Tech’s Phil Smith suspended for bowl game
EL PASO, Texas – Georgia Tech offensive tackle Phil Smith was suspended for the Sun Bowl Wednesday for violating team rules. Smith will not play and was sent home.
Coach Paul Johnson did not have more comment on the matter. This is the second suspension of the season for Smith. He was held out of the first two games of the season, also for breaking team rules.
Smith played in a three-tackle rotation with Tyler Kidney and Ray Beno through the season. Most likely, Kidney and Beno will start and take all of the snaps.
Smith is the second starter who will not play for rules violations. Cornerback Louis Young is also ineligible for the game for disciplinary reasons.
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SuperDawg - NOT so Super
December 28th, 2011
7:00 pm
SuperDawg – The reason DAWG thugs are on this blog is because they just won the cup cake award for a their schedule next year and are licking their ba**s over here. They just got the East handed to them on a platter and can already make plans for the Ga Dome next December. What a joke when the AD says they aren’t dodging Alabama and instead are “honoring” their commitment to AU. The only ones buying that crap are the DAWG fans who either know they got away with a weak-sister schedule and are willing to “Back In” to the play off – or the ones who are are too dumb to know the difference.
Dawg Man Deep
December 28th, 2011
7:05 pm
He must have failed “street cleaning” at Morehouse or MLK State in cross town Atlanta – All know those thugs can’t pass Ga Tech courses and yet GT gets away with the transfer grades for YEARS!!!
Transfer TECH and ALL in the name of EDUCATION.
TVFan
December 28th, 2011
7:07 pm
I think it’s time for him to move on. GT is trying to win football games and its my understanding that this is his second suspension.
Lt. Frank Drebin
December 28th, 2011
7:08 pm
@7:00pm…..blah,blah,blah,blah,blah. By the way, AU is Auburn University, not University of Alabama….go back to verifying the comfort of your matresses at your joke of a bowl…..bwahhhh, hahahahaha……
sports
December 28th, 2011
7:11 pm
hard to keep that bunch of blowflys under control…typical
macrotech
December 28th, 2011
7:29 pm
Kick him off the team…we don’t need to become like that other school
TVFan
December 28th, 2011
7:30 pm
Lt. Frank….Once upon a time Nebraska played UGA in the Sun Bowl. Remember the score.
Dawg24
December 28th, 2011
7:36 pm
Phil Smith worked for us a couple years ago to gain experience in the engineering field. Phil is a great kid. He just has made some mistakes. Lord knows I made them when I was his age. I would fare to say that everyone else on this site made mistakes as well, some even worse. Yes, I have been a Dawg all my life. Phil is a great kid to be around. To blast a kid like Phil is so wrong! Do you know him? I doubt it! Give the kid a break. Any or you who has not made a mistake, please throw a rock!
bcall123169
December 28th, 2011
7:37 pm
glad to see there’s stern leadership in GA. somewhere,dawg fan ,aww never mind ur ignorance is not worth my time GO JACKETS
bcall123169
December 28th, 2011
7:43 pm
THANKS DAWG 24 for the insight on the kid,but 3 strikes he should be out.so the cuont is 0-2,tighten up phil
Biff Pocoroba
December 28th, 2011
8:02 pm
I wish that we could just say no to going to these meaningless bowls when the players obviously don’t care. 2 guys have been suspended and they haven’t played hard in a bowl game in years. They only people buying tickets are giving them away so why play in game if you are going to lose money and the players would rather stay at home on their own mattresses.
no fan of some bowls
December 28th, 2011
8:12 pm
Agree with BiffP above. UNC seemed to play like Tech last year in that lovely gambling city in west Lousyanty this year. Not too much incentive for some of these bowls. How much fun can Ft Bliss be if you are not into 155mm?
Dawg24
December 28th, 2011
8:14 pm
I agree w/ you bcall. As far as I know, he has 2 strikes. Yes, I think he needs to go if he blows it again. I just wanted some of these bloggers to know he is not a bad kid, he just made some bad decisions.
I never go to other teams sites usually, but when I saw the article in the AJC , I had to vent he is a good kid! I hope he has learned and flies right.
phil
December 28th, 2011
8:21 pm
CPJ has lost control and should be fired!!
phil
December 28th, 2011
8:22 pm
A bunch of damn thugs….
That’s Tech “football” for you!
Strange Murphy
December 28th, 2011
8:31 pm
Tyical Tech Thug player.
a fan
December 28th, 2011
8:32 pm
dawg fans don’t have any lives, so they troll the GT blog.
Really?
December 28th, 2011
8:35 pm
Maybe if paul(ima)johnson didn’t coach the thugs to cheap shot other players they would be able to curb their behavior off the field. Instead the classless and clueless cpj encourages players and students to be cowardly thugs and the list of bugs that are in trouble continues to grow every day.
Delbert D.
December 28th, 2011
8:36 pm
Paul Johnson is still waiting for the “Are you stupid?” answer from Smith. He’d better get it together, or ring out.
Trade School FTW
December 28th, 2011
8:37 pm
Hows that Basketball team under Fox doing Ugag trolls?. Who runs the state in that sport?
SuperDawg - NOT so Super
December 28th, 2011
8:38 pm
DAWG24 – Who gives a damn if he’s a good kid or not away from the field? I want the kid to be a damn good football player – that’s why he got a scholorship – not because of his humanitarian deeds and wholesome attitude.
Lt. Frank Drebin
December 28th, 2011
8:42 pm
TVFan….That was 1969, UGA won the Sun Bowl in 1964……wow, you are really reaching…..
bg
December 28th, 2011
8:48 pm
if tech had the easy schedule per the ACC commissioner’s office, us Dogs would not “nail you to the wall” over it simply because tech has basically become irrelevant to the dogs. the dogs only concern themselves with tech the week of the game.
GADawgs
December 28th, 2011
8:58 pm
Paddy you do not know what you write about concerning alcohol and Utah. Salt Lake City is actually a very fun party town. There are some of the finest micro-breweries anywhere in Salt Lake City and there are very attractive ladies in SLC. A whole lot more attractive ladies on the campus of Utah than on the campus of Tech!
Paul in NH
December 28th, 2011
9:02 pm
mwh6767
I agree with your comment about the stupid name calling on every blog. I wish there was some kind of ignore function so that I wouldn’t have to wade through so many childish comments.
Paul in NH
December 28th, 2011
9:07 pm
Delbert
Great post – I am still laughing.
TVFan
December 28th, 2011
9:09 pm
Lt Frank, I’m just merely pointing out that UGA has also appeared in what you term as a “joke of a bowl”.
Ga Tech Old Timer
December 28th, 2011
9:10 pm
bg – If it is in deed a fact that “the dogs only concern themselves with tech the week of the game” – why the hell are you and the other lower classed dog fans over here now sticking your nose in our blog? Don’t you know that the “week of the game” was a month ago – or were you not paying attention then either? The dog fans who really believe what you said – don’t bother to run to the Tech blogs all year long – and are welcome here because they don’t come here to spew their crap but to have an intellegent exchange of ideas and opinions between the two programs.
Phil Smith = THUG
December 28th, 2011
9:11 pm
Seems like Phil Smith has an addiction problem. He is a total THUG.
HighTech
December 28th, 2011
9:15 pm
Really?…paul(ima)johnson…you really are in middle school, aren’t you? When you say cpj encourages players to be thugs when the article is about cpj disciplining a player, you show your immaturity and lack of reasoning ability. Calling the coach (ima)johnson would be funny to seventh graders, but not so much with the eighth graders.
gtfanfrom1951
December 28th, 2011
9:16 pm
Idiot dawg fans on a GT blog imagine That!
Phil Smith grow up this is not high School
HighTech
December 28th, 2011
9:18 pm
Does anyone know what the first suspension was for?
the buck stops somewhere
December 28th, 2011
9:34 pm
I used to think the constant back and forth between college cheering sections on the blogs was bad…until I looked at the vitriol bandied about following an article in another section of today’s AJC titled “Being Pagan in Georgia”. We are definitely minor league compared to that.
HighTech
December 28th, 2011
9:47 pm
buck…I read that article and the comments posted.
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/12/28/pagan-students-and-public-schools/?cp=10
Both disturbing and entertaining. Religion and football in Georgia. lol.
Stumpknocker
December 28th, 2011
10:00 pm
With all the Dawg trolls on here, Bill-boy King and Chippie Towers must be fine-screening the Dawg Blog so they can protect their little puppies……and BTW Super Dawg, say you would drop Tech and play Alabama every year ?………..sure you would…….SURE YOU WOULD. We all know what happened the last time you guys played.
What?
December 28th, 2011
10:05 pm
El Paso, home of the 1st Armored Division! Truelly Clueless Dawg Fan(s). You all are a disgrace to this fine nation. The Georgia Institute of Technology has purchased (as well as Utah) tickets for these brave heroes. I guess it was a waste of time considering the dawg nation’s faithful opinion. “To Hell with America and the United States” just so we can degrade and denigrate Tech. You citizens (and I use that term loosely) deserve the scorn of every true AMERICAN in this country! I only hope you can move to a better country (if it exist) and root to your heart’s content for your heavenly bulldogs (except when you need need medical help). Other than that, here’s hoping Michigan State destroys you and all of your anti-Americanism. May your New Years be miserable and you move to China or North Korea! THWG! The People’s Republic of Athens! Absolute LOSERS in life.
What?
December 28th, 2011
10:12 pm
BTW, Athens use to have a US Navy Supply School located in Athens. The Navy saw how un-American the town was and closed it. Go dogs…
Do America proud before we collapse! Wait? What?
Almost Competent Conference
December 28th, 2011
10:24 pm
You could take Alabama, and Florida, and South Carolina off UGA’s schedule… and it would still be more difficult than NATS’s. LOL @ you dorks complaining about schedule strength.
superDawg
December 28th, 2011
10:48 pm
stumpknocker yes I would take tek off our schedule,because tek does not help our power ranking.If you are going to reach the next level you need to play the best and hopefully win the game.tek is not in that catagory.
superDawg
December 28th, 2011
10:50 pm
NUFF SAID!
Barbie
December 28th, 2011
11:07 pm
GT LINEBACKER NICK Menocal inviting fans and locals to Sun Bowl in Spanish
http://www.elpasotimes.com/sports/ci_19568642?source=pkg
What?
December 28th, 2011
11:17 pm
Has any Uga student ever taken English or History (such as it is taught) or anything of value to the world we live in? True Dawg Fan has admitted to being a crook and having no scruples (plus his pride in ignorance). Is his education from Uga what you guys and gals take pride in? I’d be more worried but I don’t take any advice from a dog. But still aren’t you concerned with a complete lack of morals and ethics? Sorry again, “morals and ethics” never enter the question regarding Uga. No Church should ever enter the equation. Sorry, about the term “equation”. Use Wiki to research it…very reliable. Use it for a term paper!
superDawg is a moron..
December 28th, 2011
11:18 pm
“tek does not help our power ranking.If you are going to reach the next level you need to play the best”
Here is UGA’s 2012 with the Sagarin power ratings from Schultz’ blog toda.
Sept. 1: Buffalo, 135.
Sept. 8: at Missouri, 16.
Sept. 15: Florida Atlantic, 190.
Sept. 22: Vanderbilt, 36.
Sept. 29: Tennessee, 53.
Oct. 6: at South Carolina, 15.
Oct. 13: Bye.
Oct. 20: at Kentucky, 87.
Oct. 27: Florida (Jacksonville), 35.
Nov. 3: Mississippi, 112.
Nov. 10: Auburn, 45.
Nov. 17: Georgia Southern, 84.
Nov. 24: Georgia Tech, 50.
When there are 4 worse teams on your schedule than an FCS team (Georgia State) you aren’t trying to play the best.
Laws of Physics
December 29th, 2011
1:27 am
Dawgs lick their bawls…. because they can.
Dawgs come here and talk trash….because they can’t go to the Alabama, Florida or Auburn boards and do it.
Sorry pups, but that conference you love so much? You’re merely below average in it. Truth hurts.
Stinger 2
December 29th, 2011
4:17 am
A short story about a GT player being suspended for a bowl game turns this blog into a typical back and forth trash session between UGA and GT fans.Nothing new but kind of stupid.
UGA=Pu**ys
December 29th, 2011
7:23 am
Dropping BAMA. What a bunch of wimps….
Jacket Man
December 29th, 2011
7:25 am
I highly doubt Smith will be back next season. He has now been suspended for the same infraction twice, and the issue in question is one Paul Johnson takes very seriously. Everyone makes mistakes, and deserves a second chance, but betray that trust, ESPECIALLY at the Bowl game? That’s unconscionable. Phil is scheduled to graduate this Spring, so at least he can say he left campus with a GA Tech degree in hand. That will serve him well the rest of his life.
Coach Johnson
December 29th, 2011
7:42 am
I just kept yelling at this kid and he didn’t listen. He is the reason my prolific awesome spread option DERP attack did not result in a perfect season.
Now that he is gone, please proceed in telling everyone what a big chance we have for a NC next season.
When we win it, don’t worry. I will ignore the cheating by my players and be a jerk to the NCAA so it will be taken away too.
Thanks, that is all. I’m going to that shop in Lenox for a manooby brassiere makeover; gift certificate from Christmas, thanks Santa!!
InsectInside
December 29th, 2011
8:07 am
Superdawg 10:48pm Power ranking? Buffalo, Florida Atlantic, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Georgia Southern, Kentucky and Georgia Tech.
All these teams should really pump it up for you.
Do What?
December 29th, 2011
8:17 am
@11:17 What
Questioning a Georgia student or Alum’s English literacy? Yet you have two sentences which you end with a preposition? Had you taken, and passed, a basic English class perhaps you would have learned a sentence cannot end with a preposition, thus it is apparent you did not.
As to questioning “morals and ethics”, a GT supporter questioning the morals and ethics of any school is absolutely a JOKE! GT is currently on probation because Fish Fry Johnson “chose” to play players against Georgia who were under NCAA investigation for accepting improper benefits. As a result GT was stripped of an ACC Title. There’s also the case of Chan Gailey playing Reuben Houston while Houston was under indictment by the Federal Govt for his part in a Drug Ring. Contrast that with Mark Rict and Georgia’s suspension of AJ Green while Green was being investigated for improper benefits. Tell me again, which school has clearly demonstrated morals and
ethics and which school has put “winning above ethics and morals”?
You GT supporters are so nutty you are silly. You know the Georgia Athletic Dept had no input into the SEC schedule, however that shouldn’t stop your accusations. Ease your mind with this fact, were Georgia playing your schedule, that ACC back breaker, the last five years Georgia would have at least 3 undefeated seasons and ACC titles. The SEC is clearly superior to the extent a mediocre SEC team can dominate the ACC’s best. I would suggest you GT supporters may want to be more concerned that the ACC is closer in strength to the MAC than the SEC, that is a fact. My final suggestion, as a New Year’s resolution, will some of you Dawg haters man up and buy season tickets then perhaps GT’s home attendance might exceed that of Milton High School in 2013.