Re: GaTech needs to fire Paul Johnson today! It’s time to move

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Dec 1, 2017, 4:27 PM

Wow, talk about a short memory. Paul Johnson has beaten Dabo Swinney FIVE TIMES. How many other coaches can say that? He has won 2 straight games in Athens and 3 of 4 games against Virginia Tech, so the talk about teams catching up to his offense is a joke. He has been to 3 ACC title games and 2 Orange Bowls. Know how many Orange Bowls Georgia Tech has been to since the 1950s? Three - and two of them were under Johnson. Georgia Tech has only won 10 or more games 4 times since the 1950s, and 2 of them were under Paul Johnson. You know, the guy who has been ACC Coach of the Year 3 times.

I grew up a diehard GT fan but ended up going to Clemson and becoming a diehard Clemson fan as well, so I think I have a unique perspective on this. Georgia Tech is not Clemson and lacks many of the advantages that Clemson has that has allowed us to become a superpower. Most Ga. kids grow up wanting to play for UGA, not GT. And then when GT recruits them and they hear they have to take calculus, regardless of major, they naturally choose the easier path to the NFL. I'm proud of what Clemson has become, but that same recipe would absolutely not work at Georgia Tech, where it is much harder to be successful.

Lastly, to put it bluntly, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Clemson fans to be talking crap about the coach who has beaten Dabo Swinney more times than any other coach in the nation, despite having a massive talent disadvantage.

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Nothing wrong with the scheme aside from the fact that it's thoroughly out of favor. Biggest problem, IMHO, is his inability to convince a good, true, dual-threat guy to run that option.

Give Paul Johnson a Kelly Bryant and he'd skin the ACC with him. PJ's got everybody playing 9 in the box and leaving his outside guys on islands, and if he could get a guy who wasn't a 40% or 50% thrower like the last couple he's had in there, but was more of a high-60-per cent guy, and make it a true quadruple option as opposed to the triple option he's running now, I think it's a whole different animal. I actually wonder if it might even work in the NFL.

The problem is he can't get a quality dual-threat in there, so without the threat of the pass, a sufficiently disciplined, well-schooled front seven can indeed bury what he can do right now.

I don't really know how you change that at this juncture if you're GT or Paul Johnson, either.

GaTech needs to fire Paul Johnson today! It’s time to move