🏈 Georgia or GT, pick one.

[TerryP]

I should have further qualified my remark by saying on the road outside of the South. They also played South Carolina away during that tme before SC joined the SEC.

I like having Ga. Tech on our schedule coming up.

But, I don't consider it to be a great OOC game at this point. There's a lot of history between the schools, but like you mentioned it isn't traveling into unfamiliar territory.

That said my opinion might improve some if Johnson is able to really bring that program to the next level.

One thing I always consider about playing a team like Ga. Tech is a lot of the time these athletes are going against athletes they've faced before. Some in high school competition, some in camps which isn't as much of a factor balancing the equation.

{I don't know if you had noticed it or not, but Tech is really starting to hit the SEC teams with their OOC games. Besides Bama, they've got Vandy, Auburn, South Carolina, Ole Miss and of course the annual game against Georgia.}

Going back to the original point...a lot of differences between playing a team like Okie State (UGA) or Penn State (Bama) versus traveling a couple of hundred miles to face Clemson (Tech's case.)

 

[TidePride50]

50 are you trying to imply that Shula had a problem calling plays? :no-no: Now I must call you a barner! :lol:

I know what you mean about the fade, but I still have to go back to my argument that when you rely that much on finesse and timing, your offense is going to run into trouble against better teams. Sure, you can dictate how the defense will line up and take advantage of them for a while, but when opposing teams start realizing you're a one-trick pony they will adjust and disrupt the pattern. That's especially true with defenses that pressure opposing teams close to the end zone. Bring those corners up and press and you essentially kill the fade pattern because it's a timing pattern. When the WR can't get off the press to get to the corner, and the QB basically launches the pass regardless (because it's a timing pattern) it becomes a risky proposition.
Anyway, I get what you're saying 50, and appreciate the input.

Point taken about press coverage on the goal line. But what if I have a guy like Julio Jones getting off that press...TOUCHDOWN!:td:

 

[bamafan4ever]

Take may word on this and you better believe it....Ga Tech fans, especially the older Tech fans, HATE everything Alabama stands for and wish us nothing but failure.

Georgia fans are cocky but quickly hush when things start going south. They will buy the hype until proven otherwise but they are football savvy enough to know when to back off. Tech fans are delusional to the ends of the Earth because do not know the game as well.

 

[Crimson13Tide]

GT fans threw glass bottles at The Bear. The decision is unbelievably easy.

 

[CtrlAltDel]

Damn, you are right. I now pick GT as the most disliked.

 

[252BAMA]

GT fans threw glass bottles at The Bear. The decision is unbelievably easy.

Yet it was he who sponsored GT's request for readmittance to the SEC. He would not let the actions of a bunch of stupid college students, nor Furman Bisher, get in the way of a good business decision. He had foreseen conference expansions, and the big TV money that went along with expansion, LONG before either occurred. He knew adding the Atlanta TV market would pay huge dividends to the SEC.