Johnson’s most frustrating issue this season

Three years in we should not be having these problems. At a certain point you have to admit the problem is not the attitude of the players, but the ineptitude of the coaching staff. This team has shown zero improvement throughout the season.

Chan never lost 7 games. Can’t wait to see which podunk school gets to shut our option down cold in the bowl game.

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It is only a matter of time and we will be fine

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Bring back Chan……he will be available soon. He had better take the first opportunity offered after he is fired in Buffalo. His career is now rounding 3rd and headed for home!

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I still don’t know why the players think they can walk on the field and beat the opponent. Johnson is right. I would be embarrassed to play in the Shreveport bowl. But just watch, the players will be smiling and waving at the camera…then get shut down by another lesser opponent.

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[...] this is humorous: Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said the most frustrating thing about this 6-5 season [...]

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Is the honeymoon over for the “new sheriff in town”?

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Are you people serious? Chan Gailey? Chan was neither a great recruiter nor a great motivator. Look at his career. He’s been mediocre everywhere he’s been (including at Tech, Dallas, Miami, Buffalo, etc.). He’s reputed to be some sort of great offensive guru, but his record doesn’t support that claim. If we recruited well when he was at Tech, it was more likely one or more of his assistants that did the recruiting (Giff?).

Everyone is reacting to his quotes that he is throwing players and coaches under the bus. I haven’t read any quote where he’s called out a player or coach by name. The way that I read the quotes about motivation, he’s admitting that motivation is a problem and that he’s responsible for finding a way to motivate these kids…which Gailey never saw as his responsibility.

I’m as disappointed with this season as ANY Tech fan/alumni, but the carping at this point is ridiculous.

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Wrex, if the AJC likes smug, smarmy comments, you’re right up their alley. Georgia Tech’s Jane Fonda. PJ holds his players accountable, his coaches accountable and himself accountable.

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re: InsectInside

Has CPJ held himself accountable for his Recruiting efforts over the past 3 Classes?

Once you Recruit them, you have come with something better than “they didn’t execute” after those same Recruits don’t play well.

Just maybe CPJ’s “we-don’t-need-any-passes-other-than-jump-balls” Passing Game won’t work at the higher levels of CFB unless you have a 6-3 230lb. 4.4-forty once-in-a-coaching-career physical specimen like Bay-Bay?

Did CPJ ever consider that on Offense the TE vs. LB is one of the GREATEST advantages at the higher levels of FB (BCS & NFL) in the passing Game YET he still won’t Recruit any TEs and refuses to have any Offensive Sets that require a TE?

These are the kinds of question that the CPJ Kool-Aid drinkers won’t discuss, and those that do “know a little FB” that ask such questions are deemed to be “negative GT fans” of “Mutts in disguise”.

Please prove to me where I am being unfair in any way to CPJ?

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Chan Gailey was neither a great recruiter nor a great motivator. Yes, we got some great players during his time at Tech, but I doubt that it was solely due to the charisma of the great Chan Gailey.

The quotes from Coach Johnson (if you read them again) indicate that he sees it as HIS responsibility to motivate these kids and he’s frustrated with HIS inability to do that this year with this team. How is that “throwing someone under the bus?”

In the final analysis, Paul Johnson may or may not be the savior of Tech’s program, but I’d NEVER advocate going back to Chan (mediocrity) Gailey.

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Wrex – I’ll give you this. It always ticks me off when, as a fan, I question something that the current coach or team is doing and I get accused of being a Dawg fan in disguise. Questioning doesn’t make you less of a fan. In my eyes, it’s the right of any fan of the program to sincerely ask questions because we want the program to be better.

I agree. The passing game HAS to get better for this offense to work. What has held that back? I can’t figure out the real reason. In any passing situations this year, our O-line has been porous. That could be because they don’t get a lot of practice time developing pass blocking skills. They focus most of the time on the run blocking patterns. Joshua was a great leader and a tough kid, but was far from the most accurate passer I’ve ever seen. And we’ve all seen the abysmal performances of some of our WRs in dropping catchable balls.

What worries me most about the next game is our defense. This coaching staff seems to want to deflect criticism away from the 3-4 scheme, but I hate it as a defensive scheme. Unless you use the blitz packages that Tenuta used to dial up on every play, you set yourself up to give the opposing QB all the time needed to shred your defense. It’s a difficult defense for even the pro linebackers and d-backs to master. Receivers get lost in the zones and pop out uncovered way too often. Give me a pressure defense that occasionally gives up a big play but more often than not puts heat on the QB anyday.

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This is not about chan gailey. Why does every conversation or criticism about PJ devolve into backlash against Gailey? Sorry to burst everyones bubble but there are some true GT fans who are concerned about PJ and his coaching style and recruiting. Next season is looking very scary to me because I don’t think we improve much at all on defense and Nesbitt our warrior and leader will be gone. The next 2 years will tell us what PJ is truly all about because we will finally be playing with PJ’s recruits. I have to admit that I’m very skeptical since I have yet to see any young players stepping up this season. Next season PJ will be out of excuses so I want to see this team win.

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i can tell someone is a moron with no evidence to back up their assertions when they start talking about other people drinking koolaid.

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GT76
I hear what you are saying about the D, but they actually kept us in some games like VT, special teams killed us…I think our big issue is not scoring in the first half, what has it been like 4 games now?

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As with the story of the Zen Master, “We’ll see…”

Agreed, much of the tale of this coaching staff will be told over the next two seasons. Were the first two years a fluke? Was it the result of the change energizing the players that remained? or is this year the fluke year? We’ll see….

If Johnson can’t get it turned around, in the next two years, then he’ll end up being canned.

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It’s all in the recruiting. It came easy to many D1 players in high school. Think about these players on their high school team and they were the very best. Now they have to step up and practice, play and compete on a consistent basis with the very best. It’s that something inside that drives an average player to excel (i.e. Keith Brooking). I bet you never had to motivate Calvin Johnson, Joe Hamilton, etc. it came from deep inside the stomach.

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Techmate gets post of the day.

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Bring Back Chan…Can you stop posting the same crap on every Tech blog? Not sure if you remember a guy named Calvin Johnson, but he played for 3 years under chan and we didn’t win anything. Never in my life have I seen a talent more under used than Calvin was at Tech. Last thing Tech needs to do is bring back chan.

Wrex…CPJ became Tech’s head coach in December 2007. By that point over half of the 2008 Recruiting Class was already assembled. Meaning most of those players were hand picked by chan gailey. Your right that most of the scholarship players are CPJs guys, but at the same time almost every upperclassmen on the roster was recruited under chan gailey. There are major leadership issues on this team and that has been the case all season. Leadership falls on the upperclassmen. It is their responsibility to set an example for the younger guys to follow.

Your point about the 2007 recruiting class is valid. But it took gailey 5 seasons to get 1 class this talented. Every other class gailey put together had a couple of good players along with a bunch of 2 stars and unranked players. Not sure if CPJ will be able to replicate that special class gailey put together, but the overall depth CPJ is recruiting is much better than what chan did (consistently getting 3 star talent).

This year has been bad on all accounts, but lets give CPJ a few more seasons before we decide to burn him at the stake. He earned that right last season.

Go Jackets…Beat georgie

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YellowFuzz – Iowa did, in fact, shut down the option last year. Their defense shut down a LOT of teams last year. As for UGA and VT, you’re wrong. They didn’t beat us by shutting down the option, they beat us because we couldn’t stop their offense. UGA had 415 yards and 21 first downs against our pathetic defense – and we were still driving at the end of the game with a chance to win.

As I’ve said repeatedly, our problem is not CPJ’s offense. Our problem is a total disaster on the defensive side of the ball. I don’t know if it’s due to a lack of athletes of inept coaching but we can’t stop ANYBODY. We made Duke look good (and they’re not).

If our defense could generate some stops, we would be fine. Our offense is putting points on the board.

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GTZ09 & Techmate – Well said.

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Gailey could not win with his recruits. Johnson did.

Georgia is a 5-6 team for a reason. They are not Oregon or Auburn. If Georgia were so good, they would be playing next week for the SEC Championship.

There are going to be tub seasons for every program. Look at Texas, Florida, and Tennessee.

Stop getting impatient.

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Folks, this ain’t gonna be a blowout.

No way.

If you gamble bet the over.
Take Tech and the point spread.

I could see 43-41 in triple OT

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Certainly some interesting comments on this page.
Some fact:
Chan Gailey’s record at GT 7-6 7-6 7-5 7-5 9-5 7-6
He won 1 Division title (in 2006) but did a horrible job in the ACCCG – and of course he never beat UGA. Heck, his 2002 team quit in the UGA game..
Johnson was hired as GT coach at the end of December 2007. Although this was before NSD it was after all of the serious recruiting had been done. He has effectively 2 recruiting classes (classes of 2009 and 2010) and most of them were redshirted for their freshman year.
I agree that he still needs to demonstrate that he can recruit players who are good enough for the ACC (he’s never going to out recruit UGA, Auburn, ALA, etc) but saying he can’t based on the performance of this year’s team is a stretch.
Next year (year 4 for CPJ) is the key year. You can’t judge how well he’s going to do based on 1 year. Other coaches have had poor records in their 3rd year at a school and done well in their 4th – NCSU was 5-7 last year (2-6 in the ACC) in O’Brien’s 3rd year in Raleigh. This year they are 8-3 (5-2 in the ACC) and will likely beat MD to be in the ACCCG.
Miami went 5-6 in Butch Davis’ 3rd year (1st losing year for them since 1979) and went 9-3, 9-4, 11-1 the following years.
Johnson’s 1st 2 years were the best at GT in over 50 years. Let’s see what happens in the next 2 before declaring him a bust.

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For you “it’s all recruiting types” – REALLY? Please explain Texas & Florida’s 2010 football situation to me geniuses. For @bringbackchan – are you really that dense? Clearly a lot of you guys don’t understand the game of football. CPJ is a winner everywhere he has been and he has already and will continue that at GT. For the idiot that said Ugag & Va. Tech shut down the triple option – how? In the Ugag game our first round draft pick dropped a 4th down pass on the game winning drive, Nesbitt also got hurt in the game by a cheap play by gaggers. Va. Tech we were dominating until Nesbitt went out and Washington kept us in the game if you were actually watching.

CPJ is smart enough to see the weaknesses and will make adjustments, but don’t let facts get in the way of your demand that your team wins 10 games a year or more or else.

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This will be a blowout

UGA 50+

teck 7

If you are expecting some dreamed up BS scenario where teck somehow stops UGA is actually going to happen you will be in for a surprise.

Did any of you fools see the Duke game last week????

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GDBurdell,
Did you see the Colorado game? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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re: wesleywhatwhat

I have given plenty of evidence and have asked plenty of legit questions; despite your name-calling you still haven’t answered any of my questions nor have you PROVEN any of my claims to be unfair to CPJ.

For example please list all the T-Sophs. & RS-Frs. that CPJ has Recruited that are “equals” to the Tr-Sophs. that Chan left behind when he came here, those Tr-Sophs.(or 2nd yr. players) were Nesbitt, Dwyer, Burnett, and Morgan, not to mention others like Tarrant that were RSs.

The harsh fact is that CPJ inherited 2nd-year players that were game ready & game-changers to boot, but he has RECRUITED VERY FEW guys that have been able to make the same sort of impact and become “game-changers” by their 2nd year in the Program.

That Talent-Drain is the problem with GT FB and it all falls on CPJ and his poor Recruiting, blaming “team chemistry” and motivation is just a cop-out by CPJ to deflect blame away from himself.

What say you?

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The Recruiting Wizard Gailey’s 2005 Class:
20 total players
Two 4-star players (Michael Johnson and Anthony Barnes)
Six 3-star players
Eleven 2-star players
One 0-star player (I didn’t even know that was possible, but apparently it is)

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The Recruiting Wizard Gailey’s 2004 Class:
24 total players
One 5-star player (Calvin Johnson)
One 4-star player (Darryl Richard)
Five 3-star players
Seventeen 2-star players

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The Recruiting Wizard Gailey’s 2002 Class:
(this is a real doozy)
12 total players
Two 4-star players (K David Jordan and TE George Cooper)
Four 3-star players
One 2-star player
Five 0-star players (though Chris Reis was a HUGE sleeper here)

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InsectInside:
“PJ holds his players accountable, his coaches accountable and himself accountable.”

Are you smoking crack? Ok, just read PJ’s post-loss interviews (there are several to choose from HAA).

Teck’s season was over in the first quarter of the Clemson game!!

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UGA’s season was over when Richt cancelled two-a-days when they conflicted with his already-scheduled tanning appointments.

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re Daniel

Sorry Danny boy, but for the Offense the TE has a much better chance to get open vs. a LB than he does vs. a Safety.

No wonder so many of you GT Fans think CPJ is a genius and are in love with his gimmicky Trip-O Offense.

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Where did my blog go @9:24

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Interesting – we have a guy who has changed his screen name a few times while saying the same thing. Wrex-N-Fx RexN-eFx and Rex–N-eFx
Since after your first post on a page your SN doesn’t change unless you retype it we obviously have a troll in our midst. Wonder what other names he’s used in between those 3 above.

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I have officially gone on record and predicted a Tech win.

I have been right on the Florida and Auburn games regarding UGA. I predicted losses in both.

I say 43-41 Tech in triple OT.

Enjoy your bowl while I puke up my fried turkey………….

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Other screen names used by the troll
Wrex-NFx Wrex.N.Fx – that makes 7.
I’d guess that there are a couple of more as well apart from these ones that are variations on a theme.

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wrex nFX,

I guess those Oklahoma and Nebraska teams that used to run for 400 yards a game and won all those titles were one dimensional too?

Yeah, they were horrible.

It’s all about the jimmys and joes a lot more than the x’s and o’s.
Especially on defense, where Tech and UGA lack the personnel to play their new schemes.

You put Johnson’s offense in at UGA 10 years ago and I guarantee you he has more SEC titles and and more wins over Florida than richt has.

Sad reality.

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This may have already been stated. The 08 recruiting class has very little CPJ recruits on it. If you were a real fan you would know that CPJ was hired well after the season and had little time to recruit and even lost a few during the coaching change. I believe he secured five recruits by the time he came in. Now the 09 and 10 recruits equal 38 of the total roster making his total recruits 43. Out of those 43 4 have left, 1 was kicked off the team and 1 was unable to play this year. This is far below the 60-68 I have read on here. I am not making excuses for the the lack of effort for this team or CPJ, just stating you should get your facts straight. Now if this team continues to play like this I agree it’s time for a change, but give the man atleast two more seasons.

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DawginLex, you’re nuts.

If it weren’t for a lucky 79 TD pass and pick we LOSE AT HOME TO DUKE!!!

I’m going to the game, and expect lots of pain for over 3 hours.

GT 13 UGA 57

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I have a lot of faith in our offense.

I think Grantham is a good coordinator.

We don’t have the personnel to run the 3-4 or to stop the option.

Our best defensive player is a rush end who specializes in sacking the QB facing an offense that may not have to throw a pass.

We won last year because Weston, Owens and Adkins owned the middle of the line and took the fullback out of the game.

They are in the NFL now.

43-41 Tech triple OT

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personnel.

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re: Ramblin Man

That is a very weak excuse Ramblin man, almost all HCs in College are hired in December after the season is over, and in many cases those HCs don’t get a mulligan on that first Recruiting Class.

Some examples are Chizik(sp?) over at Auburn, Saban at Bama, Meyer at Florida, and Mullen at Miss. St., all of those guys Recruited pretty well for that 2-month time frame and the Results have been evident at those programs.

Even if you give CPJ a break on that first Recruiting Class, he still has no excuse for his Tr-sophs. & RS-Frs., the players that are in their 2nd year in the Program, when CPJ came to GT he had big-timers that were in their 2nd yr. in the Program (Dwyer,Nesbitt, et al) and yet NONE/FEW of his own 2nd year Recruits are as good as the 2nd-yr. Recruits that he inherited when he got to GT.

Now try and make an excuse for those facts?

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“astute observer,”
Thanks for explaining to everyone what we already knew…what a 3-4 already consists of. You still did not address why GEORGIA TECH’s defense will not improve next year.

NO mention of any of OUR players.

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rex, it’s called”growing up”(you might want to try it)-19 y/o’s vs. 21y/o’s is big boys vs. young men………

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Ramble, i very seriously doubt you could have explained a 3-4 defense. Secondly, I think I touched on the reasons why GT defense won’t improve much next year. But if you don’t get it I will try to go over it once again. First, the long transition period (ie, more than one year). Secondly, the most important position is a terrence cody, casey hampton type nose. Where is our Terrence cody? Our DL has been dominated physically this year by bigger stronger lines. Therefore, i don’t see a magical development into a physical 3 man front next season. PJ’s first 2 recruiting classes were based on a 4-3 defense and not a 3-4. Geez, do I need to go on or do you not see that this is going to take considerable time? Please tell me you understand the logic here pal. When Josh McDaniels took over the broncos they switched from a 4-3 to a 3-4 and this is year two and they are still struggling big time. I don’t have much hope for next season just because we simply don’t have the personnel to run the defense yet. Get it?

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Still unfairly censoring people’s posts, huh?

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Bottom line, you UGA heads, you are supposed to beat Tech every year. You out recruit Tech every year, hell, you out recruit almost everyone every year and every year you have to cry on Tech websites about how great you are – or are suppose to be. You guys have coaching problems of your own. Back to your dog houses. You guys are all bark. As my high school coach used to say “An empty wagon makes a lot of noise.”

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Wrex.N.Fx – I just read one of your posts where you mention TE, jump balls, etc. What your saying is correct, in that ‘jump balls’ aren’t consistent and ‘TE vs LB’ is a good offensive match-up. What your talking about though is what ‘conventional’ offenses do. CPJ doesn’t, hasn’t, and isn’t running a conventional offense. His offense has worked every where he has been, including GT (see the winningest coach the first two years at GT since the creation of the Earth and you’ll see a picture of CPJ). You want him to run something more conventional, but he wasn’t hired to do that, he hasn’t won doing that, and he isn’t going to win doing that. You cannot beat a conventional football team, by also being conventional with inferior talent. GT will always ‘bee’ the underdog in terms of talent. That’s been the case for what, 30-40-forever years? His offense doesn’t use a TE. I do wonder sometimes why we don’t throw more short passes, but I’ve seen him do little quick screens, little short hits over the middle more this year than last. His offense is setup to get short to medium gains on the ground, where the ‘jump ball’ thing is just to keep the defense honest and make the safteys stay back, in my opinion. The point is, you are comparing an conventional team with superior talent’s style of play, against an underdog with inferior talent who is doing something outside the box and unconventional.

BTW – when I play with GT on xbox, etc, I immediately recruit TE’s and change the offense completely………but when you play on xbox…you aren’t dealing with a reality that you cannot truely expect to ever out recruit the factories. They have vastly more resources, more friendly majors, more jock exceptions for admission, more girls, more fans, more TV, it is what it is. NOT being a football factory isn’t a problem, except at football games. GT’s priority clearly has never been trying to be a football factory…thus…here we are….not a football factory.

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Here are the recruiting issues in my opinion.

Academics
Perception that the ACC is not as good in football as the SEC
Not tweaking the offense a little bit to allow for the use of more wideouts and a tight end. You can still run a option offense but put in the added options of thrwoing to multiple wideouts and a tight end and this offense would be crazy good.
He needs another class or two to get defensive personnel suited to the 3-4.

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Johnson’s true recruits are either Freshmen, red-shirt Freshmen, or Sophmores. Al Groh has yet to complete a recruiting cycle for the defense. Recruiting and development of players for a system of offense or defense takes more than two recruiting cycles and off-seasons. Football is not fast-food, where most of the UGAg trash works. These are the same folks on the Georgia blogs calling for Richt’s head. Should be an interesting night in Athens Saturday, between two sub-par squads. I’ll wager we won’t be flipping to another channel.

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The same problem that Paul Johnson faces is faced my Mark Richt and every other college football coach.

Today’s players don’t have the work ethic that, at one time, was considered standard. They are spoon-fed pu$$ies.

My wife and I went to a dinner party. I got a chance to chat with a former Tech player.
He played for Chan Gailey and Paul Johnson. I asked him to compare the two coaches.

This is what he said:
Chan Gailey is a really nice guy. I liked him.
Paul Johnson is mean. He made us practice harder and do a bunch of extra things.

Folks, this is straight from one of the horses mouths.

Any kid would say he’d love an National Championship ring and to excel in the NFL. However, fewer and fewer are willing to do what it takes to get there.

These clowns go to school free of charge.

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Test. Maybe this won’t get blocked.

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Paul Johnson, Mark Richt, and every other coach face the same issue:

Today’s players have *zero* work ethic.

I chatted with a player who played under Chan Gailey and Paul Johnson. This is how he compared the coaches.

“Chan Gailey is a nice guy. I liked him.”

“Paul Johnson is mean. He made us practice harder and do a bunch of extra stuff.”

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This may not be the season to remember but so glad CPJ is our coach..Nothing better to watch than the A or B back breaking out and heading for the end zone, love the triple option.. There are so many coaches in football that do not have the character, many of them in the south eastern cheaters and those like Pelini showing his @__, Kelly who ups and leaves an undefeated team for Notre Shame before their bowl game..

Having said that I will say this and do not expect anyone to agree with me from the GT family, but disappointed that the juniors, Morgan,Thomas, Dwyer and Burnett left. Why? Because Nesbitt, Allen, Jefferson, Reese, Roddy Jones and the rest of the starters deserved them to stay. They were players also with character. You could have waited another year, all of you. And do not want to hear about the lockout NFL argument. Nobody is going to keep the NFL out too long in this country.

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AHH, got one through

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Okeefe/Bob – you’re the man dude…well said

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@ GTSteve

The AJC is running a 3-4 defense. 3 or 4 of our posts get through.

@ GO JACKETS
I miss those guys too but they have their own lives to consider. If they stayed the extra year and got hurt. No NFL.

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@Doug ???????

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CPJ isn’t blaming the players and isn’t throwing his players under the bus. He is saying that it is his job to motivate them, but at times that can be the hardest part of the job. Each team is different and what motivates one team doesn’t necessarily motivate another.

Yes, recruiting is important, but not the most important thing. When UGA promoted Ray Goff instead of Erk Russell, they did so because Ray Goff was the superstar recruiter. I think they probably would have been better off hiring the better coach instead of the better recruiter.

CPJ just tells it like he sees it. He doesn’t sugar coat anything for the media or make his statements more politically correct.

GT is in good hands with CPJ, so everyone just needs to lay off. It is probably just the UGA fans posing as Tech fans writing all the negative stuff. CPJ cares about winning, so he will not settle for less. That doesn’t mean he will go undefeated every year, but it does mean he won’t stop trying. There is not a better coach for GT than CPJ.

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re: HenryCountyGT

If CPJ makes em do all that extra stuff, then WHY isn’t his Team more precise and error-free on Saturday afternoons when it really counts.

If they’re doing all that “extra stuff” and they still fail on Saturdays against “real teams”, then the Players must not be very good OR CPJ’s Schemes must not be very good OR a combination of both.

You can’t do all that extra stuff and still play sloppy come game-time.

Thanks for that info, now that we know the Players are working extra hard, that helps us narrow down where the Problems with GT’s FB Program really lie (hint, hint the HC).

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Rex,
As I stated I was not making excuses in the first place. Now I will say that there are a few players that are making a difference. Finch is looking pretty good on the line. Orwin Smith makes an impact in almost every game. Defense has some playmakers, but they are learning a new system and that is tough for freshman or senior. It is dumb to mention players like Dwyer, Thomas, Burnett, and Morgan because special players are hard to come by.

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It seems those filters are blocking certain E-mail addresses so that they can censor certain “honest posters” that won’t parrot the Company Line that CPJ is feeding to the GT Fanbase.

They are also blocking certain screen names also, for the same reason.

Posting are being blocked and it has nothing to do with banned words.

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re: Ramblin Man

Isn’t that why CPJ gets paid the big bucks?

Experience is not the true reason as you have outlined above, the true reason is finding Elite levels of talent, not waiting until we have RS-Srs. on the O-line which is what he has been telling his fanbase. (we didn’t have RS-Srs. on the O-line in 08 & 09)

When HCs are deceptive on issues like that, it raises a red flag for me.

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VRTECHFAN:
THANKS FOR STAYING WITH YOUR TEAM THROUGH THICK AND THIN….GEORGIA AND TECH HAVE WAY TOO MANY BANDWAGONEERS, THEY ONLY SUPPORT WHEN THINGS ARE GOING GREAT AND CRY LIKE A BUNCH OF LITTLE BABIES WHEN THINGS AREN’T…..THEIR CHARACTER IS SHOWN IN SOME OF THESE BLOGS, AND I WOULD HATE TO BE IN A FOX HOLE WITH THEM PROTECTING MY BACK…..

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As a UGA grad, I always pull for Tech when they are not playing UGA. I pull for Georgia Southern also.With that said, I’m surprised at Coach Johnson placing the blame on his players all the time. When he was a Southern and Navy, we never saw these types of comments in the media.

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so what do Stanford s-a’s major in?

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I was around 40 years ago. A kid that couldn’t read or write couldn’t get into college, a lot that could didn’t go either. There were that many colleges so the deploma met something. Now days, in this state, and the record shows it, we are walking illiterate, yet we call ourselves college students, even graduates, a lie. In a economy same as a football team someone has to produce. If you are putting a overweight, another problem we didn’t have so much of 40 years ago, idiot in a man’s job, next thing you know judges are getting shot while the idiot is out getting his idiot boss breakfast, planes are flying into building while low level unmotivated security at airports fraternize and economies waiting for the next man to carry their load while we all make big paycheck collapse. Johnson did have these problems at Navy or Georgia Southern, they didn’t care about football enough to compromise what little education they had ot offer. On this stage we compromise, and it will be the end of a lot more than football before it is over.

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Wrex-N-Fx is the best thing wriiten ever on this post and completely true!

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Garcia, you are an idiot and a troll…enough said…CPJ will be just fine and in two years this will not even be a blimp on the radar.

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Rex,
We are just going to have to agree to disagree. I do not blame CPJ for the defensive problems, that is Groh’s problem to fix. Now if Groh cannot fix them then I frimly believe he will go the way of Wommack. I do agree with you that there is no excuse for not being able to get these kids more fired up. I don’t believe that Gailey was a better recruiter he got lucky with some, but he never recruited a full good team he had good players from time to time that were rarely in the same class. The main problem CPJ is going to have when recruiting is it GT. I love GT but we are never going to be able to recruit 4 or 5 top players in any partucular position and look for atleast two of them to pan out. Most other schools can recruit say 3 what look to be really good LT in a particular recruiting year and only one of them will really work out. GT on the other hand may get one and then a nobody and pray one of them can play.

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Ramblin Man

How do you explain Stanford’s success?

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The problem with Tech this year and the reason that we are not having success is that we have become completely one dimensional on offense. I said it last year and I stand by my statement that the loss of Demaryius Thomas has hurt the team more than any other player. Any one dimensional offense can be beaten which is what we are currently seeing. We’d don’t need to put up big passing stats, but we at least need to have the threat of being able to pass. Nesbitt has regressed as a passer and Washington as we all know is a redshirt freshman. Defenses have zero respect for our ability to complete passes and have been pulling safeties up in run support and have corners typically crashing the line after the snap. Until, we regain at least a passing threat, we will continue to struggle offensively.

Defensively, we’ve just got to get bigger up front, faster and more athletic at the linebacker positions. You can play defense all right being either small or slow but not both. And what I’ve seen the last couple of years, our defense has looked small and probably as slow as any defense I can remember at Tech. Our LBs block themselves out of the play half of the time. I am starting to wonder if not practicing against effective power I and passing teams is keeping our D from getting any better. Maybe we should recruit a 3 star drop back passer qb just to run scout team for our D during the week because they look completely lost come game time.

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Sure, a three star drop back passer is going to come to Tech and give up his dream of playing college quarterback to run our scout team. If we are going to run an effective 3-4 then it all starts up front. We have got to have bigger and stronger bodies on the DL or it will never work. Period. I did not like this move to a 3-4 defense because it would have been much easier personnel wise to build an effective defense at TECH employing a 4-3.

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again, all bloggers please read ,

as coach pj said before ” its never as good as it seems when you win and its never as bad as it seems when you lose” of cousre we are having a down year but coach pj earned for us to cut him some slack for what he did the 1st 2 years if in 2-3 years we are still average then then we should be concerned!! and for the people that think we will get blown out by ga yall are idiots, ga is 5-6 we are 6-5 both playing a easy schedule, this will be a shootout ,on paper ga should win with their talent but who knows stranger things have happened, the last 2 years the team soppose to win did not.
i like my team-tech to play its best game of the year tech wins 38-35

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Being a coach is like being a parent. Each child is different and the way that you motivate, challenge and discipline each child is different. The point being, that the way Coach Johnson motivated last year’s team obviously hasn’t worked for this years team. Maybe he could find a last minute way to motivate the players before the game on Saturday. Do it for Neshbitt; somthing, anything!

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Several commenters have said CPJ is not an effective recuiter – I’m not so sure. Is it even possible to recruit against the higher profile programs in this area with the additional challenge of more rigorous academics? Those gigantic linemen at UM are great football players, but could they pass a college level Algebra course ? Maybe so and maybe not, but why should they risk it ?

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“Paul in RDU”

i agree that 2009 and 2008 were great seasons on the flats, but certainly NOT the two best seasons in the past 50.

going 11-0-1 in 1990 to claim a national title has to be the best season since 1952.

with 2009’s 11-3 maybe second behind that.

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I laugh at anyone that claims to be a Tech fan and wishes Chan Gailey would come back…seriously?! I know many brilliant and good bulldawg fans, but even THEY would laugh at the uga fan that hides behind such stupid statements! ANYONE that thought that we’d just adopt this new defensive philosophy and nail it the first year has never played football. While I was hopeful at the beginning of the season, I knew it would be a tough season…granted, I didn’t think we’d be where we are at this point in the season. I believe, that before he’s done at Tech, CPJ is going to do something MUCH more special than winning the ACCC… I remain optimistic! GO TECH!!!

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Bring back Gif Smith, he is the recruiter that we need.

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Let’s stop all this recruiting garbage and what each team has done to date. This is GT – UGA and usually a very emotional, close game. I think UGA has the edge but it’ll be a real battle right down to the last minute of play. I like GT when they play other ACC teams and cheer for them when they win. Let’s just hope for an injury-free game with the best team out front without any help from the zebra squad. Okay?

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Newsflash: Richt will be canned after the loss and I feel Kentucky and Vanderbilt will not be just another game anymore. It would be the South’s Northwestern-Iowa, man.

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Doug aren’t you a Dawg Grad. and a European Soccer lover? You know Kroy Biermann got a SHOT past my Goalie! HAHAH! I let that one slip. Can’t you just hear the cash register ringing?

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Ah, astute observer Iguess you are to young to remember the 1952 teamin the last 60 years but I’m not.1990 was a good year indeed but give me the good old days.By the way ,only the older gruop will remember that Coach Dodd ran the “belly” series,otherwise known as a triple option.What goes around comes around.

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i hear it’s snowing in colorado, coach rich. this would make a fine place for Christmas with the family. and you would also be near Superman! so maybe now after savin your 2.8 mil for a few years you could rest easier at night.

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If we can give a less than average coach in Chan Gailey 7 years … we can give a GOOD coach more!!

Paul Johnson doesn’t want 7-8 wins a year, he wants more. That’s the kind of coach that succeeds cause he’s not satisfied with just being in the hunt.

GT fans need to chill … one season doesn’t make the future of this program!

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Bring Back Chan??? You need to take your fake ass back to the ugag page and stop acting like a true Tech fan!!!!!!!

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Grayson Buzz……at least 80% of the team is CPJ’s players. If you remember with Chan’s players they won 9 games, then the ACC Championship. Now the last Gailey players are either seniors or redshirt Juniors. Don’t forget Nesbitt is a Gailey recruit, and you see the dropoff in offense without him. Derick Morgan, Morgan Burnette, Dwyer, and Baybay were all Gailey recruits. Tell me which one of CPJ’s recruits has any shot at leaving early for the NFL…The down year is not because of lack of leadership…its because we are extremely outfielded in terms of talent.

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The only reason UGA fans bring up Johnson is because they know that Richt blows c@ck as a coach and gathering from the way he looks I think he might literally like to blow c@ck as well.

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Gathering from his name I think that Ivery might like to suck c@ck like Richt…..maybe even with Richt. Uh Ivery? You can tell us. Come on….Cooome OOOnNN

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re: NYJacket

Name one marquee win that CPJ has had this season.

UNC had 12 starters out, other than that CPJ has only beaten teams like UVA. Wake, and Dook, to go along with crappy Teams like MTSU and SC State.

Yes, NYJacket, If I ewere GT’s HC, even I could win those meaningless Games like CPJ has, he gets paid $2.3+ Million to win the big Games and he hasn’t.

Do you REALLY think that a “Great Genius HC” would lose to Randy Shannon, Turner Gill, and Daboo Swinney all in the SAME SEASON, a season in which CPJ had 15-16 Starters back from last yrs. ACC-Title Team?

The fact is NYJacket, is that CPJ has done a horrible job this season, and it will get worse next season as the “Talent Drain” in GT’s FB Program worsens.

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Running that mickey mouse offense, johnson can’t win with his own recruits. Mark it down—UGA wins this game in a blowout.

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re: Bill Curry

Sorry pal but you can’t have it both ways!

You can’t give CPJ a mulligan on that 1st Recruiting class and then come back and say AFTER Tevin almost beat VPI that he played like “warrior”, after all he is a RS- Soph. and came in in that same Class, also our BEST OL THIS SEASON, O. Uzzi is also a RS-Soph. from that class.

You seem to want to absolve CPJ from anything BAD that comes from that Recruiting class, while at the same time giving him CREDIT for everything GOOD that came from that Recruiting Class.

For example, when C. Everett Cooper (Taylor) made that big hit in the F$U game in 2008, no one said HE WAS GAILEY RECRUIT and CPJ isn’t accountable for that 1st Recruiting Class, no instead fans LIKE YOU said, “CPJ is a great motivator and had them read to play and CPJ’s “intensity” is WHY Taylor made that hit on the Goal-Line.

You can’t selectively give CPJ credit for all of the GOOD that comes from that Recruiting Class and then shield him from the BAD that comes from that same Recruiting Class.

You seem like the typical thin-skinned, hypocritical GT Fan that loves CPJ more than they love GT’s FB Program.

I care about the PROGRAM more than I care about any one individual.

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I like how all these people have came out of the woodwork to talk about how bad of a coach/recruiter Johnson is towards the end of a mediocre year. Where were you while we were going 11-3 last year? I bet if we win 10 games or more next year, we want hear anything more from you.

Remember how many players were lost to the draft/graduation last year. Who wouldn’t have a down year after that. Johnson is retooling a very young team, and we will be better next year.

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It’’s amazing to me that everyone seemingly jumped on board about Johnson’s offense when he came and we were winning. Now it’s the worst offense ever in some’s minds. You have to remember that he’s running this offense with average players (three stars) and yet up until this year it had worked. You can’t hit a homerun everytime you go to bat. Just look at Georgia this year with all of their 5 star recruits. It’s a game everybody, not life and death. Enjoy your family; Happy Thanksgiving! Go Tech!

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You idiots calling for Coach Johnson’ s head would not recognize a real coach if you had a gun stuck to your head. Do you realize that Tech is the top rushing team in the country. And probably in time of ball control. Our defense has been weak this year for sure, but you go with what you have. The problem with recruiting 4 and 5 star atheletes is that all of them want a short and easy path to the big bucks and Tech does not offer that. Its THUGA for the NFL wannabes and their weak academic requirements. Stick with Johnson and he will bring Tech a winner despite the fan’s base lack of football knowledge and less thsan full stadiums. It was pitiful last year at the Orange Bowl that the Hawkeye fans outnumbered the Techsters by 3-1. You think the players don’t see this and lose enthusiam. What a bunch of losers and whiners the Tech fans are. They are my team no matter if they lose every game. Shut up and get behind them!!

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Winning in Athens the second straight time is nice, Watching thUGA fans cringe in anger is awesome, but watching angry thUGA fans sit home for bowl season an act like they are still a great program is PRICELESS!

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I hate to say it, but we’re weak defensively in the same places as last year. Couple that factor with a hot and cold offense and it isn’t a pretty picture. I still pray for the win over Georgia – so I won’t have to leave town – permanently!

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At least the coach knows what the problem is. I’ve seen this team play two games I am proud of- a win at Carolina and a loss at Va Tech. Against other teams such as Miami, they have been in a trance.
As bad as the defense has been this team would have a much better record if they could have avoided their tendency to just check out or never get into it. We will have a great game in Athens if we can play 60 minutes.

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EagleDude. Thank you. PJ is an awesome coach and I love this offense. I also love his “go for it” attitude. He needs defensive improvement.

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