Mark "Sour Grapes" Bradley Article - My Jimmies are Rustled Edition

TennesseeJacket said:
The AJC gave GT lots of positive press when Bobby Dodd was head coach but that was the last time. I believe Bobby Dodd and Furman Bisher were friends and i think Furman Bisher was the host of the Bobby Dodd Show in the 1950s.
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I at one time would get upset at the "press." No longer. I think that happens as we get older.

Yeah, I would say Dodd and Bisher were friends. Dodd gave one of Bisher's sons a scholarship, eventhough the kid did not play the sport. AJC made Bisher decline/return it.

I read the latest article. Of course, there is the typical MB "smart assery" crap. (I think he still holds quite a grudge for the times Cremins beat Kentucky). But there are some solid points in there as well, not forgetting the shot he took at ugag as well.

I keep wondering if people felt this way about him when he said we were going to win the NCAA basketball championship?
 
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gt2690b said:
Fsu loss? I'm glad he didn't bring that up actually
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Forgot that one was in-between, but yeah either way, a 2pt loss to one of the playoff teams, and 5 straight wins before that to UGAg, Clemson, Virginia, NCSt., and Pitt. Picking that MSSt. game as a starting point is the very definition of cherry picking. That's like saying who has UGAg beaten since the squeaker against Nicholls and the miracle against Mizzou?
 
To use the beginning of last season as a starting point is not cherry picking. Would That terminology have worked better for you.

That said, we're barely halfway through this season. Plenty of time to either make something of it or screw the pooch. Let's wait and see how it turns out before making definitive judgment.

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Anyone listen to the radio show? CPJ brought it up again saying some writers around town like to cherry pick stats to say whatever they want. He could do the same with "circulation" numbers if he wanted to.
http://gtathletics.libsyn.com/
 
staggerwing said:
The guy has been an asshole in the past, but nothing he said in that article is inaccurate.
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This makes two seasons running that Roof’s oft-criticized defenders have been the better part of Tech football.
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His entire premise is totally inaccurate, as is shown by the FEI ratings. Last year they were roughly equivalent. This year the offense is much better. The only valid point he makes is that the ACC is getting good at football and we will have to adapt to keep up.
 
gtcole said:
Anyone listen to the radio show? CPJ brought it up again saying some writers around town like to cherry pick stats to say whatever they want. He could do the same with "circulation" numbers if he wanted to.
http://gtathletics.libsyn.com/
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Yes I had a chance to listen intently on a drive up to Charlotte. I couldn't stop laughing at that dig, so awesome.

They also spent some time talking Offensive efficiency and such, and he talked how we run half of the plays that were run in games like the TT / Okla game or whichever. And if we ran twice as many plays, we'd be scoring twice as many points. He tied it to depth issues that we have, and that statistics don't really mean anything; all that matters is who scores the most points.
 
coit said:
Yes I had a chance to listen intently on a drive up to Charlotte. I couldn't stop laughing at that dig, so awesome.

They also spent some time talking Offensive efficiency and such, and he talked how we run half of the plays that were run in games like the TT / Okla game or whichever. And if we ran twice as many plays, we'd be scoring twice as many points. He tied it to depth issues that we have, and that statistics don't really mean anything; all that matters is who scores the most points.
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If we hurried up and tried to run twice the plays we would probably have a lot of 3 and outs
 
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