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Football- Enough - StanfordIndians1. - 11-29-2024

The program isn’t getting better as currently set up. Is the administration/AD blind? Other programs like W Virginia, they are a game out of first place in the B12 yet the coaches are in the hot seat ready to be fired. Yet we can’t even beat a pathetic barely .500 SJSU and no change? Harbaugh and former players like CMac/Toby/Sherman I bet are wondering the same thing. Are we giving up? Does the admin have any heart? I would be fired from my job if I only made good on .25% of my work. PLEASE someone w influence do something! We shouldn’t have to endure a 5th straight 3-9 season or worse! Rant over.

RE: Football- Enough - Card10Fan - 11-29-2024

(11-29-2024, 07:17 PM)StanfordIndians1. Wrote:  The program isn’t getting better as currently set up. Is the administration/AD blind? Other programs like W Virginia, they are a game out of first place in the B12 yet the coaches are in the hot seat ready to be fired. Yet we can’t even beat a pathetic barely .500 SJSU and no change? Harbaugh and former players like CMac/Toby/Sherman I bet are wondering the same thing. Are we giving up? Does the admin have any heart? The O stinks.  I would be fired from my job if I only made good on .25% of my work. PLEASE someone w influence do something! We shouldn’t have to endure a 5th straight 3-9 season or worse!

You are not wrong. Write/email the AD and Stanford president. Fans need to make their frustrations known with those in charge…not that I’m confident it will actually change anything. But no harm in expressing what we all feel.

RE: Football- Enough - 82lsju - 11-29-2024

(11-29-2024, 07:21 PM)Card10Fan Wrote:  
(11-29-2024, 07:17 PM)StanfordIndians1. Wrote:  The program isn’t getting better as currently set up. Is the administration/AD blind? Other programs like W Virginia, they are a game out of first place in the B12 yet the coaches are in the hot seat ready to be fired. Yet we can’t even beat a pathetic barely .500 SJSU and no change? Harbaugh and former players like CMac/Toby/Sherman I bet are wondering the same thing. Are we giving up? Does the admin have any heart? The O stinks.  I would be fired from my job if I only made good on .25% of my work. PLEASE someone w influence do something! We shouldn’t have to endure a 5th straight 3-9 season or worse!

You are not wrong. Write/email the AD and Stanford president. Fans need to make their frustrations known with those in charge…not that I’m confident it will actually change anything. But no harm in expressing what we all feel.

I would also include Howard Wolf (head of the SAA) on your correspondence

RE: Football- Enough - chrisk - 11-29-2024

You are right. Big changes will have to come from the top.

In the meantime, Taylor thinks he will be getting more transfers enrolled at mid-year.

RE: Football- Enough - ADPinWDC - 11-29-2024

Name a decent coach we could get?  
David Cutcliffe from Duke, now with SEC staff?  
Cutcliffe coached 2007-2021 ... 77W–97L and finished with 3 losing seasons also. 
How can Duke field a competitive team?  

Brent Key at Georgia Tech?

Dirk Koetter is OffCo at BOIS, and the bidding will open in January.
https://sports.yahoo.com/dirk-koetter-stay-boise-state-231047075.html#:~:text=Boise%20State%20went%208%2D2,the%20Broncos%20are%2010%2D8.

Mike Shanahan, OffCo at INDY is having a great year; history with WRs. Good years at JMU.
https://iuhoosiers.com/staff-directory/mike-shanahan/3488

RE: Football- Enough - VB Card - 11-29-2024

(11-29-2024, 09:37 PM)ADPinWDC Wrote:  Name a decent coach we could get?  
David Cutcliffe from Duke, now with SEC staff?  
Cutcliffe coached 2007-2021 ... 77W–97L and finished with 3 losing seasons also. 
How can Duke field a competitive team?  

Brent Key at Georgia Tech?

A 70-year old man and a GT-alum coaching his alma mater? Who's next on the list

RE: Football- Enough - newguy - 11-29-2024

are there any good OL coaches available?

RE: Football- Enough - BostonCard - 11-29-2024

(11-29-2024, 09:46 PM)VB Card Wrote:  A 70-year old man and a GT-alum coaching his alma mater? Who's next on the list

Don’t look now, but that GT-alum is in his 6th overtime against Georgia.

BC
Tied at 42 after 7(!) overtimes.

BC
And on the eighth overtime, Georgia wins.

BC
Sorry Jacketree.  Tough way to lose.

BC

RE: Football- Enough - thunder_chik - 11-30-2024

Breaking news on X and other platforms: Andrew Luck hired as Stanford football GM. HOPE IT IS TRUE.

RE: Football- Enough - StanfordIndians1. - 11-30-2024

Hallelujah!!!!!

It’s a Christmas Miracle!!!

Cmon Andrew!  Let’s go!!!

RE: Football- Enough - Hurlburt88 - 11-30-2024

truly exciting news.  wishing him nothing but success . . . very selfishly.  Would love to see him progress to be our AD someday.   I can see him being successful at fundraising for sure, and good for morale & recruiting.  OPtimistic he can also help guide and select coaches.  his toughest task may be filling the stadium!

RE: Football- Enough - jacket3ree - 12-02-2024

(11-29-2024, 09:54 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  
(11-29-2024, 09:46 PM)VB Card Wrote:  A 70-year old man and a GT-alum coaching his alma mater? Who's next on the list

Don’t look now, but that GT-alum is in his 6th overtime against Georgia.

BC
Tied at 42 after 7(!) overtimes.

BC
And on the eighth overtime, Georgia wins.

BC
Sorry Jacketree.  Tough way to lose.

BC

Thanks as always, BC.  "Tough" is one way to describe it. Sure glad I've matured and no longer let this stuff bother me. (Riiiiiight.) Tech beat the living shit out of Georgia for all but 5 minutes of that game and then the five hours it took to get in 8 overtimes.  "All but" is of course an important caveat.  From the Washington Post:

"In one swoop of a Friday night, Georgia Tech gained admirers across time zones for its innovation, its pluck and its fight. It became dazzling enough watching quarterback Hanes King, with his 26-for-36 for 303 yards and his 24 rushes for 110, that a viewer could start to wish a five-loss team (Georgia Tech) into the playoff on a special stipulation of contributions toward football.

When Georgia Tech did not win after the eight overtimes and second-year coach Brent Key fielded a question about whether the loss overtook the top spot  on his pain list, Key said: "I think it [does], yeah. Probably my career, my life."

King told reporters, "Right now my emotional state is I'm just kind of tired of feeling like this. Tired of always playing your heart out, doing all this, to the last play, always coming up short. I'm just tired of feeling that way right now."

Those who love Georgia Tech might never tire of wondering about a game in which the Yellow Jackets went 90 yards in 18 plays across 10:36 for a field goal to lead 20-6 early in the fourth and 75 yards on six triumph-of-imagination plays for a touchdown to lead 27-13 with 5:37 left. They might make serial winces forever over the batch of pivotal officiating calls that rated questionable or just-plain blown. They might always know that Georgia Tech could have won the game with one play at the ends of either the third or seventh overtimes.

They might sigh."

There are even Dewey Beats Truman stories in the NYT.  My son texted me that this would take a year to get over. I responded that it will be forever, but that's OK.  Next year's pain or exhilaration won't change what happened on Friday. Tech may do better against the fast and furious to the east for a while or they may never beat them. Friday was Friday.  I mean I still remember the pain of '83 if I want to, but I hardly ever want to.

At least I don't run into many Dwags out here. Funny that last spring in crystal clear weather I took the S2K to the top of Mt. Diablo because I had always wanted to check it out. Turned out a GT polo was what I grabbed that morning. Some woman and her teenage daughter started barking at me on the hike up from the parking lot. WTF? "Georgia!!!" pointing at my shirt....."No ma'am.  This is Georgia Tech.  Yellow Jackets."  "Go Dawgs! Sic 'em! Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof." She was inches away from my face, her face beet red.  All I could muster was. "Damn, I moved 2,500 miles to get away from that shit. Fail."  Double birds from a woman and her daughter. Some bystanders were stunned. "What the eff was that?"  "I just smiled and said you could take the dog out of Athens but never the Athens out of the dog." I don't think it help explain things much. Nice day on Mt. Diablo, though.

At least we (Tech) have a coach who is one of us and boy did he wear that loss on his face after the game.  To address a non-serious question above: no, he will not leave Tech for Stanford. 

I'm deciding between quitting fandom forever or treating it like I have super-immunity to disappointment. I mean as long as I live, there will never be as disappointing a loss. Ever. There could be losses just as gutting, but nothing could be worse than this.  All that said, the kids and grandkids all have their health and my hypertension and gout finally seems to be easing up now that I acknowledged my age, saw a doctor, and am properly medicated. Plus my grandkids have a new corgi puppy and Moki will be down with them for Christmas.  Probably going with super-immunity here.

To Hell With Georgia!

RE: Football- Enough - cardcrimson - 12-02-2024

(12-02-2024, 05:46 PM)jacket3ree Wrote:  
(11-29-2024, 09:54 PM)BostonCard Wrote:  
(11-29-2024, 09:46 PM)VB Card Wrote:  A 70-year old man and a GT-alum coaching his alma mater? Who's next on the list

Don’t look now, but that GT-alum is in his 6th overtime against Georgia.

BC
Tied at 42 after 7(!) overtimes.

BC
And on the eighth overtime, Georgia wins.

BC
Sorry Jacketree.  Tough way to lose.

BC

Thanks as always, BC.  "Tough" is one way to describe it. Sure glad I've matured and no longer let this stuff bother me. (Riiiiiight.) Tech beat the living shit out of Georgia for all but 5 minutes of that game and then the five hours it took to get in 8 overtimes.  "All but" is of course an important caveat.  From the Washington Post:

"In one swoop of a Friday night, Georgia Tech gained admirers across time zones for its innovation, its pluck and its fight. It became dazzling enough watching quarterback Hanes King, with his 26-for-36 for 303 yards and his 24 rushes for 110, that a viewer could start to wish a five-loss team (Georgia Tech) into the playoff on a special stipulation of contributions toward football.

When Georgia Tech did not win after the eight overtimes and second-year coach Brent Key fielded a question about whether the loss overtook the top spot  on his pain list, Key said: "I think it [does], yeah. Probably my career, my life."

King told reporters, "Right now my emotional state is I'm just kind of tired of feeling like this. Tired of always playing your heart out, doing all this, to the last play, always coming up short. I'm just tired of feeling that way right now."

Those who love Georgia Tech might never tire of wondering about a game in which the Yellow Jackets went 90 yards in 18 plays across 10:36 for a field goal to lead 20-6 early in the fourth and 75 yards on six triumph-of-imagination plays for a touchdown to lead 27-13 with 5:37 left. They might make serial winces forever over the batch of pivotal officiating calls that rated questionable or just-plain blown. They might always know that Georgia Tech could have won the game with one play at the ends of either the third or seventh overtimes.

They might sigh."

There are even Dewey Beats Truman stories in the NYT.  My son texted me that this would take a year to get over. I responded that it will be forever, but that's OK.  Next year's pain or exhilaration won't change what happened on Friday. Tech may do better against the fast and furious to the east for a while or they may never beat them. Friday was Friday.  I mean I still remember the pain of '83 if I want to, but I hardly ever want to.

At least I don't run into many Dwags out here. Funny that last spring in crystal clear weather I took the S2K to the top of Mt. Diablo because I had always wanted to check it out. Turned out a GT polo was what I grabbed that morning. Some woman and her teenage daughter started barking at me on the hike up from the parking lot. WTF? "Georgia!!!" pointing at my shirt....."No ma'am.  This is Georgia Tech.  Yellow Jackets."  "Go Dawgs! Sic 'em! Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof." She was inches away from my face, her face beet red.  All I could muster was. "Damn, I moved 2,500 miles to get away from that shit. Fail."  Double birds from a woman and her daughter. Some bystanders were stunned. "What the eff was that?"  "I just smiled and said you could take the dog out of Athens but never the Athens out of the dog." I don't think it help explain things much. Nice day on Mt. Diablo, though.

At least we (Tech) have a coach who is one of us and boy did he wear that loss on his face after the game.  To address a non-serious question above: no, he will not leave Tech for Stanford. 

I'm deciding between quitting fandom forever or treating it like I have super-immunity to disappointment. I mean as long as I live, there will never be as disappointing a loss. Ever. There could be losses just as gutting, but nothing could be worse than this.  All that said, the kids and grandkids all have their health and my hypertension and gout finally seems to be easing up now that I acknowledged my age, saw a doctor, and am properly medicated. Plus my grandkids have a new corgi puppy and Moki will be down with them for Christmas.  Probably going with super-immunity here.

To Hell With Georgia!

Great post. Heart goes out to the Jackets who showed a lot of heart. And to hell with Georgia!