I think PJ should retire as OC

EffinDane said:
Does no good? We've been to two top level bowls under Paul Johnson. Weve beaten UGA twice in their own home and have taken them to the wire in all but two games.

Do you have any reason at all to believe that he neglects recruiting in favor of play calling?

And I did read your post. It was ööööing stupid. You say we need a new OC, then say PJ needs to address the oline. Hard to do that when you're a "CEO".

Some folks need to learn that this is not Bobby Dodd's Georgia Tech. We won't be Clemson, and we won't be competitive with teams like Clemson with "CEO" coach.
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+1.

Almost worse than the losing games in clown show fashion is seeing the dumb assery come out droves like this thread and the other predictable ones after a loss.
 
EffinDane said:
So no. You have no reason to think PJ is not putting forth the correct amount of effort towards recruiting.

I need to pay floridajacket for this sig.
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I'm sure he's putting in a good amount of time. Putting even more time in can only help. Now why don't you answer my question about Jasper?
 
Nawaab said:
I'm sure he's putting in a good amount of time. Putting even more time in can only help. Now why don't you answer my question about Jasper?
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Yes. Letting anyone other than PJ call the plays would be a very noticeable step down.
 
GT98 said:
Almost worse than losing games in clown show fashion is seeing the dumb assery come out in droves like this thread and the other predictable ones after a loss.
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+1

Though it is hard not to blame coaching when a team is still making all kinds of dumb mental mistakes game after game all season long. (To go from 2&5 in FG range to win the game to 4&27 a second later was a stunning reversal. We've seen quit a few of those this year haven't we?). You can't blame the coach for A drop or A fumble or A penalty, but when it becomes a pattern you do have to blame them.



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EffinDane said:
Yes. Letting anyone other than PJ call the plays would be a very noticeable step down.
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I never once said that PJ is a bad play caller, or that there is something wrong with the play calling as a whole (every coach makes dumb play calls within every game). No offense in the world is going to work when the opponent is in the backfield a fraction of a second after the ball is snapped. What I did say say is that we need to do the same thing we've been doing, just with a fresh outlook. Does Jasper have as good as offensive mind as PJ? I'm guessing not. But PJ + Jasper might be better than just PJ by himself. I don't know what PJ is seeing with Sewak and the OLine, but having someone else helping with the offense might have prevented our O-Line from looking so bad in 2013 and 2015.

Look, it's not like PJ isn't going to have any input at all into the offense. UGA didn't start running the Air Raid when Richt gave up playcalling duties and promoted a no-namer like Bobo from within. They kept running Richt's offense, and they were usually pretty awesome under Bobo. The worst case scenario would be that a guy like Jasper would be terrible here, and PJ would have to take over as OC again. That doesn't sound like it would be the end of the world.
 
beej67 said:
The play calling isn't the problem, nitwits. It's that we're starting eight highschoolers and we've lost 100+ starts. Over 20% of our entire team was missing tonight.

Can yall imagine how bad GT would be if we were on a NCAA probation of -20 scholarships? It'd be death penalty worthy. Yet that's where we're playing at right now. We're taking walk ons off the street and putting shirts on them. WE LOST TWO MORE TONIGHT, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.
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You hit the nail on the head, with 20 percent missing we have been down to the wire in most games.
 
boozinbuzz said:
PJ's weakest area has been as CEO and best has been as OC. The flight of players the past 3 years has put the team in the situation they are in now. "Roster Management" has been horrible.

I wish we could have skipped back 10 years and hired a CEO and made PJ the OC.
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When did PJ lose the coaches?


Fire sewak
 
Play calling wasn't bad last night. We were just getting beat up front. When the LB kept blitzing hard to the play side, I was wondering why we weren't calling a counter. Then we started to in the 4th, and it became obvious why we didn't the backside freshman tackle was getting beat every time. The playside freshman tackle was getting beat (although on on TFL, there was a very obvious head slap on the replay). The VT line just beat us. We didn't have the endurance.

The dropped pass by Allen was a killer. The fumbles were a killer.

It has been a long time since we had to suffer a year like this one. Hopefully we rebound like TCU did last year and Pitt has done this year.
 
WracerX said:
the backside freshman tackle was getting beat every time.
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Every single time. By the time Justin had taken two steps away from the LOS, there was a guy breathing down his neck. I was just waiting on a hit mid-pass to cause a fumble. But I guess we didn't need VPI to force our fumbles for us last night anyway.
 
The Jacket said:
Every single time. By the time Justin had taken two steps away from the LOS, there was a guy breathing down his neck. I was just waiting on a hit mid-pass to cause a fumble. But I guess we didn't need VPI to force our fumbles for us last night anyway.
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The counters in the 4th that gained yards were purely on JT5's talent. Because he had to make the DE miss him in the backfield before he could turn up field.
 
WracerX said:
The counters in the 4th that gained yards were purely on JT5's talent. Because he had to make the DE miss him in the backfield before he could turn up field.
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Is it just me or on those plays when Thomas starts heading up field, does he have a really bad habit of veering out of the lane and into the back of the nearest blocker? Sometimes it looks like there's some invisible force pulling him towards his own linemen like gravity. Incredibly frustrating.
 
The Jacket said:
Is it just me or on those plays when Thomas starts heading up field, does he have a really bad habit of veering out of the lane and into the back of the nearest blocker? Sometimes it looks like there's some invisible force pulling him towards his own linemen like gravity. Incredibly frustrating.
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I've felt the same way... I think it's just JT's way of helping out his offensive line's morale by letting them think they at least blocked someone during the course of the game.
 
Nawaab said:
I've felt the same way... I think it's just JT's way of helping out his offensive line's morale by letting them think they at least blocked someone during the course of the game.
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I could accept that, at least there'd be some motive behind it that way. As it stands, it's one of far too many examples of how we simply cannot get out of our own öööö way.
 
When our offense is rolling it is fun to watch, but when it doesn't work we need to have an answer. A great article in the Oct 5 Sports Illustrated talks about how Oklahoma, ND, UNC and TCU have tweeked or added twist to their offense or defense without disregarding their core beliefs. This is what GT has needed to do for the last few years. Defenses have figured out how to bull rush our offense after the Notre Dame game. We have to be able to go to a multiple wide receiver set in passing situations and we need to have some kind of "jumbo" package on short yardage or goal line situations. Bringing in our 180lb WR's as tight ends does not lead to many edges being blocked that well. Keep the option as our bread and butter 75% of the time, just have something else to put on the bread the other 25% of the time. It also gives our opponenets more to prepare for during game week. Hopefully we go 2-0 for the rest of the season.
 
The Jacket said:
I could accept that, at least there'd be some motive behind it that way. As it stands, it's one of far too many examples of how we simply cannot get out of our own öööö way.
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They may be twice our size and strength, but college football players are still kids out there. And they do dumb things like all kids do. Best just to shrug your shoulders and move on.... consider it part of the charm of amateur athletics.
 
techdad said:
When our offense is rolling it is fun to watch, but when it doesn't work we need to have an answer. A great article in the Oct 5 Sports Illustrated talks about how Oklahoma, ND, UNC and TCU have tweeked or added twist to their offense or defense without disregarding their core beliefs. This is what GT has needed to do for the last few years. Defenses have figured out how to bull rush our offense after the Notre Dame game. We have to be able to go to a multiple wide receiver set in passing situations and we need to have some kind of "jumbo" package on short yardage or goal line situations. Bringing in our 180lb WR's as tight ends does not lead to many edges being blocked that well. Keep the option as our bread and butter 75% of the time, just have something else to put on the bread the other 25% of the time. It also gives our opponenets more to prepare for during game week. Hopefully we go 2-0 for the rest of the season.
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I agree where new wrinkles and continued innovation are concerned, I just don't know that even the simplest of additions could have been made successfully this year. A lot of our guys seem to have trouble with the fundamentals they should have learned in their freshman year. Of high school.
 
Nawaab said:
They may be twice our size and strength, but college football players are still kids out there. And they do dumb things like all kids do. Best just to shrug your shoulders and move on.... consider it part of the charm of amateur athletics.
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They nearly charmed me to death last night.
 
techdad said:
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No. The difference between this year and last year is not that "defenses have figured it out." The difference is that this year it actually IS a high school offense, because we're running it with actual highschoolers.

This year is a combination of really light recruiting classes in 2011 and 2012, and more injuries than any other team in the country has had. The truth is that it's flat out amazing we've been close in as many games as we have this year. If you knock 20 players off any other Tech team the past two decades we'd have been blown out a lot more.

We had like 25 some odd recruits in the 2014 class, and unless I'm mistaken, we've burned EVERY REDSHIRT.
 
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