Yes, but this response to my post suggests to me one of two things:
1) You think last year's VPI game was representative of our losses "over the last few years"
OR
2) You know that our offense executed poorly against VPI this past year and think that this performance reflects on the scheme and talent more than the execution on that particular day and chose to ignore that my post referred to "over the last few years"
Which is it? Or is it something else? Your posts began by referring to our record over the last four years. That was the context of my post, so why did you choose to refer to one game in 2013?
I'll admit that our offense had a down year in 2013, ranked 30 or 31 in efficiency iirc, but our D was still worse, like 59. The VPI game was a bad offensive performance, much of which was on our QB overthrowing open receivers and almost everyone else acting like they couldn't hear the snap count.
However, consider that BC and NC State, as well as FSU and SCar, held Clemson to less than the 31 we scored against them. UNC, WF, FSU, VPI, as well as UF, held d'oh U to less than the 30 we scored on them.
Now, since we've tried having conversation about this before, I don't expect this post to change anything. However, if you want to continue, please respond to my questions about why you responded to my post about the last few years by referring to one game.
Your original statement was:
Peoplw who claim to have watched GT football but post as if our offense has been the problem with our record over the last few years are probably not worth serious conversation, imo now.
Besides being snide and condescending, your statement implies that our offense hasn't been the problem with our record over the last few years. Of our 6 losses last year, I pointed out that 2 of them were games in which the offense played really poorly and yes, they were primarily the ones to blame for the loss IMO in that game.
I've never tried to be transparent about it. I don't like Paul Johnson as our coach. I don't like the triple option offense...I find it incredibly boring to watch and I think it's outdated and very very difficult to recruit upper tier players to come play in the offense. But those are just my opinions.
I was also asked by another poster what I thought was so different about Oregon/Auburn's spread offense versus ours and I answered that question honestly as well. You may not like my opinion or agree with it; that's your prerogative.
And finally, I am very much aware of how horrible our defense has been for almost the entire tenure Johnson has been the coach. In 2009, when we won the ACC championship, we did out by outscoring teams because we couldn't stop anyone. 2008 was pretty much a similar story because our defense was bad then as well. But we have had our share of bad offensive games during Johnson's tenure as well. Hell, in 2009 when we had the best team under him that we've ever had, we couldn't do crap against Iowa in the bowl game. In 2008, I had to sit in the Georgia Dome and watch LSU beat the living hell out of us and we were only able to score 3 points against them.
I mean, if we really want to play this game, we lost 4 games in 2008 that were the offense's fault (Virginia Tech, Virginia, North Carolina, and LSU).
In 2009, we lost two for which the offense was to blame (Miami and Iowa).
In 2010, the offense was the culprit in four games (Miami, Clemson, Virginia Tech and Air Force). You could potentially make the claim that the Kansas loss was equally on the offense and the defense that year.
In 2011, 3 losses (Virginia, Miami, and Georgia).
In 2012, (Virginia Tech, BYU, Georgia, Florida State). In fairness, BYU was a beatdown on both sides of the ball that day.
But even though we can do that exercise, I think it's fruitless and stupid, to be honest. I don't generally put blame on offense or defense for a game. Wins are team wins and losses are team losses. If you win because your offense was able to score 52 and the other team scored 51, then your team did what it needed to do to win. Conversely, if the offense is only able to score 7 but the defense holds the other team to 6, then your team did what it needed to do to win.
