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We completely shut down their full back run in the first half, completely. And didn't really give them much of it in the 2nd half though they were a little more successful with it then, but nothing dramatic. What killed us was that Johnson realized we were committing so much to stopping the full back dive, they kept running the speed sweep and getting out on the end which meant a DB or S had to come up and make the play most of the time on the perimeter.

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Good analysis.

The GT-VT game early in the season went much the same way. They completely shut us down up the middle, and Johnson went to the outside. Dwyer only had about 25 yards in the VT game -- it was his worst game of the season by far.

The big difference in the VT and UGA games, from the GT D vs. opp's O point of view, was that GT had -3 turnovers against VT, and effectively +2 vs. UGA (which both led to immediate touchdowns).

It's true for any offense but maybe even more true for GT's: with an even or positive turnover margin, the Jackets are probably gonna win.

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We gonna whip y'alls arse. Book it.

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Is that Bettie Page in your avatar? I might not mind if she whipped my arse....

:spank: :lol:

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That's exactly what I had in mind for this game.

Georgia Tech= pass first offense.

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BTW, you will never make GT a pass first offense. Johnson is stubborn and patient and he flat out won't abandon the run, no matter what you do, even if you've stopped it cold all game.

Stacking the box with 8 or 9 guys is nothing new. At Navy every week he faced much bigger and faster teams that stacked the box with 8 or 9 guys, and he still ran the ball on them. Usually pretty effectively.

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I would think it would be just a few plays, not an entire offense and probably nothing too fancy. I could see it. It would be a nice wrinkle for them.

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Right, it's not an entire new offense. Just adding more passing plays than are already there. Johnson's offense evolved from running the option out of the double-slot Run and Shoot, and the passing game has always been based on the 'Shoot.

I'm surprised no GT fans have addressed this!

First there's a scheme problem, on which more later. Second, being an a-hole can be good or bad, and in Tenuta's case, there's more bad than good.

At Tech he ruined team unity with an "offense vs. defense" mentality. A star player told me he and Nix hated each other, and he was openly contemptuous of Nix before the 2007 GT-Miami game. He reportedly had the same effect on the UNC staff.

His schemes are too all-or-nothing. His all-out blitzing and soft zone coverages tend to get abused by experienced QB's under good OC's.

GT's D returned only 4 starters this year, had a lot of injury problems and only started 2 true freshman DB's in the last half of the season.
But the D improved overall -- the run D was slightly worse but the pass D was a LOT better.

This year GT gave up somewhat fewer total yards, yards per play, and points than under Tenuta. All of this was accounted for by giving up about 40% fewer big plays.

Tenuta's all-or-nothing schemes seem best suited to teams that can't score. He probably allowed Gailey to win more overall games at the expense of more blowout losses. We would win games against good teams with "LSU-Auburn" scores like 7-3, 10-9, 14-10 etc.; but then lose 51-7, 39-3 etc. when Tenuta got burned.

For a team with a good offense, it makes less sense to me -- and apparently to Paul Johnson.

Finally, Tenuta does not generate all that many turnovers. This year under Wommack, GT has more takeaways in 12 games than Tenuta ever had in 13-14 games.

This doesn't appear to be luck -- in 6 seasons as a DC Wommack has generated 29+ takeaways four times, while Tenuta's best effort out of seven seasons was 27.

The October issue of The Atlantic had a great article on this game:

Distant Replay

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Must be a rough life over there.

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True. But it does get better when we graduate and marry SEC hotties.

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heh, right. Seems I had forgotten about y'alls' beef with USC. :)

You should set up a home and home. They generally seem willing to play anybody and schedule more big name OOC opponents than anyone else, by far. I seem to recall them stomping the SEC-W champs 2 years ago....

I think on average USC plays the toughest schedules around. But then I respect the PAC-10 - they are weak this year though.

To clarify, GT was 7-5 in the regular season in 1991, then won the bowl game. So LSU could post exactly the same record as GT.

But GT was a freak MNC. LSU is a consistent power.

BTW just from an outsider's viewpoint the idea that LSU 07 was a weak MNC team is ludicrous.
LSU played a monster schedule in the toughest year for the SEC in my memory, crushed a good VT team OOC and then crushed the only 1-loss BCS team in the title game. Very strong statements. LSU lost two games in overtime -- which means pre-1995 y'all would've been 12-0-2. Noone could possibly have complained about that record.

BYU in 1984 has no close contenders for weak MNC in the modern era. The most undeserved was the one Colorado split with GT in 1990 -- b/c of the 5th down they were really a 9-2-1 team.

What was that? Completely lost my train of thought due to rpg's avatar.