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Unless things improve drastically on defense Thacker needs to be on a very hot seat at the end of this season otherwise Coach Key should be on that hot seat instead. I’ve been wondering why Key retained Thacker and I’m increasingly convinced it was to buy time and maybe it was a brilliant...

And what good coach is gonna want to come to GT after we fired a HC 5 games into his first full season? Key needs to make changes. We can fire him if he doesn’t make those changes before the end of the season but no sooner.

Yup. And notwithstanding our last game, I think he can still do well at Tech. He really needs to get rid of Thacker, and there’s a question about why he didn’t do so in the first place. But the more I think about it, the more I think it may have been a smart move. Retaining Thacker gives him...

I think you’re misunderstanding me. I was responding to someone who was saying the only reason Sanders has brought $20mm in additional ticket sales for Colorado’s AA this season is because unlike Tech, Colorado has a lot of Alumni who live nearby and that Tech would see no such bonus. My...

Barely beating Gardner Webb was way way better for the simple reason that we won. Football isn’t as simple as points scored. There is a massive difference between 17-16 and 16-17 even though the scores are almost the same. Good teams find ways to win even when they’re playing like crap. And...

If he moves on in 3 years it would have been because he was successful and renewed interest in a moribund Colorado program, brought in many more season holders, showed them success at the highest level is possible at Colorado, and would make Colorado a much more attractive program to fans...

A lot of people will claim, with good reason, that Marcus Freeman sucks. Heck, a lot of people were claiming Marcus Freeman sucked because Notre Dame barely lost to Ohio State last week.

5 out of the top 10 nationally watched games say otherwise. Celebrities flying in from LA with no CU connections to watch says otherwise. And we’re talking about Deion Sanders in Atlanta. Man is beloved in the city and played not just for the Falcons but also the Braves. Deion Sanders would...

Deion Sanders in Atlanta would fill Bobby Dodd’s 55k seats with 0 Tech alumni. Until yesterday Colorado had 4 games in the top 10 most watched games nationally. After yesterday it will likely be 5 of the top 10 most watched games. Colorado vs CSU, a game against an FCS team, was until yesterday...

True. But at the same time Colorado is using Deion to promote their brand. And the estimates are that they’ve already gotten about $250mm worth of return from the $6mm they’re paying Deion this year in brand value improvement. Both Colorado and Tech will face the exact same threat with any...

I think there are legitimate reasons people did not want Deion Sanders. 1. There’s a long history of coaches that are good talkers but not good coaches. Many thought Deion was one of those. Of course, nothing in either his coaching, professional, or college history indicated any of that...

Ok this is BS. Tech has historically often had very good defenses. The famed Black Watch and all. But during the Gailey years, Tech had awesome defenses year in and year out under Tenuta. Those teams had amazing mixes of NFL players and non NFL players who nonetheless played hard, aggressive and...

I think the extreme hype has played itself out this year. It probably played itself out last week itself. Colorado dropped out of the top 25 after being beat by one of the best teams in the country, which there are many other top 20 teams who might have still remained even with a similar beat...

Looks like Fox knew what they were doing. By the time the entire country was awake it was a close exciting game. There’s another game I watched today that I cannot, unfortunately, say the same about.

Since the CFB playoffs were created there have been almost as many unique NFL teams in the 2 team Super Bowl in a league with 32 teams as there have been unique CFB teams in the 4 team playoffs in a league with 120+ teams. The NFL is significantly more interesting, anything can happen from...

I was following the gamecast live and it seemed to break down when the chains fiasco started. I wonder if those chains are connected to the data somehow. The commentators were saying something to the effect of them having a lot in them besides just being chains.

I just looked it up. The SC State game had an attendance of 31000 in a stadium with capacity of 55000. That’s nearly 24k tickets for this single game. At $50/ticket you’re making $1.2mm right there, not including concessions.

Yeah, which shows value. You think the AA cannot increase ticket prices to capture 5% of that? Well then everyone in the AA needs to be fired immediately. Also, I’m pretty sure SeatGeek, TicketMaster, etc have agreements to give the original seller a cut in every aftermarket ticket sale. If...

Which is why he would be a bad hire for Tech. Keys vs Sanders might be an interesting discussion (not really). Keys vs Sanders as Tech coach is a pointless discussion because Sanders simply wouldnt be allowed to do the things he’s doing in Colorado at Tech.

This was the definition of a trap game with Oregon in prime time (ABC 3:30) coming next Saturday. And having a trap game against your in-state rival makes an upset even more likely. Throw in the fact that their best player on offense and defense was taken out by a cheap hit it’s actually...