CPJ Brought ..............To The Table

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CCG went from a horrible debacle of a loss to UGA when he started his job at GT. Admittedly, he did come closer to a win while there, but he never could get over the dog hump.

What did CPJ bring to GT that took GT from a halftime deficit to a win in CPJ's first season?

Was it the T.O. plays?

Did he know how to instill winning to a team that may have thought they weren't supposed to be UGA?

What say you that caused the difference in GT's football program?

We know it wasn't because we out recruited UGA.

What was it then?
 
He was able to install an offense that put points on the board.

The team as a whole is tougher amd more physical.
 
New Team Attitude, and one of the all time best offensive minds in college football added with a little luck turned into a great season.

You guys are going to go nuts when he gets his players in here!
 
found a qb that fits the system we play
we never had a decent pro-style QB for Gaileys preferred system.
that is the main change, imo
 
Discipline. Hands down. CCG was totally lax. Probably couldn't spell it.
 
Toughness to overcome adversity was the big addition. I particularly remember the BC game. Offense had a number of fumbles in that game and the defense stepped up every time.

"Instill Winning." Heh, that makes it sound easy. Winning was "instilled" starting from their 6 AM spring workouts. At every step of the way, he made sure that every player understood what they needed to do and that every player would put everything they had into every workout, drill, meeting, or play. Anything less and that player would get promptly replaced. Not a whole lot more to it than that.
 
Toughness, leadership, TEACHING, play calling, responsibility. One time I had the chance to talk to Brad Jefferson I asked him the difference between the two coaches. He said the players liked gailey but he just wasn't tough enough. He said Pj was a guy he loved. The kind of coach you want to fight and win for. A guy that you fight to get his respect. A coach that is tough on the players but yet says the right things at the right time. He also said PJ was a guy they could go to at anytime no matter what. I can't speak for all the players but Jefferson said he has earned his respect.
 
The Jacket said:
Be honest, how many times did you recheck to make sure you spelled "discipline" correctly? :)
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You mean I got it right?

To answer your question you'd have to talk to my Dad. This is his favorite word. Growing up he had the annoying habit of mispronouncing it with the accent on the middle syllable. Hated that ****.
 
Winning mentality. As a fan, this was the first year I went into the U[sic]GA game thinking we had a chance to win in several years. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same with the players. There's a difference between wanting to win badly(which I'm sure the players have always wanted to) and actually believing you(and your teammates and coaches) can do what it takes to win.
 
Fear to st mark and the nadlickers. The man can recruit and when we start getting the top athletes in Ga. which we will st. mark will be looking to get out of town.
 
What CPJ brought was halftime adjustments to the offense. He looked at what was going on and said. X and Y aren't good enough to beat the guys in front of them. I need to adjust the scheme so that they don't have to get beat in the second half.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes you still get beat because the adjustment doesn't work either (LSU). But CPJ will put in some adjustments. Not brand new plays necessarily, but blocking adjustments.
 
I was an equipment manager for 3 years during Gailey's regime (fall '05- spring '08). We hired CPJ in December of 07, so I got one whole spring semester with him. The difference was literally night and day.

In the very first spring conditioning practice, he was challenging our players. He told them that we weren't playing at the right level, "his" level, and I remember this specifically...he said: "You're going to come up to my level. I'm not going down to yours!"

He was met with resistance, which was to be expected during a period of change. But he was persistent. He seriously did not give a shit who you were, how good you were, if you were a starter or not.

On that first day of conditioning (btw- 5:00 in the morning in the freezing January rain, running combine drills for 2 hours...yeah, it sucked for managers too), players were half-assing it, because they were allowed to under the previous coach. People were quitting, going half-speed, etc. But by the 3rd day, he had our guys competing with each other to be the last group standing. People went from dogging it and quitting to wanting to do the drills. It was embarassing if your group quit. People got pissed. Michael Johnson's group won (but yeah, he has no heart, right Mayock?).

Paul Johnson instilled accountability. Something our previous coach never did. EVER. I witnissed it for 3 years. It was a joke.

It's not the triple option. He could have installed the west coast offense and been successful, because his players wanted to fight for him.

It's that simple.
 
I think not playing to not lose helps a lot.

Even the ridiculousness of the bowl game continued to sell that idea. Losing by 3 or 30 doesn't really make any difference until and unless we actually are in the running for the MNC game.
 
Ish said:
I was an equipment manager for 3 years during Gailey's regime (fall '05- spring '08). We hired CPJ in December of 07, so I got one whole spring semester with him. The difference was literally night and day.

In the very first spring conditioning practice, he was challenging our players. He told them that we weren't playing at the right level, "his" level, and I remember this specifically...he said: "You're going to come up to my level. I'm not going down to yours!"

He was met with resistance, which was to be expected during a period of change. But he was persistent. He seriously did not give a shit who you were, how good you were, if you were a starter or not.

On that first day of conditioning (btw- 5:00 in the morning in the freezing January rain, running combine drills for 2 hours...yeah, it sucked for managers too), players were half-assing it, because they were allowed to under the previous coach. People were quitting, going half-speed, etc. But by the 3rd day, he had our guys competing with each other to be the last group standing. People went from dogging it and quitting to wanting to do the drills. It was embarassing if your group quit. People got pissed. Michael Johnson's group won (but yeah, he has no heart, right Mayock?).

Paul Johnson instilled accountability. Something our previous coach never did. EVER. I witnissed it for 3 years. It was a joke.

It's not the triple option. He could have installed the west coast offense and been successful, because his players wanted to fight for him.

It's that simple.
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Heck yeah! Man, that gets me fired up :FIREdevil:
 
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