Rehabilitating The Mind And The Body. Six Reasons Why 2011 Was A Successful Football Season.
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 6, 2012 9:46 AM EST
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PrintIn the eyes of the national college football landscape, a Sun Bowl victory for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets would not have meant much. In the eyes of the national college football landscape, a Sun Bowl loss doesn't mean much either. But to a Georgia Tech fan a 7th straight bowl loss is disappointing, sad, frustrating, and has the potential to make all of us think irrational thoughts. Which is why we're here to remind you about the facts. We consider this discussion our "Georgia Tech therapists" role.
The 2011 football season was successful because:
1. Georgia Tech was not supposed to win more than 6 games this season. Instead, the Yellow Jackets reached 8 wins and improved by 2 games from 2010.
2. Tech beat the then-#5, undefeated Clemson Tigers on national television.
3. Tech loses only two starters on the entire offensive unit: Roddy Jones (deepest position on offense) and Tyler Melton (good blocker but only 17 catches in 2011).
4. 2012 will see virtually the entire secondary defense return after 2010 saw all four starters leave. Rashaad Reid is the lone senior but Jemea Thomas played a lot at nickel and utility corner. He also started the bowl game.
Dabo: "That sounds like a freight train."
CPJ: "No, that's the sound of five veteran linemen punching holes in Kevin Steele's defense AGAIN."
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this guy's got jokes
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John Heisman FromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 6, 2012 10:08 AM EST up reply actions
CPJ: "No, that's the sound of five veteran linemen punching holes in Kevin Steele's defense AGAIN."
Emsphasis on AGAIN!
From The Rumble Seat -Drinkin' whiskey clear since 2008.
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.
I can think of several...
- Much better passing efficiency in 2011
- Vad Lee didn’t lose a year of eligibility, as did most of his Freshman class
- Francis Kallon, Justin Thomas, and hopefully Dalvin Tomlinson
- First CPJ WR recruit might possibly get drafted (shattering another TO myth)
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
by TBuzz on Jan 6, 2012 10:07 AM EST via mobile reply actions
On passing efficiency
Tevin’s game-by-game passing efficiency
WCU 312.8
MTSU 357.1
KU 348.23
UNC 191.11
NC St. 170.23
MU 71.45
UVA 0.20
MI 77.43
CL 78.22
VT 131.48
DU 165.69
uga 18.56
UT 172.05
Total 155.38
When you remove those first three games in which the passing efficiency was ridiculous, Tevin’s passing efficiency drops to a below average 114.31 (this would be #100 in the country) though it does represent an improvement over 2010’s passing efficiency of 102.00 (#113).
That said, I do expect the team to improve next year (and not have a worse record!).
by Dive Keep and Pitch on Jan 6, 2012 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
If you take out his best 3 games...
you have to take out everyone else’s best 3 games for that argument to hold up. Aaron Murray and Andrew Luck played cupcakes too.
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
Our first three games were worse than cupcakes
It is easy to pass all over a Western Carolina team that won one game in FCS.
Fair enough
Murray:
boise 139.4
s car 176.0
coastal car 168.0
ole miss 169.7
miss st 108.2
tenn 136.3
vandy 150.7
fla 99.4
new mx st 236.9
aub 255.6
ky 106.6
GT 177.1
lsu 72.5
total 146.4
146.4 is good for #27 in the country. Removing New Mexico, Auburn, and GT yields a passing efficiency of 130.0 which would be #57.
by Dive Keep and Pitch on Jan 6, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions
I've come to the conclusion
that I don’t like the college passer rating scale. It doesn’t fit with other passer ratings with which I am familiar.
TBuzz it right on target and there's more good news . . .
11.) Tech fans started acting like we should win every game again.
12.) Weirdos started talking about an 8 win season putting a coach on the hot-seat (??!!!!!)
13.) The defense has learned the first two stages of the new scheme and is now ready for the advanced level of play.
14.) We had a winning record with the youngest team in the nation and will now return grizzled veterans. :-)
15.) Some very good high school recruits started considering Tech as their top choice when they could go anywhere.
16.) After being picked to finish fourth in our division we almost made it into the conference championship!
by Atlanta's original team on Jan 6, 2012 10:32 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
And more...
17.) Indoor practice facility installed and used heavily during practices and recruiting
18.) Areas around the stadium begun improvement projects to make the tailgating experience better (Peter’s Park[ing deck] had the area closest to Callaway Plaza remodeled to look nicer and more open while the Wardlaw Center got its gate taken down and its front walkway rebuilt, and there is more to come this offseason.) There is more planned on the entire “North Avenue Corridor” project that includes the stadium and Tech Tower lawn.
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
Just thought of a HUGE NUMBER 19 on the list . . .
WE ARE NOT CLEMSON!
by Atlanta's original team on Jan 7, 2012 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
With regard to facilities...
…is that because we lack a lake or is that we lack a vast front lawn that smells of cow manure?
(Seriously, visit the big lawn in front of CU’s college tower/main entrance…it smells of soot and poo. This is a generally hilarious way for an agricultural school to smell, especially when the field has people in orange overalls working near it and the football stadium has people dressed the same way cheering inside it. Clemson has a way with irony.)
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
Upbeat looking to 2/1/2012
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 6, 2012 12:51 PM EST reply actions
Nate and I are going to try and make it to National Signing Day on campus
Can you say live updates???
The Church of Paul Johnson - There's not much to it outside of whooping ass and giving haters the finger. To HELL With georgie!
Just out of curiosity
Why isn’t Justin Thomas on the GT Commits sidebar of the blog? Are we thinking he might flip-flop?
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
no no no
it just wasn’t updated. Glad you asked. fixed.
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John Heisman FromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 6, 2012 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
As Bill King says, "Gettin' the Groceries"
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 7, 2012 10:25 PM EST up reply actions
-1
for not shopping at Publix
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
Publix:Kroger::Target:Walmart
Speaking in generalities, of course. The Buckhead Kroger happens to “Buck” the trend. (All puns intended always forever)
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
Trader Joes
For all the good food and chicks.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 8, 2012 7:55 PM EST up reply actions
cheap wine too!
the ladies and my wallet love it!
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John Heisman FromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 9, 2012 4:56 PM EST up reply actions
$2 Buck Chuck
How I learned to love Pinot Grigiot.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 10, 2012 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
By "Buckhead Kroger" do you mean the one on Piedmont?
If so, another great tradition dies.
That’s the Disco Kroger, kids!
Buckhead Saloon
Limelight
Fake iD’s
Cougars before the name became popular
Weddings at Disco Kroger
REM when you sang along but didn’t know the words, or understand the muddled singing of Stipe
Z Cars
3 piece suit (white) with no shirt
COCAINE
Goin’ all 80’s on y’all.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 9, 2012 6:56 AM EST up reply actions
On this list...
I can only agree with Z cars. (I miss mine so much!)
And come on…REM is from Georgie and thus is only for “those Athenian boy lovers” (in the words of Leonidas). While we’re on the subject, I also boycott Terrapin brewing company and anything else from Athens if I can.
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
R.E.M. was ours, too.
I first saw them at the Piedmont Park Arts Festival in 1982. I had to cut class to go, since they played at noon. It was worth every penny. This was between the time the first single (“Radio Free Europe”) came out and the first album.
I briefly visited Atlanta over the holidays, and my brother gave me a growler of Terrapin Hopsecutioner. It’s was pretty decent.
Beer knows no borders.
Athens was a happening place in the late 70's early 80's
The Surf
Flat Duo Jets
Guadalcanal Diary
Love Tractor
B52’s
2+2, more room for the ladies.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 10, 2012 12:16 AM EST up reply actions
You should have been there for Free Sunday concerts in the late 60's/early 70's
Eat a Peach
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 10, 2012 12:19 AM EST up reply actions
That's the one.
I do not know any reputation for that place other than it’s the nicest Kroger that exists anywhere ever….according to a Buckheader I know.
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
The Limelight disco
(the original one, before they opened the one in Manhattan), was to the right of Kroger. I think there’s a Cost Plus World Market there now.
It was one of the first, if not the first, twenty-four hour grocery stores in the city. As a consequence, on the weekends in the wee hours it was full of people drifting over from the Limelight. It was also where we’d go for late night necessities, like limes and Cheez-Its.
And back in the day they hadn't expanded "Buckhead"
to include everything from Midtown to Brookhaven. It traditionally ran from Pharr Road on the south to about the iHOP. Piedmont and Lenox were too far north.
Fellini’s (the original was in the little narrow storefront La Fonda is in now; the building next door was a bike shop) was in Garden Hills. That’s why that is the Garden Hills Plaza.
The County Cork Pub, the Five Paces Inn, Churchill Arms, and Aunt Charley’s were all in Buckhead.
First sorta legally bought beer
The Midtown crowd usually downed their first PBR at
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 10, 2012 12:21 AM EST up reply actions
A friend of a friend story here . . .
So this guy goes in for the first time to Moe’s & Joe’s and he is trying to order first a pina colada, then a daiquiri, then a Tom Collins and each time the bar tender just says, “We serve beer here.”
by Atlanta's original team on Jan 10, 2012 1:07 AM EST up reply actions
he is trying to order first a pina colada, then a daiquiri, then a Tom Collins
Ordering these as a joke, or as a lifestyle choice?
/kidding
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
The guy was not right. He was just as inappropriate in class from what I heard though I did not have any classes with him.
by Atlanta's original team on Jan 10, 2012 8:34 AM EST up reply actions
Is Stephen Hill not a starter on offense that we are losing?
I could have sworn he declared for the draft.
The number was 16 because nobody expected him to
Now it’s down to 15, it’s just taking a bit of time to adjust to the idea that Stephen Hill is actually going to the NFL….
The Church of Paul Johnson - There's not much to it outside of whooping ass and giving haters the finger. To HELL With georgie!
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