CPJ needs to be fired

[RamblinRed]

There's zero percent chance Johnson would be fired this year.
If they wait one year the buyout terms change and he is owed just $2MM.

 

[laoh]

I've said it before. If we signed a factory coach like Dabo or Kiffin, half their recruiting classes would flunk out every year. Be real folks.

Thank you.

 

[sidewalkGTfan]

For the few talking about CPJ needing to be fired, are you paying attention to the other coaching vacancies right now? We would be one of, if not the lowest, on the pecking order of open P5 jobs.

 

[1979jacket]

There's zero percent chance Johnson would be fired this year.
If they wait one year the buyout terms change and he is owed just $2MM.

This may be somewhere else so I apologize but is the deal if he were fired now, he is owed $6MM and after next year $2MM? And that is because the buyout goes from $2MM to $1MM per year and his contract goes through 2020?

 

[chewybaka]

And I haven't seen quite that. I have seen discussions about Stanford that say:

Stanford has some very good degrees, but they also have some degrees that even their own student body considers almost laughable.
GT has no such almost laughable degrees. Even the business school is in the top 30 in the country.

That discussion does not say that a GT degree is the only degree in the world. It does say that every degree from GT is a respected degree.

I was working in Los Angeles, while on a university campus I came to find out by happenstance that the starting quarter back took one course of study during his semester concurrent with football season, "ballroom dancing" how can a STEM based institute compete with that curriculum?...more importantly I am glad we don't have that mind set and wonder how an academic institution, can accept and defend this as a policy...

 

[g0lftime]

You might be surprised at how much I give and I do stipulate where it goes.

 

[up state jacket]

Nothing will matter if Sewak is still here. Offensive line play is awful. JT covered up a lot. Shaq covered up before him.

For the few talking about CPJ needing to be fired, are you paying attention to the other coaching vacancies right now? We would be one of, if not the lowest, on the pecking order of open P5 jobs.

I would take several of those fired coaches here. Kevin Sumlin for starters.

 

[TechTravis]

I would take several of those fired coaches here. Kevin Sumlin for starters.

You finally said something that makes sense. id take him here too...

 

[herb]

You finally said something that makes sense. id take him here too...

Why? Without Johnny football the most games he won was 8. He is not a bad coach, but no thanks and he was at a school that spent $60 MILLION more on athletics than us

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

 

[tech_wreck47]

Why? Without Johnny football the most games he won was 8. He is not a bad coach, but no thanks

And didn't have nearly the restrictions GT has.

 

[MountainBuzzMan]

ignore my post

 

[jeffgt14]

Why? Without Mike Evans the most games he won was 8. He is not a bad coach, but no thanks

FIFY

 

[herb]

FIFY

Potato, potatoe

 

[J_Trouche]

• Fla, tenn, ole miss, miss st, texas A&M, arkansas, arizona, ucla all hired/hiring coaches. name one of those schools that someone would pick tech over if we fired Johnson this year

 

[tech_wreck47]

• Fla, tenn, ole miss, miss st, texas A&M, arkansas, arizona, ucla all hired/hiring coaches. name one of those schools that someone would pick tech over if we fired Johnson this year

If I had to pick I would say Arizona then Arkansas.

 

[RonJohn]

Why? Without Johnny football the most games he won was 8. He is not a bad coach, but no thanks and he was at a school that spent $60 MILLION more on athletics than us

http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

They had #118million more reveue for athletics than GT had. They were able to put about 70% of our entire budget in the bank.

 

[Sideways]

I'm embarrassed

So am I but our problems are not fixed by firing the coach. Until something is done to level the playing field regarding recruiting changing coaches will not matter. Recruiting and the inherent problems caused by the Hill are the major reason for coaches as varied as Dodd to Ross to O'Leary basically throwing up their hands and saying it is more trouble than it is worth. If you want a quality football program that is a consistent winner in today's ACC you need buy in from everyone: alumni, sidewalk fans, administrators, coaches, players, EVERYONE. Right now, Coach Johnson gets little, if any, support from the Tech administration that is indifferent at best and sometimes seemingly openly hostile to football. We are approaching a crossroads in Georgia Tech athletics.

 

[Sideways]

Anyone who thinks changing HC fixes what ails us ... well, they're just not paying attention.

It is more of a "Georgia Tech problem" than it is a coaching problem. Change coaches all you want but until that is addressed you will have more of the same. IMHO

 

[Skeptic]

Kiffin, Kendal briles,

Kendal briles or lane kiffin

The last act of a desperate man.

 

[Skeptic]

Duke is a brand. Georgia Tech is not. No matter how hard you want it to be either. Duke has put a lot more money into their athletic program that GT is willing too. They’ve got good players and good coaches too. Not everybody wants to be an engineer (and I’m an engineer saying this). Duke has a lot to offer their recruits.

You are new to the board I see. Soon you will know saying this is heresy. In their minds everybody wants to be some sort of engineer and if not should be forced to do it.