Getting rich often doesn't slake your desire for money but deepen it. I don't know CPJ enough to say with any certainty. My guess is that at this point he's more motivated by a desire to prove people wrong and win championships. I've never doubted CPJ's desire — just his ability to get us over the hump.
Yeah, I don't dispute what you're saying about money, but I really don't think that describe's CPJ. I also don't dispute that he's more motivated by a desire to win and prove people wrong as well. But I disagree that CPJ is the reason we can't "get over the hump."
Chan is reviled because his ultra conservative game management led to pretty much every bad team staying within a single score of us (we couldnt even blow out a I-AA team) and then superior teams would destroy us 51-7 style. PJ's system destroys lesser teams, competitive against good teams, and gives us a punchers chance to upset a superior team. In Chan's system, we never had a chance. I'm actually surprised their overall records are similar but I am sure the 3-9 disaster year greatly leveled the comparison. I consider that year an outlier.
I am not carrying the banner for Chan Gailey, but he badly beat a very good Auburn team, beat #3 Miami, and a number of other good teams. Really, it all boils down to the fact he couldn't beat Georgia, and that really is how every Tech coach is ultimately judged.
Football in 2017 is different from football in 1990. But, to your main point, PJ’s system may not be the only way to keep GT competitive. But trying to outbid and outrecruit colleges with lower academic standards and much higher budgets is a fool’s errand in my opinion.
I agree that football in 2017 is different....for all programs. My point is simply this; Another coach, with another approach could certainly give Tech a chance, as well. I keep seeing these "Ted Roof has to be run off" comments. I wonder how many realize he is coaching a bunch of players that none of the major programs wanted, and many were only recruited by FCS teams.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought the fire Roof threads actually meant fire someone else but people didn’t want to be banned.
When GT starts losing, we all start saying the reason is recruiting — our players just don't have as much talent as other teams. I'm sure that's true to a degree, but the idea that we're alone in the FBS in playing a bunch of why-not-give-em-a-chance FCS players is ridiculous — and frankly a little demeaning to our student-athletes.
Yeah we do have some good players that had offers elsewhere. Most of our scholly athletes had FBS offers too, so not just FCS level athletes here. More like conference USA level athletes plus a few who couldve gone to the factories.
Gailey's ACC was not as tough as Johnson's ACC. I think Gailey faced a tougher UGA team, but Johnson faced a much tougher Clemson so that's a wash. Besides that, the bottom dwellers during Gailey's tenure have improved significantly over the last 10 years, Duke/UNC specifically.
I'm curious your source of information that O'Leary was allowed exceptions that CPJ is not...? As I understand it, CPJ has built a lot of trust with the hill, and gets the exceptions he asks for.
Georgia Tech Rivals recruiting team rankings:
It was Nov. 19 when we beat #3 Miami. Our victory knocked them down to #9/#10, where they stayed until the end of the season. They lost to LSU in the Peach Bowl and finished the season ranked #17.
If you want to know, you're going to have to do the research yourself, I'm afraid.
2002: 62
