Updated notes: Tech fills 2013 schedule
1. Georgia Tech’s first-ever game against Alabama A&M will complete the Yellow Jackets’ 2013 schedule. Tech’s non-conference schedule will be comprised of home games with Alabama A&M, Elon and Georgia and a road game at BYU.
The FCS team will play Tech at Bobby Dodd Stadium Nov. 23, a week before the Jackets play Georgia. Since the FCS level (previously known as Division I-AA) was created in 1978, this will be the first time that Tech has played an FCS-level team the week before the Georgia game. The Jackets have typically played an ACC opponent.
After the ACC voted to return to an eight-game league schedule in October from the nine-game plan instituted with the expansion to 14 teams, Tech sought home-and-home dates for 2013-14 with schools in the Big Ten, Big East and Conference USA.
However, due to the lateness of the search and the glut of ACC teams looking for opponents, school officials couldn’t find a potential FBS partner with openings or willing to create openings for the Jackets.
Alabama A&M is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, a league of historically black colleges and universities. The Bulldogs finished 7-4 this season, losing to Auburn 51-7 in its only game against an FBS opponent. Alabama A&M is coached by Anthony Jones, formerly a coach at Morehouse.
It will be the first time that Tech has scheduled two FCS-level opponents since 2008, coach Paul Johnson’s first season, when the Jackets played Jacksonville State and Gardner-Webb. The Gardner-Webb game was also a late addition, the result of Army canceling its game with Tech in Oct. 2007. Tech will be able to count only one win against Elon or Alabama A&M towards its bowl eligibility.
2. The Tech athletic department released a message on Twitter from coach Paul Johnson Tuesday thanking fans who attended the ACC Championship game in Charlotte.
“As we begin bowl preparations, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your support in Charlotte this past weekend. We came up short in our quest for the ACC Championship, but our players and coaches were overwhelmed by the fans that made the trip. We were energized by the Tech faithful in the stands, especially in the second half. At the end of the game, we heard many words of encouragement. It was a great reminder of who and what we represent every time we take the field.”
3. Tech will begin practice for the Sun Bowl Thursday and continue with practices Thursday and Friday. … Tech was a 10-point underdog to Southern California as of Tuesday evening. … The Tech ticket office put Sun Bowl tickets on sale Monday. The school has an 8,000-ticket allotment which will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets cost $50 and $60. … In the Tech media guide, a survey of team members revealed that five players named USC as the team they would most want to add to the schedule, including outside linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu. Ironically, 12 players chose Florida State, which the Jackets played in the ACC Championship game.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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Goose is Loose
December 4th, 2012
12:05 pm
First
Biff Pocoroba
December 4th, 2012
12:06 pm
Elon and Alabama &M should sell some tickets next year. With FSU on the schedule, PJ is going to have a tough time keeping the bow streak alive unless he decides to use the forward pass next year. At least he won’t have Tevin dragging him down all year.
reggie
December 4th, 2012
12:17 pm
Wow. Tech buys Bammer A&M a victory.
Scott
December 4th, 2012
12:18 pm
Technically they can still win 6 and get in – they just have to win the right six, and that can’t include wins against both these schools.
UGA = Yawn
December 4th, 2012
12:18 pm
Elon? Alabama A&M? Who wants to go to those games? Surely not GT fans. That will be part of the season ticket ‘package’ for 2013? Not worth it. Beating these teams does nothing for us. Losing to them (MTSU) has prolonged ramifications. No good can come out of scheduling teams like this. I have always said, scheduled low tier teams from other conferences to fill the spots. Indiana or Minnesota from the Big Ten, South Florida or Temple from the Big East, etc, etc. That way you get full credit with the win. Elon and A&M, we get 1/2 credit and no one wants to go see the games either!!!
ibidGT
December 4th, 2012
12:20 pm
BORING
Auburn Grad
December 4th, 2012
12:20 pm
They should’ve scheduled GA State.
@eidsonb
December 4th, 2012
12:22 pm
and right on schedule the first of the Trolls arrive….
UGA = Yawn
December 4th, 2012
12:22 pm
Scott – right on. You are so correct. The difference between GT brains and ajc reporters who aren’t very bright.
AJC Editor
December 4th, 2012
12:25 pm
Alabama A&M is an FCS team, not FBS
Gordon
December 4th, 2012
12:26 pm
The first sentence says AA&M is an FBS team. Why wouldn’t they count? I guess you meant FCS.
ibidGT
December 4th, 2012
12:30 pm
Tech might have had a down year this year, but they aren’t that bad for anyone to expect them to lose to an FCS team. Ken saying they need 7 wins doesn’t make him stupid, rather logical for expecting Tech to beat two FCS teams. Unless you really think Tech falls to an FCS opponent?
Born2Buzz
December 4th, 2012
12:30 pm
Remember 5 years ago when we were saying “We’ve got ourselves a football coach, boys!!!” PJ was talking tough, we beat the doggies, the offense set records for longest pass and run TD plays in school history, and we had NFL talent coming back for the next season. “We are playing for championships.” was what we heard.
Fast forward to today and we are hoping to win 7 games next year to keep a string of crappy bowl games alive, our tough talking coach just comes across sounding like a jerk, we will go 2 years in a row without a player drafted by the NFL, our AD up and quit to go to our 2nd biggest rival, our offense can’t score more than 17 pts against any team of substance, our defense set records for futility and we are hoping to pull off an upset in a bowl game nobody wants to go to just to finish .500.
How did it all go so bad so fast?
Drexel Gal
December 4th, 2012
12:32 pm
They scheduled Alabama A&M because Harrison High’s schedule was already locked in for 2013.
Black Out Pro Combat Dawg
December 4th, 2012
12:34 pm
Why have Tech fans been bashing UGA scheduling the past 2 seasons when Tech is producing this (now 2 FCS schools in one year)?
————————–
Auburn Grad,
Tech was working on a home-and-home with GA State earlier this fall. Not sure if those talks hit a snag or if it’s still in the works.
Jacket Man
December 4th, 2012
12:38 pm
GA Tech was negotiating with USF before Skip Holtz got “canned”. I’m not sure if that’s got anything to do with it, though…
GT07
December 4th, 2012
12:44 pm
The home schedule will also include Clemson, Va Tech, and UGA, so ticket prices will go up…
GTJohn
December 4th, 2012
12:47 pm
Only questiong is WHY????
I like the old days of Auburn, Alabama, Tenn, South Carolina, etc.
Who cares about playing Elon and Ala A&M. Please hire an AD that has some sense.
www
December 4th, 2012
12:48 pm
so now georgia tech is playing a second D2 (FCS) school in 2012 that won’t even count toward bowl eligibility?
does ANYONE in the GTAA know what they are doing anymore? it’s like interns are running a $50 million department. embarrassing.
DC
December 4th, 2012
12:52 pm
Really? We want to be relevant and we schedule 2 FCS schools? If you want respect as a real college football program, you are heading in the wrong direction!
TechFan
December 4th, 2012
12:54 pm
2013
(ACC)
Clemson (HOME)
Florida State (HOME)
North Carolina (HOME)
Virginia Tech (HOME)
at Boston College
at Virginia
at Duke
at Miami
(Non-conference)
Alabama A&M (HOME)
Elon (HOME)
Georgia (HOME)
at Brigham Young
I think we have a GREAT home schedule for next year. Im sorry but we need Elon and Ala A&M has warm-up games…
Adobe, Car Made of Clay, Sun Bowl
December 4th, 2012
12:54 pm
We went ahead and crossed you off next year’s possible teams.
UGA = Yawn
December 4th, 2012
12:58 pm
We have a good home schedule if you take away Elon and Bama A&M. How much do you pay for season tickets??? When I buy my club seats, it is thousands of dollars! That is why I don’t like ELon and A&M as I probably won’t go and a big chunk of my money I pay goes to ALL games – not just 4 or 5.
Paul in NH
December 4th, 2012
12:59 pm
Way, way back in February 2012 (a whole 10 months ago) the ACC announced that they were moving to a 9 game schedule in 2013 and so teams started cancelling OOC games. Now they are moving back to an 8 game schedule and the best GT could find was Alabama A&M?
Who did GT drop off the 2013 schedule in February and why can’t they get them back?
Rooty Tooty
December 4th, 2012
12:59 pm
We got to them before UGA did…hahahahah
Humpy
December 4th, 2012
1:00 pm
Doesn’t matter about people not attending those games. GT rarely fills up their stadium regardless of who they are playing. So sad.
UGA = Yawn
December 4th, 2012
1:00 pm
Black Out – we are bashing your conference schedule!!! You did NOT play Bama, LSU OR Texas A&M during the regular season. 3 of the best teams in your conference. You played 2 other good teams; USC who trounced you and UF who you beat only because they turned the ball over 6 times!
UGA = Yawn
December 4th, 2012
1:01 pm
We were supposed to be playing BYU for a 4 game series. It was changed to 2 game series and we also dropped Auburn home and away.
Paul in NH
December 4th, 2012
1:02 pm
“we will go 2 years in a row without a player drafted by the NFL”
Either Born2Buzz can see the future or he thinks Stephen Hill was an undrafted free agent.
UGA = Yawn
December 4th, 2012
1:03 pm
TechFan – how did we do AT HOME, this year, versus some of those teams?
Ken Sugiura
December 4th, 2012
1:12 pm
typo about fcs. fixed.
and you are right about the six games. will also fix.
tooltime432
December 4th, 2012
1:15 pm
And I think Uzzi will probably be a midround pick too this year
GIVE ME A BREAK
December 4th, 2012
1:19 pm
Another step backwards. GT will run the score up on these FCS schools which proves nothing. Tickets for FCS schools should be free and they should not be included in season tickets. This is really getting embarrassing.
Born2Buzz
December 4th, 2012
1:20 pm
Paul in NH, you are right. My mistake. Was there anyone else?
I’m just feeling down about things now. It’s been a tough year (or two, especially when you add in the Bball). Help me get more positive, please.
DC Jacket
December 4th, 2012
1:22 pm
We can’t be playing both BC and FSU if we have to play Pitt next year… Will we finish the home and home with BC or will we really get FSU at home?
Richard
December 4th, 2012
1:25 pm
So, in other words, Tech is not concerned about attracting season ticket holders (orr keeping existing ones).
you can't fix stupid or bulldogs
December 4th, 2012
1:26 pm
Ken any word on DC? Who are they talking to?
GIVE ME A BREAK
December 4th, 2012
1:27 pm
If a FBS team loses 2 games to FCS teams then that should be an automatic disqualifier for a bowl game.
Buzzzed
December 4th, 2012
1:36 pm
GTAA, please stop scheduling out of conference cupcakes!
Just like other conferences, we have enough cupcakes in conference.
Losing against a respectable OOC opponent will not hurt our chances for an ACC championship which is our goal every year..
I pay a lot of $$ for my tickets and I want to have a good time at the games.
Buzzzed
December 4th, 2012
1:39 pm
Specifically for 2013 though, that looks like a pretty tough schedule even with the two OOC cupcakes. Generally, please stay away from the cupcakes.
GIVE ME A BREAK
December 4th, 2012
1:41 pm
Richard & Buzzed, I’ll have a hard time renewing mine.
GT Dude
December 4th, 2012
1:46 pm
If CPJ’s man is available now, it would be nice to get the new DC on board before the bowl game
From what I saw over the second half of the season it sure isn’t the crew that is there now.
Buzzed
December 4th, 2012
1:49 pm
yawn: it’s pretty easy to bash BOTH your conference and OOC schedules. The acc AND FCS teams. So strong. And, as far as (possibly) beating those teams doing nothing for gt, now you know how UGA feels having to play gt.
GT Dude
December 4th, 2012
1:50 pm
Ken,
How about a quick comparison of special teams play for 2011 and 2012.
It will be interesting to see if the ST coaching assignment paid off.
faultline
December 4th, 2012
1:51 pm
just glad not to have to face Mid Tenn again.
Buzzzed
December 4th, 2012
1:52 pm
Richard, F$U, Clemson, UGA, VT will be huge home games and UNC won’t be bad.AND Vad and Justin will be playing. Looks to be multitudes better than this season. Still, hard to get up for the OOC cupcake games. Hard for the team too (see MTSU).
White&Gold
December 4th, 2012
1:55 pm
At least playing two FCS opponents forces us to win 7 regular season games if we want to make a bowl.
It IS a good home schedule...
December 4th, 2012
1:59 pm
…but Tech sure should not be throwing stones at UGA for whomever they play when the bees play both AL A&M and Elon next year…
1 4 GT
December 4th, 2012
2:24 pm
AJC said recently (maybe yesterday) that the entire ACC conference was scrambling to fill out the schedule after conference went from 8 to 9 game conference schedule. I expect ridicule for what I am going to say. The difficulty of getting tougher competition on short notice, aside from the fact that a lot of other schools already had full schedules, says something to me. In spite of our less than stellar record this year, some of the teams that might have been available don’t want to take a chance on losing to GT because they just may see possible improvement & trouble in stopping our offense. They might be thinking why take the chance. Just food for thought.
And, 1 4 GT...
December 4th, 2012
2:32 pm
…a good thought it is…
Also, Ken...
December 4th, 2012
2:36 pm
…how much is Tech having to pay Elon and A & M for those beatdowns – the usual $400K – $500K, which this year was the going rate for FCS team beatdowns?
1 4 GT
December 4th, 2012
2:36 pm
I expect ridicule for this too. After watching the games this year, early on it was obvious defense had some problems. CAGroan was dismissed at mid season. The defense slowly started playing better. In 4 of the last 5 games. the coaches have made really good adjustments at halftime & the defense played lights out (nextdoor to a shutdown defense IMO). No mean feat that! I believe that Coach Kelly at the very least deserves serious consideration for the job as DC. Yes, I said it. The man has done a good a job as interim DC. If this were a big business that you were in charge of, you would be a derelict in your duty as a smart boss to not give this man a serious chance to convince you why he should or shouldn’t get the job. IMNTBHO
RambleOn84
December 4th, 2012
2:37 pm
Y’all have it all wrong. This is GREAT, and I’ve been saying we should do this for years.
Not necessarily playing two FCS teams, but playing one late in the season…
This is what most SEC teams do, and it’s part of the reason they have done so well in their inter-conference matchups late in the season. We basically get an extra bye week before Georgie.
Really smart scheduling. I do wish we were playing a better opponent earlier in the season, though.
Spanky
December 4th, 2012
2:41 pm
What would it take to get a Tech vs Ga Southern match-up? Both run the same offense and have spotted D’s…that would be fun to watch!
10per
December 4th, 2012
2:46 pm
Does anyone complain about Alabama playing Western Carolina,Florida Atlantic and Western Kentucky this year? Did it affect their ranking and attendance when they outscored those teams 124-7?
Scheduling OOC cupcakes is not going to stop anytime soon. I would like to see another SEC team on the schedule but it’s tough to fill games late sometimes.
RocketCityJacket
December 4th, 2012
2:47 pm
www
does ANYONE in the GTAA know what they are doing anymore? it’s like interns are running a $50 million department. embarrassing.
__________________________________________________________________________________
You mean like the White House Administration
wrecked
December 4th, 2012
2:48 pm
The usual losses to UGA, Miami, VT, Florida State, BYU, and most likely Clemson.So GT goes into the season knowing it will not play in a bowl. Pj’s driven the Ramblin Wreck straight to hell.
Jon Koncak
December 4th, 2012
3:02 pm
With two FCS opponents, Tech can count only one win against Elon and Alabama A&M towards bowl eligibility.
Not sure if you can even count on having one of those as wins when considering the coaching, the recruiting, the offense, the lack of defense and special teams, lack of facilities, lack of financial support……
Jacket Attack
December 4th, 2012
3:05 pm
I thought I read somewhere that we were flipping the clemson game and going there again this year?
Buzzed
December 4th, 2012
3:14 pm
1 4: Will agree that no one wants to take the time out of playing real football to waste a week to prep for gt’s offense. It’s death by a thousand paper cuts, and does nothing to prove that gt has a good program. Until you guys get a defense, special teams and depth both on the field and in the stands, gt will remain a nuisance – not a team to fear.
dawgfan
December 4th, 2012
3:17 pm
“This is what most SEC teams do, and it’s part of the reason they have done so well in their inter-conference matchups late in the season. We basically get an extra bye week before Georgie.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you today’s winner of the dumbest Techie post of the day award. 4 of the past 5 years Georgia Tech has played DUKE before the Georgia game. The one year they played someone else, Miami in 2008, they beat Georgia.
Congratulations to RambleOn84. This is a very prestigious honor as there are always many many worthy candidiates to choose from and picking a winner is difficult.
Thanks.
GT in GoldTown
December 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
I pray for the day when we have the forward pass again. We need to eat the money we owe CPJ and SPEND some money to bring in a big name guy to Tech. If we win, the money will follow and the coach will pay for himself. The ACC is so weak and legit coach could come in and win the ACC. Plus with Georgia being the 3rd most talent rich state we could keep some home grown talent. I’m tired of being a .500 program and losing to UGA, VT, and our bowl game every year.
Oh Baby!!!
December 4th, 2012
3:20 pm
Can’t wait! Can I get my tickets now!
Bring back Jim Donnan
December 4th, 2012
3:22 pm
I read the headline and thought, “Kewl, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas A&M”! – 3 SEC teams to beat on!
You mean, dawgfan...
December 4th, 2012
3:24 pm
…the now 6-6 Dook team that is a FBS bowl eligible team, unlike the FCS, non-bowl eligible GA Southern team that UGA played the week before the Tech game? And, AL played Western Carolina, and UF played (and should have lost to) LA Monroe (and how does such a “win” qualify them for the BCS Sugar Bowl?)..
You may have tied Rambleon for the dumbarse post award…
Ken Sugiura
December 4th, 2012
3:48 pm
haven’t heard anything about DC. I’m pretty sure nothing will happen before the bowl, though.
good idea about special teams comparison. i was thinking about that a week or two ago. will do.
Jimbo
December 4th, 2012
3:50 pm
1 4 GT has the only sensible comments in the entire thread. It’s pretty hard to schedule a decent OOC opponent this late in the season, especially if they think there’s a decent chance that they’ll lose. It’s that simple.
Anyone want to find out which FBS teams actually had this weekend in their 2013 schedules available as of October 2012? We can make a case after that.
Jimbo
December 4th, 2012
3:56 pm
Case in point: Boston College (among other ACC teams) had the same issue. This blog post (bear with me) shows which teams had 2013 openings as of Nov. 2012: http://ajerseyguy.com/?p=3243
For the lazy, the list consists of: BYU, Central Michigan, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Southern Mississippi, Tulane, UTEP,Cal, Arizona, Oregon State and Florida International.
BYU is immediately out, since they’re already on Tech’s schedule. Arizona, Cal, and Oregon State aren’t likely candidates for a regular season game due to geography. That leaves CMU, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, UTEP and FIU. Not exactly a slate of great teams, is it?
Jacket Detective
December 4th, 2012
3:58 pm
Most of u are forgetting that we’ll have the “messiah” as QB.
Just kiding Joe.
Actually I like the guy but did not want him to start, for example, at VT and Clemson until he got some experience.
I think starting as a freshman had something to do with Reggie Ball’s poor play vs Uga.
We asked him to do too much too soon.
UGA = Yawn
December 4th, 2012
4:00 pm
Jacket Attack – DRad was looking into that when we expand to incl Pitt and Syracuse. And now Lousiville and ‘ND’. He was hoping to break up our schedule. IE. all our good games are together – one year all at home, next year all on the road. He wants to divide up VT, Clemson and UGA. We play all 3 each year but all 3 together. To do this, either Clemson or GT was going to have to play 2 against the other on the road, in a row. Now that DRad is gone, I’m not sure what will happen. But our schedule is top heavy in odd years. 2012 – few great home games. 2013 – many great home games.
Pitbull
December 4th, 2012
4:00 pm
I guess the folks at Tech thought if Gene Chizik could beat Alabama A&M then Paul Johnson could too.
Or maybe Presbyterian was already scheduled out that year.
Paul in NH
December 4th, 2012
4:08 pm
The problem with scheduling a good team OOC is that they want a home and home. I’ll give you an FBS team with an open date on 11/21 – Navy.
Paul in NH
December 4th, 2012
4:09 pm
Oops – wrong year on Navy.
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December 4th, 2012
4:11 pm
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Tech1986
December 4th, 2012
4:32 pm
I read somewhere earlier when the 8 game schedule came about that we would go to VaTech again next fall to even out the schedule. In addition to UGA and Clemson at home. we also have UNC, so if we have FSU on top of that, pretty good home schedule.
Pepper Rodgers
December 4th, 2012
4:45 pm
This scheduling makes no sense to me. TWO FCS teams? WTF?
Was Cedar Shoals or Grady not available?
GTBEE
December 4th, 2012
4:52 pm
Does anyone have a cork?
All we need is a cork!
We can plug the hole and save this sinking ship!
Oops! Looks like there might be more than one hole in this ship.
Anybody got a can of Flex Seal??????/
Eagle bait
December 4th, 2012
5:23 pm
They are too scared to play GA Southern…we would plant you in Dodd Field.
Big JIm
December 4th, 2012
5:25 pm
Makes no difference until the Cancer that is our pathetic head coach and his program killing, will not work, boring ass offense is gone…
Hedgewhacker
December 4th, 2012
5:44 pm
@Jimbo: “That leaves CMU, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, UTEP and FIU. Not exactly a slate of great teams, is it?” Most any of those teams would be a great deal more interesting than Alabama A&M and Elon. At least they’d be better name recognition and playing at the same level as GT.
tobacco road
December 4th, 2012
5:45 pm
Interesting that the more teams the ACC adds, the less times we get to play our conference rivals. Even more interesting is that GT doesn’t play any SEC teams in 2013 except the usual UGA game. Since 2007, Tech has played a grand total of 4 games vs SEC opponents: 2 vs Miss. State, 1 vs Vandy, and 1 (disaster) vs LSU in the 2008 Chick-fil-A Bowl. Is your AD aware that you have other Division One schools in the Southeast?
You don’t build a top-level program by playing the likes of Alabama A&M and Elon at home, plus go to Provo. Looks to me like Tech fans would want to see the occasional game vs Alabama, Auburn, UT, SC or the Mississippi schools.
Thanks to John Swofford, Tech doesn’t show up on the Wolfpack’s 2013 schedule. We’ve played GT only twice since 2006, and it’s another good rivalry gone away, like our games vs Duke, UVA and now Maryland have. You guys keep Alabama A&M busy, and we’ll play out our 3-game series vs South Alabama. Nothing like playing those Alabama schools!
Come on, John, bring in Cincinnati and UConn. We need MORE teams!!!
Phys67
December 4th, 2012
5:56 pm
Keep hearing a playoff system would make the season too long, but teams continue to waste two weekends a year on games nobody cares a thing about. Unbelievable….
just the truth
December 4th, 2012
6:18 pm
GIVE ME A BREAK. You might want to pass on your thinking to the Falcons too. They make the season ticket holders buy the 4 exhibition games also.
Iluvnutella
December 4th, 2012
6:25 pm
I guess the surrogate AD wants to try and keep Fish-fry AFTER next years 6-6 season.
Delbert D.
December 4th, 2012
6:26 pm
I find it hard to believe that the SEC schools wouldn’t trade their November 23 FCS patsy to get Tech to play at their place.
just the truth
December 4th, 2012
6:29 pm
Obviously some people don’t know much about scheduling major college football games. When someone drops you from the schedule, you may get months to schedule a FCS school. To schedule a FBS school can take many years of which things can still go wrong and be deleted. Tech already has Ole Miss and Alabama scheduled in the future. If those games are played …………… we”ll just have to see. I doubt it with the new SEC and ACC realignment !!
Flak Jacket
December 4th, 2012
6:30 pm
Playing teams like these two are a waste of time.CPJ might just be able to handle these weaklings,but don`t bet on it.
Confused
December 4th, 2012
7:46 pm
I find it confusing that Georgia fans are on here trashing Techs schedule. I guess Georgia does not schedule FCS teams. The always play the toughest schedule. They play 3 ranked teams all year and they are 1 – 2 against them. The only reason Tech is play AA&M is because that is the only school that was available to schedule on that date. You just can’t say, “mmm I have an open date so I guess I will schedule ND.” They also have games scheduled. What a bunch of nimrods.
CPJ
December 4th, 2012
8:40 pm
Elon?? That’s a high school, right?
My jacket
December 4th, 2012
8:44 pm
Big whoop. No wonder we can’t sell tickets. Who makes these decisions?
yellowfever
December 4th, 2012
8:48 pm
That’s right Tech, just keep cramming this crap down our throats. Bad product against Bad teams. Makes me just want to run out and buy tickets again next year. NOT and I WANT.
yellowfever
December 4th, 2012
8:50 pm
BYU will kick our ass again. Bank on it.
Uh, Confused...
December 4th, 2012
8:50 pm
…you really are if you think it is UGA “nimrods” trashing this schedule – most of what I read is from Tech fans…and former students…
GT Man
December 4th, 2012
9:46 pm
We need an AD, anyone looking at a Stanford or Notre Dame assistant AD ? Both programs are high academics and winning in football, basketball, baseball and both womens basketball are winning for the last 3 seasons. Rad screwed us good with PJ and the probation, at least he got rid of Paul Blewitt
GTJeff
December 4th, 2012
10:04 pm
You know, people rag on Tech for not filling its stadium. Why can’t we adopt a new philosopy for our program? A “We’ll play anyone anywhere” fill those patsy games with the Michigans, Texas, Oregon’s & the like. Two SOLID FBS schools from the BIG, SEC, Big12 & Pac every year. Yes we may very well lose most of those games but I guarantee you that intrest in the program with those games on the slate. This philosophy of playing ding dongs for practice is absolutely meaningless.
1 4 GT
December 4th, 2012
10:25 pm
That leaves CMU, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane, UTEP and FIU. _____________________________________________________________________________________ And how do y’all know the above teams had an open date that met our needs? _____________________________________________________________________________________Y’all are Tech guys! Think like Tech guys! This ain’t rocket science!
1 4 GT
December 4th, 2012
10:39 pm
I agree with GT Jeff. I don’t like playing the nobodies either, but I do understand the necessity of needing to fill out our schedule with whomever is available. I believe we tried to add UTn & they said no. The Bammer h & h was moved forward some # of years. I’m just glad I don’t have to wrestle with this as part of my job (if I still had a job!).
Tech Guy
December 4th, 2012
11:51 pm
Season ticket sales will take a hit next year.
Veteran Fan
December 5th, 2012
12:14 am
Proud of our very young team! Season ticket holder and grad will definitely renew and enjoy every minute of the next season. Remember folks, there is nothing better than a crisp Saturday afternoon in Grant Field cheering for the Yellow Jackets! We will do well next season and beat our country cousins from Athens as they will be rebuilding with very little veteran leadership. It will be a very good year, minimum 8 win season.
dry dirt road
December 5th, 2012
5:45 am
BYU coming up again. I commented here that BYU would have players from the West Coast with South Sea islander names who had nothing to do with BYU’s white founders, and would attend BYU solely to find white coeds, get married and mission to foreign countries to find one that allows bigamy. That lineman who is a candidate for the Heisman has a South Sea islander name and is an example of the BYU players I was commenting on.
dry dirt road
December 5th, 2012
5:55 am
it is about time Tech scheduled a team in Div 1-AA; Tech needs to switch to that conference; the better Div 1 teams can shut down Tech’s option offense when Tech runs the ball, and Div 1-AA schools probably would not be able to, but MT was able to, at BD(after MT lost to McNeese State this year); I don’t believe Tech has as much of a chance as a snowball in Hell of beating USC in the SB; could you imagine USC ever playing McNeese State and losing to them?
If do right, no can defense
December 5th, 2012
6:00 am
NOTE: We’ll be playing Clemson on the road again next season so as to fix the imbalance that results in having Clemson, VT, UNC, and uga all at home in odd years.
So, for 2013:
(Home)
Elon – FCS
Alabama A&M – FCS
VT – ACC
UNC – ACC
FSU – ACC
uga
(Away)
Duke – ACC
Miami – ACC
Clemson – ACC
BC – ACC
Virginia – ACC
BYU
If do right, no can defense
December 5th, 2012
6:03 am
Tough road schedule… it will be hard with all the road games against ACC opponents to become bowl-eligible, let alone compete for a championship.
straitroad
December 5th, 2012
8:20 am
Maybe Tech would be better off playing in the same league as Furman and Georgia Southern. That seems to be where Johnson is more comfortable and he could win 9 or 10 games there.
greg mcgarity
December 5th, 2012
8:28 am
our philosophy over here in athens is “as long as people are dumb enough to keep paying good money to see these blowouts, we’re gonna keep scheduling them” you see easy money and easy W
Jacket Detective
December 5th, 2012
8:42 am
Most teams cannot afford an out of conference loss to their won-loss record or to their team’s psychological makeup.
Auburn played Clemson tough to start the season according to my Clemson fan cousin.
So like us, their team quit.
The difference was our coaching managed to right the ship while Auburn continued to fall apart.
Auburn did have a more difficult schedule.
Did Chizik’s coaching appear to be better than it was due to a few great players (Cam) similar to what we experienced with Hewitt in a different sport?
One problem with paying a coach a very high salary is that it may not leave much to get top assistants.
Ralph Freigen was the highest paid assistant in the whole country at the time we signed him to get him back from the pros.
I’ve wondered if the signing was O’Leary’s idea or forced upon him because his first choice for O-coor was so predictable in his play-calling.
WnE
December 5th, 2012
10:06 am
re:
RambleOn84
December 4th, 2012
2:37 pm
Y’all have it all wrong. This is GREAT, and I’ve been saying we should do this for years.
Not necessarily playing two FCS teams, but playing one late in the season…
This is what most SEC teams do, and it’s part of the reason they have done so well in their inter-conference matchups late in the season. We basically get an extra bye week before Georgie.
Really smart scheduling. I do wish we were playing a better opponent earlier in the season, though.
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We usually play Dook before we play UGA, and they haven’t been strong in years, so that has been the same as a bye week for GT and it still hasn’t helped us vs. Muttville.
GT cannot afford to play D1-AA teams our Market is different than most CFB Programs, we aren’t the only game in town, we HAVE TO play games vs. teams that are from BCS conferences or at least D1-A.
UGA plays USCe, Florida, Tenn, Auburn, plus other teams from the SEC West on a rotating basis, in 2013. they I think they add LSU and maybe Texas A&M to their schedule with Clemson & GT OOC.
GT never schedules like that playing in a very weak ACC, so GT can’t afford to line up crappy D1-AAs like SEC teams do.
For a school that always brags about being the “smartest guys in the room” our Athl. Dept. sure does do a lot of really DUMB things.
WnE
December 5th, 2012
10:21 am
re:
Jimbo
December 4th, 2012
3:50 pm
1 4 GT has the only sensible comments in the entire thread. It’s pretty hard to schedule a decent OOC opponent this late in the season, especially if they think there’s a decent chance that they’ll lose. It’s that simple.
Anyone want to find out which FBS teams actually had this weekend in their 2013 schedules available as of October 2012? We can make a case after that.
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“Especially is they think there’s a decent chance that they’ll lose………”
You don’t go out and schedule opposition out of FEAR that you might lose to them so instead you pick easier teams.
That right there is a “Freudian slip” that proves that our HC is NOT the right man for the job and is NOT worth the $2.6MM salary he’s paid each yr..
Time to fire Pajamas and move forward.
BTW the only 3 BCS level schools to NEVER have played a crappy D1-AA team in the history of their school is USCw, UCLA, and Notre Dame, BTW all three schools are Academically ranked very close to GT’s #36 or 38 National Ranking.
GT should petition the ACC to go to 10 conference Games so that only 2 OOC games would be left up to GT’s crappy GTAA Administrators and with the UGA game taking up one of those games, that would leave only one game for our GTAA to screw up.
This would do wonders for GT’s attendance and would force Pajamas to earn his paycheck for once.
Alabama Jack
December 5th, 2012
10:47 am
Don’t any of you idiot negative posters understand. Tech tried to do better but no Big East, Conference USA, or Big Ten schools were available. Learn to read, learn to reason, learn to think. Oh wait, you’re probably doggie trolls, anyway. Never mind.
tobacco road
December 5th, 2012
10:53 am
@WnE
ACC administrators will NOT give you ten conference games. They won’t even give you nine. Make sense? The more teams the conference adds, the fewer of them you’ll get to play. At NCSU, we can play South Alabama 3 times in 4 years, ditto for Central Michigan, but we can’t play our oldest and nearest rival, Duke, even once during that 4-year stretch.
As for Tech’s schedule next season, the road games look a whole lot easier to me than those 4 home games vs UGA, FSU, VT and UNC. But fear not, the great Swofford and your AD will eventually come up with a GT home schedule that’ll look like BC, WF, Syracuse, Pitt, UVA, Alabama A&M and Middle Tennessee. Gotta even the score sometime, right?
WnE
December 5th, 2012
11:00 am
re:
tobacco road
December 5th, 2012
10:53 am
@WnE
ACC administrators will NOT give you ten conference games. They won’t even give you nine. Make sense? The more teams the conference adds, the fewer of them you’ll get to play. At NCSU, we can play South Alabama 3 times in 4 years, ditto for Central Michigan, but we can’t play our oldest and nearest rival, Duke, even once during that 4-year stretch.
As for Tech’s schedule next season, the road games look a whole lot easier to me than those 4 home games vs UGA, FSU, VT and UNC. But fear not, the great Swofford and your AD will eventually come up with a GT home schedule that’ll look like BC, WF, Syracuse, Pitt, UVA, Alabama A&M and Middle Tennessee. Gotta even the score sometime, right?
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You are correct.
That being said, that is one reason why the ACC is among the worst Conferences almost at the same level as the Big (L)East.
The only way for the ACC to attempt to close the gap with the SEC is to go to 9 or 10 Conference Games, preferably 10 Conference Games due to scheduling being easier.
Our Conference will never close the gap with the SEC by scheduling OOC cupcakes.
Joe Schmoe
December 5th, 2012
11:42 am
The schedules others are posting are not correct.
Pitt will be in the Coastal, so they will be on the schedule. With only eight league games…..we will play VT, UVA, UNC, Duke, Pitt, Mia, and one out of division team. That is why the ACC has not come out with a schedule yet
Technically Correct
December 5th, 2012
11:53 am
If adding Alabama A&M was the first “test” for the acting AD, he just failed his interview. Next?
Booze Hound
December 5th, 2012
1:05 pm
Florida State, Clemson, Georgia, Virginia Tech, BYU…all likely losses next year. Please go ahead and fire Johnson before the bowl loss.
HJacket
December 5th, 2012
1:59 pm
A ship without a Capt? Right now I think the Wizard of Oz is running the place.
Yellow Jacket AJ
December 5th, 2012
2:49 pm
I figure we did the best we could because no good team would make an opening to play an offense they never see so late in the season not to mention subjecting their players to a bunch of cut blocking. It’s another artifact of the CPJ offense. No doubt the spread option is going to be more popular in the NFL and other top college programs eventually but it won’t be the main offensive scheme. We lack the athletes to run it and we lack the athletes to run a more balanced attack like we’ll see in the BCS Championsip game.
Tech Forever
December 5th, 2012
2:57 pm
I’m sorry but I find it amusing so many people poo-poo 2 FCS teams when we play in the ACC!!!! The whole ACC schedule is a joke b/c the ACC, including Tech, is a joke (compared to the SEC, Big 12, Pac 12, and Big 14). Short of FSU I’m not even sure a single ACC team will win their bowl game this year. Lets be honest about this…..if Baylor were in the ACC Coastal they would have won it and possibly gone undefeated in Coastal conference play….and I’m not so sure FSU or Clemson culd beat them at the end of the year either!!!!!
Don’t rag on the FCS teams when we play in a conference only slightly notched higher than the Big East….who incidentally is on the verge of losing their BCS AQ status….possibly after this season during the winter meetings.
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big gt fan
December 5th, 2012
5:33 pm
well loose another bowl game because that high school qb will make sure of that and that brilliant head coach is going to make all the right coaching moves necessary to win. good job coach!
Toadster
December 5th, 2012
7:13 pm
“Our Conference will never close the gap with the SEC by scheduling OOC cupcakes.”
But scheduling Coastal Carolina, Buffalo, etc. will?
Don’t care about your response. You are a nabob of negativity. Why don’t you buy out Johnson and coach Tech football since you have all the experience and money? Did you not win the lottery? Again, I don’t give a flip about your worthless response…dog. GATA
Supersize that order, mutt
December 5th, 2012
7:58 pm
@ big gt fan…..I hate to pick on a fellow Tech fan, IF you are indeed a Tech fan, but “WELL LOOSE” ?????
1 4 GT
December 5th, 2012
8:45 pm
“nattering nabob of negativity”
1 4 GT
December 5th, 2012
8:46 pm
Toadster must be about my age to recall that phrase!
1 4 GT
December 5th, 2012
8:49 pm
Do you remember who used that phrase & who he was talking to when he said it? _____________________________________________________________________________________”Nattering Nabobs of Negativity”
Pitbull
December 5th, 2012
9:02 pm
And I ask yet again why tech won’t schedule Georgia Southern.
Is Tech afraid of losing face by losing the game? I think so.
We played both tech and Georgia Southern this year and Georgia Southern had the better team. I understand your reluctance but it makes you look scared.
Buzz2011
December 5th, 2012
9:51 pm
@boozehound.. You must be a Dawg or drinking too much booze…. We will win all of those
games including Your Dawgs.. You will love it!!
Centennial Rematch
December 5th, 2012
10:12 pm
What’s the word about a rematch with Cumberland on Friday night Oct. 7, 2016? Reports are some Cumberland alumni are wanting this game especially after MTSU whooped GT by 21 points this season. Anything to this?
Supersize that order, mutt
December 5th, 2012
10:53 pm
@ Pitbull……Tech HAS scheduled Ga Southern, but it’s not for several years yet. We wouldn’t have scheduled them at all probably if Johnson had not coached there. And the only reason UGA scheduled them was in tribute to Erk Russell. So get over it.
11 of 12
December 6th, 2012
12:12 am
I don’t think adding those teams to the schedule is a big deal. Every year both UGA and Tech play teams like these two. No big surprise and it will never change. Not sure it needs to either.
FORMATION 4 SUCCESS
December 6th, 2012
10:24 am
All of you are wrong about the ability to fill a schedule. Except for those who agree with what I am about to say. 1.You can only schedule a team that has an open date when you need to schedule them. 2. Tech is only willing to pay $250-$500K for the opponent. Other schools in the SEC and other conferences are willing to pay up to 1 million. So it makes it even harder to get better talent. 3. On the other hand there is no excuse for UGA they have the money. 4. DRad made the excuse that we have UGA on our schedule every year. With the exception of FSU and Clemson no other ACC school has a formidable opponent of that caliber on there schedule every year so they can afford to schedule up on the open dates. For us to do so adds undo pressure to win aned may cost us a bowl game. (This I may add was DRad’s biggest problem, playing it safe). I believe to turn around our program we need to schedule opponents that will sell tickets, make our program more attractive to better athletes and gives us a chance to climb the polls to position us to win another NC. Since UGA can’t win one we need to get back up there to give this state another chance.
11 of 12
December 6th, 2012
10:33 am
Formation: the last sentence you wrote literally had me laughing out loud at my desk. Keep the jabs coming but don’t forget the distance between the two programs and if u think UGA can’t win it remember that you are 42 – 10 behind. I hate to talk trash on here but felt that deserved a response.
Jacket Fever
December 6th, 2012
10:37 am
I just heard a rumor, I dont know how true it is that PJ is now the front runner for the Tenn job?????
old dog
December 6th, 2012
2:12 pm
@ my old buddy Supersize:
How the heck are you? Maybe the 2nd half of the F.State game woke ya’ll up. Alabama A and M must have been terrible to lose to Auburn this year, by the way. But, you gotta have a few like that. We get one or two, you know!
Hopefully your D-recruiting is looking good…………….
Technically Correct
December 6th, 2012
3:00 pm
Some of you may remember the campaign to get rid of former Tech coach, Bud Carson. With Tech’s current college president, Bud Peterson, seemingly doing everything he can to thwart Tech’s move to the Big 10 conference, don’t be surprised to see the “Fire Bud” campaign revived…
Booze Hound
December 6th, 2012
4:06 pm
Buzz2011,
Nope, I’m a Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern fan. You must be the one drinking (or maybe taking drugs) if you think the Jackets win all of those games next year with Johnson still at the helm.
Pitbull,
You might be right about Southern being better than Tech this year.
FORMATION 4 SUCCESS
December 6th, 2012
7:38 pm
@11 of 12 : That is exactly what I am talking about. In 1987 it was said that UGA and TECH’s program were worlds appart. In 1990-91 well you know. Since 1980 UGA has only been good on paper just not the on the paper that says National Champions. TECH losing to UGA is just a TECH problem. But UGA with all the greatest athlete’s year in and out is a just well… a problem. Here’s the distance between the TECH program and the UGA program. 1980 and 1990. 4 to 2.
Lenora
December 6th, 2012
9:58 pm
Alabama A&M is a fine historic institution, and I am appalled at the negative comments. This is 2012 people, and things are changing! We don’t have to tear other schools down to make our school look good. Go Bulldogs! I hope in the future ,we can play schools who respect us and want to play us.
Lenora
December 6th, 2012
9:59 pm
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11 of 12
December 6th, 2012
10:13 pm
Formation: so when u lose it is just a tech problem and yet when we lose it is a a different problem outside of just being our own? Sounds like the logic of GT Bob. Just because we dominate u and have done so recently doesn’t mean u have to draw at straws and suggest not winning every game means UGA is falling itself like u have against us your biggest rival. Flattered that you think because we own u and put players into the NFL that we have no excuse for ever losing but all you are really doing is just trying to poke holes in a program that you can’t beat and that you want to somehow still feel inferior despite not losing to you.
Put the Gun Down
December 6th, 2012
10:48 pm
Man GT fans are a negative group. Sure you guys had a bad year but it is really Johnson’s first sub-par year(I don’t count the year that Nesbitt got injured because any team would struggle with their 2nd string QB starting over half the year.). I think a lot of this is because he had a hard time getting recruits his first year or two and they are the juniors and seniors on the team right now. But like any day the sun will come up tomorrow. GT returns every O-Lineman but one and it is assumed the transfer from Auburn can fill his spot. All the main back and WR’s are back except Smith but I think he is more a product of the system than an actually good back. Vad Lee and Justin Thomas are both better than Tevin and Sims has looked really good now that he is healthy, plus the Custis kid could come in and have an immediate impact as big and fast as he is. The defense returns 8 I believe and the 3 Tech loses are are probably the 3 worst they had on the defense. Tech just lost the ACC Championship by 6 points to the number 13 team in the country who is about to lose their QB and led every ACC game in the 4th quarter. Tech will be a lot better next year than people are going to give them credit for and the ACC is going to lose a lot of play-makers on other teams.
C'mon, y'all
December 7th, 2012
2:23 am
There is a difference between a forced fumble and poor ball security.
gt4ever
December 7th, 2012
8:22 am
@Put the gun down…
Why is is negative to state the true reality… ?
Yes, this is just football, and it really doesn’t matter in the big picture.. I have been very vocal about the short comings of this coach, as I like many others want a team that competes. Anybody that has an ounce of football IQ can see that our program is in a nose dive. We cannot recruit, can’t play defense or special teams, and we can’t consistently win in the worst football conference in the country. Negative statements… ? No,, just reality.
Swampwizard
December 7th, 2012
10:16 am
A micky mouse offence for a micky mouse schedule
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