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Me too. What Option says above is the key here: you don't have to recruit world beaters; just players who can do what you need to make the O work. It worked before and it would have worked with Leach too.

Yes! This is not American football; it's Italian soccer.,

And another thing. The "rules" today allow OLs to push against a scrum to force a runner forward. A lot of the "extra effort", iow, is from OLs pushing their RB forward. In my day this was a 10 yard penalty. And it still should be, especially down by the goal line.

Amen, brother. We seem to forget this very, very basic matter aroun d here a whole lot.

One of my former colleagues went to Austin College for his undergrad degree. One of his buds was the new QB who came in with him as a frosh. AC went undefeated his frosh year and won 9 the next. Then the guy decided he didn't want of play football anymore, he needed to concentrate on his...

I think this is how does works, sorta. At some schools, the big donors completely rule the roost. I think this isn't the case in most programs. What the big donors can do is loosen constraints on ADs. If they get fed up enough, they'll be willing to provide the cash to make a change possible...

Yes, me too. I thought he was the right DC for Tech under any circumstance, mainly because he had come up with a D scheme at App State that fit almost exactly with the kind of good D players Tech could recruit and keep in school. Can't reliably find big DTs to come to Tech (that's the problem...

I'll add one thing about Tenuta. I think one reason he was so successful was Chan Gailey. A lot of Tech people disliked the way we played under Chan because he was so conservative on O. But the main reason for that was to reduce the number of mistakes that could result in poor field position for...

If he could create a winner in - wait for it - Starkville, he can create a winner anywhere.

I agree but I can see why they do: recruiting. Da U has consistently out recruited everybody in the conference except FSU. 247 ranks their classes for the last 5 years at 11, 17, 27, 8, 1`2 nationally and always toward the top of the ACC. I think the consensus is that, if they get a coach who...

The Owls are 7 - 1, btw.

I was thought to do that in high school if I missed a direct hit. Hit the ground and roll into the opposing DL. And keep rolling. Oh, and whip your legs into him. Luckily, whipping became illegal by the time I got to college. But that wasn't what our OL blocking in those days was supposed to...

One of the things I liked (yes, liked) about our OL under Paul was that it was always a lean, mean fighting machine. No guts allowed and every man was expected to hit somebody - that's hit, not waltz with - somebody on every play. When we got an OL of big guys, as in 2014, the results were even...

The problem with this post is that it identifies a problem then doesn't see that the problem is an argument for doing things differently. It is true that the Tech football program has funding problems and that this lead to a salary problems. My reaction was a simple one: so what else is new...

Back in Paul's time I was sitting near an older (and if he was older then me, he was old) Tech fan. We were doing a death march and he started complaining about "needing some excitement". I think that's what a lot of Tech fans didn't like about the TO; the death marches seemed so monotonous...

Well, today I watched the game. I have seldom seen two such poorly coached teams in a contest. Both teams seemed bound and determined to shoot themselves in the foot and usually succeeded. Stupid penalties - false starts for them, personal fouls(!) for us - stymied or prolonged many drives in...

The FCS seems to have handled this quite effectively. There's no reason that the FBS can't, even with an expanded playoff. No reason to stuff off bowl cities, imho.

I'm sure you are right, but these things have a tendency to blow up in my face.

As I said a couple of years ago, what I was looking forward to was a team with Jordan at QB and Mills at BB. That, sports fans, would have been a team to fear. It would have been Navy when Wirth was QB, but with more talent. You talk about a QB/BB version of the O; this would have been a...

Now watch. The offer will materialize next week. I'm not saying it will, but that's the way these things usually work. I don't know how many times this has happened to yours truly.