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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TromboneJacket" data-source="post: 1050727" data-attributes="member: 2580">Now that I’ve had a bit of time to process the loss, here are some of my thoughts:A lot of people have compared this game to the Falcons Superbowl choke. As far as emotional impact, this game feels to me like the Seahawks-Patriots Superbowl. It hurts like hell, and there’s so many what-if moments that could have changed the outcome.I really can’t take fault with the coaches or players in this game. They weren’t perfect, but they gave everything they had and made the best decisions they knew to make. That team in Athens has a lot more athleticism than we do, but our guys were well-coached and left everything out on the field. There are lessons that the players and coaches can learn from this game to be better in the future, but they deserve our utmost respect. Even decisions like the soft zone defense in the 2nd half had reasons driving them.Ref calls going a little differently would have won us the game, but that’s outside the control of anyone affiliated with our fine Institute. So I’m going to throw that into the bucket that was the biggest deciding factor in the game: luck. Our guys did the best they could given their knowledge, experience, and skill. They played up near the maximum on things they could control. But they were unlucky. Regardless of your stance on targeting, that Haynes King fumble was a fluke play that even the vaunted georgie bulldogs wouldn’t be able to replicate if given 10 chances to do so. 9/10 times, even with the same play calls on both sides, that fumble doesn’t happen, and the clock runs out before georgie can mount a comeback.We need to do whatever we can to keep this staff together at least another year. With another offseason of the superb coaching we’ve witnessed on both sides of the ball (and if we can have another successful portal class to fill in the attrition gaps on our roster), we will be a team to be feared. Clemson is about to be glad we gave them up as a yearly opponent. That school in Athens has much to worry about with that game being circled on our calendar for a year.</blockquote>

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