Favorite CPJ Quote...

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There have been quite a few good ones this season, but mine's from back in his Navy coaching days. This is quoted from the Macon Telegraph:
Navy coach Paul Johnson, in town Monday, had his speaking circuit version of an oldie but goodie Saturday during his game with Rutgers.​


"I called the (ref) over. I said, 'Hey, I got a question... Can you throw a flag on me for what I'm thinking?' He said, 'No.' I said, 'Good, 'cause I'm thinkin' you're not worth a crap.' And he threw a flag on me."​


(I don't have a date for the quote, but its from an article by Michael A. Lough)​

Classic. (As an aside, what do you think the over/under is on how many games it will take before CPJ chokes an ACC ref?)

Anybody else have a favorite CPJ quote?
 
"We're going 360 vertical, throw it to Roddy he'll be wide open."
 
"You're looking initially to knock somebody back. If you're zone blocking, you're just trying to tie guys up and run with them. Just put a body on a body and just wallow in there. It’s like a giant pillow fight."

"An old coach told me one time, 'If you listen to the fans, you'll be sitting with them before long."'

"This team lost more starters in the country than anybody other than Army, I can promise you, there's not a team in this country that's starting 16 freshman and sophomores and that has won seven games."

"Physical superiority cancels all theories"
 
Did Auburn call?
-“I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you,” Paul Johnson said, smiling.

-"Hopefully they won't get us for child abuse putting our freshmen out there against those guys," Johnson joked

- (one of my favorite)
"We're proud of the ACC," Johnson said. "We don't feel like we have to take a back seat to anyone
 
"The only time I tuned in to see Georgia play, they were down 31-0. I cut it right back off."
 
JoltinJacket said:
"The only time I tuned in to see Georgia play, they were down 31-0. I cut it right back off."
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I havent heard that one, thats awesome!

My Favorite:

CPJ call-in show the week after the Ugay-Ala game.
Caller: (Paraphrased) Its great that you have changed the tide of GT football and how do you keep building on that?
CPJ:Well first of all you gotta be careful using the word "tide" in these parts. People around here get nervous when they hear that.
 
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"Well you can correct me if I'm wrong, but yall won a national championship wearing blue jersies."

(in response to a jersey whiner his first call in show)
 
"Gotta give credit to Georgia - they shut down our passing game."


love,
ArchiTECH
 
Years ago while at GSU, a defender tackled GSU's B-Back Adrian Peterson well out of bounds early in the game. At the time there was no score.

As the tackler got up, PJ walked over to him and said, "that's not how we play football around here son. You go tell your coach that I'm getting ready to light that scoreboard up."

GSU scored 70 that day.
 
PJ in an invertview while at Navy...

Reporter: Can I ask you something without making you mad?
Johnson: Maybe. I don’t know.
Reporter: I was talking to a Navy fan and he said he follows the coverage and that he noticed something and I’m just going to put it to you. He says that it seems like when Navy loses you blame the players, i.e., we can’t execute fundamental plays, but that the success of the team the last four years has been attributed to brilliant coaching. How do you respond to that?
Johnson: Whatever he thinks. I don’t go down to McDonald’s and start second-guessing his job so he ought to leave me alone.
Reporter: But do you feel like it can’t be both ways?
Johnson: You know what? I could care less. I’m old enough where I could give a crap what the fans think or what you think to put it in a nutshell.
Reporter: Wins and losses are evenly distributed as far as credit and blame, right?
Johnson: If you could ever find one time that I said we won the game because of brilliant strategy I will kiss your butt at city dock and give you two days to draw a crowd. Find it and bring it to me. Tell that guy that if he wants to talk to me I live at [address given but deleted for the transcript] I will be right there. Come ring my doorbell and I will be glad to talk to him.
 
"If we can win the bowl game and get 10 wins, it's a good way to start."

I'd say so.
 
...to a Navy player who repeatedly missed his assignment at practice...

"Son, if you should ever find yourself on the field during a game, call timeout, because somebody f***ed up."
 
After Sean Renfree decommitted and everyone was wondering whether his system would kill our recruiting:

"Don’t need him. Don’t want him. Doesn’t fit the system,"
 
Call in show the week of the UGA/GT game.

Wes: You used to coach basketball for you old high school right? How was Paul Johnson the basketball coach?

CPJ: Well...I got a story about that. I was coaching a game and the refs were just lighting us up with fouls. So I walk over to the scores table during a timeout and start looking through the scores book. (obviously wanting to be seen). Well the ref walks over.

Ref: What are you doing coach?
CPJ: Well I am looking in the scores book and I think it is impossible for you to call a foul on them!

Ref: You want a foul?
CPJ: Yeah
Ref: Technical on CPJ
CPJ: Are you kidding?!
Ref: You want another one?
CPJ: If you call another technical on me your gonna have to read how this game finished in the paper tomorrow because I'm gonna KNOCK you out!!!
 
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