Please explain to me what "being a businessman" (whatever that means) has to do with a football game? Running a football team is exactly like running a business. You train, motivate people, you analyze numbers, you are creative, you sell yourself to your supporters...all with the intent of growing your market share/beating your competition. Like I said before, RC Cola would destroy themselves if they took their (last) resources and took on Coke and Pepsi head on. That does not mean however that RC Cola can't be number 1 one day. These two thoughts are mutually exclusive just like Tech/UGA and Tech #1 in the nation (and state) could be mutually exclusive.
You somehow think that that the UGA loss is massively negative for our team. You know what would be really, really negative for our team from a recruiting and financial? Not playing them anymore.
That game sells out BDS every other year, with ticket prices that are 2-3 times more than any other game. How are you planning on replacing that revenue?
This is an excellent point and I appreciate it and believe it offers the most risk to any plan. However, as it stands, we are tethered to UGA and their ticket sales. I happen to believe that we can do a whole lot better on our own and breaking away from UGA allows us that chance(better).
An analogy to my thoughts would be the bully on your street as a kid. He's twice your size but boy do you want to kick his ass. He's the best player, draws the game to him, sets the field you play on and what time of day, etc. You keep getting the crap beaten out of you as your half his size. But one day, you grow up and leave the anger and the bully alone. You go work on your own game. You get back to enjoying it fully. You start to draw your own friends and create your own games and dang the season is longer and richer. The whole time the bully is making fun of you but because you've just ignored him, you start to find a way on your own, and people notice. And one day the bully is completely forgotten by everyone except you meet him back at high school. You're now the 6' tall handsome, highly intelligent, highly skilled young man and look across the field and see that that the bully is still 5'2" and hasn't changed a bit. It happens all the time in life, football and business. (I actually am not recommending go so far as to completely avoid the bully.)
If you think losing to UGA hurts us in recruiting, think of the negative recruiting that will come out of us backing out of the series. We will lose a ton of recruits from Georgia.
Like I said before, I think this is a given already. We are not getting anything close to our share of the elite state recruits. It could be academic and I see that we're looking nationwide now. I think that is a smart move and I can assure you that those New Jersey recruits could care less about UGA.
I don't think losing to FSU meant nothing. Thank you for this. I didn't make myself clear. Each game versus FSU was very important of course. I meant in the end, it didn't hurt us like losing to UGA does.
A win against FSU would have indicated that our program was good, which would have meant improved recruiting as a result (or a MNC if we're talking about 1998). You have a very defeatist attitude, especially considering that we have definitely not lost 11 in-a-row and have been very close to beating UGA in 3 of the last 5 games.
Yes, on the FSU comment, I agree. See above. As to UGA, if you step back and look at it like a coach would, we haven't been close. I don't want to lose but I really thought this last game would wake more of ya'll up. We played darn near perfect football...and lost.
Generally our weakest is probably mid-season, after we've played 5-6 consecutive games. That's when we have the most injuries, guys are tired and burned out from classes + football, etc. Last game of the year is not our weakest, we are playing at our best at the end of the year 9 out of 10 times.
Playing better at the end of the year in relation to other teams doing the same gets you no advantage. The single biggest killer we have is lack of star D1 athletes that can do Tech. That is, no depth. I'm sorry but lack of depth is more and more of a killer as the season goes on. (There are outliers of course.) Again, losing 2 OL out of 6 is much worse than losing 2 OL out of 10.
I could get behind scheduling them at the start of the year, but our strength/weakness has nothing to do with it. If we get them at the start, we have a whole season to redeem a loss, they have more players out due to suspensions, and hopefully they are not fully "gelled" on O and D.
Yes I do believe playing them early plays into our strengths a bit better but I prefer to believe that it has to do with added irregularity to teams starts in general, the fact that school has only just started (huge advantage to Tech), the fact that UGA can recruit 4/5 star three year players so they should have more turnover (equalizer for us if played early), less injuries (huge advantage us), etc.
But I am no coward and am facing the firing line straight on here. It also has to do with managing our opponent better, or more specifically, managing the overwhelming advantage that they have on us.
See start of post. Its absolutely not. But continue your trolling.
