The want of defense and recruiting overall was inexcusable no doubt. You'd have to get deep into CPJ's head to try and see where he was coming from on these issues. It seems like he was rolling the dice. Just keep at the table and you'll get lucky like at GaSo. Didn't really work out at the D1 P5 level and it forced his retirement. Am I getting this wrong?
Didn't work out? Two Orange Bowl appearances, the first since 1966. Are you kidding?
Yeah, I didn't mean to say CPJ was a bad coach. He's a legend in my opinion and we were lucky to have him. It obviously didn't work out out long term tho mainly due to his lackadaisical attitude towards recruiting. Recruiting for his 'special system' just didn't work out at the P5 level. l'd love to see CPJ emerge somewhere at the FCS level. Western Carolina? Somewheres and be successful. I think he gave it his guts but he couldn't make it happen at TECH and I personally feel it was largely due to that idiot that he was bonded to on the offensive line. Just my opinion. Clearly a waste of space but some sort of inseparable buddies or something. The offensive line play was offensive (see Texas or Oklahoma back in the good ole days) and there was no excuse for how mediocre we were other than coaching. Everybody could see it. The line coaching sucked. But CPJ wouldn't do anything about it anymore than he would recruit a kicker. He just obstinately would not do it. Therefore we wound up with this bowl here and an Orange Bowl there. Not success but better than a pissing contest. Sorry. Not good enough.
It was Dec of last year when 247 started ranking portal players and created an overall ranking that included both HS recruits and transfers. I created a thread about it at that time. We are #42 in the overall which today shows 15 HS and 15 transfer(and yes it still penalizes in the HS composite for less than 20)
I would like you to reread you quote here and think about that. The Dodd era WAS entirely different. The college football landscape, and Tech's position in it WAS entirely different. Dodd in his prime would struggle with what we are working with and against these days. I would love to get back to winning like that, but you have to realize how completely different the playing field is now from what it was then and adjust your expectations to match.
Dodd had a 12-10 record against UGA. Hardly owned them but we'd certainly take that today. Only O'Leary and Johnson have had any measure of success against them of recent years.
Can we get back to those years? Easy answer: Not with a clown running the show.
Why do you always take this back to Johnson. Dude, he quit. He's gone! His replacement is terrible but has nothing to do with him. Let Coach Johnson go.Then by your definition, Johnson must have been a clown, too.
Well, what other option is there? Death?
Well he has to blame someone. If he has not seen the ineptitude of the current coach over the last three years then he is just not looking.
Death is the only honorable way to leave GT.
To my understanding, Johnson was offered more institutional support (aka recruiting budget) if he would get rid of 2 assistants, one of them being Sewak. And he refused to let him go. And I also recall most of the people on this and other boards lamenting for years that they didn't understand why Paul wouldn't fire Sewak, based on the performance of the O Line and the lack of recruiting.
Agreed that Sewak sucked, although Brent is doing his best to make him look halfway decent by comparison. Do you have any source for this claim about being offered more support in exchange for firing assistants? Who was the other assistant they wanted fired? Is support being witheld by the AA for Geoff retaining his buddy Thacker who is at least an order of magnitude worse?
