Burnett’s career appears over
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson did not close the door completely on linebacker Julian Burnett’s playing career. But Burnett’s neck injury, suffered in the Sun Bowl Dec. 31, appears to have ended his career.
“Well, you need to get that statement from Julian,” Johnson said Monday, following Tech’s first spring practice. “If he’s not out here, he’s probably not going to play.”
Burnett will be placed on medical scholarship, meaning he is ineligible to play in the coming season.
“He’s a heck of a competitor and a good football player, but there’s bigger things in life than football,” Johnson said. “You’ve got to be safe.”
Burnett led the Yellow Jackets in tackles for the past two seasons, despite starting only eight games in 2010. He was named to the All-ACC second team last season after finishing fifth in the regular season in tackles.
Johnson said Burnett will remain involved with the team in some fashion.
“He’s disappointed,” Johnson said. “Like anything, you want him to play, but I think he can look at the big picture, and the team doctors and everybody sat down and talked to him and explained the situation and I think he understands.”
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:28 am
FLJ, it’s for sure that high taxes haven’t helped the economy, globalization or no globalization. Policies similar to the ones you apparently support have ruined most of the economies in Europe (look at Greece). Can we not learn something from them, or do you want to follow the same path to ruin?
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:29 am
The price of gas is commoditized…it has nothing to do with the taxes levied on them. We’re at the mercy of Saudi oil barons who own 20 palaces and 50 Rolls Royces who command OPEC.
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:29 am
Who said I was a Socialist dude?
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:31 am
FL Jacket
Big Corperations run this company. ” lobbyist”
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:32 am
I pay less taxes, per % of income, than I did under the last guy. But that doesn’t matter. Lowering taxes doesnt create jobs.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:32 am
FLJ, so why not take advantage of ALL the drilling prospects in and off the coast of this country WHILE we are looking for an alternative solution? Don’t ban the drilling and don’t shut down proposed pipelines (and yes, I know Obama has backtracked now on the southern part of that pipeline). Like I said earlier, it’s going to take at least 20 years to have any kind of alternative solution that is an everyday part of our lives, and we have GOT to make do with what we have until then.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:34 am
Don’t tread on me! LOL
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
12:34 am
The Innovative spirit is slowly going away because the education system (guvmint controlled) is failing us big time. We keep falling behind the other industrial nations and some of the emerging, growing countries. The global economy is destroying us because our manufacturing based has largely moved out of country so the profit margins go up because of lower wages and lax work laws like child labor.
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:35 am
If you can guarantee minimal environmental effects, with a firm “exit policy” while we work on sustainable energies I’m all for it.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:35 am
Lowering taxes on the big corporations may not create jobs, but increasing those taxes increases our cost of living, since they DO pass those taxes along to the rest of us in product and service costs. The taxes that need to be lowered are those paid by the small business man who actually COULD use his savings to create jobs. But, no, no matter what they do in DC, the middle-class American ends up getting screwed. And I am NOT just talking about Obama now; they’re all guilty of it, and yet we keep re-electing them to screw us more.
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
12:37 am
Thomas Jefferson said “The tree of liberty needs refreshing with the blood of tyrants and patriots from time to time.”
oleyeller
March 27th, 2012
12:37 am
FL Jacket, are you aware that the United States has more energy reserves than all of the middle east combined. Yet our leader has said that he wants our price for fuel to rise to beyond $4.00 a gallon to support his green effort? He is doing all he can to stop the United States from becoming independent of oil. Guess how many of our middle class workers are now suffering just to drive to work and back. I’m retired but I have kids struggling just to get to work and back. You need to read up on natural resources in these United States, we have enough fossil fuel to last before a knee jerk reaction by our current leader to give our soul to the middle east. Sorry this is a sports blog, but you opened a can of worms.
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:38 am
1 4…
If we’re falling behind…why is it so much harder to get into colleges now in this country?
Wow…we had exactly this kind I malaise and depressed attitudes until the mid 90s when the Internet ignited private industry. Let’s be positive…
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:38 am
FLJ, I would say with minimal INCREASED environmental effects. To some extent we are going to have to live with existing environmental effects while working on alternatives, but the American people cannot afford to INCREASE the environmental constraints.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:40 am
FL Jacket
It’s called supply and demand. In the State of Texas you can see Oil Derricks every where. On may be pumping oil the other one not pumping. Each Derrick can only pump so much oil daily to keep the supply at a certain rate to keep the price up. If they pumped out to much oil there would be a great supply of it that would drive the cost down. Cutting into the companies prophet. Heck even Farmers destroy crops to keep the price of there goods up. It’s a business.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:40 am
I can’t remember the man’s name or position in the Obama administration, but somebody has been quoted several times over the past few days as having said a couple of years ago that we need for US gas pump prices to get UP to the level of those in Europe. Why the hell do we need that? What benefit could that possibly have?
5150 UOAD
March 27th, 2012
12:41 am
Harder to get in college? How do you figure? There is a college on every freaking corner and every other computer site.
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:41 am
Oh boy…
So this mess is all one man’s fault?
I can’t control how far you live from work. Sorry that’s a Republican answer but come on…the price of gas is high because the supply is scarce. If we used our own reserves, OPEC would limit it’s production even more.
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
12:42 am
FLJ–I try to stay positive and hate sounding negative. One way we could reignite our innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, IMHO, would be to adopt the Fair Tax, but that is most unlikely , since the pols would have to surrender their power over our wallets as well as the economy.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:44 am
14GT said it all! The fair tax! RON PAUL! 2012
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:45 am
FLJ, like 48 just posted, the supply is only artificially scarce. If we utilized our own resources to the fullest, then it really wouldn’t matter what OPEC did.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:45 am
48, NO !!!!! I hope you were joking there.
5150 UOAD
March 27th, 2012
12:46 am
I don’t think Ron Paul can get anything done. None of the politicians really want to get much done anyways.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:47 am
I never mention to get all this started.
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
12:47 am
Do ya’ll know there is a huge oil field west of Abiline, Tx. alongside the north side of I20. There is a BIG sign with a blue background and Old Gold letters that say OWNED BY THE GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:47 am
It is definitely easier to get in college now than it ever has been. It’s just more difficult to get a quality education.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:48 am
SS, I do like some of his ideas. Smaller Gov for one. But I do not have a front runner.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:49 am
Didn’t NEWT go to UGA?
5150 UOAD
March 27th, 2012
12:49 am
Oil is a World Market Product.we don’t get to keep what we drill. The price of oil has to stay at a certain price or it will not be worth the price to get it out of the ground
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
12:50 am
Ben Franklin said, “If you surrender one small bit of freedom for one small bit of security, eventually you will surrender all of your freedom.” Patriot Act anyone??????????? TSA anyone???????????
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:50 am
48, yeah, he has SOME good ideas, and I am not entirely opposed to a libertarian approach, but he is definitely not the man. I don’t have a front runner either, but I do know that I will vote for anybody over Obama.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:51 am
Keep it coming 14!
oleyeller
March 27th, 2012
12:51 am
Like I said FL Jacket, you have your head so far up your ??? you will never see the the truth. Fact is America is suffering because of the most mismanaged energy leadership ever. A lot of this was by design to help the current leader get to a green environment as promised in his acceptance speech. Unfortunately this tact is raising prices on everything, putting hardships on those who can least afford it. It’s pretty much one mans fault, since you brought it up.
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:52 am
Guys…I’m heading off to bed. But before I do, please let me leave you with one last thought.
Just because I don’t take the popular position to hate all things government, or all things Liberal, or all things ANYTHING…doesn’t mean I haven’t thought some of these things through. The current mess we’re in was the result of lots of unscrupulous people…US (you and I). People who over leveraged themselves on 5 or 6 homes trying to flip a profit. People too poor to even think of buying a house. Mortgage brokers who looked the other way the whole time…and greedy derivatives traders who invented devious ways of passing the risk onto the consumer.
This is why there haven’t been jobs. It isn’t taxes, it isn’t spending. The economy hasn’t grown until recently. Lower taxes don’t create jobs because business owners are motivated by profits…and therefore incentivize themselves toaximize productivity.
Long story short…less taxes don’t create jobs…more demand for goods and services does. Until the lenders decide that the risks are still not profitable…there’s nothing to spur demand.
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:54 am
Well, gentlemen (and I think I can safely use that word now that all the trolls seem to be gone), it is closing in on 1AM, and I need to call it a night. FLJ, even though you and I are in apparent disagreement on many things, you are still a Jacket, and I respect you for that. In fact, it looks like we’re all Jackets in here now, and that would include Dawg48, who, if truth be known, actually bleeds gold and white……LOL. At any rate, have a good night, guys. God Bless Julian Burnett, God Bless America, and GO JACKETS !!!
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
12:55 am
1 4…
An encore. Fair tax is a regressive tax. I would prefer a Flat tax. At the end of the day…I don’t care how much you make…you should give your share.
Dawg48
March 27th, 2012
12:56 am
Fl Jacket said.
Long story short…less taxes don’t create jobs…more demand for goods and services does. Until the lenders decide that the risks are still not profitable…there’s nothing to spur demand.
Demands for goods? Like keeping the oil in the ground and keeping the supply down to drive the price up? So people can’t afford to even go on vacations because of gas prices and not spend there vacation money in Florida?
Supersize that order, mutt
March 27th, 2012
12:56 am
@ oleyeller, I hope you get at least one of the two emails I sent you. If not, I don’t know what to do. If you do get one, please respond so I will know
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
12:59 am
I was on the TSA list for added scrutiny (or whatever they call it). I flew out of Sacramento to Billings a few years ago. My 1st time after the TSA was created. While being patted down and thoroughly wanded with my arms parallel to the floor, I stated in a full, firm voice that my Constitution and Bill of Rights protected me from this objectionable, unreasonable search and they needed to be profiling. The TSA agent said we live in scary times sir. I replied in the same voice. I’m Not afraid of terrorists. If we give in and live in fear, the SOB’s win. The next 3 or 4 flights I was pulled aside when they saw my name. Oh Well.
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
1:01 am
Dawg48…
Gas magically dropping $1/gallon wouldn’t create the same positive economic growth for jobs as a 1% increase in the sales of new homes…
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
1:10 am
FLJ—the Fair Tax eliminates all federal deductions from paychecks. Everyone would pay a federal sales tax of around 20%. All the taxes added to the products we buy would go away, lowering prices. Do a little research on the fair tax. It would be a tremendous economic boon to the USA. EVERYONE would pay the sales tax. Eventually state taxes would go away and they would adopt their own fair tax of around 10%. Overall tax rate on consumption, not income, would ensure that we all paid our fair share based on consumption. Each household would get a monthly rebate based on number of people in each household, on groceries, based on an average of what a family of four (example) paid on the average price of groceries in different areas of the country. Best tax plan, IMHO, I’ve see.
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
1:15 am
Dawg Gone It–he happened to insulting an injured player who will most likely not play football again and then insulted his intelligence by referring to him continuing to take his remedial classes. And no one had any intention of “doing anything to him”. Are you one of his friends? If he has any.
FL Jacket
March 27th, 2012
1:21 am
1 4…
Consumption is not proportionate. A guy making $500K doesn’t consume 10X the goods that a guy making $50K does. Therefore, it puts even more tax burden on middle and lower classes. What’s more fair is a Flat tax w/o the litany of tax-deductible items or redundantly taxed items (like investment income).
As I’ve said…tax philosophy has little or nothing to do with job creation.
GT Fan
March 27th, 2012
1:23 am
Best of luck Julian. Hopefully your worth ethic reflects to others on the team. It’s sad such an unfortunate event happened to such a hard working player?
10/11 I typically don’t give attention to the losers like you but seriously? That’s like saying I wish Aaron Murray breaks his neck and never plays again. We all know UGA would go down the drain this season if that happened but I want him there between the hedges on Thanksgiving. And I don’t wish that because it just isn’t right. For one, I root for all talent from UGA because it’s good for the whole state? I don’t know why you one can HATE GT that much that you can’t even show sympathy for someone who can’t play football again.
Yeah UGA can handles GT pretty well every year but so what? We are a sub-par ACC team lol. I wish UGA the best but let’s get real at the same time. They have a lot of work ahead of them. They didn’t beat one top 20 team last year. Can’t win a championship playing like that. Not to mention, Alabama is looking pretty unstoppable. Just trying to put things in perspective, bashing one program doesn’t do much good when your own program isn’t winning the big games.
Second, you need to state stuff that at least makes sense. Our “remedial” program is lot better than most schools. Personally, I don’t know what UGA athletes major in, but management majors at Tech make an average of 50 grand median salary? I bet thats way more than most of the communications majors that a lot of athletes go into. One of the reasons a lot of athletes don’t come to Tech is because we don’t offer these “dumb-it-down-for-the-athletes” classes. Do me a favor and hop off the GT boards. If you hate us SO much then why are you here anyway?
Oh and don’t believe me on some of my facts? I actually do research before I post, maybe you should try it. http://mgt.gatech.edu/programs/under/prospective/career.html
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
1:29 am
FLJ–I think we both have good points. I really don’t know how to classify myself politically. I have Democratic beliefs and Republican beliefs with some Libertarian leanings thrown in for good measure. I would not object to a flat tax with all of the loopholes closed and the deductions ended so that we are no longer subsidizing each other with business meal, home mortgage and similar deductions. Maybe someday.
1 4 GT
March 27th, 2012
1:39 am
For anyone checking in later, especially those that were here from the get-go. I found the discussion pretty enjoyable after a couple of guys put their $.00 worth in and left. Maybe they even hung around and learned a little something. Anyway, I will check in around noon time today and maybe we can continue the exchange of ideas and opinions. I would enjoy doing this type discussion in person once a month at a good place to have breakfast and drink coffee. Likely we all live to far apart. Just sayin…………..
go42
March 27th, 2012
6:20 am
All the best young man. It ain’t over! Love you!
Animal Control
March 27th, 2012
7:48 am
Well, Jason White, thank you for your ever so wise insight in the the mindset of a UGAG fan. I’m sure by your lack of class you yourself have never seen the inside of a college classroom, much less the inside of one in Athens. Hang on to that 10/11 bandwagon as long as you can so you can ride on the coat tails of what better men have done and pull for a program you’ve done nothing for! And as always, please, maintain that backwoods behavior of yours, it assures me I make the right decision every year to pull for the Yellow Jackets! THWG CLASSLESS fans!
5150 UOAD
March 27th, 2012
8:02 am
Animal Control jason white went to North Cobb and graduated UGa in 1990. He runs White Accounting.
BGA
March 27th, 2012
8:15 am
Sorry to hear this for Julian. Wish him the best.