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Bash Riprock

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  1. 8 minutes ago, Dirk X West said:

    He does, like anybody making the kind of $ he is.  But hasn't he done a lot more good than bad so far?

    I just said he's the best thing that has ever happened to us.

  2. 20 minutes ago, Dirk X West said:

    Do you honestly think that he's allowed to draw up contracts and hire head coaches with no oversight or input from anyone else?  Everything I've ever heard about the internal operations of big time college athletic depts in general and about Tech athletics specifically, including the Mike Leach firing, tells me otherwise.  I'm quite willing to concede that that comes to bear when talking about good coaching hires as well as bad ones, as far as that goes.  

    With no real inside knowledge of how any of the hires have been made since Hocutt took over, it's pretty clear that he likes a certain type of coach (i.e. experienced, with good character and interested in bringing in good character players, focused on discipline, hard work and fundamentals, and yes, with ties to Tech and/or the panhandle region) and not coincidentally, those have been the ones who have succeeded for the most part, while those that aren't of that type, like Kliff, haven't panned out.  Tadlock and Beard are very similar in many ways (as is Tubby Smith, save for ties to Tech), and Wells seems like an attempt at finding a football analogue.  Kliff just doesn't fit that pattern, and considering his popularity with the fans and the perception that he could help people get over the trauma of the Leach debacle - and that football is so crucial financially - it's just not hard for me to imagine that he was prevailed upon to hire Kliff.  He may not have been against Kliff, but he isn't Hocutt's type of coach.

    Again, with all the success Tech athletics is having, it seems bizarre to me that I have to offer some defense of Hocutt, but the neuroses that dwell deep in the subconscious mind of many Tech fans make it hard for many to simply enjoy success.

     

    I love Kirby. I think he's probably the best thing that has ever happened for the University. I just think he needs to be held accountable for a few things. 

  3. 2 hours ago, Dirk X West said:

    I'm not sure about that one.  Gillispie was hired less than one month after Hocutt officially started as AD, and IIRC BCG's hire was being discussed in the media even before Hocutt started.  I think he may have just had to sign off on that one.  Either way, he followed that disaster up with another great hire in Tubby Smith.  I know a lot of Tech fans bag on Tubby, mostly because of how he left, but he undeniably brought Tech basketball back from the dead and left a pretty full cupboard for Beard.

    so he had to hire BCG because it was already in the works. he had to hire kilff because that's what the alumni and fan base wanted. interesting. so he was just following orders from Feb '11 to Dec '12 even though he was the director of athletics. 

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    10 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

    What a fine institution. My last two traffic stops I noticed that ridiculous ring as the citations were being written. Couldn't have been for my Texas Ex sticker huh aggy.

    I thought they produced prestigious Military Generals in the Corps of Cadets?

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