Spring Football
by orientalnc on Apr 14, 2011 8:29 AM EDT
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PrintWhen I worked in mid-town, one of my favorite springtime activities took me to the GT campus to watch football practice. Without a roster with names and numbers, I was never quite sure who was doing what, but it was fun to watch. CPJ has almost all the practices closed this season, so few of us have any idea what is happening. As a result, very little has been written. I believe, with T-Day coming up in just over a week, we should start talking about football.
One of the big questions for this spring is quarterback. The battle seems to be between Synjyn Days and Tevin Washington to see who replaces Joshua Nesbitt. David Sims is listed as a QB, but we are deep into the smelly stuff if he takes a snap this fall. So, the battle clearly between Days and Washington should be raging everyday in spring practice. Days has never played, except to run the opponents' offense in practice, so we can only guess how well he will do if he plays. However, for Washington, we have a pretty good idea.
In the four games he started, Tevin was pretty good. Not great, but OK. The offense tanked the bowl game, as it has done all three of CPJs years at Tech, so I am omitting that game from my data. Tevin led the Jackets to offensive output of 401 yards while losing to Miami, 410 yards against Duke, and put 512 yards on the Dogs. Tech's 2010 per game offense with Tevin at QB are better than Nesbitt's. His failing is turnovers. But, if I remember correctly, Joshua had the same problem in 2008.
That said, I am excited about seeing Vad Lee on campus. He may be the most dynamic Tech player recruited in many years. In high school he was a passing QB who could run. He has a will to win and the ability to focus that is uncommon in teens. It will be interesting to see how the competition plays out at QB.
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Not a fan of Tevin
I personally would hope that Synjyn Days can win the starting job. I have never been impressed with Tevin and feel with him at QB our offense has a ceiling that we won’t be able to get past with him leading, sort of the feeling I had with Jaybo Shaw. I also want to know how David Sims is doing at A-back, he was very electric as a runner.
Classic Example
This Tevin vs. Synjyn thing is a classic example of experience vs. talent. If Synjyn has more talent (which it seems like he does), he has to prove that he can effectively run the offense without making so many mistakes.
Synjyn looked huge at practice this past Saturday!
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Apr 14, 2011 12:07 PM EDT reply actions
What about the lines
if the one article the AJC has put is accurate, the D line hasn’t changed and the O-Line is stinking up the joint. Call it “PJ being overly cynical” all you want, but I think we’re about boned.
Paul Johnson: not giving a crap about what you have to say since 1987.
I am optimistic about the season
I think a lot of things about this season look similiar to 2008. From what I have read the D line HAS changed and is much improved, which is to be somewhat expected being the second year of Al Groh’s D. I think the O-line is going through simliar struggles as it has in the past few years but will turn out to be just fine. What we really need to work on is pass protection so that we can be a threat in this area.
Most of last years losses were due to mental mistakes and if we can correct those we will be improved over last year.
Im excited about Vad Lee and because we only have two qb’s he will already start out as our third string. There is a small chance he could get playing time this season.
Time/Date Spring Game?
Been on the road and out of touch.
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Apr 17, 2011 5:51 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
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