Georgia Tech Disses Wilcher; Wilcher Isn't Happy
Cass Tech coach (and former U-M star) Thomas Wilcher tweeted that he was dissed by Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson and his staff when he brought a group of 100 football players from Michigan to Atlanta for some sort of clinic.
I dunno know to embed tweets, but this is what Wilcher wrote: "Never again. GEORGIA TECH Paul Johnson head Coach and coaching staff NO SHOW!! 100 strong FOOTBALL PLAYERS FROM MICHIGAN and NO SHOW ANY GT COACH!! WOW!"
(Edited to remove references to the 1934 Willis Ward incident.)
That's rude.
But being rude is not the same thing as being racist.
AFAIK, Paul Johnson has never shown any signs of any kind of racist behavior.
I get the point you are trying to make, but the context of the post is not right.
Didn't mean to equate the two circumstances at all - just that Georgia Tech isn't making friends in Michigan.
You may want to edit it though. Because it really looks like that is the point you are trying to make. It just does.
I'm sure GT has pissed us off about something football related in the past. You should dig that up and use that.
But even to hold 1934 against the current administration and program at Georgia Tech is ridiculous. 1934 and Cass Tech have very little in common.
He’s an asshole but not sure that’s the same as being racist
And basically said. We spent 1 hour w the guys after the facility walk etc: don't know what you guys were expecting during Spring Ball
No different then Drevno no showing for a meeting w a certain Cali OL and never calling or cancelling, just didn't show up after Drev set up the meeting. The OL is a stud in the Pac12 now.
With Wilcher, but none of the coaching staff were involved in the visit. The strength / conditioning and recruiting staff were the only ones involved from Tech.
Not really relevant to the Willis Ward incident. Would also be good to have more info on this latest incident.
What the hell does the 1934 racist episode and this event have in common? Almost zero. Dumb.
Delete the Willis Ward stuff. Confuses the issue and isn’t relevant.
Probably gonna be a rough ride for you here. Enjoy your stay. However long/short that may be.
GT sent the strength and conditioning staff. GT's head coach is prepping for spring practices! The biggest disservice here would be for Wilcher to steer his kids clear of a great school like GT over some petty drama.
Here's the little bit of back-and-forth that came after his initial tweet.
I think its best if most of us do not even give our opinion on this, to be honest.
Why is that?
Whoa, so a real live coach or a D coordinater and or a OC. That must be the "OMG I am so lucky I am going to shit myself" treatment
Wilcher has a short memory, he got over the Weber situation pretty quickly.
It sounds like GT wasn’t going to be there, they explained that they weren’t going to be there and now Wilcher is angry that they weren’t there?
big question is when? When did Cass make the plans for the trip, and when did GT say they wouldn't have coaches available. Either way, I don't care, Michigan isn't losing any kids they want to GT.
I don't necessarily agree with the way that he handled the situation, but I definitely think this is shitty on GT's part.
Wilcher got a group of 100 players to go down to Atlanta to visit GT and they couldn't even take some time out of their practice prep to talk to the group? I feel like that's disrespectful to the kids who paid money to go down there to visit (Even though I assume they were visiting multiple schools.)
Also, I doubt any players will want to go to a school when their coaches don't introduce themselves to the players when they visit so it's not a good look on the recruiting front.
This autumn will feature a matchup of Cass Tech playing Georgia Tech. Vegas is betting that Paul Johnson will explain the stunning GT loss as the result of Cass Tech showing up ready to play without telling him in advance or anything.
amurrica is dyin'
This sounds pretty one-sided, almost predetermined.
Talk about redundant, every other poster wants to say that the Willis Reed incedent is a bad comparison to what happened to coach Wilcher.
So what exactly did happen?
Willis Reed? Former Knicks center?
in terms of what was agreed, expectated, delivered and experienced.
That could be on GT.
But that could just as easily also be on Mr. Wilcher.
This is what I see:
We now have 2 to 3 generations of Americans who somehow believe it is prudent and good practice whenever one feels indignant or wrong to immediately and first go straight to Twitter to trash other people, organizations, etc. and throw around indictments and accusations from a distance - often without proof. Often the truth is never really uncovered, unless there are witnesses who chime in to corroborate defense. In which case, we have that "ooooh epic burn!" moment. On Twitter. Yeah. That's actually considered composed, appropriate and adult behavior nowadays.
Then when the damage is already done, how does one recover?
They have already trashed your reputation publicly. And you've spend lots of time and effort to defend yourself against indictments.
I don't like the way this appears to have been handled from the outset.
More of the same bullshit when power, authority is out of balance with responsibility, accountability and consquence.
Pick up the goddamned telephone.
Write a letter.
Enough with righteous indignation grand-standing maybe?
Maybe I'm the only one fatigued and irritated by it.
Definitely creates more issues than rectifying them
and save it for if and when we ever play them
Georgia Tech coaches in this situation chose to pass.
one could argue they actually fumbled.
Too bad this wasn't the coach of a team that every gets a recruit we want. Why can't Urban or anyone in the SEC diss Wilcher?
Um..... Like having the RB coach on the phone with Weber all night, talking him into osu over Michigan..... without telling him the RB coach is leaving for the NFL in two days?
First to run to Twitter loses.
Come On Man. Learn.
Wilcher is really feeling himself as a dispenser of talent and PJ doesn't give 2 fucks about things like that. GT is an elite university and any kid would be blessed to have the opportunity to even go there as a regular student. If Wilcher wants to steer kids away, he's got his priorities fucked up.
Oh well. We win or lose with nothing higher than low 4* recruits anyways, and this wont affect PJs relationship with Georgia coaches. The only people negatively affected by this are kids with GT offers, but no M/ND/OSU offers. If Wilcher would rather have those kids in East Lansing, well...how sad for them.
Always a good idea to shut down any potential of that pipeline
JH flipped at least 2 GT kids last year. Not a great look for UM recruiting wise. Need to Flip UGA kids