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If Pitt plays nearly as well as it did against Clemson it will e a blowout. Duke is a good team. Pitt is an outstanding team this late in the season. I don't know who does the game planning at Pitt, but their offense took advantage of every tendency and weakness in a heretofore strong Clemson...

I did note in coverage that Foster acknowledged Johnson was "a step ahead" of him all day. I think those two enjoy competing in that regard.

By the way, I do love message boards. We know who should coach and how they should coach and who should play and how they should play, and as an added bonus, we'll throw in firing and recruiting suggestions free. It is great fun, sometimes you learn something, and I will bet coaches read them...

I dunno. It seems to me you beat Johnson's offense the way you beat any offense, including all the gussied up shotgun/zone reads/read options so favored in today's game. Better athletes. Providing said blueprint without providing said big, fast, aggressive and mobile middle linebacker won't help...

Help me out here. if the offense is run to the count, then it doesn't seem reasonable that the count should always favor us to the backside.What am I missing?

Johnson likes to say there is never an excuse for a fumble, and there isn't. But down the road we will look back at this game -- rookie untested and hardly-played center and seldom-used QB and wonder how in the world they had just 2-3 bad exchanges. At the speed of this offense on the field that...

Shades of Navy.

Now, how you gonna do that?

Actually I think Jordan is more the Navy type option QB. Knowing he does not have that explosive high end speed, he turns upfield in a hurry. Navy QBs have always played it this way. Sometimes Thomas lets his speed dictate some long lateral progressions. I don't have a problem with Jordan. The...

But in Mills' case, they aren't putting up with it. It seems to me sometimes that the more talented a player is the more likely he is to get in trouble.

Is there some kind of relationship between great ability and lousy reliability?

A question that perhaps somebody close to the program or circumstances might answer. it occurred to me when Roof was hired with what to me did not seem exactly an overall sparkling record, and given Johnson's woes at finding a good D man, was it going to be very hard to fire Roof if he did not...

It's a chicken and egg thing kind of. He wins and gets more money for his assistants -- that was last year's move on his part with some of his salary increase -- and gets more assistants so he can win and ...it certainly is no hindrance that he is in a football-nuts location with some monied...

I think I posted something similar to this earlier, so forgive me if I did. But Swinney's contract at Clemson was renegotiated after the NC run. He certainly is not hurting and could well afford to do it, but he took much of his bargaining power for exactly that: more help, bigger staff...

I really do hate to be flip about it, but I still have to ask: if we know the problems after, why don't we know the problems before? For what, six or seven years now?

Well, just an opinion but having a great coach and great recruiting territory and pliable if not complicit administrators along with almost unlimited money -- Alabama doesn't have much but it is willing to spend it all on football -- is not exactly a process. But a question, and I do not know...

If they feel they have a "process" that reduces the reliance on a coach, those folks over there in Tusks Are Loosa are smoking stuff they should be selling. Knowing them, they might be. That's just nuts.

If Johnson is to be believed and if my eyes are to be believed, give or take windage, it is not a triple option offense. Option, yes. But many of our best scrimmage plays have been quick tosses to A backs, options to the B back, toss to the B back, with an occasional triple option mixed in. So...

The dog, I think, is over in Athens. My bet is that there is none in Johnson. He won't quit because he thinks he can fix it. If there is a problem in hiring Roof it is that he is a GT man and that is hard to overcome "with the base", so to speak. And I have no clue even whether anything should...

Perhaps, even certainly. But 1,200 yards in two games makes bad look inviting.