At this point we are at 4 years since our last major successful season (i'd argue 2018 was "successfulish" Might be hard to imagine but fanbase was pretty much the same going into 2014. We just had more wins over the previous 4 years than now. And there were just as many calls for johnson's head in 2012 on other sites after the collapse. In september and october. And the OT loss to VT in a game we should have won. 2013 saw bringin in roof to appease the money guys who were friends with him. Also that happens to be the year Johnson literally changed his offense to a more power running passing offense around vad, even if we weren't that successful. Remember godigh had like 600 yards rushing and 400 receiving or something like that. We did the diamond thing, lots of pistol. But we still had inexplicable losses. 2014 we had the same things said in the first couple games. We just won them. The irony is a lot of people complaining about people calling out the coach now were the same folks on different boards calling for johnsons head constantly. If collins wants to win over fans he has to prove it. Johnson did too. The differences was Collins way of talking rubs people the wrong way.
I watched dabo's presser about us today. He was in spin mode to truly make the game out to be liek they were playing world beaters in us. So that when he wins it can viewed as bigger than it is. However its dabo and i did have to laugh because you know what a "elite player" is to dabo? "A good player." That's how he described yates. That's how johnson described good players. Collins uses elite to mean good. Its hyperbole. Hyperbole works when you winning. It bites you triple hard when you are losing.
I have watched Tech fans complain and try to run off coaches for as long as I can remember. More than one site has changed from analysis to complaining. None of this is new.
Perhaps conversations about recruiting, uniforms, coaching schemes and personality tests happen because there is a hunger to have a conversation about Tech sports but there is often little of substance in the media or from coach’s press conferences. Uga, rightly or wrongly, gets the lion’s share of substantive football coverage and analysis in this state. That was not always the case but things slowly started changing after Dodd left coaching and Vince Dooley started building a PR machine out of the SEC.
Winning will often fill the emptiness of scant Tech news but for a few wretched souls even that is not enough. I usually find myself feeling sorry for every Tech coach at some point. The exception would be Lewis who seemed really destructive to the program. In Gailey’s last years I was also ready for him to go. For him it was the combination of watching an offense that was like watching paint dry juxtaposed with the hype that he was a pro style coach recruiting future pro players for a pro style offense who will end up in the NFL. If he had beaten uga just once, or even Wake Forest when it counted I might have tolerated better the idea that he was beloved by high school coaches all over the state and would make Tech relevant again.
Does CGC deserve the current criticism? It doesn’t matter. That is the nature of coaching at Tech. Whining about criticism of Tech coaches is a waste of time. Only winning will tone this down.
