My brother is in Grad School with someone who's father is on the board at GT.
They forced him to retire because they think they can be as good as Bama or Georgia since they sit in middle of Atlanta.
They are gearing up to go out and get Lane Kiffin.
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Man, they're really letting that 1990 split national championship get to their heads.
Oh please please please let this be true. Mack Brown and Lane Kiffin becoming our main competition!
Kiffin can recruit, the coaching part not so much.
After thinking about this overnight, Lane stepped into a pretty shitty situation at USC, and coached the team through some tough sanctions and he had some respectable results 8-5, 10-2, 7-6, and 3-2 (Fired mid-season).
The guy can recruit talent, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was a better coach after spending time with Saban and not having to deal with sanctions.
Honestly, the word is that Kiffin's time at Bama did rub off on him in a positive way. Being a part of the most well-oiled machine in college football for a few years seems to be helping all the other Bama assistants build programs as HC's, or get off to great starts. You throw that into what he already brings to the table, good recruiter, great offensive coach, and you've got a lot to work with as a HC.
The question for him will be can he effectively manage a program, will there be Joey Freshwater relapses? Can he build a program long-term?
I think he could recruit back when he was still a hot commodity. Since then he has had two failed stints at Tenn and USC, some untoward rumors swirl about his departure from bama, and ended up at FUI? FAU? That is a major backward trajectory that screams "overrated" to me. I hope GT is stuck in 2008 and buys Kiffin's stale hype, he's nothing but a G5 coach with a P5 name.
If he can recruit like he used too, being right dead smack of Atlanta would certainly steal away some recruits from the likes of Bama, UGA, and Tenn.
I'm not concerned about beating him. If he can dilute the talent pool, so we don't just have the same 4 teams in the playoffs every year, I would be ecstatic.
College football was more exciting when it wasn't Bama and everyone else.
The regular season is fine, but I miss the chaos of the BCS a bit.
Not really. Most people in Georgia just don't care about Georgia Tech. I would say the state is about 80% Georgia, 10% Georgia Tech, and 10% other schools, and that's probably generous to the latter two.
Completely agree that they don't care about GT. It's just easier to recruit when you are literally right in the middle of the hotbed. You don't have to go very far to get the groceries.
more like 75% Georgia, 15% Bama and 10% other schools
I think what he's trying to get at is living in one of the biggest African-American cultural hubs is probably appealing to several young football players. This is a bit reductionist but IMHO, Atlanta is a bigger, modern day version of Harlem. I can easily envision a scenario where the right GT coach could London his way into a few big-time recruits.
I think GT has some sleeping giant potential with its location, academic reputation, slightly above average tradition and proximity to recruiting hotbeds.
The old ball coach at USCe comes in to mind as a fair comparison. USCe may have had more fans than GT, and a conference to sell recruits on, but he pulled in a lot of the talent Clemson is getting now.
#hideyowives
Joey Freshwater to spice things up in the Coastal. Guard the coeds!
It's GT. That shouldn't be a problem
I forgot about this guy. Ultimate cringe.
But probably makes more than all of us...
My father (GT alum) referring to the majority of the girls at GT as "coyote ugly" was not the first time I'd heard the term, but it was shocking enough that he thought I hadn't, and proceeded to define the term.
His words, on the way to a baseball game there: "When I was there, there was one girl that was really attractive, five others that you could be seen with, and the rest were coyote ugly. It appears the scene hasn't changed that much."
Their athletic department budget certainly doesn't lend credence to GT having that mentality. They have one of the smallest athletic departments in the P5 by dollar and sport. I thought the whole reason they kept PJ around was because he could be somewhat competitive and inexpensive.
Edit: Inexpensive in that I'm guessing his offensive recruiting and assistant budugets aren't that large given the system and lack of OC.
I mentioned this in another thread, but images are only temporarily hosted on brinkleys.org. Imgur.com is a solid alternative.
The problem for me is, brinkleys doesn't necessarily set off the alarms at work. Uploading to imgur, on the other hand.......
I just set the deletion time on brinkleys to 99 hours. I figure even if they immediately delete, by the time 100 hours have passed, most of the time, the thread has scrolled off the tracker.
There is no reason for this not to go plaid.
I dont care what terms he left on, I'm just glad he's gone
If this means they aren't hiring another flexbone coach then I'm all for it. I don't even care if they get more competitive than now because it won't make me tear my hair out to watch try to defend them
They're 7-5 this year. I don't really want them more competitive than they are now.
Don't look now, but we might be in an actual division.
Not for a few years though in both UNC and GT's case. My hope is by 2020 we will be back to ACC Title contender status and UNC and GT will be in year 2 of a rebuild.
I like to think Johnson was already engaged in the idea of retiring and then the AD came in with a low blow threatening to ruin his coaching image and injuring his coaching future.
Chop blocked by his own AD. Well played Karma, well played.
You currently have 8 turkey legs to my 1 for pointing out my chop block reference. Perfect example of how rarely chop blocks get noticed.
I feel like I remember Johnson dropping a clue about his retirement in one of his on-the-field post game interviews. Something he said along the lines of "the next coach..."
I once pushed out something that looks like Paul Johnson too. AMIRITE?
Your scrotum?
Not sure how much I believe this unless we find out he is getting a Beamer style parachute package. The mans contract was fully guaranteed for about $3 million a year. Unless he wanted to retire, they couldn't force him out without paying through the nose.
How many times has GT alumni factions raised money for the man's ouster?
PLENTY
surprised no one just went to the darkweb
Just saw this on Twitter
It's almost like they decided repeating the Chan Gailey era would actually work this time if the coach is an alumnus.
Gailey was let go because he couldn't beat Georgia. Johnson was getting to that point falling further and further away from being competitive. The interesting thing is Gailey never had a losing season, something Johnson can't say.
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