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I’ve really tried to be patient with him and give him the benefit of the doubt because, regardless of our impatience, there was a big transition and rebuild that needed to happen after CPJ. But this, combined with the perplexing scheming of the front 6 this past season and the even more...

He didn’t break up the DB room at his other jobs, and he decided to change that when he came to Tech? Dear lord! Why would you change something that supposedly has been working for you? Georgia Tech is hard enough to succeed at in general already! It’s one thing to experiment when what you’ve...

I’m guessing that Peery saw the writing on the wall that he wasn’t likely to beat out Sims, and with the COVID year, they both have the same amount of eligibility (except that Peery took a redshirt). And Pyron is no slouch either, so I’m sure Peery feels that going to a school far from home to...

Kerry Dixon has coached RBs before. It’s possible that we could move him over and hire a new WRs coach instead. I guess it depends on which position is easier to fill.

Does anyone know what we’ve been running on defense for the past couple years? I’ve been trying to figure out what the schematic philosophy is but can’t seem to grasp it. I know that there doesn’t seem to be a strong preference for any particular alignment or personnel in the front 7 because...

Agreed. And Bama is doing their best to attract more out of state students (they offered me a pretty sweet deal just to be a student, and I was far from being a valedictorian or anything), so I’m not sure there’s much of a correlation.

Thank you for doing a job that often goes unappreciated.

And I agree that it shouldn’t be either/or, but it sounds like we opened the wallet (by GT Athletics standards) for the OC job and probably don’t have the resources to get a new DC who is likely to do a better job next year with our defense than Collins will if he assumes the DC role. I honestly...

If you can either have good timeout usage with a crap defense or bad timeout usage with an okay defense, which one would you choose?

It’s hard to say how much of the defense was managed by Thacker and how much was managed by Collins. I’m going to assume that Thacker was calling the plays most of the time because that’s how it looked to me. I think you’re right about the 3-3-5. It worked great against Clemson and UNC because...

Game management is a lot easier when the offense and defense are playing well. A lot of the game management mistakes that we’ve had were due to having to burn timeouts to avoid delay of game penalties. If the offense and defense are good to go and get set quickly and correctly, a lot of those...

I didn’t make any mention of weight, but insofar as it matters, I still would take the new guys over Oliver for tailback. There’s a difference between weighing <200lbs coming straight out of high school and weighing <200lbs after several years in a D1 college strength and conditioning program.

Not that I want to get too carried away by the threadjack, but the question I have about putting Oliver (or Knight) at RB is whether they can get yards between the tackles. Given the current state of our run blocking, yards will not come easily. If there’s a LB in the gap, can Tobias or...

Thank you! Finally someone is willing to get into the details. On offense, we could have gotten better than we have, but the OL transition has been the albatross around our neck. Not only did Collins start with a roster full of OL recruited with a completely different skill set, but he also...

I think the implication is that it’s the other way around: the guys are in the portal because Tashard told them he’s leaving. Either way, I hope it’s not true. I really like Tashard.

I’m feeling better and better about this hire. He was successful at ASU, ND, and Memphis. He’s been coaching in FBS football for a long time and runs the same offense we’ve been trying to run. Shouldn’t be much of a scheme/concept or personnel transition, but hopefully he can do a better job of...

Let’s go Harbaugh! I know you’re an insufferable, arrogant, whiny jerk, but this is your chance to show that you’re the same guy who excelled at Stanford and took the 40-whiners to the super bowl. Please don’t make Saban have to beat Kirby twice.

For everyone suggesting that we bring in an OC and bring in someone else to coach the QBs, I don’t think the numbers work out very well for that. We’re only allowed a certain number of coaches on the staff. We fired 3: Patenaude, Burton, and Popovich. That means we can only add 3 to the staff...

I don’t mind expanding it if they stipulate that no more than 2 teams per conference can be in. Say what you want about “Well they won, so they deserve it, blah blah blah” but the Bama-LSU National Championship game was so controversial because a team that didn’t even win its division got a...

Since he’s finishing his degree first, I really can’t fault him in any way for this decision. He must have worked hard to be able to graduate in 3 years, and by all accounts he was a great teammate. With a Tech degree in hand, he deserves a chance to see where his football career can take him...