Georgia Tech’s O. Smith may miss Duke game
Greetings-
Big news is A-back Orwin Smith was injured in the loss to Virginia Tech and may not play Saturday. Coach Paul Johnson made mention of the injury in response to a question about trying to get Smith more carries.
“Hard to get it to him when he’s over there with us (on the sideline),” Johnson said.
Johnson didn’t disclose the injury and said he didn’t think it was serious, “but if we had to play today, he probably couldn’t play.”
Johnson said Embry Peeples would likely start. Tony Zenon, Deon Hill and Robbie Godhigh might also get more snaps. In recent games, Roddy Jones, Peeples and Smith have been in a rotation. Monday, Johnson said, “I don’t think we’ve got any injuries for the next game. I mean, you’re always bumped and bruised after you come out of a game. We had a little extra time because it’s Thursday night, too.”
2. Linebackers Brandon Watts or Malcolm Munroe will likely start in place of Jeremiah Attaochu, Johnson said, depending on which package the defense starts out in. Attaochu will not play the first half of the Duke game as discipline for punching Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas in Thursday’s game.
3. With the goals of winning the ACC and going undefeated at home no longer possible, Johnson brought up to the team that only three Tech teams since 1956 have won 10 games. At 7-3, the Jackets can achieve that total by winning the final two regular-season games against Duke and Georgia and the bowl game. Playing for a better bowl is another motivation.
“If you want to keep position for a higher-pegged bowl game, then you need to win,” Johnson said.
4. Johnson on Duke: “I think Duke’s an improved team. They don’t have the wins to show for it, but I think they’re a better team than they were a year ago.”
5. With the B-back production not measuring up to the past standards with past Johnson teams, Johnson said coaches will look at the position and production from this season in the offseason and fully understand the nature of the lack of performance. He said he doesn’t think it’s necessarily the fault of B-backs David Sims and Preston Lyons.
“I haven’t seen any real gaping holes that they’ve failed had to run through,” he said.
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Kind of thin. Apparently, Duke’s basketball team has a game of some import Tuesday that’s drawing a lot of attention.
Game stories from Duke’s loss to Virginia, from the Duke Chronicle and the Raleigh News & Observer.
Duke offensive tackle Kyle Hill, who started all 46 games he’d played in since 2008, has sustained a season-ending shoulder injury against UVa, per the school’s website. Tough way to go out.
Buzz is 11-0 in the Capital One Mascot Challenge, thanks in no small part, if I recall correctly, to the Tech marching band’s trumpet section, and is taking on Mike the Tiger from LSU this week. Michelle Hiskey “interviewed” Buzz and put together a first-person (first-bee?) story for the AJC.
Thanks for reading. I’ll have post-practice notes up this evening.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
8:56 pm
Write it down, he still hasn’t apologized to me for calling me an idiot……and after I was the first one on here to apologize for the (now questionable claim of) behavior of a Tech student.
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
8:57 pm
HTRedneck I love dogs and I don’t like the UGA Uga VIII because of the bad breading. I like the American Bulldog that Mack Trucks use. It has more Pit and Longer Legs with a Leaner Middle. I do Chow, Akita, German Shepard Mixes. The best size and the right aggressiveness.
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
8:57 pm
Supersize…I like Smokey, too. He looks just like one of Dad’s blueticks. If N.C. State would be honest about Tuffy, that would be cool, too. Tuffy’s not a wolf, by the way.
Write it down.
November 15th, 2011
8:57 pm
lets
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
8:58 pm
For those interested the VT v GT game will be replayed on CSS at 9.
Tech Dad
November 15th, 2011
8:58 pm
I know it seems like a minor incident to some of you but to my son it was both embarassing and very scary. He is still too young to understand that the combo of alcohol and stupidity would make an adult attack him because he is wearing a shirt for his favorite team. It sucks because now he won’t go see his sister perform which means my wife or other daughter have to stay home with him.
My closest group of friends include 3 Georgia grads and they all have had nothing but nice things to say about my daughter going to Tech. It seems like the hate that so many of you feel about the Ga Ga Tech rivalry is mostly one sided.
I do not know one person who thinks UGA fans are the worst in college football. Maybe I need to avoid the Tech blogs because comments like many of you make make me want to grill any guy who dates my daughter. If they said they frequent this blog I would probabaly toss them out of my house.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
8:59 pm
Smokey may be inbred too, but I doubt it. I think he’s just a good ole hound dog. Gotta love them. And I’m sure no school would ever have a real wolf for their live mascot.
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
8:59 pm
American Bulldogs are cool and very strong. Not sure how well Uga conforms to the breed standard for English Bulldogs, but it is an accepted breed.
Tech Dad
November 15th, 2011
8:59 pm
Supersize I apologise for my comments about your rude comments and thanks for the apology.
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:00 pm
isn’t SMOKEY a Catahola(?Spelling) not a Blue Tick.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:01 pm
Tech Dad, you must not know many people from opposing schools who have been to Athens or seen how some of the dawg fans act on the road. Granted, not all are like that, but enough are to give virtually everybody a bad taste in their mouth.
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:02 pm
Supersize…believe it or not, but NC State had a real wolf for a mascot a long time ago. However, wolves are very nervous animals and the crowds and their noise caused the mascot to have a heart attack and die.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:02 pm
Tech Dad, I wasn’t aware that I had made any rude comments, and like I said, I NEVER post on the UGA blogs. If you have seen my name there, I can guarantee you that it was not I. And I accept your apology.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:03 pm
HighTech….., did they keep him caged the way LSU keeps their Bengal Tiger caged?
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:03 pm
A friend is making custom bird houses as a side job. Some UGA fans will like the Uga mascot dawg house. There is a Bama bird house and some others. Check the site http://www.atlantahaulitallinc.com you might want some of what he makes. I think he has some GT and local High School Bird houses too.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:04 pm
Back before Tech ever had Buzz, I always like to see the male and female (human) Wolfies that NC State had; I thought they were cool
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:04 pm
liked to see, I mean
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:04 pm
5150…Smokey is a Bluetick. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_(mascot)
Ken Sugiura
November 15th, 2011
9:05 pm
Tech Dad: I am a lifelong UGA fan and a graduate of Ga State.
The Truth: I am a graduate of Ga Tech.
Same guy. Thoroughly befuddled.
I’m not one for Twitter shorthand, but SMH.
good night.
Write it down.
November 15th, 2011
9:06 pm
SS.
That’s funny stuff!
I think if my mascot was a real Bengal Tiger, I would want him caged. He might get loose and eat an 8 year-old.
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:06 pm
Tech Dad…why did you even bring up UGA blogs with Supersize? Troll much?
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:07 pm
Thanks, Ken…..VERY VERY INTERESTING
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:08 pm
Ken…good job exposing Tech Dad for the fraud that he is. By the way, did I mention you do a great job covering the Jackets? Thanks again.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:08 pm
LOL Write it down. Love it !!!
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:09 pm
Well, I guess we now know “The Truth” about “Tech Dad” huh? LOL
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:10 pm
I LOVE it when Ken exposes the frauds on here. You go, Ken !!!!!
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:10 pm
Write it down. lol. Especially if the 8 year-old is wearing a rival team’s t-shirt.
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:10 pm
Oh, SNAP KEN has to be Skinned, Drawn and Quartered. KEN just come to the Bus again. You might be dinner. LMAO……………..You do a great job KEN and the tech fans like your HARD work.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:12 pm
OK, I am outta here now. I can leave with a big smile on my face. And I can finally say what I wanted to say a long time ago: First Tech Dad is a POS, and second, any fool that would wear a UGA shirt to a Tech game deserves what he gets (just kidding, but I still wanted to say that….LOL)
Write it down.
November 15th, 2011
9:13 pm
Good night everyone. I’m about to watch the Tech replay on CSS and cry (again).
Mutts, keep the bus warm.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:13 pm
later, Write it down
Observer
November 15th, 2011
9:17 pm
Well, if all these posts are true,
CPJ better coach.
GT better players.
GT plays a harder schedule than UGA
UGA is in the weakest conference in the land.
GT players are smarter.
UGA fans and players are thugs.
I think i’ll sell my 2 tickets to this match-up, obvious who the winners going to be.
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:18 pm
I will tell you this. I attended the UGA v Bama game many years back with my Frat bro(Bama fan). That is the game where Zeier took over the starting job. We went to Dream Land BBQ before the game. I was a drunk butt and I threw rib bones at UGA fans after the game. A few weeks later I realized what it was to be a Fan and not a FANATIC. I felt bad once I sobered up. It was not even my team playing, but I was tired of how the UGA fans had me over the years. I was the BUTT. I don’t do that now, but I have received less than nice treatment at UGA games for a few years after that.
Observer
November 15th, 2011
9:27 pm
Only thing I didn’t see on these blogs was where GT’s 3-4 D led by Coach AG is so much better than UGA’s 3-4 D led by Coach Todd Grantham. I’m sure it’s listed on here I just overlooked it.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:31 pm
Gotta say one more thing before I leave—-I thing The Truth / Tech Dad pretty much validated a lot of what we have been saying about UGA fans—-TOTALLY CLASSLESS.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 15th, 2011
9:31 pm
think, not thing
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:35 pm
Observer…did you clock in? I see your shift begins at 9:00 pm and you’re 17 minutes late. Coach Grantham appears to have put together a heck of a 3-4 defense. The secondary is tough and the linebacker, Ogletree, is a beast. I expect a knock down drag out on the 26th.
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:37 pm
Also, Observer, I like what I see from Coach Groh’s defense this year. Attaochu and Thomas are playmakers. There is always room for improvement, but I see improvement in many ways every game.
A person SMART enough to know......
November 15th, 2011
9:40 pm
You know the best thing about having sex with a UGA Coed? After you widen out and deepen the Hallway you realize UGA guys are really Short Richard men.
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:40 pm
Supersize…I have to give The Truth/Tech Dad credit for his imaginative lies. Sometimes I think it is one demented troll posting under several names that bothers everybody on both the Tech and the UGA blogs.
A person SMART enough to know......
November 15th, 2011
9:43 pm
3rd and 7 and not flag on the pass interference for TECH. We never should have been forced to PUNT. REFS FU the call.
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:43 pm
A person SMART enough to know…when to say when. Please try again.
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:44 pm
Anybody watching the GAME replay?
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:45 pm
I just saw a missed call by the refs against GT.
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:45 pm
Sorry missed call for GT’s benefit.
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:47 pm
Why would anybody want to have sex with a UGA coed? I don’t eat a Buffets either. LMAO
5150 UOAD
November 15th, 2011
9:47 pm
at Buffets………….sorry
HighTechRedneck
November 15th, 2011
9:49 pm
5150…dirty little secret. UGA women love Tech men. UGA women are beautiful but they do not have much to choose from at UGA. It’s either South Campus Rednecks (no offense) or North Campus Michael Stipes.
14 GT
November 15th, 2011
10:00 pm
UGAG girls also like men with at least a semblance of intelligence. LMAOOL
Burdell 90
November 15th, 2011
10:06 pm
A red flag should have been thrown on Tech Dad from the moment that he said his daughter goes to Tech and he let his 8 yr old son wear a Georgia shirt to the Tech Clemson game…really?? What dumbass would put your kid in that situation?
I would never let one of my daughters wear a Tech shirt to the Ga/Auburn game…hell, I would never let my daughters go to Georgia!!