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Not defending the guy but trying to refine the problem. Why was CGC successful at Temple but not here? To me it seems way oversimplified to imagine goodness of a coach as being univariate and independent. How did the hiring process and/or his process go wrong?

Odds of Clemson's D getting covered by anybody's O this weekend are better than mine I'll say that much.

We were told for years that GT would always have to make do with inferior athletes because of x, y, z. CGC was the exact right pick for HC to show how GT can recruit successfully. He has also provided a strong case study showing that a highly rated roster alone doesn't win games. Solving the...

If you have a 1000cc super sport and don't put on the right tires for the day or just ride it stupid you may get beat by 600cc competition. No matter how much power you have, you can't beat discipline if you don't have discipline. CPJ brought scheme discipline but not much recruiting discipline...

I think there is still more to be learned than has been learned already. There has been a wave of innovations in individual athlete stats but you can win without the highest rated athletes and you can lose with them. There are questions to be answered that nobody has even asked yet.

Punting isn't an interruption of the offense, it is a different form of offense, or a continuation of the offense by different means. Pushing the opposing offense as far back as possible -- by whatever means -- is second priority behind net scoring, offense points minus opposing defense points...

Being hard to beat on 3rd and short would be a really solid milestone. It takes strength at more than one position but you do need an anchor.

What made 3O work for CPJ (when it worked) was that he was a wizard of it and could call it masterfully. Not that the scheme itself is a plug and play cheat mode.

CPJ really oversold the impact of scheme. It impacts many of the smaller things you do, but whatever the scheme it is how you do those smaller things that leads to success or failure. Scheme itself isn't going to move you up five places or down five places.

Because TStan and CGC will read my post and hire a director of football engineering to coordinate teams of GT faculty, students, and alumni. You want to seriously limit having more people telling athletes what to do, but teams can develop analytics, technologies, and solutions that improve the...

Right. I didn't realize It was taking over people's heads. You have to account for where GT is now. Horn-dogging the highest-rated athletes is going to have a low rate of return for GT at this time. Few of those will sign here and those who do will not transform the rest of the program by...

You could look at athletes who have held NFL roster slots for a certain minimum of time and find that they tend to come from successful college programs. That doesn't mean a college program becomes successful by spending all its recruiting resources trying to get athletes who are supposed to be...

I don't like to be picky but with a limited number of scholarships, limited time of coaching staff, and limited number for playing minutes I would not make recruiting decisions based on which athletes are supposed to be "nfl caliber." For one thing, such predictions are notoriously unreliable...

College and professional sports put the inefficacy of current talent assessment concepts on full display.

It's been a while since I used that website. Now I see it is horrible. I am sorry. You have to buy a ticket from a vending machine or a rechargeable card https://www.breezecard.com/default.aspx Red and Gold lines serve the airport and downtown, their routes split north of downtown. Blue and...

The transit system is MARTA. The red train from the airport will take you to downtown and you may find a transfer to green or blue gets you closer. https://www.itsmarta.com/ https://martaonline.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0ce5941618fe4cfe827155225d9640cc

It will be interesting to see what develops in the area of scheme gimmicks with the transfer portal situation. Athletes looking at a program with too unusual of a scheme will wonder if they would be at a disadvantage transferring out.

IMHO the NIL idea was bad from the start. However, given the NIL situation as it is and the transfer portal, I think CGC has got *some* things moving in the right direction, emphasizing the ATL experience, rad uniforms, the hypermedia content or whatever you call it... getting the most out of...

Harrison Butker got famous at GT. Percy Harvin III got famous at GT. Some of 2021 season's sparks were back-to-back onside kicks recovered against Virginia, another to get within a possession against Clemson. Make the best kicker, best punter, best open-field tacklers, best runners, best hands...

Thwg. BSIE 2003. Doing more EE and CS nowadays but that's life. I have always appreciated how GT doesn't give up athletics for academics, nor academics for athletics. Student Athletes are serious students and serious athletes. Striving for excellence in both areas is unique but it works and...