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I’ve been thinking about next season and the roster we’ll have. The transfers at LB will go a long way towards shoring up that group, and the guys returning in the secondary should make it a strength of the team. That being said, I think the DL will be an area of concern. Scott and Douse stepped...

If Stetson Bennett doesn’t go to the NFL, it sounds like we might have a helluva grad assistant following Buster Faulkner pretty soon.

Our secondary is going to be so good!

Nate may have been our best receiver, but I think losing him would hurt a lot less if we had Jenkins and Carter coming back. My hope is that Chase Lane can be a solid receiver for us and that Blackburn, Boyd, and Rutherford all thrive under Crawford’s tutelage. Heck, Blackstrain was a 4-star, so...

Agreed. If he wants to be a tarhole, I’ll give him the same level of respect I give the rest of his new teammates.

His Twitter location says Atlanta. The offensive staff hires haven’t been made official yet, and it’s a dead period for recruiting. I’m sure once Faulkner is done with georgie, the offensive staff will have press conferences to publicly introduce them to the GT community.

For offensive tackles, long arms are helpful as it allows them to get their hands on pass rushers more easily.

That will remain to be seen. Given how a lot of staff members have performed better both before and after working for Collins, it’s hard to parse out that impact. I don’t know that Wade is a better OL coach than Key, but I expect he’ll have better results. McKenzie should be a step up from...

I agree. While there may have been other head coach candidates who could be considered “better” in a vacuum, I think Batt made sure he could get the person most likely to succeed at Tech in its current state. I imagine the points of contention regarding Fritz and Chadwell were around staff and...

As far as on-field coaches the numbers are the same, and the roles are basically the same. From last year to this year, the replacements are as follows: TFG -> Key (HC) Long -> Faulkner (OC/TE) Daniels -> McKenzie (RB) Key -> Wade (OL) Alexander -> Crawford (WR) There will probably be...

If we are indeed getting Crawford for WRs coach, one underrated aspect of him being a high school coach for a long time is that he’s used to coaching raw players who haven’t developed and refined their technique yet. So it may allow us to have more success with receivers who have the physical...

I took the liberty of watching some film of Faulkner’s offenses at Arkansas State. Schematically, I like what I see. He seems to really like to run Inverted Veer. I like that a lot and was hoping for years to see it under CPJ. That would be a great play to take advantage of Haynes King’s...

Same. Until last season, I held out hope that Saban could keep the dwags at bay long enough for them to fall back down to earth, but it seems that he was just delaying the inevitable. They’re not going to lose in the Playoffs just because they don’t have Faulkner. We’re not going to noticeably...

I believe he has also worked with Luke Paschall, who would definitely be a solid candidate too.

I think that, like many other things, it depends on the situation. In obvious passing situations, sometimes only 3 or 4 players rush the passer because the conditions for victory at the line differ between offense and defense. For the offense, the entire line needs to protect the QB and win...

App State is not in a bowl game. But Georgia Southern is. Just sayin’…

Real bad look for Nate. To publicly lobby for Key to be the full-time head coach and then leave the school anyway barely a week after Key gets the job.

It looks like Don Hill-Eley will probably be staying as well, since he’s been out on the recruiting trail with the other coaches. No idea what his role will be though.

Exactly! And he started out talking about promising his mom he would buy her a house. My takeaway from his speech was “I want things to go well for me, and I don’t care who needs to get thrown under the bus to make that happen. If I decide for any reason that you’re not useful to me, you’re...

I like the hire. Seems to have a lot of good experience. If Key likes him, that’s good enough for me.