Georgia Tech quoteboard
“I was awfully proud of the effort our guys gave. I thought they played with some heart and some intensity. And we just ran out of time. We had our chances, just didn’t finish enough drives in the first half and had to kick field goals, and they’re a good football team.”
Coach Paul Johnson
“You know, the team responded the way I thought they would respond. You know, this team really hasn’t ever quit. I mean, some people might want to say that, but they haven’t ever really quit. Now, have we been as consistent and played with the kind of emotion and energy every game? I’d be the first to say no and I think they would, too. But this team has been fairly resilient, and it did not surprise me at all that they came out and played hard. I knew they would.”
Johnson
“We were having a hard time getting the linebacker picked up. He was playing really deep and he was scraping out in the alley a lot. We didn’t always do a great job of blocking the other guys on the perimeter, either. We missed them several times.”
Johnson
“I thought if I would have made a better throw and put it on his outside, he would have had a chance to catch the ball and get up the field. I kind of left it inside and got undercut and they made a play on the ball.”
Quarterback Tevin Washington on the game-sealing interception, intended for A-back Robbie Godhigh
“I just broke on it and tried to tip it up and bat it down, but luckily it tipped up in the air and I just tried to make a sure catch and that’s what happened. I’m just happy I got the call and we’re ACC champs.”
Florida State safety Karlos Williams, who made the interception
“My confidence level was the same as it was when we started the game. I felt like we were going to go down and win the game.”
Washington on his confidence before Tech’s final drive
“We came real close. We told each other, we aren’t ever going to quit. That’s not us. We just kept fighting and we almost pulled it off.”
Safety Jemea Thomas
“We made some adjustments in the second half to stop the run. The adjustment worked, so we just played faster and had a lot more energy and intensity, that’s truly what it was.”
Thomas
“I wouldn’t say we gave the game away. I just think they made one more play than we did. Like I said, the biggest thing was when we got in the red zone, we got across the 30, we settled for field goals instead of touchdowns where they capitalized early on their red-zone chances.”
B-back David Sims
“I think (the game) was a testament to our team. Our season, really. We’ve been down, we were left for dead, but we kept fighting.”
Sims
“Second half, we felt like we had to just come out and step it up as a defense and put it on our back to come back and win this championship. Everybody believed that we were going to win the game.”
Outside linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu on team’s second-half rally
“That’s something to definitely build off. We have the ability. Our players can match up with anybody in this conference. It’s never been a doubt in my mind.”
Attaochu
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Whiskey
December 2nd, 2012
12:14 pm
Face it guys! The only reason the D played better was because the NOLES QB sucks! FSU offense is so inconsistent. I was more about what they couldn’t do vs what we did! GT has the worse defense in D-1 football.
Tomb
December 2nd, 2012
12:16 pm
What they don’t do well Ken is disguise the Blitz which is why every team we play picks it up…just sayin.
ramblingbuzz
December 2nd, 2012
12:18 pm
To belabor a point, every good defense we have played this season, CPJ’s offense has not gotten the job done. Especialy BYU, UGA, and FSU. I know we’ve got serious problems on defense, but if I told you that our D would hold FSU to 21, would you have predicted a GT win? I would have.
Fun Facts
December 2nd, 2012
12:25 pm
Tevin Washington has ended 6 games during his career on the game winning touchdown drive by throwing an interception. In 2010, VT, UGA, and Airforce were all lost in the final moments on interceptions. In 2011, Tevin did it against Utah, and then continued the trend in 2012 with VT and FSU. 6 games of a 31 game career ended on interceptions. This is not counting games where master Tevin was blown out or where his lazy ass attempts at falling forward for a 1st down on a 4th and 1 where so easily denied. Tevin’s record as the main quarterback in games is 14-16 (doesn’t include 2012 UNC, aka “The Vad Lee Show”), which is pathetic.
ramblingbuzz
December 2nd, 2012
12:25 pm
5-16 passing with 2 INTs. And that attempted throw back from Days to Washington was almost comical.
1 4 GT
December 2nd, 2012
12:35 pm
1 January 1981………………………………….and counting! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
yeller bug
December 2nd, 2012
12:40 pm
It’s just been that kind of year—for all the TW critics—TW led game-winning drives against VT and UM and our D let us down. Against FSU the D stepped up and TW let us down.
I do hope for next year that CPJ recognizes that we have a QB who can throw the ball (Lee) and that our offensive next year should throw 20-25 times a game. Lee is the best passer in the CPJ era and I hope he recognizes it and adjusts his playbook to maximize his potential. The mere threat of the triple option causes opposing Ds to spend a significant amount of time trying to plan how to defend against it…..it would be so great to come out in the pistol and run a more open offense of which they did not prepare and then sprinkle the TO plays in-between.
Tech needs a better D, a kicker who can put the ball in the endzone on KOs, and a more open offense and I think very good things will be in store in our future.
UGA = Yawn
December 2nd, 2012
12:40 pm
It was I agree ramblin. Why throw it? Everyone wants to be the hero but all lack the brains to understand the situation. We were sorry this year. Our signature win? Vs UNC. Wow. And we gave up 50 in that game.
WillGT
December 2nd, 2012
1:00 pm
Anyone know that stats on weather PJ has ever had a decent throwing offense? All I recall from the GSU days was a powerful rushing offense, never thought of his offense ever having a good shotgun. PJ will for sure be around next year, the school has already stated they are committed with him. If they they improve the D, working on blocking, and get Vlad Lee up to par with the option speed and throwing I think we could see some big improvements. Remember this is a pretty young team.
faultline
December 2nd, 2012
2:03 pm
Forget the big 10. Consider the Sun Belt. Bringing those fine teams in from Louisiana would spike attendance. Granted we could not handle Mid Tenn this year or next, but with some good walk-on student athletes, we could narrow the margin of loss. And having a team named Trojans come to Atlanta would be great comedy material.
GT TN
December 2nd, 2012
2:19 pm
@UGA=yawns..this is why I hate looking at blogs..people that are talking have no idea what it takes to win football games..you are wanting to fire a coach that is 40-27 in 5 years and replace him with a guy that is 59-55 in the last 9 years..really????that is the best coach you can come up with
Tech1986
December 2nd, 2012
2:49 pm
For all the bloggers here who want to fire Coach Johnson, give me one name that will not use Tech as a stepping stone to a perceived better job. One name, Curry left for Alabama( a Boddy Dodd player) , Ross left for the NFL, O’Leary left for Notre Dame, Gailey was always looking for the right NFL job. So give me one name of a coach who will stay, like Richt has , and not move to another job. If a coach comes in after Johnson is fired wins 8/9 games they will bolt to another school because we can’t get the Athletes that other schools get. I was at the game, decent turnout for Tech and I thought for sure a blow out, but defense held tough in second half, B-Back dive was working, but we could not get anything going on the edge. We really missed Smith. As an aside, Francis Kallon was dressed out and he looks huge, hope he can play as well as he looks. I will wait for all the experts to give me a name of a coach who will stay at Tech no matter what. Go Jackets!!!
GIVE ME A BREAK
December 2nd, 2012
6:22 pm
Johnson has been able in 5 years to take an above average team and make them mediocre. He is a lot like Hewitt. While all of the coaches in the NCAA are counting points that their team scores Johnson is counting yards that his TO has gained. Is that a moving van in front of his house?
fan
December 2nd, 2012
6:48 pm
THen shows the state of the ACC when this bunch of losers..Georgia Tech, almost beats the winner of the ACC, Florida State. IF this tech team goes to a bowl, it’s a disgrace.
Proud Jacket
December 2nd, 2012
7:06 pm
For those loyal fans at the game with me, I say a hearty thank you. We were louder at many times than FSU and our players responded nicely. I had a great time despite the outcome. Great 2nd half effort guys.
stinger1
December 2nd, 2012
7:18 pm
thank you Stinger1 for stealing my nickname
………real clasy
11 of 12
December 2nd, 2012
7:32 pm
It was an entertaining second half for sure and I thought the tech D really stepped up. Was heart broken after leaving the dome as u can imagine and really wanted a Gt win. Just not a good night for the state of Georgia in general.
14 GT do u even care about your jackets or is it more important to u that the dogs lose? I mean really that is sad.
Good luck in the bowl and looking forward to watching you guys during bowl week. We will all recover
1 4 GT
December 2nd, 2012
9:21 pm
Of course I care about the Jackets. I was there at the game & was proud of the game they played, as I’m sure true dawgs were their team. If my reminder of your last MNC date offends you or any dawg fans, as the dwag trolls that populate the GT blogs on a daily basis & try to say they are repaying GT fans for our trolls being on Georgie blogs, I decided to repay them in kind by stooping to their level. I posted the same thing on every Georgie blog today. For the 1st & only time, I lowered myself to the typical dwag behavior. I usually keep my disdain for Georgie to myself except for ribbing some folks I know. Seeing such behavior sucks, huh? I see it multiple times from multiple creepy dwag butt sniffing leg humping boll licking dwags daily. I can’t tell you how much I despise them! They also make it hard to believe in dawg sincerity.
1 4 GT
December 2nd, 2012
9:23 pm
And it truly offends me that a dawg has the temerity to lecture me!
1 4 GT
December 2nd, 2012
9:42 pm
And oh BTW! You disrespect me by your misuse of my name. I am not 14GT! And I have only been to one of your blogs 3 times & posted only 2 times. The 1st was when the esteemed Bark Madely tried to compare I Crowell to H Walker and the 2nd time was today. I have no interest in reading stuff about y’all.
1 4 GT
December 3rd, 2012
12:41 pm
And another oh BTW! Nobody is mocking your “team”. The mockery is directed at your stupid, r e d n e c k leg humping dwag fans, doofus! I’m rather surprised you didn’t understand that from the get go! You had seemed to be smarter than that!
1 4 GT
December 3rd, 2012
12:41 pm
Hence, the moniker “doofus”!
Tide/Dawg
December 3rd, 2012
2:26 pm
Tickets to the ACC Championship were $4???Tell me that isn’t so! GT spoiled the game for anyone that wasn’t a Tech fan. Maybe the ACC should adopt a rule that gives them the option of picking a team with the best record if the winner is on probation or vacating the game to avoid future penalties. A rematch of Clemson and Fla. State would have created a game atmosphere of interest. The bowl people cringe when they realize that GT is going to be in their game. PJ needs to be coaching at Ga. State.
GT is so entrenched with PJ style players it would take a new coach 2 or 3 years to bring them to respectability again. It happened to Ala. and it happened to Ga. It even happened to the great Notre Dame. A losing attitude is contagious and hard to turn around. It took ND 19 years and how many coaches to regain a winning attitude?? Bite the bullet Tech and spend some of your money to get a top coach. I don’t like seeing Tech get embarrassed any more than the GT fans do.
After reading some of PJ’s comments….he hasn’t changed. He is still blaming the players for not executing his magnificent offense. I don’t remember him saying he did a poor job of coaching. PJ comes cheap as top football coaches go… doesn’t that tell you something?? You get what you pay for. Football is not considered irrelevant at Stanford, Notre Dame, Northwestern and some other high academic schools. So the Tech hierarchy needs to change their attitude or move to a division II conference, where PJ’s offense will work. Did GT sign PJ to a lifetime contract?