Bobby Johnson

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is this the end of Bobby Johnson? no wins in the SEC this year and he had great talent like warren norman,well i doubt they will get rid of him but why not Eddie Gran for HC at vandy? not that i care about vandy but i want every tennessee school to do well but not better then us.
 
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Eddie Gran isn't head coach material...in case you haven't heard he is now at FSU. He has never been more than a RB coach.
 
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Bobby Johnson is solid at Vandy. It takes a special person to be successful there and he has been. I'm shocked he hasn't moved on to better pastures as he is a solid coach and Vandy will take years off his life, however Nashville is a good place to live and work.
 
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Johnson and Vandy will not part until Johnson has another good year (6 wins / bowl game) and other HC opportunitites are available when that season occurs.
 
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JWVol said:
Johnson and Vandy will not part until Johnson has another good year (6 wins / bowl game) and other HC opportunitites are available when that season occurs.
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so you're saying he'll be a lifetime coach there?
 
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Stupid thread! You win a bowl game at Vandy and make them a decent team...you are set there. This was a down year..even for vandy. Best WR was inelligible, numerous starters injured and an unproven...but very athletic QB......as your starter?

vandy will be a 5-6 win team yr in yr out and that is pretty good for that school in the SEC! E Gran could not do that at Vandy! STUPID POST!
 
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Johnson isn't leaving VU anytime soon unless he gets offered a better job elsewhere.
 
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pretty hard to not make a bowl if you have 4 cupcake non conference games. this guy just isn't very good. i don't care where he is coaching.
 
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droski said:
pretty hard to not make a bowl if you have 4 cupcake non conference games. this guy just isn't very good. i don't care where he is coaching.
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To save time..lets just agree to disagree. But..name one other coach at Vandy that has done what he has done. Just 1. .................ya can't. Good coaches make bad programs respectable, decent teams good and good teams great! He loves vandy and what it stands for and love Nashville. He is a great coach at a program that will never have consistancy. That is a fact since they are the smallest, only private, and most exclusive university in the best conf. in the country. Not a very easy job! He is getting better players and more depth each year.

was Wyoming a cupcake last year????
 
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peaygolf89 said:
To save time..lets just agree to disagree. But..name one other coach at Vandy that has done what he has done. Just 1. .................ya can't. Good coaches make bad programs respectable, decent teams good and good teams great! He loves vandy and what it stands for and love Nashville. He is a great coach at a program that will never have consistency. That is a fact since they are the smallest, only private, and most exclusive university in the best conf. in the country. Not a very easy job! He is getting better players and more depth each year.

was Wyoming a cupcake last year????
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Bobby Johnson is a good coach and I wish they would win zero games every year.
 
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Vandy's problems this year were lack of depth, injuries, a relatively tough schedule and playing 12 weeks in a row. Alot of years you can look back at Vandy's season and see where they were 3 or 4 plays from having a decent season. This year, that was not the case. The 'Dores probably should not have lost to Army and they played SC tough but even if you gave them those two games they's still be 4-8 with only 1 SEC win. They could not score on quality defenses and they could not stop the power running game.
 
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peaygolf89 said:
To save time..lets just agree to disagree. But..name one other coach at Vandy that has done what he has done. Just 1.
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I love a good challenge. Steve Sloan? He only coached at Vandy two years (1973 & 1974) and his records were:
5-6
7-5 (tied with TN, and tied the Peach Bowl against TX Tech).
TX Tech was apparently so impressed they hired him away from Vandy in 1975.

George MacIntyre won 8 games in 1982. Johnson hasn't done that.
 
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salutethehill said:
I love a good challenge. Steve Sloan? He only coached at Vandy two years (1973 & 1974) and his records were:
5-6
7-5 (tied with TN, and tied the Peach Bowl against TX Tech).
TX Tech was apparently so impressed they hired him away from Vandy in 1975.

George MacIntyre won 8 games in 1982. Johnson hasn't done that.
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ok..not bad...but over several yrs...who has made Vandy into a team that other schools don't just automaticly expect a win? Sloan could have been the guy...but left too soon to know.

Could Fulmer have won like he did somewhere other than UT? Could Johnson win more at a Bigger school? NO...and yes to those questions.
 
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peaygolf89 said:
Could Fulmer have won like he did somewhere other than UT? Could Johnson win more at a Bigger school? NO...and yes to those questions.
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no and maybe but even Fulmer could easily have done what BJ did this year.
 
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peaygolf89 said:
To save time..lets just agree to disagree. But..name one other coach at Vandy that has done what he has done. Just 1.
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Gerry Dinardo

I've never gotten what it is about Bobby Johnson's .300 winning percentage that makes people think he's a good D-1A coach.
 
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GAVol said:
Gerry Dinardo

I've never gotten what it is about Bobby Johnson's .300 winning percentage that makes people think he's a good D-1A coach.
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He won a bowl game, duh. Seriously, the guy is so overrated. How someone with a below .500 winning percentage gets so much love, I don't know.

They might have been hit with injuries but they still returned the majority of their team this year, and couldn't even pull out one SEC win or beat West Point. The guy couldn't even reach a bowl game with Cutler.
 
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Remy said:
Bobby Johnson is solid at Vandy. It takes a special person to be successful there and he has been. I'm shocked he hasn't moved on to better pastures as he is a solid coach and Vandy will take years off his life, however Nashville is a good place to live and work.
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Yeah, he's terrific, as measured by his tremendous success.

Quick question: what is 6,5,5,5,6,6,3,6? If you answered Vandy's finish in the east in Johnson's 8 years, go to the front of the line.

One more: what is 0,1,1,3,1,2,4,0?

If you said the number of conference wins Vandy has had each year of his tenure, you get extra credit.

And lastly, what are 29%, 29%, 30%? If you guessed the winning percentages at Vandy for Gerry DiNardo, Woody Widenhoffer, and Bobby Johnson, you might be Vanderbilt material.

I've never seen a coach get so much credit for maintaining lousiness.
 
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GAVol said:
Gerry Dinardo

I've never gotten what it is about Bobby Johnson's .300 winning percentage that makes people think he's a good D-1A coach.
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Johnson supporters also love to ignore the luxury of a 12th regular season game, which is an extra non-conference marshmallow for Vandy.

Dinardo didn't have it....Widenhofer didn't have it either.

There's really nothing impressive about Bobby Johnson's tenure in Nashville.
 
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I agree, people gushing about Johnson is quite peculiar, because honestly if we was such a good coach then Vandy would have actually accomplished more. They went 5-6 in 2005, and that's after starting 4-0. They lost to freakin MTSU at home who came into the game winless, and they lost to a terrible Kentucky team for their last home game. Both with their greatest QB ever. The win over UT saved Johnson that year, but they should have been 7-4 at the worst. Then last year, the "season" that cemented Johnson as the coach, they started 5-0 and ended 6-6. They lost to a bad Miss. St. team, at home to a bad Duke team, and then couldn't beat the worst UT in 30 years at home. The Kentucky game last year saved Johnson again; they should have been 9-3 at the worst last year.

So to me the "He's beat UT and won a bowl game" is a weak argument when you actually look at the numbers and watched them play. His winning percentage is no better than his predecessors, he's blown 2 potential great seasons, and while his talent level has risen, his teams make the same mistakes they made when he got there. And that points back to coaching. Vandy still has horrible game management. And look at all his "signature" wins....beating UT, Georgia, and South Carolina; all of which they beat them when they were down or on the way down.

I laughed when everyone was worried some other team wanted Bobby Johnson. There's no major program that would be considered a step up that wants Johnson.
 
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Bobby Johnson is about as good as Vandy will get. If anything, he needs to leave for a better job.
 
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My source said Fulmer to Vandy, will be annouced on Friday. Just saying if the woman who cleans the athletic dept and over heard the "boosters" getting everything put together.
 
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GAVol said:
Gerry Dinardo

I've never gotten what it is about Bobby Johnson's .300 winning percentage that makes people think he's a good D-1A coach.
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Good call...but NO BOWL GAME! I'm not saying Johnson is the best in the SEC. But..he is a very good coach.
 
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nickknx865 said:
They could always get a coach on the upswing, such as Bowling Green did with Urban Meyer.
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I'm not a Vandy fan...but I will take up for them.

Bear Bryant could not have won there. Come on. Is Vandy an automatic win like it used to be ?????NO! They are much better. Johnson does a great job with what they have.
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
Johnson supporters also love to ignore the luxury of a 12th regular season game, which is an extra non-conference marshmallow for Vandy.

Dinardo didn't have it....Widenhofer didn't have it either.

There's really nothing impressive about Bobby Johnson's tenure in Nashville.
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WOW! Did not think about the 12th game. Good point!

Johnson is still good for vandy. He would be really good at a larger school...but he loves Vandy. Good for him!
 
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