His Jackets pull a no-show, and Paul Johnson is not pleased
This one picture is worth a couple of hundred thousand words, give or take. (AJC photo by Johnny Crawford)
Athens – There were two snippets of good news for Georgia Tech on an otherwise wretched Saturday: The Jackets still get to play for the ACC Championship, and the Georgia Bulldogs will be occupied elsewhere.
Other than that, this was a wipeout of epic dimensions. It wasn’t quite as bad as the 51-7 loss here in 2002, but at least that drubbing came in Year 1 under a new coach. This one arrived in Year 5 under Paul Johnson, who seemed the anti-Chan Gailey. Meaning: A man who could hold his own against the hated mutts. (Gailey went for 0-for-6.) But now Johnson, after stunning the Bulldogs on his first try, has lost four in a row to Georgia, and the series has again gone lopsided.
And Johnson, who on taking this job ordered that the slogan “Beat Georgia” be displayed on Tech’s practice field, was not pleased. Afterward his voice could be heard — at great volume and great length — railing at his players through the metal door of the visitors’ locker room, and his subsequent press briefing was sardonic even by Johnson’s standards.
When a reporter mentioned that early turnovers might have compromised Tech’s chance of winning, Johnson said: “Were you watching the game? Do you think it mattered where (the Bulldogs) got the ball?”
Speaking of which: “(Georgia) averaged 14 yards a play the first half.” (Actually only 10.6. But it seemed like 14.)
When another reporter noted that Georgia had the ball for only 8 1/2 minutes en route to 28 first-half points, Johnson said: “Good thing, huh?”
This is the same Paul Johnson who said in 2009, when his Jackets were about to play for (and win, at least on the field) the ACC title, who blithely said his program “had bigger fish to fry” than Georgia; the same Paul Johnson who has said repeatedly that he came to Tech “to win championships.” Technically, he still can claim the 2012 championship of his middling league, but the mythical state title is gone yet again. And, given that Tech’s 42-10 loss Saturday was its worst against Georgia under this coach, it wouldn’t appear the gap is narrowing.
Said Tevin Washington, Tech’s senior quarterback: “The only way we’re going to get it going the other way is to beat them.”
Whenever Tech loses — and it has lost half its games this regular season — the knee-jerk reaction is to label Johnson’s stylized offense as high-schoolish. But here again we saw that the option is all that distinguishes Tech as a program of worth. The defense, now on its third coordinator under Johnson, remains terrible. Special teams are again a calamity. If not for the Jackets’ capacity to run the ball, they’d be Vanderbilt before James Franklin. They’d be, in a word, hopeless.
But here’s the thing: The rest of Tech football has grown so feeble that it can no longer prop up the stylized offense, and on a day when the offense gets yards — Tech outgained the Bulldogs 426 yards to 379 — but not points, it has no chance. Said Johnson: “We couldn’t match them score for score,” and that has become the only way the Jackets can hope to beat anyone halfway decent.
This was the sixth time this season the Jackets have yielded 40 or more points. The wonder isn’t that they lost five of those games; the wonder is that they won even one. (At North Carolina 68-50.)
A big-time program cannot long subsist as a one-trick pony, and we’re seeing the limits of Johnson as a program builder. (As opposed to an offensive schemer.) He hasn’t recruited as well as he needs to recruit to sustain the successes achieved with Gailey’s holdovers. That Tech will play Florida State in Charlotte for the ACC title says more about the flimsy state of the conference than it does about Tech. The only time these Jackets look like a real team is when they have the ball.
The Jackets saw early Saturday what a real team looks like when it doesn’t have the ball. Tech back Robert Godhigh burst inside the Georgia 5 on the Jackets’ first series, and for a moment it seemed the game — Georgia had seized a 7-0 lead after 63 seconds — was about to be joined. But no. Safety Bacarri Rambo wrested the ball from Godhigh’s grasp, and that was essentially that.
Asked if it would be difficult to rouse his men to play Florida State after such a beating, Johnson said: “I look at it as another opportunity. We’ll see how they respond.”
It must be noted that Johnson did not give the impression of a coach living in fervent hope. True, a different opponent and a different venue could yield a different result. But it’s hard to imagine any game involving the Bulldogs turning out well for Tech anytime soon.
Further reading: On Paul Johnson’s poor early choice and Tech’s lack of fans.
By Mark Bradley
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BuzzMan
November 25th, 2012
2:40 pm
The most disturbing thing to me as a GT fan for 60 years is that PJ seems to take no responsibility for the current state of the program. He is totally responsible for the poor recruiting (only won with Gailey recruits). He shows no leadership during the game and only rants and raves at this players. At the end of the Miami game when Golden was rallying his team, Johnson wondered around on the field like an arrogant fool. When asked about the upcoming ACC game, his comment was we will see if they show up next week (referring to his team). What about WE SHOW UP – taking responsibility for his part of this team. Unfortunately PJ is not a head coach and does not have the capabilities of building a program. The next few years look bad due to the lack of leadership for the last few years under PJ. But it is the time for a change – this reminds me of how the basketball program was totally destroyed by a bad coach. Won with someone elses players but took the program backwards.
The next coach will struggle for a few years, but we must change and change now. The current players will respond to a leader and play better and the right leader will recruit assistants and players for the future.
It is indeed sad times for GT but let’s not settle for this arrogant style any longer – we are a proud university, but with PJ, we are going no where but down.
GT TN
November 25th, 2012
2:45 pm
Dogham..C O’Leary got good players..he didn’t get 5 star players..he never had a Top 10 class like UGA get every year..I never said that Tech couldnt get quality players..I said that we will never get the star guys that UGA gets..UGA gets Top 10 classes every year and GT will not be able to do that..if we should have to score 40 points everytime to win a game then you have no defense..if GT defense would have given up the scores that UGA gave up we would have lost 2 games..GT moved the ball on UGA in the first half but didn’t score because of turnovers..you picked 2 games and used that to say how bad outr offense is..I could do the same thing to UGA offense..you got shut down against USC by only scoring 7 points when game was out of hand and then UF had 6 turnovers and you only scored 17 points..if UGA had GT def they would have lost alot more games..Im just saying we have more problems than our offense..CPJ did hire CG and I never said that he shouldnt answer for that..I just said we need a new DC that will bring excitement to our D
dawg4life
November 25th, 2012
2:47 pm
Keyser- What BgTimeTechfan was refering to was the body slamming penalties. It is a 15 yd penalty for intentionally crushing the ego of a player when they are picked up and body slammed to the ground on multiple occasions….
GT TN
November 25th, 2012
2:48 pm
@ Buzzman..at least he won with Gailey players..Gailey couldnt win with them..
Bucky Shamburger
November 25th, 2012
3:02 pm
GT TN- you are a laughable and ignorant puss-really, a kid doesn’t make a decision on the program based on the offense the team runs, really?. Go check out the starting line ups under Bobby Ross and get back to me. In the meantime let me know your net worth and I will bet it that Gregory and the Jackets are top 20 next year. Moron
UGA OWNS gtu
November 25th, 2012
3:06 pm
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep CPJ!!!
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
We’re simply better than gtu. Period.
dap01
November 25th, 2012
3:35 pm
Tech is falling fast. They were thrown around like rag dolls. They had no idea how to run a 2 minute offense. The coaching is lacking, the talent is lacking. There is no wonder that there are only a handful of fans at each game.
They are not as good as GA Southern.
BILLY JACK
November 25th, 2012
4:09 pm
Hey GT TN-Yall could dig up Knute Rockne and never beat Georgia-I sat behind a little chinaman at the game yesterday and he put his hands over his eyes everytime UGA did something good-so basically he had his hands over his eyes all day………….anyway his hands were so small they barely covered his eyes and he had tech gear from head to toe-and looked like he was about to cry the whole game.
Techster
November 25th, 2012
4:20 pm
Do we have any RBs able to play against FSU? There were so many body slams and take downs by UGA’s defenders, I thought some of our guys must have been broken. If that were a baseball game, after the first body slam, the opposing pitcher would have thrown one at their head’s. I can’t believe that Ogletree or Jarvis or Rambo didn’t suffer an “accidental” torn ACL. The Tech girls just took it like sissies. That lack of response hurt worse than the butt-whipping…
Schadenfreude
November 25th, 2012
4:21 pm
Haha…GTBob blames O’Leary for tech’s woes…that’s a new one…I guess the excuses have to get more elaborate and desperate every year…I’m thankful I’m not a tech fan.
VICARIOUS FANS
November 25th, 2012
4:23 pm
On the habitual occassion of once again receiving its annual beatdown…Georgia Tech fans seem to have a given proclivity for “suddenly” becoming wonderful surrogate fans of their “oppressor’s next opponent” (Alabama) to exact “vicarious revenge”. Given the unanimous beat-down by SEC teams over ACC opponents this weekend….there seems to be little choice in such “vicarious redemption”.
Given the current and likely future of Georgia Tech football….this vicarious living will have to substiute for “a win over the Dawgs. The best hope for Georgia Tech fans in finding relief from “their habitual abusers” is to become SEC fans…of SEC schools which actually have a chance of defeating the Bulldogs. It ’s the next best thing to “actually winning”. For Georgia Tech fans…this rather pathetic ploy is not such a bad idea when one seriously contemplates reality.
Dawg Tired
November 25th, 2012
4:37 pm
11:39 PM November 24 post – Being put in the same category as “stupid” folks and “Democrats” is very painful. I’m a Republican with graduate degrees who happens to be a Dawg fan.
BTW, there is no reason why Tech can not be successful in football. I actually thought CPJ was going to restore the program back to being competitive, if not greatness, when he first arrived on the Flats. He has admittedly not turned out to be the coach I thought he would be. Georgia Tech has a great history in football. I long for it to return to greatness. It was good when Tech and UGA had great games that all of us should remember. Don’t blame this on academics or location. Atlanta is a great city. Tech is a great school with a rich history in athletics. These things go in cycles. Tech will be back. For that to happen, It would appear that a new coach with a fresh start is needed.
Iluvnutella
November 25th, 2012
5:08 pm
This is all on Coach Fish-fry….he didnt prepare his team to play, and it showed. He cannot coach at this level against the talent of leet D1 programs.
Rick in Macon
November 25th, 2012
5:21 pm
I’ve always been a defender of Paul Johnson, but it’s time for him to go…get rid of the entire coaching staff and put every player’s job up for competition. Both the offense and defense looked totally unprepared for the game. It was absolutely embarrasing. Johnson needs to resign, Tech needs to forego any bowl play, and all coaches fired immediately. Find some players who have heart and want to win.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
November 25th, 2012
5:35 pm
Auburn today picked up the tab on 11 million for the staff to be gone. If GT has all the smart folks that make so much money they why don’t they send the middle school football coach packing? The ACC is a joke at best and you still can’t win and you will never win with PJ. Suck it up and buyout the guy. At least act like you wish to compete.Mark Richt has Georgia all to himself recruiting and is about to strike it even more Richt with the auburn failure.
Michael
November 25th, 2012
5:48 pm
With SEC expansion Tech may luck out and lose UGA from their schedule. They can start an actual rivalry with Ga State or Ga Southern because this one with UGA ended long ago. It’s worse than UGA’s run against Florida.
JoeFan
November 25th, 2012
6:25 pm
Since Tech currently has no AD, the the prospect of replacing CPJ this year is near zero. He’ll get one more year and unless by some miracle he takes recruiting to another level, adds more imagination to his offense and discovers how to play defense and special teams, then 2013 promises to be more of the same. If I were Tech I would decline to play in the ACCCG and a bowl game and use the time to focus on building the program. It is a mess that regretfully can’t be corrected until the fans and the administration demand it
fan
November 25th, 2012
6:36 pm
Two losers playing for a meaningless trophy and it’s a disgrece that Georgia Tech is there at all.
damngooddawg
November 25th, 2012
6:50 pm
It would be stupid and a waste of money to buy out CPJ with only one year left on his contract. Next season wouldn’t be any better with some new coach due to the lack of quality players and the fact that rebuilding would be a 4 or 5 year project at best. I’m just sayin’.
damngooddawg
November 25th, 2012
6:54 pm
By the way…and this is a change for me…there’s nothing wrong with the O that a good passing quarterback wouldn’t cure. We were so eaten up with protecting the triple option run that a credible passing threat would have put a lot more points on the board. The problem for Tech is recruiting. Of course CPJ famously said that recruiting is overrated.
GT TN
November 25th, 2012
7:28 pm
@ Bucky S..please show me where I said we would not be good in basketball next year..you must be a moron to read what I wrote and get that I say we wont be any good next year..all I said was that CG hasnt won yet..CPJ won the ACC in the 2nd year and we were on top of the world..Is CG going to win the ACC this year?????I just said he hasn’t won anything yet..also, what does CBRoss teams have anything to with what I said..I said that the offense has nothing to do with getting great defensive players..you have to a stupid moron to get your thoughts out of my previous comments
DinoE
November 25th, 2012
7:31 pm
enough of this misery–johnson has to go, asap! Fire him and hire a real coach running a real offense, not the mickey mouse wishbone.
GT TN
November 25th, 2012
7:32 pm
@JoeFan..why would you give up the ACCCG and bowl game..that means the team cant practice again until next spring..you want to give up 5 weeks of practice..please tell me how this will help us
DrC
November 25th, 2012
7:42 pm
Congrats Bulldogs on another thumping (Paul Johnson’s words) of the Yellowjackets. I enjoyed being at the game even though it was over about midway through the 1st quarter. I have been watching Georgia – Georgia Tech football for over 50 years and never has there been this much ongoing disparity in the football programs at the two schools.
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
7:44 pm
Let’s say the NFL does ban blocking below the waist. Then there will be a great hue & cry to ban tackling below the waist because more knees and ankles are torn up by being tackled. The NCAA, in all it’s infinite wisdom, follows suite in each step. Let’s see now. No blocking above the shoulders and below the waist. Also, no tackling below the knees plus hitting above the shoulders is already banned. HMMMMMMM!! What’s next, all these behemoths running around in all that garb plus a kite’s tail flying in the breeze behind them as they run around trying not to be tagged. THAT’s IT! FLAG FOOTBALL!! Wanta talk about the death knell for your favorite sport & all the $$ it brings in?? HMMMMMMMMM? (tongue-in-cheek sarcasm fully intended) But, I can see this scenario being played out. The sissification (likely not a real word) of the USA continues.
GT TN
November 25th, 2012
7:45 pm
Tennessee
Arkansas
Auburn
NC State
Boston College
Kentucky
California
Purdue
Oregon (if CK takes a pro job)
All of these schools will be looking for new football coaches..so, for everyone that says fire CPJ please tell me who will hire..please go back and look at the canidates for the job when Tech hired CPJ..look at them and look at where they are today..so please let me know who we will get as a head coach if we fire CPJ
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
7:49 pm
Folk can talk about Stanford, ND, Vandy, Northwestern or which ever school comes to mind & their tuff academic requirements matching up with GT or even more all they want. And those schools being able to recruit the better athletes ala the Bammers & Georgies and their ilk. They forget that those schools have the same broad based curricula that georgie & bammer have. And that GT has a very limited curricula with not even half the majors/schools of study of the other schools. Hell, the Ga BOR has even taken schools of study (School of Commerce in 1933) away from GT & put it in Athens. Tech did get the Ivan Allen Business College thru the good graces of the BOR, but there is no Urban Studies, Women’s Studies, Journalism or any of the multitude of majors that the other Universities have. Anyone that does not admit to this difference just does not want to acknowledge the difference this makes in recruiting. It is not an excuse, it is a fact. A kid can go to Tech and have a narrow selection of majors or go to a university like georgie and have over 170 choices for his undergrad major or go to Tech & have 36 choices for his undergrad major (count them for yourself as I did). I/we are not making excuses, just stating facts. If anyone wants to deny this fact, have at it. Stanford, ND, Vandy & the other high academic requirement schools have way more than 36 undergrad majors, I guarentee that. Heck, Tech only offers 113 degrees total=36 undergrad, 47 masters & 30 doctorates. Selah!
majordawg
November 25th, 2012
8:31 pm
The Ghost
November 24th, 2012
5:12 pm
@ A mutt……….What the heck is a Scloar??? I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you are not one.
GREAT job catching that typo! I bet you’re hell in those 8th grade debates. BTW, he was making reference to the fact that UGA seems to pile up the Rhodes and Fullbright Scholars at a greater rate than GIT.
But, why do we always seem to engage in some deep philosophical analysis of academic standards the week after the football game, on the sports blog. If that was what we truly cared about, would we be here?
majordawg
November 25th, 2012
8:45 pm
@ Buzzman..at least he won with Gailey players..Gailey couldnt win with them..
Funniest thing so far, by a longshot.
hind tit
November 25th, 2012
9:05 pm
Like i said yesterday, Tech will never have a defense that can stop a pro style offense when all they have to practice against is the triple option type player. How can you prepare a defensive game plan when the offensive players can’t mimic the pro style offense. The defense was pretty good in cpj first year because he had kids on defense that practiced against a pro style offense but as the years have gone by these kids have moved on and so goes the defense. The only real practice the defense gets is on game day and shows. It’s going to get worse.
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
9:07 pm
majordawg….you should have more Rhodes & Fulbright Scholars. You have about 3 times the students per annum. It’s only simple math by the simplest logic. More students = more candidates! DUH!
WnE
November 25th, 2012
10:13 pm
re:
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
7:44 pm
Let’s say the NFL does ban blocking below the waist. Then there will be a great hue & cry to ban tackling below the waist because more knees and ankles are torn up by being tackled. The NCAA, in all it’s infinite wisdom, follows suite in each step. Let’s see now. No blocking above the shoulders and below the waist. Also, no tackling below the knees plus hitting above the shoulders is already banned. HMMMMMMM!! What’s next, all these behemoths running around in all that garb plus a kite’s tail flying in the breeze behind them as they run around trying not to be tagged. THAT’s IT! FLAG FOOTBALL!! Wanta talk about the death knell for your favorite sport & all the $$ it brings in?? HMMMMMMMMM? (tongue-in-cheek sarcasm fully intended) But, I can see this scenario being played out. The sissification (likely not a real word) of the USA continues.
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When the NFL came up with penalizing the “horse collar” tackle, the NCAA had the same penalty in place in less than 2 seasons.
When the NFL started to penalize NON-SPEARING “high tackles” made with the shoulder and not the helmet, the NCAA did the same thing rather quickly.
When the NFL bans blocking below the waist (and they will), then look for the NCAA to quickly follow suit.
The TV dollars up for grabs will make the NCAA try to make their sport (CFB) look as much like the cash-rich NFL as possible.
Once that happens then what will Coach Moral Victory do?
Go to the high school ranks and claim that no one has ever stopped my system in “xyz years”?
WnE
November 25th, 2012
10:21 pm
re:
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
7:49 pm
Folk can talk about Stanford, ND, Vandy, Northwestern or which ever school comes to mind & their tuff academic requirements matching up with GT or even more all they want. And those schools being able to recruit the better athletes ala the Bammers & Georgies and their ilk. They forget that those schools have the same broad based curricula that georgie & bammer have. And that GT has a very limited curricula with not even half the majors/schools of study of the other schools. Hell, the Ga BOR has even taken schools of study (School of Commerce in 1933) away from GT & put it in Athens. Tech did get the Ivan Allen Business College thru the good graces of the BOR, but there is no Urban Studies, Women’s Studies, Journalism or any of the multitude of majors that the other Universities have. Anyone that does not admit to this difference just does not want to acknowledge the difference this makes in recruiting. It is not an excuse, it is a fact. A kid can go to Tech and have a narrow selection of majors or go to a university like georgie and have over 170 choices for his undergrad major or go to Tech & have 36 choices for his undergrad major (count them for yourself as I did). I/we are not making excuses, just stating facts. If anyone wants to deny this fact, have at it. Stanford, ND, Vandy & the other high academic requirement schools have way more than 36 undergrad majors, I guarentee that. Heck, Tech only offers 113 degrees total=36 undergrad, 47 masters & 30 doctorates. Selah!
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Please STOP playing the Academics Card!
Even if ND, Stanford, Vandy, Northwestern do have “liberal arts majors”, the FACT remains that the rest of the students in the class that are NOT FB players probably made 1,500 on their 2-part SATs and a FB player competing in that Academic environment would have just as hard a time as a GT FB that majors in Business Admin that sits in classes where the rest of the Students made 1,250 on their 2-part SATs (the avg. SAT for GT’s non-Engr. majors).
In other words it is all relative, you can’t just ASSUME that since it is a liberal arts major that it HAS TO BE easier.
Also many of the SA’s that spurn GT and go to ND, Stanford, etc, do major in Business Admin or Econ like they would had they gone to GT.
Please stop playing the “Academics Card” and blame Coach Fish Fry’s Recruiting, you would come across as a lot more intelligent.
WnE
November 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
re:
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
7:49 pm
Folk can talk about Stanford, ND, Vandy, Northwestern or which ever school comes to mind & their tuff academic requirements matching up with GT or even more all they want. And those schools being able to recruit the better athletes ala the Bammers & Georgies and their ilk. They forget that those schools have the same broad based curricula that georgie & bammer have. And that GT has a very limited curricula with not even half the majors/schools of study of the other schools. Hell, the Ga BOR has even taken schools of study (School of Commerce in 1933) away from GT & put it in Athens. Tech did get the Ivan Allen Business College thru the good graces of the BOR, but there is no Urban Studies, Women’s Studies, Journalism or any of the multitude of majors that the other Universities have. Anyone that does not admit to this difference just does not want to acknowledge the difference this makes in recruiting. It is not an excuse, it is a fact. A kid can go to Tech and have a narrow selection of majors or go to a university like georgie and have over 170 choices for his undergrad major or go to Tech & have 36 choices for his undergrad major (count them for yourself as I did). I/we are not making excuses, just stating facts. If anyone wants to deny this fact, have at it. Stanford, ND, Vandy & the other high academic requirement schools have way more than 36 undergrad majors, I guarentee that. Heck, Tech only offers 113 degrees total=36 undergrad, 47 masters & 30 doctorates. Selah!
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LOU YOUNG our Starting CB was REJECTED or “wait listed” by Stanford and GT took him in in a NY-second, please stop playing the Academics Card, it makes you look bitter.
ND 12-0
Stanford 10-2
Northwestern 9-3
Vandy 8-4
All of these schools except NW has Georgia HS players that were Recruited by CPJ and TURNED down GT!
It is not an Academic issue, it is a FB ISSUE, GT is not an attractive “FB Option” for players that graduate from HS that are good students and can graduate from GT.
Players that turned down GT are having very good seasons playing for other colleges, they turned down GT for FB reasons not Academic Reasons, if GT had the track record of putting guys in the NFL like Miami or UGA then the recruits wouldn’t care about majoring in Business Admin.
Baseball Recruits don’t care about the narrow curriculum because GT puts a good number of players in the Majors and gets them drafted into MLB.
The more you play he Academics Card the sillier you look!
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
10:34 pm
God, I hate doing this! “Carnack”, in your not so infinite wisdom, you have missed my point completely. But, that isn’t really surprising since you twisted my statement to lambaste CPJ again! When all of this preventing “injuries” washes out of (in the NFL’s attempts to legislate injurious blows to any part of the body away, and it is headed that way) existence to prevent (the league hopes) class action law suits on behalf of those that willingly submitted their bodies to the obvious abusive, injurious hits by over developed super freaks of nature. If the trend to legislate injurious hits in the game, it will devolve into some form of flog football within 5 to 10 years. This sounds preposterous I know, but sit back, look at the legislation coming out of the NFL & the NCAA, think about why they are doing this and see what other logical conclusion you can reach. Keep in mind, the Georgia legislature tried to kill football completely in the late 1890’s (the Von Gammon case ring a bell?) and teddy Roosevelt wanted to impose national restrictions on the violence of the sport in the middle 1900’s.
1 4 GT
November 25th, 2012
10:45 pm
No one is playing the “academic card” “Carnack”. I am merely stating the facts as they are. Simply showing the Georgie dwags the “academic facts” that do exist, of which you must be one. I know full well what the problems are & if I was one of these kids & thought I had a legitimate shot at the NFL & just wanted to play ball & hopefully live of the paychecks from that & play golf ala Sir Charles Barkley, I probably wouldn’t pick GT either. If I was of a more realistic bent and truly believed the NFL would find me even if I played at Hofstra, but more importantly, if I wanted an education that was valued world wide, there are only a few schools I would take a real hard look at & Georgie ain’t one of ‘em.
Preston
November 25th, 2012
11:43 pm
Don’t know why a LOT of people on these blogs say that UGA has a lot of 5 star players. Most of them are three and four stars with an occasional 5 star in the mix. Bama and Florida get most of the 5 stars.
Preston
November 25th, 2012
11:49 pm
In fact I was just looking at the 29 players (so far) in the ‘13 class and don’t see any 5 stars.
old dog
November 26th, 2012
7:46 am
To Hell with Tek, today, tomorrow and every other day!
old dog
November 26th, 2012
7:55 am
Hey 14GT…Next time you need a Medical Doctor, an Attorney, a Pharmacist or a Veterinarian, I’m betting you can’t find one that got any one of those degrees from Tek. Save that academic sheet for someone else. There are good trade schools all over the state.
old dog
November 26th, 2012
7:55 am
Hey 14GT…Next time you need a Medical Doctor, an Attorney, a Pharmacist or a Veterinarian, I’m betting you can’t find one that got any one of those degrees from Tek. Save that academic sheet for someone else. There are good trade schools all over the state.
old dog
November 26th, 2012
7:55 am
Hey 14GT…Next time you need a Medical Doctor, an Attorney, a Pharmacist or a Veterinarian, I’m betting you can’t find one that got any one of those degrees from Tek. Save that academic sheet for someone else. There are good trade schools all over the state.
AWJ
November 26th, 2012
7:56 am
2 Points
1) The academic argument is laughable for GT’s athletic department. The number of engineering majors on Tech’s football team is irrelevant because there are almost ZERO engineering or diffucult majors at all on the football team. There are plenty of fluff majors for those guys, they are already enrolled in them. Look at their media guide and see for yourself…
2) The reason their defense is so bad is a direct result of their offense. They have to go against an oiffense that NOBODY else runs in practice and scrimmages. The only looks their defense gets against normal offenses are when they go against the scout team. Don’t you think there is a strong correlation (C’Mon math guys) between the fact their pass defense is so bad and all they ever do on offense is run the ball….
Jimmy Crack
November 26th, 2012
8:17 am
(It’s never the Michelin Man’s fault if they lose.)
Please Extend PJ’s Contract….FOREVER!!!
- Signed, ALL Dawg fans
BuzzBro
November 26th, 2012
8:30 am
If Tech could admit and somehow keep eligible all the special qualifiers they do at the University of Football in athens, they would be in the top 10 every year. Developmental studies–still rules at UgA!!!! Congrats!
Randy Rhino
November 26th, 2012
8:42 am
PJ needs to go…
Robert
November 26th, 2012
8:53 am
But, but, he’s a genius.
41 – 10. Same as it ever was.
Robert
November 26th, 2012
8:53 am
* 42 – 10
Snoop
November 26th, 2012
8:55 am
Georgia State gave UGA a better game than Georgia Tech did. Maybe the ghetto tech school boys should just terminat their football program and focus on basketball and baseball… It’s unlikely that they will ever be able to compete with UGA, at least during our lifetimes…
Lakedawg
November 26th, 2012
9:03 am
Not very often I offer any ncondolences for Tech, but they were the youngest team Dawgs have played this year. Believe there were only 4-5 senior starters on that team competing against a team with 110 defense starters that will be gone next year.
Course the Dawgs only started one senior on offense also.