Sucked having Paul Johnson win 7-10 games a year

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GTsapper said:
I suppose we'll agree to disagree. I apologize for my less-than-graceful comments the other day. A lousy excuse, but a lot of bourbon and ööööty football led me to them.
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Likewise if I've offended. We both want the same thing and we both know it's not coming from the current HC. Really, if Clown has done one thing, it's unite the fanbase.
 
RamblinWreck92 said:
I'm flattered you spent that much time on me. No offense, but I won't be reciprocating.
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Lol. I was just scrolling through new coach threads from 2018 to see who said stupid stuff at the time. That one stood out.
 
Rodzilla said:
Thanks, boomers!
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GTCrew4b said:
It was the Gen Xers
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It was the rich.

A combination of Gen Xers and Boomers with a Ralph Freidgen hardon that had lasted decades, who were well connected people to the GTAA with no sense of scope, scale, or understanding about Georgia Tech's natural place in the college football world because they had drunk their own kool aid. They were watching UGA and Clemson do what UGA and Clemson have the ability to do, which is corner the market on the best players in the country by a combination of hot coeds, crip majors, under the table payola, and over the table facilities outlays, like the $40 million Clemson football complex. Because UGA and Clemson are our regular rivals they wanted to be 50/50 in these games in terms of results, and accepting any less was "accepting mediocrity," without realizing that GT's natural place as a school is less than mediocre football. A campus full of hot coeds at GT is out of the question. Crip majors are banned by the UGA controlled board of regents. They refused to pay the Can Newton style payola, theoretically because they were honorable and following the NCAA rules, when in fact it turns out they were refusing to pay the Cam Newton payola because they're cheap bastards. We know this with 100% certainty because the NCAA legalized the payola, athletic departments can now pay players as long as they launder the money in official ways, and they still refused to buy us any players. The only possible way to compete with hamstrung talent is with a gimmick. But they literally ran the gimmick out of town and decided they were going to beat UGA and Clemson by adopting the exact same offensive and defensive systems as UGA and Clemson with worse players.

I know these assholes. I tailgated with these assholes. Some of you are these assholes and some of you aren't. But all of you, assholes or not, are watching a Georgia Tech team that is playing to its natural level as a football school. And the assholes that I tailgated with, alumni who ran Paul Johnson out of town and refused to buy us any players, are now watching Clemson and Georgia games because their wives attended there.

GT is a cripple who tied one hand intentionally behind his back and decided to get in a street fight. Have fun. Nobody was a bigger fan than I was, that ref for the Notre Dame Game knows it, and I quit four years ago. I still haven't even checked the score from this past weekend.

If you want to be a real football school in this climate you have to start by going private to get out from under the Board of Regents, add programs to compete with UGA in all phases of academics, add crip majors to hide athletes, and get your boosters to start funneling money into NCAA approved payola. There's your blueprint. Until you do that your coach literally doesn't matter. Nobody in the Paul Johnson tree is coming back here, and there isn't a stronger gimmick around to compensate for tying one hand behind your back.
 
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RamblinWreck92 said:
As Mitch Hedberg would say it: "We were a dead program when he quit. We're still dead...but we were dead back then too"
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Mitch Hedberg never said anything like that. Mich Hedberg said that rice is really good when you are hungry for 3,000 of something.
 
beej67 said:
It was the rich.

A combination of Gen Xers and Boomers with a Ralph Freidgen hardon that had lasted decades, who were well connected people to the GTAA with no sense of scope, scale, or understanding about Georgia Tech's natural place in the college football world because they had drunk their own kool aid. They were watching UGA and Clemson do what UGA and Clemson have the ability to do, which is corner the market on the best players in the country by a combination of hot coeds, crip majors, under the table payola, and over the table facilities outlays, like the $40 million Clemson football complex. Because UGA and Clemson are our regular rivals they wanted to be 50/50 in these games in terms of results, and accepting any less was "accepting mediocrity," without realizing that GT's natural place as a school is less than mediocre football. A campus full of hot coeds at GT is out of the question. Crip majors are banned by the UGA controlled board of regents. They refused to pay the Can Newton style payola, theoretically because they were honorable and following the NCAA rules, when in fact it turns out they were refusing to pay the Cam Newton payola because they're cheap bastards. We know this with 100% certainty because the NCAA legalized the payola, athletic departments can now pay players as long as they launder the money in official ways, and they still refused to buy us any players. The only possible way to compete with hamstrung talent is with a gimmick. But they literally ran the gimmick out of town and decided they were going to beat UGA and Clemson by adopting the exact same offensive and defensive systems as UGA and Clemson with worse players.

I know these assholes. I tailgated with these assholes. Some of you are these assholes and some of you aren't. But all of you, assholes or not, are watching a Georgia Tech team that is playing to its natural level as a football school. And the assholes that I tailgated with, alumni who ran Paul Johnson out of town and refused to buy us any players, are now watching Clemson and Georgia games because their wives attended there.

GT is a cripple who tied one hand intentionally behind his back and decided to get in a street fight. Have fun. Nobody was a bigger fan than I was, that ref for the Notre Dame Game knows it, and I quit four years ago. I still haven't even checked the score from this past weekend.

If you want to be a real football school in this climate you have to start by going private to get out from under the Board of Regents, add programs to compete with UGA in all phases of academics, add crip majors to hide athletes, and get your boosters to start funneling money into NCAA approved payola. There's your blueprint. Until you do that your coach literally doesn't matter. Nobody in the Paul Johnson tree is coming back here, and there isn't a stronger gimmick around to compensate for tying one hand behind your back.
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Yep, all of my exact thoughts. Our delusional, out-of-touch boosters thought we could play rap songs in our Twitter hype videos and we'd be out-recruiting UGA and then beating them at their own game in short order. Everyone with a brain knew from day one that we need a gimmick like the option, or a serious recruiting gimmick like hiring Prime Time. Geoff Collins was a half-measure, and I side with Mike Ehrmantraut on taking half-measures.
 
beej67 said:
It was the rich.

A combination of Gen Xers and Boomers with a Ralph Freidgen hardon that had lasted decades, who were well connected people to the GTAA with no sense of scope, scale, or understanding about Georgia Tech's natural place in the college football world because they had drunk their own kool aid. They were watching UGA and Clemson do what UGA and Clemson have the ability to do, which is corner the market on the best players in the country by a combination of hot coeds, crip majors, under the table payola, and over the table facilities outlays, like the $40 million Clemson football complex. Because UGA and Clemson are our regular rivals they wanted to be 50/50 in these games in terms of results, and accepting any less was "accepting mediocrity," without realizing that GT's natural place as a school is less than mediocre football. A campus full of hot coeds at GT is out of the question. Crip majors are banned by the UGA controlled board of regents. They refused to pay the Can Newton style payola, theoretically because they were honorable and following the NCAA rules, when in fact it turns out they were refusing to pay the Cam Newton payola because they're cheap bastards. We know this with 100% certainty because the NCAA legalized the payola, athletic departments can now pay players as long as they launder the money in official ways, and they still refused to buy us any players. The only possible way to compete with hamstrung talent is with a gimmick. But they literally ran the gimmick out of town and decided they were going to beat UGA and Clemson by adopting the exact same offensive and defensive systems as UGA and Clemson with worse players.

I know these assholes. I tailgated with these assholes. Some of you are these assholes and some of you aren't. But all of you, assholes or not, are watching a Georgia Tech team that is playing to its natural level as a football school. And the assholes that I tailgated with, alumni who ran Paul Johnson out of town and refused to buy us any players, are now watching Clemson and Georgia games because their wives attended there.

GT is a cripple who tied one hand intentionally behind his back and decided to get in a street fight. Have fun. Nobody was a bigger fan than I was, that ref for the Notre Dame Game knows it, and I quit four years ago. I still haven't even checked the score from this past weekend.

If you want to be a real football school in this climate you have to start by going private to get out from under the Board of Regents, add programs to compete with UGA in all phases of academics, add crip majors to hide athletes, and get your boosters to start funneling money into NCAA approved payola. There's your blueprint. Until you do that your coach literally doesn't matter. Nobody in the Paul Johnson tree is coming back here, and there isn't a stronger gimmick around to compensate for tying one hand behind your back.
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I agree to an extent. I think we could be at least NW level on a regular basis. Might not have the majors and money for it though.
 
gtchief said:
He retired, so what does it matter? He moved on and so did Tech. It’s time for you to do the same
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beej67 said:
It was the rich.

A combination of Gen Xers and Boomers with a Ralph Freidgen hardon that had lasted decades, who were well connected people to the GTAA with no sense of scope, scale, or understanding about Georgia Tech's natural place in the college football world because they had drunk their own kool aid. They were watching UGA and Clemson do what UGA and Clemson have the ability to do, which is corner the market on the best players in the country by a combination of hot coeds, crip majors, under the table payola, and over the table facilities outlays, like the $40 million Clemson football complex. Because UGA and Clemson are our regular rivals they wanted to be 50/50 in these games in terms of results, and accepting any less was "accepting mediocrity," without realizing that GT's natural place as a school is less than mediocre football. A campus full of hot coeds at GT is out of the question. Crip majors are banned by the UGA controlled board of regents. They refused to pay the Can Newton style payola, theoretically because they were honorable and following the NCAA rules, when in fact it turns out they were refusing to pay the Cam Newton payola because they're cheap bastards. We know this with 100% certainty because the NCAA legalized the payola, athletic departments can now pay players as long as they launder the money in official ways, and they still refused to buy us any players. The only possible way to compete with hamstrung talent is with a gimmick. But they literally ran the gimmick out of town and decided they were going to beat UGA and Clemson by adopting the exact same offensive and defensive systems as UGA and Clemson with worse players.

I know these assholes. I tailgated with these assholes. Some of you are these assholes and some of you aren't. But all of you, assholes or not, are watching a Georgia Tech team that is playing to its natural level as a football school. And the assholes that I tailgated with, alumni who ran Paul Johnson out of town and refused to buy us any players, are now watching Clemson and Georgia games because their wives attended there.

GT is a cripple who tied one hand intentionally behind his back and decided to get in a street fight. Have fun. Nobody was a bigger fan than I was, that ref for the Notre Dame Game knows it, and I quit four years ago. I still haven't even checked the score from this past weekend.

If you want to be a real football school in this climate you have to start by going private to get out from under the Board of Regents, add programs to compete with UGA in all phases of academics, add crip majors to hide athletes, and get your boosters to start funneling money into NCAA approved payola. There's your blueprint. Until you do that your coach literally doesn't matter. Nobody in the Paul Johnson tree is coming back here, and there isn't a stronger gimmick around to compensate for tying one hand behind your back.
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This is an epic turd of a post.

It's either option football or Geoff Collins? Lol.
 
GTRules said:
Didn’t suck when he won 3 though, right?
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2015 is not the same universe as the last 3+ years. After basically our entire backfield getting injured, we still scored at least 20 points in every game but one (a 13-7 loss to UGA). We played 3 top 10 teams that year, and lost by 8, lost 19, and won by 6. Despite a horrible season and not much to gain, were were consistently competitive and not once quit on the field.

Shall we compare that to our recent history?
 
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Also, I 100% do not buy the “he was figured out” or “things were going downhill” bullshit. You dumbasses were CONVINCED in 2013 that things were over and PJ should be let go. That he would never be able repeat that initial success with his own players. The very next season, I watched literally the best GT team I have ever seen. We were damn near unstoppable.

Rinse and repeat in 2018. Only two years after winning 9 games and beating UGA in Athens, suddenly he’s washed up and needs to go.

Some people were so triggered by the word “option” that we insisted on the most polar opposite coach we could possibly find. The guy that made a point of lining up in the flexbone in the first Spring Game and then motioning out of it. This is where that mindset got us, and most of you are too dense to even realize it.
 
You know, it's been said before that it would have been magical to see CPJ coach with a team full of highly regarded recruits.

But what I wonder now is how his teams would have looked if he could buy recruits under the NIL system. I think he buys a QB and a defense and we win multiple titles back to back.

The world will never know.
 
gambler said:
You know, it's been said before that it would have been magical to see CPJ coach with a team full of highly regarded recruits.

But what I wonder now is how his teams would have looked if he could buy recruits under the NIL system. I think he buys a QB and a defense and we win multiple titles back to back.

The world will never know.
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With what money?
 
RamblinWreck92 said:
I'm still glad he's gone.

As Mitch Hedberg would say it: "We were a dead program when he quit. We're still dead...but we were dead back then too"
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I don't know. Somehow we feel more dead now.

When he quit we were an admittedly uninspired 7-6. I don't know if I have the words to capture what we are now, but it definitely goes beyond "uninspired".
 
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