Video: On UGA winning the SEC and Tech taking the Coastal
Oh, and here’s a print version of those predictions, if anyone cares to have proof of my lunacy in writing.
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So.......
August 15th, 2012
1:50 pm
I’m really not sure how UGA wins over LSU or Alabama. Every year we have you and other AJC sports writers writing about the same thing and every year you and the other clowns look like morons.
JB
August 15th, 2012
1:50 pm
Print this piece and put it on your board in your office for fun reading in say late November.
So.......
August 15th, 2012
1:51 pm
UGA doesn’t have the defense or offense to compete against Bama or LSU. I can’t stand Bama but Nick Saban will utterly destroy anything UGA throws his way.
So.......
August 15th, 2012
1:52 pm
“The problem here is that the high expectations are comming from WHO…… THE MEDIA!!!!”
The only media outlet building up UGA is the AJC. Not one single other sports media outlet has UGA winning anything.
JB
August 15th, 2012
1:52 pm
GTBob….sit in the middle of the Tech Alumni in the second quarter of the Clemson game and say that. Hogwash. They care.
DawgNole
August 15th, 2012
1:56 pm
dawgEd
August 14th, 2012
11:58 pm
Never understood Dawg and Jacket people cheering against each other, except on that one Sat in November.What could be better than an undefeated UGA beating an undefeated GT?
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DITTO!
JB
August 15th, 2012
1:59 pm
Ditto also. a good Tech team benefits everyone…. Like the year we beat their ACC champ/BCS team. It was awesome. Beating a 7-5 Tech team means little….Except it’s Tech of course.
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
2:23 pm
GTBob….sit in the middle of the Tech Alumni in the second quarter of the Clemson game and say that. Hogwash. They care.
There are many that care. Overall its pretty hard to argue that the institution and the majority of its students and alumni are all that worried about the results of the football team though. If football was discontinued at GT, the institution wouldn’t change much. What do you think would happen if the same happened at UGA?
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
2:27 pm
GT Bob, please explain to me how a good football team would in any way diminish the quality of education at Tech. This is the most laughably ridiculous argument that I have ever heard in my life. I’ve said this before. Sure, there are guys on UGA’s football team that probably wouldn’t be in school there if they didn’t play football. For the sake of argument, let’s say ALL of them (not true of course). That’s around 100 students. There are 30,000+ students at UGA. How in the good holy hell do those 100 football players have anything to do with the education of the remaining 29,900 students? It only means that our Saturdays in the Fall are a hell of a lot more fun than yours are. That’s it. So if Georgia Tech lets in a few football players that couldn’t get in otherwise (which it already freaking does), how does that effect the Korean dude that I always see walking down 10th Street everyday whose probably getting his third Phd. in astro physics? It doesn’t. Its just an absurd crybaby excuse. And don’t give me any crap about how a History of Science and Technology degree is anything that the vast majority of D-1 football players couldn’t handle with the army of academic support that Georgia Tech football players have at their disposal. Its a myth, crutch, excuse and, worst of all, a lie.
Good day sir.
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
2:33 pm
“Beating a 7-5 Tech team means little….”
Beating an 11 win Tech team means little. See 2009. We fired several coaches immediately thereafter and had a losing season in 2010. Georgia Tech’s record will have absolutely no bearing on anything until it is playing in a real football league. Until then, they can go 0-12 every year for all I care. I hope they do.
“What do you think would happen if the same happened at UGA?”
Why don’t you tell us? You’re the one talking out of your butt about how we put football over academics. The burden is on you to back it up. So tell us GTBob, what would happen if we dropped football? Would we lose all of our US News and World Report rankings? Would we be overrun with rednecks that cannot read or write and live in trailers? I thought that was already the case according to you Tech fans? So what would happen GTBob?
Everybody grab some popcorn. This ought to be good. GTBob is on fire.
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
2:42 pm
So tell us GTBob, what would happen if we dropped football?
I’m so glad you asked. You would have significantly less students applying for admission, and the entire town would lose tons of revenue from game day visitors. Donations to the UGA student fund would decrease and your endowment would become even more of an embarrassment then it is now. Student and Faculty morale would decline because of the loss of the school’s one meaningful endeavor. All of this would cause a declines in nation academic rankings, and in granted research money. Do I really need to go on?
JB
August 15th, 2012
2:43 pm
GTBob lives here for some reason………..But hey, if you were a Tech fan, you might be here also.
Bob has a hard time knowing that I’d say about 95% of UGA students could get in Tech if that’s what they wanted.
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
2:50 pm
Bob has a hard time knowing that I’d say about 95% of UGA students could get in Tech if that’s what they wanted.
Care to provide some real numbers to back this up? If you payed any attention at all in high school then you can get accepted to UGA. Its not that way at Tech.
LMFAO!!!!
August 15th, 2012
2:53 pm
“95% of UGA students could get in Tech if that;s what they wanted” Too damn funny!
JB
August 15th, 2012
2:58 pm
TWO WORDS……………….REGGIE BALL……..NO, LMAO
Mr. Hankey
August 15th, 2012
2:58 pm
I agree, Mark, it is absolute lunacy, but so is planning to win the 305 million Powerball. Doesn’t mean it ain’t fun to dream about. Two out of three would also be fine leaving those silly yellow jastards out of the trio. I TRULY believe they are the least likely and it is not because I think they suck, which I do and they definitely do, I just don’t see the vaunted triple option of that idiot Paul Johnson getting them to the dance, let alone taking the prettiest girl home for a trist between the sheets.
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
3:00 pm
TWO WORDS……………….REGGIE BALL……..NO, LMAO
A bad football player who never should have been admitted to the institute and was eventually kicked out because of academics? Is that the best you have?
LMFAO!!!!
August 15th, 2012
3:06 pm
High school is a requirement for UGA admissions? Since when?
Bob Sacamano
August 15th, 2012
3:07 pm
I want some of that kool-aid Bradleys been drinkin
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
3:11 pm
“You would have significantly less students applying for admission..”
Care to provide some numbers to back this up?
“Donations to the UGA student fund would decrease and your endowment would become even more of an embarrassment then it is now.”
Care to provide some numbers to back this up?
“Student and Faculty morale would decline because of the loss of the school’s one meaningful endeavor.”
This coming from a guy whose school lives, breaths and dies for one thing and one thing only: Engineering. Talk about a one trick pony.
“All of this would cause a declines in nation academic rankings, and in granted research money.”
Care to provide some numbers to back this up?
“Do I really need to go on?”
Yes, you most certiainly do. You need to explain to us how you came to all of these bold conclusions without wildly speculating directly out of your bunghole.
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
3:23 pm
“A bad football player who never should have been admitted to the institute and was eventually kicked out because of academics? Is that the best you have?”
A bad football player who was your starting QB for 4 years. A bad football player “who never should have been admitted to the institute” but somehow found a way to remain eligible for almost his entire career. He couldn’t count to 4 but was only a few final exams away from obtaining a degree from “The Institute.” Go figure. He was kicked out because he failed to show up for exams after his football career was over and done with. So much for the “well rounded student-athlete” we hear so much about out of Tech fans. It wasn’t because the school work was too difficult for him to handle, as much as you would like everyone to believe that.
Keep living the myth GTBob.
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
3:24 pm
Care to provide some numbers to back this up?
Nope, I don’t care to. It is obviously my opinion of what would happen. If you don’t believe that dropping football would hurt UGA financially, or would lead to some decrease in student applications then more power to you. You can add that to your list of fantasies, like your never ending expectation of a National Championship.
dwagdawg
August 15th, 2012
3:32 pm
poor little dwagfan. He woke up one morning with a bad case of fleas and mange, and his pretty little girlfriend became repulsed and left him. She later wound up marrying a GT grad who makes quite a good living. Poor little dwagfan, on the other hand, was so distraught and consumed with anger, bitterness, and hatred for all things GT that he quit his fry-cook job, moved out of mommy’s basement. and now lives underneath an overpass in Athens (ie typical Troll).
True story
Thanks
Crap
August 15th, 2012
3:34 pm
Bob: dawgfan owns you today. Glad you admitted all your stuff was merely an opinion. It might be more precise to say it would hurt the athletic department and the city of Athens financially. Pretty sure most students pick the school for the school – not the football team.
Crap
August 15th, 2012
3:36 pm
Dwagdawg: Nice. I’ll bet you own the 5th grade.
dwagdawg
August 15th, 2012
3:56 pm
@ Crap
at last, someone with a blog handle that fits.
Thanks
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
4:14 pm
Bob: dawgfan owns you today. Glad you admitted all your stuff was merely an opinion.
I get told im owned every day. Im pretty used to it. I didn’t really have to admit an opinion either. When you are talking about the fallout of a completely hypothetical situation then common sense should tell you that im giving an opinion. Unfortunately he didnt gather that.
Sun Devil Dave
August 15th, 2012
5:47 pm
Mark, can I have some of what you’re having?
Sun Devil Dave
August 15th, 2012
5:58 pm
Bobby Bobby Bobby, just accept the fact that your team like mine will never amount to anything as long as the Athletic Association ignores hiring of a decent coach – But alas, my Sun Devils (Dawgs are my second choice) are worth admiration, while your jackets just are worth one squirt of raid.
Dooley
August 15th, 2012
7:16 pm
REALLY? REALLY? First of all Tech has no chance to win the coastal division.Fact…. Realistically UGA has to get past Mizzou. IF That happens I truly belive that this teaam finds their way. Including hanging 40 or more on the gamecocks and winning by 10 or more in that game. Remembering they gave them 28 points lasr year in Athens. That issue has been resolved by way of Crowell is no longer chargex with the task of blocking or olaying I should say. From there on they take care of the work they have in front of them. YUUP
DawgNole
August 15th, 2012
8:43 pm
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
2:33 pm
Beating an 11 win Tech team means little. See 2009. We fired several coaches immediately thereafter and had a losing season in 2010. Georgia Tech’s record will have absolutely no bearing on anything until it is playing in a real football league. Until then, they can go 0-12 every year for all I care. I hope they do.
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You’re pretty shortsighted on this issue, dawgfan. Any real dawgfan (or, for that matter, any real fan of any team) will tell you it means a whole lot more to your own team to beat a highly ranked opponent than an unranked one. I always pull for the opponents of my teams until they play my teams. I’d much rather play (and beat) a worthy opponent than a half-azzed one; that’s how you earn respect–and playing crap opponents is how you lose respect.
wayne
August 17th, 2012
10:47 am
i say go dawgs
Smarticus
August 17th, 2012
1:25 pm
That Mark is funny, isn’t he?
Richt and Bobo can’t lead a cat to milk, much less a football team to the promised land…
The talent is there but the coach definitely is not.
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