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DEL.ICIO.USJackets mired in muddy mediocrity
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Terence Moore
San Francisco — The field was mostly fit for mud wrestling. You also knew this wasn’t, oh, say, the Rose Bowl since both teams were required to operate from the same sideline. In fact, under this makeshift configuration of the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark, the Georgia Tech bench was just in front of the wall that Barry Bonds often clears to reach McCovey Cove.
How do you say rinky dink, as in something called the Emerald Bowl, as in why is the ACC even sending one of its members to this thing?
If all of that wasn’t enough to make the Yellow Jackets feel a little inadequate Thursday afternoon during their latest postseason experience, they spent the early part of the first half getting absolutely torched by Utah’s backup quarterback making only his second start. The Utes led 20-zip after Brett Ratliff threw all three of his touchdown passes within the game’s first 16 minutes to Travis LaTendresse, owner of a ridiculous seven catches for 108 yards at that point.
Suddenly, there were two choices for the Jackets before the sparse crowd of 25,742 that nevertheless was red (as in Utah) and loud (as in relatively speaking): They could continue to get pounded as much as their quarterback Reggie Ball did by a pack of Utes after his first interception. Or they could ignore all of the game’s previous ugliness to show the grit of those Jackets teams with two consecutive blowout victories in the bowls before this one.
So much for grit. Try groans (as in what those in the Jacket Nation should be doing right now over the Tech’s latest dance with mediocrity for a season).
“As a whole, we were pretty consistent most of the year defensively, and I think a couple of games we did play up to our potential,” said Tech safety Chris Reis, referring to the Jackets’ shocking victories on the road over Auburn and Miami. Then again, maybe those were just a couple of shocking flukes for a highly inconsistent bunch that finished 7-5.
When this one was mercifully over, Tech’s 38-10 beating was its worst in a bowl game in terms of margin of defeat since, well, ever. And the Jackets have played in bowl games since they actually did go to the Rose following the 1929 season. That’s 34 bowls overall, which means you have to wonder if Tech was ready to play against what was an average Utah team that improved to 7-5.
Senior Tech linebacker Gerris Wilkinson thought and thought, before saying, “Man, it might have been a factor when we first found out about [playing in the Emerald Bowl], but you have to be able to let that go as a team, and that’s when the leaders on the team have to get everybody focused. I guess we didn’t do a good job of it.”
No, they didn’t. Not Tech’s leaders, and certainly not Tech’s coaching staff that just finished its fourth consecutive season with seven victories under Chan Gailey.
Did I say something about mediocrity, and how can somebody from the Mountain West Conference do all of this against supposedly a decent bunch from the ACC? Not only did Ratliff finish with outrageous numbers (completing 30 of 41 passes for 381 yards and four touchdowns), but Quinton Ganther rushed for 120 yards while LaTendresse ended with 16 catches for 214 yards and four of the easiest touchdown catches that you’ll ever see.
Tech entered the game as one of college football’s premier defenses in every category from rushing to passing efficiency to interceptions. So, given the statistical evidence from Utah, it looks as if the Jackets sort of quit after the rout gained momentum. “I don’t think our guys ever quit,” Gailey said. “They never feel like they’re not going to pull the game out. But quit is a pretty strong word.”
Strong but accurate, especially since this wasn’t the same Utah monster of Urban Meyer from last year. Still, the Jackets played as if these Utes had fangs.
This time, Wilkinson sighed, but not just because of recent history. “We’ve been close at times and far at times, and that’s been the problem ever since I’ve been here at Tech. We just can’t play consistently an entire season.”
Exhibit A: This season.
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By Kevin
December 29, 2005 09:39 PM | Link to this
Man, that was ugly! Go Dawgs!
By GTFan
December 29, 2005 09:39 PM | Link to this
Another good article Terrance. Gerris had it right in saying we aren’t consistent.
By LLTW
December 29, 2005 09:46 PM | Link to this
Coach Gailey, please retire… we all need to move on. What a hugely disappointing season, especially after the Miami win.
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 09:47 PM | Link to this
What an embarrassment!
Wanna know why our guys can’t play consistently for an entire season? Its b/c your coach is Chan Gailey.
Wanna know why one of the best receivers in the nation only had 2 or so receptions? B/c our mediocre coach believes too much in our at best mediocre QB. And our offense is terrible. ON NATIONAL TV, it was pointed out that we had one of the worst offenses and QBs (if not THE WORST offenses and QB) in a bowl game this year.
Get rid of Chan Gailey, Patrick Nix, and whoever the hell has any part in the offense. Get a new coach BRAINE! Get a freakin’ special teams coach. Stop settling for mediocrity. Stop settling for embarrassments. Stop settling for meaningless bowls out west thats going to p** off the alumni and fans.
If Chan is our coach next year, our season does not look promising.
CHAN GAILEY, HAVE SOME RESPECT, SHOW SOME CARE, LEAVE GEORGIA TECH!
By noel malone
December 29, 2005 09:53 PM | Link to this
1 - second string QB is 30-41 for almost 400 yds. many recievers were wide open. how does this happen?
2 - one reciever catches 16 passes and was wide open on four TD catches. how does this happen?
3 - one of the best recievers in the US has only two catches. how does this happen?
Answers - Utah came to play - Gailey did not have Tech prepared.
Why does Gailey, the offensive genius, persist in sending Johnson on fly patterns down the sideline? He either gets pushed out of bounds or Ball throws it over his head.
Ball at least proved he is consistent - below 50%.
Terrible field, terrible stadium for football, terrible crowd - thanks a lot, ACC powers-that-be.
Chan Gailey is one of the luckiest people in the world - a five year contract for a mill a year with built-in mediocrity.
Good news - a three year veteran returning next year at QB. Bad news - its Reggie Ball, who has not improved one whit since his first snap as a freshman.
I was about to say “on to basketball” but I just learned that Air Force beat Tech last night.
By Tech the Terrible
December 29, 2005 09:54 PM | Link to this
We need to get a new coach.
We need a new athletic director.
We need to get a new QB.
We need to stop being embarrassed.
We need to stop being mediocre.
Does anyone legitimately disagree (assuming you’re a Tech fan and not a UGA fan…clearly a UGA fan would want all of these to stay constant)?
By GTsuperFan
December 29, 2005 10:08 PM | Link to this
I have been watching GT football for a very long time. That was the worst CRAP I have ever seen. What is it going to take for someone to be held accountable! I can only hope that someone cares about this football program as much as I have over the years. I doubt that this comment will make much of a difference, but I still cannot believe that we have people in control that would allow this once fine program to become so PITIFUL! Please, I beg of you, find an AD and a Coach that will bring this program back to respectability!
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 10:14 PM | Link to this
Chan Gailey is a terrible leader. The fact that Dave Braine is keeping a terrible leader proves that he himself is a terrible leader. The fact that somehow Braine was allowed to extend his contract shows that the alumni that do have clout are also idiots. And if you’re one of those alumni reading this, and you disagree, I welcome you to bring your points to me. I’ve heard them all, and I can put them all down.
I’m a true Tech fan. And I can’t wait for someone to bash me for this and question how much of a true Tech fan I am; but whoever does, you can all go to hell. As the second half unraveled, as I am sure some of you also did, I was actually hoping that Utah would continue to score and for Reggie to be even more of a terrible QB. Thats right, I didn’t think 38 points were enough. I was hoping that they would break 50, maybe 60. Thats what it has come down to for me. Quitter? No, I’m just smart. Sometimes, you have to lose to win, and losing the game even worse, if it increases the possibility of getting rid of Chan or Braine, I’m for it.
Yeah, I know some of you are going to say that it would hurt our recruiting, etc. But, it wouldn’t hurt our recruiting any more than our mediocre seasons, dumb comments made by our AD, or our off season embarrassments.
I want Chan Gailey to be embarrassed. I want our program to be embarrassed…SOMETHING so embarrassing that it would tick off the powerful alumni enough to not allow these a$$ clowns to continue coaching our football team.
Get rid of Chan Gailey. And for all those alumni that think that Chan Gailey is good, in your face.
By Beeze
December 29, 2005 10:19 PM | Link to this
How is this coach still our head coach? I really want to know how can he still be at this position? In life, if you’re mediocre, you’re canned. How has Chan still the coach? How are we so terrible on offense when our coach is supposed to be an offensive genius? How doe we still have such a deplorable QB. And how does our team question their preparedness? Does anyone think that this is odd?
By sUGAr
December 29, 2005 10:20 PM | Link to this
I bet that team from Athens won’t humiliate itself and the entire state on national T.V. come January 2nd. There is something bad wrong on the Flats.
By GaileyTheGreat
December 29, 2005 10:21 PM | Link to this
Gailey was right not to let his team complain about getting “shafted” in a bowl game. It should have been Utah complaining, seeing that the Utes have been on the better end of two easy whippings for two years in a row now.
By bT
December 29, 2005 10:25 PM | Link to this
I have been a tech fan all my life - I know how tought it is being a tech fan too. Chan has to go - and I can’t wait until Reggie leaves. Its all about improvement - having a scizophrenic QB and a coach that can’t get his team up for a bowl game? Spare me. We got what we deserved - Utah was ready, and while we were crying abou how we deserve more. We did not even deserve that bowl. I know Reggie did not loose the game, but how would you like to be on the D for a QB that can’t even throw the ball to a receiver like CJ!
By Tom O'Malley
December 29, 2005 10:27 PM | Link to this
What a joke! Only one person can stop Calvin Johnson … Chan Gailey! Coach Gailey, Reggie is NOT a D-1 quarterback. Reggie, 30% of the time your great, 70% of the time you stink, you go to TECH, do the math! As a GT alum, I’m sick and tired of getting shown up at these crap bowls! Coach Gailey, It’s your job to get this team prepared for ALL games. Thank God most of the nation did not tune in to this debacle. Just because it’s “bowl” does not mean your team should play like crap!
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 10:28 PM | Link to this
One more thing, Calvin Johnson, in his best interests, should leave after next season (as I’m sure he will). They’re not throwing the ball to him (best receiver in the nation) and maybe its b/c they can’t throw the ball to him. I hate to see such great talent unutilized. Its a terrible waste; talent that only our offensive genius could waste.
By Stinger Splash
December 29, 2005 10:29 PM | Link to this
It is time to fire Gailey. That was, by far, the worst performance of any alleged decent Tech team ever. The lack of coaching was apparent from the start. They had a month to get ready for this game and never once looked like they were capable of playing against even the Lowndes JV. Even Tech’s defense, also at times poorly coached, was exposed for the fraud it is. Remember the Auburn game? Even though Tech had all those picks, Auburn still threw for 350 yards because they had receivers running down the field wide open all night long. Remember, that was Tech’s senior captain and middle linebacker RUNNING OUT OF THE END ZONE with an interception. Where did he think he was going? To the Top of the Mark? And the only thing worse than Tech’s wretched schemes or its play-calling. How does P.J. Daniels not get the ball 30 times when he’s averaging 6 yards a carry, especially when Tech starts the second half at midfield and only down 10 points? And are there any other routes for Calvin Johnson other than the stop or the very low percentage deep fade? Plus, Chris Woods, with his blazing 4.9 speed, should nev er, ever have theball in his hands. Even after three years, Reggie Ball plays and acts like a freshman. Utah’s s QB, in his second start, looked like the second coming of Matt Leinart. Notice too that Ball ducked any questions after the game. It is time for the petulant Mr. Ball and the decent, though completely overmatched, Mr. Gailey to leave The Flats for good.
By sUGAr
December 29, 2005 10:29 PM | Link to this
Mark Richt would get Calvin in the game.
By THL
December 29, 2005 10:29 PM | Link to this
Reggie doesn’t complete passes because there are only deep sideline routes called. The middle of the field is the biggest part of the field and we have the best receiver in the country and we don’t turn him loose on defenses. He gets shut down in big games because his own coach pins him on the sideline and makes it easy for others to guard him.
This game was terrible. That #88 was not covered all day…IT’S CALLED A POST ROUTE IDIOTS.
Coaching is absolutely terrible. We have no hope of getting a competant coach because our own AD said he doesn’t expect to win 10 games a year…Good luck recruiting with that attitude.
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 10:34 PM | Link to this
sUGAr, thanks for pointing out the obvious. Tech fans are not disagreeing with you.
Tech fans, email Dave Braine and Wayne Clough. You can go the GT website, click directory, and do a search using their names Express your embarrassment, anger, etc. Flood their inboxes with emails. It might not do anything, but at least they’ll know people are ticked off (they probably don’t read the AJC).
By THL
December 29, 2005 10:34 PM | Link to this
Oh my god…I am so mad right now I’m shaking.
By WARUTAH
December 29, 2005 10:36 PM | Link to this
Until the ACC can bring its A game to such a “rinky dink” bowl, then the only thing “rinky dink” about it will be the ACC.
GT felt too sorry for themselves, and Utah acted like they’ve been there before.
By Mota
December 29, 2005 10:37 PM | Link to this
The secondary looked like their feet were in buckets of sand. Were they smokin what Rueben’s been selling? Utah made them look like they didn’t have a clue!
By mad Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 10:43 PM | Link to this
Is it me or do we have one of the best wide recievers in the nation. I wonder what kind of numbers Calvin Johnson would have if he had a QB who could throw the ball to him. I be he wishes every day he went to a school with a coach who knew what he was doing and a QB who had a brain and could throw the ball to him. I bet these DB’s like that they are getting credit for shutting Johnson down and it is not them it is the coach and QB not throwing to him.
The sad thing about tech is that Reggie is our starting QB. That means that there is not another QB at Tech that is better. I hope we are trying to recruit one this off season.
I hope something happens and we do not have to put up with this kind of play for 5 more years. I am tired of hearing it from the Georgia fans. Please give us some hope.
By GJJ
December 29, 2005 10:49 PM | Link to this
I LOVED every second of that game….
By Dane
December 29, 2005 10:49 PM | Link to this
Is there a buyout for Chan’s new contract?? Also if not can we please get a real Offensive Minded Coach on the flats. Lastly is Reggie on the hot spot again for spring ball. At least give Taylor a chance!!!!
By Disgruntled Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 10:49 PM | Link to this
Reggie Ball = COACH KILLER: Someone just good enough in practice to where you think he’ll play well in a game, but then he shows up to the games and plays horrible. There is nothing more painful for me than watching Reggie Ball on TV. He is absolutly horrible!!! I’m sick and tired of every announcer saying, “He just has a low completion percentage because he throws the ball away a lot.” No, his percentage is low because he’s a horrible player!!! 3 years of Reggie has about given me a damn heart attack! This might sound crazy but I still like Chan Gailey as a coach. I don’t know why, I just do. Reggie is single handedly killing the GT program.
By F...Reggie, F...Chan, F...Braine
December 29, 2005 10:51 PM | Link to this
Does it surprise anyone that in a meaningless bowl game when we’re down 100 points halfway through the 4th quarter that Chan doesn’t let someone else get some snaps? That is exactly why I hate him - he’s got several good QBs on that roster and he can’t prepare a single one to even take a few snaps. Reggie is the worst DI QB there is…period. Half of his completions were screens, he can’t look at more than one receiver and he continually throws the ball to Calvin 5 yards out of bounds. If I were Calvin, I’d transfer effective immediately.
But, you can’t blame the worst QB in the nation for everything. You’ve got to look at the man who has ensured that he has taken a step back since joining the Jackets. Ball arrived on campus with more talent than Joe Hamilton. Difference is Hamilton had an offensive genius to work under and worked hard to improve. I see none of that from Reggie or the coaching staff. If you disagree about Hamilton, you can’t disagree with Godsey. Ball has more talent in his foot than him. But Godsey had good coaching.
Lastly, you can’t blame it all on Gailey, the worst coach in the country. You’ve got to look at the f…in’ moron who believes in him - not to mention is responsible for the continuing string of academic oversight issues that weren’t corrected until dozens of athletes across several sports were declared inelligible.
Start at the top - fire Braine, fire Gailey and bench Reggie. Otherwise, there is point in supporting this band of losers…
By HJJ
December 29, 2005 10:54 PM | Link to this
Calvin Johnson? Having any second thoughts about your college choice?
By Matthew
December 29, 2005 10:54 PM | Link to this
Reggie Ball interceptions: 2
Calvin Johnson receptions: 2
Dawg fans loving every minute of it: millions
Being a member of the Fans of Chan Club: * Priceless *
For good football, make a trip to Athens. For everything worse, there’s Tech.
By Max
December 29, 2005 11:01 PM | Link to this
Reggie Ball declining post game interviews….real classy move. Reggie Ball will NEVER grow up. He is clearly NOT a leader and never will be a leader. I only wish he had four more years at Tech!!!
By JP
December 29, 2005 11:05 PM | Link to this
If you follow point spreads, you will notice most of the time the line is pretty much dead on, give or take 2, 3 or 4 points..how is it our team is favored by 8.5 and gets beat by 28? Effectively we lost 38 to 1.5. This, to me, says more than anything about how inconsistent we really are.
I am so fed up..this just cant be tolerated. Unreal.
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 11:06 PM | Link to this
Yes, we’re terrible, Matthew..and all of you UGA fans. Yes our bowl game sucks compared to your exhilirating match-up to the vaunted Mountaineers. Yes, your very uncreative parody of the overdone commercial is terrible, and yes you’re taking way too much time out of your schedule to wallow in our misery…which could only mean that you have no life. So go get one. When you guys win or lose, then you can post. Until then, get a life, don’t become defensive and post a reply to mine (b/c that will only prove my previous point), and don’t ever call GT students/alumni nerds as long as you come up with those kinds of parodies.
By 85jacket
December 29, 2005 11:07 PM | Link to this
Is anyone else getting juuust a bit tired of the quarterback draw? First of all, it’s a stretch to be calling ol’ #1 a “quarterback”, but that’s beside the point. If he isn’t getting whacked by people three times his size, he’s falling on his sorry face in the mud.
By BYU Fan
December 29, 2005 11:08 PM | Link to this
Our recent overtime loss to archrival UTAH was painful enough, but Tech…c’mon.
Where was the team? So the bowl stinks. You gotta show up. Wow. When I heard the score, I had to make sure I heard right. Tech not only loses, but loses by 28!
Thank you for assisting the Mountain West with recruiting.
By RamblinWreck C/O 95
December 29, 2005 11:10 PM | Link to this
I lost 500 bucks on this game tonight! Unbelievable!!! I’m going to get crucified at the office tommorrow. All season Ive been getting trash-talked by my co-workers, but Ive always been able to counter by talking about our win over Auburn or the U. Tommorrow there will be nothing I can say. This loss hurts bad. Nothing to gain, but eveything to lose. I’m going to have to quit telling people I went to Tech until at least late spring. This was the most depressing game Ive ever seen. I cant think of any reason to be optimistic about next season. The corpse of Bobby Dodd could have had the Jackets in better shape tonight.
By mtraininjax
December 29, 2005 11:10 PM | Link to this
Tech Fan,
Do what is right, forget the emails, send Tech the message and cancel FB tix and drop support for the program. Hit Tech where it hurts in the pocketbook. No one will listen until they need the alumni to come back in and support them. They haven’t listened in 4 years.
sUGAr, thanks for the posts captain obvious!
By Disappointed Tech Grad
December 29, 2005 11:10 PM | Link to this
Chan has proven he has no capability of motivating a team. For Tech coaches to have voiced concern for the bowl they were lucky enough to play in, was the first nail in the coffin. This is not motivation or leadership. This game was a total failure by the coaches - the players, alumni and fans deserve much more from the entire staff. Chan, you say they did not quit - maybe you are right because you have to start to quit -
By Bob
December 29, 2005 11:11 PM | Link to this
This is better than Christmas day….
By steve
December 29, 2005 11:13 PM | Link to this
I just watched that pitiful game on my new high definition TV. I’m going back to radio.
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 11:14 PM | Link to this
mtraininjax,
As long as Gailey is our coach, my friends and I have decided to not buy season tickets. I encourage all others to do the same.
By the way, heard C. Johnson’s comments? Its about time dude. Don’t worry about trying to be the anti-TO. Voice your anger. Get ticked off. Get ticked off at Reggie, what is he going to do? Not throw you the ball? Maybe overthrow the ball? If I were Calvin, I would flat out say that his high school QB was better than this chump.
By Chris
December 29, 2005 11:14 PM | Link to this
Don’t worry Tech fans, basketball season is here. Well, I guess baseball season will be here soon.
By TechFan2001
December 29, 2005 11:15 PM | Link to this
This one takes the cake. Reggie once again showed he isn’t capable of being a QB at a Div 1 school. If he played at Miami, FSU, Auburn, or UGA he would be a back up defensive back at best. This team has no heart. This is an absolute embarrassment to the university. Good thing we just gave Chan an extension.
By Ty
December 29, 2005 11:16 PM | Link to this
Thankfully, we only had to suffer through the first quarter (do to having to go to our daughter’s basketball game).
The funniest part of the day was talking with my father-in-law in California who thoguht Tech would win by 30 or mor! (ark, ark, ark!!)
I quickly straightened him out before kick-off so he wouldn’t be to depressed (I let him know that nothing scares a Gailey team like being ranked in the top 25 and that Reggie Ball can make ANY team’s defense look awesome!)
So, anyway, I missed it all (darn….). But, it does help confirm my earlier decision. Braine gives Gailey a five year extension…I cancel my season tickets after 24 years! (call me a quitter if you like. I agree with ‘Tech Fan’… Braine and Chan quit on us a long time ago!).
By Fire Gailey & the Braine
December 29, 2005 11:16 PM | Link to this
I have been saying the same thing for the past 2 years, that the GT football program is being driven into the ground by out stupid f#%$ing coaches & the stupid f%$#ing AD. As an alumi, this is f%$#ing embarrassing! I urge Tech fans/alumni not to attend Tech football games and not to contribute to the Athletic Association or fund drives. Hit the idiots where it hurts. Until we take a stand and not support these f%$#ing morons Braine, Gailey, & Nix, we shouldn’t expect anything but a f%$#ing sh*ty program! I am so pi$$ed right now, F$#% GT football!!!!1
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 11:18 PM | Link to this
Bob-
Read my previous post about getting a life. Pay special close attention to the part about being defensive and posting back. And pay EVEN MORE attention to the getting a life part. Go get a life, this is our game to talk about.
Also, your Christmas must have sucked. Even more reason to get a life.
By WARUTAH
December 29, 2005 11:19 PM | Link to this
All you Tech fans that are So embarrassed by being beaten by Utah truly are whiners. Utah has a winning record against the BCS conferences for the last 5 or six years. with wins against Cal, Oregon, A&M, NC, AZ, We’ve won the last 5 bowl games we’ve played, against Fresno State, USC (sacked Carson Palmer 5 times), Southern Miss (shutout), Pitt(blowout), and now GT(another blowout). Try and bear up.
By Techie99
December 29, 2005 11:21 PM | Link to this
Fellow Tech fans, don’t cave into these foolish ideas of boycotting Tech games. We all need to go to as many games as possible. No college ever got a football program turned around because it was playing in an empty stadium. There are other ways to change things. A boycott would only make things even worse, (yes that is possible).
By Fire Gailey & the Braine
December 29, 2005 11:28 PM | Link to this
Techie99, you’ve gotta be kidding me. You obviously know nothing about finance. The more you support these morons, the less of a chance they give a damn about getting rid of them. All programs look for the financial returns, so once again, I URGE ALL TECH FANS/ALUMNI TO BOYCOTT TECH GAMES & NOT GIVE ANY FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO OUR F%$#ING PATHETIC FOOTBALL PROGRAM
By Old Tech'r
December 29, 2005 11:30 PM | Link to this
I’ve been a Tech fan for 61 years. My daddy took me to the games through the legendary years of Bobby Dodd. I continued the tradition with my kids up until last year. I’ve seen the greats: Maxie Baughn, Jimmy Braselton, Larry Morris, Lenny Snow, Billy Lothridge. I saw the great competitors: Don Meredith, Joe Namath, Tony Dorsett, Herschel Walker. After today’s game, I am actually ashamed to be a Tech fan. After 61 years, I’m apparently rewarded with a fourth-rate school administration attitude toward athletics, a fourth-rate AD, a fourth-rate coaching staff, and a fourth-rate coach and football team that’s whined like two-year olds with wet diapers because they didn’t get the bowl game they wanted. They lost this game (and me!)because of poor attitude, poor preparation, and immaturity exhibited on a grand scale! The new attitude at Tech: “7 and 5 is good enough, and after that, we don’t give a d*!
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 11:32 PM | Link to this
WARUTAH-
Try and bear up? Our school bears a strong and rich history of football tradition. No offense, but yours does not. We have 4 national championships (last one in 1990), so its possible for us to win others (we beleive that). So, when we’re ticked off at our loss, its not so much that it was Utah…you need to read more closely. Its at the fact that we were unprepared (just like the many other times), a fact that you yourself cannot disagree about. And if you want to disagree with that statement, then you haven’t been watching Tech football under Chan Gailey. We have talent, and (again no offense), there was no reason why 1) We should have lost and 2) We should have lost that bad. We beat Auburn and Miami. The teams that you have beat are nothing compared to those teams. But then we lose to NCState, Virginia, and get killed by VaTech.
You are probably new to this site, so we’ll cut you slack on the first post. Don’t talk about beating Texas A&M or Pitt, or sacking someone 4 years ago (however long) and compare it to this game. Don’t tell us that we should bear up losing to you guys. We’re p** at our coach, not your team and not you.
By Ty
December 29, 2005 11:33 PM | Link to this
Dear Techie99,
Oh so wrong you are on this one. You must understand that we’re buying these season tickets year-in / year-out. During this time, they’ve cleared us out of the East Stands between the 40’s (to make those empty gold seats that visiting fans love), accussed of us of not being faithful to pony-up extra $$$ for a mediocre team, and then…..Tell us we must expect a mediocre program in football.
I assure you (as one who went through the Bill Lewis years)…IT WILL only take one season of the ‘old gold’ and boycotts by the alum base to send the strongest message (and affect change).
This team doesn’t need a bunch of lambs praising 7-5 finishes…it needs rabid zeaolots that want to win EVERY WEEK and believe their program is the best in the WORLD (not ‘just mediocre’).
And, it’s not a boycott if you really don’t care anymore (i.e. would you pay $168 to see a rotten movie 6 times in a row….and call it a boycott?)
By Chester
December 29, 2005 11:33 PM | Link to this
I’m a Ute fan who used to live in Atlanta. I’ve been following both teams over the past several weeks and there were a few things that made a huge difference: 1) Utah had all the respect in the world for Tech. Especially their defense. They basically locked themselved in the football facility to practice and prepare for this game. 2) In Utah, the Emerald Bowl sucks every bit as much to us as it does to the all powerful Eastern colleges. But the Utes did not whine or cry. They said- we have one more game. One more shot to prove ourselves against a ranked team and formidable defensive team. And they showed-up.
I feel sorry for the GA Tech fans. I would not renew my season tickets. That was sad example of preparation and lack of respect.
By I need SoCo
December 29, 2005 11:36 PM | Link to this
WARUTAH, hello!!! Utal lost to San Diego State, UNC, CO State, NM, and TCU. Congrats on last season, but on paper we should have slaughtered you guys. Utah isnt exactly the 95 cornhuskers or 01 Canes! Our talent is better, our conference is better, our D is better; and you guys beat the hell out of us. The line on this game was 8.5!!!! and we lost by 28!!!! GT losing to a MWC team is a disgrace. I think we have every right to “whine.”
By ben
December 29, 2005 11:38 PM | Link to this
Troy Aikman said Chan figured out how to make the 3 time Super Bowl champs offense look mediocre. Now he’s figured out a way to make the best reciever in college football look bad. You got a good look today at Tech football without Tenuta. His defense didn’t show up and man, was it ugly.
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 11:38 PM | Link to this
Techie99-
Listen to ‘Fire Gailey & the Braine’. Clough and Braine are money sluts. If you keep feeding them, they won’t change. The only thing that would possibly cause a change is for powerful alumni to back out or back out when they realize that fans are backing out. See, if fans back out, support goes down, and so does money. No one wants to invest in something with a low Return On Investment or a mediocre ROI. Think about it, would you continue to pour money into a stock that doens’t move up or down? Not if you are smart.
By Ty
December 29, 2005 11:40 PM | Link to this
Thank you, Chester…..you’re correct on all counts!!
I know from your post that you understand we are not attempting to diminish the win by the Utes (and we apologize for not sending a worthy opponent).
Dear Chan…please apologize to all Tech and Ute fans for not bothering to bring a worthy opponent to the ‘rinky-dink’ bowl.
P.S. Maybe Chan will give you another five years if you actually change QB’s….(what a gutsy move THAT would be….)
By Joe Green
December 29, 2005 11:40 PM | Link to this
The Utah Utes just dismantled us tonight. Good thing we didn’t play them last year when they were good. I’m trying to decide how much of it was us not showing up or the fact that Utah is a decent team. Either way, Coach G. needs to start finding some answers. Frustrating.
By Ben
December 29, 2005 11:45 PM | Link to this
Moore shouldn’t try to sugarcoat that second half with a claim that the Yellow Jackets “sort of quit”… Utah wore out the GT defense with 3 long drives in the third and (early in the) fourth quarters. They probably would have stopped Ganther late if they had any legs left. It was simply a 2nd half massacre.
By WARUTAH
December 29, 2005 11:45 PM | Link to this
Dear I need SoCo,
they don’t play the games on paper.
Dear Tech Fan,
Its great that you have such a rich football tradition. Tradition never put on a uniform and threw a touchdown, or made a tackle.
Your coaching may suck, and you guys may be p** off, but give Utah some credit. That’s all I’m saying.
By Whattheheck?
December 29, 2005 11:47 PM | Link to this
Instead of harping on all of the bad let’s talk about the good things. Our field goal kicker was 1 for 1. That’s about it….
By RamblinWreck C/O 95
December 29, 2005 11:47 PM | Link to this
Being that I lost a considerable amount of money on this game, how about some of you rich alumni (that will be saving all this money by not buying season tickets) reimburse me on the $500+ I lost tonight. I really think Ball should mail me some cash for my predictament though.
By Tech Fan
December 29, 2005 11:48 PM | Link to this
Ben-
I partially agree with you. Only thing is that its so hard for me to believe that our defense was “wore out”. The didn’t F$%&ing move the first half. They were worthless, and they gave the receivers way too much room. What the hell was going on? I mean, I know I’m not a coach, and I only have high school football experience and PS2 experience, but hell, even I would have adjusted better to the Utes offense.
By Matthew
December 29, 2005 11:51 PM | Link to this
WARUTAH,
He dude… uh, you suck as much as the Bugs do.
If you’d have played any of the other BCS teams last year but an undeserving Pitt team, you would have been killed.
Your team, much like your former coach, the Urban Myth, is vastly overrated. You play in a terrible conference. You play a little p—-y offense, which the Urban Myth is finding out will never work in a real college football conference.
Yeah, you beat a Bug team that was disapointed to play in their bowl. It happens every year to some underdog team. Don’t get too puffed-up. Your team still stinks.
You wanna play some real teams? Come play UGA, or Auburn, or LSU, or South Carolina, or ‘Bama. Our defenses over here would eat your little p—-y offense alive. Like we did the Urban Myth all year. And like we’re going to do the Mountainqueers on the 2nd.
So, have fun with the Bugs, but don’t get too big for your britches.
I mean… you’re a WAC team for cripessakes!
And BugFan… I have a nice life… I just love to revel in your misery. It’s fun, so sue me.
By Kevin
December 29, 2005 11:52 PM | Link to this
Reading this blog is better than more fun than any reality show on TV—and no, I don’t have a life.
By Allen
December 29, 2005 11:53 PM | Link to this
Its bad enough we have to get ridiculed by Dawg fans all year long, but now we have some Ute bloggers to deal with. I guess we’ve finally hit rock bottom when a guy by the handle of “WarUtah” comes into our blog and kicks us when we’re down.
By Ute Fan
December 29, 2005 11:54 PM | Link to this
There’s a reason Utah offense is top 15. What do we need to do to prove ourselves? Before this game, Tech fans were saying, “wait until you face a real defense”. Was that a real defense? Ranked 10th in the country playing against so called “real” teams?
If the “real” football programs would play us in a home and home (not a p*** 1 and done), we would line up to play them.
Get over yourselves and your so called “big time” football.
By Kevin
December 29, 2005 11:57 PM | Link to this
5 losses and playing in the WAC? Come on!
By Russ
December 29, 2005 11:59 PM | Link to this
It’s Called Respect… & ‘Over-Rated…’ GT b*** and moaned that they ‘had’ to play in SF against the UTES… (what is a UTE?) GT thought they just had to show up for the game… Utah had lost earlier games - but held together as a team… Why did your great receiver only have 2 receptions? Simply he was covered by Eric Wettle - Defensive player of the year for Utah and the MoWest. Utah matched up ‘man to man’ in their defensive sets… We control the line of scrimage and dared Bell to find the open reciever… Plus - one thing more… It’s called Coaching… www.nowbrightbox.com
By WARUTAH
December 29, 2005 11:59 PM | Link to this
Dear Matthew,
Dream on, we would have kicked the crap out of Oklahoma, or Auburn last year. Michigan too for that matter.
Oh, and Texas was going to schedule us next year until we had to add TCU to our schedule, when the NCAA approved 12 game schedules, we went to Texas and asked them if they’d like to put us back on their schedule. They won’t touch us with a ten foot pole. Wanna guess why?
Just wait until we jump to the PAC-10.
By Chester
December 29, 2005 11:59 PM | Link to this
Hey Mattspew- I can guarantee you that last year’s Utes would have competed head-to-head with any BCS school and killed them. And I gurantee you that Florida will be much better next year than last- his offense works and Utah still uses part of it- an offense that absolutely embarrased the 10th ranked defense in the country. We’d line up with you. Urban tried to get a Florida/Utah game and the administration told him no way- because your pansy schools are affraid about the prospects of getting beat by an “inferior” team and the associated loss of rankings and bowl money. So get off your little soap box and face the facts. Your team got beat by a better team today… not just beat… embarrassed.
By Ute Fan
December 30, 2005 12:00 AM | Link to this
:rollseyes:
Yeah, 5 wins against the WAC.
:shakes head and leaves:
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 12:02 AM | Link to this
Excuse me, what I meant to say was 5 losses and playing in the Mountain West? Please excuse my ignorance of Division II, I mean Division I football.
By WA_Ute
December 30, 2005 12:02 AM | Link to this
Matthew, now you’ve done it, I fear it will be nothing but Ute posters for you for the rest of the night. And remind me, what was the UGA vs. UF score this year. I guess UM is not all that bad.
P.S. Utah plays in the MWC.
By Matthew
December 30, 2005 12:03 AM | Link to this
Dream on, boys.
Yeah, sure you woulda beat Auburn last year.
Go back to Utah and marry 5 more women.
It’s bad enough I have to deal with the sister-kissers from West Virginia.
Smack talking Mormons is just too much right now.
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 12:06 AM | Link to this
I guess Tech’s not the only school where mediocrity (7-5) is acceptable. Long live the SEC!! Go Dawgs! SEC Champions!!
By Evan
December 30, 2005 12:07 AM | Link to this
Matthew, honestly man, theres a reason we don’t like UGA fans posting in here. That post of yours is perhaps the stupidest compilation of words ever put on the internet, ever. To start with the obvious, Utah is in the MWC, not the WAC. If you don’t even know the absolute basics, then its not hard to imagine how little you know about anything college football related. Your just another lost Georgia fan that stumbled upon a keyboard and thinks someone out there actually cares about your opinion. I’m sure your stupidity got you As in Athens, but this is the real world my friend. And by the way, you chose some tough words to Urban Meyer, a man that dismantled your beloved dogs. Here, I’ll type your rebuttal for you: “But we didn’t have a healthy Shockley, blah, blah, blah…” The Utes put up 38 points against a team that UGA barely put 14 up on. Don’t reply to this, just think about it.
By WA_Ute
December 30, 2005 12:11 AM | Link to this
Side note: All of the GT fans I have had contact with over the last few weeks have been nothing but class. Good look next year!
Here is hoping WV gets lucky.
By Tech Fan
December 30, 2005 12:12 AM | Link to this
Matthew-
The Urban Myth - 1
March Richt - 0
The p—-y offense is the same offense that So Cal is running (3rd year in a row they are in a national title game).
SEC’s vaunted defense? How about you ask Notre Dame what they think of the SEC’s vaunted defense. Maybe its the unvaunted offense that really emphasizes your “vaunted defense”…we put up 28 against Auburn. And if you’re going to make nonconference comparisons, please, bring in UGA’s nonconference games where they had high scores. La Monroe? Boise State? Please.
I don’t care what fan you are, but if you are going to make comments, even if it insults another team, make sure that your comments are credible. Especially in posts dealing with Tech, where I will be there ready to check arguments, make sure they are strong, and not unsubstantiated, not-well-thought random comments. Make SOUND arguments.
By WARUTAH
December 30, 2005 12:13 AM | Link to this
Mattspew is also confused about the nature of Utah. BYU is the mormon school, At the U of U. we like to smoke and drink, and have fun.
By Matthew
December 30, 2005 12:13 AM | Link to this
Evan, get your facts straight.
The Urban Myth didn’t dismantle anyone (unless you’re FSU).
The score was 14-10. We held the vaunted spread for just about no gain for 3 quarters.
The Florida defense, built be the Zooker not the Urban Myth, did a great job against a QB who never had a meaningful snap in four years.
And yes, a healthy Shock equals a win.
Fact remains, Utah and the Bugs suck.
WAC or MWC… I mean… does it really matter?
Let me answer that for you: NO.
Now, where can I get me some sUGAr?
By Dr. Dave
December 30, 2005 12:16 AM | Link to this
Dear GT fans, I’m a 40 year Ute fan and devoted follower of college football. We do have a little awareness of the game out here in the West. Make no mistake about it… we know Georgia Tech has and is a highly respected college, program and reputation. We were lucky to catch you at a time when you obviously were struggling with your sports program leadership. We’ve also been there in recent years. Suggestion, hold your ground as most of you are demanding… and get GT football where we all know it belongs… on top. Thanks for comin’ out west… we owe you one! Dr. D
By Dr. Smith
December 30, 2005 12:18 AM | Link to this
You are giving Utah too little credit. True, Utah was not the juggernaut of last year. But Utah underacheived much of the year and found some innovative ways to lose games. They had better talent than their record. Utah was bigger, stronger and better than Georgia Tech. To say that Utah should not be able to compete with a good ACC team because they are in the Mountain West shows poor knowledge of football.
By Todd
December 30, 2005 12:20 AM | Link to this
Matthew, keep on posting. Your making the SEC and UGA look worse than anyone else ever could. Anyone wondering about the quality of education someone receives at UGA vs anywhere else can look no further than Matthews last several posts. I’m not really annoyed by Matthews posts, I just kind of just feel sorry for the poor kid.
By Chester
December 30, 2005 12:20 AM | Link to this
Here’s is something we all have in common… a belief that the Emeral Bowl is not all that desirable. Not sure if your broadcast folks picked-up on this, but the Utah broadcast team was discussing during the pre-game that the field was only 97 yards because the bullpen fence was in the way. That’s a joke.
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 12:22 AM | Link to this
Amen, Chester.
By Matthew
December 30, 2005 12:23 AM | Link to this
Its not a secret I didnt come to Georiga to get an education! I just wanted to get brainwashed into a metaforical “dixie complex” by my school. Go dawgs!!!! We’ll beat FL next year!!!!!
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 12:26 AM | Link to this
By the way, how many Florida fans are holding up their SEC Championship shirts and cheering right now? Sure is quiet. Been a long time, huh?
By Orson
December 30, 2005 12:31 AM | Link to this
Ha, funny how the UGA fans come into a Tech blog and make fun of Florida! Kevin, Matthew, no FL fans read this. We know you guys are obsessed with beating Florida, but damn, this is a Tech blog. If you want to slam Tech, whatever, but check your Florida insecurity complex at the door. You Georgia fans are too pathetic.
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 12:35 AM | Link to this
How’s this then, Orson? Five in a row in football? Probation? And basketball this year? Hope this helps.
By ACCfan77
December 30, 2005 12:40 AM | Link to this
Matthew, you have no clue what conference Utah is in but you’re some expert on college football? Does it matter what conference they’re in? Yes it does. Knowledge of that fact seperates people into the categories of 1) Fools with internet connections (you) and 2) college football fans. Its funny how I can’t hold a five minute conversation with a UGA grad without them trying to rationalize a UF lose. I almost wish UGA would win the damn game for once so I could stop hearing about it.
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 12:40 AM | Link to this
I forgot one. Has Tech beaten Florida State lately?
By Tech Fan
December 30, 2005 12:42 AM | Link to this
Kevin-
Read my post about getting a life…closely (don’t come to this site to argue about how good UGA is or about how bad FL is…this indicates that you have WAY too much time on your hands and definitely need to get a life). This is a Tech blog. Talk about Tech and Utah. Not UGA, and not Florida.
And remember, don’t be defensive and come back with a reply like you did with Kevin. He made a good point, you showed insecurity by arguing something completely off topic. Stay on the subject, or get out and get a life.
By Orson
December 30, 2005 12:45 AM | Link to this
Kevin, your reaction is exactly what I’m talking about. Thanks for proving my point for me. :)
By Stinger Splash
December 30, 2005 12:49 AM | Link to this
For the love of God, this isn’t about Utah and its quest for respect or UGa and its fans’ quest for available parking, cheap Boone’s Farm and the ability to do some cipherin’. It’s about the absolute abysmal condition of the Georgia Tech football program, plain and simple. And what happened to Coach Braine’s “significant improvement” must be made? Is losing to a Utah team, barely over .500, with a backup quarterback, by 28 points, on national television good enough for you, Davey Boy? As long as Gailey is coach, this program won’t be able to compete at any national level, making Braine’s statements about Tech not being able to do so come true simply by keeping Gailey around. Taz Anderson was right; you don’t teach engineers how to build half a bridge. Maybe we can get the Legislature to change the name of the school to “7-5 Georgia Tech” so it will be easier on the idiot TV announcers for the decades to come. And can anyone calling a Tech game please have the guts to rip them once in a while? After you watch this team “quit” (and I think the Utah kid was right), you ought to blast away at them on the air.
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 12:51 AM | Link to this
Tech Fan, who died and appointed you blog monitor? I think I made some pretty SOUND points in my last two blogs (or maybe you “vacated” those. By the way, aren’t you up at 1:00 a.m. in the morning, too? Don’t you have a life or are you just an insomniac? Night. Night.
By Evan
December 30, 2005 12:53 AM | Link to this
Kevin:
By Kevin By the way, how many Florida fans are holding up their SEC Championship shirts and cheering right now? Sure is quiet. Been a long time, huh?
Who are you even addressing this to? I busted out laughing reading your post. How does a thread about the Emerald bowl between Tech and Utah get Dawg posters picking fights with UF fans?!?!? It would be sad if it wasnt so damn funny. Maybe you really should heed Tech Fans advice.
By Tech Fan
December 30, 2005 12:56 AM | Link to this
Kevin-
We lost and I can’t sleep. And I have a life b/c its MY team that lost, not yours (yet you still blog, and yes, you’ll read this).
No, you didn’t make sound arguments. And they were off topic.
Get off this blog, go to sleep, and dream up better things to post.
By smitty
December 30, 2005 01:04 AM | Link to this
Tech didn’t want to go to this bowl game and proved they didn’t belong. The players never got over whinning about it and showed it from the beginning by their body language. The Emerald Bowl had the last pic in the ACC and I’m sure now they wish they had a better team to choose from.
By Ty
December 30, 2005 01:14 AM | Link to this
This will be my last ‘mediocre’ posting about the team from the Flats…..tired of waiting for positive change….tired of the same old worn-out arguments about why we must accept a coach / QB who ‘don’t get it’….tired of being able to predict the offense and trying to understand how a program ‘mails-in’ their season results.
Worst of all, I’ve watched the apathy grow among the Tech faithful with the mediocre approach to football. (running on the field in 1990 is a dying memory now).
I’ve finally given up (hard to do after three generations and 25 years of season tickets, but this is a worthless waste of time for the Tech fan now)…..That’s it…I’m done.
By George Carter
December 30, 2005 01:30 AM | Link to this
GT got beat by a better team TONIGHT. I’m a Utah fan and am thrilled we don’t have to play this p** off band of yellow jackets tomorrow, so don’t think we are on our high horses tonight.
On the other hand, some of the weak comments about ‘not be ready to play’ and being disappointed in traveling so far for a bowl game are not worthy of the great institution that is GT. A team that beats Miami and Auburn and loses to lesser teams is simply a talented yet inconsistent team. There are dozens of them in the NCAA every year. That is coaching but it’s also the character of the players if they are not ‘up’ for a bowl game. One of your great defensive players (I mean that sincerely) said that the upper classman didn’t get the job done (motivating the team). Now THAT’S a real man talking, taking responsibility for a failure to perform.
GT is a great educational institution with a classy reputation. GT fans say the team didn’t show up, we say that the ACC is a great conference that is overrated in football almost every year. That’s the beauty of sports — there is a RESULT, and the rest of it is just poppycock. Glad I could join in. I wish GT the best of luck in the future in all its academic and athletic endeavors. And in the words of that great newsman, Ron Burgandy — Good Night GT — and you stay classy!
By Greg Carter
December 30, 2005 01:31 AM | Link to this
GT got beat by a better team TONIGHT. I’m a Utah fan and am thrilled we don’t have to play this p** off band of yellow jackets tomorrow, so don’t think we are on our high horses tonight.
On the other hand, some of the weak comments about ‘not be ready to play’ and being disappointed in traveling so far for a bowl game are not worthy of the great institution that is GT. A team that beats Miami and Auburn and loses to lesser teams is simply a talented yet inconsistent team. There are dozens of them in the NCAA every year. That is coaching but it’s also the character of the players if they are not ‘up’ for a bowl game. One of your great defensive players (I mean that sincerely) said that the upper classman didn’t get the job done (motivating the team). Now THAT’S a real man talking, taking responsibility for a failure to perform.
GT is a great educational institution with a classy reputation. GT fans say the team didn’t show up, we say that the ACC is a great conference that is overrated in football almost every year. That’s the beauty of sports — there is a RESULT, and the rest of it is just poppycock. Glad I could join in. I wish GT the best of luck in the future in all its academic and athletic endeavors. And in the words of that great newsman, Ron Burgandy — Good Night GT — and you stay classy!
By m
December 30, 2005 01:35 AM | Link to this
Ha Ha Ha!
By Dawg Fan
December 30, 2005 01:53 AM | Link to this
Hey “tech fan”, if we can’t all you nerds anymore, would you mind if we just called you losers?
By Steve
December 30, 2005 01:57 AM | Link to this
After watching the game today i don’t know how you could say anything other than Georgia Tech lost to a better team today. Clearly GT had no idea what the Utes were doing offensively, and the Utes defense really stepped it up. I mean how good was Eric Weddle on Calvin Johnson today?
I know that everyone here wants to blame the loss on the location of the bowl and from that the lack of motivation from the players, but football is played the same way in the west. Any bowl game is a chance to play in front of a national audience. How many other games were on at the same time, none. I don’t think the Utes would have cared if the game was in Maine, if you can’t get up for a bowl game then why are you even playing at all?
I really don’t care what any of you say. I could care less that 95% of the people that voted on ESPN thought the Utes would lose. You can’t honestly convince me that GT is better than Utah because if their defense was really that good, and Utah was really the medicore, you would think that one guy wouldn’t have four touchdown receptions, including 3 in the first 16 minutes of the game! The Utes were/are the better team today plain and simple (and i know you all wish you had the quarterback problems we have, which of our three should we start next year). NIGHT NIGHT
By m
December 30, 2005 01:58 AM | Link to this
haiku:
yeller
pee pee is yellow
cowards are yellow
ha ha ha yellow yellow yellow
sunflower honey bright sunny day
By Jeff Greene
December 30, 2005 01:59 AM | Link to this
Georgia Tech will always be mediocre in every sport, that is just the way it is. Tech fans need to face the fact.
By m
December 30, 2005 02:02 AM | Link to this
haiku too:
yellow, gold…shower
pee pee is yellow
cowards are yellow
ha ha ha
Chan gayly, Charlie Chan is yellow too!
By Tech77
December 30, 2005 02:08 AM | Link to this
I’m sick of everyone blaming the ACC for going to the emerald bowl. If we had beaten Virinia and NC State then we could have gone to a better bowl. Maybe I’m old fassioned, but I appreciate the organizers of the emerald bowl for inviting us, and I’m p** off at the tech staff and players for not making the most of the situation. The rest of the tech nation should show some class and stop being rude toward the people who were nice enough to invite us to San Francisco.
By C
December 30, 2005 02:10 AM | Link to this
As a Ute fan, even I thought we were going to lose that one. We lost our QB with an ACL tear and our lead reciver to a broken fibula in the same game. Our “back-up” QB did a great job. Sorry GT, better luck next year (at least beat UG, even I think their fans sound like p**) and maybe you guys should try your back-up QB.
P.S. For the uneducated, a Ute is a Native American tribe
By Dr. Nate
December 30, 2005 02:10 AM | Link to this
Bwahahahahahahaahaha
Defense, You all don’t know crap about defense
Go hit the distillers, Southern Boys!!!
Tech is getting so bad, golfers are transfering out to BYU!!!!!!!
By the Truth
December 30, 2005 02:17 AM | Link to this
Colorado won the national championship in 1990. Stop fooling yourselves tech.
By Jeff
December 30, 2005 02:17 AM | Link to this
Calvin Johnson should have played for the Dawgs. He is the only one, that we would take off of Tech’s team.
By wayne
December 30, 2005 02:20 AM | Link to this
you know you have reached the big time when you play at 4:30 in the afternoon 4 days before the real bowls begin in a baseball stadium in front of 20,000 fans and your game is being called by a female announcer, congradulations tech. GO DAWGS
By Alabama Jack
December 30, 2005 02:54 AM | Link to this
Next time we go into Indian Territory lets get a map from someone other than George Custer or Cahn Gailey.
By DAWG HATER
December 30, 2005 03:32 AM | Link to this
Top ten reasons to turn your Tech card in while watching todays game:
What a great way for the seniors to finish.
By bigo
December 30, 2005 04:23 AM | Link to this
I never knew that bees could stink ,but boy did they stink tonight, and just like the great people that they are, it seems that the players and fans have amnesia.You got your a* or stingerholder handed to you . How could you not be ready for this one, cause you beat the canes and the plains—mens, give me a break. Chan ,can’t throw a single pass, hand off a ball; or even tackle anybody unless he has a WOODY HAYES ,flashback and then he will have fired himself.Why don’t the players ,play a little better and win some more games; if i’m not mistaken seven games is three below BRAINES average. At least you kept the stink out of Atlanta so the DAWGS can breathe the fresh air. WOOF
By jkdawg
December 30, 2005 04:35 AM | Link to this
Man, GT totally sucks. I mean really. I used to feel a little bad for them b/c of recruiting restrictions but #1) your QB is terrible and it should be easy to get a smart QB and #2) your Oline got dominated by Utah which also should never happen. Losing to Utah by 1 point would be an embarrasment… by 4 touchdowns… well, let’s just say that I hope we can quit talking about how GT would do in the SEC. they might lose every game every season.
By Mike T.
December 30, 2005 04:47 AM | Link to this
How bout them Red and Black Utes!
By Senior Citizen
December 30, 2005 04:58 AM | Link to this
While watching the fiasco, I was reminded of the Sunday afternoons in the 70’s when I used to sleep in Atlanta Stadium at the Falcons games. Pro coaches still seem more interested in “not losing a game” than in winning one. I gave up my season tickets there too.
By Greg N.
December 30, 2005 04:59 AM | Link to this
How bout em’ ;). Go Utes!
By xmann
December 30, 2005 05:11 AM | Link to this
FIVE more years of this? Are Chan Gailey and Greg Knapp related? I never thought I would say this but I think I have finally given up on Tech football.Can we PLEASE get someone that understands what coaching is about and bring a REAL QB that can get Calvin the ball?!
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 05:19 AM | Link to this
Poor Ball n reat of GT where were u yesterday crowd was for u 25,462 ao ahould had won oh wait….it was the Utah Utes u played u flap gums said goin whip them.Well gainey n braine before Ncaa Bans u from post season next year..enjoy more lousy play calls bad quarterback Reggie(ican’tcount)Ball…….as for where played is no different then when played fresno state in there place few years back n the bowl game there u lost bad to….so here to next year as Fightin irish come in to bobby dodd stadium half full…(unless irish fans buy tickets) are sold out!
By Kevin
December 30, 2005 05:39 AM | Link to this
Go Utah i sorry ball who crys when his math go’s bad at time like when though was 3rd down 2 years ago at Georgia….what a loon we hope.So Ball enjoy u dorm destroyed again as u have get daddy buy u new clothes n a Puter….waaa waaa tech babys!
By TennDawg
December 30, 2005 06:02 AM | Link to this
Yes, it was only the Emerald Bowl, but c’mon. Truly unbelievable. While it may not have been as prestigious as a game to have been invited to, you still should have the pride, fight and resolve to show up. Damn, a week to practice and hang in San Fran. doesn’t sound too bad to me. As a college football and Bowl game fan, that was awful to watch! GT should be held accountable for paying back any money received and should offer the Emerald execs. a sincere apology.
By SugarDawg
December 30, 2005 06:28 AM | Link to this
I’m still waiting for you nerds to bring up your tough schedule and how you beat 2 top 10 teams. We beat our WAC opponent. HAHA! Your coach and your team is pathectic, and a disgrace to the state of Georgia. GO DAWGS!!
By Mike
December 30, 2005 06:57 AM | Link to this
Well, based on the “logic” Braine has used thusfar, supported by President Clough, next will come another one year extension for Gailey…then in a few months the Athletic Association should be disbanded and put under the leadership of the Chemical Engineering Dept since obviously no one as excellent as Dave Braine can possibly be found to replace him, and after all these are students anyway….
Then, in a year or two when contributions are floundering and season ticket sales are dropping, perhaps then Clough will stick his head up from the sand and wonder how he’s going to pay for o’Leary’s folly (stadium expansion)
Seriously, how dumb is this administration, and how long do they think they can put out this kind of c**p and stay in what is thought of as big time football?
The 5 year extension was perhaps the dumbest move I have seen in my 30 plus years of watching GT football. Now, these folks will spend the next two years of declining everything making excuses and defending their actions.
No more contributions from me. Only question is whether I buy season tickets and deliberately leave the seats empty as a form of protest. Who knows, there is always the chance that some President of the Institute will come along who takes his or her responsibility seriously in this arena, and takes action.
By GoDawgs
December 30, 2005 06:59 AM | Link to this
Hey “Tech Fan”….your a NERD!!!!!
By Woof
December 30, 2005 07:03 AM | Link to this
Hey jackettes…now do you understand why the bowl selection committee picked VA and NC State for better bowls???????
By thisispathetic
December 30, 2005 07:15 AM | Link to this
Last night was just another embarrassment in an otherwise embarrassing season. I really do not care if we win 11 games a season or one. As a Tech alumnus who, like all Tech alumni, worked their behinds off to graduate from Tech, all I want is a little effort. That showing last night was just plain pathetic. I hope that the football players just leave without graduating because I do not want their lack of pride tarnishing my diploma. As much as we make fun of our enemies in Athens, they NEVER give up. We should hope that someday we will have a coach that can inspire players to play, and players that can take pride in the fact that they are playing for Tech. Pathetic.
By disappointedalumnus
December 30, 2005 07:17 AM | Link to this
Last night was just another embarrassment in an otherwise embarrassing season. I really do not care if we win 11 games a season or one. As a Tech alumnus who, like all Tech alumni, worked their behinds off to graduate from Tech, all I want is a little effort. That showing last night was just plain pathetic. I hope that the football players just leave without graduating because I do not want their lack of pride tarnishing my diploma. As much as we make fun of our enemies in Athens, they NEVER give up. We should hope that someday we will have a coach that can inspire players to play, and players that can take pride in the fact that they are playing for Tech. Pathetic.
By sUGAr
December 30, 2005 07:34 AM | Link to this
I am not the typical Tech hating UGA fan and try to give Tech credit where credit is due. On defense last night the problem was pretty obvious. Tech’s normally effective blitz packages were controlled by Utah and when they failed to get to or pressure the QB, the secondary got exposed. That happens occassionally when a team lives by the blitz. What I CANNOT understand is Tech’s aerial game plan. I have never, ever seen a team that just refuses to throw anything into the middle. Average and good recievers in every decent passing attack in this country get inside the corners and safeties for large gains. Tech has CALVIN JOHNSON! His size and speed make him the perfect player for the skinny post pattern that Utah torched you with time after time last night. Even on shorter over the middle routes the guy has the height and weight to win his share of the battles. Last night it was obvious that Tech’s passing philosophy just doesn’t take advantage of Calvin’s assets. I thought that DeMario Minter did a good job on Calvin, but last night really illustrated that Calvin is covered not only man up but that the sideline in effect gives the D another defender. Guys the only logical explanation that I can come up with is that Gailey has so little confidence in Reggie Ball that he has scrapped 2/3ds of his offense because of fear of mistakes. Reggie is obviously not very good and holds you back. Unfortunately, Reggies lack of ability is in effect wasting one of the best recievers in the country. Tech fans need to start an “anybody but Reggie” caimpaign before next season or you can expect more of the same.
By Rick
December 30, 2005 07:38 AM | Link to this
This game showed what everyone should already know…Reggie Ball is just like Mike Vick…he can’t win the big games. He’s inconsistent…every so often he has a game he actually hits receivers and is prone to fall and fumble. I can’t believe Gailey stuck with him after seeing how totally out of sync he was. Like the Falcons, Tech needs to find a new quarterback.
By Tom Westlund
December 30, 2005 07:40 AM | Link to this
I wish you Tech fans would quit using the Emerald Bowl and playing ssoooo far from home as an excuse for getting beat. Face it your team is a Joke. I don’t care who you beat before the Utah game.
By David Morgan
December 30, 2005 07:46 AM | Link to this
In years past I would get excited when August arrived it meant Tech football was around the corner. I no longer get excited. I can remember taking a pocket radio into the Saturday matinee and listening to Jack Hurst and Al Ciraldo broadcast the games. Keep your eye on the ball. I remember Tech greats such as Fred Braselton, Bussell, Billy Williamson, Lothridge,Snow, King, Baughn, Stephenson, Perdoni, Ivery, and Hamilton. The opposing greats such as Tarkenton, Rakestraw, Dye, Meridith, Namath, Spurrier, Walker, and Holloway. Coaches like Dodd, Butts, Jordan, Bryant, Graves, Broyles, Dietzel, and Ross. I regret that Notre Dame didn’t call O’Leary one year earlier. Ralph Friedgen might be strolling the sidelines of Grant Field now rather than Gailey. We need leaders like Edwin Harrison, Rice, Dodd, Ross, and O’Leary. We do not need leaders like Pettit, Clough, Braine, and Gailey. I no longer hold season tickets, seldom attend a game in person, but I’m always by a radio or TV. I can cut those off and walk away in disgust. I am not a fair weather fan. I have been around from Dodd to Gailey. I do not want to change academics, but we have won before and it can be done again.
Chan Gailey might be the finest man in the ACC but I don’t care for his coaching. He could not adequately prepare a Pee Wee team nor motivate them. I have seen more consistency and better preparation from high school teams from Lincoln County to Valdosta. Utah has a good team but not that good. They came motivated and ready to play and we didn’t. I tip my hat to the Utes and their coaching staff. The Emerald Bowl was just another indication of ups and downs, inconsistency, and mediocrity. Certainly, Gailey can never admit that he and most of his staff are mediocre, but Ray Charles could see it!
It saddens me that a once proud program is going down the tubes, and if changes are not made may never recover. I’m glad binding contracts are no longer in vogue. Maybe Braine’s successor will buy out Gailey’s contract. I’m becoming emabarrassed to wear my Tech caps and colors and I have them back to the late 1950s.
By OWNED
December 30, 2005 07:46 AM | Link to this
HA HA HA HA HA
Nice game MAGGOTS.
Save yourself from the ridicule and misery… dissolve the athletic department now. HA HA HA HA HA HA
By Tech88
December 30, 2005 07:57 AM | Link to this
If Mark Richt had Calvin Johnson the mutts would be playing on January 4th. I agree with sUGAr. It has to be Reggie. If you remember, Chan was not afraid to send the “playmaker”, Michael Irvin(big and tall) over the middle in Dallas. Of course Reggie is no Aikman either.
By SuwaneeDawg
December 30, 2005 08:00 AM | Link to this
Hey, don’t be so hard on yourselves. Utah is a great team. They finished fourth in the WAC, or Mountain West, or some conference. Remember, you guys have a lot of guys returning next year. 5 wins is certainly not out of the question. Buck up.
By Legliftingdog
December 30, 2005 08:01 AM | Link to this
Hahahahaha … Well Tech, you certainly are a powerhouse. Maybe instead of firing Gailey, you should just man up and do the right thing: end your so-called football program. What a joke Tech is.
By Other Mark
December 30, 2005 08:05 AM | Link to this
Where do I start??
First, Chan has SIX more years - five year extension on a contract that still had a year left? It’s worse than you thought!
Second, how can a team find a way to get the ball to their second receiver 14 times, but we only get to our first receiver twice? It’s play calling and scheme — never has CJ been put in motion to change the coverages and switch off.
Third, I’ve said several times and been ridiculed by other Techies for saying that Chan couldn’t win in Dallas with 4 Hall-of-FAmers on offense — how could he possibly teach Reggie anything? This guy was a mediocre OC and even worse head coach.
And Finally - I gave up my season tickets two years ago and urged the rest of you to do the same. It’s the only thing they will understand. Frank Broyles (whose name came up in the telecast) publicly rebuked Tech in the 70’s for their lack of commitment and withheld all support until they cleaned up their act — it brought us Homer Rice and obvious improvement.
I’m not sure we have any influential alumni today that have the guts to do anything? I think they are satisfied with 7-5.
I didn’t get ticked off last night - I’ve come to expect Tech not to show up and I’m seldom disappointed anymore.
By Mayretta Dawg
December 30, 2005 08:14 AM | Link to this
I read the article and Blogs to bask in the sun after yesterday’s debacle but I actually feel sorry for you guys. You must feel helpless knowing that Chan got the contract extension and Reggie is coming back for one more year. By the way, Reggie is an absolute headcase. He has come a long way since hitting one of our assistants on the sidelines but he was about to have a flashback when he felt like someone twisted his ankle in last night’s game. Reggie, it was the turf monster not a Morman trying to injure you!!! Furthermore, I don’t know why Chan allows Reggie to complain to the refs after every time HE doesn’t execute; Reggie Ball is no Michael Jordan. The long pass before the half looked like a punt and he was lucky the Utes’ D had a brain fart.
With that said, I really feel sorry for Calvin Johson. What a waste of great talent. Calvin is huge blocking downfield and can make any catch (except those thrown 10+ yards out of bounds by Mr. Ball). I just hope his NFL stock isn’t hurt by having three years of being thrown to by an incompetent QB. Could you imagine his stats if thrown to the past two years from Greene and Shock??!!! Go Dawgs!!!!
By Mister Swains
December 30, 2005 08:18 AM | Link to this
So close but yet so far away…………
Swains;)
By Ron Roberts
December 30, 2005 08:18 AM | Link to this
They should’ve sent Parkview H.S. to play Utah.
Thank God I can say It’s Great To Be A Georgia Bulldog!
The good news for us Dawgs is that Chan’s contract was extended! YES!
By MCDonoughDawg
December 30, 2005 08:20 AM | Link to this
Tech lost by 28 to Utah and Tech fans don’t expect UGA fans to have some fun with it? Give me a break. Put the shoe on the other foot and this site would have collapsed under the weight of Tech fans bashing UGA.
By Burdell
December 30, 2005 08:22 AM | Link to this
I don’t know what is worse - that I find myself actually agreeing with t. moore, or that we are looking at another year of the ball/gailey team.
By james
December 30, 2005 08:22 AM | Link to this
Matthew is 10 years old, ignore him. I went to Georgia and I’m not kidding when I say that I felt sorry for Tech’s players yesterday. It may take a while, but keep up the pressure on Braine and he’ll eventually buckle. His problem is that he always wants to throw around his Frank Beamer story when the truth is that caught a lucky break with him. Rally your alumni together in this cause. The difficulty is getting the “big bucks” guys involved, who generally don’t read internet blogs. Prove a point by using old-fashioned snail mail. Having an email folder to capacity can’t hold a candle to an office waste deep in mail. Don’t let the contract fool you, those don’t mean much. That may have been some sort of recruiting tool. I don’t take any pleasure in seeing Tech get whipped (unless it’s by us), and I’d honestly say I hope you guys can come around. We don’t recruit the same players and I feel that Tech getting better can make UGA get even better just by peaking some interest in the area. In the history of your program, you’ve suffered your worst loss to Georgia and your worst loss in a bowl game in just 4 years on Gailey’s watch. Point all of these flaws out and don’t be afraid to be relentless and crude - Tech will listen eventually.
By alan
December 30, 2005 08:23 AM | Link to this
o.k. all you rich alumni, let’s clean house starting with Braine, Gailey and anyone else involved in this miserable football program. We will never compete in the ACC without bringing in a talented AD and Coach. I won’t be supporting the program any more until this happens. I haven’t felt this bad about our program since Bill Curry was head coach. Alan
By james
December 30, 2005 08:28 AM | Link to this
Another thing I forgot to mention that should be held against Gailey and the coaching…Reggie Ball is one of the most experienced QBs in all of college football at this point and he has the plays on his wrist. Some guys can be coached to death and they don’t have the physical talent to improve, but at this point he should know the offense like the back of his hand and be able to manage the game. That falls on coaching. A 3rd year QB (at the END of his 3rd year) shouldn’t be jawing off after every play either. Again…coaching.
By James
December 30, 2005 08:32 AM | Link to this
i went to this game yesterday and was completely embarrassed to say that i was from atlanta let alone was a gtech grad…this team obviously didn’t want to be there and it showed from the opening kickoff…they were physically manhandled and played absolutely awful on both sides of the ball…there were no adjustments on defense as utah ran the same play on 3 of those 4 TDs that LaTendresse had…it was a shameful display from top to bottom…at the end of the day, the jackets are, physically, a better team than what they showed, but they are poor on leadership, discipline, effort, and pride…who cares how talented you are if you don’t play w/ effort…i could go on and on but i’ll finish by saying that gtech lost a fan yesterday and it’s b/c of their awfully embarrassing effort.
By john
December 30, 2005 08:33 AM | Link to this
The only way to force change is to stop donating to Tech. Both acadameic (Roll Call) and sports (Alex Tharpe) donations, unfotunately. Maybe then they will get the message. And stop buying tickets.
By john
December 30, 2005 08:37 AM | Link to this
Chan has done a lot of no god for us - losing 4 in a row to UGA. But now, he lost one record that was very meaningful - the best bowl percentage. He needs to just resign and do us all a favor.
By john
December 30, 2005 08:39 AM | Link to this
Why not write Dave Braine and tell him what you think of him and Chan: dbraine@at.gtaa.gatech.edu
By wiley
December 30, 2005 08:41 AM | Link to this
I’ll tell you what the problem is with GT football - it is the fact that Reuben Houston is not only on the team but playing as a starter. How in the world can you play Rueben Houston and not reveal the fact that you are not out to build character in your men - all you (coach Gailey) are out for is victory at any cost. What type of message does this send to the rest of the guys on the team that are not trafficking in drugs. Coach Gailey proves by playing this guy that he is no leader and that is his teams will forever be defined as “mediocre” and “underachievers”.
By HulkHogan
December 30, 2005 08:46 AM | Link to this
The best thing that could happen to “the Ball” is for one of these studs that he is constantly mouthing off to, to just pick him up and body slam him one good time. The kid is a loose cannon and obviously gets no discipline whatsoever from the Tech coaching staff. When a kid just doesn’t get it in any way form or fashion…performance…attitude…class… it is up to the coaching staff to help him pull his head out of his 4th point of contact. The coaching staff is the reason Reggie continues to be Reggie.
By john
December 30, 2005 08:46 AM | Link to this
Rueben Houston had absolutely nothing to do with that embarrassing game yesterday - and if you think he did, you need to wacth it again unfortunately.
By Other Mark
December 30, 2005 08:49 AM | Link to this
Wiley - you would never, ever say that Chan just “wants to win at all costs” if you have ever watched his play calling. That’s just so wrong!
Playing Houston was the low-point of this season - and there were many!
By UTE_Fan
December 30, 2005 08:51 AM | Link to this
After all of the pre game predictions and trash talk…
The question must be asked… How do you like your crow?
By brewerfaninATL
December 30, 2005 08:52 AM | Link to this
Man oh man, what an a$$ whuppin! And you guys wanted to take on the Big Ten? Please! Northwestern or Minnesota would have won 55-10. I know you guys are better, much better, than what you played last night, but this is an utter disgrace. If you guys, inc. the whole ACC (minus FSU and Miami who have been there, done that) want any respect, than earn it in games that count the most…especially you VA Tech!
By wiley
December 30, 2005 08:55 AM | Link to this
To John: The fact that Houston is on the team certainly has an negative effect on the morale as well as the character of the team. Read what the utah receiver had to say about the defense after the 1st qtr - they quit! All you had to do is watch the endless post patterns resulting in touchdowns to see the quit in Georgia Tech yesterday. Why didn’t Gailey shut them up from all the whining about having to go to the Emerald Bowl - same reason, he has no control over this team.
By Other Mark
December 30, 2005 08:57 AM | Link to this
You’re right John - Houston had nothing to do with yesterday’s debacle. But, I think the point being made by Wiley is that it’s just wrong to play a player that is under indictment. Did not look good for the program - right or wrong.
By KneeJerk
December 30, 2005 09:00 AM | Link to this
What a sports year… Braves blowing up in Houston, Falcons and their abyssmal season, and now the Jackets. 2006 can’t get here quick enough. I don’t mind the ribbing from UGA fans a bit. You won’t see me on their blogs, but I’d be all over their football team if they somehow lost to the Mountaineers.
By Adam
December 30, 2005 09:02 AM | Link to this
All I can say is that Gailey is riding Jon Tenuta’s coaching talent. There will be games, inevitably, where you can’t stop an offense right off the bat. But YOUR offense needs to give you enough time to make adjustments. Not just give the ball right back. I’ve never seen a team’s offense more mechanical, more scripted than Tech’s. Gailey’s pre-game planning works, until the first few drives are over. Look at Auburn and Miami, where we produced early, then folded late. Oh yeah…another peeve…Ball consistently “eyes” one receiver. And NO matter what, he’ll throw it to the guy, even if he has half the defense on his back. He just thinks the harder he throws it, the less chance he has of getting intercepted (which…after 3 years…he should figure out that that’s not working). And I want to thank everyone for telling him to start throwing the ball away more when he’s under pressure. Now he does it every other play. We’re consistently looking at 2nd & 3rd and long situations. No offense can thrive like that. I do see a little more originality that past year, but any QB that can’t complete more than 50% of his passes after 3 years of starting needs to be replaced. No question about it. And quit the comparisons to Hamilton. Ball hasn’t shown NEARLY that much talent, poise, and smarts in the pocket. Oh…and one more thing…maybe we can teach a QB to start reading defenses from the line of scrimmage. That would be a novel idea that…oh…say every other team in the NCAA employs. Basically, unless Gailey loses the ego trip and hires an offensive coordinator, Tenuta will be snatched up by some team that wants to be more than mediocre, and we’ll be stuck with a coach that consistently produces sub-par offenses for another 5 or so years. Defense is the only thing keeping this ship afloat. Let’s fix the offense, so it can actually go somewhere.
By Hulk Hogan
December 30, 2005 09:05 AM | Link to this
John, Wiley does have a point and it is starting to be very obvious. Reggie Ball’s continued bad behavior along with the whole Houston debacle is starting to appear symptomatic of something much deeper that is festering in the Tech program. Does anyone remember the dust-up during Reggie’s 1st year when he got physical with a Ga. coach? Does anyone remember Thomas Davis’s quote when he was asked about what happened? He stated that “the guy just went nuts. He just lost it. Then he wanted to fight me.” When was the last time dating back to the “pizza brawl” that a Tech player has been suspended for anything? (Houston the exception) Your coaching staff has allowed Reggie to embarrass himself and your school for 3 years folks. And he is YOUR QUARTERBACK…YOUR LEADER! Thomas Davis should have done you guys a favor and adjusted “the Ball’s” attitude when he asked for it as a freshman. Of course Davis was not coached to respond like a punk and would have ridden the UGA pines for a long time if he had done Chan’s job for him.
And John. Watch the tape. Houston got beat like a drum all night long. So in a way, Tech got what it asked for by putting the “alleged” felon on the field. In the long run it blew up in Chan’s face.
By bill
December 30, 2005 09:13 AM | Link to this
OK folks, another bashing by a team that we took for granted and didn’t really have any incentive to play against. The play calling was really bad, Reggie is a total embarrassment at QB, running his mouth and strutting around like he accomplished something. I’m beginning to think that CJ is slightly overrated, two straight games he has been shut down by DB’s that were virtual unknowns. Everyone says that the ball should be thrown to him more often but you can’t throw to him if he never gets open. I was at the UGA game and CJ didn’t get the ball because the defense kept him covered and off stride all night, watching on tv last night (and I know that you can’t really see what is going on away from the ball) I didn’t see Calvin without a defender in his face and another one close by. CJ will be a much better pro player where he doesn’t have to do it all by himself and will have some other receivers on the field that the defense has to at least give cursory notice to. UGA and Utah put the wood to Tech’s passing game by covering CJ and basically ignoring the other receivers because they knew that the others couldn’t do enough damage to beat them, especially with Reggie at QB. We might as well settle in for at least five more years of mediocrity, Braine(less) guaranteed that by extending Gailey and making it very clear that he has no real expectations from the athletic programs. I’m beginning to think that the ho-hum attitude toward winning has already rubbed off on the basketball program.
By SRF
December 30, 2005 09:14 AM | Link to this
“ship afloat” ? “fix the offense” ?
Oh no,no,no - this is such a lost cause. The administration has decided to kill the program and that is final. No hope.
It is time to give up and try Division 2 with the other Junior College teams.
By Junkyard Dawg
December 30, 2005 09:19 AM | Link to this
Regardless of what the other UGA fans on this thread believe, it does UGA absolutely ZERO amount of good to have Tech go in the dumper. The quality of your opponents is a major factor in this crazy BCS thing and there’s no way Tech comes off our regular schedule. So if we continue to play NE Louisiana-Monroe School for the Blind and Tech and Tech sucks, then UGA will get hosed.
As a UGA fan, it’s good to see the passion of the Tech fans. I was beginning to wonder if the mediocrity on the field was related to the lack of passion in the fan base. I was at the GT/NC State game and there seemed to be a general lack of interest in the game. I guess losing to teams like NC State can do that. But it’s actually good to see this many fans getting hacked off. It’s a step in the right direction.
As for Richt, it’s widely known that if Richt would not have accepted the UGA job, Dooley’s short list included Chan Gailey and Ray Sherman. Wouldn’t that be ironic?
By NoChanFan
December 30, 2005 09:23 AM | Link to this
Chan, it was obvious to the whole football world that your team Q-U-I-T. Why don’t you?
By tdr
December 30, 2005 09:24 AM | Link to this
Outplayed, Outcoached, Utterly disgusting. Hats off to Utah, they came to play. Braine & Gailey combo has not only damaged the football program but the academic integrity of the school as well. Braine’s contract should be rescinded along with Gailey’s. Hard to take for long suffering Tech fan.
By Juan Valdez
December 30, 2005 09:24 AM | Link to this
Someone brought up the ridiculous idea of boycotting Tech football. It would appear from all of the empty seats at “historic� Grant field that many Tech fans have been boycotting for quite some time now. If you really want the reason as to why Tech found itself in the Emerald bowl this year you need look no further than those empty seats.
The Music City Bowl saw those empty seats and realized that they could invite Virginia and bring in 15,000 fans or Tech and bring in 5,000 fans. Same thing goes for the Continental Tire bowl. Tech can blame its pitiful fan base instead of the ACC for having to travel all the way to San Francisco to collect its butt whuppin.
If Tech wants to be a big time program again, then it needs to start acting like a big time program.
Start by building your fan base to more than just your Metro Atlanta alums. Few folks outside of the metro counties either know or care much about Tech football.
Build up your radio network across the state of Georgia. I enjoy 790-the-zone but its signal leaves a lot to be desired outside of the perimeter. You can forget about pulling it in after 6pm. If you travel around the state, Tech broadcasts can be difficult to find.
Focus more of your recruiting on in-state kids. Local people are more apt to build a connection to Tech if someone on the team comes from their hometown. It’s nice to say you recruit nationally, but that’s certainly not filling your stadium seats. Don’t give me that tired old line about the challenging Tech curriculum and not being able to find recruits with the academic ability to cut it. Reggie Ball doesn’t strike me as the rocket scientist type.
Find yourself a new AD. Dave Braine is killing Tech’s recruiting efforts by telling everyone that mediocrity is acceptable at Tech.
For what its worth, I’m a UGA alum, and yes, I genuinely felt bad for the Tech players yesterday. I really would like to see Tech pull it together. Having two quality teams in the state does nothing but help both Tech and UGA.
By Jerry
December 30, 2005 09:25 AM | Link to this
I was embarrassed for the school and the team while watching the game. I can understand the team feeling that they should have gone to a different bowl game but you back up your words with action.Beating Utah and dominating the game would have indicated that the team deserved a different bowl but their actions on the field indictated that they did not even belong in this bowl game. Even more embarrasing was the statement made by the announcer comparing the strategies of the quarterbacks. The goal of the Utah qb was to win the game while the goal of the GT qb was to manage teh team and not lose the game. Football is a zero-sum game-you win or lose and if your strategy is not to lose, which means it is not to win, tehn you have already lost. Perhaps Brain and Gailey need a few classes on game theory. Bobby Dodd is rolling over in his grave.
By Scott
December 30, 2005 09:26 AM | Link to this
Please don’t bemoan about the field, its football, rain, snow, wind, you play. Georgia Tech didn’t. Upset about the Bowl pick, get over it. Many teams with better records were not picked for any bowl. A bowl game is a bowl game, an extra 30 days of practice, an extra game to show yourself off. Georgia Tech didn’t. Scott
By Gravy
December 30, 2005 09:28 AM | Link to this
Well, I’ve given a good bit of money to the athletics programs over the last 30 years….(CO 75)
Looks like I’ll just STOP that…
At least we have hope that next year the BB team will be better.
I have no such hope for the FB team; emabarrassment on a national scale, probation, Gailey not going anywhere for the foreseeable future….this is Tech’s version of “three strikes and you’re out”.
Gailey and staff mailed it in, and this is what happens when you mail it in. Tenuta must have passed out in the booth upstairs after that first Utah TD….nobody ever covered that guy - ever - all day.
By Hawkadoo
December 30, 2005 09:30 AM | Link to this
Geeeeez Tech….. you call THAT football?????? I try to root for you guys when you aren’t playing us, but what an embarrassment. Man is it good to be a Dawg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is the only team I know that DOESN’T EVEN TRY to use it’s best player (probably the TOP receiver in the country)
By Dave
December 30, 2005 09:30 AM | Link to this
It was an embarassing loss but lets face it, our guys just were not pumped to be there. Maybe next year we can actually have our own sideline! That bowl should be embarassed.
By WILLIE
December 30, 2005 09:31 AM | Link to this
gailey didnt couldnt coach in dallas and sure cant at teech who ever extended his contraact should be fired along with him the whole team look like a little leage team
By JoeHamilton
December 30, 2005 09:34 AM | Link to this
Tech really sucks. I mean, they even sucked when I was there. I’m just happy they were dumb enough to offer a midget QB like me a scholarship. Everyone else wanted me as a horse jockey, but not Tech. They saw what everyone else didn’t- a below average QB that could take them past that elusive 6 win plateau. Get used to losing guys because it’s our tradition as urine-clad nerds. We will never be as good as Georgia- or Georgia Southern for that matter. With that said, I’m prepared to make my first important announcement since….well I guess this is my first important announcement: GO DAWGS!!! SIC ‘EM!!! WOOF WOOF WOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By robb
December 30, 2005 09:40 AM | Link to this
those without a GED root for UGA. Just back a truckload of money up to the door of George O’ Leary and bring him back. Utah is a good team but certainly not 28 points better than tech. The utes wanted it more. Tech was disinterested and labored under the delusion that they could simply show up and win. dawg fans, urban Meyer beat you plain and simple. I know Shockley was hurt, but the truly great teams overcome injuries. Durka Durka Jihad
By CanChanNow
December 30, 2005 09:44 AM | Link to this
I am a life long tech fan and I expected what happened in the Emerald bowl. All the boys did was what was expected of the by a bad AD. If you hire mediocre and coach mediocre you will have mediocre play (of course last night was terrible). Don’t fire Chan, fire Braine and let his replacement fire Chan. But, that’s not going to happen because it would cost of $5 million! So get used to it. I will be 48 years old when we finally get a shot at an 8 win season
By George O'Leary
December 30, 2005 09:45 AM | Link to this
No thanks, Robb. I’ve grown to enjoy having beautiful women around me all the time down here at UCF, unlike at Tech, when the only time I saw beautiful women was when we played Georgia. I’ve finally realized there’s a reason why Tech is so close to midtown.
By Mayretta Dawg
December 30, 2005 09:46 AM | Link to this
Robb,
Are you kidding me??!! “those without a GED root for UGA.” Last time I checked, most GEEF contributors are UGA grads like myself. Touting “student athletes” and your engineering school is just a prop for a LOSING program. Guess that argument doesn’t hold water anymore, does it Robbie boy with all the inelligible players that have graced the flats. I’d check Hamilton’s transcripts while the NCAA is at it, have you heard him on CSS broadcasts??!!
By Bobby Bowden
December 30, 2005 09:51 AM | Link to this
Would someone in the Tech athletic department give me a call. I need the name of the lawyer that you hired to get Houston back. I need to get Nicholson back on the field before our bowl game. And I want to thank Tech for setting that precedent. I thought I knew all the tricks to keep my criminoles in the game, but you guys have really got me beat.
By TechFan2001
December 30, 2005 09:53 AM | Link to this
Once again Reggie showed that he can’t read a defense. And is any else getting tired of watching him throw temper tantrums every time something goes wrong. He needs a positional change and an attitude adjustment. We really do win in spite of him not because of him. Not really much more to say about Chan, gave him an extension and he can’t even get his team ready to play with a month of preparation, what a joke. This whole team looks like they have attitude problems. Every time PJ runs for five yards he hops up and down like he just won the Super Bowl or something. I think we need to go back to the drawing board with this team.
By just a football fan
December 30, 2005 09:53 AM | Link to this
Just wanted to make a couple of comments. First of all Calvin Johnson is no where near the best wr in the nation. He is a good player but call him the best? I don’t think so. Tech’s coaches should adjust their play calling to make him the feature player in their offense. Try some slants, even a Florida screen to get the ball in his hands. Reggie is a terrible QB. He does not look off when he drops back. A db can read him from 50 yards away. He has potential but has never lived up to it. He would have been better suited to run the option at a D II school. He is a walking time bomb. You have good running backs. Daniels and Choice could play for any team. The defense is one of the best in the nation. I think they just gave up in the 2nd half. There is a lot of team speed at Tech. The linebackers close well and your dl is pretty good. The coaching staff is terrible and the administration is even worse. There is a need of serious change. This team should have been ready to play regardless of what bowl they were in. The coaching staff’s job is too prepare the team and obviously this team is not prepared half the time it plays. Tech plays well against the ranked teams but throw in a game they are favored and they always struggle. Look at the history of the school in the last 40 years and you will see that. The blame of this team rests on the shoulders of Gailey, Braine and yes the alumni. Tech has never been a consistant winning team since Bobby Dodd left. You get a good coach and he leaves. This is because the fan base does not support the team. Bill Curry leaves his alma mater to go to Alabama, go figure? You sell partial season ticket packages to fill your stadium? Some of the so-called reasoning is Tech alumni live all over the world. Thats a lot of bull. Atlanta is one of the largest populated areas in the US and you can not sell out the stadium. Be proud of your team whether you win or lose and support the players but look at yourselves before you point the blame. The real problem is the tech fan base. If you do not do something about it soon it will get worse. If you have not noticed that coach over in Athens is consistantly winnning 10-12 games every year. Down at Auburn, Tuberville is beginning to do the same. Bowden is settling in at Clemson. Ever look at their fans and see how rabid they are. They support their teams and go by the thousands to the away games. Tech plays UGA at home and almost half the stadium is UGA fans. Clemson does the same thing when they come to town. You guys have some problems and you better straighten your ship before you will not be able to recruit at all. To say you are refusing to buy season tickets is ridiculous. You are killing what coaching staff you have now. What do you think a prospective recruit thinks if he reads this blog? Quit your b*tching and come together whether you win or lose.
By Jack
December 30, 2005 09:59 AM | Link to this
Another crummy performance in another crummy bowl game. Until Tech gets rid of Gailey and Reggie Ball uses up his eligibility things will never get any better. What a waste that Calvin chose Tech over Georgia. He could have been a star!
By Tom
December 30, 2005 09:59 AM | Link to this
In the final college football power rankings the “mighty” Utes finished in 63rd place. It’s important for Tech to actually show up when they are playing a football game. What a joke!
By GreenJacket
December 30, 2005 10:03 AM | Link to this
I have been a true Tech fan for 35 years and have always supported the team. It seems in the past the coaches would always try to adjust to improve the team as the year goes on. This year it has been the SAME OLD THING, Reggie trying to throw outs and going away from the run when it is successful. If it is going to be THE SAME OLD THING in 2006 with Reggie and this HORRIBLE OFFENSE, I will be playing golf or going to the movies instead of paying to go watch this CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Twilb Dawg
December 30, 2005 10:04 AM | Link to this
To all of you Techies that Talked SO MUCH SMACK before the UGA-GT game this year…Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha…oh and about your Basketball Team…Ha Ha Ha Ha…
By Ute Fan
December 30, 2005 10:05 AM | Link to this
I feel your pain…I cant kick you guys when you are down. Great Tech athletes though. GO BRAVES!
By SG
December 30, 2005 10:05 AM | Link to this
I’ll admit we looked bad yesterday, but a team built on speed and quickness on both sides of the ball cannot function on a field where you can barely stand up. The playing surface was a joke and it played into the hands of a talented, physical team of 25 year-olds. Don’t put too much stock into the results of this game. And I’d take the Utes over the Mountaineers any day. Some big time matchup for the Doggies!
By TechFan2001
December 30, 2005 10:10 AM | Link to this
SG, you have your Tech glasses on. PJ was running at will, until Chan stopped him. Using the field as an excuse is a joke. We got flat out beat. Would you really take a 6-5 team from the Mountain West over a 10-1 W. Virginia team? At least try to be intellectually honest with yourself.
By James
December 30, 2005 10:13 AM | Link to this
john, houston played pretty bad yesterday and looked to me to be the embodiment of a program gone wrong as he only flashed good things and made more of a display of the bad things as he missed at least 4 tackles and gave up several catches in his area…calvin johnson, on the other hand, is what they could be…the report that he was ‘shut down’ by utah is a farce…they threw almost exclusively to backs and the TE while cj got 3 balls his way…the guy they say shut him down was way over-matched by cj but ball didn’t go his way at all in the 2nd half…the guy that went unsung for tech was daniels, who tallied 90 yds at the break, but got the ball sparingly in the 2nd half…this team has weapons and talent, but they weren’t motivated and basically didn’t try…as a result, they got killed by an inferior team that came to play and physically beat them into submission.
By ute pride
December 30, 2005 10:14 AM | Link to this
question for the UGA fans, why is it that you must rub the fact the GA TECH lost to UTAH. is it because you are afriad that the utes may dismantle you also incase you havent heard the MWC is a very level conf. it is not lopsided like many others are. in the MWC the teams are very strong headed. Where as you have such schools such as UNC not a very goot football program but has a killer basketball program. yet they play football in the ACC, then you have the laughing stock that the big east is with its BCS auto-bid. This is just purely a Day when the utes came out to play. and played well. We actually did win the TCU if you were to review the very last play of the game. youll clearly see the penalty. but hey we lost so what. we got over it. just as i expect Tech fans will. Yes from media as i heard it we have the largest point spread ever in a tech bowl game. Oh by the way did some one forget to mention that this is the FIRST TIME! these two teams played each other in football?
Now as for tech fans…. they all have been wonderful. poliet and cordial towards ute fans. And they gave our hated brethern down south BYU nothing to talk about.
Thanks GaTECH for the wonderful memories.. oh btw in case ya all forgot where is the emerald bowl located? out east correct? we understand the presure of traveling out EAST, as GA Tech had to due out WEST, that is why our conference comish DID NOT RENEW the Libery Bowl Contract.
PEACE!
By Lee
December 30, 2005 10:15 AM | Link to this
Tech players felt like they were shafted by the Bowls. The truth is they were shafted by their alumni, supporters??, fans??. This group never supports the teams. They do not have sellouts of regular season games and do not sell Bowl tickets. The Bowls, like it or not, are a business and they bypass where possible the Ga. Tech’s of football to go with those who truly support their teams for Bowl games.
By SG
December 30, 2005 10:17 AM | Link to this
TechFan2001, Yes we got beat, but the playing conditions had a part in it. Several of the players said as much. And, yes I would take Utah over West Virginia any day. Don’t let your negative emotions cloud your intellect.
By big t
December 30, 2005 10:24 AM | Link to this
When Tech to Athens Donnans last year, President Adams got so mad he stormed out of the press box with minutes to go. He called Dooley that week and fired Donnan. Tech, somebody with Authority needs to get mad over there on North Ave. Signed, DAWG FAN.
By James
December 30, 2005 10:26 AM | Link to this
SG…conditions had nothing to do with it…also, wvu would kill utah…just b/c tech didn’t come to play doesn’t mean that utah is good…they’re just as avg as tech, but more consistent…wvu has talent and they play hard, which is more than enuff to contain the utes…tech is a far more talented team than utah, but utah came to play and that was the difference.
By Twilb Dawg
December 30, 2005 10:27 AM | Link to this
SG, you are CRAZY! First, how do you consider Tech is a team built on speed, and if they were so great why did they finish a laughable 7-5. Second, the Mountaineers are 10-1 and play in a much tougher conference than the “Mighty Utes”, just look at the two teams strenght of schedule. Third, WHERE IN THE WORLD did you get that the Utes are a “team of 25 year-olds”? I pulled up the Utes roster and there are only THREE 25 year-olds on the entire roster and only one of them starts, that is #9 LB Spencer Toone.
Finally, I believe that any Tech Nerd would die to be playing in The Sugar Bowl, and actually play a major bowl game in January in which some of the fans could attend. However, you don’t even fill up that measly stadium, why should anyone actually believe you will go and see your team lose in a bowl game!
GO DAWGS!!
By gwadgib
December 30, 2005 10:35 AM | Link to this
I am a Dawg fan yes, but yesterday was embarassing to the entire state of Georgia. Looks like you guys have your own Quincy Carter and Jim Donnan on your hands. Auburn: We love Chan UNC: We love Chan UConn: We love Chan, he is a perfect fit Va Tech: We hate Chan, leave now NC State: We hate Chan, leave last week Duke: We love Chan, don’t leave Clemson: We love Chan, don’t leave Wake: We love Chan, please stay Virginia: We hate you again, leave Miami: We beat Miami, Coach of the Year You know who: Crap, 5 in a row, leave NOW Chan. Utah: Hey Chan, I called Atlanta Realty
By GT
December 30, 2005 10:37 AM | Link to this
Chan looked like the old man next door on his front porch, in a housecoat, getting his newspaper, sitting on that sideline. Tech should take the ticket saleman and transfer him to recruiting. If he can sell this kettle of fish, he could recruit anybody we wanted.
By Island Dawg
December 30, 2005 10:39 AM | Link to this
Ute Pride, if you had any idea how much trash the Trekkies talk to us (McDonald’s jobs, trailer parks, just basically toothless rubes) you would fully understand the ribbing we’re giving them. No offense to the Utes, and there’s no way in hell we’d be afraid to play y’all, but unfortunately all SEC bowl tie-ins are played east of Fort Worth so ain’t happening unless y’all get back Urban and Alex up and get in the BCS again. Also I hope you’re not trying to compare the powerhouse that is MWC to the SEC.
Also you would think that with all the high-paid Tech alums basically running Silicon Valley in your fantasy world more of you could have shown up in nearby SanFran. Pathetic.
6 MORE YEARS OF CHAN THE MAN-AWESOME
By Ga_Tech_92
December 30, 2005 10:42 AM | Link to this
I’ve only read about half of the posts so far, but as a Tech Grad I want to say very clearly now:
I give UTES MANY PROPS…you played MUCH better than we did. You came correct. Well done.
I think I speak for all the Tech fans when I say we aren’t meaning to disrespect your team or their efforts. We are simply frustrated with our current situation and that game was one more straw on the camels back.
We need a new coach or an offensive coordinator. We need some beef on the O-line. We need a QB WHO CAN PASS CJ THE BALL BEFORE THE MAN LEAVES, which would be hard to blame him.
By toemeetsleather
December 30, 2005 10:43 AM | Link to this
our guys fought hard and did not quit…their passing attack was best we had seen…chan will learn from loss and look forward to banner 2006….GO JACKETS!!
By Tech88
December 30, 2005 10:44 AM | Link to this
SG,get a grip! Whether the the Utes could beat West by God Virginia is not relevant. WVA is 10-1,and in a BCS bowl. You are one of the fans that continue to try to find weasly ways to scapegoat defeat. It is obvious that there is no comparison between our program and the mutt’s. They were 5 points from perfection this year and lost 1 without Shockley. They win when it’s for all the marbles. They flat out kicked LSU’s a%$ when nobody gave them a chance. When a CHAMPIONSHIP was on the line. And they don’t roll over and die and pitch temper tantrums and hissy fits when a little something goes wrong. Their coaching staff won’t allow it. Furthermore, like a guy said earlier, if Mark Richt had Calvin Johnson the mutts would probably be playing on January 4 and Calvin would be all world. We need to fix this sorry mess that we call a football program and it can’t be done whining,moaning,and trying to look for reasons that we are even in the same universe with UGA. They have not one iota to do with our situation. If we want to be at that level we need across the board renovation.
By Ed Napier
December 30, 2005 10:45 AM | Link to this
CHAN GAILEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED AT THE END OF THE GAME
It’s one thing to get beat. It’a another thing to quit. Getting beat is bad. Quiting is unforgiveable. Gailey should have been fired at the end of the game and forced to get his own way home. What an outrageous embarrasement.
By John
December 30, 2005 10:46 AM | Link to this
I love Chan’s comment about the UTAH player saying we quit and that he’d like to see him walk through the GT locker room and say that. Ah, Chan, if he wants to walk through the locker room and say it, who would stop him? I think it was obvious your team couldn’t! You stink so bad Chan your eyes are brown. Please resign and do us all a favor! PS to toemeetsleather - ah….what? You are in dreamland!
By James
December 30, 2005 10:47 AM | Link to this
toemeetsleather…i hope you’re being sarcastic!
By Island Dawg
December 30, 2005 10:49 AM | Link to this
Tech88, have any idea what the buyout on Chan’s contract is or is it confidential? I still can’t believe Braine extended his contract as I don’t exactly remember his door being knocked down by other programs. Also there HAS to be someone more level-headed and calm than Ball on your bench to play QB.
By Medicore Man
December 30, 2005 10:52 AM | Link to this
Dave Braine and Chan Gailey equal LOSERS … both need to go .. alumni unite with NO MORE DONATIONS …
BRAINE and GAiley you are a GOD DAMN DISGRACE!
there is NO excuse for a quitting team becuase that is what we have … we are on a slippery slope ..
Get load and get vocal .. we need to get GAILEY OUT!!!!!!!!!
By Ralph
December 30, 2005 10:52 AM | Link to this
Reggie Ball is too small to get the ball over pass rushers, takes too many sacks instead of throwing it away, pulls it down and runs too often, and overthrows or gets intercepted too often. He is NOT going to set school records or go to the NFL, so why does he get so much playing time? How about next year - can we get some back-ups some experience instead of watching more of the same?
By What's the ACC?
December 30, 2005 10:52 AM | Link to this
One question: Who signs your paycheck Terence Moore????? From your article, it sounds like it would be the… who did Utah just mop up? Or maybe the… what is it the BS oh I mean BCS. Just because GT comes from the “mid-major” ACC and BCS doesn’t give you an excuse to day that they can’t compete with a National caliber team like the Uteh. -That’s right, I called the ACC and BCS “Mid-major.” I keep seeing that work thrown around in reference to non-BCS teams that demolish BCS teams because that’s what they are!!! You are right about one thing. Why did the ACC send one of it’s members to this bowl? Utah deserved to play a team that could actually compete with them! Just like last yea when the BCS was afraid to send a REAL team to Arizona and the Utes had to beat up on the… who were they again?
As for the “inconsistent” defence of GT, I guess you do get to be the number 10 defence in the country by being inconsistent. Again, who is paying you to write this CRAP Mr. Moore? Bottom line is that the Utes picked apart one of the top 10 defences in the country and made it look easy! Just because some team that doesn’t belong to your “special” BCS can out-coach, out-play, and out-class you doesn’t mean that your team didn’t show up. It means that either they are better, or that your precious BCS is a bunch of BS. Honestly, I wish GT hadn’t gone. Utah deserved to play a much better team -kind of like last year. You can say what ever you want about the team not being ready, but I know those players wanted to win. There was so much excitement and trask talk before and at the beginning of the game by the GT players. Bottom line: they just weren’t ready to play the caliber of team that the Mountain West Conference has. I’ll bet Mr. Moore coudln’t even find Utah on a map if you spotted him Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada.
Mr. Moore, if I ever need a pathetically lame excuse I’ll give you a call.
One last thing: I hear the GT basketball team got beat last night by some MWC team…
By Ala. Jim
December 30, 2005 10:57 AM | Link to this
Other Mark, you’re right. I felt the same as Wiley when I saw Houston on the field. I was ashamed that Gailey was playing him. He may have had to put him back on the team ,but he can never explain why he plays him much less starts the criminal.
By War Eagle
December 30, 2005 10:58 AM | Link to this
Old Techr, I grew up with the 50 and 60 era, names you mentioned along with Billy Teas, Leon Hardeman and my friend Jimmy Thompson. I am glad I went to Auburn because I couldnt take this abuse. There needs to be changes at Tech after that performance. I am not sure Tech is capable of hiring a progressive coach and recruit specialists.Recruiting suffers when you have Bowl games as this.Good luck
By James
December 30, 2005 11:00 AM | Link to this
what did ball do that makes you say that he’s not level-headed or calm…i went to the game yesterday and he was pretty level headed in my opinion especially when he got beat up on the sideline…i also thought he was justified in saying something to the utah LB (#9) that purposely tried to hurt him after he made the tackle…ball played badly, but he’s not the source of this team’s problems…if joe hamilton and haggan (UVA) can be effective div I QBs, ball mast certainly can…however, he has to have some coaching and direction to aid his development…the evidence of questionable coaching would be w/ the prevalence of designed QB runs for a QB that isn’t a great runner…ball isn’t free of some blame but the problem is much bigger that him and he doesn’t deserve the bashing that ya’ll are giving him.
By john
December 30, 2005 11:00 AM | Link to this
Mediocre Man, I agree. But will only work if we cut off ALL donations - to ALEX THARPE AND ROLL CALL. Maybe then it will finally sink in.
By Medicore Man
December 30, 2005 11:03 AM | Link to this
We need Braine to get fired and Gailey wouldn’t last a day after … sad sad state of affairs at GT … slippery slope ..
By Tech88
December 30, 2005 11:03 AM | Link to this
Island Dawg, anybody would be better than Reggie at this point. We won a game without him and Bennett didn’t look half bad. The problem with Reggie goes hand in hand with the problem with Chan. Reggie will never cut it. After 3 years and the guy still can’t execute the writing should be on the wall. Chan has allowed him to be an immature sissy and as a result the whole team has suffered. Right now I would hand the ball to any other QB that we have available. Did someone say that Joe Cox or Blake Barnes may be looking for a new home. Maybe we should give them a call. They have been coached up enough by Mr. Richt that maybe Chan couldn’t create another Reggie.
By utah lou
December 30, 2005 11:03 AM | Link to this
i apologize to all the tech fans who in the depths of despair have to put up with trash-talking ute fans. as a longtime ute fan…i know just how frustrating getting no respect can be. i have enjoyed most of the comebacks…putting the ute fans back in their place. the only thing that really bothers me is when someone plays the religion card…saying something stereotypical like ‘go back to utah with your five wives.’ that’s like saying (and about as accurate today) as saying to a tech fan, ‘go put on your kkk robes, light some torches, and have a lynchin’.’ rather than get ugly with remarks that hurt…why not just talk about football?
By Techaholic
December 30, 2005 11:04 AM | Link to this
Ah, ‘fiasco’ a word that connects more often than not with a Chan Gailey coached team. The accountability and responsibility of this team starts at the top with the HC.
In Gailey’s tenure at the flats, I have heard more excuses about mediocrity and losing and they never fault Chan Gailey! No more excuses, real football fans know better. Unfortunately, I’ve found out over these last 4 seasons … Tech is LACKING in ‘real football fans’!
Instead some of our numbskull fans have defended this coach at every negative turn and it’s hurt this program tremendously. Time to ‘pull it in’ and starting fighting for something better!
This coach came to Tech with a mediore label, it’s been VERIFIED here 50 times over. The fact that our AD and those w/less passion gave this guy a 5 year extension is reason TO CLEAN HOUSE now! Time to bite the $$$$ bullet and get rid of the trash before it’s too late.
Real REBLUILDING will cost us this school and program a whole lot more. Get rid of the trash NOW!
By George Monsalvatge
December 30, 2005 11:04 AM | Link to this
It is not a crime to lose a bowl game. In fact half the teams that play in them lose. However, it should be a crime to quit in a bowl game. On the extra point attempt after the first Utah touchdown in the Emerald bowl, several Georgia Tech players started to walk off the field before Utah snapped the ball to the kick holder. In fact, no Georgia Tech player put an arm up in the air to block the kick. Ironically, the Utah kicker missed the extra point. After the second Utah touchdown, Georgia Tech players started to walk off the field again before the ball was snapped to the kick holder. This behavior should not be tolerated by the coaching staff. However, it continued through out the game. In fact, this behavior was not lost on the Utah coaching staff and players who publicly commented that Georgia Tech quit. It does not matter if you win or lose, but how you play the game. As a Georgia Tech football fan and alumni, I am embarrassed.
By Ala. Jim
December 30, 2005 11:05 AM | Link to this
Thanks Juan! What about that guys, a sensible and bright GA. man.
By Matthew
December 30, 2005 11:07 AM | Link to this
Man, that Calvin Johnson is sure one heck of a whiner.
I mean, Calvin, you only have yourself to blame, buddy.
You coulda been a contendah.
You shoulda been a Bulldog.
But you chose Tech.
But you chose to be a Bug.
You chose to be a loser.
So stop whining. You wanted to be a Bug? Welcome to Bugdom. Welcome to half-empty pop warner stadiums. Welcome to an apathetic and pathetic fanbase. Welcome to a bunch of overmatched and overwhelmed coaches. Welcome to a substandard bunch of athletic talent, especially at the QB position.
You wanted it, Calvin Johnson?
You got it!
You know what you can do?
You can act like a man!
Accept your poor decision, and just wait it out.
By Wake up from your drean Matthew!
December 30, 2005 11:10 AM | Link to this
The Utes would have loved to have played any other BCS team last year -and would have held their own. The only reason we didn’t play “any other BCS team” is beacuse the BullCrapSystem was afraid to send a better team and have the whole BCS sham exposed. Matthew probably thinks GT plays in the BCS conference. Utah is a MWC team, not a WAC team although I’ll bet even those WAC teams could put your teams to shame. Fresno State, Bosie State, TCU, Utah, BYU, Wyoming. I’ll bet you couldn’t handle their offence. It’s too bad Utah had to play a team with the worst defence in the country in their bowl game… oh wait, they didn’t! Matthew, I’ll bet you’re trying to find the states Bosie and Fresno on a map right now! You can stop. They are not states. Keep living in your BCS dresm world while you can, bucause one day soon, you’re going to wake up to a big nightmare and that night mare will be conferences like the Mountain West standing on the top of the polls with your pathetic teams wishing there still was a BCS to help inflate their ranking.
By Quaildawg
December 30, 2005 11:10 AM | Link to this
Nice Jackets…reeeealy nice!!! Apparently YOUR team got into the San Fran spirit by getting their pants pulled down. It’s ok though, after all y’all had to play a team with such a rich football tradition like UTAH. Aren’t they like the Notre Dame of the West, or something like that. Hey if you want to blame all this on someone I might suggest “Good Ole’” Bobby Dodd, because that where your slide really started, when that “rocket scientist” took you out of the SEC, “because the competition wasn’t good enough” and the fact is you haven’t been nothing but mediocre since. (Don’t bring up the 90’ Mythical NC cr*p, we all know what a farse that was- becoming NC by winning the Citrus Bowl? Bwahhhhhhh) Face the fact…your never going to be as good as you think you should be, so 7 wins per year is about par for your program and you should take solice in the fact you beat 2 Top 10 teams this year. One thing I am going to really miss from Tech a year from now…Reggie Ball’s eligibility!!! One thing you are going to miss…Calvin Johnson cause he’s gone!!! Gone from an OC who can’t even get the ball (or won’t) in his hands. PS. TechFan…quit telling everyone from UGA to get a life when I noted from the post times it was your pathetic self who was on the AJC Blog at MIDNIGHT!!! As for me…I was having face to face with my wife at that time.
By James
December 30, 2005 11:12 AM | Link to this
What’s the ACC?…i hear what you’re saying and utah did beat gtech to death yesterday…however, the mwc is a LONG way from being as competitive as the acc…gtech is a marginal team in the acc that didn’t show up to play…that doesn’t mean that the mwc or utah is a powerhouse…utah deserves credit for the fact that they are competitive and will fight til the last whistle…however, the talent level in the acc is FAR BETTER than the mwc…the difference is that those talented players don’t always play to the best of their abilities…my example is calvin johnson vs latendresse…if you’re picking a team to play in the back yard, you take johnson all the way…latendresse is a dependable catcher, but a decent DB will shut him out…utah played well yesterday, but the mwc is still well below the acc talent-wise and competitively.
By Dr. Clough
December 30, 2005 11:16 AM | Link to this
Aren’t we forgetting the big picture? Reggie Ball will one day become a Tech graduate. He will be building bridges or perhaps a nuclear power plant. That will be for the greater good of society. Football is just a game.
By Jason
December 30, 2005 11:18 AM | Link to this
The Utes believed in themselves and their coaches. The Jackets beleived in their hype.
By utah lou
December 30, 2005 11:22 AM | Link to this
that’s true, dr. clough. but in reggie ball’s case…if he builds a nuclear power plant…i hope he does it better than he passes the football.
By CRY BABIES
December 30, 2005 11:23 AM | Link to this
I am a Utah fan and was at the game, GT was overrated and Utah was underrated, maybe your players should have focused on the game and a what was a 5th ranked BCS bowl winner last year and maybe they would have given us a decent game. The score did not reflect how lopsided this game was, if not for an interception thrown by one of our wide receivers, it could have been 50-3.
Grow up and stop crying!
By t wilson
December 30, 2005 11:24 AM | Link to this
Perhaps the ACC isn’t all that the east-coast bias is cracked up to be. What a great game! Go UTES!
By Ind Eng '69
December 30, 2005 11:24 AM | Link to this
OK, it’s time we did something about Gailey. We need the help of some of you young internet-literate guys to do something that should have been done long ago. Remember how Meyer got his new job at Florida? It’s because the alumni got sick of the U.F. Administration allowing Coach Ron Zook to dumb-down the team with his lack of coaching ability. The alum started a web site called “fire.ron.zook.com”. After about a go-zillion hits on the site, the ground swell of support forced U.F. to fire Zook and hire the Utes coach.
We can all whine and wring our hands - or we can do something. I am too old and too far removed from internet proficiency to start a web site - but I’m sure someone out there can. Let’s go to work.
By Other Mark
December 30, 2005 11:27 AM | Link to this
toemeetsleather — if you were being serious, I think that you’ve been kicked in the head too many times. It often amazes me when the polls show 20-30% supporting Chan Gailey, but I guess every team has a group of people that can’t see what’s really going on.
This is the worst football program Tech has EVER had. Lewis was just a short time - even Pepper, Fulcher and Bud had some good with the bad. But this has been 4 straight years of boring, “cover-my-back-defense-while-I-play-offense” play calling, and total lack of disregard for fans. And for that we give another five years and another $5 mil. Amazing!
Tech supporters are chomping at the bit to support this team, but you can’t go to games and get excited watching 3-yard runs and swing passes, followed by long periods of playing defense against lousy teams. That Tech/NC State game was a good example. We actually made NC State look like a competent team, while we sat on our 7 point lead. Then lightning struck…
I will not travel 3000 miles and pay hundreds of dollars to watch a team score 10 points, and let’s not forget, the high-scoring games in Boise and Orlando the last two years were the exception - not the rule.
By Mayretta Dawg
December 30, 2005 11:29 AM | Link to this
To “Wake up from your drean Matthew,” we played and beat your sorry team years ago, Wyoming and a hugely overhyped Boise State team this year. That’s 3-0 ya loser! Thank you, come again!
By Ghost of Bobby Dodd
December 30, 2005 11:31 AM | Link to this
Urgent Message to all Dawg Fans Had DJ Shockless been healthy for the Florida game, UGA would have still lost! At least him being out gave you fools an excuse. And yes, UGA did BACK into the SEC title game against a FRAUD LSU team! End of Urgent Message
By Other Mark
December 30, 2005 11:32 AM | Link to this
Utah Lou - most of those comments, particularly the one about the 5 wives, was made by one of our Georgia Dawg fans that like to come on this site and put-down Tech. Disregard and we apologize. They’re just children, ya know?
By Mayretta Dawg
December 30, 2005 11:35 AM | Link to this
To Ghost of Bobby Dodd,
How many points did UGA lose their games by? Answer: 5 points
How many points did Trek lose it’s games by? Answer: Reggie count count that high
By Matthew
December 30, 2005 11:36 AM | Link to this
I’m just really insecure that my Dawgs havent won a National Title since 1980. The failures of my Dawgs against UF are taking over my brain-housing. Next year we agonna beat Florida!!!!!!!!! What now!!! Go DAWGS BEAT FLORIDA!!!!! Florida, Myer, Chris Leak, you all agoing DOWN!!!
By UTAH MAN
December 30, 2005 11:36 AM | Link to this
I thought that it was a great game. Utah can play ACC teams, like Georgia Tech, or Big East teams, like Pitt in the Fiesta Bowl, and not only win, but humiliate these cocky teams from supposedly “better” conferences.
Hope y’all enjoyed your slice of humble pie!
By Jim
December 30, 2005 11:38 AM | Link to this
Tech fans and aulmni should be outraged.
As a DAWG fan, I take little delight in watching a team representing our city and state performing so poorly. Yes, I am one of those who only roots against TECH when GEORGIA plays them.
TECH fans, I take no delight in your agony. I hope some things happen quickly so that your programs improve to a more competitive level.
By Ghost of Bobby Dodd
December 30, 2005 11:39 AM | Link to this
Reggie count count that high
Nice to see the English Department at UGA is doing its job.
By IMGT81
December 30, 2005 11:40 AM | Link to this
Like nails across the black board my goose bumps and irritation during the Emerald Bowl gave way to numbness. But hey that is what Braineless Chanism is about. Much akin to the fatalism of Budhism we coach performances below talent levels (dharma - life purpose to achieve one with nothingness)but occasionlly produce flashes of performance to engender hope.
What can GT Fans do about a Coach who can neither coach nor motivate. Ball has medium talent and has been reduced to inferior performance. Johnson has superior talent reduced to nothingness. And for GT to have quit against Utah implies they showed up at all.
What can GT people do? Grin and bear it. Saint Homer of Rice sold our souls long ago. Remember Bumble Bee Tuna halftimes and MCDonalds bought the Basketball program? If GT people withold AT Funds or refuse to buy tickets our UNC/VT run AD Office will seek more and more corporate support insuring GT never has a “home” game. Kinda Karmic ain’t it!
By Mayretta Dawg
December 30, 2005 11:43 AM | Link to this
What kind of English mistake is getting excited and not typing “can’t count” instead of “count count?” Please, you bugs misuse your, you’re, their, there, they’re, etc. all the time.
By REGGIE
December 30, 2005 11:43 AM | Link to this
I can’t believe Chan hasn’t benched me yet. In my three years here, nobody has realized that I am only 5’10” and cannot throw the ball over the line. I have one of the best receivers in the nation who wishes he was at UGA now. Why they made me the QB instead of Bilbo is beyond me. I always show the worst sportsmanship in every game with all my jawing and taunting after my one good play a game. Then, I am never man enough to stand up and explain my usual stat line (15-38, 153 yds, 0 tds, 2 ints)to the media after the game. Thank God I can’t figure out the number of downs, much less my QB rating. But the UGA fans have been very supportive of me in my three years at Tech. I received hundreds of Christmas cards from UGA fans thanking me for being Tech’s QB and hoping I have a safe and injury free senior year so that I can play against them next year. Thanks UGA fans!
By Average Utah Team
December 30, 2005 11:46 AM | Link to this
That’s right James, being ranked 10th in the country is marginal… Whatever! If you can pick apart the 10th ranked defence like the Utes did after that defence has a month to prepare for you, that either means that the ACC and the BCS and all of the rankings suck, or that Utah can compete -Oh, I guess that would mean that they are all wrong too. Maybe if the BCS and the ACC and the media that pays out the big money so the BCS can control who the play weren’t afraid to send a “Real” team to compete you could shut up. But that will never happen, because no matter who you send, you will claim that they do not represent the BCS when we have dismantled, humiliated , and destroyed them. All I know is as long as you have to keep making excuses for the teams that Utah and other non-BCS teams beat, you are showing your lack of football knowledge and proving that the BCS is the TRUE mid-major!
By Ind Eng '69
December 30, 2005 11:46 AM | Link to this
FIRE.CHAN.GAILEY.COM
An idea who’s time has come
By Paul Johnson for Coach
December 30, 2005 11:48 AM | Link to this
I’m a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech and a helluva p** off guy
A helluva helluva helluva helluva helluva p** of guy.
I drink because of mediocrity I see from year to year
I’m a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech and a helluva a p** of guy.
Oh and if I had a daughter sir I’d dress her in white and gold. I’d send her to the campus to cheer for the unmotivated and unfocused. And if I had a son sir I’d tell you what he do, he would yell, “To hell with Dave Braine, Chan Gailey, Wayne Clough, and all those who quit” unlike his daddy would have to…because we had the right people in place!
Oh I wish I had a truckload of rum and sugar 3000 pounds. A college bell to put it in and a clapper to stir it around. I drink to all past coaches who allowed us to hold our chins high.
I’m a ramblin gamblin helluva p** off guy who is done writing checks to this administration. Kiss my *!
By T
December 30, 2005 11:51 AM | Link to this
Who’s got 88?
nice game Tech, not!
By Ind Eng '69
December 30, 2005 11:51 AM | Link to this
FIRE.CHAN.GAILEY.COM
An idea who’s time has come.
By Paul
December 30, 2005 11:54 AM | Link to this
I too am a Dawg fan and did not want Tech to lose that game. Why? Because Tech still represents the city of Atlanta and southern football and they’re playing against a bunch of mormons from the middle of nowhere. Shame on Tech and the coaching staff for such an embarrassing performance. I wish Tech didn’t even show up.
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 11:54 AM | Link to this
WOW, that’s all I can say. I hope the Utes get a chance to play another southern team in next years bowl game. I would really love to see the Utes dismantle the Dawgs. Is there enough crow in the whole state of GA after Tech fans’ feast today? Our regular season starting QB, Brian Johnson (#4 nationally in total offense) is only a sophmore and this year was his first year as the man on a D-1 team. BJ struggled most of the year with consistency and our record shows the results. On the other hand, Ratliff had two full seasons of D-3 games and is a better QB at this point. Had Ratliff been our starter for the whole season I think we would have been closer to 9-2 rather than 6-5. Next year I hope Ratliff is the starter and BJ would do really well as a flanker because of his speed and the threat of throwing the ball off of the pitch. (Sort of like Kordell Stewart or Antoine Randal-El) Next years Utes will be bigger, stronger, and faster. Our rectuiting class is turning out to be one of the best ever, and thanks to the Emerald Bowl win, we may be able to lure even more 3 & 4 star recruits to Salt Lake. So in anticipation to next years Bowl Season, bring it on Ugag, bring it on, anybody from the ACC or SEC, the Utes are not intimidated by any of you. We will be at the top of our game next year, guaranteed.
BTW, look for the Gators to win the SEC next year, that is as long as Leak isn’t their QB, it takes a special QB to make the spread work and Leak is not the one.
By Jason
December 30, 2005 11:55 AM | Link to this
Hey no hard feelings. 4 out of 5 of my wives took no offence to Mathhews comments. And I am not even mormon. Go UTES!!!
By Mayretta Dawg
December 30, 2005 12:01 PM | Link to this
UTEFAN:
Come talk to us when you string together more than one ten+ win season and a top ten recruiting class. You don’t deserve to even pick up the trash that is slung around in UGA/Teck squabbles and your coach couldn’t carry Richt’s jock.
Again, we beat your sorry Ute team the last time we played head to head….
PS Glad you can live vicariously thru one of the few teams that have had success with the Dawgs!!!
By Ute Fan
December 30, 2005 12:06 PM | Link to this
GT was disgraceful yesterday. If you folks are going to accept a bowl invitation, then the least you could do is to show up for the game. Your quarterback is lacking much talent - true. Your entire team is lacking heart.
By Doug J
December 30, 2005 12:09 PM | Link to this
Ute Fan, you have no idea what college football is all about. Come down here and attend an Auburn-UGA game, or UGA-UF, or Auburn-Alabama. I guarantee you it will change your life.
By Ute'74
December 30, 2005 12:12 PM | Link to this
As a rabid Dawg fan and a Utah grad, I took a perverse delight in watching the beating Tech had visited on them…The Utes should complain about the bowl, the “unworthy” opponent, the “unworthy” conference (ACC)and the lack of respect!! Get real, Tech, you are a second-class team…Georgia proved it, Utah emphasised it! The lack of home grown talent takes you even further from the state you reside in…the rest of us watch our highschoolers play for the Dawgs…and win!!
By Rick
December 30, 2005 12:15 PM | Link to this
Anyone remember the 94 season? It could always be worse.
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 12:17 PM | Link to this
Doug J,
I myself would much rather come down there and attend a Utah-Ugag game, or Utah-Auburn, or Utah-UF, or Utah-Alabama……it would change YOUR life and YOUR ideas of what you think you know about college football. BRING IT ON. You could use a dose of what Tech fans are feeling right now.
By Jim
December 30, 2005 12:17 PM | Link to this
I can’t help but wonder if key administration officials at Georgia Tech have noticed that since Dave Braine moved from Virginia Tech to Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech’s athletic program has noticeably improved, while Georgia Tech’s program has become an embarrassment both on and off the field.
By AndyinUtah
December 30, 2005 12:18 PM | Link to this
For those following the Utes this year, we knew they were better than their record. But with tremendous turnover on the coaching staff, losing several players to the NFL (some early), key injuries, and then having that ball not bounce in the Utes favor like it did last year meant they would have some ups and downs. That said, they have grown as a team through the year, just like you would hope.
I was disappointed in GTech. Not nearly as talented as advertised. Effort? Travel? Field Conditions? Coaching? Many excuses for sure. I vote that they just aren’t as talented, as big, or as fast as expected. Problem is, we tend to always buy into the line of garbage that such and such conference should be better than other conferences. Is the Mountain West as strong as the ACC? Not top to bottom, but the descrepency between the two isn’t nearly as great as people like to pretend it is. The BCS system does keep certain conferences locked into the best cash positions, but they still have to show up and win their games on neutral fields now and then.
For all the whiners that say Calvin Johnson only got a couple balls thrown his way, they should note that 10 balls were thrown to him. 2 of which he caught, 7 were incomplete (including one he dropped), and 1 was intercepted. I would agree the system GTech used meant he was probably running the wrong type of routes and could have been used more. But, to assert that they didn’t try and involve him is wrong. People forget he is a young receiver who was locked up with a tough defender in Weddle who actually had the nerve to press him on the line rather than give him this big cushion off the line like Johnson’s reputation seemed to suggest he should have been given. Is the guy a future NFL ringer? Perhaps, but for now he looked more like a young guy with tons of potential rather than a seasoned player.
Where is all the talent we heard about at GTech? Bottom line, they simply are not as good as advertised. CJohnson isn’t there yet (there are three WR in the Mountain West that are just as good or better), PJ is a good running back (but hardly exceptional), and the QB Ball is average. The defense has talent, especially on the line and at LB, but you would think that given a month to prepare for Utah they might have made more of an impact.
In the end, it looked like two teams, and maybe programs, going in opposite directions.
By fes
December 30, 2005 12:22 PM | Link to this
Well, Paul, I am a Dog fan, and I would not pull for tech if they were playing Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Army—and he may tortured some of my relatives.
As for representing the City of Atlanta—who cares? It’s always Opening Day in Atlanta.
Southern football??—Maybe southern New Jersey.
And if you’re so concerned about the South, you should know better than to make fun of someone else’s religion. The only part that religion played in that debacle was tech praying for mercy.
Finally, why should the staff take the blame? Reggie Ball won’t throw a decent pass to Calvin—I guess he’s afraid that it will ruin his dismal pass ratio.
Go Dogs! To Hell With Tech!
By James
December 30, 2005 12:23 PM | Link to this
Average Utah Team…first of all, you don’t have to insult me for stating facts…let’s take a look at utah…utah has lost to TCU, UNC, CSU, UNM…UNC is the 1 team these 2 have in common…while UNC easily beat utah in a game that i also witnessed, GT beat them in a hard fought game…further, utah lost to colorado state who got destroyed by navy…meanwhile, gtech lost to va tech, nc state, uva, and uga…all of these teams are better than utah or anybody in the mwc w/ the exception of maybe tcu…the truth is that utah spanked gtech in the emerald bowl…however, gtech had no business playing a utah team whose crowning achivement was a win over byu…gtech had victories over miami and auburn (don’t tell me that utah can compete w/ those guys b/c they beat pittsburgh last year and gtech this year) and rightfully deserved to play in a better bowl…with all of that being said, utah beat them to death yesterday…but let’s not act like utah is a bunch of world-beaters now b/c they beat a much better opponent in a game that meant absolutely nothing…the sad part is that tech didn’t have any pride and played w/ a sub-par effort.
By Donagh
December 30, 2005 12:24 PM | Link to this
Personally, after being a “Jackets” fan for over half a century, I’m taking next year off to waikt for Ball to pass on into oblivion and with the hope that Braine will go and take his boy Chan with him. Be back in 2007.
By Chan
December 30, 2005 12:29 PM | Link to this
I don’t think the Ghost of Bobby Dodd should be as concerned about the UGA English Department when English is taught as a second language at tech!
Instead, he’s probably trying to figure out a way to get his name off of that hellhole of stadium and separate himself from those that have followed him.
By James
December 30, 2005 12:33 PM | Link to this
AndyinUtah…please tell me what 3 WRs in the mwc u are referring to as better than calvin johnson?
By Doug J
December 30, 2005 12:36 PM | Link to this
Ute Fan, the fact that you really think Utah would even give Auburn, UGA, LSU, or Florida a run for its money just illustrates how out of touch you really are. Tech lost in a game that mean’t absolutly nothing. They didn’t want to go to San Fransisco. They didn’t want to play Utah. They’re probably just glad the whole things over. If Utah brought a team down here to Jordan-Hare or Sanford, I promise you the Utes would be on an airplane headed home by half-time. You don’t even know what college football is my friend.
By Ghost of Bobby Dodd
December 30, 2005 12:40 PM | Link to this
Wow, you guys get really insecure when someone points out the flaws in UGA’s English dept. : ) Save some of that aggression for Florida next year and maybe the Dawgs might actually win the game for once. On second thought, probably not. ; )
By Still waiting for the "Facts" James
December 30, 2005 12:42 PM | Link to this
Where is your point James? Three of the teams you listed are MWC teams who all could beat any of your Georgia mid-major teams on any given day. As for UNC, what’s your point? They beat Utah, GT beat them, and Utah beat GT. Are you saying you like merry-go-rounds or what? Utah racked up over 500 yards of offence against the 10th best defence in the country. Next you will be telling me that it didn’t really count because it wasn’t the real GT team, but the cheerleaders in the GT uniforms, or even worse the UGA players in GT uniforms.
By Steve L.
December 30, 2005 12:47 PM | Link to this
I’m an embarressed alumnus living in Southern California. Not only do I have to put up with all of the USC No. 1 stuff, but now I’m hearing about Ga. Tech being a second teir program that’s not able to play with the big boys.
Here is a quote from the local paper on the Emerald Bowl game. “They quit on themselves,” said Latendresse, the game’s offensive MVP. “Slowly but surely, they gave up. That first quarter, they had a lot of fight, and they were talking. But slowly their talk deminished, and their heads went down. That’s what you have to do: MAKE THEN QUIT.” This is the impression of Ga. Tech football in Southern California (and Utah).
Tech will never win consistenly with Reggie Ball. Why doesn’t Gailey recruit a real quarterback from California? They are loaded with good high school quarterbacks who play in great passing offensives. Better yet, Gailey shoud resign and the new coach can recruit out here. Surely, very few top notch recruits will sign with Tech with the current coaching staff in place.
By Wake up Doug J
December 30, 2005 12:49 PM | Link to this
Thanks Doug J. You have just proven to me why the BCS was created. It is so that the BCS schools can hide behind the BCS when a non-BCS team comes knocking. If any of your precious schools cane out west -as GT did and played any of us MWC or even WAC teams in our stadium, the result would be SHOCKING to you. I don’t think you have enough bare footed relatives to count the number of points we would rack up on you. Oh, and as for the game meaning absolutely nothing, you’re wrong. It meant everything to you BCS people. If GT had won, you would be saying “see, they beat you when they didn’t even want to be there.” Well, Utah didn’t want to be playing some over-rated defence either, but they didn’t whine, they just showed up and made everyone SHUT UP.
By brewerfaninATL
December 30, 2005 12:49 PM | Link to this
No James, don’t worry, everyone on here knows Utah is not a world beater, and that’s why Tech getting plastered last night just shows how over-rated they are! What made it worse is that it was on national TV for everyone to see. Actually, you could say the same for the whole ACC. Clemson barely beat a dreadful Colorado team, Tech got destroyed by a WAC team, BC barely hung on to beat Boise St., Virginia is going to get crushed by Minnesota, FSU will get crushed by Penn State, VA Tech will probably beat a rotton Louisville team and Miami may or may not beat an injured LSU team. Face it, the ACC sucks and is WAY over-rated!
By Chris
December 30, 2005 12:53 PM | Link to this
I’m a Tech fan and I really couldn’t care less about yesterdays loss. Big deal, pointless game, worthless opponent. We deserve the victory just for showing up. As for Tech next year, the program will be fine. The only team we really lost to this year was Va Tech. Reggie Ball is terrible, but maybe he’ll finally turn that corner. We need a new O-Coordinator though. I give Chan a C for this year. But the wins over the U and Auburn make me believe we might be competitive next year. Fellow Tech fans, quit screaming bloody murder and lets look forward to next year.
By Shane
December 30, 2005 12:54 PM | Link to this
UTAH ROCKS!!!
Nice job Utes.
By GM R
December 30, 2005 12:59 PM | Link to this
So the national TV audience got to see what we have all seen for the last 3 years - Reggie Ball just doesn’t have what it takes. The contrast with the backup Utah QB couldn’t have been more stark. The only person who just doesn’t get it is CG. So what does all this do for recruitment? - I hate to think. What decent receiver would want to go to Tech after this?
By John
December 30, 2005 01:00 PM | Link to this
Chris I’d say you do have a point. Did anyone on the Tech team want to miss Christmas just so they could go to misreable San Fran and play some western high school? I really doubt it. So Tech “lost”, who cares, lets look forward to 06.
By Bill
December 30, 2005 01:01 PM | Link to this
Hey UGA trolls:
Just remember all this when Tech gets back to beating you on a regular basis, like we did when Ross/OLeary was coaching.
With the HEAVY recruiting and fan base advantage (in numbers, not IQ’s) you have in this state, you SHOULD NEVER lose to us.
Wanna hear complaining? Remember in the middle of the Jan Kemp saga when you couldn’t recruit anyone, were losing Music City bowls and had that hack Larry Munson whining day and night about your plight?
I’m just saying things like this go in cycles and yours in coming…
By You need to read brewerfaninATL
December 30, 2005 01:01 PM | Link to this
berwerfaninATL, you need to read the rest of the posts before you post on here. It will keep you from looking so clueless when it comes to college football. As has been stated on here several times, Utah is in the MWC, not the WAC. Just goes to show the lack of education I have to deal with here in the state of Georgia. It’s not on my mind! -except when I’m stuck on the perimeter.
By chris mullinax
December 30, 2005 01:01 PM | Link to this
Once again we (GA. TECH) have given dawg fans something to smile about. Yesterdays game was an insult to fans.The least I can say is TECH sucked, but there is a three step solution I would like to share with you. First start at the top, the athletic coordinator must go. Him giving an extension to Gailey before the season was as stupid as Gailey playing Reginald Ball over Demarious Bilbo for three years and the AD’s comments about TECH will never be a 9 to 10 win team consitently then how do you explain your basball and basketball teams always in the hunt for championships. Second of course is Gailey, your team was not prepared and it showed in front of the nation.In college football you must score points and you have an all american wide receiver THROW IT DEEP!!! But that can be a problem if your QB can’t get it there, which leads me to the last problem. Reginald Ball, how you became the starter over Bilbo I’m still trying to figure out.You may think that you won some big games ,but sorry that was your defense. To all the seniors thanks for the hard work. For the rest of you work harder.
By Troy in Utah
December 30, 2005 01:02 PM | Link to this
Andy in Utah I liked your comments. I’d just add that I think this is a talented GT team that got punched in the mouth for not respecting their opponent. I don’t care what bowl game it is, or what the conditions or expecations or disappointments are…if you can’t even prepare yourselves and play to the best of your abilities in any given game, what does that say about your character? The Utes respected their opponent, prepared themselves and showed up ready to win and I’m more proud of that fact than anything. Many of the GT fans are following suit of the coach and players by discounting and disrespecting and making excuses. Accept the fact that this is a respectable program at Utah that has been proving themselves in recent years and they beat you down because they have character and heart. GT fans would do well to concede that they underestimated a rising force to be reckoned with.
By James
December 30, 2005 01:02 PM | Link to this
Still waiting for the “Facts” James…the fact is utah couldn’t even compete w/ UNC while gtech not only could compete, but they beat them…further, gtech doesn’t have gimme games on their schedule like air force or even new mexico…oops, utah lost to new mexico…i respect the fact that you’re a true ute fan, but now that i’ve seen both coasts up close and personal…i KNOW for certain that the mwc is well behind the acc just as the pac-10 is well behind the sec…i’m talking overall conference strength not 2 or 3 teams…the reality of the matter is that utah beat gtech yesterday in a meaningless bowl game, but thay would’ve been sitting at home during bowl season had they played in the acc…if you think that the mwc is comparable, i challenge u to watch more acc football so that you can have a valid opinion…i admit that i always felt like the gap between east and west was very wide…the fact that i’ve watched a ton of west coast ball over the past 2 years let me know that the gap isn’t huge but its big…the true difference is that offense generally resides in the west while defense is prevalent in the east…you’ll notice that most offenses in the west are spread/pass-happy offenses (including utah) while east coast offenses are more conventional…on defense, teams in the west are more porous vs the run while the run is a point of emphasis in the east…the source of the gap between east and west is flat-out talent and athleticism…the example i stated earlier is the difference between playing with latendresse vs lining up w/ calvin johnson…latendresse won that match-up yesterday, but it’s obvious that he’s not nearly as talented as johnson…i understand as a ute fan that it’s hard to swallow but utah’s level of competition is well below that of gtech’s…enjoy the win, you guys earned it and deserve it!
By Bill
December 30, 2005 01:04 PM | Link to this
Hey puppies:
First off, you’re on the wrong blog. Yours is at the Department of Labor!
Just remember this period in Tech history when we get back to beating you on a regular basis, like we did when Ross/OLeary was coaching.
With the HEAVY recruiting and fan base advantage (in numbers, not IQ’s) you have in this state, you should NEVER lose to us.
Wanna hear complaining? Remember in the middle of the Jan Kemp saga when you couldn’t recruit anyone, were losing Music City bowls and Larry Munson whined day and night about your plight?
I’m just saying things like this go in cycles and yours is coming…
By CROW
December 30, 2005 01:10 PM | Link to this
EAT ME.
By my sweater is still dusty
December 30, 2005 01:11 PM | Link to this
Well, another loss is in the record books. You got to give ole CJ credit. He caught a pass out near McCovey’s cove. PJ Daniels has a chance to be a dancer on that Fox show and Reggie will be on the Nanny show how to control rude children. If ya listen real close you can hear ole Wes Durham yelling first down Jackets. I guess he likes to yell that since they rarely ever see the endzone. Maybe some of those boys on the flats can invent some cleats to stand up on grass in wet conditions. Hell, I even got my sweater out of the closet. It smells like moth balls and has a hole in it but I was in the spirit. I nearly lost my pocket protector when we kicked that field goal. I got out my xtr9000 mega super computer I built for NASA and it says Reggie Balls’ completion pct is less than 50%
I’m a ramblin wreck from Ga. Tech and not much of a engineer. My football team loses a lot of games every year My wallet is tight and old My wife looks like a toad And I guess my football team it times to fold. Oh.. I dropped my glasses. Hang on for a minute.
Isn’t life grand? Chan gets 5 more years. The b-ball team gets beat by Sisters of Blind and Poor and what fans Tech has left are all fighting amongst themselves. The technical school on North Avenue is having problems. I will come by the Varsity on my way to the Sugar Bowl. Go Dawgs, Georgia state champs in football, basketball and 2005 SEC Champs. This is all just in fun. Tech fans be proud of your team win or lose. I know you guys lose more than you win but be patient. George O’Leary is working on a new resume and may be back faster than ya think. I hear he was a Rhodes Scholar and a Astronuat on Apollo 14. Yeah thats it.
By brewerfaninATL
December 30, 2005 01:11 PM | Link to this
Big whoop-de-doo, Utah is in the MWC, not the WAC…so sorry! Lack of education, yeah, you make me laugh! Just like your sorry-a$$ ACC conference!!!!
By What ever helps you get through the offseason
December 30, 2005 01:12 PM | Link to this
Hey Chris and John, If saying that kind of crap helps you get through a long off season, then go ahead. I mean we wouldn’t want to ruin a whole year for you just because you couldn’t beat a team that was better than you. You know, maybe next year when the Falcons play the Chargers away, or the Braves play the Dodgers away, they should just roll over and “lose” because Atlanta will be so much better than those teams and won’t want to travel so far away, so what’s the point of showing up?You make no sense at all. A quality program with a REAL team would demolish a tea that they didn’t respect to show how much better they were. Oh wait, that DID happen…
By Utah man
December 30, 2005 01:13 PM | Link to this
Can u say ooh-we!! Whats the name of that podunk team from the Little mountain west that couldn’t stand up to the acc? Oh yeah emerald bowl champs thats it. Thanks for coming and showing up hope you like the west coast. I think latendresse just ripped your defense for another td. j/k enjoy.
By Shock 'em Shockley
December 30, 2005 01:14 PM | Link to this
Thats a good point about getting a QB from CA, but there’s one problem: Now the Left Coast knows what the people in the souteast have known for years about Yech being a second rate program. No QB will want to go to a school that, even with arguably the best WR in the nation, has a system that doesn’t help them put up good numbers and has them playing in easily one of the worst bowl games ever. Thanks for the ammunition for years to come when Tech fans start bragging again.
Sincerely,
51-7
P.S. I think Latendresse just scored again.
By Utahman
December 30, 2005 01:14 PM | Link to this
Can u say ooh-we!! Whats the name of that podunk team from the Little mountain west that couldn’t stand up to the acc? Oh yeah emerald bowl champs thats it. Thanks for coming and showing up hope you like the west coast. I think latendresse just ripped your defense for another td. j/k enjoy.
By Mayretta Dawg
December 30, 2005 01:18 PM | Link to this
Bill,
I truly hope you are not a true Tech fan because these “cycles” you speak of come once every few decades. When O’Liary was coaching the mighty Jackets and won three in a row against the Dawgs, they hadn’t accomplished that feat since the 60’s. Your team’s record vs. UGA is a joke and before thos phantom three wins we had reeled off seven. The streak is now five….
By Maines
December 30, 2005 01:21 PM | Link to this
Just keep telling your redneck selves that the South Will Rise Again, The South Will Rise Again. This is the second burning of Atlanta.
By TeUteFall
December 30, 2005 01:23 PM | Link to this
Utah’s slaughter of ACC’s GT is one more reason for a college football playoff system. It will show the overrated teams from the big conferences some real football! Give me a playoff or shut up!!!
By AndyinUtah
December 30, 2005 01:23 PM | Link to this
James, The three WR in the Mountain West that are “as good or better” than Calvin Johnson at this stage in his young career are: J ovon Bouknight, Wyoming, 77 catches, 1116 yards, 12 TDs (he also threw a TD and is one of the nations to KR). Jeffrey Webb, San Diego St, 92 catches, 1109 yards, 10 TD. Hank Baskett, New Mexico, 67 catches, 1071 yards, 9 TDs.
Note, all three of the above are seniors and have had more time to develop than Calvin (52 catches, 869 yards, 6 TDS). They all have had huge college careers, rank high nationally and will play on Sundays next year. CJ, definately has the physical tools, and may ultimately be the next super WR. But lets give him time to develop and earn the accolades that are being so freely given to him.
By 74dawg
December 30, 2005 01:25 PM | Link to this
grit? give me a break. Try QUIT, AS IN A BUNCH OF QUITTERS. I am not one of those UGA fans that hates tech (only one week a year). But this was an EMBARASSMENT to the entire state of Georgia. Georgia Southern would have at least shoen up and played. This is just another example of a program w/ a total lack of CLASS. Who the heck would WANT to coach there? Remember Bobby Ross? your whining and complaining on the eve of a (co)national championship game ran him off. This team laid down. They were pouting (as usual) over their bowl sellection,and as one commentator said, went on strike. Theu owe a huge apology to the entire state, to the bowl, and to the few who watched it.
By Wake up James
December 30, 2005 01:26 PM | Link to this
James, you need to wake up. I live in GA. I’ve see some of those boring games you are so proud of. The difference is that ALL teams in the MWC are competitive and can handle any team that is thrown at them. Whereas the ACC and SEC are lopsided -which is why you have teams run the table and others that get stomped on. All your comments about your so called east coast could be mirrored about the west coast. defences in the east are not used to the pass and are very weak against a real passing team -as was evidenced last night. It will also be proven next year as Florida dominates the conference. You know what the difference is between LaTendresse and Johnson? Who cares? It doesn’t matter. They don’t line up against each other. The difference is and WAS that the Utah defence knew how to handle Johnson and the Utah offence knew how to epxloit the GT defence. All the talk going into the game was that Quinton Ganther would be doing a lot of running against a team that did so well against the pass. Utah found a way around the defence and stuck with it. If the run had worked better than the pass, that would have been what they beat GT with. Bottom line, GT got SPANKED and now you have to come up with excuses to make you feel better the rest of the off season. Utah on the other hand will have to live with the fact that for the second year in a row the BCS couldn’t send them a worthy opponent to compete.
By FishwaterDawg
December 30, 2005 01:28 PM | Link to this
Hey Techmites,
The reason Dawg fans come over here to laugh and rub it in is because it is endless enjoyment. To know there is a sour Tech fan behind a computer with a quivering lip is priceless! Your program is in the toilet and we own you…always have, always will. Your program’s glory days were when players wore leather helmets.
By James
December 30, 2005 01:29 PM | Link to this
AndyinUtah…i agree w/ you on bouknight and webb, but baskett is suspect and doesn’t run well…bouknight and webb are legit players though…would u say that watkins from byu is among the group you mentioned?
By Utahisforlovers
December 30, 2005 01:30 PM | Link to this
Yes we lost but I woke up this morning in beautiful Georgia and all the Utah fans woke up in what is the equivalent to one large pasty Riverdale!
By GOUTES
December 30, 2005 01:32 PM | Link to this
First I want to thank GT for allowing a MWC Utes’ team to play an ACC team – it was our pleasure! Second I want to thank that school down south of the U for allowing us win to become bowl eligible – oh by the way who lost their bowl game? Third – Calvin I know a program that is going places – of course you’ll run route across the middle.
By Shock 'em Shockley
December 30, 2005 01:36 PM | Link to this
Cycles Bill. Your memory must be worse than your football IQ. Let’s break down the decades shall we?
70-79 UGA 7-3 vs. GTU
80-89 UGA 7-3 again vs. GTU for the decade
90-99 UGA 7-3 vs. GTU including 7 in a row (hell, Goff was 5-2 against you)
2000-present I’ll bet you can count these yourself
How long do these “cycles” of yours take to come around?
Lastly, I feel that Terrence is very inclusive and out of the goodness of his wnoderful heart and unbiased judgements, would want everybody to be welcomed on his blog regardless of their affiliations.
By 74dawg
December 30, 2005 01:39 PM | Link to this
teutefall: see this is what I’m talking about. tech doesn”t even bother to show up,and now u minor leaguers are acting like u beat somebody. A playoff would be great, it would shut u up. however, remember boise state/UGA? When a “mid major school plays a real program in a meaningful game, which rarely happens, they usually get spanked. and i don’t mean by one of those w.coast finesse teams- imean real football.
By AndyinUtah
December 30, 2005 01:40 PM | Link to this
James, Yes Watkins is a talented burner who has good hands. But, it’s not easy for a Ute to lay too many compliments on a Cougar so I didn’t include him in the list! Truthfully, Watkins is probably feared as much as any WR in the MWC, but BYU’s offensive balance meant Watkins numbers were good, but not all world this season.
By War Eagle
December 30, 2005 01:41 PM | Link to this
Hey utes don`t get carried away..good game, but if you play in the SEC your bowl appearance will be NIL..You are at best a 5-6 0r maybe 6-5, in the SEC. Tech made our faces red in the south…you do deserve some creit though, good luck next year
By Dawgs51to7
December 30, 2005 01:42 PM | Link to this
You can’t count O’Leary’s wins against Donnan, the NCAA found you guilty of cheating. Those games never happened thanks to your lying & cheating ways.
By LaTendresse, Utah 88
December 30, 2005 01:47 PM | Link to this
Hi guys, thanks for watching yesterday. I’m the guy that torched you for 200 yards. I played college for like three different teams including a JCC, and you made me look like a star. Why no adjustments whatsoever? Never mind—thanks for the great sendoff!
Oh, by the way, the comment about quitting was not intended as an insult. I just started feeling bad for the guys and so I started telling them out there to keep their chins up and stuff. Not even that kept them from moping around the sidelines.
Much respect to my peer, C Johnson. Bummer who you’ve got throwing to you, or not throwing to you. I highly recommend backups. Hopefully you’ll be able to make it to a camp tryout like me!
Oh, and by the way, most of the Ute fans posting here are idiots. When Utah and BYU have start winning in a PAC-12, then maybe I’ll think about calling out the Bulldogs.
Happy New Year,
Travis
By ACC vs. MWC
December 30, 2005 01:49 PM | Link to this
Did it ever occur to all you ramblin wreck fans thay just maybe the ACC is OVER-RATED! An average year MWC team completetly DEMOLISHED the Yellow-Jackets. On both sides of the football.
The BCS system needs to die. Too many truly good football teams are missing out on bowls games so that mediocre ACC, SEC and PAC10 schools etc can continue the farce of playing post-season. USC barely beat Fresno State. Why is Fresno State not nationally ranked?
The BCS is a farce designed to protect access to the elite bowl games for the big name conferences.
GA Tech was thoroughly beaten by a superior team, that was average in its own league this year. Was does that say about the ACC?
No excuses for the loss. It wasn’t the muddy field or the Long road trip. How about less talented and not as well prepared.
Think about it.
By Frankley my dear...
December 30, 2005 01:51 PM | Link to this
74dawg says: “me big redneck run ball. Yous em not good youses throws ball. we winses cuz weses big an strong. we not likes west coast (where is the west coast again?) cause we not understand hows it work. oh an cans youses guys helps me find Bosie on the book of maps cuz I not see that em state. The south will rise, the south will rise…”
I think Florida should annex Georgia.
By Marvin Coffee
December 30, 2005 01:51 PM | Link to this
Know how to drive a Tech fan crazy?You don’t,ask “coach” Gailey,he can tell you.He is an expert at it.Big bucks to drive people crazy.Not bad pay if you have a friend who can provide you the employment.
By JLGDAWGS
December 30, 2005 01:52 PM | Link to this
Tech, will always be a 7-4 team every year if their lucky.
By Know-it-all
December 30, 2005 01:55 PM | Link to this
Fresno State is not nationally ranked because they got B%$@#-slapped 40-28 by La Tech. Anymore dumb questions?
By Jeff
December 30, 2005 02:02 PM | Link to this
Disenfrachised Ute Fans
I’m not saying this to be disrespectful, but before this game I had never even heard of the MWC. Thats how little respect that conference gets here in the south. Sorry.
By James
December 30, 2005 02:04 PM | Link to this
Wake up James…since you wanna be real, i’ll be real…the fact of the matter is that teams like utah don’t play anybody during the season, while a team like gtech has to gear up to play solid football every week against top tier programs…utah has at least 7 avg teams on their schedule while tech has maybe 3 if you count wake forest…they win 7 games w/ a tough schedule and are rewarded w/ a matchup against utah, who has beaten no team of significance during this season or last year’s undefeated season…on the real, i respect what utah did yesterday…however, tech didn’t show up and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that…is that utah’s fault, hell no…they did what they were supposed to do to a team that’s not ready to play,THEY KICKED THEIR A*!…but like i said before, let’s not act like that big win over byu was significant to anyone outside of utah…like someone said earlier, a playoff would clear all of this up b/c the games would mean something and the comparisons would be clearer…it was a great victory for utah yesterday, but no one’s gonna take them seriously until they beef up the schedule and prove they can win against top competition…last season and yesterday are great for that program, but they’ve gotta step up their regular season schedule…fact: the utes have only faced two top 25 teams the last 2 seasons, both in bowl games…during the same time, gtech faced at least 11 (6 this season) not including utah.
By another dumb question
December 30, 2005 02:06 PM | Link to this
By Know-it-all
December 30, 2005 01:55 PM | Link to this
Fresno State is not nationally ranked because they got B%$@#-slapped 40-28 by La Tech. Anymore dumb questions?
yeah, why is an 8-4 Florida State team playing in the Orange bowl?
Because they deserve to be there… no that’s not it… what could it be?
-oh wait, I know it’s because of the fradulant BCS system.
By James
December 30, 2005 02:10 PM | Link to this
AndyinUtah…i appreciate the info…congrats on the win, enjoy it…good luck to you guys next season.
By Cycle Master
December 30, 2005 02:11 PM | Link to this
Well, gee whiz! I was going to reply to Bill about his “cycles� but Shock ‘em beat me to it. If we do the math (one of the few things that Techsters are supposed to be good at), Tech has a 30% winning percentage against Georgia over the last decade, a 25% winning percentage over the last 20 years, a 28% winning percentage over the last 25 years, a 27% winning percentage over the last 30 years, a 27.5% winning percentage over the last 40 years, and a 30% winning percentage over the last 50 years.
I think its time to go buy a new slide rule, Bill. And oh, by the way, it appears that it is you who is on the wrong Blog. This one appears to be owned by Dawg and Ute fans.
Woof, Woof
By Fes
December 30, 2005 02:12 PM | Link to this
Bring it on, Utefan! We have something in the South (the real South—not the trade school in Atlanta or Wake Forest) called an a*-whoopin’, and all you gotta do is get your team here. We’ll give ‘em one they won’t forget.
Don’t judge southern football by the team you just played. It’s a melange of mediocre athletes with a nitwit for a coach.
By GTbacker
December 30, 2005 02:18 PM | Link to this
Reggie Ball is the problem. Chan Gailey put him in this position. We have no good QB prospects. Last year, we should have been able to recruit a good QB by telling him that he’d be throwing to CJ. Then Gailey should have moved Reggie Ball to the back-up spot. He’s a loose cannon. The only thing he doesn’t lack is confidence. He’s a menace. CJ deserves better.
The only thing that can partially salvage this bowl season would be for UGA to lose. I’m sure that’s an unhealthy thought, but I can’t help it. I hate the Bulldogs.
Despite the fact that I hate them though - I’ve never even CONSIDERED going on one of their blogs. That’s weird man.
By MCDonoughDawg
December 30, 2005 02:26 PM | Link to this
Wac, Mwc, Swac, Smack, frankly I don’t care what you call it. Vandy’s 2005 team would have won any of’em going away.
Boise got a small taste of playing on the road in the SEC this year.
By James, your argument is very one sided
December 30, 2005 02:27 PM | Link to this
James, two problems with your argument. All of your opinions or “facts” as you call them about who is a quality team and who is not are based on who the BCS tells you is good -and they are so lost that they wouldn’t even be able to find their way to the bathroom without a GPS. Second, Utah’s win against BYU mad a HUGE difference to the GT and ACC football programs. If it hadn’t been for that win, the jackets and the ACC wouldn’t have been out-played, out-classes and humiliated by the Utes. Say what you want about who you and the BCS claim are worthy and who are not.
The bottom line is this: The BCS schools are afraid to send a “decent” team -(their wording not mine) against a non-BCS team in a bowl for fear of what it will do to their beloved system. For the last two years Utah has gone into bowl games where they have been the underdogs and have wiped up the opposition. They didn’t pick their opponents, they just picked up the pieces of their opponents after they got done dismantling them. And all this while they were dissappointed to get such a poor team last year and a team that didn’t want to play this year. If you want to talk quality, you need to include consistency. If GT thought they deserved better, they should have proven it. A message to the BCS: put up, or shut up
By Preparation gaffe?
December 30, 2005 02:28 PM | Link to this
Check out press comments in the Salt Lake paper: http://www.sltrib.com/utahutes/ci_3356315
“The Yellow Jackets talked all week about how much they worked in practice on stopping the Utah option, which seemed a curious strategy, considering the Utes had hardly run the option once quarterback Brett Ratliff took over for the injured Brian Johnson - then sprained an ankle two weeks ago, to boot. “That’s what they did all year with their other quarterback,” Tech safety Chris Reis said. “So that’s what we had to prepare for. They didn’t do that, and we couldn’t stop them.” The Utes ran the option only a few times against the Yellow Jackets.”
By James
December 30, 2005 02:34 PM | Link to this
James, your argument is very one sided…i agree that tech is inconsistent and i do believe that utah was a better team yesterday…since you believe that i’m biased against utah and its opponents…tell me who you think the best team utah played over the past 2 seasons and let’s talk about it.
By MakeMeLaugh
December 30, 2005 02:34 PM | Link to this
If it weren’t for morons like Bill maybe we wouldn’t come here. Bill, idiot boy. As long as Mark Richt is at UGA the only cycle there will be at UGA is the win cycle. You guys from Tech that really do have the brains need to keep the Bills among you in check. He proves that Tech has some true mental midgets in its midst.
By Joe
December 30, 2005 02:39 PM | Link to this
All you tech fans who have never heard of Utah or seen them play need to know that the supposed mighty ACC is overated and you need to know that if you dont respect an opponent like Utah you are going to get the beatdown that you received in the Emerald bowl. Talk all you want about mediocrity for your team and that its a joke to lose to a Mountain West team, but you got beat by a better team plain and simple, just face up to the truth that the Big East found out about last year in the Fiesta bowl…that Utah is for real.
By UGAlawDawg
December 30, 2005 02:44 PM | Link to this
To the guy crowing about the WAC and the MWC, did Boise State not take a monumental a$# kickin in Athens this year? You really dropped off this year from last Ute boy. Just goes to prove that even a blind squirrel gets a nut every 5 years or so. I have never seen any group so cocky after beating GT. Comparing Tech to UGA is like comparing ice cream to cat sh&*. Bring it on Utes!
By What is the point of the regular season?
December 30, 2005 02:46 PM | Link to this
You know what the best part of the BCS is? That legally they have to pit the no.1 team against the no. 2 team no matter who they are. Of course they have made several shady rules and stipulations to ensure that those will be BCS teams.
Just think, when the BCS comes crashing down and all of those poor conferences like the ACC and the SEC don’t get all of that tainted millions to support their programs like they are now. Then how mighty will they be?
Go buckeyes!
By Ed in Georgia
December 30, 2005 02:47 PM | Link to this
Joe, sorry, but beating a “Big Least” opponent proves nothing. Last years Utes might would have went 3-7 in the SEC, and thats being generous. Most of us SEC fans don’t even acknowledge the Big East, PAC-10, WAC, MAC, C-USA, Little-12 or MWC as real conferences. The SEC is a cut above. Look at the NFL, SEC players make up half the league. When faceed with the facts you Ute fans have no response.
By Bill from Salt Lake
December 30, 2005 02:49 PM | Link to this
Calling this a rinky-dink bowl sure sounds like sour grapes to me!!
Utah would have preferred a more prestigious bowl,too, but what is -is.
By Big Ute Fan
December 30, 2005 02:49 PM | Link to this
I just spent 30 minutes reading all the comments. Just a curious Ute fan looking in. The Utes played an outstanding game. Give credit where credit is due. It is time for college football fans to realize that football does exist outside of the east coast, and we know how to play football. I predict that the Mountain West conference will quickly replace the Big East conference for the automatic BCS bid. Maybe then you will notice. I sat on a flight with GT fans after they lost to BYU a couple years back. They were very intelligent fans that love the game and cheer for their team. We at Utah also love the game and cheer for our team. It is what it is all about, GO UTES! Good luck next year yellow jackets.
P.S. The ACC officiating crew that worked the Utah - UNC game made a horrible call that would have given Utah 7 points and completely changed the outcome of this years Utah - UNC game, we should have been 2-0 against the ACC.
By Jim D**
December 30, 2005 02:50 PM | Link to this
Many Tech alumni note that since Dave Braine moved from Virginia Tech to Georgia Tech the Virginia Tech athletic program has flourished, while the Georgia Tech program has often been an embarrassment both on and off the field.
By Bob Harrington
December 30, 2005 02:52 PM | Link to this
Maybe the Coaching staff ought to be required to take an SAT before applying at Tech. I would not like to see those scores. Great Academics but fair to average athletics. Thank God I got to see some of the real Tech teams in the 60s.
By Wake up ED
December 30, 2005 02:54 PM | Link to this
Actually Ed, you’re right. You don’t acknowledge any of those other conferences because you’re too wrapped up in your “the south will rise again” grap to pull your head out and realize that there are other conferences that are better out there. Hi, it’s me Ed. I’m too busy playing with my UGA toys to get an education. Dwags forever. Hey, let’s go bother the GT fans before we get our A$$ handed to us in our bowl game.
By Conyers Dawg
December 30, 2005 02:57 PM | Link to this
POOR CALVIN JOHNSON, HE WOULDN’T BE COMPLAINING IF HE HAD JUST CHOSE THE DAWGS. IF HIS INTENT IS TO LEAVE EARLY AND NOT GET A DEGREE FROM TECH HE SHOULD HAVE WENT TO GEORGIA. I’M NO TECH FAN BUT THE DEGREE FROM TECH WOULD BE GOOD.
By Ed in Georgia
December 30, 2005 03:00 PM | Link to this
Thats the juvenille response I’ve grown to expect from Tech/Ute fans. Our second string could put up 100 points any team in the WAC, MAC, or whatever the heck else is out there. Dawgs by 35 in the Sugar Bowl.
By WAC
December 30, 2005 03:03 PM | Link to this
I knew that we were known for our “Tickle Piles” but never knew the football team participated.
By Ramblin'Man
December 30, 2005 03:03 PM | Link to this
Hey, did anyone mention or see John Tenuta at the game yesterday? I heard he was left on Alcatraz with the rest of the secondary. Too bad they didn’t leave Reggie and Chan over there too.
All I have to say is when a local paper features the opposing team’s quotes as saying “they quit” and “didn’t want to be hear”, we have hit rock bottom. Does no one in the GT administration read this paper? Are we deaf to competition? Is our “tradition” going to carry us? With this current attitude from Braine and his fellow admins, we are resting on our laurels and will continue to be mediocre from here unti eternity. Just look at our reruiting class committments so far. Super 100?? None to GT. But plenty after that.
Utah, you got lucky and caught us when we were resting on our laurels (or whatever they h-ll they call it). Utah, we did quit. Utah, we didn’t want to be there. And for all of those reasons, we need change.
By footballjunkie
December 30, 2005 03:05 PM | Link to this
Most of my sales territory covers the south, ie..Georgia, Florida, Carolinas, Tennesee, etc. I am out in you neck of the woods every 3-4 weeks. When I do come out, I have a customer base who loves to take me to football games, so I have seen a number of SEC and ACC games. I give you southerners 2 thumbs up for the fan atmosphere in your staduims and there is some quality football being played on the field. I am a season ticket holder for the UTES. I watched as last years team picked defenses apart week after week while finishing the regular season 11-0. Can you say BCS Buster! The BCS gods, thinking only about their system, had to skirt around and schedule the “big east” champ Pitt, against a very good UTAH team. We know the outcome and there are many a UTE fan who have played the UTAH-Auburn scenario in our minds. It IS a fact that the East coast conferances are scared to play teams out west. I know UTAH has tried to get home/home games with a number of big name BCS teams…no takers? Is this because we might show the football world that the BCS is crap and it benifits only a handful of teams? The BCS teams SHOULD have better recruiting classes on paper because of the Extra 1.5MM to 2.5MM they receive just by being a BCS member. UTAH’s team this year is a very young team, under a first year coach with no head coaching experience. I can only say that this A** kicking was the result of a team coming together when it counted. Keep in mind that we did lose some games that we should have won. We used a 18 year old QB to run a complicated system. New offensive coordinator. I am ashamed at any football “fan” who used the excuse that this was a meaningless game and GT didn’t show up. The showed up and got out-classed, out-played, and most importantly…out-coached.
Note: Calvin, use the redshirt and make the switch to the “west coast” offense. We’ll take you for a year and send you out the same way we sent Alex Smith…#1
By jason
December 30, 2005 03:06 PM | Link to this
This blog is priceless. Way to represent Techies. Because of you we will now have to listen to people from Utah flap their gums. These are dark days for you indeed.
By Bob Harrington
December 30, 2005 03:11 PM | Link to this
There is one method of changing this situation, stop giving the bucks and stop watching the games. Wallets and feet can make the needed changes. I do believe once the dollars stop rolling in from the faithful and the seats go unfilled things will change and rapidly. Boycott the athletic department and school if needed. Go watch Georgia if needed.
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 03:13 PM | Link to this
Ed in Georgia,
Last years Utes a generous 3-7 in the SEC? You just don’t get it do you? The Utes are as BIG as any SEC team, the Utes are as fast as any SEC team, The Utes have talent to match any SEC team. The Utes play football as hard and as well as any SEC team. If the Utes were in the SEC they would compete just like they always do…..to win. The Utes would average 7 wins in that conference year in and year out. All teams have bad losses, all teams have let downs, but for the most part the Utes show up to play. Your opinion of superiority is very common and very tired, get over yourself (conference).
By Jarred
December 30, 2005 03:18 PM | Link to this
HAHAHA A Ute fan actually thinks Utah could have beat Auburn last year?!?!?!? That is the stupidest thing ever posted on any blog ever!!!! I don’t believe any Ute fan actually typed that. Auburn would have slaughtered the 04 Utes!!!! Scared to play Utah? You Ute fans have lost your minds after this Tech game. Nice to know you fools are grounded out there. What now, gonna start whining about how the Utes should be number one in the BCS pole?!?!?! Silly little Utes…
By Ed in Georgia
December 30, 2005 03:28 PM | Link to this
UTEFAN- Was that last post of yours meant to be serious? I laughed through it when I read it the first time, like maybe you meant it to be funny. But the second time I read it, it almost seemed like you were serious. I cant believe anyone would reject such an overwehlming amount of evidence though. I’m sure your post was just meant to be a joke. Everyone on this board agrees that Utah would not win any games in the SEC, its just a fact, plain and simple. Ute Fans, get off your high horses! Utah year in and year out has shown its a terrible team that can’t hold its own in the SEC, these are just facts, sorry I cant sugarcoat it for you guys!!!
By Bill
December 30, 2005 03:33 PM | Link to this
To MakeMeLaugh and Cycle Master Idiot boy? Moron? Wow, you got me there. Are you two on the UGA debate team? My point was/is this: ” With the HEAVY recruiting and fan base advantage (in numbers, not IQ’s) you have in this state, you SHOULD NEVER lose to us”. Yes, this series runs in cycles and YOU SHOULD NEVER LOSE TO US, hicks!
Now go plow the back 40 and GIT-R-DUN…
By J Bolts
December 30, 2005 03:33 PM | Link to this
I concur with the majority of the comments below: Chan Gailey needs to go, period.
His replacement should think about bringing along an equipment manager who would think it beneficial to bring along an extra set of long cleats for the boys just in case it (surprise!) is damp in San Francisco. Poor tackling, improper equipment, and mediocre coaching lost this game for Tech. Chan Gailey is a pro-coach…too conservative for the college game…too mediocre for Tech.
Q: Do you know what the key difference is between the Falcons and the Bulldogs? A: No salary cap in Athens.
By Fes
December 30, 2005 03:37 PM | Link to this
Oh, Mr. Harrington, when was the last time you attended a Tech game? There are more empty seats there than at an opposition party convention in my home country.
The only time that stadium is full is when the Clemson, Auburn and Georgia people buy up the mini-packs at an inflated price.
Why don’t they tear down another section or two?
By Keith "Camera Happy" Jackson
December 30, 2005 03:41 PM | Link to this
Utefan’s comments are indeed ridiculous but why not make the bowl season a 16 game playoff and let them take a shot *that is when they’re good enough to be arguably top 16)?
By Just a dumb ol' UGA liberal-arts major
December 30, 2005 03:42 PM | Link to this
Bill, the only thing dumber than your post is the fact that you apparently thought it worthy of saying twice.
“Just remember all this when Tech gets back to beating you on a regular basis, like we did when Ross/OLeary was coaching.” Uh, Ross was 2-3 against Georgia, O’Leary was 3-5 (and that’s even IF you factor in the “vacated” seasons). Next.
“With the HEAVY recruiting and fan base advantage (in numbers, not IQ’s) you have in this state, you SHOULD NEVER lose to us.” How in the world does that reflect positively on Tech in any way? That Tech is so godawful even one win over Georgia counts as an earth-shattering, history-making accomplishment? Next.
“Wanna hear complaining? Remember in the middle of the Jan Kemp saga when you couldn’t recruit anyone, were losing Music City bowls and had that hack Larry Munson whining day and night about your plight?” The Music City Bowl wasn’t even created until 1998. Next.
“I’m just saying things like this go in cycles and yours in coming…” Right, but it’s Georgia people who don’t know proper grammar. Strike four, you’re out.
Bill, you can whine about this or that all you want, but the fact is you’re the biggest reason GT is mired in mediocrity: a half-assed fan base whose knowledge of football isn’t anywhere close to what they claim, who would rather whine and moan about Georgia than support their own team. Will Tech beat Georgia agan someday? Probably, but I wouldn’t go holding my breath there, kiddo.
By Tech Alum
December 30, 2005 03:44 PM | Link to this
A note to Coach Gailey
Mr. Gailey,
You should be ashamed of yourself for last night’s debacle. As a GT alumnus, I was thoroughly embarrassed. You embarrassed our players, the fans, the alumni, and most importantly the school; all on national television. None of these people deserve such humiliation. And when a breakdown such as this (among others) occur, one must look at the leadership.
If its not in your heart to win or you’re not capable of motivating and preparing young athletes week in and week out (either of which showed last night from the reflection of the players), then please step down and save all of us the embarrassment. At the least, the lack of performance and care by the players showed their lack of respect for your coaching and leadership.
And again, when the team shows such lack luckster performance and such terrible preparation, you should be ashamed of yourself, Mr. Gailey.
Regards
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 03:44 PM | Link to this
Get off our high horses??? We are on a valiant pony, and it is you and ‘most of the people on this board’ who are on high horses. We must be bigger than Ugag or Auburn or Miami or ANY team that Tech played this year………at least that’s what CCG said. It is so fun to watch the Utes on their valiant little pony knock supposedly superior teams off of their high horses! Tech and their 10th rated defense are now riding a turlte, is that what you want? Come play the Utes and that’s what you just might get.
By Cycle Master
December 30, 2005 03:50 PM | Link to this
For all of Bill’s whining and moaning, I think the only “cycle” Bill is familiar with is the one that comes every 28 days.
By Hick
December 30, 2005 03:50 PM | Link to this
Bill,
We do “git’r’dun!” That’s why we’re conference champs and playing in a BCS bowl, and y’all are conference chumps playing in the Bendover Bowl in San Francisco!
And as far as fan base and recruiting goes, it doesn’t take a country boy to know that you can’t polish a turd. And that’s what tech is—a big turd floating in the biggest toilet bowl of a stadium anywhere in the country.
By Master
December 30, 2005 03:50 PM | Link to this
By Gene
December 30, 2005 03:51 PM | Link to this
Just a dumb ol’ UGA liberal-arts major I’d say Bill put forth a much better argument. I’m not really sure where you were going exactly with your rant. Strike four? We joke a lot about what a joke of a school UGA is, but posts like yours really make me wonder. Its scarey knowing that school send thousands of people into the real world every year. You should change your handle from “dumb ol” to “stupidest person on planet.”
By Nodoginhunt
December 30, 2005 03:51 PM | Link to this
Bill:
Your comments are so sad to read. You must be really upset that you can’t stay up to watch the big Peach drop.
By john
December 30, 2005 03:52 PM | Link to this
Why not tell Braine what you think of him and Gailey. Email him: dbraine@at.gtaa.gatech.edu
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 03:52 PM | Link to this
Get off our high horses??? We are on a valiant pony, and it is you and ‘most of the people on this board’ who are on high horses. High on something anyway. We must be bigger than Ugag or Auburn or Miami or ANY team that Tech played this year………at least that’s what CCG said. It is so fun to watch the Utes on their valiant little pony knock supposedly superior teams off of their high horses! Tech and their 10th rated defense are now riding a turtle, is that what you want? Come play the Utes and that’s what you just might get. All I am saying is… don’t be so quick to assume that the Utes are that much more inferior to SEC teams, until we can play an SEC team I think it’s a hopeless argument. We may never truly know, but I’m sure as he!! hoping that, like this year, a few BcS conferences are unable to fill all of their bowl ties, giving next years MWC Champions (The Utes of course) a chance to play an SEC team in a Bowl game.
By Jack
December 30, 2005 03:53 PM | Link to this
Reggie Ball has not progressed because of poor coaching. I wish that he had gotten a chance to play in Ralph Fridgen’s offense. As for Chan Gailey - after watching undisciplined, mediocre football for the past several seasons, and seeing his players run wild & get into problems off the field, I always assumed this would be his last year. The five year extension dropped my jaw. Come on, Mr. Braine! Wake up!
By Pssst
December 30, 2005 03:56 PM | Link to this
Aybemay ifay eway ignoreay Utefanay e’llhay ustjay ogay awayay…
Utefan, I’m a Utah alum and you’re embarrassing me. Stop it. We’re not that good, although last night was sure fun.
Love the bbs without a login, AJC. I’ve posted under a few different aliases and I love arguing with myself HAHAHAHAHAHA
By Fes
December 30, 2005 03:57 PM | Link to this
The Utefan is on a valiant pony.?! He must be one of those year-rounders in San Francisco. Neeeeeeeeeee!
By MakeMeLaugh
December 30, 2005 03:59 PM | Link to this
Keep talkin Bill! We love hearing from true morons that think they’re smart.
By Hey Psst
December 30, 2005 03:59 PM | Link to this
Get a life man
By Pssst
December 30, 2005 04:01 PM | Link to this
No man YOU get a life. And a 16-game tournament for the bowl season.
By Fes
December 30, 2005 04:01 PM | Link to this
What is a ute? I have only seen it preceded by “poopch.” Is it in the same general area?
By Bill
December 30, 2005 04:03 PM | Link to this
To Just a dumb ol’ UGA liberal-arts major Just remember, you said it, not me…
I care more about the University itself (Top 10, by the way) not JUST the football team.
Don’t forget that Mark Richt is gone once the FSU or Miami jobs open back up. You don’t actually think he’ll stay in Athens, do you?
Also, if you are assuming that I am happy with Gailey, of course I’m not. But us techies will weather this just like we weathered the Bill Lewis era. Unlike you, my whole identity is not wrapped up in my school. Sad.
Typical delusional Dawgnation, they take the bait every time.
By Frustrated
December 30, 2005 04:03 PM | Link to this
Please forward all comments to the Tech AD at dave.braine@gtaa.gatech.edu. It would be helpful to be focused in your assessment without being mean spirited. However, there is nothing wrong in saying that you are frustrated with an AD that accepts mediocrity and a coach that is unqualified.
By Fes
December 30, 2005 04:05 PM | Link to this
I want to send my condolences to the Tech basketball team—I thought my people were the only ones getting bombed by the Air Force.
By BME'86
December 30, 2005 04:08 PM | Link to this
As a Tech alum and fan, I agree with Juan Valdez. I’m sick and tired of seeing either D-1A team from the state lose, especially to those teams from surrounding states (Florida, FSU, AU, NCState, etc). While the Utah debacle hurt really badly, I can’t decide what ticks me off more: Gailey’s coaching (non-coaching?) or Reggie’s play (non-play?). They both are awful and as long as we have them, we’ll be terrible. Can you imagine Shockley at Tech or Calvin at UGA? Gailey would ruin DJ and Richt would turn Calvin into a top five NFL pick. (By the way, Calvin, if you hold your head just right, you can here future moneys going down the drain … courtesy of Messrs Gailey and Ball.)
Awful. Just awful. The GT fans — heck even the UGA fans — deserve better.
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 04:09 PM | Link to this
Whatever pssst,
You might be a Utah alum but I would question your loyalties.
If you want to go along with the argument that the ‘04 Utes are a 3-7 team in the SEC then you are not a true Ute fan. I’m sure your post was popular with the locals though. Tell Mr. Fifita that we’re not that good, or Mr. Burnette or Mr. Weddle or Mr. LaTendress or Coach Whit……….shame on you.
By uggggggggggggh
December 30, 2005 04:10 PM | Link to this
go to hell, Chan, go to hell.
By Brad
December 30, 2005 04:18 PM | Link to this
Sorry Georgia Tech you have the same symptom the Utah Utes had 4 seasons ago- inconsistency. Yes there’s talent, but your football team is unprepared and inconsistent. Please give Utah credit for growing and hanging in there as a team this year. They go out with a winning record and a bowl victory! Yes there were losses and struggles, but they came through the last 2 games of the season after losing so many personnel off last year’s BCS team. And yes give them credit last year too! That was a great team. As a Utah Ute and Dallas Cowboy fan, I’m so glad Chan Gailey is now coaching the Yellowjackets and no longer the ‘Boys!!!
By Psst
December 30, 2005 04:19 PM | Link to this
Must…not…say…anything…including…that…loyalty…does…not…require…Utefan…to…look…like…a…moron…
By Tech Fan for 50 Years
December 30, 2005 04:19 PM | Link to this
Vince Lombardi had it right a long time ago:”winning breeds winning, and losing breeds losing.” Braine is a LOSER, Gailey is a LOSER, Reggie is a LOSER, and, yesterday, GT was a BIG LOSER. As long as these THREE LOSERS remain in their current positions, GT football will continue to be a BIG LOSER. Sad, but true.
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 04:24 PM | Link to this
You’re right. Everybody, I’m really sorry. Last night was fun but I’m a moron for thinking that we could win in any conference.
I liked that guy’s suggestion that we join the PAC-10 to make a PAC-12 with BYU. Maybe that way we can join this BCS conspiracy and the Man will shell us eight figures a year just for having a pulse. Maybe then we’ll get better recruiting and outperform the PAC-10 basement in Washington and AZ.
By UTAH MAN
December 30, 2005 04:25 PM | Link to this
I am amused by all of the Georgia Tech fans’ excuses. We took you to the woodshed and whipped you. Your measly 10 points only occurred when our defense had a brain cramp.
As far as all of the speculation that MWC teams can’t compete with the SEC, ACC, or any other conference - talk is cheap. Set up a true playoff system like every other NCAA sport, and Div II football. Let’s really find out who is the best team.
By John
December 30, 2005 04:25 PM | Link to this
When you get your letters for ROLL CALL and ALEXANDER THARPE FUND, send them back $1 with a note saying it won’t increase until BRAINE AND GAILEY are both gone.
By Alan
December 30, 2005 04:26 PM | Link to this
Let’s try a little reality based discussion here on the topic of East v. West or SEC/ACC v. MWC/WAC. Obviously the SEC is a stronger conference top to bottom with generally superior talent. But the gap between the BCS and non-BCS conferences is not only closing but doing so rather quickly. The fact is that many MWC/WAC teams, Utah included, have tried for years to schedule regular games with major opponents. Those teams will rarely agree to even 2-1 home/away deals. It’s easy to say the likes of Utah couldn’t compete in the SEC but we’ll never know until the SEC steps up and agrees to play. Would Auburn have whacked Utah last year? Maybe. But I’d be willing to bet there were more than a few BCS bowl game participants last year that were relieved they didn’t have to play the Utes. The MWC/WAC are clearly inferior overall to the powerhouse teams in the major conferences. But do a little homework and you’ll see that Utah has a winning record against BCS conference schools over the past several years, regular season and bowl games. GTech clearly wasn’t the best the ACC has to offer and they obviously weren’t interested in being there. But don’t snap about how much better you are when the only hard evidence to go on is what happened on the field. And what happened is you got your butt handed to you by a very good team that could easily compete in the Pac-10 and Big-12. And don’t forget their basketball team has been outstanding over the past 10-12 years as well with several Sweet 16 teams and an appearance in the title game a 3-4 years ago. They are not a nationally prominent program in football, yet, but they are clearly among the best of the mid-majors which means they are certainly as good as the mid/lower teams of the BCS conferences. Overall it wasn’t that impressive of a win last night because GTech clearly isn’t that good. But at least we showed up prepared and did what we wanted to do, lay the wood to a team from a superior conference in hopes of gaining a little respect.
By Georgiagirl
December 30, 2005 04:26 PM | Link to this
Up front, I am an UGA Alum. I am married to a Tech Alum. I have watched every Tech game because my husband watches every UGA game with me. My thoughts (FWIW): Calvin & PJ… anyone connected with the next level knows that you are awesome. They also know that you are dealing with a head case as a QB. Keep plugging away, and I know some Tech fans that wouldn’t mind if you beat your QBs butt a couple of times. And that 6 inch tall CB from Utah did NOT shut Calvin down. REGGIE DID. Reggie- SHUT UP AND PLAY FOOTBALL. For the love of all that is holy, how about you play one freaking game and back up all of the trash you talk. Just one, and frankly, I don’t care if you decide to play the UGA game that way. You lose credibility when you are running your mouth when you haven’t done crap all game long. And be a man and talk to the media afterwards, take your lumps just like everyone else. Oh and BTW, Calvin’s really tall- you should be able to see when he is open and/or being guarded by someone your height!
And it’s a Bowl Game. You are all in COLLEGE. You shouldn’t NEED your seniors or coaches to “get you up” for the game. If you don’t think that’s being done, then someone step up and show some fire or spark. Oklahoma’s sideline was all over the place in the second game last night. If a player screwed up, they knew by the look they were getting from Stoops. Chan? NOTHING.
That game really irritated me, so I apologize to any Tech Fans who don’t feel like a UGA fan should be on this board. It takes away from the rivalry if one team has such low expectations for themselves. (TEAM, not FANS)
By Chan
December 30, 2005 04:26 PM | Link to this
Give me a break! I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to figure a way to make this a winning program. There’s not much left, and I still don’t know what to do.
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 04:28 PM | Link to this
I’m sure I sounded like a moron when I said that Utah would beat GT.
OK, I’ll play along:
ALL SEC D-linemen are better than Fifita, Burnette etc.
ALL SEC D-backs are better than Weddle, Tate etc.
ALL SEC receivers are better than Madsen, LaTendress etc.
ALL SEC quarterbacks are better than Ratliff, Johnson etc.
ALL SEC players are better than anyone on the Ute’s squad regardless of position.
Now, if any of you actually believe any of these ridiculous statements, then you are a moron, here’s your sign.
By FishwaterDawg
December 30, 2005 04:30 PM | Link to this
Bill,
You are a tool…now deal with it. Your co-workers know it, your friends know it, and your life partner knows it. I would like to give a big “How ‘Bout Them Dawgs!” to you and your family. GT is a good school with very mediocre athletics. You need to embrace this fact and move on.
By Mad Tech fan
December 30, 2005 04:32 PM | Link to this
Totally agree with the gripes about Reggie’s height problems. Reggie got stuffed by a lineman on one pass near GT’s end zone. The next play, Utah’s DE had a clear line to Reggie and STOPPED RUNNING TO TRY FOR A BLOCK. And you know what happened? Reggie stopped a pass in mid-motion! Damn!
By Urban Meyer
December 30, 2005 04:36 PM | Link to this
UTEFAN, I respectfully disagree. Utah’s line rarely loses on either side of the ball and I stepped down in QBs when I moved to FU. I can’t even run my offense with the pansy I’ve got now.
But this is about GT-Utah. Glad to see that Utah has some leftovers. Good luck in being more consistent next year. And to GT for that matter. May neither of you ever play on a 97-yard field again.
By Tech Alum C/O 94
December 30, 2005 04:37 PM | Link to this
I chalk last night up as a win for Tech. They showed up to San Fransisco, and thats good enough. We all know Tech is better than the Utes, so why even bother playing the game? Just because the final score was 38-10 doesnt mean a thing. Utah should do what is right and forfeit their victory, they didn’t earn it, it was a cheap W. I congratulate all the Tech players on their trip to the west coast. They know in their hearts, as well as I, that they won that game.
By Bill
December 30, 2005 04:41 PM | Link to this
FishwaterDawg,
“How bout them Dawgs?” That’s original… Come up with it yourself? Mutt.
What’s a “life-partner”? I’m sure you have a lot of knowledge on the subject…
UGA’ football program is one head-coaching change from becoming UK’s football program.
Deal with that, get back in the unemployment line and remember that you ONLY beat us 14-7 this year…
By kroger man
December 30, 2005 04:44 PM | Link to this
Hey Bill, Your tampons are ready to be picked up.
By Jim in Salt Lake
December 30, 2005 04:44 PM | Link to this
Lighten up Utefan — We had a nice win yesterday and now we’re ready rule the SEC and the “Pac 12”? The Salt Lake papers ran what seemed like obituaries for the Utes the day of the game.
The fact is the Utes were able to come in and get a jump on a good team they felt disrespected them and turn it into a big win. Momentum is a tough to turn around sometimes. I love college football!
P.S. Gators SEC Champs in ‘06
By Just a dumb ol' UGA liberal-arts major
December 30, 2005 04:45 PM | Link to this
Bill: “Don’t forget that Mark Richt is gone once the FSU or Miami jobs open back up.”
Right, but I’M the delusional one. Haven’t we already established that you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about?
You just keep a-wishin’ and a-hopin’ (and a-whinin’), Bill, while Georgia just keeps on a-winnin’.
By kroger man
December 30, 2005 04:48 PM | Link to this
When did Judy Tenuta start coaching Tech’s defense? I thought she was a comedian and Bill was her love slave.
By keep it REAL
December 30, 2005 04:49 PM | Link to this
Just like The Atlanta Falcons Georgia Tech is weak How in the hell the A.D. let bull $h-t go on this long this is weak. Please let the coaches go we need a coach that bring fear and can teach the player how to win . This coach is weak I don’t have to lie look at his record. the school the fan the city need better . If i was a high school foot ball player WHY would I come to tech . NOTE* keep what you have and that what we will have PURE BULL $h-T!
By Ute Fan
December 30, 2005 04:51 PM | Link to this
What a game. The second BCS school Utah spanked in as many years. Any chance Johnson could transfer to Utah? We’ve got 3 legit QB’s for next year. In all honesty, being a Dallas Cowboys fan, a part of me does feel badly for you GT fans in regards to your coach.
Go UTES!!
By Batterer Up
December 30, 2005 04:51 PM | Link to this
Bill, you belong in a shelter. To say that UGA only beat you 14-7 is like a black-eyed woman saying her husband only hit her because she let the dinner get cold.
A win is a win. And since you haven’t had one since the middle of November, you may not remember what it is.
Way to go, Utes!
By Larry
December 30, 2005 04:54 PM | Link to this
Bill has shown everyone of you idiotic, dumb as hell, Georgia fans up. UGA hasnt accomplished anything lately. The difference between Tech and UGA isnt much at all. You stupid dog fans cant open your eyes up and see it though. The Dawgs underachieve even worse than the jackets do every year. Look at the NFL, its full of UGA players! How come GA hasnt won a national championship since 1980 though with all that talent? They underachieve. You stupid dawg fans live a lie, constantly lose to UF, Auburn, beat South Carolina by a miracle, and think you’re really something. Well, heres a wake up call :”You Dawg fans are inbred fools that choke during every big game you ever play in!!!!!!!”
By Mr. GT
December 30, 2005 04:57 PM | Link to this
I’ll have what he’s smoking…
By Bill
December 30, 2005 04:58 PM | Link to this
Just a dumb ol’ UGA liberal-arts major, The name fits, by the way…
Who established that I didn’t know what I was talking about? YOU with all of your strikes? Whoopee! Guess you put me in my place.
I will give you the Music City bowl point that you made. Other than that, you’re nothing more than a UGA cliche’ (That means that you’re trite and redundant).
Much like “How bout them Dawgs”
Pitiful.
Now run along, Mutt, wrestling’s on…
By Fes
December 30, 2005 05:09 PM | Link to this
Georgia hasn’t invented 15 national championships like Tech has. You were mediocre in the conference before adding the big boys—now you’re the bottom of the barrel, and that’s where you’ll stay until you get rid of your AD, your coach and your QB.
And, we are not some third-world outpost in downtown Atlanta.
By DawgFan
December 30, 2005 05:15 PM | Link to this
Larry, you’re right. GD, you’re right. Its a shame we’re so excited this season. When a TWO lose team is the SEC champ, something is wrong. Yea, we backed into the SEC title game, I’ll give you that. Effing-A though on looking back at past Georgia teams, we underachieve every year. With better coaching we’d be making a title run every year. But as of now, we’re satisfied with just finishing in the top 20 every couple seasons. Could you go easy on us, please?
By Tech Man
December 30, 2005 05:19 PM | Link to this
Wow Fes, what insight you have shared. We should get rid of our AD, Coach, and QB, wow, thats an original idea. Not like that hasnt been posted over 270 times today.
By just a football fan
December 30, 2005 05:20 PM | Link to this
I was sitting here reading the blog and realize how much hatred GT fans have towards everyone inculuding their own team. Larry you say that UGA never has won a big game. Last time I looked they have won two SEC championships in the past 4 years and consitantly own the Jackets. Ga Tech has had one decent team in 40 years. It is not because of Academics. It is because of fickle alumni who do not support the team and inept coaching staffs. No good coach is ever going to be at Tech because he is not going to put up with snob alumni who do not support their team. You can not even sell your own stadium out. I am a transplant here from California and I can not believe the ideas and the snobbiness of the Tech fans. You all think you are vastly superior to everyone. You can not even get along with yourselves. You give UGA fans hell for their academics? Who got caught using academically ineligible players? Quit bashing everyone and even yourselves. For all the Utah fans. Your team played well and deserved to win. My hat is off to you but don’t boast that you can beat some of the elite teams such as Auburn. Auburn would run you off the field by halftime including last years team. You have played no one. Pitt was a joke last year. If you want to see a real team play then watch USC this coming week. Texas could win but USC is a well coached team. The players behave and we have class. Something that GT definatley lacks. Go Trojans
By TechFanof96
December 30, 2005 05:25 PM | Link to this
H$@# Yeah Larry, way to metaphorically B&$%@-slap those idiot Dawg fans!!!! I second everything you said!!!!!
By Tech Man
December 30, 2005 05:26 PM | Link to this
uhhhh…football fan…you tout Auburn yet Tech has owned Auburn…in fact, Auburn has not yet gained over 100 yards against Tech in two games combined…perhaps you should pick another team to prop up…Auburn consistently plays a weak non-league schedule…when they do step outside the SEC, the get beat. Auburn would not want anything to do with Utah…they are better served to stay with West Carolina, La Lafayette and the others they plan to play.
By Fes
December 30, 2005 05:37 PM | Link to this
Bill, are you flag boy’s father?
By FishwaterDawg
December 30, 2005 05:38 PM | Link to this
Bill: “remember you all only beat us 14-7”
Man you guys are pathetic. You take victory even in a loss to your arch rival. Ladies and gents…this is har far the Tech program has fallen.
Tech lies and cheats,
One happy Dawg fan that owns Bill
By FishwaterDawg
December 30, 2005 05:38 PM | Link to this
Bill: “remember you all only beat us 14-7”
Man you guys are pathetic. You take victory even in a loss to your arch rival. Ladies and gents…this is how far the Tech program has fallen.
Tech lies and cheats,
One happy Dawg fan that owns Bill
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 05:40 PM | Link to this
just a football fan:
Yeah, and Tech was supposed to run us off the field before halftime, your logic gets you nowhere. I boast tht we can compete with anybody, you boast that we cannot because….???? Oh that’s right, you’re talking about ‘elite’ schools. Sorry, you’re right, we should just crawl back into the hole we came out of and give up before even trying. I mean, what’s the point, if you say we can’t compete with ‘the big boys’ it must be true…………
I’d be happy to see ‘big boys’ on our schedule just so we could -have a chance- to shut you nay sayers up once and for all. Your pompous opinion represents everything wrong with the BcS and college football. I’m not saying we would be the Kings of the SEC, just that we would compete and hold our own, so don’t take this as boasting, rather confidence in our program as it is today.
By fes
December 30, 2005 05:46 PM | Link to this
Tech Man, please forgive me, but this football stuff in America is strange to me. I am just catching on since I came to Tech.
There are primitive tribes in the northern part of my country that create more havoc than the Tech offense did yesterday.
By Larry
December 30, 2005 05:47 PM | Link to this
Fishwaterdawg, hit the post button once you non-reading UGA fool. Down boy down!!!!! You probably thought the post button meant “If you enjoy inbreeding, hit this button twice.” Thats the only logical explanation. You own Bill?!?!? You do live in a dream world. I genuinely feel sorry for you stupid fools that cant get into Tech so you have to settle for UGA, the White-trash, trailer-trash, inbred school of the state. Hope you get an A in Living in a Trailer Park 1101. I’m sure you will.
By just a football fan
December 30, 2005 05:50 PM | Link to this
Utah Fan….. Any time, any place, bring your boys and play the Trojans. If you think you could actually be competitive you need to go hang out with Larry, Bill, and Tech fan and smoke what they are smoking.
By Can I Be a Dumb Dawg?
December 30, 2005 05:55 PM | Link to this
What a privilege it must be to have as “colleagues” the ilk of the dumb dawg fan base?
Never. Never again. Never again will I envision a day when my home state will rise above #50 in average SAT score. We are simply far too populated with idiots (aka Dawg Fans) challenged by See Spot Run.
A shame. A travesty.
Now back to Dawgs embarrassing their state and the “university” they support.
By Just a dumb ol' liberal-arts major
December 30, 2005 06:33 PM | Link to this
A GT fan saying that Georgia “hasn’t accomplished anything lately” is kind of like the fry-O-lator operator at McDonald’s making fun of Tom Brady for not getting selected NFL MVP.
Don’t look now, LaTendresse just scored again.
By Dennis
December 30, 2005 07:09 PM | Link to this
It starts at the top. Fire Braine. Who cares what the mutts do or think. Or can they think?
By DuhHuh
December 30, 2005 07:13 PM | Link to this
I absolutely hate what is happening to GT football. This year has been a travesty. Dave Braine needs to go. That is first and foremost. If any of you have an ounce of sense you will follow that lead. I know he hired Hewitt but so what even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again and I am not sold on Hewitt just yet. Gt was totally embarrased on National TV. The worst part is that they did quit pure and simple. They obviosly didn’t want to be there but the ACC mandated that they be there.
Now this brings me to my main gripe. What a piece of s** bowl this is. How could anyone want to play in this bowl every year. The ACC needs to tell the Emerald bowl that until you play on a true football field we will not send a team. Some of you may not know but the field was not regulation length as it didn’t fit on the baseball field. The sod sucked the atmosphere sucked and quite honestly why in the hell would any team anywhere want to play where there is no possibility of fan travel. I am not making excuses for Tech. They sucked but how can you really expect any team to be pumped up about missing Christmas to play in that sorry a* bowl. The Emerald Bowl is a joke. The ACC needs to stick only with bowls on this side of the Mississippi. The Boise Bowl sucks to. I mean just look at the stands in these crappy bowls. You have the ACC brass to thank for this. Oh, we have tie-ins for 7 ACC teams. Who gives a damn! Oh and tell the Emerald Bowl that their damn commercials suck!!!!!
By michael
December 30, 2005 07:14 PM | Link to this
Dave Braine and Chan Gailey i want you to know that my 10 year old son a loyal GT fan who’s only wish in life is to go to the greatest college in the world sat and cried for 1 hour because of your stupidity how can you continue to break the hearts of young tech fans over and over and look at yourselves in the mirror go straight to hell and do not pass the ball to Calvin and do not collect another bowl win.
By UTEFAN
December 30, 2005 07:16 PM | Link to this
There I go again. Everybody, I’m really sorry. I have not been taking my meds like I should through the holidays and I’ve been struggling with the mormomegalomanaiacal half of my split personality. (An actual term, look it up.)
The success Utah fans have been enjoying recently has given me hope that I might beat my complex about the lack of respect that the rest of the country has given people in my state for the last 150 years. Watch me here having a Deliverance moment from people in Georgia—you see my point.
My state is taking in a huge influx of Californicators anyway so I figure that my team should join the PAC-10 and try to overcome the combination of negative attention and neglect that I suffer from through my strong identification with the place I live. The BCS sure ain’t gonna help me so I figure I should have my team get in on the conspiracy. Utah’s a really, great state. Just please tell me I’m as great as I dare to think I am, and I’ll go away. I promise.
Hey thanks,
UTEFAN
By GT hotties
December 30, 2005 07:22 PM | Link to this
UTEFAN,
My girlfriends and I have been reading what you said and we think you sound hot. LaTendresse is gorgeous and I’d love to rub Ratliff’s sexy buzzcut.
Thanks so much darlin for comin round. Yall come on back now.
Signed,
GT Hotties
By DumbDetector
December 30, 2005 07:34 PM | Link to this
Congratulations Larry. You are a bigger dumba%# than Bill.
By john G. GT Fan
December 30, 2005 07:39 PM | Link to this
This is a comment just about the emerald bowl itself. What a horrible excuse for a bowl game. If you are going to host a bowl game why dont you at least have it in a stadium built to host football. The grass was higher than the rough at a US Open golf tournament and players were slipping all over the place. The back of the endzones were about a foot from a wall and the field was still not regulation size. A player from either team could have easily been injured trying to make a play in the back of an endzone. What a joke. ACC and MWC do not send teams to this pathetic excuse for a bowl game. As for tech, they played awful. No heart, no determination. They got what they deserved. I cant beleive that Gailey is going to be around for another half decade. Calvin Johnson has so much talent and its just being wasted by Chans horrible excuse for an offense. A dedicated offensive coordinator must be hired to do the play-calling.
By DumbDetector
December 30, 2005 07:44 PM | Link to this
Bill, you guys have been weathering one era or another for more years than you’ve been alive. By the time this era is over your all time winning percentage will be worse than Reggie’s completion percentage. Stick to Dungeons and Dragons Billy boy.
By DumbDetector
December 30, 2005 07:58 PM | Link to this
Larry..idiot #2. I can think of at least 2 big games the Dawgs have won. They’re called SEC Championships.
By Al Davis
December 30, 2005 08:10 PM | Link to this
Bill and Larry. Do you realize that out of all the minor bowls, that so far, your team is the only one that has utterly humiliated itself. And then you show your ignorance by talking trash about a team that owns 2 out of the last 3 SEC Championships. Bill and Larry, you guys really stunk it up in San Fran. Last night you were truly the toilet paper of college football. The Utes and that LaTendresse kid wiped their butts with you all night long.
By Rueben Houston
December 30, 2005 08:13 PM | Link to this
The game was was bad enough folks. But that Alcatraz tour was a little more than I could deal with.
By bill
December 30, 2005 08:51 PM | Link to this
Dumbdetector and Al Davis. Welcome to the digital age, dumb**s.
How do you like your AOL accounts? Pretty nifty, huh?
I actually like some of your fans (I married one) and I think your coach is one of the best in college football. (Envious, maybe).
It’s the irrationally rabid illiterate mouth-breathers who’ve never even set foot on UGA ‘s campus that I get irritated with.
BTW-To give you even more ammo, my masters is from tech, but my undergrad is from…. Tennessee!
Enjoy, Mutts.
Larry and TechFan, excellent posts!!
By Larry
December 30, 2005 09:43 PM | Link to this
Youd think this blog is a trailer park the way all the Dawgs flock to it. So what, we barely lost the pointless Emerald bowl, who cares?!?!? We threw the game anyways. Why even waste your energy playing in a baseball field? Ive played in pick-up games on fields better than that. UGA is a white trash, inbred, sorry school too. Even the mountain trash from Deliverence is scared to set foot on that campus. I’ll post again when I can think of more cruel things to say about UGA.
By vetteDAWG
December 30, 2005 09:44 PM | Link to this
NEWS FLASH : Latendresse just scored again !!!!! Did (5 MORE YEARS)Gailey let Marvious Hester & Reggie Koon travel with the team ??? The bees appeared to be stoned on something —————
By Just a dumb ol' UGA liberal arts major
December 30, 2005 10:13 PM | Link to this
That’s right, Larry. You let Utah win. Just keep telling yourself that (along with “Mark Richt is going to bolt for FSU” and “Tech grads really are smarter than UGA grads”) and I’m sure you’ll have a nice peaceful sleep tonight.
By Larry
December 30, 2005 10:29 PM | Link to this
Just a dumb ol’ UGA liberal arts major
Thats big talk coming from someone that got their A#@%# handed to them by Auburn!!! Sounds like your just insecure about that Auburn loss. Did I mention we beat Auburn-the best team in the SEC? GEORGIA TECH BEAT AUBURN!!! Thats what I thought!!!!!!! You are not just dumb, but I’d say the correct term would be “legally brain dead.” Go beat Florida silly UGA fan… OH WAIT you can’t!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA, losers!!!!! I think I’ll fire some of my sorry UGA employees on Monday, most of them are janitors anyway.
By jawrjadawg
December 31, 2005 12:07 AM | Link to this
2 sad things come from this article
1 CJ should have gone to a school he could show his talents#2 .. if Gailey had any pride he would resign immediatly and take Braine with him or vice versa Why has no one from the AD made any comment today ? Give Gailey 5 more years .. we love him
By Wesley
December 31, 2005 12:10 AM | Link to this
I cannot stop laughing!!! First, Tech has to travel 2000 miles to play in a muddy, converted BASEBALL park agaist a barely bowl eligible, unranked MWC team! Second, they have to SHARE sidelines with the opposing team! Third, they get spanked in the game! But funniest of all, the game was brodcast on national TV at 4:30 on a thursday and announced (I’m wiping back tears here) by a FEMALE ANNOUNCER!!!!!! As a DAWG fam I ALMOST felt sorry for tech! Why doesn’t your whole athletic dept. just come out wearing panties on there heads! You guys are a disgrace!
By Larry
December 31, 2005 12:27 AM | Link to this
Wesley, you’re the only disgrace on this blog, refer to my previous comments throughout the day if you need an explanation. Im going to bed, LOSERS!!!!! West Virgina is gonna lay “half a hundred” on them dawgs!!! Its gonna be sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Tech Alum C/O 94
December 31, 2005 12:32 AM | Link to this
I chalk last night up as a win for Tech. They showed up to San Fransisco, and thats good enough. We all know Tech is better than the Utes, so why even bother playing the game? Just because the final score was 38-10 doesnt mean a thing. Utah should do what is right and forfeit their victory, they didn’t earn it, it was a cheap W. I congratulate all the Tech players on their trip to the west coast. They know in their hearts, as well as I, that they won that game.
By Wesley
December 31, 2005 12:54 AM | Link to this
Oh Larry sleep tight… since you must fire all your janitors monday that must make you Custodial Manager! Myself, on monday I will be sitting in my box seats at the dome (a real football stadium) watching my Dawgs struggle to keep W. Virginia from hanging half a hundred like you said. Won’t it suck if you’re wrong?