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Official 2025 Opening Week - Georgia Tech Thread

The Alabaster Yak said:
I can see the potential in the offense. Welch and Price averaged 6/carry. The team ran for close to 5/carry (146 yards). Taylor is dynamic with the ball in his hands. The OL is significantly better. The defense was more bend don’t break and certainly not dominant, but made adjustments and played better in the second half. They need to get better at getting off the field and Livingston needs to adjust sooner.

End of the day, they are a relatively equal squad in week one as Georgia Tech. It was a tie game with CU having the ball and a chance to win with 4:30 left. Salter left many plays on the field that could have put CU in a much better position throughout. Someone had to lose and it was CU tonight.
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You're great, but this is copium. GT botched two snaps or CU doesn't even score a TD in the first half. And if 138 yards rushing allowed in the 2nd half is "improvement" well...

You weren't equal, you lost, with a massive home field advantage with the barometric pressure. And you were +3 in turnovers, 2 unforced. That's not equal.

But I'm the guy who said don't judge first games, so /shrug.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
I can see the potential in the offense. Welch and Price averaged 6/carry. The team ran for close to 5/carry (146 yards). Taylor is dynamic with the ball in his hands. The OL is significantly better. The defense was more bend don’t break and certainly not dominant, but made adjustments and played better in the second half. They need to get better at getting off the field and Livingston needs to adjust sooner.

End of the day, they are a relatively equal squad in week one as Georgia Tech. It was a tie game with CU having the ball and a chance to win with 4:30 left. Salter left many plays on the field that could have put CU in a much better position throughout. Someone had to lose and it was CU tonight.
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Doesn’t help that the D had at least two bad penalties (I think a hold and a DPI) that extended GT drives in the first half. I think GT got points both drives too.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
I can see the potential in the offense. Welch and Price averaged 6/carry. The team ran for close to 5/carry (146 yards). Taylor is dynamic with the ball in his hands. The OL is significantly better. The defense was more bend don’t break and certainly not dominant, but made adjustments and played better in the second half. They need to get better at getting off the field and Livingston needs to adjust sooner.

End of the day, they are a relatively equal squad in week one as Georgia Tech. It was a tie game with CU having the ball and a chance to win with 4:30 left. Salter left many plays on the field that could have put CU in a much better position throughout. Someone had to lose and it was CU tonight.
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I’m with you. Given how many new players we have, I was worried that we were going to get boatraced by a more cohesive team.

Disappointed to be sure, but not distraught.
 
Medford M. said:
A worry I had about him was that he’d take the money and run, so to speak

I don’t think he’s done that, but he needs to flush this one and we need to put up 50 next Saturday
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I understand your point, but personally having watched, played and coached for over 40 years, what I saw was a good athlete, a very mid QB, an uncommitted player, and a dude who’s a bit over his head with the speed and defensive complexity at this level.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
I can see the potential in the offense. Welch and Price averaged 6/carry. The team ran for close to 5/carry (146 yards). Taylor is dynamic with the ball in his hands. The OL is significantly better. The defense was more bend don’t break and certainly not dominant, but made adjustments and played better in the second half. They need to get better at getting off the field and Livingston needs to adjust sooner.

End of the day, they are a relatively equal squad in week one as Georgia Tech. It was a tie game with CU having the ball and a chance to win with 4:30 left. Salter left many plays on the field that could have put CU in a much better position throughout. Someone had to lose and it was CU tonight.
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The offense did nothing, which set up the D for failure. Offensive playcalling was predictable and Salter wasn't accurate.

If salter fails, its on shurmur and we might see JUJu sooner than we think.
 
Agent Dave Kujan said:
I think I read that Salter is trying to reinvent himself as a pocket passer to make a run at the pros and that is why he came to play for Shurmer.

My guess is that we see a lot of him choosing to throw instead of running this year.
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Salter isn't making the pros as a waterboy, let alone a QB.

We better see a HEAVY amount of Juju next 3 weeks.

If were going to suck, at least let him learn.
 
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Trogdor said:
You said you were equal. Just stop. That's a nonsense statement. Pure cope. You lost at home to a clearly better team.
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I said relatively equal. GT outplayed them most of the game, but turnovers count and CU forced 1 and got 2 others while CU did not turn the ball over at all. Doesn’t matter what they did or didn’t do with them, they were tied with GT with 1:08 left in the game and couldn’t make a enough plays to tie it back up.
 
BlackNGold said:
I think CU has good players, I worry they are not blended into a good team. When I watch I am not convinced I see a consistent philosophy, especially on offense. It looks to me they have a bunch of plays and they just pick them and run them. I cannot put my finger on it. GT played better than CU tonight and CU was in it until the end.
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I agree with you. The players have to adjust and blend in, and the coaches adjusting too. Another game where we lost the early TOP battle despite getting three turnovers early. The O did flip the field and put us in good position punting wise, however the D still just got gashed. They were out schemed and guys not in the right place (i.e. blended) or a step slow/bad angles.

The O nearly equaled out the TOP in the 2nd half, but the D was still was gassed. GA Tech was a tough offense match up for the D, and when you give up 320 rushing yards at home that is a tough game to win.

The O is going to be a work in progress. With Hayden out, it does not look like they have a RB that can pass block; so in difficult down and distances, Salter could not really throw downfield much and they could not break plays. I'm not sure Atkins made much of a difference at TE. Welsh showed some stuff running. Certainly, Salter could have ran more and not missed some key throws but it is not all on his shoulders. 1st game and he kept them close. Definitely Salter had trouble hearing the plays, adjusting to the P-4 speed and larger stadium. 1st game jitters for sure.

Overall, my main disappointment is the D getting thoroughly gashed at home. We should be deeper and just willed out a win. One thing that was weird is the D hit King a bunch and he was slow getting up (I thought he dinged his left [non-throwing] shoulder), thus sort of stopped throwing in the 2nd half, but he kept on ticking by running that RPO keeper. There were guys flying around and talent on D, but they were really flatfooted on so many key plays--not coordinated and lack of gap control.

I'm not adverse to them giving Juju an opportunity, but the main thing with him is keeping him healthy. Oline looked a little better but still inconsistent, so Juju will take hits. I think they can get it straightened out over the next 4 games. Let's close the chapter on this game and move on.
 
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We lost by 7. But GT committed 2 unforced turnovers and one interception on their first 3 drives. The way they were moving the ball, without those TO’s they would’ve scored a minimum of 10 points. So that’s a 17 point swing. Without those three TO’s we’d have lost by at least three touchdowns.

But you can’t really play “what ifs” I suppose.
 
Agent Dave Kujan said:
I think I read that Salter is trying to reinvent himself as a pocket passer to make a run at the pros and that is why he came to play for Shurmer.

My guess is that we see a lot of him choosing to throw instead of running this year.
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He's specifically stated he's here to prove that he can pass the ball and not just be a runner. If that's the case he's not being him and he's going to have to sit.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
I said relatively equal. GT outplayed them most of the game, but turnovers count and CU forced 1 and got 2 others while CU did not turn the ball over at all. Doesn’t matter what they did or didn’t do with them, they were tied with GT with 1:08 left in the game and couldn’t make a enough plays to tie it back up.
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lol at "relatively equal". But you're right, what happened happened.
 
In his post game comments, Prime basically said the loss was not Salter’s fault. That’s arguable. He did say that we brought Salter in because he is a dual threat. He felt like Salter should’ve run more but that he apparently wanted to prove he can throw the ball. 🤦‍♂️
 
Darth Snow said:
He's specifically stated he's here to prove that he can pass the ball and not just be a runner. If that's the case he's not being him and he's going to have to sit.
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He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn in conference USA. **** his aspirations, the coaches need to play to his strengths for CU football. His career completion % puts him around the 30th percentile and that was with a team that ran the ball for 250 yards a game.

If your completion % sucks AND you have a good to great running game, you're a **** passer.
 
The good: I love being in a live Folsom. The energy after the back to back false starts was amazing. It was loud af.

We have a dude that can kick it out of the end zone.

There actually can be a running game if we commit to it.

The bad:

GT’s run game is as advertised, and Hayden King is really freaking good, but the defense was shredded for most of the game. It could have been a lot worse in the first half if it wasn’t for bad turnovers by GT. There was an improvement in the second half, but when it counted, they crumbled.

The playcalling is still wtf. Running the ball well, throw 4 times in a row. Um, why?

Pass blocking. I thought that was supposed to be improved? It was gross.

The ugly:

Salter ain’t it.
 
Both of our #8s sucked ass tonight.

Joseph Williams 1 catch for 10 yds, but at least he took an extra 10 seconds to leisurely stroll back to the line of scrimmage with the clock running.

DJ, our self appointed NFL caliber CB, played 8-12 yds off every receiver he covered. I can't figure out why their WR screens gained so much yardage.
 
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