Watching GT Football

ThisIsAtlanta said:
If we're going to work the avatar spell on GT, it'll be very hard. To appeal to the God Of This Age, you need something powerful and something beautiful to elevate above all other things. I don't think the GT logo is going to cut it. We might have to shop Paul Johnson's pissed off face onto everything for the powerful part. I'm not sure what we do for beauty, in that scenario.
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FIGURE THIS OUT. Start a new thread if necessary. It would be way more objectively productive than bitching.
 
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beej67 said:
FIGURE THIS OUT. Start a new thread if necessary. It would be way more objectively productive than bitching.
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I think we might be able to do it shopping the new Adidas helmets onto weapons of war. Planes, tanks, bombs, guns, aircraft carriers, etc.

The hard part is going to be convincing the entire board to go along with this all season.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
I think we might be able to do it shopping the new Adidas helmets onto weapons of war. Planes, tanks, bombs, guns, aircraft carriers, etc.

The hard part is going to be convincing the entire board to go along with this all season.
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You're a mod. Figure it out. The future of GT football depends on this.

And don't öööö up the spell either. Those things can go very poorly, or so I'm led to believe.
 
beej67 said:
You're a mod. Figure it out. The future of GT football depends on this.

And don't öööö up the spell either. Those things can go very poorly, or so I'm led to believe.
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The proper timing will be the week before Clemson. It will be much more likely to succeed if we beat Pitt.
 
beej67 said:
You're a mod. Figure it out. The future of GT football depends on this.

And don't öööö up the spell either. Those things can go very poorly, or so I'm led to believe.
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Is this the one that requires some hyssop, a capon and a baby goat born on the full moon? Asking for a friend.
 
johncu said:
Our defense has routinely been destroyed by the simplest option, like the QB zone read option. We haven't even been good at stopping the run. I think we've just done a poor job of coaching, and we haven't recruited many (if any) playmakers - I don't believe the offensive scheme has much to do with it at all.

I'll offer two reasons to back up my belief:

1) Every single team in the country that runs a unique scheme (and there are many) would be in the same boat as us, but plenty of them have good defenses. Alabama can stop the spread, Clemson can stop the power running attack despite not being able to do it at all themselves, Stanford is about as old-school pro style as you can get, but they have no problem with west coast spread teams. You get the picture. They have good defenses regardless of their offensive scheme.

2) Johnson (and his scheme) won title after title at GSU. Their offense was the main reason, but as we've learned, you've got to have a solid defense as well. Somehow practicing against the option didn't hurt them.
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Good reply that I mostly agree with but...

Your 1) makes good points though I believe that our scheme makes our already-difficult recruiting that much tougher, which basically backs up your truthful statement that we can't recruit playmakers on the D side. I don't think the D and our O Scheme exist in a vacuum from each other, when it comes to recruiting.

2) is irrelevant IMO. That was 30 years ago and football was far different then than now. FCS in particular was smaller and slower than today and CPJ's offense at GS never faced an opponent as quick as today's.
 
If we lose to Pitt because of a hurricane, will you believe the voodoo theory then?
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
It's not impossible to bring in a new coach or a new scheme and still make tackles, forget whether the players are fully up to speed on the scheme. Arizona State has a brand new DC and HC, both in their first year, and they just held Michigan State to 13 points. Notre Dame's DC is brand new, Vanderbilt's DC is new, Oklahoma State's DC is new, Miss State's DC is new, and UF, Ohio State, and Texas A&M all have brand new DCs. Go watch any of their games and look at the tackling and tell me if that looks anything like ours. It certainly doesn't look that way to me.
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I'd be willing to bet that the 'quality' of athletes on the defensive side of the football, as a whole, are of higher quality than what GT possesses on it's defensive roster. As a coach, I would rather have guys with talent that can physically overcome problems with technique versus guys that are technically sound all of the time but not nearly as talented.
 
Vespidie said:
I'd be willing to bet that the 'quality' of athletes on the defensive side of the football, as a whole, are of higher quality than what GT possesses on it's defensive roster. As a coach, I would rather have guys with talent that can physically overcome problems with technique versus guys that are technically sound all of the time but not nearly as talented.
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Sure, but you've got to work with what you've got. As a coach, if you had a roster of guys who couldn't overcome problems with technique, you wouldn't pretend they could, would you? I'd hope that you'd teach them sound technique.
 
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