Stokan interested in Tech for ‘13 kickoff game
Chick-fil-A Bowl president Gary Stokan nearly landed Georgia Tech for the 2011 kickoff game. He hopes that he can make it work for the Yellow Jackets to play in 2013.
“We want to get Tech into the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game, particularly when we open the hall, which is ‘13, the first year the hall will be open,” Stokan said Monday, referring to the College Football Hall of Fame that is scheduled to open in downtown Atlanta in 2013.
Stokan said nothing was imminent, but was confident that the Jackets will play in the game, whether in 2013 or beyond. Alabama is already committed to play in 2013 in the Georgia Dome. If Tech agrees to play, it would be in a second game against a different opponent, Stokan said.
“I think (Tech coach) Paul (Johnson) agrees, and (Tech athletic director) Dan (Radakovich) and myself that we want to find a way to get Georgia Tech in, and they definitely want to play in the game,” he said.
Stokan has sought a place for both Tech and Georgia in the game, first played in 2008. His matchmaking of Boise State and Georgia for the kickoff game this September resulted from a failed matchup of Tech and Southern California. Stokan said that USC coach Lane Kiffin was interested, as were Johnson and Radakovich. However, talks died after USC AD Mike Garrett was fired and replaced by Pat Haden, leaving Stokan to scramble to put together the Georgia-Boise State game.
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DawginLex
June 14th, 2011
2:43 pm
You are a big joke gt4ever.
You have nothing.
Answer my question by changing the subject.
Are you a Liberal Democrat too?
I bet you thought Obama was gonna pay your mortgage!!!
Dawgman
June 14th, 2011
2:45 pm
THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING
dude- no one cares about the semi pro team in athens but its drunken fan base- run along little one
DawginLex
June 14th, 2011
2:45 pm
Wasn’t talking to you Dawgman. Mind your own dam business
DawginLex
June 14th, 2011
2:48 pm
gt4ever
Have you come to the realization that I am right and you are wrong?
That you have been out-debated by a graduate from the University of Georgia?
That this UGA grad doesn’t flip burgers or work at Jiffy Lube and that some of us can actually type full sentences that have no spelling errors?
That I don’t live in a trailer?
DawginLex
June 14th, 2011
2:50 pm
Later girls
gotta go back to work
The onion rings are burning
gt4ever
June 14th, 2011
2:52 pm
This is the realization that I have come to DawginLex…. Sorry to say, your just another one of the many delusional UGA fans…. It’s Ok though, you will be make it with some good therapy….
Ken Sugiura
June 14th, 2011
3:02 pm
dawginlex – sorry to take so long to get on. i don’t know what happened to it, and i don’t think it’s in our filter. i wonder maybe if you write past a certain point, the blog monsters won’t let you post. either that or your browser stinks (ha ha).
juvenal
June 14th, 2011
3:10 pm
Lex, try to stop at 4 lines, those seem to be at highest risk of disappearing…..both sides mentioned cheaters, neither of our last 2 FB coaches were on probation, either(O’Leary was not offered his job back)…..
Jan Kemp
June 14th, 2011
3:24 pm
Ken:
Do this GT blog and the fans a favor and ban (dawgilex).
He’s a whiny POS and a nuisance.
DogDawg
June 14th, 2011
3:29 pm
We should lay off GA Tech football … it’s a basketball school in a basketball conference. lol
Ramblin Man
June 14th, 2011
3:34 pm
Dawginlex,
I did not look for infractions, but if you believe Richt is running a pristine program you are kidding yourself. Hopefully he has gotten the kids attention as it pertains to doing stupid things that lead to the university’s embarassment, but when you recruit kids that would have never been allowed into UGA if not for thier football skills then you get what you ask for. As far as UGA doing well on the APR you have to take that with a grain of salt. Many schools, UGA included,place the players in majors that are a joke and assign up to four tutors for classes like basic english. I have even meet seniors that have not even declared a major or changed it twice to stay in the easier classes.
This is from a report on APR and SAT scores as it pertains to college athletics.
• Many schools routinely used a special admissions process to admit athletes who did not meet the normal entrance requirements. More than half of scholarship athletes at the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin, Clemson University, UCLA, Rutgers University, Texas A&M University and Louisiana State University were special admits.
“If the university says they’d help us meet team needs, that’s as important as finding an oboist for the orchestra,” said Nancy McDuff, the University of Georgia’s associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management.
juvenal
June 14th, 2011
3:34 pm
Jan, be nice, Lex already banned from chip’s site(wish i knew how that happened, seldom visit the dark side-did today, tho, way to go Leonard Pope, that was sheer goodness & Light!)
gt4ever
June 14th, 2011
3:37 pm
Thanks DogDawg…. I mean, since we at GT have MORE history than you will ever have in football…. You and Lex must share a single wide…
Cheeks Johnson.
June 14th, 2011
4:11 pm
My O has been exposed. Back to 1-AAA for me.
DawginLex
June 14th, 2011
4:15 pm
gt4ever,
Still can’t come up with anything on Richt. You lose.
juvenal, I got unbanned. It was some crazy filter thing with one of the mods.
I usually can make peace with the Tech folks. GT4ever is the exception as he lives in his own universe.
gt4ever
June 14th, 2011
4:27 pm
DawginLex,
Is the sky blue in your world…
DawginLex
June 14th, 2011
4:36 pm
Still won’t answer my question.
Talk about delusional and needing therapy.
My facts are not disputed.
# of wins-96
# of SEC titles 2
# of vacated wins-0
# of major cheating/NCAA violations – 0
All you can come up with to respond is to make some smartalec comment about therapy, cheating at FSU(which he didn’t do) and asking me if the sky is blue.
You need to quit while you are behind.
I’m going to take my own advice about never arguing/fighting with a pig.
Later
gt4ever
June 14th, 2011
4:40 pm
ouch! that hurts….
Footballrules
June 14th, 2011
4:46 pm
DawginLex….Liberal Democrat? Sure beats borrowing billions from Red China to fight a war of choice.
gt4ever
June 14th, 2011
4:47 pm
Yes, Lex has got to be a UGA graduate…..
Larry Spillers
June 14th, 2011
4:51 pm
How about UGA vs GA. TECH !
A week off before bowl games.
GTFAN
June 14th, 2011
7:10 pm
Dear Dog fans, thank you so much for coming over to a Georgia Tech blog and expressing your concern for our program. You are all such nice deep fry cooks. Keep up the good work but try to speed my order up at the drive thru next time. Some of us have work to do that really matters.
Sunny South
June 14th, 2011
8:35 pm
OK,OK ! For 2013 GaTech vs Sou Cal and the other game. Bama vs Notre Dame. 2014 Georgia vs TCU !!!!!!
BYRDDAWG
June 14th, 2011
8:50 pm
I’d rather see gt vs UF & Bama vs Oklahoma!!!!
5150 UOAD
June 14th, 2011
9:41 pm
It does seem that all the Swimming trips coach Richt did with the team worked out well. L Pope jumping in an saving that kid was great.
Dewayne
June 15th, 2011
2:01 am
How about Alabama vs. TCU Florida vs Texas Oklahoma vs. LSU South Carolina vs North Carolina Georgia Tech vs. Tennessee Georgia vs. Michigan Auburn vs. Florida St.
gt4ever
June 15th, 2011
8:17 am
I really like the UF vs. GT idea….. I guess I would like any SEC matchup with GT… Any top tier SEC team…. I mean, there really is only two or maybe 3 top programs in the SEC…. I guess a humiliation from one of those programs would be all right to start the season…
juvenal
June 15th, 2011
8:45 am
so Lex, why did chip ban you? sadly, in the same time period, both tressel & carroll had nc’s……..
todd
June 15th, 2011
9:17 am
Hey Saban: Dawgs 2nd choice? so what moron….9-1 says it all
Verlaine
June 15th, 2011
10:24 am
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the six or seven wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 8-4 or even 9-3 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Dawgtard Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
Shape of Things to Come
June 15th, 2011
10:27 am
Boise State will eat the dawgs for lunch.
The Dream Team will be a bad nightmare by mid-season.
And Mark Richt will be a distant memory this time next year.
gt4ever
June 15th, 2011
11:00 am
Here is my take on this question ,
Q: What can you do to attract more fans into Bobby Dodd Stadium?
1. Hire a Coach that understands that he HAS to BEAT UGA more than 1 time in 10 years….
2. Fire any Coach that downplays the significance of the UGA football game….
Basically, if we are beating UGA on a regular basis and winning conference championships, Bobby Dodd will be full for every HOME game! At this point, we can drop all this marketing hotdogs for tickets horsecrap….and field a team that the state of Georgia can be proud…
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June 15th, 2011
11:12 am
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damngoodawg!
June 15th, 2011
4:21 pm
Why????
Mellojacket
June 15th, 2011
9:39 pm
With seven pre season mags out, Tech is averaging mid forties in the top 120 div 1 list. 3rd in their ACC division. I guess they are all wrong about Tech?
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Let’s think waaaaaay back (3 yrs ago) preseason mags had Tech missing out on a bowl game and winning 3 games. Look what happened, ACC Coastal Co-Champions and State Champs.
Yeah, the preseason mags could (yes, I said “could”, not “are”) be wrong about us.
killerj
June 18th, 2011
3:07 pm
Hey Dawgfan,at least LSU has 3 NC<S unlike someone else who has 1,we have 5 SEC championship,s and haven,t played in the SEC for how long? still better than your lower tier teams have done in a hundred years!!!!!! What,s Gomers record against Old Miss? thats f—ing pathetic! ROLL WRECK TO HELL WITH GEORGIA! 4 TO 1 BABY!
Wreckmaniac
June 20th, 2011
5:42 pm
Great idea on playing ND in the opener. We could see Tuitt’s momma
Wreckmaniac
June 20th, 2011
6:21 pm
Lord, thank you for letting me be a Tech man and one of the few NCAA fans authorized to yell “TO HELL with GEORGIA”. Everyone wants to say it but only the few and proud can.
Wreckmaniac
June 20th, 2011
6:24 pm
Verlaine, UGA fans are grateful for 6 or 7 wins a season. They’re as thrilled as they can be right now bacause they are dawgs. Most of them don’t have to win any games to be thrilled.