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johncu said:
It's not going to be a great season, and if every year was like this, we'd be right to complain. It's fine to question specifics, but to suggest firing a coach who wins 11 games every 5 years, while making a bowl every single year, winning 3 COY awards and 3 division titles is just laughable. Don't accept mediocrity? Then firing CPJ is the worst thing you could do, because we're more likely to become 1980 GT than 1990 GT with a new coach. Most likely we'd end up back in sub-Gailey mediocrity, only without Calvin Johnson.
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I'm not proposing firing the head coach.... There's another one I wouldn't really be sad to see search out some different career opportunities though.
 
johncu said:
Fixed. Unless some dude from Russell is about to shower us with hundreds of millions of dollars, our situation is not comparable with Oregon's. That COMPLETELY changed the face of their recruiting.
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The Russell guy is our guy. Why else would we be with them?
 
clapper said:
I'll admit that when I was watching from the stands I couldn't tell that the slot was ineligible, but that's the thing that is confusing to me about CPJ's answer to the question. He said he was trying to confuse the D, the safety in particular, and they were running off that read.

First, I don't see how a 'blocker' lined up that far from the O-line gives the offense an advantage and I didn't hear it from his explanation.

Second, if they were trying to confuse the Safety, it didn't seem to be working, because he was leaving the slot receiver wide open as if he recognized that the guy was ineligible, which brought him much closer to the box giving them the numbers against the run.

Can somebody explain what I'm missing here?
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I listened to his explanation a couple of times and I still don't really understand it. But here's what I figure.

Brad Stewart could have been eligible if he didn't line up on the LOS and one of the AB's lined up on the LOS. However, then the AB's couldn't go into motion and wouldn't be in their usual formation.

So if we wanted to go unbalanced with the usual interior formation, we have to have only six eligible receivers. As far as running plays from the formation, the safety does have to account for a run to the unbalanced side. If he doesn't, then the number of blockers equals the number of defenders. That should mean the AB gets a touchdown or a very long play.
 
floridajacket said:
I listened to his explanation a couple of times and I still don't really understand it. But here's what I figure.



Brad Stewart could have been eligible if he didn't line up on the LOS and one of the AB's lined up on the LOS. However, then the AB's couldn't go into motion and wouldn't be in their usual formation.



So if we wanted to go unbalanced with the usual interior formation, we have to have only six eligible receivers. As far as running plays from the formation, it makes no difference.
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Here's what I understand about the formation. UNC wasn't fooled at all. And yet we kept running it out there while simultaneously hurting our numbers advantage elsewhere.
 
Diseqc said:
Here's what I understand about the formation. UNC wasn't fooled at all. And yet we kept running it out there while simultaneously hurting our numbers advantage elsewhere.
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We sure fooled the announcers and our idiot fan base though
 
coit said:
I'm not mad at anyone. And don't confuse my ability to see things are they with being accepting of mediocrity.

And it is funny that you say you spend money to support the team. How much money have you given to the GTAA this year?
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I'm not confusing anything. I just see your decision to ignore facts to not be worked up about the team's mediocrity.

And I bought season tickets every year since I graduated which is none of your business and still has nothing to do with the fact that the team sucks and the coach is responsible for it.
 
Diseqc said:
I'm not proposing firing the head coach.... There's another one I wouldn't really be sad to see search out some different career opportunities though.
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Fair enough, but some people are, and I think they're illogical and shortsighted. It wasn't necessarily aimed at you, and neither is this:

PJ is who he is. He's gruff, sometimes a smartass, and tells it like it is. If you like it when we win, you need to accept it when we lose. Trying to say we lost because he is stubborn is just dumb and makes you sound like an idiot.

Most of us hated Gailey's coachspeak that literally gave us nothing and no reason to think things might change. I, for one, enjoy that Johnson tell us exactly what the problem is. The reason he has to explain every week about which positions failed to execute is that dumbasses come out of the woodwork after every single loss and claim that PJ should change his system or suggest that the plays we ran are inherently bad. Of course it's his fault when it doesn't work, but it's because he and his staff didn't adequately recruit or prepare the players, not because his offense is outdated or figured out.
 
Diseqc said:
Here's what I understand about the formation. UNC wasn't fooled at all. And yet we kept running it out there while simultaneously hurting our numbers advantage elsewhere.
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My point was it wasn't about fooling the safety, at least not in the way the fans are thinking of it. In other words, it wasn't about the safety thinking Stewart was an eligible receiver.

On running plays, it doesn't matter whether you have 6 or 7 eligible receivers.
 
johncu said:
Fair enough, but some people are, and I think they're illogical and shortsighted.
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Calm yourself. A few trolls are calling for CPCJ to be fire. I don't think there is one serious poster who is calling for his head.
 
05GTCorndog said:
Calm yourself. A few trolls are calling for CPCJ to be fire. I don't think there is one serious poster who is calling for his head.
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Good, I'm glad you feel that way. I still disagree with you that PJ should feed us some öööö about how it's just his fault and it will be better next time rather than telling us exactly what happened and why it happened. Obviously it's low class to throw players under the bus, but I think it's perfectly legitimate to discuss blown player assignments (PJ's fault) and how fixing those mistakes (PJ's responsibility) would have changed the outcome.
 
johncu said:
Good, I'm glad you feel that way. I still disagree with you that PJ should feed us some öööö about how it's just his fault and it will be better next time rather than telling us exactly what happened and why it happened. Obviously it's low class to throw players under the bus, but I think it's perfectly legitimate to discuss blown player assignments (PJ's fault) and how fixing those mistakes (PJ's responsibility) would have changed the outcome.
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It is about taking responsibility for the failures. CPJ doesn't do that and that is not behavior I want from a leader. The buck stops there. Would you want to keep playing for a coach who kept chucking guys under the bus? Would you want to work for a guy who always chucked you under the bus? Same thing.

CPJ needs to man up and quit with the 'I'm so smart'/'it was the right play call and if we got the blocks it goes for a long gain' talk. We didn't get the blocks because our players can't consistently block... therefore it wasn't the right play call. But... IIWII
 
On the subject of putting an ineligible WR out in the slot position, to me it doesn't matter that UNC didn't put anyone on the guy if his job is to help out blocking on that side. In fact, it benefits us as there is one less person to block on that side, assuming that we run to the outside on that side of the field.
 
Diseqc said:
I'm not proposing firing the head coach.... There's another one I wouldn't really be sad to see search out some different career opportunities though.
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Same here, I'm not saying we should fire CPJ. But Sewak has nothing to show for other than Shaq. Something's gotta give.
 
05GTCorndog said:
It is about taking responsibility for the failures. CPJ doesn't do that and that is not behavior I want from a leader. The buck stops there. Would you want to keep playing for a coach who kept chucking guys under the bus? Would you want to work for a guy who always chucked you under the bus? Same thing.

CPJ needs to man up and quit with the 'I'm so smart'/'it was the right play call and if we got the blocks it goes for a long gain' talk. We didn't get the blocks because our players can't consistently block... therefore it wasn't the right play call. But... IIWII
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For other coaches like CCG with conventional offenses, do they apologize for calling plays when the offense does not execute?

CCG never apologized specifically for play calls that didn't work, as far as I know. As far as I know, almost no coaches have the level of deference you're expecting, even after three straight losses.

The difference is CCG or CMR would go back to more coachspeak, so they may sound more deferential but their substance doesn't have all the apologies you want.

Here's a press conference transcript for CCG, after we started off the ACC schedule in 2007 losing to BC and UVA.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/092507aab.html

There's nothing blaming players but there's also nothing at all about why GT had lost two games.
 
johncu,

Do you not see the problem with this list you provided?

Lost RB's
Andrews
Leggett
Weimerskirch
Cottrell
Benson
Searcy
Snoddy
Marshall

We shouldn't be relying on true freshmen for a variety of reasons. We did not have enough upperclassmen to start with. That, I lay on the coaching staff. 18 year olds who haven't been in the S&C and dietary programs, are much more likely to get hurt, be fumble prone, and miss assignments.
 
GT1992 said:
johncu,

Do you not see the problem with this list you provided?

Lost RB's
Andrews
Leggett
Weimerskirch
Cottrell
Benson
Searcy
Snoddy
Marshall

We shouldn't be relying on true freshmen for a variety of reasons. We did not have enough upperclassmen to start with. That, I lay on the coaching staff. 18 year olds who haven't been in the S&C and dietary programs, are much more likely to get hurt, be fumble prone, and miss assignments.
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Let's also not forget that the 6 of the 14 members of the 2013 recruiting class are gone for one reason or another. These guys would've been juniors and redshirt sophomores. The list includes all 3 D-linemen we took in the class, a QB/AB, and both RB's, including Custis, the end-all, be-ball of GT players who never played a snap.
 
jdubjacket said:
Let's also not forget that the 6 of the 14 members of the 2013 recruiting class are gone for one reason or another. These guys would've been juniors and redshirt sophomores. The list includes all 3 D-linemen we took in the class, a QB/AB, and both RB's, including Custis, the end-all, be-ball of GT players who never played a snap.
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Why did we lose so many from that class and not make it up immediately?
 
GT1992 said:
Why did we lose so many from that class and not make it up immediately?
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Go to DEFCON 2. I'm not defending or endorsing anything, just pointing out the facts.

And technically, we did "make it up immediately" although I'm not sure what that means. In 2014, we took 22 guys including 5 DL and a number of guys who could've wound up at AB/QB/BB including Qua Searcy(now hurt), Matthew Jordan(moved back to QB due to Tim Byerly injury) and CJ Leggett(now hurt).

In 2015, we "made it up" again by taking 27 guys (including 4 DL and 6+/- RB's).
 
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