Brent Key midseason poll... are you happy?

Are you happy with Brent Key at the midpoint of his first season?

  • Hell yeah he's the man

    Votes: 48 18.7%

  • Hell no, he sucks

    Votes: 6 2.3%

  • I'm waiting until the end of the year before I vote

    Votes: 156 60.7%

  • I miss Paul Johnson

    Votes: 38 14.8%

  • I miss Geoff Collins

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • I miss Vad Lee

    Votes: 7 2.7%
  • Total voters
    257
M39Buzz said:
Fixed it for you.

This vanilla, pistol, RPO offense is boring!! Almost Everybody runs it and knows how to defend it. Only superior athletes or defensive stupidity makes much of a difference in predicted outcome. Not suggesting we go back to the 3O, but I would love for us to go to a multiple, Ralf Friedgen/Joe Hamilton style offense, which incorporated some option elements.
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Respectfully disagree. I don’t know anything about the nuances of the X’s and O’s of football. But I know that if a team can protect its quarterback and execute responsibilities, and on the other side of the ball put pressure on the QB (up front and in the secondary), any scheme will work. Once/if we start playing disciplined ball, we will be fine with whatever the scheme is.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
Respectfully disagree. I don’t know anything about the nuances of the X’s and O’s of football. But I know that if a team can protect its quarterback and execute responsibilities, and on the other side of the ball put pressure on the QB (up front and in the secondary), any scheme will work. Once/if we start playing disciplined ball, we will be fine with whatever the scheme is.
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Mostly agree.
 
LaFlavor said:
The more I think about it, the more I'm sure the whole team must have gone out the night before bigsue and gotten completely wasted.
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stinger78 said:
I think Syracuse is very beatable. They opened with wins against Colgate, W Michigan, Purdue, and Army, all pretty handily, but have subsequently lost games to Clemson (31-14) and UNC (40-7). They have not hung with those two conference foes. They beat Purdue (2-4) as their only P5 win and are @FSU this week. We'll see how that all works out.

I don't know that we can count any game as a sure win, but I think this one is very winnable, as are BC and UVA if we bring our "A" game.
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First year as a head coach - I think he's doing fine with what he has to work with. We've beaten some good teams on the road - a few of them ranked (going back to last year).

I was pretty sure we were going to do ok after we went up to Pittsburgh and beat a ranked Panther's team. That's a fairly tough place to play and those guys are always tough at home.

Nobody is happy about the couple eggs we have dropped but the signs are there that Key is going to be a good maybe even great coach here.

So check this out: we have played 4 P-5 schools. Their collective record NOT including our game is... 16-2. We have beaten two of those 4 teams - both on the road.

Anybody here got a problem wit dat?
 
00Burdell said:
First year as a head coach - I think he's doing fine with what he has to work with. We've beaten some good teams on the road - a few of them ranked (going back to last year).

I was pretty sure we were going to do ok after we went up to Pittsburgh and beat a ranked Panther's team. That's a fairly tough place to play and those guys are always tough at home.

Nobody is happy about the couple eggs we have dropped but the signs are there that Key is going to be a good maybe even great coach here.

So check this out: we have played 4 P-5 schools. Their collective record NOT including our game is... 16-2. We have beaten two of those 4 teams - both on the road.

Anybody here got a problem wit dat?
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Nope.
 
Key has been what I thought.A REAL players coach that gets a lot from his team but makes first time coach errors--see BG.I'm very happy with 3-3.
 
There was no meh option so I went with the end of the season one. I wanted the whole staff fired after BG, but then Miami happened. If he beats who I think he should beat, BC, UVA, and Cuse, then I'll be ok for year 1. But he lost to BG so nothing is guaranteed.
 
AlaGold said:
Key has been what I thought.A REAL players coach that gets a lot from his team but makes first time coach errors--see BG.I'm very happy with 3-3.
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I’ve seen a lot of growth in how he handles himself on the sideline during games. Last year he was a statue. At the start of this year, too. But as the season has progressed he’s been more involved with the coaches/team and has looked more relaxed. It’s a tough job but he’s growing into it. We just get to witness the ups and downs of that process. What I want to know is this: how many times does he repeat the same mistake? Time will tell, but I have high hopes.
 
ramblin_wreck08 said:
I’ve seen a lot of growth in how he handles himself on the sideline during games. Last year he was a statue. At the start of this year, too. But as the season has progressed he’s been more involved with the coaches/team and has looked more relaxed. It’s a tough job but he’s growing into it. We just get to witness the ups and downs of that process. What I want to know is this: how many times does he repeat the same mistake? Time will tell, but I have high hopes.
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It's possible to have coached about a dozen years and still make the same mistakes.
 
WracerX said:
3-3 is where we should be for a good coach. It’s not dynamite, but it is solid.

The way we got to 3-3 is both hopeful and concerning. The BG loss was horrible. And that is compounded by the loss to an awful UVa team last year. Beating Miami was great. And honestly, being in the game with them on the road was encouraging. We have been in the game in the 4th quarter with 3 top 25 teams. Yes, we want wins but the first step is being competitive.

We should have two absolute layups. And we should be able to go 1-1 against the unranked teams. UNC isn’t out of our range either. Going 3-2 against that group should be expected.

uga is almost certainly a loss. But we should play them tough regardless.
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Id go further than “UNC isn’t out of our range.” Should be a solid crowd, hopefully afternoon / night game for homecoming. And they’re still suspect in the trenches compared to other teams we’ve played. They’ll probably be 14ish point favorites going into that game but it’s a toss up in my mind.
 
00Burdell said:
First year as a head coach - I think he's doing fine with what he has to work with. We've beaten some good teams on the road - a few of them ranked (going back to last year).

I was pretty sure we were going to do ok after we went up to Pittsburgh and beat a ranked Panther's team. That's a fairly tough place to play and those guys are always tough at home.

Nobody is happy about the couple eggs we have dropped but the signs are there that Key is going to be a good maybe even great coach here.

So check this out: we have played 4 P-5 schools. Their collective record NOT including our game is... 16-2. We have beaten two of those 4 teams - both on the road.

Anybody here got a problem wit dat?
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Nope!
 
GTFLETCH said:
The Good: we are 3-3 at the midpoint. However the way we got the third win was pure luck at Miami's expense. Still worried about how bad we were during the BG game.

Coming out of the bye week with BC, UNC, UVA.... Those three games will tell us a lot about the 2023 Yellow Jackets Football team.
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We did march down the field at Miami with 26 seconds left and scored. I'd like to think we beat them for sure as they do have a talent laden defense. Even Key himself said the 'extra time' to play due to their mistake of taking a knee was a blessing.
 
Miami win was good....but I expected Tech to give them a good game...the BG fiasco weighs heavy on my assessment of happiness.
 
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