He had to scrap the diamond because Vad couldn’t run it any better than he ran the base offense. And everyone else was better running the base than the diamond. CPJ offenses were like any other good schemes. Dependent upon the quality of the QB.
Since this year only lol.
Must return to origin
Sorry you can only comprehend two perspectives. Ironic, being a triple option stan.
Maybe that’s why the triple option was so successful, most people can only comprehend two perspectives.Sorry you can only comprehend two perspectives. Ironic, being a triple option stan.
And never had a losing season, was hampered by 15-20 players immediately flunking out upon his arrival?
That game was a heartbreaker, no doubt. But if you’re going to blast him for losing when he was favored, then you have to praise him for winning when he was not. And we have to face the facts, every year Chan won a game he should’ve lost, and he lost a game he should’ve won.
That game hurt for sure but it came out years later that Thanksgiving week 2009 was when all the NCAA stuff went down over the DT stuff and Radakovich, CPJ, and the players were having to talk to the compliance people. So it’s easy to say that our guys heads were not where they should have been heading into that game and it showed.
2006 squad had better talent than 2009. By a good margin.
Absolutely true. QB is the key. But the point stands that it was on him to find QB’s to run everything. Instead he secluded himself as a one trick coach. What I’ll never understand is why he recruited and signed 10-12 Abacks and another 10-12 WR’s yet only 3-4 QB’s. He should have recruited way more QB’s to see who could run it all. It’s like now. We have 16 WR’s and 9 TE’s listed on the roster. If any position should be over signed it’s OLine. We should be signing waaaaaay more OLinemen instead of a bunch of small WR’s who never see the field. Johnson should have had way more QB‘s at his disposal instead of being stuck with nothing after Thomas left. If I were in charge GT would oversign OLinemen like crazy and hope we find 5-8 solid guys out of 25. Right now we are going on 5 plus years of having bad OLines and that is why we are losing. Our QB’s are getting mauled while we have dozens of WR’s and DB‘s standing on the sidelines. Those guys are a dime a dozen. Football is all about the lines and QB.
I think it’s very hard to recruit a good option QB in this day and age of high school athlete. You have to find someone who is unselfish, willing to take a hit, able to make fast decisions, and talented enough to play at the collegiate level, while sacrificing a future NFL career they saw for themselves at the same time. The intangibles are hard to see before they arrive on campus and start practicing/playing. I think Marshall checked a lot of boxes and left some of the intangibles to be desired. Vad Lee is another example of someone who checked a lot of tangible boxes but not the intangibles. It was one of the more satisfying aspects of 2014 in my opinion.
You do realize that comparing any coaches record against UGA is all but irrelevant, right? By the time Johnson retired GT could not compete with UGA, Clemson or ND. The ocean sized gap in talent was not being neutralized by running the option.
Heartbreaker hell. We were pissed off and a lot of fans had had enough of Johnson. We were pathetic. We were clearly superior. We had finally gotten to an equal footing with UGAg personnel wise. It was just a few seasons later, we had to endure watching our players getting body slammed midfield by UGA players and we once again became physically inferior to them.
A lot of fans had had enough of Johnson after the 2009 Uga game? I mean, it sucked, yea. It was a game they absolutely should have won, but that's how rivalry games are a lot of times. I can see Tech fans wanting to give up on Johnson after they blew the lead a few years later in Atlanta, when Godhigh had a big game and they were ahead by like 20. But after 2009? Please
A lot of fans had had enough of Johnson after an 11 win season and ACC championship?
Y'all apparently weren't in my section. Favored. Superior. Got our asses handed to us. Didn't/couldn't/wouldn't adjust to UGAg using the trickery if just handing the ball off and running up the middle while we layed back because they were supposedly going to go through the air. Nothing like having UGAg fans that season declaring themselves ACC champs as we celebrated winning our öööö conference
