How do you rate the Jackets’ performance?
Time for the report card on the Jackets’ effort Saturday against North Carolina. Rate the team on the following four categories: offense, defense, special teams and coaching.
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Not Disappointed
September 26th, 2009
3:12 pm
I’m glad we didn’t quit and didn’t play to conservative in the 4th quarter. Heading to the car. Tired of the rain. Ramblin Wreck!
Atlanta Jacket
September 26th, 2009
3:15 pm
Darn that high school offense – I thought it had been figured out – particularly by B. Davis. A great win for the Jackets. Go ARIZONA STATE!
Alabama Jack
September 26th, 2009
3:15 pm
We beat the Heels offense, we beat the Heels defense, we beat the Heels special teams, but best of all we beat the entire herd of zebras.
THWG
glc3md
September 26th, 2009
3:15 pm
Nesbitt and Dwyer are two tough guys. Go Jackets!
GTRich
September 26th, 2009
3:18 pm
Finally a complete game. Excellent effort Jackets, back to top 25!!
chad
September 26th, 2009
3:22 pm
Alabama Jack + 1, the episode at the end of the half was was flat unfprofessional and simply not knowing the rules of the freaking game. The number of no calls against UNC is uncalled for. But hey Tech won despite all the crap. Big Win for the Jackets. THWG
Yellow Fuzz
September 26th, 2009
3:25 pm
When is the last time georgia held a top 25 opponent to only 7 points in a ball game?
Yellow Fuzz
September 26th, 2009
3:28 pm
I can’t wait to “pound the hound” in November. Wonder how many tons of their trash we will have to clean up after they leave?
gtnate
September 26th, 2009
3:28 pm
I’ll take our high school offense against georgia’s high school defense.
old Tech fan in NC
September 26th, 2009
3:40 pm
Thanks Tech for an absolutely great, no quit game! My neighbors will now just be gracious!
Rodney
September 26th, 2009
4:00 pm
HIGH SCHOOL O RAMBLES! Tech has lost to #9 & trounced #22. They’ll still be ignored in the polls. WE DON’T GET NO RESPECT!
Alabama Jack
September 26th, 2009
4:03 pm
In addition to the debacle at the half, the announcers pointed out a hold on 91 and a face mask that wasn’t called on on of our backs, and a horse collar tackle on another. They also thought the pass interference call against us was very, very weak. Did the zebras fly back to Chapel Hill on the team plane?
rob
September 26th, 2009
4:41 pm
Great win for the team. Now lets hope they can keep it up for the rest of the season. THWG
Paul
September 26th, 2009
4:41 pm
That line judge must be related to Bill Hohn (the fist-bumping, Chipper-tossing ump with the bad mustache).
Rob
September 26th, 2009
4:54 pm
No surprise re the zebras. the ACC consistently has the most incompetent officials (both fb and bb) in college athletics.
bigdawg01
September 26th, 2009
5:01 pm
Great Job NOT selling out your HS stadium, nerds. Pathetic. What happened??? Did they run out of free hot dogs and cokes?
Ramjet
September 26th, 2009
5:07 pm
Enter your comments here
I still want to hear the officials ruling on why they didn’t stop the clock right before half. If not when he went out of bounds, then when the chains are moved. Beyond my comprehension.
Ramjet
September 26th, 2009
5:10 pm
Enter your comments here
Still sore from last year, huh bigdawg01?
b6542
September 26th, 2009
5:24 pm
Go home Carolina and take your “officials” with you !!!
Made Ron Cherry’s crew look brilliant…….
Buzzfan
September 26th, 2009
5:26 pm
Rob, I concur. ACC refs are the most biased and/or corrupt in the land esp. favoring tobacco road or anyone else who will bribe them. They tried their best to give the game to UNC in the 1st half finally giving up because Tech was so much better. Give all credit to Tech players & coaches for overcoming such adversity and keeping focused on just execution & winning the game.
Rich
September 26th, 2009
5:30 pm
Dog Fans; You can put us done if you want, but we won last november and almost all sports since then. Come back when you can beat us in at least 3 sports.
StingDoc
September 26th, 2009
5:37 pm
Great win. Back into the Top 25. Va. Tech is leading Miami 21-0 at the half as I had hoped. Now all we have to do is win the rest esp. against the Hokies during Homecoming and the Coastal Division is ours if Miami loses another game! If all 3 have only one loss to each other, I suppose they would go to some kind of a tie-break.
uga's mom can suck ma balls!
September 26th, 2009
5:50 pm
bigdawg01 you can suck ma balls and lick um like ur moms did last nite! Go boack to the trailor park and wait till the first for your free cheese!
Yellow Fuzz
September 26th, 2009
5:52 pm
bigdawg01
Talk to me after YOUR game tonite
uga's mom can suck ma balls!
September 26th, 2009
5:59 pm
fuzz…his power will prob. be cut off by then and no internet in the trailor for the evening. : (
BS Patrol
September 26th, 2009
6:05 pm
Let’s see how full of garbage your mighty stadium is tonight,BigDog01.
StingDoc
September 26th, 2009
6:05 pm
bigdawg01 doesn’t understand that most Tech grads leave the state for high-paying jobs in other states & abroad whereas he saves his money from his job at Burger King all year to drive his pick-up to Athens, leave tons of trash after his tail-gate, hurl obscene epithets at visiting fans, get drunk, & bark with his other red-necks who never went to college during the game. Tech always has plenty of fans at away games no matter how far away they are.
bigdawg01
September 26th, 2009
6:11 pm
Ok d-bags..
7 out of the past 8 does not make me feel bad, assram. I am not bringing up the past only dealing with the present. FACT is your fan base sucks, your team sucks, your fans do not show up for a season defining game, period. You have to bribe people to go to games with hot dogs and cokes…like i said earlier, PATHETIC. Your stadium should have been sold out, but it was not. DO NOT tell me how great your team is, how great your school is until you can sell out a 55k stadium for every home game. Sanford is sold out for all home games. Enjoy your one win….and to Peach Fuzz…I will be back after we BEAT ASU. You girls are very entertaining.
Stinger
September 26th, 2009
6:26 pm
Jackets will be rated higher than dawgs after tonight. Willie’s defense couldn’t stop a Class A high school team and Cox comes back to reality after feasting on SEC defenses.
StingDoc
September 26th, 2009
6:35 pm
Bobby Dodd won 8 straight from the dawgs which is still the record AND TECH HAS MORE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS THAN THE DAWGS! 45-42! Sniff that, dawgie!!
bigdawg...what are you smoking
September 26th, 2009
6:40 pm
ESPN has us with 50,114 which is most of our stadium…on a rainy day. Our game at your place last year on a rainy day had several empty seats as well.
Have fun watching that High School defense of yours playing tonight.
bigdawg01
September 26th, 2009
6:51 pm
Rainy day, sunny day it does not matter…was not sold out for Clemson either. “Most of our stadium” HAHAHAHAHAHHA. PATHETIC! Please see my previous comments.
B'Ham Jacket
September 26th, 2009
7:33 pm
Great game, Jackets and Coaches!
uga's mom can suck ma balls!
September 26th, 2009
7:34 pm
fuzz…
he wont be able to get back to you. Heard the power was cut off at his trailor about 30 min. ago. : (
uga's mom can suck ma balls!
September 26th, 2009
7:37 pm
why do they litter the campus so bad at home games?
…to make it feel more like home and the trailor parks they drag their sorry mullet wearing, no child support paying, got a warrant out for my arrest selves out of.
V8 Cat
September 26th, 2009
9:21 pm
Enter your comments here
bigdawg01,
When you come to our campus, please take your dung back to Athens with you. You and your fan base that fill that stadium of yours are – well we know what you are after reading the article about how you trashed your own campus.
Lisa
September 26th, 2009
9:44 pm
bigdawg…when you fill up your little basketball barn you an make fun of GT. Until then, you have no room to talk.
GT Fan...
September 26th, 2009
10:18 pm
bigdawg01 …. GA sells out their stadium every game, they have a waiting list (I think) for season tix; Sanford holds somewhere around 90,000 people – almost twice as many as Grant Field. Now, how many wins & NCs has that resulted in for the dogs again? I’m missing your point on GT seldom selling out their standium.
I even saw plenty of people leaving at HALFTIME today with the score 10-0! Yeah, it doesn’t make me happy as a die-hard GT fan, but in the end the scoreboard read GT 24 UNC 7. Do you think Blair would’ve made the 37yd & 27yd field goals had the stadium been sold old??
The games are played on the field, not in the stands.
DCJacket
September 26th, 2009
11:22 pm
bigdawg01
Year after year, you and your pea-brained ilk talk that lame arse stadium size argument. WE DON’T CARE!!
What does a GT grad and a UGA fan have in common? Neither went to UGA. 45-42! THWG
BS Patrol
September 26th, 2009
11:24 pm
Went into hiding bigdog01? Your HUGE fan base didn’t even show in your HUGE stadium! Eat crow. Not to mention that your team sux & won’t win another game this year. The most overrated team in football history.
sarfdawg
September 27th, 2009
12:09 am
DCJacket: “What does a GT grad and a UGA fan have in common? Neither went to UGA.”
Now, that was actually pretty funny. I’ll give you that one.
jacket3
September 27th, 2009
6:40 am
This was a real CPJ football. Dominant in every facet. Yeah we muffed a few on special teams and the REFS were absolutely horrible. Five major blown calls – even after the replays.Everyone knows that the clock stops when the guy goes out of bounds. Towards the end of the game they even forgot how to rule on the play. Simply awful. Watching CPJ “giving them the bidness” was priceless!
Nesbitt is one of the toughest running backs at quarterback in NCAA football. We still need the deep threat and I hope Jaybo Shaw gets in soon so we can do that. Besides another spectacular effort by Dwyer the rest of the running backs are starting to step up their game.
The Defense finally arrived on Saturday. Miami was either an aberration or the Jackets were asleep. Not anymore. Mississippi State will find out next week the Jackets are for real !
Seaborn
September 27th, 2009
7:14 am
The difference this week to last was simple. The players came in fired up with energy and the coaches did a better job preparing the team. This offense has to have everybody executing their assignments and making blocks on their man. It was noticeably better this week than last.
The defense is coaching problems, not lining up in the right place, guarding the wrong man. etc. Again much better this week.
Nest week will be another good test to see which team decides to show up. Time to take down SEC school for fun.
Sorry Dogs
September 27th, 2009
8:12 am
Somewhere on the GT campus there has got to be a kid that can kick better than Blair. Two missed field goals and two kick offs out of bounds. That’s not gonna get it done.
I hate the UOG team but damn that AJ Green kid is a stud. His uniform is ugly as hell but he’s the real deal. Fat Matt should have given him a couple million of that guaranteed $$$ because he sure wouldn’t have gotten it without him. He’d look good in a Falcon’s uniform. Hopefully this is his last year at the farm school.
Looks like changing the defense was a good decision. Nice win. Good to see Dwyer back in form.
FalconUGAFan
September 27th, 2009
8:24 am
Congrats Jackets, your team looked good this weekend. Oops gotta check the ribs for the Falcons game! Stay classy!
collegeballfan
September 27th, 2009
8:28 am
Nesbitt probably earned a lot of respect from his teammates. That was a gutty performance.
I have been complaining about the lack of blocking from all positions all fall. There was improvement. There is a long way to go. The tackling looked good. Offhand I do not remember any missed tackles.
But wait till I review the tape.
I was really glad to see Hill get in on the receiving end.
Buckle your chin straps really tight for Miss State.
WALLYBUZZ
September 27th, 2009
8:31 am
Much better, you almost played a complete game, Blair needs to be benched completly, score would have been better, also there will be a game come up when we will need a consistent kicker, much better coaching, keep the defense rolling, defense rules.
collegeballfan
September 27th, 2009
8:33 am
Sorry Dogs – I completely agree re AJ Green. I believe he is the best receiver I have ever see at UGA. And Georgia really played a good composed game last night. Love their QB. He appears to have the mental part of the game down pat.
PI$$onaJACKET
September 27th, 2009
8:40 am
33-17 Bahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Chicken $hit dirt dobbers.
collegeballfan
September 27th, 2009
8:40 am
Yeah the refs were a disgrace. There is absolutely no excuse for not stopping the clock on the first down. Johnson’s comments to TV are probably going to draw a fine from the ACC office. The Tech officials should absolutely refuse to pay the fine. Sometimes in life one must stand up for what is right. This is one such time. Tech must tell the ACC to take their membership & stick it.
carolina jacket
September 27th, 2009
9:31 am
not to mention the takedowns of d morgan that weren’t called. these refs were either biased or incompetent or both. there can be no rationale for fining a coach who points out such mistakes.
Tech75
September 27th, 2009
9:45 am
Hey, where are all the U fans today?
Dead silence from those folks…
What a friggin’ beatdown THEY took….hopefully a HUMBLING experience
misterwax
September 27th, 2009
9:58 am
I doubt this team will be able to overcome 2 liabilities when they play the Hokies….poor officiating and Scott Blair….Coach Johnson can fix one but not the other……Blair did have a replacement in the 4th quarter….let’s hope it is a good move.
misterwax
September 27th, 2009
10:01 am
On the other hand….it looks like Bobby Bowden has packed it in and is ready to ride off into the sunset….We should do well in Starkville AND Tallahassee…
mike branca
September 27th, 2009
12:43 pm
please recruit a quality kicker.i’m sure blair is a nice guy but he lacks ability. what else do we have?
Not Disappointed
September 27th, 2009
1:58 pm
I’ve meet Scott Blair and feels he’s a wonderful person, but once something is in his head. “Have Mercy!”
Go Jackets!
Okeefe/Bob
September 27th, 2009
6:56 pm
We played a good game,BUT WE still do not have the KILLER instinct. We could have put Carolina to sleep before half time and we didn’t.I agree with mike branca–let’s get a kicker that has his mind on the game.I’m all for getting smart people at Tech but give me a break.We can’t hit a 27 yarder?I watched the Miss State/LSU game and I’ll tell you –this is not the Sylvester Croome bulldogs we saw last year.I hope our guys don’t take them to lightly—this is a very goog football team we are playing next week—- they are capable of beating anyone.
70Jacket
September 27th, 2009
7:59 pm
Hey Not Disappointed- What if the team quit because it rained? They practice and play hard. You can’t even stand a few rain drops? SISSY!!
blackprix
September 28th, 2009
12:27 am
I’m glad we won but I’m not so sure UNC was a Top 25 team either.
ACC is a very strange conference this year. One week a team looks good the next, it looks bad.
I believe we’ll know more about GT in the next few weeks when the have to go on the road to Miss. State and FSU.
Nesbitt-is-a-RB-not-a-QB
September 28th, 2009
2:14 pm
Great game, except that we stalled too often on offense. It should have been 21-0 instead of 10-0 at the half! I see 2 reasons: (1) play calling is too often repetitive – why don’t we use the options we have at our disposal? When we do, we usually move the chains. Nesbitt keeping the ball himself 40% of the plays doesn’t cut it. (2) Nesbitt’s decision making ability is suspect (again). Was he trying to pad his numbers? Several times it looked to me as if the pitch would have been the better choice. Often it appears that he is only focused on the one receiver he has in mind when he hikes the ball, no matter what the defense is showing. We need a QB that can adjust to what the defense is showing and make quick decisions effectively.
Other than that, great game. Great win! Go Jackets!