Go GT 17-0 against the Dawgs
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Georgia doesn't have near the talent or depth in the trenches or skill positions they had the last 3 or 4 years when Kirby had the Dawgs rolling.
There's nothing special about this year's squad. The first round draft picks just aren't there.
Tech took the fight to UGA . They wanted it more and caught the Dawgs when they played sloppy and weren't as focused as they needed to be. It still wasn't enough.
There's nothing special about this year's squad. The first round draft picks just aren't there.
Tech took the fight to UGA . They wanted it more and caught the Dawgs when they played sloppy and weren't as focused as they needed to be. It still wasn't enough.
Let's look a little closer. All 5 OL starters are from Georgia and all are Juniors or Seniors. Let me know when Pitt has access to a recruiting base like Georgia.
Also, Key played and coached OL. That gives him an edge in OL recruiting.
Pitt should hire a competent O-line coach who helps give them some kind of an edge. Instead, Narduzzi has hired one stiff after the next since 2015.
That is fair. However, where is our edge? Terry Smith and our former qb's dad was even doing some stuff for state Penn, not necessarily on the o-line, but where is our edge? A staff has to put the right people in place. Duzz has failed miserably on the o-line. Even when we had 6 year seniors due to covid our line was not very good. Keep making excuses for him. We are on a 4 game slide and after today it will be 5 following a 3-9 season. Look, I am also one of the guys on here who thinks we can't and won't do better than Narduzzi. Having said that, I'd like to see him at least try to improve the position. This year was maybe an all-time bottom on the o-line. Maybe we can do better, at least marginally. It is a poor product he has put on the field representing this university since the SMU beatdown.
But why would ACC refs be in the bag for the SEC? Georgia Tech winning last night would have been better for the ACC, possibly helping them get another team in the playoff, which would mean more money for the ACC and a chance for an additional ACC school to use that on the recruiting trail.
If the ACC refs were cheating for anyone last night, it sure wouldn't make any sense if they were cheating for the SEC team.
Pitt has no edge. That's a major problem. It is not isolated to Narduzzi. It is Pitt.
It was an SEC crew not an ACC crew. Although the Referee was an ACC ref. for nearly 2 decades before this spring when he got what I imagine is a nice pay bump to join the SEC.
I don’t think the refs were in the tank for UGA. They just sucked.
But the announcers were all in on UGA/SEC. They didn’t even mention these controversial no calls. The game went to tv timeout after the no-call targeting fumble. And even with all that time to let it breathe, they came back and said nothing.
But the announcers were all in on UGA/SEC. They didn’t even mention these controversial no calls. The game went to tv timeout after the no-call targeting fumble. And even with all that time to let it breathe, they came back and said nothing.
Georgia Tech is 7-5. They just choked a game away to Georgia's worst team in 8 years.
That's the angle a lot on this board would take if it were Pitt in that situation last night.
That's the angle a lot on this board would take if it were Pitt in that situation last night.
so if I post here I need to be perfectly clear?
I will try better!what's my thought simply on this is there's money/favors behind everything and if there's an entity that has lots of that in their control in the CFB world it is the SEC and at the top of that is UGA
so while there might be no direct, traceable transaction in place for this game(there could too) I think there's enough potential when calls are so obviously missed and/or lopsided that something sets into the individual refs mind
what's more likely is as others posted above, there's the influence of the atmosphere of the home field and other less nefarious factors but I often see enough to make me wonder, obviously some is just poor quality refs seeing or interpreting things wrong and WE see things better on television and with the luxury of HD big screen and replay
don't get me started on my thoughts of replay officials who imo still wet way too many calls wrong and always disrupt the continuity of games so at the very least should be expected to be flawless
I tend to be highly critical of officiating and really appreciate the good refs in any sport I watch and in particular am invested in(kids/Pitt/UMD/GaTech)
I think it mostly started when my kid wrestled and I fine tuned my knowledge of that sport both to help coach him and help him deal with things that happened in matches, but it extends to hoops and football and lax with daughters(where I really never got knowledgeable enough to criticize) and diving(my kids did so I became a judge)
I remember seeing that guy ref lots of ACC games in the past, but you are right, he did switch over to the SEC this year.
It is odd that for a non-conference game like that that the refs were from the home team conference. It's not usually that way for P4 non-conference matchups. But it was today.
