Rate Geoff Collins First Season

Yesterday’s performance had less to do with injuries or “transformation” of roster / scheme and more to do with the team simply being unprepared to play—that’s on the coaching staff. Look no further than the delay of game on the first play from scrimmage as evidence.

I’ll give CGC and staff credit for cleaning up some of the boneheaded defensive penalties killing the team in the first half of the season, but yesterday was a major regression in terms of overall preparedness and in-game composure.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
We’re also hurt as öööö. Many starters and key players from earlier in the year were out or playing in a limited capacity.

for example...
Antwan Owens
Charlie Thomas
Chico Bennett
Jahaziel Lee
Kaleb Oliver
Chris Martin
Bruce Jordan Swilling
Kelton Dawson

...and I probably didn’t even get them all.
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I really get the feeling CGC had guys get surgeries and rehab this year, rather than playing hurt and waiting until their college career ended to get the surgeries. It is a benefit of taking a bye year.
 
Going into the season, I thought we'd see a mostly competitive team with some ups and downs and hoped to see steady improvement, fundamentally, in a "transition" year. Given the new branding, rah-rah stuff from CGC and recruiting performance, I had greater optimism than the Vegas folks were giving us in terms of wins. I suppose it's a good thing I am not a big gambler. LOL

However, going in to yesterday, we had essentially done what I expected albeit with a starting point much, much behind where I thought the team was. With the idea of CDP "adapting to his players", I actually thought we'd see more option than we have. I think at some point, they decided to rip the band-aid off and it has shown. Throw in some pretty key losses on OL thru injury or transfer, a completely new scheme there and you have the recipe for what we've seen on O this year. Plus we are extremely young. So, I was good going into yesterday, but it was a definite step back IMO. Not sure if it was the realization of the year coming to an end setting in, the matchup against VT or what.

Can't judge the season by one game however, and we still have two more to go. I am a wait and see kind of guy as I don't think even one year is enough to judge on especially given the significant scheme change. I do worry that the anti-CGC folks (too much rah-rah and not enough substance) may end up being right, but again, only time will tell. There are some positive signs as well.

Overall, I'd give his progress report a B-/C right now with several reasons to be optimistic yet on-field performance bringing it back down. Branding and recruiting needed help. So far that is trending up. I don't see the team giving up yet and see a ton of effort. That seems pretty steady if not a sign of kids buying in. Fundamentals on D (tackling, etc) seem to be improving. He largely gets a pass due to offensive scheme transition and general team youth. On O, we have had a drop off in the OL pipeline coming in regardless of scheme and then key transfers and injuries. A thin OL and no quality experience at QB largely sums up reasons for O performance. Camp getting injured didn't help either.
 
aeromech said:
err, Alabama's 2008 class was ranked third behind Miami and Notre Dame.
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What's your point? It was one of the best classes in NCAA history, and is commonly regarded as such. 5 future 1st round picks from that class.
 
AugustaJacket said:
Going into the season, I thought we'd see a mostly competitive team with some ups and downs and hoped to see steady improvement, fundamentally, in a "transition" year. Given the new branding, rah-rah stuff from CGC and recruiting performance, I had greater optimism than the Vegas folks were giving us in terms of wins. I suppose it's a good thing I am not a big gambler. LOL

However, going in to yesterday, we had essentially done what I expected albeit with a starting point much, much behind where I thought the team was. With the idea of CDP "adapting to his players", I actually thought we'd see more option than we have. I think at some point, they decided to rip the band-aid off and it has shown. Throw in some pretty key losses on OL thru injury or transfer, a completely new scheme there and you have the recipe for what we've seen on O this year. Plus we are extremely young. So, I was good going into yesterday, but it was a definite step back IMO. Not sure if it was the realization of the year coming to an end setting in, the matchup against VT or what.

Can't judge the season by one game however, and we still have two more to go. I am a wait and see kind of guy as I don't think even one year is enough to judge on especially given the significant scheme change. I do worry that the anti-CGC folks (too much rah-rah and not enough substance) may end up being right, but again, only time will tell. There are some positive signs as well.

Overall, I'd give his progress report a B-/C right now with several reasons to be optimistic yet on-field performance bringing it back down. Branding and recruiting needed help. So far that is trending up. I don't see the team giving up yet and see a ton of effort. That seems pretty steady if not a sign of kids buying in. Fundamentals on D (tackling, etc) seem to be improving. He largely gets a pass due to offensive scheme transition and general team youth. On O, we have had a drop off in the OL pipeline coming in regardless of scheme and then key transfers and injuries. A thin OL and no quality experience at QB largely sums up reasons for O performance. Camp getting injured didn't help either.
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Not judging on one game, but our offense has been a shitshow most of the season. Not low talent/new scheme bad, but horrifically awful.

Clemson (I won’t count because the gap is so big between our programs)

USF - terrible
Cit - terrible
Temple - historically terrible
Duke - bad
UNC - bad
Miami - good
Pitt - bad
UVa - good
VT - historically terrible

Keep in mind ‘good’ is really more along the lines of average. The UVa game was really good 1st half and bad the second.

The OL is responsible for the early woes, but the VT game wasn’t talent. We got outcoached. They had guys running free all day long based on scheme and playcalling.
 
BuzzFeitenSystem said:
What was this board like in 2015 when we got only 3 wins.. it’s not like mediocrity, low talent along the lines, and mass injuries is something completely new and out of left field for tech in the last 5 years. Some of y’all act like we plummeted from championship competitors from last year. And that really happened in 2015 comparably..

This situation and what CGC is doing is a total burn everything to the ground and start over from scratch as it should be
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We said something like “best 3 win team in the nation” and “good teams don’t lose 5 in row”
 
I don’t even know half of our players names whenever a play is made. Who the heck is Ryan...on DL?

Paul Johnson left us with the cupboard completely bare. And I’ve always feared the transition year whenever he left.

No point in grading the season. Take your medicine like a man because you knew it had to happen.
 
Diseqc said:
Johnson was the major pussy for quitting on this team just because he knew this year and next were going to suck ass and he'd be fired. He decided to take his "legacy" and go home
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I don’t think he’s a pussy, but he did quit on Tech. For whatever reason.

He’s gone now, and the issue is that we hired a clown to replace him.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
We’re also hurt as öööö. Many starters and key players from earlier in the year were out or playing in a limited capacity.

for example...
Antwan Owens
Charlie Thomas
Chico Bennett
Jahaziel Lee
Kaleb Oliver
Chris Martin
Bruce Jordan Swilling
Kelton Dawson

...and I probably didn’t even get them all.
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Kenny Cooper
Jalen Camp
Brandon Adams
Antonneous Clayton (NCAA bs)
Parker Braun...
I’m sure there’s more too. But that’s THIRTEEN players we currently cannot play.

And having a 2015 injury type of season DURING the transitional year...yeah, there’s no coach in the history of college football who could have gotten this bunch bowl eligible.
 
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Allen Koholic said:
I don’t think he’s a pussy, but he did quit on Tech. For whatever reason.

He’s gone now, and the issue is that we hired a clown to replace him.
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"For whatever reason"
Own it. He quit because he knew what was coming and didn't want a firing on his legacy. He filled his coaching roster with sycophants and shit recruiters who couldn't get a FBS coaching job anywhere else. When that caught up to him, he bailed like a pussy.
 
In CGC’s mind apparently, Temple is the standard bearer for what Tech will become.

What achievements there is he expecting us fans to look forward to? Can anyone take a stab at that?

I really don’t get why he brings them into the picture at all.
 
Diseqc said:
"For whatever reason"
Own it. He quit because he knew what was coming and didn't want a firing on his legacy. He filled his coaching roster with sycophants and öööö recruiters who couldn't get a FBS coaching job anywhere else. When that caught up to him, he bailed like a pussy.
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That might be some of it. He also seems to be angry at the AA for being misers. It doesn’t matter why he left though. He’s gone. He would have been fired this year anyways.
 
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