Clemson flips to Tech’s even-year schedule
Georgia Tech will play a second consecutive road game at Clemson this fall, a move that will address its scheduling issue that has had Clemson, Georgia and Virginia Tech on the same home-away rotation since 2006.
Tech will also play home games against both ACC newcomers, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Pitt will be in the Coastal Division with Tech. Syracuse will be in the Atlantic Division and is on the schedule as the one rotating Atlantic opponent.
Tech’s other home games will be against North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Elon and Alabama A&M. The other road opponents will be Duke, Miami, Virginia and BYU. Tech will have seven home games and five road games.
Tech officials have sought to fix the scheduling quirk that has placed the Yellow Jackets’ three biggest rivals – the Bulldogs, Hokies and Tigers – on the same pattern of coming to Bobby Dodd Stadium in odd years and hosting Tech in even years. It has caused unbalanced season-ticket sales, which has made budgeting for the athletic department uneven.
Syracuse’s visit will be its first ever to Bobby Dodd.
Home: North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Elon, Alabama A&M
Away: Clemson, Duke, Miami, Virginia, BYU
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George Stein
January 11th, 2013
11:07 am
Clemson should have had to come here twice in a row after we got screwed having to go to VT twice in a row.
Ken Sugiura
January 11th, 2013
11:19 am
i can see where you’re coming from, but Tech made the request, so it makes sense it should have to pay the price for the switch.
wrecked
January 11th, 2013
11:23 am
With both Elon and Alabama A and M on the schedule will GT have to have 7 wins to be bowl eligible?
Ken Sugiura
January 11th, 2013
11:25 am
that’s correct, unless Tech got its six wins against one of the two FCS schools and five FBS teams.
Tech77
January 11th, 2013
11:32 am
I see 9, maybe 10 wins on this schedule. I’d like to see 12 though.
So, when does...
January 11th, 2013
11:37 am
…Notre Dame come on the schedule as one of their 5 games against ACC teams?
gtfanfrom1951
January 11th, 2013
11:40 am
Should have moved UGA to first of the year or drop them it does no good to play them every year.
Georgia DAWGS
January 11th, 2013
11:43 am
yall don’t play FSU this year??
Uh, gtfanfrom1951...
January 11th, 2013
11:46 am
…that would be like moving Christmas to August or dropping it, though you are correct that it does neither team any good except in those years like 2008 when Tech wins and gives the fans a chance to gloat about that victory until the next one comes around…
Or, as St Simons blogged for 2 years – 48-45, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….
chc4
January 11th, 2013
11:48 am
I see alot of losses on that schedule next season.
@Georgia DWAGS
January 11th, 2013
11:49 am
And Georgia DOESN’T play Alabama yet again this year? Really.
SeanMcGuire
January 11th, 2013
11:49 am
Undefeated!!!….wait uga is on the schedule never mind.
But, UGA...
January 11th, 2013
11:50 am
…did play AL this year, just as Tech played FSU this year…
spider
January 11th, 2013
11:51 am
no dates yet??
But, wait...
January 11th, 2013
11:53 am
…would you rather play Clemson, SC, and LSU – or, Clemson, VT, and NC/Pitt/’Cuse? That’s what I thought…
GT Man
January 11th, 2013
11:53 am
gtfanfrom51, I agree, either play ga first or drop them. Just get the loss over with, so we can hope to win the ACC or drop them completely. The losses lately have been embarassing and PJ just does not have the players to beat them. With this schedule, i see an 8-4 season, cant beat Clemson, Miami or BYU on the road, and surely will never beat ga again as long as Richt can recruit 35 players every year and PJ can only get 15-17 that nobody else wants.
Jim 70
January 11th, 2013
11:56 am
I forget why we ended up playing twice in a row at vt, and now need to play two in a row against Clemson to “even” the schedule. If we had kept the home/away with vt, then the schedule would have been balanced.
Something strange here.
errrr...
January 11th, 2013
11:56 am
Maybe the season ticket issue is not so much UGA, VT and Clemson, maybe the issue is BYU, Alabama A & M and ELON. I live in North Carolina and I don’t know where Elon is or what there mascot is. I certainly wouldn’t pony up for tickets to the game. Even if it was a single ticket at Elon. (Assuming I could find it.)
Bob
January 11th, 2013
11:57 am
We lost FSU and gained CUSE.
GT Man
January 11th, 2013
12:00 pm
Too bad ” Benedict ” Marron wont be coaching be coaching Syracuse this year—-remember when he left Tech to go coach for Donnan at ga ?
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
12:14 pm
Thank the ACC GOD’s understand the the VT away back-to-back (years ago screwed the Home Schedule) was a BAD IDEA and now the Tech schedule is more even for TICKET BUYERS.
Wanted FSU bad. I have friends in Tal-A-Has-Ee that love having me visit or them visiting me so I miss that chance again but OK.
Wondering
January 11th, 2013
12:15 pm
@errrr, since Elon is in NC, maybe you could brush up on your geography skills just a bit before blogging.
Ken Sugiura
January 11th, 2013
12:16 pm
Jim 70 – don’t know for sure, but I imagine it had to do with the ACC being split into two divisions.
i believe notre dame starts with the acc in 2014.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
12:19 pm
The ACC GOD’S still screwed TECH with the Away back-to-back Clem& Sons game but the Tech Ticket schedule will be better.
WHY the F did TECH have to do 2 away games at VPI and now Clem&Sons? the ACC Hates TECH and that is the ONLY reason TECH has been made to do the double AWAY games to the BIG BOYS of the ACC.
MAYBE TECH needs to see what the B1G is offering for us to leave the ACC. The ACC doesn’t respect TECH in Football.
GT Pa
January 11th, 2013
12:19 pm
I believe the switch with VT was because we were initially playing both VT and UVA in Virginia on the same year. The swap put us in Virginia only once a year.
JB
January 11th, 2013
12:25 pm
OUCH… 6-6 maybe
Vespula
January 11th, 2013
12:25 pm
In the grand scheme of things, it is fair for Tech to play Clemson there two years in a row. When I was an undergrad at Tech, the Jackets always insisted on Clemson playing in Atlanta. Then Death Valley became larger than Grant Field, and it became home and home from 1974 on. When I was a PhD student at Clemson, the resentment against Tech for those years of snubbing Clemson’s home field was palpable. Having to go there twice in a row is a pretty small sacrifice compared to what Clemson went through earlier.
Mark in ATL
January 11th, 2013
12:27 pm
How did you get screwed when you requested the change to play at Clemson two yrs in a row??? Wouldn’t you be screwed if you requested it and were turned down?
White&Gold
January 11th, 2013
12:33 pm
In the long run, this is a better move. Even year home games suck,and mixing Clemson in will appeal to fans. We played hard this past season in Death Valley, and with the departure of Ellington and Hopkins, along with CTR coming in, it’s a very winnable game.
GTville
January 11th, 2013
12:35 pm
Ha ha, I agree with errrr…not living in GA I have no interest in coming back to watch us play Elon and Ala State. I had been looking forward to playing Alabama this year, but we chickened out. It may keep us bowl eligible without a loss, but it would have been a great victory and a fun game to see. Schedule better or better known programs to keep the stadium full. Beat the better programs to keep your recruiting up.
Ol'JacketFan
January 11th, 2013
12:39 pm
Gotta love these folks who comment on Tech getting recruits that nobody else wants. All you have to do is spend a little time looking at what other programs have offered Tech’s recruits to debunk that myth. Do yourslef a favor and do a tiny bit of research before your post. It’ll save you some embarassment!
Uh, errr......
January 11th, 2013
12:42 pm
…Elon is a “suburb” of Burlington, NC, and Burlington is a far out suburb of Greensboro – and, believe it or not, their mascot used to be “The Fighting Christians” – they changed mascots a few years ago to a “Phoenix”, whatever that is…back when they were just a liberal arts school (they are now a full fledged university) they were a power in NAIA football (but that was back in the 70’s/early 80’s)…
White&Gold
January 11th, 2013
12:42 pm
You would honestly want us to play Bama next season? It would get ugly…..quick.
FL Jacket
January 11th, 2013
12:43 pm
Elon is Wes Durham’s alma mater…
Agreed, Ol'JacketFan......
January 11th, 2013
12:45 pm
…that moron also said that UGA gets to recruit 35 guys every year, too while thinking that GT only gets to recruit 15-17…
I woulda thought......
January 11th, 2013
12:48 pm
…that with his dad’s pull at UNC that Wes would have gone there – wow, he must be really “not smart” to not get in there what with his dad being a legend in Chapel Hill…
Buzzzed
January 11th, 2013
12:52 pm
Agree with GTville,
better schedule = more ticket sales, better recruiting, but more losses (and possibly no bowl game)
As a club level season ticket holder, I’ll take it over getting stuck with worthless tickets to Elon and Alabama A&M!
GTville
January 11th, 2013
12:53 pm
Yes, I wish we did not cancel…I understand why though.
dawgfan
January 11th, 2013
12:54 pm
YAWN. Its your standard Techie football schedule. Only 2 teams that finished this year ranked in the top 25. Two D-1aa sisters of the poor. The rest is just mediocre ACC crap that we’ve all grown to love.
Georgia Tech football is boring and predictable. I can understand why you don’t go to the games.
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
12:55 pm
I get that, Ken, but the conference screwed it up initially by sending us to VT twice in a row. It seems reasonable to me that our request should have been granted without consecutive trips, especially when you consider VT plays the BC and Maryland juggernauts out of the division this year.
Easy, Mark. We travelled twice to VT when the conference screwed up the schedule initially.
Denver Dawg
January 11th, 2013
12:56 pm
something else that would help “balance” season ticket sales?
four tickets, 4 hot dogs, 4 cokes
oh, wait…
Ol'JacketFan
January 11th, 2013
12:56 pm
As to the schedule, I like it, we get to see the two new members of the conference in their 1st year. With VT, GA and NC it’s a good balance. The road schedule will take care of itself as long as Tech plays like they should give the number of returning starters.
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
12:57 pm
UGA – to their credit – does not oversign. In that conference, they are fighting with a hand behind their back.
Thanks, George......
January 11th, 2013
1:02 pm
…for putting some truth out there for the rest of the Tech faithful…
Booze Hound
January 11th, 2013
1:02 pm
7-5 Record
Wins: North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Elon, Alabama A&M, Virginia, and Duke
Losses: Virginia Tech, Georgia, Clemson, Miami, and BYU
Johnson is then hopefully fired and takes the leaky Roof with him.
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
1:03 pm
Thanks for your continued interest in GT football, dawgfan.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
1:06 pm
UGA – to their credit – does not oversign. In that conference, they are fighting with a hand behind their back.
They don’t oversign but they do abuse a system that allows them sign players, have them flunk out or get kicked off the team, and then just sign more players. Personally, I think there should be a hard cap on the number of players you can sign in a 4 year period. Signing 35 guys to replace all of your rejects is just a dumb system. It penalizes the schools that try to sign quality individuals.
dawgfan
January 11th, 2013
1:07 pm
“Thanks for your continued interest in GT football, dawgfan.”
You’re welcome. Its like driving by a big train wreck. I’ve just got to take a look.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
1:09 pm
ACC & TECH SCHEDULE should be: 9 confrence games
#1) FBS…..HOME…( Big team ie. SEC Vandy or Miss St or Tenn or Miss St or Bama) keep it Southern
#2) Duke……Home….Coastal
#3) Virginia……Away….Coastal
#4) Miami…..Home….Coastal
#5) Pitt or SYR (whoever is in the Coastal Division)…..Away….Coastal
#6) Clemson ……AWAY
#7) Pick a rotating team……Home…Home Coming.
#8) FSU……Home
#9) Virginia Tech…..Away….Coastal
#10) UNC…..Home…….Costal
#11) FCS……Home
#12) UGa……Away
Comments?
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
1:11 pm
errrr…
January 11th, 2013
11:56 am
“I live in North Carolina and I don’t know where Elon is”
—–
You mustn’t get around NC much. Elon is half way between Raleigh and Greensboro, just off I-40/I-85
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
1:15 pm
Sorry…………UGa should be HOME and the FCS should be AWAY to keep the Home Schedule even for the ticket buyers.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
1:17 pm
I live in North Carolina and I don’t know where Elon is or what there mascot is.
Elon has actually won several awards for having one of the nicest campuses in the country. Its pretty well know in NC, and elsewhere.
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
1:22 pm
The back to back away games against VT (2005 & 2006) was to address a mess up by the conference scheduling office when VT first came into the ACC. In 2005, GT had 4 away games in the division and 1 home game – overall in conference it was 4 h and 4 a (they played 3 home games against the Atlantic Division). In order to balance out the schedule going forward, they needed to play a division opponent on the road 2 years in a row – VT was the choice. I am sure that the AA would have preferred it to be Duke.
Class of 86
January 11th, 2013
1:27 pm
Vespula = Dinosaur
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
1:29 pm
“Signing 35 guys to replace all of your rejects is just a dumb system. It penalizes the schools that try to sign quality individuals.”
It also penalizes kids who have worked hard enough to get the grades to be successful at a major university but are not quite as athletically gifted as the guys who shouldn’t be there.
Just another symptom of what is a fundametally corrupt system.
TeknocratNOTdemokrat
January 11th, 2013
1:30 pm
@ jb
“6-6 maybe” you must be referrinjg to the dwagz??
Karmello
January 11th, 2013
1:40 pm
Won’t matter! Tech will be in the Big Ten in two years. Bank on it!!! Clemson will be an afterthought, and the possibility of dropping UGA will become real with expanded conference tie-ins!
Naismith
January 11th, 2013
1:41 pm
UGA expected to sign 35+
Tech to sign 15+
Doesn’t even take a Walmart worker to figure out that NCAA football is skewed to UGA’s advantage. The fact that the masses already prefer Agriculture school to technological school is not the issue and an innate advantage for the Dawgs…the problem is when that is coupled with rule allowance giving one school (30 x 4 = 120 recruits over 4 years UGA….versus 17 x 4 = 68 GT) a huge recruiting advantage. Who couldn’t be winning with such an advantage??? Twice the athletes!
Flo - Ri - Duh
January 11th, 2013
1:56 pm
That’s right UGA is not on Bama’s schedule – Saban said NO REMATCH!
Mighty Bees of GT
January 11th, 2013
1:58 pm
Wow, someone from Atlanta doesn’t know what a phoenix is? Moron.
Tech wins at least 10 next year, after welcoming Spitt and Excuse to the ACC with losses.
Reebok
January 11th, 2013
1:59 pm
Don’t see us having much chance against Georgia, BYU or Clemson…I only see 4 games that I would call sure wins…the remaining 5 could go either way. Looks like we will be struggling to get that 7th win and be bowl-eligible again.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:02 pm
Naismith, its not quite that bad overall but still pretty bad. If you assume that UGA gets to 35 recruits this year and GT picks up 3 more themselves then UGA will have signed 99 players in the past 4 years and Tech as signed 75. So UGA has signed 24 more players. Between that, the fact that UGA can sign JUCO’s, and the huge difference in academic requirements and structure, its pretty amazing that some people still wonder why we can match up with them talent wise. Im sure dawgfan will come on here and tell us its an even playing field though.
WnE
January 11th, 2013
2:03 pm
re:
Tech officials have sought to fix the scheduling quirk that has placed the Yellow Jackets’ three biggest rivals – the Bulldogs, Hokies and Tigers – on the same pattern of coming to Bobby Dodd Stadium in odd years and hosting Tech in even years. It has caused unbalanced season-ticket sales, which has made budgeting for the athletic department uneven.
____________
If pajamas would put a quality product on the field then it wouldn’t make any difference about who our visiting teams are.
An gullible fanbase and a gimmicky triple-SLOPtion offense is why we are in this situation.
D-Rat jumped ship and headed to Klimpson just in time.
19 losses in 3 years and we don’t fire our HC is proof that we aren’t serious about GT FB!
WnE
January 11th, 2013
2:07 pm
re:
Naismith
January 11th, 2013
1:41 pm
UGA expected to sign 35+
Tech to sign 15+
Doesn’t even take a Walmart worker to figure out that NCAA football is skewed to UGA’s advantage. The fact that the masses already prefer Agriculture school to technological school is not the issue and an innate advantage for the Dawgs…the problem is when that is coupled with rule allowance giving one school (30 x 4 = 120 recruits over 4 years UGA….versus 17 x 4 = 68 GT) a huge recruiting advantage. Who couldn’t be winning with such an advantage??? Twice the athletes!
___________
Not a Mutt fan, but didn’t Muttville only sign 17 or 18 last yr. and are one of the few SECheat schools to not oversign?
Where did 30 x 4 years come from?
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:08 pm
Don’t see us having much chance against Georgia, BYU or Clemson
We will lose to UGA but why can’t we beat BYU or Clemson? Clemson especially. They are losing Hopkins and Ellington and they didn’t really beat us that bad this year. I wouldn’t call that game unwinnable at all.
Uh, Wne...
January 11th, 2013
2:12 pm
…not that I like what you write mostly, but this time you are spot on with the questions about what GTBob and naismith wrote regarding the scholly numbers – for GT guys they sure do seem oblivious that all D1 schools play by the same rules re: the yearly limits and overall scholly limits – they just do not understand the english language, evidently…
EVERY team can only have 85 on ’ship at any given time – why do they think UGA only had about 70 on ship this year?
WnE
January 11th, 2013
2:13 pm
re:
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
1:29 pm
“Signing 35 guys to replace all of your rejects is just a dumb system. It penalizes the schools that try to sign quality individuals.”
It also penalizes kids who have worked hard enough to get the grades to be successful at a major university but are not quite as athletically gifted as the guys who shouldn’t be there.
Just another symptom of what is a fundametally corrupt system.
__________
If they are not as ATHLETICALLY “gifted”, then don’t try for a friggin’ athletic scholly, there’s always intramurals, brother!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je-gpy6Y_UA
And, GT Bob...
January 11th, 2013
2:15 pm
…whgat is the difference in sigining a JUCO player and what Tech just did in having the MD guy transfer? And Tech COULD sign JUCO’s if they could find any who wanted to come to Tech – how did they get Dewberry from UGA, or that tight end who FLUNKED out of UGA but was eligible at Tech (many years ago)?
Not Disappointed
January 11th, 2013
2:20 pm
We were screwed on the Clemson away game! I hope we beat them the way the Jackets beat Virginia Tech the second time we visited them two in a row!
Ramblin Wreck!
So, Mighty Bees from GT...
January 11th, 2013
2:20 pm
..if you are so smart (and yes, I know you think you are since you are a ‘mighty bee) is Phoenix singular or plural? ANd, yes, Atlanta rose from the ashes, but did Elon? Inquiring minds want to know, especially since a “mighty bee” is not a moron…
dawgfan
January 11th, 2013
2:21 pm
“Im sure dawgfan will come on here and tell us its an even playing field though.”
Nope, I’ve never said anything of the sort. My response to all your crying, moaning and wetting your pants over academics boils down to two things 1) You’re lying and making it up; or 2) Even if its all true, cry me a freaking river you little nancy boys. My God are the biggest bunch of panty wastes in all of college football with your constant whining over academic “restraints” and calculus requirements. I simply don’t care. Its your problem and no one elses.
Quite frankly, I tend to lean more towards #1. It just never sounds that credible to me because you clowns have all of your vague talking points but rarely have any specifics to back it up.
Any questions Techie?
Delbert D.
January 11th, 2013
2:21 pm
I was hoping that Tech could schedule Florida International Airport instead of a second FCS team.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:22 pm
And Tech COULD sign JUCO’s if they could find any who wanted to come to Tech
Nope, the requirements of the university are high enough now for transfers that coming in from a junior college is near impossible. The only way it would work is if the kid takes specific classes in preparation for going to Tech later which rarely happens. You seriously think the reason that we don’t sign or even recruit JUCO players is because we can’t find any in the country who want to play at GT? Do you think all JUCO’s are future NFL stars or something?
wrecked
January 11th, 2013
2:22 pm
Naismith, It would serve you well to do some research before posting such nonsense.
Yeah, Naismith...
January 11th, 2013
2:23 pm
…Tech could sign 35, too, if they could find that many kids who wanted to come to school in Atlanta, and if they had that many slots open…so, obviously you are not qualified to be a Walmart worker, even with the Tech “edjewkation”…
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
2:25 pm
If your behavior is any indication, you care deeply, dawgfan.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:26 pm
Quite frankly, I tend to lean more towards #1.
You are right. We turn down players and stop recruiting players frequently just because we feel like it. It has nothing to do with academics. Sounds logical. And of course there are no players that would rather take Magazines or Leisure Studies at UGA then Business at GT which will be heavy with math and science. Nope, no chance that ever happened. And no coach has ever done negative recruiting against us by bringing a calculus book to the kids home. Nope, that never happened. Its all made up. Everyone is lying and it is all fantasy.
Geez, GT Bob...
January 11th, 2013
2:27 pm
…you answered your own questions with your own answers – as in “Nope, the requirements of the university are high enough now for transfers that coming in from a junior college is near impossible. The only way it would work is if the kid takes specific classes in preparation for going to Tech later which rarely happens.”
I rest my case, since EVEN YOU admit, via the above, that JUCO’s could come to Tech IF they wanted to…
11 of 12
January 11th, 2013
2:27 pm
Interesting that both Tech and UGA play at Clemson next season. I hope the state gets a clean sweep but it could easily go the other way. Pretty cool though either way.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:28 pm
…Tech could sign 35, too, if they could find that many kids who wanted to come to school in Atlanta
No they couldn’t. You really think we have 20 open roster spots that we don’t care about filling?
dawgfan
January 11th, 2013
2:29 pm
“Where did 30 x 4 years come from?”
He made it up and lied. That’s what Tech fans do. That’s all they’ve ever done.
And, GTBob...
January 11th, 2013
2:30 pm
…Supersize would take issue with you calling Tech a “university”…as he said the other day, it is an Institute and not a university…
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
2:31 pm
Anything is possible, but of you go to a Juco, there’s a pretty strong likelihood you won’t be able to hack it at Tech. I’m not saying it’s impossible, just unlikely.
I do hope all those kids get a chance, though, because struggling a math shouldn’t preempt a lucrative salary in pro ball.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:32 pm
I rest my case, since EVEN YOU admit, via the above, that JUCO’s could come to Tech IF they wanted to…
The only way it is possible is if the recruits themselves decide to take all of the required classes at junior college for transfer into GT and even then it is a long shot depending on how lenient the hill is with accepting the courses taken. That scenario might happen once every 100 years. There is a reason we don’t even recruit JUCO’s. It’s pointless.
Well, yeah, GTBob...
January 11th, 2013
2:32 pm
…just like UGA had 35 spots open this year, and last year they had what, 22 – and they still only had 70 on football scholarship this past year…and Tech had what, 81-82 on ’ship this year? so where is your outrage that Tech had the clear advantage, scholarship wise, this past year in football?
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
2:33 pm
He made it up and lied. That’s what Tech fans do. That’s all they’ve ever done.
Seriously?
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:33 pm
…Supersize would take issue with you calling Tech a “university”…as he said the other day, it is an Institute and not a university…
Tech fans argue about many things. The University/Institute argument and the correct shade of gold are the most popular.
RambleOn84
January 11th, 2013
2:33 pm
I guess if I were a loser I might spend all my time trying to sound tough by insulting fans of other teams or pretending to be a fan of one team while NEVER having ONE positive thing to say about the team I supposedly am a fan of.
But it’s hard for me to even imagine how pathetic a person’s life must be for them to engage in either activity.
dawgfan
January 11th, 2013
2:34 pm
“We turn down players and stop recruiting players frequently just because we feel like it. It has nothing to do with academics.”
Please name me one single player that Tech has “turned down” due to academics and give me the specific reason they were “turned down.” Just one GTBob.
Uh oh. GTBob just got called out on some of his BS again. Watch the artful dodger’s attempt to change the subject for a good laugh….
Agreed, GTBob...
January 11th, 2013
2:34 pm
…my only comment was that Tech COULD recruit JUCO’s is they wanted to; it was you who said they could not recruit them, though now you say they could…just pointing out the errors in your rationale – carry on…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:37 pm
so where is your outrage that Tech had the clear advantage, scholarship wise, this past year in football?
My outrage is with the fact that UGA can sign the dumbest recruits out there and count on several of them flunking out or getting arrested or kicked off the team and can just sign plenty more. It gives them basically countless recruits. This past season they got bit by it a little bit but usually they will only lose 5-10 players because of natural stupidity. They are essentially running a farm for dumb athletic people and can restock when they need to.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:39 pm
Please name me one single player that Tech has “turned down” due to academics and give me the specific reason they were “turned down.” Just one GTBob.
Junior Gnonkonde – test scores.
Regarding the "correct shade of gold...
January 11th, 2013
2:39 pm
…back in the 70’s when I was in HS we got new football uniforms – our coach said he wanted our gold pants to be the pretty gold, like GT, not that “mustard crap” – and now, GT wears not the “pretty gold” pants of yester year, but those “mustard crap” gold pants…what happened?
RambleOn84
January 11th, 2013
2:40 pm
The guy who used to call himself “Rectum Affection” is not only a poser but a REALLY BAD one. I mean, if I were to have the urge to go onto a Georgie blog page with the intent of bad-mouthing Georgie while pretending to be a Georgie fan, I would write some nice things about them every once in a while. I would find some issues upon which to agree with the rest of the fanbase, but then throw in my jabs to try and sow the seeds of discord.
But I guess if I were smart enough to realize this stuff in the first place, I wouldn’t be doing it.
Stinger 1
January 11th, 2013
2:41 pm
Why are so many people counting the Virginia Tech game a loss. The were medicore this year and will not be better than GT next year. The lost this year to VT was
one that could have be avoided.
dawgfan
January 11th, 2013
2:43 pm
“Junior Gnonkonde – test scores.”
What “test scores” GTBob?
Stinger 1
January 11th, 2013
2:44 pm
Correct shade of Gold: You are right on. Even worse why do they wear blue jerseys?
Blue should never be used escept for secondary colors or numbers.
Veteran Fan
January 11th, 2013
2:46 pm
As a grad and season ticket holder, love the new schedule! I remember the last time Pittsburgh came to Grant Field and Tony Dorsett had a great game against us. I also was in Orlando, the last time we played Syracuse and we just destroyed them! These are the teams we should be playing. Those that put academics first and football second! We should still keep our country cousins in Athens on the schedule, if possible. There is integrity in this schedule and competitive games. Why would you not want a competitive schedule with no “guaranteed” wins versus the typical SEC schedule, where they try to avoid playing the good teams as much as possible! It should be about competition, not hot air like the SEC schools put out! The system is so screwed up that everyone has forgotten that it is about the players and their development as people and not the coaches and their multimillion dollar empires! Am I the only person that feels sad over the fact that Texas doesn’t play A&M and other long time rivalries are going away in this desperate rush for dollars to pay more and more to these bloated football staffs and the athletic bureaucracies! My God, uga just hired a defensive line coach who was making over $300,000 with Miss State! The TV networks are running the entire system. Both uga and GT did not sell out all their home games because why would you go to a game with a seat that looks directly into the hot sun in September for a noon game dictated by a tv network that doesn’t care about the fans! I buy the tickets to see good, competitive games period! We will win some and lose some depending on how well these 18-22 year olds play and that doesn’t bother me in the least! Go Jackets!!!
Uh, GTBob...
January 11th, 2013
2:46 pm
…you totally ignored my comment about the TE who flunked out of UGA but was still welcomed at GT…
And, your comment about “UGA can sign the dumbest recruits out there and count on several of them flunking out or getting arrested or kicked off the team and can just sign plenty more…” is way off base.. True, their standards for athletes may not be as high as Tech’s, though Tech does make exceptions for athletes, too (see Stephon Marbury and Reggie Ball), yet to say they intentionally recruit “dumb players that they know will flunk out” just so they can recruit more is an out and out slander on their recruiting process, and slander on the university as a whole.
But, I commend you for carrying on with your rant even though, deep down, you know you are just blowing smoke because you do not have a good rationale as to why UGA’s 85 football players are better than GT’s 85 players, 11 out of 12 times…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:46 pm
What “test scores” GTBob?
Good grief dawgfan, try to keep up with recruiting a little.
http://blogs.ajc.com/recruiting/2012/01/21/georgia-tech-first-commitment-for-2012-gets-scholarship-offer-revoked/?cxntfid=blogs_recruiting
Good comments, Veteran Fan...
January 11th, 2013
2:48 pm
…but, UGA did sell out their home games, even those seats facing directly into the sun…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:48 pm
…you totally ignored my comment about the TE who flunked out of UGA but was still welcomed at GT…
I have no idea who you are talking about. Give me a name and I will look it up. If it exists, im guessing it was a long time ago.
That is what I said initially, GTBob...
January 11th, 2013
2:50 pm
..it was a long time ago, probably back in the 1985 – 1990 time period…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
2:51 pm
True, their standards for athletes may not be as high as Tech’s, though Tech does make exceptions for athletes
Here is an article from a few years ago detailing special admits for football teams in college. Ill give you the highlight:
Georgia – 94%
Georgia Tech – 9%
http://www.fanblogs.com/ncaa/007731.php
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
2:52 pm
Can someone enlighten me on the exception made for Reggie Ball? He may not have been the greatest QB ever, but I’m unclear where this narrative was built. Also, he ended up flunking out.
I also don’t understand the Stephon Marbury comment. Even if that one is true, it had been 17 years. I think the statute of limitations has tolled there.
Again, GTBob...
January 11th, 2013
2:59 pm
…you just proved my point – even if only 9% were special admits, that means that Tech lowers its standards for athletes…
But, to be more precise, it might behoove your argument to if you provide the “regular” student body admission stats and compare those to “football player” admission stats…
George Stein
January 11th, 2013
3:03 pm
I didn’t think it was news that we admit athletes that wouldn’t be admitted as regular students. The issue has always been what the standard for athletes is relative to other schools.
Well, George...
January 11th, 2013
3:07 pm
…that was never in question, at least by me…
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
3:07 pm
“And Tech COULD sign JUCO’s if they could find any who wanted to come to Tech – how did they get Dewberry from UGA,”
Who knew that UGA was a JUCO?
fuzzybee78
January 11th, 2013
3:11 pm
@Veteran Fan
from another long time season tix holder–
AMEN AMEN AND AMEN!!!
Veteran Fan
January 11th, 2013
3:12 pm
It was reported in this newspaper that uga’s string of sell outs was broken this year in the Buffalo game or maybe another. I thought they had two home games that did not sell out. The point is that that is occurring more frequently than in the past at many places. Especially if either the home team is losing some games or the opponent is weak and their fan base will not travel to see them lose! The paper also brought up the issue and danger of weak schools scheduling a non-competitve game(see Savannah State) so they can make the money over the broken bodies of their student athletes! Everyone needs to take a step back and see where this is going and maybe the college presidents need to meet and create some integrity in the process because obviously the athletic departments cannot! Just look at that poor student killed at Notre Dame this year, because Brian Kelly had to have his practice filmed in 30-40 mph winds! His only comment until the school shut him up was that he had other practices filmed at his previous school in similiar conditions! Wow, what a caring individual who just finished coaching in the BCS game and the next day was being interviewed for an NFL job! And don’t get me started on Mr Petrino and Western Kentucky! I applaud GT and the ACC for at least attempting to put academics and the student athletes first! But we all need to consider whar we are supporting and what our expectations should be!
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
3:13 pm
…you just proved my point – even if only 9% were special admits, that means that Tech lowers its standards for athletes…
Of course GT makes exceptions for a few athletes and other gifted applicants. The key word there is a few. Not nearly the entire football team.
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
3:13 pm
Tyrone Sorrells was the TE who transferred from UGA back in 1982 or so. The guy was a heck of an athlete – he jammed one over our starting center in intramurals.
wrecked
January 11th, 2013
3:15 pm
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/terps/bs-sp-acc-sports-special-admits-20121222,0,7806954.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+baltimoresun%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Fbasketball%2Frss2+%28College%20+Basketball%29
In March, Georgia Tech issued a news release announcing that the average high school GPA for all students accepted for the fall semester was 3.9.
The academic profile of a group of 21 Georgia Tech special-admit football players from recent years looked much different. They had a combined average high school GPA of 2.19, according to an “athletes historical report” provided in March in response to an open-records request. The players entered the university between 2005 and last year.
Five special-admit men’s basketball players listed in Georgia Tech’s report had high school GPAs ranging from 2.16 to 2.42. The group’s SAT critical reading scores averaged 476, and its SAT math scores averaged 454.
Once at Georgia Tech, the five players’ GPAs averaged 2.16. Two were listed in good standing and two were on academic “warning,” meaning their recent performance was unsatisfactory. One was on academic probation. Three of the five were still enrolled as of 2011, according to the report.
Bad Dawg, Bad Dawg
January 11th, 2013
3:15 pm
Dawgfan, Predictable was the Dawgs hype of Elite in yesterdays AJC. For the record you need to “finish” to be Elite or maybe Dawgs spell it “lite”. Bama with 3 national championships in 4 years and Dawgs with 1 in 32 years and Dawgs are Elite? Please…..
fuzzybee78
January 11th, 2013
3:16 pm
@ Ken
When will you get a chance to interview Ted Roof?
Thanks for the good work!
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
3:19 pm
WnE obviously needs to learn the meaning of the word SCHOLARship.
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January 11th, 2013
3:21 pm
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January 11th, 2013
3:21 pm
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Thanks, Paul in NH ...
January 11th, 2013
3:22 pm
…regarding Tyrone…
And, Veteran Fan ...
January 11th, 2013
3:26 pm
…you may be correct regarding those “sellouts” at UGA – I remember the paper issuing those articles though I think the “non-sellout” issue was due to the Buffalo people returning their allotted tickets that htey did not sell to their fans late, with UT and Tech being the other teams that did the same thing…and I do not know if those “returned tickets” were ever sold or not – but as far as selling out “season tickets” (some 85,000) all of those were sold, as usual…
GT Lee
January 11th, 2013
3:26 pm
dwagfan calling someone a liar? pot meet kettle…..
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dawgfan
August 23rd, 2012
10:22 am
I probably won’t even watch the Buffalo game. I’ll be on the golf course.
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dawgfan
September 19th, 2012
4:31 pm
I am very critical of a certain assistant coach who shall not be named and his apologists claim that I am not a real fan, but I scream my guts out every Saturday for guys like Aaron Murray probably a lot louder than they ever could.
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So you scream your guts out EVERY Saturday? Last I checked, the Buffalo game was played on a Saturday. What a lying jackass you are, dwagfan!
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
3:27 pm
The background on Sorrells
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19841220&id=HEssAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xc4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5119,7069466
Interesting who recruited him to UGA – the worst HC in GT history – he who shall be unnamed.
Fix the Handrails
January 11th, 2013
3:30 pm
I count two wins this season: Elon and Alabama A&M.
Maybe three if Virginia folds, But you never know with them.
So, you are correct, GTBob ...
January 11th, 2013
3:31 pm
…in that GT admits only .0000425 of its students (18,000 or so) as special admits, while UGA admits .002282875 of it students (35,000 or so) as special admits – talk about picking nits…but, right is right, abnd you are right…
wrecked
January 11th, 2013
3:35 pm
Bad Dawg, Finishing 12-2 and ranked #4 in the country is elite, if not 116 other programs would trade to be as “lite” as Georgia.
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
3:38 pm
For the love of God, fellow Tech fans stop using academics as an excuse for poor recruiting. We take on morons just like everyone else, like UGA. Do you see ND and Stanford makign these excuses? Two schools more difficult and tougher to enter than GT? We need to drop this lame excuse, and just improve our recruiting methods.
Tide/Dawg
January 11th, 2013
3:40 pm
I see Tech has 4 patsies for sure on their schedule(wonder why MTSU is not on there) so PJ only has to win 2 other games to go back to El Paso or maybe Shreveport…..Awww..that’s ugly. I’m just down on PJ style football. With all of that offensive genius in his head…..I wonder what Tech would do if PJ(for some reason) had to leave during a game. Would he leave his head there for the interim coach to run the offense??? How would they extract all of that genius from his head? If PJ was a player, he would wear a huge helmet.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
3:42 pm
wrecked, that article is a good example of why the number of special admissions for athletes keeps getting lower and lower at Tech. We can’t hide them anywhere. They are usually going to fail and it will just make everyone look bad. With new APR rules it could keep us out of postseason play as well and cost us scholarships. Personally, I would be in favor of no special admits except under really special circumstances.
Oh, no, TexGT ...
January 11th, 2013
3:43 pm
…you just opened the door for the Techies to use the old “but our guys have to take Calculus and the Stanford and ND guys don’t” floodgates…
And though I do not know, I would think that Tech IS more difficult than ND for any student to enter, and not just athletes…
GT Lee
January 11th, 2013
3:44 pm
Georgia Tech had the nation’s best average SAT score for football players, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0. But because its student body is apparently very smart, Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower than their classmates.
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/12/30/athletes-show-huge-gaps-in-sat-scores
Oh, no, TexGT ...
January 11th, 2013
3:46 pm
…And though I do not know, I would think that Tech IS more difficult than ND for any student to enter, and not just athletes…” especially with so many catholics in the world vs the limited number of kids who want to be engineers, architects, etc..and the numbeer of other engineering schools around the US…
Tide/Dawg
January 11th, 2013
3:47 pm
You’re Right!!! What am I doing on the Tech Blog…….Well! I would like to see Tech return to prominence so the Tech/Ga. games would mean something again.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
3:47 pm
We take on morons just like everyone else, like UGA. Do you see ND and Stanford makign these excuses?
Yes.
http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/HIGHER-STANDARDS-Stanford-teams-finding-it-s-2589894.php#ixzz2GmSVg8PK
Also, neither Stanford nor Notre Dame are tougher than GT. You should check the graduation rates. Both are great schools but both many more areas of study than GT.
GTJohn2
January 11th, 2013
3:51 pm
“My God are the biggest bunch of panty wastes”
What a “God”! I feel for you dawgfan/WnE.
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
3:53 pm
Did I mis something,or did (1) ND just play in the NC game, and (2) Stanford make its second straight BCS game. What do we do? Oh yeah, crap the bed.
Both of these schools have shown the ability to rise above the academic excuse. And we do have easy areas of study – particularly management; international affairs; history, techology and society (are you kidding me?); literature, media and communication (again, are you kidding me?); modern languages; public policy…the list goes on. We have easy enough degree paths. Quit the lame excuses.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
3:59 pm
We have easy enough degree paths. Quit the lame excuses.
TexGT, its pretty obvious that you are listing majors that sound easy from the website. You should really do more research. There is a reason football players don’t major in any of those areas. Also, here is a link about how ND recently loosened academic requirements for football players. Then magically they improved.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/6891705-417/looser-academic-disciplinary-criteria-show-irish-ready-to-play-ball.html
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
3:59 pm
And that graduation rate is deceving. GT is tough, on certain majors, but generally we take a ton of students who’s applications would be shredded on the spot at Stanford and ND.
My point is not that GT is not tough–it is, particularly in the engineering sector. I will not deny it does create a disadvantage. But blaming academics is nothing but an excuse–other schools over come this and are extremely successful. And come on, some of our players recently have been utter morons…
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:02 pm
GTBob,
I went to GT. I know people who took many of those majors I listed. For an easy A I took some of those classes. I took enough to get a minor in international affairs. They are quite easy, trust me. I don’t understand why GT fans must hang their inferiority in football on a perception that we have no easy majors–we do.
Tide/Dawg
January 11th, 2013
4:02 pm
Somebody tell me! Would Tech lose their engineering credentials if they had other courses and majors that would get some borderline athletes in school there? Not familiar with that sort of stuff so someone enlighten me. Tech got rid of O’Leary (who got the players) because he mis-represented something on his resume. If Tech was a Law School, mis-representing the truth would be taught there.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:03 pm
But blaming academics is nothing but an excuse–other schools over come this and are extremely successful.
Name all of the highly ranked academic institutions who have been football powerhouses for the last 10 years.
Oh, no, TexGT ...
January 11th, 2013
4:03 pm
…but some of the Tech football players have been rocket scientists (Sean Bedford), too…
Uh, Tide/Dawg ...
January 11th, 2013
4:06 pm
…ND is the school that got rid of O’Liary, not Tech – Tech did not know he lied on his resume, or maybe he lied after he got the Tech job but wanted the ND job, but he quit Tech; Tech did not quit him…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:07 pm
I don’t understand why GT fans must hang their inferiority in football on a perception that we have no easy majors–we do.
We have majors that are easier than others. That is a lot different then having easy majors in general. The valedictorian from my high school started out in CS at Tech and had to move to HTS because of the difficulty. She did end up graduating with an HTS degree, with an average GPA. If she struggled with it, im a little skeptical that someone who barely met NCAA requirements out of high school will find it easy.
Uh, highly ranked academic institutions ...
January 11th, 2013
4:11 pm
…that have been football powerhouse for the last 10 years – that would depend on one’s definition of “highly ranked academic” vs GTBob’s definition, so, here goes: UF, THE OSU, Stanford, Michigan (minus the Rich Rod years), TX and USCw (and the U could be in there if not for their pending probation)…
Uh, highly ranked academic institutions ...
January 11th, 2013
4:13 pm
…and, oh yeah, Northwestern…
As my GT grad nephew...
January 11th, 2013
4:15 pm
…and many of you have said, getting into Tech is easy; it is getting out that is hard…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:19 pm
Northwestern, and Stanford have worse records than GT in the past 10 years. Michigan hasn’t been a powerhouse by any definition. UF, and OSU aren’t even in the top 50 in academic rankings. Ill give you TX and USC though. They are always the exceptions to the rule, although even Texas is arguable as a top academic institution.
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:21 pm
Maybe not all ten years, but good programs: Stanford, Michigan, ND, UCLA, USC. Add in programs that have had their share of runs – UVA, UNC, Boston College, Wake. Vandy is a pretty good team now, and would beat us and the majority of the ACC. All of these schools are ranked higher than GT, most ranked substantially higher. If you look at schools ranked just below GT, it includes Miami, Penn State, Wisconsin and Texas.
If you look simply at recruting rankings,ALL of these schools are ranked higher than GT except for Boston College. If you look at it in terms of average stars instead of total points, GT only jumps Wake.
The academic excuse just doesn’t play.
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:22 pm
When say ranked higher than GT, I mean academically according to US News.
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:24 pm
Michigan isn’t a perennial powerhouse? Are you kidding me? Yes, they had some down years in the 2000s at the end of Lloyd Carr and Rich Rod, but come on, all big time schools have had those years.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:27 pm
TexGT, thats what the academic schools do. They have runs. They never have sustainable success. Do you really expect Stanford, and Vanderbilt to be powerhouse programs in 10 years? No. People like to forget that Stanford was one of the worst teams in the FBS just a few years ago. Harbaugh and Luck helped them rebound but there is no evidence at all that they can keep it going much longer. Their 2013 recruiting class is currently below GT’s. There are only a couple of exceptions like USC, Michigan, and ND who all have overwhelming football tradition to fall back on.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:28 pm
Michigan isn’t a perennial powerhouse? Are you kidding me?
What makes them a powerhouse lately? I would agree that their football program is still one of the best programs out there but they haven’t really done anything recently.
GssiT
January 11th, 2013
4:38 pm
Elon & Ala A&M will force us to give up our 4 season tix. With half our graduates living outside the state, it’s going to take a very attractive schedule to bring them back. What happened to the old TECH (Auburn-Miss St-Vandy-Tenn)???? We all know who the kids want to play! To quote the departed AD, “It is all about money!” Then we better hire a new AD with a big enough pair to upgrade our schedule. Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf? Not we fans! Go, Jackets!
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:40 pm
Just to expand on my point, here is a recap of Michigan in the past 10 years:
Averaged 8 wins a year.
Went 2-8 against their rival.
Went 2-6 in bowl games.
Won 2 conference titles in 10 years.
Lost to an FCS school.
Would you say that is a powerhouse resume?
wrecked
January 11th, 2013
4:48 pm
Tech has 2 recruiting disadvantages, 1) limited curriculum 2) Paul Johnson .
THWT!
January 11th, 2013
4:49 pm
This switch sucks! Now I have a reason to dump my season tickets!
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:50 pm
Michigan? Yes, denying Michigan is a CFB powerhouse and one of the premeir jobs is pure ignorance You could make similar lean-year arguments for Miami, Penn State, Florida State, Bama post-Stallings until Saban in 2008 (they were bad), Tennessee now, Nebraska post-Osbourne, Oklahoma in the 90’s, USC in the 90s, UGA pre-Richt, ), and on….
Regarding Michigan, you statistics are severely driven down by the pathetic 3 year Rich Rod stent and LLoyd Carr’s final year. Besides, that, Michigan is a model of consistency, and consistently winning 9 games or more (pre-12 game schedule).
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:52 pm
Gssit – agreed. Given our weak ACC sked every year, we need to get bold with our OOC sked, a la LSU. We need to dump these DIV II teams, and get back to scheduling against bigger brand name schools, particularly old rivals like Auburn and ND.
It is foolish to argue with...
January 11th, 2013
4:54 pm
…GTBob – he is always right, even if by the smallest of percentage points – plus, he is a legend in his own mind…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:55 pm
Regarding Michigan, you statistics are severely driven down by the pathetic 3 year Rich Rod stent and LLoyd Carr’s final year.
2005 wasn’t so hot either. So over a 10 year span you think we should throw out 5 years and not count them? That’s convenient. Do you wan’t to drop this year also since they weren’t very good?
D'OH!
January 11th, 2013
4:56 pm
Agnes Scott College – Asked if tek would be there Homecoming opponent………. Tek said that they did not have room for another tough OOC game and did not want to risk being bowl eligible.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:59 pm
The only reason we are playing two FCS teams this year is because the series with Alabama was postponed. We were supposed to play at Alabama.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:04 pm
WOW……………….WOW……………………WOW………………….WOW…………………WnE is back! He was no-show after the TECH bowl win.
WnE did you nad THOMAS BROWN enjoy your wedding and reception at “Swinging Richards” and the After party at “Bulldogs” in Midtown? Which of you wore the Do Do Brown Wedding dress?
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
5:05 pm
If you think MIchigan is not a powerhouse program, you are nuts. Now I get why the UGA fans really don’t like you – you will fight an issue not matter what, without any ability to view something objectively. We would kill to be like Michigan.
If you really need your pathetic crutch of the academic excuse for why we suck, fine stick with it, but you will only continue to look ignorant to everyone else.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:06 pm
GTBOB you can’t make HEATERS understand that BAMA wanted to move the game and TECH accepted the offer.
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
5:17 pm
“Tech got rid of O’Leary (who got the players) because he mis-represented something on his resume”
Tech never got rid of O’Leary. He quit when he was offered the HC position at Notre Dame. When ND started looking closely at his resume they saw falsehoods of both an academic nature (he didn’t have the Masters he claimed) and athletic nature (despite claiming to be a 3 year letterman, he never played a down at UNH).
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
5:17 pm
TexGT, you seem to be getting frustrated so I will quit messing with you. However, you are the first supposed Tech fan I have ever seen though that will argue tooth and nail that we have no disadvantages at all because of academics. I have given you links showing Stanford and ND had the same issues and you ignored them. To you academics play no role at all in recruiting in college football. Go ahead and live with that mindset. Keep sitting around wondering why GT can’t get much better no matter who the coach is.
Barnesville Jacket
January 11th, 2013
5:17 pm
With that home schedule, I can already see GT having to beg people to buy heavily discounted tickets on Groupon. Sheesh. Two I-AA teams in one season? Gimme a friggin’ break.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
5:25 pm
I don’t like the idea of playing Elon and Alabama A&M, but that’s par for the course in college football today. Are you mutts saying that North Texas and Ap State are any better? Only one of them may be a FCS school, as opposed to both on Tech’s schedule, but they’re still patsies. As far as the rest of the schedule, Tech has no more control over the quality of other teams in the ACC than UGA does over those in the SEC. It is what it is. That being said, I think all Tech fans would love to play better OOC teams, such as Auburn, Tenn, whoever, Maybe the new AD will realize the need for that kind of scheduling.
DollarDawg43
January 11th, 2013
5:34 pm
I’m kind of surprised by some of the carping on here. I think you guys will have an excellent team next year and will compete for your division. I believe you’re looking at 8-9 regular season wins with a reasonable chance of a ten win season.
Your defense will be much better (I’m happy for Ted Roof to have the opportunity to “come home” but, as a Georgia man, I don’t know how much I like that-I believe he is a better coach than many seem to realize) and that will make a huge difference.
I know this past year was rough but you guys are closer to being pretty darn good than you give yourselves credit for.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
5:36 pm
Thanks, DollarDawg43
Rick James
January 11th, 2013
5:39 pm
@And, GT Bob…
…whgat is the difference in sigining a JUCO player and what Tech just did in having the MD guy transfer? And Tech COULD sign JUCO’s if they could find any who wanted to come to Tech – how did they get Dewberry from UGA, or that tight end who FLUNKED out of UGA but was eligible at Tech (many years ago)?
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Tyrone Sorrells
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:48 pm
ACC………..step Up………….9 ACC games………..7 home games……1 FCS paid for win…….1 OOC RIVAL(UGa)………..One Big OOC in the South(SEC old foe[money H-n-H]) Tenn/Vandy/ Sou Carolina/ Bama/ Auburn………
Play BIG r go home………make the CUSTOMER want to BUY the Product. Don’t make me BUY 3-4 games I don’t want to see. I will PAY MORE for games that MATTER and make my STINGER STIFF.
spider
January 11th, 2013
5:49 pm
i love this home schedule, looks like several 10.00 game to me.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:50 pm
Rick James………go wash your Bentley and fry some more chicken for Da Brothers.
gt34backer
January 11th, 2013
6:01 pm
Dawgfan must have forgotten how many top ranked teams they played this year. Take a look at Texas A&M and tell me UGA had a better season…..When you play any real opponents….oh yeah I forgot you did play USC and lost! Let’s see that was 1 out of how many?
WnE
January 11th, 2013
6:16 pm
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
3:19 pm
WnE obviously needs to learn the meaning of the word SCHOLARship.
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And you need to earn the meaning of the word ATHLETIC, CPJ ain’t a friggin’ professor, he’s a PE MAJOR from Western Carolina and he judges ATHLETIC/FB ability first and then “The Hill” forces him to considers some level of academics.
BTW, the NCAA officially calls them a “Grant-in-Aid”, and not a scholly, in order to get these types of Grant-in-Aids you must have a lot of ATHLETIC ability, unless of course Pajamas is recruiting you.
Dacusville Bill
January 11th, 2013
6:23 pm
I really thought GT would beat Middle Tenn State in 2012, so I am not betting against Elon–Saw them beat Furman a while back, and errbody knows that Furman beat Tech back in the Salad–er -
- Curry–days—Wish Tech would fire Pitiful Paul and wish Cotton was a Monkey
just sayin
January 11th, 2013
6:44 pm
tech SUCKS
Rick James
January 11th, 2013
6:54 pm
@5150 UOAD
Rick James………go wash your Bentley and fry some more chicken for Da Brothers.
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I know that your narrow mindedness may not allow you absorb this but I own McDonald’s franchises not chicken shacks not KFC’s not Popeye’s or Churches.And beleive or not we dont serve watermelon..I do understand though how your ignorance allows you to automaticly link Brothers and chicken.I wont deny the Bentley.
Ronald
January 11th, 2013
6:56 pm
Honestly, I had no idea Georgia Tech still played football until I moved back to Atlanta a few months ago. Good to see they’re still chugging along and striving to be average.
And I drive a Rolls Royce.......NOT
January 11th, 2013
7:08 pm
People who brag about their income, their cars, their houses, or pretty much anything else can generally be assumed to be F O S !!!
That would include Rick James
Go back where you came from, Ronald
January 11th, 2013
7:09 pm
Enuf said
craig
January 11th, 2013
7:27 pm
There is a state law in Georgia that the bees and dawgs have to play. this was passed several years ago when the north avenue trade school wanted to end the series.
Sunbelt
January 11th, 2013
7:27 pm
Super, I wouldn’t go out trashing any Sunbelt teams, North Texas played MTSU just as well as GT did. . App. State has put more players in the NFL the past 2 drafts than Tech. Alabama State does have something Tech doesn’t , a 5 star Running Back.
Joe 12-Pack
January 11th, 2013
7:29 pm
Prediction for the next ten years: 6-6 and a Bowl game over 1000 miles away.
Tech Guy
January 11th, 2013
7:40 pm
Tech will have a diffcult time winning 7 games. There is the possibility of another losing season except for the addition of the two cupcakes. To get to 7 wins, Tech will have to win 5 of 8 ACC games which they haven’t done recently. Pittsburg and Syracuse haven’t seen Johnson’s triple option, so Tech could defeat them and win 5 ACC games.
If Ted Roof exceeds expectations, Tech could win 7 or more games. That’s a big if.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:00 pm
@ Sunbelt…..Tech plays Alabama A&M, not Alabama State, although frankly, I’ve never heard of either of them. And actually, I wasn’t trashing anybody. All I was saying was that Tech is no different from anybody else in scheduling supposedly weak OOC opponents.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:03 pm
@ Joe 12-Pack and Tech Guy……Tech was going to lose to FSU and SC by 5 or 6 TD’s too, weren’t we? Well, we see what those predictions were worth, and yours are about as meaningful….which is to say MEANINGLESS !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:06 pm
@ Tech Guy……Tech won at least 5 ACC games in 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012. NEXT !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:07 pm
You’re not much of a “Tech guy” if you don’t even know our record.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
9:19 pm
Rick James……………I know what you have said you OWN. I say different to make you mad just like you post CRAP here to make Tech people mad. lol it works on you like you want it to work on us…..Now make some fires.
Bulljacket
January 12th, 2013
8:29 am
Sure tech77 – 9 or 10 wins? osama bin ladin would like a cool glass of ice water but that ain’t happening either.
Tony
January 12th, 2013
9:43 am
With the conferences growing and the soon to be 4 team play off the NCAA should go to true divisional champions playing. Every school plays all the teams in their division and those only count toward the division champion. Then the two division champs play for the conference title. Teams could schedule teams from the other side but they wouldn’t count toward the division championship. Never understood why a team would be the division champ but only because a competitor played tougher teams from the other side. So in many ways being divisional champion is just luck of the draw.
Then do away with playing FCS schools unless they have been in that group’s playoff in the last say 5 years. Would love this to be a shorter time frame but not sure if practical. That would allow for the GA State’s /App State’s of the world to be on the schedule.
This would improve the overall schedules and also not penalize a team by playing tougher teams from the other division and have at least somewhat competitive FCS teams. There could be more SEC/ACC games scheduled and more fan interest to go to the games.
Watching games from all over the country I see many stadiums that are not full and TV has a lot to do with that. AS many have essentially said here why pay to go see a game you know will be a blowout when you can sit at home watch it on TV and also catch others when the game gets out of hand.
The playoffs could be handle through this but that is for another day.
I know many will think this is crazy but before you say so come up with a better plan that will keep fan interest throughout the season and sell tickets.
Also I didn’t proof this so there could be some typos so if you are an English prof I don’t need those comments either unless it is totally not understandable.
White&Gold
January 12th, 2013
11:38 am
Bulljacket, you do realize even after blowing two games late in the fourth and losing to MTSU, we still won 7 games last year, right? Nine games isn’t impossible.
1 4 GT
January 12th, 2013
5:50 pm
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