Dead last - ugh

GT18YJjr. said:
Their schedule. They avid Notre dame and Clemson and get a lot of winnable games at home. IIRC, they’re returning a lot of starters from lasted years like we are.
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They don't play Louisville either; also had a ton of injuries last year
 
I'm going to try to care what a bunch of sportswriters think.

Nope! Don't care a bit.

Prolly a bunch of Biden supporters anyway.

(Report button right here.)
 
vapspwi said:
Well, that’s what happens when you were as historically bad as we were last year. I’ll believe we’ve improved when I see it on the field.

JRjr
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Vapspwi,

You are absolutely correct! Our coaching staff and Athletic Director treated the 2019 football season as a scrimmage. They felt that it was an monumental transition year and they were going to focus on the future. Well, none of us are promised tomorrow. 2020 is a prime example of that! Nevertheless, Tech hopefully will be improved this season (God willing we have a football season).

What encourages me the most is the weight, per man, Tech has gained. Most notably on the Offensive Line. I commend Coach Collins for challenging the players to get bigger. Our Defensive Line has more girth, as well. But, as you say, "I will believe we've improved when I see it on the field."


GO JACKETS!
 
Lose to Citadel season before = Dead last- ugh, the following pre-season.

Doesn’t mean crap -GT will be improved, when Toe Meets Leather we will see how much we have improved.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
I hope teams overlook us. By mid-season that advantage will start to disappear.
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I don't think coaches do much overlooking. I think sometimes players do. I know fans overlook superior and even teams, much less lesser opponents. But coaches don't.

Here's a quote with quotes from Norvell:

“We’re playing a Georgia Tech team that’s in the second year with their coaching staff, a coaching staff that’s had a lot of success throughout their career,” Florida State head coach Mike Norvell said last week during a press conference. “I was actually in the same league with (Georgia Tech head coach Geoff) Collins when he was at Temple. We never had the opportunity of playing each other but I got the opportunity to see his team play quite a bit.”
“Since the schedule has come out we’ve been able to do a lot of background as a coaching staff, going back through the last three years at Temple, Georgia Tech, really evaluating personnel and overall just study of schemes, stuff like that.”
“They’re in the second year of the transition that we’re in. The physical development, the confidence of what those guys have planted....they had some good wins last year and you know that confidence they’re going to bring into year 2 with what their expectation is is something that they’re going to come out and they’re going to start fast.”
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Now that does not say the FSU coaches are worried about us. It says they have done their prep. If the FSU players just tries to roll their helmets onto the field we will win. If FSU has the fractures a few random tweets suggest they do, we will win. If those fractures are overblown, and I suspect they are, I expect a tough back-and-forth game. I think we would have better chances if we played them second game, not first, but IIWII.

I'm sure Collins has watched Memphis tape while preparing for opponents two years ago, too. I'm sure he has trotted plenty of it out in prep, too. I am sure he evaluated FSU players, too. You watch recent Memphis tape and you watch FSU DL tape, and you will know what you are in for.

Memphis schemes were not super-complex, so they will be super-basic for his first year with an abbreviated spring. Meanwhile, we will show a lot more in our package than last year's tape showed, as much as our quarterback can handle. I think the OL play will be much more sophisticated, and the wideouts can run more complex patterns with more expected time for the qb to throw. And Gibbs.

On defense we will have more horses to improve a sound scheme. And Harvin may be our best holdover player at punter.

FSU coaches know all that. They will not overlook us. They just have to spend their time on their own house more than they want to.
 
Year 1 with a new coach was going to be a cluster. Everybody knew that. Now he has implemented his culture. I want to see significant improvement. If we are sound and disciplined, then I’ll take the results, whatever they are.
If we go out and don’t know how to line up, don’t know the snap count and otherwise look lost, then it’s a bad sign.

Until proven otherwise, I’m choosing to believe our guys have worked hard and our coaches have installed a system of accountability. We’re GT and that is what we do.

F$u, on the other hand, doesn’t do that stuff. And that’s why we will beat them.
 
BuzzLaw said:
Year 1 with a new coach was going to be a cluster. Everybody knew that. Now he has implemented his culture. I want to see significant improvement. If we are sound and disciplined, then I’ll take the results, whatever they are.
If we go out and don’t know how to line up, don’t know the snap count and otherwise look lost, then it’s a bad sign.

Until proven otherwise, I’m choosing to believe our guys have worked hard and our coaches have installed a system of accountability. We’re GT and that is what we do.

F$u, on the other hand, doesn’t do that stuff. And that’s why we will beat them.
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I like this take
 
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