If you have watched any Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football over the last nearly 20 season, you would know that the Yellow Jackets have had a tendency to run the ball... a lot. As a Yellow Jackets fan, I have not seen an era of the team that was not built around running the football at least 35-40 times a game. However, this could be the end of that after seeing the White and Gold spring game.
The Yellow Jackets are dealing with something that they have never had to deal with: two formidable quarterbacks on one roster. Haynes King took the nation by storm last season, and it seems as if the Yellow Jackets have the future after King on wrap too with sophomore Aaron Philo. So how did the Yellow Jackets approach this situation?
They gave the quarterbacks the ball. Yes, for the first time in 20 years, the Yellow Jackets put the ball in the hands of their quarterbacks and trusted their arms. In total between King, Philo, Graham Knowles, Ben Guthrie, (and we will count the one pass on a trick play by Jamal Haynes), the Yellow Jackets threw the ball an astonishing 69 times. And they were successful at doing it.
The two teams combined for 512 passing yards and three touchdowns. Philo contributed the most yards, finishing with 275 yards through the air.
The playcalling is something that as a Georgia Tech fan, I have been waiting to see, as I felt that the team was finally ready to put some trust into the quarterbacks on the roster, and I could not have been happier with the results.