Presser is up

"Our future unbelievable success."

It does seem unbelievable some days.

This man should either be the President of the Optimist Clubs International or a member of Congress.

But, my wife is crazy about him, because he's so positive. I think that's a good sign, because she usually has very good judgment.
 
18in32 said:
Well, she married you, didn't she?
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I always wondered about that, myself. However, another one of her great characteristics is that she likes a tough challenge.

Her Daddy was a friend of Coach Dodd, and I have the copy of Coach Dodd's book, which Coach Dodd inscribed to him.

I asked my father-in-law what it was like to go to Tech games during Coach Dodd's glory years. He told me, "We didn't go to Tech games to see if Tech would win. We went to Tech games to see how Tech would win." Man, we've drifted a little bit away from that. I wish I could have known what it felt like to be a Tech fan then.

During that time, my father-in-law watched Tech beat Georgia eight years in a row, and have even longer winning streaks against Auburn and Clemson.

At one Auburn game, Tech was leading by so much at halftime, that Dodd told the players they could have the rest of the day off. He told them to all go up into the student section and pick a student to come down to the locker room, get dressed, and take their place in the second half.

They did. Auburn made a great comeback in the second half against these unpracticed replacements and almost won. But, Tech held on for another victory.

Back then, Georgia had such a tough time drawing crowds to Athens the dogs would play some of their home games at Grant Field as part of a day-night double header. Tech would play its game in the afternoon, and Georgia would play its home game in our stadium at night.

Boy, things have changed just a little bit.
 
I'm glad I so this because, based on watching the games, I came to the obviously stupid conclusion that we weren't very good.

Fortunately, we get a break in the schedule next year, adding Notre Dame and dropping Temple or Citadel. I'm not sure which one, or maybe it's both.

He keeps talking about inheriting such bad players, but adding great players and developing the ones here. Amazing that we won four more games last year with the same players, minus the massive development and the great transfers.

He's so excited about losing 52-7. I can't even guess what he would be like if we ever cover the spread or, heaven forbid, take them into overtime.

He's been offered a job as the third Lagina brother on "The Curse of Oak Island."

"Well, we haven't found the treasure, but it's just year seven, and our process keeps getting better and better. All we need is more time and more money."
 
The guy was just asked to climb a mountain in a two wheel drive corolla with bald no-name tires. That car may have worked fine for the races the old driver wanted to run, but not for climbing the mountain.

If things still suck after he’s had the opportunity to upgrade his ride, then I’ll want to ride him out on a rail.
 
18in32 said:
I'm curious which players you think improved. Certainly not saying no one did, just curious for your thoughts on who got better.

I will say I never understood why David Curry got so much flack on this board. I think he's been pretty good all year long, and when he's made mistakes he's usually made fewer and less bad mistakes than other players on the field with him.
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Well, it was easy to see the improvement in both lines. Obviously it isnt where we want to be but by the end of the season it wasnt a jailbreak drill every pass play.

Curry also played better end-of-season. He got öööö for two reasons. One because of how he played early and two because he doesnt appear to be fast enough. Bonus for making conspicuous celebrations for making a good play in the middle of a drive where the other team was kicking our teeth in.
 
4 years from now, I expect we will look like this
OL avg 6'4", 320 lb
QB, at least 6'2". Min 215 lbs. And he needs to be at least 2 inches taller and 10 lbs heavier than that
DL, at least two four star 325 lb'ers. DE's of the Michael Johnson type.
Three deep TE at 6'5" 250 lb+
LB's more along the Phillip Wheeler type. Faster. 6'3". Athletic
WR's, fast. We are really close here. Brown is there. Ezzard. The 2021 from Florida looks promising. If we are going to have a big QB with a cannon arm, we need to be able to stretch the field better.
DB's. I am convinced we are pretty much there. With more pressure up front, the skill players we have would be much more successful.
RB. Mason is a dozer, but we need a Dwyer. Mason doesn't have the breakaway speed and power to take it to the house on any play like Dwyer had. That said, Mason is a very good player.

We aren't totally devoid of talent at skill positions. However, our DL and OL is horrid. Obviously, when a team is playing walk ons we should expect trouble. We have to build the lines.
 

I love hearing from the players. They are not always as filtered as the coaches. The players are 100% bought in. They know what this season was about and will be hungry as hell to better themselves and work to elevate the program this offseason.

Also, it would not surprise me if Tyler Davis is a head football coach one day. He’s a stud person based on all accounts. He really cares about the guys, even though he was only here for a short time.
 
18in32 said:
Um, what? Who said anything about scowling?

I wasn't smiling after the game, so I guess I expected someone who had invested a lot more blood sweat and tears than me not to be smiling either. But I'm kinda kidding about the still... obviously a random still doesn't tell the tale of the presser, which I haven't looked at yet. Perhaps the still is wildly misleading, I don't know.

This is the first time in probably 20 years when I didn't listen to even one of the coach's radio shows. At this point I don't think I've heard CGC deviate from his script even once; there just didn't seem to be much new to learn from his public pronouncements. Does he say anything new or interesting in this presser? Guess I should listen to it, huh?
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Collins isn’t going to deviate from his script because his script is for high school players and it is working. I’m so glad we finally have a coach who realizes that the team is about players and not systems. I stopped listening to Johnson’s shows because when we lost he was a grumpy old guy who loved to whine and when he won he was the smuggest guy in the room. Collins script is all about doing something Johnson refused to do and that is to go big game hunting. Johnson never had the nads to do it. He put his ego over the needs of the team. And guys like Mason just paid the price.
 
OptionJacket said:
Collins isn’t going to deviate from his script because his script is for high school players and it is working. I’m so glad we finally have a coach who realizes that the team is about players and not systems. I stopped listening to Johnson’s shows because when we lost he was a grumpy old guy who loved to whine and when he won he was the smuggest guy in the room. Collins script is all about doing something Johnson refused to do and that is to go big game hunting. Johnson never had the nads to do it. He put his ego over the needs of the team. And guys like Mason just paid the price.
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That all sounds about right, but doesn’t make CGC’s pressers any more interesting. Once you know the script, There’s just not much more to hear. Maybe if We were winning it’s be easier for him to go rogue.
 
NEJacket1 said:
Tired of hearing about the roster he inherited. If he's all about development, he failed miserably this year developing what he had. No way this team got better as the year went on. No consistency from one week to the next and you should still never lose to the Citadel!
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Spot On!
 
JoeCakeEater said:

I love hearing from the players. They are not always as filtered as the coaches. The players are 100% bought in. They know what this season was about and will be hungry as hell to better themselves and work to elevate the program this offseason.

Also, it would not surprise me if Tyler Davis is a head football coach one day. He’s a stud person based on all accounts. He really cares about the guys, even though he was only here for a short time.
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Very impressive interviews by all three players. They have a real understanding of the difficulty of the year, but all project a big time commitment to Collins direction.
 
NEJacket1 said:
Tired of hearing about the roster he inherited. If he's all about development, he failed miserably this year developing what he had. No way this team got better as the year went on. No consistency from one week to the next and you should still never lose to the Citadel!
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We're all tired of it but it's the truth. It's for the recruits benefit more than ours, trust me.
 
JoeCakeEater said:

I love hearing from the players. They are not always as filtered as the coaches. The players are 100% bought in. They know what this season was about and will be hungry as hell to better themselves and work to elevate the program this offseason.

Also, it would not surprise me if Tyler Davis is a head football coach one day. He’s a stud person based on all accounts. He really cares about the guys, even though he was only here for a short time.
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Resembles Dabo a little in the interview. Seems like a stand-up dude and glad we had him
 
CiraldoForever said:
I'm glad I so this because, based on watching the games, I came to the obviously stupid conclusion that we weren't very good.

Fortunately, we get a break in the schedule next year, adding Notre Dame and dropping Temple or Citadel. I'm not sure which one, or maybe it's both.

He keeps talking about inheriting such bad players, but adding great players and developing the ones here. Amazing that we won four more games last year with the same players, minus the massive development and the great transfers.

He's so excited about losing 52-7. I can't even guess what he would be like if we ever cover the spread or, heaven forbid, take them into overtime.

He's been offered a job as the third Lagina brother on "The Curse of Oak Island."

"Well, we haven't found the treasure, but it's just year seven, and our process keeps getting better and better. All we need is more time and more money."
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Your math skills suck if you think this is the same team we had last year. I mean, we only lost the following seniors:
  • TaQuon Marshall
  • Clinton Lynch
  • Qua Searcy
  • Melvin Davis
  • Brad Stewart
  • Will Bryan
  • Cheyenne Hunt
  • Andrew Marshall
  • Desmond Branch
  • Kyle Cerge-Henderson
  • Anree Saint-Amour
  • Tyler Merriweather
  • Victor Alexander
  • Tre Jackson
  • Brant Mitchell
  • Antonio Mallard
  • Jalen Johnson
  • Malik Rivera
  • Zach Roberts
Then we lost Brandon Adams and Parker Braun before the season, plus the 7 starters who were lost for the season at various points during the season. But other than those TWENTY-EIGHT players, yeah...exact same team.
 
daBuzz said:
Your math skills suck if you think this is the same team we had last year. I mean, we only lost the following seniors:
  • TaQuon Marshall
  • Clinton Lynch
  • Qua Searcy
  • Melvin Davis
  • Brad Stewart
  • Will Bryan
  • Cheyenne Hunt
  • Andrew Marshall
  • Desmond Branch
  • Kyle Cerge-Henderson
  • Anree Saint-Amour
  • Tyler Merriweather
  • Victor Alexander
  • Tre Jackson
  • Brant Mitchell
  • Antonio Mallard
  • Jalen Johnson
  • Malik Rivera
  • Zach Roberts
Then we lost Brandon Adams and Parker Braun before the season, plus the 7 starters who were lost for the season at various points during the season. But other than those TWENTY-EIGHT players, yeah...exact same team.
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That’s a pretty good observation right there. I just hope CGC gets it turned around before the apathy level is the same as the basketball forum.
 
BuzzLaw said:
That’s a pretty good observation right there. I just hope CGC gets it turned around before the apathy level is the same as the basketball forum.
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Recruiting alone should keep that from happening.
 
I don’t see what else CGC can do here except stay on message. He’s always talking about building for the future and there’s nothing about this game that merited him deviating from that message.

I feel good about the defense and think we’ll be good on that side of the ball in the future.

On offense, I’m concerned. We should not have been this bad on offense. I expected to be worse on offense, but I didn’t think we’d be borderline inept. I can only hope that the staff spends this off-season decisively settling on a system and comes into Spring practice with a plan for preparing the players.

The quick and dirty solution to special teams is to recruit a player who can kick (obviously). Alternately, maybe an assistant coach needs to spend the offseason with a professional kicking coach and learn how to teach kicking. Kick defense could use help too, but kicking seems to be a much bigger problem.
 
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