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I'll definately give a synopsis. I'll Tivo it, and I can get it to my computer, but I have no idea how to use bit torrent. If anyone wants to post a crash course on this, I'll be happy to put it up.
 
Nothing that would blow you out of the water. Just discussed the positives of our programs, addressed the marketing issues, stated he wanted to use the norths upper stands as a family friendly environment, wanted to put a good product on field for entertainment value, get the sidewalk fan, not schedule as tough a schedule because new and improved ACC, the new way info gets spread around in information age. All the stuff that you already know from being on here.
 
I know it just may be me, but I don't like the idea of having an easy OOC schedule. I'm not saying it has to be tough as hell but replace the troy and samford with maybe another sec and big ten or big twelve. I know it gets harder down the road.
 
refrigeratormover said:
I know it just may be me, but I don't like the idea of having an easy OOC schedule. I'm not saying it has to be tough as hell but replace the troy and samford with maybe another sec and big ten or big twelve. I know it gets harder down the road.
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I think it would be nice to make an adjustment because we have 3/4 tough games every year with UGA, VT, UM, and Clemson. Maryland and NCState aren't always walks in the park either so...you throw in a ND, or ALA or AU and all of a sudden you have 7 games that can go either way. I'm tired of people just looking at our record and saying this is a 7-5 team that belongs outside of the top 25 and don't pay attention to who the losses were against.
When you look in the paper do you research Boise States wins or TCU's? No. You see that they're 7-2 or 8-1 and I personally feel it makes us look worse than we actually are.
 
Would love to see Tennessee sometime in the future--can still remember games with pieces of their old tear-away jerseys littering the field.
 
wilmoo said:
Would love to see Tennessee sometime in the future--can still remember games with pieces of their old tear-away jerseys littering the field.
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I'd love to bust their ass!:grin:
 
refrigeratormover said:
I know it just may be me, but I don't like the idea of having an easy OOC schedule. I'm not saying it has to be tough as hell but replace the troy and samford with maybe another sec and big ten or big twelve. I know it gets harder down the road.
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I hear ya, John, but what makes it all happen in the long run is winning championships. I want to line up and play the best every week, but sometimes the team needs a team they can evaluate, adjust, and improve. It's a long hard season with only so many players. You know about the nicks and bruises more than any of us. Yeah, we need to be tougher, but we also need to compete.

Some of the teams we play just don't have the bashings we do week after week. We're not at this point the deepest team in the arena we play.

As every season comes, I look forward to the best teams we play each and every week. I want us to play the best. That being said, to win championships, we need to lighten up.

This is just my opinion at this point and time with the condition of our program. I think the best teams at any given conference would have the same opinion.

Go Jackets!! BEAT THEIR ASS!!!
 
Yup...an ACC schedule + UGA + 3 tough OOC games puts us at a competitive disadvantage when teams like VT are scheduling 4 patsies (most years, sometimes they'll schedule 1 tough team).

All those years Kansas State was scheduling the weak teams, people would comment on it and poke fun at them, but the pollsters only noticed the wins.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that we need name opponents to bring fans into BDS (currently) but winning more than 7-8 games a year will do that, too. I also enjoyed the road trip to Auburn and plan on making some of the future road trips to Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Army, etc. but it's really in the best interest of GT to try to schedule more like our competitors in the ACC.
 
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buzztheirazz said:
I'm tired of people just looking at our record and saying this is a 7-5 team that belongs outside of the top 25 and don't pay attention to who the losses were against.
When you look in the paper do you research Boise States wins or TCU's? No. You see that they're 7-2 or 8-1 and I personally feel it makes us look worse than we actually are.
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For years, I never agreed with this thought as I always wanted to see our guys play the Auburns (my wife's alum), the Alabamas, UT, ND, etc. as the OOC schedule. A lot of this has to do with what I grew up watching as a kid and who was on the schedule when I was in school. But now looking back on it, what credit did we really get for playing those teams? In fact, wasn't it John's team in the mid 80's that beat the best ACC team (Clemson) and beat the best of the SEC teams that year and got rewarded with the All American Bowl?

Did it help our bowl standing last year to beat Auburn? I know it made us all feel good (especially me) but to the bowl selection process, it apparently wouldn't have mattered if it had been Florida Atlantic. What if we had lost-I don't think moral victory would have been on anybody's mind and how might it have affected the UNC game that followed.

Somehow, we have to 'make it cool' to our fans for Tech to compete for the ACC conference championship and not just to beat OOC 50 year old rivals-I know, it is hard for me to even say that, but that is my belief for the future of the program. At this point, my belief is we would be better off with a 4-0 OOC to go with a 6-2/7-1 type in-conference record vs. beating Alabama and then going 5-3.

Doing this consistently will continue to drive the enthusiasm for the program and make the Miami/VTech/Clemson games the fans' season focus, the UNC/NC State/WF/Duke games become the 'want to watch' games and the preliminary OOC games become a way to check out new players, get experienced depth for backups, etc. UGA and Va Tech have done this for years and now Clemson has joined this mode- check Clemson's OOC schedule out.

When some media guy out in Minnesota looks at Clemson's 7-1 record, he'll put them in the top 15 because of their overall record and the name recognition, and completely overlook that they fattened up on Temple, Florida Atlantic, and La Tech to get halfway there.

I'm not saying we need three 1-AA's for OOC, but I think our sights should be set on the lower tier 1-A regional matchups like the Vanderbilts, Kentucky's, East Carolina, Florida Atlantics, and then maybe service academies and lower tier recruiting target areas like Baylor, Rice, Tulane come to mind.

Until the bowl selection process changes or a playoff system truly takes into account strength of schedule, I guess I question why we should be beating ourselves up with such a tough OOC schedule when there appears to be no payoff for wins and no credit for close losses.
 
:soapbox: When (not if) we get to the point where we are winning the ACC Championship, we had better have a decent OOC schedule. Look at what happened to Auburn in 2004. 13-0, SEC Champions and no chance at the National Championship because of a patsy OOC schedule. Plus, a winning team that plays quality opponents will put those "sidewalk fan" fannies into the seats @ BDS. And filling up BDS on a continuous basis ultimately helps our program overall.
 
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2ndgenjacket said:
For years, I never agreed with this thought as I always wanted to see our guys play the Auburns (my wife's alum), the Alabamas, UT, ND, etc. as the OOC schedule. A lot of this has to do with what I grew up watching as a kid and who was on the schedule when I was in school.
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There are thousands that still feel this way, me included.
This is actually the age old argument of "Does anyone really get excited about playing Wake Forest?"

The biggest scheduling issue we still have is many folks consider our major out of conference opponents to be the most attractive matchups, with the exception of Clemson.
As we know those opponents are mostly old sec foes, and there remains a ton of passion for many in those old rivalries.

I know that Dan is a smart man, and he wants to compete for conference championships. I do too.
However, he may come to realize that it's harder to fill all the seats when we host N Carolina versus a home date with Tenn.
Personally, I would love to be as fired up over Maryland as Auburn, but it's hard when I have never even met a terrapin fan in my life.

I am not arguing for any changes (like you know what). Just stating the way it has been.
 
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Familiarity breeds contempt, and its hard to be familiar with anyone north of the carolinas, and I really wish I could get as excited playing the North Carolina schools and north, but its just not in the cards. That said, reality has taken effect and I realize that our time playing Auburn is pretty much done, and I might see the white and gold against Bama/Vols once or twice a decade, so I'll just throw all the ununsed conference enthusiasm towards Clemson/the mutts/and to a less erexstint Miami, but thats mostly cause they've been good so long and I'd like to see them brought down a peg or two.
 
helluvaparamedic said:
:soapbox: When (not if) we get to the point where we are winning the ACC Championship, we had better have a decent OOC schedule. Look at what happened to Auburn in 2004. 13-0, SEC Champions and no chance at the National Championship because of a patsy OOC schedule. Plus, a winning team that plays quality opponents will put those "sidewalk fan" fannies into the seats @ BDS. And filling up BDS on a continuous basis ultimately helps our program overall.
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As long as UGAg is on our schedule, that would never happen to us. Auburn's OOC schedule was truly pathetic and it wouldn't have been a problem had they played a middle of the road BCS conference team (like us, who they should've played that year).

And as far as filling seats - winning does that as well. And a favorable schedule with 7 home games and a couple of easy OOC games will turn 7 win seasons to 9 win seasons consistently (didn't we have an AD that said it couldn't be done?)
 
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