Written by Ell
| 12 June 2008
Bill Curry will be the first head coach at Georgia State University (in Atlanta) according to
various reports.
GSU will start football in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS - formerly Division I-AA) in 2010. Dan Reeves (formerly of the Atlanta Falcons) has served as a consultant for GSU during the initial stages of starting their program.
What does this mean for fans?
GSU supporters have to be pleased with the addition of a high profile name that has ties to the Atlanta community (Curry played his college football in Atlanta at Georgia Tech and went on to coach at Tech). The guy can clearly recruit - the seniors on the '92 Championship team were recruited by Curry - a fact frequently (and conveniently) forgotten.
What will this mean for Tide fans? Well, hopefully he'll have less time to opine about his days at the Capstone and how football nuts our fans are. There will be no more snarky columns about Alabama and our fans. He will no longer exist to spoil my enjoyment of ESPN games with his "commentary".
For Curry? He'll have a much smaller audience to tell he was the last player selected in the draft.
