If Reggie Ball starts one more game for GT...

goldmember said:
By any definition it is an indictment on our coaching staff if we don't have anyone better.
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So argue whether Reggie was the best choice or not objectively. That means a logical reason for why someone else would be a better alternative, not just displaying Reggie's poor play. I see any reason to believe that Taylor would come in and be a better chance to win, even with Reggie's poor performance. If someone could explain why Taylor would have been a better choice, by some "inside information" or some other source than "Omg you hasve to give him a chance!!!!!!!!" then I would buy it.

Prove that Reggie wasn't the best choice, and you will have at the same time indicted our coaches for making the inexcusable error of playing someone less than our best chance to win the game.
 
Well how about the fact that Taylor Bennet HAS been tearing it up on the practice field recently? Or how about that he is a QB on our f*cking roster who happens to be the #2 man and he gets some reps. Who gives a sh*t what the f*ck he's been doing at some point you take your chances because your #1 guy sucks to high hell. Why even have a back-up?
 
How the hell am i supposed to argue objectively other than the fact that he is horrible?

Again if we take your logic and Reggie is the best that we have, then the coaches have done a horrible job evaluating, recruiting, and developing QB's.
 
goldmember said:
How the hell am i supposed to argue objectively other than the fact that he is horrible?

Again if we take your logic and Reggie is the best that we have, then the coaches have done a horrible job evaluating, recruiting, and developing QB's.
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Thank you!
 
The Jacket said:
. I see any reason to believe that Taylor would come in and be a better chance to win, even with Reggie's poor performance. If someone could explain why Taylor would have been a better choice, by some "inside information" or some other source than "Omg you hasve to give him a chance!!!!!!!!" then I would buy it.

Prove that Reggie wasn't the best choice, and you will have at the same time indicted our coaches for making the inexcusable error of playing someone less than our best chance to win the game.
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Is that what you wanted to hear? Then just say so! Yes!!!! CHAN GAILEY screwed up by not yanking RB when it was apparent that he wasn't getting it done.

All the same, RB had a responsibility to be a bit better in his 4th game against uga. He has only gotten worse.
 
BarrelORum said:
Well how about the fact that Taylor Bennet HAS been tearing it up on the practice field recently? Or how about that he is a QB on our f*cking roster who happens to be the #2 man and he gets some reps. Who gives a sh*t what the f*ck he's been doing at some point you take your chances because your #1 guy sucks to high hell. Why even have a back-up?
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Exactly the issue. Chan has the situation he has wanted since he got here. A backup who the fans will not call for when Reggie is doing poorly. He made a commitment to an incoming freshman (Carter or Reggie) that they would get to start . He eliminated the past QB controversies by moving the players away from the position. This year the backup is just not good enough to get it done. I have seen TB enough to know he is not a D1 level QB. He will never start at Tech. Nice smart kid who represents the football team well but if wants to play he needs to transfer to a 1A or D2 school.

This is strictly a coaching issue. We should have a better starting QB and a competent backup. Reggie should have been recruited as a receiver or DB. All other schools except us knew this.

I see a very probable ACC championship followed by a big loss in the Orange Bowl. Of course many will say we had a great season then. We have benefitted from a very very down ACC this year and have played very similar to the Gailey coached teams in the past.
 
Well, it looks like Wake for the next game, and if RB plays then we are in Atlanta, playing at the Peach Bowl, oh boy a bowl game at home, thanks to RB.
 
The V said:
Well, it looks like Wake for the next game, and if RB plays then we are in Atlanta, playing at the Peach Bowl, oh boy a bowl game at home, thanks to RB.
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We won't play in the peach, uga will.
 
I do like the blue rug bowl, we could leave RB there in the cold west, so he will know how we feel tonight.
 
I would have benched RB on the first 4th down play where he decided to be a hero and run for it. He never even looked at any of his receivers. We could have scored on that play.

Something has to be said about learning the mentality of people. Leaders are leaders and they don't make the same mistakes over and over. Where is the coach getting into RB's face over that play? Maybe there was but I didn't see it. I have seen other coaches get into a face, but it seems that we just keep NOT DOING ANYTHING about it. And so it goes on-and-on.

Also, it would have been nice to start seeing Bennett earlier in the season so that you could have some experience to fall back on.

Where the hell is the slant pass? Why is everything a hell marry mid-range or longer pass to CJ into double coverage?

I am angry at a hard fought loss that shouldn't have been.
 
Chan and co. have failed in what sense? That they have only produced a quarterback that gave us our best season since 1998 or 2000? That is the problem with the supposed failure in raising a quarterback. Reggie played poorly tonight to put the cap on a regular season that otherwise we went 7-1 in our conference and he has had a much better season than his past ones.

BoR, what's your source for Taylor supposedly "tearing it up on the practice field"?

Putting in an unproven Sophomore with minimal experience over an experienced RB who still has a shot to win the game isn't the decision that makes any sense to me. (Queue the "Then you don't get it!" posts.) Putting Taylor in is more of a risk. Reggie has led us on comebacks before, Taylor has not.

It didn't work out, that doesn't make it the worse call.
 
TechRex said:
I would have benched RB on the first 4th down play where he decided to be a hero and run for it. He never even looked at any of his receivers. We could have scored on that play.

Ok guys I challenge this. We all need to understand our offense. This was a called qb draw. Reggie is not coached to look for other outlets. He playes exactly how he is coached. This is a result of coaching and behaviors that are practiced not selfishness. I do agree Reggie should have never been our QB. He is not good enough to play at the D1 level never was. He is the best we got which is sad but is what our genius head coach wanted, no qb controversy.

We run a lot of counter plays in the running game that do work for us. Eventually defenses catch up with this an limit the effectiveness as the game goes on.

We run isolation plays to CJ for the most part. Sometimes they work but a double team with the safety on top limits the effectiveness here. Our alternate receivers are just not that good as seen tonight.

All pass plays only have one look. Have you ever seen Reggie look off a receiver and pass to another or use an outlet?

Our offense is incredibly simple with limited plays that have several variations. Nix has brought some more to it but I see Chan all over it the last few games.
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Please. No one is doubting that RB has won some big games, but he could never clear himself of falling off the cliff when it mattered most. What hurts many fans is that he just doesn't seem to care the way the rest of his team does.
 
pocket_watch said:
Please. No one is doubting that RB has won some big games, but he could never clear himself of falling off the cliff when it mattered most. What hurts many fans is that he just doesn't seem to care the way the rest of his team does.
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It does seem that way.
 
My source is about 4 friends that are close to the programand regularly converse with coaches and attend practices and one of them had this conversation with Nix himself.

That said my point is this: We are not so bad to not pull a kid for such a ****ty performance. Like mm42 said, Mike Cox was a better option. Anyone would have been.

As far as Reggie leading us to one of our best seasons ever, I seriously take exception to this. He has the best weapon in college football and he cannot pass at better than 45%? He almost lost 3 games that we won. We also are 9-3 on a year where the entire ACC was terrible. Is this any different than where we've been in past years?
 
BarrelORum said:
My source is about 4 friends that are close to the programand regularly converse with coaches and attend practices and one of them had this conversation with Nix himself.

That said my point is this: We are not so bad to not pull a kid for such a ****ty performance. Like mm42 said, Mike Cox was a better option. Anyone would have been.

As far as Reggie leading us to one of our best seasons ever, I seriously take exception to this. He has the best weapon in college football and he cannot pass at better than 45%? He almost lost 3 games that we won. We also are 9-3 on a year where the entire ACC was terrible. Is this any different than where we've been in past years?
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"Terrible" is perhaps a little strong. I'd say after today that "down" is appropriate. And yes, it is different. In years past, it wouldn't have mattered if the ACC was down, we would have dropped a couple of games we should have no doubt won and gone to a low-grade bowl game.

If you told someone in the spring we'd go 9-3, and go to the ACC Championship, they'd say "HELL YES." Now we're down to it and it hasn't arrived exactly the way we planned and this forum is having an absolute meltdown.
 
We just lost a game we had no business losing to our archrival. The third game we've gift wrapped and handed them on a silver platter in a row and 6 losses in a row. Yeah, I would say a meltdown is probably appropriate.
 
BarrelORum said:
We just lost a game we had no business losing to our archrival. The third game we've gift wrapped and handed them on a silver platter in a row and 6 losses in a row. Yeah, I would say a meltdown is probably appropriate.
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We weren't favored. Georgia carried far more momentum in than us, seeking redemption and coming off of a huge win at Auburn. And yet, somehow us losing to them is the unthinkable? Unacceptable, yes. Unbelievable is pushing to hard, which you've done quite enough of tonight.

A meltdown of "Reggie sucks. He has no business playing for us or anyone else. He's the worst quarterback on the planet, and Chan has started him so he deserves to be canned." isn't appropriate.
 
Jacket - I know you are trying to be rational and level-headed but losing 6 in a row to UGA is too bitter a pill to swallow. Also, Reggie's attitude and quote after the game were unacceptable. I can't blame people for faulting him. The fact is he has been largely responsible for the last 4 losses. As a QB, he is expected to be a leader and carry a bigger burden than most other players. He clearly has demonstrated that he self-destructs against Georgia. He will not be missed.
 
The Jacket said:
Now you've hit the panic button. Honestly, now. You can propose that Reggie may have given the game away intentionally, but when someone shoots down the idea of putting an inexperienced Sophomore in over a Senior who has at least kept us with a possibility to win the game, then that person is the "dumb" one?

You've failed logic in a manner no player could ever fail at football, even if they threw the game.
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Really, he's kept us in any of the UGAg games in his tenure at Tech? Lets see, his record against that cesspool of a university is what? oh thats right, 0-4 is a great record. clearly worthy of praise and accolades
 
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