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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 288972" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>As to the "top 20" recruiting class, I am with you and just kind of sick of hearing any more about Feb. 1, a day that now lives in infamy in our head coach's office in the land. (By the way, imagine my burst bubble to read those commitments aren't faxed any more. They are scanned and emailed. I would be shocked, shocked, if techno-centered Tech is still on horse-and-buggy time.) In fact the only portion of the post is that Johnson being the "most successful" coach thing. Back in one of my literature classes the professor, a woman well known for her prose -- I mean published in popular press as well as peer reviewed coma causers -- cautioned with some passion about writing such comparisons: most, biggest, best, fastest, tallest, shortest, etc. as she noted that no sooner would one write such things than a disclaimer would pop up immediately to disprove such rashness. Lacking a specific basis of comparison, then perhaps the writer means exactly what he writes.</p><p></p><p>Of my many failings being a slow learner isn't one, so what I know is that even oblique criticism of Johnson on this board might result in a cybernet thrashing with wet neutrons or whatever, so I restate: I am a Johnson fan, thin skin and all. I loved his offense before it became his offense. Kinda. I don't care if some people don't like it. And I do think it gives GT the best chance to compete in today's environment. But there is a guy in the not-so-distant past, though before my rooting time, whose game-day coaching was arguably not only better than Johnson's but more creative -- and that is saying something because few today match Johnson. He won six straight bowl games when bowl games actually meant something, there being only five, I believe, won a national championship, coaching his team to 31 straight unbeaten games before hated ND beat him, routinely beat SEC's best when the SEC was in fact tough top to bottom and the top rung was the likes of GT, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, pick 'em, and not the paper mache ESPN creation of today, sent dozens of players to the NFL, and in one memorable unbeaten, two-platoon year, had six All-Americans, six, and he himself is in coaching and player halls. And that was in the day when there was no bragging rights unless it was first team all-American.</p><p></p><p>I wasn't around and know that what is past is past and have no desire to relive it, but when we began to compare with such adjectives, we should know the past. And if we don't, there are all kinds of books on the subject and they make fun reading. That he is in the conversation speaks highly of Johnson on its own merits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 288972, member: 2175"] As to the "top 20" recruiting class, I am with you and just kind of sick of hearing any more about Feb. 1, a day that now lives in infamy in our head coach's office in the land. (By the way, imagine my burst bubble to read those commitments aren't faxed any more. They are scanned and emailed. I would be shocked, shocked, if techno-centered Tech is still on horse-and-buggy time.) In fact the only portion of the post is that Johnson being the "most successful" coach thing. Back in one of my literature classes the professor, a woman well known for her prose -- I mean published in popular press as well as peer reviewed coma causers -- cautioned with some passion about writing such comparisons: most, biggest, best, fastest, tallest, shortest, etc. as she noted that no sooner would one write such things than a disclaimer would pop up immediately to disprove such rashness. Lacking a specific basis of comparison, then perhaps the writer means exactly what he writes. Of my many failings being a slow learner isn't one, so what I know is that even oblique criticism of Johnson on this board might result in a cybernet thrashing with wet neutrons or whatever, so I restate: I am a Johnson fan, thin skin and all. I loved his offense before it became his offense. Kinda. I don't care if some people don't like it. And I do think it gives GT the best chance to compete in today's environment. But there is a guy in the not-so-distant past, though before my rooting time, whose game-day coaching was arguably not only better than Johnson's but more creative -- and that is saying something because few today match Johnson. He won six straight bowl games when bowl games actually meant something, there being only five, I believe, won a national championship, coaching his team to 31 straight unbeaten games before hated ND beat him, routinely beat SEC's best when the SEC was in fact tough top to bottom and the top rung was the likes of GT, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, pick 'em, and not the paper mache ESPN creation of today, sent dozens of players to the NFL, and in one memorable unbeaten, two-platoon year, had six All-Americans, six, and he himself is in coaching and player halls. And that was in the day when there was no bragging rights unless it was first team all-American. I wasn't around and know that what is past is past and have no desire to relive it, but when we began to compare with such adjectives, we should know the past. And if we don't, there are all kinds of books on the subject and they make fun reading. That he is in the conversation speaks highly of Johnson on its own merits. [/QUOTE]
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