Cheer up folks

Playcalling is worrysome on offense. We are not attacking laterally enough, just content to bang it between the guards too much. We run motion every play but didn't give it to the motion man any.

Our defense is offensive.
 
GTCrew4b said:
Literally 1 inch from a TD and several short 4th downs. We definitely could have won today with a couple more game winning plays you pissant.
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You don't think Louisville sits there and thinks with a couple more plays their way, this game would have been a blowout?

Positives: D played good run defense.
That's about it.
Because the negatives from yesterday are mountainous. OL was bad, and at its worst when it need to be at its best. Pass D was bad - they averaged 20 yards a completion.
ST were mediocre to bad. Coaching was bad too (who the hell came up with that flag football play inside our own 10 yard line with King trying to throw sideways?)
 
USCJacket said:
Sure. Yep. Exactly.
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I feel like this isn’t a serious response, and it should be. But you’re incapable of ever admitting you’re wrong
swampsting said:
You don't think Louisville sits there and thinks with a couple more plays their way, this game would have been a blowout?

Positives: D played good run defense.
That's about it.
Because the negatives from yesterday are mountainous. OL was bad, and at its worst when it need to be at its best. Pass D was bad - they averaged 20 yards a completion.
ST were mediocre to bad. Coaching was bad too (who the hell came up with that flag football play inside our own 10 yard line with King trying to throw sideways?)
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Did I say otherwise? I’m merely stating we weren’t blown off the field.

Side note: You are pretty much a negative downer ever since Paul left. It’s pretty apparent you have some personal vendettas against current coaching staff. Every opinion of yours with respect to the coaching staff needs to be corrected for your extreme negative bias.
 
GTCrew4b said:
I feel like this isn’t a serious response, and it should be. But you’re incapable of ever admitting you’re wrong

Did I say otherwise? I’m merely stating we weren’t blown off the field.

Side note: You are pretty much a negative downer ever since Paul left. It’s pretty apparent you have some personal vendettas against current coaching staff. Every opinion of yours with respect to the coaching staff needs to be corrected for your extreme negative bias.
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Dear Lord I hated Clown. And he proved worthy of it.
I want Key to succeed. He's got a big learning curve ahead, though.
I made the trip to Tampa for the bowl. I made the trip to Dublin. Downers don't put that kind of investment in.
My point has been that our margin of error is still onionskin paper thin.
We've got winnable games ahead. Duke is off to a good start, and Murphy appears to be playing well at QB, but we have to remember, their coach is Manny Diaz. We have the advantage there.
NC State has taken several steps backward and VT hasn't lived up to its billing. And I think Key won't say it, but he'd love to pull a JMU up in Chapel Hill next month.
The one thing I thought Key brought to the table was a better focus and better standard of preparation. Still, we can't do dumb stuff like the lateral inside our 10 against even a decent team.
We have a chance to get to 7-5 and get to a bowl. But we're going to have to play and coach better than we did against the Cuse or the U of L.
 
swampsting said:
Dear Lord I hated Clown. And he proved worthy of it.
I want Key to succeed. He's got a big learning curve ahead, though.
I made the trip to Tampa for the bowl. I made the trip to Dublin. Downers don't put that kind of investment in.
My point has been that our margin of error is still onionskin paper thin.
We've got winnable games ahead. Duke is off to a good start, and Murphy appears to be playing well at QB, but we have to remember, their coach is Manny Diaz. We have the advantage there.
NC State has taken several steps backward and VT hasn't lived up to its billing. And I think Key won't say it, but he'd love to pull a JMU up in Chapel Hill next month.
The one thing I thought Key brought to the table was a better focus and better standard of preparation. Still, we can't do dumb stuff like the lateral inside our 10 against even a decent team.
We have a chance to get to 7-5 and get to a bowl. But we're going to have to play and coach better than we did against the Cuse or the U of L.
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Right on. I must be cataloging the bad and ignoring the good.

Geoff “Program Killer” Collins was worthy of rage and hate. Brent Key ain’t there yet. Go Jackets. The two losses this year were pretty frustrating. Sorry for the accusations.
 
My trip report from Louisville, which didn’t seem worthy of a new thread…

The drive from Atlanta (well, from my office in Cobb) is right at my fly/drive point, but we drove. Taking the cross-country route between Chattanooga and Cave City, KY is so worth it - scenic drive, no traffic, very few towns, and 55-65 MPH speed limits most of the way.

We spent Friday night in Cave City and did a quick visit to Mammoth Cave NP on Saturday morning. We’ve already done cave tours there, so we did a few of the shorter surface hikes. Pleasant morning.

We drove to Louisville, targeting a 2:30 arrival at the Expo Center or whatever. (The official parking has gotten less convenient since our last trip up there.) This time, there was an event at Churchill Downs and a huge music festival at the expo center, so the area was busy and we had to pay $40 to park a mile and a quarter from the stadium. Not ideal, but we didn’t have time to be picky.

Their fans were fine to us. Had some good chats about the game, the ACC, the hot weather, and the Ireland trip on the walk in. Nobody gave us any crap before, during, or after the game, and afterwards, we even got a couple of “good game” comments. I wanted to be mad, but they really didn’t give us any reason to be mad.

The stadium is fine, although in kind of an industrial no man’s land. It was hot as balls - we saw an older Tech guy getting treated for overheating before the game. We accidentally sat in section 201 instead of 101 initially - good view, decent breeze. Some people showed up and we realized our mistake and moved down to 101, where the view was worse and the heat was stifling.

They also crank up the music and it sounds terrible and piercing (lady beside me had her fingers in her ears a lot, at the opposite end of the stadium from the speakers), but the music (hip hop and rock) was appropriate for the environment and not the ööööty autist nonsense that we usually play at BDS.

The parachute jump into the stadium and subsequent low-level C-130 flyover were very cool. They have a good stadium environment and engaged fans - they play some entry song that had a lot of dudes air drumming and air guitaring in the stands and on the field. (Weird that they also used “Enter Sandman” as well - VPI seems to have a lock on that one.) Their first down thing where everybody yells “Cards First Down” should be irritating, but I wish we could get our crowd that engaged and unified at a game.

The game has been discussed pretty well. Flashes of OK and stretches of WTF. We give up game breaking negative plays, but seldom make any game breaking positive plays. I still can’t tell if we’re a bad team playing mediocre teams or a decent team playing pretty good teams, but it sure seems to be the former.

We spent Saturday night in Bardstown and went to the Jim Beam distillery tour this morning. I don’t drink, but we enjoyed it - it was well-done, informative, leisurely-paced, and fun.

A long drive home and here we are. I’m ready for a bye week after trips to Ireland, Syracuse, and Louisville, and I bet the team is too. We need to get healthy, figure some stuff out, and kick the öööö out of Duke and Carolina after the break. Do that and we’re back on track for my expectations for this season, with a chance to exceed them.

JRjr
 
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