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One more thing. In Moneyball, Billy Bean pretty much puts performance in playoff series down to luck. "My stuff" - the kind of counterintuitive recruiting and play that got the A's great win/loss records - doesn't work in playoffs; they're too short and the teams are too closely matched. o you...

He was a great OL/LB. The "Magnificent 7", as they called Tech's one platoon line, had some of the best players we've ever had. I remember watching them in high school and listening to the great Bama game. He'll be missed by everyone, but especially by those who saw him and his teammates play.

Me too. What I'm afraid of is that we will be "better" on D. The Master of Mayhem is very fond of "flowing to the ball" and "getting up field" and "sowing chaos" (stops behind the line, I think). As you may recall, Paul's teams had a tendency to eat such opponents up. Everything that the spread...

Thanks. A lot of us look at our DL and see midgets. On the contrary, it is usual for OLs to outweigh - sometimes vastly - DLs. The two positions require very different talents and really big people often have a hard time making the splash you might expect, as Tech has found out in the recent...

Two comments: • I wouldn't bet against Thomas starting at LB and • I wouldn't bet against Quinney starting at OT.

And there was no way he was going to make Lee Roy Jordan happy. Jordan opposed even sniffing at a coach with a Tech background.

Echoing many above: I'm not qualified to give you advice. Most of the above good advice - and I second most of it - is based on your life situation. But you said you felt stuck. If you think your life in general is stuck, then I'd advise going to your nearest bookstore (live or net) and buying...

I had a friend in grad school - this was back in the Dark Ages - who was a trainer at Tech when Smith was there. He said Giles was a great guy, but that one of his favorite things to do was to go over to the Varsity on the weekends and pick fights. Then he would draw his knife … People tend to...

Yes, and it was Bobby Dodd who advised him to take the Bammer job. Dodd told him he could win a national championship there, but not at Tech. Well, even the Gods are wrong sometime. Btw, one reason Bammer hired Curry was that he would bring - wait for it - advanced recruiting techniques to...

All this seems to predict that Knight will stay at QB. Maybe so, maybe not. He was the #38 rated dual QB nationally in high school, but he was pretty good as an LB too. Here's one of the reasons why spring this year could be very important. I wouldn't be surprised for Knight to move back or for...

Hmmmmm. Let's get to a 4 win plateau first, shall we? No reason to get ahead of ourselves. Btw, all this "He's at Tech for good!" stuff is not realistic. If he starts winning big and gets a better offer, he'd go somewhere else. It's a job, not a calling. Or he could get his walking papers next...

Me too. Tony would have won the Heisman if he had stayed healthy; we never had a better back at Tech and all we got was a snap shot of him. He was another O.J. Simpson: 220 lbs, faster then a track star, and able to run through tackles. I particular remember our game with Clemson that year. It...

The rankings seem about right to me, mainly because so many coaches are so close. You could quibble about who should be in one rank or another, but the thing that stuck out to me was how many of our coaches were so close to the top rank. Think about some other programs. They're lucky if they...

Yes. That's why I don't understand why they don't run him more. He's been very effective on double options and the risk isn't that high. But this is a coach's decision.

Well, it might help him. I worry about the program's emphasis on gaining weight, especially for skill players. For linemen, I get it. But the muscle/flexibility tradeoff mentioned above worries me. We'll see. At least with more muscle, the coaches might be willing to run Sims more and use more...

I agree with some of this, but, in fact, it would make sense to expand to a 8 or 12 team playoff. Provided, that is, that the teams that get in are conference champions. No also rans allowed and no use of rankings to determine who gets in. That would not automatically get rid of the "Bammer and...

This kind of thing always leads to an over-under bet. I think we could win 5 or we could win 3. It'll probably come down to the breaks. One thing: why do we have to go after good teams for our out of conference games? We should stop that. Now. If KSU comes to Grant Field and wins - a distinct...

I'm going to push back slightly on part of this. Robert Putnam, the "Bowling Alone" guy, has looked at why "social capital" has declined in the US (and other places, but let's leave that aside). He looked, iow, at why social clubs and overall in-person social contact has decreased. One of the...

I was up at USCe for grad school at the time and worked out three days a week at the local Y in Columbia. One day Poston (6'4", 290), Ganis (6'4" 280), and Dykes (6'4" 295), all starting USCe football players, came in to watch. I knew Ganis from high school so I said "Hi, Rusty" and went back to...

I like to think of what might have been … Mills plays until he's a junior and got pro. Then we see a battle royal between Benson, Howard, and Mason for BB, with the number three moving to AB as the Cox/Allen/Perkins back (Benson, I'd bet; quicker). And we get two more years of good RBs. For the...