Live from G-Tech vs. V-Tech: It’s NOT an elimination game

Tech wins. They have to……..or else…….

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With the unbalanced schedule in the ACC, Big East, etc. conference W-L records are not as good an indicator of how teams compare. Before the ACC expansion, the round-robin home and away was a good indicator.

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Mark: You should spend more time with your family,after all,they are all that matters. No one should have to work weekends………….

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Tech is on the bubble. Lose today and they have to win 2 in the tourney.

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Prediction – Virginia Tech wins.
Standard Prediction – Georgia Tech will NOT make the field of 65. I’ve been posting it for over a month and I’m stickin to it.

Again….the ACC will get 5 teams in….tops….Duke, Maryland, Clemson, Florida State, Virginia Tech

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Who wants to see this crap product in person. Not me

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Good news…..Texas and Baylor is about to start!!!!!

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Here go the Hokies! Nice shooting tech!

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Horrible offense. Pathetic aggresive defense. No fundamentals. Horrid free throw shooting. Out of control on both sides. This is Paul Hewitt basketball!!!

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Hey Mark lets say yech loses the next two games and get left out of the tourney is Hewitt fired? or do they everyone a favor and keep him around to mis coach another season?

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Once again they stand there watching their shots. Paul Hewitt doesn’t even teach to follow your shot. That’s his lazy style. VT will be in the 1-1 in 5 minutes.

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Plack there haven’t been any FT’s yet!

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If they were recruiting coaches they would not be there

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How many airballs is that? And chumps clank off the backboard. And you call this an ncaa team Mark?

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I completely disagree carrolltondawg. Hewitt’s lackadaisical approach and ignorance of the fundamentals fits in nicely with the pro game.

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This doesn’t even look like an NIT team. Looks like a bunch of kids you picked off the street to play. No unity. No rhythm. Just a bunch of clueless kids. I feel sorry for them thinking Hewitt is a good coach. I doubt you will see many go to tech anymore. He’s the worst coach in Div 1 basetball by far.

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I dont know tech forever, He may would make a good middle school coach

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Notre Dame beats Marquette!!!! The ACC’s hope for more than 5 are being dashed before our eyes!!!

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What was Oliver thinking with that foul on the 3??????

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Haha 2 nba drafts on this team and they are down by 8.

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Lunardi on TV just now, “Notre Dame and Louisville have just played and solidified their way in. This hurts conference like the ACC and Illinois out the Big 10.”

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But tech has no defense Mark.

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VT playing better Mark. I wouldn’t call 3 air balls playing well. And 33% shooting. VT is over 50%. Tech is going to lose by 15 if it stays near that level.

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55% for VT to 36% for gt. If it doesn’t narrow to within 10%, gt loses this game by 10

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Why can’t Tech defend the 3??????

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8-9 on 3’s for vt. forget 55% shooting. They are shooting 87% on 3’s. LOL

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GT will win if it keeps pounding the ball to its big men

I would say that this is generally the case with GT basketball since about 2005. And 2002-2004, GT had at least one very good big man…Ed Nelson, Bosh, Schenscher, and Ish played like an offensively challenged big man who gets all his points on offensive rebounds and put backs.

These days…losing by 10 to VT, even though GT has taken 8 more shots, has 7 offensive rebounds to VT’s 0, GT is +4 in turnovers.

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So Mark, how the heck did VT lose to BC by 20?

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Mark, do you agree with GT shooting so many 3s? We are abysmal jump shooting team. I just think that’s where the poor coaching lies. We really should be pounding the rock inside.

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Coach Blewitt looks like his days are numbered.

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Mark they don’t need to shoot 55% anyway. 45% would be enough for a 8 point win. Did you see Morrow light it up last night for GS here? Another techster doing well in the nba who did nothing here. The only reason gt did well in 04 was their guard play. They got hot. And you can win a few games when you get hot and a little lucky. Since then you’ve seen what kind of coach Hewitt is. He really has no idea how to coach. And Luoisville winning today put them in the tourney. That will knock out the loser of this. ND winning probably knocks out both unless gt wins today(not likely) and then wins at least 2 in the acc tourney.

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Update
VT 59% GT 37%.

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89% from behind the arc for VT! What great perimeter defense by the jackets!!

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The good news is down the stretch Tech has gotten their shooting percentage up to 37% from 33%. Bad news is VT has gone from 55% to 59%.

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I believe D-Rad will put together the money needed to get rid of Hewitt. This is the worst-coached team in the ACC, and interest in the program is dying. In a couple of years, we won’t be able to afford not to fire him anyway.

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Only down by 6? You can do “better” than that!

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How about this stat. No VT player other than Delaney has missed more than one shot. And Delaney is still 5-11. Not bad. Favors with 6 points!! They sure are using him!

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MB:
Ignoring the buyout; do you think Hewitt DESERVES to be fired? Does anyone respect him or refer to him as a “genius” anymore?

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Is this really live?

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VT is controlling the pace of the game – something they seem to have done on the last few trips to AMC. If GT doesn’t start stopping the 3 it’s going to be a tough day

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Avatar. OH WAIT! …. You wanted BASKETBALL talk?

Somebody OTHER THAN a freshman (Rice or Oliver) needs to be guarding Delaney. Maybe Shump or Bell should draw that duty. Help defense on the penetration has been slower than usual.

Defense should be better in the 2nd half as we can be more aggressive. Not too many guys have even so many as 2 fouls.

-SJ

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Mark, what would be required to change this rolling contract with CPH? Is there anything we can do to change the contract to something reasonable other than pay him $7M?

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Shumpert has taken as many shots (6) as Lawal and Favors combined – a slight problem there!

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MB:
A prediction about the Oscars, Hewitt or this game?

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NOW we KNOW Tech will lose; the famous Bradley curse!!

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Here’s a prediction. VT continues to make shots. Because tech is at home, they won’t get blown out. But VT wins a close won with a buzzer beater just like the Md game.

Vt shoots 49%. Gt 39%. Vt wins 84-82

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Funny, Mark. But VPI&SU is not a “real Tech.”

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Resign or Resign? I never said Gailey was fired that same year. I’m saying that it takes multiple years for a school like Tech to absorb the financial hits big time coaching changes cause. Forget 2009…..part of the reason Tech can’t fire Hewitt after this season is because of the hiring of CPJ. There’s only so much money in the bank.

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gt isn’t going to the ncaa’s if they lose today with louisville and nd winnig

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That was a charge…unbelievable.

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Ashley, Georgia Tech does NOT have the money right now to fire Paul Hewitt. Period. PLUS, DRad said “improvement” was necessary. Everyone is ticked that this teams plays terribly and has underachieved….but they’ve won a lot more than 2 ACC games too so there’s your “improvement.” Belive me, I’m sitting here watching Baylor dunk all over Texas wishing Scott Drew was in Atlanta coaching the Jackets….but it ain’t gonna happen after this season.

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What great defense!!

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Bring back Marvin Lewis and that tall Aussie kid!

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Tech Forever, GT didn’t have the money to fire Chan either. You’d be surprised how motivated donors can become when the program is going nowhere. Also, you’re only looking at Hewitt’s salary. You HAVE to factor in the loss of revenue his continued employment is going to cause. You can’t just look at one side of the books.

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I wonder why Shump isn’t guarding Delaney. Rice is a nice player with long arms but Delaney is quicker. Shump has the size, quickness and the length if he will put out the effort.

The announcers are loving the play,but neither team is playing D.

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Now presenting Georgia Tech’s offense:

Bring the ball down. Take a long jumper, IMMEDIATELY. Hope Lawal or Favors get the rebound. REPEAT

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Ashley, Chan Gailey’s buyout was $4 million, $2 million up front and $1 million per year for two years after that. Hewitt’s buyout os over $7 million UP FRONT. That means…..write a cehck for $7+ million dollars. Tech doesn’t have it. The AA borke even last year for the first time in a decade and can now start paying off some debt.

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There’s the first inexplicable timeout of the game from CPH….

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Ive never been a fan of the classic Hewitt timeout after an important score, kills momentum

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Thatta boy peacock! Way to get a technical on senior day. Idiot

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So what was the tech foul about?

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Shump equals BAD OFFENSE

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Typical GT! That is Paul Hewitt coaching!

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That is the game right there. And bye bye ncaa’s. Hewitt you are pathetic. No one wants you here. Loser.

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Chump had a 3 on 1 and still doesn’t pass. This guy is terrible.

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That was a terrible call. Gani was going for the block. That was a four-point play.

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point guard play – i would also like to tune into a strong point guard at GT again; not one since 2004

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MB, I hope you’re right, but I don’t feel it. At all.

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Paul Hewett Must Go – the Jackets are pathetic.

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I was at the national championship game in 2004; crazy exciting time; i can’t believe how far below .500 we are overall and in the ACC – as our humble correspondent host has put in his recent articles; GT is way down and we need a change, please!

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When you feed Favors, good things usually happen. But how often do we feed him? Very seldom.

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DRAD: He has to go. I don’t know how we do it in this economy, but he has to go. The GT alums and fans cannot be expected to watch this BULL forever.

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I hope that Hewitt will consider taking the honorable route and resigning. As it is, he and his contract are holding our program hostage…. and there’s no change in sight.

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VPI players move the ball and get wide open shots…we flail around with our heads cutoff.

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Exactly, Ashley…winning ugly is o.k. when you win a lot, but when you underachieve over and over and over and over and over, a change has to happen.

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Embarrassed on senior day by a bubble team that is not even in the RPI top 40. Any well-coached team with a decent point guard WILL almost always beat GT under Blewitt.

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Lawal + Favors = 8 of 11 shooting, rest of team = 11 of 41

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A “doubt” ass?

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Enter your comments here

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louisville slugger, Maybe he’s questioning whether or not Bradley has a butt.

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How does a team with TWO NBA lottery picks lose by double digits to VPI AT HOME??!!

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This is getting ugly. Mark, this could be an elimination game if we lose by 20 at home to these guys.

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Why Mark, why on earth would this score surprise you?

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Shumpert=Tony Akins=Kevin Morris

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I hope we make the tournament just so our players can get something positive out of the season. They certainly haven’t benefited from their coaches. Favors draft stock has dropped and our upperclassmen have shown no positive improvement. I really feel bad for Bell after all he’s struggled with the past couple of years.

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My definition of a good coach is one who has his team playing better at the end of every season than they were at the beginning. I can’t say that about this team. MD is playing better….VT is playing better…even UNC is playing better.

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But on a more interesting note, Georgia is playing down to LSU. Like so many college teams, they cant get fired up (so far) about playing a team as bad as LSU.

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Prediction for the rest of the game.
GT goes 1 on 1 on offense and shoots with 25 seconds on the shot clock
VT runs off about 25 seconds every offensive possession before shooting (when they aren’t running down with 2 on 1s after a dumb GT shot)
VT by 10 at the end

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How does a team with TWO NBA lottery picks lose by double digits to VPI AT HOME??!!

Only 1 lottery pick, but Lawal came back to play his way into a potential lottery pick. Too bad he’s on a terrible team that may lead him to not even being picked in the first round. At this point, he should stick around for next year when he doesn’t have to split time with another really good front court player so he can make all of the inside plays himself and get better stats so he can be drafted higher.

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GT will not win a game in the ACC tourney if they play like this…NIT.

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so does at double digit loss at home get you on the bubble?

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It’s good to see tech back to their old ways on free throws. 12-21. 57%. Nice!

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Oh and VT 16-19

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Famous Mark Bradley quote! No way VT can shoot 55% the rest of the game. They are shooting 58% with 7 minutes left.

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Mark just read some of the other comments… Dont listen to them, you dont need to be fired.

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Let’s give CPH the space he needs to make the right decisions about his future.

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Butts:

All the “mock” NBA drafgts I have seen in the past week have Favors & Lawal as lottery picks.

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Excuse please: “drafts”

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13 more shots for gt and losing by 13. Boy if that doesn’t say it all

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Where’s “m” and Greyhound?

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VT is shooting better at 3 pointers than GT at the free throw line!!

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down by 15 with 6 to play….comon man…the rats R leavin the ship….FIRE that Boo!

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No the stupidest thing written was that VT wouldn’t shoot 55% when clemson did and knowing how pathetic gt’s coach and defense is.

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Gt holding the ball like they are up 15???? Mark even a 10-0 run puts you down by 6. They have no chance.

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Team is not really good at anything. They have not improved in ANY area this year. Will you point that out in your next editorial, Mark? We need for the critical pieces to be hot and heavy. It must be clear to DRAD and the powers to be that this must stop, and it must stop now.

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Use up your timeouts, Hewitt…for nothing

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If Paul Hewitt had any honor or integrity, he would resign after this season.

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Haha! Peacock! You idiot. Didn’t you learn anything in your 4 seasons?

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I did not read your article, I haven’t read a single post. But Bradley you can not possibly make a case for why this team would deserve to play in the Dance. And MOTHER $%#@ fire that freaking excuse of a coach.

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OK MB, my paycheck vs urs next week, Tech ios out of NCAA’s…..whadda ya say?

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Beyond PITIFUL…just beyond PITIFUL!!!

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Ben, That’s the ONLY way Hewitt is not back next year…..if he resigns.

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That was a missed chance to cut it to 8 or to 10. Bad decision to give it to Peacock where he couldn’t do something with it. That’s the difference between the two teams. Delaney is a great lead guard and gets it to people where they can do something with it.

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Favors dunk the damn ball

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Good one alabama. I agree.

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Another example of Hewitt’s bad coaching:

Favors is better in all aspects than Lawal, but he has not allowed Favors to be the NUMBER 1 option for the whole game, ever!!

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Hey Mark. Both teams have made about the same amount of shots. Did you notice the difference? Free throws!!

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I don’t know statistically how we can be the third best shooting team in the ACC. We have guys that can’t throw it into the ocean.

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talking about you being right

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Like I said mark a 10-0 run still has them down by 6. And I called a close nail biter. 84-82

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Yet somehow here we are down 6.

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Why do we have to come back in miracle fashion to beat VPI&SU?

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GT is shooting better at 3’s than 2’s. Haha

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Thanks, Ashley…for some good news..

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Smart. Foul a team shooting 85% at the free throw line!

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You don;t want this to be a free throw shooting contest. Hello

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Stop FOULING you idiot. They are shooting 86%!!!!

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why are you fouling them VT?

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Tech 65 shots VT 48. Wow. And they are losing. That is EMBARASSING

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They didn;t on that last possession

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I will give you the comeback mark. But I did call 84-82 and it was close. And they are shooting 52%.

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10 ACC seasons. ONE season over .500. This team will not get an invite and if they do the NCAA is a joke.

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give it up

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When we were still down with 3 minutes to go, that is when it was over, Mark…or maybe at halftime. Hewitt will not be able to win one down the stretch unless the other team implodes. You know that!!

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Mark do you still feel tech is in? Even with Louisville and ND winning. I say gt HAS to win at least 2 acc tourney games. And that isn’t gonna happen. In fact, UNC wants revenge big time and will get it.

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lol. Go Dawgs

-REEliably Roe!!

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Paul does read the AJC, he saw that MB said they didn’t need this game to get into the tournament … so he played conservative

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Unk boh mangahnee lanee cha lahnee cha

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Mr. Paul “Blewitt” Hewitt. Smells like another loss.

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Nah nah nah anh anh nah nah nah hey hey hey GOODBYE… and by the way. Go DAWGS! 30-24

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Tech Forever finishes the regular season going 11 for 11 in outcome predictions. Too easy.

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Hewitt better call that fahhhtarse Sharpton, his job is on DA LINE!!!

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Seriously, I don’t want more disappointment of playing in ACC tourney. If it weren’t for our seniors getting a final chance to play, I would vote to skip it altogether.

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I CANNOT believe that DRAD will not even address how bad this is. Does anyone think he ever sits down with Hewitt and gives him the “what-for”???? He should at least make the job unbearable for Hewitt, if nothing else. Hewitt’s performance deserves nothing less..

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Let’s get ourselves a good coach, and when he puts together one good season let’s NOT sign him to an extension out of desperation.

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Falcon, what does Sharpton have to do with Hewitt?

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On a side note, I wonder if UNC has ever lost 3 times to a team in the same season? We will likely play them right? I give us a 50/50 chance. Nah, we’ve lost 3/4. Make that a 10% chance. But Hewitt said we are playing our best bball of the season! Bwahahaha. I guess that makes us 8th best in the league!

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NOOOH body knows da trobles i seen….no body knows my sorrow……
SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!!!!!!

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Tom: I know this. Roy Williams can coach blind-folded better than Hewitt.

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Tech wont get in. Many more appealing bubble teams and this team doesnt have any chemistry to win in a single elimination tournament setup(see Dayton game). This team responds well to adversity but not so well to pressure.

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Is VT the team you want to engage in a foul contest?

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Is VT the team you want to engage in a foul contest?

Shouldn’t have been necessary.

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Enough with the one and dones – get some kids who want to play and a coach who knows how to coach them up – not down

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came from App State…I like the guy there today.

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Hewitt has brought ALOT to tech basketball. and incase anyone is forgetting most of the starters are freshman. The only ones who dont know anything about basketball are the ones that are commenting here. Hewitt needs to stay at tech. and UGA fans commenting on tech basketball….? Now thats funny….. Hewitt is an ecellent coach and has done well this season with alot of freshman… I want to see him return. The others here commenting on him getting fired need to get a grip.

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Hewitt must go! what can he be thinking??? does he just make up this alternate reality for himself where he is the perfect coach??? does he really think 7-9 is good enuff to make the NCAA tourney…bcuz it isnt! and shouldnt be! he is an embarrassment to coaching…and is embarrassing the traditions that bobby cremins instilled at tech! hate hate hate watching hewitt teams…so **** tired of it! Hewitt if you read these blogs…as a season ticketholder…I am telling you to just drop it and go! You would make more fans that way!! THANKS!

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Turnt_Up, that’s why we have coaching searches. I don’t profess to know the one guy we should hire, but we all know that we are in dire need of new direction for this program. Some Moneyball-esque, Billy Beane-style financial management is needed– no quick, speculative extensions. If we become a school who loses its coach(es) to glitzier programs or to the Thug-BA, then so be it.

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Wrong Sir!!! Tech is NIT bound. They do not deserve by any stretch an NCAA bid. Selfishly, I would love to see them get in, if for nothing else the experience, but they are not NCAA worthy even in a down year for College Hoops.

No fire, no sense of urgency, and without question no coaching. If you look at this team on paper, they are National Championship contenders, but for what I can only assume is a lack of coaching, these kids underachieve.

I don’t want to banish Hewitt, I want Hewitt to get in some grills and start coaching. This is not a rebuilding year. It was supposed to be special, but when you lose to a terrible UGA team and slide in the 2nd half the way they have, no one should expect an NCAA bid. Pitiful, just dadgum Pitiful!!!

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Kennesaw State has a good coach, Steve Alford is rockin, there r loads of good coaches out there…Hewitt’s system will not work anymore….I am sorry. Fire the PM>

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Hewitt= Mike Dunleavy of college basketball

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The time out right after Favors dunk around 8 minutes… had a little MO and he snuffed it. Good job coach! It’s like any three or dunk on the 2nd half, with GT behind, you can be absolutely sure that Hewitt will call a TO. He doesn’t even think about it…it’s a reflex.

Has there ever been a harder team to watch???

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Kentucky is young…..is Caliparri makin excuses….unk boh mahhnganee lanee cha lahnne cha

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No, he doesn’t. He just coaches and coaches. Hewitt? Not sure what he does.

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“Keep it up”, I remember that..maybe that’s why I’ve watched every game, always expecting that at some point this team would improve and gel over time.

Never has bad a coach done so little with so much. Hewsless.

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Hahahahahahahahahaahahahah NIT NIT NIT NIT NIT NIT NIT

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Teams should fear playing Tech, with the size and athleticism, but NO, they are not afraid. Coaches know that this team is undisciplined and basically uncoached. That is not hard to beat, even with inferior talent.

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Despite the poor record, Tech may still get in. Basically, this is a very poor year for college basketball. Very few teams are worth a dam.

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I feel sorry for the seniors, who have had to spend their entire college career with such an inept coach. Don’t feel bad guys…it’s not your fault.

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I wonder if Bell will say, “Yeah, Tech is great. We were even able to play one NCAA tourney game in the five years I spent there.”

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Look at the talent on this team – Favors & Lawal inside, Peacock as an inside/outside threat, Oliver’s shooting, Rice and Shumpert both can score attacking the basket and shooting. You can see flashes of brilliance in their play – but they all look confused for the majority of the game. Can anyone honestly say that the coaching (including the staff) is the problem? DRAD must make a move – let’s hope he has the courage to make the financially painful step. The once storied program is dying…

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I for one think CPH has done a good job with a team that frankly was overated.

I have e-mailed DRAD and let him know this.

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south, thank you for those words. Now please take your medicine.

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I don’t know who is posting as “Tech Fan”, but I’m the real Tech Fan. Observe: GROUND HOG DAY…I love Tech enough to call it like it is…HEWITT MUST MAN UP AND GO…OR DRAD MUST MAN UP AND FIRE HIM. I have never seen a coach consistently recruit so well, and underachieve so much. ONE winning ACC record in a decade. HORRIBLE…HEWITT…LEAVE!!!!…GIVE US OUR PROGRAM BACK!!!

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Somebody teach Paul Johnson an inbounds play and turn the basketball program over to him. I guarantee you he could get these kids playing at a higher level!

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Mark – I have to think that Greenberg is supporting a fellow conference member. Kind of like all the nice things Calipari said about UGA last week
BTW – How does a guy who looks like Greenberg have 2 good looking daughters?

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we’re playing our best BB. We beat some good teams. Where are the fans?

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Mark, you are wrong about this NOT being an elimination game. At best, if Tech was still in, they would be an 11. There are ALWAYS teams from mid majors that are going to the NCAA”s if they blow their tournament. This means GONZAGA, BUTLER, NO IOWA , ODU and possibly UTAH ST are in that category. Now, if the A-10 has a 4th or 5th team playing well in the A-10 try, that’s another one or two. CAL better win the Pac 10. UTEP is in, but if Memphis and UAB BOTH make the CUSA final, that could be another one making 3 from CUSA. Notre Dame today makes it 8 from the Big East…..NCAA looks at teams playing well over the last 12. GT is 5-7 with a 2-5 over last 7.( Guess that is what Hewitt meant when he said Tech is playing their best). Most likely, 4 or 5 of those teams I listed lose their tourneys or play their way in. Tech would be in that first 4 OUT category……fact Hewitt could not get this talented team to even finish 8-8 is indicative of his coaching the last 5 years. UNless Tech WINS TWO in ACC, they are out. Today would have probably clinched an NCAA berth. The fact Tech came out so flat is coaching. Hewitt has been known to use his TO”s horribly. But why he let the team fall 16 down in such a crucial game without calling another TO is beyond me. Wonder how good Favors would have been this year if he had good coaching? BTW, Lawal is not as good as hyped. He struggles vs players who are his size and physical. Fl St and VT’s Allen showed this. That is why he was on the bench during Tech’s comeback.

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I just don’t see this team having any chemistry and that’s not coaching. Some of these McD all americans are not ready for this level, much less the next level.

I told DRAD not to be pressured by public opinion, he needs to do what HE thinks is best for GT.

He e-mailed back the same day and said “Thanks South, there will not be any coaching changes this year”

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I’ve heard this tune before… 7-9, with lots of upside potential.

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Just heard GTech in serious conversations with Billy Donovan and Mark Price

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2 words: TYPICAL BLEWITT

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UGA lost to LSU by 2 – Makes them 13 – 16. They can’t make the NIT but they can make the NCAA

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Blewitt keeps blowing and I keep getting more rich!!!! Why hasn’t the country figured out to bet against Blewitt on every ACC road game (every big road game for that matter). I am glad most people in the country think this guy still has a clue what he is doing, keep those spreads low for me. Also today I bet for the first time against Blewey on a home game this year. Why? It was a must win so I knew ol’ Paul would come through with a certain loss.

I am trying to figure out which basketball figure is a bigger joke: Blewitt or Stegasaurus. Funny how both will be thrown money they dont deserve next year, and of course this $$ will be an absolute waste. Worse than Obama’s bailout that was not going to allow unemployment to creep above 10%. Funny it did and has maintained a level over 10% ever since. Keep pi$$ing the money away Obama, GT, and UGAy.

I started disliking Blewitt 5 years ago when it became painfully obvious he had no clue how to devise a game plan and excute said plan. Since then my dislike slowly grew. However, this year it has hit the apex of dislike. He somehow attributes the underachieving play to Mark Bradley, the AJC and the fans???? Not only that he has used the same 3-4 excuses EVERY SINGLE YEAR. After every game he gives the same BS answers to questions, its like he just reads off a telepromter (another similarity to Obama) that hasnt been updated in 10 years. Due to all this I will be rooting against this team in both the first round of the ACC and NIT tourneys, and hopefully we get rid of the city’s biggest criminal KINGPIN

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I cannot believe I spent two hours of my life waiting for a different outcome. It is time for change! This team might make it to the NCAA Tournament but it is definitely not playing well. It is a sad state of GT Basketball. There is no reason for GT to be in this position with all the recruiting talent. Is it the talent or the coach that is the problem? I’ll let that for someone else to decide. All I know is that, personally, this is not a basketball team playing at the level it needs to be playing. This makes it very frustrating as a GT fan. I hope that something good happens next week at the ACC Tournament. This is only HOPE of course because at this point I’m not conviced otherwise. This reminds me of Chan Gailey. Mediocracy from year to year. The only difference is that we seem to have more talent this year when it comes to basketball and the outcome is the same; below .500 in the ACC regular season. I’m frustrated!!!!!! I’ll leave it at that….

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I cannot watch this crap anymore. When Hewitt is gone, I will be back. Lawal is NO NBA talent BTW. What a joke this team is!!!! If it isn’t Hewitt then its the team he recruited! Period. Also, I thought Dave Odom was going to start laughing at the spectacle. Notice VT’s 2nd best player didn’t even suit up!!!! GT is a laugher in baskeball….again!

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swd311 – I don’t know what game Odom was watching. He was praising both teams for playing well and then at the end he started talking about what a great game Shumpert had

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Odom was on some weird medication.

At one point, he remarked that one of the VT players would be seeing Favors for the next 3 years.

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Below .500 in ACC reg season for 6th straight year. Wish I could do my job that poorly and still get paid.

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Don’t look now—Hewitt’s contract just rolled over again!!! They owe him more millions. But, they can’t fire him, or the blacks who run atlanta will not be happy!!! Keep it up tech!!!

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critic – I also noticed that comment from Odom about watching Favors for the next 3 years. Maybe he’s got the NBA package in his dorm room.

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thanks, mark, for filling a seat. i have to say the game was a disappointment. we can’t shoot, I’m afraid.

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This team needs a new coach

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GT…get smart and pay Hewitt to walk, then fly to Cedar Falls, Iowa and hire Coach Jacobson from UNI. All he knows how to do is produce smart, defensive, fundamental, disciplined teams who win.

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hey carrolton puppy: UGA is seeded what in the NCAA’s? They will be lucky to make the NIT’s, so don’t give the Jackets a hard time. We are in even at 7-9 without winning in the ACC tournament. You just watch and see. By the way, UGA is in what place in the almighty SEC? Exactly, they suck so lay off the Jackets. Our RPI and SOS is in the top 35. Actually, our SOS is 18th and UGA’s is like 90th. Losing to the dawgs defintely hurt our chances, as your team really, really, really suxs bad. THWG! Jackets are in! Bet on it!

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Why are you going after dawgmaster???

If I was a Georgia fan I would laugh about the Paul Blewitt situation daily. It is the biggest joke I can think of in sports right now (his inability to coach and his BS contract) and the biggest catastrophe in GT history.

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7 million is a heck of a lot of money. Unless you’ve got a proven commodity waiting in the wings, that we can afford, this could get even worse. DRad is in a tough spot. This is NOT a no Braine-er despite what many seem to think.

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Do not feel like doing any in depth research

Does this idiot have a winning record against any ACC team??? I highly doubt it.

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Human Being??? Any animal could do a better job

Donkey > Paul Hewitt
Geiko > Paul Hewitt
Rhino > Paul Hewitt

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If you can’t go better than .500 in your conference schedule and can’t win on the road are you really one of the best 64 teams in the country?

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Georgia actually has played the 8th toughest schedule in the country according to Realtime RPI, GTMAN.

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I’ve heard that tech can’t afford the buyout right now–no boosters will step to pay the $10 mil it will take to buy him out. So tech is stuck with him for years.

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Who came up with my contract? David Braine?

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you know why is it that all of you think that GT will have to give this man 7 million to get this over with? Because MB says so? This is a dfferent economy than the one a few years ago. Is your house worth what it was in 2005? Mine is worth $200,000 less. So, that is a valid argument in court. None of these bloggers are experts in such matters. What GT fans need to do is email DRAD to encourage him to truly challenge this in court and do not apologize for it.

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HAHAHAH GO HEWITT GO!!!! Seriously though, the only hope for us now is for some big wig alum to get sick of it all write that glorious 7.1 million dollar check so we can get a coach who coaches instead of recruiting talent and praying.

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Georgia Tech needs to keep Hewitt to attract the African-American players to the school, since Ga Tech’s student body is mainly white.

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