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It’s a slow time of the year. Tech is in finals so there’s no practices this week. They will resume next week, so I’ll be back with the blog then.
In the meantime, I thought I’d open the floor to you. I’d like to know who you think the team’s offensive MVP, defensive MVP, biggest surprise were this season.
Surprise can be player, play, game, moment….anything.
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tatty
December 10th, 2009
11:57 am
I think every coach’s game plan is to score more than the other team. When you possess the best WR in the country, and you’re playing against one of the weakest defenses in the country, you exploit that til your blue in the face. Tech and their DB’s are lucky Green was hurt.
5 loss UGA spanked Yech
December 10th, 2009
11:58 am
It’s weird that the tool fans would bring up UGA’s 5 losses, as though they contributed to that somehow?
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:03 pm
Yeah, 5 loss, kinda like mutt fans bringing up the superiority of the SEC (UF and Bama) like they contributed to that somehow.
RamblinGT
December 10th, 2009
12:06 pm
tatty
You may be right, AJ probably would have done well but the more passes that Cox would have thrown he would have eventually made a mistake that could have cost you the game. Just like our backup quarterback did. The game worked out perfectly because you guys didnt have to worry about Cox who is easily the weak point of the offense.
ZamBonE
December 10th, 2009
12:10 pm
Ramblin Wrecker
It just goes to show how valuable defensive and offensive lines are. I thought we were going to be solid on the defensive side on the ball with all our returning players and that Morgan, Hall, Anderson, Peters, Walls, and Barnes would be able to step up and make an impact on the line. Injuries and inexperience kept our dline from meshing and playing to their abilities. Looking at last years and this years recruiting classes, CPJ has addressed both the offensive and defensive line deficiencies. If all our verbal commits for this year accept their scholarships to Tech, 14 of the new 34 scholarship athletes are on the offensive (6) or defensive line (8). CPJ understands that we need to develop depth on the line if we want to consistently be competitive. It’s a great time to be a Jacket fan.
Go Jackets…2009 ACC Champs
genes
December 10th, 2009
12:11 pm
You’re only kidding yourself, and embarrassing yourself, if you think UGA has had nothing to do with the surge of the SEC this decade. Sure they don’t have a national championship, but since getting to UGA, Richt’s Dawgs have the second most wins in the conference next to LSU, and his two SEC titles and two BCS bowl wins (as many as the entire ACC combined) aren’t chopped liver.
SHREVEPORT
December 10th, 2009
12:12 pm
Can’t wait to see the dawg fans all decked out in their red and black costumes barking as one nation…
Say my name, say my name…SHREVEPORT!
fair observer
December 10th, 2009
12:12 pm
Johnson will probably give his D coordinator next year to straighten out the mess, if it doesn’t improve, he’ll be doing what Richt is doing now.
candy
December 10th, 2009
12:15 pm
What’s funny to me is that every Tech fan out there, in the back of their mind, knows good and well that the Smurf Bowl hasn’t taken them off speed dial yet. Your worst nightmare will be relived again next year. Your best defender on your God awful D will be gone after the Orange Bowl. Your best offensive player will enter the NFL draft. Can you say, SMURF BOWL OR BUST 2010!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!
Opinion
December 10th, 2009
12:16 pm
Shreveport……………hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ryan
December 10th, 2009
12:17 pm
I’m all for fans ribbing my Dawgs horrible season, but if you didn’t contribute to any of the 5 losses, and actually contributed to 1 of the 7 wins, you look pretty foolish.
Opinion
December 10th, 2009
12:17 pm
UGA= Funnel Cakes
GT= Oranges
Life is back in order finally
O'Dell
December 10th, 2009
12:24 pm
Opinion,
You make it sound as though Tech’s rightful place is beating UGA and playing in the Orange Bowl, even though history proves to that be the polar opposite…..
SHREVEPORT
December 10th, 2009
12:24 pm
Hey candy (a$$),
Didn’t your nation have the same prediction for GT last year? Er, and the year before that,
and the before…
At least GT under-commits and over-delivers. How about uga??? Over-commits preseason and consistently under-delivers?
niles
December 10th, 2009
12:25 pm
Wow, I kinda feel bad for the Tech players. Not only will they be playing in the worst BCS game of the year (and probably ever), but they leave one ghetto filled with violence only to go to another ghetto filled with violence.
candy
December 10th, 2009
12:26 pm
Not sure why you’re so hostile towards me for simply pointing out the obvious. I couldn’t help but notice you didn’t disagree with me, however
SHREVEPORT
December 10th, 2009
12:29 pm
Historically, football tradition IS GT.
uga is the nouveau riche of football tradition…
Look it up, SHREVEPORT bound nation.
blue
December 10th, 2009
12:29 pm
Yes, UGA had a 5 loss season so naturally they’re not going to be in an upper tier bowl. This seems to only be shocking for Tech fans. What’s funny though, if the Gator Bowl hadn’t gone rouge and catered to Bowden and his horrible FSU team, UGA would have made the Chick-fil-a Bowl. Oh well, maybe this will send the message not to drop the ball like morons on your side of the field and not to commit idiotic penalties. It sure seemed to work for Bama a couple of years back
new Trojan in town
December 10th, 2009
12:30 pm
If by “football tradition” you mean claiming championships you didn’t win, then yes, I agree with you
Yamas
December 10th, 2009
12:32 pm
FSU is landing 5 star kids left and right. Miami is righting their ship. Va. Tech will be back to normal next year. UNC is on the up and up. BC will be BC again next season. Ahh yes, looks like Tech’s rightful place of ACC mediocrity will be back to normal next year. Can’t wait to see it!!!!
piper
December 10th, 2009
12:34 pm
Looks like Tech is getting the UGA BCS treatment. In a game that’s a lose/lose. If you win, so what, you’re supposed to. If you lose, you suck and you’re overrated. Not a good match up at all for the Jackets.
SHREVEPORT
December 10th, 2009
12:35 pm
…of which uga has 1…
11-2
December 10th, 2009
12:35 pm
Yamas
Really smart thing to say when UGA is in the same division with Kiffin who embarrassed you in his first year and “Richt’s Daddy” AKA Urban Meyer
not to mention that if by chance you get by those two names, there is this guy named Rich Brooks who embarrassed you too
and not to mention that is you get by all 3 of those, there is this guy named “Rich’t Prison Cell Daddy” AKA Nick Saban who will throttle you in the SEC CG
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
wiley
December 10th, 2009
12:36 pm
I think its funny that UGA’s season was defined by that win over tech…what does that say about your program? lmao how the times have changed.
James T. Kirk
December 10th, 2009
12:37 pm
Our best offensive player was obviously our thrower of the ball, Jason Nesbitt. He showed leadership and poise beyond his years. And when he throws it in the air there are very few out there that are any better than he.
Our best defensive player is clearly Maurice Morgan. He is the best tackler on the team and seems to be able to tackle any type of person, regardless of size or shape.
Surprise of the season was losing to UGA. I really thought we would score more points this year than they did.
SHREVEPORT
December 10th, 2009
12:37 pm
Ahh, dawg nation…come to me and watch the three ring circus with the Aggies…
GIG ‘EM!
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:37 pm
new Trojan, would you care to specify which championships Tech didn’t win? In case you are stupidly pointing to 1990 and 1952, let me repeat what I typed earlier: “Please explain how Michigan State and Colorado “earned” national championships? Colorado took five downs to win against Missouri and were GIVEN the OB win against Notre Dame because of a bogus clipping call against the Irish. AND they lost to an 8-4 Illinois team. Tech was 11-0-1, with the tie coming against UNC. Even Tom Osborne, the Nebraska coach at the time, and not one know for petty behavior, voted for Tech over Colorado, having played us both. In 1952 Michigan State played only 9 games having played only 3 conference teams and not going to the Rose Bowl nor, as far as I can tell, any bowl game; Tech played 12 games WITH a Sugar Bowl game win against Ole Miss for a 12-0 record. So please tell me just how Colorado and Michigan State EARNED anything, regardless of what mindless pollsters GAVE them.”
droberson
December 10th, 2009
12:39 pm
The only offensive lineman who will be out for the game seems to be Phil Smith. Austin Barrick should return.
No updates on the defensive line yet. I hope that have some soon.
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:40 pm
Since when is Dolphin Stadium (aka Joe Robbie Stadium and LandShark Stadium) in a ghetto? They moved the Orange Bowl game out of the ghetto several years ago. It’s closer to Hollywood, FL now, hardly a ghetto.
nams
December 10th, 2009
12:45 pm
So Tech fans love the Coaches Poll from 1990, but discredit the Coaches Poll from ‘52? Hmm……..
Cojack
December 10th, 2009
12:48 pm
1990 season:
CU played FOUR conference champions, losing to one early in the season on the road.
GT played ZERO conference champions, but tied a God awful UNC team late in the year that wasn’t even bowl eligible.
This is why the unbiased voters in the media voted overwhelming for UC, and why GT barely got enough of the biased, agenda driven coaches votes.
Case closed
Opinion
December 10th, 2009
12:49 pm
National Championships
GT: 4 National Championships, (39 State Championships)
Herschel Walker: 1 National Championship
UGA: 0 National Championships, (60 State Championships)
Hmmm, I think I like Tech in this Conversation
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:51 pm
No, nams, we credit ALL the legitimate polls. And we shared the number 1 spot in both 1952 and 1990. All I am saying is that it is ignorant for anyone to disparage a shared championship; there have been quite a few of them in the history of college football. The NCAA recognizes shared as well as unshared championships. I was simply stating the case for Tech’s having earned a share of the championship and not, as new Trojan claimed, “claiming” but not “earning.”
hahaha!!!!!
December 10th, 2009
12:52 pm
According to your inaccurate count, Tech is down by 21 wins to UGA, but yet you like them? What a moron!!!!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:53 pm
Since when are the media pollsters UNBIASED??? OMG, they are the most biased of anyone. Look at the treatment they ALWAYS give Big 10 teams and Notre Dame.
11-2
December 10th, 2009
12:53 pm
Cojack
I guess you don’t know your history – CU had FIVE downs in their final possession which should have taken away their TD and they lose and GT is the outright 1990 National Champion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJT8q0MMwQ
Either way GT has more NC’s than UGA and it will be that way for a very long time
Case Closed
nams
December 10th, 2009
12:53 pm
Yes, there have been plenty of shared titles, but those were LEGIT shared titles. Not a blatant attempt to hijack a title from a more deserving team. Big difference.
SHREVEPORT
December 10th, 2009
12:54 pm
Ahhhhh…come to me dawg fans…I’m the “Next Great City of the South”…kinda like you’re the next great pick for a bowl game after #7 from the SEC.
Check out what I have to offer including and “Odor Complaint Form” in the event our sewers are still backed up upon your arrival.
Can’t wait for your nation to arrive and enjoy my spledor…
Check me out, ya’ll:
http://www.shreveportla.gov/
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:56 pm
hahaha, what do you mean by “inaccurate count”? Tech has won 39 games in the series, despite what the sports information at the cesspool claims. The NCAA recognizes 39 games won by Tech, so why don’t you? Obviously, all Tech fans would be happier if we had won more, but the fact that UGAG ALWAYS finds excuses for the games they lose and does their best to wipe them off the slate has always made me laugh. What petty, whiney fools you are!!!
barnes
December 10th, 2009
12:56 pm
11-2,
If we’re going to take every title away from teams that had bad calls made in their favor, then there wouldn’t be a single national champion in the history of any sport!!!
Stop crying and looking desperate. Even you know Colorado is the rightful champ from 1990. Which is why the real voters picked them, and not the coaches who give their ballots to their assistants to vote.
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:56 pm
nams, what hijacking are you talking about?
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
12:58 pm
barnes, there’s a crystal football in the trophy case at Tech to prove our point. It’s the same crystal football that is now given to the BCS champion. Enough said
The Real Truth
December 10th, 2009
12:58 pm
First game ever played, Tech didn’t even use their own players. In 1943 and 44, Tech used players from other teams. Tech was caught cheating in 1997-2003, therefore erasing their 3 wins during this time span.
That’s 6 victories that Tech claims that they didn’t earn since they cheated, therefore pushing UGA’s total lead to 27.
Thanks for playing
11-2
December 10th, 2009
12:59 pm
barnes
giving a team a 5th down is not just a ‘bad call’
but like I said, even if that NC doesn’t count for GT, we STILL have more NC’s than UGA BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Enjoy Shreveport buddy!
hedge puller
December 10th, 2009
1:00 pm
The unsurprising MVP of the GT offense is J. Nesbit.
as for Colorado’s farce of the illegal, five down touchdown against Missouri, they should be stripped of any recognition for the 1990 season and the zebras in the CO-MO game lined up and shot.
CU would have lost to that 1990 Tech team by 40 points.
This just in: I heard that “some” professional golfters cheat on their wives. Where there are men and $, there are slutpuppies.
11-2
December 10th, 2009
1:01 pm
The Real Truth
No here’s the real truth about your “national title”
Attention: Redneck UGA Fans
Just one name: Jan Kemp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kemp
Jan Kemp began teaching at the University of Georgia in 1978.
In 1981 Kemp was one of the teachers who complained claiming that Georgia officials had intervened allowing nine college football players to pass the remedial English course, allowing them to play against Pittsburgh in the Sugar Bowl.
Kemp was demoted in 1982 and dismissed one year later. She then filed a lawsuit claiming she had been fired due to her complaints about the passing of players. During the time after she was dismissed Kemp tried to commit suicide twice. The University defended its actions saying that Kemp was dismissed for “disruptive conduct and for failure to conduct adequate scholarly research”.[1]
The jury found the University guilty for the illegal dismissal of Dr. Kemp and she was awarded $2.5 Million, which was later reduced to $1.08 Million. Kemp was reinstated and University President Dr. Fred C. Davison resigned.
After the trial Kemp spoke to The New York Times saying “All over the country, athletes are used to produce revenue. I’ve seen what happens when the lights dim and the crowd fades. They’re left with nothing. I want that stopped”. Kemp retired from teaching in 1990 and was named a hero of the 1980’s by People magazine.
Guess that 1980 National Title will need an *ASTERISK* by it.
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
1:01 pm
Real Truth, you don’t know what you’re talking about. First, we did NOT erase (vacate is the proper word) those 3 victories from 1997-2003. That penalty was appealed and dropped, so the games count….at least to anybody and everybody outside of Athens. The games in 1943 and 1944 were accepted as legit by the NCAA. Tech was not the only school in the country using “military” athletes. But it seems that UGAG is the only school in the country that disputes such teams and such games. The NCAA and every other team that Tech beat those two years acknowledge them as legit, so why don’t the mutts? Because you are and always have been whiney, excuse-making rednecks.
SHREVEPORT
December 10th, 2009
1:04 pm
the real truth,
Put away your broken fact finding machine, jump in your woody station wagon and just come to me, baby…
I take in all misfit teams with broken hearts and seasons, 5 losses and all, no problem.
Just let it happen…come to me…
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
1:05 pm
Not only that, 11-2, UGAG had their hands full beating a Notre Dame team that had had to come from behind just to tie Tech during the regular season. As is usually the case, UGAG gets patsies to play in their bowl games, that time one who was, as always, totally overrated by the media (again the perennial media bias). When they had to play a decent team in 1981, they got beat
Supersize that order, mutt
December 10th, 2009
1:09 pm
It amazes me that so many buttsniffers in here rely on OPINION (and generally only their own) rather than documented facts to present their vacuous arguments