Off season preparation

#26
#26
GA St wasn’t a loss it was a complete beatdown. Pruitt pretty much just sat back and watched it happen. Hangover continued thru BYU. In retrospect this turned out to be Rocky Bottom for a roster in complete transition front loaded with freshman talent.
I was stunned at what happened. Atp I thought we were looking at a 3 win season tops. But Pruitt knew his team and allowed them to fail and work it out amongst themselves until a team formed out of the rubble. In retrospect it took a lot of guts for him to literally put his job on the line like that and not just intervene and impose his will to save his own ass.
We’ve got a real player’s coach here who absolutely can identify talent develop it and squeeze the most out of his guys. Now we’re gonna see whether he can develop the game planning and fast adjustments needed to win it all.
I’m hoping this shows that Pruitt and Fulmer are really in sync behind the scenes and that our transition year is done and we’re headed into growth year 1. Job 1: develop a QB.
 
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#27
#27
From the title of the thread I thought it was going to be about how we as fans were going to prepare for next season. After thinking about that I decided I'd try to be more optimistic.

But I'm sure it won't work.
 
#28
#28
The bowl game really helps in this regard, gives everyone an extra month plus of football practice. Essentially gives you a second spring session.
 
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HarderKnox59 said:
A lot of that does fall on Pruitt. But it also comes from not having leadership on the field. I will repeat myself. It all starts from the QB position.
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Yes. I don’t think anybody can disagree that priority number one is to get better at that position.
 
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hog88 said:
Yeah, they could have competed with WVU, they competed with UK/AU and both had far superior talent than WVU.
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But WVU's defense played like they were in our huddle that day and of course their QB was hot all day and picked us apart...
 
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hog88 said:
Yes, we were unprepared.
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Last comment. There is a big difference in taking an opponent lightly because they felt they could beat them by just showing up (this year) and not having the personnel to compete with a much better team (last year). It took a bit for the players that had bought in to improve last year. This year, they thought they were playing a complete cupcake based on the history of the team in GS (19-54 in six seasons), but found a team that was much improved (7-6 this year). The team last year was full of players that were not SEC caliber, a condition bemoaned by several of the negas on here, so it was a matter of the team wasn't good enough to hang with the likes of WVU for the first game. The subpar players had been rooted out and new players inserted by the time we played AU.

Not even close to the same scenario from last year to this year. Respond to your hearts content, there will be no more rebuttal.
 
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#37
160th said:
Things to work at as a staff:
a. Short yardage red zone run plays
b. effective and timely defensive alignment communication during pre-snap-we looked confused a lot about assignments-was that sideline or on the field
c. after this year-preparing a solid backup QB-I thought Alabama-did a great job moving Jones into the starting roll with the injury to Tua. I really thought we were the least efficient with this area. Now this could also fall on the reliability of our backup QBs.
d. getting better at getting our TE involved in the passing game-staff talks it but doesn't effectively get it done
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It seemed like there were also a lot of offensive pre-snap errors.
 
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