Georgia Tech just as bad now as it was at Kansas

[...] Georgia Tech just as bad now as it was at KansasAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)They lost four players to the NFL draft. But to lose to Kansas, to get dominated by an average Miami team ? which lost to Virginia two weeks ago ? and to … [...]

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We suck.

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Ugly.

All phases, but especially defense. It was all down hill after the Air Force fly over.

Hopefully a better season next year.

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Reality here — if we play like this against georgie, we’re gonna get LIT UP. Like, it may not even be fun for georgie fans because it’s such a blowout. We need to figure something out, and quick. 6 wins and we WILL, without a single question, go to a bowl. But is that really gonna happen at this point? Who knows….

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Who had the toughest job this year? DRad trying to sell basketball season tickets and bowl tickets for a 6-6 team or Roy Barnes’ campaign manager. “Seriously people, this time it will be much better. We’ll get it right”

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I rarely leave a game early, but this year I have done it twice. We didn’t show up today or against NC State, so I left early in the fourth quarter. If the coaches can’t get the players to show up, why should the fans bother?

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If Tech beats Duke then they will lose to UGA, but if Tech loses to Duke, they may beat UGA. I have a sad feeling that if Tech gets that sixth victory against Duke then they are gonna just put it on cruise control for the rest of the season. I never thought I would see a CPJ coached team play so miserably. You would think a TO O would be fundamentally sound with blocking and recovering fumbles.

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“…..but to lose to Kansas, to get dominated by an average Miami team…”

Ummmmm…..okaaaaaay ! Miami spent the better of the season on the road taking everyone’s best shot and woke up late against a bottom dweller …fine. However it’s a damned better team that half-arsed garbage Johnson runs out week after week.

You brought a knife to gunfight and got smoked. If anything we should have laid 50 on that sorry collection. On Miami’s bad days they are still a helluva far better team than the Bumble-Bees.

It’s midnight and Cinderfella’s coach has turned back into a pumpkin, his/her footmen are shown up to be nothing but rats/mice and that glass-slipper (single-wing) offense has been shown to be nothing more than the plastic flip-flops it always was.

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This was a joke of a showing and some top recruits were watching this crap. I saw several of them leave by the end of the 3rd quarter as well. Al Groh is a terrible DC and this team has no leadership AT ALL! NONE…ZERO!!! Kansas is by far the worst program in the big 12 and we couldn’t beat them. UNC is the only decent team we have beaten. They will be the only team that goes to a bowl game that we have beaten. We almost lost to WF and that about explains all we need to know.

This team is so poorly coached it’s ridiculous! CPJ is accountable to me as he should be. Why can’t the players respond to what he teaches? Do the players not give a crap? As many starters as we have back this season and here we are with the possibility of not making a bowl game? 15 starters back and may not make a bowl game? The ACC has been terrible as well so it’s not like the conference is any good either. This is a complete failure by the coaching staff and the players who don’t seem to give a crap. I’m not wasting my money anymore on this brand of football displayed on the field. I went to kansas and sat in the stands in disbelief. I saw NCST from the 40 yard line hang almost 50 on us at home. I drove to clemson and watched that horrible effort as well, then today with the national championship team watching, recruits watching and this is what we turn in? I remember the gailey years as boring but this 2010 season has been filled with stupidity galore! I agree that if these players don’t give a sh*t then why should the fans who show up to support? It’s hard to spend money and support your team in a bad economy already to only witness the same garbage that has been going on since september and the same lame excuse from coaches and players. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND ACT LIKE YOU HAVE SOME PRIDE IN WHAT YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Do you think Coach Johnson will care about this year’s UGA game?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Only consolation is that UGA is now getting b_tch-flogged by Auburn.

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Oconee John
November 13th, 2010
7:10 pm

Just like the Gailey days. Tech performs so badly during the season that they find comfort in UGA losses. Wow, you reverted in just the third season.

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Jeff, my passion for Georgia Tech wants me to argue with you but the bottom line is that I can’t.

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Biff Pocoroba
November 13th, 2010
7:15 pm

But he didn’t even bother to attend Tech’s game.

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While I certainly hate to say it, the smoke and mirrors of this offense has now been figured out by the defenses of most of the teams we have faced this year. If this is the defense we now have as a result of the new defensive coordinator, the learnig curve has not translated into the effective read and react we should be seeing in game 10. The player “stars” have been Chan’s (ugh) players and not CPJ’s. All of this does not bode well for the future of GT football.

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I’m still going to support the Jackets, but this season has made it hard. They just don’t have any spark. And sadly to say, they haven’t improved much over the season. There’s plenty of blame to go around – from the players to the coaches.

Sadly, we had VT on the ropes until Nesbit went down. It’s just been one of those seasons. Duke is going to much tougher than anyone thinks and UGA is going to maul us if we don’t get our heads in the game from start to finish.

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Jeff Schultz
November 13th, 2010
7:28 pm

We UGA fans have had to do that this year.

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.This was a joke of a showing and some top recruits were watching this crap. I saw several of them leave by the end of the 3rd quarter as well. Al Groh is a terrible DC and this team has no leadership AT ALL! NONE…ZERO!!! Kansas is by far the worst program in the big 12 and we couldn’t beat them. UNC is the only decent team we have beaten. They will be the only team that goes to a bowl game that we have beaten. We almost lost to WF and that about explains all we need to know.

This team is so poorly coached it’s ridiculous! CPJ is accountable to me as he should be. Why can’t the players respond to what he teaches? Do the players not give a crap? As many starters as we have back this season and here we are with the possibility of not making a bowl game? 15 starters back and may not make a bowl game? The ACC has been terrible as well so it’s not like the conference is any good either. This is a complete failure by the coaching staff and the players who don’t seem to give a crap. I’m not wasting my money anymore on this brand of football displayed on the field. I went to kansas and sat in the stands in disbelief. I saw NCST from the 40 yard line hang almost 50 on us at home. I drove to clemson and watched that horrible effort as well, then today with the national championship team watching, recruits watching and this is what we turn in? I remember the gailey years as boring but this 2010 season has been filled with stupidity galore! I agree that if these players don’t give a sh*t then why should the fans who show up to support? It’s hard to spend money and support your team in a bad economy already to only witness the same garbage that has been going on since september and the same lame excuse from coaches and players. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND ACT LIKE YOU HAVE SOME PRIDE IN WHAT YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bandwagon fans suck worse than dawgs.

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I hear the LaGrange HS job will open this week. Maybe Johnson can take his high school offense there and win. I doubt if LaGrange will let him take Groh with him.

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What, oh what can we do???????

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Can anyone recommend a good Remax agent for Coach Johnson and Coach AG?

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Long time Tech fan and reading a lot of negativity on this blog. Just as disappointed as anyone else but if you want to spew poison, head over to the thUGA blog with the rest of the rednecks.

I feel confident that CPJ will turn this around. He’s been a success at every level and has not all of a sudden forgot how to coach.

However, I hate to admit it, and I hope I’m wrong, but this team will not stay within 3 touchdowns of thUGA.

The Sheriff has spoken.

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Jeff, it is not embarrassing when you expected to lose anyway…embarrassed against Kansas but not Miami, no expectations for this one…disappointed that Orwin fumbled, he did well despite that and so did Anthony Allen.

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we are not good enough to play the clemsons, miamis and vt’s without a few 4 or 5 stars, only asking a few recruits,

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@Burgess: Don’t know if you are a Tech fan, but I have worn the White and Gold for over 50 years. I am is disappointed and disgusted as just about every Tech fan, but please don’t say the typical, “Well, he (fill in the blank with the current coach) won with (fill in the name of the last coach), et., etc. ” If you have it one way as in when the new coach comes out of the gate winning and you don’t credit the previous coach fo having supplied the players, then how can you seriously say when the team loses that “Well, he only only with the previous coach’s players.” Come on. When a team deterioates like this, EVERYBODY has to share the blame. Let’s see what Johnson does in the next year or so. Hopefully, they will bring in some big, strong linemen who won’t be oerpowered on both lines of scrimmage. That’s the key. But in any case, win or lose, I will ALWAYS be a Georgia Tech fan!

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when CPJ says there’s no magic wand, it’s that attitude of not reading the papers and what is being said about CPJ’s Tech program that is one of the criticisms I have about his coaching; if he read the comments here, he would come out with a better team; he always wants to serve only, and never let anyone help him do that; he doesn’t really learn from other people; he thinks he knows it all; his teams’ uniforms the past two years gotta be the dorkiest I’ve ever seen at Tech, almost as dorky as the ones that had the GTs the size of the GTs on the helmets that were worn at the hip area on the pants’ sides one year; his usage of color and patterns in Tech’s uniforms, or whoever is designing the uniforms, indicates a personality disorganization characteristic of someone who is on drugs; Tech’s just better than the uniforms they are forced to wear; why couldn’t CPJ stay with the old gold-striped uniforms of 3 years ago that were so popular they, in my opinion, were one of the prime reasons that got them to the Chick-Fil-A Bowl against LSU?; maybe the team just doesn’t want to play, and selects certain loser-looking uniforms before the season starts because they’re jealous of the mostly white student body who have much higher SAT scores than them, and will end up getting the high paying white collar jobs instead of the grueling NFL jobs the blacks get

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Scrod, do like I did and get women’s tickets. You can park next to the AMC for free and the tickets are cheap. The players play hard and act like they care. I’ll buy men’s tickets again when the players look like they care more about playing than getting in twitter wars with the ESPN girl and doing videos to promote themselves and their hair.

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I still can’t get over this uniform design stuff! I guarantee you if Tech was winning big like it did last year, you people wouldn’t care if Tech came out in pink leotards. And too, last year Johnson was absolutely revered with the way Johnson said stuff like, “Punch ‘em in the nose!” What a guy! What a coach. And now because we are losing, it’s suddenly, “Oooh, he doesn’t listen to anybody!” “Oh, if he read our comments, he wouldn’t blah-blah-blah.” I’ve had enough. I gotta go. And I will be at Grant Field next Saturday cheering for the Yellow Jackets!

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This is the worst Tech team in the last 15 years…I’ll be the first to admit Paul Johnson did a great job the first 2 years, but with talent someone else recruited. The defense is horrific, Al Groh has been a diaster so far. If the best players on the team are on the field…well that’s says it all. This offense is boring as is his playcalling, and long term not the right offense to run at this level of college football. If it wassuch a great offense, other’s than just the service academies would be running it. Terrible coaching job this year, he should forfiet some of his pay for this pathetic performance!!

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At least Tech can get us bowl eligble. We appreciate it. I may go to Shreveport this year. Auburn thugs really rattled my cage. I say dawgs 45-10. Thanks

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CPJ is exposed for the egotisitcl fraud he is. It is OBVIOUS the first two “winning” years were due to a) Gailey’s NFL players b) “newness” of a high school offense and c) a weak ACC … this is FIRST year we are seeing the “real CPJ” .. oh wait, let’s wait 10 years until he has “his” players; wow can’t wait for that; up there with watching paint dry.

The GT football product is just plain poor and boring. The alumni are already stirring. CPJ is an arrogant, “not to smart” Southerner whose act is going NOWHERE unless he wins.

My gut? .. He is gone by next year. Same path we went down with Gailey with the alumni.

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The offense gained more than enough yards to win the game. The problem was all the mistakes. Its like the kids aren’t even thinking. Wherever the problem lies, it needs to be corrected before next Saturday. I don’t expect CPJ to be going anywhere for at least 2 more seasons. If 2011 doesn’t show improvement and the team doesn’t challenge for the title in 2012, thne I agree, Tech will be searching for a new coach. Until then Johnson needs to be given the opportunity to build this program. He has won the ACC Championship and taken the team to a BCS game. Lets see what the future holds. I don’t see the team in Athens being world beaters either and who knows the lost to Auburn may leave them with a hangove of “the who cares?”

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You are witnessing the future of GT football with PJ leading the charge, the myth that he can coach them up has been exposed. The sad part is it will take years to rebuild the program with the caliber of players that Chan was able to bring. Everyone likes to forget Chan had to recruit while we were on probation. This is all on Pj arrogant ass.

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We suck. And this loss goes to COJ not Tevin Washington who gave us all we would have gotten from Nesbitt plus some passing. Johnson’s two bonehead calls for the toss sweep on critical 4th downs when they had been stopping was plain stupid. Give the ball to Allen up the middle he always gets a yard or two which is all we needed. Until Johnson incorporates some short passes to backs coming out of the backfield on misdirection fakes nothing will change. I bet we lose to Duke and the Dawgs put up 30 before halftime, If we do become bowl eligible we should turn it down, unless its the toilet bowl!!!!!!! GROH has got to go….John Tenuta where are you?

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I will still continue to support my Jackets, and wear my colors!!! The season has not gone our way but we will continue to get better. We have lots of young talent, and we lost some key players. For the so-called GT fans who are so darn negative, please just jump on the UGA bandwagon bus already.

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Truth be told, last year was an anomaly, and GT is at times a nice little story. UGA is clearly the better program, sad, but true. They will torch us like no tomorrow

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tech=weakmeat

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It is sad to see all the fair weather fans that Georgia Tech has. And the remaining are “closet fans”

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Reckon Paul Johnson will consider the UGA game irrelevant again this year? After all, he’s all about winning championships.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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truth, despair…

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I drove from out of state to see that sorry excuse for an effort. Gailey’s teams were more entertaining.. Paul Johnson looked lost on the sidelines. Thank goodness it is time for basketball… Oops, I forgot, Hewitt stayed. Maybe DRad is the problem.

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@ Jeff

If the hit on Murray had been accidental I don’t think Fairly would have been doing a dance at mid-field and receiving high fives from his assistant coaches. Nor would Chizik have been cheering the hit so robustly.

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Tech Fans, this band wagon crap has to stop. You all sound like whinny Georgia Fans. Grow up and remember that there WILL be down seasons. The only difference in this year and last? WE could throw the ball. When you have NO downfield threat the defense can concentrate on the run. I think we’ll be alright in the years to come.

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look at the bright side, tickets to the duke game will be so cheap even clark howard will show up

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nh

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“Even the most basic of common-sense football moments — like, dude, the ball is on the ground, so fall on it — seem to leave players looking perplexed, like preschoolers trying to comprehend chemical engineering.”

Thats pretty funny and accurate.

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You’re loving me now!

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Ramblinwreck’s epistles are absolutely correct. Ga Tech ths year on both offense and defense is about as poorly coached teams as one can see on a football field. CPJ should concede the last two games and save the fans from being anymor embarassed. When you buy tickets you expect your team to at least mentally show up for the game and demonstrate some physical effort. But, this year we certainly have not got our money’s worth at any game. It is a shame forthe fans to have to endure such pitful game plans when there is tremendous talent to work with – wake-up coaches!!!!

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we own you its obious your a ga fan your an idiot as a fan you should always have hope for your team if ga tech played its best we will beat your mutts but thas the thing we havent done that at all this year maybe in the va tech game before nesbitt got hurt.

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Special Teams are so bad its as if they are not coached at all.

Who the heck is the Special Teams coach? Why has he not been replaced?

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Hey. all you band wagon flunkies out there, the reality is that right now, yes, Tech is not very good. But CPJ can’t actually go out there and do the plays himself. He has stated before and I 100% agree with him, in that, you can coach a player up all day but if THAT PLAYER doesn’t go out and execute the play then yes, the team is going to suck. I don’t fault CPJ at all. For me, I fault the three idiots that left for the NFL last year that had no business going, i.e. Dwyer, Burnett and Thomas. Dwyer was hurt half of last season, Burnetts play dropped from the 2008 season and Thomas, although a good receiver, wasn’t earth shattering or spectacular. They all followed the money. Which of course, you can’t fault them, but neither of them had earth shattering seasons in 2009.
The rest of the blame, I place on our piss poor defense! I’m not necessarily blaming Al Grogh-YET; however, if he is going to get defensive players to be in his 3-4 scheme, he better damn well get players that don’t try to arm tackle every play and don’t CONSTANTLY blow coverages.
After watching Miami’s first two drives, the whole Tech defense may as well have been on the sidelines b/c the only thing that would have stopped or slowed down Miami is the fact they were too slow running to the end zone.
It’s no mystery to CPJ that his team is mediocre AT BEST right now. He is intelligent enough to get Tech back to where it needs to be. Yes, Nesbitt going down was a HUGE hit for Tech, but good teams find ways to win games they have no business winning. Also, the one silver lining in the cloud we have is the fact that at least Tevin Washingtn is getting some very good and much needed game experience in before next season. I believe he will become just as good as Nesbitt. I already believe he is a much better passer than Nesbitt. He just needs to work on his timing and game rhythm. The triple option is a timing offense and it’s success is determind on how quick you make your reads on defense. Once he gets these things down, I think he will be a helluva QB.
So relax guys!! Raise your hand if you said, “Oh, crap, Nesbitt is out, we will still have a great season”..???? That’s what I thought. I’m a football realist and I feel that Tech will finish with a 7-5 record probably. They will beat Duke out of sheer frustration. The UGA(Y) game will be a toss up but b/c it will be in Athens, the advantage has to go to UGA(Y). But remember Tech did win there in CPJ first season, so it could probably go either way, b/c UGA(Y) sucks this year too. We’ll be bowl eligible and probably head to Boise again and as for winning, it depends on who we play.
Even if we finish 5-7, don’t get down on everything. Give Washington some time and pray that our inept receivers grow a pair of hands over the next year. Our biggest concern is our defense and if it sucks as much next year as it did this year, I say can Al Grogh’s butt. I have NOT been impressed this year other than a few key stops we mad last week at VT.

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Hey Jack in Homestead– …don’t forget the “U” getting blown out by an average FSU team and that this “half-arsed” offense played horrible and still had over 400 yards on you. Yeah, we sucked today and know it, but Miami isn’t setting the world on fire.

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Tech’s as bad now as it was in Gailey’s worst years and O’leary’s first two 95-96. Why? It’s defenses need to be tougher, faster and more aggressive, and athletic. It’s offense needs to be able to come from behind in the air at the end. Tech needs to recruit wider. Ross use to say I won’t take B player from this state basically if I can get an A player from another state, or maybe O’leary said it but it worked with them recruiting wise as their classes were in top 35- 40 range year end and year out.

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Georgia beats this piece of dog crap football team by at least two touchdowns. There’s your prediction Techies. I’ll bet the house on it.

9 outta 10. How sweet it will be.

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Johnson’s post game comments….same old, same old…..blaming the players. I’d love to see him take some responsibility for not having HIS team ready to play.
I can’t believe his arrogance.

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Dawg Fan, why don’t you go to your own blogs and worry about your team – plenty to be concerned about there. Similarity between Tech and Florida is they both have fallen pretty far from where they were a couple years ago – just like the Dawgs.

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I just caught my son rubbing one out while looking at the Media Guide for the Men’s SwimDawgs. Last week we caught him sniffing his little brother’s underwear. What can I do to get him help?

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One Hard Johnson, your stupidity is monumental! You MUST be some politically correct feminized baby to mistake a manly coach with an arrogant one! Coach J speaks the truth, and that is so refreshing in this time of our freedom of speech rights being stolen.

MAN up, you cowardly sissy!!

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Paul Johnson has won big everywhere he has been. He has won and will win big at Georgia Tech. His past is a great predictor of his future. He wins because he requires discipline and rigor. The players will get to his standard. He has won 25 games at GT…25 games at GT in his first three seasons. Good stuff.

It should be understood that the triple option is a tactic he deploys. It is not the reason for his success as a leader.

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History Master…are you saying that I am wrong about:

- the 4th and 12 call?
- our Men’s sports programs?

Sorry to hurt your feelings, but coach Manboobs has made a lot of stupid decisions tis year.

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I love the option, just need playmakers, CPJ can coach but he needs players that perform, rarely recall Dwyer ever fumbling the ball ..do not think this defense is going to work out under this coach but our offense couldn’t do much either this season

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come get me out of Jail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I like CPJ but do not think this defense is going to work out, btw, did VA ever beat Miami or VT when Groh was coach? I know Jon Tenuta beat Miami when he was def coordinator at GT several times. Still wish GT could bring him back. I know CPJ hates to lose and will make changes before next season. Beating Duke is not a done deal. I remember in 08 when Nesbitt was hurt and Shaw played against Duke and won. Where he is now? Oh yeah that’s right, Monken had to lure the kid away so they could beat App St.

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Schultz, it was the late cheap shot by Farley when he helment speard Murry long after the pass was thrown and the candy-a** refs who did nothing about it. And Chezik is a Urban Meyer type jerk. The better team won, but Auburn showed thy are a no-class outfit. Hope the Cam crap jumps up and bites them in the butt.

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Big Al was pacing up and down the sidelines trying to figure if he had taken his blood pressure pill b4 he left his house. He was in a trance the entire game , as well as his players.

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I think with Joshua out really hurt the offense AND defense. Oh well, I have an excuse. I already knew we didn’t have very good players.
p.s. JS, I suck at your little pick’um football game in the AJC.

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What a bunch of turncoats. Last season it was, CPJ, CPJ, CPJ, the greatest mastermind of college football with his triple headed running attack. Now like the Dawgs your having a bad season and you give up on the coach.
I hate the Dawgs are having a poor season and hate the Jackets are too, but I’ll say the same for you Jacket fans as I did for our Dawg fans.
These coaches and players haven’t forgotten how to coach and the players haven’t forgotten how to play.
Each team is lacking team leadership from the players, someone to step up on each side of the ball and make sure players are taking care of their assingments, A team captain if you will. .
ACC and SEC are both on a downslide this season, hell even the Texas machine who never loses more than 1 game a season is having the same problems.
One thing we all should remember is all these young men are simply that. “Young Men” 19 to 21 year olds that need our support not our complaints.
As a Ga Tech friend of mine said last week. This years Ga. Tech vs UGA will be each teams Bowl game. And that is what makes college football fun.
Sometimes you just have to tip your hat to the oppisition as we did with Auburn yesterday.
Auburn had the better team and in the end it showed.
Same with Miami,
Good luck with Duke next week and the following week I’ll be between the hedges barking at you.
One thing you can always bet on in life and in sports.
People need support when they deserve it the least.
So quit whinning and support your team and coaches.

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I think all the whiner “fans” need to take a step back here,inhale and chill…

The fact is , this years GT team is just not very good. Maybe it senior leadership (or lack thereof) ,maybe its just that their potential and talent was overrated but more likely its just a combination of the two ,with some bad luck thrown in to make the season package complete.Either way ,it’s NOT coaching. You people that are writing about CPJ are UGA people hoping to get some kind of wave going against a fantastic coach. Believe me,you have your own house to clean.

To true GT fans here: Get behind CPJ and write this year off as a rebuilding project. This man can build a dynasty here-If we are smart enough to let him.Do you want to go back to the old days ? Do you want another retread like Chan Gailey telling us that there is no way to win here ? Didn’t think so.

Every now and then ,you just have a bad year. deal with it.

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One bright spot: Tevan Washington. Threw some nice passes, made several good decisions with the ball. I was pleasantly surprised by his level of play. On defense, we are just getting blocked it’s as simple as that. Miami must have gained 100 yards running the fullback isolation play off tackle. Seal the tackle, double the nose and the fullback blocks the linebacker. Tech couldn’t stop it. That’s football 101. If you can’t stop that play, you can’t win. I don’t care who is coaching. And guess what Georgia’s favorite play is?

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My first Tech game was in 1959, when Maxie Baughn led Tech against a suprtalented UGA squad that included Tarkenton and Billy Payne. GA won 21-14, but Tech fought like hell though they were badly overmatched. Today’s Tech players cannot carry the shoes of the real men who played that day. They have no class at all. I saw them out there wearing the same uniforms as the 1990 team. The resemblance stopped there. No effort at all. Horrible coaching. The whole staff should resign. Al Groh is a joke, but not a funny one. Fire him today and let Shirley Franklin coach the defense for the last two games.

Johnson is doing an awful job. Any recruits he signs are those who only the Vanderbilts and Indianas are interested in. He never gets top players. Ask him why and he acts like he does not care. He acts like “we will take who we get and make them into what we want them to be.”

And the penalties! Is it possible that at Navy and Ga. Southern he had players who were smart enough to comprehend the offense, make the blocks and remain set til the ball is snapped and at Tech he does not? I guess that is the case.

I remember a few years ago UGA fans were suggesting that we were done for as a top level program and that we should de-emphasize football and play in the Southern conference. They might have been right.

Sure, UGA lost a painful game last night, and I was pleased to see that. But they TRIED the best they could against a superior team. I definitely admired them for that. Players and coaches, they went there to win. That is the difference between Tech and UGA football. At UGA they care, and they go all out. Our players dont give a damn. They ought to dump the whole team off scholarship and start over with walkons.

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So much for all that “New Sheriff in Town” bs from a couple of years ago.

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Tempo was set on the first two drives as Miami just ran it down the middle. UGA, unfortunately will do the same plus the long ball. Still don’t understand how we lost two linemen because they couldn’t get their masters at GaTech. Johnson- recruit a few 4 star sizable linemen and don’t be so focused on growing the 3 stars- like we all find out in our dating years- size matters.

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woof woof james

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Last year, Tech was favored by all sorts of people in Atlanta, I like being the underdog in Athens.

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Sasquatch.. It is “Richt”, not rich. Too much beef jerky? Boob.

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With the BP disaster, we have had a lot of business close down. With very limited hotels/motels, we are the perfect fit for Ga Tech. Bring your 20 fans, and watch your team get pummeled…..THWGT

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1. Beating Duke will be difficult, but it is our ONLY hope of another win this year. Magic wand or not, Johnson has one week to find some solutions.
2. Beating Tech is UGA’s only hope of extending their bowl streak and possibly needed to save one or more their coaches’ jobs. They WILL be extra motivated (as if they need it).
3. UGA has a bye week and will be rested, ready and at home when we limp in. I’m not looking forward to Thanksgiving weekend (other than maybe getting a deal on a new TV).
4. Throwing Johnson and his offense under the bus is stupid and premature. What we’ve seen this year is NOT the totality of this offense. It DOES include a passing option but Nesbitt and our corps of receivers were incapable of executing that part of it.
5. The issues this year have been the lack of talent on the field. Complain about Groh and his scheme if you wish, but no scheme can overcome players who can’t execute basics (i.e., tackling).
6. The remaining question is “can Johnson and his staff restock the program with athletes capable of executing with passion, energy and enthusiasm EVERY game?” This was his third year, traditionally the fourth year is the year that a coach’s transition is deemed to be complete. I doubt that there is a store of redshirts that are coming in next year to make a difference (or CPJ would have abandoned the redshirts and brought them in this year). That means that we’d better attract some high impact freshmen and do some serious coaching of the talent that we have left.

Bottom line….it’s ugly RIGHT NOW. Johnson has a track record of winning and he’s accomplished some good things in his first two years. DRAD and the rest of the administration better step back and take a very critical look at the product that we field next year and be ready to take action in one direction or the othe based on the results. If the results aren’t there, we can’t afford to hesitate in pulling the trigger. Georgia Tech can’t withstand 3 (or more down years). This season is strike one. Will next season be strike two?

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I can stomach someone beating us man-up. While trying to give Miami all the credit in the world….GT extended the first two drives on penalties when they had Miami stopped. So you take off 11 of the first 14 points (assuming Miami did make that 41 yard fied goal).

Then you pick up the fumble inside their 10 yard line and we at least put 3 more on the board. That’s Miami 24 GT 13. Coulda, woulda, shoulda….

Crap, who am I kidding? We flat out stink whether it’s shooting ourselves in foot w/ stupid penalties, turnovers…whatever…… I’ve run out of excuses and I’m tired of seeing this GT team beat themselves week after week. STUPID PENALTIES AND TURNOVERS!!!!

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I never remember the state of football being this bad at both schools the same year like this year. Georgia was beat by a College Park kid yesterday. I wonder if you couldn’t put together an all Georiga team that went out of state to school and beat both our state schools this year. Somehow we are calling not so talented, talented, in our in state recruiting, and the very talented are being discovered by out of state coaches right under our noses. One school Tech, can’t get all it goes after and the other gets what it goes after and then finds it has made an awful marriage. Tech lost yesterday because it couldn’t man up, and for a school that has a handicap of high academic entry some of its players are flunking football 101 on assignments. I think they will do OK with Duke because Duke can’t man up either but if Tech is going to recruit dumb players you might as well be like Georgia and at least substitute some talent for the brains you are not getting. I think Johnson unlike Richt can coach talent if he ever get any.

I also think Groh brings that losing atmosphere to Tech from his Virginia days. The defense was not biting the bite to get at Miami. These ex pro coaches do not do much for college football. They see this game as a business not a passion. In some cases as in the USC deal, that business goes further than just drawing a paycheck, Where pro football and college meets is the border of a lot of college footballs problems. A man that has become accustomed to coaching players being paid either in college or pros loses his feel for the game and knowing what buttons to press to motivate his players. Paul Johnson is a college football for life very much what Spurrier found about himself when he ventured off the reservation a few years ago. We need more like Johnson even if he is having a bad year.

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lets face it folks we knew this was going to be a rebuilding year from the start of the year, even though we hoped for better we lost alot of talent last year and the most important wasnt dryer or thomis it was those 2 olinemen that went to ga state, our oline is just terrible this year no doubt if that was better we would be at least 7-3or 8-2 at this point bc the tripple offense works great if the blocking is good it doesnt matter the skill set of the a back or b back , look at navy they run the offense with tremous execution. i think we should beat duke and most likely ga will beat us this year bc we are with out nesbitt, and make it to a bowl game and actually win the bowl game, from one diehard tech fan, im still behind my team no matter what… go jackets

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Your program is condemned to perpetual mediocrity as long as you have Fred Flinstone running things with that ponderous stoneage offense. How can you GT fans stomach watching that self-limiting option offense, it’s pathetic. Send Fred back to one of the service academies where his early twentieth century “gimmickery” would be appreciated.

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Passing Attack? — Have to agree. Can’t stand to watch Tech run that option any more. There has to be a reason hardly any one else uses it. I suspect limits the pass and does not give the defense a chance to practice against a modern offense. Time to lose it.

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Paul J is a sorry coach and this offense is a joke.
This was a gailey type loss. 3 straight losses.
Pathetic. Turn this around soon paul or you can go back to some crap low level school with that boring offense

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realist , ive basically said we have been spoiled the last 2 years , coach pj has already proven his offense works, , but with poor execution anybody can stop this offense , ithink in we have 2 many bandwagon fans like you, you were the same person praising him last year, you obviously no nothing about football,, and we are gt not alabama we, dont even get half the talent the sec schools get

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i get so tired of hearing how we won with gaileys recruits, maybe be true but gailey couldnt win with his own recruits, its shows you how good a coach pj is when he wins a acc championship in his 2nd year something gt has never done, and used player not even suitable for his system i say wait 2 more years and gt will be a program on a national level like tech hasnt been in alot of years..
im a true gt fan when they win and when they lose.. all will be forgiven if we can play our best game and beat ga this year

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Winning the ACC. LOL. Yeah that sure is tough. 5th worst conference out of 6.

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What did I tell you all! I told you all they were going to get blowed out but You GT fan did not believe. Well….I think you believe me now. Just image what Cam Newton would do to Georgia Tech at least we stay in the game.

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eric, i wasnt talking garbage about clemson i said we could beat them and all the rest of the games which was true, the difference is we have played poorly and di not execute and we lost, its simple we execute of offense and we win the last 2of 3 games, your a idiot bc your not even a tech fan and you get on these blogs, obiously you have nothing exciting with you own team so you look to bash other teams, what a idout you are

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toomany fans of other teams on this blog obiously we have alot of terrible teams if you cant stay on your own teams blog

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I still think a match between the Gators and Jackets would be interesting, kind of reliving 1967. I have seen time to time how the coaches since 1967 compared to Dodd and they don’t. Except the last 6 years, Dodd’s success was against the mighty SEC not the ACC, and yeah he was a personal friend of Bear, Butts and McClendon. That’s special even by today’s successful coach’s standards, but I think he would have like CPJ and his style of smash mouth rushing attack, remembering his last great team was an option tandem of Snow and King.

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Oh dog fans, I tried to be nice, said good game, etc. Against my grain, but I did it anyway…no more miss nice now!

Cams eligibility is OUR problem to deal with..

THE FACT HE KICKED YOUR A** is your issue to deal with.

The BEST PLAYERS ON THE FIELD wiped up your team

YOUR team got 5 personal fouls ..and whine about Fairley? Fairley does NOTHING that the greats like Deacon Jones, Reggie White, Bruce Smith, Simeon Rice, and LT didn’t do.

These GT fans are right about you UGA fans..even at 5-6 you are Insufferable and probably think you should be ranked in the top 5.
The End

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Jack-in-Homestead….are you kidding. The U is no where on the national scene. Tech has been to the ACC twice in recent years (under two different coaches). What has the U done? I can’t think of the last time Miami was really the talk of college football.

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Football boils down to blocking and tackling——and THINKING! We’re really bad at all three,especially the last. Did someone mention “high academic recruiting?” Apparently that doesn’t include our football and basketball players. We use special admissions to get them in and then wonder why they continue to make stupid mistakes. Could the answer be that too many of them are stupid? Grade inflation: eliminate bad grades,have high percentage on the honor rolls (one school just had 22 valedictorians!),have Education majors teach math/science (Your math assignment is to underline the number 22),change the SAT scoring ,falsify test scores—–after all,we don’t want anybody to lack self-esteem! Get back to the high standards of the old days and don’t worry so much about a game mostly played by a bunch of illiterate teenagers.

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ga bull dogd yall say that every game we will lose bc you dont like us

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joeygt—- I like you…..All you nay-sayers and disbeleivers were on the bandwagon last year.Where are you now?I don’t think we’ve seen the best of Paul Johnson yet.Look at yesterdays game and I think you will see that we were in it until the stupid mistake on Smiths fumble. That let the air out of our baloon.I have not given up on Paul Johnson or GT like some of you have.Kind of reminds me of UGA fans.Thank GOD that congress didn’t give up on Coach Washington at the first sign of trouble.

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Tron 5000 nailed it with his comment…”we suck”…yes you do Georgia Tech…live with it…last year was a freak…you are nothing more than a very average football program…you are not elite and never will be…your former AD was correct in what he said about it not being realistic to expect 9 wins a year and he got run out for stating the truth…the truth hurts Georgia Tech and you have to live with that.

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UGA haters …………you were right about UGA for 2010 …………we DO stink. I will say it again, my alma mater, UGA does stink in big boy ball.

The good news is this:
1.) The Richt era will be over or in 2011 it will be over.
2.) GT is not big boy ball. Y’all are more like a Navy or a Furman or a Ga Southern ( GT made in the eyes of the creator ) and the AC is systemically awful.

UGA will roll ove GT. It will be ugly. I predict a 48-20 thang with Johnson screaming into the unnerved faces of the players. He will be cursing and yelling and seemingly coming un glued. Why?

He knows that he is again losing to Mark Richt ……….. a coach whose time and come and gone. Richt’s record vs small ball GT will be 9-1 and that will make UGA like 12-4 over the last 16 years and more like 18-6 over the last 20 and something like 45-10 over my lifetime.

Go Dogs.

PS: GT goes through a new football coach every 3.5 years counting Bobby Dodd since 1967.
Bill Fulmer, Lewis, Ross, Carson, O’Leary, Pepper Rogers (cold cocked on nation wide TV with my head phones and fell to my knees) and Curry ( let us pray to leave for Alabama) and CPJ and Chan the Man, and simply too many more to name.

CPJ by next October will be right at 3.5 years ……………another 6-6 year in 2011 and he will be gone bye bye ……….. right on schedule.

Get ready GT ………………. Athens is awaiting. See you at the fabulous Indigo Hotel, where your dreams might come true, like meeting a CHi Omega or a Tri Delta. Don’t count on it.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

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There are too many negative comments here. Jacket fans should keep the following points in mind:

1. We lost our best player and leader against VT when we had the lead and a good shot at repeating as ACC Champs.

2. Our back-up QB, Washington, is young and inexperienced, but is showing signs of becoming a great one.

3. If Tech had avoided two key mistakes, the momentum and complexion of the game may have been quite different:

a. Butler made a bad decision on the pass interference call. A completion would have bee short of the first down & Miami would have had to punt. Instead they scored.

b. Orrin Smith should have quickly fallen on the ball instead of thinking about picking it up when Tech had first on goal on the 6 yard line.

4. Tech’s defense played well against VT and seemed to be catching on to Groh’s system. While they played poorly on Miami’s first two drives, they made adjustments and played pretty well until the momentum shifted later.

5. If Johnson and Groh can fix the problems above and others Tech should beat Duke which is playing better.

6. If Tech beats Duke and looks good doing so, they have a great shot at a revenge win against the dawgs who may be without their QB, Murray.

KEEP THE FAITH!!

[b]GO JACKETS!![/b]

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How do you change fonts, bold, italics, color, etc.? I tried and it didn’t work.

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Did you see the game day interview of Washington on the Georgia Tech website? When asked why he chose Tech, he said that it was one of the few schools that was interested in him for quarterback. That speaks volumes. Our players aren’t focused and aren’t excited about our school.

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Richt and Johnson aren’t going anywhere…and they shouldn’t.

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When the seniors tell the younger boys,”we got our rings, who cares?” it is hard to have much enthusiasm for the program.

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Don’t mess with the Canes. Should’ve been alot worse than it was girls. Paul Johnson’s offense can’t play with the big boys. And your defense can’t stop a basic off tackle run.

FYI for the future….you should consider blocking Sean Spence and Colin McCarthy.

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xRandy Shannonx

Don’t get all giddy because you beat a mediocre GT team. You will lose next week to the Hokies with your true freshman QB, or Jacory concussion Harris. Your coach suxs as does your city and fans. Enjoy getting pounded next week, then get on here and blog.

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I did not expect much out of this game with our backup QB getting his first start, but there are some positives…

Al Groh has said, he does not have the bodies he wants yet for the 3-4, but nevertheless we are used to not having a defense and I think we are and will improve here.

To those saying people have figured out CPJ’s rushing attack. We put up over 400 yards on the best Defense in the ACC…. all of this with our backup QB getting his first start.

We can not drop the ball anymore than we have this year…. look at UGA 2 years ago and how many “DROPS” AJ Green had….. The passing game will get better and Washington getting playing time now will help for next year.

As far as the UGA game goes… it will be tough for us to stop them…. but their defense looks confused 90% of the time and when you look at their true yards per play allowed stat, they are much worse than 2008 and 2009. I think CPJ will take advantage of this. The question is can we execute.

And that is why we have not turned the corner this year… we can’t execute (i.e. Catch the ball, avoid the red zone turnovers, punch it into the inzone, costly penalties…) Things such as this can’t get any worse.

Looking towards a bright future for the Yellow Jackets!

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I’m amazed at how cocky most Cane fans are…still to this day. Hey Jack_in_Homestead, FL, GT is 10-6 overall against your precious canes, even after yesterday’s loss. Tech’s defense looked pathetic, but this offense (also playing a backup QB) rolled up over 400 yards on your vaunted D, so I’d think twice about talking trash. Oh, and Shannon’s decision to go for it on 4thd down to score a TD with less than 4 minutes to go in the game was a classless move. If he kicks a field goal, UM goes up by 21, so either way GT’s out of it. If he remains the coach at Miami, which may be doubtful, he needs to remember one thing; payback’s a bitch!

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The problem isn’t the scheme, it’s the lack of talent on the field to run the scheme. If CPJ doesn’t show signs of recruiting/judging talent better very quickly, then it’s either time for the relationship to end or time to drop down to I-AA. There are moments when this team looks Lewis’ era bad, not just Gailey era incredibly mediocre.

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There’s nothing wrong with the schemes. We don’t have the players.

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Son_sir,

GT can’t move the ball against UGA and well, everybody can run and pass on our defense…

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I went purely to see Washington and I thought he was great. Interesting how Tech lost decidedly even when the quarterback played well. It shows the problems are mostly defensive. We miss the big plays and breakaway runs that seem to have eluded us. We drive down and have a misplay by Smith, but Oran Smith played a great game other than the miscue. Hats off to Washington and O. Smith.

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Question: Will it ever get better for Mark Richt at GT?

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Jeff…..PJ won in a weak ACC and has gotten crushed in both Bowl Games!!! PJ has done zero you moron!

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PJ has crappy play callin in the red zone all year!!!!!! 1st a goal and pitch it outside? Home many times has that play ended in a turnover this season? Practically every time! PJ sucks and so does Groh….get rid of them both!

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Marty… That spread comment had nothing to do with Duke. I was saying the oddsmakers should have Tech at least 13 point underdogs to UGA. I meant next week as in Thanksgiving week.

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I agree that the showing yesterday was awful, but you bandwagon idiots remember your words. Remember them. This is not the end of the world. Oh, and Jackwagons, I don’t think the defenses of other teams have “figured the TO out.” It’s a game of numbers on offense versus numbers on defense. I guess they have figured out the spread that every other team runs as well? Amazing. Just because this defense is unique, AND HISTORICALLY EFFECTIVE, wow, they must have figured it out. The thing is that all of you bandwagoneers, even 20 year season ticket holder, were spoiled early with 9-4 and 11-3 seasons right out of the chute. CPJ will get it under control. Be angry about the coaching, playing, etc., but for God’s sake, spare us the idiocity of “everyone has figured it out.” You sound like a UGA fool. Oh, and don’t speak of CPJ being great when we win again.

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Tenuta, Tenuta, Tenuta!!!! For defensive coach, I’m not trying to start a coach change here. And Burgess, you’re dead on. Can Johnson recruit any pro players running an option offense?

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Wow, I’m really surprised at people throwing CPJ under the bus. First and foremost- I think CPJ is accountable, just like others have said on this posting.

I think a HUGE problem is Defense.. HUGE HUGE HUGE! Wow, sloppiest, most boring game of football I have ever seen. What is it about Tech that they can’t get it together??? While my husband thinks good ol’ Al is great on Defense- I say they look like crap, play like crap, and are still missing tackles left and right.

Oh, and another thing: Someone PLEASE put Hill on defense instead of offense? Sure, he can get some air- but does he EVER come down with the ball? No.. but I’m sure he’d be good at breaking up some passes and taking out the other teams WRs. And maybe, just MAYBE he may come down with an interception.

This team has too much talent to be playing like preschoolers on the playground.

Do you know why we watch college versus Pro? It’s because in College, there is more HEART in the game!!!

But you wouldn’t know it watching this team. Sure, I miss BeBe and Dwyer, Derrick Morgan, etc… but we’ve got a job to do!

Now GT is royally screwed. We’ll go play a half-hearted game against Duke.. and then? On to Athens to get stomped? AGAIN. How many times can this team humiliate themselves? It’s a NIGHT start, with UGA playing for bowl eligibility. You know they will be fighting. GT will now be synonamous with one word (Again): Losers.

Sad day to be Jacket fan.

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Would have commented earlier but still sitting in front of the TV to see if Tech is going to win (ha) If the Athletic Dept. doesn’t do something with Al Groh then the Alumni will!!! When are you going to learn he couldn’t make it in the Pro’s and didn’t make it at Va. You cannot take young kids and put them in a 3/4 defense. You have to have speed, nose tackle etc. Al if you want to run a 3/4 go back to the Pros. If CPJ doesn’t wake up and quite running the triple option he should be gone to. How many teams in the top 25 use the triple option (none). Predications, beat Duke by 10 and lose to Georgia by 14. A good thing did come out of Sat.game. T. Washington did show some spunk, the rest of the team didn’t, but give him credit. I hope we don’t go to a bowl. I am embarassed enough.

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How about the 40 gager players that SHOULD be suspendended for the next game because they went on the field during the FIGHT at the end of the Auburn game????????

NCAA RULES STATE YOU STEP ON THE FIELD, YOU ENTER THE FIGHT!!!!!

WILL THEY SIT????? HELL NO, NOTHING BUT CRIMINALS IN ATHENS…

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((((80-63))))) hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

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I have been a GT fan foe over 50 years, and for the first time I have to say that I am embarrassed to be a fan. I also do not think that Tech should go to a bowl, because a bowl should be EARNED, AND THIS SEASON, TECH HAS EARNED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It is right up there with the UGA season. They likewise do not deserve a bowl game, because they have not earned squat this season. The game should be played on Thanksgiving, because it will be the “Turkey Bowl”.

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