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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Eastside Jacket
March 1st, 2012
7:44 am
Good for him. Now lets stop somebody on defense so we can actually see how good of a punt return team we have.
ed
March 1st, 2012
7:44 am
they are getting it, kick offs now from the 35!!!
Thomas
March 1st, 2012
7:48 am
The Falcons shot themselves in the foot (literally) when they didn’t resign Todd Peterson a number of years ago. They went with the dual punter/kicker which was a failure. Special teams are easy to ignore until they lose games-
Boobie Bowden
March 1st, 2012
7:55 am
Wonder if we could get a sportwriter from Canada as well….
WnE
March 1st, 2012
8:00 am
re:
To his credit, Paul Johnson thought hard about his kicking game and came to the conclusion that doing it the way others do it was no longer working for Tech.
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Now when will Coach Fish Fry come to the conclusion that Recruiting run-first QBs is no longer working for GT’s passing game & offense?
At some point CPJ has to come to the conclusion that doing things HIS WAY on offense isn’t working either, especially in the passing game.
GT’s passing game was putrid last yr. vs. BCS-level teams.
Before the CPJ-boot-licking-toadies come to his defense, GT and their Offensive Genius is 1-11 vs. Top-50 Defenses over the last 2 seasons, the so-called Genius has been getting fat off of crappy Teams and then losing to teams with AVERAGE defenses.
BBQ MAN
March 1st, 2012
8:01 am
yay
WnE
March 1st, 2012
8:07 am
As far as 2010 goes Mark, you forgot about the Bowl Game fiasco in which GT & CPJ lost the Game because HE couldn’t find ONE PLAYER among the 85 that hold schollies to simply field a punt vs. Air Force.
I guess he need to change the way he Recruits also.
Kinda ODD that a guy gets called a Genius by the majority of GT fans, but upon closer inspection it sure seems that he does a LOT of things the wrong way.
The term Genius must come pretty CHEAP at school where the alums are always telling everyone how much smarter they are then the rest of the population.
http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc409/OlWrecks/KungFuPanda.jpg
Aren’t we lucky to have Coach Kung Fu Panda heading up GT’s FB Program?
@WnE
March 1st, 2012
8:09 am
re:
Now when will Coach Fish Fry come to the conclusion that Recruiting run-first QBs is no longer working for GT’s passing game & offense?
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You do realize both Vad Lee and Justin Thomas ARE NOT “run first” QBs. You do also realize that CPJ was OC at Hawaii during some of it’s pass happy years. You do also realize that CPJ works with what he can recruit. You do also realize that we have had numerous QBs who have left the program instead of wait their turn in the rotation.
You surely would realize all of that if you weren’t just another typical DWAG fan. PWNED, now goodbye.
john
March 1st, 2012
8:09 am
The only way the kicking game will improve is if Johnson leaves
#1CPJ Fan
March 1st, 2012
8:19 am
I just wish we weren’t 1-10 vs the Dawgs right now…..holy shucks we suck
Taylor King
March 1st, 2012
8:25 am
I’m just happy he swallowed his pride and hired a special teams coordinator. By the way @WnE, I doubt Johnson is too worried about his passing game. Pretty irrelevant comment but I do agree with your last paragraph.
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:27 am
WnE- GT fan poser… just another Dawg troll on the loose who just feeds off the attention of others. Just look at how he bashes CPJ and GT every article. Then he comes to the defense of Richt and Co. when they get called out in a recruiting article… Please people: DON’T FEED THE TROLLS
Jacket99
March 1st, 2012
8:28 am
The term Genius must come pretty CHEAP at school where the alums are always telling everyone how much smarter they are then the rest of the population.
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Aren’t you a GT alumnus, WnE?
Rickster
March 1st, 2012
8:38 am
“I’m a Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech and my team really stinks this year.
They really, really, really, really, REALLY stink this year.
Like all the jolly good fellows, I’m crying in my beer.
I’m a Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech and my team really stinks this year.”
WnE
March 1st, 2012
8:38 am
re:
You do realize both Vad Lee and Justin Thomas ARE NOT “run first” QBs. You do also realize that CPJ was OC at Hawaii during some of it’s pass happy years. You do also realize that CPJ works with what he can recruit. You do also realize that we have had numerous QBs who have left the program instead of wait their turn in the rotation.
You surely would realize all of that if you weren’t just another typical DWAG fan. PWNED, now goodbye.
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If you think that Vad Lee and Justin Thomas are anything but run-first QBs then you don’t know very much about CFB.
GT was the ONLY BCS Level school that was seriously considering Justin Thomas as a QB, all theother saw him as a WR or DB and in FACT his 4* Rating out of HS was based on him playing WR or DB in college, not QB.
For the hype over Vad Lee only 4 or 5 Schools/HCs saw Vad Lee as a pass first QB, GT, Vandy, Dook, Minn., Wake; NC State only offered him as QB after they thought they would lose him to another school.
It is real hard to project HS QBs to the College Level, but it is even harder to take run-first QBs and then expect them to run a 2-min offense or a 4-min. Offense when the game is on the line.
Anyway NEITHER, Vad Lee nor Justin Thomas were considered pass-first QBs by the majority of BCS HCs, in fact CPJ is one of the few HCs to offer them as a QB, and we all know his track record with Recruiting QBs over his FIRST FIVE Recruiting Classes.
http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc409/OlWrecks/ClassRingtime-stamped03.jpg
Just a photo of my GT class ring for those that think that having independent thoguhts about GT’s FB Program makes one a uga poser.
Technically Correct
March 1st, 2012
8:39 am
Now, if he can hire a REALLY good recruiter who can sell the program and close the deal to 4 and 5 star talent, in a few years we will be competitive and relevant again!
WnE
March 1st, 2012
8:42 am
re:Aren’t you a GT alumnus, WnE?
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Yes I am.
http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc409/OlWrecks/ClassRingtime-stamped04.jpg
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:43 am
you tried the class ring thing before and nobody bought it….
Just got to the recruiting article on Robert Nkemdiche visiting UGA and how Carvell notes that Richt and Co. may have blown it by not signing the brother. Then go to the 9:50pm comment where ole’ Wrexy has a fit and calls Carvell a bad journalist for going after HIS coach the way he goes after OURS…
Whiskey Breath
March 1st, 2012
8:44 am
Mark, you think we are idiots for blogging sports don’t you? Well keep in mind,
it keeps you employed.
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:44 am
POSER!!!
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:46 am
don’t feed the TROLLS
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:47 am
Go back to defending Richt in recruiting articles that call him out for being late….
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:48 am
http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/02/12/robert-nkemdiche-uga-may-be-close-to-cracking-top-5-after-visit-to-dawgs/
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:49 am
I hate Paul Johnson but I love Mark Richt… sounds like a typical GT alum to me. class ring and all
@WnE
March 1st, 2012
8:51 am
re:
If you think that Vad Lee and Justin Thomas are anything but run-first QBs then you don’t know very much about CFB.
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Let’s look and see at the stats Mr. DWAG…….
Vad Lee – over 3,000 yds PASSING and 1,300 yds RUSHING as a Senior
Justin Thomas – over 1,500 yds PASSING and 740 yds RUSHING as a Senior
Both QB’s hold nearly 2:1 ratio of PASSING to RUSHING…….please explain how you consider these QBs as “RUN FIRST” QBs.
Just another DWAG fan…..PWNED, now goodbye.
azdawg
March 1st, 2012
9:01 am
dawg fans would love to see Richt follow CPJ and hire a ST coach as well but apparently that’ll never happen. give CPJ credit for trying to better his team while Richt continues w/the status quo, losing games to ST play and doing nothing to stop it but lip service.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
9:06 am
re:
Let’s look and see at the stats Mr. DWAG…….
Vad Lee – over 3,000 yds PASSING and 1,300 yds RUSHING as a Senior
Justin Thomas – over 1,500 yds PASSING and 740 yds RUSHING as a Senior
Both QB’s hold nearly 2:1 ratio of PASSING to RUSHING…….please explain how you consider these QBs as “RUN FIRST” QBs.
Just another DWAG fan…..PWNED, now goodbye.
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You’re simply showing that the MAJORITY of geek-nerd-loser GT fans don’t know a damn thing about CFB!
High Schools passing STATS MEAN NOTHING, or close to nothing!
When projecting a HS QB asa passing QB in a BCS-Conference you look for things like ARM STRENGTH & THROWING MECHANICS, FOOTWORK.
Nesbitt had a strong arm, but I was one of the few GT fans that thought he should have been playing Strong SAFETY all along, and what do you know he makes the NFL as a friggin’ Strong safety. I saw Nesbitt’s HS game tapes and could see the poor throwing mechanics.
Back then GT was desperate to get Athletes like Necbitt in their program, so they feed their 18 year egos and tell them they can play QB when 99% of the other College HCs saw Nesbitt like I did as a Strong safety.
GT & CPJ are doing the same things with guys like Days, Lee & Justin Thomas, while all the other College HCs are being honest about their “true” positions on the college Level, CPJ is telling them they can play QB at GT just to simply try and “bribe” decent athletes to sign with GT.
HS passing Stats don’t project to the College/BCS level at all.
While I’m at it, please show me a QB that CPJ has had at GT that has IMPROVED AS A PASSER while playing for GT?
None of CPJ ’s QBs improve because they don’t have the Mechanics to play BCS QB to start with, and then they don’t get coached up while playing for CPJ.
To prove my claim about not getting coached up while playing for CPJ, Stephen Hill has learned more WR Mechanics & WR fundamentals working with D1-AA WR-Coach Terrance Mathis in THREE WEEKs than he learned in THREE YEARS playing for CPJ.
The Stephen Hill we saw running ROUTES & catching balls with HIS HANDS at the combine looks nothing like the guy we saw playing for GT for 3 years.
Ted M
March 1st, 2012
9:13 am
Its the media that mistakenly refers to CPJ as a Genius.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
9:13 am
re:
rduck
March 1st, 2012
8:43 am
you tried the class ring thing before and nobody bought it….
Just got to the recruiting article on Robert Nkemdiche visiting UGA and how Carvell notes that Richt and Co. may have blown it by not signing the brother. Then go to the 9:50pm comment where ole’ Wrexy has a fit and calls Carvell a bad journalist for going after HIS coach the way he goes after OURS…
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I guess I’ll have to update my photos with today’s date & time stamp.
BTW, that Recruit was late as heck to qualify and then claimed that uga didn’t show him enough “love” ; you can TALK SPORTS honestly and have an opinion about things other than your own school without being a fan of someone else.
The two are not mutually exclusive!
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
9:17 am
Wow Bradley…you politely refrained from the “I TOLD YOU SO” approach I thought you were going to take. New Year’s Resolution?
dawgfan
March 1st, 2012
9:27 am
And what is that genius Paul Johnson doing about his absolutely laughable defense? Nothing it sounds like. Good plan coach. I’m still LMAO over that befuddled look on Groh’s face when it occurred to him that Crowell wasn’t playing and we actually had a QB who could throw the ball. I guess they don’t see too much of that in the ACC. I have never seen a more inept defensive game plan in my life. He was clueless.
Oh well. They’ve got a new special teams coach so they can beat the Virginia’s and UNC’s of the world. All is well in Techie land.
Hilarious.
rduck
March 1st, 2012
9:30 am
So by your logic POSER, a BCS team CANNOT WIN without a top notch, pass first, great throwing mechanics, huge arm strength type of QB…
So Florida and Tim Tebow didn’t win the MNC after all.
So Vince Young didn’t win the MNC after all.
Just a couple of examples of QB’s that had poor mechanics and/or poor arm strength that had a pretty good career. Now move along POSER…
rduck
March 1st, 2012
9:31 am
dawgfan- and to think that GT was the best team you guuys could beat last year… hmm
GT fan for life
March 1st, 2012
9:33 am
hiring this ignorant mountain man was a huge mistake,this gimmicky offense has been exposed and no top recruit is gonna come to tech,when they finally wise up and fire this hillbilly will take years for the program to recover
Gorilla Biscuit
March 1st, 2012
9:35 am
They should have hired a new defensive coordinator.
dawgfan
March 1st, 2012
9:36 am
rduck, and to think that you actually have some kind of point? Tech fans immediately deflect any criticism of their program with irrelevant jabs that make little to no sense. If it makes you feel any better, Georgia has not been very good the past few years. I have no idea why this would make you feel any better though. Your joke program is 0-3 against us the past few years. Jab away Techie. Its really making Tech look good.
LOL
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
9:43 am
Troll hard, dawgfan.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
9:46 am
re:
So by your logic POSER, a BCS team CANNOT WIN without a top notch, pass first, great throwing mechanics, huge arm strength type of QB…
So Florida and Tim Tebow didn’t win the MNC after all.
So Vince Young didn’t win the MNC after all.
Just a couple of examples of QB’s that had poor mechanics and/or poor arm strength that had a pretty good career. Now move along POSER…
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Tim Tebow & Vince Young (VY ) are the WRONG guys to try and use to make your argument!
Tebow is 6-3 240lbs. and VY is 6-5 235lbs. and they were BOTH 1st Round draft choices and although they didn’t have the best throwing mechanics they were MUCH BETTER THROWERS/PASSERS than anything that GT has had since Joe Hamilton.
You’re comparing a 2-time Heisman winner and a guy VY that should have won at least one Heisman to guys like Justin Thomas 5-9 with a weak arm and to guys like Dennis Andrews that are 5-11 185 pounds soaking wet that every other College HC saw as a DB.
99.99999999999999% of the HCs that saw Tebow & VY coming out of HS called them QBs all the way, with the QBs that CPJ recruits 99.9999999999999% of the HCs that see them call them DBs or WRs all the way.
If you can’t understand that, then you aren’t smart enough to follow college FB.
You’re actually trying to compare the guys that CPJ has been Recruiting at QB to guys like Tebow & VY, you’re the biggest laughingstock in the history of AJC Sports blogs!
@WnE
March 1st, 2012
9:46 am
re:
Back then GT was desperate to get Athletes like Necbitt in their program, so they feed their 18 year egos and tell them they can play QB when 99% of the other College HCs saw Nesbitt like I did as a Strong safety.
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Joshua Nesbitt was recruited by CCG…..which has NOTHING to do with CPJ. Joshua Nesbitt had tremendous arm strength with absolutely ZERO accuracy and consistency. CPJ recruited Tevin Washington and Jaybo Shaw which both are certainly better passers than Joshua Nesbitt. CPJ has progressively gotten BETTER at recruiting the QB position. Vad Lee and Justin Thomas are both perfect compromises between Nesbitt’s arm strength and Tevin’s feathery touch. I suspect Vad will put up consistent 2:1 ratios of PASSING to RUSHING.
Attributing Joshua Nesbitt’s lack of consistency and accuracy to CPJ is ludicrous and PROVES that you attended some second rate college in the middle of Athens, GA.
Stephen Hill has said nothing but POSITIVE things about his time at GT. Almost all NFL Scouts note his blocking skills as beyond his years….a la Hines Ward.
Spanky
March 1st, 2012
9:46 am
GT fan for life – I gotta agree with you on that. This triple option doesn’t seem to work unless you have just the right components, and execution is forthwith. However, this special teams coach could be able to tweek a few negatives into possitives. Either way, I just can’t wait for football season!! This dead time sucks!!!
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
9:49 am
I’m sorry. When did Tebow win his second Heisman, WnE?
Those damn facts keep getting in the way, huh?
Hoopster
March 1st, 2012
9:58 am
Wow, buLLdawg/WnE is all over this blog. When will Thomas Brown appear?
1 4 GT
March 1st, 2012
10:02 am
Getim George!!!!
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
10:02 am
You’re comparing a 2-time Heisman winner
Am I missing an Archie Griffin discussion?
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
10:04 am
As for CPJ. I’m not sure he was looking just for a special teams coach. He probably left his options open and finally decided that he could get a better ST coach then an OL coach. Either way, i’m sure most Tech fans are happy with his decision.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:06 am
I’m sorry. When did Tebow win his second Heisman, WnE?
Those damn facts keep getting in the way, huh?
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I’m sorry I gave the holy-roller one more Heisman than he actually won.
Either way, should that other poster be comparing GT’s QBs to Tebow & VY?
You lose focus on the gist of the discussion to pull out minutiae that doesn’t change whether I was right or WRONG,and in this case comparing GT’s QBs to Tebow was WRONG on his part even if I did mistake the number of Heismans that Tebow won.
In the NBA they say no harm no foul.
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
10:08 am
You’re sloppy with facts and that’s good example of it. Why don’t you go back to inventing dialogue between Paul Johnson and his recruits?
gee WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:08 am
one would have guessed by now that you would have figured out 99% of the bloggers here think you are a creep. a creep in the same vein as a penn state creep.
you make all these statements but i guarantee that you would not say any of them to the face of those who you insult. i call that internet bravado.
if ya wanna meet face to face i am sure there are any number of real jackets who would be happy to oblige you. hell i’m 64 and ill give you a shot.
considering you post all day long it stands to reason you don’t have a real job and you are posting between batches of fries.
could it be you still haven’t come out of the closet yet about your boy paul? just because he didn’t return your man love is no reason to continually bash him. is it not time to move on?
if you could do that you would do your for hire mom proud,
btw you chide paul for being stubborn and having a huge ego. have you looked in the mirror lately?
folks, here is a description of WnE in a nutshell…..
“Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings.[1]
Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted unconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them.
An example of this behavior might be blaming another for self failure. The mind may avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and by redirecting libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or “projecting,” those same faults onto another person or object.”
it may be time to find another job. making fries and cleaning urinals day after day after day has obviously damaged your psyche.
1 4 GT
March 1st, 2012
10:12 am
Very astute observations geeWnE.
WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:13 am
re:
Joshua Nesbitt was recruited by CCG…..which has NOTHING to do with CPJ. Joshua Nesbitt had tremendous arm strength with absolutely ZERO accuracy and consistency. CPJ recruited Tevin Washington and Jaybo Shaw which both are certainly better passers than Joshua Nesbitt. CPJ has progressively gotten BETTER at recruiting the QB position. Vad Lee and Justin Thomas are both perfect compromises between Nesbitt’s arm strength and Tevin’s feathery touch. I suspect Vad will put up consistent 2:1 ratios of PASSING to RUSHING.
Attributing Joshua Nesbitt’s lack of consistency and accuracy to CPJ is ludicrous and PROVES that you attended some second rate college in the middle of Athens, GA.
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CPJ the Offensive Genius had Nesbitt for THREE YEARS and during that time he didn’t improve his passing one bit!
So you want to try & spin that since Nesbitt was Recruited by CHAN that CPJ has no accountability in him not improving as a passer, but when CPJ beats uga & wins a ACC-CG with CHAN’S Recruits then Coach Kung Fu Panda should get all the credit?
P.S. it shouldn’t take a $2.5 Million HC FIVE YEARS to learn how to Recruit better QBs, and the truth is, is that we still don’t know if Lee or Thomas can pass at the BCS level to beat teams better than Dook or Wake!
Hardhat Jr
March 1st, 2012
10:14 am
The reason GT has such a poor record against ranked teams is for 8 games a year they don’t face a ranked team. Only UGA, UM(fla),FSU and then a bowl team. So the offense works other than those 4 games. I guess we will see influx of players north of the border with the new special teams coach.
ATL Fan
March 1st, 2012
10:14 am
Tebow was a two time winner of the Maxwell Award as the top college player. Only one Heisman Trophy (Sophomore year).
WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:17 am
You’re sloppy with facts and that’s good example of it. Why don’t you go back to inventing dialogue between Paul Johnson and his recruits?
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Did me being sloppy with that FACT make the material validity of my claim LESS VALID, less true?
You call me out on getting a fact wrong, but you overlook the obvious faux pas of someone comparing the QB that CPJ has been Recruiting to Tebow & VY.
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
10:19 am
The reason GT has such a poor record against ranked teams is for 8 games a year they don’t face a ranked team.
GT has a poor record against ranked teams? Don’t look at UGA’s record then.
DawginLex
March 1st, 2012
10:21 am
not trying to defend Wne but he is not one of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He is Tech 100%
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
10:21 am
Can we let the kid take a snap before determining who he is or isn’t?
And this isn’t the first time you’ve played loose with facts. In fact, it’s the norm, and this is further proof of it.
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
10:22 am
I see UGA fans don’t want WnE either.
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
10:22 am
“The reason GT has such a poor record against ranked teams is for 8 games a year they don’t face a ranked team.”
I guess they don’t count when we beat a ranked Clemson or a top-5 Virgina Tech team.
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
10:25 am
WnE…
You have yet to name a better coach GT could have…although (based on your extensive history) that whoever it is you would trash him as well…
Edward C.
March 1st, 2012
10:26 am
This makes me happy. Gotta give CPJ credit, he at least “tries” to address the flaws at GT. This is great news especially considering this wonderful article written during the season in 2011:
http://coachesbythenumbers.com/whats-so-special-about-special-teams/
WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:33 am
re:
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
10:22 am
________________
1-3 vs. Va. Tech
1-3 vs. Miami
1-3 vs. UGA
0-4 vs. Bowl Games, 2 of them being Air Force & Utah
3-13 vs. the segment of the schedule that really “defines” GT FB!
DELUSIONAL, IN-DENIAL GT fans try to justify that CPJ is a good coach because he has had moderate success vs. an UNDER-achieving Clemson team and going 2-0 vs. FSU when Bowden was at the END of his career, and a UNC team that had NCAA troubles in their Program over the last 2 years and an interim HC.
Those Games/teams listed above are a truer indicator of what GT FB has been under Coach Kung Fu Panda!
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
10:35 am
WnE is starting to post the exact same stats that Headley Lamar used to post. Hmm. Makes you wonder.
Jacket99
March 1st, 2012
10:38 am
GTBob
December 14th, 2011
12:18 pm
Sorry GT Bob, but I wants kids that go to GT to go to the NFL and do well
So when Vad Lee committed to GT and you started harassing him on twitter about his decision it was because you care about him and want him to be a great NFL QB?
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WnE…you never answered GTBob about Vad Lee. What was up with that?
George Stein
March 1st, 2012
10:38 am
If we lost routinely to Clemson, he’d include them, too. But, of course, that doesn’t fit the narrative, so he doesn’t.
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
He is Tech 100%
After Vad Lee committed to Tech he spent all day on Twitter trying to get him to change his mind until Vad eventually asked him to stop. I don’t think he is 100% Tech.
1 4 GT
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
DawginLex. weenie is not Tech either. He may have went to college somewhere, but not GT. NOBODY that attended any college could be so completely negative towards their supposed alma mater. NOBODY!!!! NOWAY!!!! NOHOW!!!! I and the vast majority of the GT bloggers may not support everything GT & CPJ does, but we do see positives to build on. WEENIE only has negativity!!!
The rut
March 1st, 2012
10:42 am
How about we actually recruit and give scholarships to a kicker and punter insted of using walkon’s?
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
10:44 am
WnE…
Looks like you’re never going to like ol’ “Moobs McFish Fry” or any of the players that play for him…like Vad Lee
WnE
March 1st, 2012
10:45 am
re:
WnE is starting to post the exact same stats that Headley Lamar used to post. Hmm. Makes you wonder.
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I don’t know who that guy is that you’re talking about, but I think I was one of the first guys to break out those games as the ones that define GT FB.
Lifetime Atlantan
March 1st, 2012
10:45 am
All of us longtime Tech fans remember how much importance one ex-punter who coached the Jackets put into special teams before it was fashionable (like many of the things Coach Dodd did).
Grits
March 1st, 2012
10:45 am
Just keep on keeping coach Paul Johnson so you will keep on losing!!! That guy is over his head and in the weak ACC that’s really saying something.
Jacket99
March 1st, 2012
10:46 am
1 4 GT…did you get your answer about transferring CD’s to your ipod?
We Own You
March 1st, 2012
10:46 am
You Tech geniuses can diss UGA’s program all you want—but as long as you are 1-10 against Georgia, if they are bad, you–by comparison–are so much worse. Glad you could get that powerhouse MTSU team off your schedule so you won’t have to start the season 0-2–becasue EVERYONE knows how you will end your season–AGAIN!
1 4 GT
March 1st, 2012
10:48 am
Yes Jacket99, I did. Thanks.
roughrider
March 1st, 2012
10:50 am
I’m glad CPJ came around in his thinking. Here is hoping that Tech and UGA will win more games this year.
GTBob
March 1st, 2012
10:52 am
Glad you could get that powerhouse MTSU team off your schedule
MTSU is still on our schedule.
FL Jacket
March 1st, 2012
10:52 am
WnE…
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?
Jacket99
March 1st, 2012
10:53 am
roughrider
March 1st, 2012
10:50 am
I’m glad CPJ came around in his thinking. Here is hoping that Tech and UGA will win more games this year.
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It would be something if both teams went into the game with no losses.
the rut.... if it was that easy
March 1st, 2012
10:53 am
than saban would have had a better kicking game last year.
if it was that easy the pros’ would draft kickers at or near the top of the draft every year.
if it was that easy that bobby bowden would not have had the saying ‘wide right;’ attributed to his program.
are you WnE perchance? he seems to have issues with facts and rational thought processes. btw he did recruit kickers recently and they flopped.
lmao i do believe that i have nailed WnE to a tee. he has no come back for my hypothesis so it must be true.
hey WnE stall no 4 in the mens room needs tp and somebody pooped on the floor. git r done bubba.
as my mamma used to say if you dont defend yourself that it must be true.
Hashbrown Dawg
March 1st, 2012
10:55 am
hey ‘we own you’ ill have hash browns instead of fries.
1 4 GT
March 1st, 2012
11:08 am
Well, at least she had a built in hotbox to keep her hashbrowns warm!!
Grits
March 1st, 2012
11:10 am
WnE
Why did you black out the year of your supposed graduation from GT? Embarrassed?
GTfan2012
March 1st, 2012
11:17 am
Reminder to everyone who reads these comments. WnE is a proven LIAR! He makes up stories to make himself sound intelligent. He made up a story about Stephen Hill’s recruitment by UGA, which I proved was false. He did this only to claim that Stephen Hill was some elite level WR coming out of HS, so he could then claim that Hill was “coached down” at GT. Only a sociopath builds something up through lies just so they can tear it down and make themselves feel important.
WnE also continues to make up lies about CPJ and as pointed out in some comments above, make up conversations that CPJ has with potential recruits. He claims CPJ tells recruits lies. There’s only two problems with his argument. #1 He has no clue what CPJ tells recruits. He just makes it up in his mind. #2 He’s so delusional that he claims that the conversations that he’s made up in his mind ARE lies, when that can’t even be proven. For instance, he’s claimed that CPJ shows potential QB recruits film of his time at Hawaii, and claims that he lies to the recruits about how they might implement that offense. First he has no proof of this, and second even if it were true that he tells the recruits this, that doesn’t necessarily make it a lie. It only makes it a lie in WnE’s demented mind. But then that’s the definition of a sociopath, after all.
Truth
March 1st, 2012
11:31 am
wne you’re an idiot. there are only 2 elite qbs coming out of this draft and rg3rd is still in question.
so you say you can’t look at high school stats. they are meaningless. what a dumbass comment.
what matters is a qb that fits your system. gt has that now along with 2 very capable of passing the ball with solid consistency. you will see a big difference with these guys. that’s what you’re afraid of as a dwag fan. the missing pieces to gt winning and beating uga have been special teams…fixed…and a passing game…fixed. gt will go undefeated next year and will have but 2-3 losses this year..and not to ugag
doc
March 1st, 2012
11:32 am
could we entertain the idea of a qb coach or is there one in place?
GT Gilbert
March 1st, 2012
11:48 am
With Coach Johnson’s new less gimmiky fumble-ruski, statue of liberty, based offense coming on board next year, this attention to special teams is a must.
I am excited about the perfect option punt.
THWG!!!!!!!!!
GT Gilbert
March 1st, 2012
11:57 am
Truth, You are Right, We will beat UGA. If my Tech educated calculations are correct……..
62-39-5 X 1-10 ≠ Option X 3 θ = (k + 1/2)π X manzier power = assured tech win
Jacket Dad
March 1st, 2012
11:58 am
Wow – lots of off-topic posts here. Count me as loving this decision for many reasons. PJ swallowed his pride and is doing something to shore up a much-needed part of the team. The added focus and attention cannot hurt. I also like what I see about the hire – his intensity and other attributes sorely lacking on this team.
(Yes – I was at the bowl game with Air Force and died a thousand deaths that day with our “special teams”!!!!!!)
GT Gilbert
March 1st, 2012
12:17 pm
LOL Twinkie
Those crazy Bulldog guys, always doing heterosexual things.
maharajiean shorts
March 1st, 2012
12:30 pm
Conclusion: Paul Johnson has succeeded in negotiating the fine line between stubbornness, which can have its virtues, and silliness, which has none
NOT SO SURE ABOUT THAT UNTIL HE AXES THE HIGH SCHOOL OFFENSE.
C G Jung
March 1st, 2012
12:34 pm
Psychological evaluation of WnE
Delusions of grandeur – CHECK – thinks he is an expert talent evaluator
Over sense of self-importance – CHECK – regularly refers to himself in 3rd person as “Ole Wrexy”
Stalker of HS students – CHECK – had to be asked by Vad Lee to stop contacting him
Has a fixed hate object – CHECK – thinks Paul Johnson is the cause of all bad in the world
Dehumanizes people he doesn’t like – CHECK – calls GT coach “Kung Fu Panda” and calls supporters of GT coach “Boot Licking Toadies”
Exhibits self-loathing – CHECK – claims to be a GT grad and claims that all GT grads are ignorant, pompous,
Wants to change reality – CHECK – thinks GT should drop out of the ACC and join the SEC
Prognosis
A hopeless case. Likely to keep posting diatribes against Johnson, GT fans and the ACC as a whole
Possible cure
Come out of the GT closet and become an open UGA fan
William Casey
March 1st, 2012
12:39 pm
WnE simply has some kind of obsession with Coach Paul Johnson. I don’t know, maybe he has a shrine to the second coming of Coach Bobby Dodd. Maybe he’s a GT graduate, maybe just a provocateur. Very few of us GT fans (saw first game in ‘60, Alabama’s “Digger” O’Dell beat us 16-15 with late FG) believe that CPJ is a “genius.” Those of us who support him believe that he brings an “out-of-the-box” thinking and system that can be successful at GT. Like it or not, GT is (and will remain) much more similar to the Service Academies than it is to the football factories (Alabama, LSU, UGA, etc.) that surround us. I reached the conclusion during the late ’70’s that GT would never be able to draft the sheer numbers of NFL prospects that the factories do. Depth matters in football. Hence, I came to believe that GT needed a different approach. CPJ provides it on offense. I wish Coach Tenuto had stayed because he provided it on defense.
IMHO, WnE just has this neurotic “thing” about CPJ and we just have to put up with it. BTW, not that it matters, anybody can buy a GT ring at a pawn shop. BTW2, if CPJ had Joe Hamilton, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Maybe Lee or Thomas will be our new “Joe.”
William Casey
March 1st, 2012
12:41 pm
Should have said “recruit” rather than “draft.” My apologies.
Who is WnE?
March 1st, 2012
12:44 pm
I don’t know who this gentleman is, but I think there needs to be more listening to what he says and less blind criticizing. After reading all of the statements on here, WnE’s are the most accurate, thorough, and on point. You can still be a passionate fan and be critical of sub-par performance…heck, that what a passionate fan does!
Like any college program, GT’s season(s) are defined be the critical games. Right now that’s VT, Clemson, Miami and UGA. The bowl game becomes a part of that equation when you’re winless the past 4 years. When you’ve lost 3 out of 4 games in 3 out of 4 of those critical series, plus go 0-4 in Bowl games, isn’t there reason for concern??
I’m a huge GT fan, but I would like for the expectations of the program to increase. Imagine if the folks up the street had a similar 4 year record against Florida, Auburn, South Carolina, GT and the bowl opponent.
I like watching the TOpt when it works, but the shortcomings of the GT defense are IMHO a product of the TOpt offense. How prepared is the defense when they go against an option offense 15 practices in the Spring, practice against undersized “scout” linemen who don’t know how to drive block and pass protect during the season, and practice against non-throwing scout team QBs as well? Can these guys simulate what the D will see on Saturdays??
WnE has some good points. I’m wondering if he is a current/former player. Hmmm……
Tokyo jacket
March 1st, 2012
12:46 pm
I think a lot of people are going to have a different view of GT football come October. Personally, I like where the program is going.
Shorts, what makes it a high school offense? I would point out that while he’s only 1-3 against UGA, he does average ~450 yards per game against UGA’s 4- and 5-star recruits. Those losses have not been about offense. They’ve been about defense and special teams.
DAWGS!!
March 1st, 2012
12:51 pm
@ WnE
You seem to harp on the Job that the Offense has done under CPJ but his offense is NOT the issue here!!
It always has and continues to be the Defenseive side of the Ball, and his poor recruiting is almost is 50% of the issues here! If they could get some sort of defense at all they would win almost every game on the schedule!! Even Georgia! But folk like you confuse the issue by makeing statements of him recruiting running QBs first…. that’s the offense and the Offense has been very sucsessful!
Momentum is created on the defensive side of the ball 75% of the time…Its what gave Tech the spark in the Clemson game!! go review the 1st quarter of that game.
We need to harp on the defenseive side of the ball thats where 80% of the issues are… and agreed we also have isses on special teams as well.
slydog
March 1st, 2012
12:59 pm
Round of applause for CPJ. With the kind of make or break offense Tech runs, a more intense focus on special teams was needed. More ways to score a create turnovers was needed. Mark Richt are you listening?
DAWGS!!
March 1st, 2012
1:00 pm
@ Who is WnE?
You are ABSOLULTY CORRECT here my friend!!! ABSOLUTLY!! This is the kind of stuff the media and fans need to be worried about… this would be the BIG game changer for this whole program.. I have said it before. But this is going to sound strange but.
Some how some way Tech needs to find a GOOD scout team to run their defense against …I mean this spring, fall and ESPECIALLY durin the season!!! this is the Kicker… EVEN if they have to somehow Pay past players or formal NFL players to run the scout team!!!! I know tons of people who if you paid them they would put on pads and give a good look!!
Why do you think tenuta’s defense was soo much better? Is it because Chan gailey recruited THAT much better than CPJ, maybe, bout sort of doubt it.
Watching Tech Offense is very fascenating and different and it keeps defense confused. But, that sword cuts both ways too, Tech’s defense thinks other offense are fascenating and different as well
@tokyo jacket
March 1st, 2012
1:19 pm
Tech averages 408 yards per game vs UGA , that average is bolstered by the 2010 game where Tech had 512 yards offense and lost. 2 of the 4 years offense was held to 340 and 355 yards. 2009 and 2011. Truth is the Georgia offense has out gained tech in every game but 2010 when Georgia gained 425 yards in only 21 minutes of possession. tech had barely over 100 yards offense in the 2nd half of 2011, most of that coming when the game was well out of reach. its 1-3 1-10 and only 15 wins since 1957 any way you slice it. Rushing yards in 2009 were 202 and in 2011 242 yards rushing only 75 rushing yards in 2nd half 13 yards of that coming on final play scramble by Days. lets not forget in 2008 and 2009 and to a degree in 2010. PJ was playing with Chans 4 and 5 star recruits from 2007 recruiting class.
next thing you know
March 1st, 2012
1:19 pm
the dawgs will deny pooing in their library and the law building.
their excuse….. “they was hash browns.”:
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
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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?
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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?
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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?
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You are saying that your “facts” are sloppy (i.e. WRONG) but your “opinions” are gospel.
Please seek professional help.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
Paul in NH
March 1st, 2012
10:39 pm
George – there you go with those “facts” again.
You didn’t realize that WnE (or “Ole Wrexy” as he likes to call himself) takes the same approach to words as Humpty Dumpty.
From “Through the Looking Glass”
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. “It means just what I choose it to mean – neither more or less.”
Buzzzed
March 1st, 2012
11:09 pm
MB, perfect pic for the article. Has Laskey gotten any PT since that game/play? I hope he gets his head straight.
TechRedNeck
March 1st, 2012
11:47 pm
SouthernCal GT Fan, you sir are right on the money. Look what happened to Bobby Ross.I love Tech always have and always will, however the truth hurts. Tech is no football factory. But then again look at those power houses. They gotta win every game every season and go for the Nat. Championship. If they don’t they howl, cry, threaten to kill somebody. I’m really happy Techs not like that.
gt40pinhd
March 2nd, 2012
12:38 am
techredneck,
where in socal? i’m in lb.
Bark Madley
March 2nd, 2012
1:18 am
Bradley comes out of his cave to write this? to be expected considering he only writes a column if he can find a way to spin a story his way. ‘See!! I was right!! See!!’ I guess thats why he doesnt write much…:)
OldGold64
March 2nd, 2012
7:55 am
This is a major institution with history and track record of greatness…. there is no reason why every category cannot have a “specialist” assigned to it in order to emphasize the importance of being a “Team” in all phases of contribution instead of relying on one segment to carry the load and hoping it is enough to offset opponents.
GTfan2012
March 2nd, 2012
8:57 am
OldGold64,
Your comments implies a lack of knowledge of college football coaching. Did you know that colleges are limited in the number of assistant coaches they are allowed to have. So the history and greatness of GT have nothing to do with the fact that we didn’t have a ST coach, but rather it was an allocation of resources. Now, I’m not so much of a “boot licking toadie” that I don’t realize that our HC has changed his tune on the way he allocates those resources. What GT was doing on ST was not working, and to his credit, CPJ changed his position on this issue. After all, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Kinda like WnE, who keeps spouting the same thing over and over and thinks that eventually people here will think he is smart.
GT
March 2nd, 2012
9:06 am
Did anyone read about the UCLA study made by a Sports Ill. writer. It talks about how undiscipled the UCLA basketball team is. It is almost a cult group that parties and take drugs and basketball is secondary. Korey McCray is an assistant coach there. He fed a lot of players to Hewitt here. AAU types that almost rock star mentality and could care less about the other side of life and have no business on a college campus. Interesting reading and reporting, and a condition I think you not only found with Hewitt but still find in Athens with that football team. While reporter here are just recycling copy from their college PR departments, SL is doing what good reporters use to do, find the facts report what is really going on.
Tim T-bone
March 2nd, 2012
9:50 am
Good Grief! I love football but so many guys angry over meaningless entertainment. Please try to redirect your energy into something positive.
Got Gators and God Bless,
#14
WnE
March 2nd, 2012
9:56 am
On the Radio today CPJ was HATING on Stephen Hill with the way he answered the question on whether or not Hill was a 2nd or 3rd round draft pick.
With all the S. Hill positivity going around Coach Kung Fu Panda is on the local Atl. radio HATING ON HIS WON PLAYER.
I’ll see If I can find the audio clip from one of the Local Sports Talk stations websites.
CPJ is so stubborn and hate-filled that he can’t even take a great situation (S. Hill’s combine performances) and then portray that into something positive.
CPJ has to be the WORST BCS-HC PR-wise in the entire country.
Please feel free to RESPOND Boot-Licking-Toadies!
GT
March 2nd, 2012
10:03 am
This is a lot like the Republican Party, no clarity, no compromise, my way or the highway. I truly hope RS gets it. He would wreak the Republican reelection of the congress. He would front and center the problem with gridlock. If Mitt is elected he will carry a lot of tea party Republicans back to Congress that don’t deserve to be there. Romney actually makes these guys look nice to the middle. RS tell the real story of lost freedoms that the tea party represents. He will scare hell out of moderates and they will come out to vote against this nut. If Romney wins the middle doesn’t feel threatened and are less likely to vote.
GT
March 2nd, 2012
10:08 am
sorry got the blogs mixed up. Did CPJ mention that dropped pass by Hill in the Carolina game?
Just Plain Average
March 2nd, 2012
11:52 am
WnE the only way Tech’s going to recruit better is to hire a better recruiting cord. They offer all the big time recruits but just can’t seem to close the deal. Perfect examples would be Tuit and Tomlinson. If they could get a well known 4 or 5 star recruit to commit early, that would help tremendously with attracting other high profile recruits. Just look at the defensive players that were considering Tech until Tuit and Tomlinson decided to go else where. Those 2 players and the few that were going to follow would have greatly improved Tech’s D. And as far as QB’s go, I think Vad Lee and Justin Thomas have far more potential than all the QB’s put together that CPJ has had to work with. Only time will tell. JT has 4.3 speed and seems to have a decent arm. It could be the the 2nd coming of Joe Hamilton. Vad Lee looks to be a pretty good passer and should have a good grasp of the offense. I’ll be very suprised if T. Washinton is the starter. And SynGyn Days can’t be left out of the mix. Great runner and has a pretty good arm. I just wish we could recruit better on D.
Jacket99
March 2nd, 2012
11:54 am
WnE is so stubborn and hate-filled that he can’t even take a great situation (S. Hill’s combine performances) and then portray that into something positive.
GTBob
March 2nd, 2012
12:13 pm
WnE the only way Tech’s going to recruit better is to hire a better recruiting cord.
The only way Tech is going to recruit better is to get a new school. Hiring the best recruiting coordinator in the world would only marginally improve things.
If do right, no can defense
March 2nd, 2012
1:26 pm
Actually I would be surprised if Washington was *not* the starting QB this fall. What helps his case is experience (even if it was mostly experience of losing to tough opponents and never engineering a comeback victory) and tough front part of the schedule. Unlike last season, our season’s fate will be pretty much decided by the time bye week rolls around.
That being said, I do think Vad Lee will be given significant playing time (the coaching staff have indicated as much), and with a returning offensive line I suppose you could take a few risks. I would advise caution when projecting starting QBs. In our system it is not the raw athleticism that counts, but how efficiently you can distribute the ball and how smoothly and quickly you can make decisions. These are the qualities that propelled Tevin ahead of Synjyn last spring.
But I think with the type of competition we will have over next couple of seasons at QB, with the raw talent/athleticism coming in, Tevin’s lack of a good passing game and lack of playmaking ability may overweigh his experience and efficiency.
Randy Carson IMGT '83
March 2nd, 2012
5:22 pm
When I log into the AJC online, I have bookmarked the Tech section only.
I don’t waste my time reading UGA articles and blogs nor do I bother posting in threads devoted to UGA. It doesn’t pertain to me, so what’s the point?
So, if Tech is as irrelevant and insignificant as you claim, why bother reading and commenting here?
Honestly, what IS the fascination you dawgs have about Tech football?
Maybe there is some type of inferiority complex at work?
michael
March 2nd, 2012
8:05 pm
….still, no coaching and players that WANT what uga want’s. I AM THE TECH FAN SINCE 1969 !! i was the boy on the sidelines during the seventie’s courtesy of MAJOR HUGHE HARRISON (dad a ga.st. ptrl).
J-Man
March 2nd, 2012
11:38 pm
So Bradley what do you think of the Saints having Bounties?
Boobie Bowden
March 2nd, 2012
11:42 pm
WnE may have sniffed some tail on campus, but he sure isn’t an alum of Tech, maybe UGA?
Mutant GT Yellow Jackets Will Bee Stinger-less
March 3rd, 2012
2:05 am
A parody of truth – that hurts!
A GT Athletic spokesperson sadly announces that a Coach Paul Johnson’s thoughtfully proposed project performed by the Georgia Tech Bio-Engineering Department in his brilliant ploy to sharpen the GT Yellow Jacket’s Offensive, Defensive, and Special Teams stingers this year in hopes of buzzing through the ACC and stronger OOC teams this year, has gone terribly array.
A GT OL Bee was quoted as saying, I am ’sorely’ sorryful that with our stingers gone I won’t be able to get down low enough to do the cut blocking that Coach J expects me to master.
As he’s a strict disciplinarian, I’m afraid that another swift kick of his size 10EE sneakers in my raw former stinger hole and I’ll have to see if I can get my gaping hole sewn up.
What about me your center, just how does coach expect me to squat down to hike the ball with half my innards leaking out? Don’t you think the QB’s hands are gonna be a little slick after he puts em under my former stinger place? Well, I guess it won’t matter much since we don’t have much of a passing QB anyway! That’s one consolation, I guess!
And the poor H-backs and B-backs gonna find it hard to run with no stinger to jab at those tacklers that are swift afoot, I mean swift a ‘flying’ down the field when they find that occasional open hole in the line. Remember we have some puny sized lineman, and now that their stingers been removed, they’ve lost about 15% of their undersized weight!
And our poor LBers, what’ll they use now to jab those forearms to the face with, I mean stingers to the face as the refs often cheerfully called em!
Gonna be hard to punt and kick the ball too with a sore gaping stinger hole, not that we had hardly anyone on a scholly to do that!
On how I wish Coach Moobs, I think I’ve read him called that, though I guess I ‘wrecken’ that brilliant football mind Coach Paul Johnson don’t take too kindly to that, hadn’t made our whole team do this new ’sharpen the stinger’ experiment in the off season this year! Doesn’t seem to have worked out the way he ’splained it to us!
Gonna be a sore year for us Bees this 2012 season, and all the Stinger fans too since we’re now been inexcusably left stinger-less!
The rest of the ACC’s gonna kick our butts, and with the hole left where our stinger used to ‘bee’ still hurting, it will be a long year for the new Stinger-less Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets!
And the real sad part is that we ain’t got many recruits coming in that they can fill in for us stinger-less Bees on roster! Oh woe is to be a Bee!
Dacusville Bill
March 3rd, 2012
3:54 am
If it wasn’t for Klem & Son, Tech couldn’t beat any of the top tier teams–Since Bobby Dodd and Bobby Ross aren’t coming back, why not find a young coach named Bobby and fire the Fat Man—I’ve been a Tech fan over 60 years and I am disappointed with Tech since George O. left–
dagnabit
March 3rd, 2012
8:37 am
Oversight. Or money for the salary for a special teams coach. Where did the ajc find you?
Messin with Sasquatch
March 3rd, 2012
8:48 am
Nice column, Mark. I agree.
Nativebird
March 3rd, 2012
8:49 am
Your love for this over-matched ego-maniacle high school coach knows no bounds. Now it’s special teams thats His problem? You must be joking. How about 1. Recruiting….or his inability to do so; 2. His laughable belief that you can win anything of importance for any length of time in football with The Forward Pass.
Start there, and THeN maybe we can argue where the special teams deck chairs can be arranged on this Titanic.
Nativebird
March 3rd, 2012
8:55 am
; 2. His laughable belief that you can win anything of importance for any length of time in football WITHOUT The Forward Pass.
TechRon
March 3rd, 2012
12:04 pm
Johnson did the right thing in hiring this guy. Too bad he is so stubborn that it took a lost season to realize that everyone else was right and he was wrong. I never saw anyone so arrogant! He kind of reminds me of Dan Henning. He produced only failure, but he insisted on struting around like the world’s expert on football and got real huffy about answering questions. His attitude was “hey, I am the one who knows it all, who are YOU to be asking an expert such silly questions.” Well PJ is the same way. When he produces like Nick Saban, then he can act that way. Nothing is working, players are not motivated, game plan has no imagination, defense sucks, special teams suck and he thinks he should get respect like he was Vince Lombardi. Not from me, I am sick of it.
Messin with Sasquatch
March 3rd, 2012
3:25 pm
Native bird is cuckoo, I believe. I should kick your butt.
GTL
March 4th, 2012
7:43 am
With fans like WnE who needs UGA?