BarrelORum
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"the ability to lose the unthinkable"
Gailey's team lost to Duke. Otherwise, GT hasn't lost to a non-bowl team in the last four years. Technically you are correct because of the Duke loss, but the implication is way off base, and suggests an agenda.
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HUH?? Are you paranoid over an agenda? If having an agenda is calling it like I see it, then yes, I have an agenda. Its highly ridiculous to suggest that someone has an agenda because they point out the unbelievable high's and lows of our inconsistency.
It may be a difference of opinion on the definition of "unthinkable losses" which last I checked is a matter of debate than it is me having an agenda. You believe that losing to a non-bowl team is an "unthinkable loss".
To me it starts with losing to Wake Forest at home in 2002. Did they go to a bowl that year?
To me it is losing to Fresno State in our bowl game in 2002 when they lost 11 starters due to probation. THAT is unthinkable.
We agree that losing to Duke 41-17 in 2003 is unthinkable. Glad we agree here.
To me unthinkable losses happen when you are up 13-0 at halftime to North Carolina two years ago. NC was almost down and out with talks of firing Bunting and we managed to get blown out in the second half. While maybe not an unthinkable loss, the actual result was unthinkable.
And as long as we are talking unthinkable losses, how about the 4th quarter ass beating we got by VT two years ago when we had them dead left to right before getting waxed 34-20? While it was certainly possible to lose to VT, I thought it was highly unprobable to lose to them that way.
Or how about losing to NCST at home who BARELY made a bowl game this year?
Was losing to Utah 38-10 not unthinkable? It was to me. I was dumbfounded. Maybe you could picture us getting beat by the Utes, but I couldn't. I certainly couldn't fathom them putting up 38 points on our defense.
I wwon't evenmention the two 51-7 blow outs. While they were certainly expected losses, the fact that we lost that bad, makes them unthinkable. Do you exect these things?
So I stand by my comment that we have had unthinkable losses (plural). And if you want to disagree with that or even go so far as to suggest I have an agenda, then I would have to ask what sort of agenda do you have that you would want to minimize these results?
Its like the facts of life song: "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have, the facts of life." Guess what... I'm not distorting the truth here. Those are the facts.
"the ability to lose the unthinkable"
Gailey's team lost to Duke. Otherwise, GT hasn't lost to a non-bowl team in the last four years. Technically you are correct because of the Duke loss, but the implication is way off base, and suggests an agenda.
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HUH?? Are you paranoid over an agenda? If having an agenda is calling it like I see it, then yes, I have an agenda. Its highly ridiculous to suggest that someone has an agenda because they point out the unbelievable high's and lows of our inconsistency.
It may be a difference of opinion on the definition of "unthinkable losses" which last I checked is a matter of debate than it is me having an agenda. You believe that losing to a non-bowl team is an "unthinkable loss".
To me it starts with losing to Wake Forest at home in 2002. Did they go to a bowl that year?
To me it is losing to Fresno State in our bowl game in 2002 when they lost 11 starters due to probation. THAT is unthinkable.
We agree that losing to Duke 41-17 in 2003 is unthinkable. Glad we agree here.
To me unthinkable losses happen when you are up 13-0 at halftime to North Carolina two years ago. NC was almost down and out with talks of firing Bunting and we managed to get blown out in the second half. While maybe not an unthinkable loss, the actual result was unthinkable.
And as long as we are talking unthinkable losses, how about the 4th quarter ass beating we got by VT two years ago when we had them dead left to right before getting waxed 34-20? While it was certainly possible to lose to VT, I thought it was highly unprobable to lose to them that way.
Or how about losing to NCST at home who BARELY made a bowl game this year?
Was losing to Utah 38-10 not unthinkable? It was to me. I was dumbfounded. Maybe you could picture us getting beat by the Utes, but I couldn't. I certainly couldn't fathom them putting up 38 points on our defense.
I wwon't evenmention the two 51-7 blow outs. While they were certainly expected losses, the fact that we lost that bad, makes them unthinkable. Do you exect these things?
So I stand by my comment that we have had unthinkable losses (plural). And if you want to disagree with that or even go so far as to suggest I have an agenda, then I would have to ask what sort of agenda do you have that you would want to minimize these results?
Its like the facts of life song: "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have, the facts of life." Guess what... I'm not distorting the truth here. Those are the facts.
