beej67
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Here's an unpopular but true thing.
All our regular opponents were forced by CPJ to spend at least one week of the spring, and often one day a week of the regular season, practicing against option stuff in order to not look completely foolish. And because coaches dreaded having to deal with a press conference in which they were flatly accused of being out-coached, they would disproportionately spend time practicing against GT specifically. The evidence for this is everywhere in media interviews, with all our regular opponents coaches and players.
That system specific practice time is time that each of these schools could have spent elsewhere. The fact that they had to spend all that time may in fact have led to some degree of the Coastal Chaos we've grown used to seeing. Duke, for instance, started scheduling option opponents not only to practice against GT, but also so that the GT specific practices they were doing were useful against other opponents. So they could leverage the time they spent trying to avoid losing to Tech into other areas of their overall record. Many of the recent coaching hires in the Coastal were also predicated around option prep - Bronco Mendenhall being a prime example.
So CPJ departing will have several effects in the overall landscape.
One - it will mean that opponents aren't going to be spending their spring practicing against Tech. This might actually be good for us in a way.
Two - it will mean that opponents will spend more time practicing against their other opponents. This will generally tend to increase their own W/L records. Which will be good for the ACC Coastal, but bad for us in that UGA will catch the same kind of boon.
All our regular opponents were forced by CPJ to spend at least one week of the spring, and often one day a week of the regular season, practicing against option stuff in order to not look completely foolish. And because coaches dreaded having to deal with a press conference in which they were flatly accused of being out-coached, they would disproportionately spend time practicing against GT specifically. The evidence for this is everywhere in media interviews, with all our regular opponents coaches and players.
That system specific practice time is time that each of these schools could have spent elsewhere. The fact that they had to spend all that time may in fact have led to some degree of the Coastal Chaos we've grown used to seeing. Duke, for instance, started scheduling option opponents not only to practice against GT, but also so that the GT specific practices they were doing were useful against other opponents. So they could leverage the time they spent trying to avoid losing to Tech into other areas of their overall record. Many of the recent coaching hires in the Coastal were also predicated around option prep - Bronco Mendenhall being a prime example.
So CPJ departing will have several effects in the overall landscape.
One - it will mean that opponents aren't going to be spending their spring practicing against Tech. This might actually be good for us in a way.
Two - it will mean that opponents will spend more time practicing against their other opponents. This will generally tend to increase their own W/L records. Which will be good for the ACC Coastal, but bad for us in that UGA will catch the same kind of boon.
