It’s been less than a year since Georgia Tech coach Geoff Collins said his program was making obvious progress and that those who disagreed just “don’t want to see it.” That was six games and five losses ago, by a combined margin of 224-40. Now even the most rabid Yellow Jackets partisan looking for signs of progress needs to borrow one of the powerful microscopes from the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.
It’s much easier to see the evidence that the Jackets aren’t moving forward with Collins. Since Collins chided his program’s critics in November, the Jackets have performed even worse. Now there are more doubters than ever in his ability to turn the Jackets around. Collins has no results, statistics or trends he can cite as counterarguments to those who believe he’s had plenty of time to show he can win at Tech and just can’t do it.
“I understand all of that,” Collins said Tuesday, three days after Tech’s 42-0 home loss to Ole Miss. “But there is – I’m going to try to say this the right way – I have a tremendous amount of confidence, based on demonstrated ability. Now, has that shown up yet while we’ve been here? It has not.
