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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Bradley’s Buzz: Dress this in white and gold!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This just in — Tech beats Georgia
If you’re a Tech fan, you can’t read enough about what transpired Saturday. (If you’re a Georgia fan, you’ve already read too much. So feel free to skip to the next Buzz topic. You might like that one better.)
So, just for the enjoyment of all Jacket backers, here’s David Paschall’s game story from the Chattanooga Times Free Press. And here’s Gennaro Filice of SI.com singing the praises of Paul Johnson.
And here, for the benefit of those who live in the Atlanta area, is a byline you probably don’t see very much — Paul Newberry of the Associated Press. As the lead sports writer for the Atlanta AP bureau, Paul covers the same events the AJC covers, which means we almost never run his stories because we run our own. But he’s a tremendous writer — in my view, the best AP writer in the country — and here’s his gamer from Tech-Georgia.
And here, for no real reason other than it gives me a chance to say thanks to Tech’s Roddy Jones, is a roundup from Sporting News Today that features a big picture of Roddy Jones. Back in August, Mr. Jones was kind enough to offer me a tutorial on Tech’s new offense, and if he’d done the same for Willie Martinez the outcome might have been different. Speaking of whom …
Anyone need a defensive coordinator?
There’s a good one available. John Chavis, long of Tennessee, is now out of work, as Mike Strange of the Knoxville News-Sentinel noted before the Vols beat Kentucky. Earlier in the season, a still-bitter Johnny Majors had told Mark Wiedmer of the Chattanooga Times Free Press that Chavis had saved Phillip Fulmer’s job for 10 years.
Now I know Mark Richt has said he’s not looking for scapegoats and he isn’t anticipating staff changes, but if I were an SEC coach looking to shore up my defense, I wouldn’t look any further than Chavis. Again, that’s just me.
No. 1 versus No. 2 in the A-T-L
That will happen Saturday at the Georgia Dome, and frequent Buzz contributor Greg Doyel wrote on CBSsports.com that the No. 1 team — that’d be Alabama — shouldn’t bother to show up. (My guess is that Bama will. My guess is that it will even win the game.)
Whatever happens, we can all be thankful that the SEC championship participants weren’t chosen by computer. Here’s Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports railing about the latest injustice in college football, which is always music to these ears.
Speaking of Michael Vick …
Which we actually weren’t, but what the heck. Here’s former colleague Mike Tierney writing in the New York Times about Matt Ryan winning over Vick fans. And here, just because good ol’ Greg makes this Buzz job entirely easy, is the aforementioned Mr. Doyel averring that he’ll never forgive Vick.
Keeping Mike Bibby
That’s what Marc Stein of ESPN.com believes the Hawks will do, despite speculation that the point guard would be traded come February. Me, I see two key reasons Bibby will be here through season’s end: The Hawks are off to a good start and can’t in good conscience dump salary when they’re making a playoff run, and Mike Woodson doesn’t yet trust Acie Law IV to run the team.
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