Hamilton doesn’t make cut in hall of fame voting
UPDATED, Tue. noon: Joe Hamilton was not voted into the College Football Hall of Fame on his first time on the ballot. Among those voted in: former Georgia safety and Super Bowl MVP Jake Scott and former Falcon and Florida State star Deion Sanders. More here.
Former Georgia Tech quarterback Joe Hamilton is among the 78 players and eight coaches who will find out Tuesday if they’ll be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame this year. Former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr and former Ohio State running back Eddie George were announced today as the first two members of the class.
The final 12 members will be revealed Tuesday. It’s unlikely Hamilton makes it in this year. It’s rare that first-timers on the ballot like Hamilton get in and, on top of that, the ballot is stacked. Just look at a few of the other first-ballot players – Ted Brown (four-time All-ACC running back), Tommie Frazier (two national championships at Nebraska), Sandy Stephens (first black All-American quarterback), Derrick Thomas (Butkus Award winner) and Rob Waldrop (Bednarik, Nagurski and Outland award winner).
Hamilton said he’s not going to get worked up about the possibility of being selected. Frankly, this is a list where it really is an honor just to be nominated. Take a look at the nominees. It’s an impressive group.
“It’s just something that shows your hard work and what you’ve done didn’t go unnoticed,” Hamilton said. “Somebody appreciated the way you went about playing the game of football.”
Hamilton is still interning for Georgia State coach and Tech alumnus Bill Curry in the recruiting department, a job he began last year. (Link to a story I wrote last fall about Hamilton.)
“It’s a busy deal, working on the class of 2012,” he said.
He’s also the proud father of a brand-new baby girl, Kayden Sage. It’s Hamilton’s second child with wife Kenya.
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Bum Phillips
May 18th, 2011
7:41 pm
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Bum Phillips
May 18th, 2011
7:50 pm
“Gaw-ga!” Now that’s just too funny! Do you know that’s what my great-grandyoung-uns call me?!
Bum Phillips
May 18th, 2011
7:58 pm
I’m not really sure why they call me “Gaw-ga,” but if I had to guess, I’d say it’s because they’re stupid, hair-lipped kids who couldn’t properly enunciate if their entire miserable existence depended on it.
Indydawg
May 19th, 2011
8:14 am
Joe Hamilton is not a first ballot player. Simple.
Buzz said it all earlier:
“If Joe Hamilton is even being considered for the HoF, then the whole thing is joke. No Heisman. No conference championship. No Nat’l Championship. Exciting? Yes. Among the best to ever play? No.”
CJJScout
May 19th, 2011
9:21 am
If he goes in, it should be as a Dawg. He was our best player at GT.
SAGE?
May 19th, 2011
11:29 am
Sage? Thats kinda like weed, right? Just name your daughter Mary Jane, why dontcha?
snoopy
May 19th, 2011
11:35 am
gawgadawg – I know (being in the Buford area) Tyrone Sorrells was one.. Went to UGA – flunked out & went to NATS & started at TE
http://www.fcpsports.com/football/buford_wolves/showBlank.php?link_id=1358§ion_id=147#Sorrells
Following High School, Tyrone attended both the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech on Football Scholarships and was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the 1987 NFL Draft. Inducted into the Buford Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the innaugural class in 2006.
snoopy
May 19th, 2011
12:16 pm
Jason – Your ignorance is bliss…
You know NO history…
Saying that is like saying “Who’s Rock Perdoni” I am a UGA fan but am very well aware that Rock was the best O-Lineman to play at Ga Tech…
Or like saying Who’s “Dominique Wilkins” & saying Josh Smith is the best Hawk ever…
Get your head outta!!
JROLL1
May 19th, 2011
1:43 pm
BOTH JOE AND TOMMY FRAZIER DESERVE TO BE IN. THE VOTERS SOMETIMES GET BRAIN LOCK! I MEAN COME ON, DEION GETS INTO THE NFL HOF, BEFORE THE COLLEGE HOF! A JOKE!
gawgadawg
May 19th, 2011
2:24 pm
The police are afraid to come on tech’s campus as the last one that did got robbed and one stupid writer talks about 50 arreast in four years at Georgia when they have 50 roberies every six mounths on tech campus. hood capital of the world.
billyBobjacket
May 19th, 2011
3:57 pm
Hey, didn’t we recruit Quincy Carter pretty hard also?
Snoopy
May 19th, 2011
4:54 pm
Billy Bobbbb
Actually Quincy signed with Tech outta SWD but opted to make some spending money with the Cubbies for 3 years….
We rob this State!
May 19th, 2011
6:18 pm
Damon Evans attorney is now part of the Dominique Strauss-Khan team.
We rob this State!
May 19th, 2011
6:21 pm
Its the UGA graduates that work at the Varsity who are robbing people when they walk back through Tech to their homes after the late shift
Nate the Great
May 19th, 2011
6:21 pm
Is Reggie Ball in the HOF yet? He certainly gets my vote for the HOF for UGA!! Best recruit we ever sent your way. Here’s some UGA math for the techies: 42-34 hahahahahaha
Enjoy your D&D, Star Trek, and LOSING!!! NEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!!!!
Nate the Great
May 19th, 2011
6:55 pm
Hey We rob this State!
We own the Varsity and fill the schedule with ex-tech fb players that couldnt hack it in the NFL (which is pretty much all of them, except C Johnson)!!!
Observer
May 20th, 2011
12:10 am
You Techsters are nostalgic. Hamilton provided excitement and was “good”. Heck, pretty much all starters at that level are good. Some are better than others, naturally.
Hamilton was very good by some standards.
Great? Not by any standard.
Super size that ego system NERDS
May 20th, 2011
6:22 am
Hahahaha. Hamilton does not make college football Hall of Fame? DUH! Neither does any of your other players/ball boys. Hahahahaha. THWGT!
Ramblin Recluse Road
May 21st, 2011
1:22 pm
I wish his cube draws would draw CPJ’s attention. CPJ orders cubes to run it off tackle and to the sidelines too much. Why to the sidelines? To warm the bench for a better athlete out on the field?