Greene no longer with team
Georgia Tech wide receiver Jeff Greene is no longer with the team, according to his high school coach. Starr’s Mill High coach Chad Phillips said he was notified over the weekend.
“We’re trying to help him get re-directed and get off the mat, find a place for him to go and proceed,” Phillips said.
Phillips said that Tech coaches had been frustrated with Greene’s effort and attitude and that they and Greene “decided it would be best to part ways.” Phillips expected Greene, a sophomore in eligibility and class standing, to attempt to transfer to continue his playing career.
“It’s a crying shame,” Phillips said. “The (coaches) bent over backwards to help him. He was on his way to getting a college degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. It’s a shame he had to be a little selfish.”
More than once, Tech coach Paul Johnson noted Greene’s size-speed combination and potential to become the Yellow Jackets’ next great receiver. Last spring, Johnson said that he wanted Greene to be more consistent in effort and pass receiving and planned to get on him because of his ability. This year, Greene leads the team with 18 catches for 284 yards, a 21.8 yards-per-game average, with two touchdowns. He started seven games.
For the Dec. 31 Sun Bowl against USC, that leaves Corey Dennis, Chris Jackson, Jeremy Moore and Darren Waller as the top options at wide receiver.
Greene could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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GT71
December 13th, 2012
5:31 am
“chuck” – Please tell where 5150’s ‘racial overtone’ was. Really, we’d like to know. Seems some people not only turn over all sorts of rocks to find racism, they smash them up, pulverize them and look in an electron microscope for them…and they still aren’t there. No, the ‘rocks’ are in your head, dude.
Get a life. 5150 seems a class act and is 100% behind Tech and ALL its people.
Old Dog
December 13th, 2012
6:28 am
To Hell with Tek, today, tomorrow and every other day!
BUZZ Fan
December 13th, 2012
6:54 am
Would love to hear Greene’s side of the story.
You have just assinated a kids character based upon hersay, and comments from a person (hs coach) that may violate HIPPA…..
May be you can find out how johnson “got on him;” daily choking, punching to the gut, daily cursing and spitting in his face, loving father son chats, positive reinforcement, what??? we’ve all seen what johnson is capable of on national televison, what is he capable of when he knows the cameras are off!!!
This article is really a load of crap, I had come to expect more from you.
The Truth
December 13th, 2012
7:28 am
Old Dwag you senile old coot….TO HELL WITH UGAG….the cesspool of the South….today, tomorrow and every other day!!
dmac54
December 13th, 2012
7:38 am
I can’t see how Tech can recruit any top receivers when the leading receiver has only 18 catches!! Got to balance the offense Paul!
BIrmingham Jacket
December 13th, 2012
7:38 am
Typical more bad news from The Flats.
Sadly, Georgia Tech just isn’t a Div-1 college football program anymore… Or belongs in the SunBelt or MAC-type conference.
Everything from the fan base, to the high-school head coach to the Div-2 talent.
No wonder D-Rad left. He wanted to coach for a legitimate Div-1 CFB program.
OldGold1964
December 13th, 2012
7:48 am
Sometimes, there is more to the story than the story that is presented / published. Someone needs to sit down with Mr. Greene and get his side of it. Of course, the GT coaches apparently had multiple sit-downs, and things just did not click. Perhaps he was just not a good fit for the school.
Whatver the case, I think the GT football program can overcome it, and I hope Greene does too – when he gets his mind straight, and has a good successful future (in football or not).
GT
December 13th, 2012
8:01 am
The Green story is an old one. We produce football celebrities that come out of high school uncoachable in our state. I think that is why Georgia can’t get it passed the weak divisional and trumped up scheduling tricks to the next level and it is a huge problem at Tech. Tech had it in basketball too, kids sick of playing the game lying down on the coaches who were not that good in the first place. Lord the Middle Tenn. State game was like watching a mental institute play football at recess. The beat writer talks about skill levels and such not, they need to be writing about the character of kids getting into big time college football. Some of these kids have no business being around a college and they infect the rest of the barrel. This stuff is going to kill the game. You can’t have one conference competing and the rest of the nation recruiting normal students carrying the load. Someone needs to get in this and fix it, keep non student athletes out of college football, and this jocksniffing press should get back to being journalist not circus promoters.
david dilbeck
December 13th, 2012
8:04 am
jeff greene better start practicing up for your next job which will entail saying the age old line “would you like to supersize that order”
Jon Koncak
December 13th, 2012
8:29 am
This football program is a dumpster fire.
GTGRAD
December 13th, 2012
8:30 am
Witnessed Jeff’s ‘act’ first hand at Starrs Mill, and now at GT…..it was simply a matter of time. He’s wasted a tremendous opportunity to get a great education, and to refine his skills on the field.
Freddie Blassie
December 13th, 2012
8:36 am
gt90, you should change your name to Brenda. You are an enoch and a punk. Why don’t you go to the press conference and ask Paul Johnson the questions you coward?
Greene was handed the premiere receiver position which panned out pretty well for some other guys at that position. Greene just took a few too many dumps in his own nest and now he is gone and will be some other coach’s problem. 4.6 sec. for 40 yds. is pedestrian. Back before the feminization of the game there was a guard from Memphis who ran a 4.6.
Greene can take his show someplace where they can bow down to him. There are a handful of receivers who can do better and be grateful for the opportunity.
Jacket Detective
December 13th, 2012
8:43 am
With all the negativity on here, it is difficult to tell the Tech fans from the trolls.
Are u paying attention or does basketball not count?
The news on the basketball program keeps getting better and better.
The problem for those fans paying attention is not to get too far ahead of ourselves.
I wanted to be sold this year on basketball though I have been a season ticket holder of both football and basketball.
I said if we beat Uga two years in a row – after having bought the Tulane/Uga package – I would buy the ACC package which I did this week.
Getting both the Poole brothers is just icing on the cake.
CPJ is going to get another year with two QBs who are more talented but not better trained in the TO than Tevin.
He cannot be fired this year with what we owe him.
I am hoping Vad or the Bama guy will make us forget all the whinning we have done this year after the Groh experiment became a dismal failure.
That and much better D coordinator.
Jacket Detective
December 13th, 2012
8:50 am
@Freddie.
Funny.
U sure told him.
Too much negativity on here for me as well.
U r a little more blunt (or maybe a lot) than me telling folks where to go.
More power to u.
The Necromancer
December 13th, 2012
9:04 am
I have been a Tech fan most of my life. So I don’t have much experience with other college fan bases. But are all college fan bases this whiny? Cmon, if you hate Tech and CPJ and TO and bad recruting so darn bad that it makes you a negative nancy, then stop watching. I know when there is something that I don’t like to do, then I don’t do it. Why cause yourself so much grief?
DesignerJacket
December 13th, 2012
9:14 am
Birmingham Jacket, do you also think when there’s an afternoon thunderstorm that the sky just isn’t what it used to be and will never be blue again?
Sheesh. Things are gonna be just fine at Tech! This year had its problems, but can’t we wait and see what happens with the defense this offseason? Our offense gets yardage and points. You couldn’t ask for a better young QB with an exciting backup. Special teams is no longer a liability. And now the final piece is going to come in the form of “who can turn our defense around the fastest?” We hire somebody (or keep CCK at the helm) and then we see if we don’t win more of the close games this next season. If there’s zero improvement after that, then we can make a coaching change, but Tech will still be a great Division 1 program (don’t let your perspective be thrown off by how big and shiny everything is in the SEC; there are still plenty of programs at the D1 level that would love to have our recruiting, our bowl streak, our history, our conference, our coach, etc.)
Jacket Detective
December 13th, 2012
9:19 am
@The Necromancer.
I could not agree more.
I was talking to a Uga fan (and friend) about basketball when he started trashing Fox and their poor recruiting.
They are so jealous of what is going on with Tech basketball.
I have not been this excited about Tech BB since I was ten.
I was wrong then but not about my hero R. D. Craddock who could beat Kentucky, his home state who snubbed him.
I’m not wrong now.
The problem for those paying attention is stay in the present because – what’s that song – “the future so bright, I’ve got to wear shades”.
DesignerJacket
December 13th, 2012
9:21 am
Just a thought: Shouldn’t obsessing over your favorite college football team be fun? If it’s all about hating someone else or critiquing the coaching staff or comparing the program to other programs, then are you really getting what you want out of being a fan? I mean, what’s the point if you can’t just go to the games because you ENJOY being a fan of your favorite team?
(Notice I never mentioned winning, in that line of questioning.)
Jacket Detective
December 13th, 2012
9:23 am
Those of u who are Tech fans and not trolls, need a good shot of whiskey and to get with the program.
Both are improving in the future though it is much more apparent, I’ll concede, with basketball.
I could wait to give approval but Brian Gregory was a very good hire.
Recruiting and coaching: what a concept.
Jacket Detective
December 13th, 2012
9:30 am
I know it’s winter and who really likes winter?
But Descartes famous comment was not “I whine, therefore I am” (as some seem to think).
It was, correct me if I am wrong, “I drink, therefore I am”.
Right?
Jacket Detective
December 13th, 2012
9:35 am
U r spot on too Designer.
nate from detroit
December 13th, 2012
9:37 am
As with all kids his age Greene probably believes that he could play at the next level. However, how is he to showcase his skills when he is the leading receiver in your offense with 18 catches for a season?
GT is in a shambles
December 13th, 2012
9:40 am
Kids leaving, GT on PROBATION for CHEATING, CPJ on the hot seat, lousy recruiting, leading to losing season and the continued UGA humiliations, GT is in a deep, irreversible, DOWNWARD spiral.
Milledgeville Jacket
December 13th, 2012
9:48 am
Milledgeville Dawg, break time is over. Get off that computer and get back to work!
Dave from GT
December 13th, 2012
9:51 am
What is YPC?
juvenal
December 13th, 2012
10:00 am
yds/catch-Merry Christmas to all(esp. AH), thanks for asking the tough questions, Ken, asked him a Q once at media day…..
Cats hav fleas 2
December 13th, 2012
10:07 am
Who cares…Tech is insignificant and shouldn’t be in a Bowl game to begin with.
GT
December 13th, 2012
10:11 am
It is not just us I am telling you the whole college game is tanking. You got the pros coming in and taking the cream and we are left with players that not only can’t cut that grade but are not students either. Their highest level of existence is going to be on that campus at that moment and it will be all down hill from there. Seems to me something in high school could prevent this attitude. It could start with not being so excited when some one horse academic institute recruits you and refuse to return a call from an Ivy League school. Can you imagine any real student picking Alabama over Vanderbilt, but it happens every day in college football.
BS Patrol
December 13th, 2012
10:18 am
1. We will miss him about like the doggies miss Crowell.
2. Milledgeville DAwg is a k-mart fan.
3. So far Vad has been no better than TW. I want to see J. Thomas.
4. “feminization of football” is correct. Next up: Touching of The Dreds, 15 yards.
juvenal
December 13th, 2012
10:29 am
4. actually is no penalty in nfl for grabbing them…….” lawyerization” more like it…….still, only penalty for getting $ to hurt some one is to pay $ if you get caught………
www
December 13th, 2012
11:11 am
justin justin thomas, y’all.
techdawg
December 13th, 2012
11:27 am
Watching him this year was painful. He often gave less than his best. Many kids would kill to have his size, skills and opportunity. Tough to coach “heart”. He will look back with regret.
GT Dude
December 13th, 2012
12:00 pm
never understood why we gave him an offer?
I was on the field for the 2010 state championship game – Chattahoochee vs Stars Mill
He wimped on several plays and when we had a chance at a TD catch he short armed the attempt.
Hooch’s Whitehurst totally outplayed him that day…
crackbaby
December 13th, 2012
12:19 pm
@GT Dude – That’s interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.
Any chance your initials are TB?
obviously he should
December 13th, 2012
12:20 pm
go to georgia state, pretty much same location, and he’ll get to be the star there.
crackbaby
December 13th, 2012
12:20 pm
Never mind, now I see you were on SM team.
AMG
December 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
Sorry to see him go and from the sound of it, I hope he gets his head together, This is the wrong time in a life to have a down period.
Ken, will you be updated the search for a Defensive coordinator soon? I know a lot of Tech fans are really curious what the thoughts are on this.
Al Bundy
December 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
Good riddance! I’ve seen better receivers on DII teams. The kid was extremely fortunate to have received a scholarship from the Institution. He will regret this for the rest of his life.
AMG
December 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
Updating not updated
Baby Jackets
December 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
Let’s put in perspective here. Tech has a 20-19 record under Johnson the last three years. Tech will be 20-20 after they play USC in the bowl game. 500-Hardly a stellar accomplishment. And, this is the ACC—worse BCS conference in the nation! Any other school Johnson would be fired. This past season, Tech averaged throwing the ball 14 times a game. High School Level for sure! Tech’s Opponent’s averaged throwing the ball almost 32 times a game. Georgia by comparison averaged 26 passes per game! If you’re a receiver, why play at Tech? Put 300 lb. lineman out wide because all the receivers do is block! Might as well put a big body out there. Johnson had success early on at Tech but now every team has figured out his one dimensional offense. Johnson, Time to Go! Back to FCS!
AMG
December 13th, 2012
12:37 pm
Baby Jacket is acting like a baby . . .
Ex Tech supporter
December 13th, 2012
12:39 pm
Flak Jacket just won the championship for having the most stupid post.
mathie
December 13th, 2012
12:44 pm
addition by subtraction
Baby Jackets
December 13th, 2012
1:12 pm
Sarcasm AMG—come on! Baby Jackets are what the Tech JV team used to be called! Tech is JV compared to other teams—Really High School!
Check the stats—they’re accurate. Mathie, you’ll be glad to know Tech averaged running the ball about 57 times a game. What a balanced attack 57 v 14. Johnson, Time to Go! Wake up Tech, Get a real coach! What opportunities were missed this off season too!
GT Dude
December 13th, 2012
1:27 pm
@crackbaby
No I am one of the fathers of one of the players on Hooch team
Calculator
December 13th, 2012
1:48 pm
Since when does 284 divided by 18 equal 21.8. May want to check that math again. Either the math is wrong, or he only had 13 catches.
Baby Jackets
December 13th, 2012
2:02 pm
Calculator, you must be a Tech grad? I was comparing the number of times Tech throws the ball on average per game. Georgia Tech threw the ball a total of 184 times during the season. 13 games. 184/13 = 14 average per game. Versus, running the ball 57 times per game. 745/13 = 57
Not real attractive from an offensive passing/receiving opportunity perspective to say the least. Oh, did you notice two of the teams in the semi finals of the FCS run Johnson’s type of offense! Johnson, Time to Go! Back to the FCS!
Ken Sugiura
December 13th, 2012
2:31 pm
Calculator – you are correct. i was looking at the wrong column. thank you.
Dawgfan
December 13th, 2012
2:38 pm
Do they really need receivers at Tech anyways? Not really necessary in that boring offense they run. Passes are generally up for grabs by anyone.
Baby Jackets
December 13th, 2012
2:39 pm
I think you guys were looking at first downs which there were 284 during the season. 184 passing attempts for approx. 14 per game average. 745 rushing attempts for approx. 57 per game average.