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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Ralph
June 12th, 2009
8:15 am
What happened to the Ramblin’ On Blog? It does not seem to be listed on the Tech page anymore, while the Junkyard Blog continues.
chad
June 12th, 2009
8:19 am
Ralph, you didn’t know the ajc is the main intership for ugay want to be journalist. It might as well be a butt sniffing party down there.
gman
June 12th, 2009
8:25 am
typical AJC “The UGA student news” BS
Too Easy
June 12th, 2009
8:43 am
So insightful (or “inciteful”), Chad. I’ll bet that what you know about butt-sniffing could fill a book (of course, you’d need a journalist to write it).
MiltonDawg
June 12th, 2009
8:45 am
Guys it is what it is…don’t be pissed at the AJC for wanting to cover more UGA news than GT. I am suprised there was no blog concerning the GT/Kansas story. I must say, that will be a great game for both teams and really interested in seeing the outcome of it.
Doug is worthless
June 12th, 2009
8:49 am
Come on Doug. You barely post anything about gt. Even the acc blog on espn post something about tech like every other day. i don’t even know why I bother checking this blog.
Saint Simons
June 12th, 2009
9:21 am
Doug your fired!!!!!!!!!
Hey "Dawg" Roberson
June 12th, 2009
9:29 am
Enjoy your vacation….wait I thought you were already on vacation…
DawginLex
June 12th, 2009
9:30 am
Saint Simons shows off that Tech education again…………………………………………….
m
June 12th, 2009
9:50 am
Having a dawg write the Tech blog is about as stupid as ugag being ranked #1 last year. Wake up AJC…get somebody on here that gives a damne about Tech…or at least knows something.
Doug Roberson
June 12th, 2009
10:03 am
Hey “m”, the uga grad comments are getting a bit tiresome, to be honest. I’m a professional journalist, the same as you are a professional in your field.
“Ralph”, I don’t know what happened to the Ramblin On blog. I believe it’s still being maintained.
“Doug is worthless,” I apologize that I haven’t had much on the blog this week. I’ve been writing a lot of stories for print, as well as doing other things at the paper that must be done. It is the slow time of the year.
If yall want to talk about Tech-Kansas, that’s cool. I did a radio show the other day and it was pointed out that Tech will actually play three SEC schools as part of their non-conference schedule, which is pretty amazing when you think about it.
old gold engineer
June 12th, 2009
10:21 am
Doug, hope you enjoy your vacation and look forward to your return. Since news about GT can be scarce here in south Georgia, I appreciate your efforts. I believe the key matchup for GT in every game this fall will be Tech’s offensive line versus the defensive linemen. If our offensive line gives the quarterback an opportunity to execute the offense, we’ll be fine. I believe the defense will show improvement over last year even with the talent loss up front. As a result, the defense will keep games winnable if the offense does its part. We’ve got the skill players we need on offense, and they will impress if the line gives them the opportunity. I would even argue that good offensive line play will allow the offense to score enough that it will take the pressure off special teams. Let’s hope the offensive line excels in year two of the Paul Johnson regime.
old gold engineer
June 12th, 2009
10:28 am
One more thing, I like the Kansas games on the schedule. I believe most fans crave matchups like this. But, coaches too often seem to crave cupcakes. Just wish the 2010 game would be at GT.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 12th, 2009
10:43 am
Doug enjoy your vacation, but, since I’m not that familar with the other teams players (yet), I’ve got a few other match ups.
Palin vs. Letterman…I’ll take Palin all day!!!
Pelosi vs. Satan…Pelosi rolls!!!
Barney Frank vs. a foot-long hotdog…no contest.
Biden’s foot vs. Biden’s mouth…only a fool would take the mouth.
Sonia Sotomayor vs. A White Male…Sotomayor in a forfeit.
Obama vs. Unemployment…this match is in progress, midway through the first Q. Unemployment 2,000,000…Obama 150,000.
GT For Never
June 12th, 2009
10:49 am
The AJC doesn’t even deliver to Athens anymore, they certainly aren’t doing UGA any favors. Since so many of you Techsters spend time on the Junkyard Blog, I thought I’d come see what was happening here at the blog of the best engineering school in the welfare state of Atlanta, besides Southern Tech, of course. Nothing, of course. I’m going home.
Go Jackets!
June 12th, 2009
10:52 am
The lack of decent Georgia Tech sports coverage by the AJC should be embarrassing to you. The AJC has stories about any and everything related to UGA but Tech is CONSTANTLY relegated to poor coverage by uninterested and uninteresting beat writers who know nothing about the school or worse have an axe to grind because they are a UGA alum. You can call yourself “professional” all you want Doug, but your coverage thus far shows a lack of interest at best. It’s awful but it’s nothing new. It’s just sad that the hometown paper can’t do a better job covering the hometown college sports team.
2HLLWGA
June 12th, 2009
10:53 am
Hey Doug, thanks for working for us. Most of us do appreciate it. Some of us are starving for information – I work in New York and have an UGA grad down the hall. Enjoy your vacation.
old gold engineer
June 12th, 2009
10:58 am
Go Jackets!, I’ll give you my vote to write the GT fan blog.
Doug Roberson
June 12th, 2009
11:26 am
Go Jackets, let me clear up a couple of points you made. As the person who used to plan the college coverage, you have no idea how much work goes into making sure that there is just about the exact same number of stories, and similar placement within the paper, between Ga. Tech and Georgia.
The same is true now.
As far as beat reporters being uninterested, nothing could be farther from the truth. The two gentlemen who covered the beat before I was assigned to do it by myself worked their butts off. So did the two before them. You don’t like the coverage, that’s fine. But please don’t accuse me or them of being uninterested.
Walk into the athletic complex, chances are you’ll see me there. Search ajc.com for the number of stories written about Ga. Tech during the past six weeks, and then the past few years. You’d probably be stunned to see how much information has been reported. Much more than by any other website, magazine, or TV station in Atlanta or the nation.
When I return, I have a couple of Q&As for you with Josh Nesbitt and Robert Hall that should be pretty interesting. The fy10 budget will also be approved, I believe, by the end of the month, so look for more on that.
Mutts-R-Stupid-especially-journalism-majors
June 12th, 2009
11:43 am
If the butt sniffers at the prison in Tuscalosa can figure out how to steal money from the University Alabama by using their free text book perk as jocks, surely the UGAY butt sniffers have also figured that one out. I urge the NCAA to investigate text book fraud at UGAY by the butt sniffing jocks posing as students.
Mutts-R-Stupid-especially-journalism-majors
June 12th, 2009
11:48 am
Hmmm, do elephants sniff each others butts the way mutts do? They certainly have the nose for it. What a disgrace, the elephants figuring out how to steal from the school before the mutts. It seems the Alabama criminals are smarter than the UGAY criminals.
gtfanfrom1951
June 12th, 2009
12:07 pm
Doug hope you had a great vacation. How can we get Tech back in the SEC and South Carolina back in ACC where they belong.
Volman
June 12th, 2009
12:12 pm
Doug, not trying to talk trash, but you’re a UGA grad covering Tech? Being a Tech graduate, I cannot see how this can happen…nor do I think it is fair to you or us Tech fans. Not throwing arrows, just wanting clarification.
You’d think the AJC would have someone with more interest in Tech covering them..not somebody just “doing their job”. I appreciate what you do, I guess, but dang..it must be hard.
GT Rich
June 12th, 2009
12:13 pm
Interesting point to note — GT athletes figured out the textbook thing in 1991. If memoery serves me, the season after GT’s running back William Bell was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, he pulled the same trick, costing him a year’s suspension. He came back to the team, went on to be drafted in the NFL and I believe played for the Redskins.
Volman
June 12th, 2009
12:14 pm
Amen RAMBLE ON, regarding the unemployment.
I thought Obama was going to “fix everything”. What a joke. Great marketing, however..so many idiots bought into it.
Huh?
June 12th, 2009
12:18 pm
“It’s just sad that the hometown paper can’t do a better job covering the hometown college sports team.”
Even sadder is that the “hometown college sports team” can’t fill up its hometown stadium for its hometown games. So I guess you are not the hometown team. I’d bet that Georgia, Auburn, Alabama, and Florida could hold scrimmages at Bobby Dodd stadium and have plenty of fans in the Atlanta area to fill up your cracker jack box stadium. Hometown team? Absolutely laughable.
GT Rich
June 12th, 2009
12:20 pm
Doug, doing a great job, keep it up and enjoy the vacation. UGA is good for veterinary medicine, journalism and public relations (plus turf mgt). Disregard the naysayers. More one on ones with the players would be nice fillers for slow news days.
Regarding match-ups, the key each week will be GT’s center and guards vs the DTs and run-blitzing linebackers. B-backs Dwyer, Allen and Watson will need holes up the middle to break open the triple option play, which is what then opens up the tosses to the A-backs and the passing game. LSU blew up the middle of the O-line every down.
SF Jacket
June 12th, 2009
12:22 pm
Doug,
I want to say thank you for all of the great reporting and hard work. Personally, the fact that you went to UGA doesn’t bother me at all, as you seem to give us the right info in the right way, so I’m happy. How knows, after doing this for a while, you might even sign off on your columns with THWG :-p Seriously though, I hope you do get a second person to help you before football season, just so the flow of information is a bit more palatable and doesn’t drive you insane. Good Reporting!
MiltonDawg
June 12th, 2009
12:25 pm
old gold: i do as a sportsfan, love the matchup with kansas. anybody know if it’s going to be an opener or sometime in the middle of the season?
BLAZER
June 12th, 2009
12:53 pm
why do “the other people” worry about things that shouldn’t bother them?
Typical Tech Fan
June 12th, 2009
1:05 pm
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The AJC sucks! UGAY sucks! Everyone sucks, but me!
Typical Tech Fan
June 12th, 2009
1:06 pm
Oh yeah, I also have 10 condos in Florida, so take that!
MyWhiskeyClear
June 12th, 2009
1:11 pm
I’m with “gtfanfrom1951″…I want Tech back in the SEC. Trade out SC fort us, and I’ll bet at worst we’re a cocnsistent middle-of-the-road team. SEC money would be nice for the facilities and school. Bet the fanbase would grow a little too over time.
Anyway yeah, the O-line is key, but I’ll have way more fun watching our secondary. I want to see them flying around giving people fits…and taking plenty of interceptions.
And finally, go easy on Doug. Sure it’s ironic that he’s from their side, but the UGA grads that I’ve hired do just fine. And for whoever mentioned Southern Polytech earlier…that might just be the most dismally awful factory workers’ school I’ve ever seen.
PTC Jacket
June 12th, 2009
1:15 pm
Huh?
Idk what’s sadder, the fact that not a lot of Tech’s alumni are living in ATL (or Georgia, for that matter) because they get great jobs everywhere in the world, or the fact that most of the people that fill the stadium at UGA never attended the school itself. Hm…
LOL
June 12th, 2009
1:19 pm
Be proud Techies, you have one your fans on the Falcons blog spouting crap like this:
Pi$$onaDAWG
June 12th, 2009
12:55 pm
FTN, FTN, who the F..k cares abouth Dat N.,,er. FTN.
And you guys call UGA fans rednecks, lol!
Doug Roberson
June 12th, 2009
1:26 pm
Last post for me. I have to go get my car fixed so that I can go on vacation.
It’s honestly not hard being a graduate from UGA who is covering Georgia Tech. Why? No. 1, because I’m a professional journalist, as I’ve said. It’s my role to report the facts, break the news, provide the context, and entertain. Being objective doesn’t mean I don’t care. There’s a gigantic difference between those two. Being objective means I present both sides of an issue. I provide all the context so that you the reader can draw your own conclusions. And I care about doing my job as well as I can because it’s my job. To do or expect any less does no one any good.
No. 2. I enjoy journalism. I enjoy meeting people, talking to people and telling stories. It doesn’t matter to me if it’s Georgia Tech, Georgia State, George Washington, Washington & Lee, Lees-McRae, McNeese State, or State U.
The face that I’m covering Georgia Tech, where there are lots of interesting stories, makes the job that much more fun.
An engineer from Georgia Tech would never compromise a project because he’s doing it for a client who is a fan or graduate of Georgia.
MarriedaSwede
June 12th, 2009
1:31 pm
Hey Doug!
Show me again where the “Know your Jackets” feature was? Since coverage is equal, I must have missed it.
ggodsey
June 12th, 2009
1:39 pm
Good point Doug. Just as the Gay community has embraced the Tech Football team I dont see why you cant do the same.
Doug Roberson
June 12th, 2009
1:40 pm
Ok, so more more post
Good question “Swede.”
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.”
However, I believe we are doing it this year. But don’t hold me to that, yet.
Huh?
June 12th, 2009
1:41 pm
Idk what’s sadder, the fact that not a lot of Tech’s alumni are living in ATL (or Georgia, for that matter) because they get great jobs everywhere in the world, or the fact that most of the people that fill the stadium at UGA never attended the school itself. Hm…
What’s even sadder is that you think this means something. Yes, the average Tech graduate goes elsewhere and contributes absolutely nothing to this state or city after their graduation. Point conceded. Hometown team? Please stop making me laugh Techies. Yes, on fall Saturdays Sanford Stadium is quite full with people who did not actually attend the University of Georgia. Once again, point conceded. I’m sure its very similar to any other large flagship state university. I doubt that every fan that attends Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska, South Carolina (I can keep going if you like Techie) football games actually went to those universities. UGA is far from unusual in that regard. What makes this “you didn’t go there” critique all the more laughable is that your own p!ss ant athletic department has made it a stated goal to attract non-Georgia Tech students and alumni to your football games. Do you think those AJC pop up ads about Tech football are for Tech students and alumni you clueless goob? Do you think Big Boi concerts and free pizza promotions are aimed at Tech students and alumni you clueless goob? You are a complete flippin’ hypocrite of the highest order. The Georgia Tech athletic department would kill to get non-students and alumni in the stadium to fill up all those empty seats. Tech fans are the biggest bunch of clueless goobs on the planet and blame everybody but themselves for all their problems. The refs, the AJC, the SEC, UGA, and wawawawawawawawa…Its just nothing but whining all year long. I thank god and greyhound that I am not a Georgia Tech fan every single day. What miserable state of affairs. Good day to you sir.
Yellow Jacket 07
June 12th, 2009
1:46 pm
‘An engineer from Georgia Tech would never compromise a project because he’s doing it for a client who is a fan or graduate of Georgia.’
As a Tech Fan, Well Said.
Yellow Jacket 07
June 12th, 2009
1:52 pm
Does anybody else agree that Huh? needs to go to counseling? He seems to have a lot of built up anger…
Phil McCrotch
June 12th, 2009
2:04 pm
Doug says-”It’s honestly not hard being a graduate from UGA who is covering Georgia Tech. Why?”
because your an adult unlike some of the children on here.
Some of these juveniles need to get a life.
Saint Simons
June 12th, 2009
3:00 pm
AJC = (((( FOX NEWS ))))
Saint Simons
June 12th, 2009
3:01 pm
Doug = Bill O’Riley
Huh? Everything Ok lil' guy?
June 12th, 2009
3:49 pm
I think you might be losing a little bit of sanity every day you are on this Blog. Why are you on here? I mean….
1) You hate Tech
2) You’re not a Tech fan
3) You’re a UGA fan
4) You say the same things over and over again…We get it ….you think Tech is awful and UGA is GOD…what more is there to say from your side?
“Huh?”…you might need to get counseling for your apparent hatred for all things Georgia Tech. I mean, I hate UGA and all but sheesh buddy….calm the hell down…it’s going to be ok…it’s just college football ya know?!?! It’s 18-22 year old kids running around playing and look at how worked up you just got…because why? because they have different uniforms than your favorite team? Is that why they upset you so much lil’ buddy?
Saint Simons = Lonely Dawg Fan
June 12th, 2009
4:01 pm
Enter your comments here
Statue for CPJ
June 12th, 2009
4:14 pm
There should be a “Know your Jackets” series this year b/c Tech, not UGA, is the hyped team (and Tech has all the stars).
Huh?
June 12th, 2009
4:24 pm
“I think you might be losing a little bit of sanity every day you are on this Blog. Why are you on here?”
The same reason people slow down to look at car wrecks. Morbid curiosity.
“1) You hate Tech.”
No, I don’t. Just its fans.
“2) You’re not a Tech fan.”
There is a God and he is good.
“3) You’re a UGA fan.”
See #2.
“4) You say the same things over and over again…We get it ….you think Tech is awful and UGA is GOD…what more is there to say from your side?”
No, you obviously don’t get it. Tech is not awful. Its fans are awful. YOU are awful. You are the biggest joke of a fan base on the face of the earth. I can assure you that I am not the only one that believes this. Its quite a common sentiment among non-Tech fans. Maybe you should get out more.
I would suggest that you do one of two things if you do not like my posts: 1) Prove me wrong that Tech fans are not big fat hypocrite crybabies; or 2) Don’t flippin’ read them. Given the fact that option 1) is next to impossible, it seems that option 2) is your only choice. How difficult is it for you to avoid my posts? I suggest you seek counseling for this obsession LIL’ GUY. Good day.
Uh huh!
June 12th, 2009
4:36 pm
Huh? is your typical UGA moron –didn’t go to school there, didn’t go to school anywhere –just barks like a dawg.
you know what a good day is –409 yards rushing in the home stadium of the pre-season #1 ranked team.
good damn day sir!
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.
chad
June 17th, 2009
9:21 am
Actually I wished I was as cool as Doug and graduate from a finer academic institution such as UGA.
Instead I am just a tool.
SlimG
June 17th, 2009
12:20 pm
Is someone that creative that they have to copy my blog name. Flattery, I love it. Dude, people know I wouldn’t post such a stupid comment.
chad
June 17th, 2009
4:24 pm
I find it flattering that someone would want to pretend to be me. I know the mutt pack has a complex that they don’t feel as if they are equals. For the record this Chad doesn’t feel sorry for you and I hope you find yourself in a gutter homeless. Also for the record the crack on Polly Tech is not funny. Polly Tech is a good school.
uga is trailor trash
June 17th, 2009
4:25 pm
As a TECH Grad if I were building a building for a bunch of UGAY grads and homers, I’d design the damnn thing with tooth picks for support structures so I could take out as many of those mullet sporting rednecks with action as I possibly could. Send the whole damnn thing crashing down on them. I guess if I ever get into mobile home design, I can see that dream come true. Help the welfare system out too while I’m at it! : )
chad
June 17th, 2009
4:27 pm
Also Doug is not cool, he went to UGAY didn’t he. That qualifies him as a looooooooser.
chad
June 17th, 2009
5:10 pm
I am still a tool and I am the homeless one. Thats what that Polytech education will get you.
Doug is cool just because he didn’t go to Tech. Man I wish I could be like him.
uga is trailor trash
June 17th, 2009
5:13 pm
As a Tech grad I wish I wasn’t trailer trash. But mom and dad couldn’t afford a decent double-wide with that trade school education they got. Now I followed in their footsteps and will soon own a trailer of my own. Isn’t a Tech education grand?
uga can suck ma balllls!
June 17th, 2009
8:34 pm
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery (aka ..stealing my first screen name). Don’t worry my friend…I wasnt alive in 1955 when your single wide was crafted so you are in no danger (unless they catch you for that domestic violence charge). Got an idea…go sit on the couch with the rest of mullet nation and wait on the first of the month to come so you can go pick up your government aid and “FREE CHEESE”!
uga is trailor trash
June 17th, 2009
9:45 pm
I’m a cool tool with a mullet.
uga can suck ma balllls!
June 17th, 2009
9:47 pm
You see I cannot have a cool comeback other than imitation thing. what can I say, it sure does get super hot in my 14×20 single wide during the summer and I can’t think straight. Come to think about it, I never was able to think straight with that trade school education. I guess thats what I get for being a tool and a leghumper.
uga can suck ma balllls!
June 17th, 2009
9:49 pm
I can’t wait until the tool of the month time when I go pick up my government meat. Its hard sitting here on my computer all day trying to be clever and get everything provided to me by the good ole state of Georgia. Thats what I get for being a Tech fan.
uga can suck ma balllls!
June 17th, 2009
11:47 pm
what am I talking about. Only a tool would keep coming up with something original such as ugay. Only us Tech fans are that cool and stupid.
A Helluva Engineer
June 18th, 2009
3:21 pm
Seriously, I’m not gay:)
uga can suck ma balllls!
June 18th, 2009
5:09 pm
suck my balls! your mom did mullet head! Hows that miller basketball signing working out for ya. Derick Favors said your mom could suck his balls too!
Huh?
June 18th, 2009
6:02 pm
I lick donkey scrotum
shane#1
June 18th, 2009
6:03 pm
My trailer is on fire. My mom fell asleep while smoking crack rock
Kelin Johnson
June 18th, 2009
6:03 pm
I love drunk driving and pissing in the back of cop cars!
Disappointed in our Beat Writer...
June 18th, 2009
6:45 pm
Doug, I’m a Tech grad and have been following GT sports for over 20 years. The AJC has always been a source where I would turn to get info about GT. To be frank, I am very disappointed at the coverage (or lack thereof) from you, our “beat writer” for GT athletics. Aside from your player interviews, there has been nothing of interest since you’ve replaced Ken and Larry as the beat writer. I had enjoyed their perspectives and insights but there has been a great dropoff not only in the coverage but also in the quality of writing since you took over.
Quite honestly, just take a look over at the ESPN blog pages for ACC Football. Heather Dinich provides so much more information and interesting tidbits about not only our program but the entire ACC. I’ve turned to her blogs for GT info now… I do hope that the coverage does pick up here when the football and basketball seasons resume. C’mon Doug, we’re giving you a chance… give us something that we can actually work with… and hopefully some insights that only a beat writer can provide us, the fans…
funny
June 21st, 2009
8:29 pm
I find it hilarious that one of the only things dawg fans have to say is “Oh its so sad that tech cant even fill up its 52,000 fan stadium” and all of that nonsense. Funny thing is, we won last year at your 92,000 stadium. And everyone will see how tech only seating 52,000 will still be enough to dominate the dawgs this year