December 9, 2010 · 10:27 AM

Is Terence Moore’s faith in Paul Johnson’s virtue about to be tested?

Somehow, I knew that header would get your attention.

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20 Responses to Is Terence Moore’s faith in Paul Johnson’s virtue about to be tested?

  1. GreenDawg
    December 9, 2010 at 11:53 AM

    Why do people act like he is some great man for doing things like this? To me this just seems mean and paranoid. Making a college decision isn’t easy, and it can only be harder when playing sports is involved. It’s only natural for a guy to have second thoughts, especially when they see Tech have the season they just had. I think this just makes Johnson look like a bully, but maybe I see it through red-tinted glasses.

    • King Jericho
      December 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM

      I agree. It’s like a super possessive boyfriend. If he’s some great recruiter, have faith in your recruiting tactics and trust that the guys that end up there are going to be more passionate about it than if they’re “forced” into making a decision.

    • Go Dawgs!
      December 9, 2010 at 4:40 PM

      Paul Johnson is a bully. If he manages to get a kid to commit to Tech early, he knows that kid’s pretty likely to decommit if they see what other schools have to offer (like girls, a campus where they won’t get stabbed or shot, girls, parties, and dining options where the staff doesn’t wear paper hats) the recruit will most likely end up going elsewhere. So, he makes an example of the kids who go exploring, hoping to bully his other recruits to stay in the flock, hopeful not to lose their offers.

      Forget what CPJ does with this kid. I would love to see what would happen if his entire commit class were to take their visits. Just how strong are those principles?

      Also, Paul Johnson has a turkey neck.

      • Dawgy45
        December 9, 2010 at 6:32 PM

        He has a neck? I reckon I’ve never seen it behind the wattles below his chin.

        Actually, I like turkeys and kinda wish you hadn’t lumped them in with Paul the Johnson.

  2. Scorpio Jones, III
    December 9, 2010 at 12:34 PM

    Johnson obviously views a scholarhip offer from Tech (read…from Paul Johnson) as some kind of a sacred pact.

    As challenging as recruiting at Tech already is, you gotta wonder if this is a realistic approach.

    I am glad Terrence Moore finds Johnson so attractive. Maybe they should move in together.

  3. Doug
    December 9, 2010 at 12:42 PM

    Rag on Johnson if you want, but there’s a part of me that wishes George O’Leary had taken that kind of hardass attitude when Quincy Carter’s eye started wandering back in 1996-’97.

  4. Spike
    December 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM

    If Johnson is so great a coach, and Tech is such a paradise in which to play football and matriculate, why not let kids look elswhere, because they will always come back to Tech no matter what. Right?

    • DawgBiscuit
      December 9, 2010 at 5:53 PM

      Exactly. Tech is a great school to attend, provided you don’t care about women, sports, fun, or socializing with American classmates.

  5. W Cobb Dawg
    December 9, 2010 at 2:11 PM

    I have strong doubts about PJ’s recruiting abilities, and even stronger doubts about TM’s sportswriting abilities.

  6. Dawgy45
    December 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM

    In answer to the question posed by the header: No. T. Moore (or less) recognizes genius and believes that genius must not be questioned because we cannot possibly understand the workings of a genius. And remember it was T. Moore (or less) who so wisely predicted in late November 2008 that as long as Paul the Johnson coaches tech, UGA will never beat him.