So I talked with a football player yesterday...

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We had a good chat and found out some interesting stuff.

This is what he said...

- Contrary to popular belief, PJ's bowl practices were MUCH harder than Gailey's.
- Some offensive guys are going to move to defense to fill some needs.
- The mentality of the program really didn't change much between Gailey and PJ, but PJ is more of a college coach in that he's fiery and yells. He said Gailey was more of a laid back, conservative NFL type.
- Looking forward to playing UNC, VT this year.
- Very excited about the offense with all the playmakers coming back. He also said that Anthony Allen is the real deal.
 
GTKyle said:
We had a good chat and found out some interesting stuff.

This is what he said...

- Contrary to popular belief, PJ's bowl practices were MUCH harder than Gailey's.
- Some offensive guys are going to move to defense to fill some needs.
- The mentality of the program really didn't change much between Gailey and PJ, but PJ is more of a college coach in that he's fiery and yells. He said Gailey was more of a laid back, conservative NFL type.
- Looking forward to playing UNC, VT this year.
- Very excited about the offense with all the playmakers coming back. He also said that Anthony Allen is the real deal.
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well, your third bullet is not what I have been told by multiple players on this team...interesting to hear this persons take though.

Many on the team said the mentality was completely different, being more of a team, more of a WINNER's mentality, more belief in the system and coaches. That person you talked to....hasn't jived with about 20 or so players I talked to and interviewed in the past...

interesting take though.
 
33jacket said:
well, your third bullet is not what I have been told by multiple players on this team...interesting to hear this persons take though.

Many on the team said the mentality was completely different, being more of a team, more of a WINNER's mentality, more belief in the system and coaches. That person you talked to....hasn't jived with about 20 or so players I talked to and interviewed in the past...

interesting take though.
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Yeah, I was kinda surprised as well. Maybe he liked Gailey because he actually played then. He was injured last season.
 
Was this guy on defense? I would say PJ's fire-ness is probably a step down if anything from Tenuta's.
 
GTKyle said:
We had a good chat and found out some interesting stuff.

This is what he said...

- Contrary to popular belief, PJ's bowl practices were MUCH harder than Gailey's.
- Some offensive guys are going to move to defense to fill some needs.
- The mentality of the program really didn't change much between Gailey and PJ, but PJ is more of a college coach in that he's fiery and yells. He said Gailey was more of a laid back, conservative NFL type.
- Looking forward to playing UNC, VT this year.
- Very excited about the offense with all the playmakers coming back. He also said that Anthony Allen is the real deal.
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Very interesting post Kyle. Some of this may be bantered about on campus but for us old folks out in the south Georgia sticks, it is well appreciated especially since its not the kind of thing you pick up and read in the Albany Journal. Thanks!!!
 
The best part about this is that apparently the football player you talked to thinks the NFL is going to be "laid back."
 
The mentality comment doesn't really surprise me. For a player to admit that the mentality has improved, it would implicate himself in being a slackard under Gailey unable to motivate himself to put forth 100% effort and that it took an ass-kicker like PJ to get these guys to do their damn jobs on the field. Of course he's going to say the mentality hasn't changed. But everyone knows that is what happened.
 
Bunger Henry said:
The mentality comment doesn't really surprise me. For a player to admit that the mentality has improved, it would implicate himself in being a slackard under Gailey unable to motivate himself to put forth 100% effort.
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That's not quite right because your reasoning implicates players who deny that the mentality has changed (like the player in question) as well as players who accept that the mentality has changed. Your reasoning implicates the entire team regardless of their position on the matter.

Rather, I would submit that it is the players who deny that a change has taken place who are implicating themselves by imputing their own refusal to board the CPJ train onto their teammates whereas players who did adopt a new attitude have risen to accept a higher challenge.

When I was in the pitiful high school I attended, I didn't accomplish very much. When I enrolled at GT, the bar was set a lot higher and I worked a heck of a lot harder and accomplished quite a bit more. You can say that I was a slacker in HS and you'd be right but it wasn't conscious - I had more to offer I just didn't know it. I like to think that accepting the higher challenge was not self-implicating but self-improving.

Sometimes you think that the effort you are expending *is* 100% until someone comes along and shows you that you had another 20% you didn't know you had. Credit for that goes to CPJ for seeing it and to the player for accepting it. Players that refuse to acknowledge that they have more to give are just rationalizing their refusal to dig deep and give it.

Just my opinion.
 
GTKyle said:
This is what he said...

- Contrary to popular belief, PJ's bowl practices were MUCH harder than Gailey's.
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While that may be true, my equipment manager friend said that CPJ gave the players + staff more days off of practice than Gailey ever did.
 
Did anyone mention that the Bunger Henry building is one of the ugliest, most depressing looking buildings on campus?
 
Ish said:
While that may be true, my equipment manager friend said that CPJ gave the players + staff more days off of practice than Gailey ever did.
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Didn't Gailey only have 1 bowl game that came later than the Peach bowl? It's easier to get 10 days off if your game is Dec 31st, rather than Dec 17th.
 
WracerX said:
Didn't Gailey only have 1 bowl game that came later than the Peach bowl? It's easier to get 10 days off if your game is Dec 31st, rather than Dec 17th.
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no, the humanitarian bowl 4-5 years back was Jan 6th or 4th
the gator bowl was the 1st
the champs bowl was the 30th

So he had 3 of his 6 bowls at the same time or after the peach.

Gailey used bowl practice as another spring...this is true...

I do have to say whoever Kyle talked to a few comments go against everything I was told from other players.
 
33jacket said:
no, the humanitarian bowl 4-5 years back was Jan 6th or 4th
the gator bowl was the 1st
the champs bowl was the 30th

So he had 3 of his 6 bowls at the same time or after the peach.

Gailey used bowl practice as another spring...this is true...

I do have to say whoever Kyle talked to a few comments go against everything I was told from other players.
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Champs Bowl was before Xmas the year we played in it. Dec 21st I believe.
 
33jacket said:
no, the humanitarian bowl 4-5 years back was Jan 6th or 4th
the gator bowl was the 1st
the champs bowl was the 30th

So he had 3 of his 6 bowls at the same time or after the peach.

Gailey used bowl practice as another spring...this is true...

I do have to say whoever Kyle talked to a few comments go against everything I was told from other players.
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While I am sure different players had different views, one very respectable player seemed to believe that the mentality definitely changed (and said almost as much even in public). Also, the mentality before the bowl game was softer...

About the bowl game, however, I think the bigger problem was that we underestimated how much our team would forget over the long break. This is not surprising, considering they picked up everything over a very short period of time. I compare it to forgetting stuff about a class if I only crammed the night before the exams, which seems like what our team did. Don't forget that our team picked up the system really fast, compared to other teams under CPJ (specifically, Navy, who went 2-10 in his 1st year).

I think the bowl game will be an aberration but at the same time, Coach has learnt a lot from it.
 
I'm still not sure why the bowl game is always exclusively put on CPJ's lap as a failure of preparation. Things were going alright until a cascade of mistakes in the 2nd quarter. Perhaps it was lack of focus that led to the dropped TD pass and the fumbled punt return, but it could also be simply bad luck.
 
floridajacket said:
I'm still not sure why the bowl game is always exclusively put on CPJ's lap as a failure of preparation. Things were going alright until a cascade of mistakes in the 2nd quarter. Perhaps it was lack of focus that led to the dropped TD pass and the fumbled punt return, but it could also be simply bad luck.
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People forget that this team won the MNC last year. They had loads of talent, size, and strength. What they lacked all year was a decent direction, especially from QB. Well they found it and were again unleashed as a powerful force.
 
NatiJacket said:
People forget that this team won the MNC last year. They had loads of talent, size, and strength. What they lacked all year was a decent direction, especially from QB. Well they found it and were again unleashed as a powerful force.
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It does fascinate me that sometimes people tend to forget that there's another team putting as much effort into it as we are. Sometimes the stuff they try works better.
 
gthog61 said:
It does fascinate me that sometimes people tend to forget that there's another team putting as much effort into it as we are. Sometimes the stuff they try works better.
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In the case of such a blowout, it's not usually just a matter of one team's stuff working better.
 
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