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He's also offputtingly weird. The least fun I've ever had rooting for UVa was during the Mendenhall era. Every single interview/press conference/recruiting story/ANYTHING was always him having Aspbergers and people trying to play it off like he's this incredibly deep dude.

....so had Collins, right up until now.

I haven't completely shut it out, I just haven't seen any evidence to the contrary. It's possible that I'm wrong, and GT has just had an unlucky streak of a quarter-century of consistently "meh" recruiting, and that the underlying fundamentals are not playing out, and it'll regress to the...

Good post! I get why you'd say that, dude, but I have the following two reasons it doesn't carry a ton of weight with me. 1) Those two seasons were 2 of the first 3 seasons of a program moving up from FCS to FBS. That's a LOT of building that has to be done. 2) He recruited Grayson McCall. If...

....do you believe that your school is not on the level of Vanderbilt and Rutgers, in terms of attractiveness to recruits?

Chadwell is the blindingly obvious choice, to me. I could wrap my head around a guy like O'Brien, or maybe the dude at WKU, but if I'm doing this, Chadwell is the first call I make, and if he says no, he's the second call I make, too.

Agreed. But that's who you are, and that's who you're going to be. To channel Rick Pitino; T Boone Pickens is not walking through that door. The alumni of yours that HAVE that kind of money aren't the kind of alumni that spend it on the football program. If they were, they would have. You...

Not really. It's more like "giving up on recruiting your way to the top, because the way you recruit your way to the top in 2022 is with a CRAPTON of money, and GT has neither the alumni base, nor the national fanbase, nor the inclination to do so" Collins pulled in a top 25 class in 2007...

Guys.... You guys have had exactly one top 25 recruiting class this century, and the guy responsible for it just got run out of town on a clown car. You guys are Georgia Tech guys, you believe in numbers, and letting the data guide you. You guys ran the experiment with Jeff collins, you got...

Did you run some under center too?

OH! Duh, yeah, no, actually I wasn't even thinking odd front. Ok, yeah, against Odd front maybe the angle is severe enough that it's a make-able read. Hilariously, while reading this I was thinking "huh, it's almost like an influence trap"...then kept reading. Ok, I can wrap my head around...

You're thinking of Wake Forest, and yeah, they do this CRAZY extended mesh. But you're also right that that's zone read, and they're reading the backside end, as opposed to the much tougher (IMO) playside tackle read

This reminds me of the Chad Dukes/Lavar Arrington "get em" rant from a few years back

So you guys only ran it situationally when you had a DT who was giving you a specific look? How wide were your splits? I'm asking because with traditional splits, it feels like that DT (I'm assuming you only ran it at 3-Techniques) would be able to have a pretty vertical route to attack the...

You ran midline out of the pistol? I coached a pistol team, and we never even CONSIDERED midline! We took everything veer out, and ran all gap-scheme stuff (we were basically a pistol-I team). That seems like the DT would have SUCH a good angle to attack the mesh point and tackle both guys, or...

LOLOL, the guy's "oooooooooohhhhh" when Roddy tells him the last GT got shut out at home before collins was 1957, lololol. You could hear the gut-punch of it.

Kinda, because you lose midline. Everybody talks about the triple/veer as the signature play of the PJO, but honestly I think midline is the straw that stirs the drink. The threat of the back being in the secondary NOW forced everybody to defend inside-out and opened up all the rocket toss...

This is entirely fair. PJ was a better OC than he was a HC. FWIW, watching coastal isn't really watching Option football in the same way that watching the service academies are. What Coastal does blocking wise is far closer to what Collins does than what Johnson did. It's fun, but they slap...

oooph. The article is BRUTAL