Bowling Green Postgame

[4shotB]

Also... been lots of discussion about scheduling in other threads this year, and I think this game puts that logic on display. Start every season with 3 games like this at home, and start 3-0 every year... Get everyone into a groove, get your positions settled, correct mistakes, and get ready for conference. Bowling Green out of the MAC is a perfect non-con opponent.. Decent athletes, FBS level, etc. Play Bowling Green, East Carolina, Charlotte, Florida International, etc every season and destroy them.

I respectfully disagree. We have played two cupcakes so far. I honestly don't know what you learn from these games. yes, the win is nice but the talent gap between us and them was like us vs. clemson. I didn't see anyone wearing a BG uniform who was better than our guy at his position. And these teams never see our offense so we always put up ridiculous numbers. I am in favor of limiting the twinkies to two maximum per year.

As far as bowling goes, while we think back fondly of our bowl streak given the last several years, remember CCG's teams? They always went to bowls but could never beat the big teams on their schedule and lost some bowl games to some pretty crappy teams. Going to bowls via scheduling is like putting lipstick on a pig imo.

 

[LibertyTurns]

Does anyone have real doubt that Oliver is a better runner from the QB position than TQM? What we saw against USF and Bowling Green is pretty interesting from Tobias.

Running by himself, no doubt. He’s got explosive speed once there’s daylight between him & the endzone. Hard to tell how he stacks up running the option or throwing because he seems to keep the ball even more than TQM.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

Running by himself, no doubt. He’s got explosive speed once there’s daylight between him & the endzone. Hard to tell how he stacks up running the option or throwing because he seems to keep the ball even more than TQM.

Which is probably what he is told to do at this point to "minimize the damage".

 

[LibertyTurns]

Which is probably what he is told to do at this point to "minimize the damage".

If that’s “minimizing the damage” I sure as hell want to see him run the offense.

 

[year_of_the_swarm]

Are the following statements true?

TQM is not the best running quarterback on the team
TQM is not the best passing quarterback on the team
TQM is the starting QB on the team

 

[dressedcheeseside]

Does anyone have real doubt that Oliver is a better runner from the QB position than TQM? What we saw against USF and Bowling Green is pretty interesting from Tobias.

He's not as good with the option reads as TM.

 

[jgtengineer]

Are the following statements true?

TQM is not the best running quarterback on the team
TQM is not the best passing quarterback on the team
TQM is the starting QB on the team

Im not sure we can draw that conclusion on the running QB. Im not sure thatvtqm wouldnt have done the same thing on those plays as oliver they were qb untouched to the endzone play. And in thr use game the play tqm went fown o. In the second half was the same play oliver lit it up with after a very large gain. Id say oliver and Marshall are about even with the ball in their hands oliver is a bit more of a slasher marshall is a bit more elusive.

 

[Yaller Jacket]

Two more thoughts:

1) When a team completes a lot of short passes but can't run, as long as we are cooking on offense, I try not to panic. It is frustrating, but those kinds of offenses have a hard time getting to the end zone. Like us when we have drives but no big plays, you have to execute a whole bunch of times in row. A bad throw, a drop, a slip by the receiver, a holding call, a tipped ball, any number of things and you stall. If you do manage to get near the end zone, with no run game you often have to settle for field goals.

2) Some of us were worried about team spirit this week. Two close losses then a blowout at home then a game against a team with no name recognition. But I saw not a hint of that. The team was hustling, enthused, and altogether ready to play ball again. This is not a team which has given up on the season, and we can all be happy about that.

 

[bobongo]

Also... been lots of discussion about scheduling in other threads this year, and I think this game puts that logic on display. Start every season with 3 games like this at home, and start 3-0 every year... Get everyone into a groove, get your positions settled, correct mistakes, and get ready for conference. Bowling Green out of the MAC is a perfect non-con opponent.. Decent athletes, FBS level, etc. Play Bowling Green, East Carolina, Charlotte, Florida International, etc every season and destroy them.

Booorrrrrring.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

This is not a team which has given up on the season, and we can all be happy about that.

Too bad many of the fans, GTSwarm posters included, have.

 

[tmhunter52]

Hope I am wrong, but I still think we go
4-8

It took 5 games, but we put together a complete effort on offense. I think TaQuon is finally getting over his injured toe, and it's showing on the field.

If we dropped down a classification, we could win games like that every week!

 

[melloace]

Win Chances for remaining games

Louisville - FPI 68.3% Atomic 60.3%
Duke- FPI 43.5% Atomic 47.8%
VT- FPI 26.3% Atomic 31.1%
NC- FPI 70.3% Atomic 65.1%
Miami- FPI 28.6% Atomic 37.8%
Virginia FPI 67.4% Atomic 67.0%
uga FPI- 6.4% Atomitc 7.1%

Both have us finishing 5-7. We always win and lose a game we shouldn't. I'm hoping we've already lost the game we shouldn't which would put us at 6-6. Reality we just need to focus on getting better every week. I can see 4-8 and 7-5 depending on which teams show up. A lot of ACC teams have looked as bad as we have at times. It's all about who puts it together in October.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

He's not as good with the option reads as TM.

To be fair, he hasn't had much of an opportunity to do that yet.

 

[first&ten]

It took 5 games, but we put together a complete effort on offense. I think TaQuon is finally getting over his injured toe, and it's showing on the field.

Be very careful reading too much into this game. Tech paid $900,000 to BG to come down and get beat up.

 

[first&ten]

Exactly, it’s called the Duke approach to scheduling. Go 5-3 in the ACC and you’re almost assured of 8-4 seasons + a bowl game. We’ve only been below 4-4 in the ACC once in CPJs 10 seasons.

I’d rather have GT fans complaining about our schedule while we go 9-4 or 8-5 then play tough OOC games and even on the road and be clawing like hell for a 0.500 season. We always hve Clemson, Miami, Georgia...etc. we have a top 10 SOS most years which benefits us zero.

Why not just drop down to FCS level, then you wouldn't have to be concerned about Clemson,Miami,UGA. No problems,no bowls.

 

[Deleted member 2897]

Why not just drop down to FCS level, then you wouldn't have to be concerned about Clemson,Miami,UGA. No problems,no bowls.

Because that would be a massive negative to all of our sports programs.

 

[first&ten]

Because that would be a massive negative to all of our sports programs.

Agreed, so let's go out play our ACC schedule, keep ugag, drop the 2 FCS opponents, schedule 2 P5 teams instead, get good are go home.

 

[Deleted member 2897]

Agreed, so let's go out play our ACC schedule, keep ugag, drop the 2 FCS opponents, schedule 2 P5 teams instead, get good are go home.

I don’t see the point. Georgia, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Miami...occasionally Notre Dame. Why do we need to stack in even more tough games? You don’t get a trophy for having a top 10 strength of schedule.

 

[RamblinCharger]

When we win up front our offense as a whole dominates. That happened against a bad BG team. Oliver looks better to me, but we won’t get to see if that really is the case against big time opponents. Alabama and Clemson, arguably the best 2 teams are playing the young guy over a vet but our 2-3 team can’t take that risk I guess... anyway, I think the defense is better or can be with continued improvement. I’m fine giving up plays here and there if we make some plays and create some turnovers. We need the OL to play well against ACC teams and we can probably win 6 maybe even 7 games this year. Gotta get some confidence rolling Friday.

 

[GT_05]

Be very careful reading too much into this game. Tech paid $900,000 to BG to come down and get beat up.

Ouch! 900K! Are you serious? How much did we pay Middle Tennessee to come down and whoop us?


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