Ideal hire back in 2008 was Paul Johnson and GT became the first school in GA to play in a NY6 Bowl.

I don’t think Cutcliffe would’ve been as good here. Maybe. I don’t think we would’ve had 2008 and 2009 under Cutcliffe which are big part of what made CPJ great.

He may have still gone after Vad Lee though and actually had an offense he wanted to play in. Maybe things would’ve been different in the middle years.

Paul Johnson was a great hire probably the best we could’ve asked for.
 
ChrisW said:
Chris Peterson was a hot name at the time. Probably had several offers he turned down in 08.

Dabo was a position coach and probably would have jumped at the chance to be a head coach. David Shaw, Lincoln Riley, James Franklin were all OCs and would probably also have accepted.
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Chris Peterson would have been a good choice if he could be lured away from Boise, which several schools tried and failed to do.

The others had so little experience that Stingtalk would have been burning couches and storming the Edge building. Franklin has 2 years of OC at Kansas State and his boss was just fired. Riley was just the WR coach on Leach’s staff at Texas Tech. Shaw has one losing season as an OC at Stanford. Dabo was also a nobody WR coach under a fired head coach and a complete joke to us for the first few years.
 
DrunkBuzz said:
Just for fun, or throwing öööö at each other; who would of been the ideal hire for head coach back in the wild and crazy days of 2008. Muschamp? Niehiesel? Joker Phillips? Not listed maybe. Who else was even on the radar.
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If you don't think it was CPJ, then the obvious choice is Cutcliffe. I think he would have had a good run here.
 
you people can search for old posts and read those while you fondle yourself while holding your swag chalice. "november 2007" is a good place to start.
 
BackstreetBuzz said:
CPJ was the obvious choice and did a good job here. I think several of us were disappointed he did not evolve over time to keep us fresh, but overall, he did a good job. Time to move on.
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Coming from a huge CPJ fan, I think this is very fair. When you have the kind of success we did in 2009 and 2014, you get a target on your back and can't sneak up on people ever again. CPJ is an offensive genius, but I think he needed to make some innovations over the last 5 years.

To answer the OP, though, PJ was far and away the best choice and I'd bet my life savings that no other candidate would have led us to 2 Orange Bowls in that time. It was just time for a fresh start and new look.
 
FullMetalBuzz said:
Chris Peterson would have been a good choice if he could be lured away from Boise, which several schools tried and failed to do.

The others had so little experience that Stingtalk would have been burning couches and storming the Edge building. Franklin has 2 years of OC at Kansas State and his boss was just fired. Riley was just the WR coach on Leach’s staff at Texas Tech. Shaw has one losing season as an OC at Stanford. Dabo was also a nobody WR coach under a fired head coach and a complete joke to us for the first few years.
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That's all true, but I thought the point was who would be the ideal hire looking back now. If we had had a crystal ball some of these unheard of names would be great options.
 
18in32 said:
I'm very happy with the CPJ hire, just like I'm happy with his retirement.

If the OP is serious and not just trolling... then I think Cutcliffe would've been a good coach here just like he has been at Duke.
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I was skeptical about Cuttcliffe doing well at Duke, and he proved me wrong.

I do not, however, think he would have lasted ten years at Tech, nor would have have managed any wins vs UGA, nor would he have appeared in the Orange Bowl.
 
I wish we had kept Chan back in 08

Coming from the NFL , Chan got blindsided, academic advisors not doing their jobs, not being able to find a decent QB soon enough, etc

But Chan had us going in the right direction despite the losses to UGA, at Chan's firing we had the QB position figured out with 2 or 3 damn good QB recruits, 1 that went on to hold a clipboard in the NFL

Had we kept Chan and based on what he showed as far as "getting it" on the P5 level, I'm convinced the GT FB would further along than it is now

Just my theory, no need to go bat-chit crazy at the mention of Chan's name
 
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NotTomNotPhilButGCollins said:
I wish we had kept Chan back in 08

Coming from the NFL , Chan got blindsided, academic advisors not doing their jobs, not being able to find a decent QB soon enough, etc

But Chan had us going in the right direction despite the losses to UGA, at Chan's firing we had the QB position figured out with 2 or 3 damn good QB recruits, 1 that went on to hold a clipboard in the NFL

Had we kept Chan and based on what he showed as far as "getting it" on the P5 level, I'm convinced the GT FB would further along than it is now

Just my theory, no need to go bat-chit crazy at the mention of Chan's name
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beej67 said:
I was skeptical about Cuttcliffe doing well at Duke, and he proved me wrong.

I do not, however, think he would have lasted ten years at Tech, nor would have have managed any wins vs UGA, nor would he have appeared in the Orange Bowl.
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Cut woulda been a home run hire at GT

At Duke he immediately upgaded S&C and changed the culture at a place many levels below GT

Bring him into GT with Renfree at QB and we keep DJ Donley opposite of Bey Bey, combine that with him running pro-style to keep Stanford & ND outta our backyard recruiting-wise

I think he does much better than the guy we ended up getting

Also, I think we get both Tuitt and Dalvin Tomlinson if we hire Coach Cut instead of the other guy, not to mention other players that we lost to factories

Just my opinion
 
NotTomNotPhilButGCollins said:
I wish we had kept Chan back in 08

Coming from the NFL , Chan got blindsided, academic advisors not doing their jobs, not being able to find a decent QB soon enough, etc

But Chan had us going in the right direction despite the losses to UGA, at Chan's firing we had the QB position figured out with 2 or 3 damn good QB recruits, 1 that went on to hold a clipboard in the NFL

Had we kept Chan and based on what he showed as far as "getting it" on the P5 level, I'm convinced the GT FB would further along than it is now

Just my theory, no need to go bat-chit crazy at the mention of Chan's name
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Anyone else remember that damarius öööö head from a few years ago?

This is his alt.
 
ChrisW said:
That's all true, but I thought the point was who would be the ideal hire looking back now. If we had had a crystal ball some of these unheard of names would be great options.
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Maybe, but what if the fans hate the hire because it looks stupid at the time and attendance/donations crater? Or what if a formative moment in their career happened after PJ was already the coach here and it never would have happened at a Tech? Too many butterfly effects in life to assume that coaches who succeeded somewhere else later on would have automatically done so at Tech in 2008.
 
beej67 said:
I was skeptical about Cuttcliffe doing well at Duke, and he proved me wrong.

I do not, however, think he would have lasted ten years at Tech, nor would have have managed any wins vs UGA, nor would he have appeared in the Orange Bowl.
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While I suspect you are correct I think the ceiling might be higher for Cutcliffe had he been at tech.
 
If you ever listen to Coach Neuheisel he will swear he had the job locked up before being screwed by the GTAA but I think that was a good call because he would have been an absolute dumpster fire. Not sure who would have been better that we actually could have landed.
 
GT_LUVER said:
If you ever listen to Coach Neuheisel he will swear he had the job locked up before being screwed by the GTAA but I think that was a good call because he would have been an absolute dumpster fire. Not sure who would have been better that we actually could have landed.
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Wasn't Edsall in the mix, too? Dodged a couple of bullets.
 
As far as coaching hires, Tech hit the nail on the head back in 2008, and I hope they did the same thing in 2018.
 
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