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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OldSchoolTechFanatic
October 22nd, 2011
4:40 pm
Quick sand !!!
Ol'JacketFan
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Special teams, terrible. OB play terrible. Trolls happy lol!
GIVE ME A BREAK
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Coaching failure.
OkieDawg
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Stand on the 10 yard line and NEVER EVER back up!
Lee Goza
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
OMG!
IL Jacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
What is going on here!!!!! Do we have any special teams coaching?
Big Ed
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Definition of a “true offensive GENIUS”!: Up the middle….up the middle…up the middle….punt!
DUMB AXX…That crap offensive will NEVER NEVER NEVER work in D1 Football!
FIRE THAT IDIOT NOW!!!!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
he could have pitched then too
Ol'JacketFan
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Horrible OL play, what is going on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GT66
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Super – can’t even do that – would be too mad to enjoy anything !!
Charleston Jacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
The pitch was there and he kept the ball? Enough already!!!
Randy Carson IMGT '83
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Tech is clearly suffering from a lack of confidence at this point. I wonder if CPJ’s perfectionism may be part of the problem…kids are demoralized instead of encouraged.
Chris Miller
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
So if the Jackets keep playing and losing like this, will they get Andrew Luck? … he says as Tevin thinks about pitching, which was the obvious decision, but instead chooses to keep it and dive into the line.
GT Kings of the All CLown Conference
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Good Lord. Speaking of 1 dimensional…. How can Tech expect to beat any decent team?
bkd
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
CPJ is in over his head.
GSUStud
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Hey Techies….this is embarrassing. Can you say overrated???
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Nice pass and catch
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:41 pm
Embry Peeples takes a big hit but holds a first-down. Big play.
GT-UT
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
Guys. On the bright side, our young team will be stronger next year.
Gorilla Biscuit
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
Greyhound is warming up the bus.
Dirtybirdsin11
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
Peeples is a playmaker. He needs to get the ball more often.
whatsgoingon
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
CPJ is killing tech with his inability to coach special teams.
Ol'JacketFan
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
Tough little guy there!
Dr. Strangelove
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
Comment, maybe.
Biff Pocoroba
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
Why do you think that Laskey won’t return more kicks? Johnson didn’t bench the returner in the bowl game that fumbled twice and cost Tech the game. He is just too stubborn and refuses to change. At least I will be able to leave the Clemson game at halftime if it is cold since we will be down by 35 by then the way they looked today.
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
GT66…..LOL. I know what you mean
OldSchoolTechFanatic
October 22nd, 2011
4:42 pm
Miami just about does not have a starter left on the fiel and we are still down by 14
GT-UT
October 22nd, 2011
4:43 pm
Ember is the “Man of Steel”!!
powerlift650
October 22nd, 2011
4:43 pm
the way they been playing the last 3 games. tech deserves to lose.
GT Kings of the All CLown Conference
October 22nd, 2011
4:43 pm
Tech trying trick plays already? I did not know they even knew how to pass!
Dirtybirdsin11
October 22nd, 2011
4:43 pm
Georgia fans, I would appreciate it if you would beat someone decent before coming into the Tech blog and talking about how we can’t beat anyone. Neither team has an impressive victory in the last two seasons.
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:43 pm
A long scoring drive would do wonders.
For Tech, I mean
bkd
October 22nd, 2011
4:43 pm
Clemson by 50 next week!
Chris Miller
October 22nd, 2011
4:44 pm
someone needs to check and see what Tevin is driving about a week from now. My experience has been, if you see someone playing an important position making obviously stupid decision after obviously stupid decision, it stops being stupid and starts being intentional.
GT Fan...
October 22nd, 2011
4:44 pm
Are the coaches coaching this team anymore?
Why the fake punt?
Laskey’s been doing that crap all season. He’s NOT the guy to return punts!
IL Jacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:44 pm
Okie Dawg, that is what I was taught.
HEN-DOGG
October 22nd, 2011
4:44 pm
When are we going to recruit an actual QB? Coach PJ, it is ok to change your Offense!
Tampa Wreck
October 22nd, 2011
4:44 pm
OK.. this game can still be won. we just need some players to start making some play… An eliminate the stupid plays. Can’t blame coaches for poor punting and dumb play by Laskey. they teach those basics in sandlot football
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:45 pm
There, it happened. Somebody stopped the toss to the AB.
GT Fan...
October 22nd, 2011
4:45 pm
The D has played fine today … it’s Off, special teams, and COACHING
GT Fan...
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
3rd and 5 …. Miami will blitz LBs and make play
Mark Bradley
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
First down. Pass to Smith.
BG
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
Tech Sucks! Canes are gonna whip their butt!
Dawg48
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
Nice screen!
IL Jacket
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
Now that is the type of pass we need.
GT Fan...
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
I was wrong, and UM is stupid … GT can’t block blitzs
bkd
October 22nd, 2011
4:46 pm
TW has adopted the Josh Nesbit “call my own number” routine.
Supersize that order, mutt
October 22nd, 2011
4:47 pm
See, Tevin, you pitch the ball and you gain yards. you keep it and you don’t
GT-UT
October 22nd, 2011
4:47 pm
That’s a new play. Need some of that!
North ave. faithful
October 22nd, 2011
4:47 pm
CPJ has got to sit Washington down and wake his a$$ up,missing pitch and throwing the ball timid!