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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bus driver
December 21st, 2010
1:55 pm
Shreveport $14 dollars come on we still have plenty of seats.
GTfan2011
December 21st, 2010
2:00 pm
I am happy to have a conversation about GT without attacking anyone… I’ll repeat my previous post and await a response. Again, I do not know why you think that a research-focused Institute in the ACC with 15,000 students should be able to compete for 5-star pro-style QBs and RBs with broad-based curriculum universities in the SEC with 30,000+ students 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.
kingster
December 21st, 2010
2:17 pm
What is with you Chip, its Tuesday not Thursday (two days before Christmas) man you have a easy job, half the info you give us we already have, there is no reason why 10 @10 was not put out today (Sorry, just sorry) I have a good thought, take a poll on how many people think you are doing a good job and getting anything out of your sorry service (unless you are a UGA fan, and thats half ass) working people like me want to at least hear something on Tuesday and Thursdays, what are ya Christmas shopping, man you blog should be put out at 10:00 a.m. after that you basicly have all day or even the day before, I know the AJC is cutting back but dam man do your job, I know its safe to say nothing is coming Thursday, RIGHT!!! These blog also should about sportmanship, please ban Sanford Drive, this person is sick, he, she or it lives to do nothing but be negative, it makes the othere good UGA fans look bad, it depresses me to read this informating sometimes because of the stupidness of some of these fan (or so called fans) do your job when you do work, hummmmm, I just don’t get it.
WrecksNEffect.aka.Ol' Wrecks
December 21st, 2010
2:32 pm
re:
GTfan2011
December 21st, 2010
2:00 pm
____________________
Wow!
What a crock!
98% of the 2 -deep that actually gets on the field is majoring in either Mgt. or Econ, saying that GT only has 15K Students and that we are a Research focused Institute has little to NO IMPACT on finding 20-25 FOOTBALL PLAYERS each Feb. that are smart “enough” to major in Mgt. or Econ.
GT Fans like you tremendously OVER-PLAY the “Academics Card” when it comes to GT FB.
Also, there are plenty of 4* and “high-3*” Recruits that GT can sign that will help GT to play in BCS Bowls.
DRad has already watered-down the OOC Schedule by dropping Auburn & delaying Bama, in a State with Top-5 HS FB while playing in a very easy ACC, GT has no excuse for 6-6 Seasons.
Your problem is that CP is a horrible Recruiter, so his “system” isn’t giving GT a good chance against good Teams, the net effect is that CPJ has an INFERIOR SYSTEM (no passing, no 2-min drill), and with his Recruiting it is being run by INFERIOR ATHLETES.
You think that CPJ is the “right HC” for GT yet he lost to Turner Gill, Randy Shannon, and Daboo Swinney in the same season, AND he is 1-2 vs. BOTH Richt and Shannon, HCs that many GT fans call idiots, yet they are better than CPJ.
Based on that track record please tell me WHY CPJ is so revered by GT fans?
Old Gold Britches
December 21st, 2010
2:44 pm
If our receivers had caught half the passes they dropped we probably would have seen even more passing plays. We have recruited some fine young men that will help this team. I am not down on this team or coaching staff. Yes, I would like to see a little more passing as every other Tech fan. Coach Johnson is human and will make some mistakes(take the 3 in first series of the mutt game) just as the rest of us. Hopefully he learns from his as we should. Those complaining about more players leaving the team need to get a life. I appreciate every one of them for their time as a Tech player and wish them the best wherever they go! Most transfer are looking for more playing time. They gave it their best and didn’t make the 2 deep depth chart.
Most team experience players leaving. It just makes room for other potential players that help this team.
GO JACKETS!!!!!!!!
Stinger 2
December 21st, 2010
3:28 pm
Amazing that this story about a wide receiver leaving has brought so many responses. Actually to me its not very newsworthy given the caliber of player Sims is. More important news from the Flats would be CPJ saying he is going to open up his whatever it is offense with more passing. Don`t hold you breath.
GTfan2011
December 21st, 2010
3:38 pm
Wrecks,
you said “Also, there are plenty of 4* and “high-3*” Recruits that GT can sign that will help GT to play in BCS Bowls.”
If I go look at CPJ’s recruiting classes the last two years (according to scout.com), that is EXACTLY what he has signed (and for the most part Chan didn’t sign). Do you expect 3-star recruits to come in and play right away? I would expect that a majority of those recruits would be redshirted, which is indeed the case. So, if CPJ has recruited exactly how you might have expected, wouldn’t it be fair to give him time to see how his recruits develop?
Recruiting according to Scout.com
2009: 4 Four Stars; 12 Three Stars
2010: 3 Four Stars; 12 Three Stars
I did not mention academics in my post. I merely pointed out what GT is… a research-focused Institute. I certainly don’t want the Institute to change its entire cirriculum just to make it more attractive to a potential 20-25 football players. And you are crazy if don’t think that the size of the institution matters. Bigger alumni base means more fan support, more money, better and bigger facilities. These are the facts of life.
wrecked
December 21st, 2010
3:51 pm
Tech fans should be hoping PJ leaves soon, the recruiting of “his” players is already being shown to be a disaster. Our record this year indicates he is not coaching them up.It will take years to build up the talent base after PJ is eventually run back to the Div 1aa ranks.
GTfan2011
December 21st, 2010
4:03 pm
wrecked,
Isaiah Johnson, Rod Sweeting, Orwin Smith, Julian Burnett, Jeremiah Attachou, Izzan Cross, Omeygorie Uzzi. But since you don’t know who any of them are because you aren’t a Tech fan, that’s really all I need to say. It’ll be a little secret communication between me and the Tech fans here, since we are on the GT blog.
Jesse Stone
December 21st, 2010
4:27 pm
WrecksNEffect or Sensoring Effect (whatever you are calling yourself at the moment)- You might be somewhat believable if you ever had anything positive to say about GT.
JB
December 21st, 2010
4:40 pm
A lot of absolutes such as “always” and “never” being used on this blog point to something other than objective dialog (very few things in life fit the implications provided by absolute terms). In fact, it appears that we have some impersonators on this blog expressing the typical sentiments of the Dawg faithful but with Tech handles.
CPJ’s recruits have not made an impact yet and many of them have redshirted or are R-Freshmen. I don’t think you can judge the quality of CPJ in recruiting until he has been in the system for 5 years and his recruits are playing the critical skill positions. To say that only Gailey’s recruits have made an impact is not a surprise; they are the juniors and seniors on this team!
This isn’t some football factory like those found in the SEC. It appears that some of you fans want Tech to be another Athens. This leads me to believe that you have never spent time in a Tech class, particularly the comments that our football athletes are taking Management or Economics as majors. Those are difficult, Bachelor of Science majors, although not as difficult as the College of Engineering. How many of you Dawg (and non-alumni Tech) fans realize that the College of Management is nationally ranked? Tech has the best MBA program in the state and the College of Management has one of the highest placement rates in the nation. Again, comments about Management majors only reveal the lack of knowledge by some posters (e.g. WrecksNEffect) about Tech in general. Sorry WrecksNEffect, you’re an obvious leg humper aka dawgfan aka Sanford Drive aka superDawg.
That leads me to believe that many of these posters never went to Tech or at least know very little about the school. I and many other alumni do not want Tech to be a football factory like the one in Athens and I don’t worry about how many stars a recruit is granted since that system is known to be flawed. I DO want Tech to be competitive and I agree that a 6-6 record isn’t competitive. Is this year an anomaly or should we expect similar results in the future? I think it is too early to tell but this year was certainly an anomaly compared to CPJ’s first two years. Let’s give CPJ a chance to live and prosper or live and die by his system. Time will give us the truth. The wild speculations and indictments of CPJ on this blog are premature at best and foolish at worst. We have heard these same speculations from Dawg fans since the day CPJ was hired so I am not surprised to read them on this blog, nor am I surprised that Dawg fans would adopt Tech handles to spew their garbage.
As dawgfan aka superDawg aka Sanford Drive aka GDBurdell would put it – “Here endeth the lesson” or “Class dismissed.” Anyone see that posted on this blog? I rest my case.
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:02 pm
Go Dawgs
December 21st, 2010
10:28 am
Excellent, objective post from a Dawg. We need more Dawg fans like you on these boards and fewer haters.
wrecked
December 21st, 2010
5:07 pm
Gtfan 2011 you prove my point, Uzzi and Johnson and Cross are all fine players , no depth, Orwin Smith? Needs to learn how to hold onto the ball. Attachou a 3 star that hasn’t played,it no secret PJ recruits miserably.
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:41 pm
wrecked – “it no secret PJ recruits miserably”
What exactly is a “miserable” recruit? Is that someone that doesn’t have “4 stars” or “5 stars” next to their name? Are “3 star” recruits “miserable?” If not, then at what “star level” should a recruit be considered “miserable?”
Let’s see “wrecked” if you recognize these NFL players:
Mike Iupati, 49ers out of Idaho
Jerry Hughes, Colts out of TCU
Ryan Matthews, Chargers out of Fresno State
Do you have any idea what these players have in common? They were all 2 star recruits coming out of high school. Were they “miserable recruits” to use your vernacular?
If you don’t follow professional football perhaps you’ve heard of Demaryius Thomas. No? He also goes by the name Bay-Bay Thomas? Does that ring a bell? Well he was a 3 star recruit out of Montrose, GA that was drafted by the Broncos. Oh, and he played at Georgia Tech, not that you would know that since obviously you are not a Tech fan.
What is “miserable” is your useless post; you’re just another Dawg hater.
Johnny FuPA
December 21st, 2010
5:50 pm
Nobody wants to play for the STUBBORN TROLL. To add insult to injury we aren’t even competing in Georgia recruiting
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:52 pm
Johnny FuPA – “Nobody wants to play for the STUBBORN TROLL. To add insult to injury we aren’t even competing in Georgia recruiting”
You make a valid point Johnny; no one wants to play for Mark Richt and UGA isn’t competing well even in Georgia.
Logan Gray
December 21st, 2010
5:57 pm
yeah, I was wanting to leave UGA myself last year. good point johnnyfauxpa and JB.
Logan Gray
December 21st, 2010
6:05 pm
don’t forget Zach Mettenberger, Dontavius Jackson and John Knox all left the hallowed hedges this year. yeah, UGA has a real problem with transfers and arrests. there’s no comparison between the number of transfers out of Athens versus Tech.
JB
December 21st, 2010
6:06 pm
Nice humorous post Logan!
wrecked
December 21st, 2010
6:56 pm
JB , you really think D. Thomas would’ve signed with Tech if PJ had been the coach LOL. He would have been South Carolina bound to play for Spurrier. You are drinking way to much PJ kool aid.
Ramblin Man
December 21st, 2010
7:19 pm
wrecked,
I will grant you that O. Smith made some mistakes particularaly the fumble against UGA and the Clemson fumble where he stared at the ball. Guess what he is a sophmore that had a lot of presure put on him and for the most part played well and should be great next year. I guess you forgot he had some great blocks, the run on UNC, and several clutch catches that nobody else was making. Fumbles and dropped passes killed this season and yes as a fan I expect CPJ to fix that, but in most of the games the O scored enough to win it but the D stopped next to nothing, which I expect Groh to fix and improve on. You are no GT fan or you would not bash kids that are just trying to play ball and get an education.
Jesse Stone
December 21st, 2010
7:22 pm
Tim Tucker is “On Vacation Until Memphis”, so I guess we have to deal with UGA fans on the GT boards at least until then.
WrecksNEffect.aka.Ol' Wrecks
December 21st, 2010
7:58 pm
re:
Ramblin Man
December 21st, 2010
7:19 pm
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Excuse me, but IF CPJ is the Genius that the Kool-Aid drinkers think he is, then WHY couldn’t CPJ not stop the fumbles and dropped passes after last Spring Practice, last Fall Practice leading up to the season, AND after 12 Games?
Either CPJ is no genius, or he is recruiting sub-standard Recruits that probably won’t get any better.
Either way, me having enough common sense to see what is obvious doesn’t make me a UGA Fan in disguise.
bloggers keep your day job
December 21st, 2010
9:34 pm
All this talk about the offense? I have season tickets – didn’t see the defense at any point this season.
And, they brought in a coach – widely respected and was offered a position by Bill Parcels. Hardly sounds like the Head Coach is unaware or not responding. Season before this one, Tech was sitting in the top ten and in the Orange Bowl. Most of you bloggers – Mutts or otherwise – can’t see past last week. Keep your day job at the RaceTrac.
GTfan2011
December 21st, 2010
10:16 pm
It just doesn’t make logical sense to fire a coach that won the conference championship last season, and Tech grads/fans are logical. That’s the bottom line. Now, if we go through another 6-6 (or worse) year in 2011, the heat will increase on CPJ…. make no mistake. And if by 2012 we aren’t in the hunt for an ACC championship with 8-10 wins, then I hope Drad takes a long hard look at CPJ’s future. But that’s a lot of ifs and a long way off. In the mean time, I am going to analyze the recruiting and hope we can bring in around 20 or so recruits that average 3-stars and fill in our needs (particularly OL and DL).
WrecksNEffect.aka.Ol' Wrecks
December 21st, 2010
10:49 pm
re:
GTfan2011
December 21st, 2010
10:16 pm
________________
You really are horrible at spotting critical TRENDS before the situation becomes unmanageable.
If GT waits until AFTER 2012, CPJ will have GT’s Roster with NO TEs, NO QBs that can pass good enough to be a pass-first-QB in a BCS Conference, no WRs that will be worth a darn, and a slew of UNDERSIZED OLs that will never be able to pass-block.
Speaking of pass-blocking, if CPJ were the “Offensive Genius” (pun intended) that every one thinks him to be, why is it that after 36 months on campus, GT still cannot pass-block at a level commensurate with being in a BCS-Conference?
I guess the term “Genius” is thrown around pretty lightly at BDS@HGF.
There are some horrible trends developing in CPJ’s Program, and if GT gives him more time to let him do things “his way”, then GT FB is in big trouble.
What folks like you don’t realize is that 6-6 in the ACC is really 4-8 or 3-9 in “real” BCS-Conference, so when folks like you say, “he only went 6-6″ you don’t understand how BAD that 6-6 really is.
Simple Challenge:
Go and look up each of CPJ’s Verbal commits so far, and look at the schools that GT had to “beat out” to get them to come to GT and that will give you a better indicator of how BAD CPJ has been Recruiting since he has been at GT.
AW38
December 21st, 2010
11:33 pm
Tech Titan – You prove your ignorance and lack of football knowledge every time you write. If you knew anything about PJ’s offensive scheme, you’d know he doesn’t have the players to implement his entire offensive scheme. He has consistently stated he has only been able to implement approximately 60%-70% of his offense. Keep being a the fair weather you are and confirming your retardiness when it comes to football sense. I guess you’d prefer the Chan Gailey days or better yet, Bill Lewis? You’re probably a loyal supporter of “Paul Blewitt” too. Do us all a favor and have a nice “tall glass of shut the hell up” over the Holidays.
Jesse Stone
December 22nd, 2010
5:09 am
AW38- TechTitan is not a GT fan. He sometimes goes by the name FirePaulJohnson and is one of many UGA trolls on the Tech blogs. They are easy to pick out. Everything they say is negative toward the coac, roster, even our conference. See the post above yours.
Dingo
December 22nd, 2010
9:07 am
I saw another Tech student was robbed at gun point. That is scary stuff. I am a Dawg fan and I am not making a joke. I live in midtown. Hopefully they catch the jackasses that keep robbing college students.
As for CPJ. He is a great coach! As a Georgia Southern alumi I am proud of what he did for our school. Hes record speaks for itself. He kicked ass at GSU, Navy and in time will do great at Tech.
GTfan2011
December 22nd, 2010
9:41 am
Wrecks,
I guess we will agree to disagree. I think running a different system than most schools is precisely what we need… you think just the opposite. You point out that many of the recruits that we have committed didn’t have offers from major schools. I still maintain that we are getting the guys that we can get and CPJ is managing the process very well. We will likely have 20-3* or better recruits in the 2011 class, which we haven’t done since the days of O’Leary. Why is that important? Because we all know that some 3* will be marginal players and some 3* will be solid starters, and since you don’t know which is which, the more you have the better.
Perhaps my view of GT football is framed by my first season at Tech, 1994. We were 1-10. George O’Leary coached the last three games of that season, all losses. He then coached in 1995 and 1996 when we were a combined 11-11. Certainly you would have fired O’Leary at that point, where he waas 11-14 in 2 and a half seasons and has lost to UGA 3 straight times. I’m glad our administrators didn’t do this.
Ramblin Man
December 22nd, 2010
10:32 am
Well said GTfan2011. It is comical that posers and real fans alike want the man gone after one bad season. Everybody says GT lost four to the NFL when in fact it was five and forgets that the fifth was a starting o-lineman and that two other starting o-lineman went to GSU for grad school. So you have a new defense that the players are not geared for (minus two of your best defensive players) and a offense with five starters gone and two of them were your main threats and then wonder why things went so bad. I never thought GT would be 6-6, I predicted 8-4, but it is what it is and one can only hope GT beats Air Force builds of that and has a better season next year. The QB and starting center and BB will be a big question for next year, but several young players got playing time and experience and I expect a much improved product nex year.
Wrex-NFx
December 22nd, 2010
10:52 am
test
JB
December 22nd, 2010
1:19 pm
wrecked – “JB , you really think D. Thomas would’ve signed with Tech if PJ had been the coach.”
Actually, it is a well known fact to Tech fans that Thomas would’ve signed with Tech regardless. His parents were heavily involved in his recruitment and both stated that Tech was the right academic institution for their son.
Since you are unaware of that well-known fact then you are obviously NOT a Tech fan. That was another lame attempt by you, a simple Dawg poser. woof woof woof
Very sad that you have to pretend to be a Tech fan. We know that you could never be a Tech student; you’re simply not bright enough.
JB
December 22nd, 2010
1:43 pm
WrecksNEffect (or should we call you dumb dawg?) – “Excuse me, but IF CPJ is the Genius that the Kool-Aid drinkers think he is, then WHY couldn’t CPJ not stop the fumbles and dropped passes”
Are you that stupid to think that CPJ was actually on the field carrying the ball or catching the passes and CPJ dropped the ball himself? Even for a UGA grad that’s pretty dumb. Why don’t you crawl back to that cesspool in Athens and try to figure out how UGA is going to have a winning season next year (they didn’t this year you dork).
JB
December 22nd, 2010
1:56 pm
WrecksNEffect – “Go and look up each of CPJ’s Verbal commits so far, and look at the schools that GT had to “beat out” to get them to come to GT and that will give you a better indicator of how BAD CPJ has been Recruiting since he has been at GT.”
What you fail to realize is that CPJ is running the TRIPLE OPTION, not a pro-style offense. Why would he be recruiting players ideal for a pro-style offense when he doesn’t run one? When you see the schools that are competing for his recruits you will see that several of them are being recruited by the service academies, who all run a version of the TO.
If UGA was running the TO and we were competing with UGA for a recruit then your point makes sense. But UGA isn’t running a TO are they? Please think before you post you UGA loser.
GTfan2011
December 22nd, 2010
2:36 pm
Is Fire Paul Johnson also this same Logan Booker character? It wouldn’t surprise me. When Wrecks said “‘real’ BCS-Conference” in a prior post, he showed his true colors. Honest ACC fans are willing to admit that our conference is weak when compared to the SEC and the Big 12, but we also know that we aren’t as weak as the Big East and we are better top to bottom than the Big Ten and the Pac 10 most years. The Big Ten and the ACC have a lot more leverage than the Big 12 over the next 10 years, and that is primarily due to the quality of the Institutions.
Dingo
December 22nd, 2010
3:00 pm
I ate your baby
Jesse Stone
December 22nd, 2010
3:31 pm
Just did a facebook search on LOGAN BOOKER. Berkmar 2001 grad and enrolled at Georgia Perimeter College.
GTfan2011
December 22nd, 2010
3:51 pm
Logan Booker’s twitter account also shows that he is an a-hole and has an unhealthy obsession with Chad Scott who does sports updates on 680 the Fan.
GTFan478
December 22nd, 2010
3:59 pm
Half the post on here are from either the same person or dog fans posing as Tech fans. Always has been and always will be.
GTFan478
December 22nd, 2010
4:03 pm
And where did all this CPJ koolaid junk come from? Last time i checked he won an ACC title and has one of the best winning percents in football.
Dingo
December 22nd, 2010
4:09 pm
How many nerds does it take to screw in a light bulb????
Obvious
December 22nd, 2010
6:02 pm
Dingo – “How many nerds does it take to screw in a light bulb????”
Answer – None. We get our subordinate UGA graduates to do it for us. Too easy!!
Next?
Rex---NFx
December 22nd, 2010
6:27 pm
re:
GTfan2011
December 22nd, 2010
2:36 pm
___________________
You’re DELUSIONAL if you think that the ACC is more highly regarded than the Big-10 or the Pac-10 in most years.
The ACC’s record in Bowls is something like 2-14 or something outrageously poor like that.
To even hint that the ACC is better than the Big10 or Pac10 just shows how little you actually know about CFB, and how much of a CPJ Kool-aid drinker you are, CPJ’s “ACC Title” was the equivalent of winning the Big (L)East or Conference USA, in the grand scheme of things it really didn’t mean very much away from the GT Campus.
superDawg
December 22nd, 2010
6:43 pm
Merry Christmas everyone and a tuck fech to you all.
Stumpknocker
December 22nd, 2010
9:11 pm
The bottom line again; Just proves that dawg posers are on here running scared. They, like us can see that the talent level at GT is on the rise. They can’t understand, that with all their talent, the UGA program is decending into mediocrity. They, like little scared dogs with their backs to the wall bark louder to cover their fear.
superDawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:35 pm
Fill your ego stumpy thats all you have left.
GT93
December 23rd, 2010
2:53 am
GT loses to Sienna in basketball (Hewitt’s former team), and we hear the same quotes after the game: “we just didn’t execute our game plan” … “we just got out-played and out-hussled” … blah, blah, blah. Paul Hewitt is holding the entire GT basketball program hostage with his $7M contract buy-out and he is obviously more interested in his positions within various Coaches Associations than he is in actually making GT basketball successful. Merry Christmas, Paul … thanks for 10 years of destruction to a once-highly regarded basketball program.
superDawg
December 23rd, 2010
3:01 am
logan booger I don’t know what ass you are talking about but good luck with your ego to nerd.
superDawg
December 23rd, 2010
3:08 am
BOO Hoo.