Giving crap ingredients to a 3 star Michelin chef means you still aren't going to get a 3-star meal either.
You didn't SAY it but you damn well intimated that, at the very least, it wasn't going to work. And if I need a rub and tug, I'll go visit your mom.
No, I’m excited about the talent level but I have no faith in this staff maximizing their potential
Yes, we know. You've been douching the board up for a while now
Explain to me why I should give a flying f**k what you have faith in.
Well to be fair I dunno whose anonymous opinion anybody should lose sleep over, mine included.
We should definitely recruit high level private schools nationally. They have significant talent and the recruits are more likely to be interested in the long term advantages we can offer. The recruits are also going to be better prepared academically.
Agree, NIL is key.
Of course. That's what we should do. Give it a chance to work. Hopefully, it does and we have a great season. If not, then we reconsider and possibly/probably move on.
How about them getting the players to play near their talent level. If they maximized anything we’d stroke out from excitement.
Yes they're called socialists
I’m trying to take the more positive, optimistic approach, but damn. It’s hard for me to criticize anyone who hasn’t got there yet. Our coach has won 9 games in 3 years. I’d argue @CiraldoForever is actually the more reasoned one.
Bah. It's easy to be the negative Nancy.
I agree with this. At least I think I do. I just also empathize with anyone who has lost all hope that GC can get the job done. @JJacket and now you have given some logical argument that we can get over the hump next year.Bah. It's easy to be the negative Nancy.
Don't get me wrong. Myself and everyone else on this board completely understands the frustration because we feel it as well as you and others do. But there is a time for bitching and then there's a time for just STFU'ing and letting the team and the coaches get on with trying to put together a winning formula for this upcoming year. It's not an apples-to-oranges comparison because Ross brought with to GT a history of having won conference titles at Maryland, but these discussions feel incredibly similar to the discussions where a significant percentage of the fan base was calling for Bobby Ross to be fired at the beginning of the 1989 season. And even after showing some success at the end of the season to reel off some victories, there will still a (significantly less albeit) group of vocal GT fans who were saying what he was doing wouldn't work at GT because..."we're different". 1990 made all of them not only shut up but act like they'd never said what they said.
And no...before you or anyone else posts a response to this, I'm not saying Collins is necessarily the guy to take us to another natty. But I AM willing to be objective and evaluate the talent that was left on this team when Johnson resigned as the head coach of GT. And I realize that this might not be the "largest turnaround in the history of college football" or whatever rhetoric CGC uses but it was a damn significant task.
But there is also a reason why most of the football world was saying this was a 4 year turnaround process for this team. Regardless what happens with the eventual status of Geoff Collins, it's fairly inarguable that he and his staff have done a marvelous (and honestly almost miraculous this year) job of recruiting more and better talent onto the team here.
Also, I keep hearing reports that the parents, players and coaching staff all seem to have a degree of confidence that "we are very close". That gives me hope...because, although I didn't hear it at the time since we didn't have the internet back then...we later found out that the players and coaches of the 89 team thought we were a lot better than our record showed and people were giving us credit for being. Here's hoping there is a heck of a similarity next year with the 1990 team!
I get it and agree to some extent. I find it frustrating AF that we aren't winning. I have some friends who are posters on this and other sites and they are irate at the "branding" and get all up in arms about how we're "disrepecting our traditions", etc. And I'm talking people who are highly intelligent and for whom I have a high degree of respect. And when I've pointed out that the #404theCulture and #ATL stuff isn't really meant for anyone but the players and recruits, they usually respond with "that's not how we do it around here'.
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