Era of Good Feelings

For its participants, Wednesday's National Signing Day event in the Edge Center was all about feeling good: Feeling good about "where they are" as a program, feeling good about all the fine players they got, and feeling good about how things went exactly like they thought they would. As with most things Johnson, there was nothing exciting to speak of in the final moments; no Isaiah Crowells or Tony Stewards or Stephon Tuitts to thrill the crowd. That is, unless you classify plucking some linebacker away from Wake Forest as "exciting." Instead, it was the typically blissful circlejerk about all the "high character" young men who will no doubt empower snooty Tech fans to stick up their noses in future seasons as the ugliness inevitably unfolds on-field. But certainly Coach Johnson wouldn't have recruited a single one of them if he didn't "think" they could all play legitimate BCS conference ball? To hear him tell it, there was never a doubt, and the process was smooth sailing every step of the way:

Buzzing with excuses

Since the humiliation of Monday evening, the insults and excuses from limp-wristed Tech fans have been flying like greasy tater tots in a middle school lunchroom. We here at FPJ believe that there are no excuses for this year's substandard play, and that it is merely a portent of similar seasons to come. Or to put it another way, as Coach Johnson would so glibly mutter, "It is what it is." Here we review some of the more remarkable cop-outs which have emerged in the last 48 hours, and refute them easily with our typical wit and dexterity.