FTRS Fans and Members! We want your input!
by Winfield Featherston on Mar 30, 2010 8:00 AM EDT
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PrintWith every passing day, FromTheRumbleSeat gets a little bit older, and we get a little bit wiser. This entire 9-10 months or so has been a learning experience for us as we have tried to continue to bring quality content that is on time and never falls behind the latest Yellow Jacket news. In addition, we know that the site isn't simply about the four three (Dane died I think. Well, not really he just wants to wait until he graduates-- 23 DAYS BTW!) of us at the moment. It's also about you and we want your input, your discussions, your ideas etc.
With that being said, what is on your mind about FTRS? How can we improve ourselves? Where do we struggle the most? The floor is open for your input! What do you want to see as we come closer to football season?
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Sorry to hear about the demise of Dane
but resurrection is around the corner.
I wish I could offer something more constructive in terms of critique but I am just so pleased that you offer this site. I live over a thousand miles away from Atlanta so getting news on the team is difficult. There are pay sites but for me they are not worth the cost. I bookmark this site and about three others. This site and the Georgia Tech football blog site are my two favorites.
I hope this does not get too long but let explain further. When I was a child it dawned on me that football is like a chess game. There are philosophies about offense, defense, opening lines of play and how systems match up against each other. And, like chess, there is an intangible human element. The fact that CPJ is not playing what the conventional talking heads consider an “orthodox” system lends itself to charts, graphs and deeper analysis which you provide.
Well, let me wrap this up by saying this. I remember reading about some betting service years ago in which the owner of the service predicted some astronomically high success rate in predicting outcomes. His teaser was to say that there is no such thing as an upset. I have never been one to bet on games and never will be but I like analysis which purports to demonstrate with empirical evidence why one team will beat another. It doesn’t even have to be correct. Trying to predict the unknown before a game is played only makes watching the actual game that much more interesting. For obvious reasons post game analysis is more accurate but here to, to paraphrase the stock brokers, past history is no predictor of future success.
Thanks for all that you do and keep up the good work.
by Atlanta's original team on Mar 30, 2010 8:50 AM EDT reply actions
I think moneys should be distributed evenly
…Right now, it’s a 100:0:0 ratio of moneys distributed…
I spun around... and there I was, face-to-face with a six-year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass.
BIrd, you should drive a harder bargin
if it was divided on a per word basis you would get about 70%
Overall Love it
I love the site and read it about once a day usually from my phone while killing time between meetings.
Often the detail in the analysis is over my head but that’s probably because I rode the M-Train and I’m not an engineer.
I really enjoy the fan shots and fan posts. I would love to see all the readers get more involved with driving content and not just commenting on other posts.
RE: Football, I feel like I don’t know much about the upcoming season and what to expect, who to watch form. Obviously 4 of the 5 big names left and I just don’t know much about our defense especially with the new Al Groh 3 – 4 system. Any chance of putting together a visual depth chart?
Thanks for all the hard work, I know it must be a like a 2nd job for you guys, but this Tech fan is very grateful of all the effort.
Perhaps more game strategy and schemes.
This is mainly for football but I am sure that other sports could use the same stuff. But for football it really applies especially for this year with the 3-4 being implemented. I think that most of the readers are unsure exactly what that means for Tech other than alignment, perhaps a couple of posts laying out schemes, coverages, and blitz packages. Also for our offense maybe a small story each week before an opponent or one big one before the season of what our offense is trying to accomplish, why we have wide splits, what plays read what defender and the like. Also maybe a little more scouting of our opponent each week. Again this is mainly for football and would take a lot of time to write but I am sure that some readers would be willing to step up and help out. Anyway it is just something I have always wanted to see. Keep up the great work there are alot of great articles here that I am glad to read.
I think the Spring practices
will give us some early personnel decisions on Groh-fense. We definitely need to start breaking out the textbooks on the 3-4. Thanks for the input.
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agreed, we don't do too much with schemes around here
Personally, i don’t know enough to generate this content, but would love to see more of it.
I would love to see more on football too, but I think basketball is more underserved. I know Bird has been checking out the Vanderbilt site Anchor of Gold and I would love to see more previews/recaps like they provide.
Great site
I’ve been reading before you guys moved to SBN and I think the move has been a positive for you guys because of the open environment for the community. I love GT, every sport, everything. I’m a huge college baseball fan and I’ve always complained about the lack of coverage it gets outside of the CWS, so if I had to ask for one thing from the authors it would be for equal attention to the sport as basketball and football. I’m not sure where your full interests lie, so maybe that means adding another person to the mix. If I lived in Atlanta I would gladly volunteer (heck I’d still volunteer), but living in Jacksonville I think it would be difficult to provide more than what anyone could gather from the box scores and recaps as is.
But on the flip side, this is as you say, a community, so I feel that I should make a request of myself. I am going to attempt to become more active outside of the comments, post more fan posts and fan shots. I love digging into the stats and I’d like to think I have a pretty good grasp on the relationship between those stats and what’s happening on the field/court/diamond, so maybe this baseball season I’ll throw a few things out there for the masses.
This site is my first stop as it relates to GT information and I use it as my portal to all other things, so it is all appreciated by me. Keep up the good work guys! THWG!
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
That's one thing I am trying to work on individually
is to also move a lot of more the FanPosts and FanShots onto the Front Page for more discussion and involvement.
Thanks for all the input! It should be a pretty good summer.
by Winfield Featherston on Mar 30, 2010 3:52 PM EDT reply actions
more tactics and strategy
For football, my bigger interest, but also for basketball, of which I know very little.
Stuff like this would be great to see: http://www.shakinthesouthland.com/2010/3/30/1387348/defensive-back-techniques-ii-terms
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