July 20, 2019 · 10:12 AM

Today, in bare cupboards

Ummm…

Sounds like somebody’s preparing the groundwork to deflect blame after a stellar 2019 season on the Flats.

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30 responses to “Today, in bare cupboards”

  1. Normaltown Mike
    July 20, 2019 at 10:14 AM

    Coach Collins’ reply

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  2. randy adams (@randyad73431768)
    July 20, 2019 at 10:32 AM

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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  3. Chi-town Dawg
    July 20, 2019 at 10:33 AM

    Yeah, but what big Johnson fails to mention is that in 3 of the last 4 years, the Techies haven’t finished 1st or 2nd in the Coastal Division. Statistics…you can spin them anyway you want.

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    • Chi-town Dawg
      July 20, 2019 at 10:44 AM

      Not to mention this is the ACC where it’s basically been Clemson and the Little Sisters of the Poor the past 2-3 years.

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    • DawgPhan
      July 20, 2019 at 10:52 AM

      So short term for Tech 25% of the years they finish 1st or 2nd.

      and mid term they are going ~60% on 1st or 2nd.

      That seems like a decent deal for tech given their resources.

      Tech cant spend the money it takes to play major college football, they just dont have that type of money.

      What they have achieved given how little money they have to spend is really great for them.

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      • Chi-town Dawg
        July 20, 2019 at 11:02 AM

        If you read Johnson’s quote, he gives the impression it’s 63%, but the recent trend is actually significantly lower. Also, in a 7 team division, where Duke, Virginia, UNC and Pitt probably spend roughly the same as Tech, basic averages dictate a 25% success rate in 1 out of every 4 years (soon to be 1 out of 5 years). I’m not overly impressed if that’s the argument you’re trying to make

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        • Chi-town Dawg
          July 20, 2019 at 11:05 AM

          I would agree with you that in his early years Johnson did quite well with the limited resources he had at his disposal, but I would compare his results and level of effort the last few years to “mailing it in” in both recruiting and on field performance.

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  4. eethomaswfnc
    July 20, 2019 at 11:11 AM

    As Mark Twain said, there are lies, damn lies and statistics.

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  5. DavetheDawg
    July 20, 2019 at 11:23 AM

    Don’t lose any sleep on the Jackets, IMO.

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  6. Yurdle
    July 20, 2019 at 11:24 AM

    “First or second in the coastal” doesn’t mean top two teams. I haven’t dug up the conference standings in a while, but I recall there being at least one 4th place that can be called tied for second because of tiebreakers.

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  7. Milledge Hall
    July 20, 2019 at 11:28 AM

    Damn,
    Why did the trade school shit-can him??

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  8. Faltering Memory
    July 20, 2019 at 11:29 AM

    But he had bigger fish to fry.

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  9. gatriguy
    July 20, 2019 at 12:05 PM

    Peckerhead to the bitter end.

    No way he is done for good. Where’s he wash up next?

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  10. TimberRidgeDawg
    July 20, 2019 at 12:26 PM

    As I recall, Tech hired PJ on the premise that he could do more, given Tech’s inability to participate in the arms race as it existed in in 2008. His one off hard to defend offense provided an opportunity to somewhat level the playing field and cover up for deficiencies in depth and talent on the defensive side of the ball through time consuming drives.

    The more with less strategy generally worked well up until about 2014 but the arms race continued to escalate and Johnson’s recruiting deteriorated further even by Tech standards to the point that their rosters began to look very similar to that of the service academies. Talented kids didn’t want to play in it or defend it in practice and that is the state they find themselves in today, starting over with a me too offense and an undersized roster with limited depth and talent.

    We can poo-poo PJ, but ironically his offense was the only thing that has kept them from being completely skull drug for the past 5 years. The reasons that Tech hired PJ have not changed, the richer are richer and the arms race has escalated so they now they find themselves in a comparatively worse place talent wise than when Johnson replaced Gailey. It will be interesting to see what happens what happens when the three and outs start happening and drives don’t last half a quarter.

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    • eethomaswfnc
      July 20, 2019 at 2:02 PM

      “Their roster began to look like the service academies.”

      There should be no surprise about that because those are the only kids who can play in that offense or would be willing to deal with it every day on defense.

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    • Tlkdawg
      July 20, 2019 at 2:08 PM

      ”their rosters began to look very similar to those of the service academies.”

      You sir have highly insulted the football teams at our fine service academies, all of which I believe would wax the techies.

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    • jpat
      July 20, 2019 at 2:29 PM

      Well stated. I laugh when I read about the dumb, gimmicky things Geoff Collins has been doing (waffle house trucks, dress up days, some marketing guy named “morpheus” who sits in on coaching meetings) but he doesn’t have a lot of options. Convincing kids that tech is like, cool and stuff is the rock upon which he is attempting to build his church and if he can’t do that then he will fail miserably against the heavyweights of college football.

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    • gatriguy
      July 20, 2019 at 4:16 PM

      I truly believe it was Johnson’s personality more than the offense. The offense mauls when you have the right QB.

      Defense is never going to be great, but you can make up for that some by just recruiting dudes that can occasionally create turnovers. He couldn’t even do that.

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  11. practicaldawg
    July 20, 2019 at 2:20 PM

    I’ll give CPJ some credit for one thing. He never recruited a bad TE in the last 10 years.

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  12. briandansby
    July 20, 2019 at 2:54 PM

    OK, Limited resources? I thought every Tech graduate stepped into a gazillion dollar a year job. Why no major contributors to the football program? I thought college football was funded by “friends of the program.”

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  13. AdaWg
    July 20, 2019 at 5:04 PM

    Man, that’s good stuff on a slow Saturday.

    This is my favorite response

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  14. HillDawg
    July 20, 2019 at 9:50 PM

    I know for a fact that Navy players loved Fish Fry.

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  15. truck
    July 21, 2019 at 2:08 AM

    I know less than nothing about Twitter, but can somebody tell me if punctuation marks cost extra? It’s not like I expect a football coach to write like an English major but damn. Try a comma dude.

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  16. Milledge Hall
    July 21, 2019 at 10:33 AM

    Hilldawg,
    The reason the Middies loved him is that he never lost to Army, and he finally beat Notre Dame (while Charlie Weis was coaching).
    Can’t say that about paul THE johnson while he was at the trade school (27% winning percentage against UGA, and NEVER won at home!).
    Now, the trade school doesn’t have a gimmick offense, they have a gimmick coach who thinks that waffle house and wiggas will make them relevant.
    If they want to be relevant, they’d better hope the NCAA goes back to one-platoon football. That was the ONLY reason the bumbling bees were relevant.

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  17. Classic City Canine
    July 22, 2019 at 2:36 PM

    PJ can’t fail. He can only be failed. He may not have won a lot of trophies at GT, but he is a blame game world champion.

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