As you pointed out… Morton was a 1 dimensional QB… and very average. I always thought he was their weakest link. I thought Hammond had more potential to take them to the next level once he got more experience.
As much as Tech yards didn’t want to admit, their QB room was average. Morton had flashes of success due to their OLine masking his incompetence.
Our D is stout. If our OLine keeps the improvement it showed the last games of the year, we have a chance to beat them next year. Our QB room is vastly superior.
Yeah that season ending injury was a tough blow to Tech’s chances. Hammond played the best quarter of football I have seen all year against Utah. But he did come back to earth against ASU. Still, being able to run is a big deal and made him a better choice against elite defenses than Morton.
Indiana is in semi finals despite only having 6 or 7 blue chip recruits. Alabama had over 40. They have money now, but the current squad has a strong core of JMU players Cignetti brought over from his last job. Indiana is basically made up of 3 stars.
Money is a factor, but not a deciding factor. If money is spent on quality coaching and keeping the talent they develop, we can build a winning squad like Indiana has shown.
Fritz can do what Cignetti has done. We don’t need to spend a ton of money, just be strategic about the holes we fill and who we retain.
Look when Tech beat us they kept kicking FG’s because they would implode when they got to the red zone. That game should have been 50-11 not the 30 something to 11.
We need to get Austin Carlyle (SP) to stay and develop him as a passing RB or a passing Flanker. He has the speed ‘faster than a speeding bullet’ to be able to do some damage on offense.
Ole Miss proved that last night and old Ohio State - you have a QB that’s a dual threat it shakes down the best of defenses in critical situations when everything else is even
Oddly enough Tech gets good on defense and offense is average
Tech had all the money, all the players, and all the hype.
Unfortunately the Techies didn’t bring their big boy ballzz.
They weren’t used to the pressure of the spotlight and it showed. (Fritz has more experience in high pressure games than their HS coach.).
When it came down to slobberknocker time, the Tech Oline looked overwhelmed and out toughed, as did their whole offense.
TT wasn’t ready for the bigtime,
They NEVER ARE.
I’ll take Fritz 6 days a week and twice on Sunday.
Fritz has big game experience.
He’s won championships.
We have improved- We just BEAT and SEC contender!
Fritz has found guys in the portal that we needed, plugged them in, and it works.
However I would love Fritz to bring in some more big, ugly, ill tempered offensive linemen.
Fritz is recruiting people that will serve us well in the future.
All UH has to do is support him let him do his thing.
Tech’s OL was low effort and disorganized in the cfp game. That’s why the offense was ineffective.
As a whole the Tech offense was low effort. No urgency. Did not treat the game as single elimination. Seemed like a job they were ready to clock out of.