Sunday, January 9, 2011

Johnson loses one anonymous 2-star, reloads with another


As revealed in Paul Johnson's Friday press conference, the attrition has continued, with 2009 2-star recruit, DB Carl Miles, being "dismissed" from the team for unspecified reasons.

Fortunately Tech should not miss a beat in the realm of 2-star, Sun Belt-caliber nobodies as last week it obtained its 18th commitment of the 2011 recruiting period from Wetumpka, Alabama's Jamal Golden, whose only other "major" scholarship offer, if you want to call it that, was from Oskee-Wow-Wow Illinois. The remainder of his offer list comprised the usual hodgepodge of mid-major also-rans we've come to expect from a "celebrated" Johnson recruit.

Of course leave it to the slurpers to gush over what a great pickup Golden is, how he is so under-the-radar athletic with great measurables, and how some random previous 2-star turned out to be an OK player one time, so that must mean it's possible Golden won't be a complete washout like Carl Miles. Also, Paul Johnson clearly knows more about coaching than you do, since he's won everywhere he's been(except for last year without Chan Gailey's NFL players), so just shut your mouth right now and go back to your cesspool UGAY fan.

Even for those who choose to see the reality of Golden's shortcomings, the usual excuses have resurfaced-- two being that "everyone" is scrambling for reaches at the end of the recruiting period to fill remaining scholarships, and that Gailey's pre-2007 classes were still worse than the collective three-year effort of Johnson.

The first point is plainly absurd. In fact, Stanford just yesterday obtained a commit from the nation's sixth-ranked safety according to Scout, despite the fact that the day before it lost its head coach! Though it's true that some of the less competent programs find themselves "reaching" at this time of the year, this is likewise the time when the top programs start to close on some of the more heavily-recruited prospects who have chosen to play out the limits of the recruiting period. How many of these is Coach Johnson still in the mix for?

Furthermore, whose fault is it that Tech has so many unused scholarships at the end of the year? It has been well documented that Johnson has whiffed on nearly all his top-tier prospects this recruiting season and is reaching with far more scholarships than any BCS coach should be, much less one coming off a conference championship. This is hardly a matter of a wily coach cherry-picking all the "Diamonds in the Rough" that the big-boys have overlooked-- Coach Johnson is clearly in full panic mode now pining for any warm body willing to hop aboard and man his sinking vessel.

As for continuing to use Gailey's inadequacies as an excuse, that barely deserves any more response than a nodding scoff or some similar mannerism. Gailey's pre-2007 classes were as poorly-rated a collection of recruits as Tech has assembled in the modern era. So the fact that, overall in three years, Johnson's classes average out better than some of the worst Tech classes in memory gives him a free pass to assemble his own team of Sun Belt All-Stars?

There is no sugarcoating this anymore: Georgia Tech's 2011 recruiting class has been a DISASTER, precisely when it was SUPPOSED to be a victory lap following the glory of an ACC championship season and Orange Bowl appearance. Now with several scholarships still remaining to be filled, one can only wonder the depths to which Johnson will sink in the next month to complete his class. Tech has already been fighting tooth-and-nail with Georgia Southern for recruits. Could Georgia State be next?

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