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mookie43

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As if we needed anything else to go against us….we are probably playing the worst home schedule in a long time

Bad things about it…..

1) Only six home games not seven.
2). Arguably the second best of those is Clemson….at MBS….on a Monday night
3) Only five home games at BDS
4). Three home games the first three weeks of the season……then only three the rest of the season

Teams
Clemson….Monday night in MBS….on national TV
Western Carolina….no crowd
Ole Miss….best game at home probably next season
Duke….no crowd
Miami
Virginia

Not a lot to get excited about for a team that won’t go into the season generating a lot of excitement.
 
Playing devil's advocate here. We basically trade out ND for Ole Miss, UCF for NIU, F$U for BC, WCU for KSU. All things being equal to this year game-wise and using CGC's improvements we can't see progress (we're this >< close)...

Assuming our DC (Collins?) is good enough to save 1 TD/game over Thacker and the OC is one TD better than Patenaude (not a big ask), we would close the gap on UGA(g), Ole Miss and Pitt, but not win. The other 9 games would be wins. The bar is set at 8. The margin for error is one game.
 
If Collins is our DC nothing will change on defense. He’ll still be dabbing guys up after they get burned or miss a tackle. He needs to stick to his athletic trainer/ball spotting positions and get a DC who likes to tear into someone’s backside - the football way.
 
OptionJacket said:
If Collins is our DC nothing will change on defense. He’ll still be dabbing guys up after they get burned or miss a tackle. He needs to stick to his athletic trainer/ball spotting positions and get a DC who likes to tear into someone’s backside - the football way.
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As I said in the other thread, I can't see him trusting anyone else with his coaching future on the defensive side. But, okay, let's assume he's no better. If the new OC can still improve by 1 TD/game in the above scenario, they win 7 games. That just misses the bar. Then, again, in both of those instances, he's bought himself a bowl game to get that eighth win.

Which brings up another interesting hypothetical. The above would put them at 7-5 (5-3). That's Miami's current position this season. Projections have Miami in the Sun (Wash. St.), Pinstripe (Minnesota), Holiday (Ariz. St.). If you're needing a bowl game to save your job, do you go to one of those games, or do you look for a pool opening in the Lending Tree or RoofClaim.com bowl?
 
The only two winnable games I see are Western Carolina and Duke and given our history against the Citadel and NIU I would not say WC is a lock. All the tough ACC games are on the road. UVA owns us. Even if a miracle occurs and we win 4, how is that progress? 2-10 is nearly a lock for next year. BDS@HGF will be a ghost town for every game save Ole Miss and Hotty Toddy will invade us like the Dwags did. We are living in the dark ages of Tech Football.
 
DixieJacket said:
The only two winnable games I see are Western Carolina and Duke and given our history against the Citadel and NIU I would not say WC is a lock. All the tough ACC games are on the road. UVA owns us. Even if a miracle occurs and we win 4, how is that progress? 2-10 is nearly a lock for next year. BDS@HGF will be a ghost town for every game save Ole Miss and Hotty Toddy will invade us like the Dwags did. We are living in the dark ages of Tech Football.
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Just curious. How many games did you predict they'd win this year?
 
Duke is getting a new coach. Don't know how much that will impact them.
Ole Miss still has Lane. They're losing Corral but you gotta figure Lane will have a QB by then.
FSU looks like it has started to figure things out under Norvell. They still suck but they are starting to suck less. Unless like us. We suck. And there's no end in sight to it.
Pickett is gone from Pitt (Thank God) and shouldn't Armstrong be through at UVa? That could help with both of those games because those guys just flat killed us.
I'm not going to jump up and down and call this an 8 or 9 win schedule, because it isn't. I really don't know what it is, given we're going into the season without Gibbs (God forbid he winds up at Ole Miss).
But if Clown takes a stronger hand in the defense ... it's going to be a long, bad season.

I was ruminating on something from either that first spring or that first camp under Clown, when David Curry was talking about all the different blitzes they were running through in practice. And yet, it didn't seem as if we ran many or any of them. Which means Clown pretty much wasted a bunch of practice time going through defenses they were never going to call.
I wonder if he'll revive the 10-10-10 club this offseason for all of this year's "close losses."
 
Playing on Labor Day Monday night is always a positive and never a bad thing.

If we win it gives us a 3hr National Commercial that shows that GT FB is headed in the right direction.

Maybe we can springboard the momentum of a win into a great season.

Always good for the program to be the only Game on TV in Prime Time.
 
swampsting said:
I was ruminating on something from either that first spring or that first camp under Clown, when David Curry was talking about all the different blitzes they were running through in practice. And yet, it didn't seem as if we ran many or any of them. Which means Clown pretty much wasted a bunch of practice time going through defenses they were never going to call.
I wonder if he'll revive the 10-10-10 club this offseason for all of this year's "close losses."
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Just maybe........

After seeing us and David Curry attempt those blitzes in Practice, the guy you call a Clown that was also smart enough to be a DC in the best Conference in America was also smart enough to know that we'll never be able to execute these blitzes vs Legit P5 Competition, and that's the reason he didn't call them in Games.

What Fans think they know and what is reality behind the scenes don't always align
 
PressManCoverage said:
Playing on Labor Day Monday night is always a positive and never a bad thing.

If we win it gives us a 3hr National Commercial that shows that GT FB is headed in the right direction.

Maybe we can springboard the momentum of a win into a great season.

Always good for the program to be the only Game on TV in Prime Time.
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Yea, just like the Notre Dame game was. A National television audience watched on NBC for 3 hours as we were humiliated 55-0 and witnessed first hand how far Tech football has sunk. How exactly is that good for our program?
 
DixieJacket said:
Yea, just like the Notre Dame game was. A National television audience watched on NBC for 3 hours as we were humiliated 55-0 and witnessed first hand how far Tech football has sunk. How exactly is that good for our program?
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I clearly wrote if we win, I always assume we'll play good FB no matter who is coaching
 
Some of this Super Senior bullcrap will be done. That helps us. I still see 8 as too high of a bar. I couldn’t imagine Collins getting canned if we make a bowl. That’s clear, tangible progress at that point. Anything less and I’d imagine we move on.
 
One needs only to recognize we’re already talking about next season while 70-80 teams are awaiting their bowl designation to know we are in a dumpster fire and clown boy is out collecting more gasoline.

We didn’t even come close to a bowl game this year. We lost 100 to friggin 0 our last two games. 100-0! We are an absolute joke.

The over/under on total wins next year will probably be 3.5, and if any of us had to bet with our brain we’d take the under.

Following our losses to Clemson and Ole Miss (and geez, Western Carolina may beat us too), our stadium will be a ghost town.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Some of this Super Senior bullcrap will be done. That helps us. I still see 8 as too high of a bar. I couldn’t imagine Collins getting canned if we make a bowl. That’s clear, tangible progress at that point. Anything less and I’d imagine we move on.
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Progress isn't the metric for next year. The decision was made barring a dramatic improvement.
 
18in32 said:
It almost sounds like you’ve really talked yourself into that.
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Nope, just a hypothetical based on CGC's twisted improvement metrics. I'm waiting to see how the staff and recruiting shakes out before forming an opinion.
 
clapper said:
Playing devil's advocate here. We basically trade out ND for Ole Miss, UCF for NIU, F$U for BC, WCU for KSU. All things being equal to this year game-wise and using CGC's improvements we can't see progress (we're this >< close)...

Assuming our DC (Collins?) is good enough to save 1 TD/game over Thacker and the OC is one TD better than Patenaude (not a big ask), we would close the gap on UGA(g), Ole Miss and Pitt, but not win. The other 9 games would be wins. The bar is set at 8. The margin for error is one game.
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The gap on UGA is 45-0 (after taking their foot off the pedal). So, we're hoping for 38-7. Cool. Closing the gap. It's about "margin" with the Used Car Salesman. That's the new buzzword, right? Creating "margin"?
 
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