GT 2020 FB - How will we do?

Zrulman · May 18, 2020

Okay, this working from home stuff has me bored as well as the Zoom, Skype, and WebEx meetings. Although most focus is on 21 recruiting, thought I would take a look at what record we may have considering our difficult schedule and that there there is a season. Decided to do it by position group and come up with an arithmetic answer. Tried hard to take the GT glasses off and add short comments. Sorry for the length.

I hope others comment and make their own assumptions.

Scoring: 3 = One of the best position groups in CFB (top 5 to 7); 2 = one of best in conference and better than most on our schedule; 1 = slight advantage over teams in conference; 0 = neutral; -1 = slightly worse than teams in conference; -2 = one of the worst in conference; -3 = one of the worst in CFB.

Offense Score: 0
OL = 0

Think it might be most improved position group with the two graduate transfers and coaching, but need time to gel, history of injuries, and young backups.

RB = 2

Probably strongest unit on team and think Gibbs is real deal

QB = -1

Think Yates starts this year and unless one of the true freshman really does something special in fall, both will probably redshirt. Graham improved, but ...

WR = 0

Get couple injured players back and Brown looked great last year, but nothing spectacular

TE = -1

Would be worse, but incoming freshman looks decent and won't play as much with multiple sets and better OL.

Defense Score: +1
DL = 0

Probably better than last few years and more depth, but no game changers yet. Still need more size. Interesting how couple of freshman do this year.

LB = -2

Probably weakest unit on defense. Unless we move one of the safeties, Knight really gets better, or one of the freshmen really step up, not looking great.

CB = 1

Think one freshman plays and did not really lose anyone.

S = 2

One of the team's best units

Special Teams Score: -5
PK = -2

No proven kicker and two walkons (one injured). Probably will be better than last year, but nothing proven.

P = 1

Just needs more consistency

PR = -2

Think it might get somewhat better, but nothing to go on.

KR = -2

Pretty bad last year

Summary is offense is improved with no advantage, defense slightly better, and special teams are rough. If we assume that ST improves some, then we should finish one to two games under 500 this year.

jonfreeman03 · May 18, 2020