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Bingo. The decline in tackle football is a matter of simple physics. The players are much, much bigger then they used to be and their speed has, in anything, increased. Result = the force of the collisions is greater and the chance of injury and long term. damage to organs involved in the...

I've had considerable experience with subjective rating systems and in general they tell us only two things: who or what is underperforming badly and who or what is overperforming significantly, usually with about a 5 - 10% limit for both. The under average, average, and above average whos or...

I miss looking forward to the leaves turning. Sooooo much.

I hope we'll see what fonts above predict. We do have experience coming back and good players too boot. However, remember what they used to say about Pual's teams: the offense hums when the leaves fall. This is another way of saying that Tech next year will probably be like many other teams...

Here's a thought. One of our problems next year will be replacing Dontae. Cooley iOS coming back and he very well could move into that slot. But hwy not think about moving Boyd to RB? At present all that size (6'2", 232) and speed (he cuts a legit 4.4) is going to waste; he isn't playing much...

This is a quibble and your point is valid, but …I played at a Div 3 school. Same restriction. Out of our starting 22, 15 had played at Div 1 schools and transferred in. They were either too small or too slow or both. All of them had scholarships. Academic scholarships and none of them full boat...

The location our players liked best (that I know about) was what is now the Idaho Potatoe bowl. It was the Humanitarian bowl in those days (2003) and our players loved it. See, most of them were from Florida and Georgia and had never seen snow in serious amount5s. They got parkas and an...

Good analysis and I hope that's the way it shakes out. The big problem is what I saw in the last two days. In those games Washington was the best team and Bama was #2. I say this because those teams beat the best opponents in the mix, both Michigan and FSU looked meh, and Texas won big against...

I'm not so sure. Bama is also 12 - 1, a conference champ, and they just defeated the no. 1 team in America. True, Texas beat them, but I'm not sure that will signify. I hate to say this. I despise Bama and all its works. But I'm not sure they won't squeeze in.

A BoR member once asked Clark Kerr, when he was chancellor of the UC system, "Clarke, what is college for?" Without even batting an eye Kerr replied, " Sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty." And from an administrator's perspective, that's a pretty good answer.

I hear you, but if there's no NCAA then there is one institution ready and waiting: Congress. If the schools won't try to administrer themselves, the government will oblige. Or, to be more exact, that's what I think would happen. It might move from the NLRB to Congress; no NCAA means that the...

Hadn't thought of that, but the play involved was a called run (or looked like it, at least). It starts at 14:11. Again, if there had been someone on the safety I bet Dontae would have either scored or gone a good way on. But no. Btw, on the next play if King had gone toward the center of the...

I htink the solution here is to semi-admit that college football has become a professional sport. Once that is done - and there will be fudge words all over it - the NCAA can cut down on portal entry and institute a luxury tax on the teams with the money. Once the donors see that their money is...

This doesn't apply very often with Ugag. They are pretty good at back filing. There is one play in the film where Dontae had an open field in front of him. One - just one - block downfield on their safety and all he had to beat was one guy hitting him sideways. He'd have scored easy. Btw, one...

They were wrong. Soooooo wrong.

See: The title is "Why did Georgia struggle against Georgia Tech's rushing attack". Pretty good analysis. One thing: Singleton isn't as good as Shazz Preston? I beg to differ.

Yessss. I saw fear among Dwag fans in the stands in the 1st and 4th quarters. Let's do what we can to make that fear a bit more palpable, shall we? Btw, this can be done. 3 stars with the right coaching (shoot, even two stars; see Clint Lynch) can beat 5 stars. It's worth remembering that...

Maybe. I would say that he needs another 10 - 15 lbs to do that. (Ok, make it 10; he's only 5'9".) Still he needs some more weight. It would probably make it harder for him to turn a front flip, but it would help in the trash. And, of course, the OL has to continue to develop. But most all of...

He did. With both Vad Lee and Kevin Washington. Problem = the results weren't as good. Now if Vad had come back in 2014 we would, imho, have seen the 2013 Tech/Ugag game in every game. That was the one time Paul ran the Hawaii version of the spread option while he was at Tech. But instead we got...

True. As with most of the population, I'm forgetting the pandemic. Same thing happened with the post WW1 flu pandemic. Everybody wants to forget the disease, especially those who poo-pooed it while it killed over 1 million Americans. Ain't human nature wonderful?