We'll see. It is difficult to image a year with as much horrendous luck as the past one. Both in injuries and crushing blown calls (looking at you ACC refs during the Duke game missing blatant offsides on 4th and 3 late in the game driving deep in Duke territory for the winning score).

Special teams coordinator parted ways on "mutual agreement". PJ is going back to having two offensive line coaches dedicated to the task. This is not the "Sewak was fired" I wanted to hear. But that OL has no excuse sucking that horrifically after the Orange Bowl year and having three senior anchors. PJ claims this incoming freshman class is the best he's had. PJ doesn't praise much of anything, so when he does he usually means it.

I'm expecting a return to form. What form? 7-6. It's what Gailey would have done. And it is, aside from two Orange Bowls and last year's abortion, what PJ has done.

Unless you see an athletic director other than the tard we got from Xavier riding in off the horizon to run the smallest athletic department you're allowed to run in the ACC, with systemic extra academic hurdles tougher than everybody but a service academy, with an in state rival who has you athletically checkmated politically, economically (alumni base size, legions of walmart mouth breather fans, super conference with drastically superior cashflow), and culturally, and where you'll be starting out already operating in deep systemic debt ........ I don't see that changing. Homer Rice isn't walking back through that door. And a guy from a rust belt mid-major without a football program, who wasn't a football player, who has spent nearly his entire professional career in the rust belt, and had no serious leadership history at a place with football is NOT a confidence booster.

Quote:Wikipedia: Homer Rice at Georgia Tech
His longest tenure as an athletic director though, came at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served from 1980 to 1997. He took a $62,000 a year pay cut to leave the Cincinnati Bengals, despite stiff opposition from Paul Brown who strongly favored Coach Rice staying with the Bengals, in pursuit of fulfilling his life's mission of building an athletic program with the student-athlete Total Person Program as a cornerstone.[4] He successfully developed and implemented the Total Person Program which is now the model for NCAA Life Skills Program that is in place at Universities throughout the nation. Additional accomplishments at Georgia Tech included developing Tech's women's athletic program from scratch, raising $100 million for facilities, increasing athletic fund raising from less than $700,000 annually to over $5,000,000 annually, and bringing national respect back to Georgia Tech athletics.

Athletic success during Rice's tenure included a 1990 National Championship in football, 1990 Men's Basketball NCAA Final Four, nine consecutive appearances in NCAA Tournament in basketball, three ACC Tournament Championships in basketball, 18 players selected in NBA draft, 1994 College Baseball World Series runner-up, 13 consecutive NCAA appearances in baseball, six first round selections in Major League Baseball draft, 1994 NCAA runner-up in golf, two golfers named Player of Year in 1990s, three Olympic Gold Medalist in track and three Olympians in baseball, four top ten finishes in Track and 14 ACC team championships including football (1), baseball (4), basketball (3), golf (5) and volleyball (1).

Modern era Georgia Tech athletic success, with the exception of Paul Hewitt's fluke NCAA tournament run due to having a roster that rolled 9 deep with NBA players, 2014's Orange Bowl win, and the women's tennis national champion .... IS Homer Rice. Dave Braine(less), Dan Radakovich, and now Mike Bobinski managed three serious achievements under their watch in a combined two decades. Homer Rice would clock that in a single year.