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Reference the interview with Key and Alpert on 680, the Georgia Tech flagship station 680 The Fan was on site Thursday on The Flats as the midday show “Cellini & Dimino” had several Jackets’ voices on the air for interviews as the team continues to get ready for it’s Pop-Tarts Bowl matchup vs. BYU on Dec. 27. The partial transcript from the interview had some interesting information in addition to the 10-million-dollar donations.
The ON3 article and a couple of excerpts below. One of Coach Key's comments first and AD Alpert's comments next concerning Commissioner Phillips and Playoff discussions.
On direction of program with so much change going on…
“I know exactly what I want the program to look like, and I know exactly the right fits for the staffing and player acquisition which is part of it,” said Key. “My job as the head coach is to improve the talent on the roster and improve the talent in the coaching staff every year.”
“If you stay the same, you’re going backwards,” added Key. “Everybody’s working to improve, to get better. You look at the Heisman Trophy…what was it six or seven out of the (top) ten finalists were transfers? I mean that’s the world we live in. You can sit there and complain about it and live in a bunker and go ‘woe is me.’ That’s so stupid. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard because that’s what this is. If you sit there and take time today and you’re not planning on what you’re doing moving forward…we’ve been planning on this the last four months for these things.”
On the voice of athletic directors under ACC commissioner Jim Phillips to impact college football as a whole…
“Commissioner Phillips is extremely engaging from a standpoint of talking to the membership,” said Alpert. “Obviously we have 18 teams, 17 football teams playing in the ACC, and I’ll give you my personal opinion. I am one vote of 17 when it comes to football, and ultimately it’s the four commissioners that have that opportunity and discussing the pathway of the CFP moving forward. I think access to postseason, if you look at the TV ratings from this year, and I think multiple things went into why viewership was so high and why engagement was so high across the college football landscape, I’m going to go back to when the BCS was around. As soon as you took a loss in any league you were out of the hunt. You had to be undefeated, and you really had to be the best undefeated team if there were multiple to get access into the BCS. And when we expanded to the CFP to four and then 12, the more we can expand postseason, and you do have to look at championship games matter, how does the regular season work. The NFL has done a tremendous job of having almost 50 percent of their teams have access to postseason. When the wild card comes around the 7-6 teams are still fighting for access to the postseason, and I think college football can learn something from it. I think with NIL and revenue share, we’ve seen a disbursement of talent to the Power-4 teams because we’re being able to not one team or four team or six teams compiling all the talent on their rosters. We’re seeing a disbursement of talent across the landscape, and I think the more we look to expand the playoff and the access to it, it can really drive value back to our schools.”
On possibility of expanding CFP to 16 teams…
“I think more is better,” said Alpert. “It all ties together and I know there are a bunch of different models out there. I think more access creates more opportunity and more opportunity drives value. Whether that’s 16 or 20 or 24, I’ve not spent enough time to know how the access and how everything plugs in from automatic qualifiers…all that’s significantly important to it but yes, I believe the more access we can have in the postseason, it creates a higher value throughout the regular season. And fan bases are going to have to get used to teams with two or three losses playing well at the end of the year gets you access in. But again, what does that do to championship games and other postseason activities? There’s a lot of layers to it. That’s why it’s not as easy just to say let’s do this to the CFP. There’s a bunch of ripples that comes from it, but I think we’re having the right conversations and the four commissioners being aligned is important.
The ON3 article and a couple of excerpts below. One of Coach Key's comments first and AD Alpert's comments next concerning Commissioner Phillips and Playoff discussions.
On direction of program with so much change going on…
“I know exactly what I want the program to look like, and I know exactly the right fits for the staffing and player acquisition which is part of it,” said Key. “My job as the head coach is to improve the talent on the roster and improve the talent in the coaching staff every year.”
“If you stay the same, you’re going backwards,” added Key. “Everybody’s working to improve, to get better. You look at the Heisman Trophy…what was it six or seven out of the (top) ten finalists were transfers? I mean that’s the world we live in. You can sit there and complain about it and live in a bunker and go ‘woe is me.’ That’s so stupid. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard because that’s what this is. If you sit there and take time today and you’re not planning on what you’re doing moving forward…we’ve been planning on this the last four months for these things.”
On the voice of athletic directors under ACC commissioner Jim Phillips to impact college football as a whole…
“Commissioner Phillips is extremely engaging from a standpoint of talking to the membership,” said Alpert. “Obviously we have 18 teams, 17 football teams playing in the ACC, and I’ll give you my personal opinion. I am one vote of 17 when it comes to football, and ultimately it’s the four commissioners that have that opportunity and discussing the pathway of the CFP moving forward. I think access to postseason, if you look at the TV ratings from this year, and I think multiple things went into why viewership was so high and why engagement was so high across the college football landscape, I’m going to go back to when the BCS was around. As soon as you took a loss in any league you were out of the hunt. You had to be undefeated, and you really had to be the best undefeated team if there were multiple to get access into the BCS. And when we expanded to the CFP to four and then 12, the more we can expand postseason, and you do have to look at championship games matter, how does the regular season work. The NFL has done a tremendous job of having almost 50 percent of their teams have access to postseason. When the wild card comes around the 7-6 teams are still fighting for access to the postseason, and I think college football can learn something from it. I think with NIL and revenue share, we’ve seen a disbursement of talent to the Power-4 teams because we’re being able to not one team or four team or six teams compiling all the talent on their rosters. We’re seeing a disbursement of talent across the landscape, and I think the more we look to expand the playoff and the access to it, it can really drive value back to our schools.”
On possibility of expanding CFP to 16 teams…
“I think more is better,” said Alpert. “It all ties together and I know there are a bunch of different models out there. I think more access creates more opportunity and more opportunity drives value. Whether that’s 16 or 20 or 24, I’ve not spent enough time to know how the access and how everything plugs in from automatic qualifiers…all that’s significantly important to it but yes, I believe the more access we can have in the postseason, it creates a higher value throughout the regular season. And fan bases are going to have to get used to teams with two or three losses playing well at the end of the year gets you access in. But again, what does that do to championship games and other postseason activities? There’s a lot of layers to it. That’s why it’s not as easy just to say let’s do this to the CFP. There’s a bunch of ripples that comes from it, but I think we’re having the right conversations and the four commissioners being aligned is important.
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