Tech’s Lee gaining momentum
The more Vad Lee plays, the better he seems to get.
The Georgia Tech quarterback, who made good on five series of work against Maryland on Saturday, has benefited from the playing time he has received behind starter Tevin Washington. He’ll almost certainly see meaningful snaps against North Carolina on Saturday.
“The more times you get live reps in a game, the more confidence comes with it and the more that I feel that I’m getting better,” he said. “I just feel like I can go execute and make plays and just play my game.”
Against the Terrapins, coach Paul Johnson alternated Washington and Lee, giving each two possessions and then switching. It would not be a surprise for coaches to do something similar in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Using that approach against Maryland, “I think both the guys, they were comfortable,” quarterbacks and B-backs coach Brian Bohannon said.
For Lee, the opportunity to play against the Tar Heels is particularly meaningful. While in high school, Lee saw himself playing quarterback in Carolina blue. Tar Heels coaches weren’t quite as enthusiastic about the vision.
“Carolina is always a place I thought I’d end up, but it didn’t end up that way,” said Lee.
Lee grew up in nearby Durham, starring at Hillside High. He was not nearly as high a priority for North Carolina as he was for Tech, which saw him as a difference-making quarterback. Lee saw himself the same way.
“They’ve got a new coaching staff now,” said Lee, who Tuesday said he expected about 12 family members to attend the game. “It’s no hard feelings or anything to Carolina. I’m glad that I’m here, being able to be a quarterback and make plays and get to play against a great team, UNC.”
Johnson has wanted to give Lee playing time, but has sometimes felt the need to keep Washington on the field in situations where he felt Tech needed to maximize its scoring opportunities to win. Johnson also said he wanted Lee to earn playing time in practice.
A rout of Boston College gave him more snaps. After a dismal offensive performance against BYU, Johnson decided to alternate Washington and Lee against Maryland. In five possessions against the Terrapins, then ranked No. 7 in the country in total defense, Lee led Tech to three touchdowns. One of his favorite plays was his only completion, out of two attempts, to A-back Orwin Smith, a 26-yard completion. Lee said it was the same play that the Jackets ran when wide receiver Jeff Greene dropped a pass from Lee that could have been a 49-yard touchdown reception.
The Terrapins “kind of got smart and they went with Jeff, and Orwin had a little hole between the corner and the other safety, so I just tried to throw it in the hole,” he said.
Johnson said Tuesday that, where earlier in the season Lee had to run a different set of plays because he couldn’t execute the entire scheme, “we’re to the point now with Vad where he’s going to run the same stuff that everybody else runs.”
He hasn’t run the triple-option play, the staple of the Tech offense, much, though.
Against Maryland, “we had things going that weren’t necessarily where he had to read everything out, but I think the time’s coming, he’s just going to have to do it,” Bohannon said. “If you’re going to be the quarterback here, he’s going to have to do it.”
The next step is just more game time.
“I think you can’t replace those reps when he gets out there and plays and continues to improve and do it when the game’s on the line, not just at the end,” Bohannon said.
It sounds good to Lee.
“For some reason, when those lights turn on and it’s game time, I’m ready,” he said. “I feel like I can’t be stopped.”
In case you missed it…
Notes: Tech will try to slow UNC tempo
Johnson on UNC, Oregon, Saban, Lee
Notes: Tech on high alert for Bernard
Notes: Starting QB decision will wait again
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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SJ
November 7th, 2012
9:57 pm
Lovd Lee’s confidence.
hashbrown dwag
November 7th, 2012
9:59 pm
first…..
not that i expect it to happen but wackier things have happened.
miami takes itself out of the bowl picture with self imposed penalty.
tech wins out including a pay back win of ga. remember when a mediocre ga team beat the heck out of a ranked gt team a few years back. this would put gt in the acc championship game.
gt defeats clemon or fsu in the acc championship game with vad vlad lee at the helm. this would definitely be karma at its best after we were stripped of our last title.
an 8-5 gt team goes bcs bowling.
it could happen but not likely. ya never know what a new qb can do to a team.
VAD VLAD LEE
CT_Jacket
November 7th, 2012
10:00 pm
I always thought this offense needed a Dennis Dixon type of QB to make it really special and open up the Run and Shoot part of the offense. Lee looks like he could be that type of player. Now, we just need a defense to get our offense on the field as much as possible.
Delbert D.
November 7th, 2012
10:08 pm
Lee is going to miss a read, keep the ball and get wrapped up or smacked down. It happens. Back to the huddle, next play.
StPeteWreck
November 7th, 2012
10:11 pm
fifth
FL Jacket
November 7th, 2012
10:37 pm
I think until we hit a few long passing plays…we may have rough sledding trying to run. It’s time we hit some long ones on Saturday.
Georgia Tech Old Timer
November 7th, 2012
10:39 pm
Just waiting for Johnson to figure out that – two QB’s in the back field at the same time gives him another option when running the TO – first the pitch and then the pass. I’m sure he can also figure out the many additional options this combination presents for the offense – as well as for the headaches the defense will have trying to figure out who to take and who to cover. Just pick two of the three who are now finally coming to the field to play rther than watching from the bench.
Georgia Tech Old Timer
November 7th, 2012
10:44 pm
FL Jacket – We need some one other than a running back who can get down field and actually makes an effort to catch the ball.
George Stein
November 7th, 2012
10:58 pm
God, this is a GT Joe wet dream.
Seriously, though, it’s great to hear he’s coming along.
dry dirt road
November 7th, 2012
11:02 pm
all important pt “on the job training”, phase out grad school TW near end of season and end of his career, try to phase out TO offense, install O that Favors shotgun for a start, then pistol, then wildcat, and tight end, shovel pass, screen pass, with TO as available after other formations have taken big lead
dry dirt road
November 7th, 2012
11:07 pm
Stein, don’t get carried away, those guys used to be students and classmates with me, they aren’t any different, drop the hero worshipping
dry dirt road
November 7th, 2012
11:11 pm
Stein, I used to talk to some of those guys in Skiles Classroom building, had Eddie McAshan in a class, he used to sit in back, as if he was lined up behind center at L O S, actually even in shotgun distance from front of class and prof
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dry dirt road
November 7th, 2012
11:13 pm
no shotguns existed in ‘71-2 season, but white helmets did for a first
dry dirt road
November 7th, 2012
11:16 pm
Eddie must have known that shotguns were the O of the future all the way back in ‘71-2, 40 years ago
I love Jan Kemp
November 7th, 2012
11:52 pm
Dont know if we can beat UNC if we dont have long sustained drives. Dont care WHOS at QB as long as they make plays!!
Dawghater
November 7th, 2012
11:59 pm
PAUL JOHNSON is stubborn and won’t play Vad for the entire game because it’s means he is wrong about Tevin! Tevin can’t get it done! Van can!
ToeMeetsLeather
November 8th, 2012
7:07 am
I think CPJ has played things out about right this year. The one wild card was the fact that no one anticipated how god awful the defense would be, including Johnson. With just average defensive play we would have been 5-0 going into the Clemson game. TW was doing enough to win games up to that point.
I have to believe CPJ when he says Lee was limited in what he was able to run offensively while in the game. In retrospect, the BYU game is probably the only game Lee should have played more snaps. It was obvious from the get go that TW’s skill set was too limited to move the ball against their D.
We are going to have to throw the ball around more than we did last week to defeat a good TarHole bunch. Maybe this is the game Lee explodes onto the scene, against his favorite childhood team no less.
Bored in Newnan
November 8th, 2012
7:22 am
Looks like Tech will have a solid starting QB in 2013. Now Johnson just needs to find a solid B back.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
7:38 am
The Jacket Detective strikes again with an exert from Dodd’s Luck revealing alums trying to find some reason to fire Bobby Dodd after his first year.
Check Ken’s “Notes: Tech will try to slow UNC’s tempo”.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
7:46 am
I was surprised I could get such a good seat for “opening night’, just ordered on Wednesday.
Shame on me for waiting so late.
Shame on you for not buying at all.
Go Jackets.
Buzzed
November 8th, 2012
8:19 am
J-Dick: WTH is an ‘exert’?
dry dirt road
November 8th, 2012
8:23 am
on the same page with him if he typed “excerpt”
dry dirt road
November 8th, 2012
8:25 am
Speaking of momentum, Tech needs to quit playing catch up, meaning if they win the first coin toss, elect to receive in order to establish momentum
Jacket time
November 8th, 2012
8:25 am
Stein that is hilarious!
If Vad can be one of those players who elevates those around him. Man, we are in for some exciting games.
10per
November 8th, 2012
8:27 am
I hope that Vad Lee’s playbook has a few more plays in it than the 5 we run with Tevin.
Nope, 10per...
November 8th, 2012
8:48 am
…it is Paul Johnson’s playbook, so the same 5 will be run over and over and over…
Sorry, Jacket Det...
November 8th, 2012
8:51 am
…but I don’t see the connection on the Dodd story – that was his FIRST year, and this is CPJ’s FIFTH year, if that is your attempt at a connection…
The Dulous, '70
November 8th, 2012
9:03 am
We still got to be able to kick an extra point…….
gt laugher
November 8th, 2012
9:04 am
unc is favored by 9 and idiots on here talk about winning out with uga left. lol i wouldn’t be surprised for duke to beat you.
Slovak
November 8th, 2012
9:12 am
If VaTech and GaTech tie, we will have Cotechs as Costal champs.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
9:17 am
I’d bet Supersize agrees with Jim Mora that Randall Goforth’s (UCLA player) impersonator on twitter should go to jail. Mora also says impersonator is a scumbag. Supersize has had a problem too with an impersonator on these blogs as have others of us.
gt laugher
November 8th, 2012
9:19 am
no vt goes slovak cause they beat gt. duh
but that won’t happen cause unc will play smear the qu**r” this saturday and win by 20. oh and gt’s dreams of going to a bowl and extending that streak will end. yep that coach is awesome!! at least gailey never missed a bowl. of course it’s probablya good thing seeing how dismal coach is in bowl games.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
9:19 am
If u r a Tech fan, at least buy the Tulane/Uga package and attend opening night.
I was surprised how good a seat I got.
Shame on me for waiting so late.
Shame on you for not buying at all.
gt laugher
November 8th, 2012
9:21 am
detective, you mean supersize mutt..the guy who said gt would go 11-1 and beat uga this year? lmao. yeah that’s someone i want to take advice from. he probably called romney in a landslide too. lmfao.
matt
November 8th, 2012
9:25 am
middle tennessee state
matt
November 8th, 2012
9:26 am
byu
matt
November 8th, 2012
9:26 am
2005 Emerald Utah 10-38 L
2006 Gator West Virginia 35-38 L
2007 Humanitarian Fresno State 28-40 L
2008 Chick-fil-A LSU 3-38 L
2009 Orange Iowa 14-24 L
2010 Independence Air Force 7-14 L
2011 Sun Utah (OT) 27-30 L
White&Gold
November 8th, 2012
9:29 am
matt, you should probably get off ajc before your teacher sees that you’re not gathering information for you history paper that’s due tomorrow.
tooltime432
November 8th, 2012
9:39 am
matt you really need to find a hobby. You must live a pretty sad and pathetic life if the only thing you have to do every day is post mtsu ad our bowl records. Get a life dude.
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
10:53 am
Sorry, Jacket Det….Dodd was actually de facto HC starting in 1942 with the Kentucky game after Coach Aleck’s heart attack. For a good bit of the 1942 and longer Coach Aleck’s doctors did not even allow him to listen to the games on the radio, & his household enforced doctor’s orders very strictly. As an unnamed HC, Dodd received many votes as coach of the year in 1942, I believe. One New York paper named Coach Aleck, by a poll of HC’s across the nation, Coach of the Year. The Nashville Banner had Butts COY for the SEC and Coach Aleck second and Coach Dodd fourth. While I find this kind of info fascinating, it illustrates on three points very well. 1st….Dodd & GT had early success, a couple of lean years and the wolves began howling. 2nd….Coach Dodd was very thankful there was no internet in his day. He would have been as vilified as CPJ is today. 3rd….The fans were just as fickle then as they are now. Selah.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
11:03 am
@Buzzed.
That where 2 years of Tech English will get u.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
11:06 am
Connection to Dodd story was how bent out of shape fans get.
BTW we are stuck with CPJ so we might as well hope he knows something.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
11:13 am
@1 4 GT.
Agreed.
And I am glad I posted it to get the addition info.
I just happened to open it to that page and thought I would add it to our “debates”.
You got what I was about with it.
www
November 8th, 2012
11:23 am
http://deadspin.com/5958609/just-a-hunch-to-win-what-might-have-been-his-biggest-game-darrell-royal-had-texas-do-the-very-thing-he-hated
“Former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal despised the forward pass. “Three things can happen,” he famously said of throwing the football, “and two of them are bad.” In 1968, Royal rolled out a scheme that allowed Texas’s offense to be effective with minimal passing. The wishbone, as it was called, was a variation of the veer…”
GT Fan
November 8th, 2012
11:26 am
GT Joe, wherever you are right now, make sure you read the sentence in Ken’s blog that I’ve cut/pasted below before you rant about Vad starting over Tevin all season.
He hasn’t run the triple-option play, the staple of the Tech offense, much, though.
It was obvious that VL didn’t know the TO and other reads that TW knows. As well, I think most people who post on these blogs see the upside in Vad. Would love to see him continue his progression on Saturday.
www
November 8th, 2012
11:28 am
matt loves posting the same stuff over and over. i LOVE the dedicated tech fans!
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
11:29 am
BTW….Dodd’s deal with Tech starting in 1945, when he officially became HC, was $8,400 per year with a percentage of concessions to bring his pay up to around $14,000 per year. Quite a payday back then. I don’t want to leave any misunderstanding of the relationship between Coach Aleck & Dodd. Coach Aleck returned to the sidelines prior to the Cotton Bowl on 1-1-1943. His activities were somewhat limited & Dodd took a lot of weight off of him. Dodd’s “luck” was that with the title of HC came high expectations. Tech went to the Cotton, Orange & Sugar Bowls in successive years 1-1-1943 & 44 & 45 & then went 4-6 in 1945. And the howling began. So in a way, the doubters had more ammo then they do now.
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
11:36 am
FYI….GT Joe and other doubters….Tevin will definitely start against Duke. He is a grad student now and it is Senior Day. So, get over that. Vad may start against UNC, but I don;t think so myself. I don’t really care if they are both as effective as they were last Saturday against Md. They will both play & I personally, as of today, think that is a good thing.
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
11:38 am
exert is an effort
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
11:40 am
exert is also pressure or stress
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
11:47 am
Stein: my wet dream headline “Vad Lee to Start vs. UGA”.
1 4: Glad to see that you value respect for a sr. QB on senior day over winning a game. Maybe we can get the 4th year equipment manager on the field to kick a FG too.
And finally, to GT Fan: You are so predictable, I knew you would bring up that sentence. But guess what: EVEN TW doesn’t run the triple option much. the triple option is run less than 20% of the time in CPJ’s offense (according to CPJ himself).
The real question (for Ken) is this: what does “much” mean? Does it mean that he runs it about 15% of the time (just like Tevin), or does it mean that CPJ purposely doesn’t call that play as much with Vad? And the follow up question, if CPJ purposely doesn’t call that play for Vad, is it because CPJ migrates to more pass plays for Vad compared to TW, which would drop the % of triple option plays for Vad?
See GT Fan, there are a lot of moving parts here. Try to delve deeper. Hope that was helpful in your understanding of the game of football.
CoolBreeze
November 8th, 2012
11:47 am
To Dry Dirt: GT ran the shotgun in the early 60’s. To www: A guy named Emory Bellard thought up the wishbone while he was on Darrell Royal’s staff. But, those old Southwest Conf coaches were an amusing bunch of personalities ! If Vad throws much, I hope he’s accurate, and not over-excited
Jmonty
November 8th, 2012
11:53 am
Doesn’t matter if Vad or TW plays… The “D” won’t be able to stop UNC’s high tempo offense and the running game. UNC will win easily… and they should. 41-24… TW can’t go a game without turning the ball over. We need UNC to play horrible in order to win. But, hey… any given Saturday, right??
Ken Sugiura
November 8th, 2012
12:10 pm
GT Joe – not much as in, i don’t know that he ran it at all against Maryland and it wasn’t much more against boston college. He may have, but I don’t remember it. in fairness, washington didn’t run it a ton, either, against maryland, if memory serves. they ran a lot of toss plays. but it wasn’t because they were winging it, either. if you’ll remember, both threw four passes out of 60 plays.
i don’t know the reason(s), but reading between the lines, i think one of them is because he’s not as adept at it as you’d want.
i suspect in time he’ll figure it out.
as for the game, tech’s chance, i think, is winning the tempo game. if tech can force a couple three-and-outs early and put together two time-consuming touchdown drives, i think that could throw things out of balance for UNC. unc had seven three-and-outs against n.c. state out of 20 possessions, actually 18 if you remove a kneeldown and bernard’s punt return for a touchdown.
GT Fan
November 8th, 2012
12:19 pm
Ken, thanks for explaining to GT Joe for me. He doesn’t seem to understand anything when fellow posters try to explain it to him.
He still thinks 29.7 pts / game (vs FBS opps) isn’t good enough to be 7-2, 8-1, or even 9-0. Meanwhile, the top 25 (i.e. 7-2, 8-1, or 9-0 records) is littered with teams that regularly score under 29.7pts vs. FBS opponents.
G-Money
November 8th, 2012
12:33 pm
I remain optimistic that we can beat both UNC and Duke while playing both QB’s but increasing Vad’s number of plays. Also, with UGAG most likely looking ahead to Bama on Tech week, maybe all things come together for Vad and maybe he starts. Wishful thinking I know, but they may not know what hit them.
5150 UOAD
November 8th, 2012
12:47 pm
GT JOE knows everything. See he has a Magic Recliner and TV that gives him Expert Football Knowledge.
GT Fan
November 8th, 2012
12:48 pm
G-Money, I had the same wishful thinking last year leading into the UGA game – Dawgs would be looking ahead to LSU.
UGA’s O is better this year than last year. GT D is worse. I don’t like GT’s chances, at all, vs. UGA, but stranger things have happened.
GT Fan
November 8th, 2012
12:52 pm
5150 UOAD,
Yeah kind of a sad fan GT Joe is. I read a post by him earlier this week where he thinks it’s too much $ and a too hard to attend (i.e. traffic, parking, getting to stadium) games in person.
Varsity Chili Dawg
November 8th, 2012
12:54 pm
This is a subject worth writing about? Wow!
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
1:05 pm
UOAD: did you figure out the triple option yet? Let me know if you have questions.
Also, let me know when you actually start paying for your own tickets rather than big daddy buying them for you. I guess I’d go more if I got free tix like you.
GT Fan: I guess the concept of “strength of schedule” is a difficult one for you. But if you think being #40 in offensive scoring against the #60 schedule will get us an ACC title, I have a business idea for you. Involving beanie babies. and 1996 olympics souvenirs.
5150 UOAD
November 8th, 2012
1:08 pm
Did somebody FART in the Blog Room?
No?
I see GT JOE showed up.
Well people ignore the Stench and carry on your posting.
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
1:15 pm
GT Fan: All Ken said was, he didn’t remember Vad running the TO much at all. And all Ken can do is guess why; and Ken guessed (like you) that Vad isn’t as adept at running it.
Well Ken and GT Fan, thanks for your opinions. And you know what they say about opinions, don’t you?
Now instead of opinions, I tend to look at facts. 2 points:
1. I’ll cite what Bohannon said in the article: “we had things going that didn’t necessarily require much reading”. In other words, they were going with plays that were working, like the pitches. I.e., they didn’t need to run the TO when other “things were going”.
2. I’ll cite what CPJ SAID, which is they both run the same plays now, and both are pretty much equally capable at executing the playbook. Which means that running the TO is not about who executes it better, but more about actual game situations (defense tendencies, going with what is working, etc.).
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
1:16 pm
calling me a farter doesn’t reflect very well on you, UOAD. Please stop the namecalling.
GTBob
November 8th, 2012
1:20 pm
Please fire Paul Johnson!
Al Bundy
November 8th, 2012
1:24 pm
Where is WnE???? I look forward to his take on things. Did he get banned?
5150 UOAD
November 8th, 2012
1:27 pm
Al Bundy….WnE and Thomas Brown are finalizing their wedding plans on this coming Black Friday.
William Casey
November 8th, 2012
1:27 pm
GT Joe = WnE
gt4ever
November 8th, 2012
1:32 pm
good grief, there couldn’t be more than 5 plays total to learn…. Well maybe 10… I could run this offense…
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
1:34 pm
Casey: no, I’m not WnE.
And by the way, I’m off my one week long “fire paul johnson” soap box since he has relented to the fan base and started playing Vad more. Still would rather see him get 100% of the snaps; I think it’s coming vs. UGA.
Al Bundy
November 8th, 2012
1:40 pm
5150, thanks for the update! Maybe matt can catch the bouquet!
gt4ever
November 8th, 2012
1:44 pm
@GT Joe
UGA will score at Will this year… It will be a very long day for my Jackets, in Athens…
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GTPhenom
November 8th, 2012
2:30 pm
I can’t really disagree with Joe on his stance for Lee. The guys the more talented player clearly, and probably should’ve been played a lot more early on in the season. The BYU game was all I needed to reaffirm that Tevin just cannot get it done against any team with an above average gameplan for them. You can site Tevin’s numbers all you want, but most of that is simply a product of the system (seriously, how many one-two yard TDs does he have this year . . .). While I hope that CPJ knows best when it comes to who starts, I really hope Vad gets the majority of the playing time.
13 fans
November 8th, 2012
4:34 pm
Are you people crazy, please don’t compare Paul Johnson to Coach Dodd.
Bobby Dodd could out coach Paul Johnson in his sleep.
Who campared...
November 8th, 2012
5:48 pm
..Dodd and CPJ?
Stinger 1
November 8th, 2012
5:58 pm
GT Joe: Vad Lee is not playing more because CPJ relented to the fan base. He is playing more because CPJ wants him to play more. I doubt CPJ will ever relent to the fan base on any issue.
Reformed Toady
November 8th, 2012
6:07 pm
There’s no comparing Dodd to Johnson. Different era and completely different personalities.
Tech will need to hit a few big passes to open up the running game. If not UNC will (for the most part) shut the Jackets down.
Tech HAS to have an improved kicking game (it’s really unbelieveable IMHO). I mean it’s as sorry as can be. I cringe on kickoffs, PATs and FG’s.
Control/contain Bernard running and do not kick to him. He’s going to get his but Tech cannot allow him the big play.
Having said that UNC has more weapons than Bernard so the whole defense will need to step up. Easy to say I know, but it’s time for them to do something spectacular. No let downs! UNC will be out for revenge and The Yellow Jackets should be forewarned.
Get after it Jackets!
Gorilla Biscuit
November 8th, 2012
6:19 pm
Tevin Washington.
ignition
November 8th, 2012
6:51 pm
I just don’t see how Tech can win this game..
UNC Offense is uptempo and balanced. This team can not stop the run and damn sure has issues with the pass, and lets not forget the special teams inwhich UNC excels and Tech well it’s been rough to say the least..
Stack the box and eliminate the one dimensional offense especially in the second half Vad plays 2 series and GT can’t pass.
UNC 56 Tech 21
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
8:09 pm
For 13 Fans….if you took anything that I said as comparing Dodd & Johnson, your reading comprehension is way off. I was comparing fan & alumni reactions to the two coaches & their success. Nothing more, nothing less. The fans/alumni are as ficle then as they are now.
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
8:12 pm
fickle, not “ficle”
Savannah Buzz
November 8th, 2012
8:16 pm
regardless of who starts…I think we’re gonna have to pretty much score every possession. I don’t see us slowing down UNC. I see them doing a lot of what Middle Tennessee did to us. Quick outside passes (good for 5-8 yards every time), followed by gashing runs up the middle. I expect their running game to pound us. Hate to be a pessimist, but I think the evidence is in. Now, if we can keep our running game going…this may be the shortest game in college football history.
Jacket Detective
November 8th, 2012
8:16 pm
I compared the fans of Dodd’s day to the fans of today.
What if the 15 to 20 moronic fans who peppered team captain Paul Duke with questions about Dodd had succeeded in getting Dodd fired.
Fire Paul Johnson if you want to hand him over 10 million dollars to do nothing.
I would like him to earn his pay.
For all we know, it may have been Paul Hewitt’s eldest daughter who called most for his firing so he could afford to buy her a Mercedes, BMW or Caddy.
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
8:19 pm
Joe….you are putting words in my mouth. I resent that. Where did I say I value respect for a senior QB over winning a game? It is not my decision which one starts what game. I am merely recognizing that CPJ will probably start Tevin against Duke. How dare you to make such assumptions from what I said. Please don’t twist my words to fit your agenda! I am refraining from calling you an A-hole!
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
8:24 pm
JDet….surely we are not the only two that recognize the similarity of fans/alumni then & today. Can it be possible?
GTfan2012
November 8th, 2012
8:57 pm
1 4 GT, save your breath on GT Joe. He is ACTING like an arrogant A-hole. The longer he acts like one the more likely it is that that is just who he is. He seems to believe that as a fan (that doesn’t even go to games) that he actually has some impact on the decisions the coaches make. I think he actually believes that complaining about Tevin on the comments section of the AJC blogs has caused CPJ to play Vad Lee more.
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
9:41 pm
1 4 and GTfan2012: namecalling doesn’t reflect well on you. This type of language doesn’t belong on the blogs.
Stinger: CPJ relented on hiring an ST coach. He relented on playing Vad when the boo birds came out. Those are my opinions. Your opinion is that CPJ doesn’t relent on anything. Your opinion is no more valuable than mine.
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
9:48 pm
GTfan2012: no, CPJ doesn’t read my posts. no, I don’t control his decision making.
But what I do know is this: I’ve been right about playing Vad since after the VT game. Nobody agreed with me. But week after week after week, more and more people agree with me. Now, I’d say 90% of the posters think Vad should play more snaps than Tevin. Probably half think he should play EVERY snap.
My next year or so of posts will be “I told you so” posts. Get used to it.
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
9:53 pm
I would expect nothing less of you Joe. Your prior posts indicate nothing than what you just said. I fully expect nothing but I told you so from you. You have proven yourself to be that arrogant so & so we all must put with in our lives from time to time.
Notes: Washington nearing TD record | Georgia Tech
November 8th, 2012
10:02 pm
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1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
10:12 pm
Joe, you can claim the credit for “making/forcing” CPJ to play Vad. As for me coming around to agreeing with you about playing Vad….I, as I suspect most of us think, we would have liked to have seen Vad before you ever started your multiple times per day daily rants calling for Vad to be the “man”. However, we were smart enough to realize that we could not force the issue, so we mostly just had to let it play out. Did we think he would be a better QB? Absolutely! Did we want to see him play? Absolutely! Did we think we could beat the Coaches into submission & get them to play Vad? Absolutely not! The vast majority of us are smart enough to realize that he would play only when the coaches thought he was ready. What did the coaches accomplish by this “stubborn” refusal to not put Vad on the field. Maybe nothing! But which one of us sees the future clearly? Maybe they saved Vad from a career ending injury. In your daily rants, did you ever consider this? No, you did not! If he had trouble in the games, would that have damaged his psyche to the point where his future football career would have been adversely affected and he would have developed internal mental doubts about his ability? Yes, it is possible. Did you consider this in your daily rants? No, you did not! All you could see was “the Moment”. Joe, there is more to life than “THE MOMENT”! How sad if you haven’t learned this in your life yet. Selah.
GT Joe
November 8th, 2012
11:01 pm
Saving his psyche? LOL. If Vad comes in and gets permanently mentally ruined, then he’s just not the right QB for us. Better to find out now than later. But I’m pretty sure a state champion HS QB, national all star game MVP doesn’t have “performance anxiety”.
Saving him from injury? LOL. Maybe he should try another sport. Look, there are probably hundreds of redshirt freshman (and true freshman, for that matter) playing today in college football.
Again, I can’t take credit for Vad playing more. But I can take credit for being the true visionary that I am, seeing talent when I see it, and letting the world know about it before the world could see it for themselves, and exposing Tevin’s deficiencies when the world was blinded by all his 1 yard TDs.
And now we are seeing CPJ coming to the same conclusions I came to…about 2 months late.
1 4 GT
November 8th, 2012
11:28 pm
You are one arrogant I can’t say it here. I doubt you remember Randy Johnson, the Falcons 2nd 1st round pick in their first year of existence. Tommy Nobis was #1 & Randy Johnson was #2. Randy came out of college with all kinds of passing records. Back then, there was a preseason game between the college All-Stars & the previous years NFL champs. The college guys actually won a few. In that game before the NFL preseason started, Johnson was the starting college QB. He broke the QB records set by Joe Namath. If a good team had drafted him, he would probably had a successful NFL career. But he was a Falcon & got thrown to the wolves and was unmercifully demolished week after week because he was the #1 QB for an expansion team. Those teams back then got mostly the worst players in a draft from other teams. Expansion teams were truly horrible back then. Johnson’s psyche was shell shocked. You can poopoo that all you like, but it is true. He finally quit & has never been heard from again in Atlanta. Anyway, I won’t belabor the point with you again. The Coach, whoever he is, even scumbags like Petrino, know more about it than you or I ever will. But, your attitude leaves a lot to be desired. If you have a wife & children, I’m sorry for them. Mr. Know It All has got to be an absolute pain in the azz to live with. And you sir, are the biggest Mr. Know It All pain in the azz I have ever encountered.
GTfan2012
November 8th, 2012
11:50 pm
I think the arguments for not playing Vad are simple. Lets look at the games we lost. First VT. At what point should we have played the freshman QB with no experience? Before we took the lead late in the 4th quarter? In OT?!? In the Miami game, when should we have played the QB with very little experience? When we were down by 19 in the 1st quarter? After we came back and took a big lead? In OT?!?! Then MTSU. This is actually where Vad Lee got a little more playing time, and this is the game where our season really started to slide. Since that point, Vad has played more.