I don't like being underdogs to Wake but any team that has given up 24 points in less than 8 minutes in the fourth quarter is not likely to be given the benefit of the doubt by bookies. Mercifully, this Wake team is a shadow of what they have been the last few years with an explosive offense trying to make up for a less than stellar defense. Seems I have seen that play before.
They better because Wake might light up the other side as well. This game is going to be fun to watch. I went to a football game and a track meet broke out with apologies to Rodney Dangerfield.
You are aware that's not how it works, right?
Um, I said we should beat them if we are the team we think we can be. That is different than saying we should beat them, but thanks for the response even if it was not what I said.
We aren't the team many hoped we were. We have the offense we hoped for but the defense is MIA so far. Maybe next week they find their mojo! Sure hope so.
Offense is much better than expected. Defense is much worse. Special Teams are about what I expected. I thought we would be 1-2, but could be 2-1, which we almost were and probably should be. I think those writing off the season and dumping on the staff are a bit premature. I still think we will end up 6-6.
There is always hope. Wake is not nearly as explosive on offense this year as they have been in the recent past. They are averaging about 34 points a game against pedestrian, to put it kindly, opposition while their defense is giving up about 20. They are 3-0 and have the confidence of a team rightfully so, that had a big fourth quarter to win a game they were about to lose. We will see what they are made of this week.
Hope you are on target. I have very little faith in our defense. Holding anyone less than 30 points seems like a challenge. Our 3 opponents so far had big scoring games against us relative to the competition in other games against non FCS teams.
and who have they beaten? Elon, Vandy, and Old Dominion
Do they complain about how we're doing? That's really my point. I agree the GTAA has not done everything they could do.
Do you know if these guys are in the GTAA database? Because if they haven't ever donated or bought tickets, the GTAA may not know they exist. I've heard that the Alumni Association doesn't share its data with the Athletic Association. Not sure if that's still true. This doesn't preclude having GT Athletics do some grass-roots-level campaigning, but it does create additional challenges.
Your thoughts mirror mine almost exactly. I do think 6 wins is going to be a stretch, particularly after seeing some of the BC-FSU game. We should know a lot more about our team when we play a near-peer team in Wake.
George O’Leary is on another coaching level than 99% of coaches that’s ever coached but it wouldn’t surprise me to see Ga Tech winning 9 or 10 games in 3 or 4 years with Brent Key. Dude has made an immediate impact already he just don’t have enough studs on defense. Brent Key is our man and he will get this team back to winning and making the Ga Tech faithful happy. Get me 6 wins and go bowling and then we’ll talk about 7 wins. As the season goes depending on what happens sometimes goals change. With sports things change from week to week. As of today get me 6 wins and ole southern will be happy!
I fully support Coach Key and will continue to buy season tickets and support the program financially to give him the best chance to succeed. Keep in mind that he faces a landscape than previous Tech coaches have not had to deal with given how the NIL and portal have changed everything. Just look at the three players we lost to Ole Miss., the one to Colorado, and the one to NC Tar Heels just since last year. We are in danger of becoming the Pittsburgh Pirates of college football with coaches who find diamonds in the rough, develop them into good players, and then watch helplessly as the big schools come along and poach them as free agents in the new system because we cannot afford to keep them.
That schedule isn't any more difficult than anyone else in the country. 8 wins should be a realistic goal. I haven't seen anything in years to suggest we can do that but there's 8 very winnable games there for any team that isn't a **** show.