Let’s do a mailbag! And how would Tech fit in the SEC?
That’s right I used an exclamation point in the headline. That’s how excited I am about doing our second e-mail mailbag.
Send me any question you may have about any Georgia Tech sport and I’ll do my best to provide you an insightful answer.
I’ll post the answers on a blog on Tuesday at lunchtime. That’s Tuesday at lunchtime. There was some confusion about the publication of the answers when we did the last mailbag.
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Now, on to the pie-in-the-sky topic that esteemed colleague (to borrow Mark Bradley’s phrase) Tony Barnhart broached last week.
As many of you know, expansion is the topic du jour for several conferences. The Big 10 has openly said it’s considering it. The SEC said it has reviewed scenarios. I await an answer from the ACC if it too has reviewed or is reviewing scenarios.
Should one or two of the conferences make a move, Barnhart suggested that the SEC may turn to the ACC and try and lure Clemson and Georgia Tech, among others, into the fold.
While I think that Clemson and FSU (the other possibility) would be natural fits because of the stadium sizes and geographic footprint of the fan bases, I’m not sure that Tech would. I’m also not sure that they would want to, unless it came to that.
Financially, it’s a no-brainer. Thanks to ESPN’s largess, SEC schools pull in the second-highest per school revenues behind those from the Big 10, which has its own TV network funding the athletics department.
The ACC is in the process of negotiating new TV deals for football and men’s basketball. It’s unlikely to pull in the $2 billion over 15 years that ESPN pledged to the SEC.
While Tech was once a founding member of the SEC, I would be very surprised to see the dominoes fall in such a way that find Tech back in the fold.
Some comparative stats, courtesy of Wikipedia (so take them with a grain of salt). These are meant for talking points only:
College/Metro pop./Year founded/Affiliation/Enrollment/Joined
University of Florida/ (114,916)/1853/Public/51,474/1932
University of Georgia/ (113,398)/1785/Public/34,180/1932
University of Kentucky/ (282,114)/1865/Public/26,054/1932
University of South Carolina/ (127,029)/1801/Public/27,488/1991
University of Tennessee/ (184,802)/1794/Public/30,410/1932
Vanderbilt University/ (596,462)/1873/Private/12,093/1932
Western Division
University of Alabama/ (90,221)/1831/Public/27,014/1932
University of Arkansas/ (73,372)/1871/Public/19,849/1991
Auburn University/ (56,088)/1856/Public/24,530/1932
Louisiana State University/ (223,689)/1860/Public/28,810/1932
University of Mississippi/ (17,265)/1848/Public/15,289/1932
Mississippi State University/ (24,187)/1878/Public/17,824/1932
Georgia Tech/5,000,000+/1885/Public/12,966/1885
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ATLdawg
April 29th, 2010
11:25 am
wesleywhatwhat – clearly you are the idiot. tech fans are constantly commenting on dawg articles. you are the elite…elite president of the north avenue tickle pile club. watch out for your protractor and don’t let it poke you in the as*. tech wouldn’t join the SEC because they would have even less “fans” show up to the game to watch them get beat
UGA 89
April 29th, 2010
11:25 am
The questtion is would Tech be a good fit in the SEC?
Of course they would. They are located as close to other SEC schools as UGA.
They have quality programs in all sports just as other SEC schools do.
Would the other SEC schools want them? Probably
As a UGA Grad and fan I know every college goes through a cycle of winning and dropping off, and then winning again.( FSU, Miami, USC, Michigan, etc…)
Tech and UGA are about equal on most of their sports through the years, so I wish UGA and Tech fans would stick to the real topic and just admit the SEC is big enough to have both schools in the conference!
Dawgforlife
April 29th, 2010
11:26 am
weak teams in the SEC..okay…we can trade you Vandy….to go the Duke, NCST, Virginia, and Wake Forest…they will fit right in..and then Tech can have 5 gimme wins…well, at least most of the time…Duke did dismatle you a few years back as I remember
HBTD
April 29th, 2010
11:28 am
Doug. Thanks for the laughs!!!!!!!!!! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Jim in Ga
April 29th, 2010
11:30 am
I would like to see Tech in the SEC if only so we can add someone else as a noncon game. I think they’d be a good fit
Innocent Bystander
April 29th, 2010
11:32 am
A swap of Vanderbilt and Tech would make both schools better suited to their respective conferences.
Dawgforlife
April 29th, 2010
11:35 am
UGA who…9-3…and 8-4…those records are inferior to most of the records Ga has had under Richt; and yet, ya’ll blow about BCS games and how UGA has no chance of winning a conference title. Tech in the SEC is the truest meaning of no chance to win the title…9-3 and 8-4…never gonna cut it in the SEC…the SEC is the closest League to the NFL in the world…better stick in the (ACC) Almost Competitive Conference.
ramwrecksf
April 29th, 2010
11:36 am
It’s already bad enough to have so many of those redneck SEC fans living in Atlanta, but to join the great unwashed conference is beyond reason. The average SAT scores at all the SEC schools (with the possible exception of Vandy is beneath Tech’s. Why would a school leave the ACC where it fits academically to be with a bunch of second rate academic schools? If you look at any of the Newsweek ratings, TEch is the top-rated school in the Deep South academically. There is a reason the capital city of the south is home to the greatest school in the south in the greatest conference in the south and it is NOT an SEC school.
T3
April 29th, 2010
11:38 am
Hayseed Dixie: Name *one* scenario…
How about $20+ Million “scenarios.”
Three KEY considerations:
1) Remember, GT was a FOUNDING MEMBER of the SEC.
2) D-Rad came to GT…from LSU.
3) In ALL things, Atlanta is “THE CAPITOL” of the South.
The economic benefit to Atlanta (specifically)
and the State of Georgia (generally) of having
GT back in the SEC would simply be…M-A-S-S-I-V-E.
Tens of Millions of NEW, ADDITIONAL DOLLARS spent into the local economy……EACH & EVERY year.
Think of something along the lines of:
the Chik-Fil-A Kick-Off Classic or Chik-Fil-A Bowl……
practically EVERY OTHER WEEKEND……EVERY SINGLE FALL SEASON.
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-SSIVE !!
Hell, Sonny Perdue would practically demand it.
If invited, I think D-Rad would move GT “back” to the SEC…in a flash.
HBTD
April 29th, 2010
11:43 am
Besides, who in the SEC would want to travel to that crappy little stadium every other year + run the chance of getting mugged. Can you imagine the disappointment of teams and their fans from schools like Bama, LSU, Tennessee and Florida showing up to the crackerbox with crowds of less than 50k? It’s a no brainer…………keep’em where they’re at and let’em keep beating up on the weak sisters of the A She She and feeling good about.
supersize that order, mutt
April 29th, 2010
11:43 am
catsfly, I’m a Tech alum, and I’m 100% for Tech going back to the SEC. I think most Tech alums who remember our days in the SEC would agree with me; I don’t know about the younger ones.
Carolina Jacket, I was there when Joe Auer dropped that pass. OMG !!!
Delbert D.
April 29th, 2010
11:44 am
Not only are Ole Miss and Miss. St. not AAU, they weren’t in the list of 128 schools, and were therefore “3rd tier” as the report put it.
Less relevant: Kennesaw State has higher enrollment (23,500) than those two, and also Vandy and Arkansas.
UGABoy
April 29th, 2010
11:46 am
ramwrecksf
You are such a Retard.
try watching ESPN or reading SI.
Academics? This is a sports blog not a Nerd Blog!!!!
GTville
April 29th, 2010
11:51 am
Why does everyone think the SEC is that great? They are good, but not all the way through. I would only be excited about playing the top 6 teams (football); 5 in ACC; only 3 in Big10. The bottom 6 are no more interesting than the bottom 6 in any other conference. Basketball no issue ACC is better. Baseball probably equal. Stadium/fan support is definitely better in the SEC. Here is a conference comparison:
Florida FSU Michigan
Alabama Miami Ohio State
Tennessee Va Tech Penn State
LSU Clemson Iowa
Georgia GT MI State
Auburn UNC Wisconsin
SC UVA Purdue
KY BC Minn
MSState NC State Illinois
Miss Maryland Indiana
Ark Duke Northwestern
Vandy Wake Forest
Ga Native
April 29th, 2010
11:58 am
t3, well said.
every sec team would bring huge numbers of fans(and their money)
into atlanta.
the economic impact of 15,000 to 25,000 “tourists” coming to atlanta every other weekend for games against tech would be unbelivable.
like you said, it would be just like a bowl game every other weekend.
milions of new “tourist” dollars brought into the state every year.
AlabamaRamblinwreck
April 29th, 2010
12:03 pm
Dawgs will never want us in the SEC, because they know that generally this is a recruiting advantage, and they sure don’t want us to have any positive impact on our recruiting. I would love to see us in the SEC, even though it would probably be tough sledding for some time.
The Big Ten might be interested in Tech, but I just cannot imagine how this would be a benefit to GT.
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:07 pm
Tech would benefit from being brought back into the SEC. Those who claim tech would be like Vandy are misguided. Tech recruits way better athletes than Vandy and we have an established heritage of above average football. Georgia Tech is tied with UGA for 13 straight bowl game appearances, and we are also in the top 30 all time of all NCAA football programs. The stats prove that Tech can have success…and they just won a conference last year with far more talented teams…like FSU, Clemson, and VT. Vanderbilt has been to 4 bowl games in the entire history of their football program….please quit comparing a traditional football school…like GT…with a school like Vandy. Im sure Tech can do no worse than Vandy, MSU, Ole Miss, and Arkansas. Not every program in the SEC is good…I think GT would add some more heritage and class to the SEC. Just my opinion.
T3
April 29th, 2010
12:10 pm
Native:
Exactly.
GT back in the SEC wold bring millions of dollars of new consumer spending into the City and the State.
It wont be long before you’ll see the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia State Legislature and the City of Atlanta (which are ALWAYS looking for new “tourist” money)to start advancing the idea of bringing GT back to the SEC.
Sam
April 29th, 2010
12:10 pm
T3, I am sure the PAC 10 has to expand. They need a better TV deal. I do not see any schools geographically that add much to the conference. Fresno State, Boise, etc bring nothing to the table. The PAC10 already has the CA TV markets dominated. The population of Idaho would not add a lot of viewers (Boise is not a very big school). There was talk of BYU, Utah or Colorado. CU might add the Denver market (a good addition), but I am not sure either Utah school brings in the kinds of numbers.
Also, I like that the PAC10 teams play a true round robin. With a round robin, there is no need for a championship game–something that I think is vastly overrated. It has worked for the SEC and the Big 12, but the ACC’s has been a disaster. Heck, my recommendation is that if the SEC were to take 2 schools, the ACC should return to 10 schools and play a round robin and accept that the championship game was a failure.
I think the SEC championship game can hurt the SEC in that the loser might not get a BCS bowl invite that would have come at the end of the season.
AlabamaRamblinwreck
April 29th, 2010
12:13 pm
Doug: I would like an update on Chris Jackson’s status and whether CPJ can see him contributing much in 2010.
Also, will JC Lanier get to play any nose tackle this fall? How is he progressing? Has Barnes improved any from last year? Is he taking the conditioning program seriously enough?
Has CPJ definitely made a few decisions not to redshirt any of the 3 freshman that started school in January?
Thanks.
We go to college to get a career
April 29th, 2010
12:15 pm
Tech being in the SEC would not really help them. Initially, they possibly would get more quality players but CPJ would have to junk the Bone, because D side speed kills it. Usually, a schooll will employ tha Bone in order to get a gimmick ball control scheme going to win some games, against “better” opponents. This gimmick has worked well in the ACC because it is small ball. Dwyer going in NFL round 67 or whatever proves that the Bone is small ball or gimmick ball. The NFL scouts know this and his draft position says it all. I cannot mitigate that for you techers. Sorry that you were humiliated by that. Chins up !!
Tech was ACC Champion and they ended up like 17th and that is like being the Mid America Champion ……….you end up around 21st at 11-2. No respect does the ACC have outside of Atlanta, Charlotte, Durham, Greenville or Winston Salem or maybe small towns in VA, MD. Penn St is THE favorite school in Baltimore, for example.
As for the inferior education i received while at UGA? I retired at 55 folks and love my sail boat and playing golf at Lake Oconee.
Go Dogs.
dcjacket
April 29th, 2010
12:15 pm
If Tech is so inferior, why is it that:
a. So many UGA fans tout that GT would not fare well with in the SEC, and should not be included in the mix?; and
b. CMR has to release a press release to talk about how good the Dawg program is and highlight their recent recruiting efforts in state?;
c. UGA has to throw significant dollars to get at a DC who at best has limited if not questionable success, and who was a fifth or sixth choice.
d.etc., etc. etc……
The short answer is that in recruiting it makes Tech more compelling and competitive because of the additional dollars because of the SEC affiliation.
Doug, I disagree regarding your perspective of GT not being a fit. Vandy who is still widely considered an elite academic institution is not adversely impacted by the SEC affiliation. I do not see Tech being adversley impacted or losing any stature due to the affiliation. GT athletically would benefit and provide value to the SEC. The FB team would be competitive and fair well against the current members with the exception of maybe Ala or UF. As mentioned, it would also make the last game more meaningful. Our other programs would also add luster and credibility to the SEC. Adding GT, Clemson, FSU, and Miami would lock down the Southeast.
Finally, why would the SEC expand. Why not, especially if the the Big Ten is contemplating it and beat them to the punch. I would suggest the options the SEC has are more attractive than the Big Ten (ie. Pitt, Missouri, Syracuse, W. Virginia, etc).
DAWGLOVER
April 29th, 2010
12:18 pm
First let me say I have not read ALL these posts, so some of what I say may have been said. Next, this is not a Tech blog, it is a Tech/SEC blog, therefore more than just Tech fans are commenting.
Now, realistically, I wish Tech had never left the conference. The relationship with UGA would carry much more importance to UGA fans today if that had not happened. Today, Tech has a small stadium by comparison, and struggles to fill it. SEC schools would not enjoy playing under those circumstances even if Tech paid the going rate to visiting teams. Visiting fans could perhaps get the allotted ten thousand or so tickets, which I am sure Tech would welcome for financial reasons, but in all probability Tech would at that point hate to give up so much of their capacity. Answer – only stadium expansion to at least 80,000 to begin with.
Next, being reasonable, why would SEC teams with the TV deals in place, want to bring in anyone else unless forced to because of expansion of other conferences? If that were to happen, when looking at the perhaps interest that might be secured from teams like Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Florida State, Miami and yes, Clemson and maybe North Carolina (long shot due to BB), Tech would find itself way down the list from the beginning. This is not bashing, just reality.
Tech has not proven itself in football year end and year out, playing against the kind of competition that is necessary most weeks as an SEC team, and would therefore end up much like Vandy in the standings. Yes, Tech fans have a higher opinion of their football program, but other schools don’t. It seems that winning occasionally against a top tier team does wonders for the Tech ego in some fans. One comment was that UGA did not play Alabama last year. UGA is in the SEC East, Alabama is in the SEC West. East and West teams play ALL teams in their division EVERY season, and rotate teams in the other division. This means that games like UGA/Alabama only come around, home and home, every six or so years.
Personally, again I regret Tech ever left the SEC. However, it IS difficult for some to gain entrance into Tech (the amount of foreign students is indicative of this), therefore many athletes that the SEC recruits could not gain entrance. Many cannot gain entrance into UGA today! Some SEC teams have higher requirements than others, academically.
The AJC will continue to promote this topic, BECAUSE it increases their rates due to the responses. We all fall into their hands with our responses, me included at times. On this subject I felt some degree of reason, not emotion, might make sense to some. Of course, to most it will not.
CatsFly
April 29th, 2010
12:20 pm
In my opinion, the better move would be Fl, SC and Uga to the ACC. All three of these schools want to grow their academic prowess and would more likely do so in the ACC. I’m sorry, but with a few exceptions, the closer colleges are to territorial boundaries, the better they are academically. Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, are just not going to draw top notch students from other states. This is not to say that those schools cannot adequately educate the HS grads in that state; they simply will not draw the best outsiders. Duke, UNC, and UVa demonstrate this. All three draw top-notch students from all the surrounding states. I am sure that many of Georgia’s good students go to UNC, but very few NC students who could get in UNC would go to UGa.
MyWhiskeyClear
April 29th, 2010
12:22 pm
Your enrollment figure is off. Even if you’re only counting undergraduate enrollment, it’s not consistent across the board. Florida’s 50k student body is undergrad AND grads. If you count that way then GT has 20K+ as of last year.
T3
April 29th, 2010
12:31 pm
Sam: Agree.
ACC-CG has struggled significantly, but I think that is mainly because of location. Jax & Tampa have been less than optimal locations.
I think this season in Charlotte will be the REAL test for the ACC-CG.
ACC-CG was in Tampa last year ONLY because Charlotte had a previous commitment and couldnt accomodate the game this past year.
ACC-CG in 2010 should be really good since it’ll be in a much much better location for all ACC teams & fans.
If SEC ever decided to annualy rotate the SEC-CG between New Orleans & Atlanta, then perhaps Charlotte & Atlanta could rotate hosting the ACC-CG. Not quite sure why New Orleans & Louisiana havent pushed for that.
Reggie Ball for Heisman
April 29th, 2010
12:35 pm
Good, then we don’t have to waste a non-conference game beating you bumblebees every year.
30-24 Suck it Nerds
Talk, talk and blah, blah
April 29th, 2010
12:36 pm
UGa has a fine record, if you review just the last 13 years, for example. UGA has won at least 8 games or more and they did that with two coaches. Folks, if to win 8 games over 13 years is so unremarkable, why has tech NOT achieved that? NO SCHOOL beyond UGA can lay claim that this fact. No NCs for UGA but look at the MAJOR bowl revenue. Yes, we did so Shrevport and Shoneys was fabulous.
tech ………we DID NOT DOWNSIZE our stadium, so we could sometimes proclaim a sell out crowd.
That fact is true ……….tech got smaller …………..and they want to beg into the SEC?? They tired in the late 7os o get in the back door and the SEC slammed it shut. The SEC is the PDC of college ball, if you know what I mean ……..I’m sure that you don’t.
Welfare works ONLY with the Obamarons ………………got it?? The SEC is no welfare program, techies.
GT BABY
April 29th, 2010
12:38 pm
UGA=INDEPENDENCE BOWL……THAT’S ALL IM GONNA SAY TODAY.
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:39 pm
We go to college to get a career…your bias makes your opinion completely invalid. The fact that you just compared a school like GT to a mid major is ludicrous. The ACC has been down for a few years but everything is a cycle. FSU, Clemson, and GT all have more recent football National titles than all but three members of the SEC…and no UGA is not one of those 3 schools. The ACC has had success in football and they will eventually have success again. FSU, Miami, Clemson, GT, and VT all have great football programs…all of them also have great football heritage. You should know this if your 55 like you stated? All of these teams/programs are perfectly capable of playing and competing on the biggest stage….they have proven it in the not so distant past and history tends to repeat itself.
Dawglasville
April 29th, 2010
12:41 pm
Here is a nice generic listing from USA Today for school rankings:
10. Duke, 17. Vandy, 24. UVA, 28. UNC and Wake, 34. BC, 35. Tech, 47. U.F., 50. Miami, 53. Maryland, 58. UGA, 61. Clemson, 71. VA Tech, 88. N.C. State, 96. Bama, 102. FSU, 106. UT, 110. USC, 128. Arkansas, UK and LSU.
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:41 pm
Excuse me 4…forgot about 1994 Tennessee.*
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:42 pm
1998* oops
GymDawg_HoodRat
April 29th, 2010
12:43 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We don’t need another member of the SEC please! We have this gym locked down! ya heard! We don’t be needing any more hoodrats competing against us hoodrats. We hood and we know this! UGA GymDawgs #1!!!! We be ballin!! Holla!
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:44 pm
I WILL SAY THIS, TECH SURE AS HELL WOULD NOT BE PUTTING ON RINGS RIGHT NOW HAD THE BEEN IN THE SEC. NUFF SAID.
flagboy?
April 29th, 2010
12:45 pm
While we’re at it, why don’t we think about what we would do if we won the lottery?
Or how about if we got to be president for a day??
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:46 pm
Dawglasville…heres the only one that matters.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings/
but lets keep the topic on sports.
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:47 pm
Obviously the post from 12:44 was not me. I am smart enough to turn caps lock off. Good job.
MyWhiskeyClear
April 29th, 2010
12:49 pm
Wiley, agree with you except that I’m sad to say that VT doesn’t have much of a football heritage. Before Frank Beamer no one had ever heard of a Hokie. An almost similar story is true of Bobby Bowden and FSU. I would say out of the whole of the ACC the strongest football history is found at programs like GT and Clemson. Duke had a good run back in the time when the likes of Suwanee were playing ball, but not so much since. North Carolina was a football name at one point, as were Maryland, Boston College, and Virginia. Taking college football’s timeline as a whole, GT and Clemson may be the strongest programs year in and year out for the ACC’s football heritage. I may be fuzzy on details of other teams, though.
dcjacket
April 29th, 2010
12:55 pm
“We go to college to get a career”, you may want to get your facts straight and be careful about making comparisons.
Time will tell whether Dwyer is successful in the NFL, but what really hurt him was being prepared for the combine and showing up in shape rather the “system”. If the system is a career killer, Thomas would have not been drafted and let alone in the first round as a WR. You know, WRs in CPJ’s system are glorified TE/OL and they can not run the routes, etc, etc.
Your reference to “small ball” and “ball controll” is very misguided. Yes, last year because of our defense. We had to controll the ball but we also had to have some quick strikes and we did on the ground and in the air against some good defenses/ teams.
In terms of recognition, you may want to look closer at the attention GT is getting national attention, along with Miami, FSU, VT and UNC. Yes, with reason the SEC is a better recognized brand, but your reaching if you think that Ole Miss, Ark, Ky, Vandy, USC, MSU garner the same attention.
Speed does not stop our offense in itself. In fact, it is a weakness. If your are trying to point to our short comings over the last couple of years, it specifically falls to the talent level on the OL or lack of and last year a very poor defense. For example, the last two years we have played with a converted TE at OT and along with some other converts on the OL. We are still a year or two away from being at a point of reloading rather than rebuilding. I’ll take our success over the last two years during rebuilding.
Finally, we still finished 13th not 17th or 21st last year as you indicate.
Sidney R. Hill, Jr.
April 29th, 2010
12:55 pm
I don’t have any idea if Tech would want to join the SEC or not, but I can’t see any reason they would get an invitation. Tech offers nothing to the SEC. Money? UGA already provides enough of the Atlanta TV market. Recruits? No SEC school seems to have any problem attracting Georgia high school athletes. Quality competition? I wouldn’t say that Tech is bad, but they certainly have no high prestige programs in any sport. I would say that they have found their natural home in the ACC: excellent basketball and mediocre in everything else.
wiley
April 29th, 2010
12:55 pm
Yeah I know the turkeys were not good before Beamer but he has been there for decades now…so their football heritage comes directly from his success as does FSU’s. Thats why FSU and VT get so much hype every year…because they have heritage. Bowden was at FSU for a quarter of a century…that’s heritage. I actually did a research project on Duke football…its kind of sad that they cant capture some of the past success. Duke vs GT used to be a big time game…during the 1940s and 1950s. I agree with GT and Clemson being the strongest year in and year out…just some SEC fans chose to ignore the history…I guess its because some of them are too young to remember the good ACC teams from 1980s and 1990s. The 2000s have been really rough on the ACC….
Tech Fan Since 1950
April 29th, 2010
1:02 pm
Tech has been there, done that, even won SEC Championships. It might make some sense to rejoin the SEC if an invitation were offered, but Tech is a much better fit academically with the ACC. Give the SEC schools some credit though with improved academic rankings in recent years (including UGA). I still say that if the folks in the Big Ten were really smart, they would look at Tech and Atlanta as an expansion option. They would be getting a top rated academic and research unit comparable to, if not greater than, most Big Ten schools. They would be entering a top media market and most of the Big Ten schools have a fairly large alumni base in Atlanta. I do not think the travel issues would be so great financially, if a big tv contract was paying the tab.
Lets see...
April 29th, 2010
1:05 pm
how do patrons at Krystal fit in at Bones? Why would Tech want to go back to Krystal? I mean the SEC?
dale
April 29th, 2010
1:07 pm
why would the SEC want to expand with a school with a 2nd rate stadium in a crime riddled campus where students are carjacked, mugged, on a daily basis, a 3rd rate fan base, a high school offense and a coach who constantly screams G– D— on the sidelines. Lets get real.
Savannah Jacket
April 29th, 2010
1:25 pm
Can we please stop all of the BS and keep to the topic of questions about GT Football?
I would like an update on the status of Ben Anderson, and Robert Hall. Will they be ready to play by summer.
How is Nick Claytor doing? I haven’t heard his name this spring and last fall he had a nagging back/hip thing going on.
How is Cooper Taylor? Is he back to 100% and will he be able to play? Also did he get his medical redshirt that was requested last year?
How is Nesbit after the ankle surgery’s? When is he expected to be back to playing shape?
Thanks for the insite Doug. We appreciate you keeping us up to speed on things during the long slow off season times.
DawG
April 29th, 2010
1:27 pm
That wing-t highschool crap won’t work in the SEC! You saw how they were exposed by Iowa a SLOW BIG TEN defense the SEC is to fast. Put Alabama’s defense from last year against Tech’s offense from last year they don’t score a single point!PERIOD
Savannah Jacket
April 29th, 2010
1:27 pm
Oh yeah, one last question. I read that Daniel Drummond has to serve a 10 game suspenion next season but I haven’t heard the true reason, everything thus far seems to be speculation. Also is he practiing with the team or how is that going?
Shug
April 29th, 2010
1:32 pm
I’d love to see Tech get back into the SEC, but I don’t see the upside from the SEC perspective. Atlanta and the state of Georgia are already SEC saturated territory.
By the way, don’t the reasons that Tech left the SEC back in the 60s still exist?
Minnesota Dawg
April 29th, 2010
1:33 pm
Let them come on in! It would make the rivalry between Georgia even more intense. Go Dawgs!