There are a lot of interesting spellings/word choices in that statement. I feel like if I were going to put something like this out into the world, I'd at least read it back literally 1 time to remove extra words and fix missing letters.
I'm so tired of fans and players being so damn sensitive. Jamious is leaving, and the facts are he didnt live up to expectations. Whether that's coaching or his own personal development, doesn't matter. He's not choosing Tech. People in the know say this move is due to the players we've added to the position, if thats true, were better without him. I dont want anyone on this team afraid of competition. This team is TOO DAMN SOFT as is our coach. Culture shift is needed...BAD! Hope were seeing the early days of that shift!
At this point I'm looking at this as neutrally as I can. By that I mean I'm trying to look at each change as just data points and not associate optimism or pessimism with any of them.
Coleman and Burton (GT guys) both left as defensive coaches. We have lost players from the positions they coached. Did the players leave because the coaches left or did they leave because the new position coaches let them know they needed to do something different to get playing time. No way to know.
Would you agree that last year we had enough good players to win more than three games? I certainly feel like we underachieved based on the collective players available. Translated: I think coaching was a bigger problem last year than players.
One view of this is that we under-achieved due to poor coaching, and better coaches might have won several of the close games we lost. The opposite view is that we over-achieved much of the season due to good coaching and the 0-100 at the end of the season actually reflected the true strength of our team. I am not sure which is more likely.
I certainly agree that coaching is what we've been missing more than talent.
The former, hands down IMO.
Cumberland.
Translated by me as in the player is uncertain of their playing time.
We can legitimately say we should have won the Miami game - they tried to gift it to us. We played competitive enough where we could have squeaked out an upset in Clemson. But... we also should have lost the Duke game. Our record pretty accurately reflects how we performed - if we were any better than our record it was by no more than 1 game.
Why do you assume this? I don't know that to be true nor do I know it to be false. Another year more experienced doesn't necessarily translate into "better." Ivey is the one guy, other than Gibbs, of all the ones who are leaving that I really think what you say is true. The others? Maybe yes and maybe no. That's my point. I don't know one way or the other and nobody has really said anything that makes the case either way.
One thing is certain right now. Of the GT players in the portal, only Gibbs and Ivey have a landing spot. I feel certain there will be a couple more, but we are not losing losing a ton of people other teams are clamoring for. The thing that bothers me is the possibility there is some toxicity in the program and guys close to their degree cannot tolerate it until they graduate. If I were about to be a rising senior, in good standing academically, with little chance of a pro career, I would hang with whatever crap to finish and GTH out.
Which is a complete guess based on nothing more than gold tinted glasses.
Like oriental I hope you are right.
agree with your first point. either we are scouting poorly to begin with, or we’re bad at development (which i would say is the issue).
If only short a semester then skip spring practice and keep scholarship to finish. Transfer in the summer. Only way it makes sense. Otherwise a lot of energy to graduate somewhere else with lower academic standing. May not really matter to some of these kids though.
