5 reasons Georgia Tech will win at Miami
The nighttime zaniness will be on the other side. But that's OK. (AJC photo by Johnny Crawford)
1. Paul Johnson coaches Georgia Tech. Randy Shannon coaches Miami. Mismatch.
2. Tech just got a crash course in how to handle a Thursday night game. The home team will be pumped and will start fast. The visitor must ride out the first quarter and stay close, which is doubly important if …
3. You’re a running team, which Tech is. The Jackets can’t get too far behind. But they won’t. Indeed, their capacity to control the ball and the clock will help douse Miami’s early fire. Which means …
4. It will come down to execution. That’s a mismatch, too. Miami beat Florida State because FSU is even sloppier than the U. Tech can get sloppy, but not when it matters. And, in case you haven’t noticed …
5. Tech owns Miami. Even Chan Gailey beat the Hurricanes. As Inspector Clouseau would say, “The case, she is sol-ved.”
(Or is it? Coming next: What ESPN.com’s Scouts Inc. thinks of this titanic Thursday tilt.)
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Barry U
September 16th, 2009
5:01 pm
Garet you still have not answered the questions dumbass! Are you saying that you are going to score on special teams and trick plays every game? Are saying that your D did not get waxed by a freshamn QB? Answer the questions Moron! Why would I be a UGA fan? You keep assuming things. I assume you are a moron. And I would be right!
GT Que
September 16th, 2009
5:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3oVQb-GeT8&NR=1
The diesel will be back to doing what he does best tomorrow night; all night
UGAisaschoolforretardrednecks
September 16th, 2009
5:15 pm
Since at Tech, Nesbitt has not have two bad games in a row. I hope this continues tomorrow night.
In case no one noticed, Clemson has a very good defense and it handled GT pretty good until they were worn out late in the 4th quarter. Miami’s defense is not in the same league as Clemson’s and will be exposed again like in the FSU game.
I think GT will win, but it will be close for the first half. GT will make better adjustments than Miami and take charge in the second half. No trick plays in this game.
Prediction: GT 27 – Miami 20 and “To Hell With Georgia”
Lisa
September 16th, 2009
5:29 pm
Shane…how do you know Clemson is weak?
Barry U
September 16th, 2009
5:34 pm
I like guys, especially those soft guys in north Miami beach! So soft.
WD305
September 16th, 2009
5:35 pm
Your a A hole if you think GT will beat Miami after what they showed last week and how they lack the capacity to hold on to leads Miami will start to even out the overall win betwween the two starting 9 17 09 8: 00pm
joey
September 16th, 2009
5:37 pm
Tech will be dealt with. Mark my words.
jason
September 16th, 2009
5:48 pm
hurricane fan here, i agree with all the points except execution. i think it’s even, and pretty bad. as good as this team runs the triple option, turnovers are still a big problem for tech, 3 in the first game, 2 in the second.
toohotforjackets
September 16th, 2009
5:51 pm
randy shannon is gona whip your ass
Bradley WHO
September 16th, 2009
6:02 pm
Please start the “5 Reasons this writer needs to be fired” Article! Ill get it started…
1) This guy’s picture makes him look like he belongs on queer eye.
2) His lack of sports knowledge supports the idea he belongs on queer eye.
Come on lets keep it rolling
Terrance Moore
September 16th, 2009
6:05 pm
Yellow jackets have the uglies jerseys. Looks like someone pissed on the sleeves, and shat on their pants.
CanesTime
September 16th, 2009
6:09 pm
GT will need trickery to stay close. GT is way overrated!!!!
Canes win big. Hopefully VT beats Nebraska.
strobocane
September 16th, 2009
6:17 pm
5 Legitimate Reasons Why Miami Will Beat Georgia Tech That Don’t Include Non-Sensical Things Like Tech Owns Miami (Didn’t The Georgia Bulldogs Own Tech Going Into Last Year’s Game)
1. Miami’s Passing Attack – If Tech couldn’t stop Clemson from bombing away when they knew the pass was coming, how will they be able to stop Jacory Harris and his arsenal of weapons. The answer: they won’t. Morgan will be neutralized by double teams which includes the best blocking running backs in college ball. The Canes will score, which leads us to…
2. At some point Nesbitt will have to rely on his arm – Need I say more.
3. This isn’t the same Canes Defense that got pounded in Atlanta – Not only is the line a year older, stronger, and wiser, Miami will have starters back at every level who are key to stopping the run: Moncur, McCarthy, Phillips. Add John Lovett to the mix as coordinator and what you have is Defense as talented and well coached as LSU was last year.
4. Special Teams – Miami has a serious edge. Better kickers and return men and Tech already spilled it’s beans with any element of surprise. If Johnson was such a genius, he would have kept that fake in his pocket for another week.
5. That’s all I got, but hey, why make sh*t up when 4 proves the point?
GTFan
September 16th, 2009
6:20 pm
The UGA fans are so cocky and full of themselves. To all UGA fans I think you need to be posting in your own blogs, and realize your team is not too hot this year. At least Tech fans stay true to their team, and realize we made mistakes. But, when you guys start losing, or acutlly lose you guys start blowing up the boards talking about firing Willie Martinez, and blah blah!!! How about just admitting your players didn’t come to play? I bet UGA fans would take our Clemson score rather than the OSU score.
Seth
September 16th, 2009
6:23 pm
Uh you’re qb threw 2 ints against a crap fsu secondary
GTFan
September 16th, 2009
6:25 pm
CanesTime,
GT overrated? LOL!!!!!!!!!!! I think you got your teams mixed up their.
Stinger
September 16th, 2009
6:26 pm
Let me put this in perspective. Miami nor FSU has any defense. None, Nada, PERIOD. FSU dropped the winning touchdown pass, Miami didn’t stop them. If they catch the pass, Miami falls apart for the rest of the year. Certainly no reason to have optimism and be on a high. Clemson is much much better than Miami or FSU. Clemson could not stop us when they had to in the 4th quarter. Paul Johnson made the adjustments to win the game. Miami’s pass defense is so pathetic, if they stop our running game, which will be almost impossible for them, we will be able to throw on them. For all those idiots that continue to say that everyone has figured out how to stop our offense, you only show your football ignorance. Neither North Carolina or LSU stopped it last year. We beat ourselves with turnovers in those 2 games. DA U will look like a junior high school squad tomorrow night. Our team is much more physical that the wussy team from Miami. Your team flat AZZ laid down and quit against us after we rambled for almost 600 yds offense on you last year. If it rains, it will not help Miami. Nesbitt will have 300 yds rushing by himself if it rains.
GTFan
September 16th, 2009
6:27 pm
Just wait for the game and quit making all these predictions! Which ever team comes to play will win, enough said!
Garret
September 16th, 2009
6:29 pm
Barry Last response to you since you only want to call names and act like a child. I never said that tech would score on special teams every game. Scoring on special teams and on fakes keeps your offense OFF the field. Something you apparently cannot understand. You cannot assume that gt would have lost the clemson game had they not converted because there’s something called complacency. Perhaps you’ve heard about it. Probably not. If tech goes in at the half 10-7, it’s a completely different game and the play calling changes too. There are too many assumptions you are making yourself look ignorant with every word you write. I’m quite certain with a gt win, you won’t be seeing the barry u alias on here. You’ll create another one acting the immature person you are.
CanesTime
September 16th, 2009
6:30 pm
Strobocane, I couldn’t have said it any better.
DawgBitesBuzz
September 16th, 2009
6:36 pm
To DGD: That’s right, you’ve got to root for the ‘Canes given the slim pickin’s in Athens this year….
Scott
September 16th, 2009
6:36 pm
How many canes are out with the flu and other injuries. That will be the excuses they make tomorrow night when they lose.
No More Homerism
September 16th, 2009
6:36 pm
What a horribly written article. This rivals the homerism level of Brent Musberger and his erection for Ohio State. Try writing with substance next time. Anyways, from a realistic college football fan, I see Miami winning this by 10-14 points.
BTW, has GT been practicing on the baseball field yet? People forget that the Marlins still have a team, and the infield will still be there tommorrow night. Very different surface to play on, could cause problems for Tech.
GoHurricain'ts!!!(to prison where u belong)
September 16th, 2009
6:40 pm
Tech is a little better than Miami this year, so they must execute very well to win. I’ll take Johnson any and every day over Shannon in preparation and game adjustments. The one thing that hasn’t changed much about Miami is the lack of class and sportsmanship in their fans and their players.
No More Homerism
September 16th, 2009
6:41 pm
What a horribly written article. This rivals the homerism level of Brent Musberger and his nonstop love for Ohio State. Try writing with substance next time. Anyways, from a realistic college football fan, I see Miami winning this by 10-14 points.
BTW, has GT been practicing on the baseball field yet? People forget that the Marlins still have a team, and the infield will still be there tommorrow night. Very different surface to play on, could cause problems for Tech.
Rick
September 16th, 2009
6:44 pm
. Miami’s Passing Attack – Again why do you think you have some dominant passing attack? You played fsu. ask any expect and they will say fsu’s corners and safteys are BAD.
Morgan will be neutralized by double teams which includes the best blocking running backs in college ball.
Yeah right….
2. At some point Nesbitt will have to rely on his arm – Need I say more. Yes he’s due for a breakouut game passing.
3. This isn’t the same Canes Defense that got pounded in Atlanta – Not only is the line a year older, stronger, and wiser, Miami will have starters back at every level who are key to stopping the run: Moncur, McCarthy, Phillips. Add John Lovett to the mix as coordinator and what you have is Defense as talented and well coached as LSU was last year.
Yes it’s the same canes defense that gave up 34 to fsu and really should have been 37 or 41. the same fsu that had 7 points against jack state with .45 left in the 4th quarter.
4. Special Teams – Miami has a serious edge. Better kickers and return men and Tech already spilled it’s beans with any element of surprise. If Johnson was such a genius, he would have kept that fake in his pocket for another week.
a serious edge? guess you’ve never heard of jarrad tarrant.
5. That’s all I got, but hey, why make sh*t up when 4 proves the point?
what you wrote was pathetic and bush league. how about until you show tech with 0 yards in a quarter, you haven’t done anything. it’s going to be fun watching your crap defense get run over again. nothing has changed from last year. you believe in a coach with a 12-13 (losing) record..in the acc. haha. your team and coach is a joke. you beat a crap fs who team. BFD. a div 1 aa team nearly did also. i am so looking forward to watching your thugs chase our athletes all over the field.
Ezekiel
September 16th, 2009
6:44 pm
Georgia Tech matches up very well with athletic teams who are undisciplined and don’t stay in their lanes against the triple option. Look at how Tech beat FSU, Miami, Clemson and Georgia last year and Clemson this year. If it rains that helps Tech even more, unless it is 75 and clear skies Miami folds up like a tent. Anybody want to venture a guess which bar in South Beach Randy Shannon will be tending at next year? For more info on Georgia Tech football visit: http://www.bbuzzoff.com
WreckHornGoesTHWUGA!!!
September 16th, 2009
6:46 pm
A solid Tech myself, even I will admit that we are over-rated thus far this year given our first two performances. Not as over-rated as some other teams above us, but I am glad we’re in the Top 20 so we’ll be better positioned when we do hit our stride. If you don’t start out being ranked it’s a lot tougher to crack the rankings and to move up once you are there (as we saw last year). Miami is formidable again, and it should be a tough, hard-fought game. I wish it was in Atlanta.
JPHurricane
September 16th, 2009
6:49 pm
I thought when I saw the headline that I’d get an intelligent argument. What I got was a silly list that could only have been written by a homer fan. PJ’s offense is running out of gas against fast talented D’s. LSU shut them down, Clemson controlled the option after a big play early. What we will really find out from this game is whether Miami has the talent in 2009 to stop this offense.
GT_MAN
September 16th, 2009
6:50 pm
I don’t know how much longer CPJ’s gimmicky offense can last. when I was a child I remember this offense being ran by Nebraska and Oklahoma and they ruled then it was figured out and it died how long will it be till this happens and if it worked so well at navy why hasn’t navy won a NC. I don’t know I would love for GT to win but little wins here and there do not make you an elite program which brings you the top talent. I don’t know. GO JACKETS
WreckHornGoesTHWUGA!!!
September 16th, 2009
6:50 pm
Here’s hoping Derrick Morgan is in top form and can get to their soph QB who seems a little cocky recently. Also, hope we will try to establish the run with minimal passing, unlike the Clemson game. Miami will make us pay for our turnovers more than CU and JSU. Big plays are great, but I hope we can drive the ball and dominate TOP for a change.
WreckHornGoesTHWUGA!!!
September 16th, 2009
6:55 pm
“Gimmicky offense?” Gimmicky a break, man!!! CPJ’s offense, like all offenses, draws on previous models with some modifications. When the Jackets execute well AND they are still shut down, only then will I begin to blame the offense. So far it isn’t the offense that has failed us.
honest abe
September 16th, 2009
7:05 pm
randy shannon’s recruiting ability>paul johnson’s….. we better enjoy our 4 straight wins now, because we’re done folks…it looks like its their time, starting now….
-honest GT fan
gtbabe
September 16th, 2009
7:30 pm
I flew to Miami four years ago when the game was rescheduled in November the week before Georgia in lieu of a pending Hurricane that ended up fizzling out days before the Saturday evening contest in the drizzling rain. The Canes were vying for a BCS chance with a win and one of their players in the Miami newspaper was quoted as saying “we do not even know what conference this is much less who Ga Tech is” Just wondering after losing 4 straight years to the Jackets and still zero ACC Coastal division titles, do you know what conference this is now?
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
September 16th, 2009
7:30 pm
Yea boy PJ’s offense has been figured out. Same offense that allowed an undermanned Navy team to darn near upset Ohio State. Miami will most likely always have more “athletic” teams than GT. They have the past 4 years. But this ain’t track and field. A great athlete does not automatically equal a great football player. Some people refuse to believe this. Fast and talented without good coaching is what Miami has been recently…it’ll be interesting to see if things have changed. Offensively it appears it has.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
September 16th, 2009
7:33 pm
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strobocane
September 16th, 2009
7:35 pm
Hey Rick, our coach is a joke? Randy has a pair of rings from his playing days and another pair as a coach. Coker left the program in shambles and we’re already on the verge of being back. Your coach won it all in D2, and although he might have gotten a ring for that, he also got hired by Navy for being such a genius. Our D2 guy, Mark Whipple, wen to the pros after his time at UMASS. Maybe those sailors know something about football The Pittsburgh Steelers don’t. Whipple got a Super Bowl during that gig. In Johnson’s time at Navy, his best achievement was beating Notre Dame in double OT. Someone contact Canton, Paul Johnson is ready to have his bust chiseled. Now he’s running an antiquated offense with the previous regime’s recruits. Good luck getting any real talent to go to Ga Tech. Being in an offense that will drop you a few rounds in the NFL draft has overtaken the 70-30 ratio of guys to girls as reason #1 Ga Tech won’t be able to recruit. You called my reasoning “bush league” and then retorted with “Yeah Right” and “He’s due.” I love hearing how Nesbitt is due. It’s just code for, well he couldn’t possibly suck any harder next week, could he? And our thugs you referred to had an APR score twenty points higher than your athletes. Know facts. Look, I know you’re frustrated being a geek, and I understand a robotic love slave is difficult to engineer, but please Rick, leave football to those of us who win big at it.
FT
September 16th, 2009
7:36 pm
Randy shannon’s coaching ability 12-13 in the ACC
Rick
September 16th, 2009
7:39 pm
12-13 strobo. 0 appearances in the acc champ game.
that’s all you need to know. but you beat FSU!! woo hoo. what an accomplishment!!
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
September 16th, 2009
7:39 pm
It would be interesting to see what Shannon, Davis @ UNC and several other coaches in the south could do week in and week out with service academy talent. Heck, they consistently out recruit GT almost every year …at least according the the brains running the recruiting sites. Why are the records so lopsided in GT’s favor the past 5 years against Clemson, UNC, Miami. Even Chan Gailey held his own against them.
Mr Marbles
September 16th, 2009
7:42 pm
GT has nothing, Canes by 10
canes1
September 16th, 2009
7:56 pm
Both sides have valid arguments. I think it goes without saying the GT has been better the last 4 -5 years, with or without better athletes. I can even say that one win over FSU might not mean much, and there’s still a good chance GT will again be better this year, but in the long run Miami might be better off with their style of offense over the one GT plays. I totally agree that PJ is great at what he teaches, but will it get GT over the hump? Can it compete with UF, USC, Tx. even if GT had their talent? I highly doubt it. We’ll see how far UM has progressed tomorrow night and if they win, this same discussion will move over to the VT sites.
5X Champs
September 16th, 2009
8:10 pm
lmfao!!!! your team is a friggin joke and were gonna expose this sham. your qb cant throw from a pier and hit the water. we will make U 1 dimensional tmorrow night fools!!
Mark
September 16th, 2009
9:29 pm
Miami is still taking gt lightly. Another win makes it 5 in a row. Josh will get his passing game going this week. 33-21 tech
GM
September 16th, 2009
9:47 pm
Praising GT has a nice ring to it when coming from a UGA grad (Mark Bradley).
PB
September 16th, 2009
9:50 pm
I always get nervous when the other team has players out for suspension or otherwise… never seems to bode well for us. In spite of the article at: http://www.macon.com/tech/
Nice read by Coley Harvey.
lovemyjackets
September 16th, 2009
10:04 pm
hey shane, are your bulldogs still riding down the wrong way streets on mopeds while they are drunk? just courious
biggbuzz
September 16th, 2009
10:34 pm
HEY ALL YOU LEGHUMPIN’ NUTLICKERS.THE “GIMMICK OFFENSE” HAS BEEN RUN BY CPJ FOR 23 YEARS AND NOBODY HAS FIGURED IT OUT YET. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT RETARD YOU HAVE AS A DEFENSIVE CO. WILL STOP IT? F–K THE DAWGS YOU WON’T WIN SIX GAMES THIS YEAR
GT Fan...
September 16th, 2009
11:05 pm
Miami plays a bad FSU D, and now they can’t be stopped …. that cockiness will get you humbled really quick.
Just when you think you’ve got this O “figured out” …..
PJ’s a great coach; able to make the necessary in-game adjustments to win should his team become “stagnant” due to opponents good D play (see GA game in 2008, and Clemson last week). You never anticipate turnovers when assessing your team’s outlook heading into a game, and I don’t think GT becomes stagnant on Thursday PM. I believe PJ will have prepared them well this week, and they’ll handle the task at hand. I won’t be surprised to see the 2nd teamers get some PT as well.
Stinger
September 16th, 2009
11:21 pm
Miami has ugly uniforms. Looks like Linda Blair puked on them.