Tech picks up another football signee
Jimmie Kitchen, a former standout at Lithonia, signed a letter of intent with Georgia Tech. He is the team’s 23rd signee.
According to jacketsonline.com, Kitchen was going to be in Auburn’s 2009 class, but there were questions about his academic eligibility.
He then signed with Tennessee State, but the NCAA Clearinghouse had an issue with an online English class he took. He never enrolled.
He began working to improve his transcript and the Clearinghouse recently cleared him.
Tech assistant Joe Speed was recruiting some other players when a coach suggested he look at Kitchens, a 265-pound defensive end.
Kitchen visited Tech, was offered and signed.
He will add more depth to Tech’s defensive line. He is the first signee in the class who is a defensive lineman.
– Doug Roberson, AJC
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juvenal
February 24th, 2011
4:27 pm
if they are truly that consoled by their record against a non-conference foe so as not to be sverely depressed at how irrelevant they are in the sec, i pity them…..except for Hershel, they would not have even 1 NC in modern times……..
Dumbdown
February 24th, 2011
4:28 pm
Tech does take non-qualifiers after all!!!
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
4:33 pm
My son got turned down to Barber school. I reckon he will have to lower his standards and apply to Georgia Tech. I hear their standards are not as rigid.
Ramblin Man
February 24th, 2011
4:33 pm
Learn to read dumbdown he was a non-qualifier then got his act together and qualified. I have no idea how the kid will do but I have no doubt he got it together or would not have recieved the offer. Give the kid a break a year off and slap of reality might have awoken him that football skills alone were not going to get him through life.
juvenal
February 24th, 2011
4:36 pm
non-q is so passe’;now it’s “special admission”-in 2008, uga had 94%, GT 10%…….
SC Tech fan
February 24th, 2011
4:38 pm
A lot of things are important in life, the opinions from the morons at UGA are not one of them.
Ramblin Man
February 24th, 2011
4:38 pm
If you look it says the NCAA questioned an online english class and Ga. along with SC need to really tighten up those online classes because I have seen first hand (my son) how they do not always count as one would be left to believe. My son took two maths trying to graduate early only to find out he only recieved 1/2 credits when it showed he would get full credit points. Not saying that happened here just saying it may not be what people are making it out to be.
I suspect...
February 24th, 2011
4:41 pm
…there was a reason your offspring was turned down for barber school, flatwoods. Being a legacy did not help?
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
4:50 pm
I suspect
Don’t worry, I’m positive Georgia Tech will take him. I hear that will accept onyone with a pulse and a third grade diploma.
kc
February 24th, 2011
4:54 pm
Joe Hamilton did graduate from Georgia Tech. He has his degree.
Reality
February 24th, 2011
4:57 pm
SC Tech fan
February 24th, 2011
4:38 pm
A lot of things are important in life, the opinions from the morons at UGA are not one of them.
The BEST post today!
W Ealey
February 24th, 2011
5:00 pm
Flatwoods Dawg
loookowt G….i get skond graad dieplomuh
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
5:00 pm
kc
My mule Bessie could graduate from Tech.
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
5:02 pm
An I duz fun things wit Bessie to.
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
5:03 pm
An dont yu tell nobuddy…I dont uz kondom wit Bessie
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
5:03 pm
W Ealey
Glad you a Dawg. I heard you were offered by that North Avenue Trade School. I glad you spurned them for good ole UGA. GO DAWGS!!!!!
W Ealey
February 24th, 2011
5:05 pm
Flatwoods Dawg
Shhooo…Iz too dumb for Tek…ya no I made 650 on SaT
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
5:15 pm
W Ealey
Tech just signed a player that was refused admission at Auburn, Tennessee Tech, and Ted’s Bartending and Taxidermy School. Believe me, you would be welcome as good money at Tech.
GTSteve
February 24th, 2011
5:17 pm
And if he would have chosen UGA, you would be pounding your chest at your new signee…go away mutt
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
5:27 pm
GT Steve
Face it!!! Tech has sunk to taking rejects from Tennessee State. That facts really hurts doesn’t it? Plus, it blows the myth about Tech’s lofty academic standards to smithereens. HAHAHAHA!!!
GTSteve
February 24th, 2011
5:49 pm
but he was an almight SEC recruit before that…shouldn’t we all bow to him….
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
5:58 pm
GTSTEVE
TSK!!TSK!!!TSK!!!
Have yall no shame?
GT75
February 24th, 2011
6:02 pm
frat-star Only a UGA fan would think having sex on school grounds and being kicked out of school and letting your team down as a Senior is a positive thing. And you wonder why your team has discipling problems.
Flatwoods Dawg
February 24th, 2011
6:11 pm
GT75
Worry about the mess on your own doorsteps before you start pointing fingers. TSK!TSK!!TSK!!!
cmon man
February 24th, 2011
7:02 pm
Tech fans its time to get off the high horse.
Jarrett Jack
February 24th, 2011
7:52 pm
Off.
Stumpknocker
February 24th, 2011
9:27 pm
Sure bet {dawg boyz} you’ll not see a UGA grad leading a space mission.
Stinger 2
February 25th, 2011
4:11 am
To all the above bloggers who have posted negative comments about GT:
Three words describe you: Lost Sad and Pitiful
Chuck Allison
February 25th, 2011
9:20 am
No, Dawgy, it is true. The Tech football team was cited for having the highest SAT of any school in the nation. It wasn’t really talked about a lot because it didn’t excite our fans a lot. We already knew we were near the top for years. It was interesting, though, that we topped Duke for at least one year. Everyone likes to talk sports all the time.
Most Georgians don’t realize what Tech achieves academically each year. We sure can’t say the same about the basketball team.
Yet one more clear example
February 25th, 2011
9:50 am
Shouda been in AU class of 09? How old is this kid? 43?
His grades suggest that he is not GT material BUT GT signs him anyway.
Another clear example of the GT double standard regarding jocks.
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February 25th, 2011
9:50 am
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dawggone
February 25th, 2011
10:35 am
GT75: What’s a “discipling problem”? Did you have the same english teacher as Jimmie Kitchen?
Captain
February 25th, 2011
12:59 pm
About those HIGHEST SAT scores in the nation for the football team, might want to check those again GT faithful. That report was from 2008 and reflective of entering freshmen for the class of 2007. That also was a one year phenomenon. The report didn’t reference if the average included ‘walk-ons’ or was restricted to only those entering on athletic scholarship. You may want to check again and see how you stack up against Vandy, Duke, Stanford on an average over a four year period rather than selecting the one year in which you topped the list.
It is rather pathetic how some of you “preach” about the lofty requirements to enter GT as athletes, those requirements are generally true for the incoming students however are not applicable to “athletes”. As witnessed by this signing, GT admits athletes who qualify on the lower end of the NCAA eligibility guidelines and are certified as eligible by the NCAA Clearinghouse, just like Auburn, Alabama, Clemson, S Carolina, Georgia, N C State, Tennessee, Mississippi St, you are no different. This young man is Exhibit A, aka Proof.
Duke grad
February 25th, 2011
1:07 pm
You Tech whiners are hysterical. You have a WAY overstated opinion of your above average school. Duke wins natl titles in all sports except football and it’s a helluva lot harder to get into Duke than Tech.
Ramblin Man
February 25th, 2011
4:45 pm
Duke grad,
You might want to check the special admit rate for your basketball team.
dawgfan
February 25th, 2011
5:04 pm
Ramblin Man, you are missing the point. You Tech crybabies claim that it is absolutely impossible for you to field an elite football team like the “football factories” because of your supposed academic requirements. You stick your noses up in the air and claim that letting in these dumb sub-human football players will lessen the value of your degree. Well, things like Duke basketball conclusively prove that you are completely full of s**t. The value of a Duke degree is not lessened because they specially admit basketball players. Moreover, guys like Jimmie Kitchen prove that all these lofty academic requirements that you talk out your azz about are nothing more than empty talk.
Let’s face it Tech fans. You’re just a bunch of sore loser crybabies looking for an excuse. That is the bottom line. You are the biggest effing joke in all of sports fandom.
Good day.
Reality Bites
February 25th, 2011
6:21 pm
Duke Grad…Best friend issa duke grad…..according to him, an attorney btw, your BBall players are morons in the classroom, and your football players are too on and off the field…..So STFU and GTFO.
Wes Durham's Big Waistline
February 25th, 2011
9:23 pm
Has Willy B cleared the NCAA Clearinghouse yet? Paul Johnson wants to speak with him. What a joke GTU is.
Tech is flat broke (no $$$$) and a bunch of HYPOCRITES.
gtfanfrom1951
February 25th, 2011
9:25 pm
UGA fans have no class. The kid is trying to better himself and we should all help him even if he never plays a down!
macrotech
February 26th, 2011
12:05 am
Which part of the article did you not understand? Apparently, this kid got his act together…got offered a chance at bettering himself via a football career at Tech. I don’t believe that Tech is the toughest school to get into…but, it’s one of the toughest schools to get into in the country. Our athletes might not be the brightest students on campus, but they WILL have to pass calculus…a BIT more difficult than passing a class that have questions on it’s final exam like, “If a person shoots and make a THREE point basket…how many points does that person get credit for?”!
pup fans, I understand your frustration in life…ALL those expectations every year…1980 WAS a LONG time ago!
coach
February 26th, 2011
12:36 am
First of all this kid is a beast i had to coach against him when he was in the 10th grade. i was shocked that this 10th greader had to be dubbled team because my all state OT could not block him. even my all everthing RB mack brown said coach we can run to his side he gave me an headache!
sports
February 26th, 2011
12:56 am
who actually gives a crap!
Gt
February 26th, 2011
2:02 am
@ sports I bet you not even an athlete or your son or family could do what jimmie do and did
GT is a 4th rate high school team
February 26th, 2011
4:34 pm
Looks like GT is getting all these left over akademyk skolars lately.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
February 26th, 2011
4:38 pm
Now GT buzzards are rationalizing the need to give thugs some more chance to better themselves, which used to be a sole UGA propriety. HYPOCRITES===THESE JOCKITCH.
juvenal
February 26th, 2011
4:48 pm
all these morons who don’t know D-line is ALWAYS the biggest gamble! if he was smart, he’d be an OC……..stopid, lazy pass, round-ball so poor we don’t even get a live cover, hope Carroll got another gig.
K
February 26th, 2011
8:05 pm
Stinger2- are all the people who post bad things about uga or other schools sad and pitiful also?
macrotech
February 27th, 2011
12:01 am
“GT is a 4th rate high school team”, I bet jockitch would go unnoticed by you
macrotech
February 27th, 2011
12:03 am
K, no…they’re correct!
Ha Ha Ha
February 27th, 2011
7:31 pm
Tek gets a Rhodes Scholar. Tek football is going the way of the basketball program – down the drain. The smartest coach in the world ha ha ha…………………
Tek will be lucky to finish .500 next year. The rest of the ACC is loading up – Tek glory days are getting smaller in the rear view mirror with each passing day ha ha ha…………………