Tech’s Rice suspended
Georgia Tech guard Glen Rice, Jr. has been suspended indefinitely by coach Brian Gregory. Rice, who was also suspended for the first three games of the season, was not at practice Friday and will not travel with the team for its game Saturday against Virginia Tech.
Gregory did not give a reason for the suspension or offer further comment.
Rice leads the Yellow Jackets in scoring and rebounding. With Rice suspended and backup center Nate Hicks out with mononucleosis, Tech will play the Hokies with eight scholarship players, not counting two former walk-ons put on scholarship this season.
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Full Metal Jacket
February 18th, 2012
1:37 am
I support Coach Gregory 100% and have no doubt Rice’s suspension is justified. I am dismayed at the so-called Tech fans here who are piling on Rice and speaking so disparaging of him. He needs to continue to mature, and he shouldn’t play if he is not being a positive, productive player; but I do give him credit for sticking around (when several did not) and trying to make the adjustments to a new coach new system and clearly, a more disciplined and demanding work ethic than he was recruited into. Rice should know that we want him to succeed here at Tech, for his own sake and the team’s.
Hewitt!
February 18th, 2012
1:41 am
tech shouldn’t have run hewitt off—these players don’t like the new coach and don’t like to do what he say
kshizzle
February 18th, 2012
2:45 am
Did Glen Rice Sr. get in anything close to this much trouble??? I think the answer is no. He won an NCAA championship like a pro and played 10+ years in the NBA like a pro. Take a hint kid, you ain’t doing it right.
tico
February 18th, 2012
3:20 am
kshizzle: no he didnt…but Jr. aint Daddy…especially on the court!
Coach
February 18th, 2012
5:03 am
I went and watched Tech two years ago… they were playing Clemson. Clem Tech was in basic 2-3 zone, no traps, nothing special, just your basic 2-3 zone. Georgia Tech looked as if they had never seen a zone. No penetration by the point guard in the gaps up to (make 2 guard 1) no short corner, no flashing in the post, no skip passes,the wings never got rocker step ready to shoot, I mean it was pitiful. As we were leaving I wondered what the heck Tech was trying to do…I coach high school basketball and I’ve seen better offensive strategy by HS coaches….and Hewitt was making how much money?
Strange Murphy
February 18th, 2012
5:04 am
Another Tech thug bites the dust!
TennesseeDawg
February 18th, 2012
5:56 am
Typical Tech thug
tico
February 18th, 2012
5:57 am
cOACH:
yOU proably had better talent.
ToeMeetsLeather
February 18th, 2012
6:49 am
Strange and TN, isn’t it time to grab the “slow/stop” sign, put your orange vest on and get back to work. It’s almost daylight.
BEEM EXPECTING IT
February 18th, 2012
6:59 am
GR has so much talent and is wasting it. He does not want to be coached and only plays hard when he feels like (not too often),
Tech cannot build around Rice, He is a slacker and it is time for him to transfer or move on.
js
February 18th, 2012
7:03 am
Have we hit bottom yet geez……
GSU cheap talk
February 18th, 2012
7:12 am
One season under their belts in thejr jr. league and GSU talking smack. Seriously!!!!!?
Fair n Balanced
February 18th, 2012
7:52 am
Student athletes are basically employees. If you don’t obey the rules of your employer then you lose pay. Take these scholarships and subtract money when offenses occur. So tired of this stuff! So many kids working their way thru school and most of them going into debt! “student athletes” (pretty much an oxymoron in America) accumulate no debt, feel privileged and appear arrogant. Hit them where it hurts. Make em work and pay them less.
stinger
February 18th, 2012
7:58 am
It’s really sad, we are big time GT fans. My son ask me why I never watch GT basketball…we live and die by the Football…I just tell him I used to be the same way about basketball when Cremins was the coach..back when they were very competive…the other sad thing is that PJ is in the process of destroying the Football program too…the Athletic leadership at GT really doesn’t have a clue
Wow
February 18th, 2012
8:23 am
I hope these kids are looking at the Randy Moss and T.O. clown acts going on now. Once ur talent is gone, all u have left is ur character. Those two poor fools cant understand why no one wants em anymore. Looks like GRjr is headed toward the same trash heap those two are piled on.
ToeMeetsLeather
February 18th, 2012
8:47 am
stinger, not sure there will be room on the bandwagon for you in 2014 with Lee or Thomas running the TO and CBG’s “new” squad defending home court in the new TIT. I’m excited about the direction of both programs myself! I guess we shall see huh?
GTfan
February 18th, 2012
8:49 am
Coach BG is on the right track. He had very little to work with this year and I believe he has done a great job. Give the man time to work “his” program and then judge. To Sharon and Hewitt! above…BG is good enough and if players don’t like the Coach–they can get the hell out! They’re getting a free education to play. This is not the NBA. Get a life— put up are shut up.
I support Coach Gregory 110%.
roughrider
February 18th, 2012
8:59 am
Cant’ believe this happened at Tech, with it’s high standards of qualification. I hear Tech people say all the time that this is the reason UGA has thugs, but it looks like Tech has some also.
GTfan
February 18th, 2012
9:01 am
Yes Mr. stinger, whats sad is that you call yourself a big time GT fan… you sure don’t sound like it. Sounds like a UGA troll. What are you teaching your son to only support your team in the good times and the rest to hell with…You sounds more like a bandwagon fan. I’m very excite about our future..Go Jackets.
bee1
February 18th, 2012
9:08 am
roughrider~ u can’t say the word~ thugs~ because you don’t know the reason Rice was suspended. If stealing, beating up girl friend, etc thats ok but until u know~~just be cool brother.
crap happen everywhere.
G. Whizz
February 18th, 2012
9:12 am
Okay, “bball fan”. Address your comments to the story at hand and stop badgering Coach Hewitt.
OldGold1964
February 18th, 2012
9:15 am
Without knowing the full story, or being privvy to insider news, I can only suggest that Jr. may need to look at who his friends are and limit his social contacts to his teammates; and, leave those inevitable “hangers on” behind.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 18th, 2012
9:45 am
I can’t believe some of the garbage that was posted on here last night. And the post made at 11:44PM under my name was certainly not made by me. I have not given up on any of the coaches or programs at Tech. Any TRUE Tech fan would never say the things that have been said on this blog, and for those guys who are PRETENDING to be Tech fans and posting all that drivel, all I can say is, GET A LIFE !!!!
Robert Barron
February 18th, 2012
10:17 am
I agree with Supersize post of 9:45 and Full Mettle Jacket’s as well.
I’m sick of “fans” throwing players under the bus and it has been going on for a long time.
I don’t like the knocks of Reggie Ball who is seldom defended.
He would have been a lot better with Freigen as O coordinator and not the Auburn dummy.
O’Leary should have been encouraged to leave so we could promote the brains of the outfit.
Reggie started the 4 wins in a row over Miami.
We’ll never see that again.
Trolls are one thing but bashing your own college players is pathetic.
Go to the Falcons blog and get on the multi-millionaires if u have a need to do that.
walter
February 18th, 2012
10:18 am
More Tech trash. Always hush-hush with why their thugs are in trouble while Richt is an open book. Not surprised in the least.
GT = dumpster Fire
February 18th, 2012
10:19 am
GT football = joke, GT basketball = joke, GT athletics = joke.
hahahaha!!!
February 18th, 2012
10:22 am
That tutor that has been taking all his classes for him probably is threatening the school for more money. Hahahahaha!!! Gotta love Tek “student” athletes!!!
Uptown guy
February 18th, 2012
10:26 am
I must admit I am a little bit surprised. Tech normally hides their thugs and obvious neanderthals very well from the public, until they of course slip up and get in front of a camera for an interview. M johnson comes to mind a lot. If he can last 4 years on Tech’s campus then anyone can.
Steve
February 18th, 2012
10:28 am
Hmmmm. According to Tech fans, all of the thugs/losers only go to UGA. Guess Tech gets them as well. Ha. No worries, your basketball team sucks anyway, as does the football team.
Tell me something I didnt know
February 18th, 2012
10:30 am
The cheats best player is a thug. Shocking!!!!
cmon son
February 18th, 2012
10:35 am
Why do you people feel The need to call every black kid in college who shows signs of immaturity a thug? Although most of you wont admit it but i honestly believe that most of you are saying thug but you really want to use The n-word instead. Learn the real meaning of the word before you run around unfairly labeling kids thugs
Real Tech fan
February 18th, 2012
10:37 am
@Robert Barron –
Please. Ball could not even count to 4. What you really have a problem with is admitting we do not really target brainiac athletes. We target 90% of the same players UGA does. Its fans in denial like you and Super Idiot who come on here and spread asinine propaganda and pretend all our athletes are choir boys and future NASA employees. You give we real Tech fans a headache and a bad name!!!
George P
February 18th, 2012
10:39 am
To quote a long time Chan Gailey fan, “Thank God and greyhound he’s gone”.
tyler
February 18th, 2012
10:42 am
cmon son –
Sorry son, but that reverse psychology bs used to intimidate people from speaking the OBVIOUS truth out of fears of being called a racist has run its course. You can thank your one term Communist d-bag tard President for that. Get some new material. The whole white guilt crap is done.
Steve
February 18th, 2012
10:43 am
95% of black people are thugs. Have you not seen crime stats? How many have diamond earrings? Tats? No fathers?
kindler
February 18th, 2012
10:45 am
Cmon son
Speaking of idiotic racist comments…..gotta be a Tech fan
baxter
February 18th, 2012
10:48 am
First three games of the season? And how many times did the Tech Buzz (aka AJC) beat that one to death? Oh my bad, they didnt, because Rice isnt at UGA.
hahahaha!!!
February 18th, 2012
10:49 am
I wonder if Gregory will get fired at the same time as Johnson at the end of next year?
cmon son
February 18th, 2012
10:49 am
@Steve i guess its safe to say 95% of White people are pedophiles, meth addicts, and were conceived through incest!
hahahaha!!!
February 18th, 2012
10:52 am
Sorry cmon, but I think blacks lead the way with having the most grandparents in their 30’s.
The meth part was funny though
Robert Barron
February 18th, 2012
10:55 am
I’m not in denial.
The problem with GT athletics is dumb ADs period.
Dodd was dumb to take us out of the SEC.
Who deserves the blame for the Curry years? (one good one out of seven and 4 losses in a row to Duke). If Dodd forced the hire on Homer, then maybe Homer should not have had the job.
Here are Tech’s three very good football coaches: Heisman, Dodd and Freigen.
The O’Leary year were not much better than the Curry years until he hired Freigen (which may have been forced on him).
When Hewitt’s team made the NCAA finals, Dave Briaine should have run the annual renewal contract by a GOOD attorney who knows the ups and downs of sports. If we could fire Cremins and be on his back the last two years then we are probably going to fire anyone. Braine did the annual renewal to save money as Hewitt was the hot coach of 2005 and could have commanded over 2 mil a year but a good attorney says pay the man so u can fire him when things go bad.
Italian_29
February 18th, 2012
10:56 am
I just wanted to reiterate my post from before, I think that you guys have a coach that is going to get GT back to respectability and in contention for championships. I don’t think it will be overnight though, Coach Gregory will need some time to get the program back on track. At least he is trying to instill discipline, something that Coach Hewitt lacked and it showed in the way the team played. I hope Coach Fox is going to be able to do the same with our program, but it still remains to be seen. GATA
Robert Barron
February 18th, 2012
11:02 am
Not impressed in the least with how DRAD handled the minor investigation that has mushroomed into a problem. I think the NCAA will give the trophy back.
They threatened to take all Joe Hamilton’s great wins away (during the Freigen years) but relented.
Either they do that again or should give Miami the “death penalty”.
I’m not for the death penalty for Miami btw.
Robert Barron
February 18th, 2012
11:07 am
@Italian_29.
Agreed.
But I do not like the throwing all the players under the bus.
I was a season ticket holder until this year of football and until this year of basketball.
Jason Morris showed his stuff in both the Uga win and the near win vs Duke.
This coach needs an offfensive mind on his bench if that is his flaw.
Morris should play more and get more shots and it should not take a suspension to have it happen. I like that Coach Gregory has taught rebounding skills to the team.
Had we added a PG to this team, it would have been a lot better.
cheat hypocrites
February 18th, 2012
11:16 am
So they are only thugs when they go to UGA and get in trouble, no matter how minor it is?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 18th, 2012
11:18 am
Most of the posters on here today are UGA trash, both white and black. They are so insecure about all the problems that exist in Athens, and have existed there since the beginning of time, that they jump on the least little something at Tech and try to make it out to be something earthshaking and scandalous. Get a life, little girls.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 18th, 2012
11:22 am
All the miscreant behavior in Athens the past few years has been far from minor, cheat hypocrite— DUI’s, suspended licenses, physical and sexual abuse of women, drugs, etc. And going back a few more years, the likes of Bill Harrick and the entire Jan Kemp affair. UGA didn’t “win” the Fulmer Cup for nothing, bubba
OldSchoolTechFanatic
February 18th, 2012
11:30 am
Good thing we didn’t hire MARK PRICE we might have had a LOOSING SEASON !!!
OldSchoolTechFanatic
February 18th, 2012
11:30 am
Is it Baseball season yet???
GoBlue
February 18th, 2012
11:31 am
I watche GR jr play about 15 times in high school. Went more to watch Ryan Harrow play. But even then, Rice was a punk; he taunted opposing players, pushed, took cheap shots, was disrespectful to referees, coaches, etc. Kid is the epitomy of entitlement.