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Monday, September 17, 2007
Why Tech is lucky
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday night’s 24-10 loss to Boston College showed just how lucky Georgia Tech is to play in the ACC, where after Matt Ryan there’s a shortage of experienced and talented quarterbacks. Ryan, with the help of great pass protection, picked apart the Yellow Jackets defense. In another league, you might say Ryan and the Eagles exposed a weakness other teams can exploit. But this is the ACC.
Virginia Tech and Miami already have changed quarterbacks. Virginia, Duke, Maryland and Miami all rank with Tech among the nation’s 30 least productive passing teams. That leaves Clemson and North Carolina. (Florida State, N.C. State and Wake Forest aren’t on Tech’s schedule this season.)
Clemson’s Cullen Harper, fourth nationally in pass efficiency, fattened his stats against Louisiana-Monroe and Furman after an OK opener against Florida State. Experience? He’d completed one college pass before this season. It will be interesting to see how he does against Tech in a couple of weeks.
The wildcard might be North Carolina freshman T.J. Yates. If you caught any of the UVa-UNC telecast on Saturday, you saw this kid has talent. Tech doesn’t play the Tar Heels until the second-to-last week of the season. By then, he might have the seasoning it takes to give the Yellow Jackets some headaches. (Meanwhile, Yates’ success against UVa suggests Taylor Bennett might have some openings this week.)
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