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Found myself watching the game 😂 ! Simpler times. College football was still kind of magical for me in those days.

And this is why I became a Tech fan. This is a difficult fork in the road and I have conflicting feelings about it. Where I live now every small business, every flag outside of a restaurant, every waitress wearing a sports shirt, and virtually every decal on every car, has the color red and...

That’s cool. What I remember was not at all hip. Just each player stopping in front of the camera and the announcer saying something like “Starting at half-back, number 24, majoring in Economics, Lawrence Stanley.”

Specifically, I have a memory of players being announced by position and what they were majoring in. I’m certain this isn’t a false memory but I am not clear about how often this was done (just bowl games?) or whether this was a short-lived tradition. I have not had any luck finding anything on...

That’s true but we also are not consistently playing “complimentary football.” When our defense gets a stop, and they only have so many of those in them per game, it would help immensely if the offense didn’t immediately go three and out. Too many times this year we got a stop but then...

Weirdly, the entrenchment on this issue obscures an obvious fact. The opposing team may be better than you but that doesn’t mean they automatically should come back from a fourth quarter deficit and beat you. Most teams with fourth quarter leads, no matter what the pregame odds were, usually win.

Man, don’t you get it? He’s the only one on here being logical, calling a spade a spade, using the clear insight of reason, demanding excellence and rejecting mediocrity. The rest of us have settled for supporting a terrible team with incompetent coaches and are covering for that by being...

Yes. More than one thing can be true at the same time. And, people can look at the same data and the same results, and even agree on their meaning in a narrow context, but still have different interpretations at a meta level. Simply put, some of us see reason for optimism and some of us think...

To be honest I get tired of long posts also. There were just so many assumptions and unsubstantiated claims in the post I was responding to.

Hi, was this response meant for someone else? Not sure how it applies to my comments.

I know, right? We went from not being able to tackle in space and players being out of position to now actually being able to get stops on defense. At the beginning of the year it was clear that the loss of our quality players at LB and DL was putting more pressure on our DBs, who are actually...

Yep, me too. He had a lot of headwinds to work against while at Tech. Hopefully our new coach will get more support and not have any false legal charges thrown at him in the middle of recruiting.

You’re right. I took the bait. I tried to understand the what and why of his comments before I realized just how much he wanted us to climb down into the dark hole he is in.

Most people agree that the defense is playing better now than they were at the beginning of the year. For instance, tackling in space is 100% better than it was at the beginning of the year. Most people agree that last year’s defense had some key personnel that are no longer here. Those...

What’s your secret to success?

I think people are objecting to your putting words in their mouth. I’m sorry you’re so unhappy.

I think everyone agrees we need more talent. But not sure what you mean by BS. The challenge that many on here have repeated often is that the defense went without coaching for almost four years and engaged in “soft” practice sessions. Unlearning bad habits takes time. Frankly I think the...

He said it already. Needed to focus on tackling which just wasn’t happening. Get the basics down and you can add more sophistication to the defense. Prior to getting the basics, you just add more things that can go wrong.

“If we have great talent and a great coaching staff like many proclaim then it’s time to start seeing results.” OK, I’ve been trying to understand where the heck you are coming from, and this last sentence clarifies it a little. You are having trouble understanding what people are saying...

In my dreams I can imagine several ways we might win. Last year we had them off balance early, had a lead, and then one of our tight ends dropped a 3rd down pass that would have given us a first and ten in Georgia territory. Georgia regained momentum after that and ground us down. But...