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BrentwoodJacket said:
What bothers me the most is no one on the team seems to be mad about losing. Everyone from Collins down seems more interested in staying positive and having a good time. If you do not hate to lose, you will keep losing.
I do not see anyone on the team improving from season to season under Collins. Instead they seem to be regressing.
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I think calling out 20 somethings is often frowned upon… but the Players themselves need to look in the mirror. They should never have allowed themselves to get down by 2 TDs to NIU. There were opportunities early to break the game open, and they did not capitalize. They need to sack up and play better for themselves first of all, and for all of their supporters secondly.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
What bothers me the most is no one on the team seems to be mad about losing. Everyone from Collins down seems more interested in staying positive and having a good time. If you do not hate to lose, you will keep losing.
I do not see anyone on the team improving from season to season under Collins. Instead they seem to be regressing.
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When you’ve become used to losing, it doesn’t bother you as much. Especially if your HC can rationalize it all away. Only the seniors have experienced anything close to a winning season & bowl invite.
 
Beej1953 said:
Maybe Collins will market a “404” brand of bourbon. Tag line, “Designed especially for people who watch GT play football”
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Bourbon is for people who watch Tennessee or Miss St. For us, it needs to be Everclear.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
I think calling out 20 somethings is often frowned upon… but the Players themselves need to look in the mirror. They should never have allowed themselves to get down by 2 TDs to NIU. There were opportunities early to break the game open, and they did not capitalize. They need to sack up and play better for themselves first of all, and for all of their supporters secondly.
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I have seen Saban and Dabo yell at players on the sideline. I have never seen Collins get upset about anything.
Have we benched a starter since Collins arrived? I can not recall one other than switching kickers after obvious disasters. Kicking is one of multiple position groups where players seem to perform worse after working with our coaches.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
I think calling out 20 somethings is often frowned upon… but the Players themselves need to look in the mirror. They should never have allowed themselves to get down by 2 TDs to NIU. There were opportunities early to break the game open, and they did not capitalize. They need to sack up and play better for themselves first of all, and for all of their supporters secondly.
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I agree. Vegas is rarely wrong when setting lines. We were an 18 point favorite for a reason and we didn't perform to the level the experts thought we would have.

Make hype videos all day long for all I care as long as you are dialed in on game day. Plus, winning is fun and making those videos after a win will feel a heck of a lot less hollow than after a bad loss.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
I have seen Saban and Dabo yell at players on the sideline. I have never seen Collins get upset about anything.
Have we benched a starter since Collins arrived? I can not recall one other than switching kickers after obvious disasters. Kicking is one of multiple position groups where players seem to perform worse after working with our coaches.
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Collins IMO goes too far running a snowflake positivity camp.
The old school marine drill instructor thing doesn’t work any more, but you can set high expectations with intolerance for failure. Emotional intelligence includes anger when appropriate. Like the NIU coach said “we knew we would win because we were tougher than them”.
 
We get the players who want to have fun. The other programs get the players who want to win.
 
Two things I do really appreciate about CPJ in hindsight are (1) impeccable game and clock management, and (2) relentlessly attacking weaknesses. If CPJ saw something was working, he didn't give 2 s***s about balance and would put his boot on another team's weakness until they made it not work anymore. We could have used both those items yesterday.
 
Flywheel said:
Two things I do really appreciate about CPJ in hindsight are (1) impeccable game and clock management, and (2) relentlessly attacking weaknesses. If CPJ saw something was working, he didn't give 2 s***s about balance and would put his boot on another team's weakness until they made it not work anymore. We could have used both those items yesterday.
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CPJ really wanted to win. I do not see that fire in Collins.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
I think calling out 20 somethings is often frowned upon… but the Players themselves need to look in the mirror. They should never have allowed themselves to get down by 2 TDs to NIU. There were opportunities early to break the game open, and they did not capitalize. They need to sack up and play better for themselves first of all, and for all of their supporters secondly.
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Make a ööööing FG. Throw a catchable pass.
 
Flywheel said:
Bourbon is for people who watch Tennessee or Miss St. For us, it needs to be Everclear.
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I used to make infusions with golden grain as part of an experiment to see if I could replace Southern Comfort 100 after they changed the recipe. Pretty good actually, and a cheaper buzz per alcohol volume than anything else on the shelf. The filtration process was pretty annoying though.
 
It would seem to me at this point somebody in Collins position might call on sage counsel or advice. Just anybody and everybody, preferably w/Tech bona fides. But say "look, I don't doubt what we're doing but can you point out what we're doing wrong that I'm not seeing?" There's a term for this kind of thing which escapes me in the moment but that is clearly where he is. Will he do it? Can he do it?
 
coit said:
As @GT90 noted, his 50 yarder didn't even make it to the posts.
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I’m pretty sure it was the longer FG attempt (the second one) where he slipped and fell on his butt. Not representative of his leg, the turf got him.

I’m thinking this turf thing is one of the worst of Stansbury’s ideas - it’s ugly and it seems like it kind of sucks to play on.

JRjr
 
vapspwi said:
I’m pretty sure it was the longer FG attempt (the second one) where he slipped and fell on his butt. Not representative of his leg, the turf got him.

I’m thinking this turf thing is one of the worst of Stansbury’s ideas - it’s ugly and it seems like it kind of sucks to play on.

JRjr
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NIU seemed to have cleats that worked on the turf much better than ours did. Is this an Adidas issue?
 
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