Duke is 5-1 AND currently beating the undefeated number 4 team in the country in its own stadium in the 4th quarter.
I'd give my left nut for Tech to do that.
I watched the NC State and Clemson games. They are disciplined and play hard.
Duke might very well wind up losing tonight, but - as you said - they have proven that they are a very good team. When will I be able to say that again about the Jackets?
To answer your question, it depends on what you consider a good team at this point? Are GT standards now 6-6 = good? How about 7-5? If so, maybe 2025 GT has a chance to get to 6-6. OOC schedule:
@ Colorado
Gardner-Webb
Temple
UGA
Add in auto ACC games with UofL, Clemson means GT needs to beat Colorado to go 3-1 OOC.
Overall problem is this. The GT alumni base & SW fans need to come together and work on the following:
1. Really put the schools feet to the fire to make changes showing a true buy in to football. Actions instead of words. People will come to the games if the product is worth seeing in person. For the better part of almost 7 years that hasn’t been the case. Before you or anyone else says it, yeah 7-6 in 2019. GT was blown out by every good team. Hell, Minnesota in the bowl game dominated GT on both sides of the ball in CPJ’s last game. The last good team GT fielded was 2016.
2. As a fanbase STOP with the annual excuses:
A. Quit blaming the GA BOR who have more GT alums than UGA.
B. Quit blaming the ACC for some mythical schedule bias against GT.
C. Stop blaming the team to the east, Clemson, Alabama, <fill in the blank> for the current state of the CFB arms race divide.
D. Stop comparing everything to the team to the east. They are an ocean sized gap ahead of GT. That would be the case regardless of if CPJ was still the HC. GT is closer to Vandy than they are to most ACC / SEC programs at the moment.
GT can and has proven they can compete at a very high level. As a SW fan I’m more than happy to contribute financially the day I see a change by the school showing they CARE one bit. Football can bring in a TON of $$$ to the school. Hiring coaches on the cheap continually going to aging alums while proclaiming how many “1 of X” GT alums are millionaires to bail out the GTAA’s failures has led to the position GT is in. There is absolutely no reason GT should have been turned down by the former Coastal Carolina now Liberty HC and the current coach of Tulane.
Fact is, GT has the 3rd best HC in the state of Georgia. Never thought I would see Georgia Southern have a more proven coach (Helton).
The 2023 season looks like a 4, maybe 5 win season. Despite the rough 2024 schedule GT has to go 6-6 and show a jump in the overall play on both sides of the ball and most of all eliminate the embarrassing coaching blunders like 10 men in the field, etc. 2025 needs to be another jump to 7-5, 8-4 or GT will be hiring a new staff again.
I’ll end this with one last thought…..If GT doesn’t fix the mess they are in, there is no way in hell the B1G provides GT with an offer when the ACC folds in the next few years. The GOR will be broken before 2036, I’d say Clemson or FSU breaks it before the end of 2028. That means GT has time to rebuild themselves into a product worthy of being a part of conference expansion. Otherwise, GT will be begging for an invite to the B12 or worse……
