Tech’s first day report, more on McCoy
The Yellow Jackets' efforts to protect the ball began on the first day. JOHNNY CRAWFORD/jcrawford@ajc.com
Greetings-
I think most everything I learned Wednesday went into my notebook, starting with defensive lineman Denzel McCoy’s career apparently ending due to an undisclosed medical condition.
He had a chance to be a good one. He turned down offers from Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, Notre Dame, Penn State and Stanford, among many others, to play for Tech. It’s unfortunate, obviously, but I think he’ll be fine. We had a brief Twitter conversation in which he said as much, and from what I was told about McCoy, he has a great attitude and is a good kid. His best days are ahead of him.
“He came here to get a degree and he’s hopefully going to do that,” coach Paul Johnson said. “He’s got his whole life to live. He’s going to live a normal life, it’s just not in the cards for him right now to play college football.”
A couple things: Ultimately, it’s a good thing the condition that has sidelined him was discovered last summer before his Tech career began.
“No question,” Johnson said. “Our team doctors and training staff, they do a real thorough job and they detected it early, so he was never really put in any danger.”
McCoy will miss this season and “unless something drastically changes after a year or so, his football career is over.”
Second, Johnson said McCoy will remain on scholarship and work as an assistant to Liam Klein, the director of player personnel. The scholarship won’t count against the NCAA 85-player limit. That will put Tech three under the limit when his scholarship status changes. (The transfer of Ryan Ayers to Liberty and Albert Rocker’s decision to skip his final year of eligibility to take a job with Microsoft put the team two under.)
One may go to walk-on offensive tackle Tyler Kidney. Johnson said he’ll receive one at the end of the season if he wins the starting job. The other two may be held for 2012 recruits who want to enroll early.
A couple other notes:
- Players are staying at a nearby hotel. They checked in Tuesday. Johnson: “We’ve done that before. Last year, we didn’t do it because we had them all in the same housing here (on campus), but we couldn’t get them all in the same place, and I think it’s important in camp to have them all together.”
- The team started practice with punt and punt return, which is typical. “We work on it every single day,” Johnson said. “It’s big this fall. We’ve got to get much better in that area, no question.”
- Johnson on the incoming class. “Overall, there’s some big, lean, athletic-looking kids. Like I said when we signed them, we’re excited about them. It’ll be interesting to see if any of them can help us this year.”
- Another 3 p.m. practice Thursday and another Friday. The team will practice at 9:45 Saturday morning, followed by fan day at 4 p.m., and a kicking scrimmage Sunday. All practices are closed to the public.
- Photographer Johnny Crawford has an excellent photo gallery from practice, which you can see here.
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We_Run_This_Country
August 4th, 2011
8:01 am
sounds like a great start to 2011….Go Jackets!
Rduck
August 4th, 2011
8:23 am
work, work and work some more boys. keep that work ethic going and get ready for what we hope to be a special season.
GTATO18
August 4th, 2011
8:26 am
Ken- What’s the temperature like inside the new indoor practice facility? Does is feel cool to you or does the dome create more humidity for the players?
Ol' ball coach
August 4th, 2011
8:36 am
Another year of Yech fans predicting championships only to barely finish at .500 and finding themselves in their beloved Smurf Bowl getting waxed off the field by a mighty WAC team. Love it.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
8:38 am
Boy the troll is up early, or are you just getting off the graveyard shift at Waffle House?
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
8:45 am
Ken, from the photos, it looks like most, if not all, of the practice was held outside, instead of inside the new practice facility. Is that true?
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
8:46 am
troll says the same ol’ crap that he does under all the other names he uses. how original.
Ol' ball coach
August 4th, 2011
8:48 am
So still no links that discuss the ACC defenses being better than the SEC’s? Didn’t think so
NESBITT FOR HEISMAN!!!!!
August 4th, 2011
8:49 am
This is the year this season boys, I really mean it this time!!! Can’t wait to get all my free hotdogs, cokes and Playboys!! Go Tech!!!
THWG!!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
8:51 am
I have no idea which conference has the better defenses. I do know though that both Tech’s and THUGa’s defense has sucked the past 3 years–THUGa’s probably even longer.
Casey
August 4th, 2011
8:55 am
The conference with the best defense has won the National Championship for the past 5 consecutive years, moron.
Find a single commentator on ESPN that says otherwise.
Jacket 4 life!!
August 4th, 2011
8:58 am
Wees the best!!! Wees gonna win it all again this year!!! No one can stop us!!
Ken Sugiura
August 4th, 2011
8:59 am
Supersize – I don’t know the temperature, but i know it’s a lot cooler and i don’t think humidity is an issue. from what paul johnson said (practices aren’t open to media), just about the whole practice was run outside. i think he wants to use it mainly when there’s lightning, though he allowed that if they’re in pads and it’s brutally hot, he might conduct more of the practice inside.
Ashville Rambler
August 4th, 2011
9:00 am
Hopefully this new crop doesn’t humiliate the school with their post games interviews. I have been very shocked by the dimwittedness displayed by our athletes as of late.
albanyfan
August 4th, 2011
9:02 am
You mutts can’t find any stuff about your own team to read(if you can read)?
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:04 am
Thanks, Ken. I’m sure they will get plenty of use out of the facility. You can only stand so much of this weather, and when they put on those pads, it’s really going to be brutal. But, it’s going to be hot for those first few games too, so no sense pampering them. Now I wish you could do something about all the trolls who post on here all the time. It would be nice to be able to actually talk about football without putting up with all their crap. The AJC needs to have some kind of registration and login mechanism for these blogs—-FREE, of course….lol
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:07 am
Ashville, I think there are enough guys like Roddy Jones and Albert Rocker and Sean Bedford (although the last 2 of them are gone) to make up for the ones who can’t communicate very well. And I doubt we have any more dimwitted football players than any other school in the country.
midtown vegas
August 4th, 2011
9:07 am
I doubt we even make a bowl game this year. The ship is sinking fast. The Johnson experiment is officially over with the majority of serious Tech fans.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:08 am
midtown, you couldn’t be more wrong
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:28 am
4 Tickets 4 Hotdogs 4 Cokes 4 Programs
4 Years on probation
Cheaters
Flowery Branch Yellow Jacket
August 4th, 2011
9:30 am
I agree with Supersize … midtown vegas is definitely wrong. I don’t view Paul Johnson’s tenure as an “experiment”. He got off to a fast start … faster than virtually anyone might reasonably have expected. His recruiting classes have consistently ranked ahead of Gailey’s (with the exception of the 2007 class), and I believe that our best seasons are still ahead. I expect that we’ll compete for the Coastal Division championship every season, and I look forward to returning to the Orange Bowl very soon.
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:31 am
The ship is sinking fast. The Johnson experiment is officially over with the majority of serious Tech fans.
You might be right. We will see how well they do this year.
The gimmick offense in by far the weakest BCS conference allowed Johnson to win some but if the ACC gets stronger Tech is dead.
Burdell
August 4th, 2011
9:31 am
Hey Ken–
You have access to IP addresses right? Call these name changing trolls out for what they are…Chip Towers used to do it when he ran the Recruiting Blog. It helps to control the riff-raff.
GO JACKETS!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:32 am
Flowery, I think the majority of truly serious Tech fans are excited as hell about the future.
St. Richt
August 4th, 2011
9:33 am
Yep, this die hard Jacket fan backs our coach 100%. Trolls go away..
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:34 am
headley, back with more of the same crap I see. Too bad the mutts don’t have a gimmick; they might have a chance this year. Too bad, you’re not even relevant in the SEC east.
JasonGT
August 4th, 2011
9:35 am
That Photo gallery needed some pics of Vad Lee working out at QB… I mean they even had Demontavious Smith in there
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:36 am
Too bad, you’re not even relevant in the SEC east.
We won the second most games in the SEC last decade 90. LSU had 91
And have the third most SEC titles all time.
We will always be relevant in the SEC. And win 9 out of 10 against you.
juvenal
August 4th, 2011
9:38 am
headley, you’re late, hope you are feeling ok……Super, blog success=hits…..wish they would hold picture day indoors……the potential millionaires in the 07 class ended up more trouble than they were worth, may be easier to play without 1st rounders……then this system works to our advantage….O, that is, this is a pro style D…..
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:42 am
Q: Name the program in Georgia that is currently on Major Probation with the NCAA after just recently coming off probation for knowingly using ineligible players ?
A: Georgia Tech
Q: Which program is not on probation and hasn’t been under its current coach ?
A: Georgia
Suck on that for a second when you guys get into your holier than thou mode.
Its hard going through the tech record book to get an accurate W-L record because of all the scandals and “vacated” games.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:42 am
headley, it may interest you (and I am sure shock you) to know that when Tech left the SEC in 1964, we had more SEC titles than the mutts. Overall, 2009 notwithstanding, we still have more conference championships than the mutts, and that includes all the years we were both in the same conference, even before the SEC, However, headley, the mutts haven’t done anything in 5 years now, and don’t expect them to this year either.
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:42 am
headley, you’re late, hope you are feeling ok
Im fine. Ready for cooler weather.
BYRDDAWG
August 4th, 2011
9:43 am
Super, you’re right about the heat being rough…..my 7 yr old son has had 2 hr practices everyday this week so far & it’s been hard for me to keep my little man’s 65 lb body hydrated since he’s the starting fullback & outside LB!!!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:45 am
headley, as bad as it is (and it WILL be appealed), I don’t think Tech’s probation can in any way be called MAJOR. Hell, we didn’t lose any scholarships or potential bowl invitations. And there has only been ONE vacated game in Tech’s history, and that will be appealed. As far as scandals, Jan Kemp and Jim Harrick far outweigh anything that has ever happened at Tech.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:45 am
And let’s not forget Wally Butts trying to buy off Bear Bryant.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:46 am
BYRD, I feel for him. I don’t even go outside unless I have to.
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:48 am
Overall, 2009 notwithstanding, we still have more conference championships than the mutts,
Umm no you dont.
SEC Titles
UGA 13
Tech 5 + 2 ACC titles you are allowed to keep = 7
You are right though tech had 5 to UGA 4 when Dodd made his huge blunder.
Notre Dame of the south my a**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Southeastern_Conference_champions
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:49 am
headley, overall in out shared history, Tech has 18 titles to THUGa’s 16
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:50 am
However, headley, the mutts haven’t done anything in 5 years now,
We finished # 2 in the Nation 3 years ago
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:50 am
3 years ago would be 2008, and you lost to the Jackets
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
9:51 am
headley, overall in out shared history, Tech has 18 titles to THUGa’s 16
Wrong
UGA has 13 SEC Titles
Tech has 5 and 2 ACC titles.
13 > 7
Big Ol Stinger
August 4th, 2011
9:52 am
Personally Headley (and all your other screen names), I wish Casey Anthony was your momma. You may have turned out better.
Thanks.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:52 am
headley, read the history. Tech and THUGa were in the same conferences before the SEC was even founded…..first the SAIC, and then the Southern.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:57 am
headley, I’m waiting
Mike
August 4th, 2011
10:04 am
SEC…best football money can buy !!
Add up the NCAA penalties for SEC schools and compare them to the NCAA pernalties of ACC schools, and even with Clemson, FSU and UNC staining the record, we don’t come CLOSE to the antics at Auburn, Bama, LSU etc
We actually care about academics! (Imagine that, if you can Dawg Fans)
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:05 am
Sorry, that was the SIAA, not the SAIC
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:06 am
Mike, don’t confuse them with facts. I just stated facts about the history of Tech and THUGa conference championships, and headley has totally ignored me
marco
August 4th, 2011
10:13 am
Actually super, GT sucks so bad that Va. Tech, FSU, Clemson and even Maryland, UNC, NC State and freakin’ Duke have more ACC titles than your cheating thugs. Heck, Va. Tech has onky been in the ACC for 5 minutes. Yech is as irrelevant as a team could possibly get.
As usual, choke on it.
juvenal
August 4th, 2011
10:18 am
only fact that matters, per Phil Steele-NC’s, GT 4, uga 2……
hahaha!!!
August 4th, 2011
10:18 am
Hey Mike -
Is this coming from a miserable fan of a school that was forced to vacate the last championship they will ever see? Lol!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:19 am
well, duhh, marco, Clemson, Maryland, UNC, NC State, and Duke have been in the ACC since it was founded in 1953. Of course, they have more championships than Tech.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:20 am
haha, I know we’re talking about football, but what about Tech’s 20+ win domination over the mutts in basketball?
collegeballfan
August 4th, 2011
10:23 am
To put the “championships” discussion into the realm of actual facts:
UGA – going back to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and their first championship in 1896 – UGA has 14 conference championships and 2 national championships (1942 & 1980).
GT – going back to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association and their first championship in 1916 – GT has 16 conference (not including the 2009 ACC title they vacated) and 4 national championshiops (1917,1928,1952 & 1990).
See… cfbdatawarehouse.com
And since I wasn’t around in 1896 or in 1916 I do not get real excited about the historical records. However, I was around in 1942 when UGA won their first title – I was 6 months old. (Goo Daw! – that’s baby talk for Go Dawgs). But some do & so please enjoy the debate.
In fact I do not get real excited about last year. I am more into the upcoming season. If that makes me weird – so be it.
OldSchoolTechFanatic
August 4th, 2011
10:23 am
Good luck guys !!! I hope a few leaders step up this year and I think they will. YELLOW JACKETS !!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:24 am
As far as FSU having more ACC championships than Tech, they have more ACC championships than anybody in the ACC except Clemson and got a few NC’s during that time too. And the years VT won the ACC, they were on a par with any other team in the country, including the mutts.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:25 am
George is probably at work today, unlike me (retired) and the rest of you punks, who probably just got off the midnight shift at some fast food restaurant.
hahaha!!!
August 4th, 2011
10:27 am
Pretty sad when you have to resort to basketball since you cant win the football arugment, ehh winner?
Btw, UGA is much closer to Yech in head-to-head wins in hoops than you cheats are in football. Haha! Ouch!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:29 am
collegeballfan, thanks for clearing it up. I was incorrect earlier in my count; I said 18 to 16, when it is actually 16 (or 17 if the appeal is successful) to 14, Regarding your claim for the 1942 NC, why is that disputed by most people (and not just by Tech fans)? Some sites list it, but most don’t? Not challenging you on that, but would like to know the truth, if there is one.
Kachal
August 4th, 2011
10:30 am
It is pathetic tech fans still try and leach onto Michigan St’s and Colorado’s titles. But I guess if my school was as sorry as tech’s I would live in the past too and try and steal other team’s hardware.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:31 am
Only because of Phewitt, haha, and he’s gone now. Hell, the mutts didn’t even win an SEC basketball championship till the 80’s, and Tech has won more ACC championships than the mutts have won SEC championships.
priorities
August 4th, 2011
10:31 am
Who gives a $#’+ what delusional dog dropping fans think? Any fans who call part of the stadium a “dawg pound?” Don’t they know that’s where dogs are euthanized? Now that makes a lot of sense! And playing “Leroy Brown” by the band? The lyrics say “…meaner than a a junkyard dog..” What should we expect from mentally deficient troglodytic morons.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:33 am
Kachal, you might have an argument on the Mich State case, but you have no basis for arguing in favor of Colorado at all. It was (inappropriately, because of the 5th down TD against Missouri) a SHARED championship, and it was not the first shared championship in NCAA history. You going to try to take away Bama’s, LSU’s, Michigan’s (and others) shared championships too? Yeah, tell that to them.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:35 am
kachal, it’s pretty bad when the only truly legitimate THUGa championship was won in a struggle against a Notre Dame team who had had to come from behind just to TIE Tech that year. Yeah, that was really an impressive win for the mutts, wasn’t it?
Kachal
August 4th, 2011
10:39 am
Negative. Tech played a chumps schedule as usual that year. Tying a horrible UNC team that didnt even make a bowl late in the year. Colorado played 4 conference champions. Tech played zero. Tech beat Colorado’s leftovers in their bowl game that was without their starting QB. It is really not debateable.
hahaha!!!
August 4th, 2011
10:41 am
You know what type of season yech fans are really expecting if they are already talking about basketball!!! Hahahaha!!!!
Connor
August 4th, 2011
10:44 am
Has a day ever gone by on here where someone did not beat the ever living dog s*#t out of Super with facts? Looks like another beatdown of the troll.
Keep pounding him with reality kackal.
juvenal
August 4th, 2011
10:46 am
so, kachal, sec does not have 6 straight nc’s because lsu did not get the ap? maybe WWIII will last 30 years, & we can play 4-F’s again(course y’all don’t count those)
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:48 am
Kachal and Connor (probably the same punk), you didn’t vote for the NC in 1990, and I didn’t vote for the NC in 1990. The UPI voted Tech NC, and the AP voted Colorado NC. Whether you agree with them or not, THOSE ARE FACTS !!!! And I don’t care whom Colorado played, they were GIVEN a victory over Missouri, because they were GIVEN 5 downs to score the winning TD. THAT IS A FACT TOO !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:50 am
juvenal, if they could find an excuse, they wouldn’t count a single loss they have ever had. They ALWAYS come up with some kind of lame excuse why they really didn’t lose a game.
zac
August 4th, 2011
10:54 am
Hey super, something tells me you do not have a problem with claiming 2 victories over UGA in the late 90’s when both were given to Tech by the refs due to horrible calls?
Surely you remember the fumble that never was and the funble that was never called….
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:55 am
Connor, according to Kachal’s logic, if the SEC wins the NC in 2011, they won’t have 6 consecutive NC’s because LSU had to share one. That apparently doesn’t count in his book.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
10:56 am
zac, see you just proved my point. Blame it on something; it doesn’t matter what.
Kachal
August 4th, 2011
10:57 am
Of course you do not care about their schedule. Because they played a champions schedule while tech played its typical JV schedule.
zac
August 4th, 2011
10:58 am
Connor
the answer to your question is 2. The same number as UGA.
zac
August 4th, 2011
11:00 am
Does someone need to explain to superdumbaass about the BCS or should we just allow him to keep embarrassing himself with his own stupidity?
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
11:06 am
Kachal, you really shouldn’t talk about difficulty of schedules. THUGa almost NEVER plays a tough schedule. You wimp out with UK and Vandy every year, and only play LSU or Bama a couple of times each every 4 years, The rest of the time you are playing those powerhouses (HA) Ole Miss and Miss State. You pretty much split with Auburn and UT, and lately you never beat the Gators. With SC finally performing well, your success against them has come to an end. And of course, let’s not forget those OOC teams you regularly play. Since DRad came in, Tech’s OOC schedule has regrettably not been very good either, but in the past we did play the likes of Notre Dame, Arizona, BYU, Pittsburgh, and others. During those years, the mutts were playing (and still play) the likes of Tenn Tech, Louisiana Lafayette or Monroe or whoever they are, Ga Southern, and the list goes on and on.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
11:07 am
what point are you trying to make about the BCS, zac? Neither Tech nor THUGa have won a BCS championship. So what’s your point?
Brooks Brother
August 4th, 2011
11:18 am
I cannot decide which is more sad. Tech fans fake online girlfriends or their twisted, confused, delusional over confidence every August….
guys why bother arguing
August 4th, 2011
11:28 am
with uga fans and players on this blog. there is a blog called “Republicans Are Idiots And Arguing With Them Is A Waste Of Time!” this could easily fit the dawgs as well. hell probably even more so.
that their fans and students would urinate on their own library carpet says it all. that is a statement fact about the whole program and school. nothing left to be said that could detract from the dawgs and their pissy program any further.
Common sense
August 4th, 2011
11:40 am
In the past 5 years, notable OOC gMes for each team are as follows:
GT – Notre Dame, Army, Miss. St, Vandy and Kansas.
UGA – Colorado, Ok. State, Troy, C. Michigan & Arizona St.
No contest which program is at least trying to beef up their OOC, and that team already plays in the most difficult conference in the nation.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
11:50 am
Common Sense, in those 5 years, Tech is 5-1 against the OOC foes, and Georgia is 3-2. Not sure much can be made of that. However, had your opening game not been changed to Boise State, your OOC this year would be pathetic, because I don’t think you play any OOC FBS opponents other than Tech. Tech’s is admittedly not much better, but Kansas is an FBS school.
Michael
August 4th, 2011
12:29 pm
Super –
First for the record, you have to be the dumbest blog troll I have ever seen. If I were a Tech fan I would petition the AJC to ban you for life. That being said, since you are a known liar I did a little research myself, Tech was 5-2 facing the above teams, a very pitiful schedule at that. During the same 5 years, Tech has only been able to beat UGA once by 3 measly points. For decades Tech has been a strength of schedule killer for UGA, while UGA has done nothing but prop up Tech’s otherwise shamelessly weak schedule each and every year.
UGA not only plays in the most dominant conference, but is the only state school that strives to face even better competition out of conference. This is really only out of necessity since facing the laughing stock cheats you pull for every Thanksgiving weekend only hurts their schedule.
A. Bishop
August 4th, 2011
12:33 pm
Supersize
Grow up man. Anybody that reads anything you write pictures you as an old man sitting in your trailer wifeless and fat with nothing better to do than get on a football blog and ramble on about a college that you never went to. Run back to your useless life.
A. Bishop
August 4th, 2011
12:35 pm
Guys Why Bother Arguing
Clearly you have never been to Sanford Stadium because there is no part of it that is called the dawg pound. You must have been standing outside the gate wishing you had the money to buy a ticket to get in.
JM
August 4th, 2011
12:39 pm
good to hear practices have started. I hate this news on McCoy, he will be missed. I am glad to see GT is keeping its promise to him and keeping him on scholarship. Good Luck to him.
Teddy Roosevelt
August 4th, 2011
12:43 pm
Wait, ayers is transferring?
Michael
August 4th, 2011
12:47 pm
Exactly Bishop. I actually picture a fat, bald, hairy-back guy that is probably around 270 and 5′7 in his mid-50’s that lives in his mother’s basement. Doesn’t even have his GED, gets an occasional job bagging groceries once every 5 years but ends up getting fired after a few weeks for creeping out the teenage cashiers. It is as evident as the day is long that this clown has absolutely zero life whatsoever. It would be sad if he wasn’t a typical Tech POS, so I actually get much joy in his misery.
hahahaha!!!!
August 4th, 2011
12:54 pm
For a team that ranks behind the mighty Duke, UNC, Maryland and N.C. State in ACC conference titles and rarely, if ever, beats their masters from Athens, to seriously get on here and talk trash is beyond just being insane!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
1:03 pm
Michael, you are partially correct as it turns out. First, I counted wrong….DUHHH. But also I didn’t consider multiple meetings over that period,either for Tech or for the mutts. We played Notre Dame twice, losing in Atlanta and winning in South Bend. The only other team in that list who beat Tech was Kansas. So instead of being 5-1, we were 4-2. Since I believe THUGa played OK State and Colorado each twice, winning two and losing two, the mutts were 5-2. But the mutts have always had a pathetic OOC schedule until the past couple of years. You don’t know what you’re talking about if you claim that the mutts STRIVE to face better OOC competition. That’s a joke. I guess they really have had to strive hard to schedule Coastal Carolina, New Mexico State, Louisiana Lafayette (2010), Idaho State (2010), Tennessee Tech (2009), Ga Southern (2008), Central Michigan (2008), Western Carolina (2007), Troy (2007), Western KY (2006), and UAB (2006). Aside from Boise State (which was a late replacement, I might remind you), your OOC schedule this year sucks. Of course, that’s par for the course for the majority of SEC schools, all of whom almost never play anybody of any consequence OOC. That is my one complaint about DRAD; he comes from the SEC and apparently brought that philosophy with him. So I guess Tech’s OOC schedule will be as bad as THUGa’s from now on.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
1:07 pm
haha, you’re showing your ignorance again. How could Tech possibly have as many ACC titles as any of the schools you listed, when those schools have been in the ACC for 58 years, and Tech for only 33 years.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
1:11 pm
Michael, you’re a fine one to talk. Which one of us is on our opponent’s blog? Which one of us is so obsessed with our opponent that we spend all morning posting on that blog? You certainly won’t see my name on any of the THUGa blogs, and I don’t log in under false or multiple names like the majority of you punks do. I have no need to defend my current life situation. Suffice it to say, I have both a BS and an MS degree from Tech. I worked in industry for 30+ years and am comfortably retired, living off the results of my labors and unfortunately shelling out tax money to support the likes of ignorant punks like you guys.
Lyle
August 4th, 2011
1:14 pm
Hey, lay off of Supersize that order, mutt!!!! He makes sure my newspaper is laying square in my driveway each and every morning!! That might be more because his mother drives him around while he delivers, but still, Supersize is cool!!!
James T. Kirk
August 4th, 2011
1:18 pm
I too have degrees from the finest institute in the country. I have four different engineering degrees from Tech, former President of my fraternity, make a seven finger salary, have my choice of the hottest Tech girls each and every year and I have a black belt in karate.
Ignore these mutts super, they are jealous of studs like you and I. We are the winners, they are the losers. We are living the dream while they are wrapping the paper around our burgers at McDonalds.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
1:25 pm
I actually consider it a badge of honor to be so reviled by you ignorant children. It’s obvious that I piss you guys off far more than you piss me off.
JacketAlum93-PantherAlum98
August 4th, 2011
1:32 pm
Can’t wait for the season to start and thankfully the Falcons kicked the Panthers to the curb on Thursday night so I’ll be at both games!!! Bill Curry is AWESOME!!
GO Jackets!
ScurvyKnave
August 4th, 2011
1:57 pm
kachal, you’re an idiot – GT beat the number 1 team in the nation that year (UVA) head to head. and as usual, you’re wrong about Colorado…btw, we kicked your sorry asses that year…you saying your team sucked?
Ken Sugiura
August 4th, 2011
1:59 pm
Teddy R. – Ayers decided to transfer a few weeks ago. Personal reasons; he is very close with someone on the staff at Liberty.
Stinger 2
August 4th, 2011
2:05 pm
Ken: Why do you allow such trash as the last three post by Supersize?
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:07 pm
Stinger 2, I agree that one of my posts was out of line, but what was wrong with the other 2?
ToccoaDawg
August 4th, 2011
2:08 pm
As a dawg fan let me just say, I’m sorry to hear about McCoy. But at the same time let me say GT showed some class by allowing the young man to keep his scholarship. That shows class on Coach Johnsons part.
juvenal
August 4th, 2011
2:10 pm
Super, they can’t disavow WWI-we didn’t play…still get no direct response to pointing out lsu didn’t get the ap, whether it was 5 or 6 doesn’t matter to me, as long as none of them was the dauugs(doubt they’d have the guts to tangle with the tiger fans)……anybody know if the WWII dauugs got letters?
Stinger 2
August 4th, 2011
2:18 pm
Supersize: The last one sounded like you were gloating ovr the fact that it had not been pulled. If you think those kind of post make for good stuff on our GT blog
then its you doing the typing. I personally believe its out of line because its offensive to others especially some ladies who could be on the blogs.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:21 pm
juvenal, the really absurd thing about their gripes about the WWII games is that no other school who played Tech had any complaints, and Tech wasn’t the only football team in the US with Navy V-12 athletes. And since the games were officially counted by the NCAA, or whatever governing body existed in those days, why should there be a problem?
Ken Sugiura
August 4th, 2011
2:24 pm
I’m getting a little tired of the bickering.
Answer to Burdell’s question, and I thank you, because it was kind of funny to look up.
Ol’ Ball Coach’s aliases: Nesbitt for Heisman, Casey, Jacket 4 life, Ashville Rambler, Midtown Vegas, Michael, Lyle, James T. Kirk.
Marco’s aliases: Hahaha, Peachtree St., Kachal, Connor, Zac, Brooks Brother, Common sense.
I think my favorite part was when Connor asked a question that Zac answered.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:25 pm
Stinger, I actually didn’t expect it to go through, or I would never have typed it. However, if you have ever watched the TV show “Wilfred” on the FX network on Thursday nights, you might understand why I even typed it at all. The show is crude as all get out, but funny as hell, and the episode two weeks ago actually dealt with the very thing I mentioned. However, apologies to any women present, but I frankly don’t care if I offended any male mutts or not, since most of what they post on here is constantly blatantly offensive…..one prime example is the reference many of them make to CPJ’s anatomy. Fortunately, per a request on my part, I hope, I haven’t seen that term used in 3 weeks now.
Stinger 2
August 4th, 2011
2:31 pm
Supersize: Agree with about the crude comments refering to CPJ. That is uncalled for. Hope you are right and they have stopped at least on this blog.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:33 pm
Well, Stinger, now I am trying to convey my apologies to Ken as well, but for whatever reason that is being blocked. Go figure.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:35 pm
hmm, that went through, but not the one I addressed to Ken. Maybe it was because I also thanked him for his research on fake names. I guess we’ll know what the deal was if this one goes through or not.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:35 pm
WOW, I guess I can say it to you, but not to Ken. LOL
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:38 pm
Ken, if you think you are getting sick of the bickering, what do you think we Tech fans think of it. Granted, I am as guilty as anyone of joining in the fray, but for whatever it’s worth (possibly nothing), I certainly don’t start it.
juvenal
August 4th, 2011
2:42 pm
Ken,if the success of this blog(hits-> ad$) is bolstered by the redundant, repetitive, boring posts of uga’s subway(subterranean, really)alums(their grads, like Lex, Banker, even jb sometimes,BYRD-wonder if they are all the same guy-usually add objective points from a different view)…then the bickering keeps the great job you & Doug do going…..still, crude language is for bars & playgrounds, except maybe when the comment is VERY funny……
Ken Sugiura
August 4th, 2011
2:47 pm
apology accepted, supersize. i deleted your posts because they were a bit over the line.
juvenal – i’ll have to look into that. i wonder if a few trolls posting multiple times actually increases traffic that much. i could well be wrong, but i wonder. anyway, i’m headed to practice. we’ll have a report by the end of the afternoon.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
2:51 pm
juvenal, it IS good to know that there really are some classy Georgia fans/alums. I always enjoy what DawginLex and BYRDDAWG have to say, and there are a few more like them as well. The subterranean (love that term) fans that you mention bring shame and disgrace to the university.
GTFan478
August 4th, 2011
3:02 pm
Wow three whole pages of the three people arguing. Grow up people.
@Ken Thanks for prooving up what we all knew; meaning two of those people were the same people with diferent aliases.
George Stein
August 4th, 2011
3:09 pm
All of a sudden, the trolls disappeared.
What kills me is when they pose as Tech fans that are worried about Johnson. It only confirms that we have the right coach.
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
3:14 pm
Did superloser really just comment on “shame” and “disgrace?” Bawahaha!!!
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
3:20 pm
Nice to see the mod is definitely a Tachie. When you cant win the argument simply lie and slience those you cannot defeat in an honest debate. True Tech Democrat.
George Stein
August 4th, 2011
3:28 pm
Perhaps I spoke too soon.
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
3:33 pm
The problem super is Tech played the two WWII games with not only non Tech players, but with captians of both the Bama and Vandy teams. Therefore, not their own athletes. Just like how Tech used non students on their team in the first ever game between the two schools.
Tech’s cheating ways go back over a century. Some things never change.
threetrone
August 4th, 2011
3:35 pm
Tech needs a passing game again to have a bona fide offense. After Thomas was gone, Nez developed the pass yips, but while the two connected, passes were one of his talents. Nez also developed the yips for letting it go altogether last year, pitching it on the sweeps so that the runner fumbled it. I guess Nez wanted it to handle himself, so much so that he stole it from the FSU runner, and ran one back against Clemson, and liked to run into gang tacklers low to the ground with his helmet down, protecting the ball for himself. I guess Nez just had some kind of confidence in Thomas to pass completions to him. I understand he even resented handing it off to Dwyer b/c of the practical jokes Dwyer would play on him like putting shaving cream in his shoes. I recall when Nez said Dwyer was gonna get his. As Tech grad, I’d like to see them in a new image, one that excludes the black socks and saddle oxford side pants stripes. Any team that wears white socks and shoes provides the psychological illusion of light, ease of running on the field mobility, and this Tech needs to add further momentum to their tricky run plays.
juvenal
August 4th, 2011
3:43 pm
sad-point being, in a time of national emergency, Tech was essential, uga irrelevant….did they get letters? i think even the nzaa woulld loosen up during a world war(maybe?)..’tone-this ain’t mens book atlanta, i don’t care if they play in pink….
BigTimeTechFan
August 4th, 2011
3:47 pm
Ken, nice busted the aliases.
Reporting from camp today?
Best wishes to Denzel McCoy, glad he’s going to be ok.
Anyone else think Preston Lyons may have shot at the Heisman this year?
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
3:49 pm
Juvenal -
You put your foot in your mouth, friend. The reason UGA was playing without their regular players is because they were overseas fighting, while Tech’s shamelessly stayed behind like the cowards they were and still remain today.
George Stein
August 4th, 2011
3:53 pm
No, BigTime, he doesn’t. But the Heisman is a trophy no one gives a rip about.
Apparently no Tech folks have ever fought overseas. Continue trolling…
Ken Sugiura
August 4th, 2011
3:53 pm
BigTime – yes, i’m at the edge center waiting for practice to end. thunder and lightning here, so i imagine the indoor building got some use.
Ken Sugiura
August 4th, 2011
4:00 pm
I’d rate Lyons’ chances at the Heisman as pretty remote. Good player and good representative of the school but he’d have to outdo Jonathan Dwyer’s 2008-2009 numbers, presumably, and Tech would have to likely be in the top 10 or higher, just to have a shot. Both are possible, but not events I would expect to happen. I admire your optimism, though.
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
4:01 pm
Speaking of trolling, I love how Techies love to tout how Heisman is a former coach, but scoff at the very award named after him.
Im sure it has nothing to do with the fact no Tech player has ever even come close to winning it, nor ever will….
Old Tech fan in NC
August 4th, 2011
4:17 pm
Up here we get a lot of tobacco road ball news and little Tech. To come on here and have to read several unnecessary comments from Tech fans replying to dogs is just taking away from football talk. Come on guys, it’s about football time! Responding to a dog just brings even more non funny/non football talk.
Thabjs Ken for the news.
GoJackets
August 4th, 2011
4:22 pm
Tech Fans Really Are Sad is an idiot. What about Calvin Johnson and Joe Hamilton. I guess finishing second in the polls is not coming close. Some people just don’t have any reasoning skills or is it that they are so blinded with hate? Whens the last time UGA finished second in a heisman vote? And you can claim HW all you want, but at least we don’t buy Heisman winners with Black Trans Ams
tech tradition=ancient history
August 4th, 2011
4:29 pm
Since 1967.
tech winning % 53
Top ten finishes 2
One win seasons 3
10 or more win seasons 3
Major bowl games 1
Record vs. Georgia 12-32
Vs. Sec 30-71-2
Vs. Acc 133-105-3
Not very impressive.
tech tradition=ancient history
August 4th, 2011
4:32 pm
Tech Heisman trophy winners zero
BigTimeTechFan
August 4th, 2011
4:33 pm
“Apparently no Tech folks have ever fought overseas. Continue trolling?”
I have
and
Clint Castleberry did and never came home, he also finished 3rd for the Heisman trophy in 1942, may have won it if he didn’t get hurt in the Florida game. Tech was undefeated at the time, then he got hurt and Tech lost to UGA and Texas.
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
4:36 pm
GoJackets
UGA has more than one Heisman winner. And last I checked, UGA hasnt been asked to vacant wins twice in the past 10 years. The amount of corruption at the trade school is humiliating.
Old Gold and White in my veins
August 4th, 2011
4:38 pm
Sad, want to look up who came in second in the Heisman voting in 1999 and what school he attended? I’ll wait for your “sad” response.
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
4:38 pm
Tech is literally the definition of irrelevance. It couldnt have happened to a more deserving fan base.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
4:43 pm
Tech has had 2 runners up for the Heisman in my lifetime–Joe Hamilton and Billy Lotheridge. And the word is VACATE, not VACANT, and that will be appealed. “sad’ is probably a new alias for the other two punks who have been uncovered. Also, regarding the V-12 athletes, if it was good enough for everybody else in the country, why wasn’t it good enough for THUGa? I know they think they are better than anybody else, but everybody knows they’re just a run-of-the-mill program; always have been, and always will be.
Sorry, Old Tech fan in NC, but I refuse to just sit back and let people slander Tech without responding.
BigTimeTechFan
August 4th, 2011
4:43 pm
UGA has more than one Heisman winner
But one of them left UGA early because he could not stand the fanbase at UGA. He said they were so bad he would rather play in New Jersey.
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
4:44 pm
I see the pattern for modern day Tach fans. Clinging to total yardage instead of wins and citing runner up candidates in the Heisman since they know they will never have a player win it. Truly sad…..
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
4:44 pm
By the way, Clint Castleberry was a freshman when he came in 3rd in the voting.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
4:45 pm
“sad”, you are the one who said Tech had never even had anybody in the running. We’re just telling you the facts…..not that you would know one if it bit you in the………….
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
4:48 pm
Hey Ken, do even the Tech players laugh at you to your face while you troll around the complex begging for interviews you never recieve? Pretty sad when even Tech’s own players brush you off.
Maybe you should get into a new line of work that doesnt pay 8.00 by the hour
GoJackets
August 4th, 2011
4:49 pm
If you honestly think the reason that Tech is vacating wins is worse than Jan Kemp, Jin Harrick, Vince Dooley then your reasoning skills are worse than I imagined. Besides Tech has only had to vacate one win, and is currently appealing that. I’m through arguing anyway, you know the ol’ saying about arguing with pigs …
Tech fans really are sad
August 4th, 2011
4:53 pm
But you are forced to focus on the wrong part of my comments. You couldnt name any winners so you had to settle with telling me the losers. Truly sad.
Sad is as sad does
August 4th, 2011
4:53 pm
Sad, no one on here was saying anything about Heisman runners up, you posted that we never had anyone come close to winning it, we were just correcting your lack of facts. I’ll await your next truly brilliant post. Certainly is “sad” to be so obsessed over a program that you waste an entire afternoon trying to stir something up. Does not seem that tech is nearly as “irrelevant” to you.
macrotech
August 4th, 2011
4:54 pm
Kachal, I think that Nebraska’s head coach (He’s the only coach to go against both CU and GT in 1990) provided everyone with a statement of validation when he remarked that GT was the toughest team he’d coached against that year. EVEN if you watched both games…you didn’t see it from the sidelines. I’m going to go with O’Brian on this one.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
4:55 pm
I’m glad I’m no so obsessed with the goings on in Athens that I sit at my computer logged onto their website, probably under one of several aliases, stirring up trouble. I’m glad I have a life. And most of all, I’m glad I’m a Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket.
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
4:56 pm
Last time I checked being only half-right is still wrong.
Old Gold and White in my veins
August 4th, 2011
4:59 pm
Damn straight it’s great to be a Yellow Jacket!!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
4:59 pm
Old Gold, wouldn’t have it any other way, would we?
macrotech
August 4th, 2011
5:04 pm
“Tech fans are sad”….I’m a Tech fan….I’m pretty happy!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
5:12 pm
macrotech, me too.
headley lamar
August 4th, 2011
5:33 pm
http://www.ajc.com/news/ex-georgia-tech-professor-1076105.html
Another day another Tech scandal.
For shame.
macrotech
August 4th, 2011
5:41 pm
Yeah headly…that asst. professor deserves to go to jail. In your feeble efforts to dump this in the lap of GT….you’ve missed the part about how it was GT that turned the dude in. A reasonable response to a dirty old man’s activities on a school computer…don’t you think? One man does not an institution make…Lord knows I didn’t think it was a uga thing when that professor went psycho and shot some people. Keep it real, holmes!
SC Tech fan
August 4th, 2011
6:00 pm
Headly 4 national titles to ONE for the gods, chew on that one dumb a..
macrotech
August 4th, 2011
6:00 pm
Born2Buzz…I have found that Dawg fans are very likable folk with good heads on their shoulders. They love their Dawgs and represent them well. They don’t get wrapped up in silly stereotypes and name calling, but they are “rabid” fans of their team. THEN, there are the mutts…they’ve latched onto a team and claim that they attended UGA and make millions of dollars every year. To them, we are ALL “nerds” (THIS always cracks me up as it suggests that we are smarter…I can live with this) and we’ll spend our lives opting to play video games and dying virgins. More than likely, instead of living in mansions…they live in modest homes (PLEASE note that I didn’t say ANYTHING about double wides) and live paycheck to paycheck. Dawg fans are reasonable and likable…mutt fans…they are to be pitied!
macrotech
August 4th, 2011
6:02 pm
Supersize…it pleases my soul to know that I am NOT the ONLY happy Tech fan!!!
BananaJacket
August 4th, 2011
6:28 pm
Would it be possible to have a sepatate blog site for the inane, juvenile garbage that goes on between those who just want to name-call, antagonize (this is NOT playful, good-natured bantering) and dominate the posts? Then, have a site where REAL fans can rationally discuss the topics(s)!! That way,the AJC could still get its readership from the lunatic fringe and the serious readers. What about it???
juvenal
August 4th, 2011
6:29 pm
sad-lots of those USN flyers served-Billy Lotheridge finished 2nd-Heisman named for a Tech coach, largely for what he did at GT-coaches trophy named for Dodd-at least our profs don’t shoot their exes-again, thanks for the hits(super, the bigots bother me more, it is not acceptable to rant against Asians)……
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
6:45 pm
juvenal, it is not acceptable to rant against any ethnic group. And yes, macro, I am a VERY HAPPY TECH FAN !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
6:46 pm
I’m outta here for a few hours. I hope Ken has a report on today’s practice when I return
JESSY
August 4th, 2011
6:51 pm
Enter your comments here
JESSY
August 4th, 2011
6:53 pm
KEEP YOUR HEAD UP MC MCOY GIVE IT TO GOD HE WILL FIX IT GOOD LUCK GA TECH
Old Tech fan in NC
August 4th, 2011
7:03 pm
Jackson evidently practiced…does he seem to have “good hands”?
GT93
August 4th, 2011
7:14 pm
perfect idea ‘BananaJacket’ … I’m all for it. And with required login info as well.
@’sad’ … many of GT’s military student-athletes involved with WWII were attaining officer level … meaning many were allowed to stay state-side, finish their engineering degrees, and begin issuing orders and strategy to the boys at war. A proven academy of leadership then and now.
Like it or not, they send the scrubs to the front-line in war-time situations … and between GT and UGA, guess where more of the scrubs come from??
During WWII, GT was one of only 5 U.S. colleges feeding the U.S. Navy’s officer program.
Old Tech fan in NC
August 4th, 2011
7:18 pm
Just saw the coaches poll…not too encouraging.
A. Bishop
August 4th, 2011
7:31 pm
In the spirit of apologizing that I read on here…I am sorry Supersize for my comment. I respect that you love your Jackets as much as I love my dawgs.
@headley- bringing up child porn no matter what school it is about is not appropriate on a football blog.
A. Bishop
August 4th, 2011
7:33 pm
Also props to the student athlete that left with a year of eligibility left to work for Microsoft. I think that is awesome.
GDBurdell
August 4th, 2011
7:38 pm
props to tek for cheating and also a child porn scandal, what a place
YellowJacket
August 4th, 2011
7:52 pm
I still have a job.
Can't read the forrest for the trees
August 4th, 2011
8:25 pm
Actually there are more appropriate words to have been used in my user name but, I prefer not to stoop to the level of many here. I am a women who is a Tech fan, my 13 year old son is a Tech fan, my husband attended Tech, my grandmother retired from Tech and so on and so on. I enjoy Tech football and I enjoy talking about Tech football. What I don’t enjoy is logging on to this blog and having to sift through so much junk to hear about my team. Please, if you are a UGA fan, go home, you have a blog. I don’t care for you, you don’t care for me so let’s call it even and walk away. You have your issues, we have ours. Many of you on this blog are WAY over the line. Ken – your fingers should be numb from all of the deleting you still need to do to clean this up this blog. I may not have seen all the posts by Supersize but the out and out name calling and taunting that have occured here today towards him are inappropriate and no, I am not his wife, mother, sister, best friend or daughter – I don’t even know him. The Georgia fans that post under multiple log on’s, do you not have anything better to do than be a bully and taunt people? Ken aren’t there some “rules” that people need to post by?
George Stein
August 4th, 2011
8:30 pm
Just ignore the clowns, engage the reasonable ones, and move on.
We’re dealing with people that have 8 or 9 handles…each!
JacketAlum93-PantherAlum98
August 4th, 2011
9:05 pm
GO Jackets, GO Panthers!!! Will be at both games, Bill Curry is AWESOME!!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
August 4th, 2011
9:08 pm
Thanks, A. Bishop and Can’t See…., I appreciate the comments. And Can’t See…., I’m glad my comment was deleted before you saw it. It WAS in jest, but it was totally classless, and I apologize.
Hal Nowell
August 4th, 2011
9:42 pm
I must have missed the earlier announcement regarding Ryan Ayers. Wasn’t he our top recruit from a couple of years ago?
A. Bishop
August 4th, 2011
11:42 pm
Apology accepted man, thanks and good luck this year.
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