This is the same as it has always been. On a positive note, if you have the will to do so, the upper echelon is now available to teams heretofore excluded. Texas Tech and Indiana can now compete with the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts. It’s not a closed society of people who came over on the Mayflower.
I don't agree. We are seeing a spiraling inflationary bubble in spending on coaches and players at the top. The changes are dramatic, chaotic and on an entirely different level as what we had seen in previous decades. It is not the same at all.
I struggle with this notion after a year where we were in competition for the CFP up until mid to late November and ended up with 9 wins which is a very high bar for GT fb.
Well yeah but look what happened next. Like the arcade game...a mole sticks his head up and gets whacked.
And that is another story: You know all those movies that have the chase scene where a running character has to jump a precipice, like from one roof top to another ("Vertigo", "The Enforcer."), or maybe a chasm ("Day After Tomorrow."). the character jumps and hits there chest on the opposite side but manages to pull themselves up with their arms.
I agree. We need to stay stacking the 8, 9, 10 win seasons back to back. It feels whenever we have a good year we lay a dud the following. I think that’s the really frustrating part for me as a fan. I saw Faulkner and Philip as an avenue to stack another great season after this one.
Especially with uGa being win #9!!!
We have risen from the dead the past 3 years. Hard to say whet our trajectory is now post King at QB. My guess is a step back but we don't and won't know until this time next year.
Can’t help but notice you skipped right over basketball…As I've said before... take a break, enjoy Christmas, watch baseball in the spring & summer, maybe some Nascar & IndyCar. Then in August check back in & see who we have as Jackets. Those are our guys for a season, that's our team for a season, cheer them on & see what happens.
Much much less stressful & better for our sanity.
We've lost continuity on offense. Trajectory on defense wasn't good. So, where does that leave those gains that got us to 9-0?
8-0 but likely a typo, I agree we will take a step back. CBF was a very good OC at GT. In my opinion our offensive results were well above out offensive talent level.
Then we lost 3 of 4, confirming that those disrespecting us were, in fact, correct....
Wonder how UVA fans feel. They were one win away from the CFP. We were close but not that close.
UVA fans don't understand what college football means to fans!
Like Root said, the few that care probably feel worse than Tech fans. Losing to Duke is similar to us losing to WF in the championshiip but x10 bc it kept them out of the playoffs. OTOH, I watched that game which is rare for me to watch a non-GT game. Neither one of those two teams were really all that good imo.
Can we please move on and stop lamenting “what might have been?”
The last bit is what we don’t know about yet.
