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Does Georgia Tech's Offense ACTUALLY Hurt Recruiting?
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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 252632" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>What it comes down to is that most of the people who comment on sports - or even run sports schools - don't know diddly about option offenses.</p><p></p><p>The reason for this is straightforward enough: they don't lend themselves to what passes for commentary in sports media. Listen to a game for teams running the spread or a regular T. They invariably focus in on the skill players and how "dominant" they are that day. This makes things easy for both fans of those teams and for commentators: why'd one side win? Because so-and-so played really well. Now listen to most commentators in our games. They often don't know what to say. We run a dive and get 4 yards (let it be so for the rest of the year, oh, Lord). Then we get two more on second down. It's third and four! Most teams would think about passing. We run again and either get the first or start thinking about what we'll do on fourth and one. Let's face it folks, there isn't much drama there, especially when we do it for 10 minutes or better. So, the color guys start talking about blocking. This is not click-bait and they don't like doing it. They know that most of the non-Tech fans watching are getting stressed out trying to figure out, "Why can't we stop the same play when they run it over and over again?" They also know that they can't get them to follow an argument about why the same play with an unbalanced line<em> isn't the same play</em>. Provided, that is, that they realize this themselves. Which they often don't.</p><p></p><p>This is a cross we have to bear, I think. And I don't think it has much to do with our recruiting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 252632, member: 265"] What it comes down to is that most of the people who comment on sports - or even run sports schools - don't know diddly about option offenses. The reason for this is straightforward enough: they don't lend themselves to what passes for commentary in sports media. Listen to a game for teams running the spread or a regular T. They invariably focus in on the skill players and how "dominant" they are that day. This makes things easy for both fans of those teams and for commentators: why'd one side win? Because so-and-so played really well. Now listen to most commentators in our games. They often don't know what to say. We run a dive and get 4 yards (let it be so for the rest of the year, oh, Lord). Then we get two more on second down. It's third and four! Most teams would think about passing. We run again and either get the first or start thinking about what we'll do on fourth and one. Let's face it folks, there isn't much drama there, especially when we do it for 10 minutes or better. So, the color guys start talking about blocking. This is not click-bait and they don't like doing it. They know that most of the non-Tech fans watching are getting stressed out trying to figure out, "Why can't we stop the same play when they run it over and over again?" They also know that they can't get them to follow an argument about why the same play with an unbalanced line[I] isn't the same play[/I]. Provided, that is, that they realize this themselves. Which they often don't. This is a cross we have to bear, I think. And I don't think it has much to do with our recruiting. [/QUOTE]
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