Gt schedule 2018

[MikeJackets1967]

I'll take a stab at USF....

USF graduated 25 Seniors/Graduate students after the 2017 football season. Of those, 18 (I think) were either starters is 2nd team backups. On offense, the losses to graduation include the starting quarterback, three offensive linemen, three running backs, four wide receivers (2 with lots of playing time), and three tight ends. They also lost two placekickers and their punter. On defense, losses include 3 defensive linemen, 2 linebackers (1 all-conference), and 3 DBs. USF has some very talented players returning, but most are young and have limited playing experience. Georgia Tech gets them early in the season and should win this game handily. But let's not overlook them, Coach Strong will have them ready to play - and they play fast.

I think USF goes 7-5 in a rebuilding season with losses to GT,Illinois,Houston,Temple and UCF.

 

[TheSilasSonRising]

It was just a couple or three years ago that we tentatively had Auburn. Until the Auburn ball coach found out and killed that idea deader than a Trump cowlick. Sometimes we need to remember that it takes two to schedule a game, and while it is dismissed and ridiculed as a gimmick or a high school offense, nobody wants to play it. It makes them actually have to do that thing they are paid for, you know, actually coach.

Yeah, auburn just finished a H/A with Clemson, in addition to playing ugag / bama / aTm / lsu.

But they are afraid to play us. Especially the way we have manhandled um the last 10 years, or puke, unc, uva recently.

As bad as they were, I can't believe ut took the field against us being as scared as they must have been.

 

[alagold]

UVa:
Defense: we lose our three most talented Defenders, the last high star guys who were here before Bronco Mendenhall started his crusade of recruiting two stars who will run through walls for him.

For all of his idiosyncrasies, Bronco knows X's and O's on defense. I expect us to field a low Talent, high-effort defense, that will probably be average to slightly below-average.

Offensively, we have dipped into the transfer quarterback well again and gotten a Juco kid out of Arizona. Kid supposedly has a really good set of wheels and a meh arm. I would expect us to try and look like a poor mans Louisville.

We will run spread option, we will run invert veer, will be in the shotgun 100% of the time, we will throw a bunch of nickel-and-dime stuff underneath and try and break plays.

All pretty boilerplate these days. The one thing offensively that might make us a little bit entertaining and fun to watch is that Bronco for the last three years has been building a pint-size army of wide receivers. He loves 5 foot 9, 175 pound Jitterbug wide receivers, and apparently is just going to try and quit teams to death on the perimeter with a lot of smoke routes and underneath stuff and then get guys in the open field.

I think Georgia Tech ought to win, I mean Georgia Tech will be the better team, but a different result wouldn't surprise me, just because Bronco apparently has some sort of Life Vendetta against triple option football dating back to his days at New Mexico. After getting eviscerated by Navy in the bowl game my bet is that he has the Georgia Tech game circled on the calendar.

Please forgive any typos, I dictated this into my phone on the drive into work and my voice recognition has an IQ of 12

Bronco has done a VERY good job of defensing the Tech Off.A BIG reason we lost to them last yr and were pushed at home in Atl 2 yrs a go.

 

[takethepoints]

On the D:

I think our overall D stats this year will be about the same. It's a brand new D, both in formation and in the way its played. We didn't recruit for it specifically and the players have had spring and will have fall to try to figure out what they are doing. That doesn't augur for spectacular results.

Other, I do expect us to have more turnovers and negative plays this year. Charging Ds seem to help with those stats. However, as mentioned above, we can expect more big plays too. Last year's D was very good at limiting those, but "You live by the blitz, you die by the blitz." Personally, I'll take more turnovers and negative plays and live with the long gainers. I think Coach is the same way.

By the end of the year, I expect to see us playing better, in stark contrast to last year. But that'll depend on our not losing so many close games this year.

Hope I'm wrong, of course. If we play D well enough to rank in the high 30s nationally, we should do very well indeed.

 

[AE 87]

On the D:

I think our overall D stats this year will be about the same. It's a brand new D, both in formation and in the way its played. We didn't recruit for it specifically and the players have had spring and will have fall to try to figure out what they are doing. That doesn't augur for spectacular results.

Other, I do expect us to have more turnovers and negative plays this year. Charging Ds seem to help with those stats. However, as mentioned above, we can expect more big plays too. Last year's D was very good at limiting those, but "You live by the blitz, you die by the blitz." Personally, I'll take more turnovers and negative plays and live with the long gainers. I think Coach is the same way.

By the end of the year, I expect to see us playing better, in stark contrast to last year. But that'll depend on our not losing so many close games this year.

Hope I'm wrong, of course. If we play D well enough to rank in the high 30s nationally, we should do very well indeed.

Like you said, I hope you're wrong.

If, as many of us suspect, our D has actually been hindered by our DC, in scheme and play calling, then we get better by getting to neutral with his departure.

I think CNW has proven with lesser talent that he does not hinder his team.

So, if we don't start seeing improvement on D this year, then I think we can say the DC isn't the problem.

 

[ilovetheoption]

On the D:

I think our overall D stats this year will be about the same. It's a brand new D, both in formation and in the way its played. We didn't recruit for it specifically and the players have had spring and will have fall to try to figure out what they are doing. That doesn't augur for spectacular results.

Other, I do expect us to have more turnovers and negative plays this year. Charging Ds seem to help with those stats. However, as mentioned above, we can expect more big plays too. Last year's D was very good at limiting those, but "You live by the blitz, you die by the blitz." Personally, I'll take more turnovers and negative plays and live with the long gainers. I think Coach is the same way.

By the end of the year, I expect to see us playing better, in stark contrast to last year. But that'll depend on our not losing so many close games this year.

Hope I'm wrong, of course. If we play D well enough to rank in the high 30s nationally, we should do very well indeed.

This is close to my take. I think there will be marginal improvement, but the big jump will be in year 2

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

This is close to my take. I think there will be marginal improvement, but the big jump will be in year 2

Marginal is better than none at all. And I agree about year 2.

 

[tech_wreck47]

Miami will be the white out game, and Duke homecoming. For more game “titles” check it out here.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022018aaa.html

 

[RyanS12]

Miami will be the white out game, and Duke homecoming. For more game “titles” check it out here.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022018aaa.html

I was hoping Clemson was going to be the White out game, but thinking back to how bad it look in 2016 when I watched the DVR it was horrible with all that Orange/Purple there. I had friends texting me during the game joking about how looked like a Clemson home game.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

Miami will be the white out game, and Duke homecoming. For more game “titles” check it out here.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022018aaa.html

I hope it goes as well as this Miami white out game:

 

[dressedcheeseside]

I hope it goes as well as this Miami white out game:

@Ibeeballin gets hurt in Miami’s first series.

 

[OldJacketFan]

@Ibeeballin gets hurt in Miami’s first series.

BOO! Personal foul on @dressedcheeseside for bringing that up!

 

[dressedcheeseside]

We threw on the first three offensive plays in this game. Boy I wish we do that again.

 

[JacketFromUGA]

@Ibeeballin gets hurt in Miami’s first series.

Man why you gotta @ him like that??

 

[dressedcheeseside]

Man why you gotta @ him like that??

Not dissin'the guy at all. In fact, the only reason I did it was because I think there's a bunch of guys who don't know who he is. When he popped up in the vid I said to myself, "There's Ibee!"

 

[OldJacketFan]

Not dissin'the guy at all. In fact, the only reason I did it was because I think there's a bunch of guys who don't know who he is. When he popped up in the vid I said to myself, "There's Ibee!"

You're forgiven

 

[takethepoints]

God, I really miss Dwyer. It was sooooo much fun to watch him.

Ah, well. Maybe Kirvonte will make me forget him a little this season.

 

[RyanS12]

Debating on going to the USF game or Coming back home to ATL for Miami

 

[GT_05]

Debating on going to the USF game or Coming back home to ATL for Miami

Please come to the Miami game. Their fans are mutt-like and we need all of the classy GT fans we can get. I bought tickets to the Miami game last year but didn’t go because Irma hit our vacation rental in Bonita Springs.

Over the past three years, I’ve gone to at least one away game. ND in 2015, Dublin and VT in 2016, and Clemson in 2017. I’m trying to decide where to go this year. I’d like to see the game at USF but I go to enough miserably hot games at BDS.


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[MikeJackets1967]

Please come to the Miami game. Their fans are mutt-like and we need all of the classy GT fans we can get. I bought tickets to the Miami game last year but didn’t go because Irma hit our vacation rental in Bonita Springs.

Over the past three years, I’ve gone to at least one away game. ND in 2015, Dublin and VT in 2016, and Clemson in 2017. I’m trying to decide where to go this year. I’d like to see the game at USF but I go to enough miserably hot games at BDS.


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Miami fans only go to their games when the Cocanes are winning