Related: "The segment of the Tech fan base that is disenchanted with Johnson has made itself heard on social media and on game day. Of the eight smallest home crowds in Johnson’s tenure, three have been this season. "

https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/georg...UKnppAJWP/

(10-17-2018 03:23 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I'm an outsider here, but how can it be that GT can't afford to pony up $2M to tell Johnson to go away? There have been G5 schools pony up more than this to fire coaches.

They can afford $2m. They couldn't afford $4-5m that it was until very very recently. The GTAA is deeply in debt. On the Top 20 most in debt programs in the country. Radakovich put a bunch of new non-revenue sport facilities on a credit card. This is made worse by bad contracts and extensions by even worse former ADs. GT is still paying Paul Hewitt not to coach. They just finished paying Chan Gailey not to coach 2 years ago. They just finished paying Brian Gregory not to coach. The last two ADs have been such an unmitigated disaster the fan base is fractured and pessimistic. Stansbury seems to be the right guy to turn that around, and he's doing long overdue work so far. But what Stansbury hasn't really had to do yet as AD is make a revenue sport hire. He didn't have to at Oregon State. He didn't have to at UCF. So we'll see how good Stansbury is at evaluating personnel and hiring the right person for the right job and giving them the tools they need to be successful. If he can hire as well as he can point fingers to problems and raise money we might be getting somewhere.

(10-17-2018 03:34 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-17-2018 03:23 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I'm an outsider here, but how can it be that GT can't afford to pony up $2M to tell Johnson to go away? There have been G5 schools pony up more than this to fire coaches.

They can afford $2m. They couldn't afford $4-5m that it was until very very recently. The GTAA is deeply in debt. On the Top 20 most in debt programs in the country. Radakovich put a bunch of new non-revenue sport facilities on a credit card. This is made worse by bad contracts and extensions by even worse former ADs. GT is still paying Paul Hewitt not to coach. They just finished paying Chan Gailey not to coach 2 years ago. They just finished paying Brian Gregory not to coach. The last two ADs have been such an unmitigated disaster the fan base is fractured and pessimistic. Stansbury seems to be the right guy to turn that around, and he's doing long overdue work so far. But what Stansbury hasn't really had to do yet as AD is make a revenue sport hire. He didn't have to at Oregon State. He didn't have to at UCF. So we'll see how good Stansbury is at evaluating personnel and hiring the right person for the right job and giving them the tools they need to be successful. If he can hire as well as he can point fingers to problems and raise money we might be getting somewhere.

Mind-blowing. So it took 9 years to pay him off?

(10-17-2018 05:05 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  

(10-17-2018 03:34 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-17-2018 03:23 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I'm an outsider here, but how can it be that GT can't afford to pony up $2M to tell Johnson to go away? There have been G5 schools pony up more than this to fire coaches.

They can afford $2m. They couldn't afford $4-5m that it was until very very recently. The GTAA is deeply in debt. On the Top 20 most in debt programs in the country. Radakovich put a bunch of new non-revenue sport facilities on a credit card. This is made worse by bad contracts and extensions by even worse former ADs. GT is still paying Paul Hewitt not to coach. They just finished paying Chan Gailey not to coach 2 years ago. They just finished paying Brian Gregory not to coach. The last two ADs have been such an unmitigated disaster the fan base is fractured and pessimistic. Stansbury seems to be the right guy to turn that around, and he's doing long overdue work so far. But what Stansbury hasn't really had to do yet as AD is make a revenue sport hire. He didn't have to at Oregon State. He didn't have to at UCF. So we'll see how good Stansbury is at evaluating personnel and hiring the right person for the right job and giving them the tools they need to be successful. If he can hire as well as he can point fingers to problems and raise money we might be getting somewhere.

Mind-blowing. So it took 9 years to pay him off?

It been that long? I want to say they owed him $1m/yr but for 5 or 6 years. So closer to 4-5 years ago probably. I know they're still paying Paul Hewitt though that will end in Q1/Q2 of next year. Naturally it'd be very GT-ish to fire PJ right after they clear all the old contracts off the books.

Would East Carolina take Johnson?

(10-22-2018 10:23 AM)bluesox Wrote:  Would East Carolina take Johnson?

I would think as anything other than a service academy at the G5 level it would be too damaging to your ability to schedule games OOC.