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A pre-bowl show is the exception, not the norm. I doubt there will be one, though IIRC they did do one in 2014.

I'm not worried. The QB's are either tough to take the pounding or they learn how to avoid big hits. Everybody felt for sure that Thomas was going to be destroyed, but he held up fairly well. Nesbitt's major injury was on a post-interception tackle.

Specifically, it was to throw back to Thomas.

Some of the same argument CPJ was making in a press conference the other week. Why do what everyone else does if you can't get the same players. If Vandy stays with a conventional offense, maybe that can act as a way to determine if the GT offense negatively affects recruiting.

One caveat is that the offense had 3 freshmen on the OL and backups playing at BB and QB. There might be more complaints about the offense if the usual starters had played.

I don't even bother to read them. I figure some other soul, bless your heart, will read and respond. Then I use the response to guess at what the run on post was about.

As fast as VT scored those last two TD, we probably should stayed a bit longer in the defense used in the rest of the game. CPJ noted the speed of the scoring as well in the post game presser. VT scored the last two TD in 3:14 and 2:25 and did so despite having to drive the nearly the length...

CPJ said the game plan was centered on going between the tackles due to changes in how VT was defending. So, at least some of the success inside was due to a defense prepared for something different. That said, it was refreshing to see a lot of good runs up the middle.

In some respects, the BB is probably more critical than the QB. You want a BB that is big enough and fast enough and quick enough to run through any gap. So, big enough to go right up middle over the center, yet fast enough to run off tackle. That said, yes, a QB that can run inside and...

Playside usually means the side where the ball is going or the side where the offense acts like ball is going. I think the comment was aimed at the latter - the offense, in part by using the AB motion, sells the playside one way but then the BB takes the ball and goes the other way.

No. Running between the tackles is not JT's strength. If he starts, the play calling will shift back to a perimeter and passing focus with the BB doing any work up the middle. CPJ noted in the past game pressed that he calls a different game with Jordan since Jordan is more of a downhill...

I've been thinking similarly. I wonder if Roof has never developed a comprehensive framework for defense. In other words, he doesn't have a Rock, or anything. What he does instead is try to fit various defensive concepts together to create a defense for whatever the opposing offense of the...

Every year. That is the magic of college football. If you want to watch old geezers play, go watch the NFL.

This is overthinking the situation. If the offense is clicking, then you don't need to keep the defense honest with a low percentage play. You keep trucking down the field until the defense overcommits, then you hit them with a counterplay, which will be a high percentage play because of the...

I'm not convinced that the primary issue on defense isn't talent. Specifically, talent on the defensive line. There are some decent players there, but given the relative inability to win one-on-one matchups with offensive linemen, that suggest to me that the team is lacking talent. I'm hoping...

I think the team would be fine if it could play defense. Specifically, defensive line needs to make huge improvements. I think the major issue is talent because the DL-men rarely win one on one battles with OL-men. If I could wave a wand and add an NFL starter caliber player or two to the...

A few times I thought the ball went one way, but the camera went the other. Every time, I was right and the camera was wrong. I suspect the guy was new, or possibly a substitute. I'm sure the operator has experience, just not a lot of football experience.

I've got the opposite opinion. I think CPJ has thought about those kind of non-football items as they relate to football. I also think he has ideas on what is needed to improve them. I think his point was that the resources required to fully address them just aren't there in the same way they...

I haven't the slightest clue, which is why I said I'd be interested in seeing him at GT. Maybe Miles has a natural hidden talent for making National Championship winners out of academic minded 2* and 3* recruits, but he had to suppress that talent so he could take a job coaching 4* and 5*...

I'd be interested in Miles as a sort of social experiment because there are always comments about how big name big school coach would/would not be able to have success at GT.