I just heard the crew on 790 the Zone discussing Paul Johnson’s reaction to questions about his play calling on the last series of the game as well as his approach to the game during the prior week.
Evidently, somebody’s a wee bit sensitive to criticism, because CPJ responded by asking (and I’m probably paraphrasing here) “what has Georgia done since 1980?” and advising any Tech fans discouraged by mockery to smack the other party in the face.
I’m glad the loss wasn’t that important to them.
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UPDATE: The AJ-C has the exact language, if you’re interested.
Get The Picture 
Beat Tech – A LOT
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At least we were “hopefully competitive.”
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Ah, the testy little genius displays his less winsome side. Who’d have ever thought it would be like that?
Here’s one for you, Napoleon: What has Georgia done since 1980? They’ve beaten Tech’s ass like Tech stole something at the rate of 22 wins, 8 losses. All the pouting and posturing about your unstoppable offense and your unmatched ability to see what the defense is doing and summarily dismiss it with a brilliant adjustment doesnt change two facts: One, you got your ass handed to you last Saturday night in your own backyard by a team struggling to stay above .500 for the season. Two, Tech certainly deserved to win last year because it played harder than UGA did, not because you’re such a freaking genius. UGA didnt get manhandled, or fooled, UGA played lazy and got smacked by a team that kept coming on after them. Props to Tech for that, but don’t mistake it for more than it was. A team that had gotten its ass handed to it 7 years in a row finally got up off the deck against a team that had gotten a little too fat and happy against the perennial pinata.
In other words, Napoleon, UGA’s A game beats Tech’s A game. Our C game doesnt beat your A game, probably never has. You nerds can muster up one of those mismatches a couple of times a decade. Get used to getting your testy little ass beat, and remember what happened to the LAST genius operator of an unstoppable option attack who was the head coach at GTU. You aren’t a former GTU QB, so I figure two more losses like this one and you’ll be taking your flexbone to the high school DVD circuit with Tony Franklin and HIS unstoppable attack.
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Heh heh heh! Looks like the “good old fashioned hate” is back! 🙂
Go Dawgs!
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Gosh, my long-term memory is a bit fuzzy so I cannot elaborate on much of anything past last June…
But I do recall about 96 hours ago we unleashed a turf monster against you. He wanted you to know that Grant Field tastes like chicken. Thanks you.
Think about how we’re going to treat you when we are good again (real soon)? Methinks you were outcoached, coach.
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I remember when CPJ was first hired and doing all the hand-shaking and back-slapping on the speaking circuit, all the Techies were giddy about how he’d already internalized GTU’s traditions and the concept of what it meant to be a “Tech man.”
Indeed, I’d have to say he has: the sour grapes directed toward Athens, the rationalizing of losses, both the inferiority complex and the hair-trigger denial mechanisms whenever anyone mentions said complex . . . yep, he’s already a “Tech man” through and through.
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well played, sir.
It meant everything to them when they hadn’t beaten us in 7 years. Win one time, I guess they figured it might be 2016 or so before they win another one, suddenly, “we’ve got bigger fish to fry.”
I guess we see what the correct whiiiiiiiiiiiine is to serve with those fish, dont we?
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Did you get your puddy widdle feelings hurt? Egads! CPJ refuses to be what you want him to be, and boy does it drive ya’ll bonkers!
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what are you talking about? PJ is being exactly what we want him to be: a mouthy little blowhard who we can beat like a Salvation Army drum. Listening to him whine about it only makes it sweeter. Listening to you nerds puff up about what a feisty little bad ass he is? That’s priceless. Me personally, I’m more scared of Flag Boy than I am of PJ. Or any other Tech nerd who wants to smack me in the face, for that matter.
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Later this afternoon, CPJ’s publicist/receptionist is expected to release a more refined statement of what CPJ really meant to say:
“That wasn’t right. It was a bad deal. It will be forever in the mind of Paul Johnson and in the minds of our football team. We are not that stupid. Really. We’ll handle it, and it’s going to be a big deal. I am going to have a work-study intern from the Tech English Department (do we have one?) ghost a book about it too. Paul Johnson will not forget Ben Jones rooting around in the end-zone like a human Bluebird sod cutter and eating the sod straight off of Bobby Dodd Field. Bobby Dodd Field is not a sod farm. Our players will never forget this. It is a big deal to them too and after they eat the Hedges next year, Sanford is gonna look like it was defoliated by Francis Ford Coppola, Dow and Monsanto. http://www.mobileriverine.com/agent_orange.htm”
When the CPJ publicist was reminded that the first part of the statement was stolen directly from Urban Meyer, the correct response is that if Urban Meyer can steal from Mark Richt Mark’s old line, which incidentally Mark does not seem to use much anymore, of “I’ll stay here as long as they’ll have me here” http://www.tampabay.com/sports/college/urban-meyer-says-hell-be-florida-gators-coach-as-long-as-theyll-have-me/1053976
the free flowing transfer of coach-speak from one coach to another remains a sacrosanct practice among the coaching fraternity because after all there is just not enough new and original it is what is stuff to go around.
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A green grass and high tide kudo to dawgstephen for his photospread of Ben Jones eating Bobby Dodd Field sod accidentally omitted from above. Ben seems to have a big appetite after a game.
http://dawgstephen.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-center-of-it-all-ben-jones.html
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He was just named ACC Coach of the Year. I guess one of the C’s stands for “classy”?
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I hate Tech! It wasn’t always that way with me. However, upon enetering college I realized how big their inferiority complex is.I can honestly say they are the most hostile fanbase I’ve ever encountered also. PJs comments do not surprise me. He is just like the rest of the inferior nerds.
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LOL… the thought of one of the nerds smacking someone ….at most they will do it online
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Exactly. That’s when Tech fans get their meanest is on the internet when they can hide behind their monitor. You encounter most of them in real life and they wet their pants at the first sign of altercation. I can assure you that given my mood on Saturday that I did not encounter too many problems with mouthy Tech fans.
And Paul Johnson is officially now a yellow jacket since he was indoctrinated into the long-standing tradition of Tech football…the annual loss to Georgia. As much a part of Thanksgiving weekend as turkey and Black Friday for the jackets.
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Tech may have lost, but at least I have chicken.
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Here’s a nice photo from Rivals of some obviously classy GT fans. This is just plain disgusting, no matter which side you’re on. (May be premium content, sorry) http://vmedia.rivals.com/uploads/878/F625307.jpg
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I did a little “tailgating”, if you could call it that, with some tech folks from high school over between IC and Boggs on the Tech campus.
First thing I noticed was that I walked for 5-10 minutes on campus @ around 1pm on saturday and didnt see anyone and you couldn’t tell that there was a game later that day.
Secondly, those guys with the “can’t fix dead” sign were tailgating over near my friends and they had those signs out all day long, as well as starting the standard “what’s the good word” chants and throwing dog treats at any ladies in red and black that walked by. So a rather classy bunch all around.
Overall just made everything more enjoyable…
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Don’t worry, it was nothing against the Ladies. They just don’t see them often enough not to be scared of them.
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And that’s a female holding that sign…………….what happens to people when they set foot on that campus?????
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Ha! What a turd. Every comment and rationalization by tech folks makes every one of those 30 points that much sweeter.
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Wasn’t Paul the Johnson a little prickly earlier this season when another coach (who was it?) accused him of coaching his players to block illegally? In a similar vein, Jim Donnan’s tenure was shortened because among other things he couldn’t stand the scrutiny at this level.
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I believe it was Frank Beamer that suggested that the nerds where illegally blocking, and I think that the next week they were called for 3 of them…was hoping to get a couple in the game this past weekend.
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Wow, Steak and the other guy finally discussed the Georgia/Georgia Tech game? They actually admitted it existed? Wow. That’s gotta be Step 1 at least.
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Yep… Paul Johnson said on 790 the Zone because he knew nobody outside the perimeter would hear it.
Must have been an off-date for the Thrashers if Steak was discussing college football.
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Ahh, Paul, don’t worry. You’ll soon join me in the Order of Tech Chumpstains.
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81Dog…Excellent…ACCCG tix on Stub Hub for $21 and falling fast …just like another Tech pass
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Heard Stub Hub will be starting a Coke/Hot Dog package for those tix soon.
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The motto for the 2009 ACC Championship Game should be: “What Time Can You Get Here?”
the rumor that they’ll hold the kickoff for your arrival if you can guarantee a party of four or more is just a rumor….but someone ought to suggest it to the ACC front office. Maybe they wouldnt need quite so many tarps to cover the empty seats.
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the guy is an excellent football coach and a HUGE prick.
every time he lost while at navy there would invariably be a lot of local coverage up here in b’more in which cpj would testily explain to the tv sports guy why it was a miracle that they ever won a game given the awful, dreaful players he had to coach at a military academy. which, of course is true, but PAUL JOHNSON, WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?
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I wonder if he will be on the radio telling tech fans to punch Clemson fans in the face next week…
I doubt even he would be so daring to suggest that nerds start punching fans from the U.
Needless to say, I will be walking around with my chest puffed out disregarding nerds and not fearing their new found backbone.
It’s great to be a bulldog.
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Remember that time Terrence Moore said Georgia wouldn’t beat Tech again as long as Johnson was coach? Yeah, good times.
And yes, Johnson really is an excellent coach, and he really is a HUGE prick.
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I guess “never” = 365 days.
Terrence may not be any better at math than Tech is at football.
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If Reggie was any example, Terrence may not be any better at math than Tech itself is at teaching it.
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Those comments make me want to punch Paul Johnson in the chins.
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CPJ “what has Georgia done since 1980?” advises any and all Tech fans discouraged by mockery to smack the other guy in the face…
but always remember and never forget to keep this in mind at all times…
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Looks like the leg-humpers don’t like somebody who will answer back. CPJ is changing the terms of the debate, telling it like it is and asking some questions that Mutt fans wish he weren’t asking. Which begs the question: Who’s really being over-sensitive here?
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Go fuk yourself with Paul’s Johnson……..how’s that for an answer back? Now try to punch me in the face b!tch.
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Paul Johnson sounds like a fan. A fan whose team just lost and who is scrambling to say something to make himself feel bigger and better about it.
So I guess he’s “telling it like it is,” but not in the way you’re hoping for.
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Asking some questions we don’t like such as? He’s more than welcome to his opinion, and we’re more than happy to prove exactly what Georgia has done since 1980.
Beat Tech like it was a drum on a yearly basis.
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Nah, it’s just the natural reaction we Dawgs have to a 100% pussified fanbase like Tech trying to pull the tough-guy act. It’s like being threatened by Michael Jackson. It’s a sad joke…. like your co-eds… like your program…. like your stadium. Johnson knows the mystique is over now that he’s tasted defeat… and all that’s left is his empty bluster and his eight chins.
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Paul Johnson (or Coach Bitch-Tits, as I like to call him) has been a prick ever since he arrived at Terrorist Tech. We now know that he’s also a whiny little bitch. Can’t wait to hear what he’s got to say in a few years when he’s 1-4 against the Dawgs.
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I like ‘liver lips’ better. He reminds me of Scarlett O’Hara’s first husband.
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Amazing to see how arrogant GT fans became after last year, but in light of how insecure they are, it seems to be just a defensive reaction. Pretty pathetic group, and one not worthy of a great deal of discussion. I would still like to move Tech up on the schedule to anearly season game and put them with other OOC games. The finale is too featured a position for a program like they have become. We should be focusing on SEC teams not being distracted by little nerds who don’t really understand football and start verbal fights over the internet on subjects they are clearly not prepared for.
Johnson is somewhat of a surprise. He has always been exposing mucho foreskin, but you would think since he has been progressing through the ranks in babysteps and has now reached the mid-major level, he would act like someone capable of getting a HC job at a major program. His antics this past year, and especially this past week do not help his cause. He may be coaching in little band box stadiums the rest of his career and spend par tof his time selling weenies and popcorn. As for why he might hate America by slamming some of our best men at the Naval Academy, what better place for an anti-American attitude than on North Avenue?
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CPJ and Jim Donnan had one thing in common they were self-conscious. CJD was self-conscious about being a Div IAA coach moving up to Div I. Even when he won he would usually say something like not too bad for a Div IAA coach. CPJ is self-conscious about his O, he feels like he must defend the scheme even at the risk of throwing his players under a bus. To be honest both men are/were good coaches and bad PR guys. CJD learned that if you are going to bad mouth the fans you had better win big cause you’ve got no margin of error. As long as CPJ wins ACC GT will put up with his losing to UGA but if he slips just one season his butt is gone.
Do you think CMR could have answered the questions the way he did this year if he had not built up a lot of goodwill over the past? A good rule of thumb for coaches to remember is that one AW-Sh*t erases 1,000 Atta Boys.
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CPJ is an arrogant smug douche and the ACC has no defense!
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Well he tried to downplay the UGA game before the game by saying they were interested in bigger things. What happens when he can’t win the ACC championship game (aka fight for 5th in the SEC east). He will have lost to UGA and his “bigger and better” game meaning he will have nothing and basically will have accomplished exactly what Gailey did. A trip the the ACCCG in a down year for the ACC.
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and, like Billy Bob Gailey, he couldn’t beat an average UGA team with the best team Tech’s had in a while.
If we play our A game, it doesnt matter what Tech does. Our A game beats their A game. Our B game beats their B game. Etc, etc. Our C game probably doesnt beat their A game, so they win a couple of times a decade (like, say, in 2008. Give them credit for finally getting up off the deck after we’d been kicking their urine colored behinds since the turn of the century.). PJ confused the fact that it was about time last year for us to gack one up to GTU with his impression that he was a genius.
You’d think a guy that smart would realize that his defense sucks. Maybe he can figure out a flexbone defense, since he already knows all there is to know about his offense (and boy, will he be happy to let you know THAT).
Paul Johnson can smooch my Bulldog glutes.
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CPJ’s message is of the utmost simplicity. We lost, fair and square. Hats off to UGA. He did not downplay the game, as much as point out the simple fact that beating UGA will not win the ACC championship, which is his teams main goal. But unlike most Mutt fans, CPJ is thinking long-term. He knows he’ll be here for a while and he’ll get his shots at UGA. He is reasonably pointing out that SEC fans think any inter-conference win for them “devalues” the other conference, but asks why that was not the case in the 90’swhen FSU was regularly beating the Gators, even when they were playing for an SEC title. He’s not going to accept 2nd tier status or the double-standard set by SEC media lap-dogs.
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In other words, he’ll take the program back from Chan-zero to its traditional three-wins-every-decade level. I can live with that.
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I don’t know if what you’re expressing is hope or whistling past the graveyard, Senator. I do know that we just lost, and our coach is rattling ya’ll’s cages, but good. CPJ is trying to shift the paradigm of his program at a mental level as well as on the field. He’s not taking it for granted that past is always prologue. Its a noble effort, and the Dawg Nation has definitely taken notice, for what it’s worth.
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Hope or whistling past the graveyard? Neither, PJ. Tech over the long haul is never going to be able to recruit at the level that Georgia does. And while I respect Johnson’s coaching ability greatly, on a long-term basis, I’ll always go with the Jimmies and Joes over the Xs and Os.
Besides, say what you will, but Richt and staff didn’t get outcoached last Saturday night.
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Whistling past the graveyard? If that means I’m laughing my ass off at PJ’s mock bad ass testiness, then, yes.
Paul Johnson is a pint sized version of George O’Leary. Alligator mouth and a hummingbird ass. Tech people love him because he’s an insecure little prick just like 95% of them are. He’s about as scary to UGA fans as a Pomeranian (another notorious breed for mouth to ass overload).
Keep telling yourself we’re terrified, fellas. Have another Zima and get ready to get housed by Clemson this week.
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Don’t flatter yourself, we are just astonished at how the GT program, and its backers, over reacted to a fluke 3rd quarter last year. It isn’t like you guys dominated the game, it was very much like the Kentucky game this year for Georgia, similar score and control of the game. Our guys came out without focus and 2-3 mental mistakes allowed both of you to post winning scores. I don’t think anyone felt there was a “changing of the guard” as a result of those performances. GT is still more of a nuisance than a threat. Doesn’t mean you cannot have an upset occasionally, but GT became irrelevant to me when they left the SEC. I feel we should play you, and treat you, like we do Ga. Southern. UGA doesn’t need you for legitimacy, you on the other hand….
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Macallanlover, you are dead right and I did not realize it until just now. The Dawgs actually beat the Nerds 3 out of the 4 quarters in the ’08 game–just had several breakdowns in the 3rd quarter which allowed the Nerds to score enough points to win the point total at the end, and thus the game. Very similar to the UK-UGA game this year. And leaving the SEC was definitely a FU that has hurt their program over the years. They were actually in an even worse situation during the years they were an independent because that really had a negative effect on their recruiting.
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Yes, get over yourselves. No “paradigms are being shifted” and no “cages are being rattled” or any other form of emo cliche you want to throw up. Tech fans have been unrivaled obnoxious assholes for a year, and now their coach is being a dick. Georgia fans aren’t afraid of Tech, nor do they think the tide is turning. Most of us like the rivalry and respect Johnson’s coaching acumen. But we think he’s a thin-skinned douchebag and we despise you fatuous, mouth-breathing dickbag fans that define your entire existance on hating Georgia.
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