Folks, we're just startin' over again.
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Re: Folks, we\'re just startin\' over again.
Totally agree GeeTeeLee. I was awfully jealous of our inbred neighbors to the NE who had a really good transition with their latest regime change. I think too many of us expected it to be like theirs. I didn't. I didn't expect things to go this bad either.
Once that injury bug started hitting during the season (it began in preseason), I began treating this as a 'rebuilding' season with an outside shot at a minor bowl. Especially after what I saw vs Wake. And boy did I cringe when Clinkscale, Bilbo, Ace and Fox go down last night. We've had a really bad run of luck this year during a coaching change. It's just not fair.
There are plenty of other things going wrong with this team this year, but in a year of transition I expect some of that. Players still have to execute on the field. The coaching is not entirely to blame like so many like to think. And who would want to coach at our esteemed institution if they see that we won't give a coach with a pretty darn good resume a fighting chance?
Totally agree GeeTeeLee. I was awfully jealous of our inbred neighbors to the NE who had a really good transition with their latest regime change. I think too many of us expected it to be like theirs. I didn't. I didn't expect things to go this bad either.
Once that injury bug started hitting during the season (it began in preseason), I began treating this as a 'rebuilding' season with an outside shot at a minor bowl. Especially after what I saw vs Wake. And boy did I cringe when Clinkscale, Bilbo, Ace and Fox go down last night. We've had a really bad run of luck this year during a coaching change. It's just not fair.
There are plenty of other things going wrong with this team this year, but in a year of transition I expect some of that. Players still have to execute on the field. The coaching is not entirely to blame like so many like to think. And who would want to coach at our esteemed institution if they see that we won't give a coach with a pretty darn good resume a fighting chance?
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Folks, we\'re just startin\' over again.
I watched the first 10 minutes of the first quarter in the airport in Washington (I had considered getting a hotel room for the night and trying to scalp a ticket....glad I didn't) and we didn't look good offensively even then. Caught the last two minutes in my car on the way home. Now we're going to have to go through a complete rebuilding phase *again* instead of a continuation. Dunno if Gaily can do it.
OK, lets at least try to be reasonable - since last year we have lost Godsey, Burns, Campbell, Ford, Hollings, Heller, Manget, Fox, Ace, Gathers, Smith, Curry, Holiday, Poree, Two linemen that were projected to start had to quit football forever last spring due to injuries, and we lost other players that contributed last year to graduation. While we had a lot of talent on the team by Tech standards, it's not as if we were absolutely loaded at every position. We've always been small and thin on the D-line, our CBs have always been merely adequate, the only position we have top tier talent at is wide reciever (and they've been dropping the ball left and right) and linebacker and sometimes our LBs have to play on the line. Combine this depletion of personell with a coaching change and you have a certain recipe for disaster - as we've seen.
Soooo, we've got to let Chan rebuild the program through recruiting and finding the right mix of coaches. Realistically, we should have expected that- we've never had a smooth coaching transition at Tech.
The problem I have is that the team just doesn't look like they're ready to play. Is that because the coaches aren't preparing them properly or because we're forced to play a lot of players before they're ready? I honestly don't know.
What I do know is Chan had better get to bustin' his butt on the recruiting trail, 'cause we certainly need players!
I watched the first 10 minutes of the first quarter in the airport in Washington (I had considered getting a hotel room for the night and trying to scalp a ticket....glad I didn't) and we didn't look good offensively even then. Caught the last two minutes in my car on the way home. Now we're going to have to go through a complete rebuilding phase *again* instead of a continuation. Dunno if Gaily can do it.
OK, lets at least try to be reasonable - since last year we have lost Godsey, Burns, Campbell, Ford, Hollings, Heller, Manget, Fox, Ace, Gathers, Smith, Curry, Holiday, Poree, Two linemen that were projected to start had to quit football forever last spring due to injuries, and we lost other players that contributed last year to graduation. While we had a lot of talent on the team by Tech standards, it's not as if we were absolutely loaded at every position. We've always been small and thin on the D-line, our CBs have always been merely adequate, the only position we have top tier talent at is wide reciever (and they've been dropping the ball left and right) and linebacker and sometimes our LBs have to play on the line. Combine this depletion of personell with a coaching change and you have a certain recipe for disaster - as we've seen.
Soooo, we've got to let Chan rebuild the program through recruiting and finding the right mix of coaches. Realistically, we should have expected that- we've never had a smooth coaching transition at Tech.
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Re: Folks, we\'re just startin\' over again.
I agree with your last point about recruiting.
Like it or not Chan will influence Tech football for at least the next five to six years with this recruiting class.
If he does not do well with this next large class of freshmen we will be hurting for quite some time.
I hope he understands we will need to get lots of big uglys to play in the trenches.
One of the largest problems with B*** L**** is that he did not recruit/keep linemen in the program.
I will give the possiblity that the team could just be going through a transition with a new coach. It may be possible I just dont think it is likely.
If Chan does not recuit a "light out" class then we are in for a long long decade.
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I agree with your last point about recruiting.
Like it or not Chan will influence Tech football for at least the next five to six years with this recruiting class.
If he does not do well with this next large class of freshmen we will be hurting for quite some time.
I hope he understands we will need to get lots of big uglys to play in the trenches.
One of the largest problems with B*** L**** is that he did not recruit/keep linemen in the program.
I will give the possiblity that the team could just be going through a transition with a new coach. It may be possible I just dont think it is likely.
If Chan does not recuit a "light out" class then we are in for a long long decade.
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