It took him five years, but Brian Gregory has lifted Georgia Tech from terrible to mediocre. You’re free to wonder if mediocrity is the sort of exalted plane that should lead an ACC coach to declare himself even momentarily “satisfied” – as Gregory did after Saturday’s 63-59 over Pittsburgh – but let’s the man take his bow. After starting 2-7 in league play, his Yellow Jackets finished 8-10. That’s not nothing.
Neither is it everything. This has the feel of a culmination, not a corner turned. Saturday was Senior Day for five Jackets, four of whom arrived as transfers, three who played only one season at Tech.