Haunting words by CPJ...

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jacket_sav

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this is a video from the press conference where Paul Johnson discussed his decision to step down with Todd Stansbury. Start watching at 11:07, and listen to the comments he made about the quality of players that Tech had at the time he was leaving. He said that whoever inherits this team is inheriting about a 7 or 8 win football team, and yet all we heard from Collins was how this was the greatest rebuild in the history of rebuilds. Perhaps it should have been obvious that he was full of crap from the get go. It was like he was preparing everyone to be let down and brace themselves for tough sledding ahead, rather than having a plan for winning. His plan was to create a bunch of culture and hype around the program and hope that we could magically become Georgia or Clemson overnight, but there wasn't a real plan to take these players to mold them into football players. We should have seen this coming:
Paul Johnson discusses leaving
 
jacket_sav said:
it would have been for someone who knew how to coach them
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Diseqc said:
Cool. That has no bearing on how much Johnson sucked at recruiting.
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Ok, fair enough. Johnson could have won 7 or 8 with those players though, and he knew that. Johnson also knew how to develop players. Collins is still trying to figure it out. I'm not arguing for bringing Johnson back (although the thought of that makes me rock hard), but the fact is that Collins was not a good hire. It is too bad that he has not been successful, but at no point in his tenure has he even remotely seemed close to being successful.
 
jacket_sav said:
Geoff Collins recruited a handful of decent players, including Gibbs, and he still couldn't win four games in a season.
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And CPJ left a lot of good players. Four years later some of them are still key contributors.

Yes, the OL had issues. Four years later the OL still has issues.
The DB's he left had talent and actually got much worse.
So much for recruiting and coaching since CPJ left.
 
Not only had the game passed Johnson by, but rule changes were effectively neutering his offense. We probably win more than 10 games in 3 years with Johnson, but it was going to be more of the same getting dominated by the 4-5 good teams on the schedule. Not exactly exciting stuff.
 
Diseqc said:
Not only had the game passed Johnson by, but rule changes were effectively neutering his offense. We probably win more than 10 games in 3 years with Johnson, but it was going to be more of the same getting dominated by the 4-5 good teams on the schedule. Not exactly exciting stuff.
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Now we get destroyed by the top 4 teams on the schedule, dominated by the next 5 & beat 3 bottom feeders. ööööing exciting football with the cl0wn. Yeah, we're all excited.
 
Diseqc said:
There wasn’t 7 or 8 win talent on the roster and Johnson knew it. Why do you think he quit.
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Johnson was one of the most successful coaches since Dodd and he did it with less resources than Duke.

CGC has crapped the bed with the most resources given to a coach over that same timespan. Let that sink in.

Had Tech gone all in after 2009 and properly funded the program after DRad left, we would have been a power house.
 
Jacketzrus said:
Johnson was one of the most successful coaches since Dodd and he did it with less resources than Duke.

CGC has crapped the bed with the most resources given to a coach over that same timespan. Let that sink in.

Had Tech gone all in after 2009 and properly funded the program after DRad left, we would have been a power house.
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Hypothetically speaking, if Monken had taken over the program after Johnson retired, we would have been competing for ACC championships nearly every season. Who would have wanted that? The only people more relieved than us to see the option go were all of the dawg fans here in Athens
 
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