This has been a disappointing football season

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LLTW

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I've been feeling so dejected about football ever since the UNC loss. It feels like we let a golden opportunity to have a special season slip through our fingers. We'll look back on this season and say, you know, we could have done a bit better.

And that's what I love about Paul Johnson. By no reasonable expectation should be have been this good this quickly. He has changed the attitude around this program so quickly that I'm feeling down on our season even though we are going to go to a good bowl without an offensive line or an established quarterback entering the season. I love Paul Johnson. Can't wait to see what we do in Year 2.
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If we can get one more win I'm not calling it a disappointment.

I'm sticking to my preseason outlook, of "happy with 8 wins."
 
Naw, man, too early for that kind of talk

Win the next two, get a nice bowl. Win the bowl game. Finish with double digit wins and an impressive ranking. It ain't over yet.

Even 8 wins and a bowl win might qualify for being a "special season" if one of the 8 happens to be against another team from our state.
 
I feel confident that we win atleast 1 of the next 3 beej.
 
I hear ya'll, but it feels like we really could have won the ACC this year. I'm still trying to figure out how we lost to Virginia Tech and their non-existent offense. Oh wait nevermind... turnovers and a ref screw job. We could have had much more this season. Although, beat Georgia and no one will give a rat's ass about Virginia Tech or the ACC.
 
You're ****ing stupid. If you honestly think this season is disappointing, you seriously need to reevaluate the time you spend being a fan of GT.

The bottom line is you can look at this team from top to bottom and recognize pretty easily that the only way we were going to go to a BCS bowl or the ACC CG is by sheer luck. I was hopeful of it myself, but I'm not disappointed.

I eagerly predicted when we hired PJ that with this young team he'd still manage to win 8 games pre-bowl. That was a lofty prediction but I think PJ is that good of a coach. At the time I thought if he could win 8 games then that would be the beginning of something special. There is no reason to be disappointed in the season.
 
LLTW, I've been down that road a few times too and I don't think it's stupid by any means. A few bounces go our way and we're looking at one loss maybe.

The way I see it we were the better team vs VT, Virginia was the better team the day they played us, and UNC and GT were on the same level. But here's the thing: we have played almost all tight games. There are some that we won that just as easily could have gone against us as for us. All things considered I think our record is about what it should be. You can't expect to play close games week after week and not come out on the losing side some of the time.
 
BarrelORum said:
You're ****ing stupid. If you honestly think this season is disappointing, you seriously need to reevaluate the time you spend being a fan of GT.

The bottom line is you can look at this team from top to bottom and recognize pretty easily that the only way we were going to go to a BCS bowl or the ACC CG is by sheer luck. I was hopeful of it myself, but I'm not disappointed.

I eagerly predicted when we hired PJ that with this young team he'd still manage to win 8 games pre-bowl. That was a lofty prediction but I think PJ is that good of a coach. At the time I thought if he could win 8 games then that would be the beginning of something special. There is no reason to be disappointed in the season.
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Dam good post Barrel of Rain !!!

Wait, did I just agree with BOR ? The world is truly coming to an end. :eek:

Also, Its a known fact that great coaches win right away !!!
 
I don't agree, nor do I see where you're coming from. I'm excited about the future and happy that we've done so well and not quite over the fact that we came up short of a surprisingly possible goal. But I wouldn't throw the term "disappointing football season" anywhere near this year.
 
This seems to happen every year, at least it did under Chan and now CPJ. Posters give reasonable explanations in cold, hard number of wins (7 wins would be good, 8 would be great). But before the season, we don't realize that's 4 or 5 weeks we have to live after a loss.

Then we win some games, stay in the race for the ACCCG and get our hopes up. But since only 1 out of 12 teams can win the ACCC, we're more likely than not to be disappointed rather quickly, no matter what our preseason predictions were.
 
I don't think ya'll are understanding what I'm trying to say. Let's roll with the most likely outcome for the season: us finishing 1-1 against Miami and UGAy. we'll finish the season 8-4. Who here would have taken that before the season started? I'm pretty sure everyone would have.

Looking back on the season now, though, I think we could have won the Coastal. Yes, I know we don't have an O-Line, but our losses were mostly about us shooting ourselves in the foot rather than the other team flat out beating us. In that respect, it is disappointing.

What I'm saying is that I am happy to be disappointed with "only" being 7-3 at this point. That tells me we are going to get greater things out of our team in the years to come.

Honestly, for the last few years with Chan Gailey, were you guys disappointed by going 7-5? I wasn't... of course I wanted us to win more, but that record was the standard that had been set, and we lived up to it every year without fail. We have an adjusted standard now. Rejoice.
 
No, I do understand what you're saying. But I think "happy to be disappointed in the season" is a poor way of expressing it. I'm disappointed that we got close to the ACCCG and fell short, but no more disappointed than I would have been had we gone 1-7 in the ACC. We've overachieved and as a result my happiness that we were actually competing for the conference far overrides the idea of being let down that we didn't see it through to the end.
 
Thread title should be:

Surprisingly good season failed to live up to midseason hype.
 
Wow, I totally disagree with the OP.

With the coaching change, the offensive total makeover, the youth in key positions on offense and defense, I thought we'd be 5-5 now, at best.

I'm really pleased with the season, and look at the "golden opportunity" as house money lost which isn't a loss at all.

If we beat Miami and/or steal the UGA game this season is nothing less that one of the best in the last 30 years.
 
I thought the title of this thread was a joke and I'd open it to see "Blah blah blah JUST KIDDING." Apparently not, and that in itself is a joke.
 
LLTW said:
This has been a disappointing football season
Can't wait to see what we do in Year 2.​
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I'm sure we will disappoint you again. Matter of fact, I'm certain of it. Then you can look forward to season 3. And so on.
 
The Jacket said:
I don't agree, nor do I see where you're coming from. I'm excited about the future and happy that we've done so well and not quite over the fact that we came up short of a surprisingly possible goal. But I wouldn't throw the term "disappointing football season" anywhere near this year.
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+1.

Get excited--we have 16 of the 22 deep that is awfully young. Call me crazy, but our offense will get a lot better sooner rather than later w/Nesbitt, Dwyer, Jones, etc. in the backfield. Our o-line stinks and is banged up, yet we still are rolling up some impressive stats. Soon, they will correct the mental mistakes of fumbles and penalties that have killed recent drives.

I think we get to 8 wins pre-bowl and win our bowl game pretty handily.

More importantly, we have a guy at the helm that will make us better--the players love 'em already.
 
Mark Richt took a good, but under-performing UGAG team in 2001, won 8 games, and lost to BC in a bowl. The rest is history, once they learned his system, he was able to get a year of recruiting done, and his OL matured. Remember that 2002 OL... wow!

Likewise, we have talent and a system that will win, a young OL and a great coach that has exceeded expectations his first year. When has ANYONE done that on the flats since 1998? Before that, since 1990? Before that since 1985? Three times in over 30 years spanning 5 coaches!

PJ does it in his first year.

BOOM!
 
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