Gather them morale victories and cherish em.... We recovered two onsides kicks to keep from being blown out of the house by UVA. Miami kept trying to give the game away and we couldn't even take the gift. If you think we were competitive against BC, then good on you... We lost our last 6 and looked like s**t doing it, but keep polishing that turd....
“we made plays to make the game close against UVA but they don’t count cause i don’t like that!”
No one acts like we were good in 2015, 2017, or 2018. We were firmly in the bad to mediocre category those three years. We WERE good in 2016.
calm down my man lol
Mods can we get this guy a temp ban for just making crap up?
my man... F+ rankings (I have no marriage to this ranking service but it's one that I could find for all years - am sure there are others)
Just daydreaming here. I wonder what Coach Long could do with two (or three) dual threat QBs in the backfield at the same time on occasion? It could be run and shoot, run and shoot and/or run and shoot! Maybe something new… LOL!
definitely a step back but ultimately 50> is pretty much the same thing.
This is supported in FEI rankings as well which have fallen off a cliff. The most concerning thing to me is just how poorly we performed last year. Our ranking dropped or stayed level in nearly every offensive and defensive category from 2020. Plus punting went from 1st to 90th. It was a bit of a disaster statistically when things should have been improving.
No it's not.... 50 is not 110 or 95. C'mon man. We've literally been one of the worst P5 teams in the country under CGC with no sign of getting better (other than your eye test, I guess).
Well … perhaps the last six years, yes. I haven't seen anything like 2014 since the Joe ham days. I hope I'll see another year like that, but I'm not encouraged at present. May I be wrong!!
the margins between the teams in the 50s and us is not that great. that’s what i’m trying to say. we were in competitive games with a lot of the teams above us.
If I may, it wasn't a matter of keeping Ds honest. The option did that until the very end. Passing was useful as a surprise element; that's why we had such a large YPC. I think this was a problem for some of our QBs - Nesbitt, in particular. Paul had the QB he was waiting for to replace Thomas in Yates, but decided to resign instead.
I'm with you on the hoping part. We all hope that we are better, but telling us all how things weren't all that much better before the last three years is just wrong. They were much, much better than what we have seen - this has been literally as bad as it could get. We cannot be worse.
i have a lot of questions about yates ability in the system. he wasn’t very big, was a slow runner and couldn’t read the mesh very well in our offense. idk if he would have faired a whole lot better in paul’s offense.
This is the crux of the problem. Way, way too many football programs in our position don't do this. We used to do it, Kansas State used to do it, Wake does it today. It is true that the top 15 or so programs don't need to do this; better athletes cancel all schemes used against them. (Usually, at least.) But Tech isn't in that place and can't afford to think that something as conventional as "better recruiting" is going to get us where we want to be. Like the clip says, "If we think like the Yankees in here, we'll lose to them out there."
Wait a minute, hold on now. You are seriously going to sit there and argue that Collin’s teams were more competitive than Johnson’s
?!!!From the list above its pretty easy to compare the 2015 team to the 2021 team. They ended up with the same record but not nearly the same path to it. The 2015 team lost 9 games by a combined 82 points. The 2021 team lost 9 games by a combined 169 points. The 2015 team beat a 10 win top 15 team. The 2021 team didn't beat a team with a winning record. The 2015 team didn't lose any game by three TDs. The 2021 team lost three by 30+ points. That seems like a big difference. Most importantly, the 2015 team jumped up to 9 wins the next season. How are you feeling about getting to 9 wins next year?
Yep. That's what he's trying to convince us... the same team that was incredibly lucky to get a third win at Duke is about as good as we were under CPJ. I mean once your out of the top 50, they're all the same right ?Wait a minute, hold on now. You are seriously going to sit there and argue that Collin’s teams were more competitive than Johnson’s
I’m not ready to say that the flexbone was done for good. Even under Dodd Tech had stretches of down years. These things ALWAYS eventually go into a down cycle at Tech but then can turn around. The problem with Collins is we have seen no evidence so far that he can turn things around. At least with Johnson we knew he was a winner.
Speaking of negative nancies, that’s why CPJ left because it was no longer fun and I have to believe some of that was people being irrational about his offense year after year. When I watch the NFL playoffs this year I noticed some plays right out of the Johnson playbook. But don’t tell the hate the triple option crowd.
Thank you for the reality check.