Tech secondary has talent, lacks experience
The seventh in a series of position group breakdowns of the 2011 Georgia Tech football team:
Cornerback Rod Sweeting and safety Rashaad Reid are leading candidates to start. JOHNNY CRAWFORD/jcrawford@ajc.com
Projected starters: CBs Rod Sweeting (Jr., 6-0, 181), Louis Young (So., 6-1, 190), S Isaiah Johnson (So., 6-2, 195), Rashaad Reid (Sr., 5-10, 191)
Others to watch: S Fred Holton was effective on special teams as a true freshman last year and will make a run at a starting job. S/CB Jemea Thomas will be in the mix at both positions after a productive spring and may end up as the nickel. CB Michael Peterson mostly played special teams last season but has experience to his credit. CB Ryan Ayers will also get a look for a spot in the lineup. S Lance Richardson is another possibility. The incoming defensive backs are Jamal Golden and Domonique Noble.
Key losses: Georgia Tech lost all four starters in the secondary, CBs Mario Butler and Dominique Reese and S Mario Edwards and Jerrard Tarrant. The four started a combined 107 games for the Yellow Jackets. Tarrant left Tech early to enter the NFL draft but went undrafted. Edwards and Reese were third and fourth on the team in tackles last season, respectively.
Key fact: The defensive backs have a combined 20 career starts, 15 belonging to Reid. However, it’s a group not entirely bereft of experience. Johnson started three games as a true freshman last year. Young played some corner as a true freshman. Sweeting improved considerably over the course of last season. Thomas played as a true freshman in 2009 and then redshirted last season.
Key fact II: Coach Paul Johnson said he thinks it’s the most talented secondary he’s had at Tech. Seven of the eight players in the defensive backfield two-deep are Johnson recruits. Peterson is the lone exception.
Key question: How much can talent make up for the experience shortage? Pressure will be on secondary coach Charles Kelly to hasten the secondary’s development. Defensive coordinator Al Groh can protect the backfield by using more conservative coverages, but to do so he would have to lessen pressure at the line of scrimmage. The sooner players like Young and Johnson can be entrusted, the more diverse Tech’s defense will be allowed to be.
Key development: The speedy Young has caused a stir with his progress in the spring and over the summer. Holton has been one of the hardest workers in the summer strength and conditioning program. Kelly has said the competition for jobs will be open. Thomas will likely make a strong bid somewhere in the secondary.
Outlook: Worth watching. This is a group that, particularly at the beginning of the season, will be liable to blow a coverage one series and produce a big play the next. Young and Johnson could be stars on the rise.
Your turn: What do you think?
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122 comments Add your comment
Rduck
July 20th, 2011
11:18 am
this group should be fun to watch over the next few years…. Go Jackets!!!
carolinajacket
July 20th, 2011
11:25 am
Hope the dline can put pressure on the qbs. that will be most important, especially early on.
Who cares (the original)
July 20th, 2011
11:27 am
I think the defense will be fine, it the consistancy of the o-line that I want to see
T3
July 20th, 2011
11:35 am
Lost all respect for you Ken.
The Truth
July 20th, 2011
11:46 am
Ken – Three words for you – OPEN RECORDS REQUEST. If you make the requests, you won’t get caught with your cheerleader skirt down as you were on the most recent NCAA situation with GT. GT’s SID won’t look for you with that information like they will with the press releases, you have to request it.
Tech Fan
July 20th, 2011
11:47 am
Young is going to be a stud
BigTimeTechFan
July 20th, 2011
11:48 am
Tech’s DB’s are awesome, will be nice battles for starting job.
ormewood
July 20th, 2011
11:51 am
With all of the new starting QBs on Tech’s schedule Va Tech, UNC, NC St, Clemson), and the lack of elite WR talent in the ACC, I think the Jackets secondary should hold up fine.
BigTimeTechFan
July 20th, 2011
11:54 am
Louis Young is up to 200 pounds now, will be beast, fast and workout warrior, along with Holton
Tech Fan
July 20th, 2011
11:57 am
Yeah, Holton might be a suprise this season.
RambleOn84
July 20th, 2011
11:57 am
This is the most talented collection of DBs I can remember at Tech…hopefully they put it all together. The D-line and LBs have got to do their part…if they do, this could be a top 10 defense in 2012.
Taco
July 20th, 2011
11:58 am
We send great secondary players to the NFL because they get so much experience tackling folks. They make so many tackles because we SUCK up front and they have to save the day. Defensive backs at Tech carry the workload unfortunately. You better be tough and fast.
juvenal
July 20th, 2011
12:09 pm
so what do you request? we heard nothing about lsu & then boom….gotta love a country where so many folks know how to do everybody elses job-trouble is, they usually don’t know to do their own…….
Dawg in Columbus
July 20th, 2011
12:19 pm
I apologize to Tech Fans. I live vicariously through UGA football and it drives me crazy the Tech people think they are smarter than us and that they are better than us. Even when we beat ya’ll at football, you aren’t crushed like we are when we don’t win, you act like you care more about your job, your grades, or the world than you do about the most important thing in the world – college football. If your self esteem isn’t tied up in your football team, then beating you doesn’t stop me from feeling inferior. Anyway, this is why I act stupid and say negative things that are not true and get sloppy drunk…….
Please accept my apologies.
GT Fan...
July 20th, 2011
12:22 pm
Yes sir there is lots of talent in GT’s DB’field. And looking at who the YJs have returning, and who is new to the roster, it can be argued that the DB position is even deeper than A-Back.
Ryan Ayers was a 4-star coming out of HS (RS’ing last season) so there’s gotta be some talent with him too. Love the purported potential of incomers Golden & Noble!
I have faith in Al Groh … His Ds at VA always had at least 1 All-ACC type DB.
Good pt someone made on the new QBs and lack of WR depth among many of GTs opponents…that should help the young DBs gain confidence.
Can't Wait
July 20th, 2011
12:22 pm
Our Defense will dominate this year. Strongest I’ve seen in a while. Combined with a passing threat (i.e., Vad Lee’s arm), we’ll be unstoppable.
Vad Lee Passing highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q2k95TtTdk&feature=related
Tech Rules
July 20th, 2011
12:29 pm
So Tarrant just got bad advice? Or did he get good advice but didn’t listen?
mp
July 20th, 2011
12:52 pm
@Tech Rules . . . i can’t remember anyone suggesting tarrant gamble on the NFL. personally, i see him as a “finesse” tackler (that’s being nice) and bit overrated as a returner. he surely didn’t turn heads last year.
i have no knowledge of this–just conjecture–but, could it be he was one of the players orwin’s spoke of from last year’s team? why else would he be so gung-ho to go pro off such a ho-hum season of play from him unless he wasn’t pleased?
slydog
July 20th, 2011
1:01 pm
this group will be gt’s most talented group of players a year from now.
Where is Lee on the depth chart?
July 20th, 2011
1:01 pm
Looks good vs. HSers
Buzzzed
July 20th, 2011
1:02 pm
If D is good, we will do well if Washington plays and moves the offense as much he did last year. If Washington steps it up or if someone better plays, we will be awesome. Still waiting for death penalties for UNC and Ohio St.
PerimeterCenterJacket
July 20th, 2011
1:13 pm
Oh the possibilities if the offense stays the same and the defense improves. And I don’t even want to let myself imagine what’s possible if it ALL takes a step forward at the same time! All I know is I’ll be in that stadium on my feet and screaming my head off for it. Cant. Wait. For Fall!
Go Jackets!
PerimeterCenterJacket
July 20th, 2011
1:18 pm
threetrone, who has time to have such a meaningless opinion of every granular detail of the uniform?! And the biggest question: Who really bases their support of the team based on it? Also, your comments about race are off-putting to everyone but yourself. Also, uniforms do not effect player performance. The players play hard no matter what. The fans do NOT stop cheering for Tech because of some shoes or striping or the colors black or navy. Please get a grip and try to discuss what we’re here for – to talk about the new GT defensive backs about to make a splash this year!
PerimeterCenterJacket
July 20th, 2011
1:29 pm
Y’know what, threetrone, on second read of your post I’m genuinely ticked that you’d even insinuate Tech alumni don’t “identify with the team” because the collective color of the team’s skin. Name a successful Southern college football team that is all-white. There is a high percentage of black people in the South relative to the Midwest, so naturally, you see more black people here in all kinds of places…it’s NORMAL! Why would you even begin to think they shouldn’t be playing for your college football team?!! And why would you even begin to think a public university like Tech should not represent the demographics of its area? Man, your comments get under my skin – which is white but a little pink too from the sun right now. Does that bother you? Are you not “identifying with me” as your fellow GT graduate? Go root for someone in red or orange….
PerimeterCenterJacket
July 20th, 2011
1:33 pm
Ok rant over…I wanna see Fred Holton and Ryan Ayers play.
Ramblin Man
July 20th, 2011
1:37 pm
The good thing is these new guys will get two games worth of experience against what should be considered lesser teams thus getting jitters out of the way. Then Gt will hopefully roll Kansas in a big payback way before GT starts the meat of the ACC games. Not sure if I will ake the first two games, but I already have tickets for Kansas and hope to see a great D on the field.
@mp
July 20th, 2011
1:58 pm
mp,
Tarrant was a huge threat last year at returning kicks, which is why no one ever kicked him a returnable ball. It was obvious game in and game out! I think Tarrant was hurt most by the year he lost due to the wrongful allegations and missing his second year. He will be steal for the team that picks him up. He was probably the fastest dude we had out there on D last year.
@mp
July 20th, 2011
2:01 pm
Also, if you go back and watch, which I wouldn’t do if I were you so just take my word for it, he was in in almost every big play we had last year, whether he got the tackle or not. He was my favorite player to watch by far and I was sad to see him leave!
@Can't Wait
July 20th, 2011
2:03 pm
I’d love to see Vad get the start, cause I just don’t want a freshman starting 3 years in a row (Washington essentially last year, Days this year -bc I don’t think Washington can cut it the whole season – and then Vad next year) but I have a feeling he is getting red shirted. Just a gut feeling. Don’t get your hopes up too much!
Agreed this DB group will be the best in years, largely because our DB has been awful in recent years, but nevertheless I think it will be one fun unit to watch!
fan of shorter passes
July 20th, 2011
2:11 pm
I sure hated it when the injured Tarrant had to be replaced with two non catches.
Haberdashery talk seems a little strange.
mp
July 20th, 2011
2:12 pm
@myself . . . tarrant overrated. the NFL definitely thought so, too.
mp
July 20th, 2011
2:21 pm
@PerimeterCenterJacket . . . i’m with you on threetone. i’ve read a lot of dumb things posted in these blogs through the years, but that has to be one of THE most idiotic posts concerning the “skin” color issue. i’m still trying to figure out what the hell slavery has to do with our unis!
you can hate the uni color all your want, threetone, but you’re a moron even mentioning we need to go with more traditional colors to make up for having blacks on the team.
GT87
July 20th, 2011
2:27 pm
Threetrone, you are an embarrassment to yourself.
St. Richt
July 20th, 2011
2:28 pm
I’ll take a talented yet inexperienced defensive backfield over the one we had last year. Any day.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
2:47 pm
@PerimeterCenterJacket, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I have been wanting to comment on threetones stupid rants for weeks now, but haven’t been able to find the right words. You said it all, and GT87, you are correct, threetone is a total embarrassment
juvenal
July 20th, 2011
2:49 pm
GT educates more African-American engineers than any other school……
GOLD PANTS
July 20th, 2011
2:56 pm
Relax guys, threetrone is probably an UGA troll. HINT— Threetrone misspelled threetone!!
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
3:05 pm
GOLD PANTS, I didn’t notice that. Thanks for pointing it out. However, I’m sure it’s the same guy who posts under the correctly spelled word, because the content was the same.
Buzz Me
July 20th, 2011
3:25 pm
Still have a feeling that a lot of toast will be served by the secondary this year, especially if we can’t get to the QB. Sorry, but that is the way I see it.
Ken Sugiura
July 20th, 2011
3:27 pm
I deleted threetrone’s post. we can’t tolerate that sort of foolishness.
help me out, T3. there’s plenty of reasons to not respect me. What’s yours?
The Truth – they’ve been filed. thanks for the help.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
3:34 pm
Ken, just out of curiosity, since you can delete a post, can you also an email address and contact the person at fault and inform him of his transgressions?
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
3:35 pm
oops, sorry, I left out a word. It should have read, “can you also retrieve an email address…..”
Ken Sugiura
July 20th, 2011
3:37 pm
i could, though i usually don’t.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
3:41 pm
Well, I keep trying to ask you another question, and it keeps getting blocke
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
3:42 pm
Isn’t there something that you or somebody can do to block usage of derogatory names as applied to CPJ?
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
3:43 pm
hmm, I left out the specific derogatory names that are used, and my post went through. And yet I see those names used here all the time by Georgia fans, and they are never blocked.
Ramblin Man
July 20th, 2011
3:48 pm
I am actually really excited to see what this defense does this year. With all the young talent playing this could turn into a really good D for the next three years.
flajacket
July 20th, 2011
4:00 pm
I hope they are better. I am sick of watching the DBs trying to chase down receivers for the last few years.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
4:02 pm
They’ve got to learn not to get between the QB and the receiver. No wonder they have had to chase them down so often. And why have they almost always given what appears to be a 10 yard cushion. Hell, get on the damn receivers; just don’t get nailed for interference. DB has got to be one of the toughest jobs on the team.
Two GT facts or maybe a third
July 20th, 2011
4:10 pm
Tarrant is a deviant and GT and CPJ had to turn in their lil ACC trophy for CHEATING !!!
CPJ has won NO BOWL GAMES !!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
GT Fan...
July 20th, 2011
4:13 pm
The word is that there’s lots of speed in DB’field
Maybe this season when WRs get behind our guys (inevitable to happen no matter how good you are) the DBs will have a better chance of catching them from behind? If that happens a few times maybe the D then gets a hold and forces the FG….
Jema Thomas was really good as a FR. I believe he was RS’d last year b/c of how many upperclassmen the YJs had in DB’field??
Just wondering on a different note … Does anyone know where & how Cooper Taylor’s football career is going?
Ken Sugiura
July 20th, 2011
4:22 pm
Juvenal – there’s certain words — you can guess some of them — that, if they’re in a post, will send the post into the trash.
GT Fan – Cooper Taylor transferred to Richmond. He’ll be eligible this fall.
Ken Sugiura
July 20th, 2011
4:23 pm
sorry – comments were directed to Supersize, not Juvenal. I guess e-mail me whatever words you think are a problem.
PerimeterCenterJacket
July 20th, 2011
4:24 pm
I’ve heard thinking fans postulate that we’ve only really needed around two more defensive stops per game to have them go our way. The things I’ve seen this summer about the development of our D-line, LB’s and, now, the DB’s are very encouraging in that regard. Also, more home games can (and should) mean more crowd noise helping create some false starts or missed audibles. I know this is far from a proven fact, and Tech’s crowd is only really rowdy in the endzones. But it’s just one more little piece of help allowing us to maybe do better. I’d be more than happy for us to go 8 wins and maybe 2nd in the Coastal if we can top “the other state school.” Do I hope for more? Cautiously. I think the team’s new attitude could be the X factor that takes away whatever ceiling we forecast them having.
Go Jackets!
GT Fan...
July 20th, 2011
4:25 pm
GT two facts …
Your honesty would be appreciated. How old are you?
I’m really hoping you are either in college or high school, or younger, b/c that would make your comment understandable.
If you are out of college, or worse, over 30 and/or a parent then you should really re-assess your character/maturity. Have you ever heard the saying “the true test of one’s character can be determined by what you do/how you act when nobody else is watching”?
T3
July 20th, 2011
4:53 pm
Ken
As the GT beatwriter, you have AT LEAST be a Helluva lot
more OBJECTIVE in your reporting on the GT issue.
To summarily conclude that GT’s appeal options are dim sounds much like a conclusion.
What I have yet to see from you is…ANY…review, clarification, or consideration offered to GT’s position.
That doesnt mean be a mindless homer, but how about some friggin OBJECTIVITY ??
Certainly cant get any from Bradley or Schultz. But afterall, theyre not the GT beatwriter.
Man-up about your “beat.”
dawgmatic
July 20th, 2011
5:01 pm
tech athletics has cheaters, lacks winners.
kingster
July 20th, 2011
5:09 pm
Dawg in Columbus, you are a real trooper, I thank you for being so honest and straight, I respect you very much as a UGA fan now, what you wrote is deep and straight to the point, but most of all honest, you get a hall pass to say what you want about my beloved Rambling Reck/Gold and Black, if only more of those Dawg honorer up, hope your Dawgs have a great season, Lord knows Teck needs some help, l(”lets change that off.) hope we have a better season than last, maybe we can gets some more good troops, seems like Tech is low on most people list, I’m sorry to say, its killing me.
Gen Sherman Jacket
July 20th, 2011
5:09 pm
The penalties from the infractions during the Joe Hamilton years were reduced a great deal. The appeal is decided by a different group in case the first one showed bias or excess. I am all for appealing.
Ga fans voted up the sports vent that we would be upset if Auburn and Ohio State got off light.
I doubt that will happen but it will be Georgia fans who will be the most upset if Auburn just gets a slap on the wrist after they way they knocked their QB around and beat them.
Gen Sherman Jacket
July 20th, 2011
5:13 pm
Prognosticators never expect anything from us.
It’s a good sign.
I think the fan base is more riled up than it has been in a long time.
I was debating my season tickets and went ahead a few months ago.
I’m glad I did.
Gen Sherman Jacket
July 20th, 2011
5:15 pm
BTW Ken, I think you are doing a very good job.
Right now fans are so pissed off about the unfairness of this penalty that they may occasionally blame the wrong person for what has happened.
schedule
July 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
The lack of experience should benefit from the early soft(er) schedule.
Teams that schedule difficult/ranked teams first take a gamble…win and they will greatly benefit in good pub…and conversely, lose and…
I’m not advocating soft or difficult early schedules…just this year a soft start may be a good thing.
GOLD PANTS
July 20th, 2011
5:20 pm
@T3– I know we are off topic here but the Georgia Tech issue bothers me too.From what I have read, there never was an eligibility problem regarding the two players in question ; they were academically cleared for the ACC championship game in 2009. Then there was the issue of inappropriate gifts.That in itself was unclear on how that went down . I think it was all over $300 worth of clothing that was never used. How that merits 5 years probation and the stripping of the Acc championship is beyond me. So yes, I definitely think Georgia Tech should appeal this NCAA witch hunt.
PerimeterCenterJacket
July 20th, 2011
5:39 pm
kingster, I don’t want to shoot you down since you’re being respectful. But the school colors of the Georgia Institute of Technology are White and Old Gold. Granted, gold and black would make sense for the yellow jacket iconography, but it was the fans wearing of yellow jackets to early football contests which garnered our fans the “Yellow Jacket” name (and the insect imagery followed) – not the other way around. All that to say: black is not a color associated with GT in any official capacity or in the common media/fan nomenclature. Our songs refer to us as the “White and Gold” typically, and so do most fans. Not that you have to conform, but there’s your info if you want to.
PerimeterCenterJacket
July 20th, 2011
5:40 pm
* the fans’ wearing of yellow clothing (including coats, hats and jackets)
Tubby
July 20th, 2011
5:48 pm
Tarrant will have an good to NFL career!!!! He can play S, CB & ST…the man is truly versatile & a big play waiting to happen. Good Luck Tarrant & Go Jackets!!!!!
Gen Sherman Jacket
July 20th, 2011
6:52 pm
Tarrant tried to win the NC State game with his pick six that he really had to make some good moves to score. With that play, he got the crowd back in the game but it didn’t help. NC State may have made a principled decision but I think they are crazy to release their QB. Whoever replaces him cannot be better.
I think our D will be much improved.
They did play very good in the bowl game and decent against Uga.
The schedule sets up nice if we are improved and play with a chip on our shoulders from the NCAA’s vindictive decision.
Stinger 2
July 20th, 2011
7:05 pm
Enter your comments here
alex
July 20th, 2011
7:20 pm
all i know is im glad to see “super” mario gone every play he gets beat makes a leap at the guy like that is good effort and boom touchdown
ACC Forever & FSU Rules
July 20th, 2011
7:28 pm
Funny headline but it should read GT has no talent in the secondary.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
Ken suggested earlier that I email him. Does anybody know how? I don’t see any way to contact him, other than “Send Feedback” space at the bottom of this page, and that doesn’t go to him.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
7:45 pm
Never mind, I found the email address.
threetrone
July 20th, 2011
8:20 pm
I don’t appreciate my comment showing earlier this afternoon and not showing now this evening. Granted, my comment was a little long, but is that “against the law”? I don’t see how it could have been if it showed here as worthy of promulgation.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 20th, 2011
10:05 pm
threetrone, your comment didn’t appear again tonight, assuming it was the same you posted this afternoon, because it was blatantly racist.
Ken Sugiura
July 20th, 2011
11:16 pm
T3 – you are correct in that i drew a conclusion. frankly, it has little to do with the merits of tech’s case. it’s due to the fact that schools and individuals that have appealed their cases haven’t had much success. i’m going to guess the other schools felt like they got penalized excessively also, otherwise they wouldn’t have appealed, too, but only one out of 13 since the appeals rules were changed have succeeded. it doesn’t mean i think tech deserved the punishment, it just means that, given the rules they have to play by in the appeals procedure, it’s going to be difficult.
gen. sherman jacket – thanks.
threetrone – your comments were out of line.
Harvey @ Docs
July 21st, 2011
7:09 am
Ken, just keep on keeping on. I think you’re doing fine.
Yech is disgusting
July 21st, 2011
8:52 am
Yech has yet again brought shame and embarrassment to the fine state of Georgia. Second time in less than 10 years they are forced to vacate wins for cheating. Between their students making on campus bombs and stabbing each other with swords when is enough going to be enough to shut this institute of crime down?
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Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
10:52 am
Ken, why are all of my posts now being blocked? I have tried 3 times to reply to Yech, and none have been accepted?
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
10:54 am
@Yech is disgusting, you might want to clean out your own closet before posting all the mindless drivel you just posted.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
10:55 am
What do you have to say about professors who murder their wives in public and in front of their children?
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
10:56 am
What do you have to say about the antics of your adulerous former AD?
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
10:58 am
Or multiple Fulmer cups? Or tax-payer funded campus-trashing cleanups? Or arrested football players? Or top-ranked recruiting classes who do nothing? The list goes on and on, and all that in just the past 2 years. I don’t even need to go back to the Jan Kemp scandal and the Jim Harrick exams. Talk about embarrassing. Give me a break !!!
hahahha!!!!
July 21st, 2011
12:32 pm
Ih supersize, a simpleton’s mind is so cute!! Last I checked UGA hasnt needed liberal Atlanta judges to allow a rapist and a convicted FBI busted drug lord to play. And who can forget the 3 violent Tech trash thugs that put a young girl and her boyfriend in the hospital who were simply trying to enjoy an evening out at Rocky Mountain pizza in the late 80’s.
Thanks for the laughs as always, tool!
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
12:45 pm
Last I checked, the so-called rapist you mention was exonerated from all those charges; it didn’t take a federal judge to realize that nothing ever happened. It’s putzes like you who have no idea what lack of evidence means. I guess you still think the Duke LaCrosse team members are guilty too. I have no idea what you are talking about concerning a convicted “drug lord.” However, do you want to talk about all the DWI arrests of mutts over the past few years. And let’s not forget Hines Ward, even though he is no longer in school? What was he actually under the influence of? I don’t. I’m sure I could find other examples if I wanted to, but I have better things to do with my time. Suffice it to say, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Each school has its share of players or former players who have not lived up to society’s expectations. So don’t go thinking THUGa is immune.
stanghead
July 21st, 2011
1:04 pm
Hahaha –
Great points. You humiliated the moronic supersize troll. The fact he has to compare driving infractions to three gutless thugs putting an innocent college girl in the hospital shows just how vile and cowardly the worst fan base in America truly is.
What a horrible excuse for a human being supersize is.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
1:14 pm
It never ceases to amaze me how when faced with FACTS about the sleaziness of the program, you redneck mutts always fire back with distortions, exaggerations, innuendos, and usually downright lies. Everything I mentioned in what I said earlier was documented FACT; you can read it in any newspaper anywhere. NOTHING you said was FACT; you merely took facts and twisted them to a version that apparently gives you some kind of pleasure. What a bunch of ignorant trailer-trash losers you are.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
1:14 pm
stanghead, tell me what “great points” he made. They were nothing but distortions of the actual truth.
Zac
July 21st, 2011
1:20 pm
Ignore Superdouche everyone. He is the laughing stock of this blog. He is 47 and lives with his mom. The FACT he compares college kids being kids to hospitalizing women just makes him even more revolting and scum. Pure tech trash.
Kerrle bend
July 21st, 2011
1:23 pm
A new day yet super size is still humilating himself. Sad
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
1:23 pm
Zac, how many other different names are you going to use to post the exact same thing? I still want to know what woman or women have been hospitalized. Nobody has answered that yet, and there is sure nothing on the ajc site about it.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
1:24 pm
I defy any of you redneck unemployed jerks to tell me anything I said which was incorrect.
Zac
July 21st, 2011
1:25 pm
Denying reality now are we? You are pathetic
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
1:29 pm
no, zac, you are the one denying reality and telling lies. If you have some know of some case where a woman or women were hospitalized because of a Tech player, then say so. If you are referring to Reuben Houston (or was it Jarrod Tarrant? I can’t remember), then that case was settled years ago; all charges were dropped because of lack of evidence. If you are referring to something else, then I don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
1:33 pm
“have some know of some case” should have read either “know of some case” or “have some knowledge of some case.”
foggy
July 21st, 2011
1:40 pm
Idiot doesnt know the internet wasnt around in 80’s
Jagged Jacket
July 21st, 2011
1:48 pm
Yes, 3 of our players did commit that crime but it is accient history and occured decades ago
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
1:52 pm
Jagged Jacket, which 3 of our players committed that crime and when?
Jagged Jacket
July 21st, 2011
1:56 pm
Mike Mooney, Jim Lavin and Kevin Salisbury. 1989. Victim’s name was Lisa Steffee. Any real Tech fan remembers this since it was such a dark time.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
2:13 pm
Well, Jagged, I have tried 3 times to respond to you, and each time has been blocked. I have no idea why. I’ll further edit my remark and try again
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
2:15 pm
I honestly did not remember that incident, but I am ashamed of both it and our response to it.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
2:16 pm
OK, that’s part of what I have been trying to post. Let me see if I can get any more of it to go through….
Of course, all schools have their share of miscreants in their history, but that doesn’t excuse telling lies and distortions about things that never happened, which is what I really think those mutts were doing earlier. I doubt they knew a thing about the 1989 incident.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
2:18 pm
As far as I know, all charges in any supposed incidents in the past several years, have been dropped for lack of evidence. And it is stupid to make accusations relative to them.
Well, that pretty much says everything I tried to say originally. I have no idea why the complete original post wasn’t allowed.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
2:28 pm
hahaha, too bad you can’t be equally magnanimous and face the FACTS about the sleaze-factory in Athens. Are you man enough to admit that everything I said earlier was TRUE??? And, by the way, I DO agree with your last statement, although I wouldn’t call Ross a scumbag. What amazes me even more is that, if I remember right, Homer Rice was AD, and the fact that HE would let them get away with that is stunning.
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
2:39 pm
haha, why don’t you talk to us about Montez Robinson???
http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2010/04/04/uga-football-player-montez-robinson-jailed/
Douglas Dawg
July 21st, 2011
3:24 pm
Everytime I come on here I see Super Tool is getting shamed by somebody. You are absolutely hopeless
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
3:38 pm
Douglas, tell me how I was shamed? I stated facts and you ignorant puppies can’t stand facts, so you fire back with lies, distortions, exaggerations, innuendos and name-calling. I am still waiting for ANY of you to deny any of the facts I listed, and also for you to tell me about Montez Robinson. You go the b**ls to do that?
fez
July 21st, 2011
3:58 pm
You are dumber than words can describe
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
4:00 pm
so tell me about Montez, fez. You got any b**ls on you?
fez
July 21st, 2011
4:03 pm
Apparently you think “balls” are putting girls in hospitals like tech’s trashy athletes
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
4:04 pm
Why are all you name-callers such cowards? I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MONTEZ ROBINSON, and not a one of you can tell me. You can trash others all you want, but you can’t take it when somebody tells the truth about one of the constant stream of criminals and thugs in Athens. Chicken-s**t COWARDS !!!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
4:08 pm
and yet you apparently think this kind of behavior is ok, since it involves a mutt —–
“According to the arrest warrant, the victim in the latest incident was the same woman as in two earlier cases that resulted in Robinson’s probation. Robinson was charged late last year with misdemeanor simple battery and second-degree criminal damage. The criminal-damage charge was for allegedly breaking the taillights on the woman’s car. The latest arrest warrant alleges that Robinson “grabbed and pushed [the woman] off of his bed and then picked her up and slammed her on the ground” Friday.”
Since you don’t have the b**ls to tell everybody else about it, then I will. That’s the kind of embarrassment that the University (sic) of Georgia offers over and over and over again.
fez
July 21st, 2011
4:26 pm
Breakinga tail light compared to a girl’s nose? Are you that insane?
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
4:36 pm
So typical….only read the part you like.. What about this, fool…..
The latest arrest warrant alleges that Robinson “grabbed and pushed [the woman] off of his bed and then picked her up and slammed her on the ground” Friday.”
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
4:38 pm
well, what do you have to say to that. That just happened last January, and as far as I know, he’s still in jail. The Tech players were supposedly eventually vindicated, since the girl’s bf started the fight. That doesn’t excuse anything in my book, but it is certainly no worse than SLAMMING HER ON THE GROUND !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
July 21st, 2011
5:28 pm
Can’t face facts, huh, fez? Why doesn’t that surprise me?
fez
July 22nd, 2011
11:58 am
You are an idiot. For starters, charges were dropped and she was never hospitalized, unlike the poor girl from the 80’s or the young lady Tarrant raped. And how is the poor lady doing that Houston held at gun point last year in Marietta?
You are as trashy as the tech barbarians that beat and rape women.
threetrone
July 22nd, 2011
4:52 pm
Supersize, I just read your comment. My orig comment was not racist in any way. In it I said that I simply did not go to school with alot of blacks since I’m from the segregation years in Atl in 50’s and 60’s, and that all the current black starters for Tech, I, as a Tech alum, do not identify with or relate to with any significant degree of social integration. There were hardly any blacks going to Tech when I went there,still pretty much segregated. Since I don’t relate to them in a socially integrated way, I believe that Tech should cut out the wearing of black alot and get back to the orig white and old gold stripes worn during CPJ’s first year in order to watch a game. When I was at Tech they wore that and we had a black QB, and nobody had any racist remarks toward him ever. He was even in a class of mine, and did I drop the course b/c he was in it? Hell no. I just want Tech to wear colors of Tech and NOT wear black other than benign pin stripes. They look like Wake out there in black and gold, even on a white background, such background fooling no one with any Tech identity. It was the head of the Tech Alum Assn who said in the Tech Topics Alum Mag that “black is out” as a color for Tech apparel, including unis. This rule CPJ apparently became oblivious to after his first year of white and old gold unis. Hopefully he’ll go back to them this year so I can watch Vad Lee pass, an offense CPJ also seems oblivious to.
threetrone
July 22nd, 2011
5:05 pm
the only experience they mostly need is to not let the receiver get behind them; it happens every time, when you see a receiver on tv between the db and the goal line, he catches it and scores; also the dbs should watch the qb’s eyes
RamblinRecluseRoad
July 23rd, 2011
8:14 am
Jeff Ford sure could have developed a talented secondary. He led nation in interceptions for Tech around ‘71-2 season. For that matter, Rock Perdoni sure could develop the dl as a dl coach. I notice he was never asked to be a special teams coach or head coach. When I was at Tech I heard he benched 410 lbs. That’s almost 100 lbs more than the nose guard for Tech benches now, T.J. Barnes, who only benches 320. I see why Tech is worrying about the dl’s toughness and the need to develop it. Just like Maxie Baughn coaching the D and a former Tech great, where is Perdoni? Well, since he isn’t there and never has been as a coach, just another resaon for me to ramble reclusively. Wearing powder puff pink really makes me ramble reclusively.
Tom
July 23rd, 2011
9:22 am
threetrone,
There are still hardly any blacks at Yech today. The only ones on campus attempt to play sports there. I’m sure if a microscope was put above each of them 80% would be failing their courses or cheating. Facts are facts.
fez
July 26th, 2011
8:23 am
I figured you couldn’t handle anymore facts, tool. Thanks for playing