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By SugarDawg

December 21, 2005 08:26 PM | Link to this

Maybe you guys should join the WAC, being you’re so used to playing there. GO DAWGS!!

By GJJ

December 21, 2005 08:41 PM | Link to this

Poor Tech….baseball season is only a few months away…….

By Ralph

December 21, 2005 09:02 PM | Link to this

Poor Muttlanders, if any of them had a peg leg, they would be [crap] on a stick.

By FishwaterDawg

December 21, 2005 09:40 PM | Link to this

I, for one, think Tech will be outstanding in the Emerald Nut Bowl. Braine is organizing a huge pep rally at Alcatrez before kickoff. There is a rumor a sack lunch will be provided by the GTAA, but we cannot confirm that at this time. It’s “Sting Time”!

By Matt

December 21, 2005 09:43 PM | Link to this

They might be able to go visit the Balco company and actually become a half-way decent program.

By FishwaterDawg

December 21, 2005 09:44 PM | Link to this

Hey GB4GT…I feel your pain brother. Oh wait, no I don’t. We are playing in a BCS bowl after winning the SEC Championship. Here’s to laughing at the GT football program and as for the Dawgs…life is good and sweet, sUGAr sweet.

By vetteDAWG

December 21, 2005 09:51 PM | Link to this

Hold on one second while I put my leg back on ——— Let’s see bee’s. You are playing a 6 - 5 team, ACC caliber.You are playing in a Baseball Stadium that has a capacity of 38437 - you should feel right @ home. It is the ” NUT ” Bowl - enough said about that. Had ya’ll beaten N.C. State & or Virginia you would NOT be going across the country to play in “Gay” town. YOU HAVE to STOP losing to to inferior teams & win 8 or 9 games a year before the Bowls will take you seriously - that is the bottom line.

By GB4GT

December 21, 2005 09:52 PM | Link to this

The ACC has revamped all it’s bowls. The Gator will no longer have the #2 pick come 2006. They will switch with the Peach. also the ACC will dictate to the bowls who they think should go to which bowls. This has een a total embarrasment to the ACC as far as the bowls are concerned and they have admitted as much. The ship will be righted next year. GT will beta the crap out of UTAH. Man if ever there was a mismatch this is it. The players are p** tyhe coaches are p** and if ever there was a b*** to be had this will be it. Go to the bank and bet the ranch on GT. GT in bowls check the records and then sht up. What a great team throughout history!!! How many National Championships has UGA won. Nuff said!!!!

By JD

December 21, 2005 10:26 PM | Link to this

You guys are all such dorks!

By vetteDAWG

December 21, 2005 10:37 PM | Link to this

Hey JD : Take it easy on the Jackets - They can’t help it.

By Uncle Joe

December 21, 2005 10:41 PM | Link to this

The Tech players shouldn’t take playing in the Emerald Nut Bowl so hard. (1) Tech doesn’t really deserve to play in any bowl; (2) San Francisco offers magnificent opportunities to enjoy the sights of America’s most picturesque city; (3) Tech’s new pink uniforms will be wildly popular in San Francisco, and (4) just imagine 60,000 gays males staring at the Tech players’ fannies. That should make Tech feel appreciated.

By JD

December 21, 2005 10:46 PM | Link to this

Dude, vetteDawg (whatever that means), I am talking about everyone. All anyone does here is act like they’re 6 and yell about how their dad can beat up your dad.

And how can anyone say that they don’t deserve to play in a bowl? Two teams in the country beat two top 10 teams. They are SC and Tech. A little reason here would be welcome.

By Robert

December 21, 2005 11:03 PM | Link to this

Ah, yes….. The mutt posters on this blog remind me why I prefer GA Tech.

By starwars4life

December 21, 2005 11:12 PM | Link to this

1). if the team visits Alcatraz, does Reuben Houston go willingly?

2). something is just right about Techies going to San Francisco, I hear it’s fabulous!!!

By David L

December 21, 2005 11:16 PM | Link to this

Lets Go dawgs…sugar is sweet baby. Lets get dem gay jackets. WOOF WOOF WOOF. I been done gone to da sugga bowl before and its so dang sweet. Those jackets dont deserve no dang bowl cause they are stupid and gay. WOOF WOOF WOOF. GOOOOO DAWGS, SIC EM’. I didnt even go to Georgia and have no affiliation with the school but i was born and raised a dawg so ill continue to ride the bandwagon and be a fan for as long as we win dem SEC championships.

By DawgsDumbasDirt

December 21, 2005 11:35 PM | Link to this

How many points is a 3 point basket worth Dawgs? You bunch of ‘necks…go grab some Skoal and go pull for Hargrave Military to get another hard fought win.

By Colorado

December 22, 2005 12:04 AM | Link to this

Just moved here from Colorado near Boulder and CU Buffs nightmare. You should listen to JD and should be proud of both teams. UGA and GT are both very good teams, but as much as I hate Texas, they would easily beat both Georgia teams. It’s amazing how big college football is here. In Colorado, nobody even cares if CU plays. I enjoyed that UGA-GT game and hope they both win their bowl games. Who should I start rooting for? UGA, GT, or Florida!

By Julie P Montgomery

December 22, 2005 01:15 AM | Link to this

Hmmmm …… let’s see now. Emerald Bowl, huh? As in Dorothy, Toto, Aunt Em, et al … and the Emerald City of Oz.

Okay, that explains it. The Yellow Jackets are obviously off to see the Wizard!

P.S. Go Dawgs!

By JacketinIraq

December 22, 2005 03:11 AM | Link to this

Colorado - welcome to Georgia. You asked who you should root for, I obviously am going to tell you Georgia Tech, but I am biased. If you want to pull for the school that has been top ten for the last 5 years but has sold its soul to the devil, I say root for UGA. If you think the interview with Tim Jennings after the GT game was with a college educated man, pull for those Dawgs. But if you want to root for the underdog, the school that overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to succeed at the highest levels of college athletics, you have to cheer for the Wreck. It all comes down to a simple truth. UGA vs. GT = USSR hockey vs. USA hockey in the 1980 Winter olympics. They have everything going for them (UGA = USSR), but it just feels right to pull for us (GT = USA).

By Alabama Jack

December 22, 2005 04:06 AM | Link to this

One more time. Cows give us milk, bees give us honey, dawgs give us stuff to wipe off the bottom of our shoes.

By Sonny Perdue

December 22, 2005 06:19 AM | Link to this

JOHN: Everything you just posted is just like your school, nobody cares. Cry baby.

By Tech Man in Athens

December 22, 2005 07:00 AM | Link to this

Play football at Tech and get your degree. Regardless of your record you have a degree from GT. Play football for UGA, go 11-0, get your degree. You will have wonderful football memories and a degree that gets you nowhere. How do I know, I have a degree from UGA—that and $1.50 will get you a cup of java. All job opportunities start with “degree required.” With a degree from GT everyone knew you had to work for it with no crip courses to keep you on the gridiron.

Someone said it before, once there were no charges to blog, the UGA fans turned out en masse. I’ll bet a breakfast at Cracker Barrel that less than 10% don’t have a degree from anywhere much less UGA.

By kudzu

December 22, 2005 07:06 AM | Link to this

Honestly Coach G, I would not take my team to the GayBayBowl. Freaking lunatics; I’m tired of these bowl games 3000 miles from home. It does not make sense to me. How do you take your fans? Crap… “Freaking Sissy Bowl” I guess though if Tech could figure out how to play “good, big, tough, smashmout, foozball” like the mutts up the road; we might have a much better chance of playing with the bigger boys on or after Jan 1st. Meanwhile we get to settle for the dregs…SanFran…”ooo, maybe the team could sight see while they’re there and go see napa valley”…crap.

By Brad Stephens

December 22, 2005 07:14 AM | Link to this

Jacket in Iraq, first off, I assume you are or have been in active duty, my thanks to you. Other than that, what the ???. USA and USSR?? Tech and UGA BOTH have some real interview masters that make you wonder where their first grade English teacher went wrong. And John, the ‘cesspool’ in Athens is one of the best institutions in the land. As Tech is a engineering giant close behind MIT, UGA is a leader in many areas such as law, environmental sciences, and journalism. It is the flagship institution of the state, with many more IN-STATE grads (not only due to larger enrollment, but half of our grads don’t head back home to Beijing and Delhi), therefore explaining the larger media presence. I still have a ton of respect for both Tech academics and athletics. UGA has had its share of embarassing stories since the Jan Kemp incident. GT joined the club the last two years, maybe it could have sooner. It’ll be easy to step off that high-horse you’ve been riding on John, the legs were chopped out from under it.

By legalman

December 22, 2005 07:29 AM | Link to this

Does Mark Bradley ever have anything positive to say about Georgia Tech Football?

Recent articles from your paper show that the ACC office screwed up and has admiited so in the proposed changes.

By Jon

December 22, 2005 08:04 AM | Link to this

“By SugarDawg

Alabama Jack O*!, One more time. Chickens give us egggs, hogs give us bacon, Gnats fly around DAWGS peckers.”

That pretty much sums up the thought process of Dog Fans (who still can’t spell their own mascot). If you’d like to join their ranks, you have my deepest pity.

By Antdogg

December 22, 2005 08:12 AM | Link to this

I love my Jackets and I hate that I won’t be able to go to the bowl game yet again because it’s on the other side of the world. But let’s be for real Tech Fans. VetteDawg is right. If we had not lost to NC State, Virginia, and Georgia which were all winnable games, we wouldn’t be in a position to get screwed by the bowl committees. Handle your business on the field and you won’t have to worry about the rest of this bull. And, to all you UGA folks out there, you don’t have all that much to gloat about either. You need to handle your business as well. With all the NFL talent you guys have had on your team in the Mark Richt Era, you should be playing USC for a chance at your 3rd National Championship in a row. If you had handled your business on the field at Florida and Auburn, you’d be on your way to Atlanta, but you’d be going to the Airport to fly to Pasedena, not to the Airport Hilton.

By john

December 22, 2005 08:29 AM | Link to this

Brad: Understand I have a lot of respect for the University and its academic standing. It certainly has come a long, long way in 30 years from being a party school to a true institute the state can be proud of.

But your non-alumni fans……….ya gotta do something about them! Each and every time this paper writes an article about Tech, good or bad, and there is a “comments” section for people to post, I have to wade through dozens of posts from UGA fans that always want to pile on Tech. Why is that? Why do your fans seem to think it so important to their lives that they have to play the “rub it in” game? So UGA has a much better sports program. So what? Is that more important to YOU as a UGA alumn? Is your degree more important to you than the fact that your football program won the SEC? Why do so many non-UGA grad people hitch their wagons up to your school and drag you along with the many other leaders in this state down to their level? Why do you put up with the trailer-trash that shout at LSU fans, “KATRINA KATRINA KATRINA!!”

As a Georgia College graduate and just a Tech fan, I treat myself as a guest whenever I attend Tech games or participate in online forums like this. I try to conduct myself as if I were a guest in a Buckhead mansion. I do not behave as if I were an uncouth boor like a good number of your fans do at games and here. I just wish that UGA fans would simply leave us alone and let us enjoy our team.

I could have been a UGA fan when I was younger. But a friend took me to a game back in ’70s and I was mortified at the behavior of a good number of UGA fans toward the visiting fans. That turned me off right then and I was 14 years old!

Until you UGA alumns get a handle on your pickup truck alumni and let them know they make you look bad, you will also be guilty by association of having bad fans.

john

By pathetic

December 22, 2005 08:46 AM | Link to this

This is pathetic. Is anyone in here being serious? These people criticizing Georgia are acting exactly the way they are badmouthing Georgia for acting. Ironic to say the least. Tech fans really seem to have no grasp on where their football program stands, and they refuse to believe where UGA ranks. You’re really scraping the barrell when you criticize Georgia for not playing in the national championship this year, or asking how many national championships they have won. And before you get on me, I’m from Ohio and I couldn’t care less about either program. I enjoy reading these posts though and I’ve noticed a lot of academics-this, academics-that coming from the Tech fans and it sounds like a cop out to me. Tech is on probation right now for some sort of academics infraction (you can tell me a lot more about it) so it seems like what Tech is hangs there hat on was somewhat of a farce. By the looks of these posts, I can see why Tech isn’t respected but I’ll chalk this off as the lunatic fringe fan base talking.

By Other Mark

December 22, 2005 08:48 AM | Link to this

Ignore the Dawg input - just skip over them like I do.

As for Tech, if we had taken care of our business against NC State particularly, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. But just once, I would like to see Tech show some integrity and turn down the unacceptable bowl game. Tell the ACC to give it to someone else and stay home - save the money and still get a distribution of bowl proceeds from all the other games, just like UNC and Duke are going to get for staying home!

Let’s just pray that our cable TV goes out like it did for the Silicon Valley Bowl and I won’t have to watch this junk.

By pathetic

December 22, 2005 08:58 AM | Link to this

I agree with Other Mark, simply for the reason that any school or program with a huge fan base is going to have some loose cannons. I don’t know why it bothers some people so much. I work with some Georgia people and some Tech people and they both seem okay to me.

By Mike

December 22, 2005 09:03 AM | Link to this

Every little doggy has it’s day. This season is the highpoint of many UGA alumnis lives. Its’ something they will cherish for a lifetime. Let them enjoy it. As for the techies, it’s time to hit the books for a while.

By Clay

December 22, 2005 09:05 AM | Link to this

Wow, so much hate on the GT blog makes me wonder: How do you really feel about playing in the Emerald Bowl? First of all, Mark Bradley is not saying Tech got “screwed”—PJ Daniels is. If the Tech players have this big of a chip on their shoulders, they will get spanked like they did in the Silicon Valley Classic a few years back. BG4GT says the Jackets deserved the Peach Bowl and for UGA fans to “put that in your pipe and smoke it” like we should be impressed with that or something. You forget, BG4GT, that you’re trying to ram the Peach Bowl down the throats of folks going to a BCS bowl. Not going to happen. DawgsDumasDirt makes the wonderful basketball reference when he apparently forgot that UGA beat GT in both men’s and women’s basketball not too long ago. Priceless. JacketinIraq (thank you for your service; and, if you’re still there, stay safe) tries to link UGA to the old USSR. That’s just sad. DavidL is under the impression UGA fans have no ties to the school. I graduated from UGA in 1991. When did you graduate from Tech? john says UGA is “scandal ridden” when it is GT that is on probation for using ineligible athletes in multiple sports. GT had to vacate dozens of football wins (including the last three against UGA) and your team is suffering through reduced scholorships as a result of your scandals. I also liked john’s statement of “Even the state’s political leaders tend to ignore GT.” Look it up—Georgia’s governors are UGA grads. Perdue even played football there. TechManinAthens touts the highly desirable Tech degree and the great job one will give you—yet no Tech alumns can afford to take the trip to SF based on your school’s ticket sales. Finally, Antdoggs, even at 12-0, UGA would not be in Pasadena as USC and Texas are undefeated as well. UGA would have been this years Auburn at 12-0.

You all need to quit whining and being jealous and take care of business. Then you would not have to whine or worry about how superior UGA is.

By Jimbo

December 22, 2005 09:11 AM | Link to this

Come on John, here you go with that tired old Tech whine about how unfair it is that UGA has fans that aren’t alumni. I’ll tell you what whine boy, if the Trade school refused to allow anyone to attend a Tech game who wasn’t an alum the bugs could play their home games at Grady High School and have plenty of empty seats available for visitors. You just don’t get it do you? UGA is more popular because it is the flagship of this states university system ,offering virtually any academic discipline, other than engineering, with alumni in every town and county from one end of the state to the other. Sure UGA has some rude, obnoxious fans but Tech is the only place that I know where the garbage thrown from the student section makes the visitors sideline a hazard zone. The storied tradition of Tech’s football ended when Dodd retired because he couldn’t bring in 90-100 recruits per year, mostly to make sure that he didn’t have to compete against those players if they went to another school; and yes, I know that all the other schools did the same thing. Dodd knew that scholarship limitations and the limited curriculum at Tech would make it impossible to be a consistent big winner. Dave Braine simply admitted as much after 40 years of denial at the Flats. The occasional outstanding football team at Tech is merely an aberration, the Bees may be competetive but they’ll never be a consistent power. As for the rest of the athletic programs at Tech the records speak for themselves, the Jackets are “0” for forever in national championships in all other sports, mens and womens. I don’t think that the Nerd Herd got screwed in the bowl system, there are too many bowls and that is the only reason that mediocre teams like GT and Utah haven’t already packed up their equipment until spring practice begins. Tech couldn’t beat the other mediocres (UVA, NC State, etc.) and that is why Tech keeps going on cross country jaunts to bowl games that no one even knew existed until the Jackets landed there. Springing an occasional upset on one of the better programs in college football doesn’t qualify a team to play in the BCS and reap the financial windfall, consistently beating the NC State’s of the world gets you to the next level. Lastly your whine about fans can be justified by reminding you that the winners always celebrate and gloat, and the losers always whine and make excuses. Don’t be such a thin skinned cry baby, shrug your shoulders and go on with your life and the insults won’t seem so painful. Or, are you one of those loudmouth Nerds who always lets his ten gallon mouth overload his half pint fanny and then cries when the payback comes? If you don’t run your yap then you won’t have to contend with eating crow, of course that takes away most of the fun from playing the games. So in summation, quit whining like a nerd on the playground, the big kids will always pick on you, it’s part of growing up.

By Greg

December 22, 2005 09:18 AM | Link to this

I just can’t stop getting a kick out of Georgia fans pumping up their SEC championship. Granted in almost any other year, that would indeed be a great feat, but let’s face it, you lost to the two best teams in your conference during the regular season and exposed a fundamentally unsound LSU team in the SECC game.

As time goes by, maybe history will be more kind and not remember how down the SEC was this year, but in the meantime, quit pounding your chest like you conquered the world. You had a nice season, now have fun with a mediocre team in the Sugar Bowl.

By Jim

December 22, 2005 09:20 AM | Link to this

Wonder why it is that UGA fans just can’t be nice?

By CJacketFan

December 22, 2005 09:27 AM | Link to this

I don’t see what the big deal is. The only bowl that matters is the one in Pasedena this year. All the other bowls are just gravy.

As for a few UGA fans on here… Wow, you just feed the stereotype of what people perceive UGA fans to be…inbred, biggot, truck tailgating idiots. I’m sure some UGA fans have class, but the idiots like to post here more often.

By Dave

December 22, 2005 09:33 AM | Link to this

Notice a theme here? Tech fans are bitter, nasty little people with a microchip on their shoulders. Things just don’t change. Georgia fans talk about the positive (because we have good things to talk about) and Tech fans whine and moan and sling barbs (pathetic though they are). Techies, just be glad you still have a football team with Dave Braine and Chan on board. And take a cue from the Dawgs this holiday season, be happy with your life, appreciate what you have…

Like those two fans…

By southgadawg

December 22, 2005 09:36 AM | Link to this

GO UTES!!!!!!!!!

By phil

December 22, 2005 09:38 AM | Link to this

Ha Ha Ha

You Techies have some nerve complaining about the Emerald Bowl! Playing a game in Gaytown on a baseball field is no shame! Your football team is though! Why don’t GT just give up on there football program? You still have golf and baseball.

                   signed
               stayin' home eatin' sugar

By jimbo

December 22, 2005 09:44 AM | Link to this

Wow Jimbo..

You just played the typical stereotype UGA fan to the hilt. Even condoning the poor behavior of your fans.

I don’t think you will ever see Tech fans condone the behavior of their students and fans when there was garbage thrown at Bear and Notre Dame years ago. That was a stain that we will never live down. Even peeing on visiting fans from the upper deck does not match that! Thanks for reminding me.

Again, you UGA grads simply don’t care what the rest of your fan base does or how they behave. When you see and read about such behavior, you just shrug it off and laugh about it.

Maybe the best thing for Georgia and Georgia Tech to do is this: End the rivalry. Period. No more competition between the schools in any sport. You go your way and we will go our way. That way, maybe there can be some civility and peace between the two fan base. God help us all if Tech were ever get to the point where they can play .500 against UGA over a 20 year period, or even win against UGA more than they lose.

Like I wrote in my last post before this one, all we want to do is enjoy our team without the typical trash being thrown in by you and your fans. When I read this online, I want to read about Tech. I don’t read about UGA nor do I care about UGA and what they are doing. Nor do I waste my time posting on UGA blogs and message boards.

I just don’t understand the obsession you and your fellow UGA travelers have over Tech. You claim we aren’t your rivals, but you sure act like that if we were to ever become your equal on the playing field, the universe would implode.

john

By Other Mark

December 22, 2005 09:47 AM | Link to this

If you’re going to bring Dodd into this, at least do some research. Dodd supported a push in the 60’s to limit scholarships in the SEC and was opposed on that by The Bear, among others. When the SEC voted down the initiative, Tech decided to withdraw from the SEC. Not saying it was good or bad, but s_ happens.

Eventually, the NCAA did the deed and they imposed the limits that Dodd and others in the SEC had proposed. And whether you like them or not, it had the desired result of keeping teams with unlimited resources like Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas - from taking all the best players and winning all the championships. UGA even benefitted from that because in those days UGA did not have the resources they have today.

Dodd was ahead of his time. You’re right from the standpoint that we have not been right since - except for the Ross and O’Leary years - but even those were not Dodd.

By CRB

December 22, 2005 09:48 AM | Link to this

I never bother reading the UGA articles. Why is it so many UGA fans feel the need to post garbage in the GT blogs?

By Leonard Pope

December 22, 2005 09:49 AM | Link to this

Know I is on schedule to go to a bowl game.

By Jim

December 22, 2005 10:00 AM | Link to this

So if Tech had been invited to the Music City Bowl, life would be somehow better?? No Mark, they didn’t get screwed. It’s the bowl system. Nobody outside of the two teams playing cares about the games anymore. Other than USC/Texas what games will anybody watch? Quick: who played last night and what was the score? Unless you bet money on it, you wouldn’t know.

You Tech fans whining on this blog are embarrassing yourselves. UGA this UGA that… There is more to life than comparing yourselves to someone else. Go do something with your life.

By Red Fox

December 22, 2005 10:06 AM | Link to this

The only decent advise given here was to take GT and the points…listen people, seriously!

By Clif

December 22, 2005 10:08 AM | Link to this

Hey GB4GT, you are one classy individual!

By midatlantech

December 22, 2005 10:12 AM | Link to this

Colorado: When choosing between two teams in the state just take a hard look at the two’s responses here:

There are about ten ignorant responses alone referencing The Gay Bowl, or similar. Check out where they come from and the level of their intellect.

There are multiple responses about UGA locking up the state and how their alumni become governors. This is all true. But then look around and see who’s nationally and internationally known as a major university and who’s alumni become presidents. Tech fans just think bigger.

Then look at the next level of ignorant posts about all the Asians, etc at Tech. Please understand that this hurt comes from the fact that so many uneducated UGA graduates have lost their jobs running the cards in the textile plants to those same Asians. They whine; Tech’s competing globally.

Lastly, take note that only recently did UGA equal Tech’s number of SEC championships, even though we’ve been out of the SEC for 40 years. But the one that really gets them whining is that we own 4 National Championships to their 1. And that we had to help them win that 1 really gets them squeeling. Of course, this is when the topic shifts from “Football is all that matters, to how many NC has Tech won in women’s gymnastics?”

The decision is easy, BUT you still got five downs and a phantom clipping call in 1990!

By jerry

December 22, 2005 10:15 AM | Link to this

Are you nerds really that dense and simple? You keep asking why UGA fans post nasty comments on the Nerd Blog. Easy to understand, it is so easy to pick on Nerds and the result is always the same, “go away, you hurt my feelings, don’t say bad things about me, if you don’t stop I’ll go tell my mommy.” You all get picked on because you are such crybabies. It is fun to watch a nerd squirm and try to make excuses for another miserable failure year in football, and now we’ll probably have to hear the same recycled excuses for basketball. Maybe you all can come up with something new for baseball and golf, but it will probably be the tired old trite “academics, calculus, non-alumni fans,” crap that you spew every time that your weak sister programs don’t live up to your pipe dreams. Face facts nerd herd, you all are the red headed step child of the sports programs in this state and everyone is embarrassed by you but, things wouldn’t be so bad if you would quit calling attention to your short comings by insisting that you are on a par with the big time athletic programs and stay in your place among the Temples and St. Bonaventures of the NCAA, good but nothing to get excited about.

By GT

December 22, 2005 10:17 AM | Link to this

The Sugar Bowl might as well stayed in New Orlean with the game they are stuck with. I bet the Peach Bowl draws better numbers on television. How did the SEC get stuck playing the worst conference in football. You have at least five teams in the ACC that could beat West Virginia, probably more like eight. There even three or four teams in the SEC that could beat them. Enjoy you “bowl trip” Georgia. Yall walking or driving?

By YellOJacket

December 22, 2005 10:20 AM | Link to this

Pathetic…The comments directed towards UGA fans are usually in response to their fans attitude that “only” UGA has a football program with any tradition and their belittling of Tech. UGA fans tend to ignore Tech’s 4 national championship vs UGA’s 1, that Tech is usually ranked several notches above UGA in ratings of football “tradition”, and that Tech’s most recent championship was 1990.

Academics and probation: I always want to laugh when any UGA fan even attempts to compare academics at the two schools. My brother went to both, ask him. He’ll tell you that at Tech he worked harder for a single C than he worked for an entire quarter of A’s at UGA. I may be incorrect on the probation issue, but my understanding was that most of the issue was Tech’s misapplication of NCAA rules and reporting several players who had passed classes (but with D’s) as making adequate progress towards a degree. (Because at Tech most grades below C do NOT count and the class must be re-taken.) When the error was discovered (by Tech)it was reported to the NCAA (by Tech). This one probation is after over 100 years of football. Contrast this with UGA being tied for number 3 on the list of programs with NCAA infractions. Finally, student-athletes at Tech are (believe it or not) actually students. About half are management majors, which compared to engineering at Tech is easy but still requires calculus and statistics. Tech doesn’t have really hard majors for athletes such as Turf Management or Sports and Recreation Management as some (UGA UGA UGA) colleges do.

The truth of the matter is that for most of the recent past UGA’s football program has been better than Tech’s. UGA also has a large percentage of their athletes that could not gain entry to Tech due to the academic requirements. Tech starts with an enormous disadvantage, but sometimes David does win out over Goliath.

And just so I can earn my “lunatic fringe” stripes:

Did you ever notice that in Biblical paintings Satan is always painted in Red and Black, but that Angels are always White with a Gold halo? Coincidence? I think not…..

By PerfectDawg

December 22, 2005 10:21 AM | Link to this

Scandalous program? UGA runs a dirty program? Come on….we have the cleanest coach in the country running our program and our athletic department. Get for real losers. UGA is the team to watch and root for. From great team play, awesome QB’s and LB’s, all the way to recruiting…UGA is top ten or five in everything! SO stick that up your UTAH’s jackets. Chan Gailey couldn’t even get you alol in the top 25 in recruiting or anything. By the way, wantto play some basketball some times soon…LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO DAWGS!

By derek

December 22, 2005 10:26 AM | Link to this

Auburn has 1 SEC loss. All other SEC teams have at least 2. That means Auburn is the REAL champ of the Sleazy Ethics Conference.

Miami has 2 ACC losses. This ties them with VT for the least in conference losses. Miami has the heads up win between the two.

GT beat them both in their own stadiums.

But that’s ok s* sniffers. I’m sure you could all care less about how you backed your way into the championship game against the 2nd best team in the west.

You can have the sugar against a worthless opponent that can only hurt you. Yet again the dome will have to endure the public urinating spineless human trash that is the UGA nation.

How many anniversaries are we going to have to endure in 2006 over the lone national championship. How many times do we have to read Bark Madley’s articles on that glorious year. That year that was nothing without TECH beating Notre Dame.

Try actually earning a championship s* sniffers then MAYBE, just MAYBE we will actually respect one stinking word out of your worthless pipes.

By Dawg

December 22, 2005 10:28 AM | Link to this

Hey GB4GT….such anger….maybe if you had a team you didn’t have to “defend” you would be in a better place emotionally. As for us….things are sooooooo sweet!!! Go Dawgs…oh, and by the way- its much better to control your own destiny than having to talk about someone elses meltdown.

By Burnt Orange

December 22, 2005 10:29 AM | Link to this

31-30.

This year’s Sugar Bowl is pretty much a battle over who has the nicer trailer.

By Is derek a GT fan?

December 22, 2005 10:32 AM | Link to this

If so, I think he undermines the suggestion that only UGA fans are classless.

By PerfectDawg

December 22, 2005 10:32 AM | Link to this

Oh yes. I forget, the runner up is the first loser. And AUBURN wasn’t even the runner up so that makes them….THIRD. They lost the game they shouldn’t have…LSU. Whining for Auburn makes you sound just like a gnat whining about EVERYTHING! From Football to Basketball, us beating your arses will never change! TWELVE in a row if Im not badly mistaken in football!

By John

December 22, 2005 10:34 AM | Link to this

We have Chan Gailey to thanks for these mediocre bowl-bids.

By Jacket Fan

December 22, 2005 10:34 AM | Link to this

We didn’t get a good bowl b/c of ‘Money’, not because of our record. Even Bradley notes us being in the top 25 and beating Auburn and Miami.

We got screwed, it’s that simple.

By GoDawg

December 22, 2005 10:35 AM | Link to this

Hey Jackettes and GB4GT and Derek specifically….that’s the difference between Dawgs and jackettes….we win chamionships…you spend the entire winter trying to justify what went wrong…..the only worthless opponent we played this year was you nerds.

By YellOJacket

December 22, 2005 10:38 AM | Link to this

PerfectDawg….You are incorrect. Tech vacating games does not mean that UGA won them. It is as if the games never took place. No winner, no loser. What you imply would require a forfeit, which has not been ordered.

By Ice

December 22, 2005 10:38 AM | Link to this

Sorry Mark, I not with you on this one. If you’re not playing in a January bowl game, I’d rather play somewhere new and different like San Francisco. December bowl games are basically consolation awards for having an above average season. What a drag it would have been for the GT players to have a December bowl game in Atlanta. If I’m not playing in January, then going to Honolulu, Las Vegas, San Fran, or San Diego sounds like a great time to me…………… no offense to Atlanta or Nashville.

By PerfectDawg

December 22, 2005 10:40 AM | Link to this

You count your way…we will certainly count our way! Vacating games means you never played them on the books. That means it has been 12 years since you all have beaten us. Either way, it looks nice on paper.

By Woof

December 22, 2005 10:42 AM | Link to this

Mark…starting with the headline “Jackettes think” is all wrong.

By Spanky

December 22, 2005 10:45 AM | Link to this

Yell0jacket,…Either way you look at it, Tech has not beaten Georgia in 12 years! Did I word that correctly?..Thought so!

By Dawg

December 22, 2005 10:52 AM | Link to this

Hey perfectDawg…its really the same meaning for the jackettes…vacate/not play. The jackettes do one or the other most all years when we play em.

By GM

December 22, 2005 10:55 AM | Link to this

worthless blog…

By Other Mark

December 22, 2005 10:58 AM | Link to this

Spanky - you need to go back and read the NCAA ruling again. Those games are vacated on TECH’s books, but not the opponents’ books! So we don’t show any wins and losses for those years, but you still show the wins AND the losses on your’s. Tech has to take those games off of OUR website, but they stay on YOUR’S.

Cool, huh? You lost games that we didn’t even play!!

By PerfectDawg

December 22, 2005 11:01 AM | Link to this

51-7 and five in a row! We have even started a streak in basketball which you all are oh so awesome in. I hope UTAH pounds yall’s rear ends and don’t even come close to thinking I will be rooting for ya! Welcome to San Francisco! And you get to come home to watch a real team play in your own hometown of Atlanta-Athens….Since Governor Perdue was a walk on at UGA he has given us half of Atlanta since we win there so much!

By uganut

December 22, 2005 11:03 AM | Link to this

John is right. Uga should not play GT at all anymore. It is a no win situation, we win….it is expected. We lose…it is an embarrassment to lose to an inferior team. When we play at the worst stadium in the country, it does not seat enough for demand. There is no rivalry with a team that seldom can win. There is no reason to play Tech. Put a team on the schedule that would provide more of a challenge. Lastly, if GT insists that it is a rivalry and we have to play them, it should be in Athens every year or at least, play the game in Atlanta in the Dome. “cess pool of the South”??? Obviously you GT fans have not visited your “stadium” in a while…. GO DAWGS!

By YellOJacket

December 22, 2005 11:04 AM | Link to this

PerfectDawg….I hate to admit it, but using your logic I think it would actually be 15 years (1990). Of course, no matter what the NCAA says I still have fond memories of 1998, 1999, and 2000. Now get off this blog and get back to work, I’m tired of waiting for my french fries. :)

By GM

December 22, 2005 11:05 AM | Link to this

Is one in a row considered a streak?

By DaveDawg

December 22, 2005 11:06 AM | Link to this

Tech, why not leave the ACC and come back to the SEC? Seriously, it’d make life more interesting and put more Tech (and Auburn, UT, Alabama, etc) fans in your stadium. The ACC/Raycom made it clear that Tech is an ACC outsider, so get ready for more trips to Boise, San Jose, etc. I bet South Carolina would switch with you.

By 2UGANUT

December 22, 2005 11:07 AM | Link to this

“There is no rivalry with a team that can seldom win?”….uh…then you’re going to drop Florida from UGA’s schedule since they seem to own you?

By GTbacker

December 22, 2005 11:08 AM | Link to this

If any of you UGA fans actually graduated from UGA - please let us know. We assume you didn’t.

If you DID - there is at least a 75% chance that you are now suffering from condyloma accuminata. Documented. Feel proud - look it up. Remember - you can’t spell UGA DAWGS FOOTBALLER without “WARTS”

By wes

December 22, 2005 11:12 AM | Link to this

I don’t know why the mutts feel like they are world beaters. The team you like to poke fun at the most (Tech) for not being all that good, literally, is the best team that uga has beaten all year. Despite the loss to ugay, Tech is actually the better team…WHEN Reggie Ball doesn’t have a complete meltdown that is. We beat Miami and Auburn and then played like crap against uga and still almost won that one too. Tech is better. Face it.

By GM

December 22, 2005 11:13 AM | Link to this

I’m OK with not filling our stadium every game. Why do you Dog fans think this is such an insulting argument? It’s boring. Tech draws its fan base primarily from students and alumni (which is about one-third the size of UGA’s). UGA’s fan base consists of students, alumni, and every other redneck in Georgia that never went to college. Makes sense that we only put 50k in the seats versus your 95k, or whatever. Trade with you? I think not.

By Other Mark

December 22, 2005 11:16 AM | Link to this

The fact is if we had beaten Virginia and NC STate like we should have, they would not be eligible for a bowl game, period. Then we would not be filling an at-large spot on the west coast.

Think before you write…

By wes

December 22, 2005 11:19 AM | Link to this

UGA vs. WV. YAAAAAAWN. Ooh, I’m gettin’ sleepy just thinking about it. You can bet your sweet arse that if Tech won the ACC, they would not be paired with some bull crap team like WV. The dogs are a joke. That’s why they got the worst pairing.

By Spanky's Biological Father

December 22, 2005 11:22 AM | Link to this

I apologize for Spanky’s behavior. He has said many times that he would love for UGA to be going to San Francisco..to swing by the bowl game.

He really likes it out there. I’m glad he’s feeling better. He wasn’t the same after UF and AU slapped the taste out of UGA’s mouth. There’s not a more proud Truett alum of UGA athletics than my misguided son!

By GM

December 22, 2005 11:24 AM | Link to this

Come on dog fans…you must admit, UGA versus WV is a real boring matchup. It’ll just be the alumni from each school, and the rednecks from each state that didn’t go to college watching.

Tech fans won’t be watching, but I imagine you’ll be watching our game.

By BADASSDAWG

December 22, 2005 11:26 AM | Link to this

GB4GT…

“How many National Championships has UGA won. Nuff said!!!!”

yeah, and Princeton and Yale used to win a lot of NCs 100 years ago also. Who gives a s**? WE OWN YOUR A*!!!!!

By GM

December 22, 2005 11:30 AM | Link to this

yeeeee…haaaaw!!!

By DaveDawg

December 22, 2005 11:39 AM | Link to this

Wes is the biggest moron on this board. Tech is not better than UGA - we won the flippin game you idiot. Tech is not the best team we’ve beaten - try LSU. Fact is, if Tech hadn’t run scared from the SEC years ago, dumba** morons like you wouldn’t be able to make such ignorant “what if” scenarios.

GM is the typical Tech jacka**. All schools strive to fill their stadiums. A larger fanbase equals money, genius. (I thought a smart Tech man like yourself would get that.) But in typical Tech fashion, you threw out a pompous response and insulted everyone in Georgia else who is not a Techie. Maybe that’s why everybody else in Georgia hates Tech. Again, not good for the bottom line, raging idiot.

By starwars4life

December 22, 2005 11:40 AM | Link to this

I will apologize for this ahead of time. I realize that taking pleasure in other people’s pain is not very humanitarian. However, when it is a big rivalry, I feel I must take part.

That being said, I have noticed one stereotype that is strengthened on this blog. Around half of the posts from Tech fans mention how much better a degree is from Tech. This is a football blog boys, and if all you do is bring up how tough your classes are, you’ll never get better. Seriously, every time a football discussion pops up, Tech fans want to take the discussion to the classroom. If you want to talk academics, try an education blog. Last I checked, this talked about football, but I realize as Tech fans, you can’t go tool long without mentioning the calculator.

Oh, and Tech fans making fun of the SEC, our championship and our bowl game: 1)The ACC champ had it handed to them a week earlier by SEC#5. 2)Try winning any championship before you talk smack…(when was the last time Tech won any football game of worth? Don’t say Miami, because that just got you the emerald bowl) 3) Sugar Bowl v. Emerald Bowl. Sugar bowl versus anybody is not even in the same league as the emerald bowl. Try the BCS every once in a while Tech, its fun.

-an alumnus of UGA

By BADASSDAWG

December 22, 2005 11:41 AM | Link to this

“Despite the loss to ugay, Tech is actually the better team…WHEN Reggie Ball doesn’t have a complete meltdown that is. We beat Miami and Auburn and then played like crap against uga and still almost won that one too. Tech is better. Face it.”

Ha-f***-larious…

I supposed GT has been the better team over those 7 losses out of he last 10. Has GT been the better team during those 15 losses out of he last 20 years?

The better team won this year, just like last year and the year before. UGA is GT’s most important game of the year. GT is UGA’s 3rd or 4th most important game. Your players actually played about the best that they could for the game this year. Ask your players who the most athletic, strongest team is that they faced this year.

You guys had better beat us next year when we are young and inexperienced in many key positions. Because looking at the talent we are bringing in, you won’t get much of a chance for a while.

FACE IT. YOU ARE PUSSIES.

By Rutuger

December 22, 2005 11:44 AM | Link to this

Tech beat two top 10 teams and is heading to a crappy bowl; UGA is also playing a meaningless bowl game. If it’s not for the national title, who the hell cares? This is why the college football postseason sucks.

Can you imagine if the NFL had a bunch of games that were deciding 3rd through 20th place? Or if the two Super Bowl teams were picked basically six weeks before the game, with nothing to possibly change the matchup?

YAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWN.

When are these idiots going to implement the playoff system so we get rid of these meaningless bowl games??!

By uganut

December 22, 2005 11:47 AM | Link to this

Geez, I hate tech people. ‘nuff said.

By GM

December 22, 2005 11:58 AM | Link to this

Dave Dawg - Never said Tech shouldn’t try to fill the stadium, just acknowledged the reasons for the lower attendance. Did not insult everyone in Georgia - not everyone is a redneck. Why get so worked up? Remember, you weren’t invited, so you don’t have to participate.

By DirkDawggler

December 22, 2005 12:00 PM | Link to this

Hey, Tech: Save those tins of nuts the Emerald people give you. That way when you go to the Evaporated Milk Bowl next year, you can make a nice fruitcake. If you need some Sugar for that lovely confection…I’m sure we can spare a cup or two.

By GM

December 22, 2005 12:03 PM | Link to this

What is the fascination with you Dog fans all over this Tech blog? I thought we were your 4th biggest rival? Shouldn’t you be on the UF, AU, and UT blogs, or how about your own?

By GM

December 22, 2005 12:06 PM | Link to this

What is the fascination among you Dog fans with this Tech blog? I thought we were your 4th biggest rival? Some of you sure get bent out of shape over an opponent so “unimportant” as Tech.

By John

December 22, 2005 12:08 PM | Link to this

Re: What is the fascination with you Dog fans all over this Tech blog? I thought we were your 4th biggest rival? Shouldn’t you be on the UF, AU, and UT blogs, or how about your own?

I AGREE!!!! This blog is for us GT fans to vent. Get lost you loser, ignorant excuses for college students.

By Charles

December 22, 2005 12:11 PM | Link to this

Hey! If your team is not going to be in a BCS or New Years Day Bowl, I think far away bowls are the best. It gives the players and anyone who travels the opportunity to see and experience new places and people. It’s a wonderful experience and vastly better than (yet again) going to Florida or New Orleans.

I’m a Dawg fan; but, I hope hope Tech cleans Utah’s clock nine ways to Sunday.

By DaveDawg

December 22, 2005 12:13 PM | Link to this

GM, I’ve got to put my UGA journalism degree to use somehow, since serving all these fries isn’t really applicable.

By GM

December 22, 2005 12:16 PM | Link to this

Charles, could you put the other dog fans back in their cage? They’re starting to foam at the mouth. Thanks for the rational comment.

By DirkDawggler

December 22, 2005 12:27 PM | Link to this

Why are we on your blog? Because Nerd Bashing never gets old. Wurd.

By In Rod We Trust

December 22, 2005 12:31 PM | Link to this

All this GT bashing