Sad to say: Tech Football Is No Fun Anymore

I know you've been around for a while, but outside of a few years, was Tech football ever really "fun"? I sure as hell don't remember. I've been a fan for close to 40 years and I don't remember much being fun.

It takes a true person of character to be a fan of Tech and if you've made it this long, then I am sure you can push a little further. Strap up and quit wanting to give up.
 
Dhatura said:
I know you've been around for a while, but outside of a few years, was Tech football ever really "fun"? I sure as hell don't remember. I've been a fan for close to 40 years and I don't remember much being fun.

It takes a true person of character to be a fan of Tech and if you've made it this long, then I am sure you can push a little further. Strap up and quit wanting to give up.
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This 1,000%
 
I hate that guys get called childish names around here just for an opinion. If we didnt have any opinions, this and any other message board would be dead. Why not just say why you have a different opinion instead of calling someone a whiny bitch? Anyway, I agree with Dhatura that this is GT football in a nutshell since the 60s, mostly pain with a burst of joy here and there. To the OP, I say I while you are correct that this is painful to watch, I think you are short sighted in not understanding the depths at which this talent descended in PJ's final years and how long it will take us to dig out of that hole.

I think the coaching so far has been meh but I also realize they have a 4-5 year rebuild plan and things done last year and this year are the foundation so when we see glimpses of good play, that is the future. It just can't happen every play because we so young and very thin. It will also take a strong finish to this year's class to bring in some missing pieces or depth. Next year I have hope we will see a jump. Not a great team, just a competitive team that you can see measured progress on the field.
 
CiraldoForever said:
This is the first time in any season that Tech was heading into an off week and I didn't care. Watching this is not fun. It's sad, pitiful, hopeless and embarrassing. Of course, I'm 70. I don't have ten years for Collins to learn how to coach. I've been through this before. Curry was exasperating, but he was a Tech man, and he did seem more like a football coach than Collins. Bill Lewis was bad, but he was gone pretty quick. Ross's first two years were winless in the ACC, but his teams were always well coached. There was no question about whether he knew what he was doing. But Collins has not given me any reason to have any confidence. I can't wait for the off season. I think young fans should stick with this. Maybe Tech will be good again one day. I hope so. I thought the Notre Dame game was pretty good compared to others. But, when you lose 31-13 at home to a team that had the ball on your one yard line when the game ended, it's hard to get very enthusiastic. Nobody respects Tech football right now. It is very sad to me. Our coach and our AD seem totally clueless. I'm past worrying about it. I hope I live to see Tech be good again. But, I'll be surprised if I do. If you had been alive and seen Bobby Dodd coach, you would be very sad, too.
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I am with you 100%. Sorry that the younger fans do not realize what they are losing when some of the older fans grow apathetic because the culture and product on the field are just not enjoyable to watch. Heard so much about the financial struggles the AA faces......well, these younger fans that call us whiney bitches better be prepared to pony up because they are going to lose a big portion of funding when the whiney bitches walk away.
 
What are you doing down there?

I'm having a GOOD TIME!

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CiraldoForever said:
This is the first time in any season that Tech was heading into an off week and I didn't care. Watching this is not fun. It's sad, pitiful, hopeless and embarrassing. Of course, I'm 70. I don't have ten years for Collins to learn how to coach. I've been through this before. Curry was exasperating, but he was a Tech man, and he did seem more like a football coach than Collins. Bill Lewis was bad, but he was gone pretty quick. Ross's first two years were winless in the ACC, but his teams were always well coached. There was no question about whether he knew what he was doing. But Collins has not given me any reason to have any confidence. I can't wait for the off season. I think young fans should stick with this. Maybe Tech will be good again one day. I hope so. I thought the Notre Dame game was pretty good compared to others. But, when you lose 31-13 at home to a team that had the ball on your one yard line when the game ended, it's hard to get very enthusiastic. Nobody respects Tech football right now. It is very sad to me. Our coach and our AD seem totally clueless. I'm past worrying about it. I hope I live to see Tech be good again. But, I'll be surprised if I do. If you had been alive and seen Bobby Dodd coach, you would be very sad, too.
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CiraldoForever said:
This is the first time in any season that Tech was heading into an off week and I didn't care. Watching this is not fun. It's sad, pitiful, hopeless and embarrassing. Of course, I'm 70. I don't have ten years for Collins to learn how to coach. I've been through this before. Curry was exasperating, but he was a Tech man, and he did seem more like a football coach than Collins. Bill Lewis was bad, but he was gone pretty quick. Ross's first two years were winless in the ACC, but his teams were always well coached. There was no question about whether he knew what he was doing. But Collins has not given me any reason to have any confidence. I can't wait for the off season. I think young fans should stick with this. Maybe Tech will be good again one day. I hope so. I thought the Notre Dame game was pretty good compared to others. But, when you lose 31-13 at home to a team that had the ball on your one yard line when the game ended, it's hard to get very enthusiastic. Nobody respects Tech football right now. It is very sad to me. Our coach and our AD seem totally clueless. I'm past worrying about it. I hope I live to see Tech be good again. But, I'll be surprised if I do. If you had been alive and seen Bobby Dodd coach, you would be very sad, too.
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I suffered, but survived, through 1980, 1981, 1987, 1988, 1992-1994, 2015 -among others.

I hate losing as much as anybody, but my expectations are tempered, for now. Anyone expecting to even be in the game vs two of the top teams in the country is delusional -there is simply too vast of a difference between size, speed, and depth right now.

I expected to be 3-4 at this juncture, but I didn’t expect to defeat FSU and Louisville, and did expect to defeat Syracuse and Boston College. UCF is my outlier as I thought we could defeat them.

Granted, the stupid penalties and turnovers, and non-existent kicking game are all concerns, and arguably cost the team one win. Given time, being the optimist that I am, I expect these things to get worked out.

GT football is still exciting for me -each game brings anticipation and excitement -it always has. I mean, I am a UGA grad, but my fandom for GT has never wavered, and never will.

GT has an off week, which sucks because there is no game, but come the following weekend, I will be ready for Pitt -and I will be looking to win three out of the remaining four games on the schedule.
 
CiraldoForever said:
This is the first time in any season that Tech was heading into an off week and I didn't care. Watching this is not fun. It's sad, pitiful, hopeless and embarrassing. Of course, I'm 70. I don't have ten years for Collins to learn how to coach. I've been through this before. Curry was exasperating, but he was a Tech man, and he did seem more like a football coach than Collins. Bill Lewis was bad, but he was gone pretty quick. Ross's first two years were winless in the ACC, but his teams were always well coached. There was no question about whether he knew what he was doing. But Collins has not given me any reason to have any confidence. I can't wait for the off season. I think young fans should stick with this. Maybe Tech will be good again one day. I hope so. I thought the Notre Dame game was pretty good compared to others. But, when you lose 31-13 at home to a team that had the ball on your one yard line when the game ended, it's hard to get very enthusiastic. Nobody respects Tech football right now. It is very sad to me. Our coach and our AD seem totally clueless. I'm past worrying about it. I hope I live to see Tech be good again. But, I'll be surprised if I do. If you had been alive and seen Bobby Dodd coach, you would be very sad, too.
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Then maybe find something else to do with your life, what's left of it? I mean, öööö, it's only boys playing football. One would think you'd understand that by now. Use the time you have left to gain some perspective.
 
CiraldoForever said:
This is the first time in any season that Tech was heading into an off week and I didn't care. Watching this is not fun. It's sad, pitiful, hopeless and embarrassing. Of course, I'm 70. I don't have ten years for Collins to learn how to coach. I've been through this before. Curry was exasperating, but he was a Tech man, and he did seem more like a football coach than Collins. Bill Lewis was bad, but he was gone pretty quick. Ross's first two years were winless in the ACC, but his teams were always well coached. There was no question about whether he knew what he was doing. But Collins has not given me any reason to have any confidence. I can't wait for the off season. I think young fans should stick with this. Maybe Tech will be good again one day. I hope so. I thought the Notre Dame game was pretty good compared to others. But, when you lose 31-13 at home to a team that had the ball on your one yard line when the game ended, it's hard to get very enthusiastic. Nobody respects Tech football right now. It is very sad to me. Our coach and our AD seem totally clueless. I'm past worrying about it. I hope I live to see Tech be good again. But, I'll be surprised if I do. If you had been alive and seen Bobby Dodd coach, you would be very sad, too.
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Yeah but at least we're not running the option! Young kids hate that offense. The path to beating Clemson is obviously to do everything Clemson is doing except recruit better than them. The old system where we got six yards a play was so boring. Now we have more plays!
 
Not sure what you really expected. The game was evolving at the same time that we decided to turn back the clock in order to have a slight, temporary, schematic advantage. Then we couldn't even recruit to a level that maintained that system's advantages. You can't turn that around immediately. Could we be more disciplined; sure. Would it really make a difference; no.
 
Count me and several friends in the old fart group. Been thru too many of these transitions since the 60's, and frankly this is the worst looking one so far. Many on here say Collins has a plan and is following it to get us where we want to be. I would be good with that, if he had a track record like Ross, O'Leary, even Gailey. He says this is the biggest transition in the history of college football. If he's right, what in his past makes us think he can pull off the biggest transition in the history of college football? I would disagree with him somewhat. Bill Lewis pulled off the biggest transition in college football history. Not all transitions are good one, and not all are successful. I missed less than a half dozen home games in 36 years up until this year. Made a couple of away games most years. Last year and this year may have broken me from sucking eggs. The thrill is gone and I don't know how to get it back.
 
BigGTMike said:
Not sure what you really expected. The game was evolving at the same time that we decided to turn back the clock in order to have a slight, temporary, schematic advantage. Then we couldn't even recruit to a level that maintained that system's advantages. You can't turn that around immediately. Could we be more disciplined; sure. Would it really make a difference; no.
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That slight advantage took me to two Orange bowls, the first time in over 45 years.
 
Dhatura said:
I know you've been around for a while, but outside of a few years, was Tech football ever really "fun"? I sure as hell don't remember. I've been a fan for close to 40 years and I don't remember much being fun.

It takes a true person of character to be a fan of Tech and if you've made it this long, then I am sure you can push a little further. Strap up and quit wanting to give up.
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I had fun every year of Paul Johnson, every year of George O'Leary, and about half the Chan Gailey years.
 
beej67 said:
Yeah but at least we're not running the option! Young kids hate that offense. The path to beating Clemson is obviously to do everything Clemson is doing except recruit better than them. The old system where we got six yards a play was so boring. Now we have more plays!
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CPJ won 2/9 games against Clemson after the ACCC game. He was on a 4 game losing streak against Clemson where we were getting dominated by Clemson's DL. If it weren't for Justin Thomas and Shaq Mason, we'd be on a longer losing streak against them. They were absolutely in control of our option game. Tackling the BB at the handoff. Tackling the QB for no gain on the keep. Our outside option game was getting strung out and snuffed. Our passing game was throw a hope and a prayer.

I am tired of the lame excuse that GT cannot recruit Clemson type players. GT has grown from 16k students or so 15-20 years ago to pushing 30k students now. Not every major at the school now is 1970's EE where an opposing coach can scare off a potential recruit with a calculus book.

We live in what has become the center of the college football universe. It wasn't like that even a decade ago. We absolutely ought to be able to field a team at Georgia Tech, being located in the center of the college universe of Atlanta, that competes directly with Clemson, UGAg, and Alabama for top tier talent.
 
BigGTMike said:
Not sure what you really expected. The game was evolving at the same time that we decided to turn back the clock in order to have a slight, temporary, schematic advantage. Then we couldn't even recruit to a level that maintained that system's advantages. You can't turn that around immediately. Could we be more disciplined; sure. Would it really make a difference; no.
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This is a key point. CPJ didn't really leave enough talent to run his own scheme, much less anyone else's. We were under .500 for four years and it was our clownish looking play for a good part of 2018 that soured everyone on the old regime, even some pretty ardent defenders like myself. Not sure why people still act like the option was such a bundle of fun there at the end.

The 2009 Clemson game was on ACCN a couple of weeks ago. That stuff was fun. The stuff we were seeing at the end wasn't, whether that was recruiting failure, attrition, rule changes or whatever. Yes, CPJ could still MacGyver the old thing to 5-7 wins by blasting a couple of unprepared opponents each year, but the duct tape wasn't going to hold together much longer, regardless.
 
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