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I’ll be there with family - but likely not tailgating. Be warned - CU fans may be worse than the leghumpers from uGA. Awful group of people to attend a game at their home stadium, in my experience. (Have been to 2 games, and they were poor sports at both - sore losers AND sore winners). Still...

Nope. As much as it would make for great things in my house, the playoff committee couldn’t bring themselves to take a team that wasn’t ranked as of the start of the season (& that ESPN hasn’t been pumping up as a contender all season). They’d much rather take a 2-loss Bama or Texas, as it fits...

Not entirely true. He was in for about 3 plays this weekend. One of them involved him mistiming the snap and almost hitting the crossing route runner in the backfield. Then he fumbled the ball and turned it over for a pick six. (I don't believe he'll be making another appearance.)

I have long felt this way. Bowl season, and any other time someone in the ACC is playing an OOC team, I’ve been very adamant about supporting them. But this year, that (partially) changed. I want the ACC to succeed. But I don’t want to see one of those who have been “shopping around” get enough...

Just a reminder - for those of you who felt things were better this game, might be worth sending J Batt a quick email to let him know. Most of us are willing to complain when something annoys us - far fewer of us hand out gold stars when we see something improve. When people do that, the person...

This. So much this. (Along with everything else he said.) I’m a marketing guy. And one of the most important strategies I’ve employed over the years: sell a movement, not a product. Sell horseback riding - not a saddle. Sell freedom and adventure - not an SUV. Sell DIY home improvement - not...

Rutherford played like he had something to prove last night. (And prove it he did.)

I thought that very thing on a couple of plays this game. Wondered if we didn’t see how Wake’s offense was giving us fits, so we decided to integrate some elements of it.

To be fair, I believe we’re still paying off karmic debt for that glorious win in Charlottesville in 1990. Which I’ll take, even though it seems like our debt should be paid off at some point. But yeah - I still dislike them and their fans.

As for my favorite memory, I loved so many of them. But I just thought of a favorite thing - the way CPJ ran in plays from the sidelines. Countless announcers and commentators remarked at it with a chuckle, calling it “old school.” Some of them, like Kirk Herbstreit, loved it and the overall...

Also Urban Meyer. IIRC, while he was at Utah he picked CPJ’s brain a lot. Then he went to Florida, and the rest of the “spread offense” took off, with a lot of its roots in the option.

Just checking in on this season. North Carolina has fallen from its high horse. Clemson is down, not looking great. FSU is still going strong. Damn, I’m annoyed we don’t play them this year. But if no one else does this year, I expect we’ll show up in Dublin next year ready to rain on their...

Agreed on all fronts. I wish (and hope) CBK will convey to the team just what was dynamic and special about CPJ's teams. They all have probably heard the standard scuttle from all the talking heads about the "high school offense," and many of them might not have come to Tech had we been...

I'd also gladly trade the 2000-2001 wins for the 1990 season. Somehow we oftentimes give UNC fits - but they seem to always knock us down a rung when we have a historic season. Oh well - I guess it's lucky that this isn't shaping up to be a historic year for Tech, eh?

I think we may have figured out some of the issues we've had on the sidelines with substitutions and other clock management items. CBK: "Sean, I need you to get---" SB: "Hold up. I'm not Sean - I'm Pat." [Clock continues to tick] CBK: "DAMMIT!"

This. When I read that, I found myself thinking, "I'd actually rather have a forced turnover than a punt" on most drives. Perhaps a better metric to evaluate our defense in its apparent bend-but-don't-break approach would be "stops with no points."

Actually, let me revisit that. I didn't give enough emphasis to a key point. Per @slugboy 's post in 2 threads, Turnovers were gave us the Miami win and killed us vs. BC. (We did snag an interception against BC...which I had to look up, because I forgot about it amidst us throwing 3...

This can't be overstated. We're an average or below-average team, currently, hopefully on the upswing. But turnovers are making the difference. (Not that that isn't often the case with teams of all skill levels - turnover margin is always important - but the numbers here are pretty striking.)...