What's the excuse for not making the playoff now that the depth of the SEC has been exposed as more or less completely fraudulent? I'll jack off hang up and listen.
Probably the best defender on their team but not sure that's saying much. He talked a lot of trash and got burned several times against us this year. Wasn't impressed.
And the portal class was objectively a slam dunk. Every single one of our "big time" transfers showed out and were exactly as advertised or even better in certain cases. The only ones that technically didn't contribute as much as advertised were Skyler Gill-Howard (only because he dislocated his ankle in the 5th game of the season and never saw the field again) and Quentin Joyner (torn ACL a week before the season started). The portal class was very defense-heavy for obvious reasons. Offensively they should have gone in harder on the offensive line, perhaps at wide receiver as well, and obviously we needed a different QB. Morton just isn't very good and Hammond wasn't ready/tore his ACL. With another good OL or two and a competent QB, that Oregon game is very different. The defense performed as well as you could expect against an offense like that. Sometimes you have to see up close what it takes to compete in the CFP and we got a lesson. Oregon got a similar lesson last year and we can only hope that we learn from it as well as they seem to have.
There are injury concerns with Leavitt. Tech doesn't wanna go down that road again. Morton was a broken, 6 foot tall statue that couldn't make reads fast enough in real time as a 99 year senior. Throwing their eggs in his basket was a mistake in the first place and hopefully one they won't repeat. Will be interested to see what Leftwich can do with the offense with a QB that can actually do the things he wants to do.
It would be more accurate to say we were a QB away from playing a competitive game with Oregon on that side of the ball. He absolutely just fucked the game pretty much all by himself.
I know you're not necessarily saying this, but this always feels like another extension of "it's only wrong if Tech does it". If UT lines up a bunch of Lambos inside DKR when recruits show up, that's all above board.
Tech past too god damn I still have nightmares from when that mfer was our DC for like 5 minutes e: Nvm I was thinking of James Willis for some reason not BW