Georgia Tech 2012 schedule
Sept. 3 – at Virginia Tech
Sept. 8 – Presbyterian
Sept. 15 – Virginia
Sept. 22 – Miami
Sept. 29 – Middle Tennessee State
Oct. 6 – at Clemson
Oct. 13 – Open date
Oct. 20 – Boston College
Oct. 27 – BYU
Nov. 3 – at Maryland
Nov. 10 – at North Carolina
Nov. 17 – Duke
Nov. 24 – at Georgia
First observations – A well-placed bye, after the fifth game. … Six of the first eight games are at home, including four in a row in September, and then three of the last four are on the road, including at Georgia. … With three Coastal Division games in the first four weeks, Tech’s ACC titles hopes could well be in terrific shape, or dashed, before the end of September. … Duke plays Tech after its bye week, which I think it also did this past season. North Carolina will also get Tech after the bye.
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Full Metal Jacket
February 27th, 2012
4:21 pm
And of course, beating UGA and occasionally winning a bowl game would go a long way in filling the increasingly empty seats. (And, as we saw with Hewitt, it will largely be attendance and revenue that really determines the program’s leadership.)
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
4:22 pm
realfan….I don’t know WHERE you attend games, but at Tech they use computer scanners. They tabulate the number of TICKET HOLDING people that ATTEND the game.
if you are so so smart how can MORE people ATTEND a Vols game than the stated seating capacity? I guess they COUNT the Tickets or the dial number on the turnstile.
Attendance and ticket sales are different things. Many schools have games sold out but the attendance is not sold out.
George Stein
February 27th, 2012
4:24 pm
I agree about beating UGA, FMJ. I don’t think most fans really care about bowl games anymore, though.
Bob Horner
February 27th, 2012
4:27 pm
P.S., playing better competition probably would help your team improve, recruiting, and not get blown out everytime you play a decent team in a bowl….otherwise, continue to be satisfied with 7 and 8 win seasons playing a weak schedule.
Jerry D
February 27th, 2012
4:29 pm
I will take the bet that Miami or Uva will not be 3:30. One of those will def be a mid afternoon or late game. maybe both.
Full Metal Jacket
February 27th, 2012
4:30 pm
Unlike many of our “friends” in Athens, I take little or no pleasure in preseason chest-thumping and bragadaccio. I rather like CPJ’s understated style and the idea of flying under the radar until you get the chance to prove it on the field. I’d always rather exceed expectations than having to back off hyperbolic trash-talking.
Jerry D
February 27th, 2012
4:31 pm
Horner, get blown out in a bowl? by who?
Full Metal Jacket
February 27th, 2012
4:31 pm
GS, I agree, the UGA game really is our bowl game every year, even when we make the ACC champ game.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
4:34 pm
Bob Horner, apparently you didn’t log in any over the past month when every day there were pop-up ads for season tickets for UGA. I have never seen them do that before, and Tech has never done that, so apparently season ticket sales in Athens are not going as well this year as in the past.
Razorjacket
February 27th, 2012
4:36 pm
If GT defeats VT, then likely to have 3:30 or night kickoff for the other Sept. home games. If GT loses to VT, we’ll be forgotten by ESPN and playing at noon the rest of the month.
HighTech
February 27th, 2012
4:36 pm
realfan
February 27th, 2012
4:06 pm
Really? Presbyterian? Cumberland must have been scheduled already. If Tech can’t win 8 with that schedule they should give up D1 football and just go to the FCS and play with Jax St and Midd Tenn and Ga St. All those schools they recruit against now.
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Recruit against MTSU? You mean like UGA does?
http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/02/23/commit-jc-db-picks-uga-over-houston-and-middle-tennessee-state/
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
4:36 pm
UOAD, I haven’t seen a UGA game on TV from Athens in the past 5 years that was full. So either there are a lot of no-shows for those games, or there is some very clever disguising of the fans to look like empty seats.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
4:37 pm
I predict either a late afternoon or early evening start for the Presbyterian game. Why would we want it to be at noon. There certainly won’t be any TV coverage for it. A couple of years ago we even scheduled one of those early patsies on a Thursday night. That obviously won’t happen this year, but there’s no reason for it to start at noon.
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
4:38 pm
SuperSize it has taken a while but many UGa fans have figured it out. They can save a TON of money NOT buying season tickets and just buy from the scalpers the games worth seeing.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
4:39 pm
UOAD, it saves them a helluva lot of time and hassle getting to and from cow town and finding places to park there too. I know I’ll never go back there again.
GT Dude
February 27th, 2012
4:47 pm
With the front end loading of our schedule, the team should really be focused during spring practices and summer workouts. A lot to play for in the first four weeks!
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
4:47 pm
haven’t been since 98 and don’t plan on ever going again. Well if my Bama buddy has tickets for the Tide in Athens I might go to that one with him.
George Stein
February 27th, 2012
4:49 pm
I was thinking the same thing, GT Dude. Johnson should have no problem getting their attention.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
4:52 pm
UOAD, when will that be? They don’t play Bama next year and probably not the next either
GT Dude
February 27th, 2012
4:55 pm
On the ticket promotions note, I never recall Doggyland having to advertise for fans to donate to their athletic fund and to buy season tickets. Crop prices must really be down this year…
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
4:55 pm
could be in 15.
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
4:57 pm
GT Dude UGa season ticket holders have to have donated so much over the years to accumulate enough points to receive a chance to buy season tickets.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
4:59 pm
GT Dude, that’s why those pop-ups were so surprising. Things must not be as good in Athens as they dwag fans would have us believe.
GT Dude
February 27th, 2012
5:02 pm
@UOAD I understand the donation requirements for ticket purchased, this is just the first time I have heard radio ads and seen pop ups promoting the athletic fund
Is this something new this year, or have I been living under a rock
GT Dude
February 27th, 2012
5:03 pm
@super, my thoughts exactly…
Ghost
February 27th, 2012
5:06 pm
Super , I was surprised to see the ads seeking applications. Every game except one has been a sellout for years. I know to get season tickets you will have to donate $, single game tickets are available when the visiting team doesn’t sell their allotment.Last year the cumulative score to be considered for season tickets was 500. To get florida tickets last year the cumulative score (donations over 10 year period) was 8400, anyone who had donated less wouldn’t receive Fl Tickets.To have bought ticket through athletic department for tech game last year required 31,000 points.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
5:07 pm
Look for “gimmick” to get the fans to Athens now—chitlins and iced tea maybe?
ToeMeetsLeather
February 27th, 2012
5:11 pm
7-5, sure hope I’m wrong. Will have to see a pass rush and more dynamic play from the QB position to change my prediction.
We should be loaded at RB and DB, but have a lot of question marks everywhere else.
Alabama Jack
February 27th, 2012
5:12 pm
WnE – you are not a fan, you are not knowledgable – you are nothing but a dawg troll. Now go stuff a scok in it.
Hoopster
February 27th, 2012
5:13 pm
Why do you guys continue to respond to WnE as if he was a Tech fan? That’s buLLdawg. He’s no Tech fan. Please ignore the troll.
Chris
February 27th, 2012
5:16 pm
Ha. You dorks are funny. You talk about UGA not filling up the stadium but you dorks can’t fill-up your high school stadium against UGA, your biggest game of the year. Went last year and was shocked by the number of empty seats. Enjoy your 7-6 season which includes the annual losses to UGA and in your bowl game.
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
5:17 pm
Ghost……Every game except one has been a sellout for years……..that is a LIE. NO NO NO game can be soldout before the schedule is made or the damn tickets printed.
Hoopster he is now Thomas Brown and 13-1 too.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
5:19 pm
Chris, two years ago Sanford Stadium wasn’t filled for the Tech game either. I watched it on TV, and there were empty seats (as always) in the upper corners of the upper decks. Those aren’t visitor seats, so where were all the dwag fans? It wasn’t full for the last LSU game played there or for the USC game last year either.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
5:21 pm
Ghost, if all those games have been sold out, then why is it that every TV game I see from Athens has lots of empty seats in the upper corners of the upper deck?
Ghost
February 27th, 2012
5:25 pm
Super, I didn’t say this years seasons was a sellout, I said the past several years were all sellouts > the first game that wasn’t a sellout since the tech game of 2000. was Coastal Carolina in 2011 only 91.946 tickets were sold.64 straight sell outs.
Ghost
February 27th, 2012
5:26 pm
The upper corner of the 3rd deck are visator tickets.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
5:27 pm
Ghost, but why have there been empty seats in the upper deck if the games are sold out?
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
5:28 pm
Ghost, then if the visitors are not buying those tickets, the games are not sold out.
Supersize that order, mutt
February 27th, 2012
5:29 pm
I don’t recall seeing any empty seats in the games televised from Neyland Stadium, and it’s bigger than Sanford Stadium.
Chris
February 27th, 2012
5:29 pm
Wow “supersize,” are you that stupid? When a game first comes on the air, yes, those sections are sometimes not full but fill-up after the game starts. I have seen it 100 times. The USC game last year was as packed as can be. I was there. Did not see empty seats. Lets pretend you are right and “only” 88,000 show up in a 93,000 stadium. How do you explain Tech’s little stadium never being full? Get your facts straight.
Ghost
February 27th, 2012
5:29 pm
They count tickets sold not butts in the seats.
Chris
February 27th, 2012
5:31 pm
More incorrect facts. When visitors seats are not sold, UGA releases them to the public and they are sold in minutes.
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
5:37 pm
not always true CHRIS. UGa might sellout but they have had PLENTY of games the fast few years that were not Attendanced Out. LOL. Lots of empty seats during & since the 6-7 year.
Ghost
February 27th, 2012
5:37 pm
Super , Or Perhaps some visiting fans buy tickets and don’t go to the game. If the tickets are returned by visiting team , University offers them as single game tickets , 64 straight sellouts from 2001 until CC game of 2011. and concerning Tenn they are not filling up Neyland like they used to Cincinaati and Montana only had 94,000 in 2011.
FL Jacket
February 27th, 2012
5:40 pm
Oh jeez…here we go again
ticket sales = good program
Ghost
February 27th, 2012
5:40 pm
How much do you have to donate to get Tech tickets?
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
5:40 pm
When the ATTENDANCE is stated over the PA system they are giving the butts in the seats.
George Stein
February 27th, 2012
5:40 pm
Tennessee may sell out their games, but I’ll never understand why anyone would want to be seen in that color with that song playing the whole damn game.
5150 UOAD
February 27th, 2012
5:41 pm
Ghost you don’t. You have to if you want to keep the same seats or upgrade.
Boot Licking Toadie
February 27th, 2012
5:42 pm
The angry curs demand it!