Keeping Santucci

[TampaBuzz]

Syracuse had a higher SOS than Duke, Cal, SMU, UNC according to https://collegefootballnetwork.com/2024-college-football-strength-of-schedule/

and even looking at just ACC schedule, SMU's top 2 regular season opponents were Louisville and Duke whereas Cuse played Miami and Tech.

People thought the FSU win was a fantastic win in the moment too, but now it clearly was not. Perception can change, and no 3pt loss to a 10 win team is a bad loss imo

The FSU win was fantastic. It was so fantastic that it sent FSU into a tailspin and there was no recovery for them.

 

[yeti92]

I think 2024 F$U was a highly talented team with a head/heart problem. We dinged that head/heart issue pretty hard and pushed them onto the slippery slope. IOW, if they win our game, their season may have been much different.

The FSU win was fantastic. It was so fantastic that it sent FSU into a tailspin and there was no recovery for them.

Whatever helps you sleep better at night, but I'm okay with acknowledging FSU was a bad team just like they were in 2020 when TFG/Sims beat them to start the season.

 

[Root4GT]

Syracuse played the weakest acc schedule of any member. If you can't see Tech was the marketed netter team you aren't looking. Did you watch the game? I recall a complete melting on this form after that loss. It was called a terrible loss by many on this board. It still is a bad loss.

Against GT Syracuse had 515 yards and 27 first downs, GT had 378 yards and 19 first downs. GT never led in the game! Yea we beat the crap out of them! LOL Syracuse was the better team that game and had a significantly better season than GT this year! It was not a bad loss at all! Syracuse was a very good team.

 

[TechPhi97]

Correct. The safety at depth is unaccounted for in the pass pro. We’ve been successful more often not with safety blitzes. It’s not Santucci’s fault Brooks takes poor angles and misses sacks/tackles.



GT defense has been bad for 20yrs. To say they naturally got better is insane take. This is the first time in a long time we looked organized and fundamentally sound, so why shouldn’t the DC receive credit?

Thanks for offering your viewpoint here, always like to hear from you on these types of discussions.

 

[stinger78]

Whatever helps you sleep better at night, but I'm okay with acknowledging FSU was a bad team just like they were in 2020 when TFG/Sims beat them to start the season.

 

[Richland County]

Against GT Syracuse had 515 yards and 27 first downs, GT had 378 yards and 19 first downs. GT never led in the game! Yea we beat the crap out of them! LOL Syracuse was the better team that game and had a significantly better season than GT this year! It was not a bad loss at all! Syracuse was a very good team.

A bad losses is how I described it. Please don't put words in my mouth. No where did I say we hest them. On the contrary we should have.

 

[TechPhi97]

Against GT Syracuse had 515 yards and 27 first downs, GT had 378 yards and 19 first downs. GT never led in the game! Yea we beat the crap out of them! LOL Syracuse was the better team that game and had a significantly better season than GT this year! It was not a bad loss at all! Syracuse was a very good team.

I added the FEI game ratings to a new tab in my spreadsheet. I also added a summary page (Game Rating Summary) where I assign each win and loss to either offense or defense. For the Syracuse game in particular, our offense played their 7th best game and our defense played their 10th best, so I ultimately assign that loss to the defense even though the offense wasn't great . Only in the FSU and Vanderbilt games did we have a worse defensive game rating.

Interestingly, when I use the FEI ratings to assign the win/loss to one side of the ball, I get:
Responsible for wins: Offense - 4 (FSU, GSt, Duke, UNC) ; Defense - 2 (Miami, NCSU)
Responsible for loss: Offense - 3 (L'ville, ND, VT) ; Defense - 3 (Syracuse, Georgia, Vandy)

 

[Golden Tornadoes]

I can't lie, Key's unsportsmanlike penalty was on me. I was derelict in my duties. The film session at the 'get-bak!' coach conference was not kind.

But I did have a good season overall. Seriously with all the terri-bad reffing this year, the fact that no one got murdered is an accomplishment.

And did you hear about that oversized streaker in the Miami game? No? That's right ..... you didn't...

I for one do NOT blame the 15-yard penalty on the 'get-bak!' coach. Actually, my question on that is why did you wait so long to turn him loose?

 

[stinger 1957]

Against GT Syracuse had 515 yards and 27 first downs, GT had 378 yards and 19 first downs. GT never led in the game! Yea we beat the crap out of them! LOL Syracuse was the better team that game and had a significantly better season than GT this year! It was not a bad loss at all! Syracuse was a very good team.

I agree Syr was the better team, at least that day, the one that bothers me is the Louisville game, very winnable, we just did not get it done.

 

[Root4GT]

A bad losses is how I described it. Please don't put words in my mouth. No where did I say we hest them. On the contrary we should have.

Whatever you want to say about it being a bad loss unless you me we were badly beaten by a better team that day has no merit.

 

[slugboy]

I added the FEI game ratings to a new tab in my spreadsheet. I also added a summary page (Game Rating Summary) where I assign each win and loss to either offense or defense. For the Syracuse game in particular, our offense played their 7th best game and our defense played their 10th best, so I ultimately assign that loss to the defense even though the offense wasn't great . Only in the FSU and Vanderbilt games did we have a worse defensive game rating.

Interestingly, when I use the FEI ratings to assign the win/loss to one side of the ball, I get:
Responsible for wins: Offense - 4 (FSU, GSt, Duke, UNC) ; Defense - 2 (Miami, NCSU)
Responsible for loss: Offense - 3 (L'ville, ND, VT) ; Defense - 3 (Syracuse, Georgia, Vandy)

When we lost to Syracuse, I also considered that a bad loss. Now, at the end of the season, Syracuse is top 25 in the AP and the Coaches poll. They’re about even with us in FEI and F+ and some of those other models, and we played Syracuse THERE.

We should have won the Syracuse game—or at least, we COULD have. We didn’t get prepared like we should have, we were overconfident, and we ran the ball way too much when Syracuse was selling out to stop the run. But that wasn’t a BAD loss. It was an avoidable loss—and if we learn not to overlook a conference game, maybe we’ll have an additional win next year.

Vandy was about equal to us, and we had a couple of bad breaks in the game Despite what people say, they were a solid team this year, and we were down at least 4 key starters, and we still almost overcame a bunch of catastrophes to win the game.

We can definitely use more ballers out there on the field.

 

[jojatk]

A bad losses is how I described it. Please don't put words in my mouth. No where did I say we hest them. On the contrary we should have.

To me the change from last year and even prior years, with respect to the type of losses, is that we did not have any inexplicable losses like getting creamed by BGSU or NIU. The losses we had this year are to teams with similar talent levels. That doesn’t make them good or bad losses and I’m not talking about how we lost any games. But for the first time in a while we did not have any games where a really bad team beat up on us. We lost games to comparable teams in conference, UGA and ND both of whom are still in the hunt for the national championship.

We have lots of things to improve upon for sure. And maybe next year will do even better against the similar teams we play.

 

[Jerry the Jacket]

With Ol Jerry the Jackets complete lack of understanding of the game and inability to see obvious improvements when they are right in your face, could you imagine if were an actual coach. He would give the Waffle House coach a run for the money as worst FB coach ever.

His posts are by far some of the worst I see here on a consistent basis from a complete lack of knowledge perspective.

Well I have been watching Georgia Tech football for 70 years. Perhaps that has contributed to my total lack of knowledge of the game.

Go Jackets!

 

[Techster]

When we lost to Syracuse, I also considered that a bad loss. Now, at the end of the season, Syracuse is top 25 in the AP and the Coaches poll. They’re about even with us in FEI and F+ and some of those other models, and we played Syracuse THERE.

We should have won the Syracuse game—or at least, we COULD have. We didn’t get prepared like we should have, we were overconfident, and we ran the ball way too much when Syracuse was selling out to stop the run. But that wasn’t a BAD loss. It was an avoidable loss—and if we learn not to overlook a conference game, maybe we’ll have an additional win next year.

Vandy was about equal to us, and we had a couple of bad breaks in the game Despite what people say, they were a solid team this year, and we were down at least 4 key starters, and we still almost overcame a bunch of catastrophes to win the game.

We can definitely use more ballers out there on the field.

Obviously not apples to apples in terms of opponents, but I do look at Syracuse and think to myself "GT could have had a similar season had we not had bad lapses on defense, and had we not shot ourselves in the foot in several games". That's why they say football is a game of inches.

Hopefully, we clean up those bad lapses, and learn to play consistent football, and GT can have a similar special season like Syracuse did this year. We are thisclose to it.

 

[UgaBlows]

The Cuse loss hurt at the time because nobody expected them to be a 10 win team this season, we all felt bad about it because at the moment it felt like another BC or Bowling Green-esque letdown. I feel like if we had played them later in the season when our defense was playing better the outcome might have been different, who knows?

 

[TechPhi97]

When we lost to Syracuse, I also considered that a bad loss. Now, at the end of the season, Syracuse is top 25 in the AP and the Coaches poll. They’re about even with us in FEI and F+ and some of those other models, and we played Syracuse THERE.

We should have won the Syracuse game—or at least, we COULD have. We didn’t get prepared like we should have, we were overconfident, and we ran the ball way too much when Syracuse was selling out to stop the run. But that wasn’t a BAD loss. It was an avoidable loss—and if we learn not to overlook a conference game, maybe we’ll have an additional win next year.

Vandy was about equal to us, and we had a couple of bad breaks in the game Despite what people say, they were a solid team this year, and we were down at least 4 key starters, and we still almost overcame a bunch of catastrophes to win the game.

We can definitely use more ballers out there on the field.

Compared to our full year, the Syracuse game was slightly above average, but our defense had one of its worst games of the year. Early in the year we generally had to have our offense win games for us (which I think we expected), but at the end of the year our Defense actually came through and won us both the Miami and NC State games.

Syracuse is an example of a pretty evenly matched game that we need to win to take the next step.

 

[Dinner_Jacket]

Cuse has a punk for a coach!

 

[GT33]

Cuse has a punk for a coach!

***** *** punk to me more accurate

 

[Root4GT]

McCord gets no respect for how good a QB he is and how well he played this year. #1 in the Nation in passing yards. Rather good! #4 in TD passes.

He was the difference in that game.

 

[AlabamaBuzz]

McCord gets no respect for how good a QB he is and how well he played this year. #1 in the Nation in passing yards. Rather good! #4 in TD passes.

He was the difference in that game.

The NFL will respect him - best pocket passer in the college game this year. He reminds me of a young Tom Brady - accuracy is off the charts.

On a totally different subject and in reference to a lot of other posts,

I understand that we had a more difficult schedule this year, but if your record is 7-6, and last year was 7-6, you did not improve in the measurable that matters, WINS.