Thanks for the shout out, I was mainly just disappointed with Tech Admin and how they left Geof Collins treat him. Like it or not CPJ is one of the greatest and it would be good to have him at practice and back at some games. I’m glad Todd Stansburry got the boot for allowing this pony show to go on.

CPJ is one of the greatest to ever walk the sidelines. Meanwhile Collins is a snake oil salesman and a complete hack of a clown.

Huge CPJ fan here, and I really enjoyed listening to the entire interview. Like you, I believe he is one of the greatest coaches we have ever had on the Flats. Although CPJ did mention that CBK made a negative comment about “small ball,” he did say that he believes CBK has us going in the right direction, and that the future looks bright!

Re: the 18:59 mark. I actually did have Paul admit he made a mistake - one of his first play calls in a tight game at Southern, when after the game he said he had the wrong QB in for a quarterback throwback (the same play Qua was supposed to throw to JT in 2016 at Athens). Aside from that, let's review the roster PJ left for Collins. Four starting offensive lineman. including 6-6 Zach Quinney at tackle and both Kenny Cooper and Conner Hansen, both over 300 pounds. Plus Mikey Minihan. Running backs Dontae Smith and Jordan Mason, oh, and Nathan Cottrell. Receivers Jalen Camp (NFL), Malachi Carter and Adonicas Sanders. Two four star kids at QB - James Graham and Jordan Yates. Another QB, Lucas Johnson, who wound up being a bowl game MVP at his next stop. 4 star DE/LB Justice Dingle. 4 star LB Bruce Jordan Swilling. 4 star DB Kaleb Oliver, 4 star DB Gentry Bonds, 4 star DB Jaylon King, Charlie Thomas, Jordan Domineck, Wesley Walker (who started at Tennessee), David Curry, Juanyeh Thomas, Tariq Carpenter (both in the NFL), 4 star CB Tre Swilling, Zamari Walton and let's not forget Tobias Oliver. The biggest deficiency was DT. And if Brandon Adams had lived, it would not have been. But Collins also inherited D'Quan Douse from the 2019 PJ commitments, too. PJ inherited 8 4 stars. He left his successor with 8 4 stars and some other players who wound up in the NFL. Enough with the cupboard was bare crap. I'd take that roster.

Remember winning ain't free send a check even if it's only 💯 dollars we need 40,000 fans sending a check every quarter that would be 16 million dollars annually

CPJ’s success was not due only to his offense. He was a leader. A competitor.

Great Show!!

Thanks for posting this. They were talking about it on 680 The Fan this morning.

The triple option is absolutely Small Ball when it comes to offensive line play and I’m glad you addressed it. 250 is an exaggeration but 270-285 about the standard and that’s 20 to 30lbs less than the average P5 OL. It was that way by by design. They ran the OL so much that keeping weight on was nearly impossible and they went on to recruit guys who were specifically on the smaller side especially for tackle.

Tech is pretty irrelevant without Paul Johnson, but I understand the transition to integrate into the new era.

Best video, yet. I enjoyed the commentary.

I thought it was fair that CPJ mentioned CBK in that situation because I didn’t think it was disrespectful. I understood the comment to be along the lines of “I get along with Coach Key even though he was there when these bad things were happening / happening to me.” Coach Johnson says what he believes to be true; while he may be wrong and he has been quiet, I’ve never had a reason to think he would lie.

Great review on this. CPJ would never accept any criticism on his offense and I thought it was pretty disingenuous of him. i don't miss that. He could never recruit worth a damn, but his teams were prepared and won us a lot of games. I'm glad we're under a more flexible system that can attract a broader variety of players.

Completely agree with all of your commentary

Transfers weren't as common but we had some. Patrick Skov, Anthony Allen come to mind. Mario Edwards, a safety from VT, JJ Green from UGA, etc.

The team he was talking about was Virginia Tech I just checked and that was the only team that beat three years back to back to back and then we played them at home and lost 45 to 0 15:11

I will say that this video reinforced my disdain for Geoff Collins. It was also a revelation to learn how the Tech administration treated Coach Johnson. He certainly deserved better. However, I think your impression that CPJ took a "shot" at Brent Key was a bit of an overreaction. Perhaps CPJ could have made a statement about how Coach Key has turned the program around. While I do agree that Key couldn't realistically criticize Collins during his tenure as Head Coach, have you ever heard him criticize Collins since he became Head Coach? Thanks for sharing this.

I’m not a CPJ fan (or Collins fan obviously), but this interview solidified the fact that the issue with this program isn’t coaching, it’s with the administration’s lack of investment in the program. Still, the fact that CPJ’s ego seems to even be in the same stratosphere as Collins is disappointing. Credit to CPJ’s time at Southern though. If he was just Tech’s OC he would’ve been the best in our history.

When TFG took over, I remember thinking it would have been really cool to run the first play of the first game from the TO...just to freak the DC out and to pay tribute to CPJ. Now I know why that was never going to happen.

Need to research which coach ran the “wishbone” formation as their final score on a Saturday win against Collins to rub it in.

I did not think I could like the Clown any less, but when I heard that they locked CPJ out of the build...that ticked me off. I don't know if that was the Clown's direct doing or who, but you don't treat a man who did what he did for us the way he was treated. As for the transfers, while I don't disagree that we need to reasonable, I have never had a problem with us maintaining our academic rigor and integrity. I am fine with some exceptions like we appeartly had under O'Leary, but I would want to know more about the transfer rules. As you point out, transferring into Tech is not easy - nor should it be. (And you are right...Patrick Skov and he was the B-back that replaced the guys who were on the 2014 Orange Bowl team...and no, he never really did that much). Yes, Stanford is a fantastic school, but what did he major in there? Was his major such that he had the necessary courses that he would need to jump into Tech coursework. I completely get Paul's frustrations, but at the same time, we would need to know more than just his GPA. I do agree that he is discounting the change out of the Triple Option. You could walk into UGAg and score 75-80 points every game with their talent, but it takes time to rebuild the roster to run a more common contemporary offense.

The fullback name from Stanford with the 3.2 was:Skov.

Possibly your best show Wreck Talk. Excellent work. Good to see you not portraying CPJ as a deity. CPJ was as smooth as sandpaper and a bitter dude WHILE he was coaching at GT. This is not revisionist history, CPJ had worn out his welcome at Tech, and the very few thousands in the stands every Saturday were just as tired of CPJ as CPJ was of Tech. Definitely a mutual parting of the ways. CPJ offered his resignation and Stansbury accepted it immediately. That said, CPJ is one of the top 5 coaches ever at GT. CPJ left to program destitute for the clown that followed him. The program athletes could not transition successfully to CGC's offense, especially on the OL and QB. CGC proved that he could not develop players, teach techniques or plan a game. It was a disastrous 3 years and how he treated CPJ makes CGC look even worse (if possible). It was good to see CPJ back in the building last season and name put up on the ring for the CFBHOF.

First let me say that Collins was one of the biggest coaching debacles we’d ever seen. Todd Stansbury should never be hired for another professional job for how long he let that clown show go on. CPJ was a fine coach. The TO was a cool and fascinating offense to watch…. But when it was bad, it was REAL bad. I get he was a good coach. But I don’t understand the praise he gets sometimes. The way people talk about him makes it sound like he brought Tech multiple National championships. If we aren’t winning Nattys, then our next goal should be beating UGA right?? The guy only beat UGA 3 times. And those UGA teams in the past were nowhere near what they are today. Those teams were beatable, and Mark Richt OWNED CPJ. We might’ve beaten Kirby once, but that was year 1 and we barely scraped by. I hate celebrating being mediocre. I will never understand the praise he got. All I can say, “yeah CPJ was a fine coach. Can’t recruit, but he makes it work” that’s about all there is to say. It was way past due to move on from the TO. And now it seems like tech is still recovering. I love Tech, and I hate UGA. I want Tech to beat UgA so bad. I believe Key has us moving in the right direction

Say what you will CPJ beat the Dawgs and Kirby that trumps all

Tracy Ham also threw for 306 yards in the 86 championship game

PJ s loyalty to Sewak- who shafted some great O Linemen in his last 3 years. As starters they went cpj w ideas sewak wouldn't try. Cpj benched them . Cpj was great on field coach and could see every thing that happened.

To hell with Collins and Stansbury for treating Paul like that.. Thankfully J Batt appears to be fixing that issue. I bet it burns collins up to see CPJ's name on the walls of the stadium.

You should do a dynasty as Georgia State where Paul Johnson becomes their coach to take over Atlanta lol

I remember Brent's comment from his intro presser WTTE "It's been a long time since I've recruited against Georgia Tech". That's the only negative I remember. Dunno when he said 'small ball'

Good she in general. I'm 0one of the trip fans. It's a myth that it can't be run because of rule changes; see Air Force.this last season. But some of the run oriented shot gun formations - like Army or Coastal Carolina or (dare I say it) Tech in the late season - would probably be Paul's choice, just like Monken. Oh, and about recruiting. True, Tech probably wouldn't have got King to transfer. But I bet Paul would have sold the farm to get Castlleanos and I bet he would have succeeded. It isn't that we didn't get good players; check the record. it's that the recruiting rankings are gaged to a different style of football.

Remember in the Orange Bowl against Miss St., that was Goff Collins defense that we torched. Goff had already left for Florida to join their staff at bowl time. As for CPJ I wish he was still there. But I am 100\% behind coach Key. He will be just as successful as CPJ.

Wreck. Good video. I think he likes key. But mad he was buddies with Geoff. Fair.

Four things that limited Ga Tech success with the triple option over time. 1. Other teams and coaches figured it out. The players and coaches had seen it. And often the other teams would take a bi-week or schedule a weaker team who also ran the triple option. . 2. Our offensive line was too small compared to elite teams. Over time, it got to a point that the better football teams like Clemson and UGA didn't even need to take a bi-week for us because their lines just began to plough us over. The mis-directions didn't work when defensive linemen drawfed our offensive line. 3. Our quarterbacks seemed to regress with time. Typically, QBs would get better year after year as they got older and had more experience. Unfortunately, ours got worse. I suspect this was due to the number of hits they would take. 4. Recruiting. Ultimately, we were seeing less and less success with Paul Johnson and it was time to move on.

Vad Lee reference in 2024. I win.

The criticism of CPJ boils down like this me. He’s an old school coach. You’ll be hard pressed to find a coach/person/CEO who won’t defend their way of doing things and see almost no negatives about it. Much less a coach who had success at every place where he was the head honcho. Coaches are like politicians, they are always right to a fault and egotistical to the point of insanity. This only gets pointed out if they don’t win. Winning is a cure for every disease and winning is the ointment that covers up every rash. Look at the GSW. No one challenged the Draymond/KD thing because they were winning. Plus CPJ has earned the right to be what is now considered delusional about his way of coaching. Because it worked

He talking about dabo. Dabo loved Paul

GT football showed great error when they pushed out Paul Johnson. However, his lack of defensive play in many games could not be overcome by his offense. Just lost too many close games he should have won as I saw it.

small ball is not about the size of the player but more about getting 3-4 yrds a play. its a baseball term

The Fb was skov from Stanford. He wasn’t good. We played ND on the road and got trashed. That season was horrible.

I didn't have a problem with what he said about Brent - think you over analyzed his comments. I never though he was disrespectful because if it was said it was true and he was asked a question about Brent. I find his honesty refreshing

Not knowing anything about the GT situation… If CPJ had things going on so well there… why was he let go? (No shade, just an honest question…)

Top 20 (not top 10 as stated) class by Gailey. They were ranked 18th nationally.

I'm still waiting on the message board mods to reinstate me after being critical of TFG and Patterdude.

Josh Pate is the KING of bad takes lmao

Jeff Collins could have did a better job regardless of what you're trying to say he was too cocky and not humble that was his downfall Jeff had plenty of time to bring in recruiting classes to do better he was just simply did not get the job done so he was fired😅

Collins was a clown but top tier player would have nothing to do with the option

this video would have been a lot better if it weren't stoped every 10 sec

If the option is so great everyone would be running it.

Chan Gailey left tech in way better shape than Paul Johnson did

The ill-informed injections from the host made this unwatchable.