After further review, Tech decides its special teams need help
Perhaps we won't be seeing pictures such as this. (AP photo)
When the notion of hiring a special-teams coordinator was broached last fall by this helpful correspondent, Paul Johnson called it “ridiculous” and contended that, in divvying up assignments, his program was doing as most big-time programs do. Left unacknowledged was the reality that few big-time programs were less special on special teams than Georgia Tech.
Update: Georgia Tech stands ready to welcome a special-teams coordinator.
Conclusion: Paul Johnson has succeeded in negotiating the fine line between stubbornness, which can have its virtues, and silliness, which has none.
Two of last season’s losses — at Miami, where a botched punt became one Hurricanes touchdown and a long kickoff return generated another, and against Utah in the Sun Bowl, where Tech missed three field goals — could be traced to the kicking game. This was after a 2010 season in which the Jackets lost at Virginia Tech on a kickoff return for a touchdown, at Georgia after missing a tying extra point and to Air Force in the Independence Bowl after muffing two punts.
Running the numbers, we note that five of Tech’s past nine losses — that’s more than half — could be traced to failures of kicking, covering kicks or fielding kicks. We also note that the Jackets were 54th last season among 120 FBS teams in net punting, 59th in kickoff-return defense, 61st in punt returns and 106th in kickoff returns. Tech’s longest field goal of 2011 spanned 41 yards.
As much fun as it was to hear Johnson fuss about his kicking game — and he’s a fusser of the first rank — it also made you wonder: Why didn’t he try to do something besides fuss?
Now he has, and good for him. The addition of Dave Walkosky from the Canadian Football League can’t possibly hurt. Tech’s special teams had gotten so shoddy as to damage the entire operation. Kicking and its offshoots tend to be given short shrift by colleges — the pros, by way of contrast, leave nothing to chance — and that approach has never made a lick of sense. Given that kicking can win or lose games, why chop up the responsibility and have different coaches handle different aspects? Why render an essential function an afterthought? Why not put one man in charge?
To his credit, Paul Johnson thought hard about his special teams and concluded that doing it the way most others do it was no longer tenable for Tech. To his credit, he tabled his resistance and did what needed doing. This doesn’t mean the Jackets will never miss another field goal or yield another long return, but it does mean that future failures won’t stem from a lack of oversight.
By Mark Bradley
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hey dawgs i dont agree...
March 1st, 2012
1:30 pm
last time i remember that great d of chan’s allowed for a record number of points for the dawgs. we had some great indivual players but i dont recall us having a top d. it certainly never presented itself against uga as we went o fer under chan,
if tenuta was such a great co ordiantor why is he not a d co ordinator else where? he is a one trick pony. if his blitzing doesnt work than he loses.. the guy couldnt recruit. had an abrasive personality and was a cancer on the team. remember how well we did when he had his change to coach the team in the bowl?
while i havent been happy with the current d i have to give coach credit for changing things up with al groh and a new system. before we write off coach lets see how groh does after more than just 2 years under his belt. we didnt have the personnel for the 3-4 the past two years and are now only getting the players in place.
things are looking up imo.
1 4 GT
March 1st, 2012
1:53 pm
OMG!! WEENIE aka WnE has started defending himself and claiming not to know this “gentleman”. So Sad.
PATIENCE
March 1st, 2012
1:57 pm
OH HOW QUICK YOU BULLDOG FANS FORGET DIDNT YOU GUYS BOSHE ON A RECRUIT SAY ONE CAM NEWTON WHO YOU GUYS ALSO THOUGHT WAS A RUNNING QB AND WANTED TO MAKE HIM IN TO A TE AND YOU SEE WHERE THAT GOT HIM TWO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP A HEISMAN AND THE FIRST OVER ALL PICK IN THE NFL DRAFT SO TALK TO ME WHEN YOU GUYS WIN SOMETHING CAUSE TECH HAS ONE THE LAST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN GA AND JUST WON A ACC TITLE AS RECENT AS 2009 NO MATTER WHAT THE NCAA SAY WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR US LATELY UGA BUT BESIDES BRING US THESE FAKE DREAM TEAMS FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS THAT HAVENT WON NOTHING SO INSTEAD ALWAYS TRYING TO FIRE CPJ HOWS ABOUT YOU START QUESTION ST MARK AND ASK WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO BRING A TITLE WITH THESE SO CALLED DREAM TEAMS
WnE
March 1st, 2012
1:58 pm
Hehe kids. I am hilarious.
GT fan for life
March 1st, 2012
1:58 pm
one reason the defense stinks is that they can only practice against this archaic offense,don’t prepare them for what they see on saturdays
GTfan2012
March 1st, 2012
2:00 pm
You guys do know that every football team has a scout team and it is that scout team’s job to mimic as much as possible the opponents offense. This doesn’t just happen at GT. The scout team is usually full of players who are either benchwarmers or red shirts. Now I have no doubt that the scout team at Alabama is probably quite a bit better than the scout team at GT. But as they say, it is what it is! GT is with the 90% of college teams whose defense will face a scout team offense that will struggle to truly mimic a BCS caliber offense.
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
2:04 pm
one reason the defense stinks is that they can only practice against this archaic offense,don’t prepare them for what they see on saturdays
Do you really think the defense is practicing against the triple option in practice every week?
To GTfanforlife
March 1st, 2012
2:05 pm
umm yeah, the defense practices against a scout offense like every other team in college and the pros. Way to show your ignorance.
@PATIENCE
March 1st, 2012
2:09 pm
YOUR JUST A LITTLE OFF, CAM WAS A T AUBURN 1 YEAR, TECH IS 1-10 VS GEORGIA 2009 ACC CHAMPIONSHIP VACATED, BUT YOU STILL LOST TO UGA THATS 1-10. GEORGIA HAS HAD 6 TOP 10 TEAMS WON 2 SEC TITLES AND 4 EASTERN DIVISION TITLES , FINISHED 2 ND IN NATION TWICE , 3 BCS BOWL 2 BCS BOWL WINS , THATS MORE IN 11 YEARS THAN TECH HAS DONE SINCE 1967.PERHAPS YOU SHOULD DIRECT YOUR SHOUTING TOWARDS A TEAM LIKE DUKE THAT TECH BEATS ON A REGULAR BASIS.
TC
March 1st, 2012
2:09 pm
The kicking game and all other aspects of Tech’s football team will improve only when Paul Johnson and his staff leaves.
GT Gilbert
March 1st, 2012
2:17 pm
Differential X,
Differential Y,
A Square, B Square,
Integral of Pi !
Engineers Touchdown,
Engineers Yell,
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Fight like Hell!
GT Gilbert
March 1st, 2012
2:17 pm
E to the X dy dx,
E to the X dx,
Tangent Secant Cosine Sine,
3.14159,
Square roots Cube roots Poisson brackets,
Dis-integrate ‘em Yellow Jackets!
GT fan for life
March 1st, 2012
2:25 pm
hey you dumba**’s when you only recruit players to fit the triple option offense what kind of players scout team or otherwise do you think you practice against?
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
2:42 pm
If that’s true, GT fan for life, wouldn’t the inverse also be correct? Since other schools don’t run our system, they shouldn’t be able to stop it, right?
Stinger2
March 1st, 2012
2:43 pm
wnE, headley lamar and GTBob are one of a kind or may
be one and the same poor guys who are lost from the real world. Sort of pitiful.
Ramblnwrek
March 1st, 2012
2:45 pm
The thing that we Tech fans are annoyed with is:
1.) We are a decent team when compared to FBS teams as a whole.
2.) Unfortunately we are literally in the heart of the SEC world being in Atlanta, but are in the ACC. So we are constantly compared to the SEC. (Which could be good or bad depending on how you want to look at it)
3.) The other school we use as a measuring stick is our Arch-Rival, UGA. UGA is, much to our annoyance, a very good football team. Seriously UGA is going through one of the most sustained levels of success over the past decade that they have ever seen. Plus they are #1 or #2 in football profits in the entire country.
So its not that we are doing bad, we are actually quite good, but when you look at who we are in direct comparison with….man, do we set the bar high.
PATIENCE
March 1st, 2012
2:48 pm
TYPICAL UGA FAN YOU ASK HIM WHEN THE LAST TIME THEY WON A TITLE AND THEY TELL YOU HOW MANY TOP TEN FINISHES THEY HAD IN PAST 6 OUT OF 10 YEARS AND BY THE WAY THE WAY THEY WON THE TITLE ON THE FIELD VANCANT THINGS MEANS NOTHING TO A TRUE FAN. BUT YOUR GUYS LAST WON A TITLE OF ANYTHING IN FOOTBALL WHEN
Ramblnwrek
March 1st, 2012
2:50 pm
Kudos to GT Gilbert for knowing the Math Cheer! Must have been in swarm or in the band.
Willard Romney
March 1st, 2012
2:52 pm
If we do anything this year we can all say “we owe it all to Mark Bradley, a legend in his own mind”.
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
3:10 pm
Seriously UGA is going through one of the most sustained levels of success over the past decade that they have ever seen.
Have you been awake the past 5 years?
Ghost
March 1st, 2012
3:15 pm
George, Since the TO is a pretty simple offense it would seem more likely a school having a player on the squad that played in the offense either High school . Middle school or youth football.but woulkd be difficult for them to match the proficiency that Tech does it.Tech scout team would be less likely to have the QB ,receivers and TE to mimic another offense.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
4:04 pm
re:
You guys do know that every football team has a scout team and it is that scout team’s job to mimic as much as possible the opponents offense. This doesn’t just happen at GT. The scout team is usually full of players who are either benchwarmers or red shirts. Now I have no doubt that the scout team at Alabama is probably quite a bit better than the scout team at GT. But as they say, it is what it is! GT is with the 90% of college teams whose defense will face a scout team offense that will struggle to truly mimic a BCS caliber offense.
________________
I’m back fellas!
The “real” WnE, oh and by the way i have never posted under other screen names since I started using WnE.
Anyway the poster that wrote the above passage exposed himself as not knowing very much about CFB.
Just because GT has a scout team with “warm bodies” that doesn’t mean that they have the TALENT to get your defense ready for what they’ll see on Saturdays.
2 Examples:
1) At USCw not too long ago John David Booty a 4*/5* Recruit was once the Scout Team QB, he went to to make All-Pac10 (back then) and win back-to-back Rose Bowls and was the All-conference QB 2 straight yrs.
When that kind of TALENT is your scout Team QB, then your defense will be more ready for what they will face from a real BCs-Level passing Offense.
2) At UGA not long ago Zach Mettenberger or Aaron Murray were the scout Team QBs, one is pre-season All-SEC and the other is expected to Start at Ellis Shoe, facing that kind of TALENT helps your defense to understand what a BCS-level passer looks like.
Meanwhile CPJ can’t find a guy with a decent ARM for his THREE-DEEP at QB, so how can the Scout Team QB simulate throws and simulate a real QB when GT’s Scout Team QBs obviously don’t have the RAW TALENT that Scout Team QBs have at Schools with “real offenses”?
In summary, because of CPJ ’s Recruiting, our defense has to face scout teams that are so far below what our defense will see on Saturday, that our Defenses at GT are at a much bigger DISADVANTAGE than are Defenses at other Colleges.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
4:04 pm
re:
You guys do know that every football team has a scout team and it is that scout team’s job to mimic as much as possible the opponents offense. This doesn’t just happen at GT. The scout team is usually full of players who are either benchwarmers or red shirts. Now I have no doubt that the scout team at Alabama is probably quite a bit better than the scout team at GT. But as they say, it is what it is! GT is with the 90% of college teams whose defense will face a scout team offense that will struggle to truly mimic a BCS caliber offense.
________________
I’m back fellas!
The “real” WnE, oh and by the way i have never posted under other screen names since I started using WnE.
Anyway the poster that wrote the above passage exposed himself as not knowing very much about CFB.
Just because GT has a scout team with “warm bodies” that doesn’t mean that they have the TALENT to get your defense ready for what they’ll see on Saturdays.
2 Examples:
1) At USCw not too long ago John David Booty a 4*/5* Recruit was once the Scout Team QB, he went to to make All-Pac10 (back then) and win back-to-back Rose Bowls and was the All-conference QB 2 straight yrs.
When that kind of TALENT is your scout Team QB, then your defense will be more ready for what they will face from a real BCs-Level passing Offense.
2) At UGA not long ago Zach Mettenberger or Aaron Murray were the scout Team QBs, one is pre-season All-SEC and the other is expected to Start at Ellis Shoe, facing that kind of TALENT helps your defense to understand what a BCS-level passer looks like.
Meanwhile CPJ can’t find a guy with a decent ARM for his THREE-DEEP at QB, so how can the Scout Team QB simulate throws and simulate a real QB when GT’s Scout Team QBs obviously don’t have the RAW TALENT that Scout Team QBs have at Schools with “real offenses”?
In summary, because of CPJ ’s Recruiting, our defense has to face scout teams that are so far below what our defense will see on Saturday, that our Defenses at GT are at a much bigger DISADVANTAGE than are Defenses at other Colleges.
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
4:14 pm
When that kind of TALENT is your scout Team QB, then your defense will be more ready for what they will face from a real BCs-Level passing Offense.
So you are expecting GT to have 5 star QB’s on the scout team? Has GT ever in it’s history recruited a 5 star QB?
WnE
March 1st, 2012
4:14 pm
re:
You guys do know that every football team has a scout team and it is that scout team’s job to mimic as much as possible the opponents offense. This doesn’t just happen at GT. The scout team is usually full of players who are either benchwarmers or red shirts. Now I have no doubt that the scout team at Alabama is probably quite a bit better than the scout team at GT. But as they say, it is what it is! GT is with the 90% of college teams whose defense will face a scout team offense that will struggle to truly mimic a BCS caliber offense.
________________
I’m back fellas!
The “real” WnE, oh and by the way i have never posted under other screen names since I started using WnE.
Anyway the poster that wrote the above passage exposed himself as not knowing very much about CFB.
Just because GT has a scout team with “warm bodies” that doesn’t mean that they have the TALENT to get your defense ready for what they’ll see on Saturdays.
2 Examples:
1) At USCw not too long ago John David Booty a 4*/5* Recruit was once the Scout Team QB, he went to to make All-Pac10 (back then) and win back-to-back Rose Bowls and was the All-conference QB 2 straight yrs.
When that kind of TALENT is your scout Team QB, then your defense will be more ready for what they will face from a real BCs-Level passing Offense.
2) At UGA not long ago Zach Mettenberger or Aaron Murray were the scout Team QBs, one is pre-season All-SEC and the other is expected to Start at Ellis Shoe, facing that kind of TALENT helps your defense to understand what a BCS-level passer looks like.
Meanwhile CPJ can’t find a guy with a decent ARM for his THREE-DEEP at QB, so how can the Scout Team QB simulate throws and simulate a real QB when GT’s Scout Team QBs obviously don’t have the RAW TALENT that Scout Team QBs have at Schools with “real offenses”?
In summary, because of CPJ ’s Recruiting, our defense has to face scout teams that are so far below what our defense will see on Saturday, that our Defenses at GT are at a much bigger DISADVANTAGE than are Defenses at other Colleges.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
4:15 pm
e:
You guys do know that every football team has a scout team and it is that scout team’s job to mimic as much as possible the opponents offense. This doesn’t just happen at GT. The scout team is usually full of players who are either benchwarmers or red shirts. Now I have no doubt that the scout team at Alabama is probably quite a bit better than the scout team at GT. But as they say, it is what it is! GT is with the 90% of college teams whose defense will face a scout team offense that will struggle to truly mimic a BCS caliber offense.
________________
I’m back fellas!
The “real” WnE, oh and by the way i have never posted under other screen names since I started using WnE.
Anyway the poster that wrote the above passage exposed himself as not knowing very much about CFB.
Just because GT has a scout team with “warm bodies” that doesn’t mean that they have the TALENT to get your defense ready for what they’ll see on Saturdays.
2 Examples:
1) At USCw not too long ago John David Booty a 4*/5* Recruit was once the Scout Team QB, he went to to make All-Pac10 (back then) and win back-to-back Rose Bowls and was the All-conference QB 2 straight yrs.
When that kind of TALENT is your scout Team QB, then your defense will be more ready for what they will face from a real BCs-Level passing Offense.
2) At UGA not long ago Zach Mettenberger or Aaron Murray were the scout Team QBs, one is pre-season All-SEC and the other is expected to Start at Ellis Shoe, facing that kind of TALENT helps your defense to understand what a BCS-level passer looks like.
Meanwhile CPJ can’t find a guy with a decent ARM for his THREE-DEEP at QB, so how can the Scout Team QB simulate throws and simulate a real QB when GT’s Scout Team QBs obviously don’t have the RAW TALENT that Scout Team QBs have at Schools with “real offenses”?
In summary, because of CPJ ’s Recruiting, our defense has to face scout teams that are so far below what our defense will see on Saturday, that our Defenses at GT are at a much bigger DISADVANTAGE than are Defenses at other Colleges.
Dawg in Sewer
March 1st, 2012
4:16 pm
Ouses specieasls educetions coasches gets uses jobers astes walsmarts.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
4:24 pm
re:
So you are expecting GT to have 5 star QB’s on the scout team? Has GT ever in it’s history recruited a 5 star QB
_________________
CPJ gets paid $2.5 million per to figure that out for himself!
The problem remains that if you DON’T Recruit pass-first QBs than your Defense ends up getting burned for big pass plays like we did vs. Va. Tech in 2011 and Miami in 2010 when we could have taken control of those games and won them.
Our Defense gets “comfortable” playing pass defense vs. weak-armed RUN-FIRST QBs in Practice and then on game day, we run into Logan Thomas or Aaron Murray and then get friggin’ TORCHED!
CPJ’s gimmicky offense and the resulting RECRUITS that he has to bring in to run it, doesn’t do CAG & the Defense any favors at all!
Can you imagine how helpful it was for Va. Tech’s Defense to face 6-6 250lbs. strong-armed Logan Thomas during his RS yr.?
Compare that to GT’s defense facing Recruits like Jayblow Pshaw, and you can see the difference.
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
Can you imagine how helpful it was for Va. Tech’s Defense to face 6-6 250lbs. strong-armed Logan Thomas during his RS yr.?
Logan Thomas was a wide receiver most of his high school career, was recruited as a tight end, and never threw the ball anywhere near as much as Vad Lee, yet according to you Vad Lee is a run first QB and Logan Thomas is a strong armed pro style QB?
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
4:40 pm
WnE…still waiting on your response
Explain the logic of decrying CPJ because he’ll never bring in top-notch recruits, and then harrassing a top-notch recruit into not coming to Tech?
Brock
March 1st, 2012
4:54 pm
She will(wne) never respond to that FL Jacket. I’ve posed the question as well and get ignored so in return I ignore her novel length posts.
GTfan2012
March 1st, 2012
5:03 pm
I’ll say it again. More than 90% of D-1 schools are putting out scout teams that will struggle to mimic a BCS caliber offense, GT included. Do you actually believe that most schools are putting out these incredible scout teams that are top notch and getting their defense ready for a top notch opponent?!?! You are an idiot if you believe that a scout team under ___ (name the best coach/recruiter we could possibly get at GT) would be significantly better than the one we put on the field today.
C G Jung
March 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:17 am
Did me being sloppy with that FACT make the material validity of my claim LESS VALID, less true?
—–
You are saying that your “facts” are sloppy (i.e. WRONG) but your “opinions” are gospel.
Please seek professional help.
Boot Licking Toadie
March 1st, 2012
5:12 pm
I’m guessing WnE wrote something idiotic. Let me guess:
Lousy Coach
Lousy Recruiter
Lousy Person
Likes Kung Fu Panda (the movie)
May be up for a good fish fry?
The guy will get paid too much.
Special Teams was not a problem last year.
SoCal_GT_Fan
March 1st, 2012
5:13 pm
Our problem is that we are GEORGIA FREAKING TECH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get that through your heads. We are who we are.
We will likely never be able to recruit like the big boys (that includes UGA and ACC foes like FSU, Miami, Va Tech and Clemson). Even if we were able to do so, that coach who performed such a miracle will likely be enticed to go to some other program with a fatter budget, more perks, better facilities, and more money.
We don’t have a rabid fan base like some other schools where their lives revolves around their school’s football team. I doubt no Techie is going to be poisoning the hedges in Sanford stadium just because we hate losing to UGA.
I doubt we have the athletic budget the big boys have.
We don’t offer as many majors as other schools which would get us out of the running for any recruits that aren’t interested in engineering or management.
The chances of us winning the NC or even competing for it are slimmer now than ever before and its got to do more with how college football is today. I’ve accepted that. I would be ECSTATIC if we were able to do so, BUT its a pipe dream in my mind. I see CPJ as our best bet to compete without having to access to many 4* and 5* players.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
re:
Logan Thomas was a wide receiver most of his high school career, was recruited as a tight end, and never threw the ball anywhere near as much as Vad Lee, yet according to you Vad Lee is a run first QB and Logan Thomas is a strong armed pro style QB?
_______________________
2011 Stats Logan Thomas
Compl. Att yards % TDs Int.
234 391 3013 59.8 19 10
Those kinds of numbers from a 1st yr. Starter that’s 6-6 250lbs.
I think most folks that follow CFB would that guy is a NFL Prospect at QB
391 attempts for a 1st yr. starter that’s about 25 passes per game.
Do you honestly think that Vad Lee will throw the ball 25 times per game?
IF HE STARTS over Tevin Washington!
84BEE
March 1st, 2012
5:19 pm
Someone needs to remind WnE and the rest of the UGAg trolls that Ga. Tech was the ONLY school that recruited Shawn Jones as a QB – and all he did was RUN AND PASS the ‘Jackets to the 1990 National Championship. We ran a LOT of option under Ross/Freidgen and I distinctly remember one 50-yard TD pass to Bobby Rodriguez that came right at me in the Visitors’ EZ in Athens that year that was a perfect pass, lit up the Offense and we went on to run the Mutts out of their own stadium that year.
Need another example?…. Anybody remember a guy out of a small town in South Carolina that all the “big boys” said didn’t have the arm to play major college QB and was primarily a runner? Does the name JOE HAMILTON come to mind? Oh yeah, as we used to say: “UGA, a MIND is a terrible thing to waste”.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
5:22 pm
re:
C G Dung
March 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:17 am
Did me being sloppy with that FACT make the material validity of my claim LESS VALID, less true?
—–
You are saying that your “facts” are sloppy (i.e. WRONG) but your “opinions” are gospel.
Please seek professional help.
________________
I clearly wrote THAT FACT………….as in singular, meaning a one-time thing!
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
5:31 pm
That’s hilarious, WnE. UGA’s defense sucked when Murray was redshirting.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
5:49 pm
re:
Someone needs to remind WnE and the rest of the UGAg trolls that Ga. Tech was the ONLY school that recruited Shawn Jones as a QB – and all he did was RUN AND PASS the ‘Jackets to the 1990 National Championship. We ran a LOT of option under Ross/Freidgen and I distinctly remember one 50-yard TD pass to Bobby Rodriguez that came right at me in the Visitors’ EZ in Athens that year that was a perfect pass, lit up the Offense and we went on to run the Mutts out of their own stadium that year.
Need another example?…. Anybody remember a guy out of a small town in South Carolina that all the “big boys” said didn’t have the arm to play major college QB and was primarily a runner? Does the name JOE HAMILTON come to mind? Oh yeah, as we used to say: “UGA, a MIND is a terrible thing to waste”.
_______________________
CFB has change greatly in the last 20+ years since S. Jones was Recruited to play for GT.
IIRC, S. Jones & Charlie Wars both came out of Thomasville, Ga. and were the 2 best HS QBs in the state that yr.
I seriously DOUBT your claims that S. Jones was not Recruited to play QB anywhere BUT GT.
I have followed GT Fb & HS FB here in Ga. long before my days as a GT student, althouhg i might not get every minute detail correct, I am pretty accurate on the “major issues”.
I think you have S. Jones confused with someone else.
Also I know for a FACT that Joe Ham was Recruited to play QB for Nebraska.
You’re trying to make it seem like GT’s past successes came because of “miracles” by “under-the-radar” guys, but the indication is that nothing could further from the truth.
When GT has had SUCCESS IN FB, we did it like everyone else with some pretty “elite talent”.
Simply, if GT recruits better, we can win more Games and schedule better OOC opponents.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
5:53 pm
re:
That’s hilarious, WnE. UGA’s defense sucked when Murray was redshirting.
________________
I never said anything about having a good scout team GUARANTEEING anything.
You remind me of a lot of the guys I went to school with at GT, you take things so literally to point that it makes you look silly.
Loser-band-geeks that never played a Sports have no contextual meaning when you try and discuss CFB with them.
You guys make me laugh!
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
6:03 pm
“2) At UGA not long ago Zach Mettenberger or Aaron Murray were the scout Team QBs, one is pre-season All-SEC and the other is expected to Start at Ellis Shoe, facing that kind of TALENT helps your defense to understand what a BCS-level passer looks like.”
You used them as a specific example, moron.
Stinger2
March 1st, 2012
6:22 pm
WnE questioned has GT every recruited a 5 star QB?
Billy Lothridge and Joe Hamilton were runner ups for the
Heisman Trophy. There were no star rankings in Billy`s time in the early 1960s. No sure about where Joe was ranked but he must have been at least a 4 star.
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
6:33 pm
WnE…still waiting
Explain the logic of decrying CPJ because he’ll never bring in top-notch recruits, and then harrassing a top-notch recruit into not coming to Tech?
1 4 GT
March 1st, 2012
7:14 pm
Ya’ll leave poor ole wrexie alone now. You’ll give him an inferiority complex,
Mike
March 1st, 2012
7:21 pm
I don’ see a problem if a kid played qb in high school and wants to do so in college. I think if the kif is happy and the college coach, GREAT.
duronimo
March 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
For Johnson, stubborness is both a virtue and a flaw. In the face of overwhelming facts Johnson
gets flexible. It’s the same way for Richt but he’s has less capacity to bend.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
8:13 pm
I cant answer now. I’m having electric shock therapy.
Buzz 2011
March 1st, 2012
10:17 pm
This along with 450 yrds a game in offense should set GT up well for
the 2012 ACC championsip..
Sean
March 1st, 2012
10:33 pm
WnE you are the biggest low-life hater of a person I’ve ever seen on a blog.