Post Louisville Game Discussion 9.2.2023

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swampsting said:
I noticed in the second quarter McKenney went in for Robinson and that's when the O started to look like an offense.
When did Williams get hurt? Did Leftwich go in for him?
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Q2 and Scaglione went in just when things got better
 
swampsting said:
O line looked bad early
Looked great in second quarter
Reverted to former selves for first 28 minutes of second half
Singleton showed tremendous promise on last possession
But if King/Pyron/Gibson can’t get time to throw, there will be no deep passing game

Defense was … just not very good
Open receivers. Zero pressure on Plummer (with whom I was not overly impressed). Just awful tackling in space. And D line got manhandled most of the night
My biggest fears coming in were O line, receiver experience and everything except for safeties on D
Most of the fears remain

The third down play calling on the one drive that ended in the short field goal miss reeked of playing for a FG instead of going for a kill shot

In summation - we still have a very long way to go
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Even though both teams were rolling out new offenses, UL’s qb had 3 years in the Brohm system. The most important player on offense was completely comfortable (and receiving next to no pressure). They scored 39 on us. We scored 34 on them. Our O looked good considering.

Our D gets no such grace period. They are in year 5 of the system. Still no pass rush. Still very little halftime adjustments. Maybe Thacker needs to be up in the box.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
A lot of young players. King had a bad game. He showed up and not in a good way. No surprise to see Tatum and Powell-Lee as the highest graded.
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I don't think King had a great game, but I don't see why you say he had a bad game. Given better overall play-calling, I think he would been more than just good.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
Based on what I saw tonight, Buster Faulkner is no better than Long or P'Nut. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE offensive play calling. And, of course, as has been the case for the last 20 years, we can not tackle. PERIOD.
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Tackling was not a problem with Ace and Charlie around. But it sure was Friday.
 
KrazieJacket said:
Sounds like key has four games to fix this crap. But that’s not GT football, we will give him 4 years.
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It's one game. If we had won, some of you bitches would be ööööö each other's ööööö. A coach generally needs more than one game before being judged - as either an immortal hero or a crushing failure. Unless he's a complete clown. And Brent Key is clearly not that.

I was not for this hire as many of you can recall, but it wasn't a ridiculous, terrible hire, and that is water under the bridge anyway. Time to get on board. Barring some catastrophic debacle, he will have my support for at least the remainder of this year. And most importantly, he's Tech's coach. And as long as he is, I will root for him to win every game.

I would like to think folks can table the coaching talk until the man has had at least a full year at the helm. But sadly, I know better.
 
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WracerX said:
Even though both teams were rolling out new offenses, UL’s qb had 3 years in the Brohm system. The most important player on offense was completely comfortable (and receiving next to no pressure). They scored 39 on us. We scored 34 on them. Our O looked good considering.

Our D gets no such grace period. They are in year 5 of the system. Still no pass rush. Still very little halftime adjustments. Maybe Thacker needs to be up in the box.
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Plummer made some nice throws and decent runs but put King or Pyron in that offense and they may have scored 50 on us. He threw into coverage far too often and missed an easy TD throw on their first drive of the second half (the umpire had their wide open TE blanketed). He's no speed burner with the ball in his hands, either.
Offense had one scoring drive over 3 minutes. We had big plays, which are fine (the hitch screen to Lane in the boundary for the score was a nice scheme, with trips to the wide side, pulling most of their secondary over that way). But better defenses are going to take those away and make us drive the football. And that falls on the O line to be consistent. We looked awesome for a quarter. We were garbage on offense in the first quarter. We also had good starting field position in the second and third quarter - averaging our own 36.
 
1982Jacket said:
It's one game. If we had won, some of you bitches would be ööööö each other's ööööö. A coach generally needs more than one game before being judged - as either an immortal hero or a crushing failure. Unless he's a complete clown. And Brent Key is clearly not that.

I was not for this hire as many of you can recall, but it wasn't a ridiculous, terrible hire, and that is water under the bridge anyway. Time to get on board. Barring some catastrophic debacle, he will have my support for at least the remainder of this year. And most importantly, he's Tech's coach. And as long as he is, I will root for him to win every game.

I would like to think folks can table the coaching talk until the man has had at least a full year at the helm. But sadly, I know better.
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Case in point: Norvell at FSU.
 
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1982Jacket said:
It's one game. If we had won, some of you bitches would be öööööeach other's ööööö. A coach generally needs more than one game before being judged - as either an immortal hero or a crushing failure. Unless he's a complete clown. And Brent Key is clearly not that.

I was not for this hire as many of you can recall, but it wasn't a ridiculous, terrible hire, and that is water under the bridge anyway. Time to get on board. Barring some catastrophic debacle, he will have my support for at least the remainder of this year. And most importantly, he's Tech's coach. And as long as he is, I will root for him to win every game.

I would like to think folks can table the coaching talk until the man has had at least a full year at the helm. But sadly, I know better.
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savbandjacket said:
Case in point: Norvell at FSU.
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The previous 4 years have probably caused a lot of people to lose faith in the idea of improvement actually occurring. In fact the main improvement we saw over that stretch was the before/after of firing a coach, so not hard to loop back to it.
 
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WracerX said:
Even though both teams were rolling out new offenses, UL’s qb had 3 years in the Brohm system. The most important player on offense was completely comfortable (and receiving next to no pressure). They scored 39 on us. We scored 34 on them. Our O looked good considering.

Our D gets no such grace period. They are in year 5 of the system. Still no pass rush. Still very little halftime adjustments. Maybe Thacker needs to be up in the box.
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Lots of UL penalties was one of our best way of moving the ball.
 
GTYJ said:
Lots of UL penalties was one of our best way of moving the ball.
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Most of our offense in the 2nd quarter was due to big plays. Most of those didn’t involve more than hand slapping on UL part. When they weren’t confused, they stopped us. We just weren’t good enough to impose our will on them when they knew what and where the play was coming from.
 
GTLiebs said:
The previous 4 years have probably caused a lot of people to lose faith in the idea of improvement actually occurring. In fact the main improvement we saw over that stretch was the before/after of firing a coach, so not hard to loop back to it.
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I also think that CBK won't be playing favorites at any position as well as placing guys on short leashes and yanking them out if they are not performing.
 
That corner blitz we ran right into a hitch and go for UL to go up a touchdown late was pretty brutal.
 
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