Brent Venables

He’ll make almost as much as CPJ, so he better beat us!
I think the talent gap is just too great the last few years. They’re better than they’ve ever been and they might have one of the best D-lines of all time this year. It’s tough to out-coach that.
 
EastboundJacket said:
He’ll make almost as much as CPJ, so he better beat us!
I think the talent gap is just too great the last few years. They’re better than they’ve ever been and they might have one of the best D-lines of all time this year. It’s tough to out-coach that.
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NC State, Syracuse, and Pitt have done it the past few years.
 
RamblinWreck92 said:
NC State, Syracuse, and Pitt have done it the past few years.
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But they don't run the TO. The one consistent "kryptonite" to the TO over the years has been a great, talented, large D-line. That's what Clemson is. I'm not saying we can't beat them, because we have beaten them and other great D lines (see 2014). But the matchup with Clemson sure is tough.
 
EastboundJacket said:
But they don't run the TO. The one consistent "kryptonite" to the TO over the years has been a great, talented, large D-line. That's what Clemson is. I'm not saying we can't beat them, because we have beaten them and other great D lines (see 2014). But the matchup with Clemson sure is tough.
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We've beaten teams with great, talented, large D-lines. But the offense has to be executing near perfect. We havent had much consistency in that department in a while.
 
Venables owns CPJ. It's hard to say it, but it is true. I seem to remember running numbers one time and finding that CPJ's offensive output against Venables was way lower than any other repeat DC he faces, including Foster and Clemson in the pre-Venables era. I have a lot of respect for the guy. He gets his players to play smart and mean defense against the TO.
 
Akinji07 said:
We've beaten teams with great, talented, large D-lines. But the offense has to be executing near perfect. We havent had much consistency in that department in a while.
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Need great, talented, large o-line to beat a great, talented, large d-line. The entire offense is predicated on the ability to use the threat of multiple attacks to create a man advantage. If a d-line can blow up an option (e.g. stop the dive), then that threat is gone. Alternatively, if d-linemen can beat blocks and demand multiple blockers, the man advantage is gone.
 
A marginal improvement in pass-pro would pay huge dividends against Clemson. They sell out there safeties to stop the run. The number of WIDE open AB seam routes we’ve missed against them because they’re DE beasted through our OL is regrettable. Not a knock on them either - it’s a good strategy if you know your pass rush is that good. But if we can keep the QB free for an extra tick we’d slice them up through the air.
 
CPJ is 5-6 versus Clempson at GT, but only 1-5 in the last six years...with the win in 2014. (Good thing Deshaun Watson got injured early in the 1st quarter in that one)...

GT is at home this year against the tigers, where the Yellow Jackets usually fair well versus them. Tech must play error free, though, and be executing near perfect, for sure...

2012...L....Clem 47-31.....away
2013...L....Clem 55-31.....away
2014...W...GT 28-6..........home
2015...L.....Clem 43-24.....away
2016...L.....Clem 26-7.......home
2017...L.....Clem 24-10......away
 
JWilly said:
This guy doesn't want to be a HC? Go somewhere else, fella.
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Not everyone wants to be in charge. This is especially true if you have a very comfortable position in a comfortable location making comfortable money.
 
They have 3 D-linemen projected to go first round in next year's draft. 3O fails this year against them.
 
FHstinger said:
CPJ is 5-6 versus Clempson at GT, but only 1-5 in the last six years...with the win in 2014. (Good thing Deshaun Watson got injured early in the 1st quarter in that one)...

GT is at home this year against the tigers, where the Yellow Jackets usually fair well versus them. Tech must play error free, though, and be executing near perfect, for sure...

2012...L....Clem 47-31.....away
2013...L....Clem 55-31.....away
2014...W...GT 28-6..........home
2015...L.....Clem 43-24.....away
2016...L.....Clem 26-7.......home
2017...L.....Clem 24-10......away
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Or, to put it differently, CPJ is 1-5 against Clemson since the guy that hired him quit to work there instead.

Kinda sucks. (But I gotta say, much happier having a former GT football player as our AD than DRad. It's weird but we haven't had a likable AD in a long while, and we finally do.)
 
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