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Posted on: October 5, 2018 at 21:44:31 CT
Gary P. MU
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Brian VanGorder Is the Louisville DC.
We're slowly approaching the ten-year anniversary of December 9th, 2005, the day that Brian VanGorder left his spot as linebackers coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars to take the position as head coach at Georgia Southern University. Among his first goals as head coach of the Eagles was to get rid of the spread option offense that had been installed by Georgia Tech's current head coach Paul Johnson. Johnson, of course, served as the offensive coordinator at GSU under legendary head coach Erk Russell back in the mid-1980s before returning as head coach from 1997 to 2001.
VanGorder felt it important to scrap the offense which had brought the 1985,1986, 1989, 1990, 1999, and 2000 D-IAA national championships to the program because he wanted to bring the program "into the 21st century". He felt that the system would be impossible to recruit to, and just wouldn't work at a high level of football. (And with only 6 national titles since the program's first varsity season in 1984, what reason did he have to think that it was a possibility?)
The comments that VanGorder made were very public in nature, and Johnson, then the head coach at Navy, caught wind of them. A very proud and competitive individual, Johnson called up an old friend from his Georgia Southern days, Roger Inman. He asked Inman to put him in contact with the Eagles' athletic director, so that he could arrange a game with them for his Midshipmen. According to Inman, when he asked why on Earth Johnson was so intent on playing a school like Georgia Southern, the answer was simple:
"Because I want to beat the Hell out of Brian VanGorder."
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Rest of the story at link above.
Brian VanGorder Is the Louisville DC.
We're slowly approaching the ten-year anniversary of December 9th, 2005, the day that Brian VanGorder left his spot as linebackers coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars to take the position as head coach at Georgia Southern University. Among his first goals as head coach of the Eagles was to get rid of the spread option offense that had been installed by Georgia Tech's current head coach Paul Johnson. Johnson, of course, served as the offensive coordinator at GSU under legendary head coach Erk Russell back in the mid-1980s before returning as head coach from 1997 to 2001.
VanGorder felt it important to scrap the offense which had brought the 1985,1986, 1989, 1990, 1999, and 2000 D-IAA national championships to the program because he wanted to bring the program "into the 21st century". He felt that the system would be impossible to recruit to, and just wouldn't work at a high level of football. (And with only 6 national titles since the program's first varsity season in 1984, what reason did he have to think that it was a possibility?)
The comments that VanGorder made were very public in nature, and Johnson, then the head coach at Navy, caught wind of them. A very proud and competitive individual, Johnson called up an old friend from his Georgia Southern days, Roger Inman. He asked Inman to put him in contact with the Eagles' athletic director, so that he could arrange a game with them for his Midshipmen. According to Inman, when he asked why on Earth Johnson was so intent on playing a school like Georgia Southern, the answer was simple:
"Because I want to beat the Hell out of Brian VanGorder."
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Rest of the story at link above.
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There’s a good story behind this beatdown: - Gary P. MU - 10/5 21:44:31