PAUL JOHNSON AIN'T WORRYIN' BOUT NO MORONS

Those are some Nixonian jowls.

I think what he actually said was “Mormons.”

Wait a minute, we at Tech take our shitty treatment of the press seriously. Looks like CPJ will fit nicely into our hate – FUCKING hate relationship with the local and national media.

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Wow, for 5 minutes, I thought this post was about mormans. I actually thought…

“G Tech didn’t play BYU? Right?”

Norrie is a moron, just to confirm it for you.

Give Johnson a pair of BIKE shorts, not to be confused with biker shorts but basically just as tight, a chaw that is two sizes too big, a whistle and, yeah…

he was my high school football coach.

I don’t know if BIKE is still in business, but I am hoping they were acquired by Russell. It would make too much sense to not have happened.

Fuck those naysayers in the ear.

His positively Donnan-esque!

So, they go for it, it doesn’t work and the announcers are the morons? Okaaaaaaay.

I don’t remember him being this testy at Georgia Southern. Maybe it was just that nobody cared enough to quote him.

Going for it was clearly the best thing to do. If you punt and hold them 3 and out, they punt it right back to you, at your own 35, with time off the clock. If you don’t make the 4th down conversion and hold them 3 and out, they can’t kick the FG, have to punt, and likely only punt it to your 20. It’s a net 15 yards difference.

The announcers were idiots for wanting GT to punt and burn most of the remaining clock to save 15 yards on the wrong end of the field.

FWIW, the announcers also questioned PJ for going for the 2 point conversion to tie it at 17, well into the 4th quarter. Said it was “too early.” Huh?

1-AA championship background? Check.
Calls his own plays? Check.
Too damn stubborn to change what he thinks is the OMG BEST OFFENSE EVAH Check.
Berating the media and generally oozing ego and assholeness with no sense of humility? Check.
Yep, Jim Donnan has been reincarnated and is now coaching at the Joke by Coke. Love it. Positively keep him forever Tech.

@ 9 – He was winning, big time, at Georgia Southern. The two journalists out of Albany who covered Ga. Southern never had anything negative to write about him.

Terry Gannon used to substitute teach PE at my High School. I can vouch for his moronocity.

They were morons.

As #10 says, with 2:25 left in the game and no timeouts, go for it on 4th. The only thing punting does is field position. Either way you have to hold VPISU to 3 and out. If VPISU isn’t held to 3 and out, you are not going to get the ball back so it doesn’t matter. If you do hold VPISU to 3 and out, you just lose field position. So it comes down to a chance at 30 yds of field position vs. a 4th down play to keep the ball.

But the announcers were worse about questioning a 2 pt conversion down 15-17. Half way into the 4th quarter, what does one point do for you? The announcers were questions it even before the 5 yd false start penalty when they first lined up. Johnson’s right, ‘morons’!

The announcers were awful… the entire game they would talk about how one of the teams was “moving the chains”. This is fine if the play resulted in a first down — not second and 7 or third and five as often happened. These guys actually make Pad Ward (aka the voice of the Big-10) look like a superstar.

Saturday’s final score prediction:

Starksville Ag Skool Maroons 8 (4 safeties)
North Avenue Trade Skool Insects 6 (3 safeties)

Yes, the announcers were idiots. What coach watches a replay of his game and bitches about it though?

They can’t be bigger morons than Bob Davies, right?

Gannon and Norrie are awful. Johnson’s judgment is confirmed. I wasn’t watching a whole lot of GT-VT, but neither of those two seem to have any particular understanding of late game strategy — and Norrie was a frickin’ UCLA QB (not that it makes you good at that, but you’d think a former player would get it.)

Actually, Johnson did start bitching about it… The writer asked him about it and he answered the question honestly. Plain and simple.

Now, if you want to talk about bitching, look no further than Mark Richt over at Georgia whining about Moreno’s leap not being included in the Top Ten on ESPN. Who cares? Teams have crazy plays happen all the time that never make it on TV.

Edit of the last post: I meant to say that Johnson did NOT start bitching. My apologies.

See ya 11/29 Todd.

I love this guy. Thanks for the memories, PJ.

Transcript of Navy Head Football Coach Paul Johnson’s Press on Sep 17, 2007:

Wagner: I was talking to a Navy fan and he said he follows the coverage and that he noticed something and I’m just going to put it to you. He says that it seems like when Navy loses you blame the players, ie we can’t execute fundamental plays, but that the success of the team the last four years has been attributed to brilliant coaching. How do you respond to that?

Johnson: Whatever he thinks. I don’t go down to McDonald’s and start second-guessing his job so he ought to leave me alone.

Wagner: But do you feel like it can’t be both ways?

Johnson: You know what? I could care less. I’m old enough where I could give a crap what the fans think or what you think to put it in a nutshell.

Wagner: Wins and losses are evenly distributed as far as credit and blame, right?

Johnson: If you could ever find one time that I said we won the game because of brilliant strategy I will kiss your butt at city dock and give you two days to draw a crowd. Find it and bring it to me. Tell that guy that if he wants to talk to me I live at (address given but deleted for the transcript) I will be right there. Come ring my doorbell and I will be glad to talk to him.

So, Tech got the first down then? No. Ah. I see.

Defend away, boys. That’s your right.

Simple question General, I’m trying to help you out here. Why do you think going for it on 4th down was wrong there?

BTW, your answer cannot be “because they didn’t make it.” I’m looking for real honest analysis here where you can explain how punting was the better choice to win the football game.

Honest analysis?

You do realize this is EDSBS?

Supposing that you are new: I’m yanking your chain.

Carry on.

Dude I’ve been coming here for a while. It might shock some folks, but the threads used to be a location for funny and insightful discourse on football. Now it’s a lot of misplaced snark.

Personally, I blame the Auburn and Alabama fans.*

*That should get something started.

I can’t speak for this Gannon dude but I’ve seen enough games broadcast by David Norrie to know beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is a certified, card carrying moron. During the 2005 PSU @ Northwestern game he managed to pull off what I had previously thought to be impossible. David Norrie made me appreciate Pam Ward!

Tech always whines about something…nothing new…catch ya in November, bees.

While he wasn’t actually my high school coach, Johnson was at Ga. Southern when I went to football camp there while I was in high school. I can therefore confirm that he’s been that jowly and cantankerous since the Clinton administration, and probably before. God love him.

“Personally, I blame the Auburn and Alabama fans.”

Dammit, probation again.

“Personally, I blame the Auburn and Alabama fans.”

WooHoo! Got 13 Baybee?!?!?!!!1

The punt with ~2:25 to play was a 50-50 call. You could make an argument to punt and play field position or to sack up and go for it on 4th and 7. I can’t really say that the announcers were being dumb by questioning that call.

The one I think they were dead wrong about was about going for the 2 pt conversion when GT just scored to bring the deficit to 2 pts with like 7 minutes to play. If you kick the PAT, you’re still down by 1 and need a FG to win. If you go for two and don’t convert, you’re down by 2 and need a FG to win. There’s literally no difference in those situations. If you make the 2 pt conversion, you’re tied. There was no reason whatsoever to kick a PAT in that situation, and football announcers/analysts, especially former players, should have the football knowledge to realize that.

Kicking a PAT when you’re down by 2 midway thru the 4th quarter is pointless, especially when you’re in a defensive struggle.

ChemE:

Were they morons? Yes, insufferable, worse than Bob Rathman if thats possible. Worse than Bob Davie? Eh, no. Thats impossible