What are the chances we retain these three individuals for next season?

Unless he gets a HC offer from a G5 school, I think he is here one more year...

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Originally Posted by Dogsince65

We have to find money to keep Diaz. I could see Coach Holtz wanting to team up with him like Dykes and Franklin.

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I don't believe he will leave for a DC position. If he does consider a DC offer, we can't play that game. Top DCs make as much or more than our HC makes from Tech and USF combined.

IMO, the Dykes/Franklin partnership will end up killing the HC career of Dykes. Franklin cares more about his other job than his OC job.

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Originally Posted by maddawg

I don't believe he will leave for a DC position. If he does consider a DC offer, we can't play that game. Top DCs make as much or more than our HC makes from Tech and USF combined.

IMO, the Dykes/Franklin partnership will end up killing the HC career of Dykes. Franklin cares more about his other job than his OC job.

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do or die next year --they finished 5-7 but had legitimate shot at 8-4. Geoff will be Jr and they are at least entertaining ... now if they offerred Diaz 1.2 million .....

Tech has established itself as a wonderful spring board for young coaches. Unfortunately those young coaches have not found the success that they desired. A lot of that is because those coaches jumped to sinking ships. Cal, Tenn both are trainwrecks. I think Diaz will guage interest, see if the right job is out there and then make his decision. 50/50 he stays. aTm and Wazzou are as bad as TENN and Cal so they are no goes.

I know this sounds crazy but winning at Tech is really easy by coaching standards. We possess more talent per capita than any other state and the second tier is better than most states top tier. Our conference is usually a one or two strong league. Bicknell even had several winning seasons by simply winning two OOC and scraping a few wins from the dregs of the conference. Skip may never leave. Why would he? He is one Conference Championship away from being the winningest coach in conference history. He will never be his dad, so being the Godfather of a mid-tier football conference is not a bad option. Of course money speaks and he may be willing to take a risk of a unstable p5 job for the right price.

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Originally Posted by Dogsince65

... now if they offerred Diaz 1.2 million .....

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I don't believe any DC can be successful with that offense working so fast. Oregon is the only team that seems to have a defense to go with the high powered offense.

I think Tech is a good fit for Holtz and that he will stay put as long as things go well.

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Originally Posted by KSDAWG

Tech has established itself as a wonderful spring board for young coaches. Unfortunately those young coaches have not found the success that they desired. A lot of that is because those coaches jumped to sinking ships. Cal, Tenn both are trainwrecks. I think Diaz will guage interest, see if the right job is out there and then make his decision. 50/50 he stays. aTm and Wazzou are as bad as TENN and Cal so they are no goes.

I know this sounds crazy but winning at Tech is really easy by coaching standards. We possess more talent per capita than any other state and the second tier is better than most states top tier. Our conference is usually a one or two strong league. Bicknell even had several winning seasons by simply winning two OOC and scraping a few wins from the dregs of the conference. Skip may never leave. Why would he? He is one Conference Championship away from being the winningest coach in conference history. He will never be his dad, so being the Godfather of a mid-tier football conference is not a bad option. Of course money speaks and he may be willing to take a risk of a unstable p5 job for the right price.

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Interesting points.

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Originally Posted by Tech77

I think Tech is a good fit for Holtz and that he will stay put as long as things go well.

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I agree.

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Originally Posted by Tech77

I think Tech is a good fit for Holtz and that he will stay put as long as things go well.

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Agree. I would almost say that at his point in his career, Tech is probably the ideal place for him.

I guess in a round about way, I was trying to say exactly that. He is a great personallity with a generic coaching style. 8 win seasons will keep him employed forever here. He is like Les Miles meets Rick Stockstill for us.

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Originally Posted by KSDAWG

8 win seasons will keep him employed forever here.

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Thats what they said about Bower at USM.

I wouldn't know how to act if we had a couple three 8 win seasons in a row. That's our problem, we can never continue that momentum.

So potentially Skip could be the best thing ever happened to Tech? :)

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Originally Posted by latech

So potentially Skip could be the best thing ever happened to Tech? :)

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That's what I've always said.:D

With that, we should just lock the thread. :D