ISO: AJ Suggs

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Taylor Bennett's passing statistics rank him near the bottom among Georgia Tech's starting quarterbacks under Chan Gailey:
Player, year Completion pct. Yds/game TDs Ints Rating
A.J. Suggs, 2002 57.3 172.5 15 12 111.8
Reggie Ball, 2004 49.7 178.9 16 18 109.4
Reggie Ball, 2006 44.4 140.0 20 14 107.2
Reggie Ball, 2003 51.7 153.5 10 11 102.8
Taylor Bennett, 2007 50.4 166.0 2 7 100.0
Reggie Ball, 2005 48.0 196.8 11 12 99.3
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http://www.ajc.com/gatech/content/sports/gatech/stories/2007/11/04/techfoot_1105.html

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Wow...so AJ Suggs starts only one year for Gailey and has the highest completion percentage. Reggie then comes in and his completion percentage goes down every year he starts. Now Taylor is not off to a good start. Sad.
 
gth816f said:
Wow...so AJ Suggs starts only one year for Gailey and has the highest completion percentage. Reggie then comes in and his completion percentage goes down every year he starts. Now Taylor is not off to a good start. Sad.
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Suggs got a bad rap IMO. He made mistakes at critical points, but he was not the horrible QB many made him out to be. He simply looked worse in comparison to our previous exceptional QBs.

It is odd that many here call to start Nesbitt over Bennett to "build for the future" when that is exactly what we did in starting Ball over Suggs. Overall, Suggs (as a senior) was a better QB than RB (as a freshman), but by calling a conservative game CG protected him early and RB did a good job. We stuck with RB over Suggs even when RB faltered. But that was okay (in theory) because we were "building for the future." The problem is "the future" never came.

In hindsight, (IMO) we should have started the best QB at the time at any given time and we might have won one or two more games per year.

It is ironic that we benched Suggs for poor performance as a senior when his freshman replacement kept his job despite worse performance as a senior.
 
The best QBs from high school still need training when they get to college. The less-than-best QBs from high school need lots of training. But this isn't so much the case for college QBs drafted by the pros. They just need to learn the system and then compete for a job.

I sense that our QBs have not received the developmental training they need to play proficiently at the college level. Ditto our receivers, except for Calvin who was All-World right from the get-go.

That is MHO and now I would like to read yours.
 
It appears, in hindsight, that Suggs definitely didn't deserve the crap he got.
 
I've posted it before, and I'll post it again. Every QB who has played under Gailey at Tech has gotten worse every year.

And, in retrospect, I feel very bad for the crap AJ got. Some was from me, and part of that may have been that he was the same high school class as me, and played for my school's big rival, who we never beat while I was a student (but Harrison did beat McEachern on Friday 40-6, so that's nice).

So, AJ, if you're out there, we're sorry.If you had followed RB, you'd have been wonderful. You just had to follow Goose and Lil' Joe (who I'm sorry had to be the honorary captain for the latest debacle).
 
Essobee said:
I sense that our QBs have not received the developmental training they need to play proficiently at the college level. Ditto our receivers, except for Calvin who was All-World right from the get-go.
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Our WR coaching is bad. I have been saying it for years. The dig on Calvin coming out of college was that he needed to learn good technique and how to run routes. Calvin was able to overcome bad WR coaching with freakish athletisism.
 
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