Upsetting Georgia would give Tech needed boost for future

Wreck tech.

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Chance to be first and I am not going to take it!!! Crazy things happen all the time in rivalries but not tomorrow. Go DAWGS!!!!

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Well, one can dream, but it may not be in the cards this year!

As usual, ‘Ramblin Wreck for life!’

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Regarding GT fans not buying the entire allotment, there’s some truth to fan apathy. However, there are quite a few die-hard, loyal Tech people that will no longer go to Athens due to harassment both inside and outside the stadium. No school is immune to idiots amongst their fan base, but when Georgia’s president has to issue a warning about public urination and defecation, it’s more than a few bad apples.

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He didn’t endorse Tech to win. Don’t get so defensive. Personally, I would love a win, but realistically, we won’t stop their O. It set the program back years when we lost the next year in the ATL. It would do wonders if we could upset one more time!

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Clarification needed, from both Schultz and Bradley. Tech’s 2009
ACC Championship has since been vacated, right? Just need to
clear that up.

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It would be a good win, but I don’t really see how it would springboard anything for the future. Frankly the game against Florida St is more important for that purpose. The game against UGA is really just a chance to play spoiler, similar to how Baylor did.

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[...] This is a sad statement: 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). [...]

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Greg, ….nevermind.

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Dear CPJ,

in order to have a chance of beating UGA, you need to play Vad Lee like you did vs. UNC. Please watch the pass from Lee to Waller to be reminded what Lee is capable of. Nothing against TW except he just isn’t good enough to pull this off and he has had his chance the past two years. Lee does have it in him to do just that if he has a good day and the great thing is Vad believes in himself. So much so, the rest of the offense believes in him too and the entire atmosphere changes. With Vad, losing is unacceptable.

Can’t hurt.

This kid has something special and he came to GT. Glad somebody with his talent did.

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Who wants to pay $80 to drive to Athens for a noon game and sit in section 600, so far away that you are better off watching it on tv? You can just drive down to Buckhead and hang out if you want to watch drunks holler at people and act like idiots.

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Tech should have let students have those extra tickets as some vastly reduced rate.

I don’t think that would help much. Our student section isn’t even full for Tech home games. There is probably a much better chance of convincing alumni to go.

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i am a gt fan for life,do any of you ga fans know how to get to athens, and yes you do have a very good team,but you fans are ass hoooooles

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Hey Jeff, this ain’t 2008.

Willie Martinez is coaching Auburn’s DBs DOWN now . . .

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Tech needs to win this game period….UGA has far better talent….double our Revenue…and double our Fan base….but Tech needs to start getting back on the winning side of this rivalry and re-establish it’s storied football program. One that has 4 national championships to UGA’s two.

Let’s go Tech, Win this one for your Fans….the die hard one’s that have not given up on you or asked for PJ’s removal. Little to they remember the 2008 win in Athens, and the 2009 ACC championship, things that had not been done in many years.

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Jeff, there is absolutely nothing new in this article that hasn’t been said over and over. How about giving just a little bit of effort if you’re going to write about this game that so many of us hold dearly.

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Thanks KBP – and let’s hope for a clean no-injury game. And if Miami loses tomorrow, Jackets win the Coastal outright. Crazy season in many conferences!

D problem is partially a chemistry thing w/CAG’s system – was just too complex/old-school for today’s fast-paced CFB. May work in today’s NFL, may not. Didn’t at GT, and now we’re recovering/adjusting/moving-on, which takes time. Recruiting is definitely critical.

Jeff, in your game prediction column you made the analysis that position for position UGA wins the matchup. Perhaps, even though in CFB and especially rivalry games, any one game can turn crazy and defy analysis and logic.

However, you didn’t mention coaches. I do like Saturday’s match-up between sidelines. I’d put a game-day CPJ up against anyone.

Go Jackets! What’s the Good Word?

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On paper – we don’t have a chance. Taking into perspective the way we’ve played the first half of the season – we neither deserve to be – or have the right to expect respect. However, as the season has progressed after the halfway point – with all our problems – we’ve hung in there attempting to build something from nothing and finish with our heads up looking forward to next year. owever, it strikes me as amusing that the sportswriters for the AJC – with the exception of Techs writer Ken – have all written articles about the impending game with the purpose of reminding UGA fans, coaches and players that they need to focus on Tech and not look ahead toward the SEC playoff game or possible BCS title hopes. None have been about the reasons Tech should have for being positive going into the game, playing hard and with intensity or exultations of how Tech will benefit if they win – not only this game but if they could somehow begin to dominate the series once again as they have done in the past. It’s almost as if you writers have a vested interest in UGA football prowess whereas Tech is written about as being the one remaining team that might deflate your overblown ego and destroy your predetermined story line so you try to make sure UGA coaches, fans and players keep their eyes on the state prize.
So, my coments to you all is this – have another story line ready for the Sunday papers. Have one ready that tells of the way Tech has pulled itself out of the celler and rebuilt it’s team based on character and fortitude. A team that no one gave a chance to win the game tomorrow but it!

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[...] Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]

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Fire Pitiful Paul–Hire Derek Doooley

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Why is this a question? No one expects Tech to win this game, so obviously UGA has more to lose.

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I hope all the fans behave and everybody has a good time. I hope neither team has injuries and the refs let the kids play without a lot of flags. Watch your speed coming to the game, and DON’T DRINK & DRIVE! Athens Po-Poes have enough of our money…

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Is there as “First” for Fire Mark Richt?

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As a tech fan we have 0 shot on paper and i mean 0. Georgia has had a nice season and have far superior talent and better coaching in my opinion. I say we have no shot because of how pitiful the GT actually is. It is beyond horrible. There just is little chance we can force uga into punting situations much at all and the uga defense is not miami or clemson. Much more talented on defense and we wont score everytime we touch it. So unless the GT defense gets some stops and plays inspired which it has not much of the year…this will be a 3 td loss in the end. We will be forced to score every time we have it and that just wont’t happen against the best defense we will face with the exception of FSU which is #1 in the nation total defense right now. 2 tall orders back to back for GT but 2013 looks much brighter.

I can only hope we play hard tomorrow and dont let it get out of hand. The ACC title would be sweet to win but it’s harder to imagine us beating top 10 teams with the defense we currently have. Just reality here but i would love to be wrong! Vad lee and justin thomas will be tough on uga starting in 2013. Watchout for these 2 as they are both only freshman. The offense will be hell to deal with next season without question.

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Any more dawgs arrested today?

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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!

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@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.

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@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.

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@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?

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AAAAA bail bond idiot

Why do you ask? You looking for a date Elton/gerbil boy?

You will have more luck on north avenue

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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

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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!

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Great article Jeff

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who has more to lose, what a stupid question. Oh yea, this is the ajc.

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@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

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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

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@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.

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Uh, the SAT is now a 2400 point scale, not 1600. Signed, UGA grad!

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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!

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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.

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@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

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Maybe Tech should start a cricket team! They certainly have enough Indian students to field a fine side!
GATA!

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OH SNAP!

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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.

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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.”

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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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@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!

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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!

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.@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

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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.

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If a frog had pockets he would carry pistols and shoot snakes.

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Interesting reading posts that the majority of GT’s students are either foreign or from Northern states.
Must be that new math I have heard about because 60% of the freshman class went to high school in Georgia.

http://www.coe.gatech.edu/content/georgia-techs-incoming-freshman-profile

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Well, if you look at the national enrollment figures, you see that Georgie tek has 31 percent Asian and 30 percent women.

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Paul in NH: No disrespect, but it’s the same way you do. Plus, I heard their after-GT plans, which, usually, involved plying their trade in the mother country.

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Please let this game be over. Tech has nothing to lose. They are a wounded animal backed into a corner. Any other cliche you can think of. It’s Georgia’s season on the line. Lose and all your BCS dreams fall apart. Georgia has everything to lose and nothing to gain. I hope we win even if by one point and come out healthy for Bama. Go Dawgs, GATA.

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Made it home, safe and sound. Blogs no worse for wear, but my sister in law is very drunk tonight. We had a good time and got out alive…

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Assume the position bugs.

Dawgs win by 14+

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For the life of me, I can’t figure out what is wrong. Paul Johnson is a genius. Ask him, ask anybody, they’ll tell you.

But give me a little latitude, a UGA whipping followed by a FSU whipping followed by a lower tier bowl whipping, what are you left with?

6 – 8? Yep, think so. The ACC is such a joke.

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Sorry for the mistake. I meant to say good luck to UGA in the SECCG. and good luck to the Jackets in the ACCCG.

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dewberry November 24th, 2012 1:33 am

“Paul got us a title and bout to get nother…greg=thomas brown…duffass”
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Uh, no. Sorry, dewberry. He did NOT.

2009, you may recall, Paul Johnson had football players on Paul Johnson’s team who were given cash and clothing items by boosters. Paul Johnson knew about it. Dan Radakovich, your Athletic Director at the time, told Paul Johnson about the illegal benefits of Paul Johnson’s players. Paul Johnson, then, coached the players involved as to what they should tell the NCAA. When the NCAA found about it, when they interviewed the players on the topic, the NCAA found that the players indeed did receive illegal benefits under NCAA rules, and that Dan Radakovich told Paul Johnson about the investigation, despite being told specifically to discuss it with no one other than Bud Peterson. Paul Johnson has been NCAA head coach for 15 years. He knew he could not discuss an on-going NCAA Major Infractions’ Investigation with the players involved. He knew he could not coach them on what to say and what not to say to the NCAA, in a COVER-UP. He did. It got Georgie tek BACK on NCAA PROBATION back-to-back in football, repeat offenders of the Major Infractions’ Database.

Paul Johnson’s knew with 15 his years’ NCAA head coaching experience, that he could not play the 3 players in question 11/28/2009 against UGA. He played them anyway. Had you won the game, you would have had to VACATE the win, and print nothing in print which says that you won the game. Unfortunately for Paul Johnson, Georgie tek LOST the game to UGA giving up 30 points, while scoring only 3 TD and a field goal. Georgie tek had already LOST to Miami of Florida. The same day Georgie tek got beat by UGA which dropped Georgie tek to finishing # 13 in the AP Poll 2009, South Carolina beat the Clempsum Farmers, sending you both to the ACC CHUMPionship Game as LOSERS to The SEC. Both will lose to The Mighty SEC today.

So, Georgie tek had a game, then against 5-Loss Clempsum Farmers 2009, for the ACC CHUMPionship game, both backing into the game, licking their collective wounds from The Mighty SEC stinging. The ACC CHUMPionship game was VACATED by the NCAA. Georgie tek argued, not that the Major Infractions’ Violations did not occur, but that the punishment was too harsh. Your players at the time, said the NCAA could pry their CHUMPionship rings from their cold dead hands. The NCAA did just that. The Win is VACATED. No ACC CHUMPionship Title 2009.

Paul Johnson, then, just as he has done every other season at Georgie tek, LOST his bowl game, scoring only 14 points.

The UGA game, the Clempsum Farmers’ game, and the Bowl Game all would have to be FORFEITED. Any wins in 3 said games MUST BE VACATED the ruling body of the NCAA ruled and affirmed on Georgie tek’s defiant appeal. Any wins, playing ineligible players whom Georgie tek KNEW including Paul Johnson specifically were ineligible players, against UGA, against Clempsum Farmers’ and against the bowl game opponent, are

VACATED.

The ACC CHUMPionship 2009 is VACATED.

Georgie tek cannot and had to REMOVE all discussion of any wins in the 3 said games playing ineligible players who received impermissible extra benefits from boosters in 2009, from all the media print, WebPages, and Media Guides, per the NCAA.

March 9, 2012, the NCAA ruled that all mention of the 3 games, other than read VACATE if Georgie tek won, and if Georgie tek LOST then those MUST REMAIN. Any CHUMPionship as a result of those 3 games, MUST ALSO BE VACATED.

Georgie tek had the week off that week, the week before the UGA game 2009. Instead of preparing for the UGA game with the eligible players, Georgie tek knew it did have that off-week before the UGA game, Paul Johnson was wasting his time coaching the said players in the investigation on what they were supposed to say and what they were not supposed to say when the NCAA investigators got there that Wednesday the off-week before the UGA game, when Paul Johnson, instead was supposed to be preparing for the UGA game.

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March 9, 2012 the NCAA said :
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“Georgia Institute of Technology committed violations of NCAA bylaws governing preferential treatment; failure to cooperate and failure to meet conditions and obligation of membership in football. On November 16, 2009, the institution failed to protect the integrity of the investigation and violated the cooperative principle when, contrary to specific instructions from the NCAA enforcement staff, institution staff members spoke to student-athlete 2 and told him the issues and related matters that would be the subject of his upcoming November
18, 2009, interview with the NCAA.

In 3 games late in 2009, the institution failed to meet the conditions and obligations of membership in that the institution did not withhold student-athlete 1 from competition when the institution was made aware of information which raised serious questions about whether
he was involved in violations of NCAA legislation and thus should have been declared ineligible.”

“The institution has prohibited two former football student-athletes, one of whom was “the agency employee,” from using any athletics department facilities and receiving complimentary tickets. This action was effective for an indefinite period of time beginning on November 19, 2009.”

“The Committee on Infractions found that this case involved several major violations of NCAA
legislation involving Georgia Tech’s two flagship sports; football and men’s basketball. The committee also took into account the fact that the institution is considered a repeat violator in accordance with Bylaw 19.5.3.”

“Fortunately, instances in which member institutions do not cooperate with the NCAA enforcement program are rare. Regrettably, in this case, Georgia Tech officials disobeyed explicit instructions from the enforcement staff to protect the integrity of the investigation. The institution compromised the investigation when it shared with a student-athlete (student-athlete 2) information relating to potential violations about which he was to be questioned by the enforcement staff in a future interview (Finding B-2). The institution later compounded the problem by allowing a student-athlete to compete despite the fact that his eligibility was in question (Finding B-3). As a result of these extremely serious violations, stringent penalties are warranted, including a lengthy period of probation, a substantial fine and a vacation of records. In imposing a fine, the committee considered the serious nature of the violations, the institutional responsibility for those violations, and the impact of the fine on the institution.”

“1. Public reprimand and censure.

2. Four years of probation from July 14, 2011, through July 13, 2015.

3. A financial penalty in the amount of $100,000.

7. As set forth in Finding B-3, on November 24 and December 2, 2009, the institution was advised by the enforcement staff that both student-athletes 1 and 2 may have jeopardized their eligibility. The institution subsequently allowed the two student-athletes to compete in the final three contests of its football team’s 2009-10 season. As previously established, the committee could not find violations associated with student-athlete 2, as the institution’s actions in alerting him of information about which he would be questioned by the enforcement staff hindered the investigation and, in the end, prevented the committee from making conclusions regarding his culpability in violations and subsequent eligibility status. Nevertheless, the institution should have withheld student-athlete 1 from
competition until such time as his eligibility status could be resolved. As a result, and pursuant to NCAA Bylaws 19.5.2.2-(e)-(2) and 31.2.2.3-(b),

the institution will vacate all contests won by the institution’s football team after November 24, 2009, the day that it was alerted by the NCAA that student-athletes 1’s eligibility was in question, and ending with the institution’s bowl game, which concluded the 2009 season. [Note: The only contest won by the institution's football team during this time period was the 2009 ACC championship game.]

The individual record of student-athlete 1 during this time frame shall be vacated as well.

Further, the institution’s records regarding football, as well as the record of the head football coach, will reflect the vacated records and will be recorded in all publications in which football records for the 2009 season are reported, including, but not limited to, institution media guides, recruiting
material, electronic and digital media plus institution and NCAA archives.

Any institution, which may subsequently hire the head football coach, shall similarly reflect the vacated wins in his career records documented in media guides and other publications cited above. The head football coach may not count the vacated win to attain specific honors or victory
“milestones” such as 100th, or 200th career victories.

Any public references to the vacated 2009 ACC football championship shall be removed, including from athletics department stationery, banners, trophies and awards displayed in public areas and any other form in which they may appear.

Finally, to ensure that all institutional and student-athlete vacations, statistics and records are accurately reflected in official NCAA publications and archives, the sports information director (or other designee as assigned by the director of athletics) must contact the NCAA director of statistics, to identify the specific student-athlete(s) and contest(s) impacted by the penalties. In addition, the institution must provide the NCAA statistics department a written report, detailing those discussions with the director of statistics. This document will be maintained in the permanent files of the statistics department. This written report must be delivered to the NCAA statistics department no later than
forty-five (45) days.

8. The director of athletics, the head football coach, the compliance director and the academic advisor shall attend an NCAA Regional Rules Seminar.

The Institution must file with the office of the Committees on Infractions annual compliance reports indicating the progress made with this program by April 15 of each year during the probationary period. Particular emphasis should be placed on policies and procedures relating to agents and agent activity in addition to policies and procedures pertaining to the withholding of student-athletes from competition when potential violations are discovered.

The basis of the Committee on Infractions finding of violation of Bylaw 32.1.4 lies in the instructions given by the enforcement staff to the institution’s director of compliance. In order to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation into this matter, the director of compliance was instructed that information concerning this matter could only be shared with the institution’s president and director of athletics. It appears the director of compliance did follow these instructions and, in fact, relayed these instructions to both the president and the director of athletics. However, the director of athletics did not follow these instructions and discussed the matter with the institution’s head football coach, who in turn shared information with one of the student-athletes who was a subject of this investigation and was scheduled to be interviewed.

The director of athletics’ action of informing the head football coach was in direct violation of the
restriction imposed by the NCAA staff. If the director of athletics felt it was important to inform the head football coach, he could have discussed this matter with the enforcement staff and his own institution president before willingly violating the instruction of the enforcement staff. In addition, it must be recognized that the director of athletics’ failure to comply with these instructions actually resulted in the head football coach having a discussion with one of the student-athletes who was subject of this investigation and was scheduled to be interviewed by the enforcement staff.

The enforcement staff was perfectly clear on who could be brought into the fold at the institution – the president and the director of athletics. The director of athletics had every opportunity to consult with the NCAA staff and check to see if this situation was similar or different than the prior one. Cooperation is not conditional.

The president of the institution was very clear by informing this committee that the decision to not declare the student-athlete ineligible was his and his alone. The evidence in this case suggests that members of the institution’s administration did not convey all of the necessary information about this situation to the president so that he could make an informed decision. The general counsel and other members of the institution’s team could have and should have been more thorough in briefing and informing the president about the issues surrounding this incident. While we cannot say that the failure to inform was done for the purpose of having the student-athlete play in one or more games, it is clear to us that there was a key failure to inform the president of important facts of this situation. That failure put the president in a position of making a decision of eligibility without all of the significant facts pertinent to this case and the student-athlete’s eligibility.

The standards for membership in the NCAA are many and to suggest that a member has failed to meet those standards, conditions and obligations is a serious matter. Based on the record and the testimony of the president of the institution, we believe he agrees and feels the same way. This is a case of a president who for lack of evidence to the contrary, relied on the advice and counsel of the individuals who knew or should have known the relevant rules. The Infractions Appeals Committee recognizing the authority of the Committee on Infractions, finds that the Committee on Infractions finding of failure to meet the conditions and obligations of membership is not contrary to the evidence
presented to the committee and does constitute a violation of the Association’s rules.

The institution suggests that in the present case the Committee on Infractions imposed a penalty of vacating is wrong. The Committee on Infractions counters that, serious intentional violation and
direct involvement of a coach or high-ranking administrator, were in fact present. In addition, the Committee on Infractions suggests that the aggravating issue of the institution being less than cooperative should and could weigh in the vacating penalty.”
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Ga blows out ga tech–johnson gets big raise and extension for making the ACC “championship” game! Book it!

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Fish Fryer November 24th, 2012 5:59 am

‘CPJ, It’s not that the excitement has wore off because YOU have been here a while. Last year Tech players said that UGA were more “up” for the game and wanted it more. That is a reflection of bad coaching when the players can’t get their emotions ‘up’ for an in-state rival game. And I assure you CPJ, as a Tech fan, there is no bigger fish to fry than UGA. The reason the student seats are empty is that 80 percent of the student body is made up of people named Baboo, Hahgee and Tye Wong Woo and they don’t give a rat’s behind about football and the rest are afraid to walk across the campus for fear of being either raped robbed or beaten by some thug.”
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Exactly, the excitement has worn off because :

Paul Johnson is 6-5 while Mark Richt is 10-1
Paul Johnson put Georgie tek on NCAA Probation 2012
Paul Johnson 45 % Federal Graduation Rate 2011-2012 Football
Paul Johnson has LOST EVERY bowl game at Georgie tek
Paul Johnson has not won a Major Bowl Game
Paul Johnson can’t get anyone to attend any game even UGA
Lost to middle tn college who the next week lost to La Monroe
Lost to 5-6 Virginia Tech
Lost to 6-5 Miami of Florida
Lost to Clempsum Farmers who’ve not beat team any top 25 poll
Lost to 6-5 Brigham Young University
Played 1 team on any top 25 list – who has not beat any top 25
Paul Johnson not won any ACC CHUMPionship
# 115 Passing Offense Georgie tek
# 76 Scoring Defense Georgie tek
# 86 Passing Defense Georgie tek facing Record-Setting Aaron Murray
Georgie tek Linebacker Arrested in Athens partying
Paul Johnson is 6-5 unranked while UGA is 10-1 and ranked # 3
62 % Win Percentage Paul Johnson at Georgie tek 75 % Mark Richt
# 52 Recruiting Class every year Paul Johnson # 7 Mark Richt

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Most Dangerous Colleges In America Nov. 20, 2012, 10:01 AM:
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#11 Georgia Institute of Technology

Student population: 20,720

Violent crimes per year: 15

Property crimes per year: 592

2011 was a particularly violent year, with four forcible rapes, 11 robberies, and five aggravated assaults.

We averaged FBI crime data per capita from 2008 to 2011 for schools with enrollment over 10,000. Schools were ranked based on a combination of the violent crime rank and property crime rank (weighted 4:1). Violent crimes include murder/nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Property crimes include burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-colleges-in-america-2012-11?op=1#ixzz2D8n1e8dP

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Thomas Brown….what do your posts have to do with the game today….you are an idiot!!!

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@heeldawg 7:35pm
You wrote a great and very factual post regarding GT’s claim to intellectual superiority…what a joke!!!! If their football players have an average SAT score 315 points below the student body then at least 70-80% have to be “special admits”, but the Techie’s continue to deny that fact….and it is a FACT!!! Go DAWGS!!!

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Who cares???? GT is the better school….THWG piss on em!!!!

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Ugas fan base is 5 x the size of gt. So shouldn’t they have a stadium 5 x gts size since many of u retards
Wanna play this idiot stadium crap.
Gt has a chance bc its a rival and the offense. And murray is due for a bad game again like in fla.
I think pj will have a few bag of tricks to show and surprise.
Calling an upset of the ages. Gt 38 ga 36

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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 very lowest SAT averages, as well as a very low GPA average. As a result, 88% 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 dummies that UGA recruits. The 53 arrests over the last four years is proof enough, not to mention winning the Fulmer Cup. Most of these goons 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 fans, 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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And to all the GT slugs who use “fan abuse” as a reason to avoid UGA games….that is total BS!!! There are obnoxious fans at every school and every game. many of those bozos are not even grads of the school they are pulling for. Over the past 45 years I have had 3 run-ins with GT fans, but I could make it sound like a daily event if I wanted to stretch the truth. The last one was about 5-6 years ago at Sanford Stadium and I had to calm down a drunk GT fan when he was taunting an elderly couple. I’m certain this GT fan is not reflective of all GT alums, but my point is that EVERY fan base has it’s idiots….even GT. So please don’t try to make the UGa fans all look like terrorists and Athens as a dangerous place to attend a game. P.S. In addition to the 3 harassing GT fans I have had 2 confrontations with panhandlers/criminals within blocks of Grant Field….something that has never happened to me in Athens. Let’s all go to the game today and have fun!!!!

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Hey, Thomas Brown, listen up, you jerk:

At Tech, the thugs live around the campus.

At UGA, the thugs live on the campus.

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@all saints
Yes indeed, St. Jan exposed UGa and the rest of the teams in the NCAA….even GT. YOu may not remember the whole story, but UGa was not accused of any rules violations, etc….just accepting bozos and giving preferential treatment (remedial studies). By the way, one of those bozos flunked out of UGa (he was admitted with a 540 SAT back when the lowest score possible was a 400). The interesting part of the story is he sat out a year and then attended, played and graduated from Georgia Tech. That is an absolute FACT!!! Again, I agree and I’m thankful that St. Jan rescued UGa, GT and the rest of the teams from the football factory mentality!!!

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Morning dogs

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Schultz, dogs and tech,

Let’s have a vote. Shall we or shall we not limit tom brown to 140 characters per post. Shall we “twitterize” tom brown?

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@fancydoggie…

Has any Bammer player gotten a Wonderlic score above 20? The highest I’ve seen from a Bammer was Julio Jones’ 14!

Sport Greg McElroy has the 2nd highest score other than the player from Harvard which is higher than the combined group of UGA players from last year. On Julio….Jones has made more money in these last two years than you and your entire family will make in your lifetime! Take it up with JULIO while you get him tea or coffee.

The Gruden to UT is much closer than thought. A smoke screen of denial is being sent so they can delay the deal until the week of the SECCG. UT trying to steal the moment from UGA and somebody (hope Bama). 10 years at 50 mill. UT has no choice but to get it right this time just like Bama did with Nick. If they fail again then UT will become another GT. without the smarts. Just saying,

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As A lifelong Jackets fan, here’s hoping that Georgia wins by 50…and that my faith in this GT athletic program hasn’t fallen to such depths of self-hate and loathing that it has the sheer base pride to put an end to this era of an abject joke of a GT head football coach.

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This is the Year of The DAWGS! To Hell with Tech!!!!!

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!

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Damn Real Jacket, you’re going to have a loooong ride back to Maconga!!

But I do respect your support of your team.

GO DAWGS SIC’EM!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Greg is correct. They will not overlook Tech. We are going to curb stomp you stupid nerds just like always. This is the best UGA team you will have faced since 2002. And you are 6-5 in one of the worst conferences in the country.

You lost to MTSU. By TWENTY ONE POINTS.

Go play World of Warcraft and get ready to cry in your cheerios losers.

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You are right, Rick James. And that’s why this so-called rivalry should be ended now.

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“stupid nerds”?

it’s more like “stupid dawgs” somehow can put on a show with an olive-shaped ball.

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I agree with Buckhead.

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Bammer 49, Leghumpers 10

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It’s common knowledge and an unquestioned fact that UGA head football coach Mark Richt has brought shame on the state of Georgia and made an embarrassing laughingstock of the state’s largest university. Even the most avid UGA fans understand this even when they won’t acknowledge it, bless their hearts.

The most embarrassing thing is the win-at-any-price mentality of Richt, which has effectively made UGA a football factory, with cheating, recruiting of low-intelligence morons who can barely read, and tolerating immoral and unethical activities by both players and coaches. Even with all this, he still can’t win the big games.

Richt is a product of the lawless environments of the University of Miami and Florida State University, where he learned well how to conduct himself in the most sleazy way, while pretending to the world to be a saint. Make no mistake about it – Richt is in coaching purely for the millions of dollars that have been wasted on him, and the millions more he will add until someone in Athens has the integrity and intestinal fortitude to run him out of town.

A truly shameful situation, especially since all Georgians, including UGA alumni and fans, have to live under this shadow of infamy.

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Didn’t everybody “date” a UT Cheerleader?

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Win or lose, I’d much rather support an academic institution like Tech versus a win at any cost football factory like Dog U.

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How many lame excuses can Tech fans make. It ain’t Georgia fans fault you aren’t going to the game. You just don’t have the stomach to watch your team.

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You play tp 5 teams all the time in the SEC because you have a conference schedule. In The Always Crappy Conference you get to flex your muscles against the mighty Dukies….

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TCU over #16 Texas @ Texas
Arizona St over #24 @ Arizona
Washington St over #25 Washington

#7LSU looked bad against @ Arkiesaw only by 7.
#14 Nebraskea looked bad against @ Iowa by 6

Anything can happen.

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JlyLarkspur
November 24th, 2012
10:58 am

Hey! Hands off the hedges!
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Words NO UGa female has ever said unless the guy didn’t have some Smoke or Drink.

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the post at 11:47 AM is ME! Lazy fingers!

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Tech looking like a high school team. GO DAWGS !

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This game is no fun: Clean old fashioned Nerd Whupping.

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Guess Fish Fry doesnt coach holding onto the ball…….they are trying to strip on every play. It worked.

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DAWGS GOT THIS STOP TRYING TO HURT PLAYERS TECH SUCKS

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TECH IS SORRY THE D IS WEAK DAWGS BY 30

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I can’t believe you actually write crap like this … go back to Cali Schultz

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Tech has won National Championships, or ACC titles has never helped Tech in recruiting. It has only been a struggle getting talent at Tech. There was no one any team could hire with more experience coaching successful NFL QB’s than Chan G. That did not attract one top level QB recruit. Yet look at what UGA had during the same time period. Greene and Stafford. Winning at Tech does not translate into great recruiting.

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