Let’s do a mailbag! And how would Tech fit in the SEC?

They would fit in as good as Vandy! Same results. First!

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Hey Doug, great article on Bay-Bay the other day.

I think GT would be an excellent fit…Atlanta is the heart of SEC country. Getting back into the SEC would sellout games with the sidewalk fans that loath UGAg. There are millions.

Somebody has to man up to UF.

And, the last game of the year would have a ton riding on it between UGAg and GT.

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Doug,

Question for you: How is Cooper Taylor progressing in his recovery? I think many fans are interested in how he will fit into the defensive backfield next year after showing so much promise as a Freshman.

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wesley is just mad

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You are the only one mad at a game. You must be a Tech fan!

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Wow! you Tech fans are true idiots, most of you never went to the school, but you act as if you did. You guys are ALL over our boards. MORON!!!!

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Let’s return to the SEC.

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http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=55442

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Tech should be invited to the SEC. Time to go HOME where we belong.

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Any info on the coaching replacement on the basketball staff?
How is the transition going with a more perimeter oriented team?

What is the rotation looking like at A-back, is Chris Jackson going to be ready to go?
Other injury updates and depth chart projections for fall camp…

When will Kevin Jacobs and Jay Dantzler be back, if at all this season?
Will Pope challenge for a weekend spot this season?

Track, golf, and softball updates are appreciated as always and thanks for the coverage Doug.

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Maybe a where are they now updating recent baseball, basketball, and football players of the past 3-5 years and how they are competing at this time. We have put a lot of people into the professional ranks and it would be cool to see how they stack up.

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I realize the SEC is looked upon as some powerhouse conference but lately, what has any of them done besides AL, FL and LSU with the latter not doing too much to be in that category? VT, Miami, Clemson, GT and FSU are just as tough to battle. The last time GT played Auburn, the Tigers were ranked 2nd in the country and GT with Reggie Ball still won the game. Are GT fans suppose to be in awe or intimidated? Should GT be in literal fear when facing SC, TN, GA, Arkansas, KY, Ms, Ms St, Vandy,? Think not. Didn’t even see UGA play Alabama on their schedule so did they honestly have it that bad? VT beat Tn and Clemson beat Ky who both beat UGA. If it means better revenue then I guess it is a good idea but I do not see better football opponents week in and week out, year in and year out. Maybe GT could stay in the ACC for basketball but really with the current coach the majority aren’t going to care one way or the other about that either.

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what is also funny, is that GT has beat CLemson in football the last 6 out of 7 times and yet the Barnharts, Robersons and other dog mentality people think the Tigers are the team to move in the SEC.

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I had a Clemson fan tell me in the office not too long ago that he was sick of the ACC and wished Clemson could jump to the SEC. My only thought was “do you think you could win the ACC first before abandoning ship”, are they leaving because they are victims? hahahahaha

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It’s obviously from a geographical standpoint to have GT & Clemson in the SEC … and the SEC should go ahead and bring in FSU and Miami too. But $, the ATL TV Market, and the copius amount of high school talent in the metro Atlanat area are going to big huge reasons why GA, UT, AU & AL will prevent GT from joining the SEC.

Very similar situation in the Pac 10 with San Diego State …. AZ, ASU, UCLA & USC definitely don’t want the Aztecs snagging lots of the San Diego area talent.

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As bad a fit as the reverse… how would a ‘backy spittin’ mullet wearin’ “Git r done’in’” redneck uga fan fit in at a concert in symphony hall?

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rectify the single dumbest mistake GTAA ever made…& hope they don’t notice vt is a better fit…

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I think the only reason it would happen is because the ACC does get plenty of players from GA. Bringing in Tech would lock up GA recruiting for the SEC teams. Sometimes the players can be just as important as the TV revenue in the debate.

I have no problem with the SEC teams. I cheer for everyone that plays U(sic)GA.

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Something that often gets lost in the discussion of which conference teams earn more money is the fact that SEC teams get to keep their in-state cable package monies (i.e., Florida takes in over 10 million a year from SunSports) while Big 10 teams don’t have that as an option. So Florida makes far more than the 17 million that is often referenced (and other teams makes in the same area as that).

I wish that writers of articles like these would do a little homework before posting stories like this.

The SEC is king when it comes to money as well, once you add it ALL up.

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I would be interested to hear how Tech students and alumni (not fans) and faculty and administration folks feel about this. They are the ones that count. Somehow, I don’t believe they are too keen on such a move.

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As a Ga fan it really wouldn’t effect me at all since we play every year anyway. I don’t see how the rivalry could get any bigger. If it happens GT would be competitive in most sports ie baseball, basketball, football (don’t know about some womens sports at Gt) If it happens, welcome home, if it doesn’t, well, see you in November

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The SEC doesnt really have a “need” to expand. Yet.

Big 10(11) kind of has a “need.”

Pac 10 kind of has a “need.”

Big 12 wont have a “need” to make any chnages,
unless the Big 12 loses Mizzou & Nebraska to Big10,
and Colorado to Pac10.

Frankly, I think the Big10 will go to at least 14.
1) Mizzou 2) Nebraska, and 3) Iowa State, Pitt or Syracuse,
with Maryland as a potential but highly valuable long-shot.
(For MD, consider the potential HUGE TV money in the Baltimore/DC market).

Big 10 fans (and msot fans) will pay MORE to see REAL games, rather than watch their team play “cupcakes.” A new “Big 14″ would also have a virtual “lock” on any Strength of Schedule comparisons, which menas higher BCS rankings and more bowls and bowl money. SEC wont be able to keep scheduling all those cupcakes.

I just dont think the SEC sees any urgency to expand or change.

If…the SEC were to consider expanding, I dont think that Florida would allow THEIR In-State rival (FSU) to be added, without requiring UGA to also admit THEIR In-State rival (GT) as well?

I personally think D-Rad would push to move GT to the SEC, if invited.

Regardless of whatever the Big 10 does, the Pac10 is going to get Colorado and Utah, for sure, to get to 12. Its only a question of whether they add BYU, UtahSt, Nevada-Reno, UNLV, NewMex or NewMexSt to get to 14. And that will depend on how many teams the Big 10 decides to add.

If Big 10 goes to 12. No significant “spillover” effects.
If Big 10 goes to 14, MAJOR realignments are coming.

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Um, let’s see…

Tech would get OWNED by Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, South Carolina, and probably Kentucky.

Stay in the ACC

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I realize this is alot like criticizing the magician for his tricks not being “real magic”, but…

This Tech to SEC crap is as much of a non-story as I’ve ever heard. They have an equal chance of ending up in the NFC South.

Name *one* realistic scenario in which an ascendant Tech program leaves the ACC. Can anyone point to any *real* evidence that this is being considered?

The ACC is the same conference that had the juice to get Boston College, VaTech and Miami to leave their cupcake conference that gave them plenty of easy Ws on their way to contending for NCs. Things are much, much tougher for those programs now. How did they pull that off?

I’d love to see Tech in the SEC, recruiting would be much easier, and there’s no doubt in my mind we’d whoop arse. I just don’t know where this talk is coming from.

It just isn’t. going. to. happen.

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wesleywhatwhat, How can you talk about the ACC being supperior in academics by using the AAU and they only have 4 members. Whoopty do.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 !!!

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ramwrecksf
You are such a Retard.
try watching ESPN or reading SI.
Academics? This is a sports blog not a Nerd Blog!!!!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Good, then we don’t have to waste a non-conference game beating you bumblebees every year.

30-24 Suck it Nerds

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UGA=INDEPENDENCE BOWL……THAT’S ALL IM GONNA SAY TODAY.

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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.

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1998* oops

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I WILL SAY THIS, TECH SURE AS HELL WOULD NOT BE PUTTING ON RINGS RIGHT NOW HAD THE BEEN IN THE SEC. NUFF SAID.

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Dawglasville…heres the only one that matters.

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-universities-rankings/

but lets keep the topic on sports.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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?

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Would finish with 3 or 4 wins yearly in front of Vanderbilt.

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tech had their chance and chose to leave the sec ,does anyone really think they deserve another chance after leaving the way they did? WHO’s old enough to remember why tech left the sec ? they couldnt take the beatings every week that the sec gave them. i/e bama , bobby dodd cryed about bama being to rough,so no tech to the sec ,they’ll just leave again after the beatdowns start pilling up. just sayin

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If the the big tleven goes to 12, then we’re alright. However, given the greed factor, that’s extremely unlikely to happen, and they’re probably going to take Pitt Rutgers and the cuse. When that happens, the Redneck conference is going to snatch Climpson and FSU (or climpson and texas if they can get their hands on them). I’d be EXTREMELY surprised if they even called us, given our smaller-school status, and the fact that we’re not a bunch of angry hicks. However, if Mike Slive considers the academic side of things and decides that he wants to try the whole “research” thing out (as far as I know none of the SEC schools put as much emphasis on that as we do) then I could see them picking up the phone.

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uga fans want to complain about us not getting rings if we were in the SEC??? either way we would sure get closer than uga will. oh, one more thing. When was the last time that uga was in the SEC championship? and if you think you could beat us so much then why wouldnt you want us in the confrence?

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Some people may want Tech to join the SEC, but I highly doubt ANY of the schools mentioned would willingly leave the comfort of the ACC for another league. But keep dreaming…

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yellowhammer, when Tech left the SEC, we had winning records against every school except Alabama. And Tech had more SEC championships at that time than did UGAG. Tech left the SEC for several reasons: first Bobby Dodd believed Tech could make more money as an independent (Greed), second, Dodd didn’t like the recruiting restrictions placed on Tech, NOT the NCAA but, by the SEC, and lastly because of his feud with Bear, mainly due to Bear’s refusal to discipline Darwin Holt for his ATTACK on Tech’s Chick Granning in 1961. The feud with Bear ended, and in the 70s, Bear actually sponsored Tech’s bid for re-entry to the SEC. It was, however, vetoed by the Mississippi schools and by none other than Vince Dooley, who didn’t want Tech regaining the pre-eminent position it had had in the state of Georgia prior to Tech’s leaving the SEC.

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EEJacket….. Seriously “Climpson”…..seriously? LMAO
So much for the “Superior Education” with Tech Alum and fans. The grammar on here is hilarious. Its like I’m typing a conversation with my 9 yr old.

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I love how the tech fans love to point to the Independence bowl….It hasn’t been that long ago that tech would have loved the Indeoendence bowl…running out to California and getting your head handeed to you…playing on the blue smurf terf and getting your head handed to you…13 straight bowl appearences but what is your record in those bowls? and what top notch bowls they were

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supersize that order, mutt Nice going “Ramble ON”. You’re so transparent. Got that off a Tech website eh?

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Doug, How did Chris Jackson (the transfer from Alabama) do in spring training? Nothing was mentioned about him in any of the publications covering Georgia Tech.

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I agree that pre-PJ UGa had the upper hand on Tech, although there were some very close contests the previous past 10 years. However, over the past two seasons, and looking at the upcoming season, I don’t see that UGa has demonstrated the upper hand. I could care less about the past. Both teams have had their strong periods over the years. But as of the last three years, UGa=Tech in
demonstrated performance. Talk is cheap.

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GT sucks couldnt win one game in the SEC

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Supersize…that was a different time Bobby Dodd is not walking through those doors and most every UGA fan I know of would dearly love to have tech in the SEC…We need another conference win. 7-23 is tech’s record against UGA in the Dooley/Richt eras. you have not been able to compete with UGA and being out of the SEC is not the reason for it. But, just think if it was….what if moving to the ACC did cause Tech’s slide into mediocrity?…wow, then you would have the great Bobby Dodd to blame for so great a slide…maybe, he should have played nice with the “Bear.”

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supersize, just like for UGA, the control both scholls has is winning games…win games get a good bowl…it still gets on my nerves that UGA had to go to the Independence Bowl…but, if we don’t want that bowl…we simply have to win more games…I was making the point that tech fans throw up the Independence bowl with no room to talk considering the bowls tech has had to endure.

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Whew!! Man.. all this talk about “the past” has got me thinking: I wonder what I was doing back in the 70’s? Oh yeah… pooping my diaper.

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whatever phone guy. I Have know idea what you’re talking about.

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When you leave the SEC (as GT did) you can’t return. The answer is no.

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Really, GT is a perfect fit for the SEC. All this nonsense about new markets, etc. is stupid. We all see what ‘new markets’ in Miami and Boston did for the ACC. Squat. GT is a founding member, great academics, and is geographically a perfect fit.

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Also – if you look beyond football, which Tech is traditionally good it. The school is also good to great at every other sport. Basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, etc. Tech brings more to the table in sports excellence than any of those other teams mentioned.

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SEC would acquire Georgia Tech, Clemson and Florida State

ACC would acquire Syracuse, Rutgers and Connecticut

Big Ten would acquire Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Missouri

Big 12 would acquire Memphis, New Mexico and Colorado State

Pac-10 would acquire Hawaii, Nevada and Utah

My Wild Cards: Boise St., Brigham Young, UNLV, Houston, Tulsa and Miami-FL

Other teams would remain.

Any thoughts???

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Sidney Hill you are a moron. How can you possibley say GT has no competitive teams in any sport? Please look stats up before posting things and making yourself look dumb.
As for entering the SEC it could be a double edge sword. Recruiting should get better, but that could take several years, and the fact that GT cannot get some of these elite SEC players simply because of academics. There was an article in 08 I beleive that listed the Fla. Gators SAT scores and well over half could not even be considered at GT. SEC fans can bash the ACC all you want and talk about how no elite undefeated teams come out of the ACC. Could it possibley be that the ACC has several good teams that threaten each other every weekend instead of two teams that slaughter their counterparts with or without ref help. GT is fine where it is for now and the future only looks brighter.

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Mactec Corporation: a $500 million dollar engineering firm based in Alpharetta. CEO and CFO? UGA grads. You Techie chumps need to get your facts straight, UGA is great academic institution and every bit of your hatred comes from the athletic domination of the last 20 years at the hands of the Dawgs. Get over yourselves, nobody but Tech fans believe in your “superiority”

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wed. april 28 . bama run rules #7 ga. tech in girls softball 13-1 in 5 innings= more beatdowns to come if tech wants to play the sec

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Does Tech even have a Gymnastics Team?

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Dawgforlife, actually I do blame Dodd for the slide—-first for pulling us out of the SEC then for being possibly the worst AD any school ever had. Remember, he hired Curry and was responsible for letting the facilities degrade as far as they did before Homer Rice came along and started the efforts to bring all of Tech’s athletic facilities up to standard.

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What asshat calls thyself “Bay Bay.” Should be called Boo-Boo after getting your ass handed to you 9 out of the last 10 tries. Stick to baseball because your football program sucks.

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GT in the SEC?

Basketball-top 4 right in with UK, UT, Vandy
Baseball-top 4 right in with LSU, Florida, Arkansas, UGA most years
Football-3rd or 4th in the East behind Florida and UGA and maybe SC depending on the year. Alabama, LSU would destroy them and Arkansas and Ole Miss would be competitive. They hang their hats on beating SEC schools when the reality is they only beat Vandy and MSU consistently.

Football-conference USA much better fit

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UGAG Student, what immature banter are you referring to? If it’s that I slam you mutts whenever I get the chance, well, I hate to tell you, but that’s been going on for 100+ years by alumni of all ages. However, if you read my posts, you know that I also post facts, and not just opinions.

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Does anybody remember why they got out of the SEC to begin with? GREED……In the earlt to mid-60’s they decided they wanted to keep all their bowl money and not split the pot with any conference. That was about as dumb a decision as they could have ever made. They made their bed, now let them lay in it. They’re just lucky the ACC expanded, because without their revenue they’d probably be out of the athletics business by now.

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If tech were in the SEC they’d be better than the majority of the league, they’d be better than Vandy, Kentucky, Auburn, Tenn, Arkansas,
Miss State, Ole Miss, etc etc etc, I just hate when SEC fans build the conference up to be something that it is not. Sure its one of the elites, but Jeaze, its got 2 or 3 powerhouses every single year, the rest are just average football teams.

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LOL at the dumb dawgs on this blog…did you guys just wake up? I know its tough working nights at McDonalds…

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Do we really care about softball and gymnastics anyways? The correct answer is NO! its all about football, so quit talking about the other stuff.

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My Divisions:

SEC Elite: Alabama, Florida, LSU and Ole Miss Rotate every Year, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky alternate every five or six years.

Sec Upper Middle Class: Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, Ole Miss, LSU, Arkansas

Sec Lower Middle Class: South Carolina, Kentucky

SEC Homecoming Opponents Class: Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, GA Tech

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I guess I don’t see the downside for the SEC or GT if they were included in a theorhetical expansion of the SEC.

GT would benefit financially and competitively (getting their brand more recognition and TV coverage) and the SEC would benefit from having an SEC team in the biggest SEC fan city (Atlanta). I’m sure individual SEC teams would like the opportunity to play two games in the state of Georgia (rich recruiting grounds) to get more exposure there.

The ACC has yet to compete nationally and if super conferences are on the way, the ACC will fade into obscurity. Would GT want to REALLY be in an also ran conference? What team (other than maybe Texas) would the SEC prefer than GT (along with FSU, Clemson & Miami)?

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If the SEC pulls Clemson, Fla St and or Miami—–Tech and Vr Tech would be destined to be in the ACC championship game every year—Tech would be crazy to leave the ACC. The ACC would fill those spots with Memphis, South Florida and a third very good mid tier team and run away with the money.

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“It will not happen,” sorry, bud but get your facts straight. The reasons you listed for Tech leaving the SEC are correct, as is your claim that the western schools did not want Tech back. HOWEVER, Dooley was the number one opponent to allowing Tech back in. Tech had Bear’s backing, endorsement in fact, and he could have swayed LSU, if not the Mississippi schools, but Dooley ruled the roost at that time, and he wouldn’t allow it. That is fact, NOT conjecture; it was printed in all the newspapers.

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It will not happen, Tech doesnt offer a Recreation degree. You keep making stuff up though, if it makes you feel better.

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Mississippi State’s stadium seats 55,000 the same as Bobby Dodd. Vanderbilt seats about 35,000. I believe Ole Miss’ stadium capacity is comparable to Tech’s. I think Tech would fit in just fine with the rest of the SEC.

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“Dawgs win again,” first there was nothing illegal about any of Tech’s wins over the mutts, which you imply in your post. But regardless, I guess you consider the SEVERAL 3-point wins by the mutts over the Jackets during the years to be beatdowns, but any win (by no matter how many points) over the mutts to be a fluke. You are a typical hypocrite.

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Tech does offer a Liberal Arts curriculum, so get real. Park Science or Park Management or what ever tech cllas it ain’t Nuclear Physics.

Why is the truth so hard to come to grips with?? My nephew is in the MBA prgoram there right now and he told me this. He went under grad to Duke.

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“Another history lesson,” why did you omit the fact that the last two times Tech played Auburn (in the past 10 years), Auburn was HEAVILY favored, but Tech won both times. Also, Tech didn’t join the ACC in the 60s; we were an independent for several years, and then a member of the late Metro conference, before joining the ACC in 1978. I for one am not ashamed of the ACC, but I would rather be back in the SEC, since we have more natural rivals in the SEC. I see no reason to be ashamed of Tech’s ACC championships in basketball, football, baseball, golf, and women’s tennis during the years of ACC membership. A championship in any sport in any conference is always something to be proud of.

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“Another history lesson,’ once again I refer you to the link listing ALL of Tech’s degree programs….. http://www.gatech.edu/degrees/ . Yes, Tech offers SOME liberal arts degrees, but recreation and park science are not among them. I don’t care what your nephew says.

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They would be beaten like rented mules by the top teams but also lose occassionally to the others in the league to have few winning seasons…other than 7-5 or 7-6 records from time to time.

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Yakko, its because this would not just be an athletic conference realignment. I would be in favor of a hybrid alignment like Notre Dame has where we could play football in the SEC but remain in the ACC for everything else but it doesnt work that way. Academics are part of the conference realignment which is why the Big Ten wont pursue a school like West Virginia. Its also why several schools would not join the SEC if offered. There is academic pride in a conference just like there is football or basketball pride in a conference.

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wiley speaks the truth. Thank God for the exam curve.

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well, I was refering to wiley’s other post.

I don’t think we have to lower our acedmic standards to recruit. We’ve had some pretty good recruiting years recently. Two 1st round draft picks here recently wiley

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The best SEC scenario is to have the three leading Florida Schools and Ga. Tech and send South Carolina back to the ACC. Imagine a 14-team SEC. Move Vandy to the West and add FSU to the West. Add Miami and Tech to the East. Now that would be a great conference.

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SATs matter not ONCE the kid is in school. . What does the student achieve at a university like UGA or AUburn or at Ga Tech? Can he do the work and if not, then why IS HE THERE? Was he like with CPH just brought there to play ball? A kid ( JOCKS from poor areas ) SHOULD BE given special attention in order to advance fairly and squarely.

Tech does not graduate their kids and is in the BOTTOM nationally with this. It is either scandalous because they were ill equipped intellectually in ths first place OR they are left to their own devices so long as they remain current students in order to play ball, then turn pro. Which is it tech??

Your graduation % is scandalous and speaks volumes about the insitute’s overall values. Ball is first, school is secondary. When do Dwyer and Morgan and Burnett graduate and with what degree??

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Oh I know. Those two kids were actually very smart, and just happened to be exceptional football players. Unfortunately, most elite level players are not always the smartest individuals…its just the way it is. I just don’t think we can find enough talented and smart kids to have SEC caliber D and O lines with the current academic standards. In order to compete in the SEC we would need to recruit more elite athletes and build depth like UGA, UF, Alabama, etc in the trenches. Can I get an amen? Look at their lines…they are all stock full of four star players. We would have to recruit like that if we want to compete…just my opinion.

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The FACT about Dodd & GT leaving the SEC had to do with
Dodd’s belief that, if GT offered a student-athlete a scholarship, if that SA got hurt and was unable to play any more college ball, that GT should HONOR that scholarship and let the SA keep the scholarship, continue his education at GT, and not take away what had been granted.

The rest of the SEC, especially Bama, chose to limit the number of scholarships, but keep the right to take away the scholarship if the SA was injured and could no longer play ball.

The “Bama” approach resulted in what Dodd abhored, essentially scholarships became a tryout system. Bama’s approach was to offer lots of scholarships, then cut those scholarships down during Spring or Fall practices, essentiall a tryout system.

Does “The Junction Boys” ring a bell with anyone ??

Thats why Dodd wanted and needed unlimited scholarships, to offset Bama’s and the SEC’s “plantation” method of recruiting.

Bryant gave Dodd his word that he would press the SEC to follow that rule by having the Alabama President advocate for it. Bryant “stabbed” Dodd in the back by going back on his commitment to Dodd.

For Dodd to keep his commitment to the scholarships awarded, he knew GT would end up in a losing proposition, maintaining an academic & athletic standard that the SEC was unwilling to follow.

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“Get your facts straight,” that is 100% CORRECT. But refresh my memory–who or what were the “junction boys”?

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The SEC would never want a school like GT. They already have Vanderbilt why bring in another mediocre team. The SEC already has the Atlanta market, there are ten times more UGA, Auburn, UF fans in Metro Atlanta than GT fans. GT is nice program better suited for the ACC than the SEC. For all of your put downs towards UGA, you have lost 8/9 to them so I would just shut my mouth about Georgia. Kinda like UGA fans should keep quiet about UF until they can at least win more than once every five years.

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Tech should not return to the “Knucklehead League”.

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I think Tech belongs in the SEC and would like to see it; I think most of their fans would like that as well. But it will never happen. The academic snob factor at Tech will keep them in the ACC where they can pretend like they are on the same academic level as Duke and Wake Forest(when actually their SAT freshman average is much closer to UGA then to those two schools..you can look it up).. Also being in the ACC lets Tech continue to have a ready made excuse any time that they suck..which ,last yr notwithstanding, is most of the time. It is the classic Tech crutch and theyre not gonna let it go. .

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BAMA STAN – very good post, only issue is basketball we get ACC schedule which is more appealing then SEC.

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I think it would be a win for Tech to come back to the SEC. The ACC just doesn’t stack up to the SEC. I also think with Tech in the SEC it would help their recruiting, well sort of; they have to get rid of that little league offense first.

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CDAWG, your fleabags haven’t stopped that “little league offense” yet.

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It would help Tech basketball, instead of having to play the likes of Duke, UNC, & Maryland we get to play Kentucky and everyone else. With a real coach, GT & UK could dominate SEC basketball

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If my research has much merit, Tech was better than UGA when Tech was part of SEC. I bet Tech will be back to its old glory if rejoin. Tech will be able to recruit better in SEC, and tons of Atlanta fans will be automatically Tech fans instead of UGA fans.

Atlanta is a major metro and college football capital. Tech is right at the center of football world, while UGA resides in a little sleepy town without even a major highway.

Yea, Tech rejoining SEC makes a lot of sense. Let’s play in Georgia Dome.

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The ACC saved GT when they were down, but unfortunately the ACC is spread out too far to develop good natural rivalries. If the ACC would change their divisions (North / South) and let GT play FSU, Clemson, Miami, Wake, and NCST every year, there would be no need to go to the SEC. Football wise, a southern ACC division would mirror the SEC East Division. Most GT fans just don’t care about playing Duke, UNC, and UVA every year. However, if given the choice, I’d prefer being back in the SEC. True most of the SEC schools have mega-stadiums, but GT’s lesser numbers may be more intense than lots of SEC fans give them credit for.

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I’m with you, mike, but I think if Tech were back in the SEC, stadium enlargement or replacement would be only a few years down the road. Don’t want to play in the GA Dome, but we might have to until we could get a suitably sized on-campus stadium. However, the way the east side of the stadium is built, a third level might be a possiblity there, and that alone would increase the capacity substantially.

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BamaStan the ACC has 5 in the last ten years. Duke(2001, 2010) Maryland(2002) and UNC(2005, 2009).

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Hey I am all for joining the SEC. I just know the realities of recruiting at GT. Its a tough school academically…….even for the people who were great students with 1300+ SATs and valedictorians….I can tell you this from personal experience. These are the facts that I know…so how is my argument flawed again? Georgia Tech is a hard school where athletes struggle…it should also be mentioned that those results are compiled in a window no longer than six years. Most regular students take 6 years to graduate…especially when you switch majors.

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yakko,
Just curios where you got your numbers and why you only want to post what you say is GTs %, but nothing for the dawgs. Not saying you are wrong, but I would like to see a link to know you are not pulling % from your arse. I believe you asked what degree Morgan, Dwyer, Thomas, and Burnett were getting. I have no idea if any of these young men are going to finish school, though they should, and I would also ask you how many UGA players that left early went back and finished. Have you seen Stafford around campus lately? I don’t get into the GT degree is better than UGA degree, it all depends what you are going to college for because they are both good schools.

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georgia tech just swept uga again in baseball…man this gets old beating uga in two of the 3 main sports…true you did win this year in basketball, but we win most. look at the overall series between uga and gt in baseball, basketball and football…then call me.

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yakko,
This is an article I found and though it does state that GT is in the low catagory it’s not the 27% you claim.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Tech tied with Texas for the lowest
graduation rate of any top 10 football team, according to the
NCAA’s latest report on the academic success of student athletes.
Texas, which is third in the BCS standings, and Georgia Tech,
which is seventh, each graduated 49 percent of their football
players who started classes from 1999-2002, meaning they earned
their diplomas within six years. Georgia Tech’s rate improved
slightly from 48 percent in last year’s report.
The University of Georgia’s graduation rate of football players
improved from 48 percent in the 2008 report to 57 percent.
Georgia graduated only 18 percent of its men’s basketball
players in the time frame, according to the NCAA figures. Georgia
Tech graduated 38 percent of its basketball players.

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No thanks, you can have the redneck conference to yourselves.

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Of course yechies don’t graduate. Heck, Dwyer “supposedly” has ADD but yet we’re supposed to believe he hung around Tech for 3 or 4 years “taking” classes? yeah right.

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Peachtree St, you’re a little late with your incorrect reasons for why Dodd pulled out of the SEC. That was covered comprehensively earlier this afternoon, and the losing record to the Bear had nothing to do with it. So, as I said to blake, get your facts straight or STFU

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I started at Tech in 1980. At orientation they told us to look at the person on our right and then look at the person on our left. They then said “If you graduate, the two people you just looked at statistically will not graduate”. They were illustrating the fact that back then only about 1 out of 3 incoming freshmen would graduate and I remember them dropping like flies during the first year and to a lesser extent the second year. I don’t know what the current graduation rate for incoming freshmen is but if the athletes are graduating at a comparable or higher rate than the general student population I think the school is doing its job. Comparing Tech’s graduation rate to some of these diploma mills distorts the picture dramatically.

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No Tech , no advantage adding a mid level program.

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the SEC already has several mid-level programs, including UGAG

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And for you UGAGGERS, I also attended your school, and the undergrad courses there are like comparing a kindergarten to a high school….if you compare the difficulty with what I saw at Tech.

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Hey, as far as I know, no one from the ACC wants to join the SEC and vice versa. If they do, let them stand up.

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How can a program that loses year after year after year talk any smack bumblebee

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Savannah Jacket, you’re right – this conversation should be about football, not folderol. I hope Tech rejoins the SEC. UGA, I guess, hopes not. After all, Tech led the long football series with UGA by one game in 1963. Tech foolishly left the SEC the very next year.
Seventeen years as an Independent nearly destroyed its fine football program. Joining the ACC was an “any port-in-a-storm” decision.

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@ Mike: Exactly. The ACC was too short sighted when they set up these divisions. Geographical re-alignment would fix a lot of what’s wrong with ACC football.

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I realize the SEC is looked upon as some powerhouse conference but lately, what has any of them done besides AL, FL and LSU with the latter not doing too much to be in that category? VT, Miami, Clemson, GT and FSU are just as tough to battle. The last time GT played Auburn, the Tigers were ranked 2nd in the country and GT with Reggie Ball still won the game. Are GT fans suppose to be in awe or intimidated? Should GT be in literal fear when facing SC, TN, GA, Arkansas, KY, Ms, Ms St, Vandy,? Think not. Didn’t even see UGA play Alabama on their schedule so did they honestly have it that bad? VT beat Tn and Clemson beat Ky who both beat UGA. If it means better revenue then I guess it is a good idea but I do not see better football opponents week in and week out, year in and year out. Maybe GT could stay in the ACC for basketball but really with the current coach the majority aren’t going to care one way or the other

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Phobia, I remember that same orientation well. I had a dorm mate who was valedictorian at his HS & went 3 quarters & out. I somehow managed to claw my way to matriculation. 1/2 my freshman class was gone after year one. To compare the two grad rates is folly.

Supersize,
You seem to to know your stuff.If you like college football,I would like to recommend the video “Junction Boys” & the book “BEAR”. They are a hoot. Also the book by Pepper Rodgers”Fourth & Long Gone”

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Doug, do you and Barnhart honestly think there is a tougher schedule than what GT will play in 2010? I would like to see Alabama play at Clemson, at Va Tech, at UNC (with all their NFL juniors coming back) and at UGA, not to mention at Kansas too. So going to the SEC would be tougher than that? yeah right

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“Silly Dawg Fans” you are the kind of Techie that makes it very hard for me to pull for Tech, which I try to do except when I’ve spent some time reading ajc blogs. I believe that Tech does have the skill to play in the SEC, but not to win it. That is my honest assessment. Tech will not bring the fan base that the SEC is looking for… that is not a jab just the facts.

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I see no reason GA Tech should go to the SEC. Why lower our standards? Do we really want to be associated with jail birds?

The only 2 good teams in the SEC now are Alabama and Florida. Without those 2 teams, the SEC would fall below the Mountain West Conference.

There is nothing for GA Tech to gain.

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Reality you’re so funny… sad, but funny.

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Tech left the SEC over scholarship limits. Since the SEC limits are no different than the NCAA at this point, no, the reasons don’t still exist. They didn’t exist in 1978, either.

I would love to see Tech back in the SEC.

Auburn is our oldest rival. When we quit playing them in the late ’80s we had played them more than any other team, and the record was darned close before Bill Curry became coach. They were the first team Tech played. They used to have a parade every year before the game. The Auburn game was important. And they’ve got what passes for an engineering school in Alabama.

When I was at Tech in the late ’70s and early ’80s we played, in addition to Auburn and Georgia (which was every year), Florida, Tennessee, and Alabama. These were, as far as I am concerned, our rivals.

As I like to point out to a friend of mine who is a Kentucky fan, we still have more SEC championships than they do, and they’ve had almost fifty years to catch up.

I’d love to keep playing Clemson, but, if it came to it, I’d take SEC membership over that.

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Reality..I agree with you. Uga would have a lot of problems playing teams like NC,Miami,and VT.Let see what fans think about uga joining the ACC!!

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I’d like to know who the hell has figured out Tech’s offense to the extent that they can consistently stop it. Iowa did a better job than anybody, and yet Tech still had a chance at the end. UGAG stopped the interior game in 2009 but did nothing on the outside or the passing game (Nesbitt’s poor passing and Thomas’ one disastrous drop do not mean that UGAG defended the pass well). You mutts can live vicariously through the fact that Tech sucked against LSU and Miami (in 2009, certainly not in 2008), but Tech sucked in those two games; neither LSU nor Miami did did that much to stop us. Each may have won anyway, but it certainly wasn’t because they figured out Tech’s defense. As far as figuring out Tech’s offense, as CPJ said, he’s been running it for 25 years, and nobody has consistently stopped it yet. Figuring it out is not the problem; executing what they have figured out is, and of all the teams Tech has played in the past 2 years, Iowa is the only team actually to consistently execute an adequate defense.

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I am a Tech alum and diehard fan. There is nobody more proud of his school from an academic standpoint then me, but I think all the Tech fans that are trying to make the argument that we wouldn’t/shouldn’t take the SEC up on an offer to join because it would hurt our academic prestige is just plain stupid.

Do you walk around feeling proud of your degree because you went to a school that is in the ACC or because of the university itself?

The case for joining is 100% about what it could do for GT from a financial standpoint. Period.

We all like to think of ourselves as smart people and successful business men/women. We wouldn’t be doing a very good job of demonstrating that if we chose to walk away from $20 million a year because we didn’t want to associate ourselves with the “dumb arses” in the SEC.

If D-Rad got an invitation to joing the SEC and turned it down, he should be fired on the spot.

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Supersize, BS Patrol, I made it too and eventually went on to med school. I made it there as well and I can tell you that although the volume of work was much greater in med school, it was not as difficult as Tech was.

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Two years later, I mean

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As a Georgia fan, I’d like to see Tech back in the SEC, what AD would look like a genius turning down $20 million annually. That’s crazy talk. I don’t like Tech at all but I do think they could compete in the SEC. But I think the SEC would go after Texas or Clemson or something like that. The SEC would look for teams that would expand the SEC’s fan base. Another Georgia team wouldn’t add another area’s TV audience.

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Hugo, do you think that Vandy’s academics have been compromised by the SEC? Last time I checked Vandy was a top notch school. I’d agree that academics are not as respected or valued by much of the SEC but I wouldn’t see the SEC as a threat to Tech’s academics. My biggest reservation about joining an SEC expansion would be the size of the conference. Besides the financial aspect, I’m not sure what the value of having a huge conference is.

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Hugo – I agree with you about Vandy. Vandy and FSU should swap conferences.

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I’m all for Tech joining the SEC! I’m a fan of tradition and would love to get back to where it all started! It would make for some fun match ups…if it avails itself…let’s GO FOR IT!!!

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Well they would have a really unique marketing ploy. Four tickets, four hot dogs, four cokes

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I just learned how to copy / paste for the first time, give me a break…

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i would love to join the SEC and beat georgia every year and keep them out of the SEC championship but i would never want georgia tech to have to be in the same confrence as any low life georgia team.

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The last two years, Florida and Alabama were 15-1 against the rest of the SEC. I think GA Tech would fair just as well as those “other ten teams”. Actually, Tech has a winning record against the SEC the last two years. I suspect they have played the SEC more than any other non-conference team. Yes, Tech had a terrible losing streak against UGA. But during that time they went 2-0 against Auburn (with the infamous Reggie Ball) while Auburn was supposed to have a great team. The SEC is all about protecting their brand. How would it look if a University like Tech came in and actually did well. How could SEC teams continue the claim that the SEC is so tough every week playing in front 80,000 fans if Tech comes in and wins 75% of their conference games. Imagine Tech getting to substitute UGA, Vandy, Miss State (last years 3 of 4 non-conference games against the mighty SEC) with the likes of Charleston, Troy, and FIU which was Florida’s 3 of 4 non-conference games last year. Check the other current SEC non-conference games – for the most part it is pathetic. Tech scheduled THREE SEC teams! If the SEC folks want to say Vandy and Miss State aren’t that tough, then you got to acknowledge then that four cup-cake non-conference games + 2-3 soft SEC teams = 6 to 7 easy wins each year for an average SEC team. What is so scary about that….

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Well, the game last year with UGA was close. You conveniently last out the Tech victory at UGA when UGA was preseason #1 in the country. Each of the last two years UGA started the season ranked above GA Tech. GA Tech went 1-1 against UGA. You tell me who were the under achievers? UGA’s team two ago was supposed to be their best EVER! Can’t remember the last time UGA started number one.

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Besides, first two years with a new coach, new system… I’ll take where the program is and where it is headed any day.

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supersize,

Why on Earth would Florida, South Carolina, or Georgia allow anything to happen that would ultimately benefit their hated rivals?
Georgia Tech left the SEC and will never be welcomed back… so I guess it’s good y’all like the ACC better.

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Joe, Florida has already indicated that they would welcome it….at least the sources I have read say so. What’s good for the rivalry is good for each school. UGAG is too self-centered, and living in a fantasy world that makes them think they are king of the hill to realize common-sense things like that. If the SEC were to expand (no guarantee that they will) and UGAG vetoed Tech’s re-entrance, I can assure you they would be the brunt of jokes and criticism NATIONWIDE. ESPN would not let it go.

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Buzzed, they let South Carolina and Arkansas in after earlier vetoing Tech’s reentrance. Does anybody realistically think that SC or Ark benefitted the SEC more than Tech would have?

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For that matter, how do Vandy, UK, Miss State, or even UGAG last year benefit the SEC?

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I didn’t conveniently leave out anything. Even Vandy has beaten Georgia and Mark Richt. How do they fare in the SEC East year in and year out? You’re the one conveniently leaving out your 8 losses to Georgia in the past 9 years. You’re the one leaving out your embarassing recent bowl record. What is it, 5 losses in a row? We win bowl games in the SEC. Your crap program wouldn’t fit in. You’re the one conveniently leaving out the 38-3 beatdown at the hands of a team with an SEC losing record in ‘08. You’re the one pounding your chest over big wins over Vandy and Miss. St. You think your sissy little program can succeed in the SEC? The SEC has the best BCS bowl record of any conference BY FAR and you come on here acting like we’re afraid to play people and just want to protect “the brand.” The brand is WINNING clown. Tech’s brand is getting humiliated in bowl games, losing to Georgia, and beating 8-5 teams in a conference title game. You think you would face an 8-5 team in the SECCG clown? You think you could go on the road to the Swamp, Death Valley, and Bryant Denny and get it done big mouth? Your sissy football team couldn’t even beat Wake freaking Forest in regulation last year at your own joke of a stadium. You Tech fans are simply smoking crack rock if you think Tech could do anything in the SEC. No offense to crack addicts.

Tech fans are all mouth. If they did join the SEC all the loser crybaby academic excuses would reach a fever pitch. No thanks I say. We don’t want your miserable bowl record, boring high school offense, and half empty 50,000 seat stadium in our league. Most of all Tech fans, we don’t want YOU in our league. You are an embarassment.

Class dismissed.

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70% of UGag’s CURRENT football roster was admitted
under the “Special Admissions.”

Without this “Special Admissions” program of admitting THE MOST academically deficient prospects this “fine” state has seen fit to “socially promote” out of our woefully indicate high-schools,
UGag wouldnt even be able to field a football team.

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dawgfan, you should know about whining and making excuses. That’s all the mutts have ever done since they first started playing football. Hell, you even look for reasons not to count games that you lose (Tech in the WWII years), even though not a single other school in the country who lost to a school with players like Tech had even complained about it. You call every game you lose a fluke or try to blame it on referees. You are the crybabies of the SEC, if not the entire country. You may have the better record against Tech, and you may LATELY have better bowl-game success (that’s only LATELY), but you are the laughing stock of the SEC the past couple of years and totally irrelevant within even the eastern division of that conference. If you think you are so much better than Tech, then why would you not want us in the SEC east with you, since (at least according to the likes of you) it would improve your placement in that division. Of course, you and I know that it wouldn’t do that, because the 8 out of 9 thing is in the past, and you are only 1-1 since CPJ arrived. So I propose that you are SCARED of what Tech MIGHT bring to the table, and that’s why you don’t want any part of it.

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I see why GA fans say GT fans have Napoleon complexes…funny stuff supersize.

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I think 12 is where the limit should be. When you start diluting, it’s a negative. 14 is the absolute max that might work. 12 is perfect imo

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one other thing that is bad for expanding over 12 teams. you know how there’s always talk about how 2 teams from the same conf shouldn’t and can’t meet in the nat champ game from the same conf. it works with 12. but when you go to 14 and especially 16, you are going to have on occasion the 2 best teams in the same conference. the law of averages state this. and will they still not allow it? you will also have teams that win a conference play a weak schedule, that’s what happens with dilution. so a team could play an easy reg season, maybe playing 1 ranked team, then only have to win their conf champ game while another team from the same conf other division didn’t get in the conf champ but are more worthy. teams not winning conf but being ranked higher for the nat champ will also be an issue. the only way to get around that would be to do a playoff. you’d have to and it would have to be 16 teams and conf champ + at large get in. it’s going to be a mess i think if the big 10 goes for 14+

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We don’t want Tech in the SEC again! They won two National titles while in either the SEC or the Southern Conference before that in which we also were members and they won two more National titles than we did! We did not win ours till 1980 and GT left the SEC in the 60’s. We do not need them to be able to recruit better based on being a member of the SEC since then we’d likely lose to them as often as we lose to Florida. Keep Yech in the ACC! Period!!!

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Its never what you Techies say Supersize. Its always what you DON’T say. For instance, what did Georgia do the week after that embarassing loss to Kentucky that you Techies love to run your big mouths about? Here’s a few hints: #7 team in country. 330 yard rushing. 1st round NFL draft pick chokes and drops wide open pass. Game over.

See Supersize. You talk about WWII. You talk about beating Georgia in 2008. You talk a big game about the future and how Manboobs is going to do this and he’s going to do that. You Tech fans talk a lot. You’ll never hear me say otherwise. I have never seen a group of fans with bigger mouths and absolutely nothing to back it up in my life. So talk, talk, talk all you want Techie. I’ll keep talking about how we wipe the damn floor with your sorry azzes almost everytime we play you. I’ll keep talking about how Manboobs chokes in bowl games and can’t beat teams with big athletic D-lines. Yeah, he’s a real whiz kid against Wake Forest and UVA, but stop that dive and this overrated hack is completely clueless. He has no idea what to do. His wonderful offense is rendered completely impotent, much like a Tech fan with a girl.

So keep running those mouths Tech fans. I’ll be here to talk about the things that you don’t have the balls to talk about. Keep on spreading those lies about Georgia fans, but you know deep down in your insecure little hearts that we’ve got the courage to confront our pronblems. We talk about the horrible record against Florida. We talk about being down 30-0 at the half to Bama and no SEC championship in 5 years. We talk about players getting arrested and how much the defense sucks. We talk about all these things because we have balls. Tech fans only want to talk about their one victory over UGA in 9 years and how awesome they are because they won the ACC. Tech fans just want everyone to blow sunshine up their butts about how wondeerful they are and then cry like little sissies when it doesn’t happen.

Tech + Fans = JOKE.

Punch that in to your fancy Texas Instrument calculators nerds.

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lol, good lord. Dawgfan is one angry mutt. Give us another 4 paragraph rant Dawgfan.

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Yeah, try and play it cool Techie. I’m sure you just get a big kick out of getting exposed and shamed by my posts. You’re probably one of the Techies that left the Georgia game crying like a little girl and then turned around days later and claimed it didn’t matter. Come on Techie, be honest with yourself. UGA owns your soul and you know it. You aren’t fooling anyone.

And I’d be happy to drag your sissy little program through the mud some more if you’d like. Just run your big Techie mouth and give me some ammo. I’d be happy to oblige…

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Dawgfan – LOL redneck…1-1 since CPJ arrived…keep your players out of jail then come talk to us, thug

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i bet Supersize gets all the chicks (stifled laughter).

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lol. Just curiously dawgfan, what are you trying to accomplish? If its making me laugh then you have done well. Do you really think you make anyone feel bad with your 3rd grade insults? Seriously dude, get some therapy. Im now partially hoping that UGA wins every game against Tech because im a little afraid of what you might do to yourself if they dont.

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dawgfan, having a viewing party for “Sex and the City” was probably the only way your wife could ever see what good sex was all about

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Hey dawgfan, speaking of impotent, how’s your baseball team doing. 25-6 ouch!

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Most any major university could adapt and gradually fit into any of the major conferences, but why bother? Tech is well-suited to the ACC and as for the SEC: been there, done that. By the way, Hewitt can pal around with Johnson all he wants to (and all DRad wants him to) but it doesn’t change the fact that he is not worthy to be a Ga. Tech coach and we want him fired. Immediately.

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No offense, Doug, but the more I think about the Tech-SEC thing the more humorous and unlikely it seems. Tech is so ideally suited to the more academically, East-Coast oriented ACC and so diametrically opposed to the good ol’ boy SEC that neither entity would seriously consider a change. It is true that Tech was formerly a longtime and prominent member of the SEC, but it was years ago in a different era for college sports and universities in general. I do think leaving the SEC the way he did was Dodd’s biggest mistake, but Tech being in the ACC makes such good sense now that we shouldn’t even give returning a second thought.
Best of luck to both conferences and to the rivalry between Tech and UGA that requires no further fuel.

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Obviously you AZZ hats do not want back in the SEc since y’all PuZZed out on playing Bama in ‘13 & ‘14… Nick Saban is taking you guy’s to the woodshed on Al.com… You freakin nats are pitiful…shoulda , woulda, coulda…Can’t even take care of the Reck..LMMFAO…Prolly the most recognizable school Icon & your beggin for money to keep it duct taped together.. God bless… y’all had to beg for money just to haul that POS to Miami to get your Azze’s kicked by Iowa..And you wonder why as your BB coach I won’t do the honorable thing & quit..Y’all suck, that’s why…Dave Braine told me to tell y’all hello!!!!!!! LMMFAO…$7.1 million or STFU!!! i run this school…Paul..

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Coach Hewitt, whoever the hell you are, how about getting rid of the racist lingo and say what the hell you are talking about. First of all, there is no AI.com, at least not one that I could find that had anything to do with sports. Did you mean SI.com??? And in SI.com, I don’t see anything about Saban taking anybody to the woodshed over it. That was actually the first I heard about it, and all I have read so far is that the two schools “agreed” to reschedule. Last year Ole Miss and Tech agreed to reschedule also, but it was because Ole Miss requested it. Did Tech request this one? I’m asking seriously because I have not heard.

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Tech’s not afraid of UA or any other over hyped SEC team.

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Yeah right CF,
The traits you describe belong to one team in your conference, Vandy. Adding Tech would elevate the SEC by about 50%. If Tech would even consider it.

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Do you really think that UGA was founded in 1932? I went to Tech and I know it was the first land grant university in the country. I think it was 1788, but I’m sure it was late 18th century. Certainly Wikipedia should always be taken with a grain of salt, but you should use your own eyes, background knowledge, and common sense, too. Just a little sloppy, don’t you think?

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Tech would be a great fit. UF and Vandy need another school with stellar academic credentials to join the conference. Tech would have a hard time in football, but they do well in overall sports and would hold their own after November. It would help Tech recruit better athletes to be a member of a decent conference. Winners want to play winners.

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SEC are not we own Paul Hewitts. Hope you keep that great coach for life. He couldn’t beat us if his life depended on it. We got a Fox on his ass.

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Atlanta Gator = I guess that is why you all always have a weak schedule EVERY year. Like last year, just floated along playing a UGA or UT scattered in, and then get absolutely PUMMELED against BAMA. Take yo’ stuff some where else, chump!

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As dawg nation said, I’ll drink to that.

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Arkansas was founded in 1991? Huh?

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I’d love to see Tech in the SEC. Atlanta’s a major market and it would only help with future television deals (along w/ Miami). Adding a team like UNC and either FSU or V. Tech would complete the deal.
Tech would most likely struggle in football. Along the same lines as USC, KY, Ole Miss and MSU. They would add major depth in basketball and baseball to an already respectable conference in both sports. I think it would be a win for Tech (revenue) and for the SEC as a whole. From what I’m reading the only fan base that would oppose it is UGA.

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UGA was founded in 1785.

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It would correct the biggest mistake made in the legacy of Bobby Dodd. He thought the program would become the southern Notre Dame or at least Penn State, but he was mistaken. Tech is fine where they are right now, being near the top in several sports (ACC). Let’s not forget that Tech has fared well with trips to Auburn, MState, Vandy, but they are not near Alabama, LSU or Florida, so the best they could hope to be in Football is middle or high middle, unless they take the program/recruiting up a notch. I disagree that Tech’s basketball team would be contending every year, however. The SEC is a tough league, and the problems they suffer now will follow them. In the secondary sports, they should do well in Lady basketball, baseball, golf and tennis.

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blah blah blah blah blah the SEC would probably go to the West and Texas et al first, but I highly doubt those teams come to the SEC. If expansion occurs its most likely going to be Clemson, FSU, and VT first. The fourth team? Between Miami, GT, and Louisville. If I were Slive, to me GT puts more on the table than any of those other teams. Done and Done.

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Lived at Techwood homes before it became a dope filled getto. I was a big Tech fan. Still am to some extent.I was shocked to hear Tech leaving the SEC. When they tried to rejoin in the 60’s if I remember right it was Shug Jordan at Auburn that would not vote them back in. Why I don”t know. I would love to see them back in the SEC. I beleive it would help in recruiting. We can debate it from now till the end time, but I beleive the SEC is the top conf. in the nation.

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Also, when looking at metro population, you counted Vandy’s as being 596,462 but that is not accurate. Metro Nashville has a much larger population than that – pushing 2,000,000. Perhaps you were only counting Davidson County, TN, and not Metro Nashville MSN. Make sure it’s apples to apples.

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With the exception of Vanderbilt, the academic standards of the SEC are unacceptably low. Membership in the current SEC would degrade our degrees–no thank you. Next thing you know, we will be asked to marry our sisters like UGA graduates and work at Wendy’s.

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Jawjun, Dodd beat Bear in Atlanta in 1962 by the score of 7-6. Bama was defending national champion and undefeated at the time.

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The SEC doesn’t wan’t Tech. FSU sells out their stadium

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Georgia Tech has won plenty of SEC Championships already,
maybe UGA should join another conference.

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Everyone is forgetting one thing. Being in the SEC is more than just football. Tech has and never will be competitive in sports across the board — even with their huge recruiting base. Tech has only won one NCAA national championship (a women’s tennis title a few years back) in it’s entire history. Look at the 100’s of NCAA titles SEC schools have won. Tech would get decimated in the SEC. Georgia State will be a better fit in a few years,

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I didn’t know that the SEC lets high school join !

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Florida desparately needs another decent academic university in the SEC. UF is one of the honored programs in the country that achieves competitive excellence in the halls of learning and on the playing field. Welcome to the SEC. Join with other AAU members, Vandy and UF, to show doofus universities that dual excellence is attainable.

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stinger – last 3 SEC champs won the National Championship. What did the last 3 ACC champs do? BTW, why are you all so scared to play Bama?

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Trivia – name the last ACC champ to win their bowl game..

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sorry to have brought a dose of reality to this blog. i will leave now. you all may proceed with your trekkie or dungeons & dragons role playing..

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Basketball and Baseball: Complete Domination. End of story. Even with the sometimes shaky BBall Program.

As for Football, I think GT would fall 3rd or 4th in the East. 4th or 5th in the West. After a few good years of recruiting that would improve.

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I would have absolutely no problem with GT going back to its roots in the SEC. You look at all of the historical rivalries that GT had in the SEC, and that alone should get any true football fan psyched. GT/Auburn, GT/Bama, GT/UGA, and to some extent, GT also had rivalries with Tennessee and Florida. Monetarily, there is no downside, and I, unlike some fans, am not going to be on my high horse about the academics. Vandy is a fine institute academically, and they are in the SEC. Now, onto the whole, “GT can’t compete in the SEC,” crap. How do you figure? On an average year, GT would at the very least beat or give the following teams a run for their money: Ole Miss, MSU, Arkansas, Tennessee, AU, Kentucky,Vandy, UGA, and South Carolina. LSU would be interesting every year, and we would have easily competed with them recently. The only two teams that have shown any true Dominance in the SEC are Bama and Florida. And last I checked you don’t always play teams from the other division in your schedule. UGA fans need to get off this high horse of theirs that the SEC is so much more dominant overall. Overall, the SEC is just another normal conference.

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1-8 in the last 9 match-ups vs .UGA. If thats what you call giving us a run for our money then you all have obviously conceded football in this state..

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DawgBoi is really Dawggir. How would you like a punch in the face? The last time UGAY won anything was 1980. If you don’t believe me ask Coach Paul Johnson.

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“I RUN THIS BLOG!”

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GA Tech just asked out of the series with Bama so why should they be asked to join the SEC? They obviously want no part of it…especially when they can’t beat GA either. And ATL Gator…while you’re patting your academic record on the back…realize that Bama just recently won the SEC academic honor roll for the second year in a row. UF second, UGA third.

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Does anybody know for a fact who dropped whom in the Tech-Bama deal? All I have read so far is that it was agreed by both schools to postpone it. Nothing was said who instigated it or why. Does anybody have any facts?

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Lets send prayers and condolences out the the family of beloved GT FOOTBALL ALUM,NICK RODGERS WHO PASSED EARLY THIS MORNING.
REST IN PEACE NICK..

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They would be ranked a little lower than Vandy in attendance! They would be ahead of Florida in muggings! They would be ranked near Alabama in terms of tactful coaches.

The SEC is the best, why change to water it down?

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And they would be WAY BEHIND UGAG in number of players arrested

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supersize that order, mutt

May 3rd, 2010
1:17 pm
Thanks, Hugo. I wonder why D-Rad wanted to postpone, since I assume he’s the one who originally scheduled it anyway.

I think the answer to that question is fairly obvious to most.

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Hey Leroy….BAMA plays at Arkansas, South Carolina, Tenn & LSU. We also play Florida, Auburn, Penn St., and MISS at home. BAMA plays GT, home and home in 2011 & 2013. I

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HBTD, I can assure you that win or lose, neither DRad nor CPJ would ever back away from a game out of fear. I am sure there is more to it than that. Oh, and by the way, why do you think Ole Miss dropped Tech for this year and next? Were they scared of Tech? I doubt it; I’m sure there were other reasons there too. But since you are obviously a mutt living in hope that one day you might return to relevancy (assuming you ever really had any) in the SEC, just keep spouting your mindless drivel.

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supersize that order, mutt

May 3rd, 2010
4:09 pm

HBTD, I can assure you that win or lose, neither DRad nor CPJ would ever back away from a game out of fear. I am sure there is more to it than that. Oh, and by the way, why do you think Ole Miss dropped Tech for this year and next? Were they scared of Tech? I doubt it; I’m sure there were other reasons there too. But since you are obviously a mutt living in hope that one day you might return to relevancy (assuming you ever really had any) in the SEC, just keep spouting your mindless drivel.

Wow!! Talk about insecure. Supersize, see Doug’s 4:11 post for the obvious reason I referred to in my 2:24 post. LOL!!!

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IMHO, GT & Bama are “postponing” their games
to let both keep their schedules…”flexible.”

Translation: the SEC will be adding GT within the next two years.

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HBTD, I’m not insecure; I just know how assinine most of the mutts who post here are. Perhaps I am wrong about you; you will have to prove that, however. Regarding the T-Day game, I live 3 hours from Atlanta, and as much as I would have liked to go, I could not. If I lived in Atlanta, I would not have missed it. However, to be honest, I don’t see what the big to-do about spring games is anyway, no matter what school. Generally they are pretty boring, although it’s a nice chance to see what might be ahead for the following season.

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FSU & GT are both in the Eastern Time zone.

That would give the SEC 7 in the Eastern, and 7 in the Central.

This is how the SEC will “counter” some moves by other conferences.

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I have been saying how much I’d like Tech back in the SEC for years. Would bring my Gators to town on occasion, bring much more interesting games to Tech, and would be great for the Atlanta economy – SEC fans travel!

This would also elevate the Tech program and revive some great classic match-ups like Bama / Auburn and so on.

All for it – at least consider switching places with Vandy!

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GT BABY –> Remember a little team from the Big Ten that spanked Tech in the Orange Bowl.

For you SEC championship counters – Tech won 5 while in the conference. UGA has won 12. Before this year, you had not won the ACC since 1998.

Look at your Bowl record the last 10 years. You have lost 5 bowl games in a row and you have only been to 1 BCS Bowl game which was last year. We have one 4 bowl games in a row and in the last 10 years we are 8 – 2 in bowl games and 3 are BCS Bowls where we are 2 and 1.

Also if you want to count National Championships – we could argue that we have 5 based on finishing with a number ranking in at least one of the final national polls and included in the Official NCAA Football Record book — 1942, 1980, 1927, 1946, 1968.

So you techies don’t think I am being biased, it should be noted we lost to GT 12 – 0 in the final game of the year in 1927 – regardless UGA finished ranked #1 in 2 polls recognized by the NCAA – Boand System and Poling System.

I don’t think you have to worry about an SEC invitation coming anytime soon. Regardless of what Sonny Purdue and company think, they don’t have any say so in the SEC. If they want to force it then they can but they can easily just move the game to a different location rather than playing in Atlanta, which of course be a mistake.

In addition, you would have to get rid of your coach because he does not run an offenseive scheme that would work long term in the SEC. You will see that if you play a talented SEC team. Also the argument made about Tech beating Auburn and Clemson beating a school – what happened last year in the ACC. UGA beat Tech and South Carolina beat Clemson. UGA beat South Carolina so does that make us the real champion from last year in the ACC? Just saying….

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Barack, what you failed to mention is that while Tech was in the SEC, winning 5 conference championships, UGAG only won 3. The majority of the conference championships that UGAG has won have been since Tech left the SEC. Whether that would have made a difference, nobody knows, but odds are Tech would have won more, and UGAG would have probably won less. Counting the years prior to the SEC, when Tech and UGAG were in first the SIAC and then the old Southern conference, Tech has a total of 16 conference championships in football (Southern, SEC, and ACC); UGAG has a total of 14 (SIAC, Southern and SEC). You might also be interested in knowing that Tech won one SEC regular season basketball championship and one SEC basketball tournament (same year) while in the SEC. During that same time, UGAG won NONE of either. Since leaving the SEC, Tech has won two regular season ACC basketball championships and three ACC basketball tournament championships; UGAG has won one regular season SEC basketball championship, and two SEC tournament championships. Looks to me like no matter what the conference, and whether football or basketball, Tech can hold its own. It remains to be seen how the two schools would stack up against each other if Tech were back in the SEC. I for one would sure like to find out. And don’t go on and on about the last 10 years (or even last 40) years in football; if you’re going to consider the past as being relevant in determining the future, then you have to look at all the past, like I just attempted to do.

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