It’s been a few days, it’ll be a few more
Sorry that I haven’t updated the blog the past few days. I thought the game-rankings blog might generate some interesting conversation, and I was glad to see it did. Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts. It’s been entertaining reading.
I’m about to start a week’s vacation, and have been trying to come up with a topic that will allow you to talk amongst yourselves.
So, here goes:
Give me your key individual matchup for each week’s game. If you want to make it really challenging, you can’t use the same matchup twice.
Thanks, and I look forward to reading your responses.
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Stupidass
June 12th, 2009
4:57 pm
“Great pass defense UGAY. You only allowed 19 passing yards from tech.” Maybe Doug and “Wet” Willie Martinez should have afternoon tea at Vince’s house. Give me a break Doug. You know you hated tech beating you last year.
The Dude
June 12th, 2009
5:04 pm
What do you think “Huh?” does for a living? I probably shouldn’t venture a guess. He might get offended.
Doug: You seem to be doing fine to me. I doubt my opinion matters too much, though.
MyWhiskeyClear: Such disdainful language for SPSU shows only your ignorance or your age. Which is it?
Last, but not least, the most important match-up is a combination of Josh Nesbitt’s brain (reading the linebackers/safeties) and the offensive line’s blocking execution. A close second will be whoever gets the #2 receiver spot and his oponent. Without two receivers the “shoot” portion of the offense will not exist.
Go Jackets
June 12th, 2009
5:57 pm
Doug, Not only does this not satisfy me, it is the perfect example of what I’m talking about.
You said: “This may not satisfy you, but here goes. I wanted us to do that feature last year, but others in another department, who know more about web metrics, etc. than I, weren’t sure if it would get enough traffic, so that department, which did the “Know your Bulldogs,” decided not to do the “Know your Jackets.””
That is a bunch of biased garbage, period! WHO are the “others” in “another department”??? That’s classic AJC treatment of Tech vs UGA and EXACTLY what I’m talking about. “know your Bulldogs” without a “know your Jackets” implies that everyone that reads the AJC is a UGA fan and that Tech doesn’t exist….guess again. Tech is consistently treated as a second thought at the AJC and I don’t expect that to change any time soon….too bad, the AJC misses the story…again. To Hell with UGA and to Hell with the AJC.
macrotech
June 12th, 2009
7:16 pm
Ok! Group hug on the sports page…. doug is NOT our problem… as he stated, others made the decision to NOT run the ‘Know Your Tech’. Truly, if we start being the team that CPJ has begun to build, we will get plenty of press. In truth, we’re ALL excited about this upcoming season and there could NEVER be enough written about our Jackets! At least we’re not getting the press of Alabama! Sucks to be them! GO TECH!!!
Brewer for GT President
June 12th, 2009
8:25 pm
I’d feel sorry for Doug and would say everybody should lay off him, BUT… He writes these short stories asking for interaction with the ‘Comments’ KNOWING what kind of garbage is going to get posted here. It never fails. Some GT fans are insane and will say what they’re going to say. Same for some UGA fans will come on here and do the same. Then other UGA fans will ‘be the bigger man’ by claiming they’re posting garbage because they saw a GT fan do it on a UGA blog. It is all a waste of time.
Not Disappointed
June 12th, 2009
8:33 pm
Doug have a good Vacation and “Ramblin Wreck until I die!!”
old Tech fan in NC
June 12th, 2009
8:45 pm
Jack G…do you remember the 48 game with Kan?
GM
June 12th, 2009
9:47 pm
Ramble On!: Great blog this morning!!!
Ramblin reck
June 12th, 2009
10:19 pm
ONE GREAT THING ABOUT US HAVING PAUL JOHNSON AS OUR COACH NOW. WE ARE FER SURE GOING TO BEAT UGA AT LEAST ONCE EVERY 8-10 YEARS! BOY AM I EXCITED!!!!
rainman
June 12th, 2009
10:38 pm
Doug, since you are the ‘professional’ journalist, you should be the one telling us what the key matchups in each game will be.
Reality Check GT
June 13th, 2009
2:25 am
Enter your comments here
SlimG
June 13th, 2009
12:18 pm
Attention all Techsters. I know you can’t understand this, but georgia people are too busy to hate tech. We understand what professionalism and class are about. These reasons are why Doug can report on tech. By report he reiterates the release of facts to the non-informed. Stop hating uga and get your head out of the sand. Also, stop whining about the lack of coverage and spend some quality time with loved ones. Oh, forgot, hard to love with so much hate in the heart.
Get some rest Doug, based on these previous comments, you’ll need it when CPJ’s team lays an egg this year. Phones will start ringing at Greyhound for the trip to Statesboro. I’m sure it will be your fault for lack of coverage or too much negative bias.
rainman
June 13th, 2009
12:57 pm
Slim – I thought you were on the last bus out of town. Please go — to the UGay blog.
SlimG
June 13th, 2009
7:00 pm
Concerning the books deal, all players at every institution sell their books for some spending dough. Come on guys, give these kids a break. Universities make millions off these athletes so just let them work the system. Ever heard of work study? It’s just another way for the players to have a little cash. Not everyone comes from a wealthy family that can send the kids some money to spend. Most of these guys don’t even know who their daddy is. Grow up people!
gtforever
June 13th, 2009
11:23 pm
Huh lives with his mother….. I would bet every dollar I have that he voted for Obama…… But hey, He is a typical UGA fan! The worst fans in the country!
GM
June 14th, 2009
8:12 am
Who cares what the AJC thinks about Tech? These blogs are 90% crap anyway. Just a place for the few nuts on each side to argue back and forth the same stuff over and over again. Go Jackets!
old Tech fan in NC
June 14th, 2009
9:00 am
gtnever sounds like a whinny looser
How about keeping your politics to yourself…even if you are a Tech fan.
varsity
June 14th, 2009
10:46 am
tekies eat more chicken!free hot dogs will not get it done.
m
June 14th, 2009
10:57 am
ramble on….palin is dumb enough that she may have a phd from ugag.
Mike T.
June 14th, 2009
3:17 pm
42-45 A fluke!
goldentornado
June 14th, 2009
3:37 pm
The biggest hypocrite is the one who only sees hypocrisy in others.
45-42, just the beginning…
Mutts-R-Stupid-especially-journalism-majors
June 14th, 2009
4:24 pm
Do you remember how the ugly mutts ran the score up on Tech a few years ago when Tech was down due to coaching changes and the loss of players to academics? Could this be the year when Tech returns the favor, in spades? I sure enough hope so, pay back in kind is the best kind of revenge.
Mutts-R-Stupid-especially-journalism-majors
June 14th, 2009
4:27 pm
Yo, SlimG, Ah’m your daddy, boy, now git to work making those burger.
Jackets21
June 14th, 2009
5:26 pm
Doug,
The interviews were a step in the right direction. I suggest you add a few more with different players and maybe a coach or two.
I don’t blame you for the AJC’s crappy coverage of Tech. Most Tech fans get their news online, and most of UGA’s sidewalk alumni still subscribe to the dying media that is the fishwrapper. It makes economic sense to hype UGA. Keep up the good fight as long as you keep this job.
To Tech fans,
The AJC doesn’t care about Tech and you should just get over it. Why? Because the AJC is losing money hand over fist. Moore has already received the boot, more are sure to follow. This POS fishwrapper is on it’s last legs. Sit back and watch the implosion.
superDawg
June 14th, 2009
6:02 pm
Well tekies how many 12$ seats and free hot dogs does it take to fill your 52 thousand seat pill box,you will never find out.
chuck allison
June 15th, 2009
7:41 am
You wrote and article telling us you had nothing to write about and you were going on vacation? Tech has received 4 new football recruit commitments in the last week. Maybe if you concentrated on your job instead of your vacation?
Georgia Tech Redneck
June 15th, 2009
7:54 am
This is my first time posting on here and i think it is so funny that the DaWg fans have to come over here and still think the can Actually bother us with there same ol’ stuff they have been saying for the last 7 years…guys its time to wake up….WE WON! lol and nothing is going to stop us from doing it again this year…your only players worth anything on your team split the first chance they got…so what are you going to do? Its about time that GA gets to sit scratching their heads for a while trying to remember why they are a fan of the team they root on. (That is other than getting to be a part of the cesspool of the south.) And yall really wanna talk about how bad OUR fans our. Lets just put it this way…other than yall, our fellow competitors still respect us. There isnt a fan of another team who even remotely likes yall. They hate yall. Why you ask. Because your fans are ignorant. Plan and simple. So uGAY needs to look at there own trashy fans before calling us out. Oh by the way…please wait until our game to break those wonderful black jerseys out again…They did yall so well against Bama that you may just need the luck….
chad
June 15th, 2009
8:19 am
This rag of a papaer is really showing its true colors today. Tech had a major haul in recruits over the weekend and no report of it. This paper does stink. To the editor of the sports section you are worthless. I seriously do believe that if the great uga reeled in three of its top recruits, the story would be on the front page. I guess we know now why this butt wiper of a papaer is soon to go away.
Too Easy
June 15th, 2009
9:17 am
Chad: why the obsession with the nether parts in all your posts? And the AJC DID report your commits. See page C7. And page C1 for story on Lawal coming back. And quit whining.
Hey Huh?
June 15th, 2009
9:45 am
Calling out our fans ?
How bout taking a look at yourself? You spend all of your time on the other teams blog and not your own. What does that say about you as a fan?
chad
June 15th, 2009
12:01 pm
I will not respond to nameless arese sniffers.
MyWhiskeyClear
June 15th, 2009
1:22 pm
The Dude, your answer is simply ‘neither.’ I’m plenty old, and have had enough experience hiring grads of SPS”U” that I can safely say I have no respect for that school. May have been started as Tech’s night school in the nineteen forties, but there is NO family resemblance anymore. Low ambition kids that didn’t get into Tech and are too scared of Auburn or Clemson is all I’ve seen there. And you think some UGA kids hate Tech? Take a look at the chip on these kids’ collective shoulder. Pure jealousy. Hire a hornet? Never again.
MyWhiskeyClear
June 15th, 2009
1:29 pm
Oh, and the ‘factory workers’ stab was because they don’t produce “engineering technologists”…they’re just uncertified mechanics that took a math class (a slow, easy math class).
My conclusion after working with them is that the worst slacker in any one of Tech’s student organizations is more squared away than the Southern Poly kids I’ve seen. Which makes sense…they didn’t get in.
BD
June 15th, 2009
5:04 pm
Mark Richt gets either a year round spray tan or he has a tanning bed in his office. Vanity…..eh,
BD
June 15th, 2009
5:06 pm
Why the stab at Southern Poly? Did I miss something, or are we just perpetuating GT snobbery?
SlimG
June 15th, 2009
7:13 pm
Prime example of the loyal support of Jacket fans: Comments on this blog as of now-85, comments on a similar Dawg blog: almost twice as many in one day less.
It’s a numbers game pocket protectors!
GOTech610
June 16th, 2009
3:01 pm
SlimG….Who cares…..Our fan’s are loyal as anything. We have jobs to attend to, not blogs. Also, GT beat UGA last year in their house…do you think attendance had anything to do with that?
GOTech610
June 16th, 2009
3:03 pm
We may be small, but we are loyal and we have fun; see us rush the field after we beat FSU. When’s the last time the dawgs fans united and celebrated on the field after a big win?
superDawg
June 16th, 2009
4:14 pm
610 we have been there before big games are common in the dog nation.If you play in the sec 60% of your games are big.acc 0%!
Red Colored Glasses
June 16th, 2009
5:10 pm
You ugag fans who keep referring to the “we’ll let you win one out of eight games” line, keep in mind that Tech isn’t going to have CPJ as their coach one year out of every eight. He beat ugag in his very first year with inherited (mostly non option recruited) talent. Each year the system is in place, Tech will only get better and better as the players learn the nuances of the offense, and with CPJ picked option talent eventually on the roster top to bottom. With all this in mind, any reasonable fan would conclude that, at least as long as CPJ is the coach at Tech, ugag will have it’s hands full with Tech. It is predictable. That isn’t trash talk. It is logic. You smart dawg fans know it. You dumb ones will come back with trash. That is also predictable.
SlimG
June 16th, 2009
6:59 pm
Glasses, tech gets crushed in the chicken bowl and everyone’s happy with a mediocre season as long as you beat uga. Laughable. Get used to getting beat up by second tier sec teams in the sandwich bowl.
Jackets21
June 16th, 2009
7:37 pm
Lucky for us that UGa is no LSU. Second-tier? They have actually won a national title in the last 20 years, which is more than Uga can say.
I’m glad you keep bringing LSU up. I’ll remember that when they run roughshod over your boys this season.
SlimG
June 16th, 2009
9:53 pm
You are probably one of the tech fans that stormed the field after the fsu gift.
Jackets21
June 16th, 2009
9:59 pm
Then again….I wished Tech was better than 3rd tier….we will never be as good as UGA or LSU and will get our jacket arses whooped all the time.
GoTech610
June 16th, 2009
10:02 pm
yeah I have a job to tend too. I have to fetch coffee for three UGA grads and I hopefully will get a promotion to mail carrier.
gtforever
June 16th, 2009
10:05 pm
You know Tech really has the worst fans, not UGA. They do manage to sell out all of their games and schedule other BCS teams. We are lucky to get 40K on a Saturday night and we play those 1AA power houses like Gardner-Webb.
But hey, at least we have the good ole tickle pile!
SlimG
June 17th, 2009
3:18 am
I like to make out with my sister and watch dem dawgs! I was a student at Athens Tech but I flunked out and now I just go bar hopping on weekends. Check out my Northface jacket!
UGA is the only team with injuries, and Joe Cox will beat the Gators this year. Joe Cox is exactly like Shockley except he’s white, slow, weaker arm, and hasn’t done anything but beat a 2-10 Colorado team at home! Plus I heard that Cox got some of that Stafford magic while they spooned at Dega! UGA is number one! Caleb King and Joe Cox for Heisman!
chad
June 17th, 2009
8:52 am
Doug I hate to say it, but if you did not do another report on Tech nobody would notice anyway. You report so little right now it would seem like the norm. Stay on vacation. You call yourself a pro, at what I must ask? It is clear there is an agenda at the Atlanta Fish Wrap. Even Stevie Wonder could see the coveage is not equal.
chad
June 17th, 2009
8:54 am
Sorry I used a double negative there pro, unfortunately I did not graduate from UGA/AJC school of journalism.
chad
June 17th, 2009
9:20 am
instead I graduated from the Atlanta Polytechnic School and majored in being a tool. You know so I could fit in and be a true Tech fan.