I'm sure you meant 200% more... 3 is only 200% greater than 1... [emoji3526]
Damn it, I need to stop trying to make points from the beach when I’ve been drinking way too early in the morning. I meant 3 times as many, but it doesn’t really matter.
The point is we blew too many big leads in my opinion...in both games we won and games we lost. By the same token the largest deficit I recall us coming back from during the last ten years was the 2008 game in Athens down 16 at halftime (two scores, btw). I could be wrong on that one, so if someone remembers a bigger one please correct me.
I just found it odd that we blew such large leads with a system that is geared towards controlling the ball and burning the clock.
The Georgia Southern (almost) debacle was madening. Earlier I said 28 points...my mistake, it was 25. 35-10 at half. Then we literally ran seven plays or less on four straight drives to punt while they ran seven plays or less on four straight drives to scores TDs and take the lead. The last drive of ours occurred after they went ahead, which lasted four plays and gained 16 yards. Then we get a miracle fumble and find a way to win.
Where were the in game adjustments? I guess you could claim that they came after the fumble and it gave us the win...if so then that doesn’t sound like some mastermind coach who is a wizard at in game adjustments.
Back to my original point, the guy is a great coach and did a bunch of great things for Tech. Many of which we hadn’t experienced in decades. But we bled out huge leads on several occasions across different seasons with different players. The common factor was the coaching...and an in game adjustment guru doesn’t let that sort of thing happen.
So, do I think the next staff can live up to that level? Sure, why not. It would be a good asset to have if we could avoid blowing a three score lead for the next ten years to go along with it.