Georgia Tech-Maryland gets noon start
The ACC has given Georgia Tech’s Oct. 8 home game against Maryland a noon kickoff. ESPNU will televise the game.
Including Maryland, Tech will have had three consecutive noon starts, starting with Kansas and North Carolina. The 3:30 p.m. feature game for that week is Miami at Virginia Tech. While Georgia Tech could enter the game with a 5-0 record, Maryland does not appear to be much of a draw, aside from its uniforms. The Terrapins are 1-2 and lost 38-7 to Temple on Saturday.
By Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech beat
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Civil Jacket
September 26th, 2011
12:52 pm
CPJ should be happy!
Tech Forever
September 26th, 2011
12:52 pm
First
Tech Forever
September 26th, 2011
12:53 pm
Crap….I’m never on here when something new comes up so I had a shot at it this time.
Civil Jacket
September 26th, 2011
12:54 pm
That was my first post on AJC, so you are correct!
Newt
September 26th, 2011
12:57 pm
Actually Tech’s first game wasn’t a noon start. It started at 7:30.
Rduck
September 26th, 2011
12:58 pm
man, these noon kickoffs make for way too early of a tailgating session. you would think they would give us a 3:30 or 7pm slot sometime.
Rduck
September 26th, 2011
1:00 pm
Newt- that was a Thurs. night game. we have a hard time filling the stands without asking them to be there mid-day on a Thursday…
JACKETfan12
September 26th, 2011
1:05 pm
I am not trying to get ahead of myself, I know that it is a week-by-week season. BUT, IF tech and clemson both go undefeated going into the tech-clemson game on October 29, then ESPN College Gameday could very well come to ATL that weekend. Then we would all finally get the night kickoff that we have been looking for. Even if Gameday does not come to atlanta that day, the game could still get an evening kickoff. Would make a HUGE game.
Aside from that (dream), we need to continue to take care of business EVERY week and let everything else fall into place. If we play like we should on Saturday, I think beating NC State by 14+ is easy..
Born2Buzz
September 26th, 2011
1:06 pm
Well, I guess we will be tailgating after the game.
I know DRad has stated that he prefers all Sept games start @ 7p, all Oct games start @ 3:30p and Nov games start @ 1 (or noon). Looks like the ACC and ESPN isn’t listening.
Oh well. Guess the team and fans will still show up.
lucky21
September 26th, 2011
1:10 pm
The worst part is before maryland lost to Temple the jumbotron at the stadium listed the game as 330 kickoff, and then changed it later when Maryland tanked
JACKETfan12
September 26th, 2011
1:10 pm
I am not trying to get ahead of myself, I know that it is a week-by-week season. BUT, IF tech and clemson both go undefeated going into the tech-clemson game on October 29, then ESPN College Gameday could very well come to ATL that weekend. Then we would all finally get the night kickoff that we have been looking for. Even if Gameday does not come to atlanta that day, the game could still get an evening kickoff. Would make a HUGE game.
Aside from that (dream), we need to continue to take care of business EVERY week and let everything else fall into place. If we play like we should on Saturday, I think beating NC State by 14+ is easily do-able.
CurrentJacket
September 26th, 2011
1:10 pm
The night game was a against a lowly FCS program in WCU. While I still think the stands should have been filled, I understand why they were not. All the legitamate home games we’ve played have been at noon. In some ways it sucks, yes, but at the same time, all we can do is keep showing up and supporting the team in hopes that they will keep on winning. The UNC game was encouraging (almost full, and pretty loud) but we can do better, and I think we will.
Bob
September 26th, 2011
1:11 pm
HEY. MARYLAND. GOOD TO SEE YOU.
GTHD
September 26th, 2011
1:11 pm
You know a 3:30 kickoff will make me feel less like an alcoholic.
lucky21
September 26th, 2011
1:13 pm
I’m with you GTHD
GT
September 26th, 2011
1:15 pm
I like noon game we play better at noon… we play our usually worst games at 3:300PM that why we REALLY have to watch out this next game with NCST
JACKETfan12
September 26th, 2011
1:20 pm
I am not trying to get ahead of myself, I know that it is a week-by-week season. BUT, IF tech and clemson both go undefeated going into the tech-clemson game on October 29, then ESPN College Gameday could very well come to ATL that weekend. Then we would all finally get the night kickoff that we have been looking for. Even if Gameday does not come to atlanta that day, the game could still get an evening kickoff. Would make a HUGE game.
Aside from that (dream), we need to continue to take care of business EVERY week and let everything else fall into place.
Ken Sugiura
September 26th, 2011
1:39 pm
dang it. thanks, newt. stupid facts.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
1:45 pm
Living in Augusta, I HATE noon games. I have to get up at 6AM in order to get there at a reasonable time. I am NOT a morning person. LOL
juvenal
September 26th, 2011
1:59 pm
beats espn.3……noon fine, can get home and hunt……
Huge Tech Fan
September 26th, 2011
2:06 pm
I’m going to go ahead and share a score prediction based on years of insight and highly sophisticated computer analysis. Maryland 137 Jackets 3. Call your bookie, cause this is money in the bank.
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:09 pm
Maryland fired Ralph after “stealing” him from us.
And after he got coach of the year in ACC.
Go figure.
They may find out they traded in a Porsche for an Edsel.
Big Dog 98
September 26th, 2011
2:10 pm
Does GT play any ranked or SEC teams this year other than UGA?
The Dawgs will destroy GT as usual in November.
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:14 pm
Staying on a win streak more important than the time we play.
Traffic is probably a lot lighter for noon games as well.
Later times will come for VT, Clemson, Georgia and maybe Miami games.
Bulldawg78
September 26th, 2011
2:14 pm
Which high school does GT play next?
The ACC is a complete joke.
Vandy would be undefeated in the ACC.
Ken Sugiura
September 26th, 2011
2:16 pm
well done, jackets 2011. something tells me that might be the first time Ralph Friedgen – a good guy and a terrific coach, certainly – has ever been compared to a Porsche.
Damon Evans
September 26th, 2011
2:16 pm
Is this blog still reserved for dateless, unemployed, nerds that live in their parents basement?
Even without me … the DAWGS RULE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark
September 26th, 2011
2:17 pm
Big Dog 98 – we play two ranked opponents as of today (Va Tech & Clemson), while mighty dawgs are scheduled to play 4 (SC, Fla, Boise and Tech). We’d have 3 if the dawgs were any good.
growing older, but not up
September 26th, 2011
2:18 pm
GTHD – if you don’t start in the morning, you can’t drink all day. . .
Mark
September 26th, 2011
2:18 pm
Vandy might be undefeated in the ACC, but the dawgs wouldn’t be. That’s all we care about.
Vince Dooley
September 26th, 2011
2:21 pm
@Big Dog.
I’m sorry for my huge mistake of hiring Ray Goof.
Then hiring a 2nd goof named Donnan.
Before Adams and me hired the Reverend Richt.
Why can’t we beat Florida?
All my bad hires, that’s why.
No need to annoy the Techies for my incompetence while the rest of the league takes turns winning the NC.
They know we’ve lost our relevance and have to point elsewhere to cover our decades of mediocrity.
Ken Sugiura
September 26th, 2011
2:22 pm
huge tech fan – i think you’re being way too kind to tech. wolfpack puts up at least 200.
lucky21 – the game-operations people got it wrong. the time hadn’t been assigned until today.
gthd – well done.
Coach Vince Dooley
September 26th, 2011
2:22 pm
There may be as many as 20,000 fans at Bobby Dodd Stadium this weekend.
Better come early……
reebok
September 26th, 2011
2:24 pm
i guess i am one of the rare fans who likes the noon games…get home mid-afternnon and settle in to watch the primetime games…
growing older, but not up
September 26th, 2011
2:25 pm
Coach Vince Dooley – Wow, and it’s not a home game. . . no wonder you retired.
Bob Neal
September 26th, 2011
2:25 pm
UGA RULES THIS STATE!
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:26 pm
20,000 fans at BDS this weekend??? DUHHH, Tech plays AT NC State this weekend. Coach Vince Dooley is as stupid as the rest of the mutt bubbas
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:28 pm
@Damon Evans.
No.
This blog is reserved for wealthy Tech fans.
Did you see where the Jackets have a 5th year senior did not return to play his last year because he had been hired for a special Microsoft training program?
That might happen to a Dawg player too?
Get real.
Must be tough to get an education degree from Uga with all the cutbacks and lack of hiring there.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:28 pm
Bob Neal, is that because you have so many UGA fans on chain gangs making measurements for new roads?
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:30 pm
Those who can DO. Those who cannot TEACH. Although not too many new teachers being hired these day, so I guess those who cannot go on welfare
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:32 pm
While the hated Gators have enjoyed three BSC football championships and back to back basketball championships, Dawg fans have their Munson tapes of Run Lindsey Run from before they were born.
To he'll with Georgia
September 26th, 2011
2:35 pm
Coach Vince Dooley
Good call we play at nc state this weekend away. Gooooooooooo jackets sting em
Peachy
September 26th, 2011
2:35 pm
Kansas game was at 12:30, not noon. It will not be 3 consecutive noon starts since Kansas was at 12:30, then UNC at Noon and then NC State this week is at 3:30. Where is the fact checking here? Come on Ken…
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:38 pm
@Supersize.
The reason Dawg fans visit us so often is they can’t stand it when Beast of the East, SSI Gator and their other Florida owners show up on their blogs.
They prefer to hide out here.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:38 pm
noon — 12:30, what’s the difference? Both are too early. And the UGA – Ole Miss game was at 12:20 OUR TIME, which means it was 11:20 in Mississippi. Last year’s Tech game at Kansas was at 11AM Kansas time. That’s just too damn early.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:39 pm
Jackets2011, SOME dawg fans are welcome here, because they post informed, intelligent comments. All the others though are just redneck mutt trolls
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:40 pm
DRad’s thinking makes sense but it would get the schedule backwards like Georgia’s.
Then if you lose the first two like they did, you’d spend the rest of the season trying to make up for it.
acc
September 26th, 2011
2:41 pm
The ACC must really hate Tech. First we get noon kickoffs at home then they send Ron Cherry to officiate our games.
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:43 pm
DawginLex seems like a good guy usually.
He has the same problem with probably the same knuckleheads over there.
He needs intelligent conversation and knows he won’t find it there and so joins us.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:45 pm
DawginLex and Byrddawg are two of the classy dawg fans who occasionally post here. There are a few others too, but most are just trolls
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:46 pm
We can’t complain about the refs for the UNC game.
They fortunately overlooked some pushing and shoving and let Stephen and their DBs play (meaning he usually won).
Except for the one hard hit.
Since there is hightened concern about concussions, they may have erred on the side of safety.
I can live with that.
juvenal
September 26th, 2011
2:47 pm
if you win, makes for a long, pleasant saturday afternoon……another good thing about a dauug loss-don’t see many comments for a while…..
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:47 pm
I’ll learn one day to ignore them.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:48 pm
Problem on that play, 2011, was that it was nowhere close to helmet-to-helmet. That was just a bad call. But overall, I guess I will agree: officiating was ok.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:49 pm
sometimes hard to ignore them, 2011. They tend to bring out the worst in us, I guess. lol
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:49 pm
It wasn’t all Paul Roberson’s fault (the losing season was a downer) but everyone is a lot happier to have Ken working the Tech beat.
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
2:51 pm
The refs did overlook some after play pushing that I fear will draw a flag on the road.
Got to walk away guys and make them pay on the next play.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
2:51 pm
It’s Doug Roberson, but yes, I think we are all happier with Ken I am off to the gym. Anybody posting under the name Supersize between now and about 4:30 will NOT BE ME!!!! And I will be proudly wearing my Ga Tech t-shirt at the gym, so all the dawg fans there today can cringe the way I do when I see them in their Georgia shirts. LOL
Jackets 2011
September 26th, 2011
3:04 pm
Have a good one.
Luke
September 26th, 2011
3:18 pm
“The ACC must really hate Tech. First we get noon kickoffs at home then they send Ron Cherry to officiate our games.”
Personal foul on Ron Cherry! He was given him the business!
Tech Guy
September 26th, 2011
3:47 pm
Ken. many thanks for the great coverage, but don’t you mean three consecutive noon starts at home – or have we dropped NCSU at 2:30 (central) next week for lack of interest?
GT81
September 26th, 2011
3:49 pm
yeah uga has had the upper hand the past 8-10 years over Tech. There are a lot of variables at the root of that. The Tide is about to turn as it’s clear uga is on the downturn and Tech is on the uptick. if the dawg fans would put their biases away for a minute, they’d see that
GTodd
September 26th, 2011
3:56 pm
“…three consecutive noon starts, starting with Kansas and North Carolina.”
What about the 3:30 this week against NC State?
reebok
September 26th, 2011
4:03 pm
i enjoy bantering with several regular dog bloggers, both over here and on the UGA blogs…and the others i just ignore. there are trolls posting their garbage from all sides, sadly…
The Dude
September 26th, 2011
4:24 pm
@GTodd,
Home starts. Three consecutive noon home starts.
Ken Sugiura
September 26th, 2011
4:38 pm
thanks for the editing help. i did indeed mean three consecutive noon home starts. i’ve since corrected.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
4:44 pm
Ken, you do a great job; I think it’s a little unreasonable for us to expect perfection.
gt_blume
September 26th, 2011
5:44 pm
Wouldn’t be 3 consecutive noon starts because NC St. is a 3:30 start.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
5:56 pm
3 consecutive HOME noon starts, assuming you call 12:30 noon—definitely close enough to noon
19
September 26th, 2011
6:31 pm
gtyj had a very good post earlier (diiferent blog) . Plus, I think we can find a deep kicker on scholarship (if not in the student body). Go Georgia Tech!
Brent
September 26th, 2011
8:55 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the NCST game this weekend start at 3:30pm? Two noon games, a 3:30 game, and then another noon game does not make three consecutive starts.
GT Ticket Office
September 26th, 2011
8:58 pm
The ACC is killing GT ticket sales with three consecutive noon starts at home. Everybody knows that’s the most difficult kickoff time to sell tickets for, and those games historically are impossible to sell out at Tech. Maybe if we could get more favorable scheduling, we’d be able to fill up Bobby Dodd.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
10:43 pm
GT Ticket Office, you are right. I drive over from Augusta, and I will continue to do it, but I HATE noon starts. I am sure that most Tech fans from even further away hate it even more than I do. That being said, however, I met a guy who posts on here who drives over from Columbia, SC, which adds an hour more to the time it takes me. He made fun of me for complaining, so I guess I should shut up. LOL
ATLER (Ramblin Wreck)
September 26th, 2011
11:11 pm
Who care what the mutts have to say!!!!
ATLER (Ramblin Wreck)
September 26th, 2011
11:12 pm
@19 CPJ won’t give a kicker a scholarship.
Alex
September 26th, 2011
11:36 pm
Crap! Another game my family will miss because of conflicts with the kids fall ball schedule! I hate noon games! Really GT? Not a happy season ticket holder.
Supersize that order, mutt
September 26th, 2011
11:49 pm
Alex, don’t blame Tech. It’s ESPN who calls the shots.
GTFan
September 27th, 2011
10:25 am
Typical Dawgs fans, they need to be worrying about their own team instead of Tech.
Alex,
You are truly not a worthy season ticket holder then!
Alex
September 29th, 2011
5:53 pm
Really GTFan? Family comes first and this is a family event we do every year and they love it.