Tech fans giggle while UGA fans say, ‘Shut up and deal’
PJ cracks wise; Richt is unamused. (AJC photo by Pouya Dianat)
In times of plenty and in times of want, there’s always Georgia versus Georgia Tech. It’s a game that defines (and sometimes reconfigures) the sport in our state, and by way of public service we offer yet another installment — that’s my way of saying I’ve lost count — of our Field Guide to the opposing sets of fans.
• Tech fans describe the moves Roddy Jones put on Georgia defenders along the sideline as “the old okey-doke.” Georgia fans describe Tech’s stadium as “The joke by Coke.”
• Georgia fans still can’t get over Tech putting the score of last year’s Georgia game on their Coastal Division co-championship rings. Tech fans still can’t get over Georgia players selling SEC championship rings on eBay.
• Tech fans laugh really hard whenever Paul Johnson says anything mildly amusing. Georgia fans stopped laughing at Paul Johnson midway through the third quarter on Nov. 29, 2008.
• Georgia fans don’t take the ACC seriously. Tech fans think SEC superiority is all a figment of Tim Brando’s imagination.
• Two words guaranteed to make Tech fans mad: Chop block. Two words guaranteed to make Georgia fans mad: Excessive celebration.
• Georgia fans believe SEC refs have it in for the Bulldogs. Tech fans believe SEC refs do a fine job — especially that nice Al Ford.
• Tech fans think it’s funny the head of SEC officiating is a Tech grad. Georgia fans think it’s all part of a grand conspiracy.
• Georgia fans are incensed by PETA’s demand that the late Uga VII be replaced by a robot. Tech fans will be incensed if they don’t get the contract to build the robot.
• Tech fans are excited to see the Jackets so high in the BCS rankings. Georgia fans are excited to see the Bulldogs so high in the recruiting rankings.
• Georgia fans can’t believe Tech keeps extending Paul Johnson’s contract. Tech fans would be willing to chip in and help Georgia extend Willie Martinez’s contract.
• Tech fans are eagerly awaiting a rematch with Clemson in Tampa. Georgia fans are eagerly awaiting a rematch with Kentucky in Stegeman Coliseum. (Er, maybe not. Kentucky’s better in hoops, too.)
• Georgia fans cackled when Tech kept going to bowls on the blue turf of exotic Boise. Tech fans with long memories are hoping like crazy Georgia lands in Shreveport, where every night is surf-and-turf at Red Lobster.
• The Tech fan’s favorite moment of 2009: Josh Nesbitt stealing the ball from a Florida State linebacker. The Georgia fan’s least favorite moment of 2009: Joe Cox flipping the ball to a Kentucky lineman.
• Georgia fans can’t understand what has happened to Mark Richt. Tech fans think what has happened to Mark Richt has a lot to do with Paul Johnson.
• Tech fans get really miffed if their team doesn’t wear gold. Georgia fans get really miffed if their team wears black helmets.
• Georgia fans still make fun of Tech’s (lack of) attendance. Tech fans figure that’s the last resort of a fading program: If you can’t beat ‘em on the field, outnumber ‘em in the stands.
• This season has Tech fans recalling the Bobby Dodd Era. This season has Georgia fans recalling the Ray Goff Era.
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indianman
November 25th, 2009
10:47 am
georgia 28 tech 14
Yellow Fuzz
November 25th, 2009
10:47 am
From Junkyard to Lap dog all in 13 months thanks to Georgia Tech!
GIVE ME A BREAK
November 25th, 2009
10:47 am
Let’s stop complaining about spelling errors. Some people just can’t spell. Thank you for the comment, indianman.
Godeacsbd
November 25th, 2009
10:48 am
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.
I want my 2 minutes back.
Yellow Fuzz
November 25th, 2009
10:49 am
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS WEEKEND FOR AN ENTIRE QUEAR!
preseason number 1
November 25th, 2009
10:49 am
hahahahaha
Hal
November 25th, 2009
10:49 am
you know, no way on paper or on TV UGA should be able to even keep Tech under 100 whilst trying to score at least one field goal… especially when you read all the articles, all the posts by tech fans and the media coverage of our debacle that is 2009 v/s tech’s assent that is 2009.
Having said all that, Bradley’s right, at this point Tech just needs to shut up and deal and omg what is going to happens if the Dawgs hunker down and pull one over on ‘em. Mark always said as he toured the state fans would say (depending on the location) beat auburn and tech, or florida… and tech, or carolina and tech. So he felt as long as he beat tech things would be ok.
tech fans are going to come unbolted if he does aren’t they?
Boise or Birmingham
November 25th, 2009
10:49 am
haha
Papa Johns
November 25th, 2009
10:50 am
lol
Papa Johns tie in to SEC # 9
November 25th, 2009
10:51 am
Good job dogs
GIVE ME A BREAK
November 25th, 2009
10:51 am
It will be fun to see how long the dawg fans stay at the game Saturday. Half time = Half gone.
techie on the coast
November 25th, 2009
10:51 am
NATIONAL CHAMPS 2010……I said it….wait and see…..
Pit bull
November 25th, 2009
10:52 am
It doesn’t matter if A J Green plays. Tech will score as many points as they want against the Keystone Cops!
MR. & MR. Jeff Schultz
November 25th, 2009
10:52 am
Georgia Tech = Nerds with Poor Social Skills
Virginia Tech = THUGZ
Georgia = Drunken Rednecks
Tennessee = Drunken Hillbilly Trash
Florida State = Future Felons of America
Miami = Current Felons of America
Florida = Future Used Car Salespeople
Alabama = Uncultured Morons
Kentucky = Future KFC Managers and Weekend “Swingers”
Texas = Closet Transvestites
Oregon = Dope Fiends
Notre Dame = Future Registered Sex Offenders
Yellow Fuzz
November 25th, 2009
10:52 am
Remember, this will be my last week on the AJC blogs if we lose to you azzholes!
Scoots
November 25th, 2009
10:53 am
I’ve had all the fun I can take. Enjoy the game Saturday. Eat some bird.
GT 38, UGA 28
CLEM 34, USC 17
FSU 24, UF 21 (OT) . . . just dreaming a little there
Let's get ready to Ramble!
November 25th, 2009
10:53 am
26-0 3rd qtr BEAT DOWN
techie on the coast
November 25th, 2009
10:55 am
that would make it 5-1 …..su*k it UGA
Let's get ready to Ramble!
November 25th, 2009
10:55 am
Come on dog nation. Inspire your team to shut Yellow Fuzz up forever! Bring all those top 5 recruiting classes with you. LOSERS!
GTMBA
November 25th, 2009
10:55 am
Another Dawg writes “Georgia is a prominent national program even in a rebuilding year.” What multiverse did YOU just wander in from? UGA might have been a prominent program during the Herschel era, but since then? I think not. Dude you’ve got to lay off of the meth. Georgia has never been mentioned with the likes of Ohio St., Texas, Oklahoma, FSU, Miami, Michigan, USC, Penn St., Alambama, Fla., Nebraska, etc. Some of those programs I just mentioned have fallen off during the last 5-10 years and they still get more respect from the the announcers and general college football public than the puppies. Bottom line; UGA is an okay program, sometimes lucks up when Fla or Tenn has a down year, and they happen to play in one of the top two conferences. THAT IS IT. Stop with this crap that you all some national beast. You sound like Braves fans in the nineties with that “Team of the Decade” crap winning one world series while the Jays, Twins, and Yankees were winning more.
AJC
November 25th, 2009
10:55 am
PETA demands that game be stopped at half time, GT 56 – UGA 3.
GIVE ME A BREAK
November 25th, 2009
10:58 am
After the game Saturday, uga fans are going to realize that uga7 dying wasn’t the worst thing that happened to them in 2009.
cseay
November 25th, 2009
10:59 am
“Georgia is a prominent national program even in a rebuilding year. Tech is a prominent national program only when Georgia has its worst year of the decade.”
Hey “Another Dawg”, news flash dude, the only place your Dawgs are prominent is in the heads of dilusional Bulldog fans like you. It’a Gator Nation dude and it’s painted Orange and Blue! Richts got one thing to say to Coach Meyer, “I’ll be your Huckleberry!”. Keep posting those overhyped and overated recruiting classes, thanks Chad Simmons!
Yellow Fuzz
November 25th, 2009
10:59 am
4 tickets, 4 hot dogs, 4 cokes, 4 humble pies!
Yellow Fuzz
November 25th, 2009
11:01 am
From preseason number 1 to under dog against Tech (in 14 months)!
Sue
November 25th, 2009
11:01 am
Scoots: I think he is a very good coach…will big time schools come calling? Give it another few years…I think that right now the perception is that the offense is gimicky. A big school wouldn’t think that they have to stoop to a gimicky offense to get wins. The longer it works the more accepted it becomes and that gimicky perception diminishes. Give it 5 more years…the spread used to be considered gimicky when Kentucky was using it.
My highschool ran the wishbone. It worked because all our the players knew their assignments and if the defense missed one of their assignments the play would be successful. The defense would miss a lot more assignments than our team would, so we won more often than not. GT’s offense is very similar. Do what you do better than they can defend against it. In this respect it is both a highschool offense and great coaching.
Our sides bad joke is that y’all have a 10 play playbook. Well those 10 plays work the majority of the time. We have 20 plays in our playbook 15 of which never work, 1 of which works most of the time, and 4 of which only work when AJ is on the field. If inconsistency is a common trait in highschool offenses…I think we are the one with the high school offense.
Ray Goof
November 25th, 2009
11:02 am
For all you fellow GT fans, please keep one thing in mind: We haven’t stopped anybody all year! FSU & Vandy games, at least the first half, were track meets, Duke took the opening kickoff and drove down the field and scored in 5 plays and we held Miss. State to 487 total yards! Cox has a good arm and if we don’t put any pressure on him, he’ll complete passes all day long. If GT can control the ball, crank out some long drives, keep the pups off the field and play some defense we will win. As much as I’d like to see a blowout, looking at it pragmatically I think it’s going to be relatively close w/GT winning. Which, of course, is all I ask for!!
Nate
November 25th, 2009
11:02 am
4 cokes, 4 hot dogs, 40,000 fans abandoning their team last week….priceless
Big time, I think not my friend…
W.A. Alexander
November 25th, 2009
11:04 am
Glad you brought that up, “25 games over .500 against tech.” You write, “i thought the dawgs led the series by 27 games? No?”
No. Definitely no. In fact, at 59-39, the Dawgs’ lead is 20 – after this Saturday, to be 19, at 59-40.
Jack
November 25th, 2009
11:06 am
Why do you keep calling it high school off when more high schools are running passing type offenses than this type these days. Some of you are clueless.
Technophobia
November 25th, 2009
11:07 am
Another good column Mark.
When the AJC writes more about Tech, UGA fans pout and say “everyone’s against me!” but Tech fans know another sweet victory is on the way.
UGA fans think the results of this rivalry game are based on having a G on their helmets. Tech fans know the history of this rivalry is mostly a story of coaching.
UGA 48 Tech 17
November 25th, 2009
11:13 am
It will be interesting to what you write after this score is posted Saturday night. Tech is doomed. I can guarantee you that no tech team has feared this game more, than any other Tech team in history. No Tech team has run their mouths more…this is going to be so much fun to watch. The upset will start early and the beat down will be like nothing tech has every seen. UGA will take out their frustrations of this season and by the end of the first quarter, the game is over. Tech will not come back by an unprepared UGA team this year. Martinez will be doing the moonwalk down the sideline after crushing the CPJ high school offense.
pi$$onatechie
November 25th, 2009
11:13 am
Georgia is so dominant over tech, yes Tech wins a game once in a while over Georgia and we will let them win this week! after all Tech is still our favorite bia*ch
WaltonBuzz
November 25th, 2009
11:13 am
Caption for pic.
Richt: “Looks like a storm is coming”
Johnson: “You have no idea”
instate
November 25th, 2009
11:14 am
Right off the bat, before I dabble in the delight of Paul Johnson’s weekly council fire with the media, I am compelled to opine a tad on something almost entirely unrelated.
Georgia Tech is playing host to Georgia Saturday night in a football game that is important in one way or another to a whole lot of people aligned on two sides of an occasionally ugly line.
But learning as I did a few hours ago that Tech baseball players are about to launch into a fundraiser for a would-be Georgia baseball player not only made me blink, but re-consider the idea of trying to lend gravity to a mere ball game.
Then, I read again what I couldn’t believe I read the first time I read it.
Chance Veazey, a talented UGA freshman from Tifton who went through fall workouts with the baseball team, crashed on a scooter in Athens in late October.
Now, he’s at the Shepherd Spinal Center here in Atlanta, torn nearly asunder. He’s paralyzed from the waist down. After leaving a study hall of some sort, he hit a car, or it hit him.
Doesn’t matter which.
Here’s the double-take maker: Yellow Jacket baseball players are working up a fundraiser for a young man who hasn’t even played against Tech.
Sorry to jump the gun on a story Sting Extra OSR’s Jon Cooper will write for next week, and sorry again that the Tech sports information department folks preferred that SE-OSR wait to write about this until later for fear of compromising this weekend’s start to the Michael Isenhour Toy Drive.
The moment moves me, though, and the greatest joy in my role with Sting Extra OSR is something approximating an absence of rigid oversight.
I have no great, deep, super meaningful words here. It seems a bit of a shame to go this route when Johnson was more intriguing than usual – and that’s saying something – today with a big and perky media crowd in attendance.
But holy cow!
In taking into account all the recent conversations I’ve had with my 12-year-old son about the dangers of motorcycles, we’ve had none regarding scooters.
So in an odd way, this underlines yet again for perhaps the 10,000th time in my life, the fragile nature of existence, and the value of – and need for — perspective.
We all assign different emotional values to things material and ethereal.
I’m having a hard time calibrating the emotional verdict that should be rendered on the concept of the Jackets raising money for a Dog.
But I think it’s big.
In a way, it renders easier to believe Johnson’s comments today that the Georgia game, while very big to some, will not define this squad of Jackets. It’s not likely to define much, in fact.
Johnson referred to a larger body of work meaning much more. He was onto something.
The pending act of the Tech baseball team defines the potential of humanity in simultaneously small and huge ways. This is a small thing writ large.
If I need to apologize for getting your hopes up, for teasing you into reading on with the idea that there would be great Johnson nuggets, I will. I’m a little low on that kind of juice right now, though, as I close another edition of Sting Extra OSR with children behind me who need to be put to bed.
I’m also unabashedly proud to have been moved by all of this, proud that my older and more calloused heart still has soft spots. And I’m glad that people are capable of greatness on many levels.
Lastly, I’m thankful ahead of a special holiday for a forum to open that ever older heart.
Bless Chance Veazey and all on the wrong side of fate. Bless, too, the baseball Jackets, and all who endeavor to help those in need.
Kitty
November 25th, 2009
11:14 am
Have fun in Shreveport dawgies. You’ll fit right in with the other local inbreds.
JeanAnn
November 25th, 2009
11:15 am
Real loosers this season are the stores (and they are many) that only stock UGA “stuff”! I am talking about Krogers as an example that do not have any Tech displays. Bet they are loosing money this yer! Wonder who the purchasing agent is? Obviously a Big Looser!
Darryl
November 25th, 2009
11:16 am
Ga will be 6-6 after this weekend. And they still have fans talking trash.
Al
November 25th, 2009
11:17 am
JeanAnn
I noticed the same thing at kroger. All uga stuff and nothing is selling. It’s been sitting there for 4 weeks now.
Reality Check
November 25th, 2009
11:20 am
Mark – About half of those were true and entertaining to read the other half were not true and stupid. Happy Thanksgiving!
W.A. Alexander
November 25th, 2009
11:20 am
Once Georgia ruined their beautiful natural bowl-shaped stadium, and constructed the present monstrosity, they started calling it “Sand Fort Stadium.” Why, because the UGA team, like a sand castle, is fine until the Tide comes in!!!!
VARSITY
November 25th, 2009
11:23 am
They’ll be plenty of “hot” dawgs after this game. What’ll ya have? What’ll ya have?
NT
November 25th, 2009
11:26 am
Whats Mike Vick and Paul Johnson have in commom? They both love abusing dawgs.
42-14 final.
VARSITY
November 25th, 2009
11:27 am
There’ll be plenty. I’m embarrassed.
Hal
November 25th, 2009
11:28 am
5-1 NC? can’t count a couple for Tech while the real men were off fighting wars bud. If you count that way you’d have to count all 6 national titles UGA was awarded over the years. UGA is “man” enough to only take credit for the 2 undisputed titles we’ve been awarded.
GTMBA, you make some valid points about UGA not being recognized as a national “elite” program but I would argue that that is largely based on media perception, and frankly a reason the Tech doesn’t get more credit when its due (as it is now) because Georgia is not one of those “hot” states the media looks lovingly upon. Case in point, at the beginning of this season a piece ran on ESPN talking up the larger than life coaches in the NCAA, Pete Carrol, Bob Stoops, Urban Myer, Jim Tressel and Nick Saban with Carrol being decided to have had the best run of those guys during their 8 years in office. They pointed out barely in passing though that Mark Richt had the same record as Pete Carrol, better than Stoops or Tressel among coaches who had held the same jobs over that span, and had done so in the SEC. Each member on the show panel conceded that neither Carrol or Stoops would have the record nor the championships had they played with their teams, the schedule that Mark had faced. Wouldn’t one surmise from that discussion then that Mark and UGA deserved (at that point) a little more credit than they were getting? One could argue they were in position to play for 3 BCS NC games had one break or another gone their way in 8 seasons( and even a Tech fan can admit it a tad easier in the PAC 10 to make it undefeated than in the SEC)… he can’t help it he isn’t lucky! lol
No doubt the wheels have fallen off, and this is largely based (by us who really watch the program and care about it) on our decline in defensive production since BVG left. Mark will correct that this year, he’ll have too. He’s been very stoic (which is a quality we used to brag about), very loyal to his coaches (another quality we used to brag about) and players but at this point it has to be obvious. Get the D back to where it was under BVG, and UGA will be right back where it was, in the mix for the SEC every year and with one domino falling the right way they’ll be playing for the BCS.
Dawg's Hope
November 25th, 2009
11:28 am
We’ve still got a lot to play for. 1 – Win and go 7-5, like Chan;
2 – Win our bowl, and go 8-5; not bad. 3 – Stay out of Shreveport.
Delbert D.
November 25th, 2009
11:30 am
Might be useful info. Ga. Tech and Georgia opponents’ records
leaving out the UGA and Ga. Tech games:
GEORGIA TECH
Clemson 8-2
Va. Tech 8-2
UNC 8-2
Miami 7-3
FSU 6-4
Duke 5-5
Wake For. 4-6
MissSt. 4-6
UVA 3-7
Vandy 2-9
Jacks St 8-2 *
GEORGIA
Florida 10-0
Ok St 8-2
LSU 7-3
Ark 7-3
Auburn 7-3
UK 6-4
USC 6-4
UT 5-5
Ariz St 4-6
Vandy 2-9
Tenn Tech 6-4 *
* FCS opponents
Bangkapi Ajarn
November 25th, 2009
11:31 am
This article made my day, Makes by Furman Bisher Homage Thankful list.
Seattle Jacket
November 25th, 2009
11:31 am
The SEC and UGAy fans want to talk #’s. OK, Let’s.
GT Victories over ave 6-5 UGA wins over 5-6 temas
1) GT 10-1 with a #12 Sched Ranking UGAy 6-5 @#17
2) GT opponents have an ave of 31 Strength of Sched. UGAy opponents 43
3) ACC Average SOS 23 top to Bottom SEC 31 (Oh my! Really?! Mighty SEC)
4) ACC Winning % 545 SEC .624 (Weaker sched= more wins)
5) ACC CG participants 19-4 record with ave SOS of 22.5
SEC CG participants 22-0 record with ave SOS of 46
6) GT opponent winning % .525 UGA .598
7) GT one loss to 8-3 UGA ave loss is to an 8-3 team
9) GT’s 1-AA opponent is 8-3 and #1 in their conference
UGA’s is 6-5 and #5 in the same conference
The numbers don’t lie. Maybe the SEC just ain’t as good as ESPN and CBS make it out to be
NT
November 25th, 2009
11:31 am
Hey doggies, Central Floria called. They’ll see you in Shreveport.