It dawned on me...

[VolsSportsFan]

Nice analogy. I work in the engineering software world. Some pretty old and established CAD products. Had a chat with a developer once. He was up to his butt in aligators trying to implement new functionality. He said, "I could chuck this whole package and do a total rewrite and it'd be light years better, BUT... I have to support legacy product that customers have invested in". . Same concept.

Georgia State game was like the new consultant walking in and spilling coffee on the machine with no backup. Woops.. but trust me, I'm good.

Yep. It's a good analogy, except if the dude completely blows what should be an easy assignment (i.e. Georgia St.), said consultant is shown the door.

 

[volfannbama]

Hey guys, im gonna install this new system, in the second year it's gonna crash, but dont worry, I worked under steve jobs for years and was considered a genius even though he really did everything. Once it begins to crash, ill get some new pieces and hopefully have you up and running in 3-4 years, once I get my guys in...but dont worry, your customers will be here every saturday pumping money into your business so it really wont affect your bottom line.....



Oh, unless you decide to fire me before, and that will cost you ten mil.

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

It finally dawned on me the other day that I sort-of live Pruitt's challenge on a daily basis - but his is worse... And he gets paid a heckuva a lot more!!!

I'm an IT consultant. Been doing it 35 years and have been very successful at it. I've seen a lot of technological changes - some fantastic game changers, some just the repackaging of old concepts and some that nowhere near panned out.

I've been hired by a client to come in and redesign, rewrite and modernize an existing 20 year old antiquated mega-system made up of numerous crappily designed and written moving parts. I know from the beginning I can't come in and wholesale shut the old system and its components off. The business relies on what the system does, and I have to keep things running and fix current issues as well as implement the new design and components. I know what I'm doing will be a lot better than what is there, and I can only implement pieces incrementally due to the magnitude and scope. But I also know that as I replace pieces, I can try to mitigate risks and issues, but problems are going to occur - especially once I get to the meat of the system. It's going to appear to some that things are not getting better quickly enough. I just have to minimize the issues I can and take them as they come and make them better as I can within my capacity to do so. Once I have all things rewritten with my design, and the frameworks, hardware and components I know and want, it will far surpass what the client wants. Just got to get there...

CJP's task is the virtually the same. He has to impose his work ethic and philosophies on players, recruited by Butch, who more than likely never would've made it through his screening process. Yet he still has to put a product on the field built with his limited and not fully functioning framework of a team. Most have the physical skills, but don't appear to have the mindset or ability to grasp the necessary concepts.

I get to do it with things (software and hardware) that give me 100% effort and do EXACTLY what I tell them. Imagine trying to do that same kind of thing with 17-22 year old kids.

So personally, I'm going to withhold final judgement on this experiment for a while longer knowing the pain of an overhaul of somebody else's mess.

But do you like cornbread?

 

[EZE]

 

[chattavol420]

I appreciate the comparison you made. But it’s definitely not apes to apples. You said you’re actually helping the company it’s just that there so much to do it’s hard to notice right? I think we can all agree that standing their in the sidelines completely emotionless while we were losing what will go down as one of the worse games in college football history doesn’t qualify as slowing fixing the program. That’s the equivalent of you showing up at your job (to fix the system) but not being able to turn on a computer when you get there. If that were the case I’m sure your boss would say I’m sorry but this job isn’t for you. That’s what we need to say to pruitt. And fulmer.