This is my first post in many years after running afoul of the thought police, which was about as easy as getting fat in a twinkie factory while G***** C****** was coach...
With his departure, and that of the AD, I can finally hope that better days lie ahead...
I appreciate that many here were disenchanted with CPJ and his scheme, and many were captivated by Skinny Jeans, area codes, jazz hands, and impossible math (110% effort)... I hoped we would have excelled at playing football in addition to excelling at excellence, but that just didn't seem to pan out...
IMHO, GT was fortunate to have, for a time, a coach who demonstrated how a scheme that cuts against the grain can even the playing field for a team that is otherwise at a significant disadvantage to its peers, primarily in terms of resources and academic rigor... And often as this has been demonstrated - primarily at smaller schools and at the service academies - some still seem to believe that GT can out-Clemson/UGag/Alabama Clemson/Ugag/Alabama by doing what they do...
I hope that the lesson we learn from the last few years is not just that the staff was inept and incapable - I hope we learned that we have to even the playing field by running schemes that maximize the performance of the players we have on our team...
I am sure most have seen the movie, but this is a primary lesson of "Moneyball" - the fact that "poor" teams can't win by trying to mimic "rich" teams...
In any case, I would be thrilled if CJM was our next hire - but I respect those who believe differently, and I appreciate the fact that Triple Option schemes, run exclusively, suffer from a stigma... I can understand why many were glad to see CPJ retire and were thrilled with the G***** C******* sizzle - I get it...
What I hope for now, at least at this point, is a CGO-type of figure, and at least as far as offensive scheme is concerned, something cut from the CRF cloth - eclectic, dynamic, unpredictable, incorporating a smattering of the best from a range of diverse schemes... Some time ago, I watched an offensive series with Lil' Joe at the helm, and on one down, we lined up in a one-back pro set, and on the next in the classic CPJ flexbone...
Whatever we do, I just hope we do incorporate option schemes into our offense, just as Ross and Friedgen did before Johnson... Nothing is, at least in my view, more entertaining to watch, and nothing will do more to even the field, so to speak, than being to run some form of option consistently and effectively when the situation suits it...
This is a great day, and I am looking forward to awakening from the nightmare of the last several years... It's been miserable, having no qualms about spending Falls Saturdays fishing, hiking, or working in the yard - I can't wait to have GT football again displace all of the other, less important things I like to do on a fall Saturday...
