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  1. Bold claims about our program

    I think psychology refers to such hopes (national championships) as the false hope syndrome, so that you hope to win 'em all and wind up with eight and it is a terrible disappointment. I can see recruiting improving somewhat: a "featured runner" wannabe might now consider GT, and maybe a WR...
  2. What I'll miss about Tech football … and what I hope to see

    Yet, I recall that just this past season Ted Roof now at NC State explained away a loss by saying the players "were in the right position" but didn't make the play. A not very subtle way of tossing the players under the bus. So now we will hear that the calls were better but the players failed...
  3. What I'll miss about Tech football … and what I hope to see

    Yet, it is true is it not, that the run and shoot element was designed to put WRs ibe-on-one downfield and let the guy go make a play. I am certain I recall a couple of pieces that had Johnson explaining this when he recruited WRs. (It started when he re-recruited Demaryius Thomas when he ws...
  4. Bold claims about our program

    Can't find it now, but it is somewhere on the AJC site. But here's a piece I haven't seen though it may be posted elsewhere, on Collins's contract. https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/geoff-collins-contract-with-georgia-tech-atypically-long/DQnPT6e4KzvwERNjDmZOfP/
  5. Bold claims about our program

    Johnson had a great crack in the AJC today, making fun of critics and of himself regarding recruiting. And in the same piece, out of place here but it will have to do, it was made clear it is Georgia Tech's policy as an institution that every scholarship commitment will be honored.
  6. How Good Was Coach Johnson at Tech?

    Hardly. About 300 bucks of clothing. A violation but hardly to the level of scandal. And the title was vacated, by my recollection, not because Thomas took the clothes, but because Radakovich told Johnson about the inquiry, to me an entirely reasonable and ethical action. Not to the NCAA. It was...
  7. How Good Was Coach Johnson at Tech?

    Nesbitt's broken arm happened when he thew a pick and then tackled the VT player, I think it was. QB injury but on defense of all things. (I think Nesbitt hoped to play safety in the NFL.)
  8. [Poll] Out of pure curiosity - Did you attend Georgia Tech?

    Now Jacket, the complexity of this answer will require an explanation for the Techsters....
  9. Did GT, dodge a bullet?

    Odd, because the issue is simple. And I am not talking about a legal issue. I am talking about the word of a university to a prospective student, the offer of a scholarship to play football and all that entails. That's it. The university, through its assigned representative, the new football...
  10. How Good Was Coach Johnson at Tech?

    I think you are probably right, though the biggest hits on quarterbacks I remember are on the fire and fall back stand-in-the-pocket variety. I also think it can intimidate a QB over time into making the wrong choice too quickly to avoid the hit. My only reservation to the option had to do that...
  11. Who was the best DC in Coach Johnson’s tenure?

    Boy, you really, really, honestly, truly, seriously, on your oath, do not like Johnson. Just guessing, though I hope you do not blame climate change on him. If you believe in either.
  12. How Good Was Coach Johnson at Tech?

    One of the great unknown unknowns. Projecting recruits out over four years, particularly in Johnson's offense and its many variables and blocking scheme changes, is hazardous at best. What we do know is that Johnson never had the chance to find out. Did he graduate from Tech, does anybody know...
  13. How Good Was Coach Johnson at Tech?

    To complicate that year, and it is hard to conclude it given the injuries, I did not think Thomas was as good as he was in '14. That guy in the ACC championship against FSU and then in the Orange Bowl was as good a QB as the ACC had seen, despite the option game. But you pitch man being on the...
  14. Who was the best DC in Coach Johnson’s tenure?

    Help me out. I have seen this reference a couple of times but can find no source for it. Has Woody been fired already? (I assume he had a 2-year deal, given that Johnson was thinking of the grand bounce before he hired him.)
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