Tech’s Hewitt won’t dog Georgia for a month
By DARRYL MAXIE / dmaxie@ajc.com
Georgia Tech basketball coach Paul Hewitt is pleased with his recruiting class, and especially the way the Yellow Jackets landed 6-11 center Daniel Miller, the final addition last month. Because archrival Georgia completely released Miller from the letter of intent he signed with the Bulldogs last November, Miller was able to sign with the Yellow Jackets and doesn’t have to sit out a season.
“The last one we got was honestly a gift,” Hewitt told jacketsonline.com. “I told people I cannot say anything bad about Georgia for a least a month because we got Daniel Miller. To have him at the end has been a very positive thing for us.”
Of course, South Atlanta High star Derrick Favors was the highlight among the six players signed by Tech, which limped to a 12-19 finish last season. But Miller proved to be satisfying because it had seemed the Jackets had pursued him in vain.
Also, the Jackets may have football receiver Stephen Hill available. Tech football coach Paul Johnson gave Hill his blessing to play once his duties for the football team are discharged.
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H OBAMA
May 21st, 2009
7:51 pm
IT APPEARS TO ME THAT TECH HAS BECOME TOO WEALTHY IN THIS RECRUITING CLASS SO I AM IMPLEMENTING A TAX ON HEWITT AND COMPANY. HE MUST GIVE UP TWO OF THE INCOMING PLAYERS AS A TAX ON THE WEALTHY AND GIVE THEM TO THE MORE UNFORTUNATE TEAMS IN THE STATE. WATCH OUT
Jackets21
May 21st, 2009
7:56 pm
Leave the political crap off our sports blog. Glad to have the great white hope with us.
Rob
May 21st, 2009
9:10 pm
It won’t matter how many or how talented are the players Hewitt recruits. He will screw them up.
Diamond Dawg
May 21st, 2009
9:21 pm
Tech has better basketball players than ga every yr, but never do anything with them. Who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!
Fred
May 21st, 2009
9:23 pm
What is Hewitt going to say? He is the Jim Donnan of college basketball. Look at the talent that he has wasted at Gtu. If Daniel Mille is so good, why didn’t he get a scholly, Paul? Jeez. That guy pulled the wool over the Gtu administration and now he is basking in the fact that he doesn’t have to work a minute and still gets paid.
Tokyo jacket
May 21st, 2009
9:34 pm
I’m willing to bet Hill would be one of those players that could be a greate 4-year college baskteball player. He’s just a pure athlete. I hope he gets on the court, it will only make him better at football.
Rick
May 21st, 2009
10:00 pm
I like the class, but how long will they stay? It is the problem with getting the great highschool players, they stay for one or two years and then they leave. Would it be better to get lesser players who will stay 4 years?
diesel 13
May 21st, 2009
10:24 pm
I’m glad UGA has a white coach.
JT
May 21st, 2009
10:34 pm
diesel 13 — Nice try d-bag….you are so clearly a Techmite who is posing as a “racist dawg fan”…no one is buying it
GT GRAD
May 21st, 2009
10:34 pm
Great Recruiting class!
Go GT!
Everybody needs to give Coach Paul Hewitt a break……support the team and the COACH!!
Josh
May 21st, 2009
10:35 pm
Hill won’t be playing basketball. It was just a rumor that was false.
YellerSkeeters are PeterEaters!
May 21st, 2009
10:36 pm
I hate you GaTech, I really do!
PTC Jacket
May 21st, 2009
10:53 pm
JT: Nice cover up. Way to blame that on us.
gtfan
May 21st, 2009
11:16 pm
screw hewitt. he is the bill lewis of our basketball program and that is insulting to bill lewis.
if paul hewitt was broken down on the side of the road i’d give him what he gave the gt program.
the finger!
Karl Childers
May 22nd, 2009
12:13 am
I like dem yellow jackets……
Almost as much as I like dem french fried potaters, but not quite as much…..
mmmmmmmmm……..
oldandntheway
May 22nd, 2009
12:41 am
Gawh, there are some hateful folks on here, I just hope Tech basketball has a really great year. It’s so much more fun in my life when they can compete in the ACC and get deep into the tournament. It just just makes Februgly and March a whole lot more fun.
Mark
May 22nd, 2009
1:12 am
Does UGA even have a basketball program? Seriously?
copper
May 22nd, 2009
1:19 am
diesel 13, go play with u’r slide rule tech nerd. PTC jacket too dumb to see diesel 13 is a flaming nerd or is just a flagboy himself.
tw3a
May 22nd, 2009
2:05 am
You can have him, Georgia only wants true Bulldog material not someone who bails at the first sign of adversity, So be happy Hewitt,as least as long as you are able to hang on
dawes
May 22nd, 2009
3:23 am
georgia goes after the kids let ga tech have the bad kids
dawes
May 22nd, 2009
3:23 am
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May 22nd, 2009
6:57 am
[...] Darryl Maxie of the AJC reports that Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt is happy with Georgia’s gift. [...]
gman
May 22nd, 2009
6:59 am
gtfan – good call,
that’s right I do remember bill lewis playing for the national championship……. no wait, that was Paul Hewitt……..nevermind
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
May 22nd, 2009
7:45 am
“They’ve got a guy in the flag core, they’ve got a guy in the flag core”
Bark
May 22nd, 2009
7:58 am
Does GT even have a basketball program? Seriously?
The Grinch
May 22nd, 2009
8:04 am
Wait a minute!! How did Miller get accepted at Tech?? All I ever hear from most of the yellow jacket mob is that georgia gets the dumb athletes while the yellow jackets get the smart ones. I guess he took “calculus” in high school. Just another needle in the “academic superiority” baloon. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
jacket3
May 22nd, 2009
8:16 am
Ya’ll are missing the point here. Hewitt’s job is on the line, though no one wants to talk about that. So these recruits are really “gifts” from Basketball Nirvana, not from the dog pile. Let’s just hope they have common sense make the grades, and stay for more than one season.
Now tell me EXACTLY how many former Dogs played in the NBA..bet you could count them on one hand.
Go GT
rainman
May 22nd, 2009
8:24 am
Hey Darryl, I don’t know how close you are to the program, but I was wondering if you had an opinion on a couple of things.
Are there any rumors as to how high Lawal would have to be picked for him to turn pro? Would he go if he were a low first round pick?
Do you have a projected starting five? And who would be the top 3 off the bench?
Will D’Andre Bell be back better than ever? He could be vital in that veteran swing-man role.
We seem to have plenty of PF types, but who will settle in as the primary center and SF? Sheehan and Miller will provide depth in the hole, but won’t start, and who all has the range to play 3? I’m wondering if we will see alot of 3 guard, 2 PF or 2 guard, 3 PF lineups.
m
May 22nd, 2009
8:25 am
Thank God and Greyhound that the worst – oops, wrong sport!!!!
UGASlobberknocker
May 22nd, 2009
8:37 am
Thank goodness this is basketball so we dont have to care.
N.GA.DAWG
May 22nd, 2009
8:48 am
AS FAR AS OUR PROGRAM GOES, WE HAVE WON OUR CONF.TOURNAMENT RECENTLY AND MADE IT TO THE BIG DANCE. 08 SEC CHAMPS. TECH, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??? AND I MIGHT ADD THAT YOU CAN GET READY FOR A BEATDOWN COME NOVEMBER!
P
May 22nd, 2009
8:57 am
This story is not getting much traction. 20 or so stupid comments obviously do not represent the thinking of the majority (UGA or GT fans). Let’s see where both programs are in March of next year.
GT Rich
May 22nd, 2009
9:08 am
Instead of Donnan, Paul Hewitt reminds me more of Mark Richt. (Although that may give Donnan more credit than he deserves.) Like Richt, Hewitt gets great talent to the team, TRIES to threaten the other teams in the conference but falls short pretty much every year (except for once). Stafford/Moreno = Javaris Crittenton/Thaddeus Lewis. The only problem is that the shelf life on a good basketball player is one season. At least Richt gets a 3 year commitment….
FLDAWG
May 22nd, 2009
9:09 am
Hey Mark, who won the SEC last year? A fluke yes, but when was Tech’s last conf. crown in football or basketball?
jonathan
May 22nd, 2009
9:15 am
i hate tech
Mike B.
May 22nd, 2009
9:23 am
Is Thaddeus Lewis better than Thaddeus Young? This spot is funny.
sidewalk74
May 22nd, 2009
9:27 am
If Lawal does enter the draft, like I stated on here 4 months ago. GT Hoops will be .500 or worse next year. Hewitt never gets players to stay that extra year.
I would say Hewitt is the Chan Gailey of Hoops, but Chan had 6 strait winning seasons and a winning record at Tech. Hewitt has neither.
dog nation
May 22nd, 2009
9:37 am
don’t you guys realize we gave you Miller in the hopes you would keep PH on the payroll?
quaildawg
May 22nd, 2009
9:40 am
Nice try GT Rich. I guess you skipped YOUR math classes. Richt is 6 & 1 versus your jackets so you might want to put a little salt on that shoe in your mouth!!!!!!!!!!
Mort Merkel
May 22nd, 2009
9:48 am
What is Gtu? It’s the Georgia Institute of Technology, but everybody calls us Georgia Tech.
W Bush
May 22nd, 2009
9:58 am
Obama, don’t tax Tech, claim they have wmd, get your friends stock in exxon and haliburton and attack them! The lives of the soliders and tech civilians will be worth the profit! stupid poor people.
Burdell
May 22nd, 2009
10:27 am
N.GA.DAWG–
GT made it to the NCAA Final a few years back. Is that good enough for you?.?.?
SlimG
May 22nd, 2009
10:33 am
Great recruiting class Paul. Maybe some of the non-ballers on this blog will understand that it takes several factors to win the ACC. No we don’t get the same recruits N. Carolina and Duke get nationally. Fire Hewitt? Stupid thinking! Let’s get a team of good players before we send a good coach packing!
jacketbacker
May 22nd, 2009
10:58 am
ugag sucks!! always has, always will…….
45-42!!!!!
THWG
gt rich is dumber than a box of rocks
May 22nd, 2009
11:24 am
Mark Richt= 4 time Division Champion (in toughest division in country), 2-time conference Champion (in tougest conference), 2- time BCS bowl champion. 7-1 agains GT.
Paul Hewitt= um, uh, you tell me….
Nice Comparison, dummy.
Jim n Buckhead
May 22nd, 2009
11:26 am
Jacket3 You are missing the point GT cant fire Demwitt because the AA cant pay the buy out thanks to Braine….Good luck to Miller at GT……
Chuck Uga
May 22nd, 2009
11:32 am
Big deal. Mark Fox will have tremendous success at Georgia and “Tech” has not been any kind of distraction lately until Favors came along (who will be gone to the NBA after one season. Anyone who thinks he is going to hang around longer is a deluded moron). Rest assured, the LAST team that anyone at UGA is worried about is Georgia Tech. Georgia’s focus is on getting back to the NCAA tourney, and that can be done by at least getting to .500 or better with the SEC schedule. Mark Fox will not only do that, but he will recruit many talented players who want to take advantage of the new basketball facilities at UGA (the ones that will help lead many of his players to an NBA opportunity).
This “Daniel Miller” fire is out. Quit trying to fan a spark when there is none. No one cares! Maybe Hewitt should focus on trying to win a game in Athens (which has not been done in 40 years!)
gorga fan
May 22nd, 2009
11:47 am
I lyk gorga futball. They are best in USA. I lyk to dip, chase cows, and count for, cus it is my grad. This year I trn 21 so dey sey I mus leve skool and get job. I hope McDonals will hir me. Go Dawgs!
Roy Williams
May 22nd, 2009
11:48 am
Getting Favors for a year is huge for Hewitt. Having a big white stiff take up space on his bench for 4 years is not.
gorga fan
May 22nd, 2009
11:52 am
I hate gorga tek. Dey ar a bunch of nerds. Onli nerds study and do good in school. Nerds alwas get in my way on road with dem fanci cars wen i driv my truk. Nerds dont no futball. Dawgs play futball and nerds suck. Go Dawgs!
Hayseed Dixie
May 22nd, 2009
12:09 pm
Unless a Jarret Jack-type comes forward to lead them, these Jackets will be underachievers.
Not a rhetorical question: does anyone see that kind of competitive leadership on Tech’s horizon? It’s certainly not coming from Hewitt.
GT
May 22nd, 2009
12:21 pm
Foul shotting, I hope every player is in some gym shooting foul shots right now. All the recruits in the world can’t over come clumsy hands and foul shooting. Check out the close games last year and look at the percentage of foul shooting. Most high schools in the country can shoot better, more less the ACC. We look good coming off the bus but it stops there. Hewitt cannot coach point guards he has no idea how to use them, so unless he gets MJ next year that can overpower the bad coaching and is so good even Hewitt will allow him to play more that 10 minutes a game this team is dead on arrival.
William Casey
May 22nd, 2009
12:29 pm
Hayseed, you obviously haven’t seen Udofia play.
wreckmaniac
May 22nd, 2009
1:57 pm
H OBAMA: If Hewitt continues to turn in the type of record he has over
the last 3 years, Tech will be eligible for a bailout.
Marta Evangelist
May 22nd, 2009
2:11 pm
To the person claiming that the SEC East is the toughest division in the country…you are showing your complete ignorance of college football. The Big XII south is FAR superior to SEC East. There might be some arguments as to what division comes in second but there is none when it comes to who is first. The SEC East has a world class program at UF, a regional power at UGa, two solid but middle of the road teams at UK and VU, a borderline poor team at USC, and an absolutely horrible team at UT. The Big XII South has 4 teams (OU, OSU, UT, and TTU) that would have absolutely demolished the number 2 SEC East team last year.
Marta Evangelist
May 22nd, 2009
2:17 pm
As a matter of fact…I think a compelling argument could be made that the SEC East is the number 2 division….in their own conference.
1. UF > UA
2. UG < Miss
3. UK < LSU
4. VU AU
6. UT < Miss St
Reality Check...
May 22nd, 2009
3:42 pm
Marta Evangelist needs a reality check…Big 12 South…Please…I guess we will see in September when we go a calling to Okie State..
Scout Dawg
May 22nd, 2009
4:28 pm
Marta Honey, who was it that Texas Tech whipped in the Cotton Bowl last year? That is right. NOBODY.
The Grinch
May 22nd, 2009
5:18 pm
Big 12 is great?? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
If Texas Tech was soooo good then why hasn’t their QB even signed a free agent contract with someone. The Big 12 sets all sorts of records because the don’t play defense. Who will be next years big bust, Colt McCoy??
Political?
May 22nd, 2009
6:34 pm
Jackets21- Great white hope? Anybody that hates Obama, must be white, right? I’m a proud African American and I hate Obama!
bill gates
May 22nd, 2009
6:54 pm
Again – Paul Hewitt brings in a top notch recruiting class and I will give him credit — he does a great job of bringing in highly regarded players. But in March, we will be complaining again, why can’t we win more games. No one has done less with more in college basketball than Paul Hewitt and he gets rewarded every year by the administration. I cannot understand this; but I am getting used to it.
MartaThe Genius
May 22nd, 2009
7:04 pm
Okay Marta so the #4 SEC team completely DESTROYS TTU in the Cotton Bowl, but somehow you think they would have beaten the #3 SEC team (#2 in the East) because you say so???
Nice going Einstein!
MartaThe Genius
May 22nd, 2009
7:09 pm
Marta honey please remind me again who Okie State beat in their bowl game with their superior offence?
How did Oklahoma’s offence do against Florida? After what Florida and LSU did to Ohio State I didn’t expect Texas would need a come-from-behind win in the 4th Qtr to take care of business seeing they had such a high power offence.
Einstein!!
Tech Forever
May 23rd, 2009
1:31 am
Who are the 90 idiots that said “yes” to the poll question on the front page? If you think this class will make Tech a “national contender” then you have no business watching basketball. Heck…you have no business voting in any national election…due to pure ignorance. Tech basketball a national contender….that’s hysterically laughable.
Bulldawg
May 23rd, 2009
2:01 am
He will FLUNK-OUT of Georgia Tech like ALL the other Georgia Tech “student” – ATHLETES.
Dean
May 23rd, 2009
8:53 am
UGA has 2 BCS bowl wins. One against F$U which had a WR playing QB and one against Hawaii. They won the division when UF was down. UGA is a solid program but I feel like they have to have a much more talented team than UF to beat them because St. Richt sure as hell isn’t going to outcoach Urban much less Paul Johnson. I hope UGA fans are happy being close because that is all you will ever be.
Voice of Reason
May 23rd, 2009
3:32 pm
Daryl, any word on Favors grades? Is he still going to qualify?
Big Bee
May 23rd, 2009
4:13 pm
Being a GT Man, I always pull for GT in all sports,BUT for the life of me I cannot see why GT Fans and UGA fans never give any recruit (any sport) a pat on the back and wish them good luck, no matter which school they choose. We cannot pick their school, we cannot coach them and if they read these blogs, we certainly are not teaching them any morals and character. Back up, and when you shave in the morining, take a look at that idiot looking back at you.
hunkrdown
May 23rd, 2009
6:16 pm
tech is always so concerned about uga, get a life nerds.
RAMBLE ON!!!
May 23rd, 2009
6:35 pm
VoR, I’ve heard it’s 50/50.
Big Bee
May 23rd, 2009
7:33 pm
hunkerdown—count the UGA blogs and see who is concerned about who. Woops, this is the way you begin, 1-2-3 and so on.
Willy
May 23rd, 2009
10:19 pm
UGA has to be one of the worst basketball programs in the nation. There so bad they’ve been to what….one NCAA tourney and how many years? And that NCAA tourney was fluke because they had to win the HORRIBLE SEC. They’re football team is overrated too, ha Paul Johnson!!! 45-42!!!
And LMAO to everybody trashing Paul Hewitt. We’ll be NCAA tourney team with or without Lawal even though I hope he stays and recruiting for him is looking bright. We’ll take the best players in GA and UGA can have the scraps!! Haha Mark Fox. UGA=JOKE!
The Grinch
May 26th, 2009
7:42 am
To Voice of Reason
Why the concern over the Favors kids grades? After all, the yellow jackets only go after the smart athletes, right? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
What was the problem, could he not pass “calculus”??
Red Foreman
May 27th, 2009
4:50 am
45-42 HAHAHA
bp
May 28th, 2009
8:41 pm
Are you kidding me??? Richt can’t out coach Paul Johnson . . . that is too funny!!! Hey, maybe you can get another ring this year. What a joke you are!!!
Grinch
June 1st, 2009
11:23 am
45 – 42
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.