Offseason Media 2024

[Silk3]

I like our chances against Florida St and NC State.

I never saw what you thought of the penn st guy who transferred here

 

[Southern psu fan]

I never saw what you thought of the penn st guy who transferred here

He’ll be good for Tech. He got some good playing time at Penn St and our defensive line was stout. The Ole Miss game was a disaster but we had 9 players that had limited playing time or didn’t play at all. He’ll be an impact player like Haynes King. Can’t wait to see him play at Tech. Our DE’s and LB’s are so good and fast its hard sometimes to know how good some players are like this kid is because he was never double teamed but he had some very good games against some stiff competition.

 

[GTpdm]

I’m going to ignore this obvious “you’re mom” joke opportunity

And I’m going to ignore the obvious “your mom” grammar joke…I don’t think @4shotB is a mom.

 

[Tech Lawyer]

I like our chances against Florida St and NC State.

I agree Southern PSU. Take it a step further, I would take a split of the road games at Louisville and VT. Of course we want to win them all. We have got to have FSU and NC State.

 

[UgaBlows]

And I’m going to ignore the obvious “your mom” grammar joke…I don’t think @4shotB is a mom.

Grammer-shmammer …… whatever

 

[UgaBlows]

I agree Southern PSU. Take it a step further, I would take a split of the road games at Louisville and VT. Of course we want to win them all. We have got to have FSU and NC State.

I really want to beat VT, the media is really high on them for this season as a rising team but totally sleeping on the real Tech

 

[wesgt123]

Under Key we've seemed to beat the odds. I hope this year we hit above our win total. Would love to see at least two upsets. We're always due for one, but two would be nice. Or 3 or 4.

 

[CEB]

Under Key we've seemed to beat the odds. I hope this year we hit above our win total. Would love to see at least two upsets. We're always due for one, but two would be nice. Or 3 or 4.

Agree… clean up the stinkers and pull an upset or two and all of a sudden…

Also, some of these are only looking like upsets because of who we think we are. At some point, we just become a better team and some of these “upsets” might just be solid wins.

 

[Lil G]

The general census of this year’s team is that we might be even better and dark horse ACC contender.

Which is what I already believed. But it’s nice to have the media take enough interest to actually read into us and see Tech for what we’re worth. Been awhile.

 

[stinger78]

Agree… clean up the stinkers and pull an upset or two and all of a sudden…

Also, some of these are only looking like upsets because of who we think we are. At some point, we just become a better team and some of these “upsets” might just be solid wins.

I would say we pulled a couple of upsets each of the last two years already in 2022 - Pitt and UNC, and in 2023 - Miami and UNC. Who will it be this season? Of course, we also laid a couple of stinkers each season as well, in 2022 - Miami and UVA, and in 2023 - BG and BC.

Knock off the letdown games and pick up a couple of minor upsets and you have 8-9 wins. As it is, CBK is 11-10 over 1.5 seasons at the helm. Without the stinkers that moves to 15-6. This record, prorated to one season, yields the stretch goal of what this team can do: 8.5-9 wins.

 

[boger2337]

I like our chances against Florida St and NC State.

I'm calling it now. McCall costs NC State some games. He's not even a top 8 QB in the ACC.

 

[CEB]

I would say we pulled a couple of upsets each of the last two years already in 2022 - Pitt and UNC, and in 2023 - Miami and UNC. Who will it be this season? Of course, we also laid a couple of stinkers each season as well, in 2022 - Miami and UVA, and in 2023 - BG and BC.

Knock off the letdown games and pick up a couple of minor upsets and you have 8-9 wins. As it is, CBK is 11-10 over 1.5 seasons at the helm. Without the stinkers that moves to 15-6. This record, prorated to one season, yields the stretch goal of what this team can do: 8.5-9 wins.

Oh we definitely pulled some “upsets” the last couple years.
I’m hoping that we beat a couple of this year’s “projected losses” and we can all look back and realize they weren’t really upsets after the fact.
In other words, the more we improve, the fewer upset opportunities we will have!

 

[Southern psu fan]

The general census of this year’s team is that we might be even better and dark horse ACC contender.

Which is what I already believed. But it’s nice to have the media take enough interest to actually read into us and see Tech for what we’re worth. Been awhile.

Exactly! I’m all smiles when the team hits the field just knowing we’ve got our HC and the results on the field are showing up…how sweet it is!

 

[stinger78]

Oh we definitely pulled some “upsets” the last couple years.
I’m hoping that we beat a couple of this year’s “projected losses” and we can all look back and realize they weren’t really upsets after the fact.
In other words, the more we improve, the fewer upset opportunities we will have!

Yes, and a *huge* part of that is avoiding the stinkers, much (though not all) of that is the D. The O tended to cramp up last season when the D went to sleep, and the O had to bear an oversized burden. That's when King put too much on himself, forced passes, and piled up 3 and outs and INT's. A lot of that can resolve if the D steps up this fall. Also, another year learning and honing the O and that might not happen anyway.

FWIW, I consider this season's models to have a very wide dispersion. Could be 4/5 wins, 6/7 wins or 8+ wins depending on how the O advances beyond last season and how stout the D can become. Stay at last season levels, against this schedule, and we're struggling again for bowl eligibility. See the O advance and the D struggle and we're likely pointing to 6/7 wins again. See solid improvement with both and we just might see a real nice season unfold.

 

[wesgt123]

Agree… clean up the stinkers and pull an upset or two and all of a sudden…

Also, some of these are only looking like upsets because of who we think we are. At some point, we just become a better team and some of these “upsets” might just be solid wins.

Exactly. We love being the underdog but it would be amazing to not be the underdog in the near future

 

[Techster]

We use to just walk right in through the North Endzone gates at night and play football (by the moonlight) on the field. Kind of a fun "illegal" tour...and he's very complimentary of GT, so that gets him points in my book.

 

[devcon]

We use to just walk right in through the North Endzone gates at night and play football (by the moonlight) on the field.

We still do that.

 

[LT 1967]

Swarm members may like the attached article from SI (Jackson Caudell) which is based on Greg McElroy's comments on possible importance of GT vs. ND. Some discussion of GT vs. FSU also.

 

[Tech Lawyer]

I heard a UNC Media Analyst speak on the latest podcast of the All ACC Weekly Discussion which I highly recommend to ACC Football and Basketball Junkies. The podcast currently features its annual tour of each ACC School's outlook for the 2024 football season with a local media analyst for each team Ken Sugiura has been Tech's analyst the last few years but the Jackets have not been featured so far this season. .. So UNC's analyst candidly admits he's not expecting much - maybe 7-5? This is pretty negative considering UNC's "killer" schedule which includes UVA, BC, Pitt, Wake and Duke. Then they have got us, NCST and FSU (who is very over rated in my opinion.) Their Non Conference is a real grinder which includes Minnesota (on the road), UNC Central, Charlotte and James Madison. Oh Brother. With this schedule you get 7-5 from a hometown analyst? Who wants to go to Chapel Hill on October 12?