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Okay. I am thinking on this one a bit.

How does one ask a moot question?

I am not a Richt basher. He has shown he can recruit and he can build very good teams. But in his first matchup with Johnson he got caught in the headlights and when he called the team up to assure them or comfort them or inspire or whatever that sideline gathering was supposed to be in the face...

You're never going to be successful on message boards with that kind of attitude.

I like our chances with every team on the schedule, with less "like" for the Clemson and Georgia games. Others might reasonably be favored -- VT, Louisville and Miami maybe -- but they can be had. I am not that certain about Clemson, which has opened a huge gap against ACC teams except...

Everybody, including Clemson, is wary of Boston College late in the season. They just flat out stick it to people then.

Off topic on how long to install the option, but Johnson's spread option has to get most of the credit for making the Army-Navy game an actual rivalry again. It is fun to watch now, purely from a competitive view. Last year it did get a bit repetitive, though, with both Army's and Navy's QBs...

Yes, I agree. He might have done something special, too.

Wait, you are confusing me here. Are you saying that Johnson's playbook has two versions? I don't think anything has changed except the QBs. And the O line. And he Bback. And the Abacks. Which is to say blocks have to be made, reads have to be right, and if not the most important at least as...

Yes. See Washington, Tevin. None before nor since could work flat out magic with the option as he.

Well, one caution about this offense, and what Navy did to counter its effects: your A backs may be your best athletes, but in a true option and with the position used to run in plays, your best athlete may get five touches a game. Navy decided that was dumb, and they moved their best A back to...

Georgia, 2008. Johnson's statement game. It's Georgia. Georgia, 2008. Johnson's statement game. It's Georgia. Georgia, 2008. Johnson's statement game. It's Georgia. Georgia, 2008. Johnson's statement game. It's Georgia. Georgia, 2008. Johnson's statement game. It's Georgia. Favorites 6 through...

With Dabo's outsized personality and his lockerroom dance recitals, there is room in the ACC for only one of him. But his first couple of years there was a lot of disdain, particularly on message boards. In effect Terry Don Phillips made two great hires his last, and both were Swinney. First to...

I don't want to relitigate -- as the lawyers on the board might or might not say -- the whole academic admission and course offering issue because neither can be changed for god knows how many years anyway. But as a sidewalk fan, a very longtime fan, I have on occasion gone to a Clemson game, in...

I would say we have a good one, and could do a lot worse. And have. But, coaching aside: A couple of posters have noted an opposition-recruiting technique of dropping a physics or calculus textbook in the lap of a recruit GT is after. To talk about winning more games, start there.

I know that Lee had a good career at James Madison, and I was pleased for him. He was the exception to transfer students, many of whom turn out to be not terribly good football players anywhere. That scouting business is a powder keg waiting to go off. But: I don't think Vad Lee could have been...

I don't quite grasp this point. Why is it negative to the defense?

You kind of wreck a decent argument with hyperbole, that argument being the "death march". Not many of those of late, but then not much of an option drum major of late, which makes the marching difficult. (Before anybody goes off I give you Marshall's ability with the ball; an option runs off...

Before the turn of the 19th Century when much of the news was by telegraph key and newspapers built back to front, the daily newspaper in Wilmington, N.C. had a banner topping questionable items, "Interesting If True." This one is gangbusters even if it is a rumor. I hope he had the decency to...

That sounds an awful lot like the she-made-me-do-it defense. Any coach leaving anywhere breaks half of it on himself just by being there in the first place. I wouldn't know but the fact is I do not, never have and never plan to like Notre Dame for any time for any reason for any price. Why...