Tampa, I got banned for the Hive because I would post LEGIT criticisms of our coaches at times, and it ruffled people's feathers. In every case with the exception of one, after my initial post, I would be attacked personally (kind of like your post to me) instead of someone refuting any evidence that I may have pointed out. It was like dealing with a bunch of cry babies who couldn't hear anything bad at all. So when I went on the attack, I got banned, and then told I was the one who started it. When in fact you had the same group of merry posters who would call me names, tell me that I'm a miserable person to be around, etc. etc. and that was tolerated. I've discussed this ad nauseum with JOJATK who I get along with and agree with a lot. I think he understands where I am coming from.
What's funny is there are a few posters on that board that have met me. AFR, GTDean, BuzzCut, DixieJacket, GTMoose, Vu, and some others. I don't think anyone who has personally met me would say to me what many have said on these boards. I'm a positive guy and I scream my head off for GT. I think it shows.
But when a Coach is lousy, I'm gonna call him out. And Nix was lousy, and YES, I KNOW that I could have called a better game than him. At halftime in the Wake game, I told my buddies that I don't understand why we are not running curl patterns until the cows come home. Its a high percentage pass play and easy for Reggie to complete. I said with the amount of cushion (as the orignal poster correctly stated) the Wake players were giving us, I would run 4 wide, one back sets and have everyone do curl routes, and let Reggie hit the easy curl or run it. I would mix that in with hand offs to Choice. And then when they started playing tight, then MAYBE I would start passing the ball deep.
So what happens? Nix comes out in the 2nd half and guess what... we drove down the field with curl routes and Reggie and Choice running. They never adjusted, and we start throwing the long bomb the rest of the game and low percentage pass plays to the outside of the field. Why? Choice was effective all day long. Why not drive it down their throats?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize what was working. And we didn't do it. On top of that we continuously played to our weakness which was putting Ball in 3rd and 6-7 passing situations. How many times did we pass on 1st down in the 2nd half?
I'm not saying I am a better coach than Nix. Far from it. I don't know techniques taught at the college level. I played football from 6th grade through HS, that is the extent of my experience. But I know enough football to say without a doubt that I could have actually called a better game given our playbook than what we did for UGA and Wake. In fact, I know a lot of people who could have.
Regardless, back to the point. You and others have major problems with these message boards that you really need to come to grips with. 1.) Its a message board. People like to talk about what is going on, not candy cane fantasys and sugar coated crap. I'm here to discuss GT football, the ins , the outs, the coaches, the players. That's what I'm here for. I don't want a shot of Bo-Tox.
Now listen closely, because I'm only going to say this once... WHY DOES THAT MAKE ME NEGATIVE? Why do people think I'm being negative? I truly don't understand this. This is the biggest fallacy of the message boards is that someone is negative because they have a gripe. someone has a gripe because they care and they want to express it to see if others tend to agree with them.
I'm not a negative person. I'm successful in my life, and have been through enough leadership programs to know what true leadership is. I'll put my career up against many. I have helped raise money for the GTAA and have gotten a lot of young people involved in supporting GT athletics. I've also put my money where my mouth is. True leadership is not sitting there idly by and being a cheerleader 24/7 on the sidelines. Leaders pose difficult questions AND look for positive outcomes. I questioned Dave Braine for his entire career at Tech and continuously called out his shortcomings. Others didn't and said "I trust Braine to make the right decision". Looking back on that, who was right? Was I being negative?
I'm not saying Gailey ought to be fired now. But he has shown some very bad trends that need to be corrected, and if we don;t question that, then we will continue to be force fed these negative results.
I only get pissed off when I put something out there for consideration, and then get attacked for doing it. Why can't you handle it? Why can't other guys handle it? What the hell is the problem? I'm not on here continually taking cheap shots, making insults and making generalizations as you claim. That's horse sh*t. I've made a lot of good points and typically I don't open my mouth about something unless there's evidence to support it. I think I've made some strong arguements in the past. And I think the original post makes some strong arguements too. Sure it isn't 100% correct, but I never said it was. But its pretty close to nailing what our problems and you can tell the guy loves GT because the emotion behind it.
Is he negative? Not in my opinion. He's just passionate. Wish more fans were like him.
I know I come across as arrogant to you, but a lot of that is not succumbing to people who continually make efforts to put me down. Being arrogant just pisses them off. To boot there are people on this board and others who are both Chan supporters and detractors that in my opinion (and I think many would agree) continually show their ignorance to football but more importantly GT athletics and the way things work. At some point after to responding to these people several times and getting nowhere, I just put them on my "short bus" list and move on. You typically don't see me post responses to people I find completely irrational, which is why I avoid many of the people who post on Buzzoff. Its also why I don't get into it with a few posters here that will remain nameless. What's the point? So I guess that makes me arrogant. Don't know.
