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HC Ryan Day (2019 B1G Media COY)

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Just to chime in as a native Atlantan who started at UGA before transferring to Oregon State, Alabama isn't a traditional UGA rival. The historic Georgia rival in Alabama was Auburn and UGA didn't play Bama very often and they were both mediocre or worse a lot of the time. Maybe there's somewhat of a rivalry now as they've been the class of the conference since Kirby got UGA rolling, but it's nothing like the Vulvarene rivalry.

Parenthetically, there's a lot more Alabama presence in metro Atlanta and much of the rest of the state because of their run under Saban, but also largely because the GA lottery funded in-state scholarships and, as kids who would've gone elsewhere stayed home to go to UGA so their parents could spend that savings on boats, admissions got more selective and kids who would've gone to UGA had to settle for other in-state schools or pay out of state tuition. A lot of those kids now go to Auburn or Bama.
 
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Some people may be familiar with this story here. Maybe not.

I worked with the YSU football team in the 90's during the Tressel run of 1AA titles.

I am familiar with a story (possibly a legend), about early JT.

When he first came to YSU it was awful. Bad luck and bad teams.

As many know, Youngstown is a melting pot and there is a fairly large sector of the city with Sicilian roots.

It has been told that somebody took JT as the young pup he was, to see the old Italian ladies on the south side of Youngstown.

The old ladies performed a ceremony to remove the malocchio. Prayers and holy water. All that.

Following this, JT lost the evil eye and went on a career storm. All up hill from there.

Tress needs to hijack Day, take him to the Italian ladies in Ytown or Cleveland, and let them do their thing.

Just a cool story. Possibly a legend, but I love it.
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
Guys we all know how close we were in 2019 and 2022 specially. There is some luck involved in things.

For example, Fuller not having his obvious TD called back or Marvin’s hit staying a targeting call.
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or driving down the field and not trying to barely get into FG range at the end of the game?
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
Guys we all know how close we were in 2019 and 2022 specially. There is some luck involved in things.

For example, Fuller not having his obvious TD called back or Marvin’s hit staying a targeting call.
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We should make a ring of pretty good years and recognize all those teams we think would have won if various things hadn't happened.
 
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Kelly and Day are essentially the same? Yes, Day is part of the Kelly coaching tree, obviously but I think there are some pretty stark differences between the kind of offense Day likes to run (see Ohio State 2019-2023) and the offenses Kelly traditionally prefers to run.

Between the Michigan game plan being absolutely opposite of what we've done every other game and what Chip has historically done on offense everywhere he's been, I don't believe the game plan for Michigan was Chip's doing. The adjustments typically made between the first and second half (which usually resulted in lots of scoring) for every other game this season was 100% gone on Saturday too. The last drive of the 1st half made me think some adjustments were made early...but when we came out in the second half and just ran it right at them, I was dumbfounded.

So I think either Day overrode Chip's gameplan before the game or he commandeered playcalling at some point on Saturday. The way we came out the first few drives, I'm pretty sure it was the former.

But still, why nothing changed at half-time, I have no idea. Yeah, it was windy. Yeah, Howard was knocked silly in the first half and that may have had an effect...but Chip made his career with an option offense that uses misdirection, perimeter running plays and gameplanning around an undersized OL. Running it right at the best interior DL in the country with a MacGuyvered offensive line is probably the least Chip Kelly thing possiboe. Outside of maybe suddenly running an Air Raid offense.

But once again, the assistant coaches and coordinators are taking all the heat when there's been one common denominator.
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
I think it’s called buckeye planet?

That’s all we do is talk about 2019 Clemson and 2022 UGA lol and how we didn’t catch the breaks.
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We can talk about "catching breaks" all we want, but how about the times they tripped on their own dicks requiring these breaks to win? I don't really believe in bad luck costing a game. Maybe once in a blue moon. If you're putting yourself in a position that you need luck or a break to win, you are not good enough.
 
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Kelly and Day are essentially the same? Yes, Day is part of the Kelly coaching tree, obviously but I think there are some pretty stark differences between the kind of offense Day likes to run (see Ohio State 2019-2023) and the offenses Kelly traditionally prefers to run.

Between the Michigan game plan being absolutely opposite of what we've done every other game and what Chip has historically done on offense everywhere he's been, I don't believe the game plan for Michigan was Chip's doing. The adjustments typically made between the first and second half (which usually resulted in lots of scoring) for every other game this season was 100% gone on Saturday too. The last drive of the 1st half made me think some adjustments were made early...but when we came out in the second half and just ran it right at them, I was dumbfounded.

So I think either Day overrode Chip's gameplan before the game or he commandeered playcalling at some point on Saturday. The way we came out the first few drives, I'm pretty sure it was the former.

But still, why nothing changed at half-time, I have no idea. Yeah, it was windy. Yeah, Howard was knocked silly in the first half and that may have had an effect...but Chip made his career with an option offense that uses misdirection, perimeter running plays and gameplanning around an undersized OL. Running it right at the best interior DL in the country with a MacGuyvered offensive line is probably the least Chip Kelly thing possiboe. Outside of maybe suddenly running an Air Raid offense.

But once again, the assistant coaches and coordinators are taking all the heat when there's been one common denominator.
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I wouldn't say the coordinators are taking all the heat by any stretch. Have you read this thread? We're a biscuit short of organizing a mob outside of the WHAC. I do think Day had a huge hand in that game plan and play calling. His fingerprints were all over it. But this is where we run into a problem. A big one. Day has glaring limitations as a head coach and offensive mind. As such, he either needs a coordinator that can talk some fucking sense into him, or we need to move the fuck on. If we're going to continue doing the same damn thing with a rotating cast of assistants every year and expect different results, we're well on our way to becoming Llllllloyd Carr's or Cheatin' Jim's (pre Stalions) _ichigan. There's no pulling up at this point. The goddamned plane has crashed into the mountain.
 
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jarv said:
Kelly and Day are essentially the same? Yes, Day is part of the Kelly coaching tree, obviously but I think there are some pretty stark differences between the kind of offense Day likes to run (see Ohio State 2019-2023) and the offenses Kelly traditionally prefers to run.

Between the Michigan game plan being absolutely opposite of what we've done every other game and what Chip has historically done on offense everywhere he's been, I don't believe the game plan for Michigan was Chip's doing. The adjustments typically made between the first and second half (which usually resulted in lots of scoring) for every other game this season was 100% gone on Saturday too. The last drive of the 1st half made me think some adjustments were made early...but when we came out in the second half and just ran it right at them, I was dumbfounded.

So I think either Day overrode Chip's gameplan before the game or he commandeered playcalling at some point on Saturday. The way we came out the first few drives, I'm pretty sure it was the former.

But still, why nothing changed at half-time, I have no idea. Yeah, it was windy. Yeah, Howard was knocked silly in the first half and that may have had an effect...but Chip made his career with an option offense that uses misdirection, perimeter running plays and gameplanning around an undersized OL. Running it right at the best interior DL in the country with a MacGuyvered offensive line is probably the least Chip Kelly thing possiboe. Outside of maybe suddenly running an Air Raid offense.

But once again, the assistant coaches and coordinators are taking all the heat when there's been one common denominator.
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100. We saw how much the "not tough" talk gets to Day after the Notre Dame game when he asked if we had heard what Lou Holtzth said about his team. Scum started saying it in 2021, and Chip Kelly wasn't here for any of it. They are in Day's head. There is no reason as far as I am concerned for Chip to completely abandon what had worked all season.

If Howard's shoulder wasn't up to it, they could have adjusted the plan around that. I think Day thought their DL would wear down in the 2nd half. They seemed to do that against Texas and maybe the next 2 or 3 games, but not in their October or November games.
 
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Nearly 20 years of punishing the cheaters, I never said a thing to one of my Raiders friends that's a %&!%!$&!^ ttun fan about them losing year after year. One time I asked if he watched one of the games to try and prompt him, but he said conveniently (text) he doesn't watch them.

Oh, he was watching...he was watching all those years too.

Lo and behold he had to send me a text Saturday after the loss, running his mouth with 'hail to the...' He didn't want to talk the years prior to that...

The way that game was handled (mishandled) still ticks me off...we are way better than those cheating lames
 
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