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CPJ inherited a 7 win team and turned it into an 9 win team, which Chan was able to do just once in 6 years. Then the next year CPJ won an ACC Championship and 11 games, neither of Chan was able to do. Now that we will have a new coach next year (and I'm fully expecting it'll be a non-triple...

Put in a pass first offense so we test this theory that all the really good players went elsewhere because they did not want any part of the triple option, whether as an offensive or defensive player.

I don't think there will be much of an impact at all. These recruits are interested in GT in part because they want a degree from an excellent school. That does not change with CPJ's departure. That said, what can have an impact is if the new head coach makes a wholesale change in the...

I voted before reading and just assumed by option you meant a triple option. I voted no for that because I’m tired of all the complaints about “triple option is the reason why (your complaint goes here)”. I can’t imagine that the new offense won’t have option of some form, even if it is not a...

I like that Woody seems to have a fixed scheme. Roof wanted to be multiple so that the defense could be tailored to the opponent each week, which is a great idea, but GT just isn’t the place for that. We don’t have the players and the players don’t have the time to make that work. With Woody...

I think recruiting area has been limited to the southeast the last several years due to lack of personnel. While there are a lot of good players, GT has a restricted that it can offer relative to other teams and we all know that the whole of ACC and SEC recruit heavily in the southeast. If...

After the VT game, Foster called the play a QB sweep and in the presser CPJ called it an option. Curious if anyone has closely examined the play to see: 1. Is it an option or designed QB keep? 2. Are there two versions: an option version and a designed keep version? 3. Is this the same play ran...

Yes, that is how it has worked in practice. I suppose one could still apply for the medical redshirt, but I suspect that it would not be granted.

I have a slightly different understanding. The medical redshirt after previously taking a voluntary redshirt is still obtainable. The difference now is that the requirements are even more strict, and they were pretty strict even before the rule change.

I think there might be some terminology differences. For example, on the radio show Andy asked a question about cross charging and CPJ said he didn’t know what that was. Clearly, he’d know exactly what it was if you showed him film of it, but he’s got his own terminology for a lot of stuff...

I saw a comment somewhere that that DT would have been the backside DT on the triple option (remember, the QB checks left/right based on how the defense aligns pre-snap). He was a yard off the line to better defeat the block by the backside OL. It was part of a defense against the triple...

I think Cutliffe has found a defensive framework that works really well for his team and GT's offense has struggled to overcome it, so much so that GT is scoring about 15 points per game less than previously. Additionally, Duke has improved their offense is scoring about an extra 15 points per...

In the Duke press conference CPJ commented on the number of states from which Duke had players. It sounded like they have started casting a much wider net than what perhaps they did previously. Naturally, casting a wider net and having more staff to do the player evaluations enables you to...

At one time CPJ had an OC calling the plays. CPJ said that he was constantly second guessing the play calling of his OC and decided that if he was going to do that then he needed to call the plays himself. So he did and hasn’t stopped since.

I think it is staying focused until the end of the game. Once you start thinking about the post-game before the end of the game, you are a great risk of making a mental mistake or missing something important. Also, if you have had several instance of losing "won" games, then you might get the...

CPJ still mentions it on occasion.

CPJ commented in the post game presser that Tobias doesn’t make the right pre-snap checks. It sounded to me that until Tobias improves in that area, he isn’t go unseat Taquan as the starter. CPJ also defended Taquan’s passing. Said that the other players have to do their part too.

I guess the coach forgot to mention that you still have run down your assigned hill.

Gotta disagree a bit on the part about touch. I’ve found that touch comes from experience and practice. I think an athlete can develop and refine it with enough good repetitions. I’ll agree that there are some people that don’t have it at all, but those people are not collegiate athletes.

At this point, it doesn't matter. There is so much film and so many people with experience with defending it (even if they only defended it once) that a DC has enough information to put together a reasonable game plan along with potential in-game adjustments.