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What did I miss? What happened to the coach we had? Does the AD even know he has left? (Hint: Tech did pretty good sending a coach to the pros with Ross. Getting one back in Gailey, not so good.) But if anybody knows where Johnson landed, speak up.

This is going to sound smarmy and I don't mean it to. But if he was good enough to start at Tech but didn't because they promised the position to a freshman, how come he can't go down to a lower league and start? As for Vad Lee, whom I am weary of hearing of -- let me dangle prepositions...

actually -- I was at the game -- Tech left at least two TDs on the field and maybe a third. That silly formation was a sop to Lee who couldn't run from under center. Two mistakes: Johnson for recruiting him, Lee for accepting. Besides when your O lineman (Braun) dismisses it, then forget about it.

As I have said before, you can talk until you are blue in the face but you are not going to get football players in here with the curriculum GT has. It ain't gonna happen and I don't care who is recruiting, even at the point of a gun. Give it up. You guys are not just beating a dead horse your...

Well, okay then. As Nixon said, let me say this about that: I don't know if he is an offensive genius or not. he doesn't stay long enough to find out. (A guy being OC for a great team -- Alabama -- doesn't show me near as much as he would have at say, SC or Tennessee.) But worse than that, much...

And here I was, calm and restrained, ignoring what is going on in the WH, ignoring Alabama, saying my oohs and Ohms and ... you did this. So much for serenity...

Help me understand the dispute here. Is ATL1 saying coaches play favorites over talent "a lot", or is ATL1 saying coaches don't play to win for other reasons: discipline, for instance. (The No. 1 clearly is superior but is a jerk so No. 2 gets the start though the team might lose.) In short...

Sobering, but yes.

Interesting, because the book "Legacy" I wrote about attacks that very issue with the New Zealand rugby team in 2004. After a century of sustained excellence it finished last in a big tournament. They didn't start over. They identified problems and problem players and set out a plan of fixing...

I am not disputing you because I just don't know. But if so it would mark in my recollection the first time a GT coach has ever promised a starting position to a recruit. I can see telling somebody he fit the requirements of a position, and that encouraging the recruit. But Johnson has said...

I am a lifelong Dodgers fan and can't kick it. But with them I have so much to whine about I just don't bother.

I thought Mills did earn the spot, in practice and in games. So I don't get that complaint though overall it is an adult and classy departure. And a reminder I need to watch their next game.

I'm with you. (And the grass-is-greener folks always think that a different recruit can just haul them in. Good luck with that.)

I think that is pretty much on target. I don't think there is a better game day coach in the country than Johnson, and not a better football "CEO" than Swinney. Much of it comes down to "a lot more resources". Because yes he does, a lot more. Some of what Johnson has done with what he has is...

A couple of weekends ago I visited one of my oldest friends in Huntsville -- which is like not even being in Alabama. He is an indifferent football fan, meaning he pays attention, mostly because I do, but doesn't die every Saturday. He is a Georgia Tech graduate, not somebody hiding in the...

I kind of disagree. The game was officiated. Peach lost. The lesson these players are being taught is that if at first you don't win, whine. The lesson they should learn is that the world is an imperfect place. Not to mention that the video itself disproves their appeal.

From this angle only it appears the pass is complete, but the receiver And it looks to me that in addition the ball is short of the EZ by a foot or so. Refs might be getting a bad rap on this one. (I was once rooked into umping home plate for a LL game. You want to raise your blood pressure...

Ah, probably. Yet is very odd that his first P5 coaching job was ignored and even if just a mistake, it is a terrible mistake for a good reporter to make. Like telling that hot girl about your exploits but without the two years in Leavenworth. I think I hear that odd thumping noise up there ...

I try not to be paranoid even when I am being chased but the complete exclusion of the Ga. Tech years on his resume is very odd. Suspicious even. I don't mean against Tech, or against Johnson. But it is almost, just about, quite like those analysts and sportswriters who were crowing in 2008 that...

The WSJ piece was pretty good, but without -- pardon the irony -- the usual WSJ precision. Nowhere is Johnson mentioned, and Monken's time at Georgia Tech after Navy is ignored altogether. The point is nobody knows where this offense came from in this piece though I still like it, and it is a...