Walmart shoppers! Here’s the scoop on Tech and UGA fans!
Sometimes Tech folks feel overshadowed. (AJC photo by Johnny Crawford)
In years past our annual look at Georgia fans vis-a-vis Georgia Tech has been offered in the spirit of good clean fun. This year, for the sake of novelty (and also because even I’ve wearied of Willie Martinez), the idea will be to help these two neighboring-but-different groups actually understand one another.
And then we’ll all join hands and raise our voices in a spirited rendition of “I’d Like To Teach the World to Sing” and toast one another with Coca-Cola products, and by the way: Did you know Georgia fans refer to Bobby Dodd Stadium as “The Joke By Coke”?
But enough! No more gags from me this year! Instead I offer the observations gained from dwelling among Tech and Georgia folks these past 27 years, eight months and 18 days.
• Tech fans care just as much about football as Georgia fans. This may come as a surprise to those Bulldogs backers who are forever mocking the attendance at Bobby Dodd Stadium. (For the Jackets’ mammoth Thursday night clash against No. 10 Virginia Tech, attendance was announced at 50,140 in a facility that seats 55,000.) But counting heads isn’t necessarily a measure of passion.
Tech’s enrollment is roughly 20,000 — Georgia’s is 35,000, by the way — and a goodly percentage of those students will take their degrees and move elsewhere. (This isn’t to say that no Georgia grad ever moves out of state. Even Lewis Grizzard moved to Chicago for a few months.) But studies have shown that there are more Auburn grads living in metro Atlanta than Tech alums.
Numbers-wise, Georgia is always going to win. That doesn’t mean Tech folks don’t care. They do. Just ask any alum what he/she thinks of a Tech uniform that doesn’t feature the color gold. Or get one going on Bill Lewis’ 2 1/2-year reign of error.
• Just as Tech fans hate being hit over the head with attendance figures, Georgia fans hate hearing about Jan Kemp. When John Davis was a Tech lineman back in the ’80s, he told me this joke: “How do you get a degree from Georgia? Drive by campus and roll down the window.” And there was a time, let’s stipulate, when UGA wasn’t exactly a school of renown, and the Jan Kemp trial only underscored the notion.
But that was then, and under presidents Charles Knapp and Michael Adams the University of Georgia has become a place of pride and achievement. No, calculus isn’t a requirement for every UGA undergrad, but the academic missions of the schools are rather different. Georgia is a broad-based state university; Tech is, duh, a technical institute. Not everyone wants to be an engineer. Just because your diploma is from UGA doesn’t make you a comparative moron.
Not that Tech folks are eager to concede the point. On his Tuesday night radio show, Tech coach Paul Johnson took a call from someone who began barking. Said Johnson: “He just got off from Walmart.” (FYI, the CEO of Walmart is Tech grad Michael Duke.)
• When Tech fans speak of football tradition, they think first of Bobby Dodd. He was everything a Tech fan wanted in a coach. He was smart and his teams played precise football and he won a lot of games and he, not incidentally, beat Georgia eight times running. But that was in the ’50s, and those were different times: College football wasn’t yet a billion-dollar industry driven by TV and recruiting wasn’t a cutthroat nationwide competition.
Reasonable Tech fans — and Tech fans, by and large, tend to be reasonable — cannot envision their team ever again beating Georgia eight times in a row. (Since 1977, Tech has beaten Georgia eight times total.) In their heart of hearts, Tech fans would be satisfied with winning one of every three against their bitter rival. Not coincidentally, Johnson is 1-2 against Georgia.
• When Georgia fans speak of tradition, they think first of Herschel Walker. Yes, the Bulldogs were winning SEC and even national championships and turning out famous players (Sinkwich, Trippi, Tarkenton) long before landing the kid from Wrightsville on Easter 1980, but the Era of Herschel propelled Georgia from the ranks of perennial Southern power to something bigger. By every measure, those were the three greatest years in Bulldogs history.
That said, those three seasons skewed some Georgia fans’ view of their program. Two decades would pass before Georgia won another SEC title. Mark Richt has taken two conference titles and three division championships and his teams have finished in the top 10 five times, but Georgia hasn’t played for a national crown since 1982, and five different SEC schools have finished No. 1 over the past 13 years. UGA fans are still waiting their turn, same as they await the Next Herschel.
• Georgia is Tech’s biggest game of every year. Chan Gailey got fired not because he had losing seasons — he didn’t, not a one — but because he was 0-6 against the Bulldogs. And it’s undeniable that the words “To Hell with Georgia” are sung the loudest whenever “Ramblin’ Wreck” is played.
• Tech is Georgia’s biggest game only when Georgia fans are scared they might lose. This isn’t such a year. Georgia has won its division and is going to play LSU or Alabama for the SEC title next week. Georgia has, to borrow another Johnson line, bigger fish to fry. Which is the primary reason Georgia fans should be wary of Johnson and his team.
By Mark Bradley
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521 comments Add your comment
Spyro
November 23rd, 2011
12:01 pm
You mean not all UGA fans and alums are Wal Mart greeters and burger flippers? I am shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!!
Spyro
November 23rd, 2011
12:02 pm
THWG
ChiliDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:02 pm
John Davis was a UGA commit until late in the recruiting process, when he chose Tech. The ironic thing in his statement is that he never did graduate at Tech.
DawginLex
November 23rd, 2011
12:02 pm
Mark
You picked us to win the East and go 10-2 and you picked Tech to go 8-4.
Are you backing down from your picks?
Spyro
November 23rd, 2011
12:02 pm
Wow, first on an MB article. That’s a first.
Burdell
November 23rd, 2011
12:03 pm
Nice article Mark. I think the “Clean” part has been missing lately from “Clean Old-Fashioned Hate”.
GO JACKETS!!
GTBuzz
November 23rd, 2011
12:03 pm
THWG!, some good posts about UGA here: http://www.campusmack.com/colleges/georgia/smacks
Tom Resident Georgia Fan
November 23rd, 2011
12:03 pm
To Hell with Tech.
Chuck
November 23rd, 2011
12:03 pm
Has Chesty fried anything of consequence since he got there?
And don’t say the Georgia game, because he dismissed the importance of THAT game.
Burdell
November 23rd, 2011
12:04 pm
The most confident Georgia fans have been this season are the weeks preceding the Boise State game and the Tech game. Coincidence?
Gorilla Biscuit
November 23rd, 2011
12:05 pm
Amen
Burdell
November 23rd, 2011
12:06 pm
UGA fans have been the most confident in the weeks preceding the Boise and Tech games.
Coincidence?
Burdell
November 23rd, 2011
12:07 pm
Yep…we ate fried Tiger tail the week after the Fish Fry comment.
Chuck
November 23rd, 2011
12:07 pm
With rivals like Tech who needs smack? It’d just be piling on.
81BME
November 23rd, 2011
12:08 pm
UGA student body is overwhelmingly becoming white suburban females. The fan numbers are not about enrollment. The fans that bark the loudest will never set foot in a classroom outside of high school.
Chuck
November 23rd, 2011
12:08 pm
Sorry Burdell, conference championships are irrelevant as well.
Tech fans say Richt’s done nothing in Athens, and that includes multiple SEC titles and championship berths – so if that’s nothing, winning a minor league like the ACC can hardly be considered an accomplishment.
Try again.
GIVE ME A BREAK
November 23rd, 2011
12:09 pm
The SEC East champion only scored 19 points on a weak Kentucky team. Tech is waiting for you. ” LET’S ROLL JACKETS “
RAMBLE ON!!!
November 23rd, 2011
12:10 pm
I think CPJ gave that caller more credit than he deserves. I think he got his unemployment check in the mail.
THWG!!!
Gold & White
November 23rd, 2011
12:10 pm
Terrific article, Mark! But notice you still haven’t answered whether the news article posted yesterday about Mark Richt willingly leaving UGA after this season has any merit. In case you lost the link…
http://www.gamingtoday.com/articles/article/33523-Georgia_football_coach_Mark_Richt_rumored_to_be_leaving
the real OLD GOLD
November 23rd, 2011
12:10 pm
THWG
Spyro
November 23rd, 2011
12:11 pm
Chuck, what Tech fan has said that Richt has done nothing in Athens? Name one.
Mark Bradley
November 23rd, 2011
12:11 pm
Kudos, Spyro.
Ted M
November 23rd, 2011
12:11 pm
I hope its a good game…UGA could run away with it.
old tech grad
November 23rd, 2011
12:12 pm
Good peice kudos from me.
Always remember the 6 to 0 game way back when Carson and Dooley were the coaches. I was in the student section yelling my #ss off. I didn’t have my voice for about a week.
Great rivalry win or lose but I agree NCAA football is moving from a sport to a business and a play off scheme will be the final nail in the coffin.
Mark Bradley
November 23rd, 2011
12:12 pm
Absolutely not, DawginLex.
I’m on record as saying Georgia will win 24-20.
Mark Bradley
November 23rd, 2011
12:13 pm
I don’t believe that “news article,” Gold & White.
For one thing, do you really think the “leading candidates” to replace him would be Mike Bobo and Derek Dooley?
Paul H
November 23rd, 2011
12:13 pm
(Since 1977, Tech has beaten Georgia eight times total.)
doodoobailey
November 23rd, 2011
12:14 pm
“……cannot envision their team ever again beating Georgia eight times in a row. (Since 1977, Tech has beaten Georgia eight times total.)”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, DERP!!
Best piece you have ever written Mark!!
DawginLex
November 23rd, 2011
12:14 pm
gold and white
That link has been verified as a hoax started in alabama.
No truth to it at all
Roll Tide!
November 23rd, 2011
12:15 pm
ChiliDawg
So! What’s your point??? Hershel was thought to be leaning toward Tech or Clemson over UGA until “his uncle” bought him the Trans-Am and his mom a new home. Must be nice to have UGA uncles, hmmm. Be glad that was in 1980…Under today’s NCAA UGA would not even have that single National Championship and instead would have faced years of penalties.
Mark Bradley
November 23rd, 2011
12:15 pm
Georgia doesn’t usually run away from Tech. That’s why the 51-7 of 2002 was so galling to Tech fans, Ted M.
robodawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:15 pm
True, UGA fans are still waiting our turn at the national title. But even more so, we see that 20 year drought for an SEC title as unconscionable. And we’re by and large not really waiting for the next Herschel — there can be only one Herschel. We understand the game has changed, and winning will start with who’s at QB not TB.
Ted M
November 23rd, 2011
12:16 pm
that article is a complete fabrication.
Ted M
November 23rd, 2011
12:18 pm
Man, I remember that 2002 game.
boots
November 23rd, 2011
12:18 pm
And another difference: CMR is levels above CPJ when it comes to being a class-act. Johnson’s use of the term “retard” to refer to a Georgia fan shows he lacks any understanding of the challenges of special needs people and their families. Last year, it was an instruction to Tech fans to find a Georgia fan and “punch them in the face.” He should worry more about football and keeping his team off probation than he does about insulting others.
Oh, and the comment about the SEC being overrated shows he is out of touch with reality.
WDE
November 23rd, 2011
12:19 pm
Before the real “fans” get on this blog and start the spewage…Here’s hoping all of the fans of the Dogs and the Jackets enjoy this Holiday season and take a minute to reflect on how much we have to be thankful for, and lets remember those serving that will not be able to be with family this season..Happy Holidays and GATA!!
hammerhead
November 23rd, 2011
12:19 pm
Certainly not my favorite of the many rivalry games we have (that goes to Auburn), but this one is the most important. Beat Tech!!
Gold & White
November 23rd, 2011
12:19 pm
One other factoid that CPJ should have considered…The CEO of Walmart is a Tech grad (unless he has left?) thus a Tech man is the boss of more UGA grads than any other boss in the nation. LOL
True Dawg Fan
November 23rd, 2011
12:20 pm
Roll Tide!
November 23rd, 2011
12:15 pm
ChiliDawg
So! What’s your point??? Hershel was thought to be leaning toward Tech or Clemson over UGA until “his uncle” bought him the Trans-Am and his mom a new home. Must be nice to have UGA uncles, hmmm. Be glad that was in 1980…Under today’s NCAA UGA would not even have that single National Championship and instead would have faced years of penalties.
hhahahahahahahaha yea sure. Alabama has never done anything of the kind. And its 2 titles you clown. Do some research
robodawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:25 pm
Good article. But I was raised in a UGA household, and for us tradition did not start with Herschel, but with Herty Field, playing Yale to inaugurate Sanford Stadium, the railroad tracks, the mascots (the goat before the bulldog), that fabled trip to the Rose Bowl, the South’s oldest rivalry, and the outdoor cocktail party. The annual media guide was required reading.
Ted M
November 23rd, 2011
12:25 pm
Michael Duke, of GT, is still the CEO of Wal-Mart.
Vermont Yellow Jacket
November 23rd, 2011
12:25 pm
To further your final point, I met a UGag alum here in Vermont. When I told him I hated UGA and asked him to guess where I attended school, his first guess was Florida and his second guess was Auburn. When I said “to hell with Georgia” he knew.
Incidentally, he’s an intelligent guy!
GIVE ME A BREAK
November 23rd, 2011
12:25 pm
It’s like Mark said, with UGA’s talent, Tech should never beat them but has 39 times. We’ll see. I think someone from South Carolina said it best, ” Richt is an underachiever.” ” GO JACKETS “
Frank Lane
November 23rd, 2011
12:27 pm
I am very leary about this game. TECH scares the hell out of me.
Frank
Michael Adams
November 23rd, 2011
12:27 pm
Mark, you misspelled moron, it’s “moran”.
Nerd Boy 16
November 23rd, 2011
12:28 pm
I wonder what Paul Johnson thinks about his students at GA southern? LOL!
NewnanDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:28 pm
Not to say that tech can’t win, but this will be the best, most athletic front seven that PJ has seen since arriving at tech. Could be a trap game, but our D is what makes me confident
SSG Desert Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:29 pm
@ Gold & White…u can read the who the suggested replacements are and see there is no merit to that article, c’mon guy. Why am I even commenting on this?
Spyro
November 23rd, 2011
12:31 pm
NewnanDawg, it won’t even be close to the best front 7 Tech has seen since PJ arrived. Iowa and UNC immediately come to mind in that regard.
Ted M
November 23rd, 2011
12:32 pm
Here is something to give thanks for…
The Braves did not offer salary arbitration to free agent shortstop Alex Gonzalez.
LawDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:33 pm
1)”Tech fans care just as much about football as Georgia fans. ”
No, they don’t. A few Tech fans care a lot about football, but among current students and alumni, it is not close.
2) UGA fans were by no means universally confident before BSU. Also, I was a lot more comfortable, Burdell, before NMS and CC, but that is just me. Regardless, with the UGA stout run defense, I think we have reason to be confident going into a game against a team that almost lost to Duke, which doesn’t even have a football program. They just hand out jerseys to the first 100 fans who show up.
3) Mark: What was the Willie Martinez reference? The fact that Tech can only beat UGA if we have an awful DC or is this recycled content with a few updates?
SiddyBoy
November 23rd, 2011
12:35 pm
Calling Tech the Yellow Jackets is an insult to the insects !!!
SSG Desert Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:36 pm
@ Vermont Yellow Jacket, that shows you how important Tech is to UGA…no higher than 3rd on the priority list. After a few more wins GT will fall behind SC.
Finchdawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:36 pm
I think the Dawgs will win, but I am scared that Tech might win. 8-3 is a solid record, and if we make enough mistakes we’ll be in trouble.
Jacketdad
November 23rd, 2011
12:37 pm
Mark, even though I disagree with your past analysis that Tech has a lack of talent and that whatever success they acheive is due to CPJ’s genius, I think you have hit the nail on the head with your description of the difference between UGA and Tech fans.
Mark Bradley
November 23rd, 2011
12:38 pm
Thanks, Jacketdad.
OoltewahDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:38 pm
Vermont Yellow Jacket, you just helped prove the truth of this article:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/952607-georgia-vs-georgia-tech-are-the-dawgs-the-most-hated-team-in-sports
Gold & White
November 23rd, 2011
12:38 pm
Spyro…the LSU front several years ago was another. But for this year, UGA might be the best front 7 but not that much above other teams we have faced unless you look at the recruiting ratings. Ought to be a good game unless one side or the other commits several more turnovers.
Gbal
November 23rd, 2011
12:38 pm
ABSOLUTE BS …. If someone was really trying to do some damage, they really blew it. Wouldnt be suprised one day if Richt did bow out for other interests, but naming BOBO and Dooley as likely replacements…Thats where we know this is a very bad attempt at a joke.
Georgia football coach Mark Richt rumored to be leaving
November 21, 2011 3:00 AM by Mark Mayer
Embattled Georgia football coach Mark Richt, who led Georgia to the SEC East regular season title with a victory over Kentucky on Saturday, will leave the program at the end of the season according to inside sources.
Top candidates to replace Richt reportedly are Tennessee coach Derek Dooley and Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo. Dooley is the son of Vince Dooley, longtime Bulldogs coach/athletic director and an Athens icon.
Richt’s job was reportedly on the line this season especially after an 0-2 start, but the Bulldogs rallied to win nine straight games to capture the SEC East title.
Sources in the South Carolina/Georgia area say that Richt will pursue outside interests and decide on his own not to return to Georgia.
Richt was hired as head coach of the Bulldogs before the 2001 season, replacing Jim Donnan. He has won two outright SEC championships, four SEC East titles and led Georgia to a finish in the AP Top 10 five times.
Big Johnson Meltdowns
November 23rd, 2011
12:39 pm
Dear Lord,
This Thanksgiving I am thankful that Mark Richt is our coach, and not Paul Johnson. That is all.
Amen.
Andy
November 23rd, 2011
12:41 pm
It’s probably the 3rd or 4th most important game on UGA’s schedule in any given year. That’s mainly because it’s a non conference game so it automatically has less importance. I think the Tech/UGA relationship is similar to UGA/FLA. The FLA game has been very important to UGA fans over the last 20+ years because FLA has won so much but it’s not as important to FLA because they win. If Tech won more versus UGA it would have less importance for them.
CaliDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:43 pm
…and where does GT place in grad rates in the ACC? Hmmm. Oh, and an interesting article recently in the Wall Street Journal about GT’s dummied down classes for the students not majoring in Engineering – AKA: the athlete-students.
Jim
November 23rd, 2011
12:44 pm
Here is the scoop. Tech fans watch UGA games to hate on UGA hoping they will lose. UGA fans never watch a Tech game, until they play UGA. If Tech played Russia the UGA fan would not watch it, but would pull for Russia and only check the paper for the score the next day.
Politically Correct
November 23rd, 2011
12:45 pm
Using the term “Retarded” is disrespectful … Agreed. “Mentally Challenged” is more politically correct and more respectful.
From now on, instead of calling Tech fans “Nerds” … you are to call them “Mentally Superior”. This is also more politically correct and more respectful.
Funny Funny Tech Fans
November 23rd, 2011
12:47 pm
For the Tech fans commenting on UGA scoring only 19 against Kentucky…you do realize that you only scored 21 against Maryland and Virginia?
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
12:47 pm
Tony Barnhart disagrees about who Georgia’s biggest rival is.
Seriously, CaliDawg? Our athletes have the highest SAT scores of any FBS school in the country. That they don’t all graduate on confirms that getting a degree at Tech is harder and that we don’t just hand them out. Try doing a real analysis next time.
Stinger1
November 23rd, 2011
12:48 pm
First of all , Bradley is the moron. Second , Walmart is his brother for selling only UGA junk that NEVER sells because the shelves stay full of that pathetic memorbila. We at Tech don’t care about the opinions of those people in red in black ( Black in Red ) even they can’t figure out what they want to wear. Regardless if we win or lose……………..WE AT TECH WILL ALWAYS BE THE SUPERIOR SCHOOL IN GA !!!!!!!!!!!!! We love our Jackets !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go back to your on Blogs ……you lowlife Bullwusses .!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
12:49 pm
Comparing scores is fool’s gold, Funny Tech Fans. Most people know or should know that.
SiddyBoy
November 23rd, 2011
12:49 pm
I guess that Paul Johnson will have more trouble recruiting “retards” now !!!
Fair and Balanced
November 23rd, 2011
12:50 pm
Tech is still the biggest game of the year regardless of expectations. We fear losing to Tech every year because it is embarrassing to lose to an inferior program. It just is. Your attendance argument…..nay. That just does not wash. Sorry. When enrollment was at 10k in the 60’s the stadium was bigger and filled up more often. When Tech program faded, enrollment rose but attendance went down, and eventually the stadium was built smaller.
calvin
November 23rd, 2011
12:51 pm
Somehow Bradley’s attempts to be fair to both schools
always result in more fairness to UGA. And Schultz
doesn’t even pretend to be fair. Every year the AJC
writers pull for UGA, but that’s all right, because it
helps motivate Tech.
T3
November 23rd, 2011
12:51 pm
IMHO, Clemson, VT, UNC, and NCST have better Defenses than UGA.
LawDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:51 pm
George Stein: getting some soft “management” degree or something at Tech is just as easy as anywhere else. I guarantee that most of your athletes are not majoring in chemical engineering. I’m sure Javaris Crittendon and Chris Bosh were not intellectually challenged while at Tech.
The graduation rate thing is fairly meaningless, though, since teams with a high number of players who enter the NFL early is going to influence that. Tech probably has a lot more football and basketball players leaving early than UVA, Duke, etc.
Mark, Great work here!
November 23rd, 2011
12:51 pm
Great op ed!
LawDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:52 pm
T3: That is because you have never watched a game of football in your life. Clemson? NC State? Are you high or trolling (or both)?
LawDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:52 pm
calvin: Schultz favors UGA over Tech? Are you insane or do you just never read anything he writes?
Stinger1
November 23rd, 2011
12:54 pm
Koolade drinkers they are . Real fans CHOOSE a REAL university !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
essss eeeeeeee seeeeee
November 23rd, 2011
12:54 pm
Ugagers………you do less with more better than anyone in the country! Take some pride in that. How does it feel to be the only SEC blue blood without a BCS title?
Neutral
November 23rd, 2011
12:55 pm
Good article Mark. Even though I’m neutral on this rivalry, I still get a kick out of how GT fans put down the academic credentials of opponents. I remember back to the Jan Kemp days when UGa took such a beating……GT (and most colleges) were guilty of similar activities related to remedial studies. GT’s admission standards for football players are not higher than UGa, and haven’t been higher for decades. GT should also not brag because I think their graduation rate is at or near the bottom in the ACC and UGa is toward the top.
T3
November 23rd, 2011
12:56 pm
Uh Lawdawg:
According to the 2010 Princeton Collegiate Review,
GT’s Grad & Undergrad Business School is ranked #25 in the country.
Emory is ranked #22.
UGA’s B-School is ranked #49.
Even UGA’s, Terry B-School is a ranking joke.
GeoffDawg
November 23rd, 2011
12:58 pm
I’ve never doubted the level of commitment from tech fans. It takes a lot of passion to be that obnoxious on a day to day basis.
jg
November 23rd, 2011
12:58 pm
and I too apologize that Coach PJ insulted Wal Mart employees
Stinger1
November 23rd, 2011
12:58 pm
Paul………kick thier %#$@*&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And let that take care of itself.
yellow meconium
November 23rd, 2011
12:58 pm
Time for all the techies to talk trash—go ahead beez–you do it every year–one year (I remember in the last ten) was even justified.
Tom
November 23rd, 2011
12:59 pm
“Georgia fans are passionate, but let’s face it – they’re not the brightest fans. Passionate, but not bright.” – Former UGA QB Eric Zeier, November 21, 2001 on 790TheZone
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
12:59 pm
Please, LawDawg. Our B-school is ranked higher (though I admittedly don’t think much for US News rankings) than the prestigious Terry School. Essentially, smarter players are taking our easy major and they can’t make it out. Moreover, our easy major is harder thand than the hard major at UGA.
I hope you’re not an actual lawyer. Your clients would be poorly served.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
1:00 pm
Wow, I am surprised at Johnson openly bad-mouthing the SEC and UGA in particular. Like Boykin’s tweet earlier in the year, smack talking the opponent during game week usually results in poor performance–although this is worse than Boykin’s tweet. I suspect the Dawgs will be hearing CPJ quotes a lot.
yellow meconium
November 23rd, 2011
1:01 pm
Beware my fellow dawgs–this is all the jackets have to play for this year. Paul will run the gimmick with a couple of wrinkles–because he’s so superior and intelligent.–blech!
Heath
November 23rd, 2011
1:01 pm
Tech can’t sell out the high school stadium because there is no such thing as a Tech fan – only people who hate Georgia and pretend to be.
And if you think those Tech players are taking their own calculus exams then you’ve been taking advantage of their lenient drug policy (toke it up boys, no suspension for a first offense)!
Soon to be SEC East Champs
November 23rd, 2011
1:01 pm
LawDawg…If GT chose to establish a law school it would be rated ahead of UGA’s…Godd thing they choose not to…the world has plenty of you bottom-feeding swine.
SEC FAN
November 23rd, 2011
1:02 pm
But studies have shown that there are more Auburn grads living in metro Atlanta than Tech alums.
…and yet, AJC still gives little coverage to SEC schools other than UGA.
Soon to be SEC East Champs
November 23rd, 2011
1:03 pm
Heath….do the UGA players take their own Underwater Basketweaving exams? Maybe so.
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:03 pm
Tech fans care just as much about football as Georgia fans.
No they don’t. Maybe a few do. Football is the sole reason most UGA fans wake up in the morning. We love football, but it doesn’t consume our lives or school like it does at UGA. I have already shifted most of my attention to basketball, UGA fans never seem to shift their attention at all.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:04 pm
Aside from the retard thing, please enlighten us on what Johnson said that was controversial, PerroGrande.
JB
November 23rd, 2011
1:04 pm
Dawgs live rent free in Tech’s mind. I have Tech friends and they talk and think about us all the time. Kinda sad in a way. Winning the 9 of the last 10 I’m sure has something to do with it. Some Tech bloggers like to brag they are all about the academics and the “Tech life” etc, but beating us is more important to them than anything it seems. If we are bumpkins and trailer trash to them……Why do they care?
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:05 pm
GT’s Grad & Undergrad Business School is ranked #25 in the country.
That’s 24 schools that are above you, so what’s the deal with your arrogance?
All this Tech superiority? Why? Most of them got rejected from MIT or couldn’t get into a good private/Ivy League school. It’s called Sheol…and it’s where the bugs live. It’s an obvious psychological dynamic at work when the perennial losers limp back over to their over-burnished academic achievements and start shouting from the rooftops that they’re superior when even the stats they cite show that they’re way, way, way down the list. This is a football game we’re discussing. Not Battle of the Mathletes.
UGA24-7
November 23rd, 2011
1:06 pm
And for those who like to mix a bit of humor in with their heavenly entreaties for Georgia to do well, Todd Miller sends in this prayer given by John Brown of Monticello to the East Metro Bulldog Club this week:
Tonight our Lord we are gathered as members of the Bulldog Nation and we thank you for the blessings of being a Bulldog.
We thank you for fall afternoons between the hedges, we thank you that we are blessed to hear the Redcoats playing “Glory, Glory,” and we give thanks for the chills we get when the trumpet tones the battle hymn. We give thanks for the smell of ribs cooking on the grills of campus tailgates and we gave thanks for the chapel bell ringing after a victory, and are grateful for the sheer joy of wearing red and black.
We thank you for those moments that we treasure, Tarkenton to Herron, the flea-flicker versus Bama, Appleby to Washington, that kid outa Johnson County running through two men, run Lindsey run, sugar falling from the sky, Butler kicking it a million miles, hobnailed boots that still hurt in Knoxville and Johnson in the end zone.
Tonight we thank you for Aaron Murray, a fine young man who did not charge us $180,000 to play quarterback.
Tonight we thank you that Mrs. Geathers and Mrs. Jenkins allowed their sons to discover biscuits and pound cake at an early age so that we might have a nose guard for the 3-4 defense.
Tonight we thank you for the new Nike uniforms. We may not like them but we know they look better than a Gator in a tank top and jean shorts.
Tonight we thank you that as we gathered here that we have been blessed, we have been blessed to live in land that stands for freedom, for those who have given of themselves to defend our freedom. We thank you for the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and we pray for your blessings to continue on we who are gathered here this evening that may truly understand that it is great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Amen.
Riddle
November 23rd, 2011
1:07 pm
Why don’t Bulldogs eat M&M’s?
They’re too hard to peel.
Justice Dept
November 23rd, 2011
1:07 pm
Are there any American kids still going to Tech?
Riddle
November 23rd, 2011
1:07 pm
Did you hear about the Cessna airplane that crashed in a cemetery near the Georgia campus recently?
Georgia search and rescue workers have recovered 300 bodies so far and are still digging.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:07 pm
(Oh..and Redneck aficionado and author of numerous redneck dictionaries is an esteemed alum of GT, so…GT fans….If you attend or attended GT, you MIGHT be a REDNECK)
Riddle
November 23rd, 2011
1:08 pm
What do Bulldogs think Cheerios are?
Donut seeds.
Riddle
November 23rd, 2011
1:08 pm
Why did the Georgia fan keep a coat hanger in his back seat?
In case he locks the keys in his car.
Soon to be SEC East Champs
November 23rd, 2011
1:08 pm
JB….what will UGA fans be thinking about after we kick your arse on Saturday?
Riddle
November 23rd, 2011
1:09 pm
Did you hear about the Georgia fan that broke his leg raking leaves?
He fell out of the tree.
H-Town Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
1:09 pm
It’s hard to determine which is the bigger joke: Tech football or Bradley desperately trying to make Yech’s program and fanbase sound legitimate. Come on Nerds, sing us the Budweiser song again! lol
GOD DAWGS!!
JB
November 23rd, 2011
1:09 pm
Hey Riddle….waiting on the short bus to take you home? Those post from you keep the “nerd” vision alive for us.
Riddle.
November 23rd, 2011
1:09 pm
A Georgia fan ordered a pizza and the clerk asked if he should cut it in six or twelve pieces.
“Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces.”
dawgfan
November 23rd, 2011
1:10 pm
Here is the typical life cycle of a Georgia Tech fan:
1. Run your mouth in February about how recruiting doesn’t mean anything and all those stars and rankings are meangless because UGA hasn’t won 5 national titles in a row;
2. Run your mouth in August about how overrated UGA is and how they will choke;
3. Run your mouth the whole season about how UGA hasn’t played anyone and the SEC is overrated;
4. Puff your chest and act tough because you rushed for 300 yards on Duke/UVA/Maryland, etc.
5. Rurn your mouth the week before the UGA like it is Tech that has won 9 of the last 10 instead of the other way around;
6. Predictably lose to UGA like clockwork;
7. Pull excuses out of your backside for loss and talk out of other side of your mouth to say that UGA should beat Tech because of all those 5 star recruits we get.
8. Lose bowl game and claim its meaningless because you lost it.
9. Cry like a little girl for a couple of months.
10. Repeat.
That’s the way its been for several years now. Am I missing something?
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:11 pm
Tech fans care just as much about football as Georgia fans.
No they don’t and it’s not even close. The reason UGA exists is football and very few UGA fans are even capable of thinking of anything else. When the season ends what will GT fans do? Watch basketball. What will UGA fans do? Monitor their twitter feeds in hopes of new football recruiting info.
WnE
November 23rd, 2011
1:11 pm
“Tech’s enrollment is roughly 20,000 — Georgia’s is 35,000, by the way — and a goodly percentage of those students will take their degrees and move elsewhere. (This isn’t to say that no Georgia grad ever moves out of state. Even Lewis Grizzard moved to Chicago for a few months.) But studies have shown that there are more Auburn grads living in metro Atlanta than Tech alums.”
_________________________
This is a very weak excuse Mr. Bradley.
ND is still around 10K students and is much smaller than GT, but they sellout an 80K Stadium and could probably sellout a 95K Stadium if they had it.
The REASON that is a weak excuse is that Colleges rely on “sidewalk alums” to actually sell out their games, GT’s problem is that GT and their SMUG, ARROGANT ways are not conducive to growing a sizable sidewalk alumni base that can sell out Games in FB.
At any rate a College with 20K students in a Metro Area of 5.8 Million should be able to sell-out a 55K Stadium EASILY.
GT Fails miserably at that because they spend too much of their time telling everyone else how much better they are than everyone else, just like Coach Fish Fry’s snarky comments.
Riddle Jr.
November 23rd, 2011
1:11 pm
How do you keep a Georgia fan busy?
Write ‘Please turn over’ on both sides of a piece of paper.
john
November 23rd, 2011
1:12 pm
Can any of ya’ll imagine this game being the opener for both teams…played during Labor Day weekend? The summer-long buildup?
That would be awesome! Get the game played and over with.
Soon to be SEC East Champs
November 23rd, 2011
1:12 pm
Nice try Kelly….UGA fans know that GT is just better. It really gets under your skin.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:13 pm
I love Kelly’s post. He or she spends an entire paragraph talking about academics only to conclude they don’t matter. Someone make that make sense.
Soon to be SEC East Champs
November 23rd, 2011
1:13 pm
Kelly…we are just better.
Another riddle
November 23rd, 2011
1:13 pm
Do you know why they put artificial turf down at Grant Field?
So the GT cheerleaders couldn’t graze.
GO DAWGS!!
JB
November 23rd, 2011
1:14 pm
dawgfan, #11………..We’re Tech and we are above the fray of football. We have lives and careers and contribute to the Arts and society and football is for you rednecks at UGA who live for this crap and think it’s important.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:14 pm
Were you planning on plagiarizing all of Ken’s post, WnE. Any thoughts of your own on the matter?
riddle #3
November 23rd, 2011
1:15 pm
95% of all coeds are beautiful…………the other 5% go to Tech.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:16 pm
Hey Riddle….waiting on the short bus to take you home? Those post from you keep the “nerd” vision alive for us.
He’s just proud he mastered the most difficult keyboard function, the ctrl/c ctrl/v tandem. Don’t mind Rid…just showing off for us.
I love Kelly’s post. He or she spends an entire paragraph talking about academics only to conclude they don’t matter. Someone make that make sense.
That would be insightful if I were the one injecting academics into the conversation. I’ll play by the rules you make. And win. Just like UGA does, pretty much every year against GT.
DawgInaTruck
November 23rd, 2011
1:17 pm
Dawgfan, you didn’t miss a thing. You summed it up perfectly.
The heck of it is most of us don’t pay atention to Tech until the week of the game (you must win a significant number of games prior to Thanksgiving for this game to truly matter outside of bragging rights, etc.) but most Tech folks spend all year hating us and following UGA athletic developments as closely as we do.
I’ve never understood that.
dawgfan
November 23rd, 2011
1:17 pm
You are right JB. I forgot #12 also:
Pretend that losing to UGA doesn’t destroy your soul and change the subject to academics as much as possible.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
1:17 pm
George, read Schultz’s column. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what he is saying, and that is the same thing GT Joe and some others have been saying here. The SEC East is overrated, the Dawg players are good, but no better than ACC players. He may be right, but talking about stuff like that during game week will be turned against you. Read Richt’s praise of GT and Johnson if you want to see a stark contrast between smack talk and disrespect vs class and respect. The problem with calling the barking wonder a retard from Walmart is that is the same thing the GT Joe types are saying here. Maybe Johnson is GT Joe! It reveals an attitude of disrespect that will be communicated to the Dawgs. Just isn’t smart coaching imo. Have a good TGiving George.
BILLY JACK
November 23rd, 2011
1:18 pm
Dawgfan that is perfect description of a tech nerd-it happens every year.Any team humiliated like they have been this decade and still talking smack is incredible.
john
November 23rd, 2011
1:19 pm
WnE: You seem to forget the BS of this non-story the local media is drumming up over some STUPID UGAg caller barking into the telephone also hurts the perception of GT from the public at large. This whole episode is just another example of the local media having their noses so far up the rear-ends of UGAg, they can only smell poop.
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:19 pm
Pretend that losing to UGA doesn’t destroy your soul
This is a good example of the difference between a UGA fan and a GT fan. A loss in football is actually capable of harming the life of a UGA fan and they think that is normal and applies to fans of other teams.
Arno
November 23rd, 2011
1:19 pm
Yeah well, at least PJ apologized. If everyone on these blogs (including me) apologized for the stupid things they said, the internet would crash. Good game on Saturday.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:20 pm
Hold on, Kelly. Let me see if I have this straight. You play by the rules someone else sets but conclude at the end you don’t want to play by this rules? Sure, that makes sense.
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:21 pm
No comment. Just want to see if I can get past the filter for once.
JB
November 23rd, 2011
1:22 pm
Could NEVER imagine Mark Richt calling a Tech fan “heckler’ calling his show and calling the caller a retard and joke about his lack of success in his working life…..Never. He apologized, but I’m sure not on his on. Ask the NCAA the MO on this guy. He march’s to his own tune.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
1:22 pm
@Riddle
My 2nd grade daughter comes up with more mature jokes than you. What a sad life you must live.
Eisendawg
November 23rd, 2011
1:22 pm
Mark, I think it would be neat to do a column, or survey, on what are the most “God awful” team colors out there. I think most would agree that yellow or orange would be at the top of the list!
IlliniDawg
November 23rd, 2011
1:24 pm
True story: I took my 12-yr-old son to his first UGA-Tech game at Bobby Dodd Stadium, and we sat amongst a sea of red and black. The guys in front and beside me were dressed in camo and overalls and spent the entire game swearing like sailors and taunting the Tech players mercilessly. Most of the comments were totally crude and inappropriate – but funny as hell. My son got an education and some entertainment.
Then, when I asked the guys when they went to UGA, telling them that I was there during the Herschel years, the guy next to me said, “I didn’t go to Georgia.” I then asked, “okay, so where did you graduate from?” And he said, and I quote word for word… “oh hell, I didn’t go to no college”! I laughed my ass off!!!
Sure we may have a lot of dumbass trailer-park fans, but we have a helluva lot of fun. Suck it Tech Nerds!
chas jacket
November 23rd, 2011
1:24 pm
The retard remark was wrong, but anyone over 40 has probably used it in the past, doesnt make it right and i’m glad we are more sensitive to those with disabilities today. PJ apologized – rightfully so, time to move on. PJ is an earthy type, but I think his visit to the Maryland lineman at Grady says more about his character than one slip up. I also recall him defending richt earlier in the season saying it was crazy that fans wanted him gone after all he had done for uga. Enough said. Go Tech, THWG !
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:24 pm
He compared Orson Charles to Bruce Allen, one of the three best TEs in the country and Jarvis Jones to Quentin Coples (sp?), one of the three best DEs in the country. On what planet considered smack talk?
I have said many times I think GTJoe, m, yellowfuzz, etc are clowns. I’m glad we agree.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:25 pm
but conclude at the end you don’t want to play by this rules?
Not, that’s not what I concluded. I pointed out that the rivalry is based around a football game, not a Battle of Mathletes. What I DID show, however, was that being 25th is a far cry from being 1st, 2nd or even 3rd…and that I’m not sure what the fuss is about with GT’s academics. Again…I didn’t insert academics into the conversation, but rather merely replied to the insertion. That’s different. Someone with your reasoning skills can certainly see the difference, correct?
DawgInaTruck
November 23rd, 2011
1:26 pm
In all honesty, CPJ shouldn’t have to apologize for the retard comment; it was a harmless remark on his own radio show. If he had made disparaging comments about someone who was obviously mentally or emotionally challenged that would be a different matter. Some guy snuck past the station “filter” and was rewarded with the enjoyment of barking at him (how many of us will ever get the chance?) and some smack talk ensued. Thats all, end of story.
timthebrave
November 23rd, 2011
1:26 pm
A big Georgia Tech fan goes to a sports bar in Atlanta to watch his favorite team play, bringing his dog with him. As usual, the Yellow Jackets are getting slaughtered, with the other team racking up score after score while Tech don’t register a single point. Finally, late in the game Tech kicks a field goal. The dog jumps on the bar and starts dancing and doing the moonwalk.”Your dog’s as big a fan as you are, I see,” the bartender says. “Does he do that every time Tech get a field goal?” “Sure does,” says the fan. “Wow,” says the bartender. “What does he do when Tech scores a touchdown?”
“I don’t know,” the fan replies. “I’ve only owned him for three years.”
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:26 pm
dawgfan, are you admitting that losing a football game can actually affect your soul? This is what is sad about UGA and SEC fans. Their life really is impacted significantly by the athletic performance of 18 year olds.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:29 pm
In all honesty, CPJ shouldn’t have to apologize for the retard comment; it was a harmless remark on his own radio show.
I agree…all this apology stuff in our culture is very strange. The fear of judgment is only moral inertia. Say what you think and move on. So what if Paul Johnson dipped in a dry well for some sort of “snarky” comeback. Once again, proves only that those aligned with the yellow and black are unimaginative, stale and cliched.
DawgInaTruck
November 23rd, 2011
1:29 pm
Bob are you coming to our fish fry? C’mon dude, be a nice guy.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:30 pm
You lost me, Kelly. I can’t follow your reasoning.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:30 pm
I’m not surprised.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:31 pm
Neither am I. It was pretty poor to start with.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
1:32 pm
I agree on a few comments on CPJ:
1) He should not have to apologize for his retard comment.
2) He has no class.
3) Speaks before he thinks.
No comparison when it comes to who the most class between the two coaches. I would have to say that is probably the only thing that tech & UGA fans can agree on.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
1:34 pm
Good grief Mark how many of my posts are you going to block? They have been very civil towards both sides. I guess I have to post nasty posts before they get on this blog.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
1:34 pm
George, go read Richt’s remarks about Tech and Johnson and you will see the difference. I can paste them here if you would like. I can help Johnson with a little softer response for next time: hello, bark, bark, hello, Russ, is that you…sorry I don’t speak your language, see you Saturday, boy…next call please. Calling Dawg fans retards from Walmart isn’t going to help Johnson’s cause, or Tech’s either. What if Richt started saying some of the lines you read here from our anonymous, internet tough guys…you guys would go nuts. Maybe we should keep Johnson and Grantham apart. When CPJ starts calling our players retards, I fear Grantham’s response! I’m kidding of course. Surely GT Joe, I mean Coach Johnson and Grantham can behave.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
1:34 pm
Figures……
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:34 pm
Only if you’re incapable of understanding simple logic.
headley lamar
November 23rd, 2011
1:34 pm
but Georgia hasn’t played for a national crown since 1982,
We could have in 2007 but we were told that if you don’t win your conference you cant play for the title.
Funny how that’s conveniently changed isn’t it.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:36 pm
I am definitely capable, Kelly. There just wasn’t any present.
Still crying about 2007, headley?
that's why they play the games
November 23rd, 2011
1:36 pm
Georgia has won it’s division and is going to play LSU or Alabama for the SEC title next week.
~~~~~~~~~ This is not carved in stone.
In 2009, 11-0 Alabama barely escaped 7-4 Auburn 26-21 at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
If Auburn upsets Alabama and Arkansas upsets LSU,
Georgia will play Arkansas for the SEC title.
Chuck
November 23rd, 2011
1:37 pm
“GTBob
dawgfan, are you admitting that losing a football game can actually affect your soul? This is what is sad about UGA and SEC fans. Their life really is impacted significantly by the athletic performance of 18 year olds.”
… said the man that posts insults of fans of another team on a bulletin board.
Burdell
November 23rd, 2011
1:37 pm
LawDawg–
“Duke, which doesn’t even have a football program. They just hand out jerseys to the first 100 fans who show up.”
That can’t be true b/c I’m not even sure enough fans showed up last weekend to field a team! You could hear the Tech fans TALKING in the stands…not even yelling.
Jimmy Crack
November 23rd, 2011
1:38 pm
Game plan against Tech…Eliminate the fullback dive. That’s it. Thanks for coming. Drive safely.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
1:38 pm
Anyway you slice it, it will be a great weekend in College Football. This is the best regular season weekend for CF each year.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:41 pm
Neither am I. It was pretty poor to start with.
You’ll have to go back and spell out your complex reasoning to my simple mind. When you break down what you’re saying with examples from my post, then I might concede that my reasoning was flawed. After all…I didn’t go to number 25. Go back to my post and prove that what you’re saying is true.
I’ll break it down for you again. GT fan introduces academics as a relevant factor. I disagree and point out that GT’s academics aren’t as great as they’re cracked up to be. I then move to saying that this a rivalry based on a football game anyway, not a battle of mathletes. Pretty easy to understand GS. You probably need to take a step back and try not to complicate things so much. Convolution as red herring doesn’t work well on me.
BobDawg
November 23rd, 2011
1:41 pm
GTBOB, you said earlier you have already turned your focus to BBall??? Then why in the name of Bobby Dodd are you on every football blog spewing your nonsense??? Yeah, you are focused on BBall until you Nerds luck up and win a game against us, then it will be a full Monty on, right???
Burdell
November 23rd, 2011
1:42 pm
Funny how that’s conveniently changed isn’t it.
Headley…just proves that nationally UGA isn’t as relevant in MNC picture as most fans think.
WDE
November 23rd, 2011
1:43 pm
Folks we are never going to agree (I hope) on our schools and their respective merits…however anyone like GT Bob who lives on every GT or UGA blog I’ve looked at in the last 3 months declares that Tech fans are not really obsessed with football like UGA fans are…needs to look deeply into the mirror admit the problem and get help!! Denial is not a river in northern Africa.
BobDawg
November 23rd, 2011
1:44 pm
… and John Davis is a LOSER, big time… Never graduated from the North Ave. Trade School and has more losing businesses in Ellijay, than Carters has pills!
WnE = bulldog
November 23rd, 2011
1:44 pm
From today’s New York Times: “Many would question whether the (English bulldog) breed’s quality of life is so compromised that its breeding should be banned.” Expand that to segments of their fan base and it says it all I think!
Georgia Grad
November 23rd, 2011
1:45 pm
Georgia fans are the most fickle in the SEC. I still remember students and fans pelting the football team with ice and other junk after Georgia lost to Vanderbilt at home in the early 1990’s. I have not seen that kind of behavior anywhere in over 50 years of SEC football. Richt is good. Fire Richt. Richt is good again, extend his contract.
Ron Swanson
November 23rd, 2011
1:45 pm
The only time Tech is nationally noticed is when the UGA game is on national television.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
1:46 pm
Here are Richt’s comments on Tech and CPJ:
>>We have Georgia Tech coming up. Coach (Paul) Johnson and his staff have done a fantastic job during the time he’s been there. They are really an outstanding football team and one that we really have a lot of respect for and one that we know we have our work cut out for us. Anybody who has ever played Coach Johnson’s offense, they know it’s an awful lot of work to get done in a short amount of time. We’re thankful that we don’t have school this week. It helps us to get in a few more walkthroughs and a few more meetings.
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:47 pm
BobDawg, I said I have shifted most of my attention to basketball. It happens naturally for us when the football season ends. I have a little bit left for this weekend’s game though. Don’t worry. I do wonder how unhappy life must be for a UGA fan when the football season is over though.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:48 pm
If you don’t think academics are relevant, why not just say that and move on.
When you begin to argue academics, they become relevant. Essentially, all you’re saying is “he started it.” Perhaps I shouldn’t be disappointed in your reasoning. But I am.
Tech82
November 23rd, 2011
1:48 pm
I love that so many UGA fans proclaim no interest in Tech while claiming we are eternally consumed with the goings-on in Athens. If that were truly the case, we wouldn’t have to deal with the constant barrage of UGA trolls on the Tech blogs.
GO JACKETS! THWG!
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
1:49 pm
The server appears to be dumping my message. Apologies if it repeats. Here are Richt’s comments on Tech and CPJ:
>>We have Georgia Tech coming up. Coach (Paul) Johnson and his staff have done a fantastic job during the time he’s been there. They are really an outstanding football team and one that we really have a lot of respect for and one that we know we have our work cut out for us. Anybody who has ever played Coach Johnson’s offense, they know it’s an awful lot of work to get done in a short amount of time. We’re thankful that we don’t have school this week. It helps us to get in a few more walkthroughs and a few more meetings….
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:49 pm
Expand that to segments of their fan base and it says it all I think!
Sure. If you don’t know the difference between canines and humans. Of course, by that logic it’s easy to see why so many Tech fans drone on in lockflight about academic superiority, tired references to Wal Mart and limp redneck bits ironically lifted from their own alumnus.
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:49 pm
I’ve had about 4 comments filtered now that had nothing offensive in them. Mark, is there a reason that your blog is so terrible with this compared to the other blogs?
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:50 pm
If you don’t think academics are relevant, why not just say that and move on.
Because it doesn’t nullify my argument to refute yours.
Tech82
November 23rd, 2011
1:50 pm
GTBob – Agreed. I’m having the same problem.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:50 pm
GTBob: Is there a keyword you think is causing that?
Tech82
November 23rd, 2011
1:52 pm
Kelly – You could raise the level if the conversation on this blog simply by leaving.
Tech82
November 23rd, 2011
1:53 pm
I love that so many UGA fans proclaim no interest in Tech while claiming we are eternally consumed with the goings-on in Athens. If that were truly the case, we wouldn’t have to deal with the constant barrage of UGA trolls on the Tech blogs.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
1:53 pm
Here is what will likely happen: every time we tackle a Tech player Saturday, they will tell them, “Welcome to Walmart!”
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:54 pm
Tech82. I imagine you’d like that, wouldn’t you? You might want to turn right side up, by the way, so that you correctly understand “raise” relative to the conversation on this blog.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:54 pm
Sure it does. If something is irrelevant, you say so and move on. Arguing the point confirms its relevancy. Wee, that or your own insecurity.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:55 pm
Whatsa matter Tech82? Frustrated by a UGA fan not falling for your smoke and mirrors academic superiority inferiority complex?
Ron Swanson
November 23rd, 2011
1:56 pm
The filter removes nonsensical, false bloviations rooted in emotion and devoid of fact, which pretty much sums up all of GT Bob’s postings.
Atlanta87
November 23rd, 2011
1:56 pm
@ PerroGrande Who were you referring to when you said we and they. Are you talking about two different people?
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
1:56 pm
Long as the tackle is five yards downfield, the UGA players can knock themselves out, Perro.
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
1:57 pm
Ron Swanson, that was actually kinda funny. I’m gonna leave you alone for a day. You have earned it.
DawgInaTruck
November 23rd, 2011
1:58 pm
C’mon Bob get it solved. Your stuff makes me smile. Now, if you’re calling me ten kinds of dumb a$$, that will get filtered and I ain’t smiling!
WnE
November 23rd, 2011
1:58 pm
re:
john
November 23rd, 2011
1:19 pm
___________________
All Coach Kung Fu Panda had to do when that caller started barking was respond that when we/GT start winning this series more often than not, then guys like that will either disappear or find some other college to root for, but you won’t hear them barking again.
Instead CPJ makes a non PC comment that does nothing but HURT GT.
At some point GT Fans will have to realize that the PE Major from W. Carolina needs to be more Media savvy and needs to REPRESENT the Institute better.
CMR has gotten much more heat than CPJ ever has, and yet he has never embarrassed uga in the Media, while CPJ has done it multiple times in a very short tenure.
The “Walmart comment”, what happens when it is time for CPJ to Recruit an elite FB Player that has a PARENT that works at a Wal-mart or in a similar blue-collar job, then how will Coach-punch-em-in-the-mouth explain his smart-ice commentary then?
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
1:58 pm
Sure it does. If something is irrelevant, you say so and move on. Arguing the point confirms its relevancy. Wee, that or your own insecurity.
Or you illustrate why it’s relevant, confirm it’s invalidity…then move on, only to laugh when those who regularly employ smoke and mirrors and shiny object magic tricks GS get frustrated by their inadequate reasoning. By the way, you didn’t cut and paste what it was that was exactly wrong with my reasoning. Which brings me to my next point. It wasn’t a problem with my reasoning. It’s the problem you have with my style, because telling me how I should discuss the topic of irrelevance isn’t a logic problem, but a stylistic sticking point for you. Do you see the difference?
Ron Swanson
November 23rd, 2011
2:00 pm
Thanks GTBob. I do enjoy the back and forth.
DILLIGAF
November 23rd, 2011
2:00 pm
Why don’t George Stein and Kelly go take a timeout. waaa…waaa…waaa… pseudointellectual children.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
2:01 pm
You didn’t confirm anything was invalid.
Irrelevance is absolutely a logic problem. For example, I think Tech will win because our academics are better. Make sense?
coachx
November 23rd, 2011
2:02 pm
UGA is 25-8 vs. GT over the last 33 years.
Mark Richt is 9-1 vs. GT
Paul Johnson is 2-1 vs. UGA
CRYSTAL BALL SAYS:
This year will be UGA 34 / GT 14
CPJ will refuse to kick field goals and will turn the ball over on downs 2 times in the red zone.
DawgInaTruck
November 23rd, 2011
2:02 pm
Heck, they lost me a long time ago.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:04 pm
Sorry87, Walmart taught me better pronoun references than that, but sometimes I slip back into the my trailer park retard lingo when I’m typing fast. >>When the GA players tackle the GT players, the GA players will say, “Welcome to Walmart.”
crackbaby
November 23rd, 2011
2:05 pm
@WnE
You are certainly allowed to have your anti CPJ opinions but your assessments are always wrong. Nothing about that comment hurt GT.
The fact that he declared the caller a retard is an insult to retards. But we get it.
CPJ’s plainly speaks his mind and it is REFRESHING. No coachspeak. He says what he thinks. You don’t like it? Then don’t listen. Listening to CMR talk to the media is a waste of time – he is rarely sincere and won’t say what he thinks.
Both men are very good coaches.
It’s time for some football.
bill arp
November 23rd, 2011
2:05 pm
Paul Johnson very well may be Ole Miss’ coach next year…wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:05 pm
into my…can’t get it right!
coachx
November 23rd, 2011
2:05 pm
GTBob, its nice to see you have a since of humor.
We are all looking forward to a great classic game Saturday !
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:06 pm
George, you still haven’t shown where my reasoning was bad. Very simple: academics don’t have anything to do with the football game at hand. GT fans resorting to perceived academic superiority is irrelevant to the game. And because the rivalry is based on a football game, academics are irrelevant. I don’t know how to make that any simpler for you and, frankly, DILLIGAF has a point. I’m not spelling it out for you anymore. I’m confident in my ability to reason.
JB
November 23rd, 2011
2:07 pm
I’ve heard Reggie Ball interviewed….And keeping that guy eligible at the almighty Tech for 4 years was not Legal.
?????????
November 23rd, 2011
2:09 pm
Crackbaby,
The insult to retards was the comparison to a UGA fan.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
George wrote
>>>Long as the tackle is five yards downfield, the UGA players can knock themselves out, Perro.<<
We are all taught by Walmart to greet customers immediately upon store entry, if a customer gets 5 yards into the store, we would be fired.
RxDawg
November 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
“FYI, the CEO of Walmart is Tech grad Michael Duke.”
OMG that is too daggum funny right there. Oh man I’m going to smile about that for a long time.
JB
November 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
Johnson IS NOT leaving Tech. After 4 years he’s at .663%, no bowl wins, 1 three point win against Georgia, makes 2.5 mil a year and has gotten them on probation….and they love him…Leave, you’re kidding me, right.
Arno
November 23rd, 2011
2:11 pm
If you want to win an argument and call it logic, then you have to start with a solid premise. Kelly’s assertion, “the fear of judgment is only moral inertia,” reveals an ineptitude for logic by the words, “is only.”
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:11 pm
Fortunately for me, Walmart is merciful on pronoun references.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
2:11 pm
It’s a rivalry not limited exclusively to football so the academic reputations of the respective schools do matter. However, you are correct that whether Tech is a better school than UGA (or vice versa) will not affect the outcome of the game.
Happy Thanksgiving.
?????????
November 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
“The fact that he declared the caller a retard is an insult to retards. But we get it.”
I thought the comparison to UGA fans was the insult to the mentally challenged. Come to think of it, he probably owes Wal-Mart an apology as well.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
That made me laugh, Perro.
coachx
November 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
If I were CPJ I would not touch that Ole Miss job with a 10 foot pole.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:13 pm
RXDawg, that is the joke by GT Joe/CPJ–Dawgs all work for GT grads. I didn’t realize the GT crowd thinks we all work for Walmart and are retarded until today!
RICHARD
November 23rd, 2011
2:14 pm
FINAL.GA.TECH 35 GA.13
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
2:14 pm
My last post got eaten, Kelly. Whatever. Happy Thanksgiving.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:14 pm
We may as well have some fun with this!
RxDawg
November 23rd, 2011
2:14 pm
Just FYI Mark, this Georiga fan is scared we might lose to Tech Saturday.
Anyone have a spare RB lying around?
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:15 pm
Good point Arno. What do you reckon the obsessive need to split hairs indicates psychologically in context of a blog about a football game where GT loses year after year and, once again, the problem with conflating stylistic preferences with formal logic?
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:16 pm
Dick, 35-13? Can you tell the future, or is this thing rigged?
OkieDawg
November 23rd, 2011
2:16 pm
After Georgia wins the game 42 – 35, all the Tech fans will spend the next year talking about the 400 rushing yards they hung on Georgia. GT will run the ball around 60 times and think they won the game. Does a GT fan ever look at the scoreboard or do they just hold up the stat sheet? Guess they are just looking for something to make them relevant. And they must be so proud of CPJ.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:16 pm
Take it easy George! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.
coachx
November 23rd, 2011
2:18 pm
WnE = bulldog
November 23rd, 2011
1:44 pm
From today’s New York Times: “Many would question whether the (English bulldog) breed’s quality of life is so compromised that its breeding should be banned.” Expand that to segments of their fan base and it says it all I think!
You make a fair point. I’m a die hard UGA fan and it breaks my heart to see the bulldogs they breed as Ugas.
I personally have a 9 year old male bulldog who looks nothing like the Ugas. He is 50 pounds (not 90 like Uga). He can still jump up on the couch at 9 years old. He breathes without sound and sleeps without snoring. Some bulldog breeders should be arrested but there are many many good bulldogs still out there.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
2:19 pm
Saturday UGA will have their victory and tek will have their “moral” victory
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
2:20 pm
You honestly think we’re gonna score 35, Okie?
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:20 pm
Saturday UGA will have their victory and tek will have their “moral” victory
And how they didn’t lose by enough points to prove Georgia is really a better team.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:22 pm
With UGA’s running back issues I don’t see either team putting up 30 points on the other.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
2:23 pm
If Murray plays like he did against Auburn I can easily see Dawgs outting 30+ points on the scoreboard by the 3rd quarter.
That’s the concern, which Murray will show up.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:23 pm
How dare Coach Johnson talk to Russ like that! The nerve of that man…I’ll bet Russ never calls him again, and I know Russ truly resents being called a Walmart employee! He has a nice house with a beautiful lawn, sleeps for a living, and has GT grads designing his plumbing, electrical and AC systems.
Arno
November 23rd, 2011
2:24 pm
Kelly– In my view, whether splitting hairs or firewood, its all about gaining yardage. And hey, that was a very conflated question, I reckon. Go Jackets.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
2:24 pm
Sorry, should have been “putting”. Can’t wait to get back on my lap top.
Paul Johnson
November 23rd, 2011
2:25 pm
I didnt say that! I buy my bras from wal-mart!!!
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
2:26 pm
Would not be shocked to see UGA score that many, Kelly. If OC gets the ball less than 7 times, I would have to question Bobo’s sanity. We have no one who can cover him.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:27 pm
conflated question
With what?
Gaining yardage is fine. Scoring is what it’s about though.
Like DIT said above, if the confident, accurate Murray shows up that should balance the offense somewhat, but if he doesn’t, UGA may be in for a long day. If Crowell actually stays in the game for a while, that’ll help too. But if Harton is the running back, he’s probably good for two fumbles.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
2:27 pm
George – We question Bobo’s sanity every Saturday!
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
George, you wouldn’t be the first person to question Bobo’s sanity.
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
“If Crowell actually stays in the game for a while…”
That was a good one Kelly. I can’t stop laughing. I sure hope we pick up Marshall
RxDawg
November 23rd, 2011
2:29 pm
Politically Correct
November 23rd, 2011
12:45 pm
That was the funniest post by a Tech fan I’ve seen in a long time, bravo.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:29 pm
DIT, George, we have consensus. lol.
George Stein
November 23rd, 2011
2:29 pm
Touche, DIT & Kelly.
Time
November 23rd, 2011
2:30 pm
If I were a Tech fan, honestly, I’d be embarrassed and demanding of a true apology from my coach. One thing is for sure, those at UGA might not always be happy with how Richt handles the team. But he would never use the plight of people with a retardation as a example to try and demean the fans of another school. But that’s the over-riding constant attitude of Tech people anyways, so he just reflects the fanbase I suppose. Congrats Tech people, you’ve sunken to a new low.
UGA – 35
Pathetic high school coach with grade school jokes – 6
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:30 pm
DIT, you’re telling me. Crowell, he’s a puzzler.
GTBob
November 23rd, 2011
2:31 pm
After Georgia wins the game 42 – 35, all the Tech fans will spend the next year talking about the 400 rushing yards they hung on Georgia.
No, here is how the conversation will go:
UGA fan: we shut down your high school offense
Tech fan: we had 400 yards rushing and 35 points, how is that shut down?
UGA fan: look at the scoreboard
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
2:35 pm
You have to be very quick when watching the game on TV because you might miss Crowell’s 2 runs of the game.
Who knows, he might actually be hurt this time. However, playing possum for most of the year hurt his credibility.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:35 pm
Here is the dilemma the “bosses” put us in for Sat: if we win, we are thugs, druggies, trailer park trash, and now retards from Walmart. If we lose the SEC stinks, UGA stinks, Richt stinks. You see my simple minded and fellow employees of GT grads…you lose the argument either way. hahahahahaha
LESD
November 23rd, 2011
2:35 pm
Tech recruits many of the same players that Georgia does. They just don’t sign many of them.
OkieDawg
November 23rd, 2011
2:37 pm
CPJ school of taunting UGA fans: Punch them in the face and tell them to get their r _ _ _ _ _ed butts to Walmart, the shopping carts need to be gathered up. This is why the GT fans act as they do. They are just playing follow the leader.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:38 pm
DIT, it’s weird. This kid has all the talent in the world, but he’ll be passed over by the NFL scouts unless he grows up. That’s a shame. To give him the benefit of the doubt: maybe this is one of those times where the guy is playing because he feels pressured to or because he feels it’s what he should be doing as opposed to having the desire to play. Either way, it translates into disappointment.
Ron Swanson
November 23rd, 2011
2:39 pm
Perro- alMy favorites after a win over Tech – if we win we should have won given our talent and easy academic standards and beating Tech is not worthy of “pounding your chest” and you’lose to (insert school here) anyway
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:40 pm
Perro: That’s all just a matter of perception, right? It is according to coach Husserl over there.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:45 pm
I didn’t see this earlier. Nice: How dare Coach Johnson talk to Russ like that! The nerve of that man…I’ll bet Russ never calls him again, and I know Russ truly resents being called a Walmart employee! He has a nice house with a beautiful lawn, sleeps for a living, and has GT grads designing his plumbing, electrical and AC systems.
DILLIGAF
November 23rd, 2011
2:47 pm
Here’s the scoop on GT fans.
Do you know what Tech fans use for birth control?
Their personalities.
Go Dawgs!
UGA/85′
GATA!
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
2:49 pm
Great column as usual Mark – I do give you special props for your call out on Mike Duke, current CEO of Walmart. I find it particularly amusing that Johnson made that remark without any clue that his “insult” was probably a lot more insulting to one of Tech’s most distinguished alums. Go get ‘em Paul! I’m sure Duke doesn’t throw much money Tech’s way as an alum. Classic…
Oh, and GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!
Riddle
November 23rd, 2011
2:49 pm
Why do GT fans pick their noses?
To eat the boggers
DIT
November 23rd, 2011
2:49 pm
Kelly – I heard that Buck B. called him out on his radio talk show. He does have a ton of talent. Now he is only a Freshman, so let’s hope it’s a Freshmans mentality that he has now and will grow out of it.
I look forward to having Samuel back next week!
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
2:55 pm
Kelly, I perceive that Johnson thought he was stepping on the Dawgs with his cutting remarks, but in fact he was stepping in pile of Dawg-doo with those remarks!
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
2:55 pm
Michael Duke, yet more proof that that a GT degree will get you a job at Walmart
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
2:56 pm
Yeah, Perro…kind of punched himself in the face with that one. DIT – Maybe that will get to IC in a positive way. I hope so. I’m w/ you though. Looking forward to Samuel and his heart.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
3:08 pm
A lot of very funny remarks on this story, Mark. You should pick out a top ten list and publish that in your blog. You could screen the mean ones and correct the typos! T’giving humor for UGA/GT week provided by the fans.
SLAPAjacket
November 23rd, 2011
3:08 pm
Moobs better hope that JARVIS JONES doesn’t have any mentally challenged family members. If he does…………….tevin washington BEWARE.
Bark Madley
November 23rd, 2011
3:10 pm
UGA is not a good school. They let anybody in. Most of their fans did not graduate from college or highschool. The most popular major is walmart greeter.
joeygt1
November 23rd, 2011
3:17 pm
come on people cpj was reacting to a idiot of a ga fan coming on a gt sport radio show barking, he wasnt trying to offend anybody with mental disablities … lets not make this into something its not…
Bureau of Labor Statistics
November 23rd, 2011
3:19 pm
Of course, not many UGA alumni leave the state. Why should they, there are plenty of fast food and other unskilled jobs right here. And the dropouts can always find work in custodial or sanitation services.
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:22 pm
Problem is, he ended up sounding just as bad as the guy calling in…
Really Haters!!!!
November 23rd, 2011
3:23 pm
“And To Hell With georgia tech”!!!!
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:24 pm
I have to admit, hearing the replay of how the whole “barking” call went down did make me giggle a little….at least nobody’s running around poisoning trees.
Richard
November 23rd, 2011
3:26 pm
You have to love any article that is entitled “Georgia Tech’s Johnson”
Just can’t make that stuff up…
Go DAWGS!
Dr. Doolittle of Athens
November 23rd, 2011
3:28 pm
A man went to his doctor and said, “Doc, I’ve always admired the Polish people, and I would give anything to be a Polack.”
The doctor replies, “Well, you’re in luck. They’ve just developed a surgical procedure that will turn anyone into a Polack. A surgeon removes 99% of your brain, and then you’re just like a Polack.”
“That sounds great, the man said. Let’s do it!”
A few days later, in the operating room, the surgeon asks the man if he’s absolutely certain he wants the surgery. “I sure am,” the man says. “Let’s get on with it.”
A couple of hours later, the surgeon has finished removing 99% of the man’s brain. Then, the unthinkable happened. The surgeon sneezed and accidentally removed the 1% of the brain that was left.
In the recovery room, the surgeon said, “Sir, I am so sorry. Instead of removing 99% of your brain, I accidentally removed 100%. this has never happened before, so we have no idea what someone without a brain will be like.”
The man looked up at the surgeon with glazed eyes, and with slurred speech said…
“HOW ‘BOUT THEM DAWGS!”
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:29 pm
Hey Bureau – how’s business at Blockbuster today? Renting lots of video games, or are you trolling them all for yourself? Bet you’ve got a big D&D party planned for the weekend. Giddyup!
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:29 pm
Problem is, he ended up sounding just as bad as the guy calling in…
AR – I wished I could have heard it, but I’m in Florida. To me, for people to demand an apology from Johnson, it’s not necessary. Now…I’m curious to see how the Hair Splitters Union Local 282 chooses to tear apart this post. Sure they’ll find a way to fail at that, too.
G-Money
November 23rd, 2011
3:30 pm
outkickthecoverage.com/mark-richt-apologizes-to-james-franklin-calls-player-a-dumbass.php
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:31 pm
Wow…Dr. that was a lot of typing and build up for not much of a climax. Although something tells me you’re used to that.
Registrar
November 23rd, 2011
3:32 pm
UGA allows the admission of athletes who do not meet the academic requirements that every non-athlete has to meet, and at UGA, those requirements are already embarrassingly low.
Enough said.
Native Atlantan Techie
November 23rd, 2011
3:32 pm
1 of every 3 will not make my heart of hearts content.
Except for the 51-7 shellacking – this game has been decided by 4 points on average over the last 14 years. And Tech’s only won 4 of those 14. That’s incredibly frustrating.
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:33 pm
Kelly – I agree. Seems to me the whole thing would have been a non event if he had just laughed it off and moved on. It’s not like the guy called up cussing him out…
Occupy Mars
November 23rd, 2011
3:34 pm
@DawginAR: I thought you were at the Occupy tent city. What happened, did it get too cold for you?
Technically Correct
November 23rd, 2011
3:34 pm
The Tech taunt is that Georgia grads will work for Tech grads. Thanks for the validation! Michael Duke, the Tech grad and CEO of Walmart, snaps up all those Georgia grads for greeter, stocker and shopping cart cowboy positions and, thus, makes those UGA degrees worthwhile. They should erect a statue in his honor on Lumpkin Street!
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
3:35 pm
Native Atlantan
Expect that average to rise somewhat this weekend
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:35 pm
Registrar – I’m sure you’d also like to tell us about Tech’s incredibly high standards in contrast to UGA. How’s that NCAA investigation and revoked conference title workin out for ya?
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:36 pm
It’s the only thing they’ll ever be able to erect.
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
3:36 pm
I do not know one single UGA grad working at Walmart
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
3:37 pm
What say you Tech grads?
Arno
November 23rd, 2011
3:37 pm
DawginAR– It doesn’t stop there. PJ tried to be clever in rebuffing his caller whom he regarded as stupid. He realized that cleverness in that situation was even more stupid of himself. He apologized. A person who uses their own cleverness to call PJ stupid raises stupidness to an even higher level. They also fail, but without apology. Now of these three people – the wuff-wuff caller, the apologetic PJ, or the clever accuser – who is the least stupid?
Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
3:40 pm
I actually do believe Bobo would be and should be the leading candidate to replace CMR. I hope he is not leaving though.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:41 pm
Oh sheez…
Native Atlantan Techie
November 23rd, 2011
3:43 pm
As far as the comments by CPJ, the entire sequence is available on YouTube. Listen to it.
“There’s some great fans from both teams, most of the fans are as classy as can be, but anyone who calls into a radio show and barks is either retarded or doesn’t have a life.”
Can anyone seriously argue with that?
The AJC headline that “Johnson’s comments were meant as joke” is the most ridiculousness of the story…really? A joke? Whodathunkit?
Public figures should know the word “retarded” is a 4 letter word in our politically correct no one can be offended society – that was CPJ’s only mistake.
DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:44 pm
@Occupy – no worries. I’ll be safe and sound at home in my house on the golf course tonight. Your concern is heartwarming. I’ll have a scotch for you and toast your complete lack of social skills. All with positive intent, of course.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
3:46 pm
Technically correct, come on, now–are you Coach Johnson? Of course that was Johnson’s point, Mr. Einstein.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:48 pm
Arno: That’s such an intense quandary. I’m sure you’ll occupy yourself for hours trying to figure it out. Anyway…Tech sucks.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
3:49 pm
Jarvis Jones to Tevin Washington: welcome to Walmart, buddy; thx for shopping my aisle!
Native Atlantan Techie
November 23rd, 2011
3:49 pm
DawginAR – regarding high standards at each school – they are both proving difficult to get into these days…but I’ve never heard of anyone failing out of UGA. I know tons of people that have failed out of Tech.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:50 pm
Perhaps that’s because more failures attend Tech.
Ramblin Man
November 23rd, 2011
3:51 pm
Nice article Mark, hope you picked wrong this week.
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
3:51 pm
Tech is somewhat a magnet for failures it appears
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
3:52 pm
What does Coach Johnson call a runaway Dawg tailback on Saturday? Walmart shoplifter–come back here with my victory, thief!
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DawginAR
November 23rd, 2011
3:53 pm
Hey guys how bout this one – if I get a degree from Georgia Tech, I’ll be really really smart. Then I’ll make all the Georgia grads work for me (because that’s all I ever think about in my little twisted world) and make them be greeters at Walmart and stuff. Oh, and I’ll boss them around a lot and be really mean to them and make them take out the trash (it’ll be real stinky trash too). Cause when I’m a big important manager running a big important company, I’m going to (still) spend all my time obsessing about Georgia fans. Umm….yeah. Why don’t you guys go grab a beer and try being normal grown up adults once ever 4 or 5 months or so. What a bunch of dorks…
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:54 pm
AR- Just sayin’, you know, that with all Tech’s majestic intellectuals, you think they’d be able to look at that comment from at least two perspectives. Just helping out…
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
3:55 pm
Murray’s audible phrase for Saturday: Attention Walmart shoppers!
Native Atlantan Techie
November 23rd, 2011
3:57 pm
CPJ’s only mistake was using the word “retarded”. Any public figure should know that’s a 4 letter word in today’s politically correct no one can ever be offended society.
Taken in full context, there’s no way anyone can argue his point though. The entire sentence was:
“There’s some great of both teams, most of the fans are classy as can be, but anyone who calls into a radio show and barks is either retarded or doesn’t have a life.”
Can you argue with that, really? If he has replaced “retarded” with “an idiot” or “probably not a UGA grad” or “living in his mom’s basement” it would have been quite clever.
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:58 pm
Defintely Perro – Use it to beat them.
krazydawg
November 23rd, 2011
3:58 pm
I really do not mind tech.I mean at leat they are in the state of Georgia.Just look at how many fans in the state pull for Auburn,Florida,Alabama,etc.These are the ones i get upset about.I really cannot stand Florida,because it seems like half of south Georgia are Florida fans.I just wished if they loved there state so much to move to it.Go DAWGS!!!!!!
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
3:58 pm
Kelly,
I think it’s the manuals. You know, grease hot, enter potato’s, fry, dump potato’s
Kelly
November 23rd, 2011
3:59 pm
Native: Or just drunk.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
3:59 pm
GT’s way of placating angry Dawg fans Saturday: they will let all cars with UGA stickers park in handicapped spaces.
JOE B
November 23rd, 2011
3:59 pm
Sorry Guys , Tech wins BIG 42-21
Seriously
November 23rd, 2011
4:01 pm
I know a tech grad with an engineering degree that proclaims himself a sandwich artist at Subway.
Native Atlantan Techie
November 23rd, 2011
4:01 pm
I tried looking at that comment from two perspectives, but remembered all the Tech failures I knew who headed over to Athens and suddenly their majestic intellects produced all A’s.
collegeballfan
November 23rd, 2011
4:04 pm
“The fans that bark the loudest will never set foot in a classroom outside of high school.”
This is my experience. The Georgia grads I know love to win but do not crow about it. The Georgia football team is not the most important thing in their life. Ragging the opposition fan is not the most important thing in their life. They have a degree from a top notch, up and coming university, and have a life beyond football. A life beyond the football game and beyond football recruiting.
The high school grads that are Georgia fans are just the opposite.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
4:04 pm
Georgia’s way of easing the loss Saturday: 10% discount at Walmart Saturday afternoon for all Tech fans. Just show your pocket protector, coke bottle glasses, and Rambling Wreck pennant to receive it.
61-39-5
November 23rd, 2011
4:07 pm
This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for Joe B’s prediction of Trek blowing out UGA.
I needed that laugh today.
Enjoy your annual beating this weekend douchenozzles but, sincerely, good luck on getting your stadium finished soon.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
4:09 pm
NewFlash: Coach Paul Johnson leaves Walmart in Atlanta in haste, as the employees won’t stop barking at him.
Javarious C.
November 23rd, 2011
4:10 pm
Yeah.. those thugs at UGA.. has anybody seen Rueben Houston?.. I have some “friends” that need to talk to him about some gun charges..
Native Atlantan Techie
November 23rd, 2011
4:12 pm
douchenozzles
now that’s funny. original. nice wit.
Too funny from the fatman
November 23rd, 2011
4:13 pm
I’m a DAWG fan, but what the fat coach said was too funny….the guy did sound like a tard……
charles wike
November 23rd, 2011
4:16 pm
Mark, you’re probably too young to remember, but when GT was in the SEC, they not only played like an SEC team, but they filled the stadium with rabid fans every Saturday. When they became an independent, they couldn’t sell tickets. they then went into the ACC because The SEC wouldn’t let them back in. They made too many enemies when they wouldn’t play home and home with several SEC teams, like Auburn had to come to Atlanta every year. They joined the ACC and started playing like an ACC team. They have never recovered ticket wise.GT had less students in 1956, than now, but they sold every season ticket then.
Native Atlantan Techie
November 23rd, 2011
4:22 pm
To Charles Wike – lots of logic there, hopefully all these anonymous bloggers can understand it.
Tech also wasn’t competing with the MLB, NFL, and NBA in Atlanta back then for general fans of athletics who lived in Atlanta.
THEsidewalkfan
November 23rd, 2011
4:30 pm
The Clean Old Fashioned Hate is alive and well.
PerroGrande
November 23rd, 2011
4:34 pm
Good one from the other blog: I heard Coach Johnson will call in sick for work on Saturday: it seems the Ogeltree’s grandmother is a greeter at Walmart.
Columbus
November 23rd, 2011
4:48 pm
Walmart sucks thanks to the Tech CEO.
Tech should beat UGA and they do and whoever says otherwise is an idiot. By the way, Tech was really good under Bobby Dodd hence his name on the stadium. Tech grads do not even know their history it seems. Tech recruits with the rest of the nation and gets good players too but recently they have not been able to hang with UGA on a consistent basis thanks to the arrival of Mark Richt. HE has cleaned house in recruiting in the state of GA but what hurts on top of that is that Tech is not usually the 2nd choice as other SEC and ACC schools have came in and took over their territory. So yes there is a talent difference and its Tech’s own fault. They used to be tougher to beat on a consistent basis when they had Bill Curry and Bobby Ross coaching. They play weak competition in the ACC and compete for a title but when it comes time to play in a big non-conference game, they have not played a tough enough schedule to be ready for it. Honestly, Tech is just going in the wrong direction in so many ways and the gap is getting wider and wider and wider between Tech and UGA…..which is Tech’s own fault.
Buckhead Bulldog
November 23rd, 2011
4:50 pm
Sic’ ‘em DOGS!
THWGT
Heath
November 23rd, 2011
4:51 pm
How does the old joke go?
If you see someone wearing a UGA hat, it’s because they bought it at a store because stores sell things people want to buy.
If you see someone wearing a GT hat it’s because they were unpopular in high school.
opportunity abounds
November 23rd, 2011
4:54 pm
Saw on another article that CMR spoke about the upcoming opportunities at tailback for future prospects, ostensibly directed toward this Marshall kid that is considering UGA. The report says that he apparently got the message, retweeting it. I wonder if Crowell got the message?
aNDY
November 23rd, 2011
5:02 pm
Yes Sir Mr. Bradley.
Mark Richt has not handled expectations well throughout his career at Georgia.
After a great game against Auburn, what happened against Kentucky?
If Georgia comes out that flat against Georgia Tech, it will be a blowout, Tech’s a top 25 team.
Georgia ALMOST lost to Tenn, Vandy, Kent, surely Tech will get the win.
Look for Georgia to be caught, LOOKIGN AHEAD.
UGA goes down.
GT THRU AND THRU
November 23rd, 2011
5:18 pm
If tech wins then the UGA fans will all say that they were overlooking tech anyways. I still dont like the jackets in this game. The dawgs are huge up front on the O line and i am afraid they will be able to move their offense with no problem against a much smaller tech Dline. I do think tech will run the ball better than most people think but it will not be enough to win. I hate to say it but UGA wins 34-17.
Cowboy
November 23rd, 2011
5:31 pm
Stinger,
You are a pathetic, simple minded tweeb (nerd). from the sewer systems of Atlanta. AKA (GT)
Georgia Tech will never be a top priority to UGA. You will always be the little brother to the Red & Black.
the sooner you get used to it the beeter off you will be.
P.S G E O R I G I A T E C H S U C K S
Cowboy
November 23rd, 2011
5:32 pm
Stinger,
As well as you
Who cares?
November 23rd, 2011
5:41 pm
And UGA fans are going to continue to “wait their turn” as long as Richt keeps hanging around. They better get used to it. No National Championship with Richt.
gtfanfrom1951
November 23rd, 2011
5:45 pm
The Seven Dwarfs were marching through the forest one day when they fell in a deep, dark ravine. Snow White, who was following along, peered over the edge of the steep chasm and called out to the fallen dwarfs. From the depths of the dark hole, a voice returned, “The Bulldogs are national championship contenders.”
Snow White thought to herself, “Thank God … at least Dopey’s survived!”
The Seven Dwarfs were marching through the forest one day when they fell in a deep, dark ravine. Snow White, who was following along, peered over the edge of the steep chasm and called out to the fallen dwarfs. From the depths of the dark hole, a voice returned, “The Bulldogs are national championship contenders.”
Snow White thought to herself, “Thank God … at least Dopey’s survived!”
The Seven Dwarfs were marching through the forest one day when they fell in a deep, dark ravine. Snow White, who was following along, peered over the edge of the steep chasm and called out to the fallen dwarfs. From the depths of the dark hole, a voice returned, “The Bulldogs are national championship contenders.”
Snow White thought to herself, “Thank God … at least Dopey’s survived!”
gtfanfrom1951
November 23rd, 2011
5:46 pm
UGA fan have to read it three times to get it!
IlliniDawg
November 23rd, 2011
5:53 pm
Tech’s Johnson has pen!$ envy for UGA.
Face it. The guy is a total d*** – no double entendre intended.
[BTW: for those supposedly intellectually superior Techies who didn't have to take a foreign language, that is French for "conveying multiple meanings or messages"]
Suck it Tech Nerd!
Jay
November 23rd, 2011
5:55 pm
They better be scared. Look at the point spread. Would you ever say hey ga won the sec east, has 2 losses, 1 ooc to boise who’s top 10 and they are fav only by 5.5? In 2008 in athens I believe ga was a 15 point fav and they didn’t win the east that year and had 2 losses. I don’t get why more people can’t see what ga is. A decent football team that benefitted from not only avoiding the top 3 ranked teams BUT ALSO playing in a putrid sec east. The atlantic coastal IS better than the sec east this year. No doubt about it. That doesn’t mean tech will win but I have a good feeling they will because of that game next week. Playing number 1. TRAP. Playing in the sec champ. TRAP. Playing in a game with little meaning where the soph and juniors have won two in a row against them doesn’t provide much motivation. Beating lsu who will no doubt be a 2 td fav does. And talk about a season ending the way it started with a losing streak. Better hope you get a easy opponent in your bowl game. In other words, better not get Ok or Mich St.
45ACP
November 23rd, 2011
5:56 pm
The irony here is that CPJ looks and talks just like the stereotypical Dawg fan that Jacket fans have created.
Pierce Co Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
6:07 pm
Jackets fans are walmart greeters and a fan georgia refused. The DAWGS OWN TECH AND THE STATE OF GEORGIA. SPYRO YOU ARE A JOKE
rich
November 23rd, 2011
6:11 pm
What national championships did ugag win prior to Herschel’s arrival?
ugahedges SAYS WRECK TECH!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2011
6:18 pm
TO HELL WITH TECH!!!!!!!!!!! NO CLASS TECH GETS BEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cdpridg
November 23rd, 2011
6:43 pm
Dawgs will be pushing bugs around the field and splattering insect gits all over the field come Sat…..sorry CPJ you are a loser just like your team and fanbase.
Dodger Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
6:59 pm
Sorry Mark, but it does not begin with Herschel..there’s Jake Scott, Charlie Trippi, Fran Tarkenton, and Frank Sinkwich. Not to mention the other greats that have played on the sacred turf called Sanford. the history begins way before Herschel and carries forward with many more that call UGA home
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
7:00 pm
What happens if this happens?
Tech beats Georgia and then Georgia beats LSU, Bama, or Arkansas in the SEC title game. Will that make Tech the SEC champs and the ACC the best conference in the land. Probably not going to happen…..but what if it does? The earth will probably swallow us all up in one big heap of “I told you so’s from ACC fans.”
And also….what happens to the BCS is that happens? All the heavens above will come crashing down on the NCAA and ESPN.
Dodger Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
7:01 pm
rich
November 23rd, 2011
6:11 pm
What national championships did ugag win prior to Herschel’s arrival?
—————————————————–
1927, 1942, 1946, and 1968
Sam
November 23rd, 2011
7:01 pm
Amazing video of a high school senior from Columbia TN who kicks the ball dead straight 75-80 yards in the air. He was successful on 54 of 54 attempts this season….100%. Now he needs a college team. Wants to go to GT.
Watch for yourself…it is unreal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JKwgwFY3g
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
7:02 pm
I think Georgia is simply too fast and strong on defense for Tech……Georgia wins 35-17 and the game is not even that close….but we will see.
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
7:03 pm
Where is Naganole……..????? Going to the Swamp Saturday night? How about those national champs from Tallahassee this year. Undefeated with all those big time recruits….too bad you had to play powerful Virginia this year….at home….what happend, Naganole???????
jay
November 23rd, 2011
7:07 pm
How ironic that a city of 6 million can’t fill a 55,000 seat stadium while a city of 50,000 can fill
a 92,000 seat stadium.
Walmart Uses Facebook to Divvy Up $1.5 Million in Holiday Grants
November 23rd, 2011
7:09 pm
[...] Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
7:16 pm
Jay…..
how far is that 50,000 city from that 6 mil city….where most of Georgia grads go to live and work…I would guess? And how far is CA, Ill, Mass., and NY from Atlanta….where probably most of the Tech grads go to live and work? And probably work on Saturdays as CEO and CFO’s of major corporations nationwide…..just saying.
JB_UGA
November 23rd, 2011
7:27 pm
THWGT!!!!!!!
JoeFan
November 23rd, 2011
7:32 pm
Wal-Mart proves the point: It’s true what the UGA grad says each morning to the GT grad when he gets to work: Morning Boss
Big Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
7:35 pm
rich, do some homework.
Jay,
are you serious? Thanks for the laugh, a$$ clown!
Heath
November 23rd, 2011
7:36 pm
TG, a business grad from UGA makes more than a business grad from Tech. Tech grads probably have to go around the world to find a job since everyone wants UGA grads first.
DILLIGAF
November 23rd, 2011
7:37 pm
Sam:
“Amazing video of a high school senior from Columbia TN”
Are you this kid’s agent or his father? You’ve been pimping his highlight video on these blogs for three days.
Big Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
7:39 pm
TampaGator,
“working on Saturdays as CEO and CFO’s of major corporations”? My god man, you are a complete idiot!! Your logic is as bad as your handle!!!
Big Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
7:43 pm
TampaGator and other Nerd fans…..you can’t have it both ways: You love to claim that most of the fans in Sanford stadium NEVER went to UGA yet they sell out EVERY game with over 92000. You love to say that Tech grads live out of town but can’t fill their puny 50000 seat stadium with non attending fans. Why is that?
Big Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
7:46 pm
JoeFan,
do you really believe that? Time to get out of your cubicle and mingle with the crowd. Oh wait…I forgot how socially inept you Nerds are. You have ZERO social skills
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
7:46 pm
Big Dawg….
Didn’t you get tired of calling me names earlier in the day? Well…..having worked directly for CEOs for most of my life as a VP of Marketing and Communications…..on many a Saturday and Sunday……I know of which I speak….one a Tech Grad in Chicago….I know first hand of what I post.
But….feel free to continue to call me names and post like a horses as….
JARVIS JONES
November 23rd, 2011
7:49 pm
strap them up
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
7:50 pm
….and Big Dawg….
When did I ever say that most of the fans in Sanford Stadium never went to Georgia? I would expect ahout 99 percent of them went there at some point…even if they didn’t graduate from there…and the rest live in Atlanta and Athens. Man……stop making up things and try to be civil once in a while. You might like it….and I know I would. But that just might be impossible for you, I believe….based on your history of negative and insulting posts.
Bill King
November 23rd, 2011
7:51 pm
JUST WIN BABY !!!!!!!!!
What's the Good Word?
November 23rd, 2011
7:52 pm
THWG!!!
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
7:53 pm
I know it is Tech-Dawg week….but boys and girls…..there are many highly successful and intelligent grads from both Tech and Georgia…..but most of the Tech grads do not live and work in Atlanta….as this article states. But I would still think that Tech should sell out its stadium every Saturday based on the quality of effort by Tech every week. No excuse for that….Tech fans.
Big Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
8:08 pm
Tampa Gator,
this is the first I have posted on this blog. Quit flattering yourself by saying I have been insulting you all day. Also, what I have I made up Tampa? You claim that there are no grads to fill The Joke and other Nerds have said that the majority of Sanford Stadium’s crowd are not graduates. Be civil? What the hell are you talking about? History of negative posts? Where? You see TampaGator, your drivel is not wanted or appreciated. You get called out on something and then cry uncivilties. Face it, more people like UGA than Tek.
sports
November 23rd, 2011
8:09 pm
Georgia Tech will always SUCK!
Big Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
8:12 pm
You were a VP of Marketing and Communications and worked on Saturdays and Sundays? What company did you work for? First Baptist of Decatur?…..Sorry, couldn’t resist.
stiggywiggy
November 23rd, 2011
8:19 pm
Look, what kind of response can you give to a mutt-brain who brags that he has more fans than you? Should we ask him if he feels inferior to a Chinaman because there are more of them than there are of him? Do guys who have less attendees at their family reunions feel humilitaed before guys with big families?
Dawg fans are proud of the fact that they have been assimilated into a hunkering mass of slobbering rednecks, and we Tech fans have gotten used to it.
stiggywiggy
November 23rd, 2011
8:30 pm
Wow, Big Dawg. I’m impressed. You can fill up your stadium. Are you also impressed that Wayne Newton can fill up a Vegas nightclub?
JD
November 23rd, 2011
8:32 pm
Having gone to UGA and my brother from Tech, I found this article very interesting. Its been a big strain on my GT brothers relationship since its been so one sided for so long. We use to watch the game together but it was just too emotional to endure. He is so pumped this year for a Tech win that he will be hard to live with if the Jackets lose. I have been taking the Larry Munson pessimistic approach that the Dogs don’t have a chance but praying for a win.
LOL
November 23rd, 2011
8:37 pm
Here’s what it breaks down to – Tech fans have little penis syndrome. Thats it.
Delbert D.
November 23rd, 2011
8:38 pm
“Meyer has agreed to a seven-year, $40 million deal.”
Quote from ESPN article, “Urban Meyer Denies Reports…”
stiggywiggy
November 23rd, 2011
8:38 pm
CPJ SHOULD apologize. Comparing dawgs fans to retards is an insult to every red-blooded retard in America.
Delbert D.
November 23rd, 2011
8:39 pm
Same article: “…Ohio State said Wednesday that Meyer will be announced next week as the next head coach of the Buckeyes. “
uga cowards and hyprocrites
November 23rd, 2011
8:41 pm
MARK RICHT called his player Shawn Williams a dumb@ss, where is Richt’s apology? Why does richt recruit dumb@sses?
MabletonDawg
November 23rd, 2011
8:41 pm
Thanks UGA24-7 for making my day for posting that awesome prayer! Go Dawgs!
stiggywiggy
November 23rd, 2011
8:42 pm
Hey, LOL. Why are you examining and measuring the penises of fans of other teams? You say they are small? Looks like you might have a little Sandusky in you, mutt-breath.
WALMART
November 23rd, 2011
8:44 pm
got a news flash for you uga dogtards…STORE MANAGERS at Walmarts make around 200,000 a year. The CEO makes well over 2 million. Thanks for all you donut eating walmart scooter riding inbreds from athens that are too lazy to walk because you have eaten yourself into laziness. Walmart appreciates your business
DILLIGAF
November 23rd, 2011
8:46 pm
I have one question. Why is the word penis being mentioned on a blog about football?
Can you please take that somewhere else?
UGA/85″
GATA!
stiggywiggy
November 23rd, 2011
8:48 pm
You’re asking me to take my penis somewhere else??? Where? Effies?
45ACP
November 23rd, 2011
8:50 pm
Delbert, we conservatives already know that the news media are a bunch of retards.
Delbert D.
November 23rd, 2011
8:51 pm
More confusing ESPN stuff
This sounds ominous:
“though Fickell has not been in the loop, he will be taken care of”
“No. I won’t,” he said Wednesday.
More from Fickell:
“I know there’s a game at noon on Saturday.” “I don’t think this is the time and the place.”
Right, Luke. This is Wednesday, and the game is at Ann Arbor.
Delbert D.
November 23rd, 2011
8:55 pm
45 – I’m going to be an editor and start making big bucks. I can twist the story as good as anybody.
Delbert D.
November 23rd, 2011
9:01 pm
Same page from ESPN: “Ohio State Crushes North Florida” “Sources said Mickey Marotti, the strength coach at Florida, would join Meyer.”
Truly devastating news in Gainesville, for sure. The strength coach, ohmigod!
dale morphy
November 23rd, 2011
9:12 pm
I grew up pulling for Tech unless they played Georgia. I continued this way of thinking even through the parity years of the 1990’s when the Tech game always seemed to be a crap shoot. However, to my mind the average Tech fan has become so obnoxious to deal with in the last 5 years or so that I now pull for them to lose every single game. I find both Tennessee and Alabama fans utterly annoying. You cannot talk football with them because the Bama fan just starts chanting “Roll Tide” and the Vol fan just starts singing “Rocky Top”. Inane. Tech fans are worse than either. Try to talk ball with them and they just want to talk about how much they hate UGA, or you personally as a Dawg fan. Blech.
Go Dawgs.
Southside Drug Rep
November 23rd, 2011
9:14 pm
Bloody Marys in The Varsity parking lot 9am Saturday morning before walking across to beat Tech again. Cheers and happy Thanksgiving football fans.
9-4 Ralph
November 23rd, 2011
9:18 pm
I burned my degree,
I’m flying a Georgia Tech flag right now.
Your Friend on FB
November 23rd, 2011
9:22 pm
Paul Johnson is an immature bafoon
boo boo
November 23rd, 2011
9:27 pm
Paul Johnson has one of the best coaching records in all of college football.
Politically Correct
November 23rd, 2011
9:28 pm
honest question: why are UGA fans so fixated on the fact that GT cannot sell out their 55,000 seat stadium?? Is it really THAT important??
DanTheDawgFan
November 23rd, 2011
9:28 pm
1-9 vs. Georgia uder Mark Richt. That’s all that needs to be said nerds!
Dawg Whisperer
November 23rd, 2011
9:29 pm
The North Ave. Trade School football head coach may have to consider a new trade at Walmart if he loses to UGA yet again. At least PJ has guaranteed he won’t be the next friendly greeter at Walmart. I’ll know for sure after Saturday.
DanTheDawgFan
November 23rd, 2011
9:32 pm
TampaGator This is Hate Tech Week! Go away.
I'm flying a ..... Georgia Tech flag right now
November 23rd, 2011
9:35 pm
those dawgs are gonna get
“STUNG”
Mobile Dawg
November 23rd, 2011
9:40 pm
Shoot low boys, their nest is underground.
Truth about the Academics
November 23rd, 2011
9:41 pm
The truth about the Academics at GT vs UGA is NOT that they are more difficult at GT … its that GT’s TYPE of Academics is much less popular. There is a SEVERE decline in this country, and especially in Georgia, of kids who want to study anything related to Science and Math. That and the social fear of being branded a “Nerd” just for being interested in Science and Math and wanting to go to GT.
Are there any fish for me to fry next week? Is Duke a bigger fish than VPI? Could we keep the ACC trophy if we won it anyway because we're on probation?
November 23rd, 2011
9:46 pm
Techies lack social skills and are not attractive people….neither is Paul Johnson.
K.Conway
November 23rd, 2011
9:47 pm
Tech grads move back to India and Pakistan after graduation unless they open Dairy Queens! The Dorks don’t like football anyway…only those old dudes that loved the 50’s and all those white tech teams go to the games.
Are there any fish for me to fry next week? Is Duke a bigger fish than VPI? Could we keep the ACC trophy if we won it anyway because we're on probation?
November 23rd, 2011
9:50 pm
good point K. Conway…..how many terrorists go to Georgia Tech to learn nuclear engineering? The nerds are more interested in computers than football and girls.
Cdpridg
November 23rd, 2011
9:56 pm
Tech has won a dozen since 64…a dozen lol! 8 since 76. Tech wins when we let them. Why do we still have to schedule these chumps. Strength of schedule always goes way below the mendoza line when we play the trade school
M
November 23rd, 2011
10:02 pm
No wonder the nerds and the ajc writers want Richt gone…he owns you. gt has ONE legal win since 1990! 21 years!
indianman
November 23rd, 2011
10:02 pm
georgia is going to be 10 and 2 go dogs beat yellow jackets
CPJ
November 23rd, 2011
10:05 pm
I’M A RAMBLIN WRECK FROM GA TECH AND A HELLUVA FREAKIN QUEEEER! A HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA FREAKIN QUEEEER! JUST LIKE MY TERRORIST ROOMMATE, I TAKE IT UP THE REAR1 I’M A RAMBLIN WRECK FROM GA TECH AND A HELLUVA FREAKIN QUEEEEER!
bubba4dawgs
November 23rd, 2011
10:19 pm
Surely, the Nerds don’t believe their front line will push around the Dawgs “D” line! I don’t believe they’ve seen the likes of the Dawgs this season. There’s a lot of beef up front. I bet your candy butts will be kinda worn out by the second half! GO DAWGS!!!!
TampaGator
November 23rd, 2011
10:39 pm
Dan the Dawg Fan….
or GDawg…….
or BigDawg….
or whatever current personality you are living in at the moment…….
I am not going away…..just like all those multiple images in your multiple personality posting disorder.
THWG
November 23rd, 2011
10:44 pm
Calidawg. Its funny because all UGA classes are dummied down so they dont have to help out their athletes. And the grad rate is not embarrassing, its a testament to how hard it is to graduate from Tech. They dont just give a diploma to anyone like UGA does
GTFan
November 23rd, 2011
10:46 pm
The President of Walmart is a Tech grad…
DanTheDawgFan
November 23rd, 2011
10:48 pm
TampaGator. I’ve been DantheDawgFan for the past 10 years on Rivals. I don’t post here much. We’ll get back to hating your booger eating Turds next year. Go away!
terrorist roommate
November 23rd, 2011
10:51 pm
anybody got a used Keith Brooking thong i can buy for our next dorm room tickle pile?
Smitty
November 23rd, 2011
10:52 pm
A rivalry is only a rivalry when the other team wins every once on e while. But this is getting boring for Georgia fans. come on tech make this a rivalry again……. But Lenard’s loser Georgia tech
Smitty
November 23rd, 2011
10:54 pm
Come on Tech….make this a rivalry again not boring….
Smitty
November 23rd, 2011
10:55 pm
Lenard’s loser Georgia Tech
THWG
November 23rd, 2011
10:57 pm
THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT LARRY MUNSON. REST IN PAIN
Cdpridg
November 23rd, 2011
10:57 pm
Hey nerds..this is not an academic message board. This is a college football topic and one on that level that you pathetic rejects compete on absolutely positevly no level whatsoever. Recruiting, players, coaching, mascots, band, stadiums, co eds, tailgates, conferences, traditions…nothing! I could go on and on! Stick that in ya pipe and smoke it insect man
Smitty
November 23rd, 2011
10:59 pm
Only a classless act would say something negative about Munson….so you must be a Tech fan for sure…
Smitty
November 23rd, 2011
11:03 pm
THWG……You stepped over the line
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
11:18 pm
Well, the rednecks, the trailer parks and Walmart cracks have gotten old for the Nerds so now with the Munson derogatories. Really? Thats too low for even a tech fan. That can’t be a tech fan can it?
ARdawg
November 23rd, 2011
11:19 pm
Way over the line. Not even a Tech fan would do that would they? Really?
THWG
November 23rd, 2011
11:22 pm
truth hurts sometimes, doesn’t it smitty?
Cdpridg
November 23rd, 2011
11:49 pm
As classless as the head mans inferiority complex at the bug school. Lumpy is the perfect coach for the wussies. Funny thing about these blogs is that you seldom see a bug man disrespect a Dawg fan or anybody or anything related to the proud University of Georgia in real time….the bug man knows his place within this states borders!
Tech Engineer
November 24th, 2011
12:35 am
The Dawgs have good athletics in the defensive line; but in defending the triple option, they have to be good decision makers. That’s why Tech will gain 350 yards on the ground to go with 150 through the air.This game will be a nail biter decided by turnovers.
rightofcenter
November 24th, 2011
12:36 am
dawgfan: “Am I missing something?” Yes. A penis.
cdpridg
November 24th, 2011
12:45 am
Tech Engineer……You are up against the 4th ranked D in the nation…Huge D line…fast and physical linebackers….you will not do much offensively and this will not be a nail biter. This is year 2 in Granthams D. Realization will set in come Saturday just after noon within the walls of the joke.
Smitty
November 24th, 2011
12:52 am
THWG ….not a tech fan…just an a hole
Chan Gailey's Revenge
November 24th, 2011
12:52 am
When did UGA win a National Championship prior to (and since) Herschel???
Smitty
November 24th, 2011
12:53 am
True Tech fan would have more respect….
Smitty
November 24th, 2011
12:57 am
I am not a Tech fan but do respect their tradition…..
Yellow Fuzz
November 24th, 2011
5:00 am
lol
gtguy
November 24th, 2011
6:08 am
my guess is that of all the MUTT fans in the state of Georgia,proud as they are of their dawgs,nine out of ten doesn’t know how to get to or never been to or will ever go to Athens,Georgia the marketing department is a pied piper for sure
NATIVE SON
November 24th, 2011
7:18 am
Nice article to get the temperature up Mark. My take this year is if Tech keeps it close the first half; woe to Ga. the second half. I’m pretty sure we can “engineer a victory after taking their best shot”
Peace from the most Native
Big time???? NOT!
November 24th, 2011
7:19 am
Four tickets, four hot dogs, four cokes.
Give us your lunch money nerds!
Woofy One
November 24th, 2011
7:57 am
I wish I had known about the Walmart comments last night. I ate dinner in the home next door to Coach Paul Johnson and might have gone over to ring the doorbell and ask for points.
THE DUDE
November 24th, 2011
7:57 am
ONCE AGAIN LET ME SAY IT IS SO CLEAR WHO tech REALLY IS. LET US START WITH THE GEORGIA PLAYER THAT FLUNKED OUT OF GEORGIA AND GRADUATED FROM tech. also THE FAMOUS CORNERBACK EX; DRUG DEALER WHO WAS NEVER THROWN OFF THE TEAM OR OUT OF SCHOOL. YES THAT IS WHO tech REALLY IS.
dirty dawg
November 24th, 2011
8:04 am
I noticed that Walgreen has Dawg wearing apparell on sale-sweats 2 for 5$. Makes great stocking stuffers. Is there any chance tyhaty the Dawgs will suit up in their Jetson outfits? They look so sexy.
Keniboy
November 24th, 2011
8:07 am
Ugh takes tech with both tailbacks tied behind their backs.
dirty dawg
November 24th, 2011
8:08 am
It is going to be fun watching the Ga Defensive Linemen (400lbs average) trying to get out of the way of viscious chop blocks. They remind me of the Clemson linemen of yesteryear-fat and so out of shape they couldn’t get out of their own way. I’ll take 295 pound fast lean and mean anyday.
Keniboy
November 24th, 2011
8:09 am
Scholastically speaking, my daughter net to uga and three friend went to tech, unable to get in ga. Hmmmmmm
Danny Overstreet
November 24th, 2011
8:15 am
What does the crowd yell when the Tech cheerleaders run onto the field? “How bout them dogs?”
GT
November 24th, 2011
8:37 am
The game has changed so much through the years. Up to the 80s these players came through and were really part of the school and later part of the community. Taz Anderson, Billy Payne, John Dewberry, Hershel Walker, now they are just hired guns. None of this on the field demonstrates what is in the classroom for either school or the school’s community.
ARDawg
November 24th, 2011
9:15 am
Dawg fans – don’t let these Tech dorks fool you. A full 99% of them end up drawing pretty pictures on Autocad in some dead end job like Milton from Office Space (Mike Duke notwithstanding) mumbling to themselves about their red Swingline.
Their worst nightmare is a Georgia grad with a great job and a social life, while they sit in the dark and troll naughty websites at home alone on a Friday night with a box of Kleenex.
Here’s my good deed for the Holidays – an open invitation to any Tech dork who will be at home alone for the game can come join me and my hot blonde wife at our house on the golf course to watch the game in style. No – no sobbing, I know it’s generous. I’m just a sucker for a hard luck case with bad acne.
Happy Thanksgiving, Dorks!
GO DAWGS!!!
macrotech
November 24th, 2011
9:22 am
Yup, Mark…about sums it up! Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! Looking forward to the game….GO TECH!!!
chase
November 24th, 2011
10:04 am
yeah TECH is a “Rival” to Georgia…..in much the same way a BUG is a “rival” to a winshield!!!!!!!!!!
chase
November 24th, 2011
10:04 am
windshield that is……..thats what I get for being a smartass
Cobb Dawg
November 24th, 2011
10:05 am
If you were throwing a dinner party, who would you rather have; a room full of Tech, or UGA grads. I think we all know that answer.
Cobb Dawg
November 24th, 2011
10:11 am
Gold & White posted:
November 23rd, 2011
12:10 pm
“Terrific article, Mark! But notice you still haven’t answered whether the news article posted yesterday about Mark Richt willingly leaving UGA after this season has any merit. In case you lost the link…
http://www.gamingtoday.com/articles/article/33523-Georgia_football_coach_Mark_Richt_rumored_to_be_leaving”
My reply:
Anything’s possible. But the article lost me when it said that Bobo was considered a candidate to replace CMR. That ain’t gonna happen. Plus the article is very sketchy and does not begin to name ANY reputable sources. Seems like some programs invented it as a recruiting tool to me.
GT
November 24th, 2011
10:19 am
Dawgs are blowhards and are overrated like every season. GT wins this one and then UGA gets crushed by LSU. Can’t wait…..
UGA
November 24th, 2011
10:21 am
I must admit, our team is pathetic. I mean…we really haven’t played anyone that’s any good and the teams we have beaten are a combined 3 – 2000, so the SEC is down this year. I am worried about the Tech game and believe we go down….then we get beat into oblivion by LSU, then we lose the bowl game, then we are losers like we all know we are… I just hope I don’t have to ride the scooter to the game.
Dawg Whisperer
November 24th, 2011
10:30 am
I grew up a GT fan but I detested advanced math classes and became an avid dawg fan. I graduated UGA in ‘75 and since that time I’ve been blessed many times over in my spiritual, personal life, and career. I’m thankful (it’s Thanksgiving) for my Dad (God rest his soul) for funding my way through matriculation at UGA from which I have benefitted immensely.
The truth is that people either take advantage of the God given opportunities given them or waste them. There is a place for both GT and UGA in their respective academic and sports arenas, and each have earned my respect. While I hope UGA prevails on Saturday, fans for each school should demonstrate class and appreciation for the players that have dedicated much time and energy in their preparation for this game.
tech hater
November 24th, 2011
10:37 am
Hey GT Bob, If winning or losing the GA game is not a big deal to the tekkerheads, why do you have rings made up with the score of the game when you win once a decade. I don’t recall the dawgs ever caring to that extent!
junkyarddawg
November 24th, 2011
10:55 am
For years everything in the locker rooms at Grant Field was covered withe stenciled letters GTAA (Georgia Tech Athletic Association) In the glory days of the Junkyard Dawgs during a pregame speech Coach Erk Russell took a pieces of chalk and rearranged the letters on the board, and thus was born GATA “Get After Their A$$” We did that day and have been ever since. GO DAWGS, GATA!
rugtowndawg
November 24th, 2011
11:02 am
$2.2 Mil. per year is too much to pay a coach for a HIGH SCHOOL OFFENSE!
GT is a 4th rate high school team
November 24th, 2011
11:08 am
And will forever be. Happy Thankgiving.
GT is a 4th rate high school team
November 24th, 2011
11:09 am
Happy Thanksgiving, I mean.
dap01
November 24th, 2011
11:13 am
Tech fans DONT care about football as much as UGA fans. They never sell out a very small stadium. UGA always sells out. UGA fans have to donate to even have a “chance” to buy season tickets. There is never a game at Tech that you simply can not walk up and buy a ticket. There is never a game at UGA that you can walk up and buy a ticket. To say as this article says, that Tech fans care as much is silly and even unprofessional.
And CPJ is a jerk. He is scarcastic. He also is two faced individual, he belittles a recruit who visits another college after committing to Tech but he also has recruits visit Tech after they have already visited someone else.
Paul in NH
November 24th, 2011
11:14 am
Mark
Nice article – I agree with most of it. Perhaps GT isn’t UGA’s biggest game, but Donnan didn’t lose his job for losing to UF or AU.
Paul in NH
November 24th, 2011
11:28 am
Eisendawg
November 23rd, 2011
1:22 pm
Mark, I think it would be neat to do a column, or survey, on what are the most “God awful” team colors out there. I think most would agree that yellow or orange would be at the top of the list!
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Worst I have seen are Clemson’s purple and orange and the awful black and orange Tenn wore in a game a few years ago.
BS Patrol
November 24th, 2011
11:44 am
Can someone tell me why there is no Furman Bisher column?
BiggDawgK
November 24th, 2011
11:49 am
Before paul (IMA) johnson showed up. the north avenue trade school was a harmless joke kind of like the goofy cousin that you saw once a year that you to beat up because he was so annoying. You didn’t really like him but he was such an aftertought you didn’t hate him either.
Since paul (tiny) johnson took over at ghetto tech, the goofy little cousin has turned into a chest thumping thug that lies, cheats and steals. A classless punk despised by everyone and not just the wimpy acc cousins but the whole ncaa family. The once brainy annoyance is ghetto trash now that punches others when they are not looking, smokes crack and has been spanked by the principal. He is now an embarassment thet you relish beating the crap out of and the whole family enjoys watching you do it.
BiggDawgK
November 24th, 2011
11:50 am
Oh yeah and Happy Thanksgiving!
61-39-5 vs Tech- 48-40-2 vs Florida
November 24th, 2011
11:55 am
Attention, Attention!
Christmas canceled at Tech.
Could not find three wise men nor a virgin.
01HAWK
November 24th, 2011
12:00 pm
Could not have said it better myself ………………………TRUTH HURTS !!!!!!!!!
That said, those three seasons skewed some Georgia fans’ view of their program. Two decades would pass before Georgia won another SEC title. Mark Richt has taken two conference titles and three division championships and his teams have finished in the top 10 five times, but Georgia hasn’t played for a national crown since 1982, and five different SEC schools have finished No. 1 over the past 13 years. UGA fans are still waiting their turn, same as they await the Next Herschel.
01HAWK
November 24th, 2011
12:01 pm
TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE
That said, those three seasons skewed some Georgia fans’ view of their program. Two decades would pass before Georgia won another SEC title. Mark Richt has taken two conference titles and three division championships and his teams have finished in the top 10 five times, but Georgia hasn’t played for a national crown since 1982, and five different SEC schools have finished No. 1 over the past 13 years. UGA fans are still waiting their turn, same as they await the Next Herschel.
Time
November 24th, 2011
12:07 pm
I can believe they couldn’t find 3 wise men…but really, the Tech campus is littered with virgins. Should be easy to find one of those…hahahha…Happy Thanksgiving
01HAWK
November 24th, 2011
12:11 pm
THWG ………………………………….YOU NEED HELP BADLY.
DAWG
November 24th, 2011
12:43 pm
robodawg Your post on the first page is correct. If you are truly a Dawg, tradition began long before Walker and continues long after Walker….and he is among my fav players.
Happy Thnaksgiving to all and may the big Dawg be the one smiling Saturday night.
BiggDawgK
November 24th, 2011
12:57 pm
If techies are so smart why do they all misspell thug? I know they are proud of their new ghetto attitude but come on poindexters give it a rest.
TGT
November 24th, 2011
1:03 pm
I remember going to a Tech game against Notre Dame back in the late 70’s at Grant Field. Tech was getting hammered, and the Tech fans began throwing bottles, ice, etc. at the Notre Dame players on the sideline. Rude, obnoxious behavior exists on every campus. I have seen similar behavior at UGA, Auburn, Ole Miss, etc. I am a UGA grad, my brother went to Tech, my sister went to Ole Miss. We all get along fine win lose or draw, and we don’t sling insults at one another directed at intelligence. This is only a game. May the best team win!
Dog teeth
November 24th, 2011
2:18 pm
Funny, I saw a Yellow Nerd, about 88, with a Tech bracelet on at Walmart. He was real proud of it. When asked, he was real proud of his job too.
1969 Graduate
November 24th, 2011
2:43 pm
Good clean hate is fine, but there are limits to which ladies, and gentlemen go, limits which are violated only by uncivilized, boorish morons, drunken fools, and criminals.
Thankfully, most of the fans of our two fine institutions of higher learning avoid going too far. A few tarnish the schools, and the team they think they’re embellishing.
Let’s run up that score on Tech this year, and see how they still claim a “Moral Victory.”
Go, UGA!
War Dang Dawg
November 24th, 2011
3:03 pm
It’s true that the Herschel years skewed our view of Georgia football somewhat, but that’s normal. The Spurrier, then Tebow years certainly skewed Florida fans’ perception of UF football. The Bowden heydays skewed FSU’s perception of their program.
But in all fairness, Georgia won 7 SEC titles, a national title, and had a Heisman winner pre-Herschel. We’re playing for our 13th conference title next week, which would tie us with Tennessee behind only Alabama. UGA played for the national championship only 4 seasons before Herschel arrived. Herschel enhanced Georgia football, but he didn’t invent it.
Idiot Dawg
November 24th, 2011
3:36 pm
Why do Tech graduates hang their diplomas on their car’s rear view mirror? So they can park in the handicapped spaces!
Arno
November 24th, 2011
4:30 pm
Check out this Google news feed: In the furor following Georgia Tech Coach Paul Johnson’s most recent comment, “If they’re so sensitive, they can unlike me on Facebook,” Georgia Coach Mark Richt revealed plans for his new program, “Classy Coach, Inc.” Said Coach Richt: “My first two clients are Coach Grantham and Coach Johnson. We’ve had our first session, and I’m hopeful. That’s all I can comment on at present.” An unidentified source has disclosed, however, that during break time Coach Johnson took his juice box, crushed it, and said, “See this box, Grantham? This is what Murray is going to look like when Attaochu gets done with him!” Richt will not address disciplinary measures against Johnson until after Saturday’s game, saying only, “Johnson was caught up in the heat of the moment.”
Buckdawg
November 24th, 2011
4:37 pm
Hey Boots…..why don’t U run out on Black Friday and ….BUY A CLUE!!!
Buckdawg
November 24th, 2011
4:40 pm
I can only chuckle at the MORONS who “claim” UGA as their beloved institution. Most don’t even know where Athens is and those R the same ones working holidays at …..yup….Wal Mart!
Jon Spencer
November 24th, 2011
6:04 pm
The Tech game is a big game to Georgia only after a defeat – an extremely rare occurance that might happen once every 10 years or so (usally when UGA is banged up and nursing injuries from a brutal SEC schedule or when a sight impared, soon to be suspended, ref goes totally brain dead and decides he sees a fumble when there wasn’t one )
There is no absolutely comparison between playing an SEC team and playing Tech. Tech fans won’t see it and should not be expected to since they seldom experience BIG time football. They have never felt the intensity or the passion of the “cocktail party” or a good slugfest with LSU.Playing the Dukes of this world week in and week out somehow does not measure up to life in the SEC.
I pity then. They don’t know what they are missing.
Doug the Jacket
November 24th, 2011
6:36 pm
Bradley: “Georgia hasn’t played for a national crown since 1982, and five different SEC schools have finished No. 1 over the past 13 years”. You forgot to mention that Georgia Tech won the National Championship in 1990. THWG
Sandy
November 24th, 2011
7:20 pm
Tech will play legitimate student-athletes who will go on to successful careers in industrial management and engineering.
Georgia will play mostly bozos who would not have met the academic requirements to enter any college or university. The few who actually graduate will have worthless degrees and skills for which there is no demand. Most will be pathetic losers who are a burden on society. Fortunately the CEOs of Walmart and Waffle House are Tech alumni who will give some of them jobs, but even a graveyard shift fry cook has to have some skills and the ability to stay sober.
Yes, Tech fans would love to defeat Georgia more often, but not at the win-at-all-costs price that Georgia pays.
Next time you see a homeless drunk, be kind to him, he may be a former UGA player.
Dumber than a stick
November 24th, 2011
7:52 pm
I worked with a guy who is a UGA fan which was unusual since I do not live or work anywhere near the state of GA. The guy couldn’t spell C A T if you spotted him the first two letters. His emails that he sent out to everyone were atrocious. At first I thought he must be a UGA fan and not graduate but no he graduated from UGA in 2001. He was brought up and lived in Statesboro. What does that says for that area or Ga Southern. Geez
Dumber than a stick
November 24th, 2011
7:53 pm
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Dumber than a stick
November 24th, 2011
7:58 pm
I worked with a GA Dog fan which was unusual since I do not live or work anywhere near the state of GA. The guy could not spell CAT if you spotted him the C and the A. His emails were atrocious. At first, I thought he must be just a UGA fan but found out he did indeed graduate in 2001. He said he was born and raised in Statesboro, GA. Geez, what does that say for that area or GA Southern.
BBQ MAN
November 24th, 2011
8:06 pm
THWG
THWG
November 24th, 2011
8:46 pm
Sandy. Well said
ReverendRicht
November 24th, 2011
8:53 pm
Prediction. GT will have over 500 yards of TO. Not predicting a win, but the Dogs defense will be shocked!
GTJJ
November 24th, 2011
8:55 pm
So who else thought it was funny that CPJ called a Uga fan a retard and then had to apologize to retards (or mentally challenged if you prefer).
dap01
November 24th, 2011
9:27 pm
True Dawg Fan: You are an idiot. I am a dawg fan but the things that you say makes you sound like an idiot.
GeorgiaBoner
November 24th, 2011
9:52 pm
Georgia will turn that place into Bobby Dudd tomorrow around 1:30. The only thing “historic” about that field is going to be that butt-whipping we put on the Slackets.
Doug the Jacket
November 24th, 2011
9:55 pm
Sandy -you got it right! THWG
TheItalianDawg
November 24th, 2011
9:57 pm
Tech fans are obsessed with Georgia but we don’t give a damn about them. tech has a decent engineering school but other than that they are a joke!
rtr
November 24th, 2011
10:00 pm
Uh, Sandy? Why does Georgia Tech have the worst football player graduation rates in the ACC?
Every time I read or hear Tech alumni who like to toot how smart they are and how challenging their school is, I’m reminded that people who really are smart and went to a prestigious school don’t have the need to blow their own horn all the time. When’s the last time you met a Duke or Stanford grad who ran around telling everyone how smart he or she is and how difficult it is to get into and graduate from the school?
Tech is a good school, but so is UGA. Get over yourselves.
Baby Ruth
November 24th, 2011
10:16 pm
rtr…you are correct. Both are really good schools. Look at the makeup of the DAWGs. Football players at UGA dont take anything close to the classes GT players take. UGA recruit kids who could care less about education. That being said…UGA is a good school for the rest of the students who go there.
OkieDawg
November 24th, 2011
10:24 pm
So CPJ made the CEO of Walmart known because he is a GT grad and all GT grads are all of a sudden so proud to be Walmarters. I’m proud of our Aflac ducker, Daniel Amos, founder and CEO of AFLAC. When you’re sick and miss work you can depend on AFLAC. When you’re sick and a GT fan you will have to depend on CPJ. CPJ is a pathetic loser…..hit UGA fans in the face and tell them to get their retarded butts to their Walmart jobs. GT fans must be sooooo proud.
ChrisDawg
November 24th, 2011
10:25 pm
The nerds are going to find out that they are really fools. WE RUN THIS STATE!!
Josh Fowler
November 24th, 2011
10:29 pm
Make the world a better place, punch a Tech fan in the face
Bad Advice Josh
November 24th, 2011
11:18 pm
You are the kind of UGA fan that gives us a bad name. I guarantee you did not got to UGA – I did…. Mgmt ‘78. You seem like just an uneducated mindless twerp and should be gone. I have UGA grad friends and GT grad friends and real grads of either school don’t dribble junk like that.
Bad Advice Josh
November 24th, 2011
11:19 pm
Ummmmm Josh or whatever your name is….You are the kind of UGA fan that gives us a bad name. I guarantee you did not got to UGA – I did…. Mgmt ‘78. You seem like just an uneducated mindless twerp and should be gone. I have UGA grad friends and GT grad friends and real grads of
Josh Fowler
November 24th, 2011
11:20 pm
I like punching greased pigs… in and out baby. Cows will work in a pinch.
Josh Fowler
November 24th, 2011
11:21 pm
And by punching – I mean poking them in their brown eye…
Tech Tony
November 25th, 2011
8:08 am
Why is UGA’s school color red?
No one on campus can spell crimson or scarlet.
Cheech
November 25th, 2011
8:15 am
Mark–as you say the CEO of Wal Mart is a GT grad—–as has been said for many years—UGA grads call GT grad BOSS—DUH???
Cheech
November 25th, 2011
8:26 am
You can tell ole Josh is extremely intelligent—–could be right up there with Jethro Bodine and his 6th grade education.
Doodaddy
November 25th, 2011
8:55 am
Tech is not even worth makng fun of anymore. They are especially bad winners – having so little experience and all.
Wheee Dawgie
November 25th, 2011
9:20 am
This is a big year for the UGA vs. Tech rivalry. This game will be almost as important as the Egg Bowl.
wreckbuzz
November 25th, 2011
9:40 am
So it IS true…UGA fans go to work for GT fans. I thought that was just a joke. Turns out all those UGA fans working at Walmart work for a Tech man. Too funny.
Peachessuga
November 25th, 2011
9:50 am
WAIT…a Bama fan calling us cheaters about HW? Noooooooo u got to be kidding me. Yall tree poisoners INVENTED cheating!
A look at Bobby Dodd
November 25th, 2011
11:45 am
GT’s real glory days of CONSISTANT football ( CONSISTANT QUALITY FOOTBALL) were in the early 1950s. After about 1955 or 1956, GT and Bobby Dodd never attended a MAJOR BOWL until Florida blew GT out in the 1967 Orange Bowl. Not until 2009 did GT see another MAJOR BOWL until Iowa blew GT out in the Orange Bowl. 42 years in between it was for GT in a MAJOR BOWL.
The in between years from the 1950s to 1967 were full of Bluebonnnett Bowl games or Gator Bowl ( Joe PA whupped em in like 64 or 65 in the Gator) or the lesser bowls of that era. Ask any GT alum if i am wrong. Ask them.
GT has this on going myth that they ARE a major power and YES, they WERE back in the early 1950s to about 1956. It died until 1967 ( bowl loss ) and again until 2009 ( bowl loss) .
UGA on the other hand ( in the 50s not true ) has been to Cotton Bowl games ( 60s, 70s and 80s) and to Orange Bowl games (1960) and to many, many Sugaar Bowl games
( 60s, 70s, 80s, 3 lately) in the same overlapping era that Dodd’s teams were sliding.
Even the Citrus Bowl where GT earned fraction of the MNC in 1990 WAS THEN NOT considered a major bowl venue.
Sam
November 25th, 2011
12:47 pm
Amazing video of a high school senior from Columbia TN who kicks the ball dead straight 75-80 yards in the air. He was successful on 54 of 54 attempts this season….100%. Now he needs a college team.
Watch for yourself…it is unreal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JKwgwFY3g
fred
November 25th, 2011
1:44 pm
Thanks to the Wal-Mart reporters at ajc…thanks for scoop on everything from red panties, Cam, Tebow, dawgs dui’s, GT probe, Braves blow it, Hawks sell, Falcons go for it on 4 and 1, Johnson’s slip, Richt’s kiss, you name it…Thanks Mark, Jeff & DOB for everything.
UGA on paper have the best players 4&5 stars…GT just plan hard nose underdogs players..both got good coaches. Advantage UGA but I’ll bet on Coach Johnson and GT just for the he!! of it. Have a great day.
fred
November 25th, 2011
1:45 pm
Sam, stick it…you are getting old.
Josh
November 25th, 2011
1:49 pm
Let’s Go Tech!
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Russ' Chew Toy
November 25th, 2011
1:54 pm
For any true University of Georgia fan, (whose official school name by the way is THE University of Georgia (emphasis on THE)); the Yellow Jackets are the most perfect mascot possible for Georgia Tech for the following reasons, as the life-cycle between the genuine insects of nature and their socially-inept human imposters mimic each other to a staggeringly near perfect degree :
1) in the warm days of August and September, they are almost always completely unseen, unmentioned, and absent from anyone’s realm of conscious thought. You might occasionally spot a lone one in your travels, but you feel no threat and look upon them as the oddity they are.
2) as the Fall season progresses, you become more aware of them, now most often seen in pairs or trios as they busily flit around with a self-created air of importance and purpose for which, try as you might, you can’t find an objective basis.
3) Come early to mid-November, they now appear in masses, now always angry and belligerent for no apparent reason, and even over-eager to do their best to attempt to threaten and intimidate you. All the while, you look upon their puniness, and simultaneously marvel at the absurdity of their unjustified bravado, and contemplate upon the relative ease with which they can be crushed.
4) This fevered pitch of boorish behavior demonstrated by their feeble attempts at intimidation usually reaches it’s zenith on one date in late November each year, when in a single night after the numbers plummet on the thermometer in the natural world; and the numbers soar on the UGA side of the scoreboard — in that single, solitary night, the entire colony of yellow jackets is decimated and left in total annihilation, with not a single surviving bee, and the colony remains an unpopulated wasteland until the following spring when the cycle repeats itself all over again.
Whoever it was that chose Yellow Jacket as the representative for the full-of-fury-signifying-nothing bunch of whiners on North Avenue was an absolute genius. And if he/she came from Tech, he/she was the first and last.
News: Goldson, Doucet fined for scuffle – Atlanta Journal Constitution | News 25/7! Delivering news in real time
November 25th, 2011
3:19 pm
[...] Walmart shoppers! Here’s the scoop on Tech and UGA fans! [...]
Sam Walton
November 25th, 2011
4:01 pm
Both of these teams belong on the discount aisle.
Techster
November 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
I just hope it’s a nice clean and safe contest and everyone has loads of fun.
Rocky's Daddy
November 25th, 2011
6:19 pm
Mark Bradley wrote a decent piece. There should be peace between the fans. However, in pointing out the differences in school populations, Mark failed to track where the fan base for each school comes from. Most fans are not alums. I’m a TECH fan from having lived close to the campus, but I earned no degree from TECH (GA.STATE instead). I brought my son up to be a TECH fan and go there and earn a degree. Most DAWG fans don’t teach their children to study at Georgia, they just teach their children to bark. OR if I should be a kinder, gentler TECH fan, they teach them to feed off the winning.
We TECH fans know Dawg fans out number us. Only winning will shift the tide over generations.
AFDawg
November 25th, 2011
7:40 pm
Sandy, You’re an idiot — for every engineer major playing football at Tech I’ll show you a pre-med major at Georgia. College football players pursuing the “hard” degrees is alawys the exception to the rule — across the entire country. Are you really that stupid to think just because they play football at Tech they are an engineering major? The entire reason Tech started their Industrial Management degree was so they could recruit better. Tech has a lot of non-engineering majors.
AFDawg
November 25th, 2011
7:52 pm
MB, There is only one scoop regarding the Tech – UGA series, Georgia has dominated it, plain and simple. Tech gets the occassional win — but that’s about it.
DILLIGAF
November 25th, 2011
8:09 pm
Sam,
Are you this kids agent or a family member because you are pushing this kid’s video on these blogs 24/7?
Retired Soldier Dawg
November 25th, 2011
9:46 pm
Tech can only hope that the Dawgs are looking ahead to LSU. But even a distracted Dawg team is enough to beat sorry Tech. Go Dawgs swat the annoying bees!!
DGator
November 25th, 2011
9:57 pm
GA is not that good, I don’t understand how they can possibly think they are good, they have beaten absolutely nobody worth a flip and lost to the decent teams they played. Dawgs will struggle with Tech and their High School gimmick offense but again, beating Tech should not be anything to brag about this year.
Thomas Brown
November 26th, 2011
6:11 am
Georgia tek fans – both of them – actually feel that Georgia tek’s # 35 ranking in US News & World Report as a national university translates to their student-athletes. Nothing is further from the truth. They are out to do anything and everything to beat UGA in sports, and cannot. They don’t care – neither of them.
Auburn has more graduates in City of 6 million than Georgia tek. Then, WHY do you CODDLE Georgia tek, AJ-C ?
Thomas Brown
November 26th, 2011
6:38 am
In fact, there are over 2 million with degrees from college who live in metro Atlanta. Georgia tek does not even rank among them. UGA dominates the readership of the AJ-C, yet daily, Mark Bradley specifically and by name CODDLES Georgia tek. It is absolutely contrary to the long-term viability of the AJ-C as a newspaper.
Harvey D. Pooka
November 26th, 2011
7:59 am
Bobby Dodd.
Enough said. (no, we aren’t living in the past but we sure as hell ain’t letting it be forgotten either.)
Sam Walton
November 26th, 2011
8:24 am
Meh…
Bobby Dodd was Bear Bryant’s female canine companion. Vince Dooley was a consolation prize for losing Pat Dye to Auburn.
King Gator
November 26th, 2011
8:39 am
He called your team a bunch of “Wal-Mart shoppers”, there’s got to be some payback for that today. Hoping for a good game, cheering for the SEC (not so much Georgia), but hey it’s win win.. if Tech wins that means Georgia loses; never difficult to get behind that idea. I predict Georgia wins by 17 going away today. Go Gators!
Sam Walton
November 26th, 2011
8:56 am
Q: What percentage of the Georgia population has never shopped at Walmart?
A: The same percentage who’s favorite college football team has won a National Championship in the past 20 years.
Dawg Fan
November 26th, 2011
12:57 pm
“GIVE ME A BREAK
November 23rd, 2011
12:09 pm
The SEC East champion only scored 19 points on a weak Kentucky team. Tech is waiting for you. ” LET’S ROLL JACKETS “”
UGA only needed to win the game to make it to the championship game. Why pile up the score when all you need is to have 1 more point than your opponent?
Dawg Fan
November 26th, 2011
1:10 pm
“Tech Tony
November 25th, 2011
8:08 am
Why is UGA’s school color red?
No one on campus can spell crimson or scarlet.”
Why is Tech’s color yellow? Because it’s easier to explain all the bruises.
mark bradley is the joke
November 28th, 2011
10:35 pm
I assure you MB before it is all said and done, you will be the one who is the joke by the coke..