Paul Johnson and volleyball
A few weeks ago, as Georgia Tech’s volleyball team was on the verge of potentially missing out on at-large berth to the NCAA tournament after losses to Miami and Florida State, coach Tonya Johnson asked Paul Johnson to come talk to her women.
He not only came and spoke, he provided them with a little motivation with a sack of marbles.
He gave each player a marble and told them to keep it because they were playing for all the marbles.
Johnson said before each game they take the marbles from the girls, and then give them back after the game.
They are 3-0 since and will play Baylor in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Friday in Los Angeles.
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superDawg
December 3rd, 2009
1:58 pm
gt4ever whats the good word? TO HELL WITH georgia tek!
Hedgepruner
December 3rd, 2009
2:02 pm
WEEDEATER BOWL haaaa haaaaa haaaa haaaa 7-5 YOUR PATHETIC !!!
Gt4ever
December 3rd, 2009
2:02 pm
No superDawg, it’s To HELL with UGA….. We will get you next year….
GA Tech Insider
December 3rd, 2009
2:08 pm
Gt4ever; You don’t know what you’re talking about. GA tech hosted a UGA commit at the game Saturday night game (unofficial visit), as well as several other key targets that the Bulldogs are going after, and I can assure you that your comments are WAY off base.
All I can say is that people need to cool their jets a bit on where these kids are going now that Mark Richt has proved that he has lied to them, and see where things end up. I can assure you that the comments from the kids at the game where quite positive regarding GA Tech, even though we lost
They loved the fact that the team never quit; that they played together as a TEAM, and they loved the atmosphere at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Some even commented on how well the coaches worked the players throughout the game in spite of the long odds and injuries.
No, don’t think for one minute that UGA got one inch of leverage from the win Saturday night. If anything, what’s happened in the last 24 hours, GA Tech has come out the really big winner.
Pull My Finger
December 3rd, 2009
2:09 pm
PHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHT!!
We ate your turf!!!
December 3rd, 2009
2:11 pm
7-5 is pathetic, for UGA standards. Yet Tech would make Cracker Jack rings for a couple more wins. And 7-5 bested your 10-2. Nuff said.
Cuttysark
December 3rd, 2009
2:13 pm
Interesting that there are lots of UGA supporters on this blog writing some very funny stuff. I enjoy the simplistic comments. I suppose they are not looking forward to their bowl game in Shreveport as an explanation as to why all of the interest on a Georgia Tech site.
For more Georgia Tech Football articles go to http://isportsweb.com. Read about the Yellow Jackets getting ready to play for a championship this Saturday. Go Jackets!
CaddyShack
December 3rd, 2009
2:15 pm
On the contrary Cuttysark,
I for one do one we land in Shreveport for punishment. I want Richt to send the message that this is a bowl that is meant for the Techs of the world, not UGA.
Enjoy your consolation prize “championship” game Saturday. Since we all know that UGA is the real ACC king
buzzzzzzzzzzz................
December 3rd, 2009
2:17 pm
The only liar here is GA Tech Insider and his moronic propaganda.
RECRUIT
December 3rd, 2009
2:17 pm
Going to tech is a no brainer.”Are you really that stupid” “Beating Georgia is not that important” give me a break SEC football rules and you know it!
Gt4ever
December 3rd, 2009
2:25 pm
Here’s hoping your right GTinsider……. To your comment that I don’t know what I’m talking about…. All you have to do is look up the stats on recruiting to determine that we are not in the same league with UGA. We have never been in the same league, CPJ has only been recruiting for one year, hopefully he can turn that statistic around… If he can’t turn it around then we will continue to have our once in awhile success with UGA….
My disappointment comes to the fact that our beloved coach down played the importance of beating UGA. Beating UGA is not the most important GOAL we should have every year, but it sure comes CLOSE! I will also submit that if he doesn’t beat UGA more times than he loses, then this will become the first failure in a long list of successful coaching stints. Just my opinion and yours will probably be different.
Again, I don’t even pretend that UGA got any leverage, they already have most of the leverage in recruiting….That’s the reason we have LOST the last 8 out of 9 times…
Dawg Nation
December 3rd, 2009
2:26 pm
I didn’t realize that Paul Johnson’s wife or daughter was the womens volley ball coach. Nepitism lives.
UGAIsSoLastYear
December 3rd, 2009
2:28 pm
Georgia is, and always will be, the Cesspool of the South! Defined in Webster, ‘cesspool’ is a ‘receptacle for sewage’. I tend to agree.
OldDawg
December 3rd, 2009
2:33 pm
GT insider i know exactly of whom you speak..he wanted to go to the game and worked tech for a free ticket….he will be a dawg…what you expect him to say after they HOSTED him…they all say nice things…simply good manners! Besides he has friends playing at tech and high school friends who will be attending tech!
You are an idiot if you think CMR has told a single kid a lie….not his methods…and he unlike man boobs CPH he doesnt get bent if a kid visits another school after he commits to UGA!
BTW…20-24 and enjoy the music city bowl after Clkemson futher exposes your sorry azz defense!
OldDawg
December 3rd, 2009
2:34 pm
CPJ and 30-24
James T. Kirk
December 3rd, 2009
2:38 pm
Just got my Tampa tickets. Does anyone know if I can expect to get a coke and hotdog for free or should I expect to pay for it?
OldDawgs Never Learn New Tricks
December 3rd, 2009
2:41 pm
Herione??? Is that a nickname for meth that you backwoods country rednecks talk about while your spitting teeth out with your dip? You guys are pathetic.
Ozzy
December 3rd, 2009
2:51 pm
The real question for UGA fans is “why can’t we compete in our conference”? We have the same size football factory school as the other SEC teams, we have the same fluff majors to attract athletes as the other SEC schools, we have (supposedly) five star recruits. So exactly why is it that we’re second tier?
Because we’re UGA. Man it sucks, it sucks, it sucks to be a Georgia Bulldog!
At least we only lost to Kentucky and not both Kentucky and Vandy this year.
Still a Tech fan
December 3rd, 2009
3:08 pm
If A.J. Green was there, why wasn’t he wearing his jersey? Was he afraid like the rest of Ugag that they were going to lose badly? For all the Ugag fans, please enjoy this, because GT played their worst game and your team played their best game of the year and GT almost won. I give props to Ugag for sticking with something that works for a change. Something Mark Ritch over looked is keeping the pass first run third Booboo calling the plays. Maybe he should look at Bobo going with Martiniez. I sure will laugh if the next guy you get to run the defense is worse than Martinez.
Really?
December 3rd, 2009
3:15 pm
I love UGA fans. When your season is defined by a win over TECH then you know things have really gone downhill fast. I find it to be the ultimate complement. The more times you say “30-24″ and “nerds” the stronger my point gets. Maybe one day you guys can marvel over a win against another 10-1 team. As for now, you guys are on the ground floor looking up at the penthouse. The view is much better up here for now. Let’s hope the Jackets can take care of Clemson and then TCU. We’ll leave it to the Dogs to take care of their name calling, their insecurites and eventually Central Michigan or someone of that heavy caliber.
Arf Arf Puppies!
Fear The Nerd
Dollarbill
December 3rd, 2009
3:19 pm
Hey Vales – Wofford Terriers??? Pure stupidity to bring up GT basketball after getting beat by Wofford.
Doug Roberson
December 3rd, 2009
3:22 pm
A volleyball note: freshman Monique Mead was named the ACC’s freshman of the year today.
Also, Georgia fans, you may want to keep this in mind: as good as you played, and as bad as Tech played, they still had a chance to win at the end of the game.
Punch'em in the face
December 3rd, 2009
3:22 pm
Don’t smack me bro!
Punch'em in the face
December 3rd, 2009
3:24 pm
Somebody must have punched Walsh when he missed the 55 yard field goal. If he had hit that one, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Don’t smack me bro!
Poor Dougie
December 3rd, 2009
3:27 pm
And Doug, you need to keep this in mind, had UGA’s receivers actually caught their surefire TD balls while in full stride, not to mention if the UGA offense wouldn’t have gift wrapped Tech’s lone score of the first half, the game would have over before the beginning of the 4th quarter. All this WITHOUT the best player in the stadium being on the field.
Stings, doesn’t it?
hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 3rd, 2009
3:30 pm
Tech fans are still wallowing in their misery!!! I love it, I love it, I love it!!! Watching them crying leaving that high school stadium Saturday night is still making my cheeks hurt from smiling so much!!!
hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 3rd, 2009
3:31 pm
Enter your comments here
Woodstockgt
December 3rd, 2009
3:34 pm
I hate them damn dawgs!
typicalnerd
December 3rd, 2009
3:37 pm
tech insider…
uga beat uf in 07. lsu last year and bama two years ago?????
get a clue son
Woodstockgt
December 3rd, 2009
3:39 pm
I feel like I got punched in the stomach Sat and it still hurst damnit. It isn’t funny anymore. Please get off our blog you filthy, stinky dawgs. Go down to Shreveport and leave us alone!
typicalnerd
December 3rd, 2009
3:39 pm
doug you’re an idiot. tech didn’t play as bad as you nerds think, they just don’t have the same talent plain and simple. last year was a fluke
Woodstockgt
December 3rd, 2009
3:43 pm
What Dawg fans actually don’t realize is this game didn’t mean as much to us. The big game is Sat night at 8 PM in Tampa. We had some of our secondary in the game in the 4th qtr. This was fluke UGA win.
typicalnerd
December 3rd, 2009
3:47 pm
hahaha. woodstockgt, did you just start watching football? or start using the internet? or your a teenager struggling to find his identity?
you had your secondary in during the 4th quarter? i sure hope you were playing your secondary i mean it is a pretty important part of your defense.
now if you meant you had your second-string in the game then that quote gets even dumber. can you tell me why your 2nd string would be in the game?
Woodstockgt
December 3rd, 2009
3:50 pm
I meant second string, was a typo. The reason is to not risk injury before this weekends Championship game.
typicalnerd
December 3rd, 2009
3:51 pm
hahahahahahahhhahahahahha.
you mean the consolation game?
woodstock gt = typical nerd
aka knows nothing about football
typicalnerd
December 3rd, 2009
3:52 pm
can you tell me someone on the 2nd string that was in the game in the 4th quarter?
because if your right, you just might have enough information to get a coach fired.
Woodstockgt
December 3rd, 2009
3:52 pm
I know GT is playing Saturday night and UGA is sitting at home.
typicalnerd
December 3rd, 2009
3:54 pm
couldn’t respond with actual football acumen?
that’s cute woodstock gt, go ahead copy and paste a post from above.
uga would be undefeated with tech’s schedule
and by the way, you lose you’re playing Kentucky in the Music City bowl (if you know what that is)
good luck beating a good SEC team…so far you have preyed on the perennial bottom-dwellers
typicalnerd
December 3rd, 2009
3:55 pm
*if you lose,
Woodstockgt
December 3rd, 2009
3:58 pm
Now your telling me KY is a good SEC team??? Just because they beat the dawgs dosent make them a good SEC. Don’t kid yourself. And don’t kid yourself about UGA being undefeated with Tech’s schedule. Not only did UGA loose 5 games this year, but look at their wins. ASU (last second field goal to win) and USC ( on your goalline with a wide open running back out of the back field that the QB just didnt see). In other words, UGA could easily have 2 more losses this year. VT, Miami, Clemson and even UNC would not be easy games for UGA this yr.
Saint Simon
December 3rd, 2009
3:59 pm
DAWGS RUN THIS BLOG!!!
Losers
UGA 30 – GT 24!!
Day 6; 359 more days of this!!!
Woodstockgt
December 3rd, 2009
4:00 pm
Now your telling me KY is a good SEC team??? Just because they beat the dawgs dosent make them a good SEC. Don’t kid yourself. And don’t kid yourself about UGA being undefeated with Tech’s schedule. Not only did UGA loose 5 games this year, but look at their wins. ASU (last second field goal to win) and USC ( on your goalline with a wide open running back out of the back field that the QB just didnt see). In other words, UGA could easily have 2 more losses this year. VT, Miami, Clemson and even UNC would not be easy games for UGA this yr. Don’t kid yourself
superDawg
December 3rd, 2009
4:03 pm
woodrow meant second rate.
superDawg
December 3rd, 2009
4:09 pm
Clemson will put the nerds to rest,and then we can have a BIG mudhole party.
Tampa Wreck
December 3rd, 2009
4:21 pm
GT4Ever, Agree 100%. We had an opportunity last week and let it get away. I’m a big fan of CPJ and his spread offense, but was definitely not happy with the way he downplayed the importance of the game. Almost seems he was justifying a loss before it happened. Was too similar to his comments before the Chicken bowl last year. I want our team to know that every game is important, but beating the dawgs has to be a priority.
I’m still very much on the fence regarding CPJ and recruiting. I realize therankings aren’t all they’re made out to be, but it worries me when I see teams like Tennessee, Auburn, UGA, and even NC getting the higher ranked players. CPJ and his offense can only take us so far. We still must have the athletes to play the game. That was woefully apparent on the defensive side of the ball last Saturday. We were outmanned by bigger and faster players. That needs to change if we are to be more than a twice a decade threat to the dawgs.
Bremen Dawg
December 3rd, 2009
4:38 pm
339 yards (((((30-24)))) hahahahahahahahahahah
Bremen Dawg
December 3rd, 2009
4:40 pm
Suck it Nerds!
Triple option crap, high school football coaches do that. Do you really think ya’ll can compete anywhere besides the ACC? PJ is fired after a next season for a 5-7 record, everyone stops that triple crap.
Bremen Dawg
December 3rd, 2009
4:47 pm
Mark Richt “I have respect for GT and what they do over there”
PJ “Punch Georgia fans in the face”
Is that pay back for his defensive front getting “punched in the face” I guess thats an eye for an eye or a face for a face.
hahahahahahahahaha
Dial "m" for moron
December 3rd, 2009
4:53 pm
Once again the SEC proves that the ACC is the most OVERHYPED, OVERRATED conference in the history of college football.
Butterfinger – The official candybar of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
m? Ramble On? St. Simons? Yellow Fuzz? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Caleb King just scored again!!!
Calvin Johnson couldn’t hold A.J. Green’s jock.
30 – 24 … glad it hurts so bad.
There’s a new sheriff in town, and he got outcoached by Willie Martinez (HaHaHa!), a lesson in running the ball from Mike Bobo, and his butt whipped at home by Mark Richt and YOUR University of Georgia Bulldogs!
By the way, in case you forgot, Waushaun and Caleb RUN THIS STATE!!!
Hey Roberson, nice try, “…as bad as Tech played, they still had a chance to win”
30 – 24 live with it !
GT Success Story
December 3rd, 2009
5:05 pm
It would be nice if the AJC would limit comments to persons with at least a sixth grade education so you don’t have to filter thru all the juvenile trash