Actual current GT player: I understand there will be growing pains playing in a new system for a new coaching staff. I am excited for the future here.
We aren’t being fed the narrative that playing in a new system is hard for talented players. We are being fed a narrative that these guys simply aren’t talented and we won’t be successful until they are replaced. Even if they maintain their own positivity, that can’t be enjoyable to hear constantly.
Can you honestly read this and believe it?
Who is feeding that narrative? Not the coaching staff. The only place I’ve ever seen not having enough talent come up is on this board. CGC feeds the narrative that the team is elite, and will attract more elite players. Whether or not what he says is true, he has never made a negative comment about the current team not being talented.
Can you honestly look at what any current player has to say and not believe it? They rated CGC a near perfect 5* coach in an anonymous poll early in the year. Do you honestly think the players just sit around and feel sorry for themselves? Do you not realize that virtually no coach goes to a school and leads them to a successful year in his first year. Do you remember UGA went 7-5 in Kirby’s first year? A team loaded with 4 and 5 star players. What about Bama winning 6 in Saban’s first year? Players are smart enough to see into the future.
Would’ve been fine? So tying CPJs average would’ve been “fine” in the first year of a transition on a team with the least amount of returning experience in P5 football, and ended up having a ton of injuries to what limited returning experience they had to work with? If Tech went 7-5 this year everybody that works in CFB media would be saying GT will win the national championship by 2022.
Yes, it would have been fine. I hope the new coach can get it turned around next year. Beating the DWAGs next week would be a good start to next year.
You're biased as hell. I am a relatively new GT fan, officially became a fan in 2008 so Paul Johnson is all I've known as as GT's head coach. Hell I took a tour of GT's campus in 2009 and Paul Johnson walked right by our tour group and I said hey and he turned and nodded at me, it was awesome. I loved Paul Johnson and was very sad to see him go.
5 wins was reasonable. 6 would’ve been a really good year. 7 would have been outstanding considering the circumstances. I went into the year expecting 4, and I think a lot of people did. So not getting 4 is underachieving.
As others have said, block is your friend. There are one note posters and one note posters who don't know their ****. It's almost the day of rest; no need to poke the toadz.
CPJ won the acc and was close to winning it many times. Worked with a much smaller budget. When Collins comes close to sniffing that then you can talk to me about it. Until then take your friends advice and block me if the truth hurts so much.
