Introductory Press Conference @6pm

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GTStoner said:
How do you know? I'm dying to hear.

I doubt it b/c at the end of the day, it's a business and they know that no college team is going to run the exact scheme and not only that but most don't immediately come in and play. They ride the bench for a year or two, play special teams, etc. etc. etc. It takes for a 22-23 year old man to bulk up to be competitive with 27 year old men.

Some do play immediately-those would be 1st round draft picks-otherwise you gonna ride the pine for a while. Teams know that as long as you can show you can learn a scheme the one you play in doesn't matter.

Can you block, can you tackle, can you evade defenders, etc. We have WRs that played NFL and played TO . . .explain that? It comes down to the basics.
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I've watched the draft, read scouting reports, know people who've been through the process, etc. Let's use WRs as an example. NFL scouts are going to watch tape to see how you run routes. If you're not running an NFL route tree, it'll be a knock against you. If you're 6'5" and run a sub 4.40-40, you're likely to get a shot anyways, but let's not pretend that scheme plays no role. Shaq Mason only gets drafted where he was because of CPJ's relationship with Belichek. He clearly had the athleticism and impressive tape as a road grader, but go back and read the scouting reports. There were major concerns with scheme. I don't know what else to say, besides pay attention and you'll see how often it's mentioned.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
Shaq Mason only gets drafted where he was because of CPJ's relationship with Belichek.
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See what I mean @GTStoner ? Just say stuff... it's the internet.
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fishinjacket said:
It’s like how FSU fans felt when Taggart came in last year talking about “lethal simplicity”and I think we all saw how that worked out in year one. I’m on the excited, but not counting any chickens yet train.
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We can erase "Lethal Simplicity" as a CGC catchphrase.
 
GTStoner said:
I'm not terribly impressed. CGC looks to be what he says he is-high energy, genuine, a great recruiter, good with players, etc.

Can he actually do better than CPJ? Color me not impressed. The guy has only 2! years of HC. And being THE guy is much different than being a DC/OC/GA/etc. He has a great pedigree and he did okay at temple. But let's not make it out that he "turned" temple around or was an all world beater at temple.

He was 7-6 and 8-4 the two years prior 2015-2016 were 10-4 . . .so based on that he did worse than his predecessor. I didn't particularly like the comments about "NFL offense". I think most players know that chances of them actually going pro is really small. And the pro don't give a @@## about what offense you played in college. The want to know the basics-what are your combine stats, do you work hard, what are your times, do you block, do you tackle, do you run good routes. The boring, mundane stuff.

We can all admit CGC is here b/c TS made the decision to ditch the TO-the fans are tired of it and so let's bring in something else. Change for change's sake.

At the end of the day, I don't care what offense/defense we run as long as we win-that's the only thing that matters. Either this hire goes really, really well or in 3-5 years we'll say that was a yuuuuge mistake. I can absolutely see CGC as a Dabo Swinney type and the first couple of years with DS I thought he was an idiot-but he recruited really well-he recruited great players AND he recruited great assistants. DS is a great salesman and he knows his strengths and his weaknesses-DS strengths are that he can sell . . .real well . . .weaknesses he can't be the OC and he can't be the DC.

If CGC plays to his strengths which is "recruiting" this could go really well-if CGC recruits the best DC and the best OC and the best players and doesn't try to monkey with what he doesn't know (i.e. offense) and just "repackages" the TO-which does work really, really well-as an "NFL offense, blah, blah, blah"-great he will probably do really, really well.

If he doesn't and he tries to wholesale change the offense or simply just brings his guys from Temple here-this will go really, really poorly. If he can be the Dabo Swinney of GT-this will be an awesome hire-if he tries to do anything else this will go very poorly.

We are so used to (after 11 years!) of having the HC as the OC that if we expect CGC to have as much control over the OC as CPJ bad news.

The old saying "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." might apply here. We'll find out in 3 years if this was good or bad-we won't need 7, you can tell in about 2-3 years by the coordinators he "recruits" and the players he "recruits" if this is going to work out.

CPJ downfall was that he could never "recruit" a good defensive coordinator . . .for whatever reason. If only one time during his 11 years we'd had an awesome defense we'd be National Champs.

But that's my 2 cents.
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Dude that silly diatribe was about a quarter’s worth, not two cents. And you should ask for your money back.
Blah blah blah...excuses excuses.
 
I finally watched the press conference. Someone needs to introduce Geoff to a tailor.

Also, he's either going to be successful and his shtick is going to put is in the national conversation again and it will be glorious. Or it's going to be one clusteröööö of incompetence covered up with douchy slogans and false bravado and the burning down of the program will be ööööing glorious as well. There's no "it is what it is" middle ground blandness with this guy. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
 
Ed Sawyer said:
I finally watched the press conference. Someone needs to introduce Geoff to a tailor.

Also, he's either going to be successful and his shtick is going to put is in the national conversation again and it will be glorious. Or it's going to be one clusteröööö of incompetence covered up with douchy slogans and false bravado and the burning down of the program will be ööööing glorious as well. There's no "it is what it is" middle ground blandness with this guy. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.
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Pretty good look
 
I didn’t think this deserved it’s own thread but perhaps it does. I am a EE from GT, so this is outside my wheelhouse. However, has there been any discussion on CGC’s Cherry Coke and his “thermodynamically opposed” styrofoam. Was he just kidding? Any truth to the plastic vs styro diff for carbo drinks? Any truth to the diff being due to thermo?

I assume that fizzy drinks in styro could be diff tban plastic. Just didnt see the thermo aspect. Am I overthinking any of it?
 
AugustaJacket said:
I didn’t think this deserved it’s own thread but perhaps it does. I am a EE from GT, so this is outside my wheelhouse. However, has there been any discussion on CGC’s Cherry Coke and his “thermodynamically opposed” styrofoam. Was he just kidding? Any truth to the plastic vs styro diff for carbo drinks? Any truth to the diff being due to thermo?

I assume that fizzy drinks in styro could be diff tban plastic. Just didnt see the thermo aspect. Am I overthinking any of it?
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Seriously I want some ST expert (fake or real, I don't care) to look into this and give me the lowdown
 
There is like “zero” chance that I’m the first one to ask which makes me think I’m missing the joke
 
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