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I htink a lot of this is coachspeak, but if the QBs develop some of it might come true. This position concerns me more then any other. Losing McCollum was a major blow and a brand new coaching staff usually takes a year or two just to get the players on the same page. But who knows? I do think...

Since spring practice usually doesn't tell us much about who will play - unless players get season ending injuries - and how good the team will be, I don't think it makes much difference except to give the new coaches and players a chance to get acquainted. The time between the end of spring and...

I think Matthew getting injured in his junior year was a great loss for Tech football. As I've said here before, a team with Jordan at QB and Mills at BB would have been a team to fear. Sort of like the Navy team in Will Wirth's senior year; i.e. pretty much unstoppable. Ah, well.

There was one 2015 game (can't remember which one) where one of our frosh ABs went the wrong direction in a sweep. Thomas looked over and, luckily, didn't pitch the ball. 2 yard loss. The AB realized he went the wrong way after two steps then just stood there with his head in his hands. Then he...

I loved Larry Good! His running style - his teammates called it the "Camilla Shuffle" - was a lot of fun to watch. And talk about someone who would have made the spread option work! If we could have found another Larry Good things would have been as nice as they were with Thomas.

Yes, and it usually isn't mentioned that 2008, with a restricted roster, was also a very bad season for injuries. 11 players who started in the first game missed at least one game and both OTs went down to injury, including future long-time pro Andrew Garner. Despite this - or, perhaps, because...

Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of people. These guys make Fox News look like the NYT. And, unlike some here, I'm not particularly cheering for more - or even the same amount - of coverage of college football. Attendance is down everywhere. The reason is obvious: why go through all...

What I should have said. As usual, I prefer to go with the horse that brung me, but that's as likely to be a mistake as not.

I'll go on record right now in saying that firing Pastner was a mistake. How big a mistake remains too be seen. The only reason he is on the pines now is that he had a few recruiting classes that didn't work out, joining a vast number of other college basketball coaches. He's a sound coach and...

Yes, but QBs at all levels have a hard time taking a crow hop before they throw …

I think what we have here is decisions about how to spend limited recruiting resources. Paul was always working with a a limited recruiting budget and limited staff. So the algorithm is: find players with the grades to make it into Tech –> determine if players want to come to Tech -> determine...

Want a shorter game? The solution is easy: enforce holding rules by getting rid of the present push and dance "exceptions" and get rid of the cut blocking restrictions. That would mean that OLs would have to actually block to protect QBs. Result = the game would have to go back to run based Os...

True. My bad. Oth, we did win the ACC.

Bingo. It's like Pastner says: "Get old and stay old." This is the formula for a school like Tech: find good players, redshirt them until they a) learn what they are doing and b) have picked up a few gray hairs. Then and only then can we start to play against Ugag with a good prospect for...

Boy, is he ever right. Number two is philosophy. What people are actually talking about here is, roughly, management style (culture) and organizational approach (philosophy). I think the one thing that will distinguish Key's team is that they will be in your face on each play and that the team...

I have and they do. Given your druthers every coach would have preferred to have a team made up of 4 - 5 stars. That said, there are two caveats: • You have to have a radar that sees the capability of players you can get and retain within the schemes you are using. The best examples would be on...

Yates is a fine example of what we missed when Paul retired. Remember Paul's two prayers: "Please, Dear Lord, send me another Adrian Peterson." And The Lord sent him Dedrick Mills. And Tech defied The Lord and threw Mills out. "Please, Dear Lord, send me another Ricky Dobbs." And The Lord...

I never liked Gaudin's style too much, but after Wes it was hard for anyone to get established. Here's hoping we can find another Wes.

I hope he's good at his job. The Super Bowl showed just how important it is, as does the 4 - 4 split we had when Key took over. A significant part of that was the dramatic improvement of special teams play.

Hope that was his TV as well. If it was, well … ok then. I love Tech football in a truly enduring sense, but I ain't gonna wreck my TV if we lose to Ugag. But that's how it is for some people.