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also nothing guys in that room would love more than getting the first win over UGA in almost ten years. It’s personal for Brent Key and I’m sure it’s personal for Buster a little too
We better be careful in Atlanta this fall—Haynes King is a dang good QB, and coach Key had 'em believing they could win. Highly motivated 19 and 20 year olds can accomplish things you wouldn't expect.
Haynes King threw for 300 yards and 2 TD passes and ran for 110 averaging (right at 5 yards per carry), rushing for 3 TD's ! That's whats puzzling. WHat a performance. Surely our DC and CKS have watched that tape what? 10-20 times to see why we couldn't stop them. Let this sink in: in the previous game before Tech played UGA (againt NC State ) and the game following playing UGA (against Vandy) , Haynes King rushed for a total of 31 yards combined total! 9 against Vandy and 22 against NC State!
GT's last 5 recruiting classes are: 43,56, 63, 33, 24. UGA's last 5 recruiting classes are: 3, 3, 2, 1, 2. You really sticking with your logic that GT's top 11 are on equal footing w/UGA's talent?
@Kasey "also nothing guys in that room would love more than getting the first win over UGA in almost ten years. It’s personal for Brent Key and I’m sure it’s personal for Buster a little too".
So you are saying that Brent Key gets his guys more prepared and revved up for games than CKS does? What we are seeing, more and more of over the last 2 years, is a talented UGA team taking the field either under prepared or under motivated or both.
i think Brent Key prepares his team with Georgia focus periods during practices. Probably also transmits his hatred for Georgia to his current players. Buster Faulkner was on UGA staff only a couple years ago and likely knows where to attack our defense. A motivated team of D1 college athletes well prepared can give any team a challenge. Then throw in turnovers and special teams and it evens the scales more. I think that’s what happened last season. Talent still won out along with superior coaching.
"CMB retire? 50 yo guys don't walk away from $1.5M/yr jobs."……I can't argue UGADad20, just thinking that money is not Mike's motivator…..since 09, he's made over 21 million in salary & bonuses….even with a family of five, I'm sure money ain't an issue…..and if I had a son that was going to be playing on Sunday…..I'm wherever THERE will be …… with my wife and kids. However….you got me thinking….Mike has had a very successful coaching career, that success breeds a constant personal challenge every year…".can I do better?" So, you may be right, I just think family is more important.
I know this article is about the offensive coordinators, but that game was about UGA's defense no being able to stop GT until overtime.
Who is Buster?
And Georgia Yech still has a football team?
he’s the offensive coordinator of Georgia Tech who still has a football team.
I can't argue with what you wrote. Nor do I want to. I will say a couple of things though. IF, as you say, Brent Key is using his hatred (and inferiority complex) of UGA to get his team more fired up and to play a vastly superiorly talented team evenly (more so than apparently the UGA coaches can) then maybe UGA should get that coach (wasn't Key an OL coach?) . Or at least attend some coaching clinics at GT to find out what marvelous coaching techniques Key must be using.
This is Faulkner's 3rd year gone from UGA. Many/most of the defensive players he knew while coaching OFFENSE at UGA were long gone by game time last season. He "knows where to attack our defense" is an easy cliche' /excuse to use. Based on last year's UGA defensive stat's it seems like many opponent OC's knew where to attack the UGA D. Motivated execution kept GT in last year's game. One team came in motivated, one came in going through the motions. That was surprising considering a non SEC champion UGA would've missed the playoffs w/a loss to GT.
"talent still won out along with superior coaching". If you drew that conclusion from the '24 UGA/GT game I'd have to say that is a stretch. As I recall it was the luck of the refereeing that won the game for UGA. Not calling the DJackson targeting hit on the QB that resulted in a fumble recovered by UGA was the difference in the game.