Days could miss Tech spring game
Greetings
Some notes from post-practice interviews Wednesday.
1. Quarterback Synjyn Days may not play Friday night in the spring scrimmage. Days injured his left wrist on the final play of practice Wednesday. Days and fellow backup Vad Lee had been receiving most of the practice reps and were slated to get most of them in the scrimmage.
Coach Paul Johnson was not specific regarding how Days’ snaps will be allocated if he can’t play. It could be more for Tevin Washington or for early enrollee Dennis Andrews or walk-on transfer Tim Byerly, or all three, as well as walk-on Darryl Dickey.
“As far as the game goes, it’s not a concern as much as it is he’s made a lot of progress this spring,” Johnson said. “You’d like to see him have a chance to play.”
2. Guard Shaquille Mason may not play either with an undisclosed injury. It was hoped he would return for Wednesday’s practice, but he didn’t participate. That would leave the offensive line with 10 available bodies for Friday, including walk-ons. If someone gets hurt Friday, the likely option would be to flip-flop players from team to team.
3. Johnson on inside linebacker Jabari Hunt-Days: “I think he’s had a good camp, a good spring. I think he’s improved, I think he’s worked hard. He’s doing some good things.”
On the likelihood he’ll see playing time in the fall: “Oh, yeah, definitely. He’s going to have to. He’s going to play.”
4. Asked if any A-backs had made progress closing the gap with Robert Godhigh, who has been the top performing A-back in the spring with Orwin Smith out, Johnson said “I think Deon Hill’s done some good things.”
Johnson also mentioned Tony Zenon and B.J. Bostic but said there’s not a lot of separation.
5. Wide receiver Jeremy Moore has pushed his way into the first group, splitting reps with Jeff Greene and Chris Jackson.
“He’s probably been the most consistent, probably had the least amount of efforts and played hard,” Johnson said. “He’s made some catches. He’s done some good things, made some plays.”
Efforts are demerits for not giving full effort on a play.
“I think you’ve got Jeff and Darren (Waller) and Chris and Jeremy competing and we’ll see how it comes out,” Johnson said. “They’ve all got to learn to play harder.”
6. The most improved player on defense? Johnson said several players have improved and added that “(defensive end) Anthony Williams has caught my eye.”
7. Asked the same question, Washington said named outside linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu, inside linebacker Quayshawn Nealy, nose tackle T.J. Barnes and also the secondary.
“I think those guys are a lot hungrier this year, more physical with our receivers,” he said. “Those guys come out and just compete every day, try to make plays on the ball, put the defense in a position where they feel like nobody can come out and throw on them.”
“Jeremiah, he’s always 100 miles an hour,” Washington said. “Sometimes you want to tell him to slow down. … He’s got a high motor. He’s always going.”
Washington said Barnes’ focus and attention to detail have improved.
“As far as with the defensive line, if they’ve got a stunt on, he’s making sure he’s in the right gap, making sure he’s doing his job, just trying to take a lot of personal responsibility for what he has to do.”
8. In case you weren’t aware, the spring game is Friday at 7:45 p.m. Free to the public. Parking information here.
Thanks for reading. I’ll have another post up later this morning.
Hope you all can make it out to the spring game Friday night.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:01 pm
Can WnE even write a letter without cutting and pasting?
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:02 pm
“don’t forget minutiae, GT Lee” Super, are you talking about 5150’s Vienna sausage?!!!! lol
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
4:02 pm
Didn’t the Unabomber cut and paste newspaper text?
Randy from Macon
April 19th, 2012
4:03 pm
I am really excited about the spring game and this coming season. The Jackets have the potential to have a great season and I’m going to be right there with them. Hope to see you real Tech fans at the game tomorrow night. THWG!
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:03 pm
LOL @ Lee……too.funny, but no, “minutiae” is another one of WnE’s favorite words
Ken Sugiura
April 19th, 2012
4:03 pm
it seems like you’ve all reached the same conclusion, but i am confident that johnson didn’t know about any of this until yesterday.
i neglected the question about braun – he has a broken leg. out 6-8 weeks.
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
4:04 pm
Uga players passing a “Housing or Magazine” class………..
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=440591232622567&set=a.307033735978318.94232.306762402672118&type=1&theater
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:04 pm
Hey, Randy, if you get there early and want to meet a few of us, come to Ray’s NY Pizza between 5 and 5:30
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:04 pm
Right On, Randy!!!!
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
4:05 pm
Ken, do you know whether Johnson has the power to deliver a stiffer penalty than the one issued? Or is that something the school removed from him to eliminate a conflict of interest?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:06 pm
YIKES @ Braun’s broken leg. Thanks, Ken.
While you’re still reading this, can you PLEASE get whoever is responsible for the filters to allow the correct spelling of the word “yestahday”? It’s a pain to type something out with the correct spelling of that word somewhere in it and then have it blocked and have to type it all over again.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
4:06 pm
Ken…
I think a lot of us feel that this is a very lax punishment for what is a serious offense…is it possible that the length of suspension gets adjusted later? Or is this the protocol?
BLT
April 19th, 2012
4:06 pm
My apologies to Truth Teller and Ghost for maybe getting a little “over the top” about Drummond last night. I was just sticking up for my team/player.
There’s more information not available so I won’t comment further about Mr. Drummond.
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
4:07 pm
GT FAN you are a STUPID F…K.
You really need to Pull you calculator out of your Butt.
YOU KNOW Tech will play 14 games? I will bet you right now $10,000 that TECH doesn’t play 14 games. you got the Ballz and Cash to take the bet?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:07 pm
@ BLT, you’re not alone. We all stuck up for him.
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
4:07 pm
Super…broken leg is bad, but everyone will be back for Fall practice. I get more worried about ligament or tendon injuries…
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:08 pm
@ UOAD, why would you bet against the possibility of Tech playing 14 games???
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:09 pm
@ FLJ….that’s true
BLT
April 19th, 2012
4:12 pm
dawgfan, as CMR’s official poo inspector shouldn’t you be reporting about his latest bowel movement on the UGA blogs? You told us that a couple of days ago in case you forgot.
BTW…Thanks
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:13 pm
@ BLT……he did WHAT????
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
4:13 pm
Trey Braun
Worked at Publix (Front Service Clerk)Studying Mechanical Engineering at Georgia TechLives in Atlanta, GeorgiaIn a relationship with Anna Marie DiSalvoFrom Tallahassee, FloridaBorn on March 16, 1993
For the TROLLS……………it looks like TECH does have an Engineer Football Player.
WOW this should make the TROLLS heads EXPLODE……….Sean Boudreau Bedford (born December 26, 1987 in Gainesville, Florida) is the starting football center for Osos de Madrid, a Spanish football team in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Americano. He was the starting college football center for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. He majored in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Sporting News has named Bedford one of the 20 smartest athletes in the nation. Sean is now enrolled at the University of Florida working on his Law Degree.
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:14 pm
“official poo inspector” ? what’s he do, look for corn?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:15 pm
OMG, GT Lee…..you didn’t. LOL
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:16 pm
no I din’t….BLT did
George Stein
April 19th, 2012
4:17 pm
Trey Braun is ME? Sheesh. When does he sleep?
BLT
April 19th, 2012
4:18 pm
Supersize, he wrote “CMR takes bigger craps than Paul Johnson”. A person would have to be in some official capacity to know that. Not my sort of job, but I guess UGA’s budget allows for it. Maybe he’s a proctologist.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:19 pm
@ Lee…..but you took it even further with the “corn” LOL
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:19 pm
LMAO @ BLT
BLT
April 19th, 2012
4:20 pm
No, dawgfan did…
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
4:20 pm
SUPER I will change my BET after the Win against Va Tech. If we lose that game it will be a hard Roe to Hoe to get to 14 games. I know the ODDS of a 14 game season with 12 teams in the league. 100% teams will play 12 games and only 2 will get a shot at 14 games. That is a 14% chance. I will bet $10,000 on those odds.
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:20 pm
just wondering what an official poo inspector does, that’s all
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:22 pm
UOAD, I don’t care what the odds are, I never bet against Tech. I wouldn’t want to win a bet like that…..that’s just me, I guess.
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:23 pm
I mean, does he also check size, weight and consistency?
BLT
April 19th, 2012
4:23 pm
5150, I believe playing 14 games means CCG and bowl game so that’s a good thing.
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:25 pm
guys, 5150’s point is that the CCG abd bowl game aren’t SCHEDULED…..
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:26 pm
and
BLT
April 19th, 2012
4:28 pm
GT Lee, you need to get with dawgfan about the details. I really don’t care. He obviously does or he would not make a statement like that.
I think he was trying to use it as an analogy but it came off strange. “How does he know about CMR’s bowel movements?”
Boaters Beware!
April 19th, 2012
4:28 pm
This blog demonstrates just how irrevelent Georgia Tech is and why they get so little coverage in the A J C blogs. 9 pages of comments made up of mainly 4-5 posters. I’m not knocking you guys so don’t take it personally, but if Tech can’t find more than a handful of folks to comment on an article than the lack of Tech coverage is understandable. Sad but true
dawgfan
April 19th, 2012
4:28 pm
I said Mark Richt craps bigger than Paul Johnson. He does. Its a line from Jack Palance in City Slickers. Maybe if you all weren’t such lame dorks you would know that. At any rate, this was in response to a Techie claiming that Paul Johnson is a more intense coach than Mark Richt. I took major issue with this for a coupe of reasons. Number one, Paul Johnson is only intense on his radio call in shows when he can run his mouth with impunity. I also pointed out that Paul Johnson never played football at the collegiate level, while Mark Richt started a few games at a big time football program. Oh, and then there’s that little matter of how Paul Johnson has only managed to beat Mark Richt once on that place we like to call a football field. More intense? Sure thing Techies. Whatever you say.
Any more questions?
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
4:29 pm
You guys are arguing over something extremely contingent on how we fare in our first 4 games. I would wait until the end of September before getting confident either way…
5150 UOAD
April 19th, 2012
4:30 pm
GUYS
GUYS
GUYS
I WANT TECH to play 14 games. If I made a Bet in VEGAS right for TECH to play 14 games I am SORRY but I go on the side that Tech has 14% chance to do that I will bet against it. I LOVE OUR TEAM. Most of you know that, but betting has NOTHING to do with LOVE but the ODDS.
Do I think TECH can beat UGa? Hell yes will I do a STRAIGHT UP Bet? Hell NO I want at least 2.5-3.5 points for TECH. I am CRAZY but I ain’t STUPID.
I will say there isn’t a Single QB I would take form UGa and Only one RB. I think Gurley would BLOW the f..king ACC world Up running in our Offense.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:31 pm
@ FLJ, that was the point UOAD was making
HighTech
April 19th, 2012
4:31 pm
Here’s a chart to help dawgfan…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bristol_stool_chart.svg
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
4:32 pm
” I also pointed out that Paul Johnson never played football at the collegiate level, while Mark Richt started a few games at a big time football program.”
A) Why does this matter when discussing football coaches? and
B) Backing up Jim Kelly at a school BEFORE they ever became a big-time football program is considered playing for a big-time football program?
GT Lee
April 19th, 2012
4:34 pm
LMAO @ High Tech
Boaters Beware……zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
FL Jacket
April 19th, 2012
4:34 pm
Dwagfan…
Seriously, did ERK RUSSELL care where or how long CPJ played football?
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:35 pm
dwagfan, regarding intensity—–surely you jest. Just take a look at the video of the two coaches on their respective sidelines during the 2008 Tech – UGA game, and tell me who is more intense. CPJ is jumping up and down along with his players, screaming and hollering at what’s happening there. CMR has his players huddled around him in what seriously looked like a prayer meeting. That one shot was all over the TV networks and all over the web. I can’t argue with you about who played college football or who has the better record, but you are totally wrong about intensity.
BLT
April 19th, 2012
4:35 pm
Yes dawgfan, did you report your latest findings to Chip Towers or Bill King?
Thanks
dawgfan=poo poo inspector (loves the corn)
dawgfan
April 19th, 2012
4:36 pm
WnE packed my fudge real good twice today
Supersize that order, mutt
April 19th, 2012
4:36 pm
@ HT…..that was awesome