
home.cooking
October 20th, 2011
3:08 pm
Mark,
The guy is gone! You are still attacking the guy. Everyone can see its personal for you.
I wonder will you have the same scrutiny for Brian Gregory that you had/have for Paul Hewitt.
Also, Coach Hewitt didn’t lie, he did place a lot of kids in the NBA.
dap01
October 20th, 2011
3:10 pm
Hewitt was a bad, bad, bad coach. You can’t reinvent history.
Hewitt Fan
October 20th, 2011
3:13 pm
Gordon,
“Gregory’s second worst year in the Atlantic 10 (7-9) was as good or better than 7 of Hewitt’s 11 years in the ACC at Tech.”
Regardless, CBG coached at Dayton with a very good fan base and all of the resources needed to win in a weak conference..Instead the guy made the tournament once with his own players….and made it to the Big Dance 2 times overall! Hewitt made the tournament 5 times out of 10 in a better conference..Add the ACC refs and you have a conference that is hard to win in..Coaches do not make it in the ACC, the ACC is filled with new coaches right now….if the ACC refs would have called the damn games right, Hewitt would have won at least 5 to 8 ACC titles…Favors never stood a chance in the ACC, the refs called cheap foul after foul!..the year we had Bosh was very sad, NO CALLS!..Even when GT made the championship game, Gt barely had a winning record in conference…once they got away from the ACC, they almost won the whole thing!
Gordon
October 20th, 2011
3:39 pm
Hewitt Fan,
“Hewitt made the tournament 5 times out of 10 in a better conference”
Exactly. Do you think it is easier to get a team in from the Atlantic 10 or the ACC? In the 6 years Hewitt didn’t get Tech into the NCAA’s, he had losing seasons in 5 of them! Think about that. With all the creampuffs Tech and every other school in the ACC plays, he had FIVE losing seasons.
Your statement that Hewitt would have won 5 to 8 ACC titles if the refs were better is the dumbest thing I have ever read. How do you explain Gary Williams, Leonard Hamilton, Bobby Cremins, and many others who have had success in the ACC that aren’t Duke and North Carolina? How do you explain Hewitt’s early success at Tech? I explain it by saying there are guys who can coach and guys who can’t. Hewitt had Deane Keener and Cliff Warren early on doing the coaching (also at Siena) while he did the recuriting and it worked. Then they left and the bottom fell out.
Hewitt had one magical two week run in the spring of 2004, and parlayed that into being the most overrated coach I’ve ever seen. We’ll see what he does at George Mason. Maybe at the mid-major level he can do well assuming he has a decent staff, but he’s proven he can’t get it done consistently at the highest level. As I said earlier, I wish him well.
Mick
October 20th, 2011
3:59 pm
Mark you’re bigger than that, let it go.
more things that phewitt left unfinished....
October 20th, 2011
4:14 pm
-win an acc tourney game
-win an acc tourney championship
-finish in the top half of the acc
-win an acc regular championship
-learn how to couch the last 5 minutes of a game
-beat uga at uga
-beat uga more than they beat you
-recruit some high character blue chippers
-giver your players individual instruction on how to pass a class and stay in school.
and ta da….
admit that you took gt for a ride and return the 7 million.
NATS
October 20th, 2011
4:16 pm
Too bad it wasn’t his goal when he coached at Tech.
Born2Buzz
October 20th, 2011
4:17 pm
MB, I like your column but I have to agree you need to let it go.
I wasn’t a fan of Hewitt’s at the end either, but I hope he is successful at GM. Not sure he will be for obvious reasons.
And Gordon, you cannot argue with Hewitt Fan. He is convinced that Hewitt was undone by the ACC refs and it had nothing to do with his coaching abilities.
GTAAA vp 77
October 20th, 2011
4:20 pm
Hewitt recruited as well as Cremins. He just coached like he was in AAU instead of the ACC. While Cremins sometimes failed because he rode his “horses” to exhaustion, Hewitt had to play everybody every game. His ridiculous cycling of players never let anybody get “hot” or “in the zone”. And his poor use of time-outs was legendary.
Anthony Morrow was a lights out shooter in high-school before Hewitt destroyed his confidence and game. He walked on in the pros and promptly dropped 35 in his first outing and was one of the highest percentage 3-pt shooters his first year. If Hewitt had concentrated on winning games instead of the hearts of his second string GT would have been a lot better off.
hey home cooking
October 20th, 2011
4:21 pm
if phewitt’s main goal was to put players in the nba than he should have coached a semi pro league.
we payed him 30 +/- million bucks over 10 so that we could become a laughing stock both on and off the court.
if he did prepare a few “cant miss players” for the nba then that is all he did for gt. he certainly did not teach them how to graduate. he certainly did not teach them much about being a good person not a ME person.
Born2Buzz
October 20th, 2011
4:24 pm
MB, I like you and your column but I have to agree, just let it go.
I wasn’t a fan of Hewitt’s at the end but I wish him nothing but success at GM
And Gordon, you can’t argue with Hewitt Fan. He is convinced that the ACC refs were the sole reason for Hewitt’s failures, not his coaching abilities. And no amount of arguing will change that.
Heels Rock and Rule
October 20th, 2011
4:26 pm
UGa and Tech better do something quick in football, because basketball is just around the corner and you know what that means in the state of Georgia. “It’s 32 degrees and cold as a dog down on Peach Tree Street”.
NYJacket
October 20th, 2011
4:28 pm
Well the guy certainly thinks a lot of himself!!!!
Kapoonka
October 20th, 2011
4:58 pm
Hewitt is a class act and Mark my man….. move on. There’s not really anything you can can write that will impact him, his ability to sleep at night or his bank account, so….let’s talk about relevant things and current coaches. How bout’ them Hawks?……Oh yeah B-ball is on hold…..How bout them Thrashers?…Ooops..no more hockey team. Dang Braves choked or we could possibly be watching them. For now stick with the iffy Falcons and over rated Dawgs…in a minute there won’t be a need for sports reporters in the A, so Mark be nice……
BG
October 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
Tech sucks!
Matt from MN
October 20th, 2011
5:45 pm
CPH, you will NOT be missed. You poor, poor delusional man.
jayv44
October 20th, 2011
5:47 pm
Blewitt is a joke and never should have coached at Georgia Tech, to not have but one good seasons with the talent that he had is horrible, flat out he doesn’t know how to coach a team…
Skeezix
October 20th, 2011
5:54 pm
Mark: Unreal. The man is out of touch with reality. In total self denial.
Michael Jordan, NBA Owner
October 20th, 2011
5:57 pm
Bryant Gumbel: I understand you called me a slave owner. Where can we meet so I can personally kick your butt?
Illini
October 20th, 2011
6:02 pm
Maybe I read the quote wrong but it sounds like coach Hewitt didn’t ‘try’ to win a championship at GT if that is the one thing he hasn’t accomplished in his coaching carreer. It would be one thing if he said that he wanted to ‘win’ a national championship, but to ‘try to win’ one is something every coach should do. Maybe that explains his results at GT, he didn’t try to win the national championship but was only worried about his players developing.
Dawg48
October 20th, 2011
6:13 pm
And mark called granthem classless? Ajc needs to change up some things as well! The rest of America has reporters look what we get!
Delbert D.
October 20th, 2011
7:19 pm
At least Gregory is not going to be an agent for the Atlanta Celtics AAU-to-NBA scheme.
Paul Hewitt
October 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
There you go again Mark. Saying negative things about me. Now I’ll never be able to be successful at George Mason. Because of you and all those ajc bloggers who say negative things about me, I’ll never win a NCAA championship. So why should I try?
fuzzybee
October 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
Hewitt is a great salesman. That is how he got those great recruits, landed the huge contract, and kept his job for so many years.
Unfortunately, the guy walking the floor at the Ford dealership would be just as good a coach.
wes
October 20th, 2011
8:04 pm
“Hewitt Fan” = full retard.
You never go full retard, son!
Hewitt is just a big whiny blowhard and a jerk
October 20th, 2011
8:09 pm
Take all the jabs you want at Hewitt, he earned every one of them, the whiny jerk.
wardo
October 20th, 2011
8:29 pm
in a word…Loser. Buckle your seat belts George Mason fans. You will be going down hill at a rapid pace very soon.
Talk about a delusional post...
October 20th, 2011
8:39 pm
Hewitt Fan
October 20th, 2011
3:13 pm
….if the ACC refs would have called the damn games right, Hewitt would have won at least 5 to 8 ACC titles…
——–
Hewitt was GT coach for 11 years. In 05-06 GT went 4-12; 08-09 they were 2-14 and in 10-11 they were 5-11. I guess they would have won the ACC in the other 8 years. Apart from 00-01 when Duke won the NCAA beating MD in the final. Or maybe 01-01 when MD somehow overcame the noted Duke-UNC-refs conspiracy and also won the NCAA championship. Or maybe 04-05 when a UNC team loaded with NBA first round draft picks won the NC. Then again there was 08-09 when another UNC team loaded with talent won the NCAA championship. And of course, in 09-10 another Duke team won the NCAA championship.
And in 10-11, how the heck would GT have beaten FSU, since FSU had Chris Singleton, from the MIGHTY ATLANTA CELTICS, on the team?
K
October 20th, 2011
8:50 pm
I actually enjoyed your take on Hewitt’s comments, Mark.
Made me laugh!
GT FAN4
October 20th, 2011
8:55 pm
Does anyone remember that Paul Hewitt is the only coach to lead GT to the national championship game?
Paul in NH
October 20th, 2011
8:59 pm
I read the article on Rivals and don’t have a problem with most of what Hewitt said. He is trying to sell kids on why they should play for him at George Mason and the comment on player development should really have been “We had a good run there at Georgia Tech in terms of putting players in the NBA”.
I have a problem with his last quote:
“…them you can help them develop their talent so they can earn a living playing the game of basketball, which has been a point of emphasis for me and my staff over the years…”
There is much, much more to college sports than preparing a couple of players for the pros. The quote does help explain why GT’s APR under Hewitt was so low that they lost scholarships – scholarships that may have helped non-NBA quality players from poor backgrounds go to college.
Shawdaddy
October 20th, 2011
9:32 pm
Mark: no comment on all the posts calling out your “small” behavior beating this dead horse? You’re usually pretty interactive on here. Maybe you realize how petty you are being? Hope so. Get back to writing thoughtful pieces about then here and now.
ACC refs = THE MAN
October 20th, 2011
10:31 pm
why wasn’t Hewitt more successful at Tech? According to ‘Hewitt Fan’ it was THE MAN (a.k.a. ACC refs). Rrrrrriiiiiiiiiggggghhhhttttt …. its the refs’ fault that Hewitt’s teams had losing conference seasons 10 out of 11 years!!!
Chuck Allison
October 20th, 2011
10:43 pm
Many other schools benefitted from Hewitt’s time at Tech. They learned not to write ridiculous contracts that demotivate coaches and allow them to coast on fat cat salaries without doing their job.
Leave Hewitt alone? Sure, as long as we never hear from him again or see his face.
bobby
October 20th, 2011
10:48 pm
come on Mr. Bradley don’t you think he was aiming high at tech if you think he was’nt then you wrong.
Franklin
October 20th, 2011
10:56 pm
That is me between Coach Johnson and Hewitt. I am smiling because I just took Hewitt’s amex and heading to Vail for some skiing.
roger
October 20th, 2011
10:57 pm
you ripped gailey now you rip hewitt Paul should be fortunate of your evaluation you are never right!!!!!!!!!!
Inoalittle
October 20th, 2011
11:43 pm
I have sat at many Tech games and watched Tech freeze like a deer in headlights, when playing against a 2-3 zone…time after time after time…no kidding, a 2-3 zone.
arizona cat
October 21st, 2011
4:33 am
He’s no Lute Olson, but there was only one.
Larry
October 21st, 2011
4:42 am
Mr. Bradley,
Thanks for the forgiveness. Moving forward, I promise to take my prozac at least one hour prior to posting.
Best regards,
Larry
bcall
October 21st, 2011
5:37 am
continue to give him hell Mark,you know if a crook destroyed something and steals
money he’d go to jail,the difference is HEWITT didn’t wear a mask
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.