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I don't agree with the rest, but I have always thought the Tech program has not been the same since the departure of Monken for Georgia Southern. Monken was always in Johnson's ear on the sideline. Now I see nobody filling what amounted to an assistant head coach's role, and he was the guy...

Well, after all, Army did go wild in the air. Once, was it? The juxtaposition of Army beating Duke and Duke battering Tech a week later -- and Army of all the spread option knockoffs is almost a carbon copy of the Tech offense -- makes no sense. But so did that mercy killing by Clemson in 2015...

I think it is fair to say that Johnson is intensely loyal to his coaches and to his former players, many of whom he hires as coaches. I spent the summer reading Rick Atkinson's three-volume opus on the U.S. Army from the lae '30s through victory in Europe, and Tom Ricks's "Generals", about...

I am going to write some of this off as an effort to quench that fire in your hair. The part about the meaningless "mesh" is one of those, because you have to know more about football than that. Read and decide the first option is kind of important. Get that wrong and the play is history...

That's a really interesting POV -- Moneyball, I mean -- and the more I ponder the more right you seem. (A scheme which my Dodgers became the latest to prove doesn't work in short series.) And last season I think it was Johnson seemed to go out of his way to knock down praise for the 2014...

I doubt anybody on the board "accepts" mediocrity. Intensity is such a subjective judgment that I doubt anybody not on the sideline or the playing field can make it accurately. One of the most laid back players I ever saw ran the fastest without obvious effort and hit the hardest. You just never...

One suspects you will have a long wait. I cannot imagine, for instance, any HS coach anywhere telling one of his players not to go to GT unless said player had no interest at all in the course offerings and curriculum, in which case, good for the coach -- as long as the parents in the loop --...

I got you. That's one of those irony comments, right? Maybe facetious? Even fatuous? You sure made me waste time. Fearing I had missed something there I had to check. He played a bit, mostly special teams. I guess that was your point.

Is that what he said?

Let me hasten, with greatest alacrity -- I had to look it up -- to say there are dozens of people on the board who know more about football than I, and several of them post regularly with insights I never had. But being a message board guy I have opinions, apparently issued by the moderators...

After doing this awhile, and seeing the board set itself on fire and scorch most anybody associated with the team after such a result I long ago decided to set on my reactions a day or so and let the chum settle to the bottom. Right now I'm more concerned with the hysteria that seems to follow a...

I am told there are countless capital letters and exclamation points on your keyboard. A hint: they don't help your argument.

Without diminishing this burned barn today and what it means going forward, because it ain't good, let me flat out say that manufacturing "facts" is unseemly. Next you will argue that "Statistics prove that ..."

Don't know the guy personally but I do know someone who does outside the football program. I value his judgment and it is that the charge of buying players is nonsense. People want to say it but asked to provide proof, head for the hills. Clemson is as clean as GT., and in fact Tech had the...

You might want to rethink this one, because what you are saying is your head coach is not allowed to head coach. For a fellow making no decisions he is remarkably active on the sideline. Next we will learn his headset isn't even plugged in. This is not exactly the Chaos Theory, but if developed...

Interesting numbers and a lot of work involved. It should be a great game, but it can bust open any time. And you have a disadvantage on the sideline. I am not a Richt basher and when Georgia made him available to Miami I knew it was not good for GT because it is conference and division title...

If one believes the coaches -- I know, I know, they are coaches -- then every year is in theory open. I recall Johnson saying a couple of times that every year he left QB open for somebody to beat Washington out, but nobody ever could. That might be the issue. But I sure would like to get...

A friend told me the starting QB from Clemson has mechanical issues involving hip and shoulder turn in the throw -- he apparently opens up too quickly. They are working to fix them and apparently he is trying his best. But the No. 2 guy there has the gun, No. 3 is very good, and they have a...

This seems to be a message board issue, not a Johnson issue. If we want to know who will be there next year, ask Johnson. AS they say, he is the Decider, the only one.

Navy, last week. Obviously urgent as their season was going south in a hurry and he was not effective. Moved an A back in and he rushed for almost 300 yards.