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Well, losing to an archrival by an historic margin, losing to the Citadel, winning three games in each of the last two years will do that.

OK, I am gullible but I still anticipate being steamrolled by Notre Dame, Clemson, and UGA with Miami and UNC being more or less run of the mill beatings. Two players, as good as they can sometimes be, are not enough against teams with superior line play on both sides of the ball.

We could do worse for a role model. They win a lot more games than we do.

When Ken Swilling talked...people listened. With apologies to EF Hutton.

What he said. The 1990 team was probably the best but, the 1970 team was the hardest hitting team I can remember reflecting the mindset of the coach at the time. Bud Carson, later the architect of the Pittsburgh Steelers "Steel Curtain" defense believed in outhitting and out conditioning the...

Have the infamous Maine black flies made their appearance yet? I will keep the South Georgia sand gnats thank you very much.

I can assure you that no one living in south Georgia thinks that. Summer is just getting settled in here. I played tennis yesterday and when we finished at 12:30 it was well over 100 on the temperature index with a dewpoint in the low 70s.

Well, that is the problem in a nutshell. We can recruit and sign very good quarterbacks, running backs, defensive backs, and receivers but linemen? Seems they have become damn near extinct some years. I do not know the answers but I do know it is a quagmire that has bedeviled Tech coaches...

That may be an accurate observation but it is nothing new. Pepper and Curry would have thought Coach Collins has it easy with what they endured. Poor Bud Carson was foolish enough to follow Dodd as well as being not the most likeable sort so you can imagine his relations with the media were...

College Football News in their analysis claims that the pivotal game for the Jackets will be October 2nd (3rd?) anyway, the fifth game against Pitt. Their reasoning is that Tech will win the first two and be prohibitive underdogs the next two against Clemson and UNC thus the game against Pitt...

In all fairness, Dino had a nightmare of a season. Syracuse does not get enough great players to afford injuries of any kind nor breakdowns on defense. They have to play almost perfect to win. Syracuse may be the most difficult place to win in the ACC because of recruiting limitations...

Dino may be on the bottom of this ranking but he managed to beat our team.

Win more ball games and these rankings will go right into the trash. It is that simple. As for these current rankings, they seem about right based upon the past couple of years. The thing that struck me was how far Fuente has fallen. He managed to end that long winning streak against rival...

You forgot one answer: "They all came highly recommended."

But you do have the occasional outlier. College Football News has us as winning "4.5" games whatever that means. I have not seen any forecast that has us replicating the 3 wins of the last two seasons nor have I seen a forecast with us winning more than 6. IIWII

True. Most of them think Tech will win 5 or 6 games and possibly go to a bowl. I am holding to my 4 win forecast.

I agree with you that we can beat NIU, KS and Duke, the others? I am not at all convinced that we are better than BC, Virginia Tech, and UVA. All three of them are rated higher than we are in the preseason magazines and prognostications (not that any of them mean all that much) but losing...

Interesting about Bud Carson. A lot of his players did not like him but they respected him. One thing for sure, those Carson teams would hit you into the middle of next week. As for high school coaches, it will be very hard to get more than a handful to be supportive of Tech. There is a...

True. Back in the day, we scheduled the ACC teams including Clemson, Duke, and UVA for an easy win and an extra home game with the exception of Duke.

Gee, and I thought that sort of thing went out with Coach Johnson. We play Clemson and UNC while they play two patsies? Figures. I don't think they are all that great but their coach seems to hate us for some reason. Miami, Pitt, BC, Duke, UVA and Virginia Tech, there ought to be a couple...