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“[Collins] wanted to reinvent history,” Johnson said, via The Bill Shanks Show. “He just distorted everything when he got there. I will just call a spade a spade. I got no respect for the guy. He went in and distorted everything that was there, acted like we had not won a game, and lied about who he inherited. He lied about us not going to the high schools in Georgia. He went and told a bunch of whoppers and it came back to get him. There was not much substance there.”

Johnson earned significant respect among the ACC coaching community during his 11-year tenure with Georgia Tech. He led the Yellow Jackets to four ACC Coastal titles and two 11-win seasons and was named the conference’s coach of the year three times.

“The opposing coaches in the league would call me, and they were laughing,” Johnson said. “One particular coach really pounded them at home in Atlanta and told me, ‘Paul, it is a circus.’ He said it was hard for them to play the next week because of the physicality and the way my teams played. Another coach called me late on a Saturday night after a win and said, ‘I even lined up in your formation at the end just to rub it in. The people who knew, knew.'”

Johnson said he didn’t appreciate Collins’ attitude after taking the job and was disappointed in the Georgia Tech administration for letting him last four seasons in Atlanta.

“I followed a lot of coaches who have been in the profession and knows that when you go in, if you don’t have anything good to say, just don’t say anything,” Johnson said. “You are just making a lot of excuses when you do that, and you are trying to alibi. I was more disappointed in the administration for letting it go on. I was just disappointed. I had an image of what would happen when I retired. I thought I was leaving it the right way.”