Quotes from Tech’s loss

First!?? Nothing first about this year.

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Hopeful, “First??” No, Hopeful, you are a loser. Go get a life, freaking nerd.

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I have been a CPJ supporter all season. I have continued to have optimism about the future hoping that Vad Lee may come to tech and turn into a Pat White style qb and also that Al Groh will put a mean streak in our defense. Honestly, it wouldnt surprise me if Vad Lee de-commited and we are stuck with Tevin for the next couple of years. CPJ’s ship is sinking fast. I hope the best and I hope that he proves everone wrong next season and turns it around. Doubt it, though. The lack of talent on this team is pitiful. Not one reciever who is talented. Not one qb who can make an accurate pass twice in a row. Not one defensive player who gives a rip. This season has been depressing to say the least.

Also, recruiting will drop even more after this game. The two clown announcers continued to bash GT and put them in the same basket as the 3 service academies. And they highlighted tech’s one dimensional offense all night and how tech players have a slim chance at the nfl. I hate those announcers. Any qb, wr, or even talented rb for that matter, that watched the game will look at it and avoid GT. Way to go, Johnson. You brought tech to the promised land and then not even a year later screwed the entire program over. The lack of talent and lack of discipline and motivation IS ALL HIS FAULT

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News Flash… the techies lost… correction, that’s not a news flash… its a pattern. So get used to it, it will be worse for the bee nerds next year running the triple FLOPtion.

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Wow…AFA had better athletes and we were out-coached. Disappointing end to a dismal season.

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And it also irked me that the tech players’ attitudes and expressions during and after the game were non-chalant at best. none of the players care that they had the first losing season in over 10 years at tech, and none of them care that they lost to A SERVICE ACADEMY in SHREVEPORT, LA. as untalented as tech is, they had twice as much talent as air force. the difference is that air force’s players care and they are disciplined

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Holding the football is not your only issue. YOU DONT HAVE TALENT!!! So get use to losing seasons… the triple FLOPtion is done. Even when you gain yards, you get beat on the scoreboard!!

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CPJ won’t be fired for a couple of years at least, but they will be bad again next year and the heat will start to rise. Maybe 2012 can be a decent year.

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Hey Reality… it is coaching. CPJ did not have his team ready to play a service academy. I can say that because it is a pattern that tech has demonstrated over the last 5 games… that is a coaching problem and who is the coach, it PJ… You embarrassed the state of Georgia and the ACC. The triple FLOPtion is done.

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I am surprised that the great coaching genius could not scheme his way to a victory…he is the smartest coach in college football….just wait until he gets his players in his system……oh, nevermind….these are his guys.

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how we beat Duke is beyond me, I do remember Mario Butler stepping in to intercept and score otherwise we would have lost that game too..

Reality, I am the biggest GT fan and support CPJ but I am sorry I am sick of moral victories.. one ok, 5 no it is not ok. I blame all the coaching. The team played like they did at Kansas and could have cared less. After Tevin dropped the ball, I would have tried David Sims who could not have done any worse. For that matter, Nesbitt with his one good arm would not have dropped the ball inside the 10. McKayhan’s first fumble shame on him but McKayhan’s 2nd fumble shame on the coaches. And while I am on this subject, if you had someone inthe athletic dept that kept an eye of matters such as Stephen Hill’ s status knowing he could be in trouble. Has anyone thought about getting him in summer school in which he takes only one course that quarter like the calculus or whatever it was that is his worse subject. It is just a p!ss poor excuses all around and once again I love GT football but this was too discouraging to say anymore

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where are you nerds bashing how bad georgia is maybe so but you are worse

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When Tech beat UGA in 2008 (its only victory in the decade of course) which was Johnson’s first year coaching you nerds thought “there was a new sheriff in town” and that he would reverse the series like Johnson did at Navy with Army. That obviously has not happened and the program is in shambles….you have no playmakers returning on offense and you are laying your hopes on Vad Lee….now that all of Gailey’s players are gone there is no talent on offense and you cannot find a QB to complete 50% of his passess. At least you have basketball……oops.

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The Kool-Aid Drinkers definition of what an Offensive Genius is:

CPJ and his TWO (2) Offensive TDs in THREE BOWL GAMES!

We lose Allen, Bedford and Nesbitt from the Offensive side and we lose at 5-7 Srs. off of the 2-deep on defense, things will only get worse next season.

Oh, and don’t forget Kool-Aid drinkers our SEVEN LOSSES came against the #70th toughest schedule in all of CFB according to the Sagarin computer ratings.

For all you CPJ toadies, you asked for him, now you’ve got him and at $2.3 Mil per yr. plus Hewitt’s albatross of a Contract, GT won’t be able to do anything to CPJ no matter how BAD CPJ runs our FB Program into the ground.

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jacketfan12, you are correct, if Vad Lee still comes I would be shocked. Cannot see that happening when he said he wanted to play for a winner. Giff Smith was by far the best recruiter we had in a decade..GT needs to pay him whatever to get him back from Buffalo and I ean NOW

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ive noticed no nerds on here they all are on georgia web bashing the dawgs nerds will be nerds at least tech grads are welcome in the service now bet those air force guys will be glad to share showers with them

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0-3 in bowl games

1-2 vs. UGA (the two losses coming against UGA teams with a combined 14-11 record)

First Tech losing season in 15 years

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to all ugag fans, just because you beat GT doesn’t mean a blanking thing apparently, who didn’t beat Tech…you might want to see if you can beat Central Fl first before you beat your chest, your season is a disaster, like Spurrier points out, “they sign all these 5 stars, I don’t know what happens to them”

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GT + CPJ + $2.3 Mil per yr. + Triple FLOPtion = Losing seasons for a long time. But tech fans are use to that formula… Hey they have a similar losing formula in basketball!!

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could be worse is a real nerd with anger problems get a life nerd are a boy friend

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Hey CPJ,

Who is responsible for not recruiting adequate linemen for 2 years? (Both sides)

Since you run an option that depends on a strong line?

If you lose a game by three points or less does a field goal matter? After bragging on your kicker?

Just asking – as no “reporter” has asked.

GT grads are not stupid. Answer some questions or stick your head in the sand like CPH.

Enjoy the consequenses and good luck recuiting after this mess. (you just lost to an academy that cannot recruit, should have been a fair match.)

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Bottom line is Johnson and DRad are accountable. Poor recruiting, most would not start at other D1 schools. Poor offense, Poor defense. He’s 0-3 in bowl games and 1-2 against 3 very bad Georgia teams. He’s taken the program backwards after an ACC Championship. No excuses about NFL, academics, etc. High school offense with no passing game won’t work. This is unacceptable. Put those gold colored glasses away.

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Johnson cant just recruit on good looks alone. He needs to really roll up his sleeves this year. Congrats GT you are now teh newest service academy. That will get you some sneaky wins but you will never win anything real big. And the ACC with FSU and Miami in the tank is not considered real big.

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I feel for ya, Tech fans–another self-destruction which can be pinned almost solely on being outcoached. The Jackets had the talent edge in this game and lost because of key errors (turnovers, muffed punt, etc). Odd that both major-college Georgia teams are such mirror images of underachievement and are fundamentally unsound at many areas. Only difference: Georgia’s got better talent. The Jackets lose a lot off of this team–I suspect that next year will be more of the same, and another losing record seems quite possible. Georgia doesn’t lose as many numbers-wise, but AJ’s imminent departure takes the team’s biggest playmaker to the next level. How the defense plays next season will go a long way towards determining whether Georgia can shake off its funk.

Watching the Atlanta game tomight, it’s clear that Brian van Gorder was a big part of Richt’s early success in Athens. We sure miss him!

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I think it’s GREAT that the only thing Tech fans can feel good about, is that the team they hate the most, and who beat them, is having a mediocre season.

Kind of sad if you ask me.

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I mean, you cannot even order a Independence Bowl Championship T-shirt………

PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!

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sounds like could be worse found a boy friend and will come out next year

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I swear you guys are the biggest bandwagon jumpers I have ever seen. I warned you all that Gailey going 7-5 / 8-4 wasn’t the worst thing that could happen to a program. But, you ran him off and now, one year removed from a ACC championship, you want to can his successor.
William A. “Bill” Alexander 1920-1944 134 95 15 .580
Robert L. “Bobby” Dodd 1945-1966 165 64 8 .713
Bud Carson 1967-197 127 27 0 .500
Bill Fulcher 1972-1973 12 10 1 .543
Pepper Rodgers 1974-1979 34 31 2 .522
Bill Curry 1980-1986 31 43 4 .423
Bobby Ross 1987-1991 31 26 1 .543
Bill Lewis 1992-1994 11 19 0 .367
George O’Leary 1994-2001 52 33 0 .612
Mac McWhorter 2001 1 0 0 1.000
Chan Gailey 2002-2007 44 32 0 .579
Jon Tenuta 2007 0 1 0 .000
Paul Johnson 2008-Current 9 4 0 .692
Who wouldn’t you fire on this list? Maybe you should fire yourself as the alumni apparently have done a crappy job attracting coaches and talent,

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Ok CPJ you just got smoked in a bowl game by a team that starts 8-9 European American athletes on defense….they held you to 7 points. Now look at your defense…coal black. Do you think, just maybe, when you go on the recruiting trail you might want to look at a couple of white athletes for your defense. Geez, Georgia Tech fielded a team that would make a “historically black college” proud tonight…Bobby Dodd was rolling over in his grave…

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“But IO want an honest assesment of Paul Johnson and the future of Tech football from a Tech fan.”

Okay, here you go… tech runs the triple FLOPtion and has a losing season!! Its going to be worse next year!

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Johnson is a mediocre coach with a one-trick pony act. He doesn’t recruit well enough to overcome his own self-imposed limitations as an offensive coordinator. Tech will be a non-factor for as long as he is in charge.

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AS USUAL, CPJ CHOKED AGAIN. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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I know UGA fans would like Tech fans to abandon their coach after one bad year but it isn’t going to happen. He has more then earned enough time to turn it back around. Nobody likes a bad season, but me personally, I’m gonna have to see how we play the next two years before I’m ready to make an assessment on CPJ. I’m more then on board with firing Paul Hewitt though. Do it DRad!

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Hey PUNCH THEM….. you really mean, as usual CPJ and his less than high school NO TALENT bag of bee nerd players CHOCKED AGAIN… can give CPJ all the credit for that one.

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You love your Johnson?

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Hey CPJ…Chattahoochee won the 4A State Championship….maybe you should recruit some of their athletes instead of the “urban athletes” you seem to be in love with…..

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Wow. I noticed that on the UGA blog, their fans jump all over someone: “How dare you say something negative about a college kid”.

Yet on the tech blog all of the ignorant a.s.$ UGA fans jump all over the team and kids. Seriously?

And to the commenter who said this: “The team has gone backwards the last two years”

STFU you stupid $.h.i.t. face. They won a conference title ONE year ago.

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Wes Durham does have a very large posterior for a white man. What is the deal the with that?

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“JacketsAndCPJAreAJoke” is a joke….”I WAS a tech fan”? One bad season and you bailed? I think I speak for all Tech fans…….BYE! By the way, “CHOCKED”?! That’s not EVEN a typo!

This game was was, indeed, a microcosm of Tech’s season…too many turnovers lost at the worst times. Glad to put this season behind us. It’s been a long one. Hate that we lost, but I’m willing to bet that the sun will rise in the morning. To take a quote from pup fans….”Next year!!!!”

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What a disaster – a service academy for cry’n out loud – we lost to a service academy. I tried to tell any that would listen – we have serious problems and a serious lack of talent.

Those of you still drinking the CPJ Kool-Aid need to get a grip – this program can’t recruit the talent needed to compete in big boy football.

I’m done – bring on baseball – our only decently run team.

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Hey macrotech… you “next year” will be another wait til “next year”. Don’t bust your brain cell trying to figure that one out. You will need to take a couple of tylenol and go to bed now!!! Triple FLOPtion, no passing fools!!!

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Email DRad and let him know you are not happy with this season, the bowl loss, this boring offense and the two humiliating losses to UGA! Also tell him we need a special teams coach!

First losing season in 14 years! Even Gailey never lost 7 games!

http://firepauljohnson.blogspot.com

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No head ache here….I’m disappointed, but I’m gonna make it. I appreciate your concern! Have you tried cheering for uga…I think you’ll fit right in with their fans. You have the same bark.

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Bring back Chan.

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Hey macrotech – I like your soft “yellow Belly” comments. You remind me of your football team and your triple FLOPtion, no passing coach CPJ, soft and disappointing.

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Next year we can just punch em in the mouth.

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It might be cheaper to get rid of Johnson than Hewitt, first.

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Chan Gailey never lost 7 games, yet this offensive “genius” Paul Johnson did. Paul Johnson could answer this easily…Where was O.J. Simpson hiding right before the famous white Bronco Chase?
On the Georgia Tech campus, because that’s the last place you’ll find a football player.

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Should have gone after Mike Leach. This is just the beginning, folks, of a long, painful slide. Leach could have built a powerhouse with the skill position talent in this area. Johnson is in over his head and recruits are gonna get tired of hearing the excuses. Too many bowl losses, too many bad regular season losses, and no relief in sight… Ouch!

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0-3 bowl games, 1-2 UGA, Kansas and air force loss. Tech should have a press conference asap announcing they are firing CPJ. Another year with this talent and another poor recruiting class. It will take the next coach 3 years + to clean up the program. This year was the 20th year celebration of the 90 championship team and we go out an have a losing season. Great job CPJ. C’mon man of the year.

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Embarrassing season. CPJ should be ashamed.

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Chuck….wouldn’t you call losing 4 key players to the NFL a ‘rebuilding year’? Just wondering.

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Sorry macrotech, but CPJ had 15 Starters coming back for this season. plue key reserves like Orwin Smith, 15 starters is more than most Teams have coming back most seasons, with that returning Talent vs. the 70th toughest schedule AND playing in a crappy ACC where Klimpson, Miami, and UNC were down should have resulted in an 8 or 9 win season.

The Reason we didn’t have that 8-9 win season is that CPJ is a crappy Recruiter and his RS-Fr., T-Sophs, and RS-Sophs were not ready to step up.

Remember that CPJ marveled at HOW YOUNG we were in 2008 when he beat UGA.y, well you can’t be YOUNG in the 2008 and then complain about being young AGAIN in 2010.

We beat UGA.y with a bunch of Sophs. that Chan recruited and now that CJ’s Recruits are at LEAST Sophs. they are not able to contribute to wins because they lack the TALENT that Chan’s Recruits had.

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change your offense and the lame triple option and things will change…..and this is from a uga fan. seriously, this package does not work…recruit qbs who can pass. when you run the ball 98% of the time, your more prone to fumbles and whatnot. get a serious offense, not some crap scheme.

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to continue—–W

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Four observations from a long-time Tech fan:
- Hardly any mention here of the injury to J. Nesbitt. He was our team, folks. Without him, the offense just wasn’t the same. EXCEPT –

- Vs the the Georgia doggards. This “Jr. High offense” ran it down their pathetic throats all night long. We completely outplayed them and lost only because of their insurmountable luck in this series. So they can keep crowing if they like: they are pathetic losers who don’t even know enough to sit down and shut up.

- I really hate this TO offense and I don’t think it is feasible to expect to win with no passing dimension whatsoever, or, for that matter, without a lot of passing ability. Just isn’t done in today’s football.

- I have been turned off on Coach Paul Johnson. His intransigent insistence on running this stuff is destroying our program and I hope he leaves or changes very, very soon. But I don’t think he will leave because I don’t believe any other division 1 school, other than a service academy, would have him.

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I’d like for us to win a bowl game, but I remain optimistic with CPJ at the helm. We NEED to get the turnover bug taken care of, though. I’ll leave all the hate to the pathetic pup fans that have nothing better to do than to generate a “Fire CPJ” campaign….a hint: the powers that be don’t make decisions based off of blogs. Bark away!

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I cannot wait until UCF beats the crap out of the Bulldogs.. then hopefully all of these “Nerd” comments will go away.

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Dear Genius2010,

If you represent UGA then you should be ashamed of yourself. You write like a 3rd grader.

We speak English in this Country, not Redneck Hick Dawg Pup Language.

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Genius2010, I’ve GOTTA believe that uga hired cmr to win a National Championship….HOW’S that workin’ out for ya? In fact, you mutts been barking for his head for the past few years. How long has he been there? You have some barking to do….bey away!

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Don’t worry about the “nerd comments” Russell. Georgia hicks think anybody who can do long division and write a full sentence is a nerd.

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tech fans, its called denial. while the educational comments are amusing, the fact remains the same. what richt has done for uga will never be accomplished by cpj. change the offense, change the coach. otherwise, you’ll be going down the same road year after year. granted uga has had it’s problems, however aside from the past 2 years, uga has been a constant threat in the fbs system.

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@NoMoreHewitt
You had a comma splice in your comment. You’re not a nerd, just an idiot.

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….appreciate THAT cmr IS a good coach….

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oh and you guys managed to score 7 points against air force….great job. find a qb who knows how to throw a ball and stop relying on this lame offense…triple option?? really..is this what gt’s future is all about? have you no self pride?

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don’t use that as an excuse, gt is better than that. i’ll take my bubbles and rest tonight that i’m pretty confident that uga will beat ucf and gt will return with the same triple option next year and history will repeat itself. get rid of that crap offense and things will turn around for gt.

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Would you be referring to the offense that HAS NOT worked for us during the previous regimes of recent history? We’ll stick to this one….perhaps uga could adopt the triple option and get beyond all the preseason hype….just a thought. What’s the definition of insanity? Sleep well…don’t take UCF too lightly, though…they have a good ‘D’, solid QB and a REALLY strong RB. Take no offense in my humor…you seem to be one of the good ones.

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CMR will smoke your boy pj for years to come so get ready to enjoy life in the toilet bowl year after year.

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GT fans complained so long and loud about Chan`s medicore 7and 5 seasons which led to his being fired. At least he never had a losing season record and deployed an offense that could both throw and run the ball.

Relax everyone. Regardless of how many complaints DRad
hears about CPJ, he is no going anywhere for a while. We either have to find another team to pull for or accept what CPJ wants to dish out which will not change.

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Getting tired of CPJ and this offense. Also, Poor recruiting, poor execution. Time for a change; change the offense or change the coach. Ga Tech is a top Academic Institution but is not serious about Athletics, why?, in Football and Basketball we are losers. If we want to be the best, then we need to rethink our programs. Who has CPJ recruited that the NFL will want down the line? Maybe a couple of defensive players. Last year we won the ACC, went to the Orange Bowl but dropped our last two games to Georgia and in the Orange bowl. Not good to me. I have supported Tech a very long time but this is looking like the Pepper Rogers era all over again. If we are going to try to be a top Academic and Athletic School, we need to look at what Stanford, Michigan, and even Auburn (yes, Auburn is a fine academic school); need to play by the same rules as your opponent or you will lose more often than them. Add some education courses, our state needs more good teachers and our high schools overall are poor. We are putting our Athletes under too much pressure with the limited course offerings we have. Come on, Georgia BOR, quit protecting UGA Football and let Tech add Education Majors. We already are a University and you added Engineering at UGA. Fair is fair or are you BOR members just about UGA Football?

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brown frown… Who asked you…. axhole.

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First of all, I am a UGA fan, but I think there are some GT fans who will agree with this. If we don’t have our epic meltdown for a quarter in the GA/GT game in 2008, would Coach PJ be thought of as such an offensive genius?
Secondly, it’s official….both GT AND UGA are bad and neither is going anywhere soon.

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6-6
0-6
1-10

Very telling numbers.

HBTD!!!

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Why can’t johnson win with his own recruits?? 6-7 in that weak conference—are you serious? Paul johnson and paul hewitt–two of the same—mediocre with their own players.

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If he drops the first punt, why have him the second time. You know he is now scared of fumbling and guess what? Poor coaching.

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To St. Simons: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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I AM GLAD THIS JOKE OF A SEASON IS OVER. I CAN NOT TAKE ANYMORE OF THIS CRAP THIS YEAR. I LIKE COACH JOHNSON BUT PRETTY MUCH ALL THE MISTAKES HAPPEN ON THE OFFENCE AND SPECIAL TEAMS WHICH LAST TIME I CHECKED HE COACHES. HE NEEDS TO TAKE A LONG LOOK IN THE MIRROR WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT CORRECTING THE MISTAKES ON THE FEILD. AND FOR GOD SAKES DO WE HAVE TO THROW THE BALL DEEP EVERYTIME?

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Proper prior preparation prevents piss poor performance !!!!!!!

Well the performance was piss poor, What does that say to you ?

If the USAFA guys perform like that …. in real life….. they are dead ! Kinda brings it home, doesn’t it.?

And our Coach know this too !!

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Chan Gailey took his recruits to the ACC Championship the year before he was fired. Johnson took Gailey’s recruits to an ACC Championship the year after he was hired. But now that he is playing with his own recruits, he has a losing record playing in a weak conference. Top notch players do not want to go to a Division 2 style football program. btw: Stanford proves it is not the academic standards. It is the players they are bringing in, and that gimmick game they try to play. They are literally incapable of throwing a completed pass downfield. On that last drive with the time running, they were only able to throw 5 yard patterns.

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Air Force showed what an option attack should look like…mixing in the pass and different formations. CPJ is a joke and should be fired. 6 and 7 in the weak ACC plus losing to 6 unranked teams. You kool-aid drinkers keep drinking it. You are idiots.

We only scored 7 points against an arm service defense. We had bigger, faster, and stronger players, but we have a coach who is a stubborn with his “system”. I think the announcer said Air Force only had 2 players on their team with D1 offers-WOW. This ship isn’t sinking, it is at the bottom of the ocean.

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I guess Tech lost because they can recruit the needed players because of the high class standards needed for enrollment at The North Ave Trade School?

Bhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You just got schooled by Air Force!

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There will be extrafish fillets aplenty boys!!! Spread that tartar sauce o those fish!!!! BAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Well maybe the Athletic Dept will listen, our team looked like high schoolers out there. The announcers were right. Why would you go with a triple option like the service schools. It doesn’t make sense. This will really hurt our recruiting, how are we going to get players like, Calvin Johnson, D. Thomas, Morgan, Dwyer, etc. These are players that wanted to play in the NFL, what NFL team will recruit a Washington, Hill, etc. Have to give credit to Chan Gaily for recruiting those players. Tech will not have a winning season as long as CPJ and Al Groh are there. Wake up Athletic Dept. I will not get season tickets next year or as long a CPJ is coaching. Have a good year.

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Dave from GT, that is a good post. Of the two teams that played last night, one of the two teams had no turnovers, and only one penalty for 5 yards. The other team had 4 turnovers (one in the red zone) and three penalties for 22 yards. It’s really not hard to figure out who won. Air Force didn’t really have to beat us. They just had to play well enough to let us beat ourselves. They show how important discipline can be.

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GTBob – and who recruits and coaches up the players?

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eye exam – I agree, but there was just nobody left. After injuries, players quitting and players flunking… they had to stick with the scrubs.

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SRF; so what was their problem in the other 5 losses to unranked teams?

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Just let the ball bounce and Get Away if you can’t catch the damn thing.

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SRF; I can list all of the problems…

1) Coaching
2) Recruiting

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@bob,

btw: Stanford proves it is not the academic standards

In the past 14 seasons, GT has had 13 winning seasons. Stanford has had 4. 5 of those seasons Stanford had 4 wins or less. You bash GT for bowl games, yet Stanford hasn’t won a bowl game in 14 years. Good for Stanford that they struck gold recently with Andrew Luck but you might want to find a better team for comparison.

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We won the party!

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Remember that these are STUDENT Atheltes

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collegeballfan – Gailey also never won the ACC

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@ GTBob; please don’t use high academic standards as the excuse. Air Force’s standards are much higher to get good players. FWIW; there is a reason GT added a business management degree – so their football players could take it.

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@CloudmanJacket,

That absolutely falls on CPJ and I am pretty sure he would admit that. Lack of discipline, fundamentals, and motivation was the killer for our team all season. He has to figure out where that went wrong and right the ship in the off season.

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6-7 record in the weak ACC???? Inexcusable—time for johnson to hit the road and go back to Navy. Tech needs a real coach who will run a pro offense to get big time recruits who want to play in the nfl–not this weird, mickey mouse option offense that doesn’t work in big games.

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Why did Johnson let No. 80, Daniel McKayhan, catch the punts, or drop them when that is Tarrant’s job? Was Tarrant hurt? Did PJ want Daniel McKayhan to get experience? I hope it’s not the latter.

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Tech lost their starting quarterback and best player in the middle of the season. I can’t believe that the media isn’t cutting them more slack. That said, as a Georgia fan I know what that feels like (Losing to Florida without Shockley and losing to Tech without Quincy Carter).

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the real Old Gold – thank god there are still some rational thinking people out there…you would think people would cut CPJ a little slack after he came in and won the ACC championship in his 2nd season, which, by the way was just last year!

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BigTimeTechFan – I agree on all points. While Tevin is a solid backup, I dont think he is the answer for us to compete for championships

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gtu lost to AIR FORCE????? BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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I’m a big Tech fan for 60 years, and I have never seen such a lack of talent and heart. There is not a playmaker (our last one was injured and he is a senior) on the team, and looks like we won’t be getting any after the way the announcers bashed our program. I never thought I would see a CPJ coached team play this way for such a long string of games. The problem is not really the defense. It is the offense and special teams.

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I hope the UGA defense watched the Air Force Defense. That is playing with heart and knowing assignments. Tech will be fine. Johnson is bringing in his recruits for his offense. All these Johnson bashers knew what they were getting. My gosh he has run that offense all his life. They have some good recruits coming in, starting with the QB from Charlton Co. He may be the best athlete in the state.

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NO talent, no wins paul johnson will take us back to the bill lewis years

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@the real Old Gold

6 losses to unranked teams? If it isn’t coaching, then what is it. You want to blame the players and you are right that CPJ isn’t on the field, but he is responsible for the players on the field. He recruits them and should coach them up. He now has HIS players so he is to blame.

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That’s it, I’m not renewing my Tech season tickets. Ive had enough of this garbage

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Paul Johnson Shot is wad and now is nothing but mediocre., Fact is we suck, and I hate saying that. CPJ’s arrogance hurts us in games. While he isn’t the fun fumbling he makes it difficult by passing up points and by not being smart enough to replace a guy after he has fumbled a punt return. He says we didn’t have anybody else. BS. Put one one the kick returners out there. If there is no one else who can catch a punt that’s his fault and that’s pathetic. He needs to get a QB who can throw, and receivers who can catch. He needs to incorporate more short passes to backs out of play action. He needs to get a kicker and punter and someone who can coach the defense as well a special teams coach. I hope there is a job open this year that he takes and am ready to get a hot young charge or bring back Chan ( when Buffalo fires him) or even O’Leary. Go ahead Dawg fans lay it on us, we deserve it but remember you guys too are in deep trouble.

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WHY IS RODDY JONES NOT GETTING THE BALL???????

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How can AF run multiple formations and GT can only run one if this is the same offense? I think CPJ is extremely overrated!

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Tech sucks! Ha Ha you bunch of losers! Get ya some of that.

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Most teams put a skill player to catch punts like a WR……….Whoops, sorry.

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I don’t think tech has a skill player…………..

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I’m also shocked at 7 points……Not having Nesbit hurt…..He plays Tech wins by 2 TD’s, and I’m a Dawg fan. Hard to score with that offense with a 2nd teamer QB who hasn’t played all year. I thought Tech’s D played pretty good. Turnovers killed ya.

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Last night, did anyone else wonder how Air Force could shut down Tech’s offense, but Georgia couldn’t?

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I actually thought the defense played the best I have seen against the run this year. Our punt returner getting hurt was really the story of the game. Without those two mishaps, I think GT wins the game. But, not the coaches fault OR the substitute punt returner. I can’t remember when I have seen another punt returner other than #37 back to even receive a punt. I know he has done it in practice, but practice a little different from the actual ballgame. We have recruited 17 players coming in next year and if the REAL GT fans will look at them and see the size on the OLs, DLs and LBs coming in you just might actually look forward to next year as I am. By the way, got a GREAT WR plus another guy that will probably play LB, but can play the B back.

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@GTBob; you are completely a Kook-Aid drinker. He has 3 recruiting classes under his belt. Are you serious? The last 2 years they were better with Gailey’s recruits. I really hope you are smarter than that; you cannot be a GT grad.

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December 28th, 2010
1:39 am

If any of you were real Tech fans you would stop with the comments and look at the actual future. The only OB on this team with ANY experience was a guy who absolutely could not hit the side of a barn with a pass if he was standing 3 feet from it (Nesbit). He was replaced by Washington who had been on the field exactly 3 plays. . . .. Oh one more thing–The Gailey recruited non throwing QB known as Nesbit–broke his arm trying to tackle the Va Tech player after he threw him the ball as if he was a Tech WR, as he was in the end zone. So I guess you “it’s Gailey’s players” people would have to write that game off as lost by Gailey instead of Johnson, right ?
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Well, i’m certainly not a “real tech fan”, but I do know how to spell Nesbitt’s name. I’m a Dawg fan myself, but no one in the state of Georgia will be happier to see Nesbitt graduate than myself. That kid is a flat-out competitor and winner. I’m sure every other team Tech plays will be much happier to see any other gt QB lining up behind center than Nesbitt.

I’ve been saying this for over a year now, but no tech fan wanted to hear it. Johnson’s inflexibility when it comes to his offense will be what does him in. If he continues to put the QB under center instead of in the shotgun when it is 3rd down and longer than 6, he’ll continue to lose. Tech’s linemen are not big enough to effectively pass block for very long since Johnson basically recruits high school tight ends and turns them into linemen. So instead of giving his QB one extra second, he keeps him under center. It hurt Nesbitt at times last year and this year, and will hurt any QB that plays in his system.

I am a Dawg fan, but I am also a football fan. I thought it was a shame that Nesbitt didn’t get to finish out his career on the field instead of the sideline. And seeing tech people go from Nesbitt followers to putting him down . . . well, any “real” tech fan would have told you where to go.

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Maybe we should hire the Air Force coach…at least his option attach shows different looks and mixes in the passing game instead of the bull headed CPJ that runs the same freaking set and play over and over. Only 7 against Air Force and losing to 6 unranked teams – inexcusable

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@CloudmanJacket

Are you saying that I’m lying? You can check the depth chart if you want. Unless you think he should kick all of the upper classmen off the team just so he can say he is using his own players. CPJ really didn’t have much impact on the 2008 class because of when he got the coaching job. So he basically had the 2009 and 2010 classes. Any players he decided to red shirt get delayed another year so you are looking at mostly Freshman and some Sophomores recruited by Johnson. This will even out more next year, so give it a little bit of time.

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I think CPJ’s bra was too tight, and it cut off circulation to his head. What a dumb azz coach! Yea…come on and hit a UGA person upside the head and see what will happen to you, fat fart Johnson. Punk!

L O V E I T !!!!!!

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@ GTBob

Not saying you are lying, just saying you are drinking the Kook-Aid. It is simply his 3rd recruiting class and so he does have HIS players. If the Gailey players suck, then he should have recruiting replacements for them. It is his responsibility to do this. Most programs start a ton of sophmores and Juniors, so what is the problem? Coaching and Recruiting.

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Keeping pj at tech will hurt your program faster than a snowball in hell.You will be recruiting left overs with no chance to reach the NFL and the T.O. will put tech back 50 yrs.pj is a joke and should be ran out of town before it is to late.tech is already 3 yrs behind and five years of rebuilding to catch up.Good luck to you I know it is tough because we at UGA are in a down cycle now also,but I bet we recover and get on track a lot sooner than you think.

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Cloudman Jacket

There is a difference between kool aide and knee-jerk reactions to one bad year (still went bowling). Let’s fire the coach. ??? You want Gailey back?? You want to start over every 3 years??? because I can guarantee Tech will not beat 10 top 10 teams and win the national championship every year.

ACC champion last year. look at the roster and redshirts. I looks a lot better than 3 years ago.

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Turn out the lights …. the “gimmicks” over …..

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it appears as though the Jackets have the worst special teams in college football.

It doesn’t just appear. They do have the worst.

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I don’t think we should fire him…yet. But his recruiting stinks too.

Does CPJ only care about his precious triple option offense?

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@ Always a Jacket

If you are proud of losing to 6 unranked teams than you will be satisfied again next year. We saw the future of Tech football last night. I was glad to see Gailey gone, but does that mean his replacement is the right guy? No, I would rather see O’Leary back or just any coach that runs a traditional offense.

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The game last night looked like a High School Game from the old day’s.

Air Force-cant quit laughing!

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@ Ted M

That is all he cares about and he won’t change. He thinks he is smarter than all other coaches and they just haven’t figured it out yet. No other successful D1 school runs the triple option 100% of the time. Even Air Force’s coach knows you have to throw it some and mix up the formations. CPJ is stubborn

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I always pull for Tech in bowl games. That was an ugly game. Tech scored 7 points on Air force?! and 34 points against UGA?! Well, it really shows Tech did not come out to play and that Georgia’s defense is terrible (that’s what $750K/year gets you). Dawg fans have nothing to bash about. We’ll be lucky to be UCF in our bowl game.

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Serious question for techies; how long will you give CPJ? I know he started out like a house on fire, but it seems he may have done all he can do. I know he won the ACC last year, and promptly got slaughtered in the bowl game exactly like he did against LSU in the Chick-fil-a bowl in 08′, but it appears the program is seriously moving in the wrong direction. Without Willie Martinez, CPJ would be 0-3 against Georgia, would that change the attitude of tech fans? I am not attacking tech; I am really curious as to how long tech will give CPJ.

Also, does CPJ’s personality annoy tech fans like it does the rest of the world? I admire competitiveness and confidence as much as anyone, but CPJ takes it too far. At what point in life does CPJ force himself to say; “the other team just played better than we did” or “Coach __________ really had them prepared”? I have never seen a D-1 coach who whines and makes excuses after a loss like CPJ.

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“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football”

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@CloudmanJacket,

I don’t give Gailey credit or blame for anything that happened after he left. It’s CPJ’s team now regardless of who recruited them. But to insinuate that Gailey’s players are gone now and all of the players are Johnson recruits isn’t even close to true. There is only one junior on GT’s team that was recruited by Johnson and he isn’t a starter. The rest are red shirt sophomores or lower.

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CPJ is like Gollum in LOTR with is triple option offense…”my precious”!

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That was one of the most BORING football games I have ever seen. Tech STUNK. No excuses. I don’t see any improvement comming next season. Let the JAWJA people howl with glee. However they are not much better.

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odd, how seven and eight win seasons were to be scorned by some and now we have a season with seven losses with the successor now beginning to play with his own players. irony or karma for those that pushed the buttons for change? as a tech fan long standing to the dodd era, even bobby dodd had long droughts with teams even below .500 or 7 and 4 with a bowl thrown in. that seem to have been forgotten by the people that wanted change. not a pretty season at all but well deserved.

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We have the same problem….Dawgs have reached a point of beating Vandy and Kentucky is news and exciting. Yours will be Duke and Wake…….Big boys, we’re both suffering.

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Hire Leach quick before Maryland gets him……

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Did anything you Tech people saw last night get you excited about next year ? Really.

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CPJ’s offense isn’t getting it done and I think with his recruiting classes it will get worse. We are definately getting smaller up front on both sides of the ball. This doesn’t bode well for our future.

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True GT.

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I wish there was a site where reasonable fans could talk football. I am a Georgia grad so I’m not rooting for Tech but you do represent the State and it was obvious that the 2 teams were at best equally matched talent wise. There should be 3 dominant teams in ACC FSU, UM, and Tech, but Tech’s recruiting is really lacking. In a talent rich state like GA there is no excuse that the other BCS team has to win recruiting battles with the Middle Tennessee’s and Marshall’s of the world. Also, Tech and Air Force ran the same offense but Air Force seemed to have many more wrinkles in their attack. Finally, even I didn’t like how the announcer’s clowned Tech. I say this with the hopes that we don’t lay an egg against UCF. If both programs have top notch programs the state of Georgia can get the hype Texas and Florida get for being dominant in football. Go Dawgs!!!

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how’s that karma treating you, Techies?

at least the Dawgs walked out of the Toilet Bowl in Shreveport with a win!

you guys are pathetic!

by the way, where’s 5150POAD??? waiting on him to chime in

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4 losses:
Dwyer, D. Morgan, M. Burnett and Thomas…

These were huge. Anthony Allen performed well but the others were not replaced with talent that was even close to their level. Thomas may have been the biggest loss. There were few receivers in the country, let alone at Tech, who were as good.

Hard to look at recruiting and tell anything. FSU gets 4 and 5 star athletes every year and this is the first year since 2005 that they have been in the Championship game. Georgia is loaded with 4/5 star players and they went 6-6.

Is anyone here old enough to remember that Auburn finished #3 in the country utilizing the wishbone in 1983? The were 11-1 and beat 4 top 10 teams in their last 5 games (granted Bo Jackson may have been the best college RB ever). The only issue I see with this offense is lack of creativity. I don’t think our O-line can pass protect well enough to set up pass routes 10-12 yards down the field. Why not counter this with some screens and quick tight end release routes? With linebackers playing up in the box, the field should be wide open 6 – 8 yards past the line of scrimmage. Hit a few of these high percentage passes and the defense would have to loosen up. Being one dimensional is a problem against disciplined, well coached teams. Wrinkles need to be added.

Just a few thoughts…

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CloudmanJacket……………Couldn’t you see Leach as HC and Diaz from Miss St as DC……..I would be afraid for my Dawgs…….

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@ Buzzsaw;

when did Auburn finish # 3 running the wishbone? Exactly. The triple option is completely different and he has no pass plays planned unless they are down in the 4th quarter. Simply a joke.

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Hey, they are kids, and they got beat by a better team. So did the Falcons. Get over it or get counseling.

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Johnson should look for an actual high school coaching job. In the future, bowls should not invite GT period. As previously said, there looked to be maybe 800-1000 people in the stands. I wondered if the local McDonald’s stayed open late to serve them. Remember all the hee-haw last year when UGA played there. AT least, the Bulldogs WON! Tech should schedule high school teams…wooo.
Selective high school teams. Some of Georgia’s HS teams could beat Tech.

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Again, let’s state the obvious: if a team has time to prepare for this triple option, it can stop it (look at the last 3 bowl games with weeks to prepare). If a team has seen this offense over the course of a few years, it can stop it. In short, Paul Johnson is a”Johnny One-note,” the gild is off his rose, he has been exposed. No talented recruit wants to play under this scheme, hence the drop off in highly ranked recruits in the past two years (and this recruiting year ending in February). No major college in FBS will succeed in the long term running this gimmick “O,” and lastly, after seeing it the last few years, I’m just incredibly bored to death by it. Even when we win, it’s just a bore. Fans cannot accept BOREDOM and Johnson’s playbook is a BORE.

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Georgia Tech sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Can someone pleaze explain Why in the name of God Tarrant wasn’t returning punts?? I saw him on the field – made 2 tackles – he certainly wasn’t on IR… Sure he’s over-rated but at least he coulda caught the D@mn ball!!!!

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tarrant got a strain of some sort according to the announcers.

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Tech should fire Coach Paul Johnson and perhaps even get rid of their football program all together. If you want to root for a winning football team I would pick another team outside of Georgia. Expect the same comments all over again this time next year with CPJ in command.

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@ michael

Why have a Qb who can pas if you are not going to pass until you are down in the 4th?

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@ GT Bob

I am right and athletes get 1st opportunity for this degree. There is a reason that most of the “star” athletes at tech enroll in the “new” BSBA degree

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@ GTBob

FWIW, I do know the difference and it still an easier degree than engineering. My point is quit using academics as Tech’s problem. It’s not like its Yale or Harvard

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That was a very painful and boring football game to watch.

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I hope CPJ learned one thing this year. YOU NEED TO EXPAND THE PASSING GAME AND RECRUIT QBS THAT CAN RUN AND THROW. IT WILL NOT HURT GETTING A FEW PLAYERS THAT CAN CATCH THE FOOTBALL TOO…Other teams are catching on to defending the ” triple option ” and your very limited passing attach.If you can’t throw and complete something other than a 20 + yard seam or out route we will never loosen up the line of scrimmage and make the run successful. ( Look what Coach K at Navy has done passing the ball while still running your triple option ) There are other sections of the field that can be attached by the passing game. ACC champs in year two was great but stepping backwards in year three is not what the Tech fan ordered..

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Thanks Paul, I owe you…..

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Georgia had a poor season, very very unacceptable. Real Georgia fans expect so much more from our team. I am amazed that here, I continually read where Tech fans are excited about their offense running up and down the field on Georgia….wow….get some pride guys, moral victories are losses…your expectations need to be higher….your offense is embarrassing and CPJ is not the genius that we keep being told he is….it’s one thing to be a fan but quite another to be an idiot…

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I am tired of hearing Tech make excuses about the sorry teams they have. The classes may be tough to the average Tech student, but you can’t tell me that Tech athletes have it any tougher than at any other school. They take care of their ahtletes with the easy classes.

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A team that plays the option can defend against the option. GT didn’t have its starting QB or kick returner. But, USAFA certainly had more plays from the option than I’ve seen GT run.
Fortunately, athletics is not the most important thing at GIT.

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You have several weeks to prepare and you end up playing like this! Paul Johnson WILL never bring anything to Tech but losses. He got lucky with Gailey’s leftovers but his own players stink. The AD is too stupid to see his coaches are horrible. How else do you explain Paul Hewitt still having a job and hiring Paul Johnson in the first place. Time to go get a new coach.

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Real Jacket fans unite. We won over 20 games the first two years and this was a down year. We lost our Senior QB near the end of the season and still should have beat UGA between the cesspool. Once we get Vlad Lee next year things will look up, just look at WV for four years when they got Pat White. They also drubbed UGA in the Sugar Bowl his freshman year. Also, this was the first year switching to the 3-4 defenese. I thought 7-5 or 8-4 was realistic until we lost Josh. GT will be back and CPJ will Rule This State long after the puppies run CMR out of town next year. THWG!

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Too bad for PJ, but let’s face it; high school running offenses get figured out quickly in the big leagues. PJ, maybe if you recruited a HS QB like Timmy Bylerly who can run AND pass the ball, you might have had a chance. Your QB’s have a difficult time hitting a stationery target. Don’t fret PJ, you’ll get a lucrative High School job soon. GO DAWGS!!!

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No special teams, average defense, no passing threat. I urge a coach dedicated solely to special teams, with dedicated players who earn the right to play on special teams. Better hire a passing coach too. Give Al a couple more years and the right to recruit his own choices for defense, and I think the D will be well above average.

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Tech has a great coach who HAS recruited very well. Next year there is a great deal of talent on this team and I think Tech will be very good. 2012 will be a great year for Tech football and the beginning of a great era in Tech football if Tech can be wiser than the rest of the idiots out there and stick by the coach that will take them there. Disappointing season, but do not believe the nay sayers, Tech lead the nation in rushing this year and you can see the defense is improving. Give Coach Groh time and he will build a championship defense. GO JACKETS!

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Fire Paul johnson!!!!!It is over!!!!!!!

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As a supporter of Tech athletics I can assure you I am goingb to do all I can to have Paul Johnson fired.He has set our program back years with his aweful recruiting.We have to do what Maryland and Miami did accept PJ is not the answer and move on.We can get a good coach such as Malzhan.We have to do this and no lets give him one more year.We have seen all we need to see and it is time our AD act and do the right thing for GT football.Fire Paul Johnson!!!!

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NO its not “one bad season” – it has been 3 years of getting worse and 3 bad bowl losses.

Do not blabber about ACC champs – it was a bad year for the other ACC teams – you say the true team in the UGA and Iowa games. Mediocre.

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SRF – 3 years of getting worse? Using what criteria?
GT under Chan – 7-6 7-6 7-5 7-5 9-5 7-6
GT under Johnson 9-4 11-3 6-7
My middle school kid can read those numbers and see that it is not 3 years of getting worse.

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Lordy, last night Coach Johnson sure did appear rather constipated late in the 4th quarter!

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NavyGuy – Most of the season the D was the problem for GT. The D was not the problem last night. Air Force was held to 16 points below their average and scored fewer points against GT than against Oklahoma or Utah – 2 highly ranked teams.

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If you see an Air Force cadet punch him in the nose.

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Folks, as you all know it matters not if Georgia Tech loses every game, the dogs win every game, win every championship created by man, recruit and sign the best players, have the best coaches, best stadium, all the population (except one) as fans, promote barking as a communication tool, sell fuga gear in every store, and as I tip my hat to you for this, have the best looking ladies assembled in the world, every year until this world ends, we all know that the best trait dog fans and anything associated with fuga exhibit, is that you all SUCK!! That is the way it is and always will be.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

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Paul Johnson’s offense=8 points per game in bowl games.

Too bad this isn’t baseball.

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I watched that game, and i would not say the problem is entirely Paul Johnson. The players representing Georgia Tech had absolutely NO passion or drive for that game.

Tech had more talent, size, and speed (especially defensively) – but the Air Force Academy had more heart. Tech didn’t want to be there, while Air Force was excited about the opprotunity.

Also, the QB missed a wide open WR along the right sideline at the end of that game. Underthrew him by at least 10 yards. That is an issue that needs addressed.

If Paul Johnson kept the same offensive, but found a way to EFFECTIVELY throw the ball 15 times a game, it could be lethal. but without a passing game, Tech will always be a sitting duck if they ever had to score the ball quickly or play from behind

good luck in 2011, but what happened last night was pathetic

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How can it be possible to lose a bowl game and end up with a losing season. Wow….that is when you know you have too many bowl games. I think in last year’s Gator Bowl both FSU and WVU were 6-6 but other than WVU and GT has any team ever exited a bowl game with a losing record? Damn can it get any more embarrassing for GT than that.

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How great it was to see a football team that looked good, was disciplined, and stands for what this country stands for. It was great not to see hair out from under the helmets and tattoos all over the body. Go Air Force, Army and Navy!

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Dadgum… I agree that there are too many bowl games, but GT isn’t the first team to lose a bowl game to have a losing record. Last year Texas A&M lost to UGA to go 6-7.
Other teams who lost bowl games to go 6-7 in 2009 – Minnesota, Michigan State

As far as last year’s Gator Bowl is concerned, FSU won the game to go 7-6 but WVU was 9-3 going into the Bowl

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“[John Heisman] was a proponent of the legalization of the forward pass in 1906 and he originated the ‘hike’ or ‘hep’ shouted by the quarterback to start each play.”
-From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heisman

That, for those of you who did not attend the state liberal arts university, is what we call irony.

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PJ – Wasn’t that your team’s job last night?

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NoFKNdog UGA doesn’t have the best looking ladies assembled in the world … but they’ll do.

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Its hard for any team to win if you continually turn the ball over. Players know that they are not suppose to fumble. I’m sure its talked about at every pro, college and high school practice.
Why some players do it and others don’t is probably a mystery to all coaches.

It obviously is the difference in winning and losing.

It will be interesting to see what type of team we have next year. We gained some playing time for some younger players which can only help.
At first glance it looks like we needs lots of talent on both sides of the ball. Next year is a new year.

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I’m embarrassed by all the UGA supporters who have nothing better to do than spend their “valuable” time talking smack on a GT blog. If you really think they are losers what does that make you?

If you really think your own team is so awesome then get a life and show some class and let results of the games speak for themselves. Unless you’re a 12 yr old you just sound like you’re trying to compensate for your own insecurities by wasting your time beating up a lesser team.

And don’t bother writing one sentence if you can’t spell or punctuate or use proper grammar. You are an embarrassment and don’t you see you just add credence to all the dumb UGA comments.

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Man tech is so well coached that paul johnson sure is great! 0-3 in bowl games can’t beat georgia can’t sell out his own stadium. What a great coach! and a great program! GO TECH!

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Here some quotes for you CPJ and this comes from a GT Alum
- We are a undisciplined football team?
- Turnovers are killing us and it’s on the staff to fix it.
- The staff did not prepare a backup QB over the last two years in the event we needed one.
- We are unprepared to run a two minute or for that matter a 5 minute offense when Air Force showed you can.
- The staff’s failed to develop a passing game and it’s cost us games. And we’ve not taught our receivers to catch a simple pass.
- I hired an excellent defensive coordinator but failed to tell him I didn’t recruit the talent needed to make him successful.

See, unlike UGA fans we call it like we see and aren’t delusional. UGA’s in Memphis not New Orleans. It’s the Liberty bowl! Tech fans also aren’t so delusional we call for our head coach to be fired after every loss! We simply call it like we see it. Now go tell everyone if you beat UCF that UGA is in the National Title hunt in 2011!

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And I’ll remind the UGA fans, we ran all over your defense when Air Force was not allowing it. The same Air Force team that lost in Norman by 3 points.

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Are you not tired of winning the rushing stat and still getting a loss?

If all you do is run, a team almost certainly will have a high number of …rushing….yards. Coach Johnson may already know his QB cannot pass efficiently and does not attempt many…but until Tech does pass effectively, that rushing stat still means little.

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To not win a single bowl in three seasons and give downright embarrassing performances in each of the bowls is unforgivable. Johnson just does NOT know how to prepare any team for a BOWL game. All he has done for the ACC is embarrass the conference. I can not see why GT would keep him another year. Good riddance. Go embarrass another conference.

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superDawg, will you be around if the pups lose to UCF? Don’t bother answering….I already know the answer. I’ll be in Memphis….I’ll let ya know how it plays out. I’m a ‘giver’!

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flagboy?

two things;

First I have to give you cudo’s for reading the ENTIRE board (since mine were early)

and Secondly,

If you are a true football fan you would have to agree with my statement about Nesbitt (you happy with the spelling now).

Anyone knows that a football team has to have a QB that is at the minimum a threat to pass. Nesbitt NEVER was a threat to ANY secondary (unless he was running through it). I don’t have to appologize for making a negative statement about that fact.

This offense that you leg humpers love to degrade has out gained your defense in every game so far. Yes you have won 2 0f the 3, however I would hope that you would admit to yourself that you were lucky to win ANY of the three.

You should also admit that if Tech had a QB that could throw the ball you would have never been in ANY of those games to begin with.

It is a simple statement Nesbitt cannot throw the ball and that is a fact. It has nothing to do with his toughness or heart it has to do with the fact that he was a QB. A QB in an offense that ran up 550 yards on the Dawgs—without Nesbitt. I hope as a true football fan you would be able to recognize that if you were never able to stop the high school offense when you knew it was run run run, you would NEVER stop it if you had to defend 10-15 well placed passes each game.

I know this is not as big of an issue when we play the Dawgs since we do what we want to on the ground but against a tough team we need a QB who can pass with accuracy from time to time.

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UGA in the SEC East

2010: 4th place
2009: 3rd place
2008: 2nd place
2007: 1st place

…worry about your own mediocre team UGA fans

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GTech is pathetic!! No support is needed. It’s not worth it. Most boring bowl game of the year!! Lame coach, lame offense, lame school, lame fan base, lame mascot, lame colors, lame cheerleaders. EVERYTHING GTech is lame right now. Find another favorite team. The rest of Georgia will understand.

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Paul Johnson should be on the hot seat he’s not getting it done at Georgia Tech the option offense sucks. Tech should give Paul Johnson one more year and if next year don’t go well he needs to go.

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UGA has their own problems and Tech can’t hold a candle to the issues that program has to juggle on a regular basis. Hopefully Tech will never sink that low.

Johnson lost control of his team. The coaches should have a greater awareness throughout the semester regarding academic progress and deficiencies. The help is there if they want it. Violation of curfew should never be an issue. All of them let the team down.

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I’m obviously a UGA fan but I was rooting for Tech in this game. Seemed as if most of the players were out of shape, lethargic and didn’t give a _ _ _ n about the bowl. This was a great opportunity to start practice for next season but it didn’t happen; at least from my perspective. CPJ should seriously consider some other offensive sets and not put his offense into “high” risk fumble situations.I know 2 were by the second string punt returner but triple option offenses are very high risk.See you in Atlanta in November !!!!

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Just heard the news that Georgia Tech SUCKS!! When did this happen?

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the bottom line on the georgia tech blowflys is they flat out suck. What else can you say?

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Sitting at Dantanna’s Monday night having dinner befor the Falcon vs Saints game and you would think it being a packed house, standing room only, that some Tech fans would show somw support. My friend and I couldn’t believe the cheers that went up when Air Force kicked a fieldgoal to end the 1st half. Dantannas is a sports bar in the CNN Center and no Tech fans.
Why don’t you Tech people support your team?
New Orleans must have brought 15 to 20 thousand fans to the Ga. Dome.
Now that’s support.
Couldn’t believe that many fans in 1 sports bar in the city of Atlanta rooting for the opposing team.
That’s truley sad.
Did Ga. Tech even have a sellout game at Grant Field this season? anybody know of one??

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I will still fly my GT flag, upside down.

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I remember in August how all the GT fans were trash talking in here about how great they were and how they were going to roll over the ACC and play in the BCS title game, not to mention how often they ALL said VT was over rated. GT fans are the worst trash talking fans with nothing to back it up.
Well the records says it all and VT is in a BCS bowl. VT, the real Tech, will represent the ACC (again) in the BCS. Happy New Year!

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I always have been and always will be a GT fan. I will not
lose interest in the football or basketball programs
as bad as they are now. However, under the present coaching regimes, I do not see much to get excited about.
CPJ is not going to change anything of substance because his ego and arragance (sp) wont let him do so. Hewitt seems to be overwhelmed to the point where he does not have a clue as to what needs to be done to turn the program around.

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Fire Johnson!

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How did the “Nesbit4Heiasman.com “thing do?

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That’s right, I said it….

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Despite all of the defense/special teams issues, the bottom line is Tech is 24-2 under Johnson when scoring 25 points or more. Pitiful offensive performance against a team that Tech had a size advantage on. Need to get the offense back on track next year and it is going to take a small threat of passing the ball (like last year) to keep the opponents defense honest.

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@ GTfan2011

Inspired defense against Air Force? Are you serious? What does being at the game do, make you an expert? I watched the game and our team has better and bigger athletes. We should be able to stop their offense.

We lost to 6 unranked teams with CPJ having 3 years to recruit HIS players. There is no excuse. Unlike you who “was at the game”, I have a pair of reality glasses on.

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@ billbuzz

When do you start blaming the coaches for the players performances. If they go 0-12 next year, will you? I am not blaming CPJ for this one game, but I am for losing to 6 unranked teams. He recruits them and coaches them, so he is ultimately responsible. Keep drinking the kool-aid. I guess if Tech never wins another game, you will just say it is OK to keep the coaching staff because they are not the ones on the field. This just shows how stupid your comments are. The coaches are ultimately responsible for what happens on the field.

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@ Billbuzz

I like how you are ready to fire Hewitt even though he isn’t the one who missed the shots, didn’t play defense, and didn’t play with heart. It isn’t his fault the players didn’t perform and execute. LOL; you made my point.

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WHY CAN’T WE GET READY TO PLAY A BOWL GAME? IT WOULD BE NICE TO WIN ONE SOMETIMES, JUST LIKE GETTING THE TEAM PREPAIRED TO PLAY A LESS THAN AVERAGE GEORGIA TEAM, THE PRIORITIES DON’T SEEM TO BE IN ORDER. THE COACH ACTED LAST YEAR LIKE BEATING GEORGIA WASN’T AS IMPORTANT AS WINNING THE ACC, BUT THEN WE GO TO A BOWL WE’RE NOT EVEN FIRED UP ENOUGH TOWIN IT. I GUESS THATS SOMETHING I SHOULD BE USE TO. BUT WE WANT TO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The same “issues” Tech always makes in comparison to UGA football program (i.e. tougher academic entrance requirements, tougher curriculum, can’t recruit the same athletes, etc) can be used by Air Force in comparison to Tech .. and they won anyway.

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CPJ is not the answer although everyone seems to think he is a genius and the best coach in the country. His players were not motivated or inspired or disciplined this year at all. Same story every game: mental mistakes, turnovers, stupid penalties that kill any drive = lose the game. That is all coaching and getting the team prepared. Quite frankly, GT should have lost to Wake and Duke! This was a a very easy schedule in 2010 and GT ended up 6-7. How is Johnson going to turn it around? Recruiting into that offense is very difficult. What linemen or receivers or throwing QB would ever weant to go play in that offense? GT’s program has basically become irrelevant and I don’t see that changing any time in the near future.

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I have supported Washington since Nesbitt went down, but it is painfully obvious that he is not the QB for GTs future. I was praying the extra time would allow him to get better with the pitches to the a-backs but that game proved otherwise. Since the VT game GT has been a double option at best with most of the presure on Allen. I almost jumped out of the stands on the two muffed punt returns and wondered why Bostic was not thier when Tarrant got hurt. Obviously these coaches need to fix special teams and get Days ready to be the new starting QB next year, oh and can you get a WR that can catch and block. Hopefully GT can keep the recruits we have because I can’t see Cooper or any other that GT is currently trying to recruit coming now.
Congrats to the Air Force cadets they played hard stayed fucosed and deserved the win.

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I am disappointed in several of my other fellow GT fans if they are really even true fans or UGA fans in disguise. Yes CPJ and GT had a REALLY bad season and I am at a loss how the focus and itensity just was not there, but it was one bad season out of three. GT lost a lot of talent and some of the young kids just did not step up as soon as one would hope. The lack of depth at QB hurt and blame CPJ all you want for Shaw and Luellan transferring but it happens all the time just usually not two in one season. Next year I as a fan expect some serious changes and expect with the 09 and 10 defensive recruits for the defense to make huge strides and for the young O players to seriously step up. It was a hard year to be a Jacket fan, but I will always be true blue and gold and support this team no matter what. Hopefully Days, Perkins, Smith, Bostic, Jones, Moore, and some o-lineman (McRae, Uzzi, Beno, Jackson, Finch would be my guess) will get together in the offseason to get some serious timing and unity down. Hell ven Hill can come after some time with passing drills.

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Ramblin Man, I think the way you feel is the feeling of most true Tech fans. Most that I have talked to anyways. Of course there is concern after a bad year but not the lets fire everyone idiocy being spewed by the UGA fans pretending to be Tech fans. This season pretty much ended when Nesbitt went down. At that point a bad bowl game was the best we could do and it’s what we did. I’m anxious to see what changes come and what new players will get their chance next year.

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johnson only won with gailey’s recruits! When Gailey gets fired next year, Tech needs to hire him back!

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Oh the humanity. I see the Techies are still flaunting the academic excuse only days after losing to…wait for it….wait for it….AIR FORCE. Yeah, THAT Air Force. The same Air Force that the typical Tech football player couldn’t get in to unless freaking pigs flew. You Techies are simply unbelievable. I have never seen anything like it. Wow.

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dawgfan,
Now I’m really confused. Over on the recruiting blog we are being made fun of because a couple of our recruits only other players could get into Air Force. Which is it??!?!?!?

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C.P.J Need to tell Vad Lee if he come to tech he will be the starter,But is C.P.J. afraid Washington Will punch him out.

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The Jackets will be fine. As always, the games are played on the field and this year’s team was not up to playing with the best of their opponents (I even include the Dawgs here). CPJ will make changes. He knows how to adapt. All you fair weather Jacket fans – go watch Georgia play cause they really know how to play the game with their 4 and 5 star recruits. The real Tech fans know that in building a program there are lumps to be taken. Tech will never be Alabama or Florida (but neither will Georgia with their world class athletes – hell they barely beat Tech year after year). But Tech will be competitive. So all you hand wringers and bed wetters, chill. It’s only a game.

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Air FORCE plays with more HEART than GT will ever muster or UGA.
CHARACTER…..

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Nice blog crabapple joe, I think CPH has the same problem….. But hey, nobody is man enough to say…. I still find it amazing that some people on this blog and others are willing to give this coach a pass….. This coach was the one who said from the start, this team is the deepest, and most talented group….. You can slice that only one way…. 6 and 7…. It’s utterly amazing how even the simplest football mind can grade our defense as an improvement. We played FREAKIN AIRFORCE, for goodness sakes….. We were supposed to hold them to 14 or less…. I would never have thought that this program would drop so low that it was finally competing at the same level as a service academy… Don’t get me wrong, I’m not dissing the AF team, they played with heart, and they were the better team. This leads to the real problem… This coach cannot recruit the type of player to compete even at the ACC level, which by the way, is WEAK. If this coach had a brain, he would hire an OC (Ralph) and hand the offense over. We will see that CPJ is much too arrogant to defer his belief in himself, and put the good of the Institute and the team first… Mark it down, the longer this coach recruits to this A$sinine system, the bigger the hole another coach will have to build us back to respectability…. IMHO

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GT Football is in real trouble…Paul Johnson was a bad hire. I know he had success with his offense the first two years but with someone else’s players. He obviously is not a good recruiter and seems too stubborn to change his offense. He did a terrible job this year, his offfense is boring beyond belief, and he seems like he could care less if they win or lose. If this offense was so successful, them more teams than GT and the service academies would be running it. I don’t see the program getting any better next year with the same players and no recruits to speak of…at least Chan got players and had winning seasons!

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Questions for GT Fans that are making excuses for CPJ:

Shouldn’t a Genius HC be able to fix the STs Issues after 3 f’n seasons and multiple losses of Games due to poor STs play?

Shouldn’t a Genius HC be able to install some sort of Pass-Blocking Scheme after 36 Months on campus such that the Team can have some sort of chance to WIN if they need a passing Game?

The CPJ kool-aid drinkers told us that Recruiting too many QBs & A-Backs wouldn’t NOT hurt depth at other positions, since these Recruits could EASILY move to other positions and “help GT win Games”; well now we have had JaBlow and Jordy Lou Allen transfer out, basically WASTING slots that could have added to GT’s depth and now we are also caught with too many 5-7 170lb. A-Backs that will NEVER make any sort of impact on winning games; to all you GT Toadies that make excuses for CPJ, NOW will you admit that this Recruiting Strategy by CPJ has hurt GT FB?

If NONE of the QBs Recruited by CPJ can pass worth a lick (Starters Included); then HOW can GT’s Defense simulate what they will see from opposing Teams in Practice when getting ready to play? (IMO this is part of the reason WHY CAG’s Defenses look so lost when playing Teams that can pass, even Dook’s QB torched GT for over 300-yds. passing)

Where in eFF was DRad when when CPJ put his Staff together and CPJ DECIDED to have 2 O-LINE coaches, but ZREO “dedicated” STs Coaches?

Another question; Does it really take TWO O-LINE COACHES to “teach” OLs to dive at a guys’ keeecaps, and while I’m at it, shouldn’t TWO O-LINE Coaches insure that GT’s O-LINE is the best pass-blocking O-LINE in all of CFB, since they have TWO coaches and all the other BCS Teams only have ONE O-LINE Coach?

What GT Fans don’t want to admit is that 100% of the PROBLEMS associated with GT FB are a direct result of CPJ’s poor decision making and not understanding “what it takes” to win AT THIS LEVEL of CFB

Now try and Defend CPJ on those issues all you Kool-Aid Drinkers.

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ugly uniforms,ugly play,ugly season,you cant sugar coat it.

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