What happened with Paul Johnson before the game?

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LSU shouldn't be playingon the same field as GT

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He's right, but not because of why he thought.

I didn't hear it, but he said someting along the lines of 'you know how LSU does against those GA teams'... not anywhere close to verbatum

That fatass needs to STFU until after the game. He eats KFC while Les enjoys Ruth Chris'.

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He eats KFC while Les enjoys Ruth Chris'.

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This is so out of left field that I had to laugh.

Did he really make comments like that?

"ASSIGNMENT FOOTBALL:" By accident or design, Georgia Tech football coach Paul Johnson poked fun at LSU head coach Les Miles and defensive co-coordinators Doug Mallory and Bradley Dale Peveto at a press conference the day before the game. But LSU's coaches had the last laugh.

"I get a chuckle out of people when they say, 'It's really assignment defense,'" Johnson said in reference to what many opposing coaches say about defending the triple-option attack of Tech.
Paul Johnson's remarks at a pregame press conference with CLM.


"When isn't it assignment defense? I mean I don't care what offense you're playing, you're in the wrong gap or you blow your coverage, you get lit up," Johnson said with Miles seated right next to him.

At the same podium one day before, Mallory and Peveto repeatedly said defending Tech was "assignment football." Miles also used the same term several times over the last month.

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He eats KFC while Les enjoys Ruth Chris'.

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Uh, no offense, but Ruth is getting kinda up there in age if ya know what I mean.

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No no no. There was no rub at all and those comments are not correct.

Go listen to the teleconference.

A reporter asked him right after it was announced "Are you disappointed that you are not playing a ranked team in the bowl game."

His response was...some paraphrase....'Well...sure....you always want to play as highly ranked an opponent as you can. However, LSU is a "formidable opponent" and "defending national champion."

Paul Johnson was saying that you cannot control what a team is ranked...and that LSU was a good team.

Paul Johnson said that "LSU was the most talented team we will have faced" prior to the game.

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I tend to lean to hiver's account of this. It sounds about like what a coach would say.

That dude had the most clueless look on his face last night, it was priceless. I imagined by the second half he was looking across the field like on the movie Water Boy and seeing Les snickering at him like Jerry Reed and he was shivering with fear....probably even called chan gailey at half for help.