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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Wild Bill
November 27th, 2011
1:08 pm
RainbowJacket – I sort of agree with you. I thought that Tech’s chances to win would rest with Tech not making any mistakes and Georgia making a few. Had Tech’s first pass been thrown to Hill and a completion the complexion of the game would have changed. Had Georgia not received a second chance at the field goal our mood at halftime would have been better. Had Georgia’s number 25 been called for the obvious holding penalty on the second half kickoff the field would have been much longer for Georgia.
Oh well, UGA played well and we did not. UGA won again and we did not. Good luck to Georgia against LSU, I hope UGA beats LSU worse than LSU beat us in the Chik-fil-A bowl a few years ago.
We can still win the bowl game and end that succession of losses.
I will not say “wait ’til next year”, though.
Steve
November 27th, 2011
1:12 pm
It just sucks so bad for Tech because UGA will be even better next year and you have to play in Athens. Yet another loss to UGA. Sucks for y’all!
Gorilla Biscuit
November 27th, 2011
1:13 pm
Georgia was Gorilla big, Gorilla strong, and Gorilla fast. You never stood a chance.
I told you fellers that your defense would cost you at least three games this year. I wish to apologize for my error. Four games. And your offense was culpable too.
Patrick
November 27th, 2011
1:46 pm
Great game and hats off to CMR for not piling up more points in the 4th quarter when UGA obviously could have. Just imagine if CMR was replaced by Saban, Miles or even Petrino during the 4th quarter; the score would have been something like 48-17. CMR showed a lot of class by just keeping the ball on the ground and chewing up the clock. Just hope that UGA keeps it close with LSU next week but not entertaining the delusion that it will pan out that way. LSU will not allow Murray that much time to find open receivers so UGA must plan for that. Final thought – GT has nothing to be ashamed of as they played a hard, clean game.
Sam
November 27th, 2011
1:50 pm
Amazing video of a high school senior from Columbia TN who kicks the ball dead straight 75-80 yards in the air. He was successful on 54 of 54 attempts this season….100%. Now he needs a college team. Wants to go to Georgia Tech! Please leave a Yellow Jackets comment on his video!!!
Watch for yourself…it is unreal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JKwgwFY3g
Reality
November 27th, 2011
2:09 pm
Tech runs a High School O & D
Old Blind Dawg
November 27th, 2011
2:22 pm
Sam we get it – you are infatuated with a young boy.
Are you a PSU fan too?
GT Life
November 27th, 2011
2:27 pm
Good win UGA your fans at the game had no class tho calling my Daughter names and cussing her I wish sometimes to get in Tech all you had to do is play football like UGA….But we have do have Academic Standards.So enjoy your win ….and We run this and other States….I mean we Hire you guys for labor….I am sure you have LSU’S number LMAO
jack bull
November 27th, 2011
2:40 pm
I wonder if CPJ will now acknowledge the fact that the SEC is a much tougher conference than the ACC. He said let’s wait and see until the games were played on Saturday(which I agreed with him). SEC was 3-1 against the ACC. And truth be told, the 3 wins weren’t even close. Vandy killed Wake, SC handed it to Clemson, and well, we know what happended at Bobby Dodd..
Something tells me he won’t say a thing about it though. We’ll see you at Ole Miss next year Coach Johnson. Bring the option to the SEC, you’ll get better football talent to run it with.
Reality
November 27th, 2011
2:47 pm
Where is Mr. St. Simons?
GT 92
November 27th, 2011
2:49 pm
Time to stop playing this game. It means nothing to either team. To Georgia, its just another game on their schedule. To us, we don’t care to keep up with them in any way, stadium, facilities, fan base, coaching, and most importantly players. After a while, when their lowest rated recruit is a 3 star and our highest rated is 3 star, the math is in their favor.
Skitty Fritty
November 27th, 2011
2:49 pm
GT Life:
Funny, I was leaving the fame on North Ave with my 3 kids and a current GT student was yelling out of his dorm room “F” Georgia. The response from a UGA student in front of me was to yell back “Loser” to the GT student. I guess you didn’t leave using North Avenue on Saturday. It has been my experience that GT fans are usually the ones hurling insults and cuss words.
Also, what company do you own?
Skitty Fritty
November 27th, 2011
2:53 pm
GT 92:
We don’t care to keep up with them in any way. Don’t worry, you are not keeping up with UGA in anyway. What engineering degree did Reggie Ball graduate with? I noticed at the game, the majors were not put on the big screen for your football players.
The myth is all GT students have to take Calculus. What about students in your business school and philosphy school. GT has the same opportunity to recruit the same athletes as UGA. The reason you don’t is your stadium is small and you have no tradition in modern times.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
2:57 pm
Skitty, Fritty, I apologize on the behalf of Tech fans for that; Tech students have always been known for their crudity. I plead guilty to having been the same way when I was in school. Part of that is because the load at Tech can be so overwhelming at times, and some kind of “escape” is necessary. That still doesn’t excuse it, and obviously I have no way of knowing if that were true for what you experienced or not. Usually at Tech – Georgia games, I have found the Georgia fans to be the most obnoxious I have seen anywhere, but I have to be honest: those I personally encountered at this game were polite, for the most part sober, and even gracious in victory. I was STUNNED….LOL I also talked to my niece at church this morning. I had gotten tickets to the game for her an her family (all Tech fans). She said the UGA fans around here were very friendly and well-behaved, but that there were two Tech fans in front of her an her family who were drunk as hell and obnoxious the entire game. We all have our share of bad fans, I guess.
GT 92
November 27th, 2011
2:58 pm
Skitty, you are taking my comments off on a tangent. My point is that since I graduated in 1992, there has been a lack of commitment from the University and the Athletic Department to beating Georgia. It starts with recruiting. O’Leary got lucky 3 years in a row. Its not too hard to beat Tech, when almost every single recruit to Georgia is 4 and 5 star rated. Then that begs the question, why has Georgia not won several National Championships with all these high rated recruits over the past 20 years. So, I am back to my original question, why continue this so called rivalry, its very apparent that Tech is satisfied with 6, 7,or 8 wins a year and losing to Georgia.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
2:58 pm
Skitty, you are wrong there…..ALL Tech freshman have to take calculus, no matter what their major is. It is a REQUIRED part of the curriculum in ALL schools at Tech.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 27th, 2011
3:10 pm
Anyone heard from GT Joe
I just want to know his thoughts of what happened to this Tech Team that would destroy UGA and run right over LSU in the NC game
GT 92
November 27th, 2011
3:11 pm
I agree with supersize, that getting my degrees from Tech was pretty, @#$% tough. Yes, both were in Management, and I had to take a few calculus and stats classes. Again, this is not the point. Its not the academics in and of itself that is the problem. Tech is not making the commitment to beat Georgia or be much better than they are, and to the guy that says were broke, see the endowment to the school. We rank up there with Duke and many of the elite schools in this country with endowment size.
a.bishop
November 27th, 2011
3:11 pm
GT Life,
Do not talk to us about being classless. Your stupid student section booing, turning their backs, and yelling to hell with Georgia during the Larry Munson memorial is pathetic and a new low. Y’all just sealed your fate for next year. So have fun continuing to be our doormats.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:17 pm
a.bishop, a tribute to Munson was made on the screen before kickoff, and the entire stadium stood in honor of his memory, students included. I wasn’t even aware until I returned home that the UGA band gave an additional tribute during halftime; I never watch the bands on the field at halftime. I doubt very seriously that the Tech students had a clue what the band was doing. After I got home I saw a video clip online of what the UGA band did, and from where my seats are, it was all upside down, so I wouldn’t have even known what was going on if somebody hadn’t told me to watch the video clip. I can assure you that the Tech students weren’t booing Munson; they were simply booing the band, the way the Georgia fans ALWAYS boo the Tech band when on the field in Athens.
Hit a Single
November 27th, 2011
3:19 pm
GTLife – You talk about an immature baby.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:19 pm
a.bishop, remember too that the Tech students cheer “To Hell With Georgia” pretty much constantly during the entire game. Like I said, NOBODY pays any attention to what the bands do at halftime. I couldn’t even tell you what the Tech band did, much less what the UGA band did.
a.bishop
November 27th, 2011
3:20 pm
I might believe you Supersize and not think anything else about it except the fact that I wasn’t at the game and I didn’t get a chance to see the halftime antics. However, my information comes from 3 Tech graduates and a current Tech student who was in the student section and knew what was going on. All of them were pissed about it and they all knew what happened so I seriously doubt the students had no clue as to what was going on.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:21 pm
Another thing, a.bishop, you should consider it an honor and a show of class by Tech that Munson was honored by Tech prior to the game. Nobody in Athens ever honored Ciraldo after he passed away, and Munson and Ciraldo were close friends.
Hit a Single
November 27th, 2011
3:21 pm
Supersize that order. Keep dreaming, they knew exactly what they were doing. Even some Tech fans sitting to my left were embarrassed by their actions.
a.bishop
November 27th, 2011
3:22 pm
Supersize, just in case you are wondering I am not calling all Tech fans classless. Just the ones that did that.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 27th, 2011
3:22 pm
You should add the garbage that Tech fans were saying about Munson on their blog this week
Really shows when you come from the Ghetto you act ghetto
also
You want to turn GT and Notre Dame around; lower your admission standards or else start reading bedtime stories of the Great past to your great grandchildren
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:23 pm
a.bishop, were the Tech students you know pissed that other Tech students booed, or that the UGA band honored Munson? If they were pissed at the other Tech students, then that should tell you that not all the students were doing what you claim. From where I sat, I not only didn’t know that a tribute to Munson was going on, I also didn’t hear any more booing or cries of THWG than at any other point during the game.
Hit a Single
November 27th, 2011
3:24 pm
Supersize I agree with you on that and Wes Durham had alot to do with honoring Larry Munson.
a.bishop
November 27th, 2011
3:25 pm
They were pissed about the other students being disrespectful. I don’t think that all the students were doing it, but a lot of them were.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:26 pm
I was at the game, but I was in the upper deck on the east sideline. Tech students usually boo just about anything an opposing team does, unless it’s something so spectacular that they can’t help but paying attention to what’s going on. At basketball games, I used to think that the students stood and turned their backs on Coach K when he was introduced whenever Duke plays in Atlanta. Then I noticed the same thing going on when every other ACC coach and team was introduced too. That’s just part of their “ritual,” and I would bet that for the most part, the “ritual” at the game Sat was booing the UGA band, no matter what they were doing.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:29 pm
a.bishop, if some of the students were indeed booing the tribute to Munson (and I still pretty much doubt that), and yet other students expressed disgust at it, then I think the fact that some expressed disgust is really more telling than what the others did.
a.bishop
November 27th, 2011
3:30 pm
It doesn’t matter if it is a “ritual”. It’s wrong and disrespectful, and they knew exactly what they were doing.
Hit a Single
November 27th, 2011
3:31 pm
I am so sick of this standards mess. They have a formula to get any athlete in that they want. This gets so old. When Ross or O’leary was winning oh their was no problem with admissions or when Cremins was winning. Now that they can’t get over the hump it is because of academics. Notre Dame isn’t winning because with todays players tradition doesn’t mean anything. They could care less about playing for Notre Dame like Rudy did. Kind of like with all these kids moving around from high school to high school they don’t care about tradition. All they care about are themselves and it all starts with parents that are hoping to get rich off their kid.
GT Life
November 27th, 2011
3:31 pm
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
I loved Munson….ya lost a great one
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:32 pm
SOME students threw bottles at Dan Devine from Notre Dame one year in Atlanta, supposedly “in retaliation” for his having needlessly run up the score against Tech at South Bend the previous year. Many of the students, however, were trying to find out who threw the bottles so they could be turned in. I think some were actually caught as a result. You can’t judge ALL the students by the actions of a few.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:34 pm
a.bishop, with all due respect, although I agree that if it happened it was classless, you are only assuming their motives, in spite of what the students you know said.
a.bishop
November 27th, 2011
3:35 pm
I didn’t judge all of them. Scroll up and you can read that. This started because of GT Life calling our students classless so I stuck up for them since I was recently one of them. I’m out, we will remember this next year in Athens. Good evening and goodnight.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:37 pm
actually, a.bishop, by this time next year, you won’t remember any of it except that UGA won
19
November 27th, 2011
3:40 pm
Tech needs to ditch the calculus classes and start a degree program in “Magazines”. It’ll help get those 4 or 5 star recruits. An ACT score of “2″ will help as well. The field needs to be leveled if Tech wants to play Pro football like the SEC.
I’ve offered congratulation to UGA and still do, but for the low class dog fans on here talking trash. Get out of the dumpster.
Thanks for the rumor mill about CPJ leaving for Ole Miss. Here’s another one, Urban Meyer is considering Tech. His daughter matriculates there. What’s UGA’s record against Meyer?
Go Tech!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 27th, 2011
3:40 pm
Supersize that order, mutt
Let me know when Tech decides to throw their trash at ND I’ll buy a ticket to watch that
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
November 27th, 2011
3:44 pm
19
Please stop with the low class bulldog fans
Go back and look at your blogs throughout the offseason this year and years past hardly any Dawg fans even waste their time on Techs blog. Then take a look at the UGA blog you will see tons of Tech fans running off at the mouth week after week.
How about talking to your fanbase first
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:44 pm
LOL @ Flat Tire. When I was a student at Tech, the students threw fish at Ara Parshegian (sp?). It was obviously not a classy thing to do, but it was funny as hell.
Supersize that order, mutt
November 27th, 2011
3:47 pm
Flat Tire, I never read the UGA blogs, and you obviously haven’t spent a whole lot of time reading the Tech ones. UGA trolls have been on here night and day for the entire season spewing trash. Now, it HAS BEEN PROVED, that many of those trolls are one person posting under several different names, but I doubt very seriously that the amount of trash-talking on the UGA blogs is more than that on the Tech blogs.
19
November 27th, 2011
3:58 pm
OK Flat Tire, dawgtrolls please stop posing as Tech fans on the Tech blog. Please stop the vulgarity and profanity because some children read this “stuff”. Tech fans doing the same on Georgia’s blog please stop it.
One more thing Flat Tire, I read a dog poster stating he would join the Taliban before ever saying anything decent about Tech. I hope he does, I personally do not like enemies of my country.
GT Undergrad
November 27th, 2011
4:42 pm
At least Tech honored Munson, what would UGA fans have done if they honored Al Ciraldo back in Athens?
davidinloganville
November 27th, 2011
5:15 pm
Supersize:
did Ciraldo die the week of the GA-ga tech game or was GA even the home team that year?
davidinloganville
November 27th, 2011
5:19 pm
I think Johnson’s mistake was not getting Lee ready to play by the middle of the season there were plenty of big leads in the early part of the tech year to play him. Washington proved last season that he could not be a accurate passer filling in for Nesbitt. Georgia’s last head coach did the same thing with David Green and it cost him his job, I don’t think it will with Johnson but he should have played him if he is the future at QB
19
November 27th, 2011
5:27 pm
Coach Dooley was asked about honoring Ciraldo. His response was “Hell NO!”
Tech 54
November 27th, 2011
7:06 pm
Congratulations Bulldogs. Your defense is pretty darn tough these days. Grantham has really brought you guys something good. Your QB is very talented and smart. Quite an accomplished season for you guys after that rocky start. I wish you the very best in your next game because you are representing our state and I hope my fellow Tech supporters will be pulling for you guys.