Tech falls to KSU: The Wizard of Techwood dazzles us again

[...] Oh, and if you’re interested in my thoughts on Georgia Tech and its coach … well, they’re here. [...]

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Boom, roasted.

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I am in no way a basketball fan…. but I THOROUGHLY enjoyed watching the itty bitty school from Kennesaw, Ga dismantle the MIGHTY ACC team from Atlanta last night.

This blog is about to be full of Techies pointing out the struggles of UGA football, and unproven basketball…….

but let me be one of the first to revel in an EMBARRASSING loss last night to a program full of pompous nerds.

HILARIOUS!!!!!!!

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Mark, you could have shortened your blog to this:

“But enough. You know what’s going on. Hewitt is a lousy coach, but his golden contract makes him untouchable.”

It renders all else irrelevant. The “evergreen contract” are like eternal handcuffs: DRAD has no recourse.

GT basketball is NOT GT football: Nobody’s going to dig into their wallets to dig us out of this.

Like Dante’s Inferno …. GT Basketball: “Abandon All Hope, all ye who enter here … “

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Tech needs a few more assistant coaches on the bench. That may help. They all look like they’re dressed for their own funerals.

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Come on Techies!!!!

Remind UGA how their football team is struggling and how their basketball team is unproven!!!!

Come on!!!! It may make this EMBARRASSING loss disappear!!!

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So, you going to keep writing these articles bashing Hewitt again this season, then turn around and say does Tech really think they can find anyone better, like you did last season?

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just tell me how much to write on the check and let’s be done with it

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SAME OL’ SAME OL’…MORE TURNOVERS THAN MADE BASKETS…HEWITT HAS NOT MADE THE ONE AND DONE’S BETTER. THEY WERE GOING TO THE NBA IN SPITE OF HIM….TIME FOR RAD TO BITE THE BULLETT…GIVE UP THE 7 MIL…..AND GET A REAL COACH.

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Please hire Josh Pastner away from Memphis!!!!!!!! He’s young, great ties to alot of big time aau programs, can bring in top ten classes every year and can coach! We do not need a low level mid major type guy. We need a home run with the next hire. It’s Atlanta, the ACC, and well at one time we were a big time program. With the right hire it can be turned around quickly.

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glory glory it’s easy. we all think you s**k. that’s why we say THWG anytime we talk about anything. but we have our own issues to deal with here.

glad to see your team sux so bad that you spend time on the GT – Kennesaw State basketball discussion. i’m guessing you don’t spend as much time on the florida, auburn, south carolina blogs (i guess pretty any sec blog apart from vandy)

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How many years left on his contract? I’ve been a supporter up until now, but this is gonna be ugly…………..

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PRICELESS PHOTO!!!!!! FIRE THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The CanChan was a great thing,just long overdue.Now they must “Do it to Hewitt” now!

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Tech’s NBAers never leave any fingerprints on the program.

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(((((30-24)))))

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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BuzzMan -

You must’ve avoided all the Hewitt bashing to not know how terrible his contract is. His contract never ends. It automatically renews. It’s going to cost us $7M to get rid of him regardless, so we might as well end the pain ASAP.

Between this contract and the way he threw money at his old buddy Chan, Braine should’ve been run out of Atlanta with torches and pitchforks.

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Hewitt’s $7 buyout is like a federal bureaucrat’s eternally guaranteed pension and health care benefits in that you get the same quality of indifferent output and results from both parties.

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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Bill Voth, Mark Bradley, ajc sports editor, Michael Rothstein, ACC Sports and others. ACC Sports said: Warning: he pulls no punches RT @ajcsportseditor: Mark Bradley weighs in on the Wizard of Techwood aka Paul Hewitt http://bit.ly/dm9unR [...]

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Was anyone actually surprised or shocked that we lost last night??????? I got to have 2 1/2 hours of laughter last night!!! Thanks CPH!!!!!!!! FIRE HIM TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mark, thanks for having the fortitude to say what *needs* to be said publicly. I know it is hard to criticize the hand that feeds you, but Hewitt needs to be run out of town.

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FIRE CPJ!!!!

FIRE CPH!!!!

HIRE C3PO!!!!!

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Mark, thanks for having the fortitude to say what needs to be said here. Paul Hewitt needs to go. Needed to go several years ago.

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Mark,
When GT is in the NCAAS this year, please do not jump on the bandwagon like you did last year…

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Maybe if “D-Rad” had negotiating skills, he would contact us.

UGA is always looking to pay weak football teams to come to Athens to help produce a sellout (guaranteed) and guaranteed victory.

Have him call us…. maybe we can work something out.

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I am sure DRad has heard the chorus and barring a drastic change in the basketball program direction he will have no choice but to fire CPH at season’s end. Making this decision easier and necessary is that Gailey’s payout will be concluded and a new basketball structure will be in place for the 2012-13 season. This season will be difficult to stomach but with the right hire GT basketball should return to at least the upper level of the ACC within a couple of seasons.

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By keeping Hewitt year after year, Tech’s basketball program will just continue the rapid descent into total obscurity. This will cause more damage, and be harder to overcome, than the cost of the buyout. It’s time to bite the bullet and make it happen now.

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Yo, Glory Glory, since you seemed to have forgotten:

1. Damon Evans: “I was just holding her panties while I drove her home”
2. 2010 Fulmer Cup Winner with a RECORD 11 players arrested in 2010
3. Ealy: “I Hit & Run this state”
4. AJ Greenback “I did nothing wrong coach”
5. Todd Grantham: Nationally televised Choke artist

Yeh, UGAG has SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much to be proud of.

UGA = The pride of the Double-Wide nation.

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Keep Hewitt, the Dawgs need the victory every year, but seriously why allow the contract to keep him in the job. You can pay him and a better coach as well. How, you find an up and coming coach like Mr Ingle and explain that you will give him the job and a chance to break into the big time, but you can’t pay much. You double Ingle’s pay and give him the chance. What is the downside, you are going to pay Hewitt anyway and lose, so spend an extra 100,000 and reward a good guy, who you know can do no worse.

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GT = Mud Squad

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Glory Glory

November 16th, 2010
11:29 am
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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UGA football …4 and 5 star recruits ~~still not bowl eligible. No longer even a second-tier team in the SEC, but now a third-tier team. SC, UF, AU, BAMA, LSU, ARK, MISS ST ~all better programs than UGA right now. UT, KU, VANDY, OLE MISS ~teams UGA is on par with in the SEC.

Point- you really have enough problems of your own to be pontificating at all on any problems that the last school between GT and UGA to; advance to the college world series, advance to the field of 64, to win a conference championship, to earn a BCS bowl bid and to win a national championship, may be experiencing.

BOOM! you’re outta here.

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Maybe you guys shouldn’t encourage your donors to build your golden coach a new castle, and spend their money on improving the actual tenants of said castle.

On a side note….. I am sitting behind my desk right now deciding where to donate this $23 Million in true philanthropy style…… because that’s how UGA Athletics rolls!

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$7 Million……. I got this because I’m faaaaaaaaaaaaaast!!!!

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$7 Million…… freaky like my LADY PYRAMID!!!!!!

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$7 Million

The equivalent of 1 (one) home football game for us.

The euivalent of 2 (two) football SEASONS for Tech.

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Hewitt is a pathetic coach and person. But he and his wife were smart enough to stay and wait for the pay day. There has to be some clause in that contract somewhere. Just ask everyone at the football game Sat to donate what they can to get rid of this loser.

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Tech…. why don’t you go to Title Max or JG Wentworth and ask for the $7 Million??

“It’s my money! And I want it NOW!!”

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Glory Glory- You disgrace all decent UGA fans. Please get off the Buzz Blog. Thank you. Yours sincerely

UGA Dawg Fan

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I just signed a check for $7 Million to widen the sidewalks around Stegman Colisium.

That was easy.

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Just signed a $7 Million dollar check to fund the athletic Department getaway weeekdn to Destin, Fl this coming Spring.

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Mirror Mirror- You replicating the same garbage as Glory Glory makes you no better than him. You know that right? Sounds as if you both need to get off the computer and get back to class or at least something more productive than what you are doing

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Sorry Tech….. that $7 Million from AJ’s jersey sales was just spent. We decided to restore the abandoned railroad tracks right behind Sanford Stadium as a shrine to the “Railroad Gang” of the 60’s and 70’s.

Sorry…. did you guys need a loan or something??

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Glory Glory …. F$%^ Y#$

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Tech, why don’t you sell that car of yours….. that should raise a couple hundred bucks towards the ousting of CPH??

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This is all doing long-term & permanent damage to
Hewitt’s reputation and career.

Coach Hewitt:

The ONLY “High-Road” left is to negotitate
a new and RESPECTALE buyout with DRad and resign.

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juat goes to show you, you are able to pay a coach 75000 a year and be successful

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So um… change the recruiting and go the Duke/Butler etc route.

Go find 4 year college players. Lanky, dull, bounce passers that are receptive to coaching. Go sign the next Bobby Hurley… go find another tall uncoordinated high school center who will play hard.

Go get a JJ Reddick who did nothing but shoot jump shots for 12 years.

He keeps squandering talent. So go get some average players that want to go to Tech for the education and run the princeton offense or something.

Stop treating the team like it’s an NBA D league squad and getting guys who OBViously only need to be in college for a year.

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Mark – You pretty much nailed it with your blog. Hewitt is a terrible coach and he needs to go for the good of the program. There are 2 reasons why Hewitt is still coach – the contract (of course!) and the fact that b’ball is not as important at GT as at some other schools. Wake Forest fired a coach with a much better record than Hewitt. NCState ran off a coach because they didn’t like his offense. UNC pulled the trigger on Matt Doherty after 3 years.

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UGA Ath Dept- PLEASE GO AWAY. You make intelligent UGA fans seem ignorant.

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Losing to Kenn St is bad enough but they were blown out. I could possibly stomach a buzzer beater but to get beat this bad. Nope. Article is spot on. Time to get rid of the dead weight.

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Guys…. my good friend Dave Braine called this morning while I was having breakfast with my UGA School of Law agent. He told me to hold my head up, It’ll get better. Oh Yea…. He said hi to all you nats BB fans too…LMMFAO…

$7.1 million or GTFO… I Own this School….LMMFAO!!! See ya at the next game fans, Paul…

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Techies…..

If we lent you $7 MIllion to get rid of your coach…. what you YOU be willing to do for US to pay it back??

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Mark, how about all of the administration that agreed to the $7 million dollar buyout option have the $7 million taken out of their salaries for the next 10 years? It would be fitting for the stupidity of signing a Scott Boras type contract with Hewitt.

Thanks for the great writing,

A sad ‘94 GT Alum who remembers the Lethal Three

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Another long season for the cagers. Bring back Roger Kaiser!!!

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Miss me guys??????????

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Picture is priceless, those coaches on the bench nknow they are without a job soon. Idiots.

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Dagny,
I can tell you right now, for every arrest that is made for some of the thugs that go to UGA (you have to recruit them if you want to compete in the SEC and in other conferences as well), there are players like Josh Bagby and Jeff Owens who run businesses and are contributing members to society who if left to their upbringing would be in Jail. I know, of course, you dont’ want to talk about that.

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Tech has become an embarassment to the ACC.

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Oh!! NICE!!!

We just got word that we made $7 Million from a David Greene and David Pollack golf fundraiser!!!

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It begs the question: why do all of these prized recruits keep going to Tech when Hewitt has such a horrible track record? My take is that these “prized” recruits are looking at the only positive stat Hewitt has going for him – % of players drafted in the NBA. With this stupid one year policy, they’ve effectively turned college basketball programs into halfway houses.

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Anybody need, or know somebody who needs, $7 Million???

We have a surplus over here in Athens.

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I’m glad we lost.

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How many more years does CPH have on his contract?

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@GloryGlory. Tech Basketball reminds me of UGA football. Tech gets these “one and done” athletes and does nothing with them. Much like UGA, your football team historically gets these 4 and 5 star recruits and yet they struggle to beat Tech year in and year out who MIGHT have a handful of 3 star recruits. While Tech fans are questioning it’s future of its’ basketball, I don’t really see where you can justify ANYTHING by being on a Tech blog. I mean really, a loss to Colorado (who lost to Kansas), and you want to jump over here on a Tech blog and beat your chest? How pathetic can your life really be?

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hewitt sucks!

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Thank you Mark for writing this. The fans and the media seriously need to start putting more pressure on this issue. Every season, the main topic around GT basketball is how bad Paul Hewitt is. It would be nice if we could move on to brighter days.

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Fire Hewitt, and save the GT fanbase and its players from further embarrassment!!!!

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You know I bet the ACC would toss in a few million too. What happen last night is not very good for the brand, in fact I think it may be worth 7 million for the ACC to not have this happen again in this media center. Richt hasn’t even gotten this bad, he still carries the SEC label well, kids still want to go to Georgia because it is in the SEC, and they have respect of who he is. We lost some kids last night, in recruiting, the conference may lose some kids because of this too. I think Virginia lost a game this bad 20 years ago in Hawaii, but these are not good things to happen to any of the ACC teams and would only happen to Tech, in this era.

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Just sent $7 million to Richt for his monthly Rogaine and spray tan allowance.

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Tech grad here. I’m still watching the games, but I’m not believing what I’m seeing. I held out last year with the run to the tournament. Now, though, I think it’s time to say it – Fire Hewitt.

It makes me very sad that he’s dragging our colors through the mud and making us a laughing stock to our rivals. Radakovich needs to find a way to get this program turned around like he needed to when Gailey’s number was up. This really can’t be allowed to fester much longer.

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We just spent $7 million to expand bandwidth for our wireless internet on campus.

http://www.ajc.com/news/uga-student-charged-with-682903.html

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We got $7 million from Colorado to travel out there and boost their program. Sorry the other teams on your schedule weren’t so nice, Coach Hawkins.

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Mark, I really hate to say it but you “hit the nail on the head” This loss is no surprise. The program has been going down hill for years. A few years ago I was a season ticket holder. I went to one game last year. I have for a number of years now just lost confidence in Hewitt. I can only hope Hewitt is just half the man that Cremins is. When the program waned under Cremins he was man enough to move on. I believe Hewitt will do the same irregardless of his contract. It would be hard for any of us to do that, but I believe a settlement will be worked out and we will not have to pay the 8M or whatever the figure is. Will always be Tech fan. Hope this situation can be resolved sooner rather than later.

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Wow, I did not know that Tech would lose and give you ammunition to start your attack on Coach Hewitt again but here you go. I did call this a few days ago even before this game that you would start your personal attacks on him again. So how many consecutive days will continue your attack now? He has almost a completely new team, it takes awhile to start chemistry and make adjustments. Think this will be the biggest upset of the NCAA basketball season? Probably not. And as always, you will write about things like this because you know nothing else about sports. Of by the way, glad that Auburn, the coach and everyone else involved, did not listen to a moron like you and went ahead and played Cam Newton against Georgia. Thank God, most people ignore you and your ravings!

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I’ve got to wonder, again, as I did last year, on whether it is not worth the money to Tech to get this bum on the ‘Hound and out the door. I mean, at what point do you admit this is a horrible mistake, the alums have started forgetting their checkbooks, or your address, and the recruits just aren’t coming in anymore? You know? At what point can the AD just swallow big and say, that’s way past enough? I’m a GA fan, but this is embarrassing to the whole state at this point. Maybe Hewitt and Richt can put up a billboard together for future employment and split the cost.

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FIRE CPJ AND FIRE CPH – STOP ALL SPORTS AT TECH

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Oh, and BTW, my comments were in no way intended to denigrate the great job that KSU did in embarrassing Tech. Fantastic coaching and quality, opportunistic play from his team. Kind of like you would want your team to play like. Best line, MB, is where you queried what the KSU coach could do with Tech’s talent. Indeed.

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sableman

November 16th, 2010
12:49 pm
Think this will be the biggest upset of the NCAA basketball season? Probably not.
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Ummmm, upset? Who says this is an upset?

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A fact of matter is any coach could have had a better result than 80-63 loss to KSU. I’m not discrediting KSU’s effort. They played better and most of all coached way better. But with the talent Tech has, no other coach could have lost this game by 17. So where’s the value in keeping him. Is he really a good recruiter? How hard is it to get players like Favors and Lawal to come to Tech? They live in the area and get exposed being in ACC. Now he can’t even bring guys in GA. It’s now or later.

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Look, Hewitt Fan, we realize you are his mommy, but please, for the good of the school and our athletics program, go stand in traffic with a bucket and start doing something to collect the $7mill we’ll need to end this nightmare.
Wait till we get to January and you see a 1/2 full T!T and more 20 point losses.
And if you think this team will make the Dance, you need new peepers.
A disorganized, un-motivated and un-together team – and all of those are COACHING. There may be talent there, but no one in this state outside of Mark Richt gets less with more.
There, dawgs, a complimentary bash for you!

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Why are so many Tech sport fans fair weather fans?

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sableman, almost completely a new team? Udofia (SO), Oliver (SO), Miller (SR), Shumpert (JR), and Rice (SO) are the main contributors on the team. All have ACC and NCAA tournament experience. The new team argument is garbage.

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I’m a die-hard Tech fan and have been a loyal Hewitt supporter from day one but, I’ve gotta be honest – this team is terrible! I mean, seriously. We have NO shooters on this team. NONE. We’ll be fortunate to win 10 games this season.

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Glad he’s your Coach and not ours

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Yes, Kansas definitely paid you Techies $7 million to come out. Then they paid Colorado to come over and lose.

I am on the phone right now trying to convince KU’s AD to pay us $13 million and save the combined $14 million they would pay Tech and Colorado.

That is good business.

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Watching the game last night in the first half, I kept thinking GT’s full-court press and superior athletes would eventually wear Kennesaw down. But Kennesaw played smarter, hustled more, had more heart. Does Tech run an offense? I saw no rhyme or reason in their offense.

Also, my fellow UGAers, if you watched the Bulldogs play Mississippi Valley State, surely you’ll acknowledge that the team didn’t look much better than Tech did last night. MV State was better prepared and almost stole a victory from the UGA on its home court.

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Vespidie – “Circus”?

That implies the animals are trained to perform. This is no circus…

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2ndly, a simple registration and moderator on these boards would make them MUCH more enjoyable to read.

What say the others?

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MARK, stop pulling punches. Tell us how your really feel about Coach Hewitt

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Whoever gave final approval on Hewitt’s contract should be fired.

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Spot on, Mark. Tech is going to have to have a 9-win season before we will finally be rid of ‘Coach’ Hewitt.

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This is almost as embarrasing as Georgia’s football team this year.

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Maybe you can get St. Simons to come and Coach?

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Maybe, Massdawg you can get Pulpwood Smith to take Richts job.

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The answer to your first question…….The AD, that’s who and if he can’t be convininced then fire him too

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DO NOT FIRE HEWITT !!!! Don’t forget he’s a great recruiter.

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Thank you, sir. May I have another?

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Brad Stevens – Butler University
Mike Anderson – University of Missouri

Get it done Drad. Enough already.

“Hewitt Fired” should have been the AJC headline this morning.

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if they fired all the coaches(or at least kept them away from the players) & let them play playground, they would be better-at least then they would be playing for steet cred……..

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As “The Truth” said it won’t really cost $7mil but only what it takes to replace him.

So the $64,000 dollar question is: Do you fire him now or after the season? Can you find a viable replacement mid-season or is it better to wait til after.

When does the next year vest on his perpetual rollover contract?

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We will be call you Middle Georgia for info and proof on your charges.

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After watching the game three times. Fire Hewitt now. Just look at the face of the players, they were lost out there. Call Mark Price are Matt Harping and let’s Roll!

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For my money this year…I can ride up to Kennesaw instead of GT for good basketball. Just will not pay to see a Hewitt team play. I’ve been a GT fans since 1958 but this crap don’t cut it.

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Mark is free to speak his mind. It’s a young team and they are 2-1. Give Coach Hewitt some support! If they end up having a bad year, Dan R. can address the issue if needed. I’d like to see how they respond to the loss. Go Tech!

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Maybe Hewitt, Richt and Bobo could carpool out of Georgia

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Nerds still Losin !

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Hewitt is bound to see/hear some of these type comments. Is he Teflon? Doubtful. It has to hurt. Will it hurt enough for him to consider saving some (any) face and just leave or possibly renegotiate that monster?

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How many more more years are we going to waste on this half-witted clown masquerading as a coach?

Tar and feather the jerk and run him out of town on a rail.

And the stupid AD should be fired for rolling over Hewitt’s contact every year.

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you obviously have not kept track of the other things phew has said about our school and the fans as the wheels started to fall off.

he obviously has strong feelings wrt race. otherwise he would not be the president of the Black Coaches Association.

he has publically said on more than one occasion that his purpose at gt is to graduate ‘black’ players and or help ‘black’ athetes obtain positions in the nba. he has never said his players but always qualified it with the adjective ‘black’. personally i have no problem with his helping all his players achieve that goal but i take offense when he becomes specific.

phew reminds me a whole lot of nolan richardson from arkansas. nolan has some success early on while he was at arkansas but when he started losing and was fired. he blamed every ‘white’ man connnected to the university for his unjust firing.

PAUL HEWITT = NOLAN RICHARDSON

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Ben – I believe the way the contract is written that it rolls over automatically, and to stop that from happening Tech has to buy him out for $7 million.

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Great recruiter, crappy coach. That’s been Hewitt’s M.O. for years now. I look forward to the day when he’s finally gone and Georgia can get the best players in the state. Imagine Georgia’s Mark Fox with a player like Chris Bosh–you kidding me? (Apologies to Trey Thompkins, whom I think is fantastic, but he’s not Chris Bosh).

MB: I seem to recall you or someone with the AJC sort of rah-rahing this contract when it was handed out five years ago. I hope it wasn’t you, or I might need to change the name of my fan club.

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SuperB: I think he points to current GTech players in the league; he’s marketing the NBA rather than GTech, I think, or GTech as a portal to the NBA. But I think if GTech continues to struggle, he might have a bit more trouble making that argument, when programs like UNC and Duke are right up the road(or even UGA if Thompkins and/or Leslie make the NBA and UGA starts winning)–they can make that argument and also point out that they win. And winning, as we all know, is more fun.

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Does it really do any good to complain about Paul Blewit? I went thru the same misery last year and I refuse to get sucked in again. I love my Jackets but it is so painful to watch them playing as though they had no idea what to do next. It’s not fair to the alumni for Paul Hewitt to coach in the ACC. His star faded 6 years ago. Maybe it’s time for someone to set up a Hewitt Buyout Fund so Tech can reclaim some of its ACC basketball fame. Poor Bobby Cremins must be crying over what has happened since he departed.

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All this cyber-bullying is really getting me down guys. Maybe I’ll go put on one of my high dollar suits to make me feel better while I roll around in a pile of cash on my bed. I’m ironclad bitches!!! I’m NEVER gonna leave and if y’all want to MAKE me leave, its gonna cost ya. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Go Owls! HOOT HOOT

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GLORY GLORY loves to get on Tech boards.

What a d-bag.

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If the man had any backbone, he would resign!

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A lot of similarities with CPH at GT and CMR with UGA football. Both had great success early on which sparked high contracts, renewal, etc. The GT BB program has been awlful the last 4 or 5 years with losing records in the ACC, road wins non-existent and spare me the GT NCAA’s last year. They had a losing record again in the regular season. Similar to last few years with UGA football. CPH is mediocre at best and has lived off of the final four the last five years. MB has enough guts to mention this at least he is fair to both UGA and GT when it comes to bashing their coaches.

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SuperB— Look at the NBA rosters, lottery picks and contracts for your answer…then look how long those players were actually enrolled at Tech. Wouldn’t you sign with Tech too? It’s sad really.

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At least we won’t these Phewitt excuse makers calling us racist anymore…we’ll, they’ll be a few, but not as many.

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This is really good news for GT. The end of GROUND HOG DAY IS NEAR!!!

I thought it was last year, but now, it maybe sooner than the end of the season.

REJOICE, I SAY!!!

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His contract has to be terminated with 30 days notice before April 15 or he gets 6 years buyout. March 15 or earlier termination is 5 years. Last year he was gone except he won that first ACC Tournament game and at that point Tech had to pay him for this year anyway. The entire contract is stupid but the timing on the 6 year roll is really stupid. The Athletic Board that approved this should be sued for violation of their fiduciary duty.

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In the picture it looks like he is covering his mouth so that nobody can see him laughing. Kinda of like “I get paid how much for this? Hahaha. And if they can me for this loss I will get how much? Hahahahahahahaaaaa.”

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In that picture Hewitt looks like he is trying to remember if he deposited his last paycheck before Tech stops payment on it.

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gdawginkalamazoo , he’s upset cause he was hoping to make another 1.3 million before his 7 million buyout bonus.

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get Tubby Smith’s number ready

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Hewitt is thinking that “We will get our revenge when we meet KSU in the NIT, I swear on my buyout clause.”

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gdawginkalamazoo – LOL

I hereby annoit thee an honorary member of the FTFC – Frustrated Tech Fan Club

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NIT??? Is the College Basketball Invitational still around for 2011?

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well, one thing Jacket & Dog fans can agree on is that Tech’s basketball team stinks…kumba ya, my lord…

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interestingly, i bet that most Tech fans were not surprised to see KSU beat us…which in itself says volumes…

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itty bitty school? KSU is bigger than Ga Tech and has been for some time. KSU has over 23,000 students. Tech has around 20k.

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Keep the pressure on Hewitt Mark! He needs to go!

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The photo says it all, in so many ways. Take a close look, fellow Jacket fans, because we’ll be seeing it again a lot more this year….and as long as Hewitt & co. are here. I didn’t renew my four season BB tickets this year, and won’t until he is gone. I have heard from students that Hewitt’s reception has been lukewarm at student functions and that attendance has been sparse at the exhibitions on campus thus far.

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Dear Paul Hewitt and Dan Radakovich, it’s a tough economy in the real world, people are suffering, jobs are scarce. I’ve still got a job, mainly because I’m a TECH grad, but I’ve had to cut back on my discretionary spending. But you convinced me that when a TECH man is down, other TECH men rally to his side and help bring the entire Institute up. You implored all TECH alums to support the basketball program, with the promise that things would be better. I bought into the concept and spent my hard earned money to once again get season tickets. It was an expense that I really could have done without, but out of my loyalty to my school I went ahead and did it. The fact that you tied getting priority seating in the new arena in a couple of years to having season tickets this year was a little distasteful, but I understood. Hey, I love my school and I love watching good and sometimes great college basketball.

But now I feel like I’ve been duped. The last 3 years (some would say last 6 years), going to the games has not been much fun. I still enjoy the camaraderie of my buddies that I share tickets with, but watching the product on the court has been frustrating at best and sometimes just plain painful. I’ve seen a lot of talented kids wasting their talent playing a brand of basketball that is distasteful to anyone who has an eye for the game.

Coach Hewitt, I don’t expect you to resign during the season, and I would be surprised if Dan fires you during the season. But at the end of the year, if the product continues to be similar to what I saw last night, be a man and do the right thing. To hold the Institute that gave you such a wonderful opportunity as coaching in a major city, in the best basketball conference in the land, hostage for the buy out money, would just be wrong. Hopefully you have invested the incredible amount of money you have already been paid and will not have to worry about your family’s future. Your future I could care less about.

I would be truly delighted if all of a sudden the team finds itself, we go on to a solid season and we enjoy quality college basketball this year and for years to come with you at the helm. But the track record doesn’t warrant that belief.

I will be at most of the games the rest of the year and I hope for the best. But if the quality of play is what it has been recently, expect to hear a lot of boos from the sparse crowds that actually show up. Please tell the kids, that the boos are not directed at them. They have done nothing wrong. Be a man and take the blame. Then be a man and walk away with what little dignity you have left.

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Congratulations to the Fighting Owls of Kennesaw State. I will be watching them more than the Jackets as long as Hewitt is coach. (I started watching them last year, in fact.) AS for the UGA fans posting here, anything negative you have to say about the Tech basketball program under Hewitt has already been said a dozen times over by Tech fans, so save your breath for when the state trooper asks you to blow into the little machine…

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Mark – EXCELLENT article. You’ve simply reinforced why you are my favorite columnist. You’re never afraid to call it out, and this article is dead on. You’ve puncutated what the entire GT community has been screaming the last 5 years. Favors’ signing was the ONLY thing that saved his butt last year. I’m a season tix holder and will not be going to any of the games, nor will I be selling them. I’d rather make sure the seats are empty as a show of support for his firing. Surely to god Hewitt’s firing had to be a condition of McCamish’s donition to the new arena????

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We lose to KSU and some of you still think we could go to the tourney???? Maybe the toilet tourney. Hewitt needs to go and fast. He got one recruit in the early signing period and I bet he is wishing he signed elsewhere. We are the laughing stock of the ACC and the State of Georgia.

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I have to believe DRAD’s email is overflowing today with offers from alumni offering to help with Hewitt’s buyout (I know for a fact he got at least one).

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Why does Hewitt still have a job?

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Mark, couldn’t have said it better! As an Alum I am even more disgusted with the situation. Let us not forget why Mr. Hewitt is so casual after such an embarassment – he has the be-all, end-all of golden parachutes! Why should he care? He gets his millions win or lose.
If ever there was a time – send this bum packing!

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Tech82 and everyone else – write DRAD at drad@gatech.edu. I did so last night and he wrote me back:

“I have received and read dozens of e-mails regarding our Men’s Basketball program and I appreciate you taking the time to provide me with your input. As always, I will strive to make decisions that are in the best interest of Georgia Tech, our Athletics Association, student athletes and fans”

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thwg – please set the boat on fire first, just in case.

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Tech82. I wrote DRAD last night and he wrote the following back:

“I have received and read dozens of e-mails regarding our Men’s Basketball program and I appreciate you taking the time to provide me with your input. As always, I will strive to make decisions that are in the best interest of Georgia Tech, our Athletics Association, student athletes and fans”

His email is drad@gatech.edu

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PS – I should have mentioned – I was at Tech during the days of the Jack-Ain’t’s. When students wore paperbags over their heads. I am pleading with the Tech Administration to not allow our school to return to such times, but I fear they can’t seem to leave the football stadium.

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Even if there was a worse coach in college basketball, you will never find one with a worse wins-to-salary ration than our own Paul Hewitt.

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One moment to reflect-

Morrow wasn’t all everything because of Hewitt and ACC refs who were bound and determined to make Redick player of the year. Redick was the only guard in history who could knee a defender in the groin 28 feet out and fling a shot up and shoot 3 free throws.

As to Hewitt, there is nothing worse than watching talented young men with absolutely no plan. They had a better shot in using their talents in rugby.

Hewitt consistently denies help (even free help from Price) for ex players because of insecurity. The donors would pay up- get him out.

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Ed

Itty Bitty in terms of r.e.p.u.a.t.i.o.n and endowmwnt

GT $1.237 Billion
KSU $25.7 Million

In the state of Georgia, only Emory has a larger endowment than GT.

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*r.e.p.u.tation

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Dear CPH
I have been a Tech fan for over 50 years. We have had many lean years before and we have had many good years. There was always hope…till now. I think you know it’s time to leave if you look deep within yourself. You are broke…I do not think you can be fixed. Do the right thing for yourself, for Georgia Tech and for all the Tech fans. It’s time to leave. Good luck to you and your family…but it’s really time to leave…

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Hewitt is a fine coach, This years team is not going to be great, Last year Tech team played Natl Champ Duke as good as Butler are anyone else at the end of the year.

Hewitt has taken a team to the NCAA finals.
One game and now he’s the worse coach in the nation, what a joke.

Mark Bradly writes garbage for the AJC for years and still has a job. And he wants to call for CPH to be fired, joke.

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OK, I’ll go to $140K, but I gotta have health benefits.

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I just don’t know, I have surpported Hewitt, for a lot of years, wishing he would put Tech in gear, I’m sorry to say, I give up, this guy really is going to have to do a more than outstanding job to remained .

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Dear NoSham:
Thank you for your support of Georgia Tech and your well-intentioned advice. We will be staying in Atlanta and at Georgia Tech for at least another decade or so because we can. We don’t feel any shame or sense of obligation since GT signed the same contract we did. And our daughters are still in school, so we can’t leave, don’t you see. And the shopping here is great. If the girls decide to go to Emory, and maybe even med school, we may be here another twenty years. So, thanks again, but we know that ol’ Dan doesn’t have the cajones to kick us out.

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I see someone has started drinking early – I’ll have whatever BigTimeTECHFan is drinking

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This is not surprising to me…..I actually feel sorry for CPH. We’ve known for a long time that the 04 experience was an aberration. Since we can’t but out CPH we just go along and block out BB at GT.
I not optimistic that anything will change. All this makes Bobby look like the kind of coach we would like to have at GT.

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Dear NoShamSam & Tech faithful:
Thank you for your continued support of Georgia Tech and your advice that we leave. Since we feel no shame in losing and not graduating players we don’t feel inclined to release Tech from our mutual agreement at this time. Also, our girls are in school here and the shopping is great, so it will be another 10 years before we even consider retiring (maybe 20 if the girls go to Emory and med school). Of course, we know that ol’ Dan doesn’t have the cajones to kick us out of town. Love, CPH & Wife

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OK,, I’ll take the job for $125K + benefits, but I can only work Tuesdays and Thursdays since my real job requires about 3 days a week from me.

And I can’t travel, so I’ll have to get a blow-up doll for the team to put in front of the bench during the game. I’ll make sure the doll is made so that it adopts the appropriate kneeling posture and downcast expression; I can even sow one of the hand to the face if that is preferable.

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But that’s my last offer. Take it or leave it, you have until the end of the week to make a decision.

Thanks for your attention.

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Tech75, you win the bid. I wouldn’t watch the vestiges of the Hewitt legacy disintegrate in front of me for any less than $150K, and even then I would only work as a telecomuter. On the plus side, my clothing allowance would be considerably less, since I would only wear one new suit per game.

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It is really this simple and everyone knows:

You can pay him now or pay him later.

You’ll never have a panties type excuse.

Boras has nothing on his agent.

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Thanks, FullMetal. I’ll put in the order for the doll tomorrow, start of business.

By the way, can I get a cash advance of about $600? That will cover the cost of the doll and it’s modifications, plus some …. uh …. “consulting” fees. Wait, wait… I meant “recruiting” fees.

Yeah, that’s the ticket!

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Phewitts agent went to UGA Einsteindawg. You should induct him into your HOF.

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Scott Drew (Baylor) would be one of my first picks, if we can afford him.

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I almost feel sorry for Yech. Not quite, but almost. You have Paul Johnson and Paul Hewitt. You have a high school offense and two high school coaches. You can rag on UGA’s football season if it makes you feel better, but as bad as we are, we will be favored to beat Yech in both sports. Buzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Right you are. Let him go immediately. He sucks, year after year.

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Can we swap Hewitt for Michelle Joseph?

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It’s time to pull the trigger. Another lost season. Another long winter in Atlanta. The Jackets deserve much better than what this racist has to offer.

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Can anyone, I mean anyone, stand to watch this product. Year in and year out Hewitt teams display no court sense, discipline, tenacity or touch. No one gets better playing under Paul Hewitt. They make the same mistakes in year three (if they stay that long) they made in year one. Painful. We won’t win three games in our conference this year. Just a thought, will it be cheaper to buy him out when no one comes to games anymore? David Braine skunks us again.

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Radakovich statement from last March 25:

“In the case of Coach Hewitt and Georgia Tech basketball, we remain together because we are Georgia Tech. Coach Hewitt remains the same bright, desirable and coveted college basketball coach he was in 2004. If you have any doubt, just read the New York City newspapers from the past week. His credentials as a human being, a family man, a leader and builder of character are impeccable. The mission here is clear. We need to win more basketball games. We will continue to do everything within our power to do that — as an organization — with Paul Hewitt as our basketball coach. It is not a one-man mission. We are all committed to scour every inch of the program, suggest and effect the needed changes and to give the coach every ounce of support.”

Read the rest of the joke at http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/genrel/032510aaa.html

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I hear Dennis Felton is looking for a job…

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Does his contract stipulate that he is the head coach at GT or just that he is employed there? Could he be demoted? Even if that is against his contract would he potentially agree to that kind of arrangement to save face with Tech? Keep him on staff until his contract is up and pick up an up and coming no-namer to be head coach. Make his contract last just as long as Hewitt has left and then figure out where we are going then. Can’t be any worse than letting Hewitt continue as HC.

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GO DAWGS

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Tech should go after the Butler coach or try and get BC back.

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Glory…Glory…What is the difference in a UGA loss and a TECH loss….Answer: Tech hasn’t been complaining all week that their WUSS QB can’t take a hit.

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It looked to me like the Tech players’ tattoos were superior to the Kennesaw State players, so we do have that going for us.

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GT made a mistake. Thye gave CPH the keys to the city when he took them to the championship game a stroke of luck and now they are tied into him. He has proven that to be a fluke and with the amount of talent he has received at GT has done very little. I am afraid GT basketball will not recover as long as CPH is at Tech. Hope you can prove me wrong coach.

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There’s nothing dumber than a Georgia Bulldog fan. Everyone knows it and I can prove it on this blog.

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wild bill

See the comment above Mr. bill. UGAG blows

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EINSTEINDAWG!!!! With the misspelling, wouldn’t that be an OXYMORON? Oops! My mistake, It’s really just a MORON!

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If he was recruiting nothing but 4 year players, pushing up the graduation rate, and had semi-respectable ACC records, I’d be just fine with Hewitt. I’m sick of him bringing in the one and ones, and I’m tired of great talent getting coached down.

If I won the lottery, this would be on my list.

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Einsteindawg – I was sitting here doing just that, drawing parallels between Hewitt and Richt.

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TexhAlmighty, III…WTH are you talking about, boy!

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Hewitt is an example of why Tech will always be crap. Hewitt and Paul Johnson are stubborn and do not adjust. Tech is not elite enough to be arrogant like Hewitt and Johnson. We are in for several years of pain. Fire Hewitt now and take our lumps. Johnson will be gone in three years when we reach absolute bottom.

No more contributions from this sad soul, cannot handle a football coach that states beating Georgia does not define our season. He is nuts, that is when I lost all respect for Mister arrogant Johnson!

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Keep the thriller Dome for a while and get rid of Hewitt NOW!!!!!!!!!
Having a new Arena with the same coach + no one goes anyway.
Give Mark Price a Chance or Kenny Anderson or Scott…all right here in town

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Was Tech better off with Cremmins or now with Hewitt? Lots of pressure pushed Cremmins away from program.

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Looks like Tech was robbed!

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he brings in the talent, he even went to a final four championship game, he’s a good family man (i guess?) and he seems like a nice guy. but jeez! georgia tech sits in the middle of an abundance of basketball talent; the number one boy’s b-ball team in the country is in atlanta, to the south of us is florida and mississippi and south and north carolina are right up the road. the man has connections in the northeast and i understand that the majority of the quality academic qualifiers are marinating in jersey and if louisville, villanova, kentucky, duke or unc don’t get them i am sure he could have his pick of the litter after them. so what’s the problem? atlanta is a great city. what big time high school b-ball player would not want to come here. the city, the women, the academics, the chance to workout with pros in an area notoriously populated with current and ex- nba players. tech should be a power. period! the reason why is obvious, coach hewitt for all his likeablity is not a very good game coach. he can recruit his butt off but he can’t coach. tech should never lose to a kennesaw state. i know why hewitt stayed, atlanta “is” a great city and if i had my druthers i would not move my family back to new york neither. for all it’s crime and “new york city envy.” the atl is the place to be. coach should access the situation and maybe wait out georgia state’s current situation with barnes. he probably could coach on that level and barnes is not doing enough there either. so, it’s a “win-win” for everyone, hewitt moves over to gsu next year and gets to stay here and we get a coach who can get it done.

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Sounds like the junior program at Lassiter. What a joke. How many times do you support a losing program…ask me. I don’t support them nor should anyone at Tech who thinks he should go. Unfortunately that means the players bear the brunt of your unhappiness but rest assured, someone will step up this year and say enough is enough. And I mean at Tech, not at Lassiter. They are screwed!

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Hey UGA BLOWS…..Yes, we barely beat MVS…..but we DID beat them. Can you say the same about Kennesaw State? And we will beat the North Avenue Trade School AGAIN! By the way, don’t they teach you to spell down there? It is ‘barely’, not ‘barley’. Barley is used to brew adult beverages, which you peckerwoods couldn’t handle. In closing, let me say that it is about time that the great state of Georgia will be getting an engineering school that all citizens can be proud of……..Only thing is, it will be Athens, the Classic City Of The South!!

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Can the tech virgins afford not one, but two empty and butt ugly arenas? Those Cokes and hotdogs aren’t going to give themselves away, and Dragon Con comes but once a year. Just close that school down and sell it to Southern Polytechnic, which is basically the same as tech, but without the bums.

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!! PJ IS ANOTHER IDIOT!!!!!!!HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!!GREAT JOB TECH!!!!!!!HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!THIS OUGHT TO BE A SKIT ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!!!!!!!!!!

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I agree with you Glory Glory, but for the record, Kennesaw State is not itty bitty in numbers in fact the school has over 19000 students which is bigger than Ga Tech

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as we all know one game doesn’t make a season especially a non conference game..who were the losses to in 2004? I am not on either side just saying

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Not this year, not last year and not in a long time. Maybe someone will take him and Paul Johnson in a package deal. Both are adept in snatching defeat out of the mouth of victory

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To be honest, I stopped caring about Tech basketball about three years ago. I was tried of the dissapointment and excuses. Another season, same old excuses. Do people still attend the games?

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Lousy = bulleye.

Run him Mark.

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Bradley is there a coach of any sport in the state of Georgia that you like or approve of?
Every day is coach bashing day for you.
Just curious.

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rusty, in 2004 we started 12-0 including beating the number 1 team in the country and winning the preseason NIT. Our worst loss of the year was to UGA. The only other non conference game we lost was the national championship. We also blew out all of the weaker teams we played. For some reason, I don’t think this team is going to do the same. Call it a hunch.

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What is taking so long to fire CH. GT basketball used to be a joy to watch against the elite teams such as Duke and NC but today, it is barely worth turning on the TV to watch or even getting the headlines after the game as you know what the outcome is likely to be.

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Can’t fire Hewitt, Obama will stop funds to GT since Paul Hewitt is ^%%ck.

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I am still on the hunt for the illusive semblence of an actual PLAY!!!! I have been looking for one since Jack left. Still yet to find one. Although Ol Blewey entertainingly pretends to call them. Well he does when he isnt assuming the Blewitt Position. (hands covering eyes while shaking head)

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A history lesson.

During the American Civil War, Radical Republicans in Congress were screaming for Abraham Lincoln to fire George McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac. When Lincoln asked who should replace McClellan, he was told by a congressman “anybody!” Linclon replied curtly, “Anybody will do for you; I must have somebody.”

I think we’ve reached a point where anyone will do.

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It’s hard to say who’s worse, Johnson or Hewitt

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I’m an alumnus of another ACC school. In his glory years at Tech, Bobby Cremins used to beat us fairly regularly, so I was no Tech fan then! But I know that the ACC was a much stronger conference when Tech was up there with Duke, Maryland, NC State, Carolina, et al, and we need Tech in order to regain our status as the premiere basketball conference. Looks like it will take a few years to get out of this; but once Tech can break away from Hewitt, it will be a huge opportunity for a new coach to resurrect the program.

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Hewitt worse than CPJ but only because we’ve seen more of Blewitt than CPJ.

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Mark, I agree. Hey, you dog, or dawg idiots. Take note-we don’t complain like you guys. Remember Saturday night? We got beat by Kennesaw, life goes on. You got beat by Auburn and you STILL talk about how unfair it is. Why don’t you fire your coach too?

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Hewitt is a joke as a coach. He couldn’t coach up high school kids. He may be able to recruit and his players don’t get into trouble…….very good attributes…………but he absolutely can’t coach. Example, look at Anthony Morrow……….lost at GT but is an undrafted free agent in the NBA and becomes a great player after they he is finally coached out. Hewitt needs to be fired now. Where is the accountability at GT. There is none. I know of GT employees who are fired for poor performance but Hewitt is an untouchable!!! Give me a break. If DRad doesn’t have the balls to do it now and get us a true ACC coach…………..then resign right now because you are not doing your job. This is completely pathetic.

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So Mark – you lob out this grenade and just watch the fireworks, By the way the first paragraph might be one of your funnest ever,

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one down and two to go.

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Coach Hewitt, do us and yourself a favor and leave.

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Gee Mark this is great insight…you must come out of retirement and offer your services to the Jackets…what have you done different or better in the last ten years.

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Tech grad/fan here. The last Tech BB game I was at was a Cremins game. Hewitt was able to do a “Houdini” back in 2004 but has not shown me much since to get me back to AMC. Heard on the radio this morning that we lost to Kennessaw – didn’t surprise me at all. It’s been time for a change long time ago so Tech BB needs to bite the bullet and make some progress.

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This once proud program that did compete with Duke and North Carolina and others has been completely dimantled and run completely into the ground by this so called coach Paul Hewitt, If he had any real love for GT he would take a lesser buyout and resign. However, I do not beleive the man loves or has ever loved GT. It was just a podium for his agenda. What is his agenda you ask, well look at his hires for assistant coaches when he has an opening. Take the last one, when we really needed some experience at the assitant position. someone like a Dean Keener or someone that had say 15 to 20 years experience to help us who does he hire? Darryl LaBarrie. A former player and yes man to Hewitt. Not to get down on Mr. LaBarrie, just to point out this mans agenda. He has no love lost for GT and his lack of love for the institute and his lack of dignity means he will play this for all he can get. Well fine, it is time to fire his sorry ass and pay the jerk off. Drad did not create the problem, but as one of my owners told me long ago when I was made boss after he fired the other guy ” I know you did not create the mess, but I full expect you to handle the mess” . Well Drad, I have loved what you have done for GT, but it is time to handle this mess and shove the garbage to the street. Cremmins built a solid and mostly always competitive team, all but his last 3 or 4 years. Hewitt has destroyed all that was built here and should leave immediately. Hell, let Darryl LaBarrie take over, he certainly cannot be any worse than the joke of a coach we have now.

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Dave Braine ruined my 26 yr (football) season ticket ride. Started in the west stands (Homer Rice was AD) and got to the 15 yd line, 18th row. Box seat construction moved me to the east stands and finally got to the 43 yd line, 16th row, lower east. Then Braine decided to sell yellow seat tickets to Toyota and other big companies’ executives. I moved to the upper east 45 yd line and held them until they no longer let me park on Techwood Dr. Put up with it 2 more yrs and now I love my HD TV with my drinks out of my cooler at arms reach and great food from my own table. Loyalty is gone from Tech athletics and I’ve been affected by seeing the idiots like Braine and Clough make stupid decisions that affect me as an alum. Thank goodness for DRad but he needs to make a decision on Hewitt soon.

I was at the massacre (football) at Bobby Dodd Stadium this past Saturday and to see half the yellow seats empty (where I used to sit) was just insulting. Just and example that better decisions need to be made before our BB program is too far down the toilet.

Kudos for Kennessaw for their win. Hewitt’s contract is another mistake from Braine and Clough, and Tech will need to make a move on that, sooner or later – better sooner. I’ll bet that we could get a local high school coach that can immediately outcoach Hewitt, for a fraction of Hewitt’s contract.

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Gary O, none of the above…a little over 7 million dollars! SUCKS!!!

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You can’t win ‘em all.

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Mark, all true. And been true for years. Where Hewitt is concerned, I guess valid arguments don’t have any impact at GT.

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Geez, all these ugagers here espousing such wisdom. I am sure you guys and Murray will win in Athens this year, but for all of you that claim that Tech is irrelevant and not even a rival, it is funny how this game has defined your season for the last 3 or 4 years. My how the mighty have fallen. Also, I don’t care what conference you are in 5 and 6 or 6 and 6 means you are irrelevant also. I am sure that is why you are here taking shots at Tech. You are just as irrelevant in your conference as we are ours, the difference, you accomplished it with 4 and 5 “star” recruits. We are lucky to have 3 or 4 4 “star” recruits on our entire roster and for the most part has always been that way. UT beats their non rival Vandy 23 or 24 straight, and you get excited with 8 out of 9. With your advantages you should be beating Tech like UT does Vandy. But with all the lack of class you guys have, drunken AD’s, arrest everwhere so that you won the Fulmer cup, a DC that gives the choke hold to a student athlete, and trashing your own campus. Yeah, I hope beating Tech makes your season over and over and over again, because that means you are irrelevant, and it looks as if it could be that way for a while. You guys sure have nothing else to hang your hat on but beating Tech, and all of you here just proves that beating Tech is all you have in your pathetic lives. I do not see it happening, but it would be funny if ugag turned the ball over 4 or 5 times and Tech won…then what would you numnuts talk about to define your miserable lives?

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Does the Atlanta Spirit Group own GT?

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If the world and the legal system were fair, we’d be able to garnish every single red cent asset from Dave Braine’s estate to help pay for the buy-out. But, alas …

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The truth is that except for the NCAA run to the finals, Hewitt has never had a TEAM on the floor. Every one of his prima donnas are waitinbg to jump ship and be a tattooed thug in the NBA. Enough of this recruiting players who will be gone after trhe first year where their grades would have disqualified them anyway if they stuck around. Scholar atheletes on the Tech tyeam are sitting on the bench and throwind back foul shots and range finders for the NBA wannabes. If you wanted to se a real TEAM. you had to look no further than Butler and Duke last year. How refreshing to see real TEAMS on the floor.

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Let us know when the spin man Bewitt is gone………..and GT returns to real BB.

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Hewitt is the man! Hewitt will take GT to the Final Four this year, then, everyone will be wanting to extend his contract . . . if not, then, Hewitt will show that he is the man by resigning . . . just watch Hewitt will show that he is a man!

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Mark,

Are you covering tonight’s game with Albany?

Inquiring minds need to know as your possible encounter with Hewitt would surely be 10 times as exciting as the game itself.

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Agree with Cousin Buzz

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Hewitt :”Hewitt suggested the season is far too young to panic, and said again his team’s biggest problem appears to be a shortage of basketball maturity.”

No Coach, it was the lack of coaching and player development! Still in denial!

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Anthony Morrow’s play here and in the nba is the biggest referendum against hewitt.
The guy can’t coach and basically won the lottery in getting this job. Cut the loser lose and take the loss. You don’t keep a liability that continues to erode your product. You get rid of it.

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Wow when I saw the headline, I thought they lost to Kansas State. Not kennesaw. Wow you lost to Kennesaw. LOL That is a program in major decline.

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I have a brilliant idea everyone. Bet against Hewitt every game that has a line. You’re sure to win 80% of the time. By seasons end, everyone will have enough money to get rid of the hewitt virus.

Albany is BAD. Watch the game be a nail biter.

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Is it just me or are we hearing the same garbage from Hewitt as we did last season?

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Last Christmas I had the honor of meeting one of the best & most respected high school BB coaches in GA. This person has won several championships at the highest level. I asked Coach what he/she thought about PH’s coaching. The answer? “HE WOULD PROBABLY MAKE A GOOD ASST. COACH.” I don’t think PH is even that good!

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[...] Tech falls to KSU: The Wizard of Techwood dazzles us again If Paul Hewitt isn’t the worst basketball coach in the country, it’s only because ours is a mighty big country. And now, having said that, I ask: At this late date, who needs convincing? [...]

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Paul Hewitt is one of the best coaches UGA has ever had. Keep Hewitt forever and the DAWGS will never lose to the Nerds again.

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what has mark fox proven? uga hoops is irrelevant and will always be irrelevant.

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rex, Cremins walked away, he wasn’t fired. He admitted he was burned out, had lost his taste for big time college ball and just wasn’t getting the job done. Funny how a guy can admit that after 2 bad years and walk away like a man.
Let’s see if Hewitt is a man as well and admits his shortcomings and walks away as well.

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finally someone wrote what we are all thinking…

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I’m not sure what Hewitt’s style of play is. It seems to be whatever the five on the court think it is at the moment. Hewitt’s main responsibility seems to be rolling the ball onto the practice court and making up the lineup.

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Clearly based on recruiting we have had far superior talent than anyone we’ve played this year. The results:

2010-11 OVERALL RANKINGS
POINTS PER GAME 64.3
261st
OVERALLREBOUNDS PER GAME38.0
152nd
OVERALLASSISTS PER GAME12.7
185th
OVERALLFIELD GOAL PCT.374
284th

laughable…like all but ONE year that Hewitt has been here…Ground Hog Day continues till he is fired.

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Forget about all of the damage Paul Hewitt continues to wreak on the GT basketball program and legacy. The important thing is that Mrs. Hewitt is happy here in her nice Atlanta home.

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Yes, I am so relieved to know that Mrs. Hewitt is content with her life (and biga$$ paycheck) while her husband drives the Tech program deeper into the ground. He’ll be able to recruit Chinese players pretty soon.

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Someone needs to water Hewitt’s head…the chia plant growing there is getting a little grey and spotty.

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Braine – Virginia Tech ties – GT President @ the time – Virginia Tech ties – Evergreen contracts to TWO LOSERS. What do you think?

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GT was humiliated. They are not even the best basketball team in metro Atlanta.

Football? “Well, um, we won the 2009 ACC title.” September rolled around with ALL of the ACC losses to powers like Dolly Madison or was it James Madison? Anyway, that ACC champ thang with the blow out to a fairly decent Iowa team and one of the worst UGA teams up until this year, pretty much sums up GT football ……………..a joke by Coke.

It is coming GT ……………..a whupping in what will be very, very unfriendly Athens. Imagine getting stomped by this very, very, very, very lousy UGA football team. I mean, this time next year UGA AND
Y’ALL will be looking for a football coach.

UGA 48-GT22

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Is that UGAG offer of 7 mil really on the table? Playing football there for the next 5 years would be worth getting rid of Hewitt. Its just embarrassing. The man must have no shame at all. He’s like one of those GM union guys that gets paid to sit and do nothing.

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Dear Mark Bradley,

I am just a Georgia Tech side walk fan. And it is time for CPH to go . I do not have 7 million dollars to buy out Coach Hewitt’s contract but I would think that there are a few
thousand like minded Tech fans that would gladly pony up a few dollars to get this done.
Could a person who sent in a check to the GTAA for this reason write it off on taxes ?
The GTAA needs to add a spot to their web page for the purpose of getting a list of
donors and the amount that they will pledge . ” Buy Out CPH ” . Afterwards they could
send the donors a fancy, suitable for framing certificate, that states ” I Helped Save GT
Basketball “.
Just an idea but damn … Let’s do something !

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Bring back Cremins and name the court Hewitt’s House.

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