18in32
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Sir, I knew John F. Kennedy, and you're no John F. Kennedy.
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WracerX
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We had more plays of 30 or more yards than anyone but Oklahoma that year. And we had about a third fewer snaps.
2016 looked pretty good too. But lets be honest, it was jt5. Tevin put up decent numbers, but the explosive plays just weren’t there. JfN was the same without Dwyer.
CPJ ended the same way Gailey did (and honestly Fedora). The backup qb just wasn’t ready to take over for a full season and the fans didn’t want to muddle through until a replacement was found.
BigDanT
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I got to see JT5 play all of his home games and most of the important away games. It was great. Didn’t realize till it was over that it was an all time Tech great.
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I can never get enough of trololol guy
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FIFY
andrew
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Some of those national titles were probably won with the option.
Flywheel
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I'll miss it. It has a lot of nuances that I enjoyed watching. I especially enjoyed seeing opposing fans cheer for tackling the B-Back at the LOS and then realizing it was a 4-yard gain, or thinking they nailed the carrier only to realize he pitched at the last second, and those of us who saw the blocks executed knew it would be a 20-yard gain.
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I was watching the Army Navy 2017 game on CBS this evening. My god I’m glad we didn’t get Monken. Some of y’all had me believing he was running a hybrid TO with more spread tempo stuff. Uhhhhh no.
WracerX
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So he didn’t run tempo in a snow storm you say?
TS made the safe bet. Take a flier on CGC. If he fails, Monken will still be there if he is a good option coach.
P5 teams willing to try the option are rare.
G776T
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Probably more like bohannan at that point
GTRules
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It wasn’t against UNC in 1990 either, yet I seem to remember a lot of people being happy with the results that year.
18in32
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Wait, we're still bickering about Chan Gailey. And occasionally bickering about Bill Curry. Fortunately I think all our bitter divisions over Pepper are finally healed. And we haven't doxxed Mrs. Heisman yet.
andrew
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You need total team commitment for the option to work. It was clear when we had that and when we didn’t. It begins and ends (as with most teams and offenses) with the QB.
Nesbitt was a true warrior. Team bought in and got results.
Under Tevin the offense was good except 2010 because he wasn’t one of “the chosen one” from the recruiting class of 2007. Clear locker room issues there.
Vad Lee.
Justin Thomas had the team believing they could win every game. And they almost did.
TM doesn’t trust his teammates or himself to make the right decision. Bad results.
Who knows what the next ones would do for us but I don’t think CPJ was good at handling immaturity on the team. Probably just over it at this point in his career not to mention dealing with actual military personnel probably soured him to today’s crop of youngsters.
Nesbitt was a true warrior. Team bought in and got results.
Under Tevin the offense was good except 2010 because he wasn’t one of “the chosen one” from the recruiting class of 2007. Clear locker room issues there.
Vad Lee.
Justin Thomas had the team believing they could win every game. And they almost did.
TM doesn’t trust his teammates or himself to make the right decision. Bad results.
Who knows what the next ones would do for us but I don’t think CPJ was good at handling immaturity on the team. Probably just over it at this point in his career not to mention dealing with actual military personnel probably soured him to today’s crop of youngsters.
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For real - the biggest takeaway from this thread is I pray to Heaven that our PA/AV folks at Grant Field do not see this video.
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I think the unified GT front on CPJ is the TO is effective and won us more games than Gailey but erodes your talent level over the long haul. This talent erosion is probably why we've had alternating losing seasons in the past four years.
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Good post and I feel the same way but I really enjoy good defense as much as a good offense. Coach Johnson is an offensive genius and his offense was great but for some reason during his tenure our defense never could do much. Coach Collins emphasized Defense and special teams and I think that will be waht ultimately separates us. Lets give the new coach a chance to play his hand
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Umm...the diss is that no (obviously an exaggeration...more accurate would be not more than a few) colleges or professional teams run it, so to watch it consistently you have to watch football at the HS level.
The number of high schools running the spread or offenses out of the shotgun is irrelevant because there are professional and college teams that run those offenses in large number Sl, so you can get your fix by watching professional and college football itself.