Kevin Keatts channels his inner Geoff Collins on Saturday.

I know it’s the job of head coaches to be optimistic, but sometimes statements made are so delusional as to make fans wonder if their coaches have lost touch with the reality of their situations.

Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins has been the ACC’s poster child for these kind of statements during the last year.

In their last 9 quarters of football Georgia Tech was outscored 113-6.

Geoff Collins – “If you can’t see how much we’ve grown, how much we’ve developed, you don’t want to see it.”

— Jeff or Jeffrey Fann (@TalkinACCSports) November 27, 2021

Early November is when Geoff Collins made his infamous, “you don’t want to see it” quote after falling to 3-6.

3 weeks later Georgia Tech got outscored 113-6 in their last 9 quarters of football and enters the 2022 season needing a near miracle to save his job.

Kevin Keatts just channeled his inner Geoff Collins on Saturday. After an 84-74 not as close as the score indicated loss to arch-rival UNC, the Wolfpack fell into a tie for last place in the ACC.

Keatts will finish his 5th season at NC State without a single NCAA Tournament win, just 2 ACCT wins, and double-digit losses every season. Even in the COVID 2020 year, he would have needed a win over top 10 Duke to even get on the bubble. He’s 42-46 in the ACC, during a time in history when for the most part the ACC as a whole has been down.

After all this, Kevin Keatts said this Saturday…

Keatts says with Bates potentially coming back next season, players returning from injury and the young guys in the program that he likes where the program is heading.

— Inside Pack Sports (@InsidePackSport) February 26, 2022

Oh, Kevin.

Sometimes you have to just be honest with your fanbase. You can’t say the program is in a good place because it’s not.

This is when you apologize to NC State fans, and admit you didn’t get the best out of your team.

You don’t know if you will be retained, but this when you say simply “I need to be a better coach for NC State to be the program it is capable of”.

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