ESPN: NC State’s search focused on Johnson

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North Carolina State’s search for a new football coach has focused on Navy’s Paul Johnson, sources close to the situation said early Tuesday.

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139 Responses to ESPN: NC State’s search focused on Johnson

  1. gopack968 12/05/2006 at 3:40 PM #

    We are not going to get a knock your socks off and buy tickets for the BCS championship tomorrow coach. It looks like the only ‘lock’ coach that was out there signed with the Chapel Hill mob. Firing Bunting early and jumping on Davis before the season ended was smart (and as a result I doubt it was DB’s idea).

    No, we are going to get a new coach with whom we can only wait and see. Neither Johnson or Fischer look like a bad gamble – and that is what it is, a gamble. I like that Johnson has a proven track record. He is a winner at every level and has shown himself to be flexible and successful with the talent he has. And we have a lot of talent! That is enough in my book to warrant a three to five year trial. And that is what this is – a three to five year trial.

    Just as we accepted with Sidney, the next year or two could be rocky. We have to make sure that we, the chattering internet lunatic fringe, don’t become the negative force that LF says we are.

  2. wolfpacker55 12/05/2006 at 3:41 PM #

    Cardiff Giant…. Paul Johnson definitely ran the ball all the time at Georgia Southern. His fullback, Adrian Peterson, won the Walter Payton Award twice i believe. He always ran a triple option with wings that go in motion similar to a wing-t. Very disciplined teams when we played them, but the only time they threw was when you were biting hard. 5-8 pass attempts a game, but when they scored a big one, it was over.

  3. Cardiff Giant 12/05/2006 at 4:13 PM #

    ^ Thanks for that info 55. I did not know that.

    Interestingly, there was a guy working at camp one summer (and one summer only) who was a football player at Georgia Southern. This was at Camp Sea Gull back in the 1980s. He was a nice guy most of the time but could be kind of a hyper-aggressive country bumpkin loon and didn’t really fit in. He was muscled up, though, big time, so I kept out of his way.

  4. class of 74 12/05/2006 at 4:27 PM #

    Anyone posting here who thinks PJ is not right for us is brain dead. He has done nothing but win everywhere he’s been. I like him and I like Jimbo too. I admire Chow but for my money anyone that’s 60 or close to that age is just too old for us. I love the idea of getting someone in their forty’s maybe early fifties and let them build something we’ve never had here before, a longterm winning program.

  5. packpigskinfan23 12/05/2006 at 4:34 PM #

    I hope I’m not brain dead yet!!!! I still have at least 2 years of college ahead of me!!!!

    -I KNOW that PJ is right for us. I THINK he could be. I dont think anyone KNOWS. There is more to football in a BCS league then just being able to win everywhere else you have been. sorry… its true.

  6. packpigskinfan23 12/05/2006 at 4:55 PM #

    i DONT know…. sorry

  7. PAPacker 12/05/2006 at 7:19 PM #

    I seem to be hearing two different things. One is that PJ has one scheme, running oriented, and another that he adjusts to personnel, i.e., incorporated a pass-oriented attack at Hawaii. Does he have a multi-faceted, flexible offensive philosophy or is he going to bring a run-dominated attack to his next program? wolfpacker55, are you saying you think he would probably do the latter? Cardiff, is that what you understand?

  8. old13 12/05/2006 at 8:05 PM #

    BTW CTC has NEVER BEEN a coordinator of any kind – only a position coach and assistant HC (team administrative duties, not technical [game planning] duties.)

  9. Wolfpack4ever 12/05/2006 at 8:21 PM #

    old13 Says: “BTW CTC has NEVER BEEN a coordinator of any kind – only a position coach and assistant HC (team administrative duties, not technical [game planning] duties.)”

    Sheeeit! That tells me more in one sentence than all the rest of the stuff I read this year about NC State football under Amato.

  10. quypack93 12/05/2006 at 11:51 PM #

    old13, so he coached linebackers and made coffee, wrote letters, set appointments, reserved ariline tickets for sr. bowden? well, how dumb were we to drink his coolaid for so many years. stood beside sr. bowden for 18 years and learned nothing. he was only an assistant hc, not a coordinator. bring in jimbo and if he doesn’t do well after four years, well, jimbo was just a coordinator, he has no head coaching duties and don’t know how to run a team. leadership qualitie are born, not acquired. that’s why they are so rare and you have to pay so much for them. pj is a proven leader who wins, jimbo is an unknown commodity in that capacity.

  11. class of 74 12/06/2006 at 6:16 AM #

    packpigskinfan23:
    Using your logic how do you KNOW anything in life? When you buy an auto, clothes or anything in life you go on your research, instincts and project what value and results you may expect. When you hire an employee it’s no different! With Amato we had nothing of proven history to go on, but we went
    with trust and hope. And as we all know hope is not a strategy.

    With Johnson we have a proven track record at two places and many endorsements from experts in the business that this guy is the real deal. Fisher is more like the Amato example, but more OC’s make good HC’s than DC’s do on the college level if past history is the judge. And right now if we had some dynamic OC leadership well we might not be having this discussion and CTC might still be the HC.

  12. Wolfpack4ever 12/06/2006 at 7:12 AM #

    “old13, so he coached linebackers and made coffee, wrote letters, set appointments, reserved ariline tickets for sr. bowden? well, how dumb were we to drink his coolaid for so many years. stood beside sr. bowden for 18 years and learned nothing.

    I was one who agreed that lack of coordinator experience contributed to Chuck’s failure to produce on the field, so I sure don’t want to be included as thinking that Amato “stood beside sr. bowden for 18 years and learned nothing.”

    It was a mystery to me how Chuck could be so close to winning big and fall so far short. It is the easy way out to put it on his OC or his QB. And I assert it is more fundamental than that. Had Chuck had 18 years of experience evaluating talent, who would play where and what schemes he could run to best utilize his talent, then it could have been different for him with this past year where he had an offense that was a mis-match for the talent he had. And he was at a lose as to what to do about it.

    I for one would have loved to see what a Paul Johnson or Jim Grobe would have done with a stud like Marcus Stone running the 3-op. When Marcus turned it up field, linebackers paid a price for tackling him. I hated it when Trestman had him start sliding — a pussy move for a football player. I my day a “slider” would be ridiculed off the field. I just can’t imagine Roman Gabriel sliding. (The pros might be different with the money invested in a QB and the hitting quality of defensive players.)

  13. Frank 12/06/2006 at 1:05 PM #

    Paul Johnson is the wrong guy for NC State. He would be a great fit for some schools, but not the Wolfpack. His previous success will not carry over here. He will win, but not enough. If all you want is eight wins a year and beating Carolina once every five years, then he is your guy.

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