According to Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson, if a Georgia fan is giving a Tech fan a hard time about the Dawgs beating the Jackets this year, the Tech fan should "hit him in the face."
Really?
"Guy giving you a hard time and you get tired of it, punch him in the face," Johnson said on an Atlanta sports talk show Tuesday.
The comment falls somewhere between sophomoric and moronic. Johnson has a tendency to be a bit prickly, and most will dismiss his comment as being tongue-in-cheek, perhaps even adding some needed fuel to what had become, until last year, a fairly mundane, one-sided rivalry. I think it's probably a glimpse into what's inside the man's heart. Could you imagine Mark Richt saying such a thing? Bobby Bowden? Tony Dungy?
What about Bear Bryant? Bobby Knight? Woody Hayes?
All of those coaches are, or were, successful. But Knight and Hayes ended their careers on somebody else's terms, run off for their bullying ways. And Bryant, legendary for being hard-nosed and ruthless at times, (Remember The Junction Boys?) today, would end up in the same boat as Knight and Hayes.
I don't think leaders of major Div. 1 college football programs -- educators for Pete's sake -- should be so callous with their comments. Is Paul Johnson a big, fat, uneducated bully? Or was he just sounding like one?
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