WR Sims to transfer
Georgia Tech wide receiver Quentin Sims has decided to transfer. Sims, a redshirt sophomore, will not travel with the team to the Independence Bowl.
The reasons for Sims’ decision were not immediately available, but he has not seen the field much in his two seasons with the Jackets. As a backup wide receiver, he did not have a catch in two years and mostly played special teams.
After playing quarterback at Colerain High in Cincinnati, Sims was recruited to Tech as a wide receiver. However, he worked at quarterback in a few instances to provide depth. Safety Cooper Taylor, A-back Chris Jackson and quarterback Jordan Luallen also left the team earlier in the season.
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GDBurdell
December 20th, 2010
4:57 pm
GTfan2011: what ever helps you sleep at night, man. Is that what they you guys at orientation or something??? Every teck engineer I’ve ever seen is always 1.) lacking in fundamentals 2.) pompous
So yeah, great job teck morons
UGA Fan
December 20th, 2010
4:58 pm
and Go Dogs, woof woof woof!!
GT man
December 20th, 2010
4:59 pm
Another waste of a football talent at GT. Hate to say it but Vad Lee will either get screwed at QB and leave also. Also this Laskey kid will be put on defense and waste his running back talent. Do you think if Brett Favre would have came to GT if he’d wound up on defense?
WHITE and GOLD
December 20th, 2010
4:59 pm
GDBurdell… It is Tech… not teck… Your welcome!
UGA Fan
December 20th, 2010
5:02 pm
My football team are better. It is because we good. I have gone to school at UGA for 3 years now and I think we are smarter than Tech’s in English but maybe not as much in Math and Science.
GT Trumpet
December 20th, 2010
5:03 pm
How would you even know the fundamentals Burdell?
UGA Fan
December 20th, 2010
5:09 pm
I might change my major, any suggestions? I can’t think for my self very well. I hate thinking hahaha but whatever. Football!!! We won baby. Beat your team with it’s replacement QB barely in a home game. That’s two years in a row where our greatest win of the year came from an ACC team because any team we beat in the SEC obviously sucks.
Born2Buzz
December 20th, 2010
5:10 pm
Anybody watch the ESPN show about over signing of football scholarships? Not saying that Sims was pushed out but at some point guys get the message that they aren’t going to see playing time so they are “encouraged” to transfer. This opens up scholarships for incoming freshmen. It happens at every school and from the show on ESPN it happens at SEC schools the most. I just don’t think Tech fans are used to seeing many transfers because of the typical recruits we get. If they are coming to Tech and they are marginal players the degree is more important than the playing time.
TECHHEAD
December 20th, 2010
5:13 pm
@ tech titan –i agree with 100% FIRE PAUL JOHNSON!!!!!!!!!!
Lumpkin Bumpkin
December 20th, 2010
5:34 pm
@Steve
Where is Sims going? GSU?
D A Double U G
December 20th, 2010
5:45 pm
Tech students are very good in math.
UGA students are very good at social skills and dating.
GTFan478
December 20th, 2010
5:53 pm
Tech Titan you are an idiot and either a dawg fan or a bandwagon fan. Tech tried running a pro style offense and guess what, it didnt work. Tech cant recruit to run a pro or spread period. So shut up about it. Where was all this fire Paul Johnson talk last year and the year before? Bunch of ungrateful bandwagon fans. I was a Tech fan when Gailey was here along with O’Leary. Im happy with Johnson. No one has done better than he has in the last forty years than Johnson minus Bobby Ross. So shut up please about fire Paul Johnson.
Paul in RDU
December 20th, 2010
5:56 pm
UGA students are very good at social skills???
If “social skills” include insulting people because they went to a different school, then I guess you could say that there are many UGA students who are very good at social skills.
D A Double U G
December 20th, 2010
6:05 pm
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
John Kincaid on 680am The Fan radio: “So I assume you don’t have much down time playing at Tech, since the cirriculum there is so demanding
Anthony Allen (in avery heavy ebonic accent): “Uh, yessir. When I am not on the practice field I am always studying the playbook and watching films”
I SERIOUSLY COULDN’T MAKE THIS UP!!!!
BWAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!
new here
December 20th, 2010
6:43 pm
NO IT AIN;T IT ARE TO.
SUPERdAWG
December 20th, 2010
6:51 pm
Calculus: A small stone used for counting.Damn who knew a tekie nerd could make a boomerang out of it and have it come back and hit’em in the beehind.
mowreck
December 20th, 2010
6:56 pm
Tech Titan evidently hasn’t checked out Jeff Green a recruit that has commited to Tech. He is like 6′5″ and weighs 200. His HS team was in championship game at the Dome. AND he is another Bay Bay or better at his age.
CPJ
December 20th, 2010
7:41 pm
he’s transferring to Georgia where he’ll be good enough to start.
Ramblin Man
December 20th, 2010
7:43 pm
the ugly truth,
You really need to learn some reading comprehension skills. I in no way made fun of UGA for having a large fan base and thank you for pointing out that a large part of UGA fans lack common sense and seem to think any mention about thier team by a GT fan is a slight.
Chuck Allison
December 20th, 2010
7:50 pm
We didn’t need Jordan Luallen and Jabo Conner unless we want to be able to complete passes consistently. Now we are not tempted to throw the ball because we don’t have anyone with that ability. If we don’t get to where we can throw the ball competently, then we may have difficulty recruiting real quarterbacks again.
GoodWord
December 20th, 2010
7:52 pm
Y’all are crazy to want to get rid of Paul Johnson. Chan got 6 seasons and the only time he got close to achieving the success CPJ did last year his team lost to Wake Forest 9-6 in the worst football game I’ve ever seen.. CPJ’s Tech squads have overachieved 2 of the 3 seasons he has been in Atlanta. This season was rough, but there was hope in every loss at least. Under Gailey the Jackets rarely won a close game, and were blown out a couple of times a year, and they had solid defenses under Tenuta. You have to give a coach a little bit of leeway when he coaches at a school with a small student base and limited funding. Not every year will be great, especially when you lose 4 key players to the NFL, and your only QB with any experience to injury. The Jackets will be fine under Paul Johnson. You also need to quit knocking the offense. CPJ knows what he’s doing, and when run properly his offense will net at least 30 points a game. Let the Jackets get the defense under control and everything will be gnarly. Trust me on this one.
GoodWord
December 20th, 2010
8:02 pm
http://images.bizrate.com/resize?sq=140&uid=1874335898
Check out the roman numeral number 4 on this UGA clock. It’s IIII instead of IV.
SSugiura
December 20th, 2010
8:13 pm
test
WrexN.eFx
December 20th, 2010
8:22 pm
To all the hard-headed GT Fans out there that are addicted to the CPJ Kool-Aid, remember this:
Just because Chan Gailey was the WRONG “Pro-Style” HC for GT, that doesn’t mean that GT “needs” to throw out the baby with the bathwater and go with a Trip-option offense where we will ALWAYS be ranked from 110 to 120 in the NCAA in passing stats.
GT NEVER needed CPJ and his Trip-O Offense, GT is located in the MSA of Atlanta with 5.5+ Million residents within an hour of campus with many 4* and HIGHER rated Recruits in the Metro Area.
What GT needed was to hire a BETTER Pro-Style-HC than Chan Gailey, not “scrap everything” and go backwards 40-yrs. to an antiquated Offense without a reliable passing Game, even when we had Bay-Bay our passing Game was mainly “jump-balls” and getting lucky that Bay-Bay was bigger & stronger than the opposing DBs, even WITH Bay-Bay CPJ’s passing game was sub-standard and only worked against “out-manned DBs” (remember the Iowa & LSU games).
GT’s own stupidity of bringing in CPJ and hoping to gimmick their way to the Elite Ranks of CFB will only lead to the GT FB Program putting up more 6-6 seasons, and to GT continuing to water down their OOC Schedule, remember Bama & Auburn have been dropped or delayed from future schedules, even DRad knows that CPJ’s offense won’t work against big-time competition; BTW using 3 of the worst yrs. in UG@y history for comparison isn’t Elite competition either, so don’t bring up 500-yds. vs. UG@y to validate this horrible Offense.
GTfan2011
December 20th, 2010
9:07 pm
GoodWord, more than half of the “Tech” fans that come on this blog calling for CPJ’s head are just UGA fans in disguise. You can pick them out after a couple of posts, they use the same language that UGA fans all use. They disparage the Institute in some back handed way. True GT fans are perfectly willing to accept that we aren’t an elite football program, we just want better than the mediocrity that Chan Gailey delivered. We believe that CPJ can lead us to competing for ACC championships consistently and beating UGA more often than not. I realize that there are a few GT fans that really do want CPJ gone, but they are the exception, not the rule and I will continue to respectfully disagree with them.
GoodWord
December 20th, 2010
9:17 pm
Your rankings in pass offense don’t matter. All that matters are wins and losses, and Paul Johnson has one of the top win percentages in the history of college football.
gcs
December 20th, 2010
9:22 pm
Well, well, well. It looks like His Holiness Paul Johnson is cleaning house. LSU, Alabama and other programs have been accused of dumping weak players so they can sign new ones.
I wonder what is happening on North Ave? Hmm…
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Eagledude
December 20th, 2010
9:44 pm
I’m a Georgia Southern grad and have watched option football since the mid-80’s and have enjoyed it…we are so glad to have the option back in Statesboro this year….we got to the FCS semifinals when nobody expected it with Coach Jeff Monken at the helm….most of our team are freshman and sophomores….it’s not a perfect offense but no offense is….CPJ as you call him… Coach Paul Johnson is a great coach…he is still getting his (another) team put together..When he has his players in place again like he did the first two years at Ga. Tech…then there will more of Time of Possession Ball Control…..Wearing Down of Defenses (especially in the 2nd halves on warm days)….Successful Pass Plays..(because corners want to sneak up and play the run)…and Defenses that get tired of smash mouth type football where) everybody on offense (all eleven players are coming at you…to block you or make you tackle them)…it is not a passive drop back and pass offense….Defenses eventually get tired of running sidelines to sidelines playing football…they would rather rush a passer, wait for someone to come to them or knock down a pass….Erk Russell thought it was a good offense….So UGA and Ga Tech and Georgia Southern….. we are all related to the option offense directly or indirectly………….Everybody have a nice Christmas!!!!!!!!
Boca Baby
December 20th, 2010
10:10 pm
Could it be that he is contemplating changing his major? He may not want an engineering degree. What? Most of the Tech players are not in the engineering program? Do they offer basket weaving at Tech (aka Sports Management)? Sounds like there are more than just a few Tech players who aren’t too smart.
Stumpknocker
December 20th, 2010
10:36 pm
The bottom line; Dawg posers are on this blog because they are scared sh1tless at the prospect of GT fortunes on the rise, all the while they have watched their own program fall into mediocraty and below over the past 3 years and with the probable loss of Green to the NFL and no real prospect of defensive improvement. Next year they will have the best QB in the SEC and may still lose 5 to 7 games.
WrexN.eFx
December 20th, 2010
10:55 pm
re:
GTfan2011
December 20th, 2010
9:07 pm
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You are NOT a “real GT Fan”, what you are is an excuse-making LOSER.
GT is located within a one-hour drive for roughly 60% of the State’s Population, in a State that perennially has TOP-5 HS FB Recruits.
With that type of “raw material” nearby, and according to the Recruiting Experts (Newberg, Kennedy, etc.) in most years 70 to 80% do indeed Academically Qualify for GT; that makes GT FANS LIKE ME expect GT FB to be a elite FB Program, maybe not every year, but we should be “elite” for 3 out of every 7 yrs. (elite meaning Top-10, BCS Bowl bids., etc).
The PROBLEM with GT’s FB Program, is that they (School & Administration) do so many self-inflicted stupid things, that the Elite Talent that is within a one-hour drive of GT, doesn’t want to go to GT.
Many GT Fans confuse these horrible decisions made by GT’s Administration as Academic Eliteness, when what it really is, is mismanagement of opportunities that could elevate GT’s FB Program.
It's Tech
December 20th, 2010
10:58 pm
It’s tech; who cares?
Big L
December 20th, 2010
11:03 pm
Kudos, from a Dawg fan, WrexNeFx. I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees that. The trip O will always beat the Dukes and Wakes of the world. Does nothing against big teams. Like Iowa and LSU. Ol Paul is too hard headed to see that. His unwillingness to change and inability to adapt to make system work late in games is why Pugnacious Paul needs to go. Passing the ball should not be a final option only with just a minute left in games.
takerjw
December 20th, 2010
11:06 pm
Tech Titan. Ga Southern plays a weak schedule??? What are you stupid? Finished 3rd in the SoCon, arguably the best conf in IAA, finishing 5-2 against teams that have won or shared their conf. Wins over SoCon co-champs App st. And Wofford, CAA conf champ William and Mary, Big South champ costal carolina and MEAC champ SC St. And making it to the semi finals of the playoffs, also losing to navy 13-7. Sounds like one of the toughest IAA schedules around. CPJ offense works and when he puts in more than 25% of the plays in you will see. I have played in this system and he has yet to scratch the surface of his playbook.
ManUp...
December 20th, 2010
11:10 pm
SO…why couldn’t talent ALSO help with a Triple Option team? I really don’t think schemes are ever solely responsible for killing a program. If a coach can call the plays to work in line with his talent and against his opponent’s weaknesses for a whole game then that’s most of a CFB game right there as long as talent is at least in the same ballpark. This is usually the difference from year to year in conference play. Player talent, on the other hand, is what will make any system, any program, any college team elite IF it already has good coaching and training. I think we have a coach with a defined system and a great training program to boot. If we can feed it all with talent then I don’t see why 2009 has to be the high water mark.
It can be done. Go Jackets!
GTfan2011
December 20th, 2010
11:27 pm
WrexN.eFx, based on the way you speak, I do not believe you are a Tech grad. I am happy to respectfully disagree with you if you are a Tech fan and will speak passionately about your position without insults. I said I’d do that in my previous posts. You obviously felt that I was calling you out by saying that many on here were just trolls, which you obviously are. You’ve outed yourself by attacking me. Again, I do not know why you think that a research-focused Institute in the ACC should be able to compete for 5-star pro-style QBs and RBs with broad-based curriculum universities in the SEC on a regular basis. And if we can’t compete with those schools for those recruits, then why should we run a pro-style offense with inferior athletes? That’s why I like the system we run and I think CPJ is the right coach for GT.
Dawg Style
December 20th, 2010
11:29 pm
Paul Johnson’s Christmas wish list: more of chan gailey’s recruits–so he can win again.
GTfan2011
December 20th, 2010
11:34 pm
Nice try Dawg Style. Paul Johnson still has mostly Chan recruits. The myth of Chan Gailey’s great recruiting strikes again.
aladawg
December 20th, 2010
11:54 pm
When coach Johnson was hired it was Hail the King, now it to hell with the king. You Tech ass holes are dumber than a sack of rocks. You people must remember what goes around comes around good luck in the Independence Bowl. Hail the King Mark Ritch GO DAWGS
Ramblin Man
December 21st, 2010
9:43 am
It would be so nice to have just one blog where UGA fans did not either pose as GT fans and hate or just plain hate acting like a UGA fan. It says a lot about you if you spend every waking moment reading and commiting on a team you say sucks. SO SAD
Go Dawgs
December 21st, 2010
10:28 am
CPJ is definitely a good coach, and his scheme can work and has proven to work. What he’s missing is a solid defense. The triple option can be one of the most frustrating defenses to stop. Nebraska got away from it and it didn’t work out so well for them, now Bo P. is bringing back a version of it using more athletic QBs.
He will always be able to recruit RBs. BeyBey showed that a premier WR can be showcased in this offense. If Stephen Hill can develop into that type of WR he won’t have any problem recruiting a stud every couple of years.
The 3-4 will help attract defensive players. The only thing I think he needs to work on is finding big body athletic o-linemen. His lines tend to be a bit smallish and I think that’s why they’ve had trouble with larger faster defenses like Iowa and LSU. Nebraska never had trouble getting big bodies that were athletic, and I think as CPJ puts a few more players in the NFL more and more recruits at all postions will be much more receptive to hearing what he has to offer.
It’s a simple reality but kids today don’t care as much about schemes as they do about whether or not they can get to the next level playing at a said school. One of the reasons that the talent is spread out across is the NFL has shown that if you have the skillset to play at the next level they will find you regardless of the size school you play at or the scheme you come from.
BTW, a lot of Dawg fans won’t admit this now, but I remember when we were searching for a Donnan replacement and CPJ was at GSU a LOT of Dawg fans wanted him then.
I think he’s a great coach and if given time will do well at GT.
The best way to keep GA talent in GA is to have both strong UGA AND GT programs.
Look at the state of FL during the early – mid 90s when all three big state programs(UF,FSU, Miami) were doing well. You couldn’t even think about coming into FL and pulling a top 20 recruit out of state. The big time kids played against each other in HS and wanted to continue playing against each other at one of the state schools.
The rivarly is good and throwing barbs back and forth is to be expected, but at the end of the day the key to locking up in state talent is to have a strong competitive rivalry between UGA and Tech with both highly ranked. Imagine what in state kids would think if UGA and Tech were consistently ranked in the top 10 every year when they met.
Just something to think about
Go Dawgs
December 21st, 2010
10:30 am
correction, typo: “Triple Option can be one of the most frustrating OFFENSES to stop”
macrotech
December 21st, 2010
11:19 am
Go Dawgs, your 10:28 a.m. post is dead on! I’ve been saying this SINCE CPJ got to Tech….I value your candor and wish you the best. From a Tech fan to a Dawg fan…you’re a damn good dawg! Merry Christmas!
Ramblin Man
December 21st, 2010
12:27 pm
No we must hate and reticule each other for either being a redneck or nerd. How dare you try to mend this time honored tradition.
CensoringNEffect
December 21st, 2010
12:44 pm
re:
Unbiased observer
December 20th, 2010
12:23 pm
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GT Trumpet
December 20th, 2010
12:27 pm
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albanyfan
December 20th, 2010
12:30 pm
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To all 3 of you delusional CPK Kool-Aid drinkers:
An NFL Owner/GM with 3 Super Bowl Wins once said; “Stats are for LOSERS, they REVEL in them, the only STAT that MATTERS is the FINAL SCORE”.
GT Fans need to stop with their obsession over rushing Stats, especially in a SEASON WHERE WE LOST TO Kansas, should have lost to Wake and could have lost to Dook if their HC hadn’t tried to pass with their #2 QB in their game that resulted in a pick-6 and turned the game around.
Would you guys get it through your thick skulls that we lost SIX GAMES in a very poor, watered-down ACC!
Quoting “rushing stats” won’t make GT FB any more than it was this past season, and what we were was SUB-STANDARD!
It really makes the GT Fanbase seem very limited in their understanding of big-time CFB when we keep quoting “Rushing Stats” despite losing 6 games and having the WORST passing Team among all of the BCS Conferences.
If you’re man enough to quote the Rushing Stats, then you need to be man enough to also talk about the Defense, STs, AND the Passing Game.
To pull out one Metric(rushing) among the many that affect the outcome (W-L) of a FB Game, is a very W!MPY, WE@SELY way to talk about CFB.
Whether GT fans know this or not, this tendency makes our Fanbase the laughingstock among CFB Fanbases in the SE-USA.
Stop being a JOKE GT fans and learn how to discuss CFB like “grown-a.$.$-men” (as Chuck Oliver would say).
Here endeth the lesson.
Jesse Stone
December 21st, 2010
1:08 pm
Ho-hum…another UGA fan above. The OFFENSE isn’t the problem (rushing/passing don’t matter). We scored enough points this year to be better than our record indicates. The defense and ST need work. To all the UGA fans posting that aren’t pretending to be Tech fans, your input is appreciated.
Jesse Stone
December 21st, 2010
1:10 pm
CensoringNEffect
December 21st, 2010
12:44 pm
To all 3 of you delusional CPK Kool-Aid drinkers
_______________________________________________________
Since when did California Pizza Kitchen start serving Kool-Aid???
CensoringNEffect
December 21st, 2010
1:13 pm
re:
Jesse Stone
December 21st, 2010
1:10 pm
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Nice catch!
Great sense of humor, I meant to write “CPJ”, but I didn’t proof my post enough before I hit the “submit” button.
That would be “CPJ Kool-Aid drinkers”.
SuperB
December 21st, 2010
1:17 pm
We’re running out of Chan’s guys quickly! What then?
WrecksNEffect.aka.Ol' Wrecks
December 21st, 2010
1:19 pm
re:
Jesse Stone
December 21st, 2010
1:08 pm
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BTW, you’re taking the cowardly way out by accusing every response that you don’t agree with of being “another UGA Fan”.
There are GT fans like myself that follow CFB with a passion and happen to have opinions that might differ with the majority of GT fans that don’t seem very astute in their understanding of CFB.
It is a very cowardly approach to dismiss those opinions as a “Dog in disguise” rather than simply impeaching those comments with hard facts and proving that person wrong.
Folks like you cannot prove a person wrong, but you can throw out blanket statements that someone you don’t know must a UGA Fan.