Upsetting Georgia would give Tech needed boost for future
From Tech's 2008 celebration: Roddy Jones, Troy Garside and Marcus Wright. (Brant Sanderlin)
During the course of a five-minute interview, Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson referenced Georgia’s No. 3 ranking in the BCS three times, just on the chance that we didn’t know.
“It’s not often you get a chance to play the No. 3-ranked team in the country,” he said.
“We haven’t beaten them in three years — that should be motivation enough. And they’re the No. 3-ranked team in the country,” he said.
“It’s an important game — and we also know that it’s the No. 3 team in the country,” he said.
So, just for clarification, Georgia is ranked No. 3 in the country, correct?
“I think so,” Johnson said, smiling. “That’s what somebody told me.”
Welcome to the view from the other side. Johnson is perceived as the other coach of the other team in the other conference. On Saturday, his Yellow Jackets will face the Bulldogs in their annual feud in Athens. Johnson understands the backdrop. Georgia has a bigger fan base, commands more national and local media attention and plays in the Goliath of the conferences, the SEC. So there’s no reason to pretend the situation doesn’t exist. It’s better to go with it publicly and throw roses in the air, but behind the scenes remind his players that this is a chance to stick it to the world outside of North Avenue.
Coach Paul Johnson has endured a rocky season, notwithstanding the Jackets' Coastal Division title. (AP)
When Johnson gives his pregame Gipper speech to his players, he’ll touch on all of the expected themes for an ignored underdog. Linebacker Brandon Watts speculated, “I’m sure it’ll be how we have a chance to beat the No. 3 team in the nation, and we have a chance to kill their dreams.”
Tech has a chance. Rivalry games often give way to unexpected results. With so much attention in Athens being paid to next week’s SEC Championship game against Alabama and the potential of a berth in the BCS title game, it would be surprising if some UGA players weren’t distracted this week.
But this game is about more than that for Tech. When Johnson took over for Chan Gailey in 2008, it was like he plugged the program into a light socket. He won 20 games in his first two seasons, including an ACC title (later vacated). He led the team into Sanford Stadium in his first season and engineered a 45-42 upset. It was pure joy for players and everybody connected to Tech.
“I was watching it on TV,” said Jackets defensive back Jemea Thomas, then in high school. “They looked so excited when they were winning. They were running around with pieces of hedges in their mouth.”
The Jackets’ program is in need of a similar boost.
This has been a rocky season, notwithstanding their impending happy-birthday-berth in the ACC Championship game (resulting from Miami withdrawing in hopes of minimizing coming NCAA sanctions). Tech’s season has seen ugly non-conference losses to Middle Tennessee State and BYU, defensive collapses against Virginia Tech, Miami and Clemson, a fired defensive coordinator (Al Groh). The recent departure of athletic director Dan Radakovich to another ACC school (Clemson) cast the financial situation of the institute’s athletic department in a negative light.
For many, if not most, Tech fans, it doesn’t feel like 2008 or 2009. It doesn’t feel like a division-championship season — it feels like 6-5. In the stands, it looks like 6-5. The Jackets regularly played before thousands of empty seats at home games. The school also could not sell out its allotment of 8,000 tickets for Saturday’s game. Tech, in fact, returned more tickets (1,900) than Georgia Southern (1,400). (A contributing factor: Tech sold the UGA game tickets only as part of a season-ticket package. Nonetheless, it didn’t look good.)
A win over Georgia would improve perceptions, ease concerns. Johnson isn’t thinking about that. Coaches are wired to just try to win games and assume that will fix everything else.
When asked if he believed Tech fans seemed as excited about the program as in 2008, Johnson replied: “Probably not. But do you think any fans are as excited after the coach has been there for a while?”
Point taken. Mark Richt wasn’t feeling excitement in Athens two years ago, but things have turned. Tech needs a similar turn.
By Jeff Schultz
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Joey
November 23rd, 2012
4:47 pm
Ramblin Man, PJ will have the Jackets ready to run through a brick wall, and he will have plenty of tricks up his sleeve. All the games played by both teams to date mean nothing.
It ain’t gonna be a blowout.
To quote the late, great Al Davis – just win baby.
Go Dawgs!
Tech Times
November 23rd, 2012
4:49 pm
Georgia Tech has the nation’s highest average SAT score for football players, and also the highest average high school GPA.
UGA, on the other hand, has one of the absolute lowest SAT averages, as well as a extremely low GPA average. As a result, 86% of UGA players are “special admits,” when means that they can not meet the minimum educational and intelligence requirements for admission to UGA, even as low as that is. As a practical matter, most UGA players are functionally illiterate and will spend their lives on welfare or pushing a mop at a business that took pity on them and gave them a menial job.
Yes, it would be great if Tech was more competitive with UGA, but Tech fans are proud of our heritage of having intelligent, responsible athletes who go on to rewarding careers and contribute to society.
Contrast this with the very unintelligent morons that UGA recruits. The 53 arrests over the last four years is proof enough, not to mention winning the Fulmer Cup. Most of these clowns are tossed out after their eligibility is over, and many end up on welfare.
UGA is clearly just a football factory dedicated to winning at all costs, and most UGA fans are okay with this, with no concern about the embarrassment this brings to the State of Georgia.
Mark Richt is the architect of this situation. As long as he is paid a huge salary, he will continue to recruit the illiterate brain-dead thugs who he thinks will win. Unfortunately for UGA fanturds, he’s not remotely in the same league with the top coaches in the SEC.
So the bottom line is that Georgia Tech – win or lose – does so with honor and integrity, while the lowlife punks, woman beaters, drug users, and drunks in Athens continue to embarrass us all.
Rick James
November 23rd, 2012
4:58 pm
@Tech Times
November 23rd, 2012
4:49 pm
Georgia Tech has the nation’s highest average SAT score for football players, and also the highest average high school GPA.
UGA, on the other hand, has one of the absolute lowest SAT averages, as well as a extremely low GPA average. As a result, 86% of UGA players are “special admits,” when means that they can not meet the minimum educational and intelligence requirements for admission to UGA, even as low as that is. As a practical matter, most UGA players are functionally illiterate and will spend their lives on welfare or pushing a mop at a business that took pity on them and gave them a menial job.
Yes, it would be great if Tech was more competitive with UGA, but Tech fans are proud of our heritage of having intelligent, responsible athletes who go on to rewarding careers and contribute to society.
Contrast this with the very unintelligent morons that UGA recruits. The 53 arrests over the last four years is proof enough, not to mention winning the Fulmer Cup. Most of these clowns are tossed out after their eligibility is over, and many end up on welfare.
UGA is clearly just a football factory dedicated to winning at all costs, and most UGA fans are okay with this, with no concern about the embarrassment this brings to the State of Georgia.
Mark Richt is the architect of this situation. As long as he is paid a huge salary, he will continue to recruit the illiterate brain-dead thugs who he thinks will win. Unfortunately for UGA fanturds, he’s not remotely in the same league with the top coaches in the SEC.
So the bottom line is that Georgia Tech – win or lose – does so with honor and integrity, while the lowlife punks, woman beaters, drug users, and drunks in Athens continue to embarrass us all.
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You left out three things..(1)Tomorrow SAT scores dont mean squat.(2)Rueben Houston (3) Georgia is second in the nation with players active NFL I didnt know people were allowed to collect welfare and an NFL paycheck.And for those who dont know let the other readers of blog know who Houston is and also tell them why Joe Hamilton is working at Georgia St instead Tech..I guess since Paul Johnson didnt tell a Walmart joke this year you decided to stand in.
Mark richt is a hypocrite
November 23rd, 2012
4:58 pm
Are these the same uga fans that toilet papered their quarterback’s house a few weeks back?
Rick James
November 23rd, 2012
5:07 pm
@Tech Times
FYI..Both Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall had the grades and SAT scores to attend Tech as do a lot of Georgia signees.In fact both were offered by Paul Johnson.Its always funny to me when some of you guys say well Georgia may me better on the field but our guys are smarter.I think its time for you to find another cop out.
Rick James
November 23rd, 2012
5:11 pm
@Mark richt is a hypocrite
Are these the same uga fans that toilet papered their quarterback’s house a few weeks back?
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Sanford stadium will have 80,000 Georgia fans there tomorrow.Do you think 80,000 people threw toilet paper at Aaron Murry’s house? You’re not that stupid right?
Rick James
November 23rd, 2012
5:11 pm
@Mark richt is a hypocrite
Are these the same uga fans that toilet papered their quarterback’s house a few weeks back?
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Sanford stadium will have 80,000 Georgia fans there tomorrow.Do you think 80,000 people threw toilet paper at Aaron Murry’s house? You’re not that stupid right?
Stinger2
November 23rd, 2012
5:12 pm
The AJC blogs would be a lot more fun to read if some GT and UGA fans would stop posting ridiculious comments that have nothing to do with subject article. Some are silly, some just plain hateful and others indicate the person making the comment did not read the article. Grow up people and post with at least some intelligence.
DawginLex
November 23rd, 2012
5:12 pm
AAAAA bail bond idiot
Why do you ask? You looking for a date Elton/gerbil boy?
You will have more luck on north avenue
Discount DoubleDawg
November 23rd, 2012
5:23 pm
Stinger I agree with you… tell me what you think about the game tomorrow? I haven’t heard much from tech fans about the actual football game. Obviously this would be a huge boost for tech to win… but what do you think you will do to win it?
DawginLex
November 23rd, 2012
5:29 pm
Talking about football in an adult manner became impossible years ago on these blogs
Because no one with the AJC has the balls to require registration under a single name
DirtyDawg
November 23rd, 2012
5:30 pm
This is always the way it is – although it cant happen all that often – let Tech have a little success and they strut like everybody else…let em suck and they start back with the how tough it is to compete with all those high academic standards. Assuming you’ve got those high ’standards’ all the time, then guess what – you’re just like the rest of us…when you’re good you’re good and when you suck, you suck…and this year you suck. Oh yeah, then there are the years when you cheat and have to ‘vacate’ stuff, so we’ll never know if you won because you were good, or you won despite the fact that you sucked. No doubt your guys will put up a fight, but this back and forth about academics has been exposed for the fraud that it is…convenient, but still a fraud.
fayncdawg
November 23rd, 2012
5:38 pm
firemarkrichtnow.commie
The ol’ pot calling the kettle black again! I guess you think Mark Ingrams’s daddy just received the Good Citizen Award! Everybody’s laundry iis a little soiled esp in the SEC! And who in the SEC (outside of Vandy) graduates players who are getting in Harvard Law School? Definitely not Bammer!!! Has any Bammer player gotten a Wonderlic score above 20? The highest I’ve seen from a Bammer was Julio Jones’ 14!
fayncdawg
November 23rd, 2012
5:49 pm
Techtimes
Stop, drop, and roll because yiur pants are definitely on fire, yiou big fat liar! I’m sure schools like Vandy, Stanford , Northwestern, Virginia, Duke do far better than Tech players on SATs and grades! I’m sure about that because there have been NO Reggie Ball stories out of those schools! BTW, Tech is on four years probation! What an accomplishment from a so-called fine academic school!
1 4 GT
November 23rd, 2012
5:49 pm
Great article Jeff
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
5:50 pm
I’ve been to several Tech-Georgia games and I have seen very little disrespect towards either fan base. As a UGA grad, I WILL say that we have our fair share of idiots. However, the VAST majority of those folks couldn’t spell UGA if you spotted them the U and the G! In other words, they are not alumni. If you’ve had problems, I apologize. But, don’t paint all of us with your broad brush. You might want to try winning the game for a change!
yellowfever
November 23rd, 2012
6:36 pm
who has more to lose, what a stupid question. Oh yea, this is the ajc.
ramblingbuzz
November 23rd, 2012
6:46 pm
No real offense to my fellow Tech fans but I sure do get tired of some of you prattling on about GTs academics to justify our football team’s performance. I think we may have an outside shot to upset UGA tompoorw but certainly won’t be shocked if the Dawgs lay a whoopin on us. But Tech’s academic standards have little to do with the success of the football team except to justifhy in the minds of some why we don’t win more.
RAMBLIN MAN
November 23rd, 2012
7:01 pm
@joey
PJ may have them ready to run thru a brick wall indeed, but how has this series gone for my jackets over the last decade? UGLY! We just refuse to find a way to beat uga. History not on our side and given the way our defense has played all year, its hard for me to find anything but reality to hang onto here. That is uga will only lose if it turns the ball over multiple times and gt defense gets a few stops which have you seen the GT defense in 2012? Lord, it’s bad. If uga does not score more than 40, i would be shocked. I hope we upset the dogs but history and reality must collide. I say close 1st half until uga talent and defense wear us down in 3rd quarter along with adjustments by grantham. 45-28 dogs. JMO
jsmooth
November 23rd, 2012
7:10 pm
@Truth:
If you look at wickipedia, both programs have (4) “National” champions. UGA is the ONLY school with a consensus National Championship in 1980. GT’s was shared with Colorado in 1990. Look it up for yourself if you have trouble believing this post. It is there, I assure you.
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
7:28 pm
Hey, hey! Jackets make it into at least one Top 25 list!
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-colleges-in-america-2012-11?op=1
PumkinHead
November 23rd, 2012
7:33 pm
Hoping GT shocks the world!
heeldawg
November 23rd, 2012
7:35 pm
@Tech Times:
Liar.
That’s what we call folks around here who post untruths, half-truths and genuine old-fashioned B.S.
Does Tech have the highest football SAT/GPA among public schools? Sure–but only because the private schools (i.e. Vanderbilt, Duke, Stanford et al) were not required to provide the information to the AJC due to their private status. So your data are misleading. The average Tech SAT for football recruits last year was 1028(out of 1600). The SAT average for Georgia’s football recruits last year was 949 (out of 1600)–which is above the average for Division I NCAA football players.
Here are some other data you can look up that you may not be so happy about: Tech’s football players had the lowest graduation rate in the ACC last year at 55%. Georgia’s football players had a 69% graduation rate, which was good for fifth in the SEC. Georgia and Techs’ football teams had NCAA APR ratings of 970 an 974 last season, respectively–roughly comparable. And you may call our players thugs, but at least we did not have a player arrested for having over 100 lbs of marijuana in his room with intent to distribute (remember Reuben Houston?) or a coach (and former player) who was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession.
Stop hiding behind the old “academics” argument. Stanford is a stronger academic school than Tech and they beat the top-ranked team in the country last week. Notre Dame, another strong academic institution, does just fine on the gridiron. Tech’s football team is mediocre because of poor recruiting and inadequate coaching. And the on-the-field results are going to be painfully evident tomorrow when you are dismantled by a Georgia team that is actually quite good.
Woofy One
November 23rd, 2012
7:39 pm
Tech is bringing Reggie Ball to help coach because CPJ is worried about having to leave the polo fields.
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
7:43 pm
Uh, the SAT is now a 2400 point scale, not 1600. Signed, UGA grad!
Tyler
November 23rd, 2012
7:55 pm
@truth: not trying to beat up Jeff and I appreciate his perspective I love Tech football and would just like a decent, well thought article a day before the UGA game from our hometown paper.
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:02 pm
Hey NATS, Here’s an idea: Establish a journalism school. Graduate a bunch of writers who know proper sentence structure, grammar and punctuation. Get them hired by the AJC! Then, you can have slanted writing in YOUR favor!
P.S. Jeff did NOT attend the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication…but I DID! Go Dawgs!
USMC
November 23rd, 2012
8:10 pm
GO DAWGS!
Smart Georgia Fans, no that is not an oxymoron regardless of what our Tech Brethren say, know that you can NEVER look past the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Paul Johnson is a great X’s and O’s coach and as cagey as they come. Our superior athletes, diverse offensive scheme, and strong Defense should win the game.
Having said that, I hope last week’s game against Georgia Southern helps our team shut down the triple option tomorrow on our way to a decisive victory over Tech.
Jackets, I love you on every other Saturday of the year except tomorrow.
GO DAWGS!
George P. Burdell
November 23rd, 2012
8:17 pm
I attended the GT-UGA game for many years both in Atlanta and Athens. I used to enjoy going to Athens because even though it was enemy territory, the fans were cordial and everyone had a good time. That is so far gone now that not only do I not miss it, I’m thankful I can watch it at home and not have to put up with your absolute crude behaviour. The current state of your fan base does a real disservice to your proud heritage and I hope that the real UGA fans will eventually get rid of the bad apples and return it to what it once was. I’m not holding my breath.
Boo Boo
November 23rd, 2012
8:26 pm
Typical. Pick UGA +13 one day, then eat some kosher turkey and write an article about how much GATech’s program would get better by beating UGA. GATech’s needs to lose and realize it would be better suited going to Div II where it could compete for a true national championship every year (as opposed to a beauty contest). The sooner educational institutes realize education has little to do with athletics and a lot to do with making students self-sufficient in life (playing sports is for children) the better.
RAMBLIN MAN
November 23rd, 2012
8:40 pm
@JSMOOTH
You quote wikipedia over the official ncaa records?? Wikipedia as your source over the ncaa is hilarious. You are really reaching my friend! The official NCAA records only gives uga 1 national title and it has GT with more consensus national titles than uga so you lose this dumb argument any way you slice it. It does not matter what years the titles were as history belongs to the ages period. You did it, you claim it! For many years GT used to drill uga just like uga drills us now. 1 proud streak is that guess who owns the longest losing streak in the entire series? I can give you a hint, it’s not the school on north avenue!! You may have the overall series, but the sh*t streak of losses belongs in athens still!
Check out the official ncaa books as nothing else matters. Read it and weep!
http://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:41 pm
@George P. Burdell: Pls see my 5:50 post. I don’t know where YOU go in Athens, but it’s nowhere I know! Just sounds like sour grapes to me!
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:42 pm
Maybe Tech should start a cricket team! They certainly have enough Indian students to field a fine side!
GATA!
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:43 pm
BTW, who marries Tech women?
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:44 pm
OH SNAP!
USMC
November 23rd, 2012
8:50 pm
The SAD reality is that Georgia Tech’s student body is made up primarily, or so it seems, of Foreigners and students from northern states, so they don’t really reflect Georgia or the traditional Georgia Tech fan. I believe AMERICA SPOKE comment on Georgia Tech developing a CRICKET team is spot on.
I still like Tech on EVERY OTHER Saturday of the year.
Go Dawgs!
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:52 pm
USMC: Hoo-rah, and thank you for your service to our nation. I, too, root for Tech when they’re not playing UGA. I believe it’s better for football in the state when both teams are doing well.
techmule
November 23rd, 2012
8:54 pm
Hey Jeff, We sure can tell who your pulling for.GT is going to have them bulldog nation fans crying alone with you come Tomorrow.After that i want to hear some critics on your bulldogs in years past like you spoke on GT Today.WE put a big ol dent in this rival Tomorrow and this is just what GT and puppies need to do.
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:54 pm
And, don’t get mad at me, Techsters. I shot your graduations for nearly 10 years when Dr. Clough was president. When it was time for the Master’s and Doctoral grads, we would play “find the American.”
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
8:56 pm
Techmule: as the idiot, G.W. Bush said to our enemies, “Bring it on!”
Thomas Brown
November 23rd, 2012
9:03 pm
Bad Dawg November 23rd, 2012 3:33 pm
“You left out the GT football player arrested with a hundred pounds of pot. He wasn’t intending to distribute it, though. He was going to smoke it all. Or so his defense attorney averred at one time.”
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Reuben Houston plead guilty to the charges in U.S. District Court to charges of conspiracy and attempt to distribute 92 pounds of marijuana. “I realize that in this situation I exercised bad judgment. I do apologize for the decision I made,” Reuben Houston said. Reuben Houston was not ordered to play the entire game against Georgia; but, he did, and it still did not help Georgie tek. Reuben Houston remains on the MOST WANTED LISTS.
# 6 school Stanford 26-11 men’s basketball, 9-2 football
# 8 school Duke 27-7 men’s basketball, 6-5 football
# 12 school Northwestern 19-14 men’s basketball, 8-3 football
# 17 school Vanderbilt 25-11 men’s basketball, 7-4 football
# 18 school Notre Dame 22-12 men’s basketball, 11-0 football
# 24 school Southern Cal 6-26 men’s basketball, 7-4 football
# 25 school Virginia 22-10 men’s basketball, 4-7 football
# 27 school Weak Forest 13-18 men’s basketball, 5-6 football
# 29 school Michigan 24-10 men’s basketball, 8-3 football
# 30 school North Carolina 32-6 men’s basketball, 7-4 football
# 31 school Boston College 9-22 men’s basketball, 2-9 football
# 36 school Georgie tek 11-20 men’s basketball, 6-5 football
# 63 school Georgia 15-17 men’s basketball, 10-1 football
Despite the fact that Georgie tek tells us their high school GPA and SAT scores are the highest in the nation, less than half of them graduate in football with a 45 Federal Graduation Rate 2011-012 and 15 percent of them graduate in men’s basketball with a 15 Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012. And, Georgie tek football and men’s basketball are horrible teams and have been.
Georgia tek men’s tennis graduate at a 88 percent Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012, Georgie tek men’s swimming graduate at a 80 percent Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012, and men’s track and field graduate at a 74 percent Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012. In fact, all Georgie tek’s sports all graduate at a much better Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012 than your 45 percent Football Federal Graduation Rate and 15 percent men’s basketball Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012.
Both football and men’s basketball are on NCAA Probation Major Infractions Database 2012.
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50-9
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George P. Burdell
November 23rd, 2012
9:09 pm
America spoke,
I appreciate your comments and I would certainly count you in the positives for UGA. However, it is not sour grapes because during that time Tech has never been winning a lot of them. I have watched intently 24 of those games, 19 at the stadiums. Of the 5 I missed, three were early on when I was a poor college student and the last 2 have been when the games were played in Athens. You can think I’m just getting old, I’m bitter etc. whatever, but I am telling you it is different now and it is not a good thing.
America spoke
November 23rd, 2012
9:36 pm
@Geo P. Burdell: Understand. I apologize for ANY so-called UGA “fan” who goes out of their way to insult or denigrate another team’s fan. I look forward to a spirited game with minimal injuries and some sportsmanship. That’s how I’m playing it!
Thomas Brown
November 23rd, 2012
9:37 pm
Well, George P. Burdell, we certainly are fed-up with the excuses Georgie tek fans give for why your football program graduates 45 Percent Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012 and men’s basketball program graduates 15 Percent Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012, saying that it is because your BS degree is so hard – when taking the same classes, for the same BS degree, with the same professors, at the same time, while your men’s track and field program graduates 74 percent, while your men’s swimming and diving program graduates 80 percent, and while your tennis program graduates 88 percent.
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Why can all these other teams at Georgie tek graduate their scholarship recruits at Georgie tek and your football team and your men’s basketball team, cannot ?
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ramblingbuzz November 23rd, 2012 6:46 pm
“No real offense to my fellow Tech fans but I sure do get tired of some of you prattling on about GTs academics to justify our football team’s performance. Tech’s academic standards have little to do with the success of the football team except to justifhy in the minds of some why we don’t win more.”
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Yes, it gets a little sickening listening to their jabbering, blathering, and waffling,
ramblingbuzz.
USMC
November 23rd, 2012
9:51 pm
I am a Georgia Bulldog fan and Attended UGA in the 1980’s
If it makes any of you Jacket fans feel better or validated, I had a run in with a complete A**hole of a Georgia Fan at the TacoMac in Midtown while watching College Football last year.
The doosh was drunk as a skunk yelling at a table full of GT fans as they watched GT play Wake or some other ACC team. And the drunk, obnoxious UGA fan kept bumping into me as my girlfriend and I stood innocently watching all of the games and playing Golden Tee.
Needless to say, as a former Marine I felt like knocking this Doosh Bag’s head off. He kept taunting a table full of clean cut GT fans who were minding their own business.
I grabbed my girlfriend and headed out the door in order to avoid doing something that I would later regret and to stay out of jail.
Sorry for ranting, but that Georgia fan was a complete embarrassment and really pissed me off; I can still see the looks on the GT kids’ faces as they were being taunted by this Doosh! Disgusting.
Anyway, GO DAWGS!
Thomas Brown
November 23rd, 2012
9:57 pm
All anyone has to do is to come on to any AJ-C blog and read the personal assaults by Georgie tek fans to know that Georgie tek has a corner on poor sportsmanship.
RAMBLIN MAN
November 23rd, 2012
9:58 pm
.@JSMOOTH
You quote wikipedia over the official ncaa records?? Wikipedia as your source over the ncaa is hilarious. You are really reaching my friend! The official NCAA records only gives uga 1 national title and it has GT with more consensus national titles than uga so you lose this dumb argument any way you slice it. It does not matter what years the titles were as history belongs to the ages period. You did it, you claim it! For many years GT used to drill uga just like uga drills us now. 1 proud streak is that guess who owns the longest losing streak in the entire series? I can give you a hint, it’s not the school on north avenue!! You may have the overall series, but the sh*t streak of losses belongs in athens still!
Check out the official ncaa books as nothing else matters. Read it and weep!
http://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs
North Georgia Dawg
November 23rd, 2012
10:02 pm
They have a chance, yes. It is a rivalry game. But it’s very unlikely. What the Tech fans seem to forget is that in 2008, we didn’t have Todd Grantham. We had a poorly coached defense and on top of that, that defense had lost multiple starters and key backups to season-ending injuries… the guys had ZERO experiencing going up against the triple option and yet Georgia lost by only 3. The team is now much better-coached on defense, has far superior talent and has had the experiencing defending the option the last few years and also last week (to a clearly less talented opponent). I understand Tech’s got better blocking now, but the defense is in far better shape this year than 2008 or even 2010. Go Dawgs!!!
savannah buzz
November 23rd, 2012
10:03 pm
C’mon Jeff. You’ve seen our defense. Is there any reason at all to think that Georgie scores less than 50. The question is, can we score 51. That’s all that matters.
Delbert D.
November 23rd, 2012
10:03 pm
Best schools/conferences to attend to make the Falcons active roster:
Updated 11/23/2012
# Players – School
4 – South Carolina
3 – Georgia Tech
3 – Missouri
2 – Alabama
2 – Cal
2 – Florida St.
2 – Miami
1 – Arizona St., Auburn, Baylor, Boston College, Central Florida, Clemson, Connecticut, East Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, La. Tech, Louisville, LSU, Mississippi, Miss. St., Montana, Nevada-Las Vegas, N. Illinois, Oklahoma, Oregon, Oregon St., Richmond, San Jose St., Southern Miss, South Florida, Texas, Toledo, UAB, USC, Virginia, Wake Forest, Weber St., Wisconsin
# Players – Conference (post-realignments)
16 – SEC
11 – ACC
6 – PAC-12
4 – C-USA
3 – Big-12
3 – Big East
2 – Big Ten
2 – MAC
2 – Big Sky*
2 – WAC
1 – MWC
1 – Sun Belt
1 – CAA*
* FCS