Tech leaves us wondering how much it might have done

BTW – While you are waiting for your plane at Mitchell Airport you should get a couple of bratwurst and a Leinies.

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this team had the talent and experience to be a 1 or 2 seed. lack of coaching made them a 10 seed.
i was a cph fan until the last couple of years, but i think the contract made him too secure in his job.
lazy might be a good word.

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Just remember next Jan and Feb when the ESPN experts are screaming about how great the ACC, BIG
EAST, etc. are, they may be great because of talent, etc. but there are very few genius coaches out there.
Some are at schools that can get talent, but all in all if they coached at your local high school, most could not out coach the JV coach.
How many ACC teams left?? If you want to watch some well coached teams tune in to the “quote”, mid majors.

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You need to put more of a positive spin on this article or Hewitt isn’t going to talk to you next year. Of course this was a great year for Hewitt, he got an extra year added to his contract and he gets another $100,000 for making the second round. Next year will be worse than last year and Hewitt will continue to hold us hostage but there won’t be any pressure since their won’t be any fans in the AMC to boo him.

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Techsters. Beautiful losers.

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Mark good write-up. TECH didn’t do what they needed to and left too many chances on the floor today. I hope you get home and get a rest to feel a lot better. Thanks for the coverage and the live chat.

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Gotta say you nailed it and good article. At times the bees played like they were capable. Today was status quo of their inconsistency. But then that seems characteristic of CPH teams that can make the Championship game one year and having losing ACC records 9 out of 10 years. Think Tech needed one more Shump on the team to help direct the offense and keep him fresh. Very concerned about next years team.

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Hewitt knows defense, but knows nothing about Offense

Sums up Georgia Tech Basketball in one sentence.

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Fair assessment, Mark. “Standards need to be recalibrated.” Right on.

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Hewitt saying that getting to the tournament is a “major” accomplishment seals my opinion of him. He’s stll living in the Sienna mindset.

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I think Paul Hewitt is doing a mediocre… I mean a great job. Dan Rad, please give him an extension!

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I think the BEST AAU players coached for 2 weeks could have done what TECH did in the Tourny.

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Today resumed what is Tech basketball over the past 10 years. One lucky run in the tourney 4 years ago with a 7-9 ACC team does not mean you are a successful program. I could handle some post season disappointment alot better if the regular season was not always a disappointment as well.How long will it take Tech to get back to the big dance under CPH? 3 years is my best guess. Is this worth 1.2 million dollars a year?

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Hire David Boyd from Milton.

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It seems that people want PHewitt to start coaching, but folks he is coaching and that’s the problem. He’s not a good one, doesn’t use his bench well, bad instructions during the game, and worse of all he doesn’t understand himself that he’s not a good coach.

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The season was a big improvement from last year and a modest success but also a slight disappointment. Hewitt needs to raise his standards even though that’s hard to do when your being criticized since the natural response to that is defensiveness. I’d grade them as follows:
Effort – A
Coaching – B
Ball control – C minus
Focus/decision making – C minus
Team Play – C
Free throws – D
Overall – B minus

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Tech did not have a “great” year in basketball. The team lacked discipline from start to finish and it only got slightly better when a little discipline was shown when the cell phones were taken away. You expect athletes to have confidence and for that confidence to be built up over time. You do not expect athletes to be so cocky when the facts show otherwise. Tech athletes should be more intelligent than that. I guess Favors and Lawal are gone for the dollars, but if their SAT intelligence kicked in they would know that neither one of them is ready mentally for the NBA. The head coach needs to take a long look in the mirror too. He is a good man and certainly represents the Institute well in many ways, but a little reality check needs to kick in. A thirty-eight percent graduation rate for Tech basketball players just doesn’t cut it. Let’s stop recruiting the one and dones. It should not be condoned by the administration. It is a discipline thing and a little more “team building” attitude is required.

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Matt B. I think it takes 24 hours before Hewitt will say that he doesn’t read the AJC and yet blame Mark Bradley for our NCAA Tourny loss. Then he will blame those of us who dare criticize him and come back next year. Of course we’ll go 4 -12 in the ACC, but he’ll have another “I didn’t think that Derrick Favors was going pro” excuse. He is the albatross around our necks.

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Another “right on target” column….stay on Hewitt’s ass!

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Vince – you must have played Upward Bound basketball. Don’t keep score, no winners or losers, everyone gets a trophy at the end.

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I kept hearing the word freshmen today …. thats good

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“Was Tech better than Ohio State? Said Shumpert, almost spitting the words: “A lot better”

The better team never loses that’s why they’re called the better team ….

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Shumpart is not as good as he thinks he is. A tad bit over rated. FAvors and Lawal are great.

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i gave up…will not watch tech BB til we havve new coach.

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Hewitt needs to move on. He has some of the best talent in the county, and we finished 7th in the ACC and got a 10th seed in the NCAA tournament. Some blame a young team, look at Kentucky…they don’t have an issue with four freshman getting major minutes. You’ll never win games when you can’t make free throws, get the ball in bounds, handle pressure, and average over 15 turn overs a game. The lack of performance comes from poor coaching. The best season Hewitt had came with several players he inherited. Mark Price, John Salley, somebody…please come help!

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STOP IT! Every article about Tech is how great their talent is and how they are sooooooo much better than every team they lose to. You write that article once and its Ok. You write it after two loses it becomes a bit specious. You write it three times, you begin to look like an unrepetant homer. You write it four, five, six, seven times you just look like you arent paying attention.

Talent does NOT equal potential or athleticism. Talent has to do with who plays basketball–a team game, its worth noting–better. For that word to mean anything (and for “better team” to mean anything) it has to be tied to results, which is the one thing this amazing, stupendous, world-beating Tech team hasnt achieved.

Several times this year you wrote that, despite Tech losing 2 of 3 to Duke and finishing six games behind Duke and Maryland in the ACC regular season, Tech would get further in the tourney. Do you have to give your salary back for the many, many days you wrote those words?

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Really enjoyed this group of players…. the effort the latter part of the year was never in question, and the returning freshman showed some promise (although next year will probably be rough). The coaching is just horrible – how can Hewitt claim they were victims of chance? Where is the accountability? For this team to not advance to the Sweet Sixteen gives another year of underachievement. For this team to receive no better than a 10 seed in the tourney is a travesty. Unless Hewitt wants out and goes to St. John’s, we’re stuck with another tepid year.

Thanks and best wishes to DFav, Gani, Peacock, and Bell!

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Tech fans should not hang their heads. The regular season may have been a little disappointing, but I really didn’t see this team accomplishments as being significantly less than what I thought they would be initially.

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Shumpert is a moron to say they were better when you got beat badly. I ‘ll be glad when this bozo is gone.

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Has Hewitt ever recruited a white player ?

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If you aren’t swayed by other available positions, please be, let me give you some off season advice. You know that game, “keep away “you play in grade school. You need to incorporate that into your practices ASAP. Better yet tell your players they need to play keep away with one another every day from March-November. Get 5 of the returning players and 3 of them try and keep the ball away from 2. The one who turns it over is then one of the 2 trying to fetch! Okay. Can you do this Paul. It would help next year to learn something a 8 year old learns how to do. Obviosuly the players you recruit never got to play keep away when they were kids. This simple fun game will improve your players tremendously next season.
Your welcome
Loyal GT fan

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Don’t even ask for a Slurpee refill.

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Keep coach Hewitt. He’s a nice guy and very smart, and he recruits well. And he can’t beat Duke (consistently). Many happy returns ………

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Gee, Mark. Didn’t you have Tech in the FInal Four a few hours ago? This is a badly coached team. Period.

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In Hewitt; Tech has nothing.

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The problem with Paul Hewitt is that he cannot see what everyone else sees around him, even his own players. Although what happened the last 2 weeks was exciting, it was the worst thing that could have happened to GT basketball. We all know that Tech will never excel under Paul Hewitt, but he bought himself another year by turning the sesaon grade from an F into a C.

At least I won’t be wasting my money on this next year. I will be back when Hewitt is gone, and not before.

Thanks to all the players, especially the seniors, for their efforts this year. You are a wonderful group of young men.

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If Hewitt thought he had the better team he should not have gambled on Lawal picking up his 3rd foul in the first half. Come to think of it he shouldn’t have made that gamble period.

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The women’s team looks even worse than the men right now. No outside shooting and a ton of turnovers.

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U idiots wouldn’t know basketball if feed from your own mother. Tech had no point guard and no three point shooters. This was and is a very young team so give the kids and the coach a break. As Drad said, support your team.

Now we all know Favors is better than most freshmen, but no nba ready ballplayer. He can’t shoot from outside the paint and can’t pass out of the double team. Let the coach bring in a few more players and then make something happen. He took an undermanned team to the finals, how soon u idiots forget.

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Man techno your math is pretty bad.

1-5 scale
A=5
F=1
3 c’s = Three 3’s
b=4
a=5
d=2
divide the total by 6. you get 3.3 which would be a C minus.

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Since when is an A a 5? Did you even go to school? It’s a 4 point scale. A is 4, B is 3, C is 2, D is 1.

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GTman….get a grip will you? There is a reason GT and UGA are considered arch rivals. Did you ever stop and think this bickering has gone on for 100 years, goes on today, and will go on for the next 100? We are just grains of sand in this clean old fashioned hate. It is our duty to give you crap, and likewise, it is your duty to give it to us. You made the big dance, and we did not. Just realish in that fact, and don’t take things so personal. Tech has a good BB team that came up a little short, and we are here to happily remind you of that.

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In Hewitt We Rust

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I bet Bobby Cremins would not have went to the Tournament with this team…How many ACC titiles did he win? First of all, the acc is only allowed to be won by NC and Duke.The refs will not have it any other way….check out the free throw stats in the acc….Mark Bradley made all you idiots believe that we had an all star team but really we had 1 nba starter and we were very young in the backcourt.3 mc donalds all americans? Hell NC had 7 ….And on top of that, GT got no respect from the refs all year….Hewitt should leave for St Johns, Atlantans dont deserve a class act like paul Hewitt….you turned your backs on all your teams when they lose…thats why no team from GA will ever win annything….Recruits read these dumb a@@ comments u leave on here..i know one who is at South Atlanta right now and will be the highest rated player in the state and he reads this and has already seen how u dummies have treated Favors…Bashing him when he wasnt dominating.. he will not be attending tech…Even if Favors and lawai leave we will be even better because we will have expierenced guards and wings…..
I believe alot of this is because he is black…just being honest….we all know how southern people think….

Live from SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO
PEACE

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It’s still a C minus moron. For a tech fan your math is terrible.

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great year
80% of the sweet 16 teams have no players that will play in the nba next season you dumass. It was a horrible year. Tech is the only team besides kansas and kentucky that have 2 players that will be drafted in the first round this year. No one on here bashed Favors. He was the lone shining light on this team. Hewitt nearly wrecked his lottery status though. It’s been dropping since the start of the season just like lawal.

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The deserving team won.
What happened to the defense?
Unlike the prior game, we left guys wide open to take threes the whole game.
Favors equals Crittendon.
So worried about the pros that neither could play decent in the Big Dance.

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The most talented team didn’t win; the most well coached team did!

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Maybe the Jackets should play like the little white boys from Northern Iowa. It is called playing smart and with passion.

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It is so hard being a Buckeye alum in the south. You totally disrespected Thee Ohio State University basketball program. Just as an fyi, Evan Turner is up the Naismith award. Face it, Tech was beat by a better team. Psst..Notice the number 2 seeding of OSU. Oh, they won their conference as well.. Just so that you know…

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Hire Mark Price!

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here is hoping the Big Apple beckons!

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It was my Techvent that said “what a difference a point guard makes” after the 1st UNC victory.
But I was mistaken.
Shumpert never understood the main aspect of his job which is responsibility to run the offense and get everyone going.
He could actually score zero points and still do a great job.
I agree with those who have posted in the past that he should be benched after putting up a three without trying to get a better shot.
He also doesn’t get that he needs to work on limiting his TOs.
Well there is still N Iowa and St Marys to pull for.

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Coach Hewitt came in to the QuikTrip the other day waving a sword and threatening to punch me in the face.

He then played laser tag with my third eye while he filled a Slurpee and proceeded to drink it in one gulp.

As he left, without paying, he said he had an icecream headache and to screw the NCAAs, he had bigger fish to fry.

He is BANNED from the QuikTrip!!!

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Who IS this clown writing this column? He evidently knew NOTHING of GT’s opponent. GT played right into the HANDS of the OSU offense today. “Fast break” and “transition treys” — that IS the OSU offense. That doesn’t just “happen” to an opponent, OSU forces it to happen. And who CARES if GT’s no. 8 man on the bench plays 16 minutes — OSU had three starters that played EVERY MINUTE of all three Big Ten games, including a 5-minute OT; a fourth, Turner, the POY, fouled out with 2:18 to play. It’s called “Know Your Opponent” before you try to analyze why your team lost. GT got beat by a superior opponent. OSU’s starting five ran circles around GT. they didn’t know how to guard Turner, Lighty or Diebler. After GT was up 14-6, they got outscored the rest of the way, 69-52. And Schumpert STILL doesn’t see the difference? Face it, GT fans: The BETTER TEAM WON. End of story.

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What a homer column. The best team won, deal with it. MB don’t you feel bad stealing the AJC’s money?

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There was nobody on this team that could be counted on to score crucial points or to take over a game and carry the team. today was a perfect example. top scorer had 11 points.

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not a homer said it best….this was a homer column. The best team won hands down…..just love the excuses being made on here. Well on we go….to play a very quality team in Tennessee. Go OSU!.

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Big article in ajc today about the 300 million education cuts that are coming down and how it effects scholarships for athletes and the gt athletic ass. budget. DRAD say it will costs the gtaa over $200,000 next yr alone and they expect that cost to rise every yr. after. So unless some serious donations are given we are stuck with Hewitt for a LONG time. Im not doom and gloom as some about how this season ended. YES we had the talent to beat anyone. Puke in dc just find Coach Ks interview after acc title game. Coach K recognized the talent tech has. Hewitt needs to retool his staff IMO. Get some ass. coaches to get in the faces of these guys and whip them into shape.

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John, you say a 2.8 is a C minus and then call ME a moron? You’re hopeless.

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Face it, Dan. No one else is going to hire Hewitt away and solve the $7 million problem for you, so you are going to have to figure out a way for Tech to pay him off. It’s not fair – you didn’t cause the problem, but you are going to have to be the one to fix it.

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Hey Buckeye Fans….You’re preaching to the choir!

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Hewitt should take some of his own money and hire Lebron James to come into AMC for a little one-on-one with Favors, Lawal and other underclassmen thinking about jumping to NBA. After LJ23 puts some moves on them and stuffs the ball back in their face, they may consider the step up in level one they can’t make.

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Georgia Tech’s “lottery pick” is going to have trouble in the NBA if a 6′5 guard in David Lighty can cause him fits. When a guard can handle your big man, you’re not that good.

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I’m more surprised Tech got as far as they did. From everything that did or didn’t happen during the regular season and the vitrol soaked Paul Hewitt, to beating themselves with turnovers and no perimeter defense against a very suspect Big 10 team. It ays something whwn you can out-choke an opponent known for choking outside of Ohio.

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Hewitt knows defense, but knows nothing about Offense

I’m beginning to think that Hewitt knows something about Offense, but that he doesn’t know how to coach it. Tech runs plays, and the post players do their job getting open. But it’s like the players have never successfully executed the plays in practice and are afraid of failure to the point that they don’t react well and do not trust their abilities. How many times per game is a pick and roll run, but then the guard doesn’t pass or shoot, and the offense resets? How many times is a post player open and doesn’t receive the pass from the guard who is staring right at him? How about on inbounds plays when the player who receives the pass from out of bounds needs to pass quickly when the double team comes on him, but instead gets himself trapped in the corner and a timeout or turnover ensues? These are all results of not being able to react, and reactions get better/faster with more practice. When I see Tech on offense, they just look like they aren’t prepared to execute. If the players aren’t doing their job in practice or are prima donnas, then Hewitt needs to be recruiting different players because the offense has been this disjointed for years. I can’t claim to know how practice goes because I’m not there, but whatever the reasons for lack of offensive execution during games, the coach is ultimately responsible.

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@Mark Bradley: Mark Sheehan has played in 19 games averaging 7 minutes per game….not exactly Singler/Scheyer numbers…LOL

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How does a team that is “a lot” better lose by 9 points. OSU’s lead in the second half was what a 14 point lead? GT lead the game twice – only for a brief moment.

Let’s face it Bee fans, the better team one – and did it with less players. Period. Stop crying about it. Lose with class.

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What is your point? Ohio State’s bench has not scored the entire year. Why do you act like this is a new occurrence? Did you not research Ohio State before the game? It doesn’t take 10 seconds to research Ohio State and discover they do not use or need a bench.

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Techno
Are you really this stupid? I never said 2.8. I said it’s STILL a C Minus. You apparently can’t to 5th grade math.

3 c’s is 3×2=6
1 a =4
1 b = 3
1 d = 1
Now follow me because I know this is so hard. 6 + 4 + 3 + 1 = 14.
Fourteen divided by 6 is….. 2.3
2.3 on a scale where 1 is a D and 4 is an A would be a C MINUS. Good lord you’re retarded.

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i just love it when teck loses…especially to my BUCKS!!! great day ACC!!! lose a couple to the Big 10 and a crappy dook team that got gifted a bracket is all you’ve got left. what a joke. wonder who else shrimpert thinks they are better than…the Cavs….the Hawks….the Lakers…what a loser.

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Thanks Mark, I’d forgotten about Holsey. That makes me even more optimistic about next year. We’ve got that 4 star shooting guard coming in too.

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why is there always at least one idiot that blames the critics that are hating on Paul Hewitt saying that we want Hewitt gone because he’s black?????????????

Must be why everyone who wants Bobby Cox fired because he is white…..right?????

Get off this blog “Great Year for Hewitt”

Stop bringing up the color card, its not about his race its about his one winning season out of 10 in the ACC, its about his 95-87 record since going to the national championship game….get over his color you racist, its about his performance and wins and losses !!!!!

Fire Bobby Cox……..because he’s white…..do you know how ridiculous you sound???

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Oh, and by the way, as a Georgia fan, I can only imagine the frustration of Tech’s fans — all that talent, a team that almost won the ACC tourney, a team that beat Oklahoma State and probably SHOULD have beaten Ohio State… yet you’re going home. I agree with most of you that talent-wise, your Jackets should have gone farther… yet coaching probably held you back.

A few years ago, I wished that Tech and Georgia could trade coaches (when we had Jirsa, Harrick, Felton)…. but now, with Mark Fox proving he’s and up-and-coming coach, I wouldn’t trade for anything. Good luck next year ‘Dawgs, let’s beat Tech again!

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John, if a C is 2 points, how can 2.3 be a C minus?

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Another thing John, I never intended a “formal grade”. It’s just a rough assessment. Why are you so retentive?

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Very well stated, Mr. Bradley — that column sums up the season nicely.

(I optimistically had GT winning in this round, but then again, after picking Kansas to win it all, that doesn’t even qualify as a minor hole in my already majorly-busted bracket).

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I for one, am tired of all the negativity and crying for Paul Hewitt’s head. For those with the short term memories, I remember a lot of years toward the end of Cremins’ career, where GT wasn’t even in the mix. I think Cremins recruited well, but couldn’t coach as well as Hewitt. IMHO, it’s not his coaching that’s the issue – it’s finding the right chemistry of players on the court – players that have the good fundamentals and the passion to play the game the way it should be made.

I think Hewitt has some things to improve on, but all of this calling for him to be fired is absolutely ridiculous. You armchair quarterbacks need to quit the voyeurism and get off your butts and do something productive. Your rants here are neither helping the problem nor finding a solution. And frankly we’re all tired of hearing them.

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Wow…if I re-did my brackets, I would probably go with Kentucky and Ohio State at this point. At least we lost to a really good team.

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“Milwaukee – Elbows on knees, a scowling Iman Shumpert bent forward in his chair. Someone asked if Ohio State was better than Georgia Tech. “Not at all,” Shumpert said.

So: Was Tech better than Ohio State? Said Shumpert, almost spitting the words: “A lot better.”

No class at all. Who won, Tech fans? Who lost? Over the last two months, Ohio State has found a way to win in a conference that’s sending 3 teams to the Sweet 16. How many is your conference sending, no-class whiners? You had no answer for Evan Turner, Jon Diebler, or Ohio State’s fast break. You got beat by a better team. You could at least show some hint of class about losing.

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“As strange as it sounds, there was a clear imbalance of talent between the No. 2 seed and the No. 10.”

Rubbish. I didnt expect such a homer reporter from a real paper like the Constitution.

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I’m not caring what the overall GPA was for your scoring, but no one could look at this game or this season, and not realize how inferior our coaching is.

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Shocking about ugag fans think that they have any right to say anything at all when their team didn’t even make the tourney. Shut up until your team actually DOES something!

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Wow. You are stupid techno.

Anything in the 2’s is a C. Low 2’s is a c minus. High 2’s is a c plus. You gave him a b-. My god you are dense. You give tech fans a low IQ.

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Techno
Why are you so stupid?

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GTMan:

“The Gators own you”

Ummm…yeah about as much as we own you. Try worrying about your own team. Our worst team in years beat your best team in years in your building, and it wasn’t even as close as the score shows. And then we beat you in basketball. Yet again.

Mark Fox > Paul Hewitt

Have fun with the rollover contract and perpetual Hewitt

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“You ugag fans have all the right to discuss your women’s sports – at least they win”

ORLY

30-24
73-66
8-1

etc
etc
yawn

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John, as I’ve said repeatedly this was not a scientific study, lol. The overall grade, just like the individual grades was based on subjective opinion. You ASS-U-ME-d that the overall had to be a mathematical derivation of the individual grades. What the hell is wrong with you?
Finally, a C is rewarded for anything from 1.5 to 2.49 in any grading system I’ve ever seen. So even by your obsessive/compulsive retentive world it’s still not a C minus! It would be a C. Now quit obsessing about it and get a life.

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Start the game feeding Law and make about five straight to’s…and still go up 10/2.????
If Tech could just cut down some of the foolish non forced to’s and eliminate some of the foolish fouls, they surely could have won this game. But the team that won was most definitely the better team at the end. CBS thought the game was so bad they pulled away so I did not see the 11/0 Tech run to cut it to four.
If both Fav and Law to pro…so be it. But I hope both do not come back…they do not play well together. Either one coming back would be good news.

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We new going into this game that Ohio State transition game would win out.So whats the big deal? they lost,so deal with it.

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I sure wish Coach Hewitt would just resign and go away. Then I would hope we never hear from him again.

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This is a terrible column !! GT’s players did their best but, they lost to the better team. Perhaps not best strictly from a talent perspective, but OSU players are more experienced, more savvy, and have much better leadership. Tech has a young team that is somewhat immature and frankly, played in an inferior conference. The ACC is definitely down this year. Only 1 team in the Sweet 16 while, the Big Ten has 3. If Tech’s stars don’t bolt for the NBA, they will be much improved next year. So, MB,call like it is, OSU was simply the better team and it was proven on the court. By the way, IS should not be a hater.ET just kicked his but and he knows it. IS had his chance but, ET took him to school. The game stats speak for themselves !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Further proof that the paper and fans are with GT win or tie. The GT basketball team could have easily packed it in after the Virgina Tech loss at home. Unlike the fans, they didn’t quit and finished relatively strong. Losing to the #2 seed is disappointing but not a crime. Thank you seniors and good luck going forward.

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Steiner,

Is your caps lock key stuck or are you just a dumba$$?

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“you are what your record says you are.”

bill parcells

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tell that little crybaby shumpert that the game is played in between press conferences and his worthless post game is just that. hey iman, you had ‘em for 40 minutes, now you got a lifetime of regrets–deal with it!

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Leghumpers,

Probably a good idea to at least MAKE the NIT and/or a major bowl before you go mouthing off. That way, you don’t need to troll the blogs of teams that actually do. Seriously, are you guys have been reduced to flail. You simply don’t play in significant post season games anymore. All those resources, so little results down on the farm.

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Better than Price / Dalrymple / Salley / Hammonds / Ferrel?

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Good column Mark.
Real good.
Tech is a good team but is NOT the least bit opportunistic. ZERO. ZIP. EVER.
Bottom line…………………..season ends.

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DAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Should have been in the Final 4, Nerds.

Too Bad ……………….. SO SAD !!

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You can discount the “officiating angle.” But, the game I saw definitely included refs protecting Evan Turner, calling fouls when he flopped (Shumpert’s foul at the end of the first – camera showed Turner on the floor opened one eye to see if the ref was buying it). Favors was called for a foul in the second half when Lighty leaned against him and Derrick repositioned. Tech still could have won. OSU’s bench may not have scored but there was definitely a sixth man wearing stripes.

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Wow, much earlier in the day I on another blog I made post that I had been critical of Hewitt all season long but since he was gonna be here for another year we may as well pull for him. I really thought that Tech would win this game. Unfortunately I wasnt able to watch it live but I did watch a replay of it on tivo. The one time this whole season that I wasnt yelling FIRE THE BUM he really made me as well as a lot of other Tech fans look stupid. OSU really does have a good team, I do believe however that with a “good” coach Tech wins this game and the UGA game, both FSU games, the Dayton game, the Virginia game, the Miami game, and the VT game. Maybe even a couple more beyon that. Hewitt totally showed us his inability to coach today. I know that individual performance in basketball means very little, but when is the last time we had anyone that we could consistently count on to score around 20 points per game? Its like whenever we have a player get in the zone Hewitt takes them out of the game. WHY??? I will be the first to admit that after the trip to the championship game I was really on the Hewitt bandwagon and stayed on it until about halfway through last season when I really started to realize what a joke of a coach he is. Tech should have give him an ultimatum after last season that he wins 10 ACC games, 25 overall and makes it to the sweet sixteen or he can go job searching. Then after the game he says we had a “great season”!!! What the heck is that? If we had a “great” season we would have been playing a 10 seed today instead of playing a 2 seed! Hewitt has gotten so content with mediocrity now that it will never change. Next season when we go 4-12 in ACC he’s gonna blame it on Favors and Lawal leaving. As long as Hewitt is at the helm this is a sinking ship. I love the Jackets and wish them all the sucess in the world but as long as Hewitt is the coach we will continue to see the same results. Best of luck to all the seniors and as well as Derrick and Gani as they start their NBA careers next season.

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Champions of the State of Georgia: UGA!

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The obit reads, ‘GT did all it could but in the end, it was not enough. Tennessee sends it’s condolences on your loss.’…GBO

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5:40! whoa, that’s early. I wish someone had asked Hewitt why our guards took so many “quick” shots. That really played into the hands of OSU’s transition offense and cost us the game.

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Fire PAUL HEWITT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn RADS hear the FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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That was Price Dalrymple, Salley, JOSEPH, and Ferrell. And a great team.

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Need a new coach- great point!!! Gailey was white and we couldnt wait to get him out of town….even though he had a winning season 6 consecutive seasons with 6 bowl games. If anything we have been too easy on Hewitt. If Gailey had 2 consecutive losing seasons he would have been run out of town much sooner! The numbers dont lie folks.

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I don’t know why everyone assumes we will struggle next year. It’s not a lock that Lawal leaves. We have Shump, Rice, Oliver, Udofia, Miller for sure with K. Holsley, D. Miller and incoming frsh. Jason Morris. That is a pretty solid group if you ask me. Rice really showed that he has great BB IQ towards the end of the year. I look for another NCAA appearance next year. Since hoops is over, let’s mention that the baseball team is 16-2 and ranked #3!

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What a horrible article. Do you not take losing well in Dixie Land? The much better team won. The only reason Tech was in the game early was because OSU had trouble making buckets but then warmed up. BTW – there are three Big Ten teams in the sweet sixteen. Guess we do have speed up North after all. The reason our bench is thin this year is because OSU recruits so well that a few have left early for the NBA: Conley, Oden, Koufos etc.

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We’re lucky Hewitt didn’t blow the OSU game with the brilliant timeout he called which almost left us with 1 second to inbound the ball and shoot it. I doubt Cremins would have called that timeout.

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osu had a better team! tech had more talent. cph coached anthony morrow to be a undrafted free agent, he is a starting in the nba as a rookie. chp’s young team had 1 sr, 1 rs sr, 1 rs jr, 3 jr, and one soph. a couple of years back we had young, crittenton and morrow and coudn’t get in the tourney. he is the worse bench coach than woodson.

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Wish we could trade coaches like pro sports teams trade players. Trade Hewitt for 2 up and coming assistants from Duke! LOL

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To have these kind of players and the rest of the nation having such weak line ups is very disappointing. We won’t see an opportunity like this come along for a very long time. UNC is back next year, the ACC is back next year. For one year the ACC was weak, maybe weaker than I can every remember, there is no great teams out there, in any of the conferences. Watch the crowds at the coliseum and compare them to the Cremin days. This is not a ACC atmosphere, no electricity. What I see coming could kill Tech basketball, whatever this year didn’t have the next couple of years is that on steroids.

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I wonder if D-Rad would hire Paul Johnson to coach the basketball team too???? He couldnt be any worse than Hewitt! Heck look what he has done on the flats. The football team is so fun to watch now. Since it looks like Hewitt is gonna be around for another season maybe Johnson could give Hewitt some coaching lessons!

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Wondering? Not me, they lost to the DAWGS and to a Big 10 team….does it get any worse for the Bumbles?

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I must admit, I had not watched a minute of Tech basketball all year but I did watch the two NCAA games particularly after hearing all of the complaints about Paul and the roller coaster ride that his team has been on all year . All of these blogs all of the Tech complaints all of the Fire Paul Hewitt campaigns etc. everyone seem to easily fail to mention that this team plays a heavy rotation of freshmen and sophomores. So every things I have read on these blogs and particularly what has been written by MB fails to point this out. All I have heard is how PH has mismanaged this accumulation of talent, “perhaps the most talented Tech team ever” but no one has ever mentioned that this young talent takes time to mold. I see the inability to inbound a pass or the overwhelming number of turnovers and at no point do I say PH is in over his head, PH can not coach, PH is too arrogant or PH has been out coached. Believe me all of this would be true if I did not see the effort that these guys give but the effort is there, that is coaching, that is preparation. What is overlooked by all of these hyper-bloggers and MB is the fact that Tech has long stopped being Point Guard U. There is no one on the floor that can control the action. I noticed the post players with inside position on numerous occasions with not a person skilled enough or willing enough to deliver the pass. I am screaming at the TV, “he has him, give him the ball” only to have a forced jumper or errant pass delivered. Shumpert is supremely talented but he is not a developed point at this juncture in his career. Every time he took a long three after dribbling down the floor and no one else touched the ball, I saw PH rip him a new one, that is coaching. My only fault with PH is the fact that he gives too many minutes to Mo Miller, I have watched him for two years and I know he is just a kid and may really be a stand up guy but he does not have the skill set of a major college player. Put a developed and skilled point guard on the floor and this team gets easy shots for the post players, spot up jumpers are more abundant, the turnovers go down and you can inbound the freaking ball. This team faults have nothing to do with coaching, recruiting maybe but not coaching. It is all about the coach on the floor. If this team stayed in tack next year, which may be unlikely, with the further development of Shumpert then this team may be what you thought they would be this year. Like my dad would always say, “talent is like a bag of air, if you don’t bust the bag you would never know it was there” never really knew what that meant but there you go with all the talent talk.

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Hewitt will be demanding a huge raise after that big year—Ga Tech needs to come through with a bonus and $3 mil salary, minimum, to keep Paul happy. Otherwise, he may be looking at the St. Johns or Oregon jobs.

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I’m realistic in knowing that Tech got about as far as I thought they would. Are they talented? Absolutely, but vulnerable beyond belief. Inconsistency has been their game for several years now. It doesn’t matter how much “talent” you have if you can’t put together a consistent game. That being said, the Buckeye fans need to get over themselves. There was nothing impressive about their win today other than the fact they beat GT at their most mediocre, which is something that’s been accomplished by the following:

Dayton, UGA, Virginia and Miami…none of which made the tourney.

Sweet16Buckeye — Yes the Big 10 is clearly better this year, but as an ACC fan, I’ll take the previous 10 of 11 season. So go ahead and relish in this rare moment, as the ACC will continue their domination in 2011.

Bake — The following quote is laughable:
“a crappy dook team that got gifted a bracket is all you’ve got left”

If you’re fortunate enough to play them, that crappy Duke team will wipe the floor with your Buckeyes.

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And now…
Whoever asked how many ACC titles Bobby Cremins won, he won the ACC tournament three times. Hewitt, in 10 years, has been to two championship games. He is bagel for the ACC tournament title. His average season at Tech is 17-13. For this mediocrity, he is being rewarded handsomely.
Tech a mid-major? Do what? You mean, with two trips to the Final Four, including a national championship game appearance, since the field expanded to 64? Yeah, that’s mid-major stuff right there. Doofus.

Make no mistake: Evan Turner is one helluva player. But Favors and Lawal are first-round picks and their supporting cast was better and deeper. Tech had depth and talent, yet it’s consistent malfunctions, mostly of a mental variety, speak to its continued ineffective coaching. Far too many one or no pass possessions. Too many turnovers of an incomprehensible and inexplicable variety. A staggering lack of fundamentals (that guy … squaring up for another 3 … you might not want to leave him so alone … again.)
But, Tech fans, we’re stuck with Hewitt, unless the NBA seeks his services. We would he ever leave The Flats with a $7 million golden parachute? His contract has automatically rolled over (Dave Braine has almost single-handedly destroyed Tech athletics. First, he had the self-fulfilling prophesy of Tech never winning more than nine games a year in football during the Gailey era, a statement Paul Johnson has since turned on its head, and prior to that, he foisted that ungodly contract on Tech basketball).
Tech’s guards never tried aggressively or consistently to start the offense with a pass inside to Lawal and Favors, with a kickout for an open jumper. That’s fairly basic basketball, but Tech failed to grasp such a simple concept.
And now, Tech figures to enter 2010-11 without Favors, without Lawal, without Bell (a capable defender) and without Peacock (a gifted offensive player with size to score inside and a deft outside shooting touch, though he was prone to some curious decision making). Oliver, who went Sandra Bullock to Jesse James cold in the ACC tournament, at least found his shot again against Ohio State. Rice Jr. is a good player. Shumpert can do some very good things (and some bad things). The cupboard isn’t bare … but there are a lot fewer utensils for next year.

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OSU basically only played 5 players and beat Tech’s super deep team. You’d think we could have just run them to death. Tech just brought their ‘D’ game today – D for done.

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Tech needs to recruit “smart players” and not focus so much on the athleticism. Duke players play smarter. Kentucky players play smarter. Everybody with Tech’s physical talent plays smarter. Mark Price, Kenny Anderson, Marbury, Blemker,Yunkas, Kaiser, Denton, Randall, Sallie, Best, and many other former Tech players, even the tall Australian played smarter. Crittendon would have fit in well with this team. So, what’s it all mean! I’m probably being too hard on the players, especially the freshmen, but I am so sick of seeing so many bonehead plays. I don’t think I could watch them play again even if I had the chance.

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I think Hewitt is a great coach he cant play the game for them.. Hewitt only won 9 games in 2009 he won 23 this year with the freshman he brought in people think Duke had to grow to be as good as they are now they struggle when shycher n singler where freshman.. I agree if Favors come back next year nothing less than elite 8 i think more likely final 4.. assuming rice n oliver stay n one dont transfer.. Tech fans are ya’ll going to yell if Paul Johnson don’t when the Acc again and make it 2 another BCS game and lose to georgia and lose the bowl game.. I think Tech football team should make a run in the championship game in football next season.. Hewitt got you to a Tittle game lets see if Paul Johnson can in 3 years time hewitt did.. and he faces a top 10 Carolina and Duke every year except Carolina this year..

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georgia tech and all of it’s ramifications SUCK!

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Yet another year of underachievement for a GaTech athletic team.

Those of you Tech fans bashing UGA basketball are pathetic. This isn’t about UGA basketball. This is about one of the most talented teams in the country year in and year out constantly underachieving.

Stop trying to shift the focus of the problem. Hewitt is a good recruiter and a good basketball school. I do not know if the problem is Hewitt’s coaching ability, or the fact most highly rated recruits were so athletically superior in high school that they might not have learned how to play the game. When they come up against players even remotely close to them talent wise Tech players just completely play beneath their abilities.

Don’t worry though, tech gets to look forward to underachieving in baseball for the 24th season out of the last 25. Yes, you make it to a CWS now and then, but your team in continually ranked in the top 10 at or near the beginning of the season, only to sputter and fail and usually end up outside the top 25.

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Kansas was the number 1 team in the nation. I guess their coach needs to fired now!! Georgiatown, Villanova, maryland, pitt, and wisconsin coaches also need to be fired. These teams actually lost to teams in lower seeds than them. Tech lost to the number 2 seed, while being in foul trouble the entire game.

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Please Mark, don’t blame everything on the coach. Lawal and Favors are projected as first round picks. I don’t see it. Lawal has the worst hands I have seen this year. Favors has zero creativity-while the NBA is all about dunks, it is more than that. As a team they have got to be the dumbest on the lot. All these turnovers cannot be laid to Hewitt. Pathetic perforomance against Ohio State-but what do you expect from a bunch of glory hounds who would not recognize team concepts if it flew through their living room at night and they knew it ewas coming. And I am a bg time Tech Fan, or I used to be.

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Gani, If you’re two feet from the basket and get fouled on the way up…….FINISH the shot man!

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To GTman, Reality, and Holy Smoke,

For you guys I will just quote your favorite Tech fan m. “I’m glad it hurts so much”.

To the rest of the disappointed Tech fans. You made it with an underachieving team and kudos for that. I do not even pretend to know anything about basketball so no jabs or sarcastic remarks. See you guys in Nov.

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Tech is talented, but they don’t play intelligently. Combine that with mediocre coaching, and you get an inconsistent team and season.

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[...] What if Tech hadn’t underachieved? [AJC] [...]

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Uh, tech 2222, youth doesn’t matter if they aren’t staying.

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Paul Hewitt, “a great year, a very good year”, yeah, maybe by a losers standards. Oh, and we were “unlucky”. God, I am so thankful that we do not have a head football coach with this attitude or mentality. Hewitt is a loser, just look at his ACC record. Now tell me, why should I buy tickets to any of the games with a loser like Hewitt for a coach. What a joke, and sorry attitude, to so call lead this team. Guess he is like the dems who put a spin on everything to force their will down your throat. Hewitt, be thankful that you do not have to face a vote from the fans…the only fans votes that you would get are from the opposing teams. They want you to stay, and with good reason. LOSER!!!!

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I observed a serious lacking in fundamentals all season, and we all know these guys are better than their record. Perhaps a young Bob Knight could have slapped them on the noggin and gotten better outcomes, at a more reasonable salary, I might add.

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Coach Hewitt would give his left *** for a slick point guard.

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Mark, we kept hearing that Tech was going to go deeper in the tourney than Duke. Where’s the column acknowledging that was a ridiculous prediction?

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A tale to two Pauls…

One comes to Tech, takes someone else’s recruits, demands nothing less than excellence, and in a short time span molds them into a unit feared by others, accepts no excuses for sub par perfomance and takes responsibility for anything less.

The other, now years later recruits some of the finest talent in the land continues to proctor underachievers with no real concept of teamwork, sets the example for his players who make nothing but excuses and blames others for questioning the obvious.

One Paul almost always makes terrific, sometimes brilliant halftime adjustments, the score reflecting the strategy.

The other; you tell me as each half looks like a disorganzied schoolyard mess no matter the final score. What strategy…?

One Paul gets the equivalent of pennies on the dollar for what he does.
The other is set for years for what he hasn’t.

One Paul has so far made fine wine from ordinary grapes.
The other has turned lemonade into lemons.

Where is the logic in all of this?
Where are the Braines when you need them?

Too bad one Paul ain’t the other Paul’s boss.

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Retired bballcoach and rumble read this carefully… GT has slick/talented Point Guards but Hewitt cant coach….Mfon Udofia was agruably one of the best pg’s in the country and so was Moe Miller coming out of high school…Moe Miller was gatorade player of the year in tennesse. Paul Hewitt doesnt allow his guards to play to there strengths…I saw Hewitt actually start Udofia at the shooting guard position this year..Hewitt cant Coach…All of these one and done guys are obviously going to the league…Who has Hewitt coached to the league??……If Cremins were there Udofia, Miller, and Shumpert would make ACC Teams…Oliver and Rice Jr. too. Hewitt isnt a pg coach….Actually Hewitt is a mid major coach…I’ll give you an example: If an all academic student coming out of high school with a 4.5. gpa has a problem with grasping mathematics …who’s responible for assisting the student in getting better..THE TEACHER…Hewitt is suppose to mold his talent and yes he has alot of pg talent….Hewitt just isnt a good coach…He relys on the one dones to keep his job…Great recruiter…but not a good coach.

Think about Anthony Morrow..Mr. North Carolina coming out of high school….It took him to leave GT for the world to see he could play bball..If another coach was at GT Morrow would have been drafted and would alot of other players through these last 10 years. Bad Coaching.!!

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GT was nothing before Cremins and returned to nothing the last three years under Cremins. Everyone wondered why Bobby couldn’t get more from his talent. Hewitt picked up where Cremins left off and has further perfected getting less out of talented players. GT has not been a consistent force for years and will not become one under Hewitt. They need a disciplinarian to run the team versus letting the team run the coach. It’s kind of sad when reality becomes louder than the dream. Unfortunately the GT brass have a long record of rewarding underachievement and this is not likely to change.

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SJ- I think that is the best post that I have EVER seen. Well put, that explains it all. I wish a lot of other people could see it the way you do.

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Mark Bradley, what spin are we supposed to ignore, yours or Techs? If they win its because they were supposed to, if they lose, fire the coach. You have never played a sport, have you Mark?

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Blah, Blah, Blah…..You got beat by the “Buckeyes”.

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Hewitt is a joke among the ACC. I didnt watch and will not watch any GTBB as long as Hewitt is at Tech. Go ahead and criticize me for “not being a true fan”, but this is the only want that idiot Drad will do something… he is only about the $$.

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Not really, They played pretty well for what they are. They only really have one great player Derrick Favors and he’s a fairly raw freshman. The guards… aren’t that good. Gani Lawal is physically imposing but he’s not a game changer.

They did well in the ACC tournament and played fairly well in the NCAA’s improving greatly in the last 2 weeks as a team.

7-9 in the ACC is what they are. An average to below average basketball team. They just didn’t play well enough to win yesterday.

This team had a ton of hype due to the addition of Derrick Favors… but outside of the outstanding defensive and free throw shooting extravaganza against the Pokes…. this team hasn’t played like one of the best teams in basketball all year. It’s unrealistic to believe they should have done better.

I don’t imagine they will fire coach Hewitt over this seasons performance but surely he has to realize for the money that he earns he’s got to make some changes in the way they do business because middling to awful (just the last two seasons) in the ACC are not worthy of his contract or buyout.

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Keno, you are kidding right? “Tech needs to recruit smart players… Duke players are smarter…” are you serious? I guess “smarter” is the code word for “white” and “athleticism” is the code word for “black” because we all know you can not be both! How absurd! You mentioned Kentucky players “play smarter” not that they are smarter probably because they are both black and athletic, there is no way they could actually be smart. A couple of key points to be brought to your attention, these guys are attending Tech, not the run of the mill college by any stretch. So they must have some degree of intelligence just to get in, no junior college transfers here. Secondly Duke and Kentucky, particularly Kentucky, has a outstanding point guard. Although Kentucky’s PG is a freshman, he is one of the best in the country, thus compensating for his youth, but didn’t even he have problems with his coach early in the year. Guard play has always dominated the NCAA tournament and makes you look a lot smarter than you are. Duke has been trending toward the “smarter” players (white) for the last few years and how many championships have they won in that span? The same as Tech. This time of year you win with a veteran team or dominate guard play. To win it all you must have both. Here is another news flash… all black players are not athletic and certainly whoever validated the fact that all white players were “smart”? All subtle racism aside, your way of thinking, you were not born with, it is a learned behavior and I do not hold judgement against you for thinking this way, Iblameurparents.

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Hewitt sure does talk about luck a lot.

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Same old Hewitt: “They tried really hard…” Blah, blah, blah.

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A very nice column, mark.

Hewitt has to go. I’m tired of this crap year after year.

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Quit calling tOSU a one man team with unmemorable teammates. Of the 5 starters for tOSU: 4 have scored 20 or more points multiple times, 4 have collected 10 or more rebounds in a game, 4 have had 7 or more assists in a game. Lighty was named captain of the SI all glue team (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/seth_davis/03/09/glue.guys/index.html). GT lost to a well rounded basketball team that gets the whole concept of what a TEAM is.

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Luck has nothing to do with throwing the ball away time after time and looking completely lost against any kind of back court/full court pressure. These are the same problems that Tech had in the ACC Tournament. Tech had a chance in the game against Ohios State, but literally threw it away. I blame this on lack of preparation and poor coaching.

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OK, so the local High School All-American team is out after picking up one win in the tournament. Sure, this team had talent, or they wouldn’t have won the first game, but it’s obvious to to all it had precious little experience or discipline. Some of the giveaways on uncontested passes were grade-school caliber gaffes, not even high school stuff.

You have to wonder why parents let kids like Favors sign with a school like GT; the kid obviously needs to go to class, go to practice, make grades, gain life and team-play experience, and grow up before he’s ready for the real world (or even the NBA, for that matter). The whole one-and-done thing gives kids an excuse to sell away a solid future for some fast cash, and except for the top cream-of-the-crop few I’m not convinced it’s a good deal. Favors to me, looks like one-in-hundred college big men; certainly many in this tournament outplaying him. If Favors wasn’t smart enough to go to class he shouldn’t be at GT at all, and I don’t mean this to pick on him, just using him as an example. NCAA needs to change the rules and re-qualify players before the conference and NCAA tournaments based on current academic status, not the prior semester. If that blows up some ranked teams so be it; maybe that will help put the focus back on COLLEGE.

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did the players get their phones back?

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Iblameurparents what bothers some of us long time Tech grads and fans is the fact that Hewitt never goes after any outstanding white players. No one likes or should accept racism of any kind any where, but there are many insiders that will tell you he does not go after any white kids because he simply does not want to. If we had a white coach and he took the same position regarding black players the press and the city officials would be screaming from the rooftops. So it not just his lousy coaching that bothers us it is his sarcastic attitude, never accepting responsibility, always blaming someone else and his recruiting attitude. Oh I forgot academics. We were one of the 12 teams in the tournament with below a 40% (ours is 38%) graduation rate. But Hewitt contends to discuss that is racism. Pretty amazing.

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GT had the better team no doubt! Unfortunatly, OSU had the better coaching and more intelligent players.

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Sorry Tech fans but they just weren’t that good. Favors still needs much work to his game and attitude. Shumpert was outplayed by Turner (clearly), Lighty outplayed Rice and Oliver, Georgia Tech looked slow in transition defense, and Lawal and Favors did nothing to establish a post game on either end of the floor. If Favors stayed another season, I think this team could be good, but , as it stands, they were out classed by an Ohio State team that, sans the turnovers and lapses, could have won by 20. Easily.

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Why do you not take up coaching Mark? You know how it should be done, don’t you? I guess it is easier to comment from the sidelines and from a third rate newspaper.

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@ Uncle Billy

Dawgdag has official copies of transcripts and SAT scores… so he can make that statement. LOL

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Typical losers’ reaction–blame te refs. GT was clarly beaten by a superior team. All the pontificating about how they could have been a Final Four team–they had their chance, and didn’t come close. Another year or two of maturity and it may be a diffrerent team..

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Mark, you have to admit the second personal on Favors was a freshmen mistake. It was a fast break and he had to let the guy go. He was our best player and was not strong enough to lead a team that desperately needed leadership. Our freshman foiled our run this year. The problem with that is we were depending on a freshman. So tell me this, lottery pick is great…… do you think he will have a great impact in the near future in the NBA… maybe. Let’s think Chris Bosh. Favors could do a lot more coming back another year and growing as a basketball player, but we won’t see it. Now, we as fans are left wondering how long it will take Hewitt to reload and get a decent team. Consistency is the issue with this program.

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OK, I agree with the OSU fans that they’re far more proven this year than GT, but comments like the following from lawbuck are just one sided.

“they were out classed by an Ohio State team that, sans the turnovers and lapses, could have won by 20. Easily”

Really? That’s exactly what I was saying about Tech only being up by 8 early in the game because of senseless turnovers. Wake up call; GT had more turnovers than OSU did, and they were not caused by good defense but rather by ineffective point guard play. So your theory of a 20 point margin of victory is unsubstantiated. Oh, and Shumpert’s an idiot for saying what he said, especially considering he’s a big reason why they’re so inept on offense.

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Sporty Black….your posts became ignorant and unreadable when you showed support for the Health Care Bill.

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@ GTsupporter/Free Handouts: Blah, blah, blah. You guys seem so unhappy in your life. As far as politics, I only support the fair tax movement. As far as my ignorance… I have three university degrees (plural with an ’s’) whose programs were top 3 in the nation upon completion. And, I fall into the top 5% of income earners. Not bad for being ignorant an ENGINEER AND LAWYER WITH AN MBA wouldn’t you say. BTW, I have a big D and I only do white women! So I guess you are really pi$$ed now. LOL

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Has is anyone seen Marks baseball? Those Mcdonald all americans are gonna be flops in the NBA.

GO GET EM BUCKS!!!

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Tar Heel Mike – Weren’t your Tar Heels oh and three against Hewitt this year? Just sayin’. . . .

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look on the bright side you Flagboy nation fans…….you at least got to the tournament! and your basketball thug round flagboys learned the importance of not using a cell phone for several days…..you bunch of sissies…lmfao……oh and you nerdnation fans are second in this state …at best….73-66

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Sporty Black what I stated was a fact and not race baiting. I said he never tries to recruit Outstanding White Players. Sheehan, Anderson, Davis, Nystrom and David Nelson were terrible and hardly ever played. Hewitt ran off Ed Nelson after he won rookie of the year in the ACC and then did not play him the second half of his sophomore year after he led us in rebounding during the first half of that year. Causey walked on and Luke sought out Tech. You have no argument because he has NEVER actively recruited any outstanding white players. Cremins recruited Mark Price (all pro, olympian and all time free throw leader in NBA history), the Barry brothers, Matt Geiger, Craig Neal, Matt Harpring, etc all played pro ball. How many of the white guys you named even played much in college no less pro ball? To point out facts in not racism or implied racism.

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Why even bother to respond to Sporty Black? He doesn’t understand most of the big words anyway. The kindest thing to do is just leave him a big tip in whatever restroom he is working at as an attendant this week.

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Your a corn ball sporty black and you throwing your credentials around on a basketball blog displays that. Take you and your d**k and those degrees and kill yourself just like GT basketball.

People who want everyone to know what they have are usually compensating for something they dont have….!!!

P.S. Take Paul Hewitt with you.

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GTguy44: I’M BACK!!!

You are a liar. See your post at 10:57am: “what bothers some of us long time Tech grads and fans is the fact that Hewitt never goes after any outstanding white players.”

Why are you people so angry?? It’s okay to for GTguy44 to throw ignorant, racially subjective opinions around. But when Sporty Black injects a joke about the “High Goddesses Whom beith on Top of Totem Pole,” it disgusting. You may not find me funny, but I am in stitches after reading y’all comments.

“Can’t we just all get along.” I will not stoop to name calling like GTSupporter, that’s what the unintelligent does.

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MARK – Your premise that GT is one of the top three or four teams in the nation tells me how little you know about basketball – - not much. I expect more from our only newspaper… can’t they find someone who knows a little about the sport?

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He’s not defending the indefensible, he is Telling It Like It Is.

To all bloggers out there: If I offended you with the white woman comment, I sincerely apologize. Please be assured that I only have preference for intelligent women; race, height, weight, religion, national origin all means nothing to me.

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@ GTguy44

Because you support GT, I’m not going to hurl insults, I’m going to be part of the solution (you may want to write the following down).

The fallocy in you logic is to assume that your opinion of what an outstanding white player is indeed fact. Well, it’s not.

Anyone can boldly state that the last outstanding white player was Rex Chapman. Many would agree. Many more would disagree. The point is that it is not factual. It is opinion, just like you comments made today.

Okay…

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It was not a good year at all. This tournament and the ACC tournament proved that point even more. We had the talent but we didn’t use the talent. Look in the stands, the fans aren’t there, and if you do endure and come, you leave so frustrated and only wishing you had stayed home. We reduce talent at Tech, instead of maximizing it. The media made a big deal about Hewitt taking the cell phones but what kind of respect is demanded or shown by a team that would have had their cellphones out in team meetings to begin with. I can’t imagine any player sitting in the room with Paul Johnson would dare to take out his cell phone and ignore their coach. The wins at the end doesn’t make up for the holes in the program. We had one of the most athletic teams in the nation and their selfishness, lack of discipline and failure to perform reduced them to mediocrity and that has been the signature of Paul Hewitt’s reign. Mediocre at best!

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Ok, I made a comment about the game before I saw that the conversation had degenerated into crap. Sorry I change the subject guys. Have at it.

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OSU (the) had to be the most classless team I have seen in quite a while. I have never seen so many leg hooks, pushes, shoves, and down right hacking. Then when Favors tries to establish position inside away from the ball- whistle- offensive foul. Pretty obvious the script was written on this one before it started. Do you really think the NCAA could allow three top seeds to exit the first two rounds? And a Big Ten team on top of that?? Please, that would mean they screwed up the seedings, and they can’t allow that kind of question to arise.

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I somewhat agree OSUHackers. However, when the referees are molding the outcome of the game, its time to do something different… I call it coaching.

Chuck Daly (RIP) had the ‘no layup rule’ with the Bad boys of Basketball. The Pistons were not the most talented team when they won back to back NBA titles. More recently, people got made at John Chaney for stating that he sent in his “goons.”

Not sayng it’s right, I’m saying you get criticized by everybody and their momma for losing. By sending in “the goons,” Turner would have stopped all that penatration crap. Hence, the game would of been on a more even playing field. The foul that was committedon Lighty late, should of happened at the 10 minute mark in the first half.

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So now we’re going with conspiracy theories to explain Hewitt’s & Tech’s under performance. Really?

Now we’re reaching. We’re treading into UGA territory here.

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UGA RULES ATHENS.

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Need to get a better coach for any hopes of getting out of mediocrity, just like the football team.

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I heard Bill Simons say the other day that Tech had terrible guards. I watched the game yeaterday and they are. How can Hewett let them come down and force shots time after time without trying to get the ball to Favors?

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N Iowa, St Marys, fundamentals, inbounding, free throws, 4 passes before shooting > one and done thugs, TO’s , 7-9 in down ACC, Ga Tech.
Discuss.
“white men cant jump” they just know how to win.

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The Best Part of This Story is that Hewitt’s agent is…wait for it…Mark Carmony, University of Georgia Class of 1991. Georgia Tech, home of the self-professed greatest minds in the Universe, got taken to the contractual woodshed by a Dawg. Outstanding.

Tech is too cash strapped due to the reckless financial decisions made by Braine to even consider biting into that buyout. If they do bite it into, they’ll be further cash poor.

Braine’s decisions include but are not limited to:
* Investing $65+ million for additional seats at Bobby Dodd Stadium for rival fans
* Monitoring GT eligibility requirements into a 4 sport NCAA violation
* Extending Chan Gailey’s contract in the face of total mediocrity
* Announcing that GT would never be consistently good in football
* Hewitt’s contract….

I wish Dave Braine nothing but the best of health and many more years of happiness. But it looks like long after he’s gone, he’ll still be giving Tech fans the business.

$7.1 million or STFU…..LMFAO..Paul.

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Tech lost to the better team primarily because Tech’s guards were awfully inconsistent all season.

Turnovers typically occur thanks to the primary ball-handlers and that is the guard position and Tech’s were brutal.

Every non-senior needs to come back for another season and Hewitt needs to find better point guard play (no flash, all substance) or take the St. John’s job if they come after him.

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I just had a flashback to Chan with the “it was a great year” quote. I think that’s why I like coach PJ so much.

When the Bills win 7 games in 2010(an improvement over 6 wins) and miss the playoffs again, I’m fully prepared for Chan to report “it was a great year.”

The inability to inbound a basketball just astounds me.

I guess the NBA does draft based on potential, because it certainly does not appear that Favors will ever have to worry about having been “over-coached” in college.

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The Navy has temporarily suspended two Navy fighter pilots and Tech graduates for flying too low over Bobby Dodd Stadium last November during the Wake Forest game. While Tech fans loved the display by their fellow alumni, several GTAA officials were heard muttering “they missed Hewitt’s office, dammit.”

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I was at the Wake game and the flyover was exhilirating. Sorry the pilots got in trouble for it, but they are Jacket Aces in my book. (I also agree I wish they had “accidentally” dropped some ordinance on Hewitt’s car in the parking lot, just to get his attention.}

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For the love of god, Bradley, get over it. This seems like the 11th column in the last 3-4 week period with the exact same subject matter. We get it. You are having a personnal battle with CPH and want the last word, but dont you owe it to the folks at the AJC and your readers to come up with something new?

You are a clown and your writing, aside from being annoying, is uninspiring. Using the word “Alas” in every 3rd column makes you a wordsmith, not.

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GTguy44, I hear your complaint but let me ask you this, would you feel the same way if GT’s coach was white? If a white guy was the head coach and his team was made up primarily of black players would you feel he did not recruit white players? The fact of the matter is, most college basketball teams particularly those of note are comprised mostly with black players. When Bobby Cremins coached the jackets he had one excellent white every four years, never more than one at the same time. Don’t give me Craig Neal, don’t give me Barry, they were adequate in flashes but erratic in others. Dating back to Kaiser coming forward there were two, Mark Price and Matt Harping. Did the white coach not go after white players? If he had primarily pursued these players because of race he would have not been at Tech or any other institution long. In fact how many white McDonald’s All-Americans were there in the last 10 years? and shouldn’t you recruit the best players you can get. Division I schools have long had the kids of alumni and token walk-ons at the end of the bench that happen to be white, to placate the masses. These kids will never play save a blow out but they will develop relationships that will help them in life. The marginal black kid will never be able to walk on an gain that experience. Duke is the exception, the marginal athlete stays in school long enough to develop cohesive chemistry with his teammates and although individually flawed makes a very formidable team. I contend this formula is good enough to get you a couple of wins in the tournament if you have a hall of fame coach but you too will soon be packing your bags on your way home. You have to get the best players available and hope you have them long enough to develop champions.

GTsupporter, I have no idea what you are talking about. You surely are a Tech supporter because you are a rambler. You never heard me say blacks were not smart, I was speaking just to the contrary. I have never heard of college programs being assessed by the number of NBA players they put on the court. I thought it had more to do with Championships, wins, things of that nature. Certainly you did not mean blacks only aspire to be successful in sports and entertainment perhaps that is the only manner in which you are cognizant of successful blacks. Maybe you should get out more, see the world, it is bigger than your local sports bar. Really though I have no clear idea what you are talking about, must not be that bright, must be in your genes, ( and I do not mean your Wranglers) for that Iblameurparents!

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What time is the Tech NCAA game tonight? Oh sorry, just UGA left in NCAA Tourney. Maybe some day Yech will be competitive like UGA.

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Thanks for the kind words Techman78. Just off the road after a long drive home from Central Florida. I along with obviously lots of other Tech fans am frustrated with subpar performance accompanied by excuses, justifications and rationalizations.

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G-Tech would finish no better than middle of the pack in the Big 10. If Shumpert and Turner were grade school teammates, Shumpert better go back to school.

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Pete,

Lets see where the talented Duke players and the talented Tech players will be in three years. I would wager that Favors,Lawal and Shumpert will be millionaires. Scheyer, Singler, and Smith will be looking for a job with a good education. Collge basketball is all about the Benjamins and capitalism. Money talks and bulls..t walks.

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I predicted this finish in the preseason, when all of you Bozos were saying Tech might make the Final Four. Once again, a Hewitt team underachieves–lost to Georgia, exited the NCAAs in the second round. Why does this seem to surprise people?

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Favors is going to be an NBA starter someday. Lawal? Shumpert? These are guys with shots at the NBA, but they are far from sure things. Rice? Oliver? Good players with bright futures, but come on, they are just freshman, and not freshmen of the Carmelo Anthony/Derrick Rose/John Wall type.

Mark Bradley sold the “talent” idea so hard he started buying it himself. But the reality is that, aside from Favors, those guys are NOT appreciably more talented than Duke or Maryland or Ohio State or a number of teams are this year. Singler, Scheyer and Smith will all get NBA looks, with at least a couple of them sticking in the league for a while. Andre Dawkins plays <10 minutes per game and he has as bright an NBA future as Iman Shumpert or Glen Rice, who are playing more significant roles for Tech. No doubt this Tech team was poorly coached and could have played more consistently, but the whole "talent" thing was WAY overplayed.

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NavyJetsMissHewitt @4:49 pm
Way to make some generalities about “most early bolters” not being successful in the NBA.
Hewitt has had 4 of them. Bosh, Young and Crittenton were 1 and done and Jack went after his JR year.
Bosh is an all-star, Jack is starting part of the time at Toronto and Young is in the 8 man rotation at Philly. Crittenton, as we are all aware, has some problems at the moment. It doesn’t look to me that most of these early bolters are struggling.

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For the life of me, I can’t understand how any serious Tech fan actually thinks St. John’s would want CPH. That’s just wishful thinking. They want a coach who’s going to create buzz and fill seats in NYC. Does anything really think CPH can do that?

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Correcting last sentence: Does anybody really think CPH can do that?

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So: Was Tech better than Ohio State? Said Shumpert, almost spitting the words: “A lot better.”

One word: Scoreboard.

Teams that are a lot better than Ohio State win at least one of three games against FSU/Miami. They win more than one regular season road game in their conference. They beat horrible Georgia teams, for Pete’s sake. And teams that are a lot better than Ohio State don’t lose by nine to…Ohio State.

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Tech leaves us wondering how much it might have done

We had a full season, thirty-plus games, to see how much they could do. I think we have a pretty good idea by now.

Hewitt doesn’t know how to get his very talented players to perform. He’s a bad coach. I was going to say he’s a poor coach, but we know THAT isn’t true in every sense of the word poor. He’s been stealing for years. He’s coasting.

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Mark,

You are such a GT homer. The only real McDonalds All American on GT is Favors and Lauderdale gave him fits all game. It would be nice if you would just say that Ohio State was just the better team. Their starting five is arguably the best in the country. If they played 10 times, Ohio State probably wins 9. You make it sound like GT gave the game away.

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Iblameurparents I do not think you really read what I said. I said I want our coach to recruit the best players available (white or black) that can get accepted into Tech. My complaint is that Hewitt never even tries to recruit outstanding white players. I do not understand your point about a white coach. I would feel the same way in reverse. I do not want to see the exclusion of any outstanding player based on race. Lastly, you are grossly underrating many of the white players Cremins recruited. Besides Price and Harpring – Geiger, Drew Barry, John Barry and Craig Neal played pretty darn well in the pros. Would not a Scheyer or a Singler have been nice additions to our team this year. Not much of a chance of that if we do not even try and recruit them.

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I expected a better game considering OSU only plays 6 and one needed to respect the Jackets getting hot at the end of the season. However, this column is some sour grapes. Well, at least it was correctly pointed out that GT was unable to capitalize, played a bad game and still lost to OSU. Maybe that’s why they were a 10 seed this year.

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Georgia Tech is who we thought we were. After a long season and two tournaments, Mark, I don’t think Hewitt or the team leaves any real questions about their respective abilities. Of course, we can speculate what we could’ve done with a different coach, a true point guard, etc., etc., but really, the results speak for themselves. Our talent wasn’t good enough to overcome our coaching, our coaching wasn’t up to our talent, and we played well enough to beat anybody and badly enough to lose to anybody. In the end, we did exactly what most predicted we would do: make the NCAA and exit early.

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Tech deserved to lose to Ohio State. You’d have thought Coach K was on the Ohio State bench the way the refs called the game, but that is no excuse…Tech just got beat. They did not adjust to the white kid hitting treys in the second half and couldn’t hit their own perimeter shots. So, we’re probably stuck with Hewitt another year or ten. If he does go, there is no way in Hades we should even consider Tubby.

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Iblameurineparents: you clearly demonstrate that you are the 800-lb. racist in the room. Paul Hewitt is the negative image of Adolph Rupp.

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It is hard to argue that it is mere chance that over the last ten years Georgia Tech has fewer white and hispanic players than any team in the ACC, including similar academically rigorous institutions such as Duke, Wake, UNC, and UVa. For whatever reason, Hewitt does not rigorously recruit outside his own race, and that is wrong for any coach, any color, any school. The irony is that he is also doing his players no great service with the low academic achievement and graduation rates that characterize his decade at Georgia Tech. He turns us all into hypocrites when he routinely ignores the “student” in student-athlete.

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Well, at least the basketball season is finally over, baseball is in full bloom, and football spring practice starts next week! Since we assume that Hewitt will be back, there can be no “bad” news from DRad regarding basketball, only good news if he changes his mind. So, we can ignore the hoops, cheer on the batsmen, and envision who our starting pigskinners will be in September.

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DRad: You lamented that apathy is a dangerous and telling sign in reference to any athletics programs. While most Tech fans are more disappointed and angry than apathetic, I am sure that many, like myself, are drifting rapidly into the land of “we don’t give a damm anymore” about Hewitt and the hoops program as long as he runs it.

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LetFrymanAndCondonFly, To be fair, there can be a fine line between whining and passion. The NCAA tournament has been a lot of fun this year. The current parity really makes it easy to be a college basketball fan, regardless. I do honestly believe that if UGA had decided to bring their, “A” game and OSU played the same game; it would have been a 10 point spread the other way.

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Mike: go paint your mascot’s a$$ again. CalBuck: UGA did not make the NCAA’s. IF Tech had brought their “A” game it would have been closer, but Ohio State is clearly a more consistent team. You are right about whining and passion, but I don’t see much whining by Tech fans here. Most of the negativity is focussed towards Hewitt, much of it deserved, and has been consistent throughout the season. “Never whine. Great men sob openly and with dignity.”

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Is anyone reading the same blog? Apart from the few uninformed post by the usual disappointed fans, I can’t find a lot of “whining” or “excuses” on this site. Criticism of Hewitt has generally been backed with facts and statistics, most of even the most loyal Tech fans acknowledge the team has been inconsistent and underachieving…is this really “whining”? Georgia Tech is a fine school with quality athletic programs. We have nothing to apologize for, least of all to our in-state rivals. If your own school is still playing in the NCAA’s, why aren’t you posting on their sites? It would seem to be more positive and enjoyable. If your own school is not playing in the NCAA’s then you’re in no position to criticize Tech on this site. The only “whining” I really see here is all those ninnies whining about non-existent whining.

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What do Bullpuppies become when they grow up? They don’t.
What do Yellow Jackets become when they grow up? Super Hornets.

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RickyBobbyonFire, Yes, I assumed someone would rightfully take me to task for that slip. Cogent thought can be a good thing… My previous comments refer to the column in general and a number of posters throughout this thread.

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After getting this young team to the NCAAs and into round 2, Hewitt should get coach of the year! He definitely deserves a huge raise and big bonus and another contract extension. Hewitt’s the best tech coach in 30 years.

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WilsonDunkIt: You have some serious issues and it is sad you cannot discuss the facts of my statements without relegating yourself to such a pathetic level. The facts I stated were: 1. Ohio State ended Tech’s basketball season 2. Iowa ended their football season 3. Tech’s basketball team was inconsistent all season long.
BTW, I am a Ohio State fan living in Atlanta. I root for Tech in every sport except when they play Ohio St. or a B10 team. I was disappointed to see Tech in our bracket because I wanted to see them advance farther. I came on here to read the article on the game only to stumble onto this blog where the theme was how Tech was robbed by the officials. Certainly their were more calls against Tech but I saw it as a more athletic team in Ohio State beating Tech to the spots. Regardless, the better team throughout the season won. Best of luck to Tech in the future.

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Not quite, RonJc.

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I’m doin your momma, boy, and she’ll be up much later. Mike, I apologize. You are certainly correct in asserting that OSU whipped us. But the buttwhippin to Iowa is still too painful to recount.

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I wish you guys would stop using words like manhandled. You just get me excited and I can’t study my playbook for spring ball.

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I do like seeing teams like St. Mary’s and Cornell win late in the tourney.

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“the most gifted team in tech annals” that’s right up there with the most absurd comment I have ever heard from a sports writer, and I’ve been reading sports pages since around 1950. I hope that there is no
more writing in the AJC about Tech basketball. Its gone way over the edge. This bunch lost 13 games -
that doesn’t require a lot of talent.

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GREAT COLUMN MARK! I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU STEPPING UP WITH A VERY ACCURATE, WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE. I AGREE WITH YOU COMPLETELY AS DO MOST GEORGIA TECH FANS OUT THERE! THANKS FOR YOUR EXCELLENT COLUMNS THIS SEASON!!! I WISH THE SEASON COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT, BUT THANKS FOR NOT SUGAR COATING ANYTHING AND GIVING US YOUR TRUE OPINION.

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kind of like when I read your opinions—hmmm, how much more could this have article been if Bradley had done his job and tried to live up to Bisher standards instead of taking the low road

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Another typical overrated, overhyped, disappointing Yech hoops season down the drain with nothing to show for it!!!! And now they’ll watch YET another of their “student athletes” execute the annual ONE AND DONE practice that is common for Yech thugs!!!!

LOVE IT!!!!!!

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Instead of a Nazi-style government take over of our healthcare system, why not instead put the final nail in the Buzz’s coffin, and just disband all Tech athletics and put that wasted money to better use??????

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Tech’s already home from the Big Dance? So what else is new?

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Poor tech fans. Just another overrated team to fall flat on their faces in humiliating fashion. Now we’ll get to enjoy watching the most overrated baseball program in the country do the exact same thing, and then again in the fall with the gimmicky offense that can only succeed in a crappy conference with Gailey’s talent. This is hilarious.

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Ealey just rushed for 12 more yards… 1st down Georgia!

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WilsonDunkIt: I promise you there is no bigger Tech fan when they play there in state rival than me. Furthermore, I love Tech baseball where I attend between 5-8 games per season. I am sure the Bowl loss to Iowa “stung”. People really underestimated Iowa though. There Def. line put pressure on QB’s all season long.

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It really hurts to feel that your team may have lost a game just so they could get their cell phones back!

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GTguy44, please pardon me if I did not understand your point completely. I concur you did state that you wanted PH to get the best players available regardless of race. My point regarding the coach is this; I do not think it would matter one bit if Tech had black or white players on the team if the outcome was more favorable. If Tech reached everyone’s expectations, as lofty or as misguided as they may be, this point would never be brought up. Clearly, many Tech supporters are frustrated, rightly so and as history has shown when we feel this way we resort to seeking comfort in things that are just below the surface of our consciousness, subtle, subliminal. We all at one point or another travel this path but I urge you to fight it. Tech success or lack there of has nothing to do with the teams ethnic makeup but your point is well taken. The fact of the matter is there is just not very many white kids playing basketball as perhaps there once was. That is why the NBA scourers the globe for diverse talent. Although I would not put PH on the level of Tubby Smith nor was his winning percentage even close to Tubby’s but didn’t Kentucky wish him gone for reasons besides basketball. Same for PH, early success made him palatable but for what ever reason he was never the guy you wanted to begin with for reasons that have nothing to do with basketball. Just the unfortunate way of the world. I have never watched the Braves and said why don’t they have more blacks out there? Not because they would steal more bases or run down more fly balls but because it would sure be nice if Cox went after some black players in a city with the ethnic makeup of Atlanta. Just a thought.

Letfryman… the 800lb racist in the room is the one comparing PH to Rupp. There is nothing racist about me or my perspective at all. I would not hire a black just because he is black and I would not play a white kid just because he is white. It is all about merit. When you get frustrated and circumstances go beyond what you can control you resort to the juvenile pea brain perspectives of name calling, race baiting because your intellect will not allow you to comprehend what is going on so you have involuntary blurts of phrases you heard around the house growing up. It is really not your fault. Iblame…

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Can we please stop with the pseudo psychiatric BS of what is going on in some sports bloggers sub consious? What a boat load of BS. JUST STOP. You know no more about what someone is thinking than the next swinging richard walking down the street.

Enough with the black/white BS. Nobody gives a rip. Just give us someone that can win basketball games, both players and coaches, they can be purple if they win. If your post is going to be about black/white BS, just don’t do it. Go find the sociology blog.

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Andy said: “just disband all Tech athletics and put that wasted money to better use.”

Why dont we do ALL THE TAXPAYERS IN GEORGIA an favor and disband UGA.

With majors like:
Womens Studeis,
Housing(UGA Athletes Favorite),
Fashion Merchandising,
Recreation & Leisure Studies,
Art History, etc etc etc

and all of the rest of USELESS WASTE OF MONEY programs at UGA……..

think of ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the money the taxpayers would save.

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As I predcited before the ACC-T, Hewitt WILL BE leaving for St. Johns.

SJU is preparing to up to $3M up-front, on the table…just to get him to come.

SJU was preaped to offer Billy Donovan $3M to come to SJU.

Count it as a Done Deal for Hewitt.

I give it no more than 2 weeks before Hewitt announces he’s leaving.
And with that, both Favors and Lawal will leave.

Hewitt knows the overall GT fan sentiment has definitely turned against him.

And, knowing that Favors, Lawal, Peacock, and Bell are all gone for next year,
why would Hewitt choose to stay.

If Hewitt thinks the GT fans were hostile THIS year,
just wait until next season!

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Let me get this straight now. A team goes from 12-19 to 23-13 without a point guard. Personally I think the arm-chair coaches who continue to villify Paul Hewitt need to open their eyes. If you really thought adding Derrick Favors was going to elicit more of an 11 game turnaround then maybe your expectations are out of whack. Tech plays outstanding defense. Not good defense, but outstanding defense. Yes, their offense is scary to look at sometimes but give Shump and Favors another year. Next year will be a better indicator of whether this team is underachieving or not. 12-19 to 23-13…..Just think about that

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Charles can you say Maurice Miller..

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