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Yeah I can see the argument for after Tech takes the lead how does the defense handle its challenge of having to stop UNC from scoring with 3 minutes left. Maybe you can do some finagling there that could result in giving up a score rather than just trying to hold on and get a stop you haven't...

I think this story and its quotes speak to this issue: http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/college/techs-mason-supports-defense/nhnqM/ “It’s not more on the defense than us because we had plays where we could have put up more points,” Mason said. “It just goes both ways.” Coach Paul Johnson said he...

I think it is why CPJ seems to have the least patience with Ken despite his doing such a good job as a Tech beat writer. Ken asks questions in the passive voice or elliptically because he thinks it will allow for the respondent to kind of run with it. But CPJ clearly just wants directness in...

On 1, of course I know that Erk Russell built Southern, but with Johnson's help. Sewak did have success at Southern. Why do you think they went back to the Johnson coaching tree and option game after the real failure of the Hatcher experiment? Niumatolo hasn't necessarily had the level of...

At least you are acknowledging that for this to really be a strategic decision for a coach to make he has got to really play it just right or else he is basically telling his D and their coaches that he thinks they blow and has zero faith in them to do what they always aim to do, namely, stop...

I think average/mediocre years in wins and losses like 6-7 win seasons are often very hard to evaluate. They can seem to point to decline or treading water in a Dave Braine way that factored into firing Gailey . . . or they can point in a direction where a program is very very close to great...

Yeah good point. I know I showed a lot of emphasis on this in a few threads. However, I also know many of you are not "serious" about suggesting these decisions getting made in the game. Like I said I had the exact same thoughts like @Longestday and others. But I read some of the posters at...

Oh yeah I should have added in Curry as well. Clearly CPJ has to get enough wins to prove he can "do it" long term at Tech. That was always the case and never changes. Any coach can get fired without enough wins no matter the other aspects they bring to being a head coach. But this fact of...

That is exactly the way it played out. Richt stated he was "outcoached on that one" because he should have instructed his team to NOT just score but take a knee. You can do that if you have the lead. You cannot do that when losing. Same with telling the D to let them score, you can do that...

DTGT posted all that needed to be said for this thread. I know how hard it is as a fan to suffer watching our defense not make crucial stops the last 4 years and we lose a close game at the end. But actually making the calls on the sideline of such games, such as using TO's, has to ignore this...

I basically agree however, my understanding of his being recruited to Bama was that he was clear from the get go he wanted a chance to play QB and at least initially or for a long while Bama maintained that they wanted him to have the chance at QB. It was when Thomas started to really take a...

But seriously think about what it would be like as players on a team if in the game your head coach tells a player to NOT take the quick TD when a play breaks open because it would be taking the lead "too fast" . . . when you are behind!! It is completely different then the VT game when CPJ...

The only proof we can have is our crying eyes seeing what players do in games. Duke in 2 straight games has now demonstrated that it approves of its players intentionally trying to harm the opponents QB. That is either taught by the coaching staff (D most likely) or encouraged by very fact of...

I have said all I desire to about CPJ's job status. It was plausible preseason that depending on how it played out Bobinski could even do an in-season firing. But after the VT win and definitively after the Miami win such a scenario really became unthinkable. If he loses out then sure...

I totally agree with this. I just think that "getting a top ten class" based on recruiting service rankings is a whole separate issue to what you say here. I am not convinced that those ranking systems are the best way for me to judge this particular program I am a fan of.

Also want to add: Primarily because this site is trafficked by recruits and their parents and family of current players I prefer to see the "fire the head coach" threads relegated to the end of the regular season. This site is in a unique position as a forum that can help the fans present a...

This is the part I strongly agree with. Fire head coach threads absolutely have their time and place and are appropriate in those times and places. Definitely appropriate this preseason when reasonable to think of CPJ as on a warm or hot seat. However, after the win at Blacksburg I really...

Right. I think that the younger posters here do recall the Gailey years pretty vividly and so remember a far more consistently decent to good defense (even great at times) under Tenuta. My point about the longer view is that this is "one of those cycles" that can happen at Tech. More often...

Turnover on defensive staff impacts recruiting for the defense. I am curious what the evidence that CPJ ignores or doesn't emphasize defense consists in? It would seem to just be results on D that could possibly make you say this, yet, how do the results prove the head coach improperly...

That is the exact sentiment Tech fans mulled over on Hamilton's behalf for those years. It is very hard to get everything to come together for any particular special season or a string of years at Tech. But when I step back and look around at other programs it is still so much better to be a...