Georgia 31, Georgia Tech 17
Three quick thoughts.
1. Missed opportunities in the first half. The first play, not scoring a touchdown after reaching the Georgia 2-yard line, the timeout on the missed field goal. I’m hardly convinced it would have made a difference, but it reduced the Jackets’ margin considerably. The third quarter extinguished it completely.
2. The Tech pass defense didn’t cut it. Most times, Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray had time to throw and open targets to throw to. Sub-par all the way around.
3. Tech proved again it can run the ball. Against the No. 2 run defense, the Jackets cleared 225 yards. However, it wasn’t nearly, nearly enough. The Jackets needed some sort of big play or three – a blocked punt, a long punt return, an interception taken back for a touchdown, an 80-yard touchdown run – and couldn’t summon it.
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Ol'JacketFan
November 26th, 2011
11:42 pm
One more thing about the state of affairs on the flats. CPJ’s 1st class graduates this year. In this era of instant gratification I am not suprised with fans wanting a MNC yesteday. This class consist of 11 young men and all are on track to graduate or have already recieved their diploma. The incoming recruiting class wll bring Tech to the full 85 on scholarship for the first time since CPJ arrived. If in 2 years we are looking at 7-8 wins then it would be time to look for a change but until that time I will continue to support CPJ as Tech’s coach.
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:42 pm
Yeah, but I can’t support giving up, Tech Forever.
Tech Forever
November 26th, 2011
11:43 pm
And FYI….he’ll deny it until he’s redfaced but CPJ is on the Ole Miss short list.
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:44 pm
Eh, OJF, I’m fine with seven or eight wins a season, but I want that one or two seasons every five where we give it a real run for the conference championship.
Beyond that, as long as we play hard and smart, I’m fine letting the chips fall where they may.
Delbert D.
November 26th, 2011
11:45 pm
I sense a troll…”seeping in tradition?” The correct metaphor would be “steeped in tradition.” That one goes in my list of unusual posts.
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:45 pm
Source, Tech Forever?
Tech Forever
November 26th, 2011
11:45 pm
George Stein
I haven’t given up on anything. Given what Tech is I’m amazed we field a team as good as we do and I cherish every single win!!!! The reality is we really have no business winning as often as we do. As for the Georgia game, whooopee. I’m numb to it. Tech is what Tech is and Georgia is what Georgia is. I satnd by the statement, kids go to Georgia to play football…..they go to Tech and also play football.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:45 pm
George, the UGA band did a tribute to Munson at halftime? I sure didn’t know it; I didn’t even realize they were on the field. Like you said, nobody pays attention to half-time shows. After the tribute to the astronauts, I wasn’t aware of anything else that happened at half-time, and no, I was not drinking. It’s just a matter of who cares about the half-time shows?
Tech Forever
November 26th, 2011
11:46 pm
George Stein
Good friend of mine on staff at Ole Miss.
5150 UOAD
November 26th, 2011
11:46 pm
Supersize………….I think the rumor of TECH fans saying to hell with Ga during the Munson Tribute was started on the Bradley Live game blog.
It is funny you can tell what UGa FANS were REALLY at the game.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:46 pm
Forever, he, or anybody else, would be crazy to go to Ole Miss
5150 UOAD
November 26th, 2011
11:47 pm
Supersize we were talking. UGA band was on the field first and spelled out MUNSON.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:47 pm
Forever, I like your last statement: “kids go to Georgia to play football…..they go to Tech and also play football”
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:47 pm
Fair enough on both comments, Forever.
I can’t imagine he’d take the Ole Miss job. He won’t make more money there and he’ll be in a brutal division.
Ol'JacketFan
November 26th, 2011
11:47 pm
George, 7-8 in a young team year is fine. When you get to the point where your starting 22 are JR and SR that just doesn’t fly with me. If you’re getting players in the pipeline that are recruited to run this offense you shouldn’t find yourself being young at key positions. Looking at Tech roster it’s getting to the point where Tech won’t have to worry about being too young on the O and D lines.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:48 pm
UOAD, they DID??? Wow, I sure didn’t know it. I guess for one thing they were probably facing west, so who could read it anyway except the people in the west stands?
GT Undergrad
November 26th, 2011
11:49 pm
You ask me how is it that its cpj fault? These are HIS players, HIS system, and HIS staff. Ever since that top 25 recruiting class (Dwyer, Burnett, Morgan, etc.) left we have been mediocre. Please tell me how many games we would have won without those sort of playmakers back in 2008 and 2009. Back with other coaches we at least had good chances of winning tougher games (Ross, O’Leary) Just think about letting him go if we lose the Sun Bowl
5150 UOAD
November 26th, 2011
11:50 pm
Y’all did see how FEW Seniors we had today? You did notice how many were Scout team players too. Our team is very young.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:50 pm
OJF, but we WERE young this year, second only to Auburn from what I have read. Not using that as an excuse, but it’s a fact. If next year and the year after are both bad, then we can obviously say that experience is not helping either.
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:51 pm
Sure, OJF. I would assume that those would be the seasons we’d make a run.
Yeah, I couldn’t make out what they were doing but I wasn’t really watching, either. But I heard the students – presumably hammered – doing that stuff. Not a good job by those kids.
Ol'JacketFan
November 26th, 2011
11:51 pm
One thing about the 7-8 wins, teams are playing a 12 game regular season schedule. 7 -8 wins today equates to 5-6 wins with 10 or 11 game schedule.
GT Undergrad
November 26th, 2011
11:52 pm
@ Delbert D. – I apologize for my spelling mistake, but you get the point! We should not settle for this kind of a season
Delbert D.
November 26th, 2011
11:53 pm
George Stein – Ole Miss would be a dream job. Imagine the recruits he could get “because of the academics.”
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:53 pm
UOAD, there were very few seniors today who actually played. And they appeared to be playing their hearts out. But when the rest of the team is too young to help them, then you sure can’t expect those few who are playing to carry all the weight.
Ol'JacketFan
November 26th, 2011
11:53 pm
Supersize, that’s why I said I an fine at this point where we are and see the next 2 years as determining the future of the program.
Tech Forever
November 26th, 2011
11:53 pm
I don’t know if he’ll go to Ole Miss or not. I do know the expectations of the fanbase vs the reality of the situation are wearing on him. I’ve been told he took the job thinking the expectations were similar to that of Navy so negative results on the field aren’t as big a deal and positive results are cherished. That is definitely not the case at Tech where the fanbase is much more vocal than at Navy and has a heightened sense of the program as compared to Navy. I’ve also been told he’s really worn out on the level of recruiting he’s had to do. He’s not good at it and at GSU he really only went in a plucked off the best athletes on small HS teams and plugged them into the system and at Navy his recruiting was essentially done for him but he got really really smart and DISCIPLINED kids so the execution there was far better than at Tech. Of course all of this comes to me 2nd hand from within the AA.
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:53 pm
OK, new rule. If you’re calling for Johnson’s job (seems crazy to me, but let’s set that aside), you need to present a list of candidates not named Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, etc. Deal?
1 4 GT
November 26th, 2011
11:55 pm
I think Bill Curry made a fair start towards that end, but he was lured away, Dodd’s blessings the way I heard it. I think Bobby Ross was doing it, but his ambition and the Chargers got in the way. At least he went to the Super Bowl, but it sure did age him. I thought O’Leary, as long as he had Friedgen, was doing it. Bill Fulcher may have had a good start, but who knows what got in his way. So don’t tell me it can’t be done. I refuse to be that negative. And oh BTW, I called for Groh to be replaced next year and CPJ given i more year to show marked improvement in all phases, I made that call today in an earlier post.
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:55 pm
I will say, Johnson looked exhausted at the end of the 2009 and 2010 seasons. He looked tired this year but less so than the past two seasons. I have no idea what, if anything, that means, though.
Ol'JacketFan
November 26th, 2011
11:55 pm
Of the 11 seniors, 6 were starters. No question its a young team!
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:56 pm
Forever, do you remember Fulcher? He COULD have been a GREAT Tech coach; he learned under Dodd, he had a winning attitude and a great rapport with players on every team he ever coached (as an assistant or as a JV coach). But the expectations of the fanbase wore him down so much, he was gone after 2 years. I never did understand what happened there.
Ol'JacketFan
November 26th, 2011
11:56 pm
@George, I’ve been asking the same question all day and haven’t gotten a realistic response
Delbert D.
November 26th, 2011
11:56 pm
GT Undergrad – Just checking you out to see if you’re real. I’ll still keep the post, though. You should see some of the others. In fact, here are a few:
“he can billed a winning program”
“We have gotten wores and wores week in and week out.”
“A rouge fan gets half the team suspended…”
5150 UOAD
November 26th, 2011
11:57 pm
George Stein………….Barbra Dooley for Johnson’s replacement. She is MEAN as hell and Vince would then have to be an Auburn Man with UGA ties and a Vol fan for his son and a Tech fan for his wife. LOL
Supersize that order, mutt
November 26th, 2011
11:58 pm
One of the happiest days in my life as a Tech fan was the day Curry left for Alabama
George Stein
November 26th, 2011
11:59 pm
Yeah, and she can get recruits with her brownies, 5150!
Made me laugh, Delbert.
krazydawg
November 27th, 2011
12:00 am
I do try to pull for tech when they are not playing Georgia.I do wish tech would get rid of the option.And also they need to recruit better in this state.Nothing upsets me more to see the talent we have here,leave and go to Florida,Bama or Auburn,etc.
George Stein
November 27th, 2011
12:00 am
Wait, our you saying their our eras in those comments, Delbert?
GT Undergrad
November 27th, 2011
12:00 am
@George Stein, how about Mike Leach? Skip Holtz? Gus Malzahn maybe? Mark Helfrich (Oregon Off. Coordinator)? Todd Monken (Okla St. Off Coordinator)? Kirby Smart (Bama def. coordinator)?
Just a heads up- Jimbo Fisher was a candidate for the job back when gailey got fired
Hy Ronatt
November 27th, 2011
12:00 am
UGA runs this state.
First in bankruptcies, last in education, mental and physical health.
We know you run this state.
THIS. UGA is why GA is such a festering sinkhole. Begets the question: does UGA make the morons, or do the morons make UGA?
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
12:01 am
Forever, re your last post about expectations, etc……If Johnson would swallow some of his pride and admit that he can’t do EVERYTHING, then maybe he would hire a REAL recruiting coordinator and (GASP!!!) either an coach to “assist” him with the offense or a QB coach. I DO like Johnson, but there are some ways that he has that he would be better off modifying
5150 UOAD
November 27th, 2011
12:01 am
George she still get Herschel with her muffin. LOL
George Stein
November 27th, 2011
12:01 am
We’d be happy to take Alec Ogletree or Jarvis Jones off your hands, krazydawg. Do we have a deal?
Delbert D.
November 27th, 2011
12:02 am
Here it is midnight, and I’ve felt lousy for the last 3 days, so I’m going to say goodnight.
GT Undergrad
November 27th, 2011
12:02 am
Delbert D. , let the idiot trolls talk, the smart people can formulate their own opinions
Delbert D.
November 27th, 2011
12:02 am
Hilarious, George!!
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
12:02 am
Delbert, sorry to hear you’ve been feeling bad. Get some rest. I hope you feel better soon. STAY IN TOUCH!!!!
5150 UOAD
November 27th, 2011
12:03 am
Losing GIFF SMITH really hurt in recruiting IMO.
The Grinch
November 27th, 2011
12:03 am
Hy Ronatt
November 27th, 2011
12:00 am
Sore loser are you? BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
George Stein
November 27th, 2011
12:03 am
Mike Leach? Right.
Skip Holtz? I’ll never, under any circumstances, support taking another former ECU coach.
The others are all unproven. You tell me why they should be hired.