Claytor leaving Tech for NFL

Nick Claytor (75) is a native of Gainesville. JASON GETZ, AJC

Nick Claytor (75) is a native of Gainesville. JASON GETZ, AJC

Georgia Tech offensive lineman Nick Claytor will skip his senior season because he has opted to enter the NFL draft.

Underclassmen must declare to the NFL by Jan. 15.

Claytor, a 6-foot, 6-inch, 285-pound tackle, started 15 games in his career. The Yellow Jackets led FBS (formerly Division I-A) in rushing in the 2010 season, averaging 323.3 yards per game. He didn’t return an e-mail.

Coach Paul Johnson said last week that he didn’t think any players were leaving school early. He said that a few juniors had asked to be evaluated by the NFL’s draft advisory panel, but didn’t think any of them would be leaving yet to play professionally. Claytor said that he was planning to return to school for his final season during preparations for the Independence Bowl. He is 10 hours shy of completing his management degree.

Claytor’s decision means Tech will enter the 2011 season without three regulars on the offensive line: Claytor, starting center Sean Bedford and tackle and part-time starter Austin Barrick, both of whom have used up their eligibility. Phil Smith will be the only player returning with considerable experience at tackle.

Claytor’s decision is curious. He wasn’t included in ESPN personality Mel Kiper’s list of top-five underclassmen at the tackle position that he posted on Nov. 17. He has yet to be added to the ESPN player database pool for the draft as of Wednesday afternoon. However, he is one of two underclassmen at the tackle position who have declared as of Wednesday morning. The other is Tyron Smith of USC. Those exclusions don’t mean that Claytor won’t play in the NFL. Former Tech guard Cord Howard went undrafted after his senior season last year, but signed with Buffalo as a free agent and started four games.

A native of Gainesville, Claytor was one of the nation’s top-rated recruits in high school. He enrolled and redshirted his freshman season at Tech in 2007 under former coach Chan Gailey.

Tech has had five players, including Claytor, become early entrants in the draft in the past two years: Derrick Morgan, Demaryius Thomas, Morgan Burnett and Jonathan Dwyer are the others. Morgan and Thomas were selected in the first round, Burnett the third and Dwyer the sixth.

– Doug Roberson, AJC

108 comments Add your comment

Cowpen U

January 12th, 2011
4:26 pm

Cowpen U

January 12th, 2011
4:27 pm

So then what will we do with the NickClaytor4Heisman.com campaign????

ben

January 12th, 2011
4:31 pm

Let me guess, he’ll get a tryout with Buffalo

wxwax

January 12th, 2011
4:35 pm

Look, the man needs to feed his family, OK?

ga tech 92

January 12th, 2011
4:38 pm

Good luck Nick…Go Jackets! (FIRE PAUL HEWITT)

Big G

January 12th, 2011
4:38 pm

He never lived up to his potential. He had all the physical tools, but no heart. I wish him well if he makes it!

George Stein

January 12th, 2011
4:40 pm

I thought the same thing, ben. The problem for him will be if he doesn’t get drafted because with the lockout looming, he won’t be able to be signed as a free agend until there is labor peace.

Duluth Dawg

January 12th, 2011
4:45 pm

The only draft Claytor will make is the U.S. Army. You Techies gave Georgia grief for not offering Claytor. As I recall, he was a 4-5 star player and he has not lived up to the hype. Now, is this CPJ’s fault or Claytor’s. Remember now, when UGA’s 4-5-star players don’t pan out, you Techies blame the UGA coaches. Keep it real.

Tech Stinks

January 12th, 2011
4:52 pm

Too bad, no degree, little chance of making it in the NFL this year….He would have been well advised to take out the max student loans for his family, and stay another year. Both a degree, and a better chance of making it in the nfl would be the result. Good luck Nick.

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Jacket

January 12th, 2011
4:56 pm

I am sorry…..

Are some of you suggesting that Tech Football players get degrees???

That was funny.

5150 P.O.A.D.

January 12th, 2011
5:09 pm

He is 1 semester from graduating. I have no fear he will not finish his degree. He could take 1 or 2 classes this semester and still workout in Atl for the combine. If there is a lockout he could finish this degree after the summer. Nick did OK but he never really worked as hard as we expected him to. TJ Barnes has been the same. Not working as hard a s expected.

William Satterwhite

January 12th, 2011
5:13 pm

When you think about it, it kind of makes sense. Claytor is probably one of the the last Gailey recruited offensive linemen remaining and probably figures he has nothing to gain from sticking around one more year and possibly losing time to more of Johnson’s own recruits.

Ramblin Man

January 12th, 2011
5:15 pm

Not sure what he is thinking but I wish him luck. I was hoping he would finally play to potentiol in 11 and hate that for the second year in a row the offensive line will be looking for two or three new starters. Could be the opening GT needs to push Errin Joe to commit though.

Take off your pants and yellow jacket

January 12th, 2011
5:28 pm

I am curious…..

Are Tech fans still giddy about their moral victory for rushing for so many yards against UGA, and “outsmarting” Richt by quitting, or has reality set in that you LOST THE GAME yet??

Just wondering, since it has been a month and a half now, and Tech fans still seem to think they are better than a team (UGA) that beat them head to head…..

Born2Buzz

January 12th, 2011
5:47 pm

He’ll be fine. He can get his degree in the spring and summer semesters, get drafted in the 6th round and have a good solid career. Nick tried hard and he battled injuries. I don’t blame him for taking his chance as soon as possible.

RogersParkRob

January 12th, 2011
5:56 pm

Gani Lawal Part 2

RogersParkRob

January 12th, 2011
5:57 pm

Enter your comments here

George Stein

January 12th, 2011
5:57 pm

Why are you demanding that folks take off our pants? I think that’s probably the more pertinent question.

Horrible decision..

January 12th, 2011
6:02 pm

I am pretty sure he hated tech and obviously his mom did too. I wish him the best though..

Take off your pants and yellow jacket

January 12th, 2011
6:05 pm

So when a UGA player leaves early, he is an “ignorant thug”, but when a Techie player leaves early, he will “without a doubt come back to get his degree”….

And when a UGA player does not live up to their potential, it’s the coaching at UGA, but when a Techie player doesn’t live up to their potential, he “did his best and made us proud”…..

There is NO OTHER FANBASE in the history of sports more delusional than the Techies.

Wise Owl

January 12th, 2011
6:08 pm

wait a gosh darn second here…….

“Claytor is 10 hours away from completing his degree in……. MANAGEMENT?!?!?!?!?”

I thought all Tech student athletes studied to be Engineers. Isn;t that your excuse for not being able to recruit the “rift raft” you don’t think is already on your team??

Interesting….

White and Gold

January 12th, 2011
6:09 pm

Good luck Nick, thanks for the memories! THWG.

macrotech

January 12th, 2011
6:23 pm

“Take off your pants and yellow jacket”, you got that entire ‘giddy over a moral victory’ from a local columnist that graduated from uga…those were HIS words, not ours. The difference between a Tech player leaving early and a pup player leaving early is that, statistically speaking, ours don’t have a rap sheet to include on the resume. What I WAS giddy about, was watching those proud pups get beat by UCF in the Liberty Bowl after all their fans barking over our bowl loss to AFA…I was there and it was funny watching all dog fans leaving the stadium….it was like a red sea of WTF!

Wise Owl…there is a HUGE difference between Calculus and classes that have questions on their final exams like, “How many points do you get when you make a 3-point basket”… VERY Interesting….

macrotech

January 12th, 2011
6:24 pm

By the way….kind of creepy having a blog poster asking other’s to “Take off your pants and yellow jacket”

collegeballfan

January 12th, 2011
6:40 pm

This reminds me of the O’Leary story on one of the DL he inherited. One of the asst coaches came into O’Leary’s office and said Soandso is going into the draft. O’Leary looked the coach in the eye and said ” I thought we had an all volunteer Army?”

Big Ed

January 12th, 2011
6:41 pm

Claytor is making a big mistake. He hasn’t played enough due to injuries to warrant a good look by the NFL. If he is drafted, which I don’t think will happen it will be in the late rounds. He will get hurt early and be done before he can make a team.

I'm just saying

January 12th, 2011
6:49 pm

Wise Owl…how much is a three point shot worth. Know this and at ugump you pass a class.

Wise Owl

January 12th, 2011
7:01 pm

You Techies prove my point…..

Whenever anybody calls out the TRUTH about your student athletes, you simply panic and bring up something about UGA academics.

The most insecure fanbase in all the land.

threetrone

January 12th, 2011
7:06 pm

imagine the wisdom of CPJ to discontinue these white uniforms with old gold stripes in favor of white uniforms with black stripes worn this year

WrexNEffex

January 12th, 2011
7:14 pm

re:
Big Ed
January 12th, 2011
6:41 pm
__________________________
The reason he is going pro is because of CPJ and gimmicky Triple-SLOPtion Offense.

As an OT, playing for a HC that only avg. 14 passes per game with Nesbitt probably won’t pass more next season either.

This is WHY CPJ will cause GT FB to erode the longer he stays and brings his Recruits in to GT.

Any decent SA that has to practice in 100-deg. heat for two-a-days at the BCS-Level will have NFL aspirations.

This particular SA knows that staying in College one more yr. under CPJ won’t generate anything more on Film for an NFL Scout to see, so it is my GUESS that this SA figured it was probably better to go ahead and go Pro, and try to get in shape for the Combine or Private Workouts and take a shot at being a late round draft choice or Invited FA for the 85-man roster for some NFL Team.

I’m wondering are any of the incoming O-Line Recruits thinking the same thing about CPJ’s System when they see someone playing their position go Pro in this manner.

What this tells me is that the guys that CPJ is bringing in probably don’t have NFL aspirations and are probably not that Talented to begin with regardless for how many stars they do or don’t have.

Thanks to CPJ’s system, we’ll NEVER get NFL-type talent at QB, WR, A-Back, OT, and TE, that puts GT at a MUCH BIGGER DISADVANTAGE than the “so-called academics card” that too many of the GT Alums/fans like to play whenever GT FB comes up short.

GT Alum

January 12th, 2011
7:16 pm

Wise Owl, I don’t think anyone claimed all Tech athletes are engineers. In fact, Bedford gets a lot of Tech fans’ respect because he’s an engineering student who walked on and has been a solid player for us.

What we do say is Tech doesn’t have the easy majors that a lot of schools do. Our management program is well respected (top 50 among undergrad programs, top 20 among public schools).

UGA? R U Kidding

January 12th, 2011
7:18 pm

UGA Football….30 years and counting.

Delbert D.

January 12th, 2011
7:19 pm

I’ve never liked the mustard uniforms or helmets. Gold is available. Notre Dame still paints their helmets every week.

just saying

January 12th, 2011
7:20 pm

I was an Industrial Mgt major and you still have to take the Engineering Calculus and Science, doesn’t matter what your major is..

I didn’t realize Claytor had a chance of getting drafted although I would have thought he would have in one more year. Oh well, the up side, I do not have to see his “lil bro” on the Tron with Nick again.

If a player isn’t drafted, can they come back? Or can they come back and play for someone else? Because Curry and Monken will be all over it.

saban

January 12th, 2011
7:22 pm

Good luck to the young man. Tough age.

All your Georgia fans understand why I am getting Georgia recruits to come to Alabama.

Choakdawg and Richt won`t be around long.

Imagine Richt will hit them with his purse when they come here to win national championships. ginopurseu

just saying

January 12th, 2011
7:23 pm

Doug, will you keep us up to date on Nesbitt’s injury? If the cast is off and is he working out again? Thanks

Rick

January 12th, 2011
7:31 pm

This is stupid. There will be no season next year. He won’t be drafted until the late 2nd or 3rd round. No money for a year. While he could have been going to school for free, bumping up his skills and getting his degree. You can’t educate stupid I guess.

Wise Owl

January 12th, 2011
7:31 pm

just saying……

Last i heard, Nesbitt didn’t need to work out. He is just that good. He said he was going to leave the cast on for a while longer because he could get his girlfriend to do more chores while he was crippled.

After coming up as the Heisman runner up last season, the Carolina Panthers have publicly announced they will be taking Nesbitt #1 overall, since Andrew Luck will stay in school.

The Panthers have been very adamant about the need to install a Triple Option attack in the NFL. They figure they will catch all the other teams off guard with “genius play calling”. They have also been very vocal about how the forward pass was not only overrated, but extremely unnecessary to succeed in the game of football.

Visit http://www.nesbitt4heisman.com for further information.

footballfan

January 12th, 2011
7:37 pm

Wise Owl: Two questions please, and i am being serious. Who called Tech rushing for more yards against Georgia a moral victory? Also, since I am not from here and don ‘t really know the academic differences between the two schools,what is wrong with a management degree from Georgia Tech? I thought that degrees were for entire student body, not just athletes.? Just curious.

its all the same

January 12th, 2011
7:47 pm

if GT is the most insecure fan base, then why are you on the GT blog

WrexNEffex

January 12th, 2011
8:00 pm

Why am I such a complete loser?

Why can’t I put together a coherent sentence?

Why don’t girls like me?

WrexNEffex

January 12th, 2011
8:01 pm

Why do I capitalize talented for no reason?

Is what it is

January 12th, 2011
8:02 pm

UGA fans are on the GT blog for the same reason GT fans are on a UGA blog….

IT”S A RIVALRY BETWEEN TWO TEAMS WHO HATE EACH OTHER, you moron.

And news flash to Tech fans…. there is a lot of smack talk in college football. For a program that prides itself so much on hating UGA (TWHG written EVERYWHERE), you guys sure do take it personally when the hatred is returned in your direction.

THWGT <—— see how dumb that looks??

Wise Owl

January 12th, 2011
8:07 pm

Nice try football fan……..

what you want to see my type is, “well, um, I mean, um, nobody ACTUALLY called it a moral victory”, and then you want me to describe to you how Tech is an engineering school and UGA is a liberal arts college with a much wider curriculum.

Sorry you were not able to fool me. But you heard it anyway.

42-34

Fire Paul Johnson

January 12th, 2011
8:07 pm

Oh I know Wrex. We are total losers. But we have nothing else to do after mom lets us leave the dinner table. Wanna play some video games later?

Wise Owl

January 12th, 2011
8:09 pm

I’m not very wise but it is an engineering school.

Wise Owl

January 12th, 2011
8:10 pm

Why do I use ellipses all the time…………….

Wise Owl

January 12th, 2011
8:11 pm

No one fools me……. well may be a few people………

NYJacket

January 12th, 2011
8:13 pm

Jacket

January 12th, 2011
4:56 pm
I am sorry…..

Are some of you suggesting that Tech Football players get degrees???

That was funny.

Jacket, yes Tech football players earn degrees and many go on to earn additional degrees. And, they represent Georgia Tech very well in the business world, legal, education and military professions. Are you a UGA fan?

NYJacket

January 12th, 2011
8:47 pm

Best of luck to you Nick.

Hewitt's Heroes

January 12th, 2011
8:56 pm

Wow…….

Our boys are looking GREAT against Clemson right now……

woodie

January 12th, 2011
9:13 pm

I think Tech should roll Hewitt’s contract over….

Good grief

January 12th, 2011
9:20 pm

“There is NO OTHER FANBASE in the history of sports more delusional than the Techies.” And there is not other FANBASE more obnoxious than the rednecks from athens. Keep hating losers.

A Rob

January 12th, 2011
9:32 pm

the triple option will do us in. plain & simple. this is just a side effect, losing a jr who is not ready but could really help us next season.

Hayseed Dixie

January 12th, 2011
9:43 pm

Tech Man

January 12th, 2011
9:56 pm

I wish him well but he will never make it in the NFL.. Maybe on some team’s practice squad. He never lived up to his potential in college. Good luck though, stranger things have happened, By the way..FIRE HEWITT.

Coleman Rudolph'

January 12th, 2011
10:06 pm

Another player opting to get away from Paul Johnson……anyone else see a pattern?

Coleman Rudolph's Facemask

January 12th, 2011
10:09 pm

Another player elects to leave Coach Paul Johnson’s program…..I wonder what round he was projected to be picked……does anyone else see something wrong?

Memphis Mike

January 12th, 2011
10:10 pm

“But we’re in the SEC just like Auburn, Alabama, LSU, and Florida!”

–Georgia fan base.

Buzz Me

January 12th, 2011
10:16 pm

Hey Nick remember Dwyer and Gani…don’t make the same stupid mistake

surfrider

January 12th, 2011
11:31 pm

Good luck. Tech needs defensive strength, a couple of sure handed receivers…ala Watkins, Robinson, Hill, Raible, and a focus on special teams. Then the only thing beating Tech will be Tech itself.

4 Jacks

January 13th, 2011
12:15 am

He want even be drafted. Will end up signing on as a free agent and will have to “earn” a position on a team even if he can. I hate it for the kid, as he has some talent, but whoever he is listening to (cheap agent or family member) is feeding him some bad info. He is on nobody’s and I mean nobody’s radar. He is 10 hours from a great degree, and another year when this team bounces back, should make this a no brainer, but apparently kids, yes even our “smart” GT kids can’t see what the smart thing to do here is. I wish the young man all the luck he can get, making decisions like this I feel like he is going to be needing all the good luck he can muster. Thanks Mr. Claytor for your time and service, you have alot of potential.

atlantafanatic

January 13th, 2011
12:21 am

@Wise Owl

Good one bro

GainesvilleJacket

January 13th, 2011
3:44 am

I see a pattern here, redshirt players who can graduate before starting their senior year must get accepted into the graduate school at Tech in order to compete in their senior year. This forces 5th year seniors to either transfer to other schools (like Ga. State) with appropriate graduate programs or enter the NFL draft.

Stinger 2

January 13th, 2011
4:38 am

Regardless of all these comments, the bottom line is GT lost a player that would have been a starter and helped the team hopeully improve in 2011. Not good given the
limited caliber of players that GT currently is able to recruit.

stan

January 13th, 2011
6:38 am

good luck kid

Cloudmanjacket

January 13th, 2011
8:18 am

@NYJacket

I am a tech fan and I think the point is we use academics as an excuse why we cannot get top players, but we have a management degree created just for athletes. The majority of the football and basketball players are getting a management degree.

As a tech fan, please just quit making excuses. I am not going to make any. We suck because our coach sucks. It is MUCH harder to get top players at Army, but they found a way to beat us. We lost to 6 UNRANKED teams in CPJ’s 3rd season with his players. NO EXCUSE.

Don’t give me that crap that he won the ACC last year. The ACC was terrible last year. Just look at the bowls. Then, we turn around and lost to a terrible MUTTS team and got embarrassed by Iowa in the bowl.

gt45

January 13th, 2011
8:53 am

Cloudman, that would be AF-you sure you’re a Tech man? Goodluck, Nick. I would love to see you stay, though. It would be good for you and the program.

Rick

January 13th, 2011
9:31 am

Message to those who want hewitt out. Especially the big money guys.
Just bet against tech. It’s a sure way to make money and oust this loser.

WHO'S INSECURE???

January 13th, 2011
9:36 am

Interesting that a mutt would log onto a Tech blog and claim that Tech fans are insecure. That is irony personified. Whoever posted that comment is a total hypocrite.

Gatorman

January 13th, 2011
9:56 am

I think Claytor is a good (but not great player), but this may be a symptom of players not wanting to play another year in PJohnson’s system. They’re taking a chance someone will pick them up.

William Bell

January 13th, 2011
10:10 am

He knows that another season of having to dive at ankles instead of improving as an actual blocker can only hurt his chances of playing pro ball more. Get out before you forget everything about playing the position nick!

William Bell

January 13th, 2011
10:11 am

PS- lost by 25 tonight at littlejohn. Notice how there hasnt been any basketball stuff on here for a while??

Bamajacket

January 13th, 2011
10:15 am

Interesting about Claytor. Maybe it’s the graduating this spring. Maybe something else. None of us know his mind. The percentages don’t seem to make sense, though. Whatever. There are plenty of 6′6″ 285 lb tackles out there. CPJ needs to find a few who want to play football. I don’t care who is in those jerseys. I just want to see some effort and execution. Best of luck to Nick. I hope he made the right choice.

Another Chan kid? Hmmmm, um, ah what about ...

January 13th, 2011
10:25 am

Have ANY of CPJ’s kids turned pro yet? He HAS been coach for three years, thusly, suggesting that his kids should be ready to go pro from his first frosh class. Is he not coaching them up? Has he not developed his kids? After all, this is CMR’s failure ………… right???

This is yet one more reason to understand why GT is in deep T with CPJ AND CPJ’s recruits.

Let’s play some basketball Techers …………….soon. Whoops, we already did.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAA

blazer

January 13th, 2011
10:29 am

Claytor leaving-a surprise!!!!

Hewitt losing another game-NO surprise!!!

GTBob

January 13th, 2011
10:35 am

Cloudmanjacket, you really should read up on the history of the College of Management at Georgia Tech before insinuating that the degree was created just for Athletes. The degree is ranked pretty high nationally and has been around over 70 years. Athletes take it because it is one of the few majors they may not flunk out of after one semester.

threetrone

January 13th, 2011
10:49 am

Re: Delbert D.’s comment…the mustard gold is known as old gold; it is darker than gold and vegas gold; Tech has never worn old gold in their helmets; in the early 70’s when I was there, the white helmets had metallic-looking, shiny gold GT’s w/black pin stripes around them; when white helmets were worn by Gailey’s team for the 70’s theme game against Virginia, the GT’s were yellow with black pin stripes around them; they were not old gold; everybody and their brother wears gold- Notre Dame, UCLA, Navy, Army, Colorado, Washington, just to name a few; sure gold is available, but Tech is not just any school; it has old football tradition; I look at old gold uniforms as a nice dark gold glass of a particular bourbon, and the darker the better since that’s the oldest stuff; I don’t look at the color as having anything to do with food; also, every team paints their helmets again between games; if they didn’t, at the end of the season the helmets would be as multicolored as a rainbow

Texas Wreck

January 13th, 2011
11:01 am

Why aren’t all the UGA fans over on their posting about Robinson being arrested for the third time-felony possession of drugs, resisting arrest, beating his girlfriend. This is the same Jack Wagon who spent the entire fourth quarter of the game in Atlanta cursing and taunting the Tech fans in the stands. And what is that, 14 arrests in one calendar year for the DAWGS?? Go away. Tech fans, buck up and stay the course. Expectations were raised and not met. That will not be allowed to stand. PJ puts a player on the field and will not change out. If they get in his doghouse, career over. He needs to adjust better. He needs to be a better coach than that.

yella fella

January 13th, 2011
11:07 am

He needs to get a degree in Engineering to be worth anything…. general Management degree not !!!

threetrone

January 13th, 2011
11:21 am

Why in the Hell should Claytor stay at Tech if CPJ discontinued those snazzy old gold striped uniforms? Old gold is hard to come by at Tech, like trying to prospect for gold in the old west and now by using a pan in a stream. I remember when my dad, also a Tech grad like me, took me to the old College Inn, “The Robbery”, in the basement of the admin building on a campus visit in about ‘68. There was a gorgeous old gold rectangular felt pennant with Georgia Tech on it hanging up in there. When I got there in ‘69, the CI was closed, or about to close a year later, with the new Student Center building taking it’s place and the bookstore there. There was never any old gold pennant in there, or old gold anything. There continues to be no old gold online. Tech needs as much old gold as they can get. This vegas gold desert shade of gold is planning for hot weather too much. Old gold is a Fall color, like leaves in the N GA mountains at Brasstown Bald and Tallulah, and like around ATL.

juvenal

January 13th, 2011
11:57 am

richest Tech fan around here is an im grad….what’s more delusional than a dauug fan what thinks uga relevant to top tier college football…….

Cmon man

January 13th, 2011
1:14 pm

texas wreck who cares about robinson being arrested he was kicked off the team a long time ago! You are trying way to hard my friend

CuriousGeorge

January 13th, 2011
1:29 pm

Good grief…what a bunch of ugag losers…what? you clowns run out of disk space for your own blog, posting about how you missed the NC by what, only 7 games? The soaking your head in chicken fat thing just isn’t working out, ugaggers.

bill

January 13th, 2011
1:30 pm

DuluthDawg…..Claytor was a three star by most of the recruiting services. He hasn’t played that well, so the decision is really curious. You have to wonder about academics when you see this. If he can’t run block every down on a high level in this offense, he won’t get drafted. Maybe he will get a shot in Canada or Buffalo.

William Bell

January 13th, 2011
1:46 pm

NFL scouts will find lots of good tape of Mr Claytor chop blocking and diving at knees/ankles. They covet that kind of skill in the NFL!!!!

Brock

January 13th, 2011
1:47 pm

so how’d the BB team do last night?

Wake up Dan!!

T-man

January 13th, 2011
1:54 pm

Gee… I wonder if CPJ will now start recruiting some OL instead of stock piling running backs?

GTBob

January 13th, 2011
2:05 pm

Hey Doug, are we ever getting a basketball blog again? Have you been asked not to blog about basketball anymore because of the obvious responses it is going to get?

Don Corleone

January 13th, 2011
2:30 pm

“Mr. Radakovich, I’ll make him (PH) an offer he can’t refuse”

juvenal

January 13th, 2011
2:44 pm

all you guys dogging drad, you gonna buy tix if cph goes? don’t chan still have 1 more year? then would be years b4 GT can afford to change any coaches……..

Brock

January 13th, 2011
3:07 pm

absolutely, faster than you can say “juvenal” juvenal. I will not and have not bought one single ticket or watched one single game this year. I was approached with center court 5th row tickets this year (new year day game) from a friend and refused to take them. He is also no longer my friend since he contributed this vile contract. Once PH is gone, I will again support the Jackets BB team.

Buzz

January 13th, 2011
3:16 pm

Good Luck Nick. If you can’t make it in the NFL you can graduate with a real college degree. That means you will have something you can contribute to society other than turning off the lights at the local ball field which is what athletes with degrees from other unmentioned schools do.

@texas wreck

January 13th, 2011
3:41 pm

Probably because he was kicked off the team last spring.

classic

January 13th, 2011
3:41 pm

must be a gt blog with all this pompous talk about degrees and jobs… haha.

Dawgtards ruin this state

January 13th, 2011
4:01 pm

Hey dipsticks – all NFL teams use chop blocks!

Genuine or Gimmick?

January 13th, 2011
4:03 pm

Brock – You sound like you’re a great friend, stay away Tech BBall doesn’t need you.

Jorge O'leary

January 13th, 2011
4:42 pm

Ill bet tech wishes they still had me. And Dawg fans..10-6? Really? You can’t turn your cupcake team into a bunch of winners. It will take a couple more years to flush out your 5 star doormats. Ucf owns you!

Farnsworthy

January 13th, 2011
5:11 pm

Next maybe Blewitt will leave.

GT MEN'S HOOPS STINK!

January 13th, 2011
5:46 pm

GT LOSES TO CLEMSON BY 25!!! DAN, LISTEN TO A PAYING ALUMNI…YOU WILL NOT GET ANOTHER DIME OUT OF ME UNTIL YOU FIRE PAUL HEWITT! THIS IS INSANE! Clemson by 25??? This is an embarrassment to the school and the team.

These kids deserve a better coach. He’s a good person, but a horrible coach!! Pay ME millions each year and I’ll still lose every game. PH is getting paid millions each year and he still loses every game. Pay me $200K and I’ll board the bus w/ those kids. You’ll get the same result!

See my point??

Alabama Jack

January 13th, 2011
7:12 pm

Looking for football fans. Dumb, delusional dawgs need not apply.

college football

January 13th, 2011
7:54 pm

the yellow blowflys were beaten like a rented mule by clemson…SWEET!

White and Gold

January 13th, 2011
7:57 pm

Time for Paul Johnson to leave too! No real recruit would ever want to play at Ttech with this offense!

[...] He is the second player in as many days to announce he is leaving, joining offensive tackle Nick Cla… [...]

michael

January 13th, 2011
8:54 pm

wadda u won’t>>any nfl players to go early at tech, if any good, will be defensive players, offensive line players. skill guys don’t go to tech and if they do and leave early….they weren’t recruited by cpj.

Vick=Dog killing Thug

January 14th, 2011
7:11 pm

I guess this kid figures he’s done so well with his engineering and aerospace classes that if he’s a bust in the NFL he can always head up the NASA space program or something?

Caleb Queen

January 15th, 2011
12:42 pm

You wont even get drafted claytor, u suck!