The basics: Around 4,500 followers and has gained around 4,000 within the last month. Johnson has had a Twitter account since 2007 but only activated it last month. Johnson follows around 60 people, including former Georgia Tech football players and athletes from other sports, his assistants and several sportswriters. He usually tweets once per weekday and rarely interacts with followers. I'm not sure why, but he doesn't follow any 2014 recruits on Twitter. Not even kids committed to or offered by Georgia Tech. Big oversight there. They liked to be followed, and you have to follow them to "direct message" them.
Twitter personality: One of Johnson’s main goals on Twitter, along with having a recruiting presence, was to let the public see another (and sometimes lighter) side of his personality and the football program. He started off with a bang, offering a few witty and humorous tweets. Over the last few weeks, Johnson has tweeted out accomplishments of current and former Tech players, his random thoughts about sports, inspirational quotes, and links to pictures and videos.
Three best recent tweets: “Sure don’t seem to be a dominant team in college BB this season. The Final Four here in ATL could be crazy!” (March 24) … “Come on Trebek, it’s helluva engineer (with YouTube link to the “Jeopardy” TV game how)” Note: This was in reference to host Alex Trebek saying “heckuva engineer” as an answer (March 6) … “Doing my part to keep our DBs reflexes sharp (link to picture of Johnson playing ping pong with a player, on March 4)”
Best Georgia Tech assistant to follow on Twitter: Lamar Owens, the team’s running backs coach, at @OwenLamar. He’s above-average with interacting with his followers, he tweets out links to Georgia Tech-related information and articles, he usually tweets several times per day. He just needs to adjust to a better screen name. Honorable mention: Georgia Tech graduate assistant Maurice Duncan at @CoachDuncanGT. He’s a beast on Twitter.
Paul Johnson’s grade: A. It remains to been seen if Johnson will remain this candid and loose during the season. Right now, he’s about as entertaining as any coach in college football on Twitter to follow
In BYU, Georgia Tech will face a defense that is one of the toughest in the nation to score against and has a playmaking force in outside linebacker Kyle Van Noy.
Tailback J.J. Green said he can’t say for sure how many times he has heard “you’re one play away from playing” from Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo and running backs coach Bryan McClendon.
Here is a clue that your trip to sunny south Florida may not be a carefree vacation: You’re a football team, and you lose one of your starters during warm-ups.
If nothing else, Georgia has ensured at least one thing about its season. Regardless of where the rest of the schedule takes them, whether its to an SEC championship, a BCS bowl bid or a national title, there will be no claims from outsiders that this team received too many breaks and escaped health issues, no suggestions that the road to success was lined with lollipops and unicorns.
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