Program changing win

gtphd said:
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but calling this a “program changing win” diminishes the value of our team. Beating a 3–3 Miami team would be program changing for Georgia State, but not us. We have more history than that.
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Give me a break. We aren't all sitting around here and crying in our soup anymore... This win absolutely changed the stingtalk program.
 
gtphd said:
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, but calling this a “program changing win” diminishes the value of our team. Beating a 3–3 Miami team would be program changing for Georgia State, but not us. We have more history than that.
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Look at it this way, lose this game and our record falls to 1-6 with no expectations of a win the rest of the season. A 1-11 season becomes a real possibility. CGC has to sell THAT product to recruits.

Win and CGC can sell visible progress to recruits. Miami still has name recognition even with a 3-3 record.
 
I was really impressed with the play today. We fought like all hell.

Patenaude punished Miami’s DL in the 2nd half with solid blocking, substitutes and Mason— who is a total bad ass.

We ran Mason in the 2nd half and absolutely wore down the Miami DL in their own muggy environment. Credit Brent Key. He coached a great game challenging our OL to open some holes.

Our secondary is really good. They won despite bullshit flags on PI calls.

This team can win 4 more games this season.

We will get our transfers in, in 2020 that will bring heat on our DL. And we will finish with a Top 30 recruiting class.

What I liked this afternoon was “WIN”. We did it. No questions asked. And we did it against a roster that was better.
 
The zone on 3rd+ downs was frustrating, especially guys sitting five yards beyond 1st down markers like on the last play of the game. Roddy called it out
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Miami was also gifted 4 points on their 1st possession. We also made a 52 yarder that was negated by a retarded penalty. We also would have had a first down on a roughing the punter, but a total BS formation penalty (that I didn’t see) led to a re-punt...which Miami returned inside the 15. We also owned the ball in the 2nd half and turned it over deep on Miami’s end when we were on the verge of taking a lead.

All I’m getting at is there were plays both ways. Don’t want to hear about their 3 missed FGs. There were a lot of plays in that game.

UM’s losses were by 4 to a top 10 Florida team. By 3 to a very solid UNC team, then by a TD to a now 5-2 Virginia Tech. They also handily beat a ranked Virginia team last week who blew out Duke today. This was @Miami...something Paul Johnson never did. I get they’re not Alabama, but the fans and players have every right to be excited about this win.

Proof of concept. The hard work by the team and coaching staff can result in positive outcomes in this league. It’s a major transformation, but progress is being made.
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Yes, let’s bring PJ into the conversation :facepalm:
 
The Jacket said:
We play Miami closer than we're expecting in a losing effort, but something clicks. We then shock the entire county (and parts of Dekalb) by beating Pitt. We get a couple of mentions to fill dead air on College Football Scoreboard after we upset Virginia. We then beat Virginia Tech by 10 in an ugly game, and a week later during a segment about Ed Orgeron, Lee Corso inexplicably begins warning the nation to look out for us, and how we are going to be dangerous when we have the right players to run Paul Johnson's option attack. Beyond that? Mutthurt clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is.
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We are a quarter ahead of schedule, but I predicted this.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Miami was also gifted 4 points on their 1st possession. We also made a 52 yarder that was negated by a retarded penalty. We also would have had a first down on a roughing the punter, but a total BS formation penalty (that I didn’t see) led to a re-punt...which Miami returned inside the 15. We also owned the ball in the 2nd half and turned it over deep on Miami’s end when we were on the verge of taking a lead.

All I’m getting at is there were plays both ways. Don’t want to hear about their 3 missed FGs. There were a lot of plays in that game.

UM’s losses were by 4 to a top 10 Florida team. By 3 to a very solid UNC team, then by a TD to a now 5-2 Virginia Tech. They also handily beat a ranked Virginia team last week who blew out Duke today. This was @Miami...something Paul Johnson never did. I get they’re not Alabama, but the fans and players have every right to be excited about this win.

Proof of concept. The hard work by the team and coaching staff can result in positive outcomes in this league. It’s a major transformation, but progress is being made.
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Great win. But you are correct, just re-watched it and it was one of the ugliest games by both teams. We almost "willed" the outcome. A good trait for any team to possess.
 
Vespidie said:
Yet I wait for the negative Nancys to claim there was a lack of progress shown by the team today.
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No, this is their message.

1. The players are great. This is a bowl team, cuz last year's team was a bowl team! No team has ever been this stocked with talent, and if you say otherwise you are saying that no player on the team has any talent at all.

2. All offensive plays must be with the quarterback under center, cuz... well, not sure why, but it is important!

3. The team is terribly, horribly coached. Fire them all! Why, on one play a walk-on offensive lineman playing for his second week ever had a false start, and good coaches just do not let that ever happen.

4. The team is undisciplined, and it is the fault of the head coach! Why, on one play, the receiver celebrated with three, count them THREE, crotch pumps.

5. I didn't mention the last coach in my fair, balanced review of the game, so you better not! What??? You said his name??? Waaaah! Waaaah! Just let it go!!!!!
 
“Program changing” is a little much I think. But “season changing” seems possible. UGA is the only team left that is significantly better than Miami with UVA being on a tier above the others. 4 games left on the schedule now against teams we can reasonably expect to win. We’ll have confidence/momentum on our side too.
 
gtrower said:
4 games left on the schedule now against teams we can reasonably expect to win. We’ll have confidence/momentum on our side too.
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To avoid potential suicides, let's temper expectations a bit. The most important thing is that we see week-over-week improvement, which we have since Temple (rock bottom - even more so than Citadel, where we looked better and should have won). Continuing that pattern is what we should expect to see.

As far as wins, the game against Miami shows that we can compete in all remaining ACC games and could win, but we shouldn't expect to win anything.

The maddening part about this season is that this team could have had anywhere from 0 to 4 wins right now.
 
GT65_UGA89 said:
StinGTalk -where winning brings out as much bitching as losing.
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You know how every Miami fan in the world starts posting "Da U is BAKKKKK" after they make a field goal to take the lead in the first quarter of a game? Know how annoying and ridiculous that is? Let's not be Miami fans.
 
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