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ACC Coaches Talk Anonymously About Conference Foes for 2021

ACC football coaches talk off-the-field about teams for the 2021 season.
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Georgia Tech
"Probably another long year for them, but you can see the progress."

"The big question is if the school is still committed to the vision Geoff [Collins] is selling, because this is the point where it gets harder to get people excited, especially if they have another losing year."

"The freshman running back [Jahmyr Gibbs] is a really good player. The quarterback [Jeff Sims] played better than most people thought he would. They’re definitely gonna ride those two on offense. You would assume they’ll turn it over less than they did last year because they’re more experienced, but that really hurt them."

"The good news is the offensive line will get better because it can’t get much worse. There’s progress, but it’s the one position group that takes the longest to change from the triple."

"Defensively they were sort of a train wreck, honestly. You saw glimpses of good stuff, then they’d fall apart. The line was a mess, and they really fell apart late in the year."

"They’re taking on transfers, but that makes more sense for them because of their lack of depth on the line. The issue for them is that they’re not making that big dent in recruiting we thought they would. Maybe it’s coming, but it hasn’t happened yet. They’re taking a lot of the best-of-the-rest guys that programs in our league or the SEC have passed on for one reason or another."

"This is an important year for them to show proof of concept.”
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"Probably another long year for them, but you can see the progress." - Swinney

"The big question is if the school is still committed to the vision Geoff [Collins] is selling, because this is the point where it gets harder to get people excited, especially if they have another losing year." - Cutcliffe

"The freshman running back [Jahmyr Gibbs] is a really good player. The quarterback [Jeff Sims] played better than most people thought he would. They’re definitely gonna ride those two on offense. You would assume they’ll turn it over less than they did last year because they’re more experienced, but that really hurt them." - Norvell

"The good news is the offensive line will get better because it can’t get much worse. There’s progress, but it’s the one position group that takes the longest to change from the triple." - Cutcliffe

"Defensively they were sort of a train wreck, honestly. You saw glimpses of good stuff, then they’d fall apart. The line was a mess, and they really fell apart late in the year." - Narduzzi

"They’re taking on transfers, but that makes more sense for them because of their lack of depth on the line. The issue for them is that they’re not making that big dent in recruiting we thought they would. Maybe it’s coming, but it hasn’t happened yet. They’re taking a lot of the best-of-the-rest guys that programs in our league or the SEC have passed on for one reason or another." - Diaz

"This is an important year for them to show proof of concept.” - Brown



Now, go.
 
Dabo Swinney "please SEC, for christsakes, call us. Please. Call. We will do anything for you... ANYTHING"
 
All looks pretty true except for the recruiting part. In 2020, only Clemson, Miami, UNC, and FSU were better so, no, we weren't taking guys that the other programs in the ACC passed on. And in 2021 we took a small class but by average star, again, only those 4 schools listed above were higher.
 
Architorture23 said:
All looks pretty true except for the recruiting part. In 2020, only Clemson, Miami, UNC, and FSU were better so, no, we weren't taking guys that the other programs in the ACC passed on. And in 2021 we took a small class but by average star, again, only those 4 schools listed above were higher.
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And I don’t buy the “ dent in recruiting line” at all. We will see how big Tech recruiting can be if you start winning games.
 
"They’re taking on transfers, but that makes more sense for them because of their lack of depth on the line. The issue for them is that they’re not making that big dent in recruiting we thought they would. Maybe it’s coming, but it hasn’t happened yet. They’re taking a lot of the best-of-the-rest guys that programs in our league or the SEC have passed on for one reason or another."

This guy ^^^^ is full of bs
 
"The good news is the offensive line will get better because it can’t get much worse. There’s progress, but it’s the one position group that takes the longest to change from the triple."

"Defensively they were sort of a train wreck, honestly. You saw glimpses of good stuff, then they’d fall apart. The line was a mess, and they really fell apart late in the year."
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If your defensive line and your offensive line suck.. you suck. Doesn’t matter what kind of coaching of skill position players you have you aren’t winning games.

I think we are better there but the proof is in the pudding.
 
I think they are down on recruiting because they are comparing us to unc since the return of Mac brown
 
BigDanT said:
"They’re taking on transfers, but that makes more sense for them because of their lack of depth on the line. The issue for them is that they’re not making that big dent in recruiting we thought they would. Maybe it’s coming, but it hasn’t happened yet. They’re taking a lot of the best-of-the-rest guys that programs in our league or the SEC have passed on for one reason or another."

This guy ^^^^ is full of bs
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That reads like someone who just glanced at last year's recruiting rankings and that's all. Probably some assistant coach.
 
ScionOfSouthland said:
The only one in the ACC that can talk smack on us with recruiting is Dabo. When the person says “us and the SEC pass on” I gotta believe that’s him
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I read that as someone down a tier from Clemson. It's someone within that UNC/VT/Miami tier, imo.
 
"You look at their roster and the majority of teams in this league would trade their 11 for FSU’s 11, and then some of those teams end up beating them."
 
ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
I read that as someone down a tier from Clemson. It's someone within that UNC/VT/Miami tier, imo.
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I would assume it is UNC or Miami. And both those programs are out recruiting us. We aren’t going to jump either until we start winning or one of them gets caught cheating.
 
"The offensive line is probably the worst in the league, maybe worse than Georgia Tech’s after two years since the triple. You don’t have to blitz to get home on them, so you don’t really have to disguise much of what you’re doing."
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From the Syracuse comments. Somebody really doesn’t like our OL, probably Cutcliff.
 
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