Ideal hire back in 2008 was Paul Johnson and GT became the first school in GA to play in a NY6 Bowl.

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Just for fun, or throwing öööö at each other; who would of been the ideal hire for head coach back in the wild and crazy days of 2008. Muschamp? Niehiesel? Joker Phillips? Not listed maybe. Who else was even on the radar.
 
Are you asking who the fans wanted or who we should’ve hired?
 
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Paul Johnson was a very good hire. 2 Orange Bowls, 1 ACC Championship win, 2 other ACC championship game appearances. There are very few coaches available around that time that have exceeded his performance over his entire tenure at Tech.

If you hate the option and had a time machine you could look at:
  • Art Briles was hired at Baylor in 2007 but he wasn't a high profile candidate on many radars
  • Mike Leach was sniffing around for a new job - it's possible we could have lured him away from Texas Tech in 2007 before their ugly divorce in 2008
  • Dan Mullen was a possibility but he had no HC experience at that point - he was hired by Miss State in 2008
 
Chris Peterson was a hot name at the time. Probably had several offers he turned down in 08.

If we knew everything we know now, there were guys who would prove to be good head coaches but hadnt done it yet 08.

Dabo was a position coach and probably would have jumped at the chance to be a head coach. David Shaw, Lincoln Riley, James Franklin were all OCs and would probably also have accepted.
 
Paul Johnson.

We went from losing six straight against U[sic]GA and putting up 6 points against Wake Forest in the ACCCG to beating the Dwags in the very first year of his tenure, winning the conference against Clemson the very next year, finishing in the top 10 five years after that, and beating U[sic]GA a couple more times along the way.

At the end of 2014 our program was as good as it had been in decades and we were on the cusp of truly being nationally relevant. Unfortunately it didn't end up the way any of us would like, and that's on CPJ, but even in hindsight I'd call him a great hire for us. I'm not confident anyone else would have done better.
 
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Paul Johnson.

We went from losing six straight against U[sic]GA and putting up 6 points against Wake Forest in the ACCCG to beating the Dwags in the very first year of his tenure, winning the conference against Clemson the very next year, finishing in the top 10 five years after that, and beating U[sic]GA a couple more times along the way.

At the end of 2014 our program was as good as it had been in decades and we were on the cusp of truly being nationally relevant. Unfortunately it didn't end up the way any of us would like, and that's on CPJ, but even in hindsight I'd call him a great hire for us. I'm not confident anyone else would have done better.
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You are crazy. We went from Chan's "offense players wanted to play in so they could go to the NFL" and all the wins guaranteed by that to a high school offense that could never replicate Chan's wins over UGA.

But I am glad CPJ is gone.
 
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