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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:35 am |
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bleedgoldandwhite21 Member 
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After losing our 4 best players, getting a brand new D-Coordinator with a brand new system and getting a bunch of new talent from recruiting, next season is pretty much up in the air. Some people are very optimistic thinking we'll compete for the ACC championship again, while others think the sky is falling and are preparing for a 7-5 record. I simply have to ask, for you personally, what is the WORST we can do and you NOT be disappointed? I realize we all get a little disappointed after every loss, but you get what I mean. I'd be happy with a 9-3 record AND a win against UGA. That sounds very good to me considering the circumstances. Looking at our schedule, I think its very possible. 8-4 to me would be quite disappointing, as would 9-3 with another loss to UGA. After a season where we were easily favored, but lost to them, I simply will not accept a loss to UGA this year. Obviously anything above 9-3 with a win against UGA would thrill me, but that would be the worst we can do without me calling it a disappointing season. Last edited on Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:36 am by bleedgoldandwhite21 ____________________ To Hell With Georgia! GO JACKETS!!! |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:41 am |
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srschirm Letterman 
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9-3 with a win over UGA is exactly what I was going to say. 8-4 with a win over UGA would be better than 9-3 without a win over UGA.
____________________ How frustrating is this basketball team? |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:41 am |
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mack Letterman 
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bleedgoldandwhite21 wrote: After losing our 4 best players, getting a brand new D-Coordinator with a brand new system and getting a bunch of new talent from recruiting, next season is pretty much up in the air. Some people are very optimistic thinking we'll compete for the ACC championship again, while others think the sky is falling and are preparing for a 7-5 record. I simply have to ask, for you personally, what is the WORST we can do and you NOT be disappointed? I think we are okay for next year since with the exception of Miami and Clemson we did pretty well with out offense.We played bad against GA and we won some close ones.I never really predict on paper what we will do since we dont play on paper but I think we will be a contender.I dont worry abuot the thirty four defense adn think we will do well with it and we can replace some of our departing guys.I would say we are in the ballgame with every team we play next year adn with effort can beat all of them but of courses,they can beat us too.My biggie is Georgie,we must beat them in order to salvage pride in our team and spotlight our program.A win against the pups puts everybody on notice that we can play with anybody.We get recruits and we get media coverage which we need.Losing to Ga to me is the pits and its not just anothe game Dog.I think we will be fine next year.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:43 am |
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MidGaWreck Member 
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If you include the bowl game, I say 8-5 - with the stipulation that we beat UGA and win the bowl game.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 04:19 am |
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BossRoss90 Member 
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worst we can do and still be happy in my opinion is 8-4 regular season with a win over the mutts. If that were to happen the only games I could see us losing would be unc, clemson, miami and vpi. I really do not see that happening. I can't see us losing against any of the following: mtsu scst ncst duke kansas uva wake I also can't see us losing to more than 2 from unc, vpi, miami and clemson. I feel that we're looking at atleast 9 wins in the regular season whether we beat georgie or not, but I won't consider it successful unless we beat the mutts. Again, I could live with 8-4 if we beat georgie, but i think our most likely scenerio is probably 10-2 with a win over the mutts, or 9-3 with a loss to them. If we go 10-2, our losses will be from the ACC and I really don't see vpi losing more than 2 games in the ACC, so if they beat us in Bburg, they'll go to the title game and win. That game is going to be epic.....with a 10 day build up, a meeting of likley top 10 teams, and a Sr. QB battle between Nesbitt and Taylor on a Thursday night at one of the toughest stadiums in the country.
____________________ "recruiting is a lot like shaving, you have to do it every day or you look like a bum" - George O'leary |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 04:47 am |
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GTstang65 Member
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12-0...I expect nothing but the greatest this year.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 04:52 am |
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Kingjacket Member
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8-4 is what I expect...lower I will be disappointed.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 05:03 am |
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AlabamaBuzz Member 
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Well, I really think, although we will have a dropoff in our top-end talent, this year cannot be worse than PJ's first year. The first year, the players were learning new systems on both sides of the ball, and this coming year, we will have many experienced players in the offensive system. Of course, the D will be starting over again. I would be happy with 8 wins, if we beat UGAG. But I really believe we can get to double digits again.
____________________ BEE'85 “I don’t want to leave the impression that it’s not important. It is important. But I’m going to get Georgia Tech to the point where our program is bigger than one game.” |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 05:19 am |
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buzzed02 Letterman 
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I'm expecting 10+ wins including uga. 9 wins would be a let down.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 12:11 pm |
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Jeffgt00 Member
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I haven't decided on a overall record yet but I will be disappointed if we play a game like we did against Miami last year where we got absolutly pounded. I expect the jackets to be a tough oppenent for all teams on schedule next year.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 01:03 pm |
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phatman30318 Letterman 
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I'm expecting 8-4 and will be OK with it (not happy, but not disappointed). I just think our defense is likely to improve only marginally if at all and Josh cannot carry the entire offense.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 01:13 pm |
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dressedcheeseside Letterman 
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The problem with this exercise is failing to account for the competition. The competition, like us, is not static. Some of them will return a pile of starters while some will lose a pile. Some will lose key playmakers like us, others will not. Some teams will experience major losses in personnel due to injury and some will skate the fine line. We, like most fanbases, tend to focus only on ourselves, our own coaches our own personnel returning. We form our expectations on less than half the story. As men of logic and reason, we naturally try to apply said principles to football. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Football knows no logic and reason. It defies them. Take my advice, cheer like hell and enjoy the ride. Barring catastrophic injury, I expect us to be in each and every ballgame. I expect most games will be very closely contested. We'll win some and lose some, hopefully a lot more of the former.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 01:16 pm |
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buzzed02 Letterman
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phatman30318 wrote:I'm expecting 8-4 and will be OK with it (not happy, but not disappointed). I just think our defense is likely to improve only marginally if at all and Josh cannot carry the entire offense. Josh carry the offense? We will have improved OL play, and we are loaded with Rbs. IMO the biggest loss by far will be #8. Since Josh threw the vast majority off passes to DT in 2009 we have no "proven" #1 reciever. However, we do have some young talent at WR and I expect Josh will have no choice but to find some different guys with bebe playing on Sundays. It might even help our passing game if we start spreading the ball around more. Josh made good progress in the offense this year. Maybe 2010 is the year he starts looking to second and third reciever. And maybe the OL will finally be good enough to give him time to do so.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 01:28 pm |
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dressedcheeseside Letterman
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buzzed02 wrote: phatman30318 wrote:Hill will replace Bay Bay as Josh's go to guy. I'm not saying he'll be a productive as Bay Bay, its just that Josh will look to him first and foremost and I expect to see just as many jump ball routes as last year. You guys can forget about a short passing game, it ain't gonna happen. PJ has said why throw it short when we can run it for the same yardage.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 01:40 pm |
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beelogic Letterman 
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Ten wins includes UGA. No reason to slide further. Tremendous upgrade in DC and Tech will have the best talent in the defensive backfield since Willie Clay era. The probability that < 2 minute scoring plays will decrease and more 5-10 minute ball control scoring drives will equal more dominance in TOP. Our offensive points per game should could drop a couple of points but we should hold opponents to fewer points also. On offense we will see more long sustained drives (three yards and could of dust) offense, missing will be the consistent big plays of Thomas and Dwyer. With the probability of CAM coming aboard to coach the ILB's and Groh brings in one of his former DL coaches trained in the 3-4, I see vast improvement in the total "D" stats even with the loss of Morgan. And oh yea, we may have a kicker that can hit from fifty and KO into the endzone. So my expectation level is 10 wins minimum which is 4 wins less than the expections of CPJ.
____________________ Master of 3-0 Johnson + Master of 3-4 Groh = MNC "We have a little problem with killer instinct, intensity levels and playing hard," Johnson said. "I want to see some intensity, some fire and some fight. We were just not nasty." |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 03:46 pm |
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straightjacket Member 
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dressedcheeseside wrote: The problem with this exercise is failing to account for the competition. The competition, like us, is not static. +1, as much as I want to answer this question (which knee jerk would be 9-3), if the conference stunk next year, I might be disappointed with that mark or if teams really step up, deal with 8-4. I can tell you that no matter what context, 7-5 or worse would crush me.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 04:31 pm |
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buzzwax Letterman 
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BossRoss90 wrote: worst we can do and still be happy in my opinion is 8-4 regular season with a win over the mutts. If that were to happen the only games I could see us losing would be unc, clemson, miami and vpi. I really do not see that happening. I can't see us losing against any of the following: Scst - 99.9% Mtsu - 85% (Dangerous QB!, How's their defense? If they don't stop us their dangersous QB may only touch the ball twice per half.....but this has TRAP written all over it, think Gardner Webb) Ncst - 75% (Home game but could be tough to get up for as a team) Duke - 95% (We crushed Duke with T Lewis and a crappy defense) Kansas - 65% (We have had some VERY POOR games west of the Miss River. Time for CPJ to break another 'gomer hex'.) UVA - 80% (CPJ still remembers losing to them at home) Wake - 82% (Without Skinner, Wake gets back to being Wake) UNC - 52% (Will this be the best defense we play all year?, TOUGH road game) VPI - 42% (VPI loses half of defensive starters but we play them later in the year. VPI is going to put a HUGE CIRCLE around this game) Miami - 52% (Big revenge game for us but Miami has a TON of talent and greatly improved coordinators. On paper Miami is better than VPI. This will be a great test of Al Groh and our defense) Clemson - 58% (Losing Spillar and Ford will put more pressure on their D, but Clemson is due and will have this game CIRCLED as well. Didn't Clemson always seem to do well agains Groh's defenses?) Georgia - 40% (18 of 21 starters returning, new QB wont be new anymore). UGA will not 'overlook' us anymore and will play like we are a rival) So 10-2 is my 'stretch goal', 8-4 is my 'expectation'. 7-5 happens if the defense performs as last year and the offense misses Bebe and Dwyer more than our gold colored glasses realize. 10-2 is a possibility if the redshirt OL are as good as 'mentioned' and Al Groh is as good a DC as we 'expect'...... Beating UGA and WINNING our bowl game makes me a happy camper but I don't expect to beat UGA this year unless their new QB situation becomes 'controversy'....
____________________ Paul Johnson: Yes we are trying to focus in state, but we'll go outside to take outstanding players. There are a lot of great football players in the state of georgia and I hope it would help build our fan base and be more important in rivalry games. I |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 04:51 pm |
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GTCrew4 Member 
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I would be disappointed if we did not repeat as ACC Champions.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 05:18 pm |
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OldGoldBee Member
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We will WIN more than we lose, BEAT some folks we ain't supposed to and have one or two bad games. I predict WE win 9 to 10 games, I expect VT and Clem's Son to be tough games, simply because they are on the road and the revenge factor for both of them. Although,it seems lately we have owned Clem's son at home and on the road. TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!!! OGB
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| Posted: Sun Feb 7th, 2010 09:02 pm |
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phatman30318 Letterman
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buzzed02 wrote: phatman30318 wrote:You made my point for me. This year Josh will have to carry the load almost entirely on offense. Sure the RBs are good this year, but who has to get it to them? That's on Josh. Without BayBay around to throw lob passes and turn 5 yard hitch plays into 75 yard TDs where's our credible passing threat - that's what I mean by Josh having to carry the load. Success this year will hinge on Josh actually being able to throw on a consistent basis, we won't have the same type of physical presence on the outside and while I think Hill is going to be dynamic I don't think he'll match BayBay's production.
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