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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 224975" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>Way back I promised myself not to dip into the coach vs. coach tirades as it was always ultimately self-defeating. I have on occasion identified myself as a Johnson fan, and as an option football fan. I have also thought, and wrote, that sometimes it would help matters if he would on occasion talk about the accomplishments and the achievements at a practice or scrimmage, or for the game itself. But I get his attitude, as mine can me much the same: we are working at getting better, and this is what we're doing wrong, so get your mom to praise you. And I don't think anybody on the board is deluding themselves into thinking that what happened in 2015 is acceptable, and it can't be repeated. In short I think 2016 might be a make or break year for Johnson. I have no problem with that. He is a big boy and can take care of himself. Doesn't need me or others propping him up. I could be wrong in everything I say -- I do have experience in that regard -- but his offense is our best shot at winning. And he is the best coach in the country with an option offense and one of the top handful of game day offensive coaches. You might phrase it as "the best that Tech can do" and I would say he is the best at what he does. A more than slight difference for sure.</p><p></p><p>Now perhaps you have heard him degrade a player, or read of it. I have not. I read everything on GT I can find and not a peep of that. His faint praise can hardly be called degrading. Believe me, I have heard degrading, I have seen degrading, I have been degraded -- the first week of boot camp destroys any illusions of self-worth -- and he is not degrading. A guy may not want to read that he "just did okay", but degraded? Now that is harsh and most of us could not pass through a day without failing that bar. I can't speak to the media except what I read in Atlanta and Macon and on this board, and for sure there are a couple of radio guys he doesn't like, but I'm a nice guy and I don't like radio guys either.</p><p></p><p>I'm not even going there in recruiting because it is hopeless. Let's just say if you want somebody to recruit like Mississippi or Alabama, break out your checkbooks and ask them how they hide it so well. Find yourself 85 four and five-star football players who want to be engineers. Change that curriculum overnight and get parks and recreation up front. That's a big favorite at Clemson, which hasn't produced a football-playing engineer in memory. Ditto Stanford. (Though Stanford would cringe at using "ditto".) As far as I know both those programs are honest and ethical ... but there they get them by the curriculum.</p><p></p><p>And this epic is why I try to stay away from useless coaching threads. I just want to be 1-0 after Sept. 3, and the next week will be there soon enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 224975, member: 2175"] Way back I promised myself not to dip into the coach vs. coach tirades as it was always ultimately self-defeating. I have on occasion identified myself as a Johnson fan, and as an option football fan. I have also thought, and wrote, that sometimes it would help matters if he would on occasion talk about the accomplishments and the achievements at a practice or scrimmage, or for the game itself. But I get his attitude, as mine can me much the same: we are working at getting better, and this is what we're doing wrong, so get your mom to praise you. And I don't think anybody on the board is deluding themselves into thinking that what happened in 2015 is acceptable, and it can't be repeated. In short I think 2016 might be a make or break year for Johnson. I have no problem with that. He is a big boy and can take care of himself. Doesn't need me or others propping him up. I could be wrong in everything I say -- I do have experience in that regard -- but his offense is our best shot at winning. And he is the best coach in the country with an option offense and one of the top handful of game day offensive coaches. You might phrase it as "the best that Tech can do" and I would say he is the best at what he does. A more than slight difference for sure. Now perhaps you have heard him degrade a player, or read of it. I have not. I read everything on GT I can find and not a peep of that. His faint praise can hardly be called degrading. Believe me, I have heard degrading, I have seen degrading, I have been degraded -- the first week of boot camp destroys any illusions of self-worth -- and he is not degrading. A guy may not want to read that he "just did okay", but degraded? Now that is harsh and most of us could not pass through a day without failing that bar. I can't speak to the media except what I read in Atlanta and Macon and on this board, and for sure there are a couple of radio guys he doesn't like, but I'm a nice guy and I don't like radio guys either. I'm not even going there in recruiting because it is hopeless. Let's just say if you want somebody to recruit like Mississippi or Alabama, break out your checkbooks and ask them how they hide it so well. Find yourself 85 four and five-star football players who want to be engineers. Change that curriculum overnight and get parks and recreation up front. That's a big favorite at Clemson, which hasn't produced a football-playing engineer in memory. Ditto Stanford. (Though Stanford would cringe at using "ditto".) As far as I know both those programs are honest and ethical ... but there they get them by the curriculum. And this epic is why I try to stay away from useless coaching threads. I just want to be 1-0 after Sept. 3, and the next week will be there soon enough. [/QUOTE]
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