CBS Sports rates the new coaching hires...

[PantherWreck]

Dennis Dodd is the writer.
http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/10604892

The section on PJ -
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] 4. Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech: A home run for AD Dan Radakovich, who outbid SMU for Johnson's services. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica] If Johnson can win at Navy (and he won big), he can win anywhere. That includes Tech, where there are familiar academic restrictions, though none as daunting as Navy. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Johnson made his bones at Annapolis running the option flexbone. You'll see him in the spread at Tech, but expect almost anything to be run out of it. In a wide-open ACC, why can't Johnson step in and start dominating? [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] Whatever happened to ... Chan Gailey, the coach they never warmed to at Tech? He was hired recently as Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator, which is strange. Weren't Gailey's Tech teams known more for their defense? [/FONT]

 

[GTwreckfan852]

CBS hit the nail right on the head when doing the part on PJ. PJ will be this good and more (like a national championship sometime down the road)

 

[Allen Koholic]

Man, Dennis Dodd is the worst writer in college football. This should be higher then 4. Plus, June Jones as 3? SMU is a graveyard, he even says it, but it's a good hirer, because as we've seen, June Jones once turned Hawaii into the king of the WAC, which equates into a BCS whoopin. Paul Johnson has a chance to win the ACC. Whatever, this is why I rarely read Dodd articles.

 

[gth816f]

Man, Dennis Dodd is the worst writer in college football. This should be higher then 4. Plus, June Jones as 3? SMU is a graveyard, he even says it, but it's a good hirer, because as we've seen, June Jones once turned Hawaii into the king of the WAC, which equates into a BCS whoopin. Paul Johnson has a chance to win the ACC. Whatever, this is why I rarely read Dodd articles.

So to you the degree to which you improve a program is not relevant at all when considering the success of a hire? That's an odd way of looking at things.

 

[wesleyd21]

more proof D Dodd is an imbecile....

Neuheisel 2. Rick Neuheisel, UCLA: UCLA AD Dan Guerrero finally realized the risk was worth the reward. It had been almost five years since Neuheisel got involved in the NCAA Tournament neighborhood betting pool. It had been three years since he settled with Washington and the NCAA over his wrongful termination suit.
Since then, Slick Rick humbly went back to high school (as a volunteer coach) and worked his way up to becoming the Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator before going back "home." Bottom line, the guy can win, he works hard, he's an alum and he knows the landscape.
With Norm Chow in tow, UCLA is ready to go head-to-head with USC. There, I said it. The Battle of Los Angeles is on.

 

[GTCrew]

Dodd is an idiot. I doubt Slick Rick volunteer coached only because it was all he could get. I'd bet a million that it had something to do with his pay being subtracted from his settlement or his severance.

 

[GTCrew]

I do agree that the CHOW hire at UCLA could be ranked #2. Chow has a way of making anyone look good, I think he even made clown shoes at NCSt look good.

 

[GT_LUVER]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Whatever happened to ... Chan Gailey, the coach they never warmed to at Tech? He was hired recently as Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator, which is strange. Weren't Gailey's Tech teams known more for their defense? [/FONT]

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