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When games get out of hand, it’s easy to want to blame someone. It sure did get out of hand in Atlanta. After Georgia Tech tied Clemson 7-7, the Tigers scored 66 straight unanswered on Georgia Tech.
From my timeline, some Georgia Tech fans felt it was getting personal by Dabo Swinney.
I didn’t think this one bit.
At some point, and I’m sure Geoff Collins will agree it becomes the defense’s job to stop drives. The offense has to put drives together to keep the other team off the field. Dabo Swinney was playing 4th stringers and walk-ons early in the 4th quarter. 2nd stringers and 3rd stringers were showing up after the first series of the 3rd quarter.
If Clemson had wanted to score 100 points today they could have. Put the blame where it should lie with Geoff Collins.
It’s not Dabo Swinney’s responsibility to kneel 3 times and punt. His bench players need and deserve game time work. In a game such as this, if you are playing backups and running your offense, I have no problem with any of the play calls.
One of Clemson’s 2nd half TDs was a less than 10 yard drive when GT QB Jeff Sims fumbled and turned it over untouched inside his own 10 yard line.
Clemson was better period. If Georgia Tech had played flawlessly it would have been a 41-20 defeat, but a Syracuse effort combined with Clemson hitting on cylinders and this is what you get.
This is why for some of the positive things Collins has done, you can’t feel confident in him as a sure thing. It’s still a question mark.
Georgia Tech’s historic losses are mounting under his tenure.
The Citadel loss last year, 45-0 at home to Virginia Tech, and the Clemson defeat by 66 points in the ACC’s worst defeat in history.
I’m not writing off Collins – far from it, but he has to wonder why his team appeared to quit against Clemson’s deep bench players.
It was a debacle and embarrassment in every sense of the word, but don’t blame Dabo Swinney and Clemson.
If Georgia Tech doesn’t want to get beat 73-7, play with more pride, play better, and coach better.
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