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DEL.ICIO.USCoaching Search Over
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Well…its finally over…and it looks like we got the best available coach possible…even if we paid a little more that expected.
Paul Johnson was really the only candidate that turned my head.
Consider:
Will Muschamp? There was no way we could hire a UGA guy (lacking head coach experience) after firing a winning coach because he couldn’t beat UGA.
Chris Hatcher? There was no way we could roll the dice and gamble on a guy without any D-1 coaching experience…same as Muschamp.
Charlie Strong? Again…no head coaching experience and bringing a defensive minded head coach in would completely flush any chance of keeping Tenuta on staff.
Rick Nuheisel? You can’t gamble on a guy with that much NCAA baggage when you are coming off probation.
So…really…Paul Johnson was the only valid option out there for us.
He won at Georgia Southern…and he won BIG. The Eagles dominated when he was there…DOMINATED. (My mom is a GSU grad, so we followed them a bit as I grew up.)
He won at Navy…turning around a program that doesn’t recruit blue chip talent and which has stringent academic requirements. Navy is a TOUGH place to coach…and Johnson WON there.
And he’ll win at Georgia Tech…the only real question is how? What sort of offense are we going to see next season?
Spread/Option… I’ll be honest with you…my favorite football motto is “Run the Ball, Stop the Run, Control the Clock, WIN”.
So if Paul Johnson can put together an option/spread offense using Josh Nesbitt, Jonathan Dwyer, Roddy Jones, and the rest of our offensive weapons…well, that sounds like my kind of offense.
Johnson runs the type of offense that pummels opponents and keeps their defense on the field. I like that…it means you control the clock, tempo, and ultimately the game.
Staff Changes? With Johnson obviously being an offensive guy…does it mean we’ll keep Tenuta?
Johnson’s style of offense would seem to play to Tenuta’s strengths. Just imagine how much better our defense would be if our offense were able to grind out first downs and give them breathers? Tenuta’s guys come come out blitzing and attacking on every down of every possession…because when the offense got the ball back the odds would be very good that they’d hold it for a good long while.
So which coaches should Johnson consider keeping? The following three coaches are critical components that I would like to see retained.
I want to keep Giff Smith. Giff has ties to Johnson from their Georgia Southern days and he is critical to our recruiting efforts. He’s a “must keep” guy on the defensive staff.
I want to keep Brian Jean-Mary. He’s done an ASTOUNDING job with our linebackers since joining this staff. We ALWAYS have very good linebackers and Coach BJ is responsible for much of that success.
I want to keep Charles Kelly on Special Teams. We had one of the best special teams units in the country this past year. Coach Kelly did an incredible job, repairing our issues from last season.
Beating UGA I think the new Coach gets it…he’s been engaged in one of the biggest rivalries in American sports the past several years. Army vs Navy is huge and Johnson never lost that game…going 6-0 during his tenure at Navy.
Our new coach understands rivalry games and that may be the most important change of all for our program.
Go Jackets!
THWG
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Comments
By NASCARfan
December 7, 2007 10:31 PM | Link to this
I don’t know a single Bug who’s really excited about this hire. Really. Think about it, wasn’t Gailey fired because he didn’t excite the fanbase?
I smell more free hot dogs, cokes, and pizza in the future, and more forcing Dawg fans to buy tickets to games featuring Duke and UNC.
And if y’all think you have a chance in hell in beating us over the next three years, you’re smoking some serious s—t.
By GT Evans
December 7, 2007 10:36 PM | Link to this
Uh, I think the name “NASCANfan” says all I need to say.
By GT Evans
December 7, 2007 10:37 PM | Link to this
Uh, I think the name “NASCANfan” says all I need to say.
By jabster
December 7, 2007 10:54 PM | Link to this
What’s wrong with “forcing” Dog fans to buy mini-packs? Nobody’s forcing you to do anything. Your money’s green-thank you for supporting Georgia Tech Athletics.
By Hatcher Backer
December 7, 2007 11:00 PM | Link to this
I think NASCARfan is a UGA Dupe. Screws to you. Tech is happy and UGA better look out.
By Bring Back The Tradition
December 7, 2007 11:04 PM | Link to this
Yes sireee, gonna bring back that Jaller Yackit tradition. You all know what I’m talking about, one freak great year (1990) since Dodd retired and 40 years of mediocrity or less. Of course except for 1990 the Tech football program hasn’t amounted to much since 1952, just a little over half a century of so-so “tradition”. The greatest part of the “tradition” was under Heisman and Alexander and Alex retired 64 years ago. Tradition my a%%.
By NASCARfan
December 7, 2007 11:05 PM | Link to this
Yeah, Hatcher… we’re really, really scared.
I only have one word for you. Knowshon.
By NASCARfan
December 7, 2007 11:09 PM | Link to this
I de be lovin tos buyin dem der dat tickts to Jawja techs gamezs. Any timz i can gets fre fod i’s does it. Tomorow i’s kut mes mulit an glu its ta mes wifes azz.
I scks on da penile whil at hom watshin da jawja buldawgszs, wearn mes favorit covr me alls. Deyz aint ben washd n 2 yerz!
By DOMINATED
December 7, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this
Oh wow, Coach Johnson DOMINATED at GA Southern, I’ll bet that thought really throws fear into rest of the ACC (Almost Competetive Conference). Watch out guys, this coach DOMINATED at GA Southern. Give me a break and GO HOKIES.
By Woo Pig
December 7, 2007 11:35 PM | Link to this
Bring back the tradition? Most techies will admit there hasn’t been alot to get excited about lately, ie no conference championships or national championships. But it would be foolish to suggest that the old Trade School doesn’t have any tradition. They do have four national championships (Tennessee and Texas also have 4). Maybe you’ve heard of the Heisman Trophy or the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award, or my favorite the Frank Broyles Assistant Coach of the Year Award. Tech’s been slow latey with not alot to write home about but they do have Tradition.
By Knowshon Ain't $#!T
December 7, 2007 11:36 PM | Link to this
Knowshon scares us real bad. 16 carries, 42 yards is all I have to say. I think we’re shaking now.
By NASCARfan
December 7, 2007 11:42 PM | Link to this
Knowshon scared you and your team so much that Thomas Brown ripped your defense to shreds.
That’s how much he scared and scares you.
By Gordon
December 7, 2007 11:43 PM | Link to this
NASCARfan,
Be serious for a moment. Really, I want your honest opinion. If Tech is so far away from beating Georgia, then why have the games been so close recently? Even this year’s game, which Georgia won by 14 points, could have turned out differently with two plays going the other way (the dropped pass on the second Tech play and the fumble/touchback). Georgia’s better, and unlike a lot of Tech people I don’t pretend otherwise, but don’t you think the game should be over in the 3rd quarter every year based on how good you think you are and how bad you think we are? The bottom line is you are winning and we are losing in this rivalry right now, I understand that, but I don’t think the difference is as great as you think it is. And it may have gotten smaller today. Time will tell.
By jabster
December 7, 2007 11:48 PM | Link to this
NascarFan:
You’re a student at UGA, from your prior posts. How many Techies do you actually know? Make it to the NATS often? If so, why? I thought that Athens was heaven on earth.
I don’t know of any Tech coach that has generated more enthusiasm on his hiring than Johnson, with the exception of Heisman who was already a known great.
The other greats—Alexander, Dodd, O’Leary—were relatively unknown when they took the role. The exception was Ross, who did lead Maryland to some ACC championships. But even he was not well known.
NOBODY got excited over Carson, Fulcher, Rodgers, L####, or Chan—at least not the way everyone’s excited over Johnson.
Some people got excited over Curry, only because the Tech football program was REALLY in the toilet at the time (not the trash talk “toilet” from the Bulldog Nation we hear today).
Some got excited over B### L####, because of one great season at ECU. We learned our lesson there.
When Chan was hired, most of the Jacket Nation said, “WHO??? Surely we could have done better than THAT!” Not to mention those folks who wondered why McWhorter didn’t get the job.
I’m really getting annoyed at these UGA fans whose knowledge and appreciation of Tech and UGA goes all the way back to the turn of the century.
By MarkRichtFan
December 8, 2007 4:07 AM | Link to this
If you Techies want to beat Georgia, you should have raised some real money and bought out Mark Richt’s contract. As long as MR is at Georgia you have slim to no change of beating the Dogs. Paul Johnson is a fine coach, and a good man (so was Chan), but he won’t touch UGA in at least his first 3 seasons at Tech. (It could be a lot longer than that.) The drought in Georgia will be a distant memory and Lake Lanier will be full before Tech’s drought against Georgia ends!
By GaStinger2005
December 8, 2007 6:19 AM | Link to this
Chris, I agree with you totally. I thought PJ was the best for the job but wasn’t sure he would leave Navy with the success he has had. He does understand how important it is to beat your major rival, if not every year, at least most of the time. Hopefully we have our Theron Sapp at the helm and ugag will not match the Jackets longest consecutive win streak in the series.
THWGA!!! Fight, Drink, Win!!
By GaStinger2005
December 8, 2007 6:26 AM | Link to this
I am a nascar fan here and a GT all sport fan first and foremost. Not smoking that stuff NASCARfan alludes to. I think we have the talent and a coach to win in Athens in 2008. I may even venture into the red neck dukes of hazard city to suffer the abuse as GT breaks the drought.
By White & Gold Forever
December 8, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this
SCREW all of you ignorant people who think that PJ’s success at Georgia Southern is not to be regarded. In 1999 his team won the Div. 1-AA national championship. What team did they defeat? Youngstown State…who was YS’s coach? Jim Tressel…where is he now? PREPPING OHIO STATE FOR THE NATIONAL TITLE GAME SO SHUT THE HELL UP FOOLS!!!
By gt45
December 8, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this
Amazing how many GA fans are on this blog. Hmmm- I think it would be a lot of fun to see Tenuta’s defense get to work with an offense who can put points on the board and control the ball a little longer. I hope Paul will give it a chance.
By GT76
December 8, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this
This is the most exciting coaching decision in over 30 years. I think Pepper Rodgers was fairly well received and his team went to Athens and kicked butt in 1974 (34-14). Curry’s teams beat the DAWGS in 85 and 86. Johnson will win soon against UGA. The DAWG nation is a little too high on themselves. You better watch out for Hawaii.
By GT55
December 8, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
Now that we got our coach for football its time to do the same for Mens Basketball.* Paul Hewitt got to go!*
By ODELL THURMAN
December 8, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this
NASCARFan What up Gee!!!!, SHOUT OUT TO MY MCGIZZLE. Keep talkin bro, I luv my possie comin on here an talkin smack. If i ain’t gone pro, I be dancing all on the GT logo. U now how I like dance, espcecilly when I fire some dat crunk up.
Yo gee, aint it bout time you take a class at Georigia, before u can say we?
By JacketGrad07
December 8, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this
GT55, you really want to fire the only basketball coach in the history of GT to take us to a national championship game? In football we have a great history, great facilities, and a decent budget. It’s reasonable to expect a coach that can contend for ACC championships and to beat UGA occasionally. In basketball? Heck, even Cremmins only went to one Final Four, and they named the court after him. Hewitt is the best we can get. Also I have faith that if we give him time we’ll keep going to the postseason, and at least a couple more Final Fours.
By ODELL THURMAN
December 8, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this
JacketGrad07 Hewitt stinks, he’s got to go, so he won one more game in the post season then Creimins did 4 years ago. Since then 2 big dances, with one win between the two. You settleing for bubble teams, not me. This year, we won’t be a bubble team (like last year).
Cremins always had us in the top three with some ACC Championships to go along with them. 3 I think, Hewitt’s best is a 9-7 record in the ACC. He’s terrible and needs to go, period.
By Johnson Is The MAN
December 8, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this
Excited about the hire? Hell Yeah!
Why? He said it in an interview…He wants to win a National Championship!! Not a division, not a conference, but the whole damn thing! Beating Georgia, he understands that it is just part of the deal and he will get it done. It (a NC) is his own personal goal and he has been waiting for an offer from a big time school where he thought he could do it. Yes I said big time school. We have 4 National Championships already. UGA…uno.
He chose Tech as much as we chose him so that he could prove he can do it! Will it be next year, probably not. His third or fourth year is going to be real interesting though.
Be afraid ACC. Be very afraid you over-rated, self inflated, crotch sniffing, Tennessee and South Carolina practice squad, whining bunch of drunken sister kissers called DAWG fans.
BTW: nascarfan…you’re a complete football in general and Tech tradition idiot. Probably never played football in your life. Never been in the weight room. Don’t know what it’s like to sweat your a* off during August 2 a days. Stay on the bulldawg nation blogs and keep the hell off of our blogs. Most of us TECH fans haven’t been on these blogs so much, waiting for the CHAN/Reggie/Taylor nightmare to end. Well guess what…we are BACK! Wanna talk SMACK, you better buck up little girl. This TECH man is big, proud and loud.
SO NOW IT’s UP WITH THE WHITE AND GOLD DOWN WITH THE RED AND BLACK GA TECH IS OUT FOR A VICTORY WE’ll DROP OUR BATTLE AXE ON GEORGIA’S HEAD WHEN WE MEET HER, OUR TEAM IS SURE TO BEAT HER DOWN ON THE OLD FARM THERE’LL BE NO SOUND TILL OUR BOW WOWS RIP THROUGH THE AIR WHEN THE BATTLE IS OVER GEORGIA’S TEAM WILL BE FOUND WITH THE YELLOW JACKETS SWARMING ROUND
Damn that felt GOOOOOOD!!!!!!
CAN I GET A “TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!!”
“TOE MEETS LEATHER” “AMEN BROTHER” “GOLDEN TORNADO” “THE BLACK WATCH”
I AM PUMPED!!!!!!!
By Obnoxious Georgia Fan
December 8, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this
Tech fans, do you know what they call almost beating someone? LOSING. Do you know what they call almost beating someone 7 years in a row? OWNED.
Thank god I am not a Georgia Tech fan. What a pointless existance. Current temperature in Boise, Idaho: 31 degrees.
Better pack a sweater.
By Johnson Is The MAN
December 8, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this
OGF,
Then what do you call 8 in a row…
You do know, you stupid arse, that TECH OWNS the record at 8
friggin looser
By Shambo
December 8, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this
As usual, Mr. Boggs is showing us that his insights are reaching new heights in “stating-the-obvious”. WOW, alert the press…Boggs thinks we should keep the best assistant coaches!!! Pure genius.
Paul Johnson is a good coach for Tech for a couple of good reasons: 1) He understands the need for excitement. 2) He is a proven winner at a school that has academic standards as tough as Tech, and 3) He actually believes that OFENSE has a place in the gameday plan.
Now if we could only get someone to write this blog that can pat his head and and rub his belly at the same time.
By Haha Nascar guy
December 8, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this
Haha you’re so funny! All you “UGA fans” can really say is how well you did 27 years ago (that’s 1980 in case you can’t subtract) and that’s only because you had Walker. Good Luck in the Sugar Bowl though.
By Obnoxious Georgia Fan
December 8, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this
I’ll let you guys touch my BCS bowl ticket if you want to. It will probably be as close as you ever get to one.
By DOMINATED
December 8, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this
Wow, Johnson is the man, what a great insight to your new coach. He said he wants to win a national championship!! So much for all those other coaches at all other schools who said they want to just win a division title or maybe a conference championship. Better back down, the new guy at Tech wants to win a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, all hope is gone for everyone else. Get real kiddo, every coach says he wants to win a national championship otherwise he wouldn’t have been hired in the first place. I’m sure Frank Beamer, Bobby Bowden, and the other ACC coaches will just forfeit every time they play Tech, after all the Jackets want to win a national championship. If you can arrange fourteen forfeits in a row next year GIT can claim a national championship. Use a little logic and reason, Paul Johnson may turn out to be a good coach for Tech but don’t go hog wild because the coach said he wants to win a national championship. I want to win the lottery but my chances aren’t very good but, some guy on a tv commercial said that this might be the day.
By ramblin'
December 8, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this
Chris, in order to lead the nation in rushing, you have to keep the ball and make a lot of first downs. One of our glaring weaknesses this year was our inability to convert on third down. Wonder what PJ’s team’s conversion % was compared to ours?
By DOMINATED
December 8, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this
Don’t know what the third down conversion rate was for Navy this season but, remember that GA Southern DOMINATED while Paul Johnson was head coach there.
By White & Gold Forever
December 8, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this
In 1999 PJ’s team won the Div. 1-AA national championship. What team did they defeat? Youngstown State…who was YS’s coach? Jim Tressel…where is he now? PREPPING OHIO STATE FOR THE NATIONAL TITLE GAME SO SHUT UP YOU FOOLS WHO DISREGARD HIS PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE!!!
By CW
December 8, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this
Chris,
I’m very pleased with Paul Johnson as the new head coach but I couldn’t disagree more with your statements about the other candidates.
Charlie Strong and Will Muschamp both would have been great hires for Tech. Yes, they would have been somewhat risky, but both look to have a really bright future. And frankly, I could give a rip where Muschamp played. If a mutt alum is the best coach available, why would you let that prevent you from being successful. That makes no sense to me.
And we’d all like to see Coach Tenuta continue at Tech as DC, but it is really getting old for that to seem like it is the only determinant of a new coach’s success. There are ALOT of really solid DC’s out there right now and if Tenuta goes somewhere else, then Coach Johnson will hire another one.
By TDone
December 8, 2007 6:53 PM | Link to this
To all the Muttlanders that feel Tech won’t beat Mutland soon, you have to know how we feel because of your known difficulties with Florida. How soon they forget!!!
Every road has to end some time.
I like the hire. I like the possibilities.
By Jack Sprat
December 8, 2007 10:11 PM | Link to this
Yes TDone, you technerds certainly know how UGA fans feel about Florida since you have only won 3 out of the last 16 against UGA.
By gg
December 8, 2007 11:54 PM | Link to this
Jack Sprat
3 of the last 20 against UF.
By No Longer Concerned Jacket
December 9, 2007 1:02 AM | Link to this
I just spent the last two wasted hours watching ESPN break down every bowl. Afterwards I reflected for a moment and realized it does matter.
GA Tech gets a bad wrap for going to bowls in Boise and California, but at the end of the day, why? BCS bowls pay more money, but the money goes to the conference, not the school. GT and Duke for that matter, all benefit from VT’s trip to the Orange. UGAg’s playing Hawaii in the Sugar, but what is UGAg playing for?
If you’re not playing for a National title, all bowls suck. On the other hand, the teams that make a bowl of any sort benefit. They benefit from the extra practice. They incite fan interest and generate revenue that does go directly to the program. They excite recruits.
What in the hell does a 17/18 year old kid from Harlem, GA know about Sugar and Humanitarian bowls? Not much. But what that aforementioned kid does know is bowls are an opportunity to play an extra game. Kids want to play. The idea that all kids want is to win is overrated. Kids just want to play.
If anyone in this country or world for that matter, follows College Football and truly believes that UGAg, FSU, USC, Ohio State, etc. get the best athletes because the kids think it’s the best opportunity they have to win is naive and narrow minded.
UGAg, FSU, USC, Ohio State, etc. get the best athletes because they have deeper pockets and a stronger fan base. Mark Richt and Jim Tressel aren’t gifted recruiters or God’s gift to College Football anymore than they can outcoach Pat Hill or Sylvester Croom. But what they do have that other less fortunate programs have is depth.
If you are a college graduate and a successful professional, you generally give back to the Institution that helped mold your financial future. Before the days of mass media, parity existed in College Football. Today, College Football is a business. They are nearly as many Georgia Tech alumni living in the state of Georgia as there are current students at UGAg. When Tech was whipping UGAg’s a$$ 8 times in a row during the Dodd days, did anyone know or care about demographics, salaries, donation levels, alumni, fans, etc.? Hell no!! They knew what they saw with their own eyes. Tech was superior because Tech was better prepared. Otherwise, everything else was equal. Today, not true.
I played HS football with one of the greatest RB’s in GA HS history. He was my friend and my teammate. We grew up together. He didn’t even know where most of the schools that recruited him were located. In fact he hadn’t even heard of many of the schools. He chose Auburn. Why? He chose Auburn because some fat and happy alum put “Green Back’s” in his pocket that exceeded the amount offered from other fat and happy boosters from other schools. The kid lived across the tracks in a 100 year old two bedroom shack. One month after signing his LOI, he was driving a Vet and wearing Polo’s. Another teammate was one of the best linebackers in the state. Same scenario, different school. He signed with UGAg. A month later he was parking his Escalade next to the Vet at school. The NCAA is s**. They run the loosest ship in business. They publicize an occasional violation and remind the member institutions who has the power, but they ignore far more violations than the public sees.
That’s why we have Cinderella’s in College sports. Remember Duke in 1989 and GT in 1990? Flukes, nothing more nothing less. If you take GA Tech out of Atlanta and place it in Americus GA with the same academic curriculum, Tech becomes a Div II school. Atlanta is Tech’s only savior in the 21st century. Iowa State, Purdue, Texas Tech, Rutgers, etc., have no chance of playing for a national title in the next 100 years. Look at Kansas, Boise State, BYU, Hawaii, Oregon State, and South Florida. Cinderella’s Yes, National Champions No!! Too few alums with deep pockets capable of buying the best talent.
Paul Johnson will win at GA Tech, because he is a winner. He will beat UGAg, not 7 in a row, but he will win some before he leaves Tech. Paul Johnson will likely win one or two ACC titles, and he may even have one shot at a National Title, but to think he will be able to compete every week with UGAg, Ohio State, USC, Texas, or Oklahoma is insane. He’ll lose 8 out of 10 recruiting battles H2H with those deep pocket schools.
By Chris
December 9, 2007 8:38 AM | Link to this
NASCARfan:
That’s funny, because every single Tech fan I know is fired up about Paul Johnson.
I also happen to be a Tech grad, my friends are almost all college friends of mine, my whole family is Tech fans/grads, and half of my co-workers are Tech fans. Not a one of them wasn’t excited as hell about this hire.
By XXXX
December 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
NascarFan: No one smokes more dope than UGA fans. Tech will be kicking UGA a* soon or we’ll hire another coach. Its no harder to do it now that 8 years ago when we did it. Tech does need to keep Tenuta. When Ross left and O’Leary took over, Friedgen stayed and we all respect him for it. That change worked out great.
By XXXX
December 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
NascarFan: No one smokes more dope than UGA fans. Tech will be kicking UGA a* soon or we’ll hire another coach. Its no harder to do it now that 8 years ago when we did it. Tech does need to keep Tenuta. When Ross left and O’Leary took over, Friedgen stayed and we all respect him for it. That change worked out great.
By XXXX
December 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
NascarFan: No one smokes more dope than UGA fans. Tech will be kicking UGA a* soon or we’ll hire another coach. Its no harder to do it now that 8 years ago when we did it. Tech does need to keep Tenuta. When Ross left and O’Leary took over, Friedgen stayed and we all respect him for it. That change worked out great.
By XXXX
December 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
NascarFan: No one smokes more dope than UGA fans. Tech will be kicking UGA a* soon or we’ll hire another coach. Its no harder to do it now that 8 years ago when we did it. Tech does need to keep Tenuta. When Ross left and O’Leary took over, Friedgen stayed and we all respect him for it. That change worked out great.
By XXXX
December 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
NascarFan: No one smokes more dope than UGA fans. Tech will be kicking UGA a* soon or we’ll hire another coach. Its no harder to do it now that 8 years ago when we did it. Tech does need to keep Tenuta. When Ross left and O’Leary took over, Friedgen stayed and we all respect him for it. That change worked out great.
By XXXX
December 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
NascarFan: No one smokes more dope than UGA fans. Tech will be kicking UGA a* soon or we’ll hire another coach. Its no harder to do it now that 8 years ago when we did it. Tech does need to keep Tenuta. When Ross left and O’Leary took over, Friedgen stayed and we all respect him for it. That change worked out great.
By XXXX
December 9, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this
NascarFan: No one smokes more dope than UGA fans. Tech will be kicking UGA a* soon or we’ll hire another coach. Its no harder to do it now that 8 years ago when we did it. Tech does need to keep Tenuta. When Ross left and O’Leary took over, Friedgen stayed and we all respect him for it. That change worked out great.
By Jack Sprat
December 9, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this
No longer concerned Jacket, I do believe that you are a frustrated Tech fan. You don’t know how to abbreviate Corvette, it is “vette” not “vet”. A vet is someone that you take your sick puppy to for treatment or a person who has served in the armed forces, but then maybe your other imaginary friend was was parking next to some retired military guy. Also Tech may have gotten a bad “rap” from the bowls not a bad “wrap” unless you found a box big enough to hold the entire team and coaching staff and plan to send them to Boise via UPS. If you are frustrated because other schools are better equiped than Tech to attract top notch athletes I suggest that you give up some “GREEN BACKS” to help the NATS attract those kids. College athletics are big business and as the old saying puts it “you have to spend money to make money”, if you aren’t willing to spend for facilities, and equipment then you will have to make do with left overs. But then again maybe you would like to go back to the days of being restricted to playing with only the kids that enroll at your school no recruits, no transfers, no high paid coaches, no huge stadiums, that would take a large bite out of school revenues and donations. Especially at Tech because I don’t think that you would be too successful fielding a team of students from India, Bangladesh, and Latin America. As for Tech being Atlanta’s saviour in the 21st century I think that Georgia State will out pace Tech once their football program is up and running. Tech’s biggest problems are it’s limited curriculum, so-so facilities, small ugly campus and wishy washy, fair weather fans. Playing college football in a big city like Atlanta can be a selling point for some high school players and a complete turn off for others. Some kids just really don’t want to live and study in a big city and some kids who are really smart and want an education don’t want to be engineers, maybe they are interested in medicine, law, or biology and see better opportunities at another school. If Paul Johnson turns out to be a good recruiter or “GREEN BACKS” purveyor then TEch can have some good teams. If not then the Institute will continue to travel down the bumpy road of mediocrity. As the guys in NASCAR say “if you ain’t cheatin, you ain’t tryin,” just don’t get caught.
By King of Sense
December 9, 2007 1:45 PM | Link to this
Umm, you know who else won national titles at D1AA? Jim Donnan.
GIT is just not good, and won’t ever be good, at football. Well, maybe once every 10-12 yrs. Its ok, theres always basketball…
By helluvaengineer
December 9, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this
Irrespective of who wins the intrastate rivalry game, at least at the end of the day my mind is not in such a degenerative state as to watch cars go in circles for hours.
Q.E.D.
By Jack Sprat
December 9, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this
Good point helluvaengineer, after four hours of mind boring Tech football a NASCAR race would probably provide sensory overload and you might actually find a good football program to support.
By MisterT
December 9, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this
It is funny that there are more uga fans apparently following this than Tech fans. I find that interesting because nearly everyone of the uga fans that are not contributing to this blog, yet are still typing, have said time and time again that we (Tech) doesn’t matter. We are not a rival. We will “never” beat uga. I think they want to keep saying that because they are trying to convince themselves not us.
This is a new era in NCAA football. No Team will remain dominate for long. With exceptiong to the school that hails from the Big 2-Little 9, and the team from the WAC, every team in the top 10 has two loses.
It’s not longer just any given Sunday…it is any given Saturday, Thursday, or Sunday.
85 Scholorships has leveled the playing field. Rivalries will become even more competitive.
It is a great time to be a college football fan!
THWG!
By sports report
December 9, 2007 6:22 PM | Link to this
How long before we know which Asst. Coaches PJ keeps and who he’s bring from Navy? Hope someone will report this as soon as it happens. Prospects want to know who the Asst. will be. God Bless USA and Go GT!
By sports report
December 9, 2007 6:22 PM | Link to this
How long before we know which Asst. Coaches PJ keeps and who he’s bring from Navy? Hope someone will report this as soon as it happens. Prospects want to know who the Asst. will be. God Bless USA and Go GT!
By Buzz Off
December 9, 2007 7:28 PM | Link to this
gt will continue to be a 2nd rate program.
By JustMe
December 10, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this
Tech should implement a new UGA policy….. no single game tickets for the UGA game. Not even a mini-package that include the UGA game.
If anyone wants a UGA ticket, they must purchase season tickets, period!
Let’s see how many stupid ugay fans run to purchase Tech season tickets! Plus, their seats will suck because they will not have the accumulated points to have the better seats! LOL!!!!
By Yellowblood
December 10, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this
Well I for one am definitely excited about all the great Tickle Piles we will have in the coming months. I cant wait to get my scrot all lathered up and rub it on some strapping young lads face. Cant wait to see everyone at Tickled Blue 2007!
“I got my spud tickled in Boise!” Tickled Blue 2007 Dec. 29, 2007 Boise, Id.
By Claudeballs
December 10, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this
Yellow”Lickit”Blood, the whole South knows your dogs started the tickle pile craze with victory over Bammer. You are correct. The jackets will be tickled blue, but will not be in a pile like you stupe dogs did on national tv. Way to go. Oh my old buddy Whitegoat cannot wait for the dogs to come baaaaaaaaaaack to Columbia. EM!!
By m
December 11, 2007 5:49 AM | Link to this
How in the helle did Gailey ever get hired? How did he hang on for 6 long, treacherous, disappointing years? How did he get a contract extension? Everyone involved in hiring Chan…and then keeping Chan…should BE FIRED. CHAN is (was) the worst coach in the history of college football. Thank God and Greyhound he is gone. But everyone all the way up to the president of Tech should be held accountable for the travesty known as Chan Gailey.
By GetOverIt
December 11, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this
JackSprat, before you bash someone for not using the correct abbreviations or words, you might want to proofread your own drivel. “you aren’t willing to spend for facilities, and equipment then you will have to make do with left overs”
It’s make DUE
By scooter11
December 11, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this
It is ‘make do’, GetOverIt. But ‘leftovers’ is one word, and the comma should go after ‘equipment’.
By The Real Truth
December 11, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this
In 2 years the Tech fans will be sitting in the stands talking about how Chan wasn’t that bad, and 7-5 isn’t that bad either given Tech’s tough academics.
The will complain that Tech never gave him a chance to turn around the program after O’Leary go them on probation. Then they will moan about Tech’s boring offense, before getting up and leaving early because Paul Johnson is not getting the job done.
By T-man
December 11, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this
m your are so right! CG was awful. He set Tech football back st least 10 years. I think Coach Johnson can turn it it around but we’ve got to have some patience. I was looking at the our present recruiting situation and it looks nothing like the top 20 class we had last year. Maybe CPJ first real impact can be to pick up a couple of blue chippers between now and signing day?
By Bug the Bee
December 12, 2007 1:12 AM | Link to this
I bought a new computer.
By GT4ever
December 12, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this
PJ is an excellent hire. His offense will be unbelievable. If we can keep JT our team will be awesome. As for PJ’s offense, read what his analysis is on his offense. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051222/news_1s22poinsett.html I think he’s going to get even better athletes than we’ve had in the past. High school kids will love it and PJ will sell it as a fast break kind of offense. We’ll have some great recruits in the future. I can’t wait for next Spetember to get here. Love GT!!!! UGA SUCKS!!!!
By gt lover
December 12, 2007 7:21 PM | Link to this
ohhh i see you goons, gt has no history? just the heisman trophy was named after a tech coach, we have the oldest div 1 field, 4 national titles, the best bowl winning % in college football, 3 final 4’s in hoops and the most recent championship in the state of ga baby get over it gt’s better then uga nuff said. ohhhhhh what does uga have 1 national title and h.walker wooooooooo lots of tredition there lol at uga hahahahaha
By Bug the Bee
December 16, 2007 12:56 AM | Link to this
heisman the coach is sooo 1900’s and what the h#@! is hoops? Wow, GT won the NC 17 years ago. Way to go bugs!! How big is that dinky little stadium on the flats? How often is it max capacity? When’s the last time GT beat that “traditionless” other state school? When is the last time GT won ACC championship ( in CFB, jerk)? Ever heard of Tarkenton,Hampton,Zeier, Hearst, HWard (SB MVP), Champ Bailey (perennial Pro Bowler), RSeymour (SB champ), #24 (Future HOF), just to name a few? ALL UGA HAS IS HWALKER? I guess winning your conference in 02 & 05 don’t mean anything, if it’s a Techless SEC title, right you jerk? Gtlover, Hate less, Drink more!!!
By fprex
December 16, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this
Pretty good article but I have to call you out on something glaring.
You dismissed Hatcher as a guy that there was no way you could hire because he was a Div.I-AA guy.
Then you go on and on how Johnson was so incredible in I-AA. Your agenda is conflicting with your writing.
Hatcher would’ve been a good hire as well as Charlie Strong.
I agree with you on Neuheisel and Muschamp. I’m a Georgia fan/grad but agree there is just no way you hire a former Bulldog player to coach Tech.
I think the Johnson hiring will be great for the rivalry. Just my opinion but the series has really lacked excitement for awhile. (and I’m not just talking one team winning lately)
Paul Johnson running that offense with YOUR running backs? (and Nesbitt, possibly???)
I’ll actually glance at Tech now and then with Johnson.
Good hire.