Burnett undecided about his future
Safety Morgan Burnett said on Thursday that he hasn’t decided if he will leave Georgia Tech early for the NFL.
A junior from College Park, Burnett has 77 tackles and four interceptions this season. Last season, he tied for the national lead with seven interceptions. It was the most by a Tech player since 1991.
Burnett said he will sit down with his family after the Orange Bowl on Jan. 5 and then they will decide what to do. He’s rated as the second-best safety by Mel Kiper, a draft analyst.
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juvenal
December 11th, 2009
11:58 am
will CMR keep running the ball, if that’s what is needed(took him 10&3/4th games this year)..only been blogging a year, need pratice typing, are they only redundant now, because of m &st.s?if so what were they thinking, we know you got more fans, total than us(you probably got more fans that are total drunks than we have fans, total)will see that small % of ugs fans that can actually afford to go in sanford, next year, Lord willing, more fun IF we win there, anyway..
SWFLJacket
December 11th, 2009
1:33 pm
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JACK IT
December 11th, 2009
2:20 pm
30 24
JACK IT
December 11th, 2009
2:20 pm
#1 in th ACC! #2 in the state!
VegasGT
December 11th, 2009
2:48 pm
Doug – Can you ask the AJC to put a filter in place that will allow a user to tag another user as “I don’t care to see their immature drivel any longer” and post the comment in a different color to the user. Tag it by IP number so that people that post under different usernames are still tagged. In the case of anonymous IP addresses, put those in a different color. Sure would save a bunch of time.
I think it was BuLLdawg that said the meaningless drivel was going on on both the GT and the UGA sites. I do not doubt that, but I will also say that I never frequent the UGA side. Just because there are some moron GT fans doing the same certainly doesn’t make him any more justified to do it here. It reminds me of my kids, “he did it, no he did it”. GROW UP.
Back to the real topic at hand, I think if the player is a lock to go in the first round or low second, they should go early. If they are on the bubble as to where they will go in the second round, they should stay. With respect to the GT Juniors thinking about this, I do believe they are allowed to explore in detail where they might go without declaring. Each of them should do that to get the most accurate information they can in order to make one of the biggest, personal decisions of their lives. Where do I think they end up? Morgon = gone, Dwyer = probably gone, Thomas/Burnett = probably staying.
Jeckyll Island
December 11th, 2009
3:31 pm
30-24!!!!
30-24!!!!
Taste it and weep!
8 out of 9!!!!
The dominance continues….
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackettes are wildly overranked and overrated!
JimboDawg
December 11th, 2009
4:37 pm
BuLLDawg you are an embarassment to UGA alumni…I’m gonna punch you in the face next time I see you
JimboDawg
December 11th, 2009
4:38 pm
I just punched BullDawg in the face…he cried
JimboDawg
December 11th, 2009
4:38 pm
I punched Jeckyll Island too…he cried even louder
Stinger
December 11th, 2009
5:04 pm
Could someone tell me what State Shreveport is in? Just wondering if they play the Independence bowl on a high school field or Pee Wee field?
I never heard of this bowl game. Why would anyone accept an invitation to play there? Oh well, I guess if you haven’t won anything since 1980 you are happy to go to a Bowl Game. Did UGA ever go to the Orange Bowl?
Stinger
December 11th, 2009
5:09 pm
I looked it up, they played 49 years ago. Not many can remember that!!
Mark PRicht
December 11th, 2009
5:22 pm
If UGA was playing Osama Bin Laden University in Shreveport I would pull for OSBLU, but it would be funny when CMR sent his team out in black turbins
mash a bug
December 11th, 2009
5:38 pm
Burnett is trying to decide if he wants to dig ditches or sweep halls….. just like all the other tech nerds… losers…..30-24 hahahahahahahhahaha,,, choke on it…
Jeckyll Island
December 11th, 2009
5:39 pm
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackettes are wildly overranked and overrated! My Dawgs are rated and ranked much higher!!!! How does it feel to look stupid?
Jeckyll Island
December 11th, 2009
5:41 pm
Mark my words, the Dawgs are playing for the Naitonal Championship next year!!! We have a new DC and new coaches and a new QB to stuff it down Yech’s throat. We are the best team in this state, in the SEC, and in the Nation!!! Don’t beleive it? Just wait until next year!!!
Go Dawgs!! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
JB
December 11th, 2009
5:44 pm
Jeckyll Island
Uh, moron, the name is Jekyll Island not “Jeckyll” but I guess stupid mutts don’t even know where they live. I suppose you’ll be searching for Shreveport for months. Check back with us when you have something intelligent to say.
JB
December 11th, 2009
5:46 pm
Jeckyll Island
What an idiot! I suppose you’re going to be “Naitonal” chumps because you certainly are NOT going to be NATIONAL Champs this year, next year, or any conceivable year in the future. You’re so dumb that you gave us all the reasons why you WON’T be national champs.
And decent Dawg fans wonder why we call the Dawg fan base delusional!
mash a bug
December 11th, 2009
5:46 pm
GT4ever, from the words of UGA VII, BITE ME!
JB
December 11th, 2009
5:48 pm
Jeckyll Island
“Just wait until next year!!!”
… that’s the mantra of all Dawgs since 1980; you’re just one more year away from a MNC. Keep thinking that while we laugh uncontrollably.
JB
December 11th, 2009
5:50 pm
mash a bug
“from the words of UGA VII, BITE ME!”
…uh, newsflash there mashee… UGA VII is DEAD!
Mark PRicht
December 11th, 2009
5:51 pm
mash a bug
Look at your 2 great players…talk abouy successful
David Greene…big joke, does he sale campers or something?
David brokeback Pollack…couldnt tie Brookings shoes
JB
December 11th, 2009
5:55 pm
mash a bug
“Burnett is trying to decide if he wants to dig ditches or sweep halls”
…just like his brother Cap Burnett from that cesspool in Athens? I don’t think so dumb mutt. Just a suggestion: Next time try to go to a school where you can get an education.
JB
December 11th, 2009
5:57 pm
JACK IT
Enjoy Shreveport son, the Aggies are going to beat your pups so hard that PETA will get involved.
JB
December 11th, 2009
6:01 pm
Somebody must have flushed a toilet; mash a bug and Jeckyll Island have tucked their tales between their cyclops and exited via the drain. Good riddance.
JacketFan
December 11th, 2009
7:08 pm
Wow, didn’t take long for this blog to hijacked by the neanderthal mutts.
Pups, your team is irrelevant. And while in your minds (what’s left of them) you are “ACC Champs” and whatever, the reality is you have NO trophy this year and are traveling to a part of Louisiana that most Louisianians don’t want to travel to (I know!). It’s a cesspool of refineries and run-down casinos. Actually, it’s an upgrade from Athens … y’all will probably love it. And, if you do, I ask that you STAY!
Go Jackets!
TO HELLLLLL WITH GEORGIA!
JB
December 11th, 2009
7:16 pm
JacketFan
“Pups, your team is irrelevant.” That’s the big reason why there are so many Dawg fans on Tech blogs now. They say it is payback for m, Yellow Fuzz and Saint Simons. While that might be true to an extent, they fail to realize that it was the taunts of Dawg fans for 7 years that created those fans last year. Now, they are using those Tech posters as reasons for their drivel. The truth is exactly as you stated it… they’re irrelevant! After being the #1 team in the nation prior to the 2008 season they are now completely off the radar of the national scene and headed for Shreveport. They’ve lost their DC and other coaches, their dog, and a lot of their sense of pride. No wonder they are attacking us because we ARE relevant at the same time their program is the most irrelevant in the Richt era.
What’s the good word? THWG!
SHREVEPORT
December 11th, 2009
8:44 pm
Associated Press, December 11, 2009
Atlanta, GA: In a recent interview with AJC staff, Mogan Burnett indicated that while he remains undecided about his football future, he is sure about one thing…the bulldogs from UGA are indeed headed to SHREVEPORT.
“Yeah, I’m sure they didn’t enjoy seeing us all the way turned up on our Jumbotron, but getting banished to SHREVEPORT was like salt in the wound of a poor season on the field,” Burnett chuckled.
UGA Coach Mark Richt could not be reached for comment as on a recruiting trip at the Clarke County Jail.
N Carolina Jacket
December 11th, 2009
8:49 pm
Dwyer won’t go or if had to put a chance, it would 60 percent just out ocuriosity. Our offense will be even better nex yar, which will alow Dwyer to rack up enough yards to win the hiesman. He’ll face younger defenses (most of clemson and VT’s will be gone). But execution ane pacakges by 2010 will make GT’s machine roll dwon the ill faster.
TO the dog fan who based campus life at GT, I could have sowrn that was writtin fir persn singular as you secrely tried to cry out youer experence at GT. Real men and women create fun no matter where you go school. Your response was crap
white dawg
December 11th, 2009
8:51 pm
WOW – A tech blog finally has more than 1 page if you leave it up long enough.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ((((((((((((( 30-24 ))))))))))))) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Tide Alum 91
December 11th, 2009
8:55 pm
All you Dog folks – please keep posting! Post even more! you folks are a bigger train wreck than the “Real Housewives of Atlanta”! HAHAHAHA. I am serious, please keep posting! It is very entertaining watching you wet yourselves! HAHAHAHA.
Tech folks – you should keep encouraging their posts as well – you are a way bigger deal to them than they are to you. Their actions show they are upset with their floundering football program. The more they post, the more they acknowledge the superiority of GT football over UGA football.
The best compliment I can pay you – SEC folks want you to stay in the ACC and UGA to stay in the SEC. Why? Your football program is better than UGA and is getting stronger, while UGA is getting weaker.
It’s the truth……
Looking forward to when Paul Johnson/GT slug it out with Nick Saban/Tide down the road.
SEC Powerhouses:
Alabama
Florida
LSU
Up and Comers:
Arkansas
Tennessee
Auburn
Miss St
Ole Miss
Wanna Be’s:
Vanderbilt
South Carolina
Georgia
Kentucky
JB
December 11th, 2009
9:20 pm
Tide Alum 91
December 11th, 2009
8:55 pm
Nice post! I couldn’t agree more. Notice how many of the Wanna Be’s on your list are in the SEC East? Only UF and TN escaped that distinction, and deservedly so. Of course, all of these delusional Dawg fans will be bashing your post with Nick Satan, etc. because they just can’t handle the truth that UGA is irrelevant on the national football scene this year. Good luck to the Tide!
NOVAJacket
December 11th, 2009
9:57 pm
We will have 1 to 2 juniors leave early tops. You guys criticizing Burnett should remember that he has played hurt all year.
Buzzfan
December 11th, 2009
10:24 pm
It would be great if Tech could find a way to keep stellar players in school. Tebow stayed for his senior year. I suspect the tough curriculum is a major factor; too much of a grind for some. They should take a look at Kenny Anderson who left too young to handle the millions he made & is now bankrupt. A degree from Tech is a great insurance policy and carries with it maturity to handle success and adversity. I hope they all stay, but I suspect they won’t.
The pathetic dawg posts here simply reflects their jeolousy of Tech & disgust with how low they have fallen. They rant about their win after they issued a “Code Red” to knock Nesbitt out of the game. What a combo: dirty team & trashy fans.
BuLLdawg
December 12th, 2009
2:37 am
vols.
You Tech fans now want to talk about the vols, I see here now.
Ok.
Janzen Jackson 2 times this season was suspended for multiple games with drugs involved.
The 1st suspension was the Memphis game the 1st week of November, when Janzen Jackson failed a drug test.
The 2nd suspension was just 2 weeks later when he exclaimed to 2 felony armed robbers he was in the getaway car with with drugs and CO2 powered semi-automatic pellet gun, “We’ve got to go.”
Both times drugs were involved.
Both times drug tests were run.
“We hold our student-athletes to an extremely high standard on and off the field. Janzen has seen the effect personal decisions had on his former teammates and is excited to rejoin our team activities.”
Of course, it had nothing to do with the fact that the other 2, he didn’t say shouldn’t be robbing people at gunpoint, just that they had to go now, but those 2 vols’ football players were not doing well this their true freshman season too.
Janzen Jackson had the 2 felony armed robbery vols’ football players and the woman with the drugs for all 4 to do, get back into the Prius and go back to the athletic dorm where they all 4 were arrested on multiple charges including drugs.
Yes, indeed Lame Kitten, those are an “extremely high standard” you hold Janzen Jackson to.
Never mind the other 2 were doing very poorly and Janzen Jackson All-Freshman All-SEC selection at DB for defense that was not doing well with Lame Kitten’s father as Defensive Coordinator.
8 NCAA recruiting infractions later, now Ed Orgeron is rumored to be leaving. Ed has a checkered past himself, and Lame Kitten was at Southern California during the recruitment of Reggie Bush, part of an NCAA Investigation still on-going with a million dollar mansion provided to Reggie Bush’s family.
vols’ are ranked Number 42 in the Final BCS Rankings for 2009.
7-5 against a Strength of Schedule the NCAA says is the Number 52 SoS, 1 worse than even Georgia Tech – who played 6 games against teams not even in a bowl game.
vols beat no team ranked in the Final BCS Top 25 rankings this entire season. In fact, the
vols’ wins this season are over :
BCS Number 120 Western Kentucky.
BCS Number 62 Ohio.
BCS Number 40 South Carolina.
BCS Number 49 Kentucky.
BCS Number 29 Georgia.
BCS Number 98 Vanderbilt.
BCS Number 112 Memphis.
Did I mention the vols LOST to 7-5 Number 38 Auburn.
Did I mention the vols LOST to Number 31 Ole Miss.
Did I mention the vols’ LOST to 6-6 Number 53 UCLA.
“Extremely High Standard on and off the field” according to Lame Kitten. What about the 2 suspensions both times involving failed drug tests for Janzen Jackson ? I am supposed to forget about that ? Good try. It’s in there for the duration.
vols will BEAT Virginia Tech, who is ranked HIGHER in the Jeff SAGARIN BCS Poll than SAGARIN has Georgia Tech ranked.
GT9
December 12th, 2009
4:48 am
I am very thankful for all the fantastic plays that Morgan Burnett has made this year for GT. He is a stud football player. He will do great in the NFL, but I hope that he comes back for his senior season.
11-2
ACC Champs
#9
BS Patrol
December 12th, 2009
4:53 am
Fellow Jackets,
You are blogging w/ this BuLLdog dweeb who goes by about 15 different names at least. I’ll say this about him, he really gets under everyone’s skin.
I don’t really see any juniors going pro. If they can more power to them. They have payed their dues to Tech and then some. I remember the scrote lickers calling Staffy & Moreno traitors for leaving early. How low is that?
RAMBLING WRECK!
BuLLdawg
December 12th, 2009
7:14 am
30-24…again.
BuLLdawg
December 12th, 2009
7:20 am
http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/ot/academics/index.html
I clicked this page on “your” ramblin wreck (on CSTV, cannot even engineer WebPages yourselves, pitiful.)
It is the Official Georgia Tech ACADEMICS page for your STUDENT-ATHLETES.
Blank.
Click it for yourself.
BLANK.
Know why ?
(1) football team APR way worse than UGA.
(2) men’s basketball APR 914, lowest in nation.
(3) women’s basketball APR way worse than UGA.
(4) men’s basketball Academic Progress Rate way worse than UGA.
(5) men’s basketball program on NCAA PROBATION – ACADEMICS.
better to have BLANK PAGE than to have the TRUTH.
BuLLdawg
December 12th, 2009
7:28 am
Article in AJ-C by Carroll Rogers this morning.
Talks about BENCH for Georgia Tech.
Mentions playing 11 players in a game.
EXCUSE ME, the NCAA has LIMITED GEORGIA TECH TO ONLY 11 SCHOLARHSIPS.
Because Paul Hewitt’s men’s basketball program has an APR of 914.
Try fair and balanced reporting Carroll Rogers.
BuLLdawg
December 12th, 2009
7:34 am
Paul Hewitt also has LOSING RECORD to UGA
JB
December 12th, 2009
8:05 am
BuLLdawg
December 12th, 2009
7:20 am
BuLLdawg – your posts are clearly biased and uninformative.
BuLLdawg – we understand your motivation to make Tech look as bad as possible to fuel your incredible obsession with Tech. Your obsession is front and center on the several and frequent posts that are made on the Tech blog, not the UGA blog.
BuLLdawg – you must not have anything else going on in your life to spend an inordinate amount of time posting about things that you know very little about. Do you have a job of any kind BuLLdawg or are you just a drop out at UGA? What was your major BuLLdawg if you did go to UGA? I’m sure you won’t respond or you won’t respond with the truth.
BuLLdawg – you state: “I clicked this page on “your” ramblin wreck (on CSTV, cannot even engineer WebPages yourselves, pitiful.)” What a tool. Did you realize that the entire georgiadogs.com site, the OFFICIAL site of the UGA athletics is not even hosted or in the state of Georgia? Am I to conclude as you do, that UGA doesn’t care enough about their school or athletics to own or control their own site? I don’t, but you would!
BuLLdawg – you comment about blank pages on a website and then come to the conclusion that blank web pages are caused by sports team performances? WTF? Because you either didn’t go to college, or you went to a college and didn’t get an education (the more likely scenario if you went to UGA) you relate a cause and effect to something not even remotely related. So, you prove that you are not only biased and obsessed about Tech but that you are also an idiot. How does it feel to be exposed on a website as a complete tool?
BuLLdawg – You think that your long, very long, tedious, poorly constructed diatribes will somehow establish some sort of credibility for your incredibly biased and uninformed opinions about things that you know almost nothing about.
BuLLdawg – You mention 30-24 as a score as if that really means anything to us right now. We are the ACC Champions (not UGA), in the top 10 in national ranking (UGA is not even ranked) and looking forward to playing in a BCS bowl (UGA is going to Shreveport, which explains exactly what your team is valued at).
BuLLdawg – You spend countless hours of wasted energy posting on a website that people only casually read. The truth is most people don’t even read your posts as soon as they see your name. Why? Because your diatribes are so obviously distorted from any sense of factual information they are clearly not informative, they are also full of invective tone and language to label you simply as a flamer, and last but not least, the length of your posts dissuade anyone spending that much time even reading them!
BuLLdawg – You think that you are somehow supporting your team with your senseless rants, but I have read many Dawg posts that decry the length of your posts also. You are an embarrassment to the University of Georgia to the University of Georgia Athletic Department and to Dawg Nation. If you were not behind an anonymous blog you would have been rebuked not only by the many fans that you insult but by your own Dawg fans.
BuLLdawg – You talk about things such as drugs, arrests, and crime in a way that is completely uninformed and out of context. You also conveniently ignore these very same problems and worse from your beloved Dawgs. Although that proves that you are prejudiced beyond what is normal, even for a fan, it also proves that you are complete fool.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that your lousy Dawg team is not even ranked.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that your lousy Dawg team won a game that was not decided until the last 1:20 although you purport that Tech got thumped, beat down, etc. in other posts. If you want a reference for a real beat down then look at the embarrassing Dawg loss to Florida or Tennessee. And, if we really did get a beat down then Kentucky gave the Dawgs a beat down too since the margin of victory was even greater.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that your lousy Dawg team is going to a third tire bowl in beautiful downtown Shreveport.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that your lousy Dawg team just fired their DC and several coaches.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that your lousy Dawg team just lost their mascot.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that your lousy Dawg team received no boost in rankings from winning a game over a top ten team.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that your lousy Dawg team will have a new quarterback next year to break in because your coach decided that 7-5 was an acceptable record to live with Joe Cox.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that Tech is more relevant that UGA this year (I didn’t say prior years so please don’t waste your time with prior records and your obviously biased twist on them).
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that Tech is more relevant that UGA this year and is receiving more national attention, more recognition, more rewards, higher rankings, and more admiration than your lousy Dawg team.
BuLLdawg – The real truth is that you and most of your fellow Dawg fans on these posts are spouting 30-24 and records to deflect the current state of affairs with your lousy Dawg team.
Is that too much truth for you BuLLdawg? Nah, you can’t handle the truth BuLLdawg because you’re a tool.
JB
December 12th, 2009
8:15 am
BuLLdawg – You talk about Tech basketball but fail to realize what a train wreck of a program that UGA has.
BuLLdawg – You’re so stupid that you must have graduated from Jim Harrick’s College of Sports Education.
BuLLdawg – Most Dawgs are too embarrassed about their BB program to even post something. Of course, you’re not as smart as even most Dawg fans.
BuLLdawg – Which leads me back to a previous question: Did you even go to college BuLLdawg?
BuLLdawg – What was your major BuLLdawg if you did go to college?
BuLLdawg – You are a complete and utter embarrassment to yourself, to the University of Georgia, and to decent Dawg fans. You discredit your team as a result.
Parker
December 12th, 2009
9:32 am
I much as I would love to see Derrick Morgan back… he would be a fool if he did. Take the money and go! Now for the other three I can make arguements both ways for them. Ultimately I think 2 of the three will leave for the draft early but it sure would be nice to have everyone back on the flats again next, with a serious chance at a National Championship!!!!
old Tech fan in NC
December 12th, 2009
10:39 am
Last year the dogs fans indicated they would be even better with staff and reno leaving because they had a team leader at QB and several runners….that worked out well-trip to a resort in LA.
One thing for sure, you do not replace pro like talent easily and quickly.
superDawg
December 12th, 2009
1:14 pm
old tekie in nerd carolina we beat your 10-2 asses so go back to bed before you fall and can’t get up.
superDawg
December 12th, 2009
1:17 pm
besides I know who you are remember me the one with the SEC CHAMPIONSHIP TAG on the front.
Yo Joe
December 12th, 2009
2:11 pm
Did you guys forget Burnett had a injured wrist ? He played with a club on his hand for half the season. I’d say he had an ok year taking that into account.
Shane
December 12th, 2009
3:03 pm
If they play an Orange Bowl and no one watches …….. Did it really happen?
SHREVEPORT!
December 12th, 2009
3:17 pm
Who’s gone this year?
…dawg nation, that’s who…gone to SHREVEPORT by golly.
SAY IT LOUD! SAY IT PROUD! SHREVEPORT!, SHREVEPORT!, SHREVEPORT!
WE ARE . . SHREVE – PORT! . .
WE ARE . . SHREVE – PORT! . .
WE ARE . . SHREVE – PORT! . .
Heck yeah! dawg nation is headed to SHREVE-A-STINKIN-PORT!
“Oh Techanna, oh don’t cha cry for me, ’cause we’re headin’ to Louisiana with banjos of our knees.”
OH YEAH, BABY!…SHREEEEEEEEEEEEEVEPORT!
SHREVEPORT!
December 12th, 2009
3:19 pm
5 losses (OH YES, KENTUCKY, BABY…IT REALLY HAPPENED!)
COME TO ME dawg nation!