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Had Johnson said yes, could you ever imagine him carping immediately that nobody on the football team could play his offense and so this will take awhile?

I suspect if one pays for his ticket he can leave when he wants, without guilt.

Ain't that a hell of a dilemma. I am still, reluctantly, willing to give the guy a chance, though I was agin' him when he was hired. But I shook it off, knowing my reaction was colored by a pro-Johnson bias. (Sue me, but I like a coach who threatens to punch an opponent in the face vs. one who...

I will make some concession, but in fairness toss out the fullback carries as he is always the first of three options. (And they generally came out of Tech several inchs shorter than when they started.) I could not help, watching Clemson-FSU, wondering how exciting that Shipley kid would have...

The problem one has withe triple option, and always will have, is recruiting elite running backs by telling them they will get 4-5 touches a game and the rest of the time, block. That is a hard sell to a RB who wants 20-25 touches a game and a potential NFL career at the end. I was/am a triple...

You have a way with words, my friend. Now, if you could coach a bit...

In fairness, some of his comments were far from borderline criticisms. They were insulting and the GT AD should have backed him into a corner.

Were a a HC -- Mullen -- who had his DC -- Collins -- bail on him weeks before a major bowl game, I wouldn't even let him drive through Gainesville. I think, unfortunately, we can write this one off as two college friends shooting the breeze with a bunch of what-ifs.

I am not going to reignite the Johnson/Collins argument. It's a dead horse and what is done is done.I am trying to hang in there with Collins -- I have been a Tech fan too long not to -- but every week it seems to spiral toward insignificance. If one does not like the spread option, the triple...

Take two aspirin and don't call me in the morning.

Actually under the current regime also. "Run the ball" turns out to have a certain charm.

Navy had the Johnson curse: great offense, nobody to run it.

A distinction without a difference I fear.

I would just about bet my house that folks who post such views about being "outspent" are the same ones who scream at Washington for "throwing money at the problem." He has a weird obsession because Collins' taste is weird.

I forget the VT safety, Kam Chancellor, a good one who played many years in the NFL, mouthing before the Tech game that he had the triple option figured out, that Tech was tipping it off. (I have no idea what he was talking about.) Come game day and our WRs beat on him like a drum on every play...

I think it telling that the further away from the true spread option, or commonly the Triple Option, Navy gets the worse it is for them and now coaches are getting fired, starting with the supposed guru of the triple, Ivin Jasper. Meanwhile Monken has Army looking like a Johnson team and they...

Pretty sure the '14 team was no Gailey's recruits. I would agree he did better defensively with Gailey's recruits.

As Stonewall Jackson was reputed to have said when one of his generals whined that the raid was wetting the ammunition in one of his Valley battles, "It's raining on their side of the line, too."

I believe it started out as zone read to the right with the with a running back trailing way too far back and way too far outside the QB; almost like they had never run it before and had just put it in. Which I betcha is true. But it was exciting to see the behemoth QB actually trying to handle...

Don't know how many noticed but Clemson, struggling for an offense with a QB with his own set of problems, actually ran a triple option against BC. Ugly, but it got a few yards and made BC back off some.