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Georgia Tech hires Georgia analyst Buster Faulkner to be next offensive coordinator
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Georgia Tech hires Georgia analyst Buster Faulkner to be next offensive coordinator
Stetson Bennett spoke glowingly about the role Buster Faulkner played in his development this weekend at the Heisman Trophy ceremony. But Bennett’s possible replacement won’t get the chance to work with Faulkner.
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Ugh, I was hoping we could keep him forever.
Stetson talks him up and Tech grabs him. Makes sense to me. UGA lost a very good analyst...now OC at Tech. Big move. Wish him well.
JUst doing a cursory look around on the internet about coaching possibles at Purdue, it doesn't appear that CTM is in the 1st group of possibles mentioned. Of course stranger things could happen. I think we're good! Go Dawgs!
Well, now, that just sux......😕
Great move for him, but the players seemed to really like the guy and with him, Bobo and Monken, we had quite the offensive brain trust!
Really hate to lose him.......
The article doesn't really say, unless I missed it, but is he staying through the final two games or is he moving on immediately?
My guess would be the latter......
Go Dawgs! Why wait?....Hate Tech early!
Smart move, wish him the best, better pay TM or im sure Bobo is doing his thing.
Guys, we're going to lose assistant coaches if we're any good at all. That just comes with success as teams like Bama deal with this kind of revolving door of coaches almost every year. Yet, they still remain in the elite pool of teams.
You may not like it, but you'd better just get used to it.
Good luck to Buster....I think Tech might actually post a winning record next season. Will wonders never cease!
ouch, this stings, but I wish Buster all the best. If we also lost Monken, then this would be a huge issue because Buster was our in house replacement
I’m just wondering if CTM leaves and we offer Buster the OC position would he drop tech and come back to us.
Mike Bobo or Brian McClendon are UGA's in house replacements for TMonken. Both have OC and HC experience.
Sheesh. We were just reading about how important he was for SBIV's development...
I... don't know about Bobo as an actual coordinator. I'm not sure we want to go down that road again. Analyst is one thing, but, in the stands, if we're having a particularly slow day offensively, you'll still hear people yell "Fire BOBO" as a joke.
@MontanaDawg is right. You actually want to be the program that is constantly losing coordinators and top position coaches to other schools.
But what this shows is that Georgia Tech may be getting past the mickey mouse nonsense in hiring an alum who spent time on Saban's staff instead of the usual ... they were going to hire the Tulane coach until there was a booster backlash, and the previous hires came from the college football powerhouses Temple and Navy. Prior to that was Chan Gailey, who was actually a good hire but he was run off by the folks who prefer mickey mouse football (Gailey was trying to do at Tech what Jim Harbaugh did at Stanford, but the Tech faithful actually preferred the gimmick stuff as "exciting"). And prior to Gailey was George O'Leary, who saw Tech as a stepping stone job so never bothered to actually recruit or build a staff.
Looks like Tech is sick of getting hammered by UGA and Clemson and actually wants to compete. One good indicator: Brent Key agreed to a lower salary in return for a larger pool to pay assistant coaches. That is likely why they had the money to lure Faulkner.
shrugs
I can't say "best of luck" to him, since he's going to a team we play every year, but I don't have anything approaching animosity to offer. I don't much care. I'm pretty sure Bobo coming in gave Faulkner the incentive to take a job elsewhere, seeing as how he was no longer the heir apparent to Monken. The question now is, who will Kirby bring in as the new analyst? Could be, should be interesting.
Exactly. Agree fully. And I echo your question will he leave right away or stay for the next TWO games ?? Also ( Please No !!!) should Purdue lure Monken away think He would stay to see the last TWO games through ?? Like some have said it’s all the product of success. Have to take the bad with the good I suppose.
Sure hate to lose Buster. He has in depth experience outside of his time with Monken with the air raid offensive scheme. He also has OC experience. Can’t blame Buster for improving his lifestyle and trying to progress his career. He wasn’t making much at all at Georgia in comparison to the field coaches. Losing him is a huge security loss but as has been stated, with the programs success, your coaches are the targets that everybody wants.