did CPJ's first year succeed any year that Gailey had?

Yes but only by a little. If we had beaten Georgia in '06 it would be an easy no.
 
Agree w/ Mtown, if we had beaten UGa in '06. Gailey might have exceeded expectations the year of Flunkoutgate as much as Paul did last year.

But certainly, everyone is much, much happier now than anytime with Gailey.
 
If you narrow the question down to 'has CPJ built an optimism coming into a season that exceeds any that occurred while CCG was here?' then the answer is also yes. No, make that hell yes.
 
Allen Koholic said:
What if we beat Wake that year?
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Hard to say, because we'd have ended up in a big bowl game, and maybe won that too. For me personally, I feel much better now than I think I would have felt if we had split with Wake and UGA in 2006. We were 9-2 going into the Georgia game. If we had won and gone to Jax 10-2 and lost to Wake and lost in the manner that we lost, it would have been bad. Then the bowl game.....lose to WVU?
It is just better now.
 
It's a trick question, guys. Yes, CPJ's first year succeeded Gailey's last year.

suc⋅ceed

/səkˈsid/


–verb (used with object)

1. to come after and take the place of, as in an office or estate.

2. to come next after in an order or series, or in the course of events; follow.
 
thanks, mm - been bothering me since I saw the question written that way

that said, I think CPJ's first year performance exceeded CCG's in most every area
 
00Burdell said:
If you narrow the question down to 'has CPJ built an optimism coming into a season that exceeds any that occurred while CCG was here?' then the answer is also yes. No, make that hell yes.
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Has the bar been raised too high too soon?
 
MtownJacket said:
Yes but only by a little. If we had beaten Georgia in '06 it would be an easy no.
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I agree with this exactly.

However, another way to look at it is success relative to reasonable expectations. Johnson inherited the nation's youngest team. We were tied for second to last in the country with 9 returning starters, and started 16 frosh and sophs in the last few games. Johnson definitley inherited the least experienced GT team of the last 15 seasons.

And on top of that, they were in the first year under a new coaching staff making radical scheme changes.

The most common prediction for GT was 5-7, and the over-under at BoDog was 5.5. These would've been very reasonable for a merely decent coaching staff.

So Johnson exceeded expectations by four wins. That's just a huge margin. I think only Bobby Ross in 1990 has done that well in my lifetime.

That kind of result is new to Georgia Tech -- but not to Johnson, who has done the same thing everywhere he's ever been. The first 2-3 years he grossly exceeds expectations, and then by the 3rd-4th year the expectations start to catch up with his real ability and he merely meets them.
 
Yes... Gailey never energized the fanbase like PJ has in year one. Thats half of a HC's job and gailey always failed to do that.
 
GTRulz said:
Yes... Gailey never energized the fanbase like PJ has in year one. Thats half of a HC's job and gailey always failed to do that.
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Energize the fanbase? Johnson does something even more important than that (and something that Gailey wasn't so great at either) and that is energize the team.
 
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