You say it’s your …
birthday.
Ok, well you didn’t say that. But I did.
For those who didn’t know, and sure most of yall did, coach Paul Johnson turned 52 on Thursday.
So, before we get to other stuff, I wanted to ask yall about cool gifts related to your favorite team. What’s the coolest Georgia Tech-related gift you’ve ever received or given, and why?
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And, on to other stuff. In the practice report you may have read that Demaryius Thomas missed practice with a couple of injured digits. I wouldn’t sweat it. He’s been playing with since injuring it at the start of August. He’s just being held out as a precaution.
In other news, Kyle Jackson got to do some conditioning drills with the team today. I believe it was his first day getting to participate.
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Somebody asked for an update about Roddy Jones in the previous blog. Johnson said today that Jones’ cast will be coming off Monday.
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Someone also asked for an update on J.C. Lanier. He missed at least one practice earlier this week. To be honest, I didn’t get a chance to see if he was back today.
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Also in the practice report I wrote about the possibility of Tech having two 1,000-yard rushers this season. Jonathan Dwyer raised the possibility of three, but that’s more the power of positive thinking, I think. But who knows?
Anyway, I wanted to get yall’s take on the possibility that Tech could have two 1k dudes this year. Nesbitt and Jones each came within 10 yards of 700 last season. Who’s to say another year in the offense couldn’t produce another 1k rusher?
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AlabamaRamblinwreck
August 20th, 2009
8:49 pm
Doug: Jordan Luallen condition?
aint simons
August 20th, 2009
8:59 pm
tuckfech
Question?
August 20th, 2009
9:02 pm
I know it is off topic… Why did teachers work at school on furlough days but college coaches are not allowed to come on campus on theirs. Since you aren’t allowed in practice right now, do some digging on this topic Doug. Thanks.
TechSenior
August 20th, 2009
9:04 pm
Its hard not to be optimistic. But CPJ said Nesbitt should be 1k running 3k in the air. If he is anywhere near that we are NC’s.
droberson
August 20th, 2009
9:16 pm
Luallen is still out. Other than Jaybo Shaw, any player who is out will not miss significant time, according to cpj.
teachers weren’t supposed to work at school on furlough days. I couldn’t being to tell you if they did.
droberson
August 20th, 2009
9:17 pm
That should say begin to tell you. Sorry about that
Question?
August 20th, 2009
9:31 pm
Just FYI, at least 80% of teachers worked on the furlough days… At the open schools. I guess coaches are just going to not show up for a few days at work during the season? That won’t happen.
AlabamaRamblinwreck
August 20th, 2009
9:36 pm
Any idea when Luallen might be able to practice? I figured he was still out or you would have reported that he was back!!!
Pi$$onaDawg
August 20th, 2009
9:55 pm
I took a 4ft. length of Railroad Track to CJP last year. The note was “Laying Track to the top of the ACC”. I don’t know if he got it or saw it, but I hope it was a piece of last years team heading to the top of the ACC.
Pi$$onaDawg
August 20th, 2009
10:09 pm
Years ago I made a walking cane that was painted and covered with all of Joe Hamilton’s wins. I delivered it to the coaches office a few days before Joe went to New York. I played Eddie lee Ivory and Don Bessillieu i a game of horse at Pepper Rogers football camp. I think I won, but they may have thrown the game. I was given Don’s game jersey for the 78 Peach Bowl. Tech lost to Purdur, but I wear that jersey on throw-back games. Don did play for the Fins for a few years too.
Rhino`
August 20th, 2009
10:27 pm
My ex mother in law gave me a GT football helmet mail box. It was a large helmet with a face guard around the front. I’ve never seen another like it GT or any other team.
CitrusBowlKodachrome
August 20th, 2009
10:28 pm
Doug, years ago I received (and I still have) a marble paper weight with a swatch of the artificial turf that had been taken up and replaced at Grant Field. What I’d like to find is one of the photos that they sold with ads in GT publications after the 1991 Citrus Bowl – the one that was a shot of the endzone with scoreboard showing the GT 45 – Nebraska 21 score and the Tech fans in that section which included our seats. Anybody know of a source?
GTcleveland
August 20th, 2009
10:43 pm
This last birthday I got a nice GT hoody, a book on the history of GT Football, and the marque gift…a sweet model of the Ramblin’ Wreck. Needless to say, I was all smiles
.
Sweet to see that it looks like that PRP procedure for Jackson seems to be working!
JACKETfan
August 20th, 2009
11:17 pm
Dwyer will get anywhere between 1,000 and 1,300 yards… I dont think his numbers will improve that much because of the increased passing game and addition of Anthony Allen. I think if we were to have another 1,000 yard rusher it would be Roddy Jones or Anthony Allen. Nesbitt will run for 700-900. Marcus Wright 400-500. Embry 300-400. I could see Anthony Allen and Roddy Jones running for 1,000+ for one of them and 800 or so for the other.
Hayseed Dixie
August 20th, 2009
11:36 pm
The best Tech gift I gave was to my whole family: finally getting my own durn season tickets. Now we have eight.
Go Jackets!
GT Rich
August 20th, 2009
11:54 pm
Dwyer definitely. Given that there are 12 regular season games, hopefully an ACC championship game and a bowl game, I think that either Roddy or Allen should be able to join Dwyer above the 1000yd mark. Towards the end of the season Nesbitt was pitching the ball to A-backs more than he was running it himself. I expect that trend will contune….
StingerSplash
August 21st, 2009
12:14 am
Best gift?
45-42!
Saint Simons
August 21st, 2009
12:30 am
(((((45-42)))))hahaha and then we had a Tickle Pile on their campus!!!!!!!
GT 07
August 21st, 2009
1:07 am
The best gift I got was an autographed sack of weed from Joe Hamilton.
Cuttysark
August 21st, 2009
2:06 am
With the stable of running backs on the roster who will be rotating in and out, together as a team, the numbers should be around 4,000 yards for the season in year # 2. How it is broken down between the individuals players is of no consequence. The passing game needs to be between 140 to 160 yards per game. With those numbers, and the returning defense, that will put Tech into the ACC Championship game.
Go isportsweb.com for more Georgia Tech Football Posts, and a feature article on the yellow jackets Coach Paul Johnson. THWG
Not Disappointed
August 21st, 2009
4:33 am
It would be nice to see Nesbitt, Dwyers and Jones get over 1000 yards, but I rather have the win.
Last Christmas my Ga Dawg brother gave me a Present wrapped in Geogia Bulldog paper. I immediately threw it in the fire place. Just a first response and he yanked it out quickly; nevertheless I opened it to find Georgia Tech Clock, two glasses, shot glasses, throw blanket, tags, key ring, and season tickets. Pure love from a brother that doesn’t pull for me Jackets. Way to go bro!
Ramblin Wreck!
TC
August 21st, 2009
6:11 am
TechSenior
August 20th, 2009
9:04 pm
Its hard not to be optimistic. But CPJ said Nesbitt should be 1k running 3k in the air. If he is anywhere near that we are NC’s
LMAO!!!
TC
August 21st, 2009
6:13 am
Tech goes 7-5 in 09.
GT65
August 21st, 2009
6:21 am
GT could very easily come out of September 1-3. 2-2 at best.
Jim Rockford
August 21st, 2009
6:54 am
Someone is worried. The 2 above fans belong to our rivals in the SeemsEverybody’sCheatin’ conference.
Smitty
August 21st, 2009
6:55 am
GT65 could very easily come out of September still a virgin.
third quarter fan
August 21st, 2009
7:39 am
I’d like to have an orange for Christmas…
TechDan
August 21st, 2009
7:54 am
2-2 at best, GT65? which games do you think are guaranteed losses? Jax State at home? Clemson at home for the white out? UNC at home? Miami at Miami, who we’ve owned the last four years? 4-0 is more likely than 1-3, and maybe slightly more likely than 2-2, which is hardly the best case.
Baba O'Riley
August 21st, 2009
8:22 am
TechDan- GT65, just like GT66 are fans of the team in Athens. They just like to yank chains. Please don’t list ‘Clemson at home for the white out” in your argument. “Clemson at home” is fine, but we all remember what can happen when teams think they can chalk up a win because of a BLACKOUT, or in this case a whiteout.
Hey Dogtards
August 21st, 2009
8:23 am
Best Gift – tickets and a trip to see GT basketball play LSU (w/ Shaq) in (I believe) the round of 32 in Tennessee back in 1990/91. Tech fell behind by about 20 early on, then dug in and clawed back. Lethal weapon three!!!
Doug Roberson
August 21st, 2009
8:27 am
One thing I forgot to include, is that the idea for the two 1k rushers came from one of yall. He emailed it to me on Wednesday. So, thanks for that, and keep ‘em coming.
And, as always, follow me on twitter @ajcgatech.
Seriously?
August 21st, 2009
8:33 am
CPJ’s birthday was Thursday (8-20)…
http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/johnson_paul00.html
Nice read on the 2 1,000 yard rushers. Thanks for your work Doug.
Alabama Jack
August 21st, 2009
8:49 am
Re: Citrus Bowl poster. I saw that one in the office of the owner of a Chattanooga Ford dealership in 1996. Like you, and me, he was there.
Check your quotes TechSenior
August 21st, 2009
9:07 am
CPJ said one of Nesbitt’s goals was rush for 1000 and throw for 2000. I don’t know where you got 3000 from…
old gold engineer
August 21st, 2009
9:31 am
A few years ago, I received a beautiful GT snow globe for my birthday. My 2-year old daughter wanted to play with it in the living room and I thought that would be fine. Minutes later, she walks into the kitchen, drops it on the tile floor, and shatters the globe. Anybody know of a good snow globe repair shop?
Funny!
August 21st, 2009
9:35 am
If there is a team in the state that comes out of September 2-2 or 1-3, it will be UGA! Oh, and then another loss the first game of October.
yellowman
August 21st, 2009
9:37 am
What is a Tickle Pile. I heard about Tickle Piles when I was on campus but never attended attended. What exactly happens?
wyldbill
August 21st, 2009
9:41 am
Tech gifts: I’ve had many fine Tech related gifts given to me over the years, but the best by far is a piece of the goalline from the 1991 Citrus Bowl. It’s a handfull of turf with a little white paint showing. I keep it in a plastic bag. Looks like a stash of weed. Second best, the wishbone from our tailgate picnic fried chicken in the rain on the UGA campus in 1974.
AMG
August 21st, 2009
9:45 am
UGA will lose 5 or six games this season and will not be in the top 25 for the first time since CMR arrived in athens. This be said, I feel your pain UGA fans and I understand why you have to lash out at GT, who will compete for a BCS bowl every year for at least the next three. THWG and how sweet it is to listen to you guys wine like the swine you are.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
August 21st, 2009
9:55 am
If GT could play UGA 4 or 5 times this season, there’s no question GT would have a MINIMUM of TWO 1,000 yard rushers.
Go Gators
August 21st, 2009
9:56 am
The U.S. News & World Report college ratings are out today, and Georgia schools retained their rankings from last year for the most part.
I think the rankings influence where students go to college. (I also think many students are influenced by the “Colleges that Change Lives” franchise.)
Many people dismiss college status as a factor, but there’s evidence that where you go to school impacts how much you earn.
PayScale Inc., which compiles compensation data, says the median starting salary for Ivy League graduates is about 30 percent higher than that of liberal-arts college graduates. However, the study doesn’t address whether that pay differential is the result of a better education, or simply because the Ivies attract higher-achieving students in the first place. (I would also ask whether the Ivies attract better connected kids; it’s easier to end up at Goldman Sachs if your mother worked there.)
In its 2009 report, PayScale says the median starting salary for a University of Georgia graduate was $43,900, compared to $60,00 for a Harvard grad, $58,900 for a Georgia Tech grad, and $50,600 for an Emory grad.
I am sorry to report that PayScale also lists degrees that pay you back and teaching and journalism offer some of the lowest returns. The big money is in the STEM fields; science, technology, engineering and math.
Mutts-R-Stupid-especially-journalism-majors
August 21st, 2009
10:08 am
Teachers should not be allowed on campus on furlough days because I can just see the coming legal action to require that we pay them for that time. Teachers already get a 12 month pay check for working only 9 months, plus they get two weeks off at Christmas, a week each for Fall and Spring break, and all the other little holidays like Thanksgiving. If they want to compare their pay with what TAXPAYERS make in 12 months, then they should work 12 months, and not fewer than 9.
BankerDawg
August 21st, 2009
10:10 am
Three may be stretching, but it’s not entirely impossible, I guess.
I agree with a previous poster who alluded to the 4,000 yard mark as a target for this year (I believe you guys were closer to 3,300 or so last year, but not sure and I am too lazy to look it up right now).
If everyone stays healthy, I think it’s likely that Nesbitt and Dwyer each have 1,000 + yard seasons, with likely Roddy Jones and Anthony Allen with the bulk of the rest.
The 3,000 yard number passing for Nesbitt is extremely aggressive. I would expect a more reasonable breakdown to be 2,000 yards passing and 1,000 rushing from him.
Regarding Jackson, that would seem to be huge loss for your group of linebackers if he can’t go.
How is your depth at LB? Does the scheme, with the Wolf position, make this less of a big deal than it would ordinarily be if you ran a more traditional 4-3?
GOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!
CitrusBowlKodachrome
August 21st, 2009
10:18 am
Bro, if u have facebook, the pic of the scoreboard that you are looking for where GT beats Neb in the Citrus Bowl is on the following link:
http://apps.facebook.com/georgiatechfootball/?page=viewtoprated&pg=82354
Cheers…
JACKETfan
August 21st, 2009
10:25 am
Bankerdawg-
We still have pretty good depth at LB, but the loss of Kyle Jackson does hurt tremendously because he was a backup that had the skills of a starter. The wolf position is just designed to create havoc and to be able to adapt to different defenses without changing the scheme. The 4-2-4-wolf, i guess you could call it lol, can lign the wolf up at LB against a traditional offense or lign him up as a 3rd safety against a spread offense. Cooper Taylor will start at wolf and will be backed by Mario Edwards. The two deep is pretty solid at that position. The third wolf would have been Anthony Barnes, a converted true linebacker. He was on track to start last year as a LB but got injured for the majority of the season. Now he is healthy, so I would imagine with the quality depth at wolf and the loss of Kyle Jackson, the coaching staff will move barnes back to the LB rotation. Jackson wont be out for the entire season, tthough. Hes already back at practice. We also have Steven Sylvester and Malcum Monroe, both of whom are very athletic LB that were solid recruits out of HS, they just lack experience. But I think they will do just fine as backups because they are talented, we just havent seen them yet.
JACKETfan
August 21st, 2009
10:28 am
BTW, regarding Kyle Jackson, i mentioned he was back at practice, but hes not in playing capability yet. He had surgury and is wearing a prrotectice boot and ran through some conditioning drills but isnt allowed for contact yet. So i would imagine he would be out for Jax State just to have him heal up even more, but im not sure of how long into the season he will be out. If he is already out there, I would think that we will see him very soon, of course it may take him atleast a game to get back into it.
VT´s schedule 2 easy! :(
August 21st, 2009
10:32 am
Has any of you guys checked out VT´s ACC´s schedule? It´s by far easier than GT´s… So even though we should (and must) win against VT @ home… we better take care of the rest of our ACC games or we could lose the Coastal Division…
VT could easily go 7-1 (losing to GT) and maybe UNC (but don´t think so since they play in Blacksburg… Check this out!!!
9/05 vs. Alabama
9/12 Marshall
9/19 Nebraska
9/26 Miami (FL)
10/03 @ Duke
10/10 Boston College
10/17 @ Georgia Tech
10/29 North Carolina
11/05 @ East Carolina
11/14 @ Maryland
11/21 North Carolina State
11/28 @ Virginia
Wow!
August 21st, 2009
10:35 am
If only all UGA fans were like Banker Dawg!
GT Insider
August 21st, 2009
10:36 am
Just heard that PJ’s people are talking to Notre Dame reps through a back channel. I will check further but lets hope this is not fact.
GT Insider
August 21st, 2009
10:37 am
Just heard that PJ’s people are talking to Notre Dame reps through a back channel. I will chek further but lets hope this is not fact.
ForTheRecord
August 21st, 2009
10:37 am
BankerDawg is an obvious football fan that offers realistic numbers for GT.
No way Tech produces two 1,000 yard rushers and also has a QB with over 3,000 yards. Johnson stated about a month ago in some article for the AJC that he would be happy with 100 yards passing per game. That would equate to 1,300 with Bowl game included. Even a doubling of the coach’s number does not reach the 3,000 yard plateau. Much more likely to have three 1,000 yard rushers in his offense than to have a QB with 3,000.
Jackson
August 21st, 2009
10:40 am
Not a huge loss. Sedric Griffin is a lock to start and Brad Jefferson would probably start at the other LB position regardless of Kyle Jackson’s health. It hurts our depth, but not our starting 11. We also have a couple other solid guys we can slot in like Anthony Barnes (who has about two years of significant experience) or Steven Sylvester, a true sophomore who saw some meaningful game time last year (played in every game except Jacksonville St.).
Even playing a 4-3 we’d be able to start Barnes, Griffin, and Jefferson. Luckily, LB is probably the deepest aspect of the team besides RB.
ForTheRecord
August 21st, 2009
10:41 am
BTW…rumor has it Richt spent time this summer with a couple of big time Miami boosters. If Shannon fails to have a terrific year and with mounting pressure on his job based on last years debacle and likely a 4 or more loss year coming up….Will Richt move back to Florida for a chance to win the National Title and to make recruiting easier thanks to South Beach?
LOL
August 21st, 2009
10:43 am
“Just heard that PJ’s people are talking to Notre Dame reps through a back channel. I will chek further but lets hope this is not fact.”
What is a “back channel” anyways? This is about the most credible rumor I’ve heard since the talks that they were moving the Georgia-Georgia Tech game to Grady Stadium in Piedmont Park. No teams are contacting coaches before the season even starts!
GT80
August 21st, 2009
10:44 am
It’s not a big secret that Charlie Weiss will be moving on at the end of 09 no matter what the season’s outcome and the two names mentioned most have been CPJ and Urban Meyer. Meyers new contract with the hefty buyout almost precludes him and if you guys remember, CPJ refused to sign a contract with a buyout clause. This could well happen.
Mark
August 21st, 2009
10:45 am
I wonder why PJ wouldn’t agree to a buyout.
ForTheRecord
August 21st, 2009
10:48 am
If he leaves GT would probably simply turn around and hire the ex-assistant still at Navy and Navy would hire his top assistant to keep the current system in place. LOL
Next thing you know….ten years from now….the Option spread offense will be used by so many schools as to be like the modern passing spread offense used throughout the NFL, College and High Schools today.
Mark
August 21st, 2009
10:49 am
LOL you’re an idiot. This stuff goes on all the time and ND has been shopping this job for months. Florida tried to kill their end of it with Meyer’s new contract. Take off the rose collored glasses idiot.
GT Alum
August 21st, 2009
10:50 am
Whoever said 3k passing is incorrect. A goal was set for Nesbitt to hit 1k rushing and 2k passing. Looking at each player individually:
Dwyer is a predicted 1k repeat for obvious reasons.
Jones was a RF last year in a brand new system and racked up just shy of 700.
Allen is a beast who racked up 700 in his second year at UL.
Nesbitt had a young offensive line in a brand new system and racked up just shy of 700.
All sound like possibilities, but is it likely to have 4? NO! But 2 is very reasonable. Especially if Nesbitt doesn’t miss 3 games like he did last year.
VT´s schedule 2 easy! :(
August 21st, 2009
10:58 am
Has any of you guys checked out VT´s ACC´s schedule? It´s by far easier than GT´s… So even though we should (and must) win against VT @ home… we better take care of the rest of our ACC games or we could lose the Coastal Division…
VT could easily go 7-1 (losing to GT) and maybe UNC (but don´t think so since they play in Blacksburg… Check this out!!!
9/05 vs. Alabama
9/12 Marshall
9/19 Nebraska
9/26 Miami (FL)
10/03 @ Duke
10/10 Boston College
10/17 @ Georgia Tech
10/29 North Carolina
11/05 @ East Carolina
11/14 @ Maryland
11/21 North Carolina State
11/28 @ Virginia
LONG DAWG
August 21st, 2009
11:44 am
AMG and ZZZZZ… best gift teck ever got was a pick six from Stafford and a fumble by a 16 yar old freshman Richard Samuel. Georgia had 407 yards passing and 124 yards rushing on teck. That’s 531 yards of offense on a team that had three players go to the NFL. They are gone. UGA can’t wait till November.
VT´s schedule 2 easy! :(
August 21st, 2009
11:51 am
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO????
VT could easily go 7-1 (losing to GT) and maybe UNC (but don´t think so since they play in Blacksburg… Check this out!!!
9/05 vs. Alabama
9/12 Marshall
9/19 Nebraska
9/26 Miami (FL)
10/03 @ Duke
10/10 Boston College
10/17 @ Georgia Tech
10/29 North Carolina
11/05 @ East Carolina
11/14 @ Maryland
11/21 North Carolina State
11/28 @ Virginia
Born2Buzz
August 21st, 2009
12:41 pm
I’m the same age as Coach J! Best gift I got was a JV5 football with Georgia Tech embossed on it when I was 11. A for real GT game ball. I still have it, although it’s pretty worn and doesn’t hold air. But still a sweet prize.
For you folks worried about Coach going to ND, don’t. Coach J is not the kind of guy to leave after just 3 years on the job, plus he’s a southern boy and would not like the midwest. He is very happy in his current situation.
With all of the RB depth we have I doubt if there will be 2 1k rushers. Dwyer will get his but Allen, Roddy J, Cox, Wright & Peeples will all get touches and spread out the yards.
gtfan
August 21st, 2009
12:53 pm
Is this what dawg fans mean by tickle piles?
http://www.sportable.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/stafford-spoon.jpg
Stinger
August 21st, 2009
1:03 pm
Long Dawg, get off this blog. How can anyone put down our defense when Willie’s boys are the worst in college football, bar none?
Yeah right, you can’t wait for November. You will be so ashamed of your team by Novemeber I guarantee you won’t want to visit Bobby Dodd Stadium. Richard Samuels or is it Simmons will fumble 5 times and Joe Cox Sucker will throw 5 interceptions. You will lose a minimum of 6 games this year. Mark my Word you moron.
The Price is Right
August 21st, 2009
1:18 pm
It’s amusing that the UGA trolls think that spreading false rumors about PJ and tech players will every be paid attention to by anyone that matters. I’m guessing it’s the same yellowblood idiot that thinks if he spends his entire life posting about tickle piles that someone might think it’s true.
Also note – PJ did not refuse to put a buyout in his contract. He has a buyout in his contract – not a huge one, but there is one.
LONG DAWG
August 21st, 2009
1:28 pm
Stinger, you see any teck fans on Dawg blogs? When you don’t you won’t see me on this one. Your defense gave up over 500 yards with three pro prospects. UGA is looking forward to coming to the flats my friend we got a long winning streak there.
You got a dirty mouth boy. It is a good thing you can hide behind a computer.
LONG DAWG
August 21st, 2009
1:31 pm
Stinger you are posting on the UGA blog so when you stop posting there maybe Dawg fans will stop posting here. I have a lot of friends who went to tech and while we get after each other about the game we try to stay out of the gutter like you. You got a dirty mouth boy and it is a good thing you can hide behind that computer.
Cuttysark
August 21st, 2009
1:47 pm
Breaking news, Quarterback Ryan Perrilloux has just been suspended for the season opener against Georgia Tech.
Go to isportsweb.com for a feature article on Coach Paul Johnson and other GT Football postings. Go Jackets!
Stinger
August 21st, 2009
1:52 pm
Long Dawg,
You have a very short memory. You called me a punk first. If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen before I sting you in the mouth and knock out a few teeth little boy.
WOW!
August 21st, 2009
2:00 pm
If only there were any GT fans that had any class like Banker Dawg
Jeff read this
August 21st, 2009
2:07 pm
I dont think Neb itt will hit 1000. I know roddy will. Keep in mind that roddy didnt get most of his yards until the end off the season. He wasnt a big part of the offense until later in the season. i think Anthony Allen will be another dangerous weapon.
BankerDawg
August 21st, 2009
2:12 pm
I just try to stick to topic and talk football….with a well placed, well thought out insult thrown in every now again!
JACKETfan, thanks for the info regarding the defense. Sounds like the athleticism is there, and now you’re to the point of needing them to act on instinct versus thinking through the process of where they need to be on a given play. Luckily, the latter can be taught, but the former cannot.
Is Barnes the LB that broke his leg in our game last year?
GOOOOOO DAWGS!
LONG DAWG
August 21st, 2009
2:20 pm
Stinger, like I said it is a good thing you can hide behind that computer.
Hey Dogtards
August 21st, 2009
2:46 pm
Yeah Short Dog, I mean you. Your argument is terrible. Nothing less than I would expect from a 12 year old puppy fan.
“Georgia had 407 yards passing and 124 yards rushing on teck. That’s 531 yards of offense on a team that had three players go to the NFL. They are gone. UGA can’t wait till November.”
As an initial matter, you only had 81 yards rushing. 94 by No-Show, 1 by your starting RB this year, and -14 by Tubbs McGee.
Second, are you talking about our front four that placed one guy in the third round and two in the seventh?
Surely you recognize that your ENTIRE offense, minus AJ Green and Shaun Chapas, graduated last year, INCLUDING three nfl picks from your offense that were higher than any pick from Tech.
1) Stafford (407 yards passing)
2) Moreno (94 yds rushing, 74 yards receiving, 1 TD)
3) Massaquoi (180 yds receiving, 3 TDs)
In fact, all you have returning from that game is one, lonely rushing yard and 90 receiving yards. So yeah, your three NFL players did well against our three NFL players. But they ALL are gone. Who cares if that one rushing yard can’t wait until November?
OH, and – just like Tech – uga placed three defensive players in the NFL (2 in round 3, 1 in round 6). However, contrasting uga’s situation, Tech returns every single skill player on offense. That includes Dwyer (144 yards rushing) and Jones (214 yards rushing).
THEY can’t wait until November. Joe Cox and whomever you guys will start at RB? They had no bearing on the game last year so it doesn’t matter.
Next?
Stinger
August 21st, 2009
3:05 pm
Long Dawg,
You’re a scared little puppy. Good thing you can hide in that kennel. Why don’t you go suck on a bone?
Smitty
August 21st, 2009
3:46 pm
GT65, GT66, and GT80 are the same. He tries to start all the negative GT rumors: (Morgan Burnett failing drug test, Gani Lawal not going to class, CPJ to Notre Dame).
Mr. A
August 21st, 2009
3:53 pm
Look Tech fans ….. look at the Dawgs blog site and you will see numerous Tech people making very stupid and uneducated statements. While I have an opinion about that I will keep it to myself. But the bottom line is don’t rip the one or two Dawg fans on here when you had several on our site.
I am leaving your site right now, but before you call out any of our fans get the idiots off of ours. I also think any Dawg fans should leave now because we have our own site.Let the classy Tech fans that are on here enjoy their own site. Good luck this year in all games but one!
BobinBuford
August 21st, 2009
3:56 pm
Mutts-r-Stupid:
If that is the case, you must be a mutt. Teachers get paid for 9 months SPREAD over 12 months. Also, most teachers work a heck of a lot more hours than you probably do. If you think this is such a cushy job, why not try it??
Hey hey Mr. A
August 21st, 2009
3:57 pm
I guarantee you that the people making stupid and uneducated statements on each blog are Florida/VT fans looking to get a rise out of each school. I don’t mind the pup fans that come here and keep it classy, or at least have reasoned arguments.
But to say we can’t rip them is no fun. You guys can rip the heck out of St. Simons, we are gonna rip the heck out of “GT Insider” and GTXX.
GT Forever
August 21st, 2009
4:11 pm
Mr. A – I agree that we should stay on our own blog’s. I have read some of the people on your blog and was ashamed to be a Tech fan. We should be better then that.
45ACP
August 21st, 2009
4:41 pm
I want to see Long Dawg and Stinger in a cage match down at the Georgia Dome baby………….
LONG DAWG
August 21st, 2009
7:33 pm
DOGTARDS, you are dummer than stinger. First you got the rushing yardage wrong. Second, it doesn’t change the fact that our offense had more yardage on tevh than tech had on us so who has the lousy defense. You got a gift of a pick 6 and a fumble on the 23. Without either of those it is 8 in a row. Third the rest of your point is pointless. We have the best offensive line we’ve probably ever had coming back and the best wide receiver we ever had and two 5 star tailback recruits and a slew of 4 star runing backs and receivers ready to step up. We’ll have plenty of offense especially considering how weak tecks defense is going to be. You will have lost at leat 3 by November.
Stinger you are a waste of skin. Stay close to your hole.
DanD
August 21st, 2009
8:55 pm
Stinger if theres a moron in the house it’s you. You don’t know shi$ about football….obviously.
Ernie
August 21st, 2009
8:56 pm
38-3 ought to settle the argument about the defense once and for all. Tech’s D sucked and will suck again this year.
Josefa
August 21st, 2009
9:01 pm
Smitty there could be some validity in the CPJ to Notre Dame. I have heard his name mentioned on several sports shows in that regard including ESPN. Also history is not on Tech’s side here. Good coaches leave Tech. Bad ones get fired. Count the number of GT coaches since 1965 and it is perfectly clear that Tech is only used as a stepping stone for the good ones and is a career killer for the bad ones. History don’t lie folks.
GM
August 21st, 2009
10:28 pm
Remember Tech fans, if you ignore them they’ll go away. Don’t engage the nonsense.
Big Dawg
August 22nd, 2009
12:09 am
GM…….. at least we don’t come out of the woodworks every eight or nine years. Guess we all know where you and the other “so called tech fans” will be this time next year! You guessed it … in hiding. So enjoy your little moment big bad GM!!!!
Time to go back to the real site…. the UGA Blog! See you!
StingerSplash
August 22nd, 2009
12:19 am
PJ ain’t going anywhere. ND wants Gruden if it can’t get Meyer. Which means it’ll work like hell to get Gruden, because they ain’t getting Urban.
sharecropper
August 22nd, 2009
8:07 am
Guys,take a deep breath. Stop hyperventilating. Johnson ain’t going to ND if and when they fire Weis, for the simple reason that Notre Dame, which sees itself — yeah, I know they’re full of it — as the cathedral of college football, will never adopt the under-the-center spread option. It just doesn’t look sophisticated enough for them. Never mind that it is far more sophisticated than the shotgun spread. It just doesn’t look right. It takes a leap of faith, or an act of desperation, for a major college team to adopt it. I don’t know which describes Georgia Tech. That is not a criticism of Johnson’s offense, which is really fun to watch. It is the reality of it. Major colleges today still subscribe to the line up and chunk it deep philosophy, in the belief that gets them on TV with all those dollars.
Born2Buzz
August 22nd, 2009
8:40 am
sharecropper,
it was both a leap of faith and an act of desperation. we were desperate for real football after 8 years of Gaileyball, so we took the leap… and we are damn glad we did.
Mike in Virginny
August 22nd, 2009
8:40 am
My firdt TECH away game was in the mid 1950s when in the third grade. We had moved from Atlanta to Greensboro, NC and my Dad took me to Durham to see my beloved Yellow Jackets play a fine Duke team led by Sonny Jurgenson. I had lost the original game program years ago. For a recent birthday, my wife located one on EBAY for me.
THWG!!!
Mike in Virginny
Hey Dogtards
August 22nd, 2009
8:43 am
Hey Short Pup
Where are you getting your stats from? Making them up. ESPN and the ajc both agree with me.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=283340061
That’s called a fact citation. Where does it say 124 yards rushing?
The rest of your argument isn’t even worth addressing, since you can’t even get basic facts right. I really hope for uga’s sake you didn’t go there, although I sincerely doubt you are smart enough to even sniff college (and no, sneaking out of your parents house to go to Georgia Perimeter parties doesn’t count).
Next?
LONG DAWG
August 22nd, 2009
9:22 am
DOGTARD, I got my stats from a different source so there is a difference. They both say 407 yards passing. Even if we go with your number it still adds up to 488 yards of total offense… more than tech had. Without the turnovers it is 8 in a row. We had that much offense with 2 starters out on the offensive line and a pure freshman starting at center.
Second point, we will have more than enough offense and defense for tech. If you guys haven’t lost 3 by Nov it will be a miracle. If Nesbitt gets hurt it will be 5 losses.
Third point, I did graduate from UGA probably before you were born. I have people your age working for me. They are just smarter and have better taste.
Hey Dogtards
August 22nd, 2009
9:37 am
LOL at smarter. Hopefully they know how to read and comprehend numbers – a skill you obviously lack.
I’m also laughing at the thought of you having people working for you. I sincerely doubt you have any semblance of a successful job given your propensity to troll and the maturity of your posts. Why don’t you post your business so we can all laugh at it?
Hey Dogtards
August 22nd, 2009
9:38 am
Any by the way, nice job posting your stat source. I stand by my original point that you simply made the numbers up.
Next?
Smitty
August 22nd, 2009
9:52 am
LONG DAWG- Isn’t that a dachsund?
Shane
August 22nd, 2009
12:06 pm
FREE COKES !!!
I GOT HOTDOGS HERE!!!!
Stinger
August 22nd, 2009
12:36 pm
Well,I see the retarded short dawg sneaked out to the kennel again. You know absolutely nothing about football. If a frog had wings, he wouldn’t bump his butt as he jumped. You could say if about every football game. If we had not had Chan Gailey, we would have beaten you 8 years in a row, which we will do now, hands down. The bottom line is we beat you 45-42 and have 19 starters returning including every one of them on offense. Yeah right, you can’t wait for November. What a joke, but the biggest joke is that you own your own company. I have about 100 people working for me and 3 of them are bulldawg fans. They empty the trash cans. Do you think you could handle that without screwing it up? I seriously doubt it you moron. Get off the Tech blogg!
Shane is a closet Queen!
August 22nd, 2009
12:52 pm
He lays for a free cokes and THICK HOT DOGS!
Football Expert
August 22nd, 2009
1:21 pm
Will the children please leave now so the adults can discuss football.
Football Expert
August 22nd, 2009
1:27 pm
This is a fact: If the Rev Ricky can win the big ones (Fla, GT, Oak St) he will be out. At UGA now days 9 or 10 wins with losses in the big games will not cut it.
The only real football coach that would leave a wining BCS team for ND is one who is looking for the Mega Bucks and a quick trip to retirement. That may be Rickt but is not CPJ.
LONG DAWG
August 22nd, 2009
2:57 pm
Dog Tards … You giving a lesson maturity.. funny stuff. Hey you never said where you graduated from. I bet it wasn’t Tech because I know lots of folks from tech and they sure as hell wouldn’t claim a loser like you.
I have time to do it because I own my own business regardless of whether you believe it or not and I agree that anyone who engages you and the like of stinger has gotten down in the gutter. You have time to troll blogs because you are cheating your employer out of work time by hanging out on these blogs. You and your buddy stinger are a fine reflection of what long term losing does to the mind. I know it hurts to be dominated but that is the way it is no matter how many insults you can come up with. Tech is a mediocre program with one decent season in the last 8 years. This year will be no different excpt UGA will reassert itself and you and stinger will fade into oblivion once again.
Hey Dogtards
August 22nd, 2009
3:06 pm
Who cares short puppy. You are the loser trolling other team’s boards. Based on how you act and what you say, I’d guess you are closer to an unemployed 16 year old child than some hot shot entrepreneur who is so bored with his life that he tries to rile up Tech fans in his spare time. Stay classy man.
Hey Dogtards
August 22nd, 2009
3:12 pm
PS you never did post that source that had uga at 124 rushing yards against Tech last year.
LONG DAWG
August 22nd, 2009
5:14 pm
DOG Tards… When tech fans get off Ga blogs I’ll get off this one. I got the info out of the 2009 UGA media guide although it really doesn’t matter does it. Georgia had more offense than teck and the difference in the game was a pick 6. Georgia’s offense scored more points than teck’s so put that in your next post. I am not bored with life at all pal but I do enjoy kicking your ass on this blog.
LONG DAWG
August 22nd, 2009
5:16 pm
Gog Tards….. you never said where you graduated from college…
Hey Dogtards
August 22nd, 2009
7:14 pm
“Georgia’s offense scored more points than teck’s so put that in your next post.”
Right on, great W.
“When tech fans get off Ga blogs I’ll get off this one.”
What are you, like 5? Not too surprising that you base your own pathetic trolling on the pathetic trolling of others. Either grow some inter-nuts and tell us who you are and what you do that makes you Mr. Wonderful, or admit that you are just a bored freshman in high school.
Stumpknocker
August 22nd, 2009
9:31 pm
Seems like Long Dawg spends more time on this blog than the Hummingbirds do at my feeder. Get a life man……Who cares if you own a business?……I don’t. One thing is for certain, the more you troll this site, the more obvious it becomes…..that college education didn’t do you any good son!!!!
jacketnation
August 23rd, 2009
12:31 am
Best gift I got was when I traded pot for 5 SEC championship rings from Ugag thugsters of the past.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
August 23rd, 2009
8:11 am
Long Dog must use a Short Bus to go to and from work.
HARMON DAVIS
August 23rd, 2009
9:10 am
BEST GT GIFT I GOT WAS A REPAINTED 1992 DODGE DAKOTA PAINTED IN GT GOLD AND A BIG WHITE GT ON THE HOOD. SERVICE MANAGER BORROWED IT AND BROUGHT BACK PAINTED A WEEK LATER. NOW HAS TO HELL WITH GA ON TAILGATE. PI$$ ON THEM DOGS !! CLASS OF 72
Stinger
August 23rd, 2009
12:06 pm
Short Dawg doesn’t own his own business. He is probably about 15 years old. I seriously doubt he went to college. He is a red neck hillbilly. He is unemployed and is obsessed with beating Tech. He knows he may not live to see that happen again. Long live Paul Johnson.
superDawg
August 23rd, 2009
1:12 pm
stinger your tuff for a gay little boy.
Stinger
August 23rd, 2009
2:06 pm
SuperDawg,
Same applies to you as to ShortDawg , you redneck hillbilly. I doubt you went to college either. Just can’t take these Tech AZZ whippings can you littel girl? Are you giving away girl scout cookies with purchase of UGA game tickets? The more you kids act like fools the more I am going to advise Paul Johnson to run the score up. I agree with T.Boone Pickens on his prediction, but we will top that on you.
Demonic Deacon
August 23rd, 2009
2:23 pm
gt football is a 3rd rate program at best and is an embarrassment to the ACC. I can’t wait until November 7th.
Ezekiel 25:17
Demonic Deacon
August 23rd, 2009
2:29 pm
Ezekiel 25:17. I can’t wait until November 7th.
Nate
August 23rd, 2009
6:58 pm
Wake talking trash, now I have officially seen everything. You are gonna’ get a handful from Tech and hopefully even some of our brothers from Athens will chime in and make fun of you. What a joke.
Stinger
August 23rd, 2009
7:23 pm
Demonic Deacon is a dawg fan. No ACC fan would be this retarded.
Demonic Deacon
August 23rd, 2009
8:25 pm
Stinger has “stinger envy”.
Stinger
August 23rd, 2009
8:28 pm
Could someone tell me if they wore leather helmets when UGA won it’s National Championship? Just wondering, it was so long ago.
Not Disappointed
August 23rd, 2009
8:56 pm
Almost time for Football! Ramblin Wreck!
superDawg
August 23rd, 2009
8:58 pm
stinger your heart will be broken hard after UGA spanks gt,keep up the insults because thats what nerd homo’s do.