It's Now The Time to Move Forward

[THEarmada]

Curious what the lowest attended “non-rain” game in the Div 1/FBS era is. Surely last night has to be close to the worst.

[Bone_afide_Dawg]

Short of firing Holtz because of our previous AD’s screwing us on the way out with a insanely bad contract renewal…

What can AD Wood do?

1. I think he needs to have a press conference after the season and state the expectation of Tech football is competing for championships in C-USA and say this year was completely unacceptable for our university.

2. He needs to pressure the HC to can his compadre of friends and nepotism assistants. They are clowns and yes men including his own son brought in to appease Holtz. He must bring in real position coaches who actually coach and LET THEM coach. Tell HOLTZ he can collect his crappy HC money from home.

3. He has to walk back many of Tommy Boy’s awful game day policies. Drop the LTAC minimum on the seats lower to encourage more season ticket holders. Forget the 8 am gates closed tailgating policy for a 7 PM game. Reinstate student tailgating.

This is a good place to start, but it could also be 3 paragraphs longer and still only be the beginning of the changes that have to be initiated. Holtz put an exclamation mark on it last night, he needs to be bossed because left to him everything will only get worse.

[Blue Dawg]

Curious what the lowest attended “non-rain” game in the Div 1/FBS era is. Surely last night has to be close to the worst.

You're probably right but everyone lies about it so would be hard to say for sure

[Bulldog Tom]

You're probably right but everyone lies about it so would be hard to say for sure

What was the announced number for last night and best guess for the actual?

[FriscoDawg]

Watching the WKU-FAU game. That's actually fun football to watch. Something Skippy-ball isn't.

And it's not just about having athletes, something Tech would appear to have enough of if they are utilized properly.

The defensive scheme gives up way too many chunk plays. And that dates back to last year. The defensive staff and scheme changes made since Diaco left for Purdue just 22 games ago (8-14 since then) have been big failures.

Special teams are not special. And that hasn't changed for several years. Even when Tech can play close on offense and defense, special team blunders are costly far too often.

On offense it's all about scheme. A successful offensive scheme in 2021 is all about making a split-second read and reacting. Tech does that way too little of the time. The delayed handoff run plays fail as often as they succeed because they are easy to scheme against. Those should be change-up plays if used at all, not the base offensive run call.

But Tech's biggest offensive issue the last two years has been upfront. Can't get anything done like last night even when there was some success on the ground when the QB has to start scrambling on pass plays as soon as he catches a snap. Not running nearly enough plays that would slow down a rush, and WR screens don't work way too often. Tech doesn't fool anyone with its scheme, and when the level of athletes is even close, Tech does not have success.

About half of Skippy's offensive playbook needs to be retired. And since that's true, it's time for more than just the playbook to be retired.

[Dawg Fan]

What was the announced number for last night and best guess for the actual?

Box score shows attendance of 10,400. Actual - a lot less. https://latechsports.com/sports/foot.../boxscore/9291

[FriscoDawg]

What was the announced number for last night and best guess for the actual?

10,410. Actually about what I thought would be posted since all tickets purchased count.

Actual was probably around 2,000 at most.

[FriscoDawg]

What time should we expect the announcement that Holtz is fired? (Sarcasm)

Right before Guice's retirement announcement.

[DawgyNWindow]

it is almost like Holtz has an instruction manual for the destruction of a program, and he follows it to the letter everywhere he goes. I find that so strange that other programs were able to tell us exactly how things were going to go and they were right on the money. Everyone ignored it though and watched play out like and old re-run and some how expected the ending to come out different than it did at other programs.

The one thing that sticks in my mind, is how a fan from one of Holtz last stops called the QB situation. IIRC, he said Holtz will pick a QB and stick with him no matter what(rock star) and will not aid in his development in any way. He laid it out like this, Holtz is stubborn and hard headed and will continue to do things his same old way no matter the results and will do the same at the next stop.

The longer it goes on, the harder it will be to remedy.

Holtz is probably a nice guy and I wish him no ill will, but he isn't the right guy for our program. We need a guy with fire and ambition.

Still can't believe he was given so many extensions with virtually nobody looking to hire him away.

[Russdawg]

The longer it goes on, the harder it will be to remedy.

Holtz is probably a nice guy and I wish him no ill will, but he isn't the right guy for our program. We need a guy with fire and ambition.

Still can't believe he was given so many extensions with virtually nobody looking to hire him away.

This^ (in bold). We risk losing fans, money, conference, unbelievably horrific football (almost beyond imagination) for years if not a decade or more. We should make no mistake about how bad it can get if Guice fiddle-farts around. Holtz should be fired this weekend. Time for him to "Skip town."

So glad you didn't waste the drive. An utter embarrassment to anyone who cares about Tech.

[Champ967]

The longer it goes on, the harder it will be .

twss

[johnnylightnin]

Short of firing Holtz because of our previous AD’s screwing us on the way out with a insanely bad contract renewal.

Tommy was a goob, but if we don’t fire Holtz, it won’t be because we can’t afford it. That’s a narrative that’s being fed to the whales right now, but it’s BS.

We’re hemorrhaging money and fans right now. Nothing short of firing Holtz will stop that.

[Bone_afide_Dawg]

This^ (in bold). We risk losing fans, money, conference, unbelievably horrific football (almost beyond imagination) for years if not a decade or more. We should make no mistake about how bad it can get if Guice fiddle-farts around. Holtz should be fired this weekend. Time for him to "Skip town."

So glad you didn't waste the drive. An utter embarrassment to anyone who cares about Tech.

The ‘risk’ is in the past. It’s a done deal. We’ve already lost fans, money, conference, respect, credibility, pride... what’s left?

[FriscoDog]

About half of Skippy's offensive playbook needs to be retired.

That would leave us with only 2 plays 1 dive and 1 pass to the flat..

[dawg80]

Tommy was a goob, but if we don’t fire Holtz, it won’t be because we can’t afford it. That’s a narrative that’s being fed to the whales right now, but it’s BS.

We’re hemorrhaging money and fans right now. Nothing short of firing Holtz will stop that.

Yep, it's a "sunk cost." The money has been spent (committed) and that can't be changed. Sometimes a company might try something, maybe a new product, and it just doesn't work. Maybe they are losing a $million/month. They spent $25 million investing in the new product line. But smart business people know, understand, they ain't getting that $25 million back, it is gone, and it is stupid to keep losing $1 million month after month just because of the initial investment.

But, I doubt Guice is a smart businessman.