Sorry, your honor, but apparently the jury is hung. I agree we have not been good enough the last 3 years and CPJ needs to be fired if we don't make a bowl. But, like tons of other fans that have reached a similar conclusion, I do not agree that this is because "the scheme" is the problem. This team simply isn't good enough regardless of the scheme we might try to run.
And before you jump in and say..."well the scheme is the reason we don't have good players..." I truly believe that this team would be pretty good if we were starting Mills, Marshall, and Benson at b-back and had Ratliff, Jay Jones, Matthew Jordan, and Lucas Johnson as QB options. Those are all guys we recruited and enrolled at Tech but, for one reason or another, are no longer available on the team. Some of that is ultimately on Johnson, but I don't think it is on "the scheme." Even with our terrible year and depleted roster, we are still top 25 in scoring offense and offensive efficiency.
As a whole though, I agree the team is not good enough. And THAT is on CPJ. Just stop trying to make everything a referendum on the scheme. It isn't.
Objection, your honor. Defense is using conjecture rather than fact. Plus, he's willfully ignoring that almost all of our offensive output worth mentioning has come against the literally the #93 team in the country (Loserville, on the verge of firing their coach) and #126 team Bowling Green, who just DID fire their coach. Against the 2 good teams we've played, one of which has equal talent, the O has completely shat the bed!
Additionally, in the year 2018, this scheme and coach steadfastly refuse to instill any sort of "option", (pardon the pun, yer honor) for scoring quickly. We have no Hurry-up offense, we do not no-huddle, we don't have a shotgun, and we still run in plays from the sidelines even in the most-obvious situations that require urgency. As a result, when down more than a single TD in the 4th qtr, we are effectively beaten. I'd like to introduce the recent 4th qtr vs Duke as evidence, Yer Honor. Down 21 pts with the ball, we took over half the qtr to score a TD. At no point was any urgency shown. Any recruits watching this, esp. of the WR variety, had to be puzzled as to why we literally chose to not use a system that would've possibly allowed us to win the game, rather than the snail's pace offense we did use. Frankly your honor, it was embarrassing to watch.
The Scheme and its coach are indeed to blame. No one wants to play or watch an offense that runs the ball 70 times/game and the offense itself can no longer beat the Dukes and PITTs of the conference, much less the elite teams. Pointing to a once-in-5-year success rate is not the way to run a P5 program, as evidenced by the thousands of empty seats last Saturday at Homecoming.
That the Prosecution doesn't see change occurring until after the end of next year is also irrelevant, yer honor!
The prosecution rests.
