ACC approves nine-game football schedule
The ACC has approved a nine-game league football schedule and 18 conference games for men’s and women’s basketball and has assigned newcomers Pittsburgh and Syracuse into divisions for football. They were among several scheduling formats made official Friday at a league meeting of athletic directors and faculty athletic representatives.
Pittsburgh will join Georgia Tech’s Coastal Division, while Syracuse will become part of the Atlantic. Those changes, as well as the nine-game league schedule, will go into place once those schools join the ACC from the Big East. It has yet to be determined when that will happen, but the schools are under contract to remain in the Big East through the 2013-14 academic year.
Each school will play its six division opponents with three crossover games, including its primary partner. Tech’s will remain Clemson.
The Coastal Division, including Tech, appears to be receiving the stronger football team in recent history. The Panthers have averaged 7.6 wins and made four bowl trips in the past five years, compared to 4.4 wins and one for the Orange. Over 10 years, Pitt has averaged 7.4 wins with seven bowl trips while Syracuse’s average is 4.3 wins with two bowl trips. Perhaps most tellingly, Pitt is 9-1 against Syracuse in the past 10 games, although Syracuse had won 11 in a row prior to that.
Since the league split into two divisions beginning with the 2005 season, the Atlantic is 69-64 against Coastal teams including ACC championship games.
In basketball, each member will have one primary partner. Tech’s will be Clemson. The other 12 opponents will rotate in groups of four. Each season, a team will play home and away with one group (eight games), home against another group (four games) and away against the last group (four games). Over a three-year cycle, primary partners will play each other six games and all the other members four times.
All 14 teams will compete in the men’s and women’s conference tournaments. The format was not released Friday.
The remaining team sports will continue to play each conference member at least once during the regular season with the exception of baseball. Like football, baseball is split into two divisions and teams do not play every conference opponent.
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Power DAWGS!!
February 3rd, 2012
1:17 pm
Hopfully the ACC will inprove some…Hopefully
Power DAWGS!!
February 3rd, 2012
1:19 pm
If Paul Johnson had any repore what so ever with Recruiting he would bet us more often… the guy can’t recruit!
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
1:26 pm
How come Schultze and Bradley aren’t all over the story about 3 UGA players being kicked off the team?
Delbert D.
February 3rd, 2012
1:26 pm
The SEC is playing an 8-game schedule in 2012. I’d like to think that it is to simplify the scheduling due to existing commitments and the short time frame. They will move to a 9-game schedule for 2013, I would imagine. Otherwise, it could be a long time between appearances for teams in the other division.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
1:26 pm
ooops….that’s Schultz….
Harrick and Kemp
February 3rd, 2012
1:28 pm
pukeydawg, you probably need to worry about where you’re going to find 3 players to replace the ones that got kicked off your ‘team’ (sic).
@GTlee
February 3rd, 2012
1:29 pm
Georgia could have 10 players kicked off team and still beat tech by 2 tds.They won with a 5th team tailback last year.
Harrick and Kemp
February 3rd, 2012
1:30 pm
powerpuke…are you typing with one hand or what?
Harrick and Kemp
February 3rd, 2012
1:32 pm
ok, @GTLee…let’s try that…
NiquePhotog
February 3rd, 2012
1:36 pm
GTs recruiting class is ranked 4th in the ACC based on average stars and not based on the number of players you sign (Miami, Bama???) Which is pretty consistent considering we were probably the 4th or 5th best team in the ACC last season
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
1:41 pm
@ @GTLee,
What does that have to do with anything? The point was, AJC writers all over negative Tech recruiting stories. Now that 3 UGA players are kicked off the team, where are those same reporters and their stories?
Burdell
February 3rd, 2012
1:42 pm
I’m glad we got Pitt in the Coastal for football…even though IMO they present a bigger challenge.
5 star recruits, 2 star results
February 3rd, 2012
1:49 pm
“repore what so ever with Recruiting he would bet us more often”. Damn, pokie, at least the majority of the words are spelled correctly. A shiny new nickel if you can pick out which ones you whiffed on. Mutt fans never fail to provide comedy relief. What do you wanna “beat” he hasn’t been inside a classroom since the 8th grade.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
1:50 pm
LMFAO, 5 star….
5 star recruits, 2 star results
February 3rd, 2012
1:53 pm
thanks, Lee. I feel an almost instant “repore” with you.
Ghost of the Flats
February 3rd, 2012
1:54 pm
4th best in ACC, spin city, ever heard of depth? At the end of 2011 And this is a confernce that didn’t place a single team in the Final top 20.Hasn’t had one team (VT) finish in the 10 since the last 7 years and they’ve only fished the 3 times
1.Clemson
2 VT
3 fl. State
4 Virginia
5 Wake
6 Miami
7 NC State
8 Tech
2-14 in Bcs bowls , what a pathetic league.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
1:57 pm
@ Power DWAGS !! have you ever taken an English class? You can’t spell worth a damn, and you show your ignorance by even making posts with so many errors in them. How many words with more than one syllable can you spell correctly?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
1:59 pm
Did any of you guys see this?
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/video-les-miles-mocks-gunner-kiel-chest-ability-192230869.html
The idea of a coach slamming, and in public, a kid who turned him down!!! The Mad Hatter truly has no class whatsoever. Is that the kind of coach all you Johnson-bashers would like to have at Tech???
Ghost of the Flats
February 3rd, 2012
2:02 pm
Meant to say hasn’t had one team other than VT finish in top 10 in 7 years and befor that it was Fl State in 01 or 02.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:04 pm
What teams are coming INTO the Big East? Do they have to wait till their previous league contracts expire first? I don’t see why this can’t happen today and have the new schedules start in the Fall.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:11 pm
TCU and Navy will be joinin Big East for football only, I believe…can’t quite remember who else is joining, bur Big East will be coast-to-coast….
RichT
February 3rd, 2012
2:11 pm
Expansion provided the perfect opportunity for the ACC to realign the divisions geographically, which would have made it a hell of a lot easier to remember who is in what division.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:13 pm
that’s joining and but
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:13 pm
GT :Lee, I just Googled, and unless something has changed since Dec 7, Boise State, San Diego State, Houston, SMU and Central Florida will be joining, and possibly Navy as football only. It doesn’t mention TCU. Did they change their mind?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:14 pm
@ RichT, I agree with you on that, but it looks like they aren’t taking that far more sensible path.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:14 pm
but if the ACC realigns geographically, all the powerhouses would be in the Southern half…and how would you split the 4 Carolina teams?
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:16 pm
maybe I got TCU and BSU mixed up, Super….my cranial-rectumitis acts up now and then
Ghost of the Flats
February 3rd, 2012
2:17 pm
TCU is going to Big 12
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:18 pm
@ GT Lee, you could have Miami, FSU, Tech, Clemson, Wake, Duke, and NC State in the south, and Syracuse, BC, Pitt, MD, UVA, VT, and UNC in the north. That would seem to somewhat balance the divisions, although I don’t know that the NC schools would like being split up like that.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:18 pm
I think TCU initially indicated they would go to the Big East, but they apparently changed their mind
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
2:19 pm
“I’m glad we got Pitt in the Coastal for football…even though IMO they present a bigger challenge.”
I agree but was kind of hoping they would switch things up a bit so Coastal would be:
Georgia Tech
Clemson
Florida St
Miami
Pitt
Va Tech
Virginia
Cuse
Gordon
February 3rd, 2012
2:20 pm
I had heard that basketball was going to 18 games next year even if the two new teams don’t join then. Is that correct? Also, do you know the other pairs in basketball?
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:20 pm
Super, Va Tech would LOVE that scenario….
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:21 pm
@GT Lee, I’m sure they would, and other than splitting them from the other NC schools, I would think UNC would like it too
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:23 pm
With a 9-game conference schedule, that leaves us more than likely with only one decent OOC opponent (UGA). I wish we would get one more good OOC opponent, instead of two weak ones, but I don’t guess that will happen
Mike
February 3rd, 2012
2:23 pm
@Supersize – the Big East new arrivals come in 2013 from what I understand. That is Boise St., San Diego St., Houston, SMU, and UCF. Navy joins a year or two later I think.
I have no idea why the Big East would want to keep WVU, Pitt, and Syracuse beyond 2012. Seems petty to me.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:24 pm
@ Mike, yeah, I found that out when I Googled. It makes no sense to delay the inevitable; just do it NOW
Mike
February 3rd, 2012
2:26 pm
@BigTimeTechFan – thats stacking too many eggs in one basket. You basically have all the legit ACC championship contenders in one division. They have to split things up in the hopes of getting a decent championship game, or at least one that will draw interest.
Mike
February 3rd, 2012
2:28 pm
Big East needs to keep WVU, Pitt, and Syracuse for next year just to stay at the 8 member limit. WVU wants out new because the Big 12 needs 10 teams to keep their TV contracts intact for this season. They only have 9 with the loss of A&M and MIssouri and addition of TCU.
Mike
February 3rd, 2012
2:29 pm
SEC should adapt this 9 game conference schedule as well. Its the only way to have 14 teams and have any decent rotation between the two divisions. Right now they are sticking with 8 games with only 1 rotating cross division game.
ormewood
February 3rd, 2012
2:30 pm
The North Carolina schools are split up now, so if they tweaked the divisions via a north/south split what difference would it make. I hate this “Coastal and “Atlantic” junk. Just do it geographically and be done with it.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:30 pm
@Mike, unfortunately you are correct, but times change, and there’s no guarantee that the powers will all exist in the same division forever. The SEC sure seems to flip back and forth between which division has the power, although the West is certainly far above the east right now.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:30 pm
also BigTime- you’ve got 8 teams in one division….should be 7 & 7…
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:32 pm
Mike, so is the Big East releasing WVU now? Or are they having to wait also? If they can get out now, then the others should be able to also, and those teams coming in should be able to get in now. If it’s ok for one to shift, then all of them should be able to immediately.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:35 pm
WVU and Big East are going to court over this….
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:36 pm
Thanks, GT Lee. Maybe if WVU wins, the others will follow suit……unless by then it’s too late.
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
2:37 pm
@GT Lee
The other thing I should have noted was ACC would have 16 teams
Atlantic gets:
Notre Dame
Penn State
UNC
Wake
NC State
Duke
Maryland
BC
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:38 pm
the problem is the buyout clause…if the schools leave early, they have to pay several million $ (maybe 5 mil?)
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:38 pm
Regardless of when it happens, I wish they would rethink that division alignment. It just makes no sense and has got to cost schools that have to travel far some big bucks. Why should BC and Cus have to travel all the way to Miami (and vice verse) every year? That’s a big waste of money.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:39 pm
@ BigTime….hadn’t heard about ND and PSU…is that seriously in the works or rumor?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:39 pm
@ BigTime….., that’s just you dreaming, although I sure like that dream
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:40 pm
@ GT Lee, I wouldn’t call it really a rumor, per se, but it’s been bandied about for a couple of years that that would make sense.
reebok
February 3rd, 2012
2:41 pm
We will play one out-of-conference creampuff, one MTSU/Troy/Central Florida type, and Georgia OOC, I guess. One less spot on the schedule for the Jacksonville States of the world…
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:41 pm
Notre Dame still thinks they can run the whole show themselves, in spite of quite a few years of mediocrity lately. I would think if ND would get off their high-horse and do that, the PSU might eagerly follow.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:41 pm
that would still leave ND & PSU pretty much duking it out for the Atlantic (at least right now, anyway)
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:43 pm
reebok, we play 12 game schedules now, so that would still leave us with the possibility of 2 cream puffs in addition to UGA
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:43 pm
as I recall, Super, we pretty much did the same thing for a while there (going Independant)
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:45 pm
GT Lee, if ND and PSU would make that move, then the division of powers would be more equitably spread out. There would be 3 or 4 generally good teams in the north, and 3 or 4 generally good teams in the south. Sounds like a win-win situation to me.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:45 pm
@ GT Lee, yes, we did, and it was the stupidest move we ever made.
Power DWAGS
February 3rd, 2012
2:47 pm
We recruit so well that we jettisoned a few!
Delbert D.
February 3rd, 2012
2:49 pm
I think the North-South realignment will be done when the ACC expands to 16 teams. Also, I would not discount FSU as a championship contender in the Atlantic over the next few years. They just signed another top class.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:50 pm
yeah Super, we paid for that one…got a little too greedy back in the day….
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
2:51 pm
Not rumor or in the works, just my wish but there have been some talk from others that:
1. Penn St has always wanted a power conf of eastern teams, mix of ACC/Big East. That’s why it took them so long to go to Big 10.
2. Penn St fans about 50/50 for Penn St going to ACC, more close rivals. Plus Alumni is heavy east coast based
3. Penn St did not want Nebraska in Big-10, wanted east coast team.
4. Downside is Penn St likes Big 10 tradition and powerhouse football programs.
Some say if Penn St would go to ACC, it would be very attractive for Notre Dame.
All is just talking-heads doing their thing, but Notre Dame President did confirm Penn St as their preference
Downside is Penn St is more compatible with Big 10
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:52 pm
Dodd wanted us to be the Notre Dame of the south. Unfortunately, he didn’t or possibly couldn’t schedule teams that would have given us the opportunity to gain that distinction. He should have immediately started scheduling Mich, OSU, USC (west), and others, but for whatever reason, that didn’t happen.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
2:53 pm
Penn State now has a head coach with ACC roots, so who knows?
George Stein
February 3rd, 2012
2:53 pm
You can only imagine the complaining when Team X in a division finishes a game behind Team Y in a season where Team X had 4 conference home games and Team Y had 5.
I expect this will further damage the likelihood of tough non-conference games in the future.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
2:54 pm
with 16 teams and North/South alignment, would we drop the perm rivalry from other division and just rotate the other div 2 teams per year/4 yrs?
Ramblnwrek
February 3rd, 2012
2:58 pm
I wish they had gone with a north vs south. Yes, it would have been lop sided, but it would probably get some national love live the SEC west vs east.
North: GT, FSU, CLEM, MIA, UNC, DUKE, NCST
South: WAKE, VT, UVA, PITT, SYR, BC, MD
Most rivalries preserved.
Jacket Fan
February 3rd, 2012
2:59 pm
Non story. We won’t be playing Pitt for another 2 years and 9 months from now.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
3:00 pm
Ramblnwrek I think you labeled them backwards….
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:01 pm
Ramblinwreck, I am assuming that you made a typo there. If not, then you don’t know your geography very well. I think you mixed up north with south.
George Stein
February 3rd, 2012
3:01 pm
This is the South, Jacket Fan. We talk about college football things that won’t happen for another 100 years, let alone something that won’t happen for another two!
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:01 pm
Jacket Fan, unless something changes (which it SHOULD), then you are correct.
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
3:02 pm
Used to play:
Pitt
Tenn
Auburn
Georgia
Notre Dame
Auburn
Clemson
type schedule in the 70’s
Ramblnwrek
February 3rd, 2012
3:03 pm
Yeah, you’re right, but you get the idea. I’m at the airport drinking beer right now so forgive me this once
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:03 pm
I would put UNC in the north and WF in the south. If not, then, assuming UNC continues to perform well, then the south is very very much top-heavy.
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
3:05 pm
Watch out for Pitt, they had nice recruiting because of all the Penn St issues going on, expect the same next year.
George Stein
February 3rd, 2012
3:05 pm
If it’s Bud Light, don’t tell me, Ramblnwreck!
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:06 pm
Big Time, I think we only played Pitt twice. Both Tenn and Auburn refused to play us anymore…..Auburn for half-way decent reasons, Tenn for spite. We also played USC (west) a couple of years, but it was not a regular part of out schedule. We also played Penn State in Atlanta in 1961 and 1966, but not again till the ‘91 pre-season game in NY
Ramblnwrek
February 3rd, 2012
3:07 pm
My main point is that if you put all the good football schools together, you are GUARANTEED games that will get national exposure every year. Yes, you loose parity but you gain on a larger scale.
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
3:07 pm
I wish we would add the Scottish-Rite game back on the schedule, those were fun to watch
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:07 pm
OOPS, the ‘61 game against Penn State was a bowl game. We only played them once in Atlanta, a win in 1966
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:08 pm
@ Ramblinwreck, another thing you gain is good ticket sales, and we definitely need that.
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
3:09 pm
But if the did not play Pitt, it would be Mich St, then USC, they always played pretty good teams
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:09 pm
BigTime, those were freshmen games, and sadly, the days of freshmen teams and games are long gone.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:10 pm
BigTime, yes, but there was only one of those games a year; Dodd really needed two each year to make it work.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:13 pm
Dodd insisted on keeping Duke and Tulane on the schedule, even though neither of them brought any recognition or money.
Ramblnwrek
February 3rd, 2012
3:15 pm
Super, yeah. You see what I’m getting at. More consistent big games leads to ticket sales, tv contacts, overal hype for the ACC (which it sorely needs). The imbalance will be settled over time by the schools on the other side. (see UGA) Recruiting will get better and money will be more. I really don’t see the down side.
BigTimeTechFan
February 3rd, 2012
3:16 pm
In 1980 Tech played 4 top 10 teams, that was real fun
UGA (1)
North Carolina (5)
Notre Dame (6)
Alabama (10)
UGA beat Tech 38-20
UNC 33-0
Alabama 26-3
Notre Dame Tie 3-3, wow
Florida was good also and beat us 45-12
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:19 pm
BigTime, regarding 1980, Notre Dame had to COME FROM BEHIND to tie us, and yet they get matched against UGA in the Sugar Bowl in a meaningless game that enabled UGA to win the NC.
Delbert D.
February 3rd, 2012
3:20 pm
The guy that writes about the NCAA a lot on the NYTimes (Joe Nocera) postulated making freshmen ineligible as a way to address some of the problems with college football. I agree with that.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:21 pm
It’s been fun, guys, and amazingly free of DWAG trolls, but I need to go the gym and exercise something other than my typing fingers….LOL Y’all keep the faith and have a good afternoon !!!
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
3:22 pm
@ Delbert, before I go, I totally agree with that.
MR is a Hypocrite
February 3rd, 2012
3:43 pm
Barks Madley and shults are probably over at Rich’s houe trying to figure how to spin the story so the Dawgs look good. Lipstick on a pig, I think they call it!
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
3:51 pm
they sure as hell aren’t in a hurry to get a story up online about it, are they?
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
3:53 pm
if 3 Tech players had gotten kicked off the team they would probably fight each other to see who could get a story up first…..
GTinNashville
February 3rd, 2012
3:59 pm
Ken, with Pitt joining Tech’s regular schedule, it would be great to see the AJC write an article highlighting the ‘56 sugar bowl where Tech played Pitt. This is the game where the Ga. Legislature tried to prevent Tech from playing due to Pitt having a black athelete. Many also say this led to Tech losing “athelete’s” majors/requiring all atheletes to start taking calculus.
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
4:10 pm
Interesting Nashville…
Delbert, completely agree.
Obviously GT Lee...
February 3rd, 2012
4:17 pm
…does not read the AJC online much – Chip Towers has had the UGA story up since 9:12am, and Schultz since 9:30am ( and updted at 10:45am)…
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
4:24 pm
Yep, those guys messed up. Too bad for them. Hopefully they can learn from it and land somewhere else.
Robert
February 3rd, 2012
4:33 pm
Power Dawgs, you need a crash course in spelling. You screw up at least one word in every sentence.
Rick
February 3rd, 2012
4:42 pm
UCF a creampuff reebok? They would beat gt
Bo in North Carolina
February 3rd, 2012
4:51 pm
Big Time, that Scottish Rite game was great. I believe it was played on Thanksgiving. Also, the players visited the hospital the day before and came away impressed after visiting the children
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
4:59 pm
UCF has made tremendous strides with O’Leary as HC. I do believe Tech would compete and win.
Paul in NH
February 3rd, 2012
5:01 pm
Nice to see that we will finally be able to understand the b’ball schedule. It would have been nice to go to the system with 2 divisions with 7 teams in each – home and home in division and single games with the other division but that would have lead to an odd number (and 5 teams playing Duke and UNC 2x a year because Duke and UNC will ALWAYS play home and home)
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
5:05 pm
Enter your comments here
Delbert D.
February 3rd, 2012
5:06 pm
Georgia Tech went to the NCAA tournament in 1960, replacing Mississippi State, the SEC champions, who were prohibited by the state government from participating against integrated teams. Tech finished runner-up in the regional to Ohio State, the nation champions.
Jim 70
February 3rd, 2012
5:08 pm
If psu/Nd come into the league, it would be great to have psu, Nd, bc, Pitt, cuse, md, va and vt in the north and the Carolina (n/s)/ Florida schools and tech in the south.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
5:09 pm
Jim 70, you left out Clemson. Where are you going to put them? In the south, I assume
Delbert D.
February 3rd, 2012
5:13 pm
I’d like to see Penn State in the ACC. They had traditional rivalries with Pitt and Maryland, and they were more of an Eastern team than a Midwestern team before they joined the Big Ten. When I lived in New Jersey in the late ’60s and again from ‘75 – ‘80, they got a lot of press coverage, along with Notre Dame.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:17 pm
Hey Obviously,
Yes I saw Chip Towers’ story. My beef is with Schultz and Bradley, or did you not read that? THEY jump Tech as soon as they can, but will either of the 2 even acknowledge the latest events in Athens?
Probably not.
Skitty Fritty
February 3rd, 2012
5:18 pm
Is the ACC still in Division I?
West Virginia
February 3rd, 2012
5:20 pm
We Own the ACC !
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
5:20 pm
@ GT Lee, actually Jeff has had one up the better part of the day too. But he tries to put a positive spin on the whole thing in Athens, something he did not attempt at all in his blog on Spencer.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:22 pm
Alright, I missed Schultz’ story- But I still don’t see Bradley rushing out to get a story!
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
5:26 pm
GT Lee, they do their best.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:29 pm
yeah, I know….just seemed real skewed this week the way they rushed out to write negative recruiting stories about Tech on Natl signing day, but it seems like they aren’t in a hurry to report any negativity in Athens……
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
5:29 pm
@ GT Lee, to be somewhat fair, even though they don’t deserve it, jeff and mark rotate from day to day on various coverages…..or at least,that’s what they claim
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:34 pm
Reckon we can get Tech to offer a journalism degree so we can get some decent coverage?? LOL
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
5:36 pm
I think you know the answer to that. lol
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:38 pm
Calculus would still be a requirement…….!!!
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
5:39 pm
Would it be called Journalistic Engineering?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
5:39 pm
LOL
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:43 pm
Alphabetic Engineering
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:44 pm
Alpha-Numeric Engineering
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:48 pm
Wonder how much coverage our top-10 baseball tean will get?
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
5:48 pm
team
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
6:08 pm
I have a question. Periodically some of the trolls come on here talking about Tech jocks taking courses at Morehouse. I know that several years ago, maybe as many as 20 years ago, that was proposed. Was it ever actually implemented, and if so, wasn’t it ultimately cancelled? Another proposal was to add a program of sports management or sports administration, but that was never implemented.
Really?
February 3rd, 2012
6:33 pm
Smart move by the acc going to a 9 game schedule. Having to play another weak acc school instaed of a team from any other conference at all means one less guaranteed loss a year.
Really?
February 3rd, 2012
6:39 pm
Every other paper, sports site, tv and radio outlet etc… reports CMR dismissing three Georgia players as a testament to Richts ethics and desire to keep his program clean. The ajc tries to put a negative as possible spin on it which is understandable and you texties are still whineing about it. LOL LOL LOL
Face it whine bags, ga text was nailed again while on probation and now your cheating program and it’s cadre or liar coaches will have to take their punishment.
gt lee does that top 10 baseball team still have the drunken player who was endangering lifes in downtown atlanta last season?
RDM1975
February 3rd, 2012
6:42 pm
This is coming from an FSU fan and alumnus who hates this stupid conference anyway, but speaking as a fully submitted slave of tobacco road now…..
“Yeah!!!!! We get to have the two most northern schools in our division of play. And since we most often see them on Thursday nights, this plan works out GREAT. I hope that both BC and ‘Cuse will be Thursday night games. Playing Saturday night games at FSU is overrated and something from the past. Night time games is reserved for the big boys like the SEC, Big 12 and Big 10. Us girls don’t need to be up that late. Have to hit that library if we want to hopefully be an AAU school, just like our masters are in North Carolina.”
Once again FSU got screwed. We get screwed in scheduling, we get screwed in officiating (since no one in the ACC knows how to call football games, being a basketball conference only, you know), and now we get screwed again in divisional alignment.
Hope that YES vote was worth it President Barron. Hope you are happy that you are single handedly shooting your money-maker in the foot. The decreased revenue you have seen with FSU over the past few years wasn’t because of the economy. It’s because we don’t want to be in the ACC anymore. No one wants to sit through watching another North Carolina school come to Tallahassee to play football. And the ACC has already showed it does not know how to hang with the big boys in BCS play. Yeah, we have the #2 recruiting class this year, but big freakin deal. If they get bored, which they will, they will regret signing for FSU as their friends in the SEC enjoy national recognition by playing on Saturday and at night.
THANK YOU to Sandspr87 from ESPN.com blogs, I am so glad to FINALLY hear a North Carolina person FINALLY admit that this conference was created around the rivalries with North Carolina schools. Finally, someone has the balls to admit that the ACC is a conference of North Carolina schools, by North Carolina schools and for North Carolina schools. (An aside….sounds an awful like the Big 12 problem/perception that the Longhorn Network and the Big 12 is of Texas, by Texas and for Texas….hmmmmm)
I finally submit to my masters in North Carolina. The Seminole tribe has finally been Conquered!!!! Long live ACC basketball. I will start buying basketball season tickets and will learn how to understand the sport that matters now. Oh wait, FSU is now playing better basketball than football. I guess, the ACC got what it wanted after all……..a complete and total break down of FSU football.
And before anyone hops on this to bash, remember what your mom always told you as a child, “If lie down with dogs, you pick up fleas,” meaning, you begin to pick up the habits of those you hang with. FSU had the opportunity to join the SEC in 1990 and shunned them like no one’s business for the ACC. No one even knew that South Carolina or Arkansas existed before they joined the SEC. It took them several years, but they LEARNED how to play football and have built a respectable program over the years. FSU was already an SEC worthy program in 1990, but we went the other direction. And we have now taken on the traits of those we hang with, mediocrity in football and brilliance in basketball.
I hope the Administration at FSU understands the ramifications of their recent actions. Statistics and numbers do not lie….decreased attendance at FSU football games, decreased revenue as a result, and poor showings in BCS bowls. And we STILL stay with this conference, even voting in favor of upping the buyout clause. Awesome job FSU. You have finally been able to do what Andrew Jackson couldn’t do hundreds of years ago….get the Seminole Nation to be Conquered! For 12,000 years the Seminoles have lived and thrived in Florida. We have fallen to the might of the Tobacco Road Mafia in North Carolina. RIP Seminoles of FSU (1947-2012)
1 4 GT
February 3rd, 2012
6:57 pm
“Strong Legs Run That Weak Legs May Walk”
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
7:00 pm
@Really?
Don’t know Really…You got a name to go with that accusation?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
7:32 pm
GT Lee, there was ONE baseball player at Tech last year who was involved in a DUI in February, 2011. I don’t recall anybody making excuse for his actions. He was duly arrested and charged, as he should have been. His name is Matt Skole. Meanwhile UGA has NUMEROUS football players who assault their girlfriends, steal, have DUI’s, drive without licenses, etc, etc, etc. Somehow, Really? thinks one DUI at Tech is more important than ALL the offenses at UGA, which have included DUI’s. And lest Really? try to deny there have been any DUI’s at UGA, it was Cornelius Washington in October of 2011.
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
7:50 pm
Thanks Super,
Matt is playing for the Auburn Doubledays, class A affiliate of Wash Nats
GT Lee
February 3rd, 2012
7:51 pm
Hey Super,
wasn’t the UGA AD driving around ATL with a hooker and a crackpipe?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
8:11 pm
@ GT Lee, oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Apparently Really? also CONVENIENTLY forgot about that one too.
BTW, did you see my question earlier about the Tech – Morehouse connection? Scroll back if you missed it. Do you know the answer?
Paul in NH
February 3rd, 2012
8:32 pm
Wow – got to love the FSU fan on here – especially this quote:
“The decreased revenue you have seen with FSU over the past few years wasn’t because of the economy”.
And silly old me was thinking that FSU has decreased revenue because their team hasn’t been a powerhouse for 10 years.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
8:37 pm
LOL @ Paul
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
10:09 pm
Bring back Bobby Bowden! Dadnabit!
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
10:10 pm
or is it dagnabit?
Gordon
February 3rd, 2012
10:11 pm
Tech needs to make sure that they get 4 home conference games in the year they play UGA at home to balance out the schedule. I’m sure that is DRad’s top priority.
go way Groh
February 3rd, 2012
10:19 pm
why do you people have to put Al Groh’s photo in the newspaper’s website? I could care less he has connections to these Super Bowl coaches. In fact, I beg the Giants coach to hire Groh and get him away from GT. What did AG do lately? Fired from VA and we hire the loser. God, I wish that old man would retire and go away. What did he do that makes him the truth of anything. Just one more coach on CPJ’s staff that weighs down that entire organization. Then you have to keep posting his photo.
not happening
February 3rd, 2012
10:23 pm
Since we obviously are not a basketball school anymore, I wish GT would get out of this sorry conference full of tobacco road good ole boys and play football somewhere else. Who the blank cares about Pittsburgh or the acCused? DRAD maybe since he is from Pittsburgh. Good he can go be their AD. Those schools suck
Joe 12-Pack
February 3rd, 2012
10:40 pm
I didn’t know the ACC was still playing football.
Go Jackets!
February 3rd, 2012
10:54 pm
12-Pack, you need a TV. You can get one cheap at a yard sale. Make sure it’s cable ready.
Dostoyevskiy
February 3rd, 2012
11:04 pm
The Big Four in NC has a lot to be proud of. Four fine schools. Duke, Wake and Unc for business, medicine and law. A degree from NCState in eng/comp science will get you a nice job if you learned your lessons well.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 3rd, 2012
11:16 pm
Go Jackets, I believe it was “dadgumit”.
sting_em
February 4th, 2012
12:20 am
This sucks. I wish they would have realigned the conference to a more North – South split;
South North
FSU Miami
GT UV or VT
Clem Pitt
UNC Cuse
Duke Mary
NCst UV or VT
Wake BC
or
South North
FSU Pitt
GT BC
Miami VT
Clemson UV
Duke Cuse
Wake Maryland
UNC NCSt
sting_em
February 4th, 2012
12:37 am
Good point Gordon. None of this BS on again off again scheduling crap. GT, Clem, and FSU. UGA, UF, and USC will have the same issues in the SEC. If can’t be worked out, Hate to say it, but I see GT vs UGA, Clem vs USC, and FSU vs UF game being changed to another week in the not so distant future. Traditionally those games have been played the last game of the year, but with the way college football is heading, traditions are made to be broken. Should always play a conference game the last week of the season. All the marbles for the chance to go to a BCS. BCS has almost made those game irrelevant.
sting_em
February 4th, 2012
12:45 am
It would be nice to have UGA, VT, Clemson, and Miami split 2 home and 2 away. What would suck worse if they had UGA, VT, Clem, and Pitt home away same years. The away season would be brutal and uninspiring at home.
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yellow britches
February 4th, 2012
9:17 am
Would like to hear from those passionate enough about GT football to comment, whether you think the Athletic Office will see 20,000 season tickets (upgraded version) for next year. GT should be twice that but that is another issue.
yellow britches
February 4th, 2012
9:18 am
I meant sell
DetroitBraves
February 4th, 2012
10:03 am
The ACC looks like it will come back as a power basketball conference. In football, Syracuse and Pitt should fit right in with all the other mediocre type teams. I guess Miami and FSU had good recruiting classes this season. Maybe they’ll get back to what they once were and gain the conference some respectability. Not that it will help Tech much. Probably just get beat by Miami and FSU all the time (which I guess they already do anyway).
jean-serge cloix
February 4th, 2012
10:03 am
AAC is doing a great job!
Supsersize that order, mutt
February 4th, 2012
10:23 am
@ DetroitBraves, Tech is 2 – 0 against the Seminoles under CPJ. We won’t play them again for another 3 or 4 years, but what’s to say we won’t go 3 – 0 and then 4 – 0 against them then?
Brad Edwards
February 4th, 2012
10:40 am
Hey guys, I collect Georgia Tech football ticket stubs. If you have any ticket stubs that you are willing to sell (from any years), please contact me at brad.edwards@gatech.edu. I’m particularly interested in away games, as they are harder to come by…however, please contact me if you’ve got anything.
Thanks!
DE-Jacket
February 4th, 2012
12:21 pm
My guess is ; The AJC staff was so tired from covering the recent signings of “The Ring Team” for the Dawgs, they missed the reports of three more thugs getting booted from “The Dream Team”. I tip my cap to Coach Right, these kids should never have been signed int he first place. Besides Mr Bradley is probably busy covering KY hoops today?
Jborodawg
February 4th, 2012
1:02 pm
Major geodesic alignment…I wonder if the USGS knows that Pitt and Syracuse are now Atlantic-coast cities? Or that Boise, ID is now in the eastern U.S.? It’s gonna cost billions to get all the textbooks corrected.