I\'ve never been so conflicted/confused over a program in my whole life
Nor can I recall a team thats so up and down during the course of two seasons. A new one for me.
There are times, where I am thinking "geezz - we're on to something...Winning big games with a huge deficit in player numbers, depth etc...
- taking a risk on a true Frosh QB - gutsy, good move that a LOT of coaches wouldn't make -
- Good, solid game plans in those wins.
- Team played inspired, enthusiastic ball.
- Nice power running game; nice clutch drives to maintain leads.
- Good team chemistry
Then, OTOH - in the losses:
- Two bad losses this year, 3-4 last year. Also the kind of losses where all of the above were nowhere to be found.Also atypical types of losses for the Tech teams we are used to.
- Special teams inconsistency -> to outright bad on many occasions - inexplicably...
- Lack of motivation seemingly or lack of something that I can't put my finger on in these losses. Team out-of-sync...
Maybe its simply youth. Maybe the attrition is finally catching up (but with one game in 4-5 weeks, how could that be a factor?)
Maybe its the fact that we SO SO overacheived in the big wins and the FSU game, that the expectations became unrealistic ?
Maybe the coaches are learning how to deal with the college scenario (indicated by the improvement over last year), but still have a ways to go (?)
I can't believe that its November and I don't have any better feel for the shape of the program/staff than I had this summer
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Nor can I recall a team thats so up and down during the course of two seasons. A new one for me.
There are times, where I am thinking "geezz - we're on to something...Winning big games with a huge deficit in player numbers, depth etc...
- taking a risk on a true Frosh QB - gutsy, good move that a LOT of coaches wouldn't make -
- Good, solid game plans in those wins.
- Team played inspired, enthusiastic ball.
- Nice power running game; nice clutch drives to maintain leads.
- Good team chemistry
Then, OTOH - in the losses:
- Two bad losses this year, 3-4 last year. Also the kind of losses where all of the above were nowhere to be found.Also atypical types of losses for the Tech teams we are used to.
- Special teams inconsistency -> to outright bad on many occasions - inexplicably...
- Lack of motivation seemingly or lack of something that I can't put my finger on in these losses. Team out-of-sync...
Maybe its simply youth. Maybe the attrition is finally catching up (but with one game in 4-5 weeks, how could that be a factor?)
Maybe its the fact that we SO SO overacheived in the big wins and the FSU game, that the expectations became unrealistic ?
Maybe the coaches are learning how to deal with the college scenario (indicated by the improvement over last year), but still have a ways to go (?)
I can't believe that its November and I don't have any better feel for the shape of the program/staff than I had this summer
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