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Maybe next season we can request that our bye weeks both be moved until after the UGAg game. Clearly they are our kryptonite.

Agreed! One last comparison - out of curiosity, I dug into the Arkansas story a little more. Apparently, a large number of players abandoned the team during the transition. And that was with retaining one of the current coaches as the new head coach. I've been fairly critical of CGC and his...

Very good point, and it is also true that most of these teams, with the exception of Alabama, regressed to some extent. In fact, the Arkansas dropoff is quite striking, but I understand there were significant off-the-field issues such as serious tension between Hatfield and Broyles that caused...

You and @bikeseat are of course 100% correct regarding the current off-the-field atmosphere and that does bleed into on-the-field performance. However, the structure of the game itself has not significantly changed since the advent of the modern era 50-60 years ago. I.e. fundamentals largely...

Probably a matter of perspective, but all of these examples are from the modern era. I.e. the on-field rules are largely the same, post scholarship limits, two platoon system, influence of television, etc. While true historians view the modern era as post-1936 (introduction of the AP Poll)...

Varies between 1980s and 2000s: Alabama - 8-4 --> 8-4 - 1983 Oklahoma - 9-3 --> 7-4 - 1989 Nebraska - 10-3 --> 5-6 - 2004 Arkansas - 10-2 --> 3-8 - 1989 Notre Dame - 8-3 --> 7-6 - 1997 I also vaguely remember Syracuse running the option under Pasqualoni in the early 2000s but could be...

Presented without comment, here's a non-exhaustive list of teams that have done it in the modern era along with their records the last year of the option and first year without: Alabama - 8-4 --> 8-4 Oklahoma - 9-3 --> 7-4 Nebraska - 10-3 --> 5-6 Arkansas - 10-2 --> 3-8 Notre Dame - 8-3 -->...

Win or lose, these guys always provide my family and I with 12+ days of wonderful memories. They voluntarily chose to came to the same place I did and then work much harder than I ever had to, sacrificing their personal and family time so that we can all make memories with ours. This group...

This is not on the mods to enforce, but one thing that I think would help tremendously around here is for folks to adopt a little civility. Presumably, most of us would not talk to others we disagree with in real life the way we do here. I'm talking about starting posts with a demeaning "lol"...

What I really want is to trust CGC and his coaching staff. Much of my criticism (when you strip away my post-game emotion) is seeking an explanation for certain decisions or approaches that I find head-scratching. There are a lot of folks on this board with much more football knowledge than me...

I appreciate the time and thought you put into this post even though I don't agree with all of it. I'm not sure if I'm a part of the "same group of people" you mentioned but I believe there is a segment of us that are giving CGC a pass on this year at this point and trying not to sink down into...

Obviously, we are not going to see eye-to-eye on this. I'll just let it go with what I said in chat today - I apparently need to shift my mindset from expecting top-notch gameday coaching and adjustments to instead try to enjoy watching what are hopefully superior, highly motivated athletes...

I said potentially. I didn't say it was a certainty or even likely. Depending on what decisions are made down the road, Yates could be sacrificing a year because he played in this game. That makes it a potentiality, right? Again, no one has said that playing today has forced him to burn his...

@slugboy @jwsavhGT We really do appreciate what you guys do, even when we second-guess your gameday decisions as well. ;)

Nobody is acting like that at all. We all realize that the possibilities are: a) it never matters and Yates plays in up to three more games, b) Yates is needed for four more games but the team has to settle for somebody he beat out for at least one game, or c) Yates plays in four more games and...

Because this is the internet?

Actually, maybe that's the answer @smokey_wasp. It could be that the coaches don't see Yates as the long-term answer at QB and plan to recruit over him anyway (maybe even with Gleason). That may actually explain the decision a little better today. If true, it's disappointing based on what we...

Feel free to enlighten me. I've asked and no one has given one yet. I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong and it happens more often than I'd like. If your answer is that the chances of Yates converting that try were so much better than LJ, TO, or Liam that it was worth sacrificing an entire...

Are we still using a 2-deep? How old-fashioned. We need to bring this forum into the CGC era.

Because it evidences the gameday thought process (or lack thereof) that our coaching staff used. Given the current state of the team, none of us should really care at the end of the day if it costs us a win somewhere down the road this season (highly unlikely). The issue is that this decision...