After UGA disaster, Tech tries to rebound vs. FSU
Georgia Tech's defenses hopes to see fewer touchdown celebrations in Charlotte than it did in Athens. BRANT SANDERLIN/AJC
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson proved prophetic a week ago when he said that if his team didn’t play well against Georgia, it would get embarrassed.
The Yellow Jackets would like to avoid making Johnson 2-for-2. Sunday, a day after the Bulldogs laid waste to Tech by a 42-10 count, Johnson offered a similar prediction for the Jackets’ ACC Championship game against Florida State Saturday in Charlotte.
“We’ve got to see if we can’t play better than we did Saturday, or we’ll get the same result,” Johnson said.
Oddsmakers agree with Johnson. They set the Seminoles as a 13.5-point favorite over Tech, a nearly identical line to the one given Tech-Georgia. A high priority for both Johnson and FSU coach Jimbo Fisher will be to rally their teams from dispiriting losses to in-state rivals. Florida knocked out the Seminoles 37-26 Saturday in Tallahassee, Fla.
What is tougher to recover from – losing at home with the nation’s top-ranked defense giving up 24 fourth-quarter points or a start-to-finish poleaxing – is debatable. Regardless, whichever can do it more quickly will have an advantage.
“You never know,” said Johnson, asked about his team’s ability to rebound. “You hope we’ll bounce back. I’m sure Florida State’s fighting a little bit of the same thing (Sunday) after their game with Florida.”
Given the state of the ACC compared to its SEC neighbors, it doesn’t come as a surprise that this isn’t new territory. Since the conference went to a two-division format in 2005, five teams have played for the ACC title a week after losing their 12th game of the season to their in-state SEC rivals.
Three of them won, including Tech in 2009 against Clemson. Of the two losers, one was the 2009 Clemson team and the other, Tech fans may remember, was the 2006 Jackets team that dropped the last three games of its season.
“It’s unfortunate it happened like that, but you’ve got to put it behind you and move on,” Johnson said.
Tech coaches can cast a vision to players this week that, despite the loss and the tumultuous season, the Jackets still can be playing in a BCS bowl game in a little over a month with an upset of the Seminoles. It would be Tech’s second appearance in one of the traditional four major bowl games (Cotton, Orange, Rose, Sugar) since 1967.
At 7-6 (with a win over FSU) and No. 63 in the Sagarin ratings, they would be the most ungainly team to ever grace a BCS bowl. Four teams have made BCS bowls with four losses, including the Seminoles twice. The Orange Bowl has never taken a team with more than four defeats.
To even dream about defeating the Seminoles, though, will require a considerable upgrade in play from Tech’s showing in Athens, particularly on the defensive side. Johnson said the defense’s play “was probably as bad as we’ve played all year,” though he allowed Georgia had something to do with it. Tech allowed six touchdowns on the Bulldogs’ first seven possessions of the game. To that point, Georgia was averaging 9.8 yards per play, a rate the Bulldogs could conceivably have maintained had coach Mark Richt not begun to pull starters from the game.
The Tech defense won’t get any break against FSU. The Seminoles are ranked No. 19 in the country in total offense (477.4 yards per game) and No. 8 in scoring offense (41.5 points per game). FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said Sunday that quarterback EJ Manuel, who briefly left Saturday’s game with a shot to the head, will be ready to play. FSU will be without defensive end Cornellius “Tank” Carradine, a potential first-round draft pick who leads the Seminoles with 80 tackles and has 11 sacks. Carradine tore his anterior cruciate ligament against the Gators.
Johnson said that guard Omoregie Uzzi, who did not finish the game, is fine. He said he would know more Monday about A-back Orwin Smith, who missed the game with an ankle injury.
“He didn’t play Saturday, so I wouldn’t have any reason to think there’s any change,” he said.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Home Crowd
November 26th, 2012
12:23 pm
It doesn’t matter how you coach if you have boys playing against men. Our smaller, weaker players are getting man handled against superior teams. It’s just a fact. We are smaller than ever before and we can’t even get to the edges w/ smaller folks. Our D gets ran over like they are “stuck in mud” (quoted by CPJ himself) and that’s not b/c of coaching. It’s because of size, speed, and strength…
It’s a joke to watch our team try and compete on the big time level anymore. I’ve had enough w/ CPJ. Time to go…
Buzz Light Year
November 26th, 2012
12:25 pm
@www. A recruiting coordinator couldn’t hurt either.
GTBob
November 26th, 2012
12:32 pm
It’s not the AD’s job to choose coordinators. It is the head coaches job.
JoeFan
November 26th, 2012
12:38 pm
Regardless of how this season ends CPJ will be here for one more season. That being said, Tech has no business in the ACCCG or in going to a bow. The time would be better spent recruiting and upgrading the coaching staff.
roughrider
November 26th, 2012
12:39 pm
As a UGA alum and a native Georgian, I pull for Tech to win all games except one per year.What burns me up is the posters on here saying that Tech can not get good players because of academics. What a load of bull !!! My proof is that Tech has a good basketball team year in and year out.Same with baseball. It is my opinion that the problem with football at Tech lies with the coaching staff.The triple option that coach Johnson runs worked well at GA Southern and Navy because of the schedules they played. However, it does not work well with the type of schedules Tech plays. Tech’s opponents have bigger, stronger players. The top high school players do not want to play in coach Johnson’s type offense.Also he likes to berate the players and blame losing on them.Tech is a prestigious school and could get a good assistant coach from another school to be head coach.Kirby Smart of Ala has let it be known that he would like to be head coach.After years of learning from the best coach in college football, Nick Saban, Smart could have Tech as a powerhouse in football again. O’Leary did it and it could be done again. Tech is too good of a school to be traveling down this loser’s road.
confused
November 26th, 2012
12:43 pm
Why is Paul Johnson still Coach Paul Johnson?
BAL
November 26th, 2012
12:45 pm
We need to go pluck Bud Foster from VT
London Jacket
November 26th, 2012
12:47 pm
Despite living in London, I was able to watch almost all of GT’s games this year on ESPN Player. It pains me to say this but the standard of college football played across the country but in particualr in the South is way above where we are as a programme now.
Our team was woefully overmatched against Georgia but the scary thing was they knew it after two series and sort of quit (at least on defense). All credit to Georgia – I think they look great right now and they have some incredible athletes on that team.
I think GT is on the verge of becoming irrelevant and we would struggle to be a .500 team in the FCS at the moment. It is time to get a new AD and look hard at what the future of the programme needs to be. I don’t think it is Johnson and his coaching staff. They are not coaching what the best players come to programmes to learn and the players they now have seem to have lost heart in their message. And to be blunt we just don’t have players who are of the caliber of the good teams right now.
It is time to change.
wrecked again
November 26th, 2012
12:48 pm
GT will get abused again and then in a bowl. Here comes the 6-8 record.Can tech afford Kirby Smart?
GTBob
November 26th, 2012
12:51 pm
My proof is that Tech has a good basketball team year in and year out.Same with baseball.
I’m not sure I would say we have had a good basketball team in a while but either way it is different. In basketball you have a maximum of 13 scholarship players at any time. In Football you have 85. A basketball team may only sign 2-3 players in some years. In basketball you can bolt for the NBA after one year if you want to. You cant do that in football. They aren’t nearly the same thing. Academic requirements have far less impact on basketball recruiting.
Math is Hard!
November 26th, 2012
12:55 pm
A battle between two teams that can’t beat their archrivals. Thrilling. Still, I hope the Jackets bring home the hardware. Oh, and ROLL TIDE ROLL!
ty webb
November 26th, 2012
12:58 pm
for the sake of the ACC, hopefully, whoever televises this “championship” game will keep camera shots tight…thousands of empty seats(yet again) is quite embarrassing.
headley lamar
November 26th, 2012
1:05 pm
Academic requirements have far less impact on basketball recruiting.
The academics argument is tired and old.
Maybe if Tech’s graduation rates for Football and Basketball weren’t some of the worst in the nation those claims could be taken seriously.
UGA = Yawn
November 26th, 2012
1:05 pm
GT TN, he is 0-5 in bowls, 1-4 vs VT, 1-4 vs UGA
Buzz Light Year
November 26th, 2012
1:09 pm
When a team that has no heritage, such as Maryland bolts your conference. The writing is on the wall. How much time until FSU and Va Tech bail out and leave us hanging with a conference worse than the Sunbelt?
old dog
November 26th, 2012
1:11 pm
I want ya’ll to do better….it is good for the beloved State of Georgia all the way around. However, the talent level is the lowest I have ever seen it. Admittedly, the Coastal Division of the ACC is not much of a prize, but ya’ll had to have help to achieve that. Nobody out there could win with the “talent” (or lack there-of) that you have. Whoever comes in will have to recruit extremely well. The best D coach out there, one who can “coach ‘em up” would be very limited with the players you now have. I think that since no good o-players want to play in that system, that the D players are starting to run….since they will be put on a bad position. I know the o- has performed okay against bad teams, but Tech has proven that they are only a mid-lower pack team in the ACC, and that is bad, as the ACC at the present time is pretty much a bad conference for football.
Ya’ll need to quit making excuses, sign a coach who plays some kind of 20-21st century offense and get the talent level up as well. I f not, ya’ll are in for a tough time. Ga. Southern would have beat ya’ll this year at your own game…..and they are D-2,( or whatever you call them now.)
ty webb
November 26th, 2012
1:14 pm
“leave us hanging with a conference worse than the Sunbelt?”
actually the Sun Belt is more competitive with the SEC than the ACC…and I don’t even have to bring up MTSU to you guys…so it seems your question has already been answered.
GTBob
November 26th, 2012
1:15 pm
Maybe if Tech’s graduation rates for Football and Basketball weren’t some of the worst in the nation those claims could be taken seriously.
What do graduation rates have to do with academic admission requirements? Most regular students at GT struggle to stay on pace for graduation.
NASCDAWG
November 26th, 2012
1:26 pm
There is no doubt that that GT is a great school and academically challenging. That does limit the field of prospective athletes. Because of this it will take a coach that not only coach the Xs and Os but can also recruit athletes/students as well as their parents. I have two nieces and a nephew that have graduated from GT and I understand how hard it is to be a student there. I look forward to the day you can be proud of your program.
TampaDawg
November 26th, 2012
1:28 pm
GT Joe, have to agree with you on Dooley and Chizik. Can’t use their records versus CPJs record as a reason not to replace CPJ with one of them. Those two were coaching against vastly superior SEC teams and not losing to MTSU, Miami and others.
But I don’t think having “Vince’s son” coach tech would be all that bad considering he was coaching UT and we hate them too.
TEXAS DAWG
November 26th, 2012
1:29 pm
@Milkbone
Keep thowing personal insults out there but it does no change facts. Most people resort to personal attacks on the messanger when then can not attack the message. Since the days of Ross and O’leary the quality of the product on the field has MARKEDLY declined. Did GT change admission requirements since then or did the coaching and quality of recruiting change. Calling people names can not hide the fact that GT went form a MNC in 1990 to unable to beat MTSU today. Once again, I ask did GT change as a school or did the coaching staff change and are now not very good at their jobs. Look at UGA defense with BVG and then the decline on defense under Willy Martinez and the resurgence under Grantham. Admission requirements did not change. Willy had plenty of great athletes, he put a lot of guys in the pros but he could not coach them.
Born2Buzz
November 26th, 2012
1:29 pm
GT TN, I think the O could be fine, but you cannot keep doing the same thing, you have to be able to throw the ball. Spurrier, Kelly, Meyer and Pellini all run offenses that throw the ball.
My point is that when you go against the big boys, the defense is NOT drastically different from the NFL. There is a proven track record that against the big boy defenses we’ve played, the O has struggled to put points on the board.
But you know what, it’s not the O that has me upset, and it’s not the recruiting (hey, 90% of FBS teams are at a similar level of talent as we are), it’s the complete lack of a defense and spotty special teams play. Chip Kelly in Oregon realized that he better get a defense if he wants to win championships. And look what happened the them this year, that lost their 1 game when their O got shut down.
CPJ needs to start being the Head Coach. I just don’t know if he can change his ways, although he shows glimmers of being able to do so.
And he’s lost the last 2 to Clemson and haven’t played FSU in 2 years. The trending is not good.
GT Joe
November 26th, 2012
1:31 pm
GT TN: are you really blaming nesbitt for the 2010 VT loss? I’ll give you a hint: who threw a pick to end the game? who ALWAYS throws a pick to end the game? I’ll spot you the first 4 letters: TEVI_
As for Snoddy: the fastest man in the state? the fastest man on the team? He can’t get on the field? Seriously? If you are going to use the same old explanation “if he was good enough, CPJ would play him” argument, you are a fool. CPJ doesn’t KNOW who is good enough. Proof? Vad in the UNC game should have put to rest any debate on the superior QB. But he plays Tevin in all but 1 meaningful drive vs. Duke, and throws away the UGA game on Tevin (Vad comes into the game down 21-3).
Your defense of CPJ and Tevin is comical. And sad. Wake up. The guy is a stubborn fool. I would say that you will learn during the FSU game, but if you haven’t learned already, you will never learn.
GTBob
November 26th, 2012
1:32 pm
Did GT change admission requirements since then or did the coaching and quality of recruiting change.
Admissions requirements have changed a great deal since O’Leary and he openly complained about recruiting difficulties.
Academic Coach
November 26th, 2012
1:37 pm
Tech has basket weaving majors as well. Can someone honestly say Industrial Engineering? History, Technology, & Society, Public Policy. All colleges have various degree programs. To keep hammering on academics and why kids won’t go to GT is ludicrous. Coaching is the issue. Go for Steve Spurrier Jr and see what he can offer.
Flak Jacket
November 26th, 2012
1:37 pm
FLA.STATE will rout CPJ.
TampaDawg
November 26th, 2012
1:42 pm
Academic Coach – Stevie Jr. will get his shot someday. Went to school with him in the late 80s, early 90s. Just as much a jerk as dad.
GTBob
November 26th, 2012
1:52 pm
Tech has basket weaving majors as well. Can someone honestly say Industrial Engineering?
We are ranked #1 in the country in Industrial Engineering above Michigan, Northwestern, and Stanford. You really think that is one of our easy majors that we hide football players in?
85jacket
November 26th, 2012
1:52 pm
most people have no idea how tough a school TECH is. Your average four start student athlete would not entertain TECH as an option. TECH is comparable to MIT and they certainly don’t compete in division one football. The fact that TECH can field a respectable team is a testament to the coaching staff. This is nothing new. Coach Dodd even lamented about the talent differential when he came to TECH from Tennessee. TECH will always be at a recruiting disadvantage. The trick is to cast the net wide and far looking for that special kid with intellect and athletic talent.
I do think that Basketball is unique where one to two great players can change the game for a particular team. In football, two to three special talents per team are needed to level the field. Unfortunately, this year TECH does not have one special talent that will prosper on Sunday. At the same time, Georgia has at least ten players who will play on Sunday.
The challenge for TECH is to finish as strong as possible and sign the class they have recruited and coach up the good players on the roster. If that is done then TECH could win against Georgia every now and then.
GTVegas
November 26th, 2012
1:54 pm
Academic Coach – You have just shown how completely ignorant you are and need to just quit talking about GT academics and majors as you obviously don’t understand what you are writing about. I would suggest you do a littel research into exactly what those degrees are that you site and what courses are required by each.
As with any college, university or institute, the easiest way to find the least challenging degree is to look at what the athletes are majoring in, period. At GT, it is primarily management, and while management might not be as difficult as engineering, it still is not a pushover, as evidenced by it’s relatively high ranking.
You might want to wait to comment until you figure out just what Industrial Engineering is before you make another fool of yourself.
GTVegas
November 26th, 2012
2:02 pm
I will give a little leeway to AC. I sat in a room with my son at Purdue with about 30 other high school students in an engineering program orientation andonly one other parent in the room knew what an Industrial Engineer was.
Now, I think GT is closer to Purdue than about anywhere else, limited degree options outside engineering (although far more than GT) and still trying to compete at a high level for athletics. no big surprise, they have problems as well.
Tech needs a real football coach
November 26th, 2012
2:09 pm
It is time to fire Johnson as football coach and hire someone who knows how to play college football. The Triple Option doesn’t work and won’t work to become National Champions! When Tech plays decent teams, they play like high school teams. It is not the players’ fault, it is the coach’s because he is trying to put a round peg in a square hole! Why do all the other ACC teams get great coaches while Tech get the throw-offs? Maybe the problem has been the AD? Now that he is gone, let’s make sweeping changes right after the end of the season.
Tech needs a real football coach
November 26th, 2012
2:11 pm
Let’s bring back George O’Leary to Tech–a great coach and a nice guy. He understands student/athletes.
What do you think?
GT Fan
November 26th, 2012
2:11 pm
jabster
November 25th, 2012
10:43 pm
Agribusiness
Sport Management
Criminal Justice
Health Promotion
Recreation & Leisure Studies
Housing
Family Finance Planning
Child & Family Development
Social Studies Education
Exercise & Sport Science
Consumer Economics (fka Home Ec)
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Thanks Jabster!
If people like WnE can’t understand that these Majors / Colleges of Study don’t help so many of the FB powers then they really are mental midgets.
WnE says:
ND 12-0
Stanford 10-2
Northwestern 9-3
Vandy 8-4
Please stop making crappy Academics excuses.
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Some rhetorcial questions …
Are any of these schools as specialized in Colleges of Study / Majors as GT?
If a kid wanted to get a Business Degree would he go to GT or one of the 4 WnE mentioned?
If a kid wanted to get a Law Degree would he go to GT or one of the 4 WnE mentioned?
If a kid wanted to get a Journalism Degree would he go to GT or one of the 4 WnE mentioned?
If a kid wanted to get a Medical Degree would he go to GT or one of the 4 WnE mentioned?
If an athelete (who thinks he’s going to the NFL), and is questionable from an academic standpoint, needed a college where he could “hide” in lessor major, would he choose GT or UGA, Clemson, SC, UT, Bama, AU, FSU, UF, LSU, etc.?
UGA ain’t the only school in the South that doesn’t want GT’s curricula to broaden.
GT Fan
November 26th, 2012
2:16 pm
Is either Jarvis Jones, A. Ogletree, or B.Rambo a Dean’s List student?
What were W.Ealey & I.Crowell majoring in?
What degree did David Pollack or David Greene earn at UGA?
And Herschel Walker…what writing is on his diploma?
Rick James
November 26th, 2012
2:17 pm
@GTBob
What do graduation rates have to do with academic admission requirements? Most regular students at GT struggle to stay on pace for graduation
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Bob you lean on the academic crutch when it comes to Paul Johnson’s recruiting of subpar talent.Saying that he can only recruit the kids with high test scores.Then you turn around and say that graduation rates have nothing to do with admission.I beg to differ,smart kids graduate at any cost.Aaron Murry did in three years while playing football and I’m sure there are students at tech who have done the same..When I said to you that Stanford is a school with high academic standings and winning foootball you say the program is maginal.Yet when I say Notre Dame’s schedule is not that strong you say oh but they beat Stanford who’s really good.You make great points at times Bob but your flip flopping invaladates most of them.
Too Easy
November 26th, 2012
2:21 pm
Comparable schools for Tech’s limited curriculum:
Rensselaer Tech
Colorado School of Mines
Harvey Mudd
MIT
Cal Tech
Purdue
How are their football programs?
People keep throwing out Notre Dame, Stanford, & Northwestern. Nope, they have much broader possibilities for majors than Tech. If you’re going to compare, at least educate yourselves a little and compare apples and apples.
Thanks.
Rational One
November 26th, 2012
2:32 pm
Charlotte will be ugly.
Rick James
November 26th, 2012
2:33 pm
@GT Fan
November 26th, 2012
2:16 pm
Is either Jarvis Jones, A. Ogletree, or B.Rambo a Dean’s List student?
What were W.Ealey & I.Crowell majoring in?
What degree did David Pollack or David Greene earn at UGA?
And Herschel Walker…what writing is on his diploma?
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I see your point but why pick on Georgia? Why was Kenny Anderson’s number never retired? He never graduated.Niether Jonathon Dwyer,Morgan Burnette or Derrick Morgan never graduated from Tech.But it never prevented any of them from earning millions of dollars.Dont pretend that all Tech players are members of Mensa and the all get their degrees.Tech has the lowest graduation rate amoung football players in the ACC for a reason.David Pollack was a commications major at Georgia he earned over 12 million dollars in and injury shortened proffesional career and now he earns hundreds of thousands on ESPN’s game day.By the way what’s Keny Anderson doing these days after blowing 75 million dollars?
wreckbone
November 26th, 2012
2:33 pm
You guys saying we have not had a defense in 20 years, that is funny. We had one 6 years ago and it only had to do with Tenuta. Chan inherited a gold mine when he got Tenuta and Calvin Johnson. But Tenuta wanted head coach gig and had to go. I like our style of offense. It can score and is close to being really good in my opinion. If a defense can be found we can beat really good teams. But you old guys who complain about the glory days, well we are not in the SEC thanks to the old days. So all of you who would love to go back, get over it. In hindsight, we are the stupidest school, conference wise, to leave the SEC. The reasons were honorable, but who could have known that conferences would boil down to football TV money. Maryland has no team to speak of in football. Look what happened to them when they fired Frigeden? They suck much worse after he was shown the door. But they went to the Big 10 because they cannot make the bills. They were only asked due to them having a TV market for the football. You think Big 10 is saying, “wow we have a new competitive team that will give Ohio State and Michigan a run for the money!” no, they are saying, “well we can get more money from cable operators for the DC market!” I am sure field hockey and soccer were not mentioned.
If we lose Johnson, I don’t think we will be competitive for 5 years. If you leave him here, we may be quite competitive the next 3 if you get some defense working. I say if you want to give money to show Johnson the door as I heard people did for Hewitt, then spend that money sending Johnson and some DC candidate (such as Tenuta) on a vacation together. Johnson wants to hire a great defensive coach, but his plan did not work last time. As far as the AD is concerned, I think D Rad did a fine job and am glad he is gone if he did not want to be here. I expect Clemson to go to the SEC next all behind D Rad. I think he wanted that to happen here but determined that the opposition was too great to overcome.
GT Fan
November 26th, 2012
2:36 pm
DEFENSE …. what in the world happened to GT’s D?
37…that’s the most pts an oppenent had vs GT in 2011, followed by 35, 31 (twice), and 30 (Bowl game). That’s 5 games, in 13 total, that the opponent had 30+ vs. GT.
So far in 2012 there have been SIX (6) opponents who have managed 41+ vs. GT
And, IMO, a 7th is coming on Saturday. And, if GT goes to the Sun Bowl vs. a PAC 12 team like UW, USC, AZ, AZ St, it’ll probably be an 8th team to put up 40+.
How did the D become so bad?
GT Fan
November 26th, 2012
2:49 pm
Rick James ….
Not really picking on UGA. See the last line of my post before the one you are referring to.
UGA is just the one school in which I know more players.
Obviously there are similar situations to UGA’s (and maybe some worse) at UT, Clemson, SC, AU, Bama, UF, FSU, LSU etc.
Sammy Watkins, Eric Berry, Lattimore, Cam Newton, T.Cody, Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders, Jemarcus Russell to name one from each.
But the pt on this blog, that so many UGA fans claim GT people “make excuses for” is no excuse, it’s verifiable fact. GT does not have the broad curricula necessary to sustain/build a college FB power.
Flak Jacket
November 26th, 2012
3:04 pm
How much money will it cost to run CPJ off if he does not turn it around by the end of next season?It looks like he will be back from all i have heard.
Ed Pilcher
November 26th, 2012
3:14 pm
GT goes 0-2 vs UGA and FSU. How much longer will GT put up with Paul (I got bigger fish to fry) Johnson?
Ed Pilcher
November 26th, 2012
3:15 pm
Actually, as a UGA fan, I hope GT gives him a lifetime contract.
TechApp fan
November 26th, 2012
3:18 pm
my champ game fantacy. Jumbo reads the Tech blog and is convinced that Joe is correct and
starts Trickett Saturday. Before he wakes up, Tech has the score@21-3. Jumbo then sends out EJ to finish….but it’s too late.
John
November 26th, 2012
3:18 pm
I have been a Tech fan my whole life (not something to be proud of) and was at the game on Saturday in Athens. That was the saddest effort I have ever seen out of a college football team. They literally looked like a high school scout team out on the field. Players were getting picked up and slammed to the ground, but the saddest part of it all, is that we watched while UGA did it. Stick up for your players being body slammed, get a penalty, stick up for your team. It was embarrasing…this is not a team. Coaches are suppose to coach, CPJ doesn’t do this, these little plays don’t work in college football (AKA the Triple-O). If Tech does decide to go up and play for the ACC Championship, please don’t look like idiots out there, earn your SCHOLARSHIP.
G.P. Burdell
November 26th, 2012
3:27 pm
To some of you calling for PJ to be fired, be careful what you ask for. I’ve heard from some big boosters that there are more than one school interested in hiring PJ, including NC State, which is closer to where he grew up.
I don’t see anyone out there currently that would be a better fit, especially taking into account the fact that we won’t be able to be competitive in salary right now.
I_DOG
November 26th, 2012
3:28 pm
Can’t agree that academics are the reason that tech hasn’t recruited well recently.
Last year, tech offered 7 of the 19 recruits in UGA’s recruiting class a scholarship. 3 more were offered by either Duke or Wake and that does’t include the two kickers in this class, so 10 of 17 position players offered by tech, Duke/Wake. Players like Gurley, Marshall, and Jordan Jenkins are 4 and 5 star players starting for UGA as true freshmen that turned down scholarship offers to tech.
This year. Of the top 80 high school players in Georga. 16 have COMMITTED to play for tech, stanford, vandy, or Cal Berkley. Four of those are 4 star players. This does’t even include the players that tech has OFFERED but that committed somewhere else or haven’t yet committed anywhere.
If tech signed just a fraction of the top 50 players in Georgia that they either offered or have committed to elite universities like Cal, Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, etc… they would have PLENTY of firepower to compete in the ACC and beat UGA 1 out of every 3 games.
GT Joe
November 26th, 2012
3:29 pm
TechAppFan: If you are equating Trickett to Vad Lee, you are a fool. Even worse, if you are equating EJ to Tevin, you are a stupid fool.