Nc State Postgame

[Northeast Stinger]

Tough crowd! For me, I see continued good offensive performance, and taking into account the injuries I think the O coaches are doing a good job. Defense is not good yet, but we moved from bad to mediocre, and we’ve been improving as the year progresses. I also feel like the D is just more prepared and decisive in games, so I’m seeing an impact from Santucci.

Yep. Add 3 top quality athletes to the defense, preferably including a dominant DT, and this is a stout defense. Overall trajectory for this team is positive.

One would think GT fans would have learned to be more patient, especially when there’s a night and day difference between CBK and CGC.

 

[Root4GT]

I asked you to correct me, not charge bias.

King was hurt in FSU game as was Haynes. We know that now. FSU gave up on their season after their opening loss. Anything can happen in an opening game and I think both teams played amazingly well in that game with little carryover afterwards, especially for FSU. I’ve seen that happen in dozens of seasons to different teams over the years.

I can’t think of a single game other than FSU in which all of our starters have been at 100%. Sounds like you follow football more closely than I and I don’t follow nearly as closely as I did a few decades ago, so tell me about Texas. Did they have just the QB out or did they have multiple starters out or playing injured the way we have? Side note is that I credit CBK for keeping the full extent of our injuries under wraps for most of the season. Perhaps this was a courtesy of confidentiality to his players but it also meant teams have spent unnecessary amount of game film time preparing for the wrong things.

Well according to our coach and QB he was healthy until the end of the UNC game. Likely not true. You think other coaches are more honest!

Look at any week and pick a top 10 team and look at their injury report for players out or limited. They all look like GT's injury report. College football has lots of injuries for every team. The better teams can overcome the injuries. Nothing new here. Yes Texas had several key players miss games.

You can speculate what we could have been. We were very close to losing 3 games we won. We were not close to winning any game we lost! Our record is good for how we have played.

 

[stinger78]

Tough crowd! For me, I see continued good offensive performance, and taking into account the injuries I think the O coaches are doing a good job. Defense is not good yet, but we moved from bad to mediocre, and we’ve been improving as the year progresses. I also feel like the D is just more prepared and decisive in games, so I’m seeing an impact from Santucci.

I took that statement as TIC. At least, I hope it was.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Well according to our coach and QB he was healthy until the end of the UNC game. Likely not true. You think other coaches are more honest!

Look at any week and pick a top 10 team and look at their injury report for players out or limited. They all look like GT's injury report. College football has lots of injuries for every team. The better teams can overcome the injuries. Nothing new here. Yes Texas had several key players miss games.

You can speculate what we could have been. We were very close to losing 3 games we won. We were not close to winning any game we lost! Our record is good for how we have played.

There is no question some teams can afford more injuries than others.

 

[Root4GT]

There is no question some teams can afford more injuries than others.

Like Texas when Ewers was out 2+ games and Arch Manning came as his backup.

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

Yes, it was 1 or 2 feet to the left. The kicker was so concerned with wind gusts going right he overcompensated. Not being an AE, he failed to calculate the offset wind from the students, which weakened the right ward push, hence leaving him left

OK, that explains it...I think.

 

[forensicbuzz]

Ken Swilling played the second half of the season with a high ankle sprain, but that’s about all I can recall.

That was ‘91

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

Well according to our coach and QB he was healthy until the end of the UNC game. Likely not true. You think other coaches are more honest!

Look at any week and pick a top 10 team and look at their injury report for players out or limited. They all look like GT's injury report. College football has lots of injuries for every team. The better teams can overcome the injuries. Nothing new here. Yes Texas had several key players miss games.

You can speculate what we could have been. We were very close to losing 3 games we won. We were not close to winning any game we lost! Our record is good for how we have played.

We were damn close to losing to NC State. In fact, we should have lost but for the "prevent defense" employed by the State defensive coordinator. But then, we led virtually the entire game so there is that. 7-4 is who we are at present. Not a ranked team but a good team that plays very hard for their teammates and their coaches. Can't ask more of them.

 

[forensicbuzz]

All teams have injuries, we are no different. We scored the winning points in the last 22 seconds in 3 of our 7 wins. We are not close to a 9 win team this season! 7 wins is very good.

We are a good team and if we had been 100% healthy all season, we’d probably have 10 wins, not 9. Winners find ways to win and without the injuries, those close games wouldn’t have been close and we would have won others.

 

[forensicbuzz]

That was O'Leary. He had to remind the refs ot was 3rd down. I forget the opponent.

It was a kick that was actually blocked behind the line of scrimmage and never passed the line of scrimmage. Godsey got the ball. Since it never passed the LOS and it was 3rd down, we maintained possession. Lines up and then kicked the winning FG.

I too don’t remember the game, but my heart says is was uga. That’s the way I like to remember it.

Maybe the infamous Jasper Sanks fumble 1999 game. uga comes back from a huge 2nd half deficit to take the lead. Sanks fumbles with 20 seconds at the goaline to go to OT. Marvious Hester intercepts Quincy Carter in OT. Lil’ Joe gets them into position. Manget gets blocked on 3rd but Godsey recovers and Manget kicks the game-winning 38-yard FG. But my memory could be wrong.

 

[stinger78]

That was ‘91

I’m thinking it was ‘90 but I could be wrong. It was 33 years ago now.

 

[BleedGoldNWhite21]

Regarding the injuries: We were definitely less banged up last year. We can at least agree on that. We had an easier SOS last year. And yet, we are sitting here 11 games into the season with a better record than we had 11 games into last year. No need to make it more complicated than that. Tougher schedule with more injuries and yet we can finish with a better record than last year. That is serious progress.

 

[forensicbuzz]

I’m thinking it was ‘90 but I could be wrong. It was 33 years ago now.

The injury derailed his senior year, which was ‘91. I thought it was that year, but it could have been the Championship year.

 

[stinger78]

The injury derailed his senior year, which was ‘91. I thought it was that year, but it could have been the Championship year.

It was 1990 per this SI Vault article.

sweet dreams

A guy who wears a black visor over his eyes, has the number 1 emblazoned on his jersey and has K. SOLO painted on his shoes probably ought to add a cape to

vault.si.com

 

[billga99]

It was a kick that was actually blocked behind the line of scrimmage and never passed the line of scrimmage. Godsey got the ball. Since it never passed the LOS and it was 3rd down, we maintained possession. Lines up and then kicked the winning FG.

I too don’t remember the game, but my heart says is was uga. That’s the way I like to remember it.

Maybe the infamous Jasper Sanks fumble 1999 game. uga comes back from a huge 2nd half deficit to take the lead. Sanks fumbles with 20 seconds at the goaline to go to OT. Marvious Hester intercepts Quincy Carter in OT. Lil’ Joe gets them into position. Manget gets blocked on 3rd but Godsey recovers and Manget kicks the game-winning 38-yard FG. But my memory could be wrong.

Correct on both counts. Fumble game and blocked FG on 3rd down leads to winning FG on 4th down. Both against UGA. This was our last win against UGA at home...25 years ago.[

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[stinger78]

Correct on both counts. Fumble game and blocked FG on 3rd down leads to winning FG on 4th down. Both against UGA. This was our last win against UGA at home...25 years ago.

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Odd isn’t it. Only 4 wins against them anywhere since that game 25 years ago. All at the Cesspool. Sad.

 

[cpf2001]

One of the reasons last year’s team won as many games as it did was because there weren’t a lot of injuries to key players.

“All teams have injuries” is silly. Teams that have fewer key injuries tend to win more games. “It can happen to any team” is true, though. But it doesn’t always happen in the same way for every team - where’s Miami right now if Ward took King’s injury?

But the key thing for GT fans to look at is that a team with a nasty injury bug in 2024 has still won more regular season games than a team that was fortunate in that regard in 2023.

That’s good progress, even if with equal injury luck the progress would be more apparent.

 

[forensicbuzz]

8-4 is going to look really good when compared to those projections that we might be better than last year but have a worse record. That’s going to be an increase of 2 wins, and that’s with massive injuries.

I’m looking at 10+ wins next year.

 

[stinger78]

.I’m looking at 10+ wins next year.

Chicken. Ha!

 

[78pike]

Should Philo have gone down at the 1" line so we could've run off some clock before running a tush push play?

I would say yes if all we needed was a field goal to win the game like State did. Big difference between needing a touchdown vs. just a field goal.