Latest installment in Clean Old Fashioned Hate (Updated)
Clean Old Fashioned Hate reigns every week. (Collegeflagsandbanners.com)
I’ve seen this referred to as Hate Week II since Georgia and Georgia Tech meet in men’s basketball tonight, the Lady Dogs already having fallen to the Lady Jackets on Sunday.
But let’s face it, when it comes to the Dogs and Jackets, every week is Hate Week.
You’ve no doubt seen the supporters of the Institute show up in this forum from time to time, taking their shots at UGA. A year ago most of their posts were ridiculing Georgia’s bowl game destination: Shreveport.
Typical was a comment from a GT fan calling himself Toe Meets Leather, who opined: “I think the greatest challenge facing UGA will be concentrating on Texas A&M, given the tremendous distraction posed by leisure time in the great metropolitan area of SHREVEPORT! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. ”
Funny, I’m not seeing too many posts comparing the respective teams’ bowl destinations this year. Both teams finished with 6-6 records, but Georgia is headed to Memphis, home of Graceland and Beale Street and a short ride from the Mississippi casinos, while Tech is going to … Shreveport.
George O'Leary has a 3-4 record against the Dogs since getting rescued off that island. (Turner Home Entertainment)
At least Tech fans are consistent, though. They didn’t think much of Shreveport last year and apparently don’t think much of it now that their own team is going there; thus the school is offering discounted tickets to the Independence Bowl for just $14 to the first 5,000 purchasers. Maybe they ought to throw in a Coke and a hot dog.
Of course, there’s a slight Tech connection to Georgia’s bowl destination, too, as the Dogs will be playing the 24th-ranked Central Florida Golden Knights (there’s that color again) led by former Tech coach George O’Leary, who has a 3-4 career record against the Dogs that includes the infamous three in a row that got Jim Donnan canned.
As for tonight’s game, the home team has won all but one of these rivalry matches since the series returned to home-and-home in the 1995-96 season after 14 years at the Omni. The exception was 10 years ago when Georgia won at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. So Tech probably ought to be considered the favorite tonight, even though Georgia comes into the game with a slightly better record and the Jackets have lost two straight, including by 20 points to Northwestern. They also got beat by Kennesaw State earlier in the season.
Last year, Georgia upset the No. 20 ranked Jackets 73-66 in Athens (where Tech hasn’t won since Gerald Ford was president). Making it two years in a row would be a definite step forward for Mark Fox’s program and wouldn’t hurt in recruiting Atlanta kids, either. Also, a win on the road against the Jackets would be a big plus in trying to make the NCAA tourney. Along those lines, the game is being televised nationally on ESPN2.
Win or lose, though, Dogs fans can take comfort in the fact that Georgia’s not going to battle the distractions of Shreveport this year.
And Tech is.
You think Toe Meets Leather is still laughing?
Go Dogs!
UPDATE: Another thriller in the “Thrillerdome.” Great 3-point shooting by Dustin Ware, especially that last basket. But Mark Fox’s Dogs could have made it a lot easier on themselves if their free-throw shooting was stronger. That’s definitely an area that needs improvement. Still, a great win in Atlanta!
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UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 7th, 2010
10:00 pm
from co-national champions to acc champions to not even state champions. what’s next? not even basketball state champions? oh. what’s next? not even state champs in horseshoes? too easy. it must stink to be a tech fan.
THANKS UGA
December 7th, 2010
10:03 pm
Hoop Hounds win another one!!!
BG
December 7th, 2010
10:07 pm
Dawgs win again!
aladawg
December 7th, 2010
10:30 pm
Colorado, yep you got lucky with us but your sorry a– team isn’t going anywhere except home. Hope you enjoy watching us in the Liberty Bowl.
aladawg
December 7th, 2010
10:35 pm
Ho hum, well another beat down for Tech looks like this is becoming a habit. I have no idea why you Tech fans even bother to line up against UGA. Tech is nothing but a bunch of loosers. Can’t waite to see how bad Air Force beats your sorry a—-. Instead of worring about a bowl game you Techies need to worry about keeping your money from all the thugs in Atlanta.
easleyga
December 7th, 2010
11:10 pm
Great job to the Hoop DAWGS tonight. Techies looking for a rock now to crawl back under now for yet another year….haha….WE RUN THIS STATE!
Glory Glory
December 8th, 2010
6:41 am
There’s nothing dumber than a Georgia Bulldog fan.
AltamahaDawg
December 8th, 2010
7:11 am
I hope that the fine folks of UGA were all in tune with the “Just Like Football ” chant last night.
FlaDawg
December 8th, 2010
7:31 am
UCF dropped the “Golden” a couple of years a ago and are now just “Knights”.
UGA13
December 8th, 2010
8:01 am
Dawgs own TECH on the gridiron…Look at the record….End of discussion!
JB
December 8th, 2010
8:41 am
Sa-Weep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HBTD!!!
DawginLex
December 8th, 2010
8:44 am
Anybody that knows me knows that i think Obama is an idiot.
Dawgtards knows how to change his handle on the blogs!
congrats.
Kenai Ocelata
December 8th, 2010
9:16 am
How many dawgtard players have been arrested this year?
Yes, there’s a reason why UGA is called The Cesspool of the South.
South Georgia Redneck
December 8th, 2010
9:22 am
Dawgtards, you are a moron.
You would not be welcome as a S. Ga. Redneck.
Ho Hum, S. Georgia is once again playing for
the state 5A championship in the “North Georgia Loser Dome”.
Instant karma babay
December 8th, 2010
9:50 am
UGA man here. All I will say is give peace a chance. GT being in the Weedeater simply says it all.
Last year, GT’s geeky fans invested heavily into the negative rhetoric about the Independence/ Weedeater and well, um, Instant Karmas has hit you in the face.
Um, ah, um, one alst thing GT ………………..y’all have yet to win a bowl in years and years and CPJ is looking so bad on the antional stage, with that thumping by slow Iowa. AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
GT has been to two major bowls since the mid 1950s. 19667 Orange Bowl AND the 2009 Orange Bowl and BOTH were losses. 1990 Citrus? Well, the year that Coloorado won ther NC, the Cirus was about like the Gator Bowl or maybe today’s Liberty. It has just cahnged its name form Tangerine to the Citrus and was not major.
So, name one other MAJOR BOWL that GT has been to besides the 67 and 09 Orange bowl in 55 – 60 years?? Major is Rose, Sugar, Orange and Cotton and Capital One or Outback of Fiesta.
You cannot count the Sun or the Emerald City, ALamao or the old Bluebonnet or the Boise Blue Carpet or the Gator or the Chic Fil A or the Music CIty or the Poinsetta or the Aloha, or the Mienike Car Care, etc.
I love it.
Basketball anyone??? "We are a basketball school", say the GT faithful
December 8th, 2010
9:55 am
Where are the GT ” well, um, we are a basketball school anyway” crowd when you need them to abuse???
At some point, GT will come to grips with the fact that their program in football and BBall has slipped from their one year perch. Sadly, with Mark Richt doing some superior coaching damage to CPJ, it is painful for them to deal with that reality.
Go Dogs.
Vick=Dog killing thug
December 8th, 2010
10:01 am
Bashing Tek… I love it…. The bugs finally have a reason to exist ! Allowing dawg fans a good chuckle on a cold morning… Way to go Bill !
Penny O'Rourke
December 8th, 2010
10:21 am
Bear in mind that this is the same basketball program that Jim Harrick and son created. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that any of the UGA morons can even read, much less pass college courses.
Kill Buzz
December 8th, 2010
10:27 am
I love how Tech goes to one BCS bowl and their fans feel like they’re perennial BCS players now……what a joke. This is not a down year for your program, it’s status quo
Kill Buzz
December 8th, 2010
10:27 am
BTW, you were the representative of a horribly weak conference in the BCS…….
Mick Flanigan
December 8th, 2010
10:28 am
You Dawg fans who keep razzing Tech enjoy yourselves all you want. The thing is… Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons. College sports are fun to follow, but the biggest reason for going to college is to get an education.
UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football, and they don’t care if their players are enrolled in silly majors that no parents who are paying the bills would send their kids to UGA for. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree.
Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes. UGA has a long history of being a party school, where parents send their kids for an easy degree, even if the degree itself is practically worthless.
Jan Kemp exposed the crap going on at UGA with athletes being enrolled in courses a ten-year-old kid could pass. That was almost three decades ago, and nothing has changed. If anything, the abuses are more blatant today. Way too many illiterate morons are being recruited, and the very high arrest rate shows clearly that Richt does not care if his players have any morals or self-discipline.
The bottom line is that most Tech fans have very good jobs and productive lives that don’t depend on Tech’s football record for their happiness in life. It would be great to beat UGA more often, but when you put scholar-athletes up against moron-athletes, it’s usually no contest.
It’s pretty pathetic to see UGA fans who typically have never been within miles of a college classroom and who live or die with UGA’s weekly results on the football field.
So keep on posting your “30-24″ all you want, especially since you’re home with plenty of time on your hands. I wish you well, maybe you’ll get lucky and get your old job back at the Waffle House before your unemployment checks stop coming.
UGA, WINNER OF THE FULMER CUP AND THE CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH.
Renny O'Pourke
December 8th, 2010
10:30 am
Bear in mind I deal in hyperbole…..I didn’t even go to college but I love to make fun of Georgia fans and their “quality of education”
Stupid Jacket
December 8th, 2010
10:52 am
You can nott compete with the Georgia Tek Yellow jakets in the classroom. We have the smartest college player ever. Stephon Marbury, kenny Anderson and Chris Bosh all got into our great skool. We almost beet UGA in football and basketball the last too years. Go Jakets!!!
Mike Flanigan's Daddy
December 8th, 2010
10:59 am
Wow…..with that long post it looks like Mike is the one with plenty of time on his hands, and is just obsessed with this subject matter as the fans he’s ridiculing. No time to post more, I’m a Georgia grad and I’ve got to get back to work and make sure my engineers are doing their jobs.
Salisbuy, Lavin and Mooney ........... The Right Stuff
December 8th, 2010
11:06 am
Look up these gents at GT and their sordid history.
DawgNation
December 8th, 2010
11:07 am
Mick I see your cut and past clip board is still full. Same Old Sh@t you post everyday. Come up with something new and original.
Stupid Jacket I sure hope your post was a joke as my God you can’t type or spell.
St. Clarkston
December 8th, 2010
11:15 am
I went to Shreveport last year and had a great time. Memphis will be more fun. The game is early
enough for an early evening nap then New Years Eve on Beale Street with BB and Lucille..
Old GT grads are proud
December 8th, 2010
11:16 am
This is for older GT grads that can actually recall their illustrious history of the last oh, 50-60 years. From 1950 to 2009 name one major bowl beyond the Orange in 67 and 09.
Besides the 1967 Orange Bowl ( bitter loss to SEC team ) and the 2009 Orange Bowl ( another humiliating loss to slow, midwestern farm boys ) and the 1990 Citrus ( in 90 it was not major bowl ) and maybe, maybe the 51 or 52 Sugar Bowl, name ONE OTHER major bowl that GT has been to in 60 years.
The gator and Chic Fil A or Peach or Blue Carpet or Bluebonnet or the Liberty or the Pontiac Bowl or the Obama Is A Loser Bowl ( this one IS growing in strength ) and the Sherwin Williams Primer Paint Bowl count as a major.
GT grads? Come on now …………….now one major beyond the Urange.
McDawg
December 8th, 2010
11:17 am
We dribble this state
If Dawgs had any intensity in the first half we would have blown these guys out–will need to crank it up a notch or two when SEC schedule begins
McDawg
December 8th, 2010
11:21 am
the NFL is a heck of a career-after 5yrs that pension is pretty sweet not too many other jobs out there that provide that kind of income and security
Bobby Dodd
December 8th, 2010
11:24 am
Bobby Dodd is the namesake for the football field at GT. Apparently, he was some sort of legend. I did view his 1960s Sunday am tv post game show as a kid and really enjoyed him and that moron Furman
( my son played for GT and was a full scholarshop NON athlete ) Bisher talk about the Saturday loss to either Auburn or LSU or UT or to Alabama or some school out of conference like Rice.
Name the MAJOR ??? BOWLS that he took GT to from 1950 to 1967. I recall him losing to Florida in the 67 Orange and that was his last game ever. Bitsey Grant had a chair for him and his bottle of Jack Daniels, after that.
So, beyond the 51, 52 era and the 67 Urange, where did he take GT? I recall his loss to Joe Pa in like 63 or 64. Humiliating that was for him.
jaxdawgfan
December 8th, 2010
11:25 am
Got a Call said, “from the Shreveport Home Owners Association, told them that the local residents did not have to park their cars behind their houses like last year because Tech did not HIT AND RUN THIS STATE” … because their mommies will be dropping them off at the gate and picking them up for an after-game consolation at Chuckie Cheese.
A UGA man's photo memories of the last 12 months
December 8th, 2010
11:45 am
Photos that are priceless:
The faces of the two GT grad Navy pilots when their commanding officer called them into his office about their dumb buzzing of Grant Field and their faces when they were STRIPPED of being aviators.
The face of CPJ when Caleb King and W. Ealey sprinted past him time and time again in 09
The face of CPJ in 09 when UGA defeated GT without AJ Green and Kris Durham stepping onto the GT playing field.
The face of CPJ when the Blair Witch Shank went wide.
The face of CPJ when he learned that Aaron Murray has three more years.
The face of CPJ when he read that UGA fans consider Grant Field as their second home field and is frankly much preferred, because we can enjoy imported wine and cheese LONGER at home, then cab it.
The face of CPJ when he saw his highly vaunted passing attack fail in 09.
The face of CPJ when he saw his highly vaunted passing attack fail in 2010.
The face of CPJ when the GT president DRILLED INTO HIM that losing by 8 IS WORSE, than losing by 1.
The face of CPJ when he learned that GT would be in the Independence Bowl.
Cracker Barrel??
December 8th, 2010
12:20 pm
I love the Cracker Barrel. I did business with them AND always enjoy their food. What is not to like?
Go Dogs
mason
December 8th, 2010
12:30 pm
UGA intentionally twisted his knee in a pile up.
lol. So it’s gone from his ankle to now his knee? rotflmao
Nope, he twisted his ankle himself. Even the AJC had the article where he was interviewed about the injury. He missed something like 2 plays? 3 plays? You make it sound like he was gone for half the game LOL. Am sure Bill can pull up the stats as well as the AJC quote from him.
But don’t let facts get in your face else you’ll trip over your long nose from lying.
A fair question is in order
December 8th, 2010
12:32 pm
Um, ah, how many of you haters ( either UGA haters or GT haters ) are actual alumni of either school??
The name calling reveals to me your IQs. It also reveals your level of emotional maturity and places it at age of 15 -20. I suspect that most of you are at home on Mom’s PC, eating chips, drinking big Uranges and banging away on her PC when YOU should be out looking for a career.
Most GT grads, like UGA grads are busy at work. Me? I am a UGA grad and retired.
Stay on the football jokes, etc but abandon the personal descriptions like fat red necks or unemployed morons. Stay on the GT basketball stuff or UGA basketball ……………….like last night!!!
If you have not attended a major college like UGA or GT then ………………….you missed out.
Go Dogs.
Now, I am back at cackling about GT in the Shreveport Waffle House Bowl.
Flag Boy
December 8th, 2010
12:36 pm
I love Paul Johnson….i want to wave this flag.
GT when they played Eric Zeir
December 8th, 2010
12:41 pm
I do recall a GT shot toward Zeier’s knee as he stepped into his pass and the GT man tried to roll over on his knee. The TV showed it over and over. Many of you fans will likely recall that. It was worse than the AU Fairy roll over shot on Murray. It was nasty and should not have happened. Eric was ok, i recall.
In the H Walker era, he was routinely taken out of his last game when UGA was up in the 3rd like 34-0. Dooley was told by Coach Mike Cavan that GT tacklers were spitting in his face on his last drive, Dooley put him back in and he ran for TWO MORE TDS!!! BOOM !!!!
GT has never been known as a totally clean, football team. Doddy ran a clean program but hs players all had stand ins for their more difficult classes. Ask any GT football player in the early 60s about Billy Martin’s IQ or Lothridge’s. There were others too.
My family was very close to the GT team MD orthopaedic guy in the 80s and 90s and he often said that 75% of the GT players were dumber than rocks.
North Avenue Trade School
December 8th, 2010
1:07 pm
I want to talk s***. FOOTBALL! Nope, nope, that won’t do. BASKETBALL! Nope, nope, we lost at that too. Um… uh… CESSPOOL! DUM FANZ! Yeah, that’ll show ‘em. Oh and we won ladies basketball, which is the only real sport and is really impressive since all 12 women attending my school are on the team, so there is no margin for error.
GO BUMBLEBEES!
droopydawg
December 8th, 2010
1:12 pm
A few traffic offenses by a few athletes = cesspool. Way to go GT fans.
This lazy bitterness is just sad. Your athletic programs suck, get over it.
bigdawg8
December 8th, 2010
1:18 pm
Too funny!! All these nerd techie fans 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” and “great jobs” just tells everyone else how insecure and shallow they really are. If you don’t care that much about athletics then why are you on a UGA sports blog spouting off your putrid and miserable hate speech? Go find a loser tech engineer blog!
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
December 8th, 2010
1:37 pm
To all the Tech fans and alumni attending the game: (all 7 of you)
Shreveport does not allow blow up dolls in the stadium. Your companion will have to remain in your vehicle during the game.
If you bring them into a restaurant, they do not count toward the head count of customers at your table. In other words, if you want a 4 seater table for 2 nerds and 2 dolls, you will get a 2 seater.
More information to come as the game gets closer.
Captain Obvious
December 8th, 2010
2:06 pm
I am still amazed by the morons who still believe that Tech lost because of a missed extra point! If you can get 8 points from a PAT, you are in a different sport. The fact of the matter is that both teams tried to fumble away chances to win the game and UGA made enough plays to win the game.
Deal with it!
(((((61-39-5))))))
Oh, And again! 73-72 last night! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
DawginLex
December 8th, 2010
2:14 pm
Meyer is quitting again
Dale
December 8th, 2010
2:36 pm
Wait, Meyer just announced he’s coming back.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
December 8th, 2010
2:46 pm
All I can say is ABSOLUTLEY NO EXCUSE NEXT LOSING TO FL
DawginLex
December 8th, 2010
2:47 pm
Hey Mick Flanigan.
Since you proclaim yourself to be so smart, why don’t you update your cut and paste?
Your score says 30-24 and that is so last year.
Be on the cutting edge.
Change it to 42-34.
Go for it.
You will feel better.
DawginLex
December 8th, 2010
2:48 pm
flat tire,
They will hire Mullen and the offense will get better than this year.
MATHDAWG
December 8th, 2010
3:01 pm
Two of my most satisfying rituals:
1. Morning cup of coffee, newspaper, and a great BM
2. Beating whatever athletic team GT puts on the field against UGA
Regularity is the key to happiness!
So, I'll ask again
December 8th, 2010
3:10 pm
GT has attended two ( 2 ) major bowls in 60 years. No, the 1990 Citrus Bowl then was in the league of a Gator Bowl or Peach at best and therefore NOT considered then a major and is marginally one even today.
A major is the Rose, the Sugar and Cotton, the Fiesta (only in the last 22+ years ) and of course, the Orange.
So, name one major other than the Orange that GT has been to since 1950.
I would also prefer the number of major invites too. Like 1- Sugar or 2- Orange or 3- Cotton, etc. I care less about the Dairy Queen Bowl or the Gator or the Weedeater ( 2 for UGA ) and the Music City ( 2 UGA?) and the Liberty ( 3 FOR UGA ) all minor bowls.
Got it? This will illustrate the recent success ( Urange in 09 ) and the historical and LONG TERM success of the GT program.
Please do the same for UGA, to be fair. Any takers??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm??
To answer this challenge, will forever put and end to this” GT is a power house and always has been” rant.