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thracer

thracer

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It's obvious that we ran out of gas in the 4th quarter yesterday. Which raises the question of our strength and conditioning program. It was sunny but not super hot or humid. We had white uniforms on. Really no reason to wilt like we did. Very disappointing.

And from a mental standpoint, the flukish pick six was a shocker and a great athletic play, but we recovered from that and took the lead back. To me, the missed extra point was really the big momentum shift in the game. You could feel the palpable sense of dread in the stadium when that happened. It was like the momentum from that touchdown was instantly diluted. And sure enough, we did not score another point after that.

We've got to stay strong and aggressive mentally for 60 minutes. We did it in the Miami game. Why we can't do it in front of a home crowd is beyond me.

Sigh.
 
thracer said:
It's obvious that we ran out of gas in the 4th quarter yesterday. Which raises the question of our strength and conditioning program. It was sunny but not super hot or humid. We had white uniforms on. Really no reason to wilt like we did. Very disappointing.

And from a mental standpoint, the flukish pick six was a shocker and a great athletic play, but we recovered from that and took the lead back. To me, the missed extra point was really the big momentum shift in the game. You could feel the palpable sense of dread in the stadium when that happened. It was like the momentum from that touchdown was instantly diluted. And sure enough, we did not score another point after that.

We've got to stay strong and aggressive mentally for 60 minutes. We did it in the Miami game. Why we can't do it in front of a home crowd is beyond me.

Sigh.
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We were thinking the same thing on that PAT. It's just crazy how seemingly fast we went from being up to getting WAY behind the 8-ball (end 3Q until mid 4Q).

- Busted play (appeared) where Castellanos found his TE wide open down to 1st and goal. Dude actually caught it after having bricks for hands earlier in the game. We gave their QB a TON of time on a 2nd and 7 earlier in that drive where he hit a receiver downfield over the the middle too.
- We stall around midfield after a penalty and King trips on a scramble on 3 and 15. Punt.
- Next drive they have a gift from the refs as that ball skips to the receiver. Watching the YT replay, it seems to be clear as day. Can't believe our sideline didn't go nuts on that one. Two plays later, 4 and 1, we left Castellanos through a hole in the line for the long TD run.
- On 2nd and 10, Kind inexplicably throws that INT off his back foot, WAY short into 3 on 2 coverage allowing the defender to catch it. He could have run for a few yards and likely set us up for 3rd and mid-range. Had a man spying on him so maybe it would have only been a short gain, but there was zero reason to not plant and throw there. Just a bad mistake.
- Next play, RB up the middle for 1st and goal. Play later...TD.

We score to go up with 1 and half to go in the 3Q and we are down 15 by 7 and half left in game. Just crazy.
 
coit said:
Dude you don’t get it. The problem is clearly that our field doesn’t look good and that we didn’t wear gold pants.
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You realize most of us, you are the exception, are capable of more than one topic at a time? Absolutely nobody blames the loss on the field. We also don't care if we win on it or lose on it to be able to recognize it looks like crap.
 
coit said:
Dude you don’t get it. The problem is clearly that our field doesn’t look good and that we didn’t wear gold pants.
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I totally understand what you’re trying to do here, but the reality is our program has been dumped so deep into the pits we’re all pissed and will bitch about absolutely anything. If we were coming off of back to back 10+ win seasons and W’s over Clemson and uga and hadn’t lost to FCSesque schools, no one would give a öööö about how ugly our field looks. We’d probably still whine about it because that’s human nature, but no one would perseverate on it. Tech has bred this combination of disgust, anger, and apathy/not-apathy. With each passing season of horrible play and lack of discipline, empty and unfulfilled clichés from the coaches, and head scratching decisions by the AD, there is going to eventually be a point in time when no one will care about the color jerseys or what the field looks like. I have to imagine we are closer to that than we are to turning the corner.
 
It certainly isn’t the first time we’ve fallen off late in the game. The Ole Miss game stands out also. Maybe it’s not strength and conditioning but a lack of depth. I don’t know.
 
Fans used to mock the team and it's toughness but nobody wanted to play us unless they had a week off to heal up before our game. I believe someone posted a stat about the drop off in W/L percentage for opponents the week after playing us. Oppononets used to be were beaten and bruised after playing GT. Now everyone's asking to play us the week before their big game, we're being slapped aound like little bitches, etc.

We're soft. I can't believe we're practicing hard because we don't play hard. Makes me sick. This is not GT football. Maybe it's the new woke football whatever that means, but we're either ahead of the power curve getting ready for flag football or we've just resigned ourselves to being MIT on the weekend and then MIT during the week.
 
thracer said:
It's obvious that we ran out of gas in the 4th quarter yesterday. Which raises the question of our strength and conditioning program. It was sunny but not super hot or humid. We had white uniforms on. Really no reason to wilt like we did. Very disappointing.

And from a mental standpoint, the flukish pick six was a shocker and a great athletic play, but we recovered from that and took the lead back. To me, the missed extra point was really the big momentum shift in the game. You could feel the palpable sense of dread in the stadium when that happened. It was like the momentum from that touchdown was instantly diluted. And sure enough, we did not score another point after that.

We've got to stay strong and aggressive mentally for 60 minutes. We did it in the Miami game. Why we can't do it in front of a home crowd is beyond me.

Sigh.
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Sorry to wet your blanket but recruiting has been mostly öööö for a P5 program since CPJ. Good luck at fixing that but that's what must be done. We can't stay at this level with G5 or FCS caliber players. All credit to the guys that are playing their guts out but that's the issue.
 
I wouldn’t chalk up our defensive miscues to not being conditioned. We knew what type of QB he was. You had to stay disciplined at the 2nd level and in the secondary. We knew they would go for it most 4th downs and we couldn’t stop them. We crowded the LOS and there was no one left to cover sneaking TEs and a QB who spit through the LOS to run free. Now I will chalk not being strong enough to to our OL outside of J. Williams. We are NOT strong at the point of attack when rushing. We still have a walk-on and a transfer from an Ivy League school who admitted that the competition is much higher/better than what he experienced at Princeton as starting OLs. Is this saying that the players we’ve recruited over the last 3 years still aren’t ready!? To me that says we haven’t indeed recruited well on the OL.
 
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