Live from Miami: Is Georgia Tech about to pack it in or what?
Miami's Lamar Miller against Tech last season. You'll hear his name again today. (AJC photo by Johnny Crawford)
Miami – Two schools of thought on this one. One is that the schedule is about to catch up with Georgia Tech and that the Jackets will do well to win two more games. (Duke being the gimme, and even that’s in Durham.) The glass-half-full outlook is to proclaim Tech’s loss at Virginia a raging blip that augurs nothing much at all.
I’m kind of split. I do think the schedule is toughening. (Don’t think anybody would disagree.) I don’t, however, think Tech is incapable of finishing strong and winning the ACC Coastal. I think Tech will beat Miami today, which would make the Jackets 7-1 and would render the next two games — both at Bobby Dodd Stadium — hugely huge.
I say this largely because I can’t tell what sort of team Miami is. Here’s its season: Lose to Maryland, beat Ohio State, lose to Kansas State, beat (but get outgained by) Bethune-Cookman, lose close at Virginia Tech, win at North Carolina. See a pattern therein? Me, neither.
Miami folks insist the ‘Canes are about to embark on a run that could leave them atop the Coastal Division, and I do think Al Golden is a good enough coach to make that happen — someday. Just not yet. I’m still not sure Miami can coalesce around a new coach with all that has happened around the program. (I refer to Nevin Shapiro’s allegations of pay-for-play, among other things.)
The Jackets, on the other hand, are stable enough to learn from their Virginia experience and ensure that it won’t happen again. I say this with great confidence — as of 1:37 p.m., roughly two hours before kickoff. By 4 o’clock, I may have been offered reason to rethink.
But that’s why they play the game, as we genius sports writers like to say, and that’s why I”ll be here until the game is done. I implore you to join the festivities, and I thank you in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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Ernest T Bass
October 22nd, 2011
4:34 pm
with Miami and Tech’s recent indirections ….
Shouldn’t this have been called the Probation Bowl ?
Dawgs whip Techies
October 22nd, 2011
4:34 pm
HAHAHA – You guys are not EVEN a Top 50 team. I can’t wait till we play your sorry Techies – We are going to destroy your sorry team and embarrass your high school offense. Remember – WE RUN THIS STATE!!!!!
North Ave Killer Beez
October 22nd, 2011
4:35 pm
NICE DIVE PLAY COACH! they won’t suspect that one, let’s try it again & again & again…..
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:35 pm
Go home, headley
Gtjohn
October 22nd, 2011
4:35 pm
D is looking good
Gorilla Biscuit
October 22nd, 2011
4:35 pm
The defense is going to be wore out in the second half.
Jacket Dad
October 22nd, 2011
4:35 pm
We are terrible! This is just plain getting embarrassing. Come on Jackets, get into the game.
Tampa Wreck
October 22nd, 2011
4:35 pm
This is not a problem eith the spread option being figured out. This is pathetic execution.. Plain and simple. I need a thesaurus to get some synonyms for pathetic.
GT-UT
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
Who would have thought that the season would come down to the D!
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
Miami stopped again. Jacory Harris is like four for 15
CarolinaJacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
Wow. Just …
Unbelievable.
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
LASKEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID STUPID STUPID !!!!!!!!!!!!
Dirtybirdsin11
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
Bet he doesn’t return any more punts. Wow.
Ernest T Bass
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
One thing you can tell.
Tech is one well coached team.
Dawg48
October 22nd, 2011
4:36 pm
Why did he grabb that punt? That was a killer!
south
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
WTF??
Charleston Jacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
speechless
Lee Goza
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Why?
WestOfAthens
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Just turned to the game, and what? Dumbness, keep it up GT.
Easy 7 for Miami
OkieDawg
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Wow…GT’s Special Teams are getting it done….for Miami
Gtjohn
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
That is twice this year for thar
GT-UT
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Enter your comments hereThe ole GT punt play is back
bkd
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Jacket suck!
Tampa Wreck
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
More putrid execution. Should have run up and caught the ball. But once it hit the ground.. Get away.
CarolinaJacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
I’m heading to Fiery Rons for their Bud special — quit shooting!!!!!
Whaw!
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Are you sure Tech players all have 4.0’s? That was a pretty dumb move. hahaha
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Worst that could happen …
Has happened. It’s a two-score game.
GTBob
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Lol. This is getting humerous now.
Ernest T Bass
October 22nd, 2011
4:37 pm
Cmon tell us what a genius CPJ is and how no one has ever stopped his offense.
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
I don’t care if he is a freshman. That’s just plain STUPID !!!!!
Jacket Dad
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
Are you kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have got our heads up you know where! Our special teams are not special and Johnson does NOTHING to improve that.
CarolinaJacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
ourselves in the foot.
just facts
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
Johnson said that the sky wasn’t falling… he might consider looking up now.
HEN-DOGG
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
Tech is making a bad Miami Team look good. Has Tech practiced this week?
GT66
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
GT – UT — has your wife got back from the liquor store yet – she may have to make 2 trips to get thru this
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:38 pm
Zach Laskey was waving people away. Then he tried to grab the ball.
Gorilla Biscuit
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
The prospect of having to pass to play catch-up.
bkd
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
I predict we lose out.
VFL
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
Miami is horrible, cant believe they are winning by two touchdowns
STINGER1
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
Guys dont get upset ………………..the coaches wont care. Just watch in agony. we are all aggravated by poor play. CPJ wont care if your mad .
Biff Pocoroba
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
Teams know how to stop it because CPJ doesn’t have a clue how to develop a QB. He hasn’t taught one how to throw a pass in four years. And he refuses to hire a special teams coach and said he would take it on himself this year. Special teams has gotten much worse with Johnson being more hands on. I think some of the players are getting tired of his attitude. They quit on him last year and people blamed it on Gailey’s guys. This is his recruits this year that aren’t learning or improving and are beginning to quit as well.
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
GT66, maybe you’d be better off watching those recorded TV shows. LOL
Technically Correct
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
It’s a good thing that Coach Johnson eased off the team this week, so they could play better…
North Ave Killer Beez
October 22nd, 2011
4:39 pm
LASKY waves everyone off except for himself, idot! nice play freshmen
GT66
October 22nd, 2011
4:40 pm
If remember PJ said the reason he had Laskey back there was because he looked comfortable – also, every kick returner knows you do not touch a bouncing ball inside the 10 yd line
GT Kings of the All CLown Conference
October 22nd, 2011
4:40 pm
Nice Catch!! Tech’s terrible team is being exposed. Doe not look good for the remainder of the season.
Tampa Wreck
October 22nd, 2011
4:40 pm
CPJ needs to send a message. Pull Laskey. Pull TW… Pull Sims.
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:40 pm
And now a KO return to the 8.
GT-UT
October 22nd, 2011
4:40 pm
Need some scotch