Bowling Green Post Game... 😢

[cpf2001]

I mean Tech was awful in the second quarter this time around here.

The second was bad, the third was worse! GT wins if you take away the third somehow.

 

[InsideLB]

BGSU won the LOS on both sides of the ball. When you can't run the ball and you can't stop the opponent on the ground you are usually going to lose. Very disappointing to be manhandled that way by a MAC team.

I don't know what to say about us getting them in third and long many times only to let them convert. I've seen this defense before during the Collins years though. It would be third and long and I'd say oh crap, they got us right where they want us. Seems like we sit back and wait for things to go wrong instead of making the plays needed to win. Maybe fire or demote Thacker and let Sherrer have a go?

 

[GT_B]

We have a few guys that are good football players, but overall this is same story as every tech team in history, we lack talent and speed, especially on defense. Combine that with Thacker who has no idea what’s he’s doing is a recipe for disaster. We were saved in some games last year because of turnovers. Wake forest was a mirage because they are that bad, especially their OL.

Watching this game I don’t see much of difference in players between us and bowling green, I would say our players are about the same in terms of talent level, but they wanted it more and put in more effort. Stewart destroyed our pathetic defense. Our LB group is exactly the lability we knew when we lost Ace and Thomas, no difference makers and no speed there.

Going to need a miracle to reach a bowl game this year and hope Thacker is canned tonight.

 

[JacketFan137]

We looked so good last week. This is a real head scratcher.

wake is a terrible team with a bad o line. we matched up well

 

[wrmathis]

You're going to see more fans around college football leaning into it now that Harbaugh has things moving at Michigan after their obsession with MICHIGAN MEN for so long and of course with Kirby at uga
for the record idc where the coach went to school

Yeah but then you have Scott frost situation at Nebraska.

 

[leatherneckjacket]

Coming out of halftime, needing a stop, the defense allows BG to march easily downfield. We get them to 3rd and 8 on the 12 and instead of playing tight, our defense backs up to protect the goal line as if it were 3rd and goal. They get an easy first down against the soft coverage. They score two plays later as the QB runs untouched to the pylon. That is all you need to know about our defense.

The best example of our offense is our center standing at the line of scrimmage by himself looking for someone to block, while the blitzer who ran right by him forces an 18 yard loss taking us out if FG range.

 

[RhoChi]

I mean I agree that you don’t air dirty laundry, and I wasn’t expecting Key to come out and say “I’m firing the DC tomorrow”, but I was hoping for something more along the lines of agreeing that change needs to happen and therefore will happen. Saying “everything is fine” while the roof is burning over your head is just Collins Era 2.0 type stuff.

Yeah, it’s a tough place to be. Key unfortunately has to be diplomatic. It’s an optics thing. And now as coach even more scrunity is on him. I hope he makes changes, but I appreciate the discernment on him to take the majority of the blame and fire

 

[Billygoat91]

The good thing is nobody notices we suck now

This is unfortunately true. We aren't really even thought about anymore. At least with CPJ we were known for something

 

[InsideLB]

We looked so good last week. This is a real head scratcher.

Honestly I thought with all the gifts Wake gave us we were lucky to get out of there with a win. They turned the ball over 5 times and still were driving to send the game into OT....our offense completely disappeared as it did today.

 

[ibeattetris]

Not trying to pick on you, but this was way worse than a bad offensive game.

After the first 5 minutes, it was a terrible offensive game. Yes, the defense should have held BG to single digits. Before today, BG’s offense was one of the worst offenses in FBS. BG’s defense was almost as bad (before today). That we didn’t score at least in the 40’s is an indictment of the offense.

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We 100% should have scored more. If you go the garbage time TD we scored 2 ppd which is bad considering the competition. It still should have been enough to win. Our QB had a bad game, and our running game is not good enough to pick up the slack.
Given the low number of drives, I think 40 would be a lot of points. We are definitely capable of 3.5 ppd against BG, but having multiple interceptions doesn’t help things.

 

[green&gold]

We should’ve never worn the black out uni’s during the afternoon - they made the players overheat and that’s why we lost….🫨

 

[tomknight]

these things happened in this game vs. Bowling Green:
1) GT offense failed to make 1 yard on 2 attempts outside the red zone
2) GT Defense allowed their QB to lumber for a 1st down on 3rd and 15
3) GT punt team snapped the ball INTO THE UP BACK'S HEAD!

oh man, is that what happened? from where i sat, I thought it was a designed fake.

 

[Jacket05]

While I don’t disagree, I’m not sold on firing Key yet. Team does look different. It’s not a team I’m super excited about, but Im more excited than under CGC

This is where I am too. While this game was horrible on ALL accounts, this is the first game under Key (starting from last year) where there were no positives to come out. But this is only one game. Obviously the defense has had issues all season and we have struggled at times on offense but this game aside I have seen progress from Key. Key won't get fired this year but I would not be surprised to see some defensive coaching changes.

 

[Pappa P]

Just saw in the postgame presser that key said he doesn’t have any concerns about his staff. Welp, it was nice knowing you guys but I’m not dedicating any more of my time to this ****show. If you can’t see after the last 5 weeks that your DC is not fit to even coach middle school football then you need to go too. God damn why did I ever choose to root for this team.

Don’t let the door hit you in the arse. I’m a longtime Tech fan, graduate, and supporter. Heck yeah I’m frustrated. But as a fan, I support my team no matter. And even after today, I’ll support them just as much as if they had won 54-0. So good riddance.

 

[reckrider]

AJC says we paid BG 1.1 million for that. Another great GT financial decision.

 

[bennyjacket]

Very annoyed at the result but this is what happens when you cant recruit and have to rely on the transfer portal. It took 4-5 defenders to take down their RB after he would go down field for 7+ yards on multiple plays. Yea coaching probably has a lot to do with it but we have no OLine/DLine/Linebackers. Brooks was the guy getting most of the tackles, no reason the RB should be making it that far down field on multiple plays. NIL and conference realignment will be the end of GT.

Sadly the only way for GT football to start gaining relevance is for the state of GA to elect a democratic governor, not from Athens CC. BOR is royally ****ing GT and GT leadership is spreading the cheeks and taking it.

 

[bucknellbison31]

Don’t let the door hit you in the arse. I’m a longtime Tech fan, graduate, and supporter. Heck yeah I’m frustrated. But as a fan, I support my team no matter. And even after today, I’ll support them just as much as if they had won 54-0. So good riddance.

Any fan who quits on this program now better not suddenly come back when things get good again. As upset as I am right now, enduring the tough times is what fandom is about. Anyone who wants to give up now, go ahead and leave, and we won't miss ya.

 

[slugboy]

We 100% should have scored more. If you go the garbage time TD we scored 2 ppd which is bad considering the competition. It still should have been enough to win. Our QB had a bad game, and our running game is not good enough to pick up the slack.
Given the low number of drives, I think 40 would be a lot of points. We are definitely capable of 3.5 ppd against BG, but having multiple interceptions doesn’t help things.

This offense scores more than our offense did the last few years. But it’s not the offense I thought we were going to have—I thought we were going to have the WKU/Texas Tech/Oklahoma/USC offense, but our running game can’t get going.

This is where I am too. While this game was horrible on ALL accounts, this is the first game under Key (starting from last year) where there were no positives to come out. But this is only one game. Obviously the defense has had issues all season and we have struggled at times on offense but this game aside I have seen progress from Key. Key won't get fired this year but I would not be surprised to see some defensive coaching changes.

I’m going to get accused of hyperbole, but Key has to do SOMETHING. This is a HUGE loss.

 

[tomknight]

I hate the whole Tech man thing. Seems to hurt more than it helps.

the couple of coaches prior to this one weren't Tech men, were they?

 

[MACHETE]

They performed slightly less crappy a few games last year compared to his other 3 years of dumpster fire coordinating. No school that takes football seriously would have retained him.

You have to also remember, we were very lucky to win the Pitt (three dropped INTs), Duke and NC (Downs drop) games. Could have very easily been 2-10 last year.