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dawg4lyf
May 19th, 2009
4:39 pm
1 in 8 is, as of now, a reality…deal with it until you prove you can win two in a row…and that won’t be a reality any time soon…that is what is obvious.
Lars Taint
May 19th, 2009
4:40 pm
Actually Jethro, I’m not slow. I was just commenting on what you said. You said that GT SAs don’t get an offer until they have “already taken the necessary college prep courses like calculus”. That would mean they would get no commitments because they couldn’t offer a kid a scholarship until well after signing day. Now that you realize that you are wrong, you are trying to change what you said.
By the way, if you are a sidewalk fan like you said, why do you care about GT academics?
Sanford Drive
May 19th, 2009
4:40 pm
That’s weird, Jethro. I thought 8 was greater than 1.
jaglaw
May 19th, 2009
4:44 pm
I LIKE POSTING COMMENTS IN ALL CAPS CUZ WHEN I TOOK MAKRKETING CLASSES FROM MR. ZINKHAN HE ALWAYS SAID TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE NOTICE OF YOUR MESSAGE. THAT’S WHY I TYPE IN ALL CAPS!!
Dawg336
May 19th, 2009
4:46 pm
wow Tyrone couldn’t get out of UGA remidial program but passed calc I& II at Tech…pretty bright kid indeed…maybe he sould be a tutor
wGAdawg
May 19th, 2009
4:50 pm
Hey jagOFFlaw, layoff the caps buddy!
BS Patrol
May 19th, 2009
4:50 pm
Shards1967,
You a funny man.
jaglaw
May 19th, 2009
4:51 pm
I TYPE IN ALL CAPS SO YOU BEEDY-EYED INSECTS CAN READ IT. YOU SHOULD GET A LIFE IF YOUR ONLY COMMENT RELATES TO MY FONT, NOT THE SUBJECT MATTER OF MY MATERIAL. AND WHAT THE %$# IS A “MORION”. PLEASE RESPOND, WE ALL WANT TO KNOW?
jaglaw
May 19th, 2009
4:55 pm
DONT KNOW WHO POSTED THE 4:44PM STATEMENT UNDER MY NAME. WASNT ME. I NEVER TOOK MR. ZINKHAN, THOUGH I APPRECIATE THE HUMOR….PRETTY FUNNY
Dawg336
May 19th, 2009
4:59 pm
all I am trying to get Tech fans to admit is that both of the schools create special environments for their athletes. Both have thngs to be proud of about their schools, and bith have things that need improving
B
May 19th, 2009
5:10 pm
Georgia was number 1 on the apr test. We had a higher score than any team in the SEC. UGA actually makes their football players go to class.
Tom
May 19th, 2009
5:17 pm
Captain, you should really stick to selling life insurance to elderly widows in Lithia Springs….after all, they’ll believe everything you tell ‘em.
Tech did have probation for improper certification of student-athletes and lost scholarships, but no games (unlike UGA’s hoops team…..that’s the difference actual ACADEMIC FRAUD and UNETHICAL CONDUCT will get you.)
Anthony Barnes reported to preseason camp in August 2005 but suffered a knee injury in the opening days of practice. Then, the NCAA clearinghouse flagged a course that he had transferred into Cartersville HS from a previous school and decided that it shouldn’t have counted. So, he left campus (before classes started) and went back to Cartersville to take the course he needed and rehab. Since he hadn’t started classes he didn’t have to take ‘05 as a rs year.
Yes, Lewis Clinch missed part of a season twice……one for grades, one for honor code violations (oh, if GT only had a Hoops 101 class).
Also, you do realize that Tech fought to keep Reuben Houston off the football team while charged, right? After they had appealed the Fulton Co Superior Court judge’s ruling TWICE, they reinstated him….and allowed him to practice/play on the advice of counsel. Would the judge have ruled differently for a dawg? I dunno…..a Cobb Co judge gave a UGA player with two felony charges “pre-trial diversion” several years back (I think he missed a bowl game for it).
F-Dawg
May 19th, 2009
5:38 pm
Captain…Amen! Tech talks about academics but they forget about Kenny ( duh ) Anderson and smokin Joe Hamilton ( whos still trying to complete his degree ) and Donnie Davis too.
SlimG
May 19th, 2009
6:06 pm
Where are all the tech fans? On this blog! Pot calling the kettle black?
FL DAWG
May 19th, 2009
6:16 pm
Techies are jealous as they are the second rated school and team to UGA. If it were not so, the AJC would be covering Tech and watching more closely for who is admitted and who is not in Atlanta. UGA is news and Tech is not. It must hurt their pride everytime they pick up the home town paper and read about UGA (Georgia’s Flagship University).
Phoneguy
May 19th, 2009
6:36 pm
Wow…… Tech has a football team?
I didn’t think the helmets would fit on their heads with their gigantic brains.
They should probably tell the rest of the school, ya know so they could sell out their stadium!
Go Dawgs!!!!!!
tech grade
May 19th, 2009
7:16 pm
hey fellers i went to tech and was a road scholar in ingernering.i paved three rhodes through campas so the football team would’t get lost going to the varsitie.now i sail books to your childrin at the boock store.so thay can graduit from gT.
REGGIE BALL
May 19th, 2009
7:19 pm
THATS MY BOY.
REGGIE BALL SR.
May 19th, 2009
7:22 pm
And who would have thought he never got lost going to the varsity.
Dawgtime
May 19th, 2009
8:20 pm
Again, why are other teams’ fans posting on UGA blogs? It makes your team look pathetic. You seem to be hung up on UGA. Why are you so desperate to see problems with UGA? Stick to your sites. In terms of glorifying supposed shortcomings of kids is truly pathetic. I hope the all of the kids qualify because a college education will change their life. That hope goes for all schools. Stop all the stupid comments in a silly attempt to seem cool. Your not.
Mark T.
May 19th, 2009
8:58 pm
Tech fans are a little delusional about their acceptance policies for athletes. They are not in the same “Tech” as the general population. They’d never be able to field an ACC team if they were.
Im saying you have a good school, so don’t get all defensive. my god, just listen to Ryan Stewart on 790 the Zone. No way that guy could get a job as a janitor at Tech with his lack of knowledge outside of being a defensive back and hip hop. He supposedly has a degree.
anotherdawg
May 19th, 2009
9:40 pm
Hey Jethro Tull, While you’re recapping, don’t forget CHICK-FIL-A BOWL 38-3
anotherdawg
May 19th, 2009
10:03 pm
Hey Jethro Tull, while you’re recapping, don’t forget the CHICK-FIL-A BOWL – 38-3
Lil Q
May 19th, 2009
10:46 pm
It always makes me laugh when click on a link then leave a comment saying “who cares”. If you don’t care why are you here?
Buddy El
May 19th, 2009
11:17 pm
Fatty Stafford. The MULTI-MILLIONAIRE former dawg(Make that MULTI-MULTI-MILLIONAIRE)
BigMike
May 19th, 2009
11:44 pm
Tech flunkies, Stay off our blog, and ask your team where’s Reggie can’t Ball!P.S. tell Calvin please don’t drop Matthews passes to make him look bad. If he’s a good boy will take him to Outback.
BigMike
May 19th, 2009
11:47 pm
I was in the dome the other day, and I saw yellowjackets still trying to avoid Tigers.
wesley
May 20th, 2009
12:08 am
Hey yellow jacket fever, you’re right summer is almost here, guess its the same story for tech players too, friday night tickle piles and sleep overs and saturday night all you can drink Zima parties…..
BS Patrol
May 20th, 2009
12:11 am
Maxie is afraid to let Jackets tell it like it is.
Baba O'Riley
May 20th, 2009
8:17 am
Dawgies- reade the header. This is not YOUR blog. It’s a re-Krootin’ blog.
GeorgiaGrad07
May 20th, 2009
11:38 am
You tech fans can’t even fill a 56,000 seat staduim so you get on here and talk crap about academics. Hilarious. I don’t know if its the seven years of pent up aggression that you finally get to let out or the fact that you went to a school that has one of the worst male to female ratios in the country. “With about twice as many male students as females, Georgia Tech has one of the most unbalanced male-to-female ratios of any co-ed university”. I think I like this quote even more “In 2002, the Princeton Review ranked Tech No. 2 on its list of colleges and universities with the “least happy students”. HAHAHAHA. I get it now, I got to go to a great school with beautiful women and cheer with a packed 90,000 plus seat stadium for a great football team. And you are unhappy, can’t even fill your piece of s*** stadium, and probably gay from having to look at men, or women who look like men, the whole four years you were at tech. I understand now.
MoDawg
May 20th, 2009
3:48 pm
Jethro, I’ll bet Darryl Richard heard the cash register ring when he “slammed Fatty Stafford to the turf”, didn’t he? Stafford’s “fat” wallet will surely cushion the slamming he’s bound to get with the Lions. “Fatty Stafford” lit your secondary up! Your DBs couldn’t cover and our DBs couldn’t tackle.
Big deal! 45-42…7 years of frustration and all you could muster was a 3 point win, some celebratory rings, and an eventual smackdown by another SEC team that UGA had beaten earlier in the year. Bitter sweet isn’t it?!?
09 recruiting class - Page 17 - SECTalk Forums
May 20th, 2009
7:32 pm
[...] Georgia still waiting for good reports | AJC College Sports Recruiting Georgia still waiting for good reports 8:43 am May 19, 2009, by Darryl Maxie By DARRYL MAXIE / dmaxie@ajc.com Even as they’re getting good news about three signees qualifying academically, the Georgia Bulldogs and their fans are still sweating out news about Washaun Ealey and a couple other signees. Ugasports.com is reporting that Ealey, the ECI record-setting running back, North Cobb defensive end Derrick Lott and Early County safety Shawn Williams are on the list of signees who haven’t made the grade yet. Jordan Love, rivals.com’s No. 1-ranked cornerback in Virginia, defensive end Montez Robinson and wide receiver Marlon Brown have qualified, according to the site. [...]
The Grinch
May 21st, 2009
3:50 pm
To Baba
Such a typical yellow jacket fan. Next you’ll be telling us that yellow jacket grads make more money than the second best player on the Miami Heat. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Grinch
May 21st, 2009
3:51 pm
To Baba
Why don’t you “reade” the header. “Reade”?? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
clickdawg
May 21st, 2009
4:54 pm
all of you guys are silly, when a kid can’t make the grade i think that’s tragic, everyone deserves the chance at a great education, no matter if it’s at uga, tech, lsu, etc. get real people.
matt
May 25th, 2009
11:31 pm
no follow up mentioning ealey, robinson, love, williams all in???
just waiting for geathers, lott, and a kicker
AJC article from Dec 08 on SATs
May 27th, 2009
12:06 am
AJC investigation: Many athletes lag far behind on SAT scores
By MIKE KNOBLER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Football and men’s basketball players on the nation’s big-time college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their classmates, and some of the gaps are so large they call into question the lengths to which schools will go to win.
The biggest gap between football players and students as a whole occurred at the University of Florida, where players scored 346 points lower than the school’s overall student body. That’s larger than the difference in scores between typical students at the University of Georgia and Harvard University.
FOOTBALL SAT SCORES:
THE TOP 10
School, Average
Georgia Tech, 1028
Oregon State, 997
Michigan, 997
Virginia, 993
Purdue, 974
Indiana, 973
Hawaii, 968
California, 967
Colorado, 966
Iowa, 964
THE BOTTOM 10
School, Average
Oklahoma State, 878
Louisville, 878
Memphis, 890
Florida, 890
Texas Tech, 901
Arkansas, 910
Texas A&M, 911
Mississippi State, 911
Washington State, 916
Michigan State, 917
Nationwide, football players average 220 points lower on the SAT than their classmates — and men’s basketball players average seven points less than football players.
Those figures come from an Atlanta Journal-Constitution study of 54 public universities, including the members of the six major Bowl Championship Series conferences and other schools whose teams finished the 2007-08 season ranked among the football or men’s basketball top 25.
While it’s commonly known that admission standards are different for athletes, the AJC study quantifies how wide the gap is between athletes and the general student body at major universities.
Georgia Tech’s football players had the nation’s best average SAT score, 1028 of a possible 1600, and best average high school GPA, 3.39 of a possible 4.0 in the core curriculum. But Tech’s football players still scored 315 SAT points lower on average than their classmates.
At the University of Georgia, the average football SAT was 949, which is 239 points behind the average for an undergraduate student at Georgia — and 79 points behind Tech’s football average. The Bulldogs’ average high school GPA was 2.77, or 45th out of 53 teams for which football GPAs were available. Their SAT average ranked them 22nd.
Nationwide, coaches who would never offer a scholarship to a player who was 6 inches shorter or half a second slower than other prospects routinely recruit players whose standardized test scores suggest they’re at a competitive disadvantage in the classroom.