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Of all the comments ACC head coaches made to the media in reaction to Golden firing, I found Paul Johnson's comment is the most interesting and in some ways true. Everyone else kind of regurgitated the same coaches talk when a fellow HC is fired. But read this:

Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech

“Everybody has their own cross to bear, I guess. It’s a tough business. I think Al inherited a mess, but the bottom line is he didn’t win enough games for expectation. Will the next guy meet expectation? The last three hadn’t. You’d think that sooner or later when you keep replacing ’em, you’d look at what you’re doing. He’s a good coach, he’ll bounce back. He’ll find something. The midseason part of it is, they’ve got five games left. They could still win our division, really.”

To me, he is saying to UM administration, look in the mirror and see what you are doing wrong!
 
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I interpret it as passive aggressively saying our expectations are too high. Because he follows it up with "he's a good coach." Funny enough, all Golden did was try to implement a similar system to what he learned under his mentor. His mentor was fired midseason by Paul Johnson.

Here are his comments about Groh's system:

"My big goal is to simplify and see if we can't get lined up and play faster, play harder," Johnson said. "I don't think you've got to trick people. You've got to line up and know what you're doing and play fast."

**** all these coaches. If we can rip our heads out of our own asses just long enough to get lucky with a decent hire, they'll face 7 draft picks per year with coaching behind it.
 
LuCane said:
I interpret it as passive aggressively saying our expectations are too high. Because he follows it up with "he's a good coach." Funny enough, all Golden did was try to implement a similar system to what he learned under his mentor. His mentor was fired midseason by Paul Johnson.

Here are his comments about Groh's system:

"My big goal is to simplify and see if we can't get lined up and play faster, play harder," Johnson said. "I don't think you've got to trick people. You've got to line up and know what you're doing and play fast."

**** all these coaches. If we can rip our heads out of our own asses just long enough to get lucky with a decent hire, they'll face 7 draft picks per year with coaching behind it.
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Is he really saying our expectations are too high to just win the weak coastal? If AG won his division it is highly unlikely he would be fired. So, I didn't take his comment to mean that.
Regarding following it with "he is a good coach" of course he will say that. What else expected from him to say about a fellow personable HC?
 
Johnson was the only to reference wins. Everyone else just talked about how great a guy Al is ... As if that matters.

Coaches talking about "how good a guy someone is", is the equivalent of focusing on a girl's personality. Yeah, it might matter ... But nobody really cares.

... I also seem to remember some anonymous ACC coaches talking our team down during some media days. Now, that Al is fired ... He's a good coach?

They wasted time asking these coaches anything. It's all "coach speak". The ACC coaches are going to miss Al, though. They know he was in over his head, and was never going to be a threat.
 
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Very sad day for ACC coaches. Last year, at the ACC media day all the coaches were wearing "Keep Al Golden" T shirts. I've seen the picture on here.
 
the "good coach" and the "worked hard" BS is annoying.

As an educator, one of the most annoying statements by students is "but I tried hard" or " I worked hard" when explaining a bad grade.

What most students dont understand is that some people have to work really really hard at maintaining a "D" avg. That is AG, he is a bad coach that works his "tail off" at being being bad. Regardless how long he "works at it" he is mediocre. his all time record reflects that. Im sure he is nice and really cares but none of that takes away the fact that he is a career loser
 
Not surprising. Paul Johnson is a great interview. He virtually never spits out the party line or avoids the question.

I always make sure to watch the quick halftime questioning when Georgia Tech is playing because Johnson is unusually candid and often emotional. Early this season was an example, when Johnson was irate that his interior offensive line wasn't blocking anybody against Tulane. I had already noted it, that they couldn't get any push on the interior and had to resort to perimeter plays and more passing than ideal. Johnson took it a step further. He barked, "We haven't blocked the mike linebacker all day long." That was ominous for an option team, when you can't budge the Tulane interior. The next two weeks they were somehow favored at Notre Dame and then unbelievably opened at more than a touchdown favorite at Duke. I bet against Georgia Tech three times in the next five games, vs. Notre Dame, Duke and Clemson. They didn't cover any of the next five.
 
Al was a ******* heel we ran 3-4 different offenses since he was here trying different things. But ran the the same dumbass defense for
5 years and didn't change one thing!!!
 
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They need to hurry up and hire Butch so these **** talking coaches shut up and **** their pants.
 
These mofos don't even see that Golden didn't even meet GT expectations. Johnson went 6-7 and they almost canned his ***. The year we self band
 
LuCane said:
I interpret it as passive aggressively saying our expectations are too high. Because he follows it up with "he's a good coach." Funny enough, all Golden did was try to implement a similar system to what he learned under his mentor. His mentor was fired midseason by Paul Johnson.

Here are his comments about Groh's system:

"My big goal is to simplify and see if we can't get lined up and play faster, play harder," Johnson said. "I don't think you've got to trick people. You've got to line up and know what you're doing and play fast."

**** all these coaches. If we can rip our heads out of our own asses just long enough to get lucky with a decent hire, they'll face 7 draft picks per year with coaching behind it.
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Exactly. Groh's 3-4 is too complicated and complex for the college game. Factor in Golden could never find the dominant nose; the high turnover of transfers and kids expelled in his classes and playing +24 kids a game and you get zero continuity. I've never seen a group of kids more confused play after play after play. Plus, we were ballooning up kids and then playing them out of position. McCord being a good example.
 
Southcane said:
Of all the comments ACC head coaches made to the media in reaction to Golden firing, I found Paul Johnson's comment is the most interesting and in some ways true. Everyone else kind of regurgitated the same coaches talk when a fellow HC is fired. But read this:

Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech

“Everybody has their own cross to bear, I guess. It’s a tough business. I think Al inherited a mess, but the bottom line is he didn’t win enough games for expectation. Will the next guy meet expectation? The last three hadn’t. You’d think that sooner or later when you keep replacing ’em, you’d look at what you’re doing. He’s a good coach, he’ll bounce back. He’ll find something. The midseason part of it is, they’ve got five games left. They could still win our division, really.”

To me, he is saying to UM administration, look in the mirror and see what you are doing wrong!
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The rest of the ACC coaches will miss Golden because he was easy to gameplan for and was a likely win for their team.
 
Nothing wrong with what Paul Johnson said, he beat Fsu and I see his comments saying that the administration aren't doing their job right with supporting the program over the past decade.
 
These coach are nervous. They know how dangerous we could potentially be. You think they would give a *** if Syracuse, Wake Forest, Virginia, or NC State fired their coach?
 
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Nothing wrong with what Paul Johnson said, he beat Fsu and I see his comments saying that the administration aren't doing their job right with supporting the program over the past decade.
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Anyone in the ACC with a pulse knows our administration is inept when it comes to the athletic department. Hiring one incompetent AD after another. Maybe he was taking a shot at our administration. I don't know.
 
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Since Johnson was 1-3 sgainst Golden he can't exactly say "he was a bad coach". How would that make Johnson look?
 
Southcane said:
Of all the comments ACC head coaches made to the media in reaction to Golden firing, I found Paul Johnson's comment is the most interesting and in some ways true. Everyone else kind of regurgitated the same coaches talk when a fellow HC is fired. But read this:

Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech

“Everybody has their own cross to bear, I guess. It’s a tough business. I think Al inherited a mess, but the bottom line is he didn’t win enough games for expectation. Will the next guy meet expectation? The last three hadn’t. You’d think that sooner or later when you keep replacing ’em, you’d look at what you’re doing. He’s a good coach, he’ll bounce back. He’ll find something. The midseason part of it is, they’ve got five games left. They could still win our division, really.”

To me, he is saying to UM administration, look in the mirror and see what you are doing wrong!
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That's exactly what he's saying. Admin accept your place in the messes you created!
 
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