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RODDY JONES
We’re definitely disappointed in the way that the game ended. It was pretty emotional game for us being the last game. I guess it’s mainly a disappointment that that’s the way we leave Bobby Dodd Stadium.
On the wheel-route play:
We had a good play call on and Tevin threw a pretty good ball. It was just a little too far, couldn’t get both hands on it. Those are catches you need to make, especially in games like this. You’ve got to take advantage of your opportunities and that was a big one we didn’t take advantage of early in the game.
On offense’s play:
I think we just kind of shot ourselves in the foot a lot. They switched up some looks, so you have to give them some credit. They didn’t just sit back and stay in one scheme. They sent some blitzes and did some different things. For most of the game, we felt like we could move the ball on them. We just would always stalemate. Missed assignments, missed blocks. Those things killed us. We can’t get in second and long, third and longs. We ‘re not build for that. We just didn’t execute enough.
On the inside handoff play:
Coach had seen something watching some other teams. I think we got it from Army. Army had run it a lot against Air Force and Air Force plays a similar defense that Georgia does. We decided to put it in. It looked good during the week and so we ended up trying it. We did have some success with it, especially in the first half. In the second half, they started adjusting a little bit and left some guys over there to play it more. But it a good play for us pretty much all day.
STEVEN SYLVESTER
On holding up physically against Georgia’s size
I think we did pretty good as far as up front . We had to get to the quarterback, though. That’s the name of the game especially as a defensive front seven. If you give a quarterback like Aaron Murray time to throw, he has plenty of good receivers over there that he’s gong to find. And it seemed that was our problem today.
On differences in defense’s play since the Clemson game:
I think it’s just playing with a sense of emotion. If you turn on the film and look at the Clemson game, (you see) how emotional we were. Football’s an emotional game. You can’t play it calm. I feel like we’ve come out flat the past couple of games, didn’t quite give as much energy as we should have and attention to detail, but it’s definitely the energy level.
More on the energy level:
It’s pretty much an individual thing. Everybody prepares for the game different. That’s pretty much it. You have to get ready for these types of games. They only come around once in awhile. You only get these guys once a year. You just have to go out there and play with everything you have. I feel like we just weren’t there today.
LOUIS YOUNG
On plans to contain Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray or tight end Orson Charles:
I don’t think it was one particular person. We planned for them to run it, just try to power it at first, try to run it. Their running back wasn’t in the game and then we worked all week we were going to play a lot of man and take away that post route that they beat a lot of teams on so far this season. They hit some good spots, they hit some touchdowns. Like I said, it may have been one missed assignment and you’ve got pay the price for that.
JULIAN BURNETT
On difficulties of zone pass coverage:
It’s hard to say. There’s so much stuff that goes on different patterns and highs and lows and the pattern reads and all that. It’s just not being keyed in or focused enough on your job. One slight mistake can cost you a touchdown.
On Charles:
He’s pretty good player. He was one of the targets on our list. We knew that he was their leading receiver even though he’s a tight end, but he was their leading receiver going into this game. He made the plays that he needed to make and we didn’t. We weren’t in position to stop him. They were able to hurt us with him.
On if losing to Georgia hurts differently:
I guess you can say that. I don’t like losing to anybody and I’m pretty sure that the rest of the team doesn’t. But when it’s in-state and when it’s your rival … we’re tired of being the little brothers in the state. We were hoping for this win. We wanted to fight for it. We just didn’t get it.
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RambleOn84
November 28th, 2011
10:54 am
Ever tried, ever failed. Try again. Try harder. Fail better.
RambleOn84
November 28th, 2011
10:55 am
Considering recruiting big boys on the D-line has always been a problem for us, I don’t see how we could expect the 3-4 to be especially successful.
yeller bug
November 28th, 2011
11:01 am
UGA91: I think Tech can have success with the TO. The service academies run it with success under severe ht & wt restrictions so Tech should be able to recruit even better players—the O-linemen are typically smaller and quicker which gives Tech a talent pool that other major schools don’t go after. The QB spot is the key and finding good athletes that don’t have the NFL arm, but can run and throw reasonably well is a larger pool of talent than your standard pro drop back passer. It’d be nice if we’d throw the ball 25 times a game though—our spread formation could easily incorporate play action–fake dive play two step drop and then pass to an A-back 4 or 6 yds downfield—high percentage pass plays. For some reason we don’t seem to run many such plays. As for Defense—UGA has done better developing the 3-4 than Tech. It remains to be seen if Tech can get the recruits to get the D to a point where it is feared. I think CAG is a good coach, but you’ve got to get the players.
TampaDawg
November 28th, 2011
11:02 am
yeller bug
November 28th, 2011
10:20 am
Congrats UGA on a good win. Bobo had a good game plan and your team executed it well. Tech, had a good game plan as well, but the execution….er not so much. Good luck with LSU—you’ll need it….it’ll probably take Divine intervention to win, but CMR is tight with the Lord so there’s always hope.
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Thanks Yeller. For once, someone on here OR the UGA blogs throws some humor into the fact that CMR has a strong relationship with God and doesn’t get tasteless or offensive about it in the process. Nice post and whoever your Jackets get in a bowl should get owned if Groh can tighten up the holes in the middle. I think if UGA had any running game to work with, the nose tackle would have had a miserable day. Poor dude is out of position a bit.
yeller bug
November 28th, 2011
11:18 am
TD: Being tight with the Lord is the best approach for the ultimate game called life. You are correct—the 3-4 needs a beast at NT and we’ve got a guy with heart, but not enough talent or size. He has to draw a double-team or disrupt the play as your NT did a few times—a critical one on your two yd line. I’ve suggested a few times to recruit a 450 lb sumo wrestler from Japan, but our recruiters have yet to see the genius of such a move.
T3
November 28th, 2011
11:26 am
GT got the butts kicked. Plain & Simple.
old dog
November 28th, 2011
11:26 am
The charade is over….ya’ll Tech boys had a few good players, but lets see how many chop-blockers and small backs you bring in now; Gimmick offense is exposed! You’ll never have a great q-back, as one who wants to survive will not come run a triple option. Good coach ya’ll have, but as with any gimmick, once its is exposed the better athletes take over…..
TampaDawg
November 28th, 2011
11:29 am
LOL yeller .. a sumo wrestler??? That’s freaking funny. Yeah, I think the NT position has to be someone who can still move around with some level of athleticism yet still come in at the about 6-1, 330+ .. Another year of recruiting and maybe Groh has the players he needs for that system.
As for “being tight with the Lord”, I too am “tight with the Lord” and yes, I believe it gives me advantages in life that I didn’t have any other way.
juvenal
November 28th, 2011
11:57 am
same Thanksgiving as always, only the saturday wasn’t so hot………Dawg fans around us were fine, maybe even the most polite ever…….CMR goes to the same church i do, no gripes there…..get to hunt black friday, the staff wants to go shopping….
bobbyGTdodd
November 28th, 2011
11:58 am
Ken, I’m interested in what you and your Tech readers think the reason is for uga dominating Tech like they have in recent years when other good teams have not, at least not to the same extent.
Here is a quote
November 28th, 2011
12:02 pm
GT for 2011 has hit bottom. A loss to UGA AND COACH MARK RICHT for the 10th time in 11 years, third time a row and TWICE IN BDS@HGF, NCAA probation for the SECOND TIME IN 8 years, no bowl or a very, very, very, very low level bowl vs Elon College or Citadel. Next year? The same.
UGA? Opportunity to play the REAL # 1 team in the USA and make tons of $$$ in the SEC C G and THEN ENJOY A FABULOUS BOWL TRIP and all the prestige that this brings. UGA IS THE TEAM TO TALK ABOUT ALL OVER THE USA ………….IF WE win.
UGA next year? Oh ……………wait and see with all of the FROSH TALENT and depth returning. Watch UGA sign TWO TOP BACKS …………………then UGA in 2012 will be a load. UGA has a BRIGHT FUTURE for two or three years. Exciting this is.
CPJ? His future NOW is the 2012 HOT SEAT. GT is going no where and fast with that funky triple option middle school thang. UGA OWNED IT.
Sun Bowl
November 28th, 2011
12:07 pm
Be scared, be very scared of getting within gunshot range of El Paso’s border with Juarez. Obama flooded the Mexican drug market with guns and now that place is very, very, very dangerous to Gringos.
If the Sun calls ………………..GT do not answer.
yeller bug
November 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
Reggie Ball is 40% (4 out of 10) of the reasons. UGA typically has better talent. Why has UF owned UGA? In the Tech-FSU series—Tech won the first 7, FSU the next 12 or 14, then Tech the last 2. Sometimes things run in spurts. I still think CPJ will make this a more competitive series. We complete that first pass play to Hill and Tech is up 7, don’t call a timeout on the FG attempt (luck of the draw there), don’t turn it over twice on our side of the field and the series between CMR and CPJ is 2-2. If UGA wins the next 3, then we’ll have to do something different.
Sweet, old Buck
November 28th, 2011
12:24 pm
Mike Bobo called the game knowing he could throw against Tech any time he chose. No doubt he didn’t want to completely embarrass that old fart who carries the title Defensive Coordinator. By the way I am older than he.
What if, what if, what if .............please
November 28th, 2011
12:52 pm
Murray had his usual three or four badly thrown balls to WIDE OPEN receivers. Had they been on the money and the UGA # 35 LB after his PIC not allowed his knee to touch turf, then maybe UGA adds another 21.
What if ……………….UGA had ANY decent backs in the game? Huh?
Stop with the what ifs ……………….. UGA owned that triple option thing for the third UGA WINNING year in a row. CPJ is toast. HE is on the HOT SEAT.
roughrider
November 28th, 2011
1:03 pm
Trivia question: How long has it been since Tech won a bowl game? Answer: Long enough for Tech to be thankful it’s in the ACC because they get their arses handed to them when they play out of conference.
Luke
November 28th, 2011
1:04 pm
-yawn- CPJ is far from the hot seat. When you’re projected to not make a bowl game and end up 8-4, you’ve surpassed expectations. Remember the “lack of talent” that we had at the beginning of the year and how “miserable” we were going to be? Well we did somewhat decent with a win over a then top-10, undefeated team. UGA was the better team. They beat the brakes off us. It happens. They managed to bottle up the option (you’re kidding yourselves if you think UGA has “owned” the option the two years prior. Giving up 58 points isn’t a good thing) and got the ball to their playmakers. There are plenty of teams that are in a worst position than we are (see Tennessee, MSU, Ole Miss, Duke, Vandy, Illinois, Ohio State, Penn State). I like where we stand and hope we can keep momentum going into the bowl game and get a 9 win season out of it.
Kudos to UGA on a good season and hopefully they beat LSU (I have some fraternity brothers who are from the bayou and God only knows I don’t want them to beat their chests about LSU).
Honest and Frank Discussion
November 28th, 2011
2:28 pm
Nothing like flipping through the comments and seeing how all the dogs win with class. I’m also not sure how the 12 year old idiots that post on both boards and rile people up somehow justifies poor sportsmanship on behalf of the mutts.
You guys were the better team on Saturday, but GT is a young team and will be back in full force next year. Keep in mind this is a team that was picked to finish 4th in its division in the ACC, not win the mighty SEC east.
Write it down.
November 28th, 2011
3:42 pm
Tech showed up to play grab-@ss and it showed.
Congrats to UGA.
Yes, UGA owns that triple option
November 28th, 2011
4:29 pm
A d’s mission is to bend but do not break. Allow yds if you must, but no scores or less pts. than your team gets. UGA over the last three years in a row vs GT’s triple O has owned the triple option, because GT has LOST all three games.
On to bigger and better things is UGA and the following years.
CPJ? HOT SEAT because his O IS NOT winning anything and in fact, is getting worse, if you look at their bowl venues lately and soon to be announced low level bowl. No titles, no nothing.
His decision to hire AL Groh is reason # 2 why he is on the HOT SEAT.
duronimo
November 28th, 2011
4:56 pm
My brother-in-law and my first cousin are eating it today. Big long-time Tech fans who really hate Georgia. I’ve been a UGA fan since the days of Zeke Bratkowski. I just don’t remember running to many Dog fans who exhibit their level of animosity. Because of that, it’s the highlight of my year, to beat Tech. Rubbing it in to these haters is special. I want to see Tech just competitive enough to give these bozos a little hope and then see it blow up in their faces.
NATIVE SON
November 28th, 2011
5:50 pm
It seems UGA went back in the polls in case they beat LSU, they couldn’t do too much leap froggin’
BCS – What a JOKE
Still proud of my Techsters though. Thanks for the season you gave us. I know you played hard. I wish every game had been a Clemson Game.
roughrider
November 28th, 2011
5:54 pm
The class Tech fans keep talking about was shown when Tech fans booed during the Larry Munson tribute.
Skitty Fritty
November 28th, 2011
6:00 pm
Dear Paul Johnson:
Thank you again for outcoaching CMR and losing by 14 this year instead of 8 like you did last year. You must have really put more effort into this years defeat to lose by 14.
Thanks again! I can’t wait till next year to see how much you will outcoach CMR and lose by maybe 20+?
UGA = YAWN
November 28th, 2011
6:47 pm
We are not Oklahoma or Alabama. We are good but not great. We have coaches that are not ex-GT football players so they care more about winning the ACC as opposed to beating Georgia. To me, I prefer we lose 11 and win 1 – vs UGA! We need a coach who is an ex-GT football player. Then we will have someone in the helm that understands the importance of the game and treats it as the most important game.
UGA = YAWN
November 28th, 2011
6:48 pm
Skitty Fritty – well done. I just wish he and Dan Rad had the balls to come in here and read these posts.
bugsquacher
November 28th, 2011
6:53 pm
GT….. ahhhh…forget it…..Im sure you know it sucks to be a tech fan…. thanks for all the smack talk before the game…… it makes watching and beating your football team that much more enjoyable……
where is st simon? gt bob? anyone, anyone, bueller, bueller?
UGA = YAWN
November 28th, 2011
7:12 pm
Go on the UGA page in ajc.com and blog all you want morons. Or better yet, aren’t you late for your WalMart trip? This page is for GT fans to vent. Sad that 90% of the blogs are from UGA fans – who apparently have nothing better to do in their sorry lives. Be thanksful you didn;t have LSU, Bama or Arkansas on your regular season schedule or you would have not even been close to making the SEC title game. South Carolina deserves it more than you but no worries. As I said 3 years ago, would only be a matter of time before Spurrier starting beatin you year after year after year …just like he did at UF. He didn’t let me down.
panzytechieschedual
November 28th, 2011
9:48 pm
Talk about class let me tell you about techie and thier class. I had a friend who wanted to take his son to the game because he leaves for afganastan in two weeks ( they are Dawg fan) and a tech friend gave them his tickets so they were in the techie section and they was pulling for the dawgs. about 15 tech fan tried to pick a fight with them. and every time I have been to a dawg game against techie they wanted to fight in the stands when they had you out numbered. they are gutless wonders.
panzytechieschedual
November 28th, 2011
10:07 pm
UGA YAWN is a gutless wonder that suffers from diarrhea of the mouth and has a total void between his ears. talk about an easy schedual 5 of techie wins came against team with a record of 10 wins and 35 defeats. techie played one of the easiest scheduals in major college ball. 73 team played a harder schedual. when you have a brainless wonder running his mouth then all you get is garbage. DAWGS OWN THIS STATE AND GRANT FIELD. 10 WINS OUT OF ELEVEN GAMES. 6 STRAIGHT AT GRANT FIELD. SO SHUT YOUR DIARRHEA MOUTH UP.
Another quote from The Flats
November 29th, 2011
8:35 am
Whadayah mean that GT is in the John Belk Bowl? ARGH! AAAAAAAAhh, oh no, help us please. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!
Yet another quote
November 29th, 2011
8:57 am
About two years ago, John Chavis left UT for LSU and Mark Richt needed to make a great D co ordinator hire. Chavis turned Richt down, as did Ellis at SC and Foster at VPI (Va Tech) and the local bloggers ( would be Tech fans) made hay with the turn downs. Rememeber that?? Funny it was ……….right?? CMR “was a fool.” right???
Last year neither LSU nor UGA were in the SEC C G and both of these men stayed home. THIS YEAR BOTH CHAVIS AND GRANTHOM are in the DOME for the SEC C G and BOTH HAVE TOP NOTCH D TEAMS. Period, end of story.
My point is that Richt DID MAKE a fabulous hire. At the time, with the UGA turn downs, and eventually find of CTG, I said it was like being told your three favorite steaks have sold out and we “had to settle” for CTG ……………….a FILET. See? All of the potential UGA D co ordinators were fabulous …………………INCLUDING CTG. LOOK AT HS RECORD.
I rest my case.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Dogs.
GT??? 2011 John Belk Bowl with CPJ who IS on the HOT SEAT
gt4ever
November 29th, 2011
11:06 am
Yet another quote,
You are yet another delusional UGA fan….. Grantham is a JOKE, an embarrassment to the University, and the state of Georgia… But you go ahead and drink that grape juice….
Blah, blah, blah
November 29th, 2011
12:39 pm
The MAIN EVENT IS THE SEC CG and CTG has his boys there. We took two weeks off with KY and GT and now, in THE MAIN EVENT we will be ready.
LSU vs UGA is like Ali vs Georgia Foreman, like the night in Zaire or the THRILLA IN MANILLA with Ali vs Jumping Joe Frazier ( RIP JOE) and the entire sports world will be watching. UGA and LSU going at it. HEAVYWEIGHTS with MNC on the line baby!!
GT is a loser with CPJ …………..no titles, no bowl wins, no respect and COACH MARK RICHT HAS CPJ has is whipping boy. Clemson is so bad that even SC stomped them and SC COULD NOT even win the “lousy SEC East”. Right? Lousy ? SC WHUPPED CLEMSON, the likely ACC Champ.
CPJ IS on the HOT SEAT. Ask the GT alum golfers out at PDC or ACC or AAC or Ansley GC last week. THE GT grads last week in my foursome were mumbling out loud as my partner and I ( UGA MEN) WHUPPED EM over 72 holes in 3 days. $$ it was so lovely.
CPJ IS on the HOT SEAT. Now you go back into the APS building and study !!!
Sun Bowl COULD BE??
November 29th, 2011
12:45 pm
Be afraid, be very afraid if the Sun Bowl invites GT there. With Obama running contraband guns with Eric Holder along the Tex/Mex border at El Paso into Juarez, to go out and dine just one night is to risk you life. DO NOT acccept the lowly Sun Bowl as the post season venue. It is very, very dangerous ………………but if you get ONLY that ONE bid, then I suppose that you accept it.
Wear Kevlar for sure to the game. Stay low and DUCK if you hear a car backfire ………..or worse.
gt4ever
November 29th, 2011
12:56 pm
CPJ should be on the HOT seat….. He hasn’t proven anything. His guys are finally in a position on the team to define winning or losing…. I think he has one more year because he does have a young team…. Time will tell and IMHO the age or youth justification is just an excuse….
old dog
November 29th, 2011
3:30 pm
“I’m a ramblin’ wreck from Ga. Tech
Who just got my tail tore up!”
The befabled triple option
Got walloped by the pup!
Like all the jolly-good fellows,
I’ll drink my whisky clear
I’m a ramblin’ wreck from Ga. Tech
And the same thing will happen next year!”
Write it down.
November 29th, 2011
6:50 pm
I see that parolee troll is typing away.
He’s the same guy with the multiple posts under different names.
Evidently, he has neither job nor life.
parolee troll,
Please walk outside your mom’s trailer and hang yourself with the garden hose.
Jacket Power
November 29th, 2011
9:37 pm
This just in through a good source that PJ is in North Carolina interviewing for the job is this true????
old dog
November 30th, 2011
8:52 am
Write it down;
You might as well attack folks, since you don’t have any football to talk about…….
That GTAD fax machine is a hummin
November 30th, 2011
10:25 am
CPJ in his arrogant way is trying to beg PN. State folks for an interview. He is telling them that “I defeated Mullin at MSU” and I know major ball.”
Sad, PN State is not returning CPJ’s call or emails. CPJ KNOWS that he is on THE HOT SEAT.
Next August, ESPN will do their annual Hot Seat coaching carousel and HE WILL BE their poster boy. CPJ …………………THE HOT SEAT. NO bowl wins, no ACC titles, not prestige, no nothing and PROBATION.
gtfanfrom1951
November 30th, 2011
10:27 am
well you can’t teach an old dog new tricks but the LSU kitties will enjoy a bulldog burger on Sat.
Nom Nom Nom Chuck's Taylor, or Norris if he is avaliable
November 30th, 2011
12:34 pm
gtfanfrom1951
November 30th, 2011
10:27 am
well you can’t teach an old dog new tricks but the LSU kitties will enjoy a bulldog burger on Sat.
Huh?
old dog
November 30th, 2011
12:36 pm
We may get smashed Saturday, but think how badly ya’ll would get beat by LSU? (This is exactly why under the present circumstances you’ll never have to worry about it; you’ll never get the opportunity!)
Al Bundy
November 30th, 2011
4:49 pm
I doubt CPJ is interviewing for any job at any college. No school in their right minds would try to top what GT is paying him. There are much better options out there for his salary. And I’d be willing to bet CPJ is not on the hot seat now and won’t be next year. We will have to sink much deeper before he’s on the hot seat. He hasn’t even fired any coaches yet. He’ll have to fire some coaches and still fail before he’s in trouble. We are stuck with him for at least 2 more seasons.
Al Bundy
November 30th, 2011
4:51 pm
old dog is 100% right. UGA might get beat by LSU but I doubt GT would even score a point. As I recall the last meeting between GT and LSU we ugly.
MM
November 30th, 2011
8:31 pm
Fior the record, UGA’s business school requires a calculus course.
EdmondsDAWG
December 1st, 2011
12:05 am
Dawg fan for life…But as a GA boy, still pull for tech…But why in the hell does Tech still get slow black QB’s that can’t run and dang sure can’t pass…Just keep losing////////DB
The New ACC
December 1st, 2011
8:41 am
@MM – A calculus course? ONE calculus course? I know high school students that take two calculus courses!!!!
The New ACC
December 1st, 2011
8:44 am
@old dog -
As a Georgia native, I would really like to be able to pull for the bulldogs this weekend. However, it is YOUR fans that make it impossible for me.
If they ever learn how to win with class, if they ever learn how to post on the GA Tech board with just a tad bit of respect and no insults, then MAYBE I can pull for them against LSU.
But I believe that it is asking too much – so…… GO TIGERS!!!!