CPJ was right - I drank the kool-aid

Dhatura

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At the beginning of the season, we all remembered CPJ at a presser talking about how poor the team looked in practice:

""Guys, you have anointed this team as national champs,” he told assembled news media. “You ought to watch them practice.”"

At first, I thought he was trying to tamp down any praise that would give the players a big head. Now I see that he was just calling it like it was.

There is still time to make the season respectable, but man do we have a giant hill to climb!
 
I just feel bad for all of the ND and Duke fans who believe they have decent teams. I mean we just roll over for them and they think they have a quality win.
 
CPJ had a quality defense, 4 of 5 O-linemen and a nationally recognized QB returning. His subtle comments pre-season mean nothing. He should have had this team ready to play at a high level. They are not. Needs to look in the mirror and not tell us they practice bad. He gets paid too much to make excuses.
 
CPJ needs to talk about how pitiful the coaching has been the last two games, particularly the offensive play calling.
 
Piss poor blocking makes any play calls look bad. Yes, piss poor blocking is a coaching issue.
 
He has the players this year to be successful. I don't want to hear otherwise, because it's flat false. They are not executing, which falls solely on CPJ's shoulders.

I do not know what it takes to sustain success, but he sure as heck has not done it effectively. Every time we get some good momentum that seems like we are raising the bar for GT football, we crap in our pants.
 
Losing three offensive players to the draft will hurt most any offense, unless you're Bama or some other factory. Plus the entire 2-3 deep of three other positions, and losing the presumed starting running back.

If you want to blame CPJ, blame the small recruiting classes around 2012.
 
JT's play has been disappointing so far this year. Not that he's played badly, I was just expecting him to make a ton of fantastic plays and he's been merely good.
 
Don't think that I believe CPJ doesn't shoulder some blame. He seemed to be aware there were massive deficiencies despite all the returning starters. Play calling certainly has been suspect, as well!

However, I am pretty sure that not once did any coach tell the players to dive at ankles and get drilled off the ball, not tackle, etc.

With that said, I guess Mason, Waller, Days, Laskey, And others did make a major difference in this team.
 
NFL talent at WR does make a difference.

Line play has been awful.

Time to clean it up. Coach earns his paycheck here.


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Dhatura said:
Don't think that I believe CPJ doesn't shoulder some blame. He seemed to be aware there were massive deficiencies despite all the returning starters. Play calling certainly has been suspect, as well!

However, I am pretty sure that not once did any coach tell the players to dive at ankles and get drilled off the ball, not tackle, etc.

With that said, I guess Mason, Waller, Days, Laskey, And others did make a major difference in this team.
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I understand all that, but, at some point, when the team plays poorly, it's the coach's fault.
 
BuzzLaw said:
I understand all that, but, at some point, when the team plays poorly, it's the coach's fault.
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We knew this would be a tough season. What's the problem? We are not executing due to the same stuff that was said here in the offseason. Most picked 2016 as the season. We can still be successful. Many things need to be fixed and fast. That can happen.
 
Only one logical option at this point...

#BurnTheShirt

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So we agree that if the coach hasn't fixed it, then it's his fault? When we have gaps in positional experience, this happens. So what do you blame him for? I wouldn't say game day performance. EVER. Recruiting and recruiting more? Yes. We have young talented backs that just don't understand yet. And I never thought Divine would replace Mason. I remember one of the announcers in the Alcorn st game saying he filled right in for Mason's loss. Nope.
 
The good news is we can be the underdogs again. We usually perform well in that role.
 
This is the GT way.

We have one good year and people start talking about playoffs, Heisman candidates, how overrated other conferences are, how biased everyone is against us.

No focus on getting better - only that we have made it. We could learn a lot from a guy I despise. Coach k.

We have a great 1990 and in a fan poll our biggest rival is suddenly uva - ööööing uva.

We can still achieve great things, but coming in 2nd or 3rd in this numb nuts conference ain't it.

We should be better.
 
We were clearly overrated based on how well we were playing at the end of last year. To believe that losing an All-American linemen and your starters at A back, B back and WR without taking a step backward the next season was foolish.
 
texstinger said:
We should be better.
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This. I didn't expect us to get better after we lost 6 AB's, 2 BB's, 2 WR's and our best OL. But I certainly didn't expect us to look completely lost on offense. JT5 looks like a true freshman running for his life because our OL, all of a sudden, can't block to save their lives.
 
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