CPJ Mad Bro

Tech fans own the crown for shitting on their own success, even against their hated rival. It’s likely not even close.

Does the school teach you or is it just the type of person that’s attracted to Tech?
 
77GTFan said:
Something seldom mentioned related to CPJ was his commitment to the running oriented version of the spread option offense. At Hawaii under June Jones CPJ learned a spread option where they threw the ball a lot. A-backs could line up in tight, in the slot, in the backfield or wide. This is more the offense he used at Georgia Southern. At Navy his personnel fit running more than passing and his spread option evolved to more of a triple option offense with a strong emphasis on the run. At Tech I thought he was stubbornly reluctant to consider going back to more of a June Jones style of spread option. He could certainly have had a more attractive offense for recruiting had he opened it up more.
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I often wondered about that. I lived in Hawaii when CPJ was there and went to every Hawaii home game at Aloha Stadium including the BYU game (LaVell Edwards was the BYU coach - he built that program) Hawaii won - one of the best football games I have ever seen outside of BDS. That offense looked much more Friedgenesque than what he ran here. The 1993 Hawai'i team was incredible. Kicker (Jason Elam) was from Stone Mountain, GA - buddy of mine was the secondary coach. He asked me if Jason's parent's could stay at my house on a trip to watch one of their games - I was one year out of grad school and didn't have two pennies to rub together so could not help.
 
georgiatech22 said:
I remember the 08 Peach Bowl where it seemed like he tried to do that. Nesbitt ended up with something like 25 passing attempts which was way more than we saw before or after that. Of course, LSU's defense was legit and we were shut down. But it seemed like after than CPJ was content to just run the ball because we were having so much success with it. Once other teams caught up to it, we never had a QB who had a decent enough arm to incorporate the passing elements he ran at Hawaii outside of Vad and JT5.
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Those who like to whine and moan about CPJ's stubbornness about his offense conveniently forget about Vad and diamond formation experiment. I think we actually got to the Music City Bowl with it (probably in spite of it); but it wasn't going to work long term.
 
knoxjacket said:
As has been shown 1000x before. CPJ faced significantly worse Georgia teams than Gailey or Collins. He blew multiple opportunities to beat their worst teams since Ray Goof.
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CPJ also faced the best team UGA has had since 1980 (and did not get beat 52-7).
 
aeromech said:
Those who like to whine and moan about CPJ's stubbornness about his offense conveniently forget about Vad and diamond formation experiment. I think we actually got to the Music City Bowl with it (probably in spite of it); but it wasn't going to work long term.
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I always thought it was because he didn’t give it time. We couldn’t run the triple out of it as well, either due to formation or Vad, and he gave up on it. But we scorched Duke with it in Wallace Wade and it looked like the next big step for the option.
 
knoxjacket said:
we got beat 45-21. Thanks to uga calling off the dogs and us getting two garbage TDs in the fourth. I don’t consider being down 45-7 in the fourth quarter a major departure from losing 52-7.
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52-7 is a major departure from 45-21 no matter how you try to white wash it. Maybe it isn't a major departure from 51-7.
 
aeromech said:
52-7 is a major departure from 45-21 no matter how you try to white wash it. Maybe it isn't a major departure from 51-7.
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It really isn't. They could have named the score in either game and anybody watching knew it. We are hanging our hats on garbage TDs as an accomplishment now? Cmon.

Fact is, us beating them with any regularity has more to do with them coming to earth a bit, recruiting-wise. I like our chances of picking them off in an upset better with a team that isn't dwarfed by theirs
 
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smokey_wasp said:
It really isn't. They could have named the score in either game and anybody watching knew it. We are hanging our hats on garbage TDs as an accomplishment now? Cmon.

Fact is, us beating them with any regularity has more to do with them coming to earth a bit, recruiting-wise. I like our chances of picking them off in an upset better with a team that isn't dwarfed by theirs
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I will take scoring garbage TD's over unable to score even garbage TD's every time.
 
knoxjacket said:
As has been shown 1000x before. CPJ faced significantly worse Georgia teams than Gailey or Collins. He blew multiple opportunities to beat their worst teams since Ray Goof.
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Name me a UGA win better than 2008. Go back as far as you want.
 
goldmember said:
Name me a UGA win better than 2008. Go back as far as you want.
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1985 - 1985. Both more fun for me. I was in school and the chicks were really appreciative.

2014.

Although I was at a bar in St Thomas watching in 2008 and it was really fun.
 
77GTFan said:
Something seldom mentioned related to CPJ was his commitment to the running oriented version of the spread option offense. At Hawaii under June Jones CPJ learned a spread option where they threw the ball a lot. A-backs could line up in tight, in the slot, in the backfield or wide. This is more the offense he used at Georgia Southern. At Navy his personnel fit running more than passing and his spread option evolved to more of a triple option offense with a strong emphasis on the run. At Tech I thought he was stubbornly reluctant to consider going back to more of a June Jones style of spread option. He could certainly have had a more attractive offense for recruiting had he opened it up more.
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Under June Jones? CPJ was OC at Hawaii from 1987-1994. June Jones was HC from 1999-2007. CPJ's head coach was a guy named Bob Wagner.
 
18in32 said:
Under June Jones? CPJ was OC at Hawaii from 1987-1994. June Jones was HC from 1999-2007. CPJ's head coach was a guy named Bob Wagner.
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Seen people get this wrong before. CPJ and June working together would have been kinda cool, though!
 
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