Friday, December 21, 2007

I dunno...

I guess I don't have to tell you Ga Tech will be my second favorite team now. I'll tell you what is going to happen. Quite a while ago, college football went through a change. Spurrier in fact put the icing on the cake for the changes. He did what no other coach had been successful at, though a few had tried. He passed the football to win games. Before that, the pass was used on long yardage and keeping the defense honest kind of thing. But primarily to win, the offense was based on running the ball. He changed that by using the pass as a primary basis to win games, with much success. Very exciting to watch, every new coach wanted to do it. The option all but went away.

Now, Paul Johnson will bring the option back to college football. Fans now days don't even know what the option is. They all just think its a dirty word. Option? Oh my god thats outdated and won't work. Some coaches have started to ease back over to it, unknowingly I might add using the spread offense to run. Which I am not a fan of. I think its Gimmicky and requires other than ordinary athletes to work.

Paul Johnson's offense is an updated version of the traditional option. Its amazing to watch running plays executed that perfectly. Hes going to end up changing college football again.

As far as Tenuta, he finally made a statement on the matter. He was certainly an asshole. When asked about Paul Johnson being at practice he said "he was here"? He also said plainly he hasn't been in any talks about staying or more importantly leaving the team yet. The reason is very logical, noone wants to distract them for the bowl game. I have also read that he doesn't get involved with recruiting. Certainly a negative.

As far as a new DC being hired. Impossible, why? Paul Johnson cannot hire anyone until after the bowl game. NCAA rules state you must have all coaches for the bowl game. In other words there will be no openings until after the bowl game is played. Thats probably why there is no mention of this on Rivals. It just can't of happened, yet.

But I trust his judgement. He knows something we don't if he is hiring Womack. Ga Tech will consistently have the best running defense in the nation. Why? Because they will practice against the best rushing team in the nation. Hard to win games passing the football because you can't run. You take away a teams ability to run the ball and its a tall task to win after that.

Spurrier evidently chose wisely getting the best available DC out there. No surprises there.

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