re: GT's Paul Johnson to retire

Not so fast with Brohm. He has been recruiting for Purdue up till last night offering kids...supposedly, his agent is in West Lafayette. Louisville fans think this has been done since October...I’m thinking he is listening and seeing who is going to give a sweeter deal. Louisville is strapped and can not over pay with the shite going down with Jurich, Pitino, and Petrino. Supposedly Brohm was offered 5 years at $4 million. Sounded like he was not feeling the love from the Louisville AD with that offer.

Aw yis!!

Would take him in a heartbeat

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Sounds like GT is interested in Brohm. Heard 7/years $45 million.

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It would be hilarious to stick it to the Purdue AD (left Tech to go there a couple of years ago but was God awful and really screwed shite up while he was here), but there is no way Brohn is going anywhere other than Louisville.

CPJ had one, no-argument great season that was the result of his steering of the program: 2014. 2016 was another pretty good year

2008 & 2009, cliche as it sounds, were with players he was not capable of recruiting himself. Gailey's 07 Class + Bebe were legit. To his credit, his system with their talent worked great. But he never proved able to recruit at that level himself, because kids don't want to play his system when given a choice.

All of the other seasons were a big pile of MEH or worse.

He isn't that impressive when you normalize for 2008/2009, which anyone intellectually honest would. I can't take '14 away from him.

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CPJ had one, no-argument great season that was the result of his steering of the program: 2014. 2016 was another pretty good year

2008 & 2009, cliche as it sounds, were with players he was not capable of recruiting himself. Gailey's 07 Class + Bebe were legit. To his credit, his system with their talent worked great. But he never proved able to recruit at that level himself, because kids don't want to play his system when given a choice.

All of the other seasons were a big pile of MEH or worse.

He isn't that impressive when you normalize for 2008/2009, which anyone intellectually honest would. I can't take '14 away from him.

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this is a good post.

guys like Dwyer would have never gone to Tech to play in that scheme. in fact, a very close friend was in a group with Dwyer in one of their business management courses and he straight up told her that this was the case. Same with D. Thomas.

Calvin Johnson didn't play in the system, but he was on record in an interview with the AJC that he would have gone elsewhere to catch some passes if Johnson had been the coach during his recruitment. The offense in 2008 was ok utnil late in the year when it took off with those guys, but that team was solid because of the defense. They lost some guys and their 09 defense was horrendous, otherwise they probably would have been 12-1 heading into bowl season with an outside shot at the BCS. 2014 was a perfect storm of having their best couple of olinemen in Johnson's tenure plus a bunch of big running backs at both the B and A back spots. The blocking was top notch.

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would be a great spot for Gus to land.

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Damn you are 100% right. Never thought of it, but they already have the type of players that could adjust to his system. GT should be a perennial top 25 team given their location in the best recruiting city in the nation. They shouldn't have to settle for 8-4 option football.

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but it’s not ever going to win championships in major college football.

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What kind of championships are you talking about? National championships? Where we all stand now, if you aren't UGA, Bama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Oklahoma, then you probably aren't going to be winning any championships regardless of the system you run.

Your post would have been more accurate to say that you won't be able to sustain a long run of very good to great teams. That is definitely true.

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If GT hires another option coach they’re basically saying “We are ok with just being average”.

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we had a "pro-style" coach before Johnson and went 7-5 every year.

we had a coach before that who ran a nice multiple scheme and our best season was 10-2 but we had losses against teams like Wake Forest, Maryland, and Virginia to derail seasons.

If GT hires another option coach, it's because the administration is probably scared of the 3-4 year rebuild that would be required otherwise. I don't think they will go the option route, for the record.

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Yep, they had to give up the big bowl win because a former player took a sweat suit and pair of tennis shoes. It was absolutely stupid

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No, we had to give up the ACC championship because during the investigation of that player, the AD was told by the investigator that he wasn't allowed to tell Johnson what was going on because they didn't want the players to know that they were being looked into. The AD told Johnson anyways, so we got slapped by the NCAA for basically not being their bitch. It was documented somewhere that had we followed their rules, we would have had a tap on the wrist and not had to vacate any games.

You are definitely right though, it absolutely was stupid, and I think he got the shoes and shirt from a family member or former teammate or something that happened to be working as a low level guy in a agency of some sort. Meanwhile, UNC walks away with no punishments.

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I love watching the triple option offense as much as anyone, but it’s not ever going to win championships in major college football.

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About 100 programs can’t do projection budgets for winning a title. Merely being good and competing in their conference is most schools goal