Looks Like Saturday is Going to Be Nasty

Seeing how we're winless when reaching 3 turnovers, I'm rooting for dry balls on Saturday.
 
Personally I think that rain hurts passing game more than rushing game. Does make the option pitch more iffy cause its just a short pass, but its not as bad as throwing downfield where QB has to get a good grip, throw hard and the receiver has to corral a higher speed projectile.

It is true that it hurts the DBs relative to receivers due to footing but that is a bigger factor on fields that deteriorate. I would assume that the mutts have learned enough over the years to grow good turf and promote good drainage.

As an example of this consider the 1974 game in the cesspool where Pepper's 3O worked fine in chewing up the mutts who were hapless offensively. The field was pretty poor that day and very muddy by the end. I would love a replay of that game.
 
Wonderful, you're telling me the rain will come on Saturday. Now, make my day and tell me it will be very cold, too. I'm telling you, I believe we are ready to relive '74. Cold and raining, some sleet mixed in, new coach, option offense, 34-14 Jackets.

In all seriousness, I think defending the option on a wet field is a nightmare. When the QB turns upfield or Dwyer cuts outside it is going to be hard to catch 'em. String the plays outside and cut upfield and they'll be slipping all over the place.

The problem will be handoffs, fakes, and pitches with a wet ball. But, you just have to concentrate and be careful.
 
beej67 said:
We want a wet field and dry balls.
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That's what she said.

I really don't want rain. I want to just match up on them, everything equal, because I think we really have a shot. I don't want an X-Factor like rain thrown in when we're in the first year of the offense.
 
National Weather Service now has Sat. as a 90% chance of rain.

Saturday: Occasional showers, mainly before 1pm. High near 51. East wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
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Their hourly weather graph is predicting a chance of ~1/2 inch between midnight and noon.
 
He (Paul Bryant) was sitting by the window. You could see Grant Field from there. He was sitting with a pack of Chesterfields and with a pack of Benson & Hedges.
He was chain-smoking, smoking one from one pack, then one from the other. He kept looking out the window at the rain, and saying, “This is Dodd’s weather, this is Dodd’s kind of weather.”...
Bryant said, “It’s raining. It’s a sloppy field. This is Dodd’s weather. This is Dodd’s weather. He’ll figure out how to play in this weather. He knows how to win in this kind of weather.”
 
Yes, the Bear hated playing against Bobby Dodd. They were initially good friends but from what I understand the rivarly became a big deal, even though the mutual respect was always there.

In the three bio's on Bear that I've read, that relationship was talked about in every one.
 
That clip is from The Young Left Hander Kim King's "Tale from the Georgia Tech Sideline", the chapter called "Bear Tracks," when he was invited as a high school recruit to visit Bryant at his suite in the Georgian Terrace the morning of that game in 1962, when Tech broke the defending national champion's 26 game win streak, winning 7-6. Joe Namath was Bama's qb.
Dodd called that his greatest victory.
 
Weather forecast is just getting worse, huh?

I expect that by tonight they'll be calling for deadly acid storms and hail in the shape of horses.
 
The Jacket said:
Weather forecast is just getting worse, huh?

I expect that by tonight they'll be calling for deadly acid storms and hail in the shape of horses.
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Time to break out the ark and gather two of every animal (except the English bulldog, of course).
 
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