College Football myths

[GTJT622]

1. Extra practices you get between your last regular season game and some meaningless exhibition game in late December are very beneficial.

Baloney! Does anybody give a rat's butt right now about those "critical" missed practices Tech didn't have back in December? Further, did it make any difference in the years prior when we did get them? Highly unlikely. Most players are just tired by that time of the season, very little is installed, and they are just ready to get their fall semester over with, get to and thru the holidays and then go play some meaningless exhibition game some place while getting some really cool junk.

2. Winning a meaningless exhibition game some place in late December or early January will make a huge difference for the team heading into the next season.

More baloney! Tech didn't even go to a MEG in 1989, but won a national title the following year. We won the Orange MEG in 2014 and then laid an egg in 2015. And, the list goes on and on and on and on.

3. The spring game is worth getting your blood pressure up if the team looks bad or feel confident if the team looks good.

Extreme baloney! First of all, putting stech81 and my rooting interests aside, what is the definition of looking good anyway? If somebody is looking good in the spring game, then somebody else on the roster is looking bad. Right? Tech fumbled the ball so many times in 2008, a lot of Tech fans moaned the entire summer that we might - and I stress "might" - win 4 games that season. Their rationale? Well, just look at that damned spring game for crying out loud. We just don't have the personnel to run Paul Johnson's offense. The team went on to win 9 games and beat the Cesspool. Fast forward to 2014. Less than an estimated 200 people hung around in a monsoon to watch Tech fumble the ball all over the place while slipping and sliding. Tech won the Orange MEG later that year.

The only objective of the spring game is: 1) Don't get anybody injured...2) Don't get anybody injured...and...3) Don't get anybody injured. For the fans, drink some beer, tailhook, and enjoy spring time.

 

[Buzzforlife]

Speaking for one of the 200 in 2014, I couldn't see the other 199 most of the night. It was cold, feet were wet, should have transported through Marta, cheap date never spoke to me again, son complained until September(then at that first game of the season he almost wanted to go when the Wofford player, Smith? ran one about 90 yards down our defensive throat)and nobody stood in front of me to block my view of the rain.

 

[stech81]

1. Extra practices you get between your last regular season game and some meaningless exhibition game in late December are very beneficial.

Baloney! Does anybody give a rat's butt right now about those "critical" missed practices Tech didn't have back in December? Further, did it make any difference in the years prior when we did get them? Highly unlikely. Most players are just tired by that time of the season, very little is installed, and they are just ready to get their fall semester over with, get to and thru the holidays and then go play some meaningless exhibition game some place while getting some really cool junk.

2. Winning a meaningless exhibition game some place in late December or early January will make a huge difference for the team heading into the next season.

More baloney! Tech didn't even go to a MEG in 1989, but won a national title the following year. We won the Orange MEG in 2014 and then laid an egg in 2015. And, the list goes on and on and on and on.

3. The spring game is worth getting your blood pressure up if the team looks bad or feel confident if the team looks good.

Extreme baloney! First of all, putting stech81 and my rooting interests aside, what is the definition of looking good anyway? If somebody is looking good in the spring game, then somebody else on the roster is looking bad. Right? Tech fumbled the ball so many times in 2008, a lot of Tech fans moaned the entire summer that we might - and I stress "might" - win 4 games that season. Their rationale? Well, just look at that damned spring game for crying out loud. We just don't have the personnel to run Paul Johnson's offense. The team went on to win 9 games and beat the Cesspool. Fast forward to 2014. Less than an estimated 200 people hung around in a monsoon to watch Tech fumble the ball all over the place while slipping and sliding. Tech won the Orange MEG later that year.

The only objective of the spring game is: 1) Don't get anybody injured...2) Don't get anybody injured...and...3) Don't get anybody injured. For the fans, drink some beer, tailhook, and enjoy spring time.

1) agree most the time teams don't even practice all the days that they can and now we have so many games a team with a losing record can make it.
2)agree the way it was worded . Winning or losing a bowl game does not hurt or help anything the next season. Now that said I still want to win, but I understand that it does not help anything the next season.
3)agree the most with this one. Other then beating GTJT's gold team I would be fine not having a spring game. Other then giving players on the scout team last year a chance to show coaches what they can do that's all the good spring practice is good for unless you are changing your offense or defense. And what does it mean if one team wins? Either the offense or the defense will look good and then you worry all summer about the one that didn't.

 

[Buzzforlife]

Stop the presses, the rabid Dwags had 93k at their MESG this Saturday, reported on DWAG network WSB-2.

That should equal the number of Tech fans appearing at our first three home games. In the 2016 Regular Season.