Jackets fizzle again, but Radakovich in Hewitt’s corner

NOOOoooo!!!!!! He’s got to go

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DRad is still in Hewitt’s corner? DRad needs to be fired then. If he can’t see what is going on then he seriously lacks any basketball IQ. Just because Lawal and Favors pushed us to the NCAA tournament last year does not mean that this program is headed in the right direction.

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Blah Blah Blah. There’s always a “why”, because we seem to always need one. I’d love to get through half a season and think to myself “why not”, but it never happens. Here we go again.

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We own you! Take it like the crying babies that you are! Whooooooooos your Daddy!!!!!!!!!!1

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Just like football, way to go Dawgs! Should have been a bigger win but a win is a win….

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It is hard to believe that anyone, much less the AD couyld be in Hewitt’s corner. The man has proven that he cannot win consistantly with one and done players, that he cannot coach good players to play up to their potential, and though he has a reputation as a good recruiter he has a team with 8 guards and just 3 or 4 bigs. How long will it take for the albatros of a contract to be put aside, for PH to be fired, and for a real coach to be hired. DRad might need to start thinking about his own position if he contihues to support and incompetent and ineffective coach.

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Geez-a-pete, what a pathetic and complete lack of coaching will or intelligence!!! Ware goes 7 for 9 from downtown and there is no white jersey anywhere near him. Is it just me or should Hewitt have put a body on the guy after he hit 4 or 5 of those 3 pointers?! D-Rad…Hewitt’s corner is a pretty lonely place with just the two of you!

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The only reason DRad is “Still in Hewitt’s corner” is because we can’t afford to fire him.

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Schultzie:

UGA owns Tech. Period. End of story.

HT

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If the AD thinks GT Basketball is going in the right direction, he needs too be fired too.

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Fellow alums, let’s not forget this same coach led our team to an NCAAB champtionship game just a few short years ago. If UCONN wouldn’t have had all those NBA players we would have won it too.

The refs blew it tonight, we totally outpplayed UGag in every facet of this game.

I have no problem with D-Rad keeping Paul, heck we made the second round of the NCAA tourney LAST YEAR folks! Life could be worse, you could be in ATHENS!

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There was a basketball game tonight? I thought we were playing again in 2012… Sure feels like it.

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Two in a row!!!

GA Tech might not even be the third best team in Georgia…let’s see…UGA & Kennesaw State are both just better than Tech!!!!

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I hear Kennesaw State is trying to get GT scheduled for Home Coming. Whooooooooooooooos your daddy!!

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for all the talk they give North Avenue about how much they could careless. They sure do throw one big parade. Don’t party to hard UGA, i’d hate to see any more of you players in the big house.

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Someone from Conyers talking smack about Athens…

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All of us in the GatorNation hope to won our own trailer some day and have a job that requires you to wear something more than a wife beater and flip flops.

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we dribble this state!

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Sorry coaching again by Hewitt! If you can’t beat Georgia …Tech will lose all those ACC games! Fire Hewitt now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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WE AIN”T EVEN THE THIRD BEST TEAM IN GA!

KSU & UGA BOTH WHIPPED US! WE SUCK!

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Pretty amazing as bad as Georgia has been this past decade with 3 different coaches and we have a winning record against Tech in basketball. That being said this game isn’t nearly as important as the football game and will have little impact on whether either team makes the post season. Tech lost to Georgia in a big upset the year they made the NCAA tournament finals…. but something tells me this Tech team probably will not make it to the NCAA tournament.

Great win though Dawgs… getting a road win against an ACC team will help some if they are on the bubble in March.

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Where is that pathetic St. Simons?

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DAWGS OWN TECH!!!!!

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GT fizzled?? Started out slow and then fizzled out all together!!

Great comment Lane. ” We dribble this state”

Whoooooooooooooooos your Daddy!!

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for all the talk they give North Avenue about how much they could careless. They sure do throw one big parade. Don’t party to hard UGA, i’d hate to see any more of your players in the big house.

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Was that Udofia in the game again against Ware? Left him open for a 3. Why????? Great defense Mfon. Good choice of defensive personnel CPH.

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Try using spell check!

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Take it to the bank: Hewitt is gone after this year, and the Jackets will be bringing in a BIG name coach from Louisiana. It’s already being negotiated. As for this loss, it was a joke. Our team is now #3 (maybe #4 or #5) in the state. Based on the math I took, that is not good.

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FIRE PAUL HEWITT!!! This is getting old, come on now, get with the program.

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Got a chance to listen to the game on the internet tonight at the Shang-hi alumni club. Very disappointed crowd here tonight, but the Kung Pao Chicken was excellent.

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I’m taking the safe bet. I’m betting Savannah State will beat GA Tech. Everyone else in Georgia has!!!! LMAO

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Georgia Tech has the most fair weather fans anywhere. Why don’t any of you show up and support your team? Maybe Tech should abolish athletics all together since there is no fan support.

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Didn’t see the game . . because I had ANYTHING better to do!! An avid b-ball fan that had my fill about 3 years ago with the shortcomings of Paul H (as we used to say about Ray Goff . . . “He’s a nice guy, he JUST CAN’T COACH!”).

Boise Dawg, are you REALLY a true bull-dawg fan? I mean, you’ve place a rational, well-written, post to a blog that usually evolves into a pi##ing contest amongst the ‘blog idiots’ who spend more time trying to throw worthless jabs at each other vs. discussing the article written. THANK YOU for a lucid post (I usually don’t get this far down in the blogs before realizing there will be no real discussion).

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buzzingmad,conyersjacket are ya’ll meeting at the blue oyster bar later?like those names boys.

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The only visiting team in Athens this year that brought fewer fans than Georgia Tech was Idaho State. Even Louisiana-Lafayette brought more fans than Tech!

I wonder how many potential recruits noticed the lack of fan support and the fact that GT can’t even sell out a home game in their really small football stadium. Heck, it looks like they can’t even sell out a basketball game!

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I am looking for my boy. Has he been here? Great win in the “Nerd Dome” . He must be doing his research fot eh Advocare Bowl in lovely Shreveport. Seems he was bashing the Dogs last year for the bowl game and now look what has happened. I bet pocket protectors are flying with little boys pitching fits right now. Just wait to Fox has a couple of good recruiting seasons. Tech has more talent in b-ball but gets beat. Fox is 2-0 against the North Ave. Trade School. You must admit it my son, UGA owns you. 9 out of the past 10 in football and two straight in B-BALL. Pay backs are a b*tch ya know.

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The humiliating loss to Kennesaw St. and now this beatdown by the Georgia Bulldogs confirms what a second fiddle program the Georgia Tech BLOWFLYS are….excuse be third fiddle. The exit sign has now been shown to Hewitt, like i predicted.

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Conyers Jackets must be Mrs Hewitt. She was the only one smiling in the Tech section tonight since she knows that she is about to get $7 million. I wonder what she bought Dave Braineless for Christmas this year.

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GT wins this game…and many others…if they had no coach at all. Hewitt is a complete joke…and anyone who thinks the program is heading in the right direction is an idiot.

GT basketball stock is a SELL SELL SELL….going down faster than MCI !

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next loss will be the bowl game.

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And TO HELL WITH GEORGIA TECH!!!!!!!!

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I’ll be honest as can be…..

I was worried about this game. Not for the fact of UGA winning or losing… but i did NOT want the Tech “bretheren” to have ANY leverage in ANY conversation on these blogs.

You KNOW if Tech won by a single point, they would have thrown it back at ANY football conversation or smack talk we would have had.

Going to be a GREAT Winter, Spring, and Summer Dawg fans!!!!!!!

THWGT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@Reggie Tinch

Turning on CPH this year? We turned on Paul Hewitt a long time ago. Try to keep up.

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I’ll pray for you Stanford..God loves you.

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Thanks GT Fan!!!

I’ll pray that you find an Athletic Department before the 2011 School Year!!!!

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agree Rodney. The past is gone.

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Brian Oliver can throw the ball farther and more accurately than Nesbitt and Washington….

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EVen if a coaching change happens, do Techie fans REALLY think that improvements will come over night?????

UGA went 14-17 last season and considered that progress. What wil Tech consider progress after this TEMOLTUOS season?? 10-21????

and TO HELL WITH GEORGIA TECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It’s gonna be a long year watching GT basketball. Last year was frustrating because we had greater potential than we showed on the court. This year, we don’t even have talent to compensate for our lack of coaching. I have wanted a new basketball coach for the last three years. Please Dan Rad, save your own job and fire Hewitt. Otherwise, you could find yourself in the unemployment line as well, with your coach you apparently think is doing an adequate job.

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ok stanford..peace

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Hewitt may be around but this boy will be over watching the Hawks are good HS basketball game.

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RomeDawg – Nice well thought out post. Neither team looked very good – but one of them looked as if they had a plan and that team won.
I don’t agree with Jeff about the basket by Rice – I thought it was the correct move. You go for a steal or foul on the inbounds and at worse you are putting UGA on the line with over 6 seconds left in a 1 point game – and it is not as if UGA looked like they had Anthony Morrow, Mark Price or JJ Reddick taking FTs. UGA got the ball in quickly and ran a few seconds before the foul reducing the time – but there still should have been enough to have a 25 footer or so.
GT’s last play was classic Hewitt – if they have practised the last second play it sure didn’t show.

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Maybe CPJ can lyposuction some of his triple chin off and donate it to sell on ebay for the Hewitt payoff….I’m sure the Triple Option, CPJ Kool-Aid drinkers would pay to touch the fat off the genius’s chin.

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as a UGA alum to Tech fans… I am not going to get into all the name calling and taunts (those seem to come back and bite you …. see 2008).

But you guys do have MAJOR issues with CPH. Just watching that game, NO set offense for Tech. You hear the stat that late in 2nd half UGA had 24 FGs and 20 assists. Its called an offensive system. It gives UGA hoops fans hope. CMF can flat out coach. Paul H.. not so much. Fire him and start over… or maybe keep him so we can keep winning at “your sport” (see Jim Donnan)

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I could not go to the game tonight because I had a meeting of the Warcraft Club at the student center…after that, I went to the drug store because I am running low on vaseline.

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What is an A-Back? What is a B-Back? What is a co-ed?

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DawginTX – You are correct about Hewitt’s contract being a lesson for any AD but I expect him to be bought out eventually. GT stops paying Gailey in the next year and the ACC contract with the World Wide Leader kicks in about the same time – meaning GT will have more cash. 2011 is going to be a very long season in Alexander Memorial and the empty seats and lack of support are getting to the point that the cost of keeping Hewitt is greater than the cost of negotiating a buyout (I’d guess 60-70% of the $7MM over a 5 year period).

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Take heart tech fans you beat us in women’s bb and still out there is golf, volleyball, baseball, tennnis, soccer, baseball..degree earning profitabilty…look up there is a cloud at the end of the tunnel want mention track or gymnastics..

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I went to the game and have to say,”Gosh, that was so much fun beating GT at Alexander Memorial.”
That hasn’t happened very often, and did I say We are so lucky to have coach Mark Fox?
He just seems to be the full package. He is great with the X’s and O’s, great with the players, etc.
I wonder if that kid who decommitted last year is kicking himself?

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6-2

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Paul in RDU…why in the world would Hewitt negotiate his buyout down??

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Fox rocks

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played the fisrt 3 or 4 games without the pre-season sec player of the year..maybe ..maybe not..but he could not prac.. for about a mon..nice ? bb

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Nothing left to say… 40 years of watching GT BBall and this is the worst coaching debacle I have ever seen… and an AD who “is in his corner” is devastating! I have never worried abouts wins nor records… just good basketball and that appears to be gone as there is no teacher/coach available to the GT players… SAD!

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@superDawg

We support our team plenty. We just want them to have a half decent coach who could maybe get them ready for a game. Its not fun always watching our good talent go to waste.

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Great win for the Dawgs, although it wasn’t very pretty. Hope UGA is really on the rise with Coach Fox. We came back in the 2nd half instead of fading.

Would love to rub it in to the obnoxious Tech fans who spot nonsense like St Simons, etc., but as we all know the game was very tight and could easily have gone either way. Coach Hewitt is a nice guy, but I am a Georgia fan and will not get into your affairs.

To Tech fans such as the ones that sat next to me in Athens for the football game and came in talking about arrests, etc., hey we killed you again.

To reasonable Tech fans, wish you well the remainder of the season and hope we both improve on our performance of tonight since we will both need it for conference play. Just glad I don’t have to hear the abuse most would have posted here if Ware’s 3 pointer had been a brick.

Go Dawgs!

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sorry Paul…I don’t see it…he already has coached his way out of any other decent job…he’s going to force DRad’s hand…although I still agree better to make the move now…it won’t take long to recover…Tech has had very good programs on small budgets for years…no reason to panic…just get rid of Hewitt

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You can’t get your extra value meal unless we fill your fries!
DAWGS run this state!

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which is better than scoring homerun baskets

Differential X,
Differential Y,
A Square, B Square,
Integral of Pi !

Engineers Touchdown,
Engineers Yell,
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Fight like Hell!

Take that mutts

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E to the X dy dx,
E to the X dx,
Tangent Secant Cosine Sine,
3.14159,
Square roots Cube roots Poisson brackets,
Dis-integrate ‘em Yellow Jackets!

In your face UGA

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Well Gt maybe you found a post player tonite..because if you did not you are in troble..ph..it is not fair that you have recruited top pro picks who left you early…but what did you do with them when you had them…Bosch.. Favors….GA’s big guy went straight to the pros..have to coach or recruit around it DW

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Oh yeah, well GT runs most Gamestops

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south – I’m not sure Hewitt has coached his way out of a job yet. He could have been a HC in the Big East this year and there are teams besides St. John’s who would take a chance with him.
Unless something miraculous happens (like finishing 7-9 in the ACC with a win over Duke or UNC), I can’t see Hewitt lasting past the end of next season. GT will have the money by then to pay him off.

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Good grief GT…WTF are you waiting for?

Fire him now.

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I will end saying jeffie.. second guessing is real tough..we all know now what you would have done as the coach of tech tomorrow

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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am amazed that a Paul Hewitt coached team lost a game.

How can I get a never-ending, 7-year contract, SUCK at what I do, and not get fired???

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Wow what a string for a basketball blog in the state of Georgia! Great to see. Now excuse me if someone has already addressed this (as I’ve not yet read all posts) but Glen Rice was absolutely CORRECT to take the basket UGA gave him with 6.8 seconds left. Probably was told to do so if the opportunity presented itself. The logic, Mr Schultz, ole basketball guru, was to then turn around and foul (ideally Robinson or Barnes (not sure if he was in the game) and hope for a miss (or two). Not a bad strategy given the Dawgs FT percentage tonight. In fact, this was this was a much better strategy than trying to jack up a rushed 3 with the entire Bulldog team spread out defending the 3-point line.

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It will be interesting to see if Hewitt can weather another year. Not sure that he is the best interest of the school but such a big finacial commitment makes it tough for Tech to turn him loose.

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As an impartial observer, I have to tell Tech fans this: your team played GREAT defense for two-thirds of the game. Georgia never got an inside game going, and let’s face it, they just got red-hot from outside in the second half and took the momentum from Tech.

The way I see it, Georgia just went out and EARNED the win, it wasn’t Tech GIVING it to them.

Let’s give credit where credit is due: the Bulldogs played a heck of a game and deserved to win it. And it was a 1-point game, for gosh sakes, not a 35-point debacle. And this Georgia team IS good and could win 17-20 games this year… it’s not like it’s a 7th-grade team.

Remember what this was, too — January basketball. The games that really count (for both teams) come in January when conference play starts. If Tech gets hot in the ACC like last year, I think you’ll see BOTH major state universities in the NCAA tournament.

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Both teams better improve if they want to do anything in their conferences.

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Please keep Hewitt.

Also, Miller won’t cut it during the ACC games.

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Hopefully DRad pregame statement is nothing more then him obligatorily towing the company line until he can find the funds to fire Hewitt.

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Yo Headley,

“The Sheriff is Near…”

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“I FEEL LIKE WE ARE GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION”…. this coming from our AD?? We get beat by ksu, beat by 20 by a joke northwestern team and lose at home to an average at best georgia team. 4-4 so far and we have not hit the ACC schedule and things are going in the right direction?? Hewitt should be charged with larceny for cashing GT checks or just theft! This man couldn’t coach a team with kobe bryant, lebron james, chris bosh, dwayne wade and chris paul to a title. I have never seen a guy do nothing with so much talent and we have had some talent in his tenure. I don’t care that some have left early, that’s hewitt’s fault for not being prepared!

DRAD, you need to EARN YOUR PAYCHECK AND FIRE THIS BOZO!!! You mean that we don’t have a couple loaded alums that won’t step-up and help send him packing? Hewitt costs this team so much money in just empty seats every night! Who wants to support a complete retard of a coach?? I don’t blame the kids, i think they are poorly coached by far and large. When we lose to KSU and by 20 to northwestern and at home to UGA in the 1st 8 games, you can’t sell that kool aid that we are on the right path DRAD! You sir, need to get up and FIRE THIS LOSER! I will never watch or support this team again until DRAD does the right thing and gives us a better product to enjoy instead of garbage known as hewitt! Dave braine should be feed to the lions for giving this moron such a contract!

PAUL HEWITT, IF YOU HAVE ANY LOVE OR RESPECT FOR OUR BASKETBALL PROGRAM, YOU WILL RESIGN SO WE CAN ENJOY WHAT WAS ONCE A PROUD PROGRAM THAT YOU HAVE RUN INTO THE GROUND! I don’t care about last year, what is your record in the ncaa tourney since your miracle run ended? How many times since then have you made the tourney? KSU? We get run out the gym by northwestern? You get all americans but produce sh*t! I’m so sick of this loser as our coach! Nothing like having no timeouts at the end of a game huh paul? You let a guy who was on fire from outside get yet another open look with 18 seconds left paul?? Do you know how to defend the 3 ball paul? I think there is a pattern here and ksu,northwestern, syracuse and uga exposed it! It’s called sh*t defense and a man who has the IQ of a fruit fly as the coach! Pathetic

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RamblinWreck – it’s already painfully obvious that Paul Useless has neither love nor respect for anything other than his paycheck. But since he appears to have an enabler lack either aspiration, judgment (or both) sitting in the AD’s chair, it’s hard to blame him for cashing what others are dumb enough to give him. Heck, if someone would pay me for being an fence post turtle in an otherwise empty suit then I’d be hard pressed to turn down the money since they’re obviously determined to hand it over regardless of how incompetent I’ve consistently proven myself to be.

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Just like Football …..

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9 of the last 10 in football, a winning record this decade against Tech in basketball (supposedly Tech’s great strength). I guess that it’s not as much of a rivalry when you can’t even come close to matching the opposing team, right Tech?

Keep Hewitt!! Go Dawgs!

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Maybe Tech should look at Brian Oliver for the football team…HE CAN PASS…lol

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Just like football .. .. ……

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DRAD is speaking out of the side of his mouth. He only fired Gailey because someone put up the money to allow him to do it. Obviously nobody has done that for firing Hewitt or he would be gone. So being without the money to fire him, he has to support him – simple as that.

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My comments are not in defense of Hewitt but are stated as facts only:
Jeff: When did a one point loss become a “fizzle”? It is obvious you are the leader of the pack to have Hewitt fired.

To all the bloggers who comment about the 2,000 empty seats: The Hawks also played last night. Given the fact that GT athletic teams compete for fans against the Falcons,Hawks and Braves, its a tough task to fill every seat.

To the blogger who said a deal is underway to bring a new basketball coach from LA, Is it the LSU coach or an assistant? If so why not say so.

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and again, and again, and again. C’mon Nerds, let the excuses fly!

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‘a Tech team that looked again as if it lacked either a plan or an ability to execute thereafter.’
True – and nuff said.
Fire Hewitt today – Wednesday.
Do not wait another second.

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Shupert played under control…for once. That was a cheap shot; he really did pick his shots. On the other hand, Rice and Oliver must have the same gene because they foced so many shots it was pitiful. Confidence is one thing…but at the expense of your teammates and possibly winning the game? And the last 30 seconds, PLEEEEEEEEZE! Great coaching Hewitt!

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Yawn. Another win over Tech. Maybe you guys should try Kenneesaw again. Better luck next year.

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roll out ga.state, we might as well lose to them also. Terrible coaching at the end of the game. GREAT CALL AND GREAT PASS…DON’T CALL ME AGAIN BEGGING ME TO BUY BACK MY SEASON TICKETS. I WOULD RATHER SIT IN THE MIDDLE OF NORTH AVE. AND WATCH CARS DODGE ME.

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Let’s see:

The FB HC, that would be CPJ, lets UGAy score late in order to get the ball back to give his team a chance to win (hopefully in OT) and he is hailed as some sort of Genius, meanwhile…………..

The BB HC, that would be CPH, sends UGAy to the foul line (aka “lets them score”) in order to get the ball back so his team can possibly TIE the Game & win in OT just like CPJ, yet only ONE of those guys is thought of as a “Genius” buy the AJC Sportswriters.

From where I sit BOTH CPJ & CPH have huge problems in their FB & BB Programs going forwards.

When GT FB players make mistakes, the GT Fanbase puts EVERYTHING on the players and claim that “the schemes are sound it was the players that screwed up”, YET, when B-Ball players take bad shots & commit turnovers, NONE of the GT fanbase calls the schemes “sound” and instead of blaming it on the players they put all the blame on the HC.

The SAME EXACT things are happening in BOTH programs, but the Typical-GT-Fan interprets them very differently, and on top of all that CPJ is making MUCH MORE than CPH, CPJ is pulling down between $2.3 and $2.5 Million.

I am glad I got a great education from my instructors at GT, but the majority of the folks that went there are very undesirable to be around.

To all the loser-GT-fans out there if you are gonna give CPH a hard time then you have to also turn up the HEAT on CPJ.

Refute those FACTS, GNLs, (that stands for geeky-nerd-losers), I happen to be one of the “normal” folks that graduated from GT, beelieve it or not, there are a few of us out here.

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Boycott Tech basketball and Radovich will finally end Hewett’s reign of ineptitude.

And once again, the Ugay trailer trash nation is displaying its intellectually deficient face.

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Someone needs to inform Oliver that saying “they aren’t that good at shooting outside” or “defending one on one” after you loose at the hand of one of these things isn’t such a smart idea. That sounds like what coach would have been telling them in the locker room anyway. Regardless, it makes you look worse by loosing to a team that’s not that good(?)…..

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Jeff Schultz: “It doesn’t speak well for the feeling around the program when there are 2,000 empty seats in a 9,000-seat arena.”

I haven’t been to a game since 2006. I’m done with them until Hewitt is gone.

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tech fans, there’s only one thing to do…stay away in droves. don’t go to games, don’t buy merchandise, simply give up on the program until D-Rad finally does what should have been done 5 years ago and gets rid of “Coach” Hewitt.

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As a Jacket fan, I must ask: If we can’t beat Kennesaw State & UGA in basketball how can we possibly compete in the mighty ACC? Seriously, it is not my desire to be just the best in this state. That is myopic. However, we aren’t even there! And our A.D. is in Hewitt’s corner. Seriously? I won’t spend another second watching Tech basketball this season or until we can field a halfway decent team. Dan R.-Do you think Paul might want to recruit someone other than a guard?

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Another “Great” moral victory for Tech!

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UGA….WE RUN and DRIBBLE THIS STATE!!!

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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come on Schultz….”Why would Glen Rice drive the lane for a layup with 6.8 seconds left rather than attempt to set up a three-pointer to tie it?”…..
I am a huge anti-Hewitt GT fan but when YOU start your story off with a question like the above, and if you are serious, then YOU don’t have enough knowledge to be writing about basketball. 99.9% of the time every coach will do exactly as GT did.
the problem was that Hewitt could not come up with a play to score after uga missed the free throws.

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The childish taunts from these characters (possibly the same person) who insist on listing FB and BB scores, write long strings of HAs, and such, do sort of annoy, I confess, but is it possible that there are some thinking UGA folks who also find their blogs boorish….embarrassing. I mean, is it possible these goof-balls are actually UGA graduates; are they adults? Anybody know these people?

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Therein lies the difference between Fox and Richt. Fox’s team hung in there and won. Richt’s team would have been gassed at the end and lose. Maybe Fox should be making $3 million a year instead of Richt.

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I noticed that the arena looked to be about 2/3 empty. Couple of questions: is the arena on campus and are the fans not supporting the BB team because of Hewitt?

I remember back in the Bobby Cremins day watching a Tech game on TV and it looked like standing room only.

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Conyers Jacket….no, live could be worse if I had to live in Rockdale like you Dork! GT – Georgia Turd U losers again!

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Im so sorry. I promised not to watch, but I did! They have no clue, thats Tech, they have no clue cause their coach has no clue, the head man, with way too many vowels in his name, has no clue. I would say, maybe 11 and 19. Loose to KSU, loose to Georgia. Well, maybe the Blind Academy is next. I do not see how how can allow a coach that shows no direction at all to stay as coach. Now, cause Im slow, tell me about all the great Hewitt stars that were great in the NBA. Stop when you get to a 100.

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This was like the football game. Neither team played well and neither team has too much to crow about.

Make no mistake though, Drad is using coach-speak. He can’t be happy. I can not believe the building wasn’t sold out. Hewitt doesn’t make the NCAA’s and he will be out.

I’m glad Mark Fox is in Athens. I hope he remains honest and continues to work hard.

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If they average a half full arena the rest of the year, that will cause change.
4k empty seats x 13 games = lost ticket and concession sales of 1.5 million

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So in summary every non-GT blogger, but one, wants Hewitt gone. This is pretty typical, if you look back over the years of blogging. Hellooooooo…why is he still here??…almost no one wants him…and clearly we had the money…because we just spent it on an upgrayyyyd’d arena…oh wait, wrong movie…or is it. The idiocracy continues under Hewitt’s watch…or is it GroundHog Day…hrmm…it’s all just a nasty blur now.

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Go Lady Jackets!!! Yea, we can hang our hat on SOMETHING….

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Yech sucks at everything!!!

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Can I ask this? What is the 3rd big time college sport? Baseball?
New flash: College Baseball sucks.

Metal bats and talent comprising of anyone that couldn’t get drafted.

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I agree 92. Like I said, I try not to correct spelling in an unformal setting. God knows I make my share of type-o’s.

This one had just come up many times this morning, and I thought the quip about the back of the van was funny enough to post.

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“Why?” Because Hewitt recruits players he can’t coach.

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Keep supporting him DRAD and the benefactors for the new basketball arena might pull their offer! Who wants to have a beautiful new facility with empty seats????

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Last year’s team had Favors. Hewitt figured out how to use Favors around the ACC tournament time or Favors started smelling the draft and realized the boys in Kentucky were now better than he was, his stock was going down. Gani Lawal was one of those overated players that looked good getting off the bus. The guy was lazy, no ball skills, could not hit a free throw if his life depended on it, but Hewitt was determined to run the offense through him. Lawal was just assigned to the Iowa Energy of the NBA Development League, after being drafted in the second round, to be developed I would guess. Something Hewitt fails to do. And Hewitt has never known how to handle guards. The ultimate failure was how he handled Matt Causey. Game after game Causey would be playing great, Tech would be playing great and Hewitt would yank Causey and replace him with the freshman Maurice Miller. Tech would fall into its happy place, confusion, the lead would slip and finally after the volume of failure had been turned up 10 times Hewitt would bring the hard working gutsy Causey back in. This kid never complained and will always be one of Tech’s favorites. Someone should have sat Causey down and told him he was trying too hard for Hewitt’s style of play. He could shoot foul shots and all the things Hewett considers eyewash. Antony Morrow and Chris Bosh were on the other side of disappointing. These two guys are now some of the finest players in the NBA. Instead of disappointing the receiver of their pro talents they shocked the basketball world on how good they were. Who knew they had been buried in a system that would make Cleopatra look pain. In short there is no joy in watching Tech basketball like there was in the Cremins era. I was at a cocktail party last night, with ex Tech players, who had to be reminded the game was even being played at that moment.

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Joey, you are correct. People not going because of DRAD…I had tickets for years and followed them on TV EVERY game! Gave up my tickets two years ago and barely watch on TV and WILL NOT go back until Hewitt is gone! It’s a shame that the program Bobby Cremins built is being torn down by Hewitt. I don’t care what DRAD says, last year was a fluke that they got to the tournament. The only “real” team in the tournament was the one he took with Cremins recruits.

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All Tech had to do was get physical and they would have dominated the game.

UGA fans and players cry like babies when you get physical with them.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaa

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2 time UGA Alum?Then Im really ashamed of your comments. You sound more like you belong on North Ave. I have a kid that play,s college baseball and your view’s and comments are not welcomed by me on this situation.

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Plain and simple….CPH has got to go! It is obvious to me that he is just collecting a paycheck. The guy simply cannot coach. There is absolutely no offensive flow or anything that looks like GT is trying to run an offense. The last 5 minutes of the game, he just turned Mo Miller loose to go one on one?? Come on. GT gives up more wide open 3’s than any team I have ever watched. They always look lost on D. DRAD…get rid of Hewitt before it is too late. There is obvious apathy amongst the GT faithful

Jeff Turner

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Don’t know if this point has yet been posted, but I’ll offer it just in case:

The loss is certainly not a deathknell for Hewitt. After all, a one-point game can be decided by myriad events. However, that GT plays its in-state rival and 20% of the arena is empty is the bad sign. Or a good one, if you’re hoping DRAD pulls the trigger on CPH. My thinking says that if attendance sags, esp. in games with UNC/Duke/UGA (opponents who should fill the arena), then CPH’s tenure may get shortened.

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jarvis,

Im ashamed you are a Dawgs fan!

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Way to go Pewwitt, we for dammnn sure dont run this State. In fact, we r 3rd, behind Ugag and some team called the Owls. Someone please win the lottery and buy out Hewitts contract.

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all is not lost…the jackets did beat the uga girls in basketball

i guess you have to hang your hat on something

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GO DAWGS!!!!!

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Agree with DawginTx, both teams were pretty bad last night. UGA looked like the more athletic team, and should have won by 10, but they just don’t seem to have it all together. They don’t look like they are playing hard. GaTech just isn’t that good this year. They will struggle in the ACC. UGA will finish behind UT, UK, UF and Vandy unless they start playing with passion.

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Not really a round ball fan, but gt coach/team looked lost.

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Hewiit is our Jim Donnan. He is killing this program

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Please fire Paul Hewitt!!!!!

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Groundhog Day. DRad needs to go. We’ve known for years about Hewitt. The product Hewitt puts on the court is only entertaining to the opposing team. “Going in the right direction”???? DRad needs to team up with Damon Evans and form some type of support group for former ADs. GT BB stopped getting my support years ago.

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Jarvis asked what’s the third best college sport… ladies softball. Way more exciting than baseball. (and by the way I use to coach high school baseball)

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BILLYBOY would you resign if you were CPH???? Why would he resign he’s not stupid, just in coaching!!!! FIRE CPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRE CPH!!!!!!!!

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I’m obviously no Tech fan, but for you, Jeff, to question the decision to get the ‘2′ then foul was exactly the correct one. As ‘bigdawg’ posted earlier, we can’t shoot free-throws for crap, and if we hadn’t had young Mr. Robinson, and is speed, that allowed several seconds to click off the clock before Tech could foul us they’d have had a real chance to win it at the end.

Tell you Jeff, if I were Tech’s AD after this ‘interview’, I’d offer you an ultimatum – ‘Lay off the smarta$$ cracks about our program or find yourself with no access to any of our coaches and/or players on any team…get it?’ Then you, Jeff, can make your living being a smarta$$ with Georgia (don’t count on that lasting very long) or the pro teams here – they love that stuff.

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back in the 90’s my Dad had a shirt that read, “Double Dippin’ the Dawgs”…it referred of course to Tech beating UGA in both Basketball and Football. But now this sports combo makes that impossible for me to get my own “Double Dippin’ the Dawgs” shirt. I think that Kennesaw State fans might be able to get a ” Double Dippin’ the Jackets” shirt if they ever decide to play football in the future.

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Glad Georgia can now brag about 2 sports that dawg fans actually care about. Sorry If I’m not caring about UGA’s dominate gymnastics, tennis, swimming, golf, and equestrian. Dawgs will have to set it up once they play better SEC teams, but a W is a W. Mark Fox has them going in the right direction.

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They think they are a baseball school too, with zero titles.

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Jeff,

I’m curious…did you get last night assignment because GT wouldn’t Bradley in AMC?

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I am tired of being a Tech fan. We always lose to UGA! There is no way of getting around it. UGA owns us!

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GT’s next game is Savannah State; they’re 1-9 unfortunately GT will likely overwhelm them with size and athleticism and won’t have to run a single play to win. But could a miracle upset be the straw that breaks Hewitts back?

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Personally, I don’t care. Tech’s athletic department, whatever the reason, doesn’t make a lot of money, as the clown who calls himself “UGA AD” will tell you. He has plenty of other monikers I’m sure, but that’s beside the point.

Gailey’s contract comes off the books this year. We have to pay off Hewitt regardless of whether we keep him or fire him. I say we keep him and let him keep embarrassing himself. Spend the money that we are getting from Gailey’s contract on a special teams coordinator for the football team. At this point, do any Tech fans care about basketball anymore?

Football makes more money anyway, and Johnson is actually a good coach. He deserves our support. Let Hewitt continue to embarrass himself against the elite ACC competition (and even the dregs of the basketball world in UGA). He’s gonna make his money one way or the other. Why pay him to leave?

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I told you nerds to invest in kleenex stock last year.Man its hotter than gold.

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It honestly makes no sense to pay the money to buy out Hewitt’s contract. It’s a giant game of chicken at this point. Who gives up first? Will Hewitt quit because he is so embarrassed or will Radakovich get so sick of Tech basketball being a laughingstock?

The bad thing for Radakovich is that Hewitt just might have no shame at all…it really might only be about money for Hewitt. He is laughing all the way to the bank.

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The cost of firing Hewitt is exactly equal to the next coach’s salary for the next 7 years. GT has to pay Hewitt either way.

Does anyone know when the last time was a college BB coach got fired mid season? I can’t think of any at all.

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But remember, the reason Tech doesn’t make any money is because ALL your graduates take jobs all over the world and very little live within driving distance to Atlanta…. ::wink:: ::wink::

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dawginlex

Another classy post my friend. I see you post at times on GT blogs and i don’t mind because you don’t bash our program and usually offer something positive instead of a negative. I hear what you are saying about drad using “coach speak” but he needs to be in the corner of the fan base because WE pay for everything! We are so tired with this product on the court and most GT fans have banded together as you can tell and are saying FIRE HIM or we will NEVER come back to support or pay 1 penny to this program. Plain and simple really.

I think fox will do well at georgia. We have a coach who is 30 games under .500 for gods sake lex. We are the laughing stock in the ACC really. An average road game in the ACC for us means getting blown out the gym by 20 +. Just go back and look if you don’t believe me. On a night when UGA didn’t really impress, we STILL MANAGE TO LOSE. No time outs at the end of the game as always for coach paul GUMP! I’m done and i sent drad an email that he needs to EARN HIS PAYCHECK AND FIRE THIS LOSER! GET HIM OUT OF HERE AND LET THE DOOR SLAP HIM IN HIS ASS ON THE WAY OUT! We actually pay this man for all of his terrible work. I wish i could make millions and be 30 games under .500!! DRAD, will you hire me to be a loser for 7 years and pay me hewitt’s contract? I can do what he does too!!!!!! With the best of them! Fire this man or drad should be fired himself is the way i see it. Enough is enough!

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As a GT alum, I am tired of losing sporting events to UGA. Aside from one or two baseball games, has Tech beaten UGA in any sport in the last two years? The athletic administration needs to examine where we are in relation to other programs in the state and Southeast and what a proper position should be. I recall a statement about lowered expectations from either this AD or the previous one. That has certainly been the hallmark in the recent past. We may not be able to compete in football with the big boys because of academic requirements. That is not true for basketball. Duke seems to be capable of outstanding basketball on an annual basis. The same is true for Stanford. Tech academics are on a plane with those two schools yet they routinely outperform Tech in many sports. There is a reason for that and it rests in the caliber of coaching and administrative personnel in the athletic department. It is folly to build a new basketball facility when the institution does not have the talent to fill it up.

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Ya’ll signed this guy for 7 years? Really?
Then I guess Radakovich would be the cheaper option to be fired.

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Hey tech fans dont feel so bad because when it comes to getting robbed on campus you are still number one! See you guys arent complete losers after all! Lol lol lol thwgt

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What would we expect Dan R to say? The Denver Broncos GM was in McDaniels’ court last week then fired him this week. Hewitt needs to be fired now – not when his contract expires. He is doing irreversible damage with every game. The longer he is here – the longer it will take us to dig out of this awful hole.

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There used to be a thing called pride…real men, like the ones you can read about in old encyclopedias, used to only take as much as they earned.

Lyman Bostock, a former baseball player, was one baseball’s first big-money free agents. In 1978, He started off his season very poorly, hitting only about .150 for the month of April. he attempted to return his salary to his boss. Wonder how much Hewitt’s performance dictates he should return to Tech’s Athletic Department.

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The fact that there were 6700 people at the game is lost on me. Until Jacket fans stop spending their money on this program – nothing will ever change. Do me a favor Jacket fans – when they open the new arena in two years – DON’T GO!!! maybe that is what it will take to get through to DRAD.

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We Run AND Bounce This State!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

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Do college BB coaches EVER get fired mid-season? I’d really like to know.

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Send GRad and Hewitt out together!!!!

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UGA 42 – GT 34!!!!
UGA 73 – GT 72!!!

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA!!!!!

WE RUN THIS STATE!!!!!

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GT basketball is a tough gig. They play basketball in the toughest conference in the land, continuously lose players to the NBA, and have a coach that either can’t game plan or could care less because he has 7 million reasons not to care. It’s kind of like UGA football in the SEC. Toughest in the land, players leaving for the draft or jail, and a coach (who’s a good man) but seems to be more interested in other worthwhile activities outside of coaching football. GT basketball will return to its glory days when Hewitt is gone and a new coach with a little more fire comes to town.

BTW- I’m a huge UGA fan but the UGA fan base needs to lose the whole “We Run This State” comment- it’s getting old and has lost its originality. Here lately, Florida, Alabama, and Auburn have been running this state!!

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The bad news is that Hewitt will probably survive after this season just because of our weak OOC schedule. The only tough team we play OOC all year is Syracuse who we lost to. It’s very conceivable that we could win all 7 of our remaining OOC games, go 6-10 (i am being optimistic) in the ACC and finish the season with a 17-14 record. We will go to the NIT. Get beat by some other terrible team and DRad will spin it as a successful season. Then we can all come back here next year and continue the fire Hewitt campaign. Or possibly start the Fire DRad campaign.

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Tek give your tickets to the homeless so they will have a place to stay warm even for one night a week.PH can supply the food and at least do something good for society.He could be good for something.

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get rid of hewitt PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! i live on st. simons and when we tech people lose we brood at the beach with a rich old lady.

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Thank you UGAX for your comments. I logged on here to read all the vents from GT fans and the first 50 on the first page were ‘we run this state’ or the score. How grade school. I am glad to see you separate yourself from the 14 year olds that come in here and post that silly garbage. Their futures do not look too bright.

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Hewitt has lost the support of GT fans and supporters. DRAD probably recognized this last season, but wasn’t in a position financially to cut ties with the coach. Cash flow is the issue, I believe. Tech will owe Hewitt around $8 million over six years if they fire him, and they are still paying Chan 1 million annually. But, things are looking better: Tech will see more money annually from the new TV contract(5-7 million annually I think), and Gailey’s contract runs out this year, so the cash flow situation is improving. DRAD will be in a better position this year to make a change.

Hewitt thinks he can change things and turn the program around, but I think he will find that it is too late. The fans have already stopped showing up(look at last night’s attendance), and supporters are screaming at DRAD every chance they get. This will eventually filter down to Hewitt’s players. They like the man, but they start to see the situation(They can read, and can see the half empty coliseum), and with every loss, they start to doubt their coach’s abilities. The result is probably a long losing stretch this year with no recovery as confidence wanes. The only way Hewitt can change things is to coach a team of lesser talent up and have a great season, but I doubt this will happen.

Everyone speaks of Hewitt as a great recruiter and how Tech will miss this if they let him go. But, I couldn’t disagree more. GT’s biggest weakness has been recruiting the one and done player without having the talent behind this player when he leaves. And, as bad as this is, the biggest weakness on the team has been the lack of recruiting a quality point since Jarrett Jack, arguably the most important position on the court. So, I disagree completely with Hewitt being the great recruiter angle on these blogs.

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I hope Yech gives Hewitt and Johnson long-term extensions!!!

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DRad should be more concerned with the 2000 empty seats than the loss, plus ~30% of the seats that were occupied had red-clad bodies sitting in them. The team did not have a clue on how to close out the game last night, and Hewitt has lost the fan base. So if we’re legally beholden to him for the $7.1M buy-out, whether we have to scrape it up after this season or five years from now, then pull the plug before another slew of season ticket holders are lost.

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UGA runs the insect swatter in this STATE.

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The Ramblin’ Wreck Report with Coach Hewitt on WREK (91.1FM) will be airing tomorrow 6-7pm. I’ll be there but…I won’t be accepting call-in’s this week.

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They have to pay that $7.1 mil anyway. The only thing GT has to eat is the cost of a new coach.

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In case you forgot….

The agent that negotiated my contract was Mark Carmony. UGA Law 1991.

I’ve gotta remember to thank him again for his sheer brilliance. Took a lot of skill to pull it off but Mark & Dave Braine got it done for me….LMMFAO

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chan’$ still the problem……..

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which is better than scoring homerun baskets

Differential X,
Differential Y,
A Square, B Square,
Integral of Pi !

Engineers Touchdown,
Engineers Yell,
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Fight like Hel*!

Take that mutts

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As bad as the Dawgs’ fortunes have been, they can always count on beating their little brother Georgia Tech on the athletic field (or court in this case). Used to be, the Bumble bees would take solace that their academic credentials were better than those in Athens, but this has also eroded away to the point where the academics at UGA are virtually as demanding as GT. In two years, UGA will have its own engineering schools too. At that point, the only thing that the Bugs will be able to brag about is their location in Atlanta’s inner city. They will rally to, “We are closer to the Varsity than the Dawgs!
The Jackets should have never quit the SEC. They quit because Alabama gave them such a smackdown one year that several of the Bugs actually wound up in traction at Grady Hospital. Pat Dye would say that the Bugs weren’t man enough. Now they are proud members of the JV team, the ACC.

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Hewitt is not a good collegiate level coach! Good recruiter… yes. Good coach…no. Udofia looks lost most of the time. I scouted this kid I know his talent. He would have been better off going out of state where his talents would have been developed instead he chose to stick it out with Hewitt and Hewitt does nothing with him. The guy is a great leader and Hewitt knows this. Instead he allows Rice and Shumpert to do whatever and the team looks like a bunch of kids playing a game of pick up. Georgia Tech do yourself a favor and realease Hewitt of his duties. Make him VP of Recruiting but allow a real coach to coach the team. It may be some assistant coaches in the league who would love the opportunity or where is Felton from UGA and his staff get one of them. Hewitt has to go. This year’s program is a waste.

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Just wait until they get their engineering school up & running over in Athens….

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Can You Dig It and Breaking News: What are you two stupid? Why should Tech fans show up to support a coach they want fired? Why support with Body or money a program you know is quickly becoming a laughing stock of ACC basketball. Tech fans are proud just like UGA fans who would probably respond the same way. But, basketball is more important to many fans.This was a dismal program until Cremins resurrected the program and made GT fans proud, and now they see how bad its gotten.If I wanted a change for the better, the last thing I would do is show up to support the team. I hate it but this is where we are.

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If Tech fans weren’t so pompous in their arguments about sports, trying to tie in who knows calculus better, I wouldn’t really care to rub these wins in.

However, Tech fans want to act like they are the classiest fans on earth, when they are probably the worst when it comes to brazenly insulting others.

I AM SO GLAD JACKET NATION IS HURTING FROM LOSING TO THE “REDNECKS”

(((((42-34)))))
(((((73-72)))))

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so, does anybody havew the inside scoop on wich Engineering Firms are recruiting Josh Nesbitt and Antony Allen???

They are STUDENT-athletes like you Nerds say right??

Any chance they could start their own Engineering Firm???

Will Reggie Ball or Joe Hamilton get them a job at their Engineering Firms??

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I gotta admit that sign I saw last night…”"It’s OK Paul, I can’t coach basketball either!”…. made me chuckle.

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DRAD has to get this straight in his mind. You can only ask the fan base for so much charity and make no mistake about it. Alot of pressure was put on the alumni to pony up for the basketball program and Georgia Tech. Now without an enjoyable product you will lose everything. Hire a no name coach with no expectations and as he turns the program into a respectable game of basketball the fans will show up and cheer even when they lose. But the excuses and the overwhelming sad coaching is so apparent that most high school girls basketball coaches are far better than Hewitt at coaching the fundamentals. This is not about how Hewitt manages the program although he does not do that well, it is not about winning and losing, although he has a losing record in the ACC and has NEVER had a winning season in the ACC, it is not about the graduation rate although that is awful as well, it is not about anythiong other than Tech deserves better and if Hewitt was true to tech he would say the same thing.

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Paul Hewitt is my soul mate.

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Hold your heads up tech fans…We’ve got Savannah St. coming to the thriller dome this weekend.

I promise you the “WIZARD OF TECHWOOD” will have a little surprise for them…Paul.

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Hey Snoop Dawg; Why is it that a mighty SEC team such as UGA gave up over 500 plus yards to the little junior ACC team of Tech. Your words right. You should be asking yourself why a mighty SEC team loaded with high school all americans can barely beat a little ACC team such as Tech, and on your on damn field no less. Which team recruits the 4 and 5 star players every year? I watched that game and it looked like to me that the better team lost.

Comparing UGA’s academics to Tech is a joke and you know it. It may be better because of Jan Kemp, but not because UGA people wanted a better school. Most UGA fans were kicking and screaming at the higher academic standards, because they thought it would hurt their mighty football teams recruiting. Why was Ga State and Tech not combined years ago moron. Because the regents who are dominated with UGA alumni wouldn’t allow it. Why? Because they were afraid Tech would be able to recruit as well as UGA with a full liberal arts curriculum, thats why. Why will UGA have an engineering program? For the same damn reason, pure corruption at the highest level. I doubt Tech feels threatened in the least with UGA starting engineering light in Athens though.

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We’ve been beyond patient, considering ONE winning acc record in TEN years:

2000–2001 Georgia Tech 8–8 T–5th NCAA 1st Round
2001–2002 Georgia Tech 7–9 T–5th
2002–2003 Georgia Tech 7–9 5th NIT 3rd Round
2003–2004 Georgia Tech 9–7 T–3rd NCAA Runner-up
2004–2005 Georgia Tech 8–8 T–4th NCAA 2nd Round
2005–2006 Georgia Tech 4–12 T–10th
2006–2007 Georgia Tech 8–8 T–6th NCAA 1st Round
2007–2008 Georgia Tech 7–9 T–7th
2008–2009 Georgia Tech 2–14 12th
2009–2010 Georgia Tech 7–9 7th NCAA 2nd Round

Overall at Georgia Tech: 67–93

Hewitt is now 4-7 against UGA

Appathy has beyond set in: I *LOVED* GT basketball more than any other sport…had season tickets for years…let them expire in discust about 3 years ago…I can’t stand to watch them for free on TV anymore (didn’t watch UGA because I knew we would find a way to Blewitt).

Some say, “We can’t afford to fire him.” I say we can’t afford not to and should have 7 years ago.
What cost more,

(a) 7 mil
or
(b) 1.4 per year, for a couple/few more years + continued destruction of the program + continued errosion of the fan base + further emptying of seats + further humiliation from loosing to Kennesaw State, UGA, etc, and THEN paying the 7 mil?
You don’t have to know advanced math to know that (a) is much less than (b), yet we pick (b) year after year.
Since we had the money to put into the arena, then we had the money to spend and our AD CHOOSE not to fire him.

Even the Wall Street Journal knew this years ago, per this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690294088913675.html

What is the good word? = FIRE PAUL HEWITT!!

What is the good word? = FIRE PAUL HEWITT!!

What is the good word? = FIRE PAUL HEWITT!!

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Dang I miss ole G. Wayne Clough….He’s a good man. I’d not be where I am without him. How’s he doing at the Smithsonian Institute?… Paul…

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Who are these mystery players that were expected to stick around longer than one year? Every early exit that I can think of was pretty obvious from the start. Bosh, Crittendon (who would have been better off to stay), Young, Favors…. Do they seriously expect anyone to believe Hewitt thought they were going to stay longer? If he did, then he’s even stupider than I had thought, and should be replaced immediately.

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Tom B.

A couple of points to your drivel.

First, I have to admit that the Dawgs football is terrible because of da Preacha Man and his clowns. That said, we can always count on thumping the bees. So no matter how bad we might be, the GT folks are worse.
Second, there’s nothing special to being an engineering nerd. Engineers are supervised by managers and leaders. That would be UGA grads. Most have one or more nerdy Tech engineers doing the technical work for them.
Look up the stats: UGA’s on the rise academically while GT’s on the fall. The GPA and SAT scores for UGA freshmen are actually just a little higher than Tech’s. Wait until we have our own engineering school!
Get used to being number two in a two state university system.

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the truth hurts. lmao.

notice jackets that dawgy could not defend against the truth. ouch.

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Thanks RAMBLINWRECK,

I really feel sorry for the fans and players involved in this.

It is really about like us keeping Ray Goff from 1993-1995 when it was obvious that he was a great recruiter who just was not that good of a coach. We had so much talent in 1992 that it was unbelievable. The SEC east was down and we still blew it. Beat OSU in the bowl game, went 10-2 and everyone felt tlike we failed. It was obvious he needed to go after the 93 season but Dooley hung on for 2 more years.

Similar to Hewitt. With the talent he has, there is no way he should be 4-7 against UGA and sub .500 in the ACC.

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GT’s keeping Hewitt is like UGA keeping Richt and Bozo the Clown…

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at least those panties were red.

If a yellow jacket administrator ever sunk so low as to do that they would probably have a pair of white panties. Those jackets dont even know thier own school colors. lmao.

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Wow, and I thought taking over Atlanta as the primary collegiate sports institution would actually take some time.

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What is the good word? = FIRE PAUL HEWITT!!

Nope

The good word is: Hewitt has been fired!

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Pretty sure Richt has only landed nine 5-stars since he’s been in Athens. UGA has been slapping Yech’s 3 stars around with their own 3 star guys.

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Hewitt is the greatest coach ever in GT Basketball!!!! Sign him to a 30 year extension for 15 million a year!!! I love watching street ball!!! I fealt like I was sitting at the park!!

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does ‘coach’ hewitt make public service announcements? maybe if we boo him every time his face comes up, we’ll be rid of him…it worked with ‘coach’ chan gailey.

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Doesn’t matter how many times Tech loses to Ugay.

You rednecks will ALWAYS be mowing my lawn, serving my family dinner and taking out our trash no matter how many times we lose at football or basketball.

All of you worship the ground a Tech graduate walks on.

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Yes I am a bitter Tech fan who is tired of always losing to UGA!!!!!

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For most of the evening, it looked like early December basketball: Missed jumpers, mistimed passes and long stretches of mediocrity interrupted by the occasional highlight.

Actually, if you flipped back the calendar a couple of weeks, it was the Georgia vs. Georgia Tech football game.

In the end, the Bulldogs won this one, too, 73-72 at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. The difference: a 3-pointer by the Dogs’ Dustin Ware that broke a tie with 18 seconds remaining, followed by a Tech team that looked again as if it lacked either a plan or an ability to execute thereafter.

Why would Glen Rice drive the lane for a layup with 6.8 seconds left rather than attempt to set up a three-pointer to tie it?

Why, with the Jackets inbounding the ball with 2.8 seconds left, would Brian Oliver attempt a low-percentage pass the length of the court to center Daniel Miller when there probably was time for a mid-court pass, a dribble and a shot? (The pass was intercepted by Travis Leslie.)

Neither team looked March-ready. Or even January-ready. But only one made plays to win the game, and it wasn’t the Jackets.

Georgia coach Mark Fox wasn’t thrilled with his team’s performance but said: “We feel like we’re leaving here with a good win.”

That’s more than Paul Hewitt could say. Of Oliver’s pass, he said: “Just a [bad] read. The next time he’s in that situation, he’ll make a good decision.”

But an impatient fan base isn’t allowing Hewitt much room for error. This was only the second time in 16 years since the Tech-Georgia game was shifted back on campus that the home team lost. Both times, the Dogs have won at Alexander. The last time: 10 years ago in Hewitt’s first season.

The masses aren’t happy on North Avenue. That’s when there are masses. It doesn’t speak well for the feeling around the program when there are 2,000 empty seats in a 9,000-seat arena.

But before the game, Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich stood up for Hewitt.

“We went to the finals of the ACC tournament last year,” Radakovich said. “We went to the second round of the NCAA tournament. That wasn’t a bad year.”

So you’re satisfied?

“You’re never satisfied unless you win it all,” he said. “But there was significant progress over the previous couple of years. I feel like we’re going in the right direction.”

He said he’s aware of the concern over the direction of the program, adding: “I’m not oblivious to it. But Paul and I talk an awful lot about where the program’s going the next couple of years, bringing in some players that we think will [not leave early]. One-and-dones aren’t bad if you understand them from the beginning. It’s the ones who leave when you don’t expect it that really put the program behind the eight ball.”

Three weeks ago the Jackets lost at Kennesaw State. That left the impression the program was under the eight ball, not behind it. (If the loss wasn’t humiliating enough, consider that the Owls are 0-5 since.)

Radakovich, with a slight smile: “Yeah, we hit a bump at Kennesaw State.”

A bump?

“OK, a pothole. A crevice. An iceberg.”

It pays sometime to have a sense of humor when the barbarians are at the gate. But this end-of-game fizzle won’t help Hewitt’s cause.

The teams shot a combined 25-for-62 in the first half. Georgia at least had an excuse. Leslie sat for most of the half with two early fouls. When he returned in the second half, so did some semblance of flow to the Dogs’ offense.

They made five consecutive three-pointers in one stretch. They finally took their first lead at 48-47 on a three-point shot by Sherrard Brantley with 11:36 remaining. The Jackets fought back. Effort wasn’t the issue, execution was. But that has become a familiar sight.

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which school is described by the following?
-that routinely has a dozen football players arrested yearly.
-that is an also ran in its own conference in spite of having a ‘dream’ team every year in recruiting.
-that is so inept against uf it makes gt’s record against the frogs seem mild in comparison .
-that has a student body that is so ignorant that they urinate on the carpet of their own school library. so much for education eh?
-that had the jan kemp affair and the jim harrick classes and the cheating by the school of pharmacy.
-that had a lying cheating man like vince dooley for their coach and ad. wasnt ugag on probation like every 4 years under the evil dooley?
-that tosses tons and tons of garbage onto their own campus and any venue they attend. i heard that shreveport under no circumstances ever wants to see the ugag fan base back in shreveport. EVER. st simons is almost to that point.
-that had a nationally written newspaper article describing how the broadcast team of tv announcers commented on the FACT that the ugag fan base was the WORST bunch of out of control drunks they had ever witnessed in 40 years of doing college fb broadcasts. now that is outright shameful.
-that had its most recent married ad arrested for drunk driving while sniffing the panties of the prostitute that was riding with him.

we routinely have the largest group of natoinal merit scholars on our campus. meanwhile ugag is up for the top partay school in the country.

i would be willing to bet we have more ceo’s than ugag does.

and i have not seen a single reputable mag rank uga ahead of gt in acedemics. cheating lying stealing drunkeness yes ….. acedemics no!

a ugag astronaut? lmao. more likely a ugag janitor.

our endowment is bigger by a large factor.

we never had any of our school supply the answers to a national test like YOUR pharmacy prof did. if you guys are so academic why would you have to cheat?

that is an easy question to answer…. cause the dawgs are lying cheating and pathetic.

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GT is second rate in every sport to UGA and will soon be second rate in production of engineers who can get the job done.

What’s the difference in a GT civil engineer and a Southern Tech civil engineer? The Southern Tech engineer can get the road paved while the GT guy is still making his drawings.

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TomB is not a 5star athlete

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mathdawg is oxymoronic. eh?

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Give me a break Dawgy. Did you watch the game? Tech fumbles twice, once on UGA’S 6 yd line and another in the red zone, and still UGA wins by a missed extra point.

I don’t care one bit about moral victories, but I do care about all this mighty SEC crap. You get on these blogs and run your mouth even though your team finishes 6-6 and can barely beat a little ACC team. You are the loser.

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@Snoop Dawg

So you base the quality of the education on the average SAT scores for admission? You choose to ignore average starting salaries, average median career salaries, long term return on investment, and academic rankings? That seems pretty logical.

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@PHIL

Average starting salary for GT grads: 57,300
Average starting salary for UGA grads: 42,100

Average median career salary for GT grads: 105,000
Average median career salary for UGA grads: 78,400

Average 30 year ROI for GT grads: 1.11 million (ranked 31st of all schools)
Average 30 year ROI for UGA grads: 533,000 (ranked 194th of all schools)

Sources:
http://www.payscale.com/education/average-cost-for-college-ROI
http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-graduate-salary-statistics.asp

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Hewitt,for some reason, can’t seem to find a PG. Tech needs namebrand players,they seem to have been forgotten this past decade. How can you allow the dawgs to do you guys like that? Jawja sucks so bad,they hired a coach who isn’t dirty or from the South.
Why did Tech get rid of Bobby Cremins, was he really that bad at the end? Really?

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I don’t understand then. If Michigan is such a great academic school, how can they excel at athletics the way the do?

Someone just shot a hole in a theory.

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Doesn’t Michigan’s Engineering School also rival Tech’s among the public schools?

Yikes!

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GT fans: This lazy bitterness is just sad. Your athletic programs suck, get over it. If you do not want to talk sports, why are you wasting your time here? Go look for a job.

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I think KSU will fire their coach at year’s end.

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Tech fans, don’t worry Hewitt is as good as gone. He got college athletics’ version of “the kiss of death” (a public vote of confidence from the AD)

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Sure are dark days to be a Yechie right now. Sad.

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I’m sure our varsity chess team could beat you mutts!!!

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Too funny!! All these techies posting on here are so pathetic. Since they can’t boast about their dwindling athletic programs any more the only thing they have left to claim is their so called academic standard. Every time they start spouting off about their “superior minds”, “great jobs” and qualifications to be a fan is being an alumnus just tells everyone else how insecure and bitter they really are. If you don’t care that much about athletics “anymore” then why are you on a UGA sports blog spouting off your putrid and miserable hate speech? Go find a loser tech engineer blog and do your crying there!

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Hey bugs, just wait til Kennesaw gets a football program. Yet another instate school for you to hide from!!!

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I think your record speaks for itself! Still an embarrassment.

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If it were not for UGA tek would not exist.You tekies should be thanking us because you need something to look up to.

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Nice try TomB. If Reggie Ball and Michael Johnson can hang around Tech’s campus for 4 or 5 years, then obviously some shady happenings are taking place.

And don’t even get me started on all the trash their basketball program has had over the years. So please, try again.

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And let me remind you, your joke of a football team is the reason we are bowl eligible!! So thank you!!!

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Oh, thank you superdawg! UGA superdawg logic at work again, I see.

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Losing to Kennesaw and Georgia is pitiful. So we could lose to Savannah State and Mercer too. Come on DR grow a pair and act. This is getting embarrassing for us as alumni. do you ever want to fill a stadium/arena again?

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If Chan got fired for boos while starring in a Public Service Announcement at Grant what does DRad make of the pitiful crowd last night! Not even enough students to fill the ends under the baskets.Certainly few if any alumni to smooze and fund raise with while playing G-E-O-R-G-I-A for Pete’s sake. No fans while playing the Dawgs? Somebody gotta go DRad, you or Hewittless? Both?

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URBAN MEYER JUST QUIT

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I have never been on a UGA Y blog… Why are they on ours??????????

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Little surprised by the timing of the Meyer announcement, but other than that, not really surprised.

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The level of douchebaggery by the sore loser Trek fans is hilarious.
We own you, as does Kennesaw State.
Laces out Dorks
42-34 BWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA
Your B-Ball coach is aeven a bigger loser than your gynecomastic “genius”
BBBBWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA
73-72
At least you got closer this year in basketball
Your athletic department is in shambles
You can’t fill a 50,000 seater in downtown Atlanta, even with free food and cheap tickets
You are a joke

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Meyer said he wants to spend more time with his family – is that his immediate family or his son Tebow in Denver? Look for Dan Mullen to move back to Florida?

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Wow the UGA grad. Complements of a UGA degree: Can spell Dawg and bug, can use the internet, knows to reference ehow for answers to everyday problems, and can make a trap to catch pesky yellow jacket. WOW!

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Yes, lets do take a look at it. Overwhelming majority are misdemeanor driving offenses, while you currently have a player that was arrested for rape. And let’s not forget good ol’ Houston a few years back who was busted in a nationwide FBI drug sting. He was also hunted down by U.S. Marshalls last year after he assaulted a woman at gunpoint in Marietta. And whoever that thug was that played at Tech for a couple of years that was involved in the Wizards locker room gun standoff last season as well.

Granted, Houston wasn’t under Coach Moobs, but you know good and well he would have played him just like Gailey did.

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Dang Jake, you got to go back all the way back to old Ruben Houston. That player that you speak of arrested for rape was acquitted two years ago. Do you know what that means? Have you compared the number of players arrested from both programs recently? Do you want me to go back as far as you have? Didn’t think so. Didn’t want to talk about you former AD? Can’t understand why? Such an interesting and colorful(red) story.

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Talk trash Tech, and Gators haaaaaaaaaa!

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Great to be a 6-6 Dawg, All Dawg. Dawgone it.

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Earth to DRAD: Are you on a sabbatical this year ?

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Ha Ha ha ha Ha ha Ha……………….Ga. Tech is the biggest sucker………ha ha ha Ha Ha Ha ……….well time for my daily massage, sponge bath and manicure………SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey Paul: See what Meyer just did? Please follow his lead.

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Add me to an exploding list of people who will never watch another Tech basketball game while that loser, Paul Hewitt, is coaching. I know of a number of people who let their season tickets go this year for that same reason. Maybe when the coliseum is virtually empty, D Rad will have the guts to do something. Tech Forever is right. We made the final four in 2004 in spite of Hewitt, not because of him. It just happened that we had a group who could play without coaching. I did not watch but I am told that in the Georgia debacle, we once again had no time out left when we had the ball out of bounds with only a few seconds left. That is typical Hewitt coaching. Mindless, aimless, basketball is his game. I honestly don’t think he has a clue. The guy is the worst coach in the country. I am done until he is gone and, as I said, the list is growing rapidly of those who feel the same. Wake up D Rad.

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Will Hewitt get a big raise again at the end of the season and bonus?

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for whatever reason, the powers that be at Georgia Tech are satisfied with mediocrity with the
basketball program. what a shame.

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Dan your an idiot. you dont know what you are talking about they may have had an alright last year, but over the past few years paul blewitt has been going downhill. he needs to be gone.. end of story and if the people of atlanta or the alumni’s never show up to a game to watch Ga tech play a game that should tell you something. need a new coach or maybe we just need an AD who has a brain and can think realilistic.

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