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bob smith
August 14th, 2012
5:00 pm
Stick to print!
felix the cat
August 14th, 2012
5:07 pm
first
OT question for Mark
August 14th, 2012
5:10 pm
Few months ago read a book about King Kelly Coleman. I realize he was before your time, but he seems like quite a character, in addition to being a scoring machine and a Kentucky high school legend. Any thoughts on how you think he would have fared playing for the Baron, since he apparently liked to do his own thing, on and off the court.
Bugs Bunny
August 14th, 2012
5:13 pm
Rehashed hash!
duece coupe
August 14th, 2012
5:22 pm
You mean Georgia Tech winning the ACC,
and UGA winning the Eastern.
Buzz2011
August 14th, 2012
5:29 pm
@duece coupe…Man , you read my mind! Go Jackets!
bham dawg
August 14th, 2012
5:38 pm
wouldn’t be surprised to see both of these scenarios although highly unlikely. what is a given however is that the dawgs will once again take the gnats to the woodshed.
tellitlikeitis
August 14th, 2012
5:47 pm
Well, here we go again…let’s see UGA MNC prediction 30 0f the past 32 years. Geez.
Is 72 important?
August 14th, 2012
5:56 pm
I wonder if UGA loses a few player if the numbers become an issue. Will freshmen RB’s do well on the road? Will Murrey continue to make big mistakes in key games?
Birdhair
August 14th, 2012
6:04 pm
I cant let bozo ruin the season. i cant let bozo ruin the season. I dont like my hair wet. I like to adjust my head-set constantly during the game. I put the papers under my arm. I carefully take my headset off not to mess up my hair. I like to jump off the high dive at ramsey. I like to fly south to honduras to build huts.
Dmob
August 14th, 2012
6:09 pm
WOW, an Atlanta sports guy saying Tech is winning the coastal (besides the fact being owned by VT) and having the Bulldogs in the NCG, man who could have ever imagined a guy who covers the Georgia teams saying things like that and then calling himself a homer, NAH couldn’t be…..Georgia could win the East but the only bad thing is they would have to play the West champ and we all know that don’t bold well for UGA……
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 14th, 2012
6:19 pm
Tech winning the ACC
LOL
With the team they are fielding this year give me a break
Wait a minute I forgot they play in the ACC so Duke might have a shot this year too
1eyedJack
August 14th, 2012
6:30 pm
Mark, you’re a homer. That’s alright, but you’re wrong on Tech, probably wrong about the Falcons, and as far as Georgia, it’ll be the Dawgs defeating LSU in the SEC Championship game and then playing Mulligan U in the MNC game.
Bugs Bunny
August 14th, 2012
6:37 pm
1eyed, you should open the other one. Maybe you’ll see better? It’s worth a try.
Destin Dawg
August 14th, 2012
6:48 pm
we’ll know early IF GT can beat VT in Blacksburg at night and IF UGA can beat Missouri in Columbia at night.. a Tall order.. then we both can go all the WAY !!!
spanky
August 14th, 2012
6:50 pm
What;s up,doc? Actually, 1eyed has it just about right! Mark did say that IF the Jackets can beat the Hokies, then they probly will win the Coastal…history says true! Now that LSU lost their prize Honey Badger, I feel alot better on UGA’s chances. Bama lost alot on defense, so Jack’s got a backer on the UGA\LSU pick. OLine is really coming along for the dawgs!! Gwntlemen, have a nice evening!!
spanky
August 14th, 2012
6:51 pm
that’s Gentlemen….sorry
GSUStud
August 14th, 2012
7:00 pm
Mark, Mark, just because you are in Atlanta, you don’t have to pick Ga Tech. We can all read right through it. No way on earth that Ga Tech wins the Coastal. As far as the Univ of Ga goes, well, yes they should win the East and then the SEC. The Univ of Ga has so much talent and experience, they should win all of their games easily.
shankit
August 14th, 2012
7:23 pm
First of all, Mark, you look better in a live interview, than the depiction I had
branded you with on your still image on your website.
I like your predictions, but because our two State teams play each other in
regular season, there is no way they could play each other for the NC championship.
Wait a minute, didn’t this just happen last year between the two Bama teams, and
didn’t it happen between Florida State and Florida?
Bobby Dodd and Wally are working hard to make this happen up in heaven.
George
August 14th, 2012
7:59 pm
When pigs fly.
True Tech
August 14th, 2012
8:14 pm
Ah yes, the Rednecks already talking trash about beating Tech a given. Can’t wait to upset them between Sanford and Son Stadium!
Ralph Friedgen
August 14th, 2012
8:35 pm
I’m flying a Georgia Tech flag right now.
Bugsquasher
August 14th, 2012
9:27 pm
Thats funny!! A Tech fan making fun of Sanford Stadium while they play in a oversized highschool stadium that they have to give away 2 hotdogs and a Coke to fill!! Hilarious!!
Bugsquasher
August 14th, 2012
9:28 pm
It’s been a given the last 10 years, so why not?
JB
August 14th, 2012
9:49 pm
Mark has been called in from home tonight by management for drug testing. Mrs. Cox is very upset. The tape has been played several times. Dawgs winning the NC and Falcons the super bowl and the really big fear that it’s the hard stuff. Good luck Mark. We enjoy you anyway.
JB
August 14th, 2012
9:51 pm
What’s the over and under which week during the season Mark retracts this column?
JB
August 14th, 2012
9:53 pm
We can’t count on one thing. The Dawg defense this year, best in years by the way, will stop the Tech offense….And the Dawg offense will score often on Tech’s defense. Thus 11 of 12.
JB
August 14th, 2012
9:59 pm
Sorry, s/b we CAN count on one thing.
dragon
August 14th, 2012
10:23 pm
Mark is obviously playing to the home crowd. He’s like a populist politician. If he were in Birmingham. it would be Alabama vs. USC. But if you looked at his track record, how many times he’s missed on the dogs, you would take this with a grain. Tailback U can’t keep its tailbacks in school because it hires, uhm, recruits so many good Christian thugs under Richt.
Yawn!
CH3
August 14th, 2012
10:24 pm
Shankit What two bama teams played last year for the national champ?
Alab j
August 14th, 2012
11:14 pm
Uga in the nat champ game? Bwahahaha. Now that is funny. They won’t even beat Missouri.
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
August 14th, 2012
11:39 pm
It’s nice to know that hope like moonshine springs eternal in Jawga.
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?
Burma Shave
August 15th, 2012
6:41 am
It’s almost time
For the season to start
The dawgs have talent
But they lack the heart
BURMA SHAVE
dubious
August 15th, 2012
8:36 am
The Mark Bradley kiss of death has just been administered.
Lemuel in Ludowici
August 15th, 2012
8:37 am
Well, conditions would have been favorable, as in ‘81 for UGA to get to the National Championship game. Like that magical season of long ago, they missed Bama. But, wait, now there’s an SEC Championship game. Oh, well, winning the SEC East again should be a given considering Carolina plays a much tougher Conference schedule.
St Richt
August 15th, 2012
8:42 am
Here we go again…. Georgia winning the NC in the preseason again. Wow, what a surprise. Too bad they can’t hold Bama or LSUs jock.
St Richt
August 15th, 2012
8:43 am
Or USC, or Oklahoma, etc, etc
Chan
August 15th, 2012
8:51 am
GT will go 4-4 in the ACC Coastal losing to VT, Clemson, Virginia, and UNC. UGA will lose to SC in the last minute and be upset by Florida costing them the SEC East title. UGA is flat against Tech leaving them 9-3 while GT finishes 8-4 saving CPJ’s job for another year. UGA goes to the Capital One Bowl while GT ends up in Nashville. In 2013 Mark Bradely picks UGA to go 12-0 and Tech to go 11-1 while picking his mega million numbers.
Pippa's hiney
August 15th, 2012
8:54 am
Dawgs just need a good recruiting year. Bwahahahaha
carolinajacket
August 15th, 2012
8:54 am
I would give the Jackets a much better chance if we still had Julian Burnett. I fear our linebackers may be a little weak to pull it off — but we can hope, can’t we.
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
9:00 am
“Never understood Dawg and Jacket people cheering against each other”
You must not know very many Tech fans. Good for you.
“What could be better than an undefeated UGA beating an undefeated GT?”
Well, I guess that would be pretty interesting, but its also entirely unrealistic and will never happen in a million freaking years so I don’t waste my time thinking about it.
The truth is that the gap between UGA and Georgia Tech has never been wider than it is right now as far as I can tell. Tech has one of the worst defenses I have ever seen. If they played in a better conference with better offenses it would be even worse. They are awful. Two years in a row now Aaron Murray has sat back in the pocket and picked them apart like he was playing a video game and they haven’t done a damn thing about it. We’ve barely even had to run the ball. As for their offense, its good at what it does and should be respected for that, but it obviously has serious limitations. The evidence is becoming overwhelming that when faced with a quality defensive front it sputters. That’s exactly what UGA has now. We’ve got monsters on the d-line that are quicker and faster than Tech’s undersized linemen. We go 2 and 3 deep at linebacker with guys that would be first team All-ACC if they played in that crap league.
If you’ll notice, Tech fans very rarely want to talk about the UGA game anymore. They know what I say is true. They’ll talk anything and everything about UGA except that last Saturday in November when their team has to play us. Its the boogie man in the closet that keeps them up at night. They think if they ignore it it will just go away. It won’t Techies. Better go grab your blankie.
Good day.
Atlanta Olympics 2020
August 15th, 2012
9:03 am
More importantly: Falcons in the Superbowl this season!
BaseballBuff
August 15th, 2012
9:04 am
MB, you’ve lost credibility as a serious sportswriter, having turned into nothing but a hype-meister trying to generate blogs.
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
9:12 am
I think my Dawgs are a little overrated but it should be a fun season. I say 10-2. If you want me to pick the losses I say South Carolina and Florida. That may be good enough to get us the SECCG where hopefully we’ll put on a little better showing than last year. We’ll close the regular season out with another double digit pounding of the nerds.
Truth is, the gap between UGA and Tech has never been wider than it is right now. We’ve got the horses on defense to cause some serious problems for their limited offense and their defense is a total disaster. More than anything though, I think we’re back in their heads again. They really don’t believe they can beat us anymore. They would be correct.
Thanks.
GT Dude
August 15th, 2012
9:20 am
Mark, you might want to put the that tequila bottle back in the liquor cabinet, if there’s anything left…
DawginLex
August 15th, 2012
9:27 am
Lose to Florida?
Does anyone on here actually pay attention?
Florida has the worst QB in the SEC East.
UGA
SC
UT
Mizzou
Vandy
UK
Fla
Even Smith/Newton/Towles are better than Driskell/Brissett.
Florida’s defense better be good.
Herschworld
August 15th, 2012
9:28 am
Mark,
Now I know why you work for the AJC and not ESPN. #Mr. Personality
DP
August 15th, 2012
9:31 am
4 other SEC teams have won a combined 7 national championships during Richt’s tenure but Mark Bradley is determined to once again falsely proclaim Richt’s Georgia team as the “standard bearers of the SEC”.
I suspect this season could be a replay of the 2008 season, where Bradley’s preseason prediction waved Georgia past Alabama in what turned out to be the infamous Blackout Game beatdown in Athens. His biggest concern going into that game was that Georgia had been dropped from #1 to #3 in the national rankings and that they might get shut out of the national championship game even if they went undefeated as expected. After the debacle against Alabama, Bradley jumped off the bandwagon but finally jumped back on just before the Florida game, when Georgia got slaughtered again.
But never mind all that, Bradley will always have a new prediction of pending greatness for the Dawgs!
Tech Engineer
August 15th, 2012
9:53 am
Tech wins 7. Georgia wins 11.Tech could win 8 or 9 if the defense is greatly improved. Richt scheduled Ga. Southern the week before playing Tech to have more practice against the triple option. He also recruited huge defensive linemen to stop the option. He’s knows he has to focus on beating Tech to keep his job,. He’s safe for another year.
Wilson Pickett
August 15th, 2012
9:56 am
I hope UGA can meet Bama in the SECCG for Bama will beat the living sheet out of you! The good news though is the UGA fans will see just how far away from being a real champ is for your program. UGA couldn’t stay within 20 point of Alabama. Keep dreaming.
For the guy that stated Bama lost a lot of defense. Watch the Mitchegun game and we will talk.
gt4ever
August 15th, 2012
9:57 am
anything can happen carolina jacket…. We have the schedule that is very friendly… We will see after that VT game…
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
10:00 am
As long the Rubik’s Cube convention does not interfere with any GT games. LOL
gt4ever
August 15th, 2012
10:01 am
No AirForce1, it’s Dragoncon we have to worry about…
909
August 15th, 2012
10:10 am
I predict UGA will win the Fulmer Cup. Again.
Spurrier
August 15th, 2012
10:11 am
Winning the SEC is harder than winning the MNC, just ask Saban.
Michael Veli
August 15th, 2012
10:11 am
Mark, is Georgia playing for the national championship on a Playstation 3 or XBox 360?
New World Man
August 15th, 2012
10:13 am
It’s a given. UGA vs. Bama in the SEC championship game. UGA doesn’t have to play three of the top four teams in the west and bama doesn’t have to play the top three teams in the east.
gbal
August 15th, 2012
10:22 am
UGA fan here ……
The problem here is that the high expectations are comming from WHO…… THE MEDIA!!!!
And in my opinion, they’re NUTS…..
We have an inexperienced O Line being put together by a first year froshman….
We have NO experience in the backfield…..
We have average to maybe slightly above WR’s…..
We have a Defensive backfield that is hurt for 3-4 games due to suspensions….
We have a kicker and punter that have been on campus just a few weeks…..
MEDIA is creating these false expectations….. and when it doesnt happen….. Who is in the wrong??
MEDIA …. for making these bonehead predictions…..????
CMR and staff for not peforming and meeting the high expectations (of the Media)?????
Who do you think catches the flack!!! According to the MEDIA!!!!
juvenal
August 15th, 2012
10:23 am
all depends on “the auxilliary stuff”…
gbal
August 15th, 2012
10:24 am
tst
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
10:26 am
@ gt4ever…oops I forgot. I have a good friend who is a GT grad and myself being a UGA grad, we give each other a hard time all year
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
10:27 am
More Alabama NCAA secondary violations….oops
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
10:30 am
Got to love the great attitude displayed thus far by the Bulldogs this year. Sounds like more of a TEAM inspired attituded this year!
Tim Scott
August 15th, 2012
10:38 am
Mr Bradley you are priceless, you would believe Georgia was going to win no matter what. On paper I agree they should win the east,as we all know games are not played on paper. Granted Georgia once again got a break no Bama,LSU or Ark amazing. Did I mention no RB either,you are completely discounting South Carolina and the fact that the Dawgs under CMR always and I do mean always trip when they shouldn’t. Beware of trips to Columbia Mo,Nashville,and a little place by the name of Jacksonville Florida. And should your beloved Dawgs win the East they will once again have their head handed to them by either Alabama or LSU.
gbal
August 15th, 2012
10:44 am
OK…. Who is it that is creating these High Expectations????? MEDIA!!!
They are NUTS and have not clue in evaluating teams….. (and I am a uga fan and would like nothing more than a NC)
We have:
Inexperienced OL
Inexperienced RB’s
Fr. Kicker
Fr. PunterAverage WR’s w/out Malcom
DB’s out 3-4 games…..
These predictions are NUTS given these holes!!!
And who will catch the blame for the MEDIA’s predictions if UGA does not win big???
The Media for making such outlandish predictions with the obvious holes to fill? You can bet your a$$…NOT!!!!
The MEDIA will say that UGA did mot meet expectations due to coaching…!!!!
There’s a reason they are in the media and not coaching ….. and it aint the money!!!
Alphare
August 15th, 2012
10:45 am
UGA might win SEC, but OK and Oregon are undefeated, once again leaving UGA in the cold.
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
10:46 am
@ Tim Scott. You are correct on one point. UGA always looks great on paper. Huge Dawg fan here. We win the games we are supposed to and can’t seem to close out the BIG games. CMR does have a “general” good record but here again, over the last few years, the big games get away. Conservative play calling? Not utilizing players talents? Who knows. Vandy and UT come to Athens this year
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
10:51 am
Nobody seems to notice that Bradley made an equally outlandish prediction regarding Tech. Either that or nobody freaking cares. Tech fans are laying low so later when they win 7 or 8 games they can claim that was a tremendous accomplishment because “everyone” was predicting them to win 3 games. That’s my favorite line of absolute crap that they come up with. Tech fans love to play the David v. Goliath card to try and pump up their otherwise mediocre results on the football field. The reality is that they are consistently in or hovering right around the preseason top 25 every single year. They’ve been NATIONALLY RANKED the week before the UGA game 2 of the past 3 years. Yet, after everything goes south its a miracle that Tech is even able to field a football team to hear the typical Tech fan tell it. Even showing up to the games is a noteworthy accomplishment because those management classes are sooooo hard and Tech can’t compete with the “football factories.” Well guess what clowns? The media thinks you can compete with the football factories. Maybe its high time you started proving it instead of making excuses. Don’t go around running your mouth about failing to live up to expectations until your team has proven it can live up to its own expectations. That’s the pot calling the kettle black.
Thanks.
gbal
August 15th, 2012
10:55 am
There is a reason sports writers are not coaches…. It shows with these high predictions with obvious holes to fill this season.
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
10:55 am
@dawgfan….Well said. Well said. “Tech fans were late getting to Bobbie Dodd Stadium because thier was a Rubik’s Cube convention.” Really? LMAO
gbal
August 15th, 2012
11:01 am
AF1 — And I for one just dont think we look tat good on paper……
Inexperienced OL
Inexperienced RB’s
Inexperienced Kickers
OK WR’s…
DB’s suspended….
This just does not look good to me and I cant believe media is giving us so much love (or setting us up)
Poor evaluation of the situation in my opinion.
GBal
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
11:07 am
@ gbal. As awlays there are questions pre-season. And as always in true UGA fashion the media puts sooooo much on the Dawgs. Until I see our team start beating ranked opponents again I will not be convinced. And as alwyas there seems to be a lot of potential on this “young” team for this year and a couple years to follow. Pre-season ranking of 6…a little too high. Going to Mo scares the hell out of me along with the suspesions on D
AirForce1
August 15th, 2012
11:08 am
Of course none of this really means anything until they take the field. Go Dawgs!
Georgia Tech is in Atlanta
August 15th, 2012
11:13 am
UGA will go 9-3: Dawgs lose two of four against SEC opponents Missouri, South Carolina, Florida, and Auburn and then drop one of the last two to Southern orTech.
GT will go between 7-5 and 9-3: Jackets will lose to VT (yeah, they’re really going to stop that 260 pound quarterback with two LBs out), Miami (becoming a new tradition since PJ came along), and then another opponent they shouldn’t lose to (probably Virginia, BYU, or UNC). The games against Clemson and UGA are toss-ups.
909
August 15th, 2012
11:14 am
Mark Bradley also believed UGA would be the 2008 National Champs.
ROTFLMAO
realitycheck
August 15th, 2012
11:20 am
gbal………………these crazy predictions(Bradley also picked the Falcons to go to the SB) are coming from the Atlanta media and nowhere else. It’s like we are going to pick all the local teams to win, and when reality sets in and they don’t, we can all get angry at the coaches or school/organization. I agree with you that these predictions are just not justified, and this stuff is just a joke to Bradley who’s enjoying these petty torments. Pretty much the same prognostications will be made next year, and the year after………and the year after that too.
WTF
August 15th, 2012
11:38 am
Bradley – you are wrong on both calls, but brave to make the calls. Of course, if you were working in, say, Columbia SC, anywhere in AL or LA or Blacksburg, VA, you’d be making the opposite calls, so we get it. It’s a mid-week pablum article to soothe the jangling nerves of football fans ready to climb the walls for want to their September fix.
No harm, no foul. But I’d place it at 5 to 1 against on the perfecta.
Jay
August 15th, 2012
11:55 am
So let me get this straight…you’ve predicted:
Uga wins their division
Tech wins their division
Falcons make the Super Bowl
Can we say HOMER?????
GIVE ME A BREAK
August 15th, 2012
11:58 am
People have rated the Dawgs like Saban is coaching them. GT over UGA this year. ” GO JACKETS “
Lake Marion Cock
August 15th, 2012
12:00 pm
This guy is the biggest laugh of the year so far!!! Georgia will be handled by the Columbia home boys, Missouri and South Carolina and stand zero chance of playing in the National Champs game!!
DawginLex
August 15th, 2012
12:01 pm
Oregon is about to get full force hammered by the NCAA
Spanky
August 15th, 2012
12:05 pm
“GT over UGA this year. ” GO JACKETS “……to another cheap trinket bowl!! LOL!! We obviously don’t need Saban to beat Tech…last DECADE being proof! Please, “Break Requester”, how in the world do you see the “Members Only JACKETS” beating the dawgs and that defense?! The new Tech chant should be “Come on basketball season!”…..and there’s your break.
Fair n Balanced
August 15th, 2012
12:08 pm
Ga goes 9-3. Can’t win big game, inexperienced OL, not running game, qb questionable albeit a great work ethic in an effort to become better, very questionable special teams……won’t beat SC, will drop one to either Vandy, TN, or Auburn. FL or Tech will get us. 9-3. Bet on it. We won’t be better than last year and this years schedule is tougher than ya think.
Truly study the game of football
August 15th, 2012
12:10 pm
@ dawgfan
Georgia Tech has won 34 games and a Conference title in the last four years.
UGA has won won 34 games and ” no Conference title ” in the last four years
dawgfan doesn’t know crap about college football,
quit running your stupid mouth.
Thanks for your stupidity.
spider
August 15th, 2012
12:11 pm
as a gt fan i agree with mark about uga winning their division, not too sure about us winning the coastal but i hope your right mark.
gobble
August 15th, 2012
12:18 pm
as a gt fan i see gt beating the hokies and winning the acc.
Clive
August 15th, 2012
12:23 pm
I believe folks might be sleeping on UNC. A close look reveals an offense ranking potentially ranking among best in country. Fedora is going to rock with UNC’s speed and skill on offense. Best Oline in conference, arguably best running back in Geo Bernard, and leading QB in pass efficiency in conference.
Reality
August 15th, 2012
12:37 pm
GT wins the ACC and goes to the Orange Bowl. UGA loses to Missouri, USC and FL and goes to the capital One.
sting_em
August 15th, 2012
12:37 pm
I predict the Braves will win the World Series. Tech will beat UGA and go undefeated. UGA will win the SEC. Then, both will play each other again in the NC game. GT will win the NC game. The Falcons will win the super bowl. GT will win the NCAA Tournament. Hawks will beat Miami and then the Lakers with an 8 seed to take the NBA Finals.
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
12:42 pm
Tech fans love to play the David v. Goliath card to try and pump up their otherwise mediocre results on the football field.
Would you say that the talent level that UGA gets on a regular basis is equal to the talent that GT gets on a regular basis? Would you say that it is even possible for GT to get the level of talent that UGA gets? There is always going to be a massive difference in talent in those football games. Sometimes we will overcome it, usually we wont. That’s just how it is.
WhoCares?
August 15th, 2012
12:53 pm
At this point, everyone’s guess is as good as everyone else’s. But some posts are much smarter than others. I like GTBob’s comment, a realistic look at GT and UGA. It explains why UGA dominates the series these recent decades and why GT can expect to pull off the occasional upset. Don’t think it will happen this year, but …. Big, big early season tests for both teams at VT and Mizzou. Win ‘em and the sky’s the limit.
BigTimeTECHFan
August 15th, 2012
12:56 pm
UGA will win it all, they recruited the dream team, anything less then National title is a huge failure.
michael
August 15th, 2012
1:21 pm
g.t. just win the first game and we’ll go from there.
wow !
August 15th, 2012
1:32 pm
It’s the S.A.T. score GTBob.
dawgfan
August 15th, 2012
1:35 pm
“Would you say that the talent level that UGA gets on a regular basis is equal to the talent that GT gets on a regular basis?”
Of course not. We’re not fighting off Middle Tennessee State and UAB for most of our recruits like you are. Thank goodness too. We would be completely irrelevant with talent like that. We might as well make a move to the ACC.
“Would you say that it is even possible for GT to get the level of talent that UGA gets?”
I would say that I really hope not. I hate Tech and I hope you lose every game you play in, so why would I want you to do well in recruiting? I would also say that I could give flying rat’s butt if its not even possible for you to get the same level of talent that UGA gets. That’s your problem and no one elses. Are we supposed to feel sorry for you Techie? Do you need your mommy?
“There is always going to be a massive difference in talent in those football games.”
I agree. That’s because Georgia Tech football has no real serious commitment to success. It never has. Its a half azzed program more content with making excuses and winning 8 games per year. You geniuses whine about a lack of talent but hire a coach that very few talented players want to play for. Brilliant move Techies!!!! Once again, I guess we’re supposed to feel sorry for you? Not happening. Every time you lose I LMAO. No symptathy here. Maybe your mommy will provide a shoulder to cry on.
Tech fans are riot.
Athens Dawg
August 15th, 2012
1:46 pm
Whatever you’ve been smoking, pass some over here!
The Austrian Brotherhood
August 15th, 2012
1:47 pm
Right On! We need more homers. And less bandwagon chumps, and Yankee and Chicago blowhards.
JB
August 15th, 2012
1:47 pm
Mark get’s paid for writing an opinion and getting you to put 4 quarters in the green box or log on here and visit. There is another dept, in the AJC building that goes to say “Nalley Auto Group” corp. HQ and say’s, give us 7,000 for running ads on line and in our print edition for us to see. They do it. Mark gets a paycheck out of that, pretty simple. Now, he won’t get fired or demoted or have his pay cut if none of this ( predictions) happens. He writes a retraction week 10 and we all read it and Nalley spends another 7,000…. Got it.
GTBob
August 15th, 2012
1:48 pm
That’s because Georgia Tech football has no real serious commitment to success. It never has.
For once we will agree. GT will never ever place as much importance on football as the factories in the southeast. Most GT fans wouldn’t even want them to. GT is a strong academic institution that also happens to have a football team. Will we ever be world beaters? No. But the necessary changes that would be needed to get there wouldn’t even be close to worth it.
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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