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How to sell ‘Must See GT?’

By Mark Bradley | Thursday, November 15, 2007, 08:20 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution


Mark Bradley

The belief here is that Chan Gailey has to beat Georgia 10 days hence or lose his job. The Virginia Tech game put everything in sharp relief, and by that I don’t mean the final score — Georgia Tech lost 27-3 without its two best running backs — as much as the setting.

The local school threw every promotional trick into that game: Diana DeGarmo sang the anthem; Big Boi performed at halftime. And yet, on a lovely Thursday night against the nation’s No. 11 team, attendance was 52,202 at a stadium that holds 55,000. The rule of thumb in contemporary athletics is that a coach can survive anything except empty seats.

Dan Radakovich isn’t an old coach. (Dave Braine, who hired Gailey, was an old coach.) Radakovich — who did, to be fully accurate, serve as a student coach while attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania — is one of the neo-ADs. He’s a businessman. He’s trying everything he knows to make Tech profitable, and yet the man in charge of the department’s biggest moneymaker is hugely unpopular with constituents. If you’re Radakovich and you’re looking toward next season, don’t you have to ask yourself, “How do I market Chan Gailey?”

Gailey has neither lost so badly as to make dismissal obvious nor won big enough to make himself indispensable. There’s a case to be made for keeping Gailey, but it’s a technical case — no losing seasons — as opposed to a visceral one. (That’s assuming the Jackets don’t beat Georgia; if they do, the dynamics change.)

The case against him starts with those empty seats on Nov. 1. The case against him is largely economic. And money, when last I heard, talks.

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By fannies in the seats

November 15, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Yes, It is butts in the seats. also Where is the Head Coach, when the team gets off the bus BEFORE GAME TIME? He should lead the TEAM down Yellow Jacket Alley. Love the quality in the guy, but GTECH is not united. We need someone to unite us and rally the fan base. Clean House…..

By Jim Grogan

November 15, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

The three questions I have are: (1)Where does $1million/year stack up with getting coaches in the NCAA (2)Who are the coaches that will be available at that pay level (3)Are they clearly better than Gailey

By m

November 15, 2007 9:12 AM | Link to this

Mark, can you really bad that stupid…or blind?? Chan Gailey is a truly pathetic coach. He has run Tech’s once high powered offense into the ground. He has squandered everything that O’leary built. He inherited a team that had finished in the TOP 25 for 5 years in a row. He has never finished in the TOP 25 since he has been here. He said on the day he was hired that he was not going to change TECH’s high powered offense, and that he was here to win championships and beat UGA. He has done neither. HE SHOULD HEVER have been hired and he should be fired TODAY. Whether we beat UNC or UGA should have nothing to do with it. Chan is the worst college coach in history and the worst Tech coach in history. FIRE HIM TODAY or you will not have anyone at Tech’s games next year.

By Burdell

November 15, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

It’s very simple. I had season tickets for years. At the beginning of LAST season, I exchanged emails with DRad explaining that I would no longer invest my hard-earned money watching a Gailey coached team live. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still watching the games on the tube. When Gailey is gone, I will return to the season ticket holder ranks. Not until.

By Pittbull

November 15, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

Dear Radakovich, we are just dying for a winner. Before I could buy a couple of tickets, Tech lost miserably and my interest waned.

Gailey is not it. Put a winner in the stadium and the fans will come.

By GW

November 15, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

52,000+ sounds like a mob at a Tech game to me. Who is Big Boi? Keep Chan Gailey.

By Troy Baker

November 15, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

Anyone got Paul Johnson’s number up in Annapolis?

By BIGJacketFan

November 15, 2007 9:29 AM | Link to this

I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt but the embarrassing show on Thursday night vs. VT made me sick. I am dreading the Ga. game and am disgusted that a very small part of me thinks if we lose to Ga. it will be better - it will get us another coach! I will always pull for Tech, I will never be happy with Gaily!

By rlinaug

November 15, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

Tech is going to have to compete with Nebraska, Texas A&M or Auburn, and possibly Michigan for a head coach. Good luck convincing a good head coach to choose GT over those other jobs. And who wants to buy a house where there’s no running water?

By john

November 15, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

52,000 with maybe 5000+ VT fans. I heard we sold 10,000 tickets to Clemson. Probably be 10,000+ UGA fans at game. So, we are really talking about Gailey only being able to fill 40-45,000 seats. That is sad.

By buzztrip

November 15, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

DRad’s job is to make sufficient $$ on football and basketball to carry the load for the GTAA. As a lifelong Tech fan, I have been hanging with and supporting the current football leadership. Here’s one but: We have not stayed competitive in our league and are losing ground in our state.
It is showing up in the flat attendance and lost $$. I hope we turn he corner in the next two games, but (#2) I just do not feel it will happen.

By TDone

November 15, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

Everyone,

I think Mark Bradley did not do his research on this article and his analysis is off track. I was at the October 2004 Virginia Tech-Georgia Tech game in Atlanta. As some might remember, this is the game where Reggie stepped on the end line causing a safety. It was also a Thursday night and though it rained throughout the game. But there were about 48,000 people in the stands that night. So in essence, there were 4,000 more BISs this year than last time.

This was a Thursday night game which negates a lot of out of town Tech fans from attending, especially fans from the away team. Some people do have jobs you know.

It was a poor showing by Tech that night on the field, but fan attendance was not an issue. How many folks would have bee there if the game had been on a Saturday day/night? I think it would have been sold out.

Nice technique, Mr. Bradley…but you are wrong.

By Daniel

November 15, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

Don’t worry GT fans, the seats will be filled to the rafters come November 24th, when the BCS bound dawgs come rolling into Hotlanta, dawgs will fill at least 25 to 30 thousand of those seats, and show Hotlanta what a powerful college football team really looks like! It’snice to see college football comeback to Atlanta every other year

By Pat

November 15, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

Many Tech tickets have been sold to UGA fans in the mini-packs. They gave them away to Clemson, VT and UNC fans because they could not be sold. I even paid a Clemson fan’s gas money to take them off my hands.

By Old Guard

November 15, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this

According to another story in this morning’s AJC, Gailey earns roughly a million a year, has four years remaining, and it will require a full payout of his remaining contract to terminate him. I’d like to know if Dave Braine was heavily medicated/drugged, or if he was/is so stupid as to have executed such a one-sided contract.

Think about it. Just what is Gailey’s motivation to succeed? There is none. If he’s fired, he gets $4 million, if he sticks around for four years, he gets $4 million. All he has to do is punch the clock (and apparently that’s all he does, given the inconsistent results over the entire term of his employment). No clause regarding attendance, zero wins vs. Georgia, lack of top 25 final season rankings, no ACC Championships, embarrassing losses… in short, no accountability.

Gailey should be fired, absolutely, if he does not beat Georgia this year. Period. It is overdue.

But if there were a way to execute a lawsuit against Dave Braine, and anyone else on the Athletic Board (or the Tech administration, right up to the top) who went along with this idiotic contract, it should be done as well.

By Frank Castle

November 15, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this

Flog Thugz like Mike Vick at midfield as part of the halftime show.

By CAS

November 15, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

Want to sell your Tech-UGA tickets? cs2209@att.com

By Gordon

November 15, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

I have to be honest. The reason I didn’t buy season tickets this year was less because of Gailey and more because of the Tech Fund. I had 50 yard line seats in the upper West stands that I loved, but it just isn’t worth $800 in addition to the price of the tickets to go to the games, especially when two of them are Army and Samford. As a former season ticket holder I got a flex-pack and got to choose any 3 games I wanted. The seats aren’t as good, but it is a lot cheaper. I also don’t like the rap music and hordes of obnoxious drunk students, but I guess that is just me getting old.

By DawgGrad311

November 15, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

Will Tinkey Winky Taylor be serving tubby toast to all the fans who buy tickets come nov 24th?

By fred

November 15, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

LAST TIME:a leader has a “natural” fire in the belly. A leader wants to be “with” his team as they walk up Dodd Way before games.A leader knows that ALL HUMAN BEINGS THRIST FOR MOTIVATION (see M. Richt).A leader makes changes in personnel as they benefit the TEAM.

Tech fans want a program with positive momentum (COMMON SENSE).

By Football Fan

November 15, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

The picture with this column says it all - Gailey standing there with his arms folded, staring at the ground. He can do that for 4 quarters! I have never seen a head coach stand on the sidelines and not speak to a player the entire game like he does. They guy’s a rock. Rent a blow-up doll coach and save the $1M. Braine must have been “an old coach” with brain damage.

By The Voice of Truth

November 15, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

I have been a Tech fan all my life. I’m only 21, but white and gold have been in my veins since I was born. I loved George O’Leary and I went to many of the home games that he coached from 1998-2001. I have met Chan Gailey several times and he is a genuinely great guy. I HATE Uga, but if we lose in 10 days, I won’t be crying too much because I know what’s coming, at least I hope…

Mark is completely correct people. Dan Radakovich is a money-minded AD. His track record is full of successes in business. He came here to help restore Tech’s financial prosperity and to put a winning football team on the field every week. I agree with Mark: Tech football could be extremely marketable, but Chan Gailey never will be. I think he has lost too much of this fan base to ever be marketable. Nobody can trust themselves to get excited about Tech football anymore because we can’t begin to know what to expect.

I hope we kill UGA, but if we don’t it could be a half win for GT and all of its fans who are desperate to see this team start winning big again.

GO JACKETS!

P.S. Daniel and DawgGrad311 need to stay off big boy blogs and go play with those dolls mommy bought you. That dawg degree must have really paid off in the pizza delivery business.

By georgiagirl49

November 15, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

If you want to sell your tickets Ga fans will eat them up Go Dawgs

By georgiagirl49

November 15, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

If you want to sell your tickets Ga fans will eat them up Go Dawgs

By georgiagirl49

November 15, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

If you want to sell your tickets Ga fans will eat them up Go Dawgs

By georgiagirl49

November 15, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

If you want to sell your tickets Ga fans will eat them up Go Dawgs

By Tech fanga

November 15, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

Keep Gailey… Get a QB Taylor’s not the man

By Mark Richt

November 15, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

I think Chan is doing a great job and the GT fans should be proud of him. I think Chan deserves a pay raise and also he needs his contract extended. Chan is a great football coach and he is good for the state of Georgia.

By Raiderbeater

November 15, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

Go Dawgs!!!! Time for a BLACKOUT on the FLATS!!!!!

By Aaron C.

November 15, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Georgia girl, are you just retarded. Post one by hitting the post button once. So much for college.

By David

November 15, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Tech is fortunate to have Chan as the HC, and he has brought a level of consistency that will begin to pay off in the next few years - if he’s allowed to stay and develop the athletes he is recruiting. Those that point to the O’Leary years as proof that GT could do better should also remember that O’Leary did that by cheating with ineligible athletes and that GT is lucky that it was not given major sanctions by the NCAA as a result. Keep Chan and begin to perform as he builds the program or let him go and start all over again. That’s the choice you have to make …

By 82DAWG

November 15, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this

Tech won’t be able to attract a top coach anymore that Vanderbilt can. Chan is very probably the best that you can do. BTW, the seat will be full November 24. Filled with red and black.

By ButlerDawg

November 15, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

Jim Donnan is available.

By kshizzle

November 15, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

I say get rid of Gailey and promote Tunuta. We cannot afford to lose him. Then Tunuta should allow John Bond to have free rain over the offense, which I do not believe he has now. Or at least he is limited in his mind because he is trying to not overstep his bounds in his first year on the job. Gailey is a hinderance because of his old school mentality. Take a look at Georgia. I believe Richt was similar to Gailey, except I think he totally let go of his influence on the offense and is trusting his coaches. I don’t think Gailey has done that.

By yellowblood

November 15, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Attendance at our games suffer for one reason. No one can depend on an enthusiastic Tickle Pile. We never know if we are winning or losing. Give us a winning atmosphere and we will come for the Tickle Pile.

By DawgGrad311

November 15, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

Voice of truth,

Does your mommy still change your jammies for you at night? 21, you are hardly a big boy, seeing you still bre@stfeed off your mom’s teet. And this UGA degree is serving well, seeing I am one year away from an MD. So pizza delivery guy, I’m afraid, is a bit off. Big boy blog, I don’t think so… Big Boi blog, yes.

By The Monk

November 15, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

Chan Gailey is super awesome and should be given a big raise, not fired. We at Tech need to learn our place in the college football pecking order. Each and every one of our players scored over 1400 on the SAT (old scoring system) and will be nuclear engineers in the future and solve global warming. All of the players at all of the other schools we play are criminals and morons. It just isn’t fair! Oops, lost my train of thought there. Anyway - Keep Chan!!

By George P. Burdell

November 15, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

I think another component is the fact that Tech is losing a lot of starters next year and will probably struggle. That seems to be a good time to go ahead and make a change and suffer through the transition period. I hate to think that it might be so bad that we are recalling our 7 win seasons with Reggie at QB, but it could be that ugly next year, no matter who our coach is. The freshmen this year have been terrific but I don’t think we have enough talent waiting in the wings to replace the current seniors, especially in our secondary. I think on some level DRad has to factor that in as well.

By Dante21

November 15, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

His name is BOBBY PETRINO and he will “BEE” available!

By So Ga Dawg

November 15, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Didn’t Gailey put Tech in the championship game last year? Maybe he needs time for his recruits to mature? Tech does have some good young talent that he recruited.

By michaelinLV

November 15, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

“Tech is going to have to compete with Nebraska, Texas A&M or Auburn, and possibly Michigan for a head coach.”

What are you talking about? Tech already has a great coach that won’t have to compete with those other guys: Jon Tenuta.

By JB

November 15, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

Believe or not Dawg fans want you to have a better team also. Beating you every year is expected, just like paying taxes, we gotta do it. we would like a better team to play also. Really. I’m not being a smart A##. Get yourself a young, full of p** and vinegar coach and play some damn ball. We’ll need to beat a better Tech team the next 2-3 years to reach our goals. Go Bee’s !!!!!!!!!!!!!

By GT Fan

November 15, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

hey “georgiagirl” you only have to hit the submit button once. I guess you being a georgia girl makes it hard for you to understand that concept.

By gtdave

November 15, 2007 10:51 AM | Link to this

I too gave up my season tickets this year. I think there is many factors to the reason why the lack of ticket sales this year 1) As Gordon mentioned, the Tech Fund is awful. How can you warrant a large surcharge to the price of a ticket, when you aren’t even selling out to begin with? Not only that, there’s an extra $20 “processing fee” on top of that. Not that I’m that cheap, but it’s the principle of the matter that the Athletic Dept thinks we’re that stupid. 2) Tailgating experience has gotten worse and worse since the AD came in: less taligating spots, increase in parking fees, etc. 3) Bad product on the field. This speaks for itself. Fact of the matter is we have lost every year to UGA since Gailey has been here. Unacceptable. Only reason we were good the last couple of years is because of a certain #21.

By Mark Kelly

November 15, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

If Tech wants to fill seats more than once or twice a year, they need to play Georgia Southern. But they always wimp out when scheduling a 1-AA school, playing Samford or another out of state team. All three times the Dawgs have hosted Georgia Southern, Eagle fans has more than filled their quota of tickets. The same would be true if Tech had the guts to schedule GSU.

But it’s obvious Tech isn’t man enough to host another in-state rival.

By misterwax

November 15, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Of the games GT lost his year… there was a real them… BC threw the ball deep on the corners..and they did it early and they stuck with it …so did Maryland…..(watch game films and learn) so did UVA…so did VT….. simple as that. I believe there is a strong chance Ralph Friedgen will be looking for a job in January as well….it’s just the way things go.

but as for empty sets, just keep gouging the alumni and going 7-5 and things will get ever so slightly worse then last year…

By mikegadawg

November 15, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

hey GT Fan, maybe Georgia Girl needs “4” tickets…

U have to admit, it is kind of sad that their is usually more red and black in the stands at a UGA @ Tech game.

DAWGS over Tech 45-7

By JB

November 15, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

From a DAWG FAN: Hire Hatcher from Georgia Southern….All he does is win, knows the State and all HS coach’s. He will be a Div. 1 coach soon. Might as well be ya’ll. he would have you winning 9-10 games a year very quickly with an exciting offense. The only thing it would hurt is the free coke and pizza…..you wouldn’t need it !

By DecaturDog

November 15, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

It is really sad to see what GT football has become…or not become depending on how you look at it. Tech is simply not viewed as a competitive force whatsoever. I don’t blame their fans for not showing up…sad for the players who really do want to win. Wish they could represent our city/state better.

Bobby Dobb must be spinning….etc. etc.

By JimmyMun48

November 15, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Don’t expect a change of head coach to fill Bobby Dodd Stadium. GT has always been a weak draw. Only games against UGA, Clemson, and Florida State sell out. The year Tech shared the national title, I walked up to the home game against Va Tech and bought my tickets.

Given how poorly Tech draws, I was stunned when the school wasted $ millions expanding a football yard that was already big enough for Tech’s modest fan base.

Go Jackets. Beat Georgia.

By JB

November 15, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

G T Fan, Georgiagirl can do a lot things YOU can’t do, for example, have sex with someone of the opposite sex.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 15, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

Don’t forget the “Pink Out” Chan is calling against Georgia. Team is playing like it might as well celebrate it.

According to O’Leary’s resume, those three Super Bowls that he took you guys to got you a little high on yourselves.

You are rebuilding after challenging for the ACC title in the “Blue Seat Bowl”, aka, ACCCG . You lose your second best QB ever at the school, best ever WR and you expect to snap you fingers and repeat that tremendous feat? Hmmmm!

You have got to give out cookies with that free pizza and sodas. That or elephant ears. How about some cotton candy too. Oooo, Popcorn might work.

By GT76

November 15, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

This is simple to me. Gailey will be here next year unless they lose to UNC and UGA. He will deserve on e more year, especially if they beat UNC and UGA. I still like the way the UGA people are thinking. They think beating GT is a given. Keep thinking that way. Please, keep thinking we are a patsy.

By DawgFan

November 15, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

If your techmites are trying to compare your program to Georgia quit trying. You will never compare to the Dawgs are anyone else in the SEC. Every other year I buy tickets from Tech fans who are about as loyal as Mike Vick’s pitt bulls. Every year you lose a few games you thought you should win and and you turn on everyone. Last year it was Reggie, this year it is Gailey.

By DawgFan

November 15, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

If your techmites are trying to compare your program to Georgia quit trying. You will never compare to the Dawgs or anyone else in the SEC. Every other year I buy tickets from Tech fans who are about as loyal as Mike Vick’s pitt bulls. Every year you lose a few games you thought you should win and and you turn on everyone. Last year it was Reggie, this year it is Gailey.

By DawgFan

November 15, 2007 11:15 AM | Link to this

If your techmites are trying to compare your program to Georgia quit trying. You will never compare to the Dawgs or anyone else in the SEC. Every other year I buy tickets from Tech fans who are about as loyal as Mike Vick’s pitt bulls. Every year you lose a few games you thought you should win and you turn on everyone. Last year it was Reggie, this year it is Gailey.

By Creetin

November 15, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

I have heard from insiders that Tenuta is not head coaching material. I think personality reasons or something. And Tech can’t realistically expect to pull in someone like Petrino or Rich Rodriquez. If Tech were smart, they would put a short list together consisting of Randy Edsall, Paul Johnson, June Jones, and possibly George O’Leary. Maybe Jimbo Fisher, though I would guess he is getting groomed to takeover at FSU. That is a realistic short list. And a pretty good group of coaches. Any would be a step in the right direction.

By georgiagirl49

November 15, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

Thats why I pushed the comment button 3 times. I want six tickets and I have sex with the opposite sex every night.Go Dawgs

By ben

November 15, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

Perhaps its true that 3,000 unsold seats will hurt a coach, but its nothing compared to whether or not those rich alumni are pulling out their checkbooks at the end of the season for hefty donations.

By TechCrybaby

November 15, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

TECH’S “TRAP” GAME It’s coming to Historic Grant Field this Saturday. North Carolina’s three scores will beat our three scores, because two of ours will be field goals.

I don’t relish this forecast, but our secondary will be picked apart by the UNC passing attack. In the ACC, they will improve to 3-4, while we’ll drop to 3-5.

By luvmydawgs

November 15, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

The seats will be filled…With GEORGIA FANS!!! It will be another home game for the dawg

By ron

November 15, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

I would like to say i have not seem one of the worst quarterback in any football program then the at Georgia Tech Bennett i don’t see how he keep playing i know the fans of sick of his bad inconsistence the coach need to go

By JustMe

November 15, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

Filling the seats at GA Tech football games is directly related to Gailey.

Gailey is too predictable and conservative on offense. This leads to losing games. This leads to fans not willing to pay for the seats.

Gailey must change his offensive mindset or risk losing his job - plain and simple.

By ozzfest

November 15, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Thanks for enlarging Grant Field so that us Atlanta Dogs can find a seat every other year. I look forward to sitting amongst the 25,000 UGA fans who will practically outnumber the GT folks. Woof, woof.

By Blue

November 15, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

I bet the tech game ends up being a UGA home game. Or at least a 50-50 split. Go Dawgs

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 15, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

Creetin, June Jones called and asked what are you smoking? Leave paradise to coach at “Free Rocky Pizza Field”?

Blame the empty 3,000 seats on Big BOI’s last album. It isn’t that good.

Bring back alum Jeff Foxworthy and his “you might be a Tech-neck if…” humor.

By Hal

November 15, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

Miami was in the top 10 two years ago and has not been the same since Tech beat them. You can circle that loss as the begining of the end for them. That show’s Gailey can do it. Tech can beat UGA and it will be just when you least expect it. That’s been the history of UGA football. Just look at UK.

By Hal

November 15, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

Miami was in the top 10 two years ago and has not been the same since Tech beat them. You can circle that loss as the begining of the end for them. That show’s Gailey can do it. Tech can beat UGA and it will be just when you least expect it. That’s been the history of UGA football. Just look at UK.

By Doggit

November 15, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

there will be no empty seats for this years UGA game - all the dawg fans will make sure of that!

sick em!

By Mike

November 15, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

Tech is and always has been a tough sell to recruits. The alumni, these days, tend to be more academics than sports fans and this apathy reflects in ticket sells and in support for the athletic department. Chan is a good coach, but faced with many issues on many levels. When you look at fan and alumni support and enthuiasm at UGA, for instance, there is no comparison. I think the problem lies in other areas than the coach, and beyond his control.

By WoofWoof

November 15, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

I bought a flex plan and sold both Sanford and Clemson at a profit and I will be attending at the Joke By Coke in 9 days.

Tech is gay and they are NERDS!

Woof Woof

By DawgCrap

November 15, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this

I have never aspired to become a speechwriter, politician, or mainstream political columnist. Nevertheless, if you can look beyond my pitiable writing style you’ll unequivocally see that I have something important to tell you about The arrogance that is UGA. For openers, if The arrogance that is UGA were as bright as it thinks it is, it’d know that if I had to choose the most materialistic specimen from its welter of devious gabble, it would have to be its claim that its tracts are Right with a capital R. If Fate desired that The arrogance that is UGA make a correct application of what it had read about isolationism, it would have to indicate title and page number, since the selfish nitwit would otherwise never in all its existence find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, it’s easy for us to shake our heads at The arrogance that is UGA’s foolishness and cowardice. It’s easy for us to exclaim that we should mention a bit about doctrinaire clunks such as The arrogance that is UGA. It’s easy for us to say, “Failure to define our terms more clearly will lead to a deluge of complaints by The arrogance that is UGA’s stooges.” The point is that it’s easy for us to say these things because The arrogance that is UGA’s apparatchiks often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear. The arrogance that is UGA is the type of organization that turns up its nose at people like you and me. I guess that’s because we haven’t the faintest notion about the things that really matter, such as why it would be good for it to fight with spiritual weapons that are as uninformed as they are beer-guzzling. It is high time for someone to take up the mantle and oppose our human vices wherever they may be found — arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on. Will that someone be you?

By GM

November 15, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

DRAD should not hesitate in replacing Gailey unless a miracle occurs and the team wins out including a bowl win. There is no reason to accept mediocrity. Then he should consider both Paul Johnson (Navy) and the head coach of Air Force as possible replacements. They both are faced with similar recruiting standards as they would inherit at GT. If neither works out then go after an imaginative assistant coach or a headcoach like Hatcher from Georgia Southern. There are better options available than the staus quo.

By The Monk

November 15, 2007 11:55 AM | Link to this

I bought the flex plan also to get my tickets. Luckily I sold the Clemson and VT tickets quickly. Now, however, it looks like I was the chump as there are likely to be better seats available in the days leading up to the “big” game.

By JustMe

November 15, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

Amazing how many ugay people are posting on this Tech blog. They are so stupid to be jealous of an average team? LOL!!!!

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 15, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

dawgcrap, apt moniker, very apt.

Don’t fire Chan yet. NBC is looking for a new “Biggest Loser” to fill that 3:30 time slot on their Saturday afternoon schedule. NBC says that the South Bend bunch has grown stale.

By What is Dawg Crap Smoking?

November 15, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

Dawg Crap:

Using a lot big words in run-on sentences that bear no relationship to the preceding or following sentences does not an intelligent post make.

While there are those among us “mutts” (you know we really don’t see that as the great and clever put down that you guys think it is)who are arrogant, I would place the arrogance quotient much higher on North Avenue. You may also throw in a large dash of whiny defensiveness.

It is, after all, just a ball game.

PS - Keep Chan!!!!!!

By BLACKEDOUT

November 15, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

Wow a Ga Tech blog, I thought UGA blogs were only allowed on this site. Lets get things back to normal by talking about a team that worth thinking about, So will Knowshon have over 100 yards on Saturday? Probably. Will the D keep Woodson in check? I’d say so. Will the dogs put 50 on the scoreboard at the dump of a highschool stadium they call Bobby Dodd? Of Course.

By The Monk

November 15, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

“Amazing how many ugay people are posting on this Tech blog. They are so stupid to be jealous of an average team? LOL!!!!”

OOOOh. Ouch. I am cut to the quick. You have seen into my tortured Tech-jealous soul.

By mike branca

November 15, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

sweet and simple. fire gailey

By Chris Williamson

November 15, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

M says that Gailey is the worst Tech coach ever? Anybody remember Bill Lewis?!! I was raised a GT fan and graduated from UGA, so I am one fo the few that supports both teams. I live in central Fla now, and the word down here is that Terry Bowden is interested…

By ugay fans are gay

November 15, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

Have you noticed that there can’t be a Tech blog without it being cluttered with stupid dawwgie fans? And have you noticed how most of them are writing about gay things? There are some seriously sick little puppies out there. One of them said Tech would be unable to recruit a coach, just as Vandy couldn’t. Does this clown know about Bobby Johnson? He beat the dawwgies last year, and they were very lucky to upset Vandy this year. And this guy (who can’t coach according to the dawwgie fan) has to play with actual college students on the team rather than the morons who play for the dawwgies. Better watch out for Kentucky, dawwgies…you probably need a dawwgie walk, dawwgie pile in the end zone, a black-out, and 12 unsportsmanlike penalties to beat KY.

By catchem

November 15, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

Before you hang it on Gailey, ask yourself how you’re going to assemble all of the GT Alums that scatter to the four winds. A large number of Georgia’s remain local; other SEC schools, too. Techs’ are from all over and return to all over. Tech’s biggest draw is it’s convenience; hard to sell big #’s just ‘cause it’s handy. You need another Lothridge / Namath era!!!

By North Atl guy

November 15, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

If you still support Gailey, you just might be SMOKING ROCKS!! Gailey might be a great Pee-wee coach where they run the ball EVERY down. Not much planning or strategy involved.

By Dawg fan

November 15, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

Don’t worry Techies, Georgia fans will fill up the stadium for you next week. Hey we might even buy a coke!

By Captain Truth

November 15, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

For the last time, the reason that GT has an upset or 2 every year is that NOBODY GETS FIRED UP TO PLAY GT! THEY ARE EVERYBODY’S “TRAP TEAM!” Unfortunately for GT fans, these occasional upset mislead them into thinking that they should somehow be contenders. Think about it, GT’s only “rival” is UGA, and by the time that game comes around, UGA has already played at least 5 bigger, more meaningful games in bigger, more hostile environments. GT is a nobody.

By Reggie Ball

November 15, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

I told you it wasn’t my fault.

By BullDawg Rick

November 15, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

Grant Field will be a full house Saturday, Dec. 24th…

RED

&

BLACK

Got my 2 tix and will have all the feeling of a HOME game, (Less 40,000 seats)

Yeah… It’s Great to be a Georgia Bulldawg!! (even in a rebuilding year!)

By Dawg fan

November 15, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

Reggie, Reggie, Reggie Reggie, I forgot this year our best player is gone! Chan, Chan, Chan, Chan

By catchem

November 15, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

You see, it’s really about economics, and Techs’ alums are no longer here in numbers, other schools’ are. In order for Dodd to sell out, you need a product - like say, a Billy Lothridge / Joe Namath - Bobby Dodd / Bear Bryant matchup. Wasn’t a problem in the ‘good ‘ol days’. Wow, what football that was !!

By Brian

November 15, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

You people act like there were 80000 people in the stands before Coach Gailey got here. I bet we can pin the evacuation at the BioMed building on him as well.

By Jay

November 15, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

TDone, you’re missing the point. We live in a city of millions. We had two of the biggest, most popular music acts in town. And we know how many tech alum live in metro Atlanta. THERE ARE NO EXCUSES for not selling out against the #11 team…except that no one wants to see a boring, poorly coached home team. Period.

By dgbbgt

November 15, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

I support Chan Gailey. I can see where people are coming from that want him fired, but if we win out this will be the only time since 1955-56 that we had back to back 9 win season. Not even Bobby Ross or O’Leary did this. I think people should take a step back and look at what he is accomplishing from winning to recruiting and go out and support the players at the very least.

By SatisfiedWith7WinSeasons

November 15, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

As long as we have a winning record and are bowl eligible, who really cares if we finish in the top 25 or beat UGA? Chan is a great man with outstanding character and has really brought in some great 3 and 4 star prospects.

Plus if we have to may him $5 million if he’s fired anyway then why let him go? Let him just stay hear next year and try to win 7 again.

By yellowblood

November 15, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

I don’t understand all the UGA hot air when they can’t even win their own half-conference title.

By jabster

November 15, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

Y’know, one of the worst things about being on top is eventually you will come down. FSU. Miami. Nebraska. Notre Dame. UCLA. And, yes, even Ga. Tech in the 1950s. The list goes on and on.

The Bulldog Nation should be thankful that they have enough local alumni that can put 90K butts in seats and make your AD’s budget in the top 10 in the nation.

They should also be thankful that that large alumni base gives them that much mindshare among recruits.

And they should be thankful for their coach, who might just be one gold watch away from a return to Tally if they don’t quit running hot and cold on him with every win and loss. They don’t have Chan as a coach, so they should STFU, even when playing the Ole Ball Coach for another L.

And they should be thankful that COFH gets scheduled on Thanksgiving weekend every year, when many Tech alumni go back to their hometowns across the nation, leaving more room for them. If I were DRad that game would have already been played this year, back in October.

Sometimes, I get the feeling that the Bulldog Nation doesn’t have a clue as to why they win, only that they feel entitled to do so.

Enjoy it while it lasts…

By Bob

November 15, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

It’s time to start over, Dan. Chan Gailey has proven to be consistently mediocre, and there is absolutely nothing to indicate that will change. If he loses to GA, he just goes. If he beats GA, he goes out a winner. Either way, he’s got to go.

By Duston

November 15, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

My illegal housekeeper graduated from Tech and you see how that degree is paying off. I keep telling her to use her degree in Mexico, but she says they will only uses it as toilet paper. Sorry Nerds!!! Tech Sucks!!!

By luvmydawgs

November 15, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

yellowblood,

How many 1/2 Conference Titles have you won in the last 7 years, even better yet a Conference Titles?

Oh yeah you LOST your ACC Championship last year!

We won the East 3 year out of the last 6 and one the SEC twice and hopefully will be doing it again. This was ALWAYS a rebuilding year. Once we take it 7 in a row a National Championship will not be out of the question next year. I am FAR more worried about this weekend than next. KY is in our conference and beat the #1 team in the country.

For all of you that question why Georgia fans are on this blog, it is because it was ABOUT GEORGIA TOO!!!! Beating Georgia makes this as much about us as you.

By Matt

November 15, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

Yellowblood, stay off the internet. 01,02,03,04,05,06, and about to be 07… Dawgs have owned the Jackets. You guys are in the ACC (All-Crap Conference) with Duke, UNC, FS-Who?, Thug-U (Miami), and a VT team that we took down last season. Oh sorry, left off Flutie College, and Wake Forest.
We have more talent in our “half conference” than you do in your entire conference you bumblebee nerd. Start winning more in this “rivalry” and then you can criticize us for losing two tough ones from a conference that you would be 0-5 in right now.
Tech always has and always will be second in the state, and some years even 3rd if Ga Southern is playing well.

By John

November 15, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

Dawgs, Please do us a favor and beat the *#$@ out of us on the 24th. Otherwise, Chan sticks around for at least another year. I can’t take that. If there are any Tar Heals out there reading, please do the same. This is a throw-away season. The best that can come out of it is to throw out Chan.

By BobinBuford

November 15, 2007 1:09 PM | Link to this

Note to UGAy fans:

Why do you keep calling GT’s stadium a “high school stadium”? How many HS stadiums sit 55,000??

And for all of you who want to fire Chan, be prepared for those great “rebuilding” years, since any coach that comes in will have to play with his players for the first few years.

And yellowblood? Time to move on - the tickle pile jokes are getting more and more obnoxious.

By doug

November 15, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Gordon and gtdave, the purpose of the tech fund is to help support the school’s financial well-being. Virtually all D-1 schools have some kind of program in place, to make sure the teams are competitive and profitable. Complain and b*** about it or choose to not buy tickets if you want, but that money goes towards ensuring teams’ success and financial viability moving forward. As GT fans, don’t you want to see that?

By Xplayer

November 15, 2007 1:24 PM | Link to this

If the logic holds true Chan is long gone because there’s no way in hell GT will beat UGA! We play GT last because it give us a easy win, we can pad our stats, and gives us momentum going into next year. We are focused soley on our last real game of the year with KY.

GT trying to find a coach will be like the ugly fat girl trying to find a date. The only choices you got are the ugly fat guys.

By son_sir

November 15, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

I think an ultimatum probably has already been issued. Win out or see ya later Chan. Take a break from your laughing at the prospect Dawg fans. You are never as great as you think you are. History has proven this time and again. You beat Florida and you think you are kings of the universe. Just a reminder… you got stomped by Phat Phil (again) and a mediocre South Carolina team whipped you. Now all of a sudden you’re a National Championship caliber type. If you were, you wouldn’t be praying every night for a Tennessee loss. THWG !!

By jamie

November 15, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this

hey butlerdawg

Jim Donnan would be a great choice. He did always know how to help Georgia Tech to victory.

By godawg

November 15, 2007 1:34 PM | Link to this

Chan Gailey is the best thing to ever happen to Tech football. Ya’ll just don’t appreciate what you have.

The real problem is that no player with any talent wants to attend that cesspool ya’ll call a campus. You live in a high crime, drug-infested neighborhood and your women are ugly and the men are geeks.

Ya’ll don’t attend the games because your’re cheap and spend all your time and money in darkened rooms looking at porno sites and playing video games. So, you see, it’s not really Chan’s fault at all.

We, the Fans Of Chan, truly believe the Board of Regents should step in and declare Coach Chan “The Man” Gailey a “Genius of the Gridiron” and annoint him COACH FOR LIFE at the Georgia Institute for Vocational Studies and Geek Rehabilitation. Thank you.

godawg FOC President Emeritus

By jabster

November 15, 2007 1:46 PM | Link to this

GoDawg:

“The real problem is that no player with any talent wants to attend that cesspool ya’ll call a campus. “

Ever heard of this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalvinJohnson%28American_football%29

Speaking of cesspools, didn’t Sanford Stadium have a problem with sewage percolating up between the hedges a few years back?

By OldDawg55

November 15, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Don’t know if this will make the blog but feel like saying it…I’m a Georgia fan for some 70 years, but have a great respect for Tech..loved Bobby Dodd and the Jackets of the 50’s. You need a homegrown coach for the Jackets..one that will get Georgia kids to play for Tech..Chris Hatcher, Paul Johnson, someone who still has fire and a future. Someone who’ll breathe fire into the fans and his team..and respect from the other teams. Gailey is a Georgian but not one who feels Tech football..Atlanta deserves..Georgia deserves another premier program in the state..return Tech to its greatness of yesteryear..and do it now!!

By Hoyaman

November 15, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

Mark and Y’all (a distinct southern euphanism)

I am a G’Town Hoya, so, to be clear, I am not a Techie. Although i am a fan of the Jackets, primarily because I cannot stand the Dawgs. Frankly, Chan Gailey is NOT the coach for this team. I say screw the resume and bring a proven winner back, George O’Leary. He had personality and won games. He built a power. Gailey, much like when he was at Dallas, drove the team into the ground and lost very talented players. (this from a diehard “Skin fan!). So, can him. Go and get O’Leary and let’s see the Jackets return to prominence.

By godawg

November 15, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this

jabster,

Thanks for the link, that Hobbs makes me laugh.

That wasn’t sewage, there is a creek that runs directy under Dooley Field.

By surfrider

November 15, 2007 2:03 PM | Link to this

The problem has been building economically in sports for sometime. I’m surprised it’s taken this long for restructuring to hit the sports arena particularly college and pro’s. Empty seats now are appearing in many domains, except Athens for the whole state considers themselves alumni. It’s economics. A family of four has to decide whether $200 or so justify’s a day at the park when many games are on tv, the finally subsidizer that economics is slowly approaching. As for Tech winning is the best cure but secondly offense sells. The staff should pull out all of Bobby Ross’s film and look at it while at Tech as well as when the Fridge was OC at Tech. It’s hard to imagine that Tech had the #1 ranked offense in the land one year, it’s numbing to believe that. Tech can usually has a pretty good defense at times but offense no way, well if we find a way then it will sell tickets. It starts with the QB and the OL and the scheme. Then this financial deficit will become a surplus in short order. Also lowering some prices to gain following may help in the short term.

By TechCrybaby

November 15, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this

It may well be that the Jackets will beat the Baby Blues this Saturday, despite my prediction to the contrary.

If I even dared to hope that Tech would beat Georgia the next week, though, I would be as dull-witted as that 42-year-old, out-of-shape windbag, HERSCHEL WALKER.

After a lickin’ by the Dawgs, we have a chance to win the Nuthin’ Bowl, in Somewhere, USA, and go 8-5 on the year. It’s not as good as 9-5, but we then start building for 2008. C.Gailey may or may not be here for that season.

The important thing is to learn from our nemesis. What is UGA’s secret of 6-year dominance over Tech? Admire it. Study it. Copy it.

By Lowcountry Bulldawg

November 15, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

Hal

You think the end of Miami’s program was b/c 2 years ago Tech beat them? Bill O’Reilly should hire you for that spin. How about the end of Miami when they had to rely on Coker’s players rather than Butch Davis’s. That was funny!

Also how about the lack of offensive talent Gailey has produced, outside of Calvin Johnson-and he could have gone anywhere and excelled just the same. Gailey came in from the NFL as a OC and 6-7 years into nobody outside of CJ has excelled at the next level on OFFENSE and thats what he did! The lack of top flight offensive talent at Tech and the fact that he has never beaten UGA should spell doom for him.

Alot of Tech fans joke that UGA hasn’t won a NT since ‘80. Well Tech won one in ‘90 and what have they been able to achieve since then. I am not trying to take a shot,but reality is the administration has allowed the football team to become mediocore and irrelevant in the state capital.

The idea of Chris Hatcher isn’t a bad one. Actually pretty darn good. Give him a chance!

By Braves Fan 79

November 15, 2007 2:14 PM | Link to this

FIRE CHAN! His decisions to punt the ball away and not go for it on 4th downs at the end of games have KILLED US! “see Notre Dame game last year”

By JS

November 15, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

It makes me want to puke when i go to/ watch the UGA games in Atlanta and the whole place is full of red. That speaks volumes about the shape Tech football is in. I could vomit on Gailey’s shirt. What a nothing of a coach. I’m sick of it. Maybe I’ll just be an Alabama fan or something. Screw this.

By Dawgy Style

November 15, 2007 2:20 PM | Link to this

UGA fans love nothing more the Chan Gailey and Reggie Ball. Just wish you guys would have kept Quincey Carter for yourselves. You guys sabotaged us on that one. At the time we had our version of Chan Gailey, meaning Jim Donnan.

Why you start a 5’10” guy who can’t throw a ball more then 35 yards to be your QB who throws to Calvin Johnson for 3 years would p** me off if I were a Techy.

How hard would it be to recruit a decent QB when Johnson was there. Now no half decent QB wants anything to do with a run first offense like GT that lacks creative play calling.

Nothing wrong with a run first offense but it takes more then one good, healthy, running back to win that way.

See you Techys at your house in a little over a week.

Long live Chan Gailey’s career ! Go DAWGS !

I will be difficult to get a top tier coach at GT. Who wants to live or work any where near Atlanta ? College coaches prefer true college towns and true college campuses. Not traffic nightmares and bums all over the place. Not to mention the implications of alwayse being 2nd fiddle to UGA in recruiting in the state.

You Techys do know it is now more difficult to get accepted to UGA then Tech for about 5 years now. So the only feather in your hat ( being a better academic school then UGA) has been blown away by the wind, mush like your football program.

By WhiteAndGold

November 15, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

Dogcrap, just what in the hell were you trying to say there? Is that some pyschobabble way of saying UGAy sucks? You may want to consider leaving the drugs alone from now on so we don’t get another one of your verbal hemorrages again.

Don’t worry fleabags, the sad and lonely wide up 316 is only an hour. You’ll soon be able to crawl back into you trailors in Watkinsville and cry your little eyes out.

By Junkyarddawgs

November 15, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

Honestly, it’s no fun beating Tech. I almost feel sorry for you guys.

You have the worst fans in all of college football, a crap stadium you can’t even fill (unless we help), and you can’t even run the table anymore in the joke of a conference ACC.

Your stadium - 52,000 seats & a festering dump Our stadium - 93,000 seats in one of the most beautiful settings in all of football

To even try and compare yourselves to Georgia is laughable.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 15, 2007 2:32 PM | Link to this

Speaking of cesspools, didn’t Sanford Stadium have a problem with sewage percolating up between the hedges a few years back?

They finally identified that as Tech’s last winning team in Sanford.

By JustMe

November 15, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this

Ugay fans: welcome to the GA Tech blog. Now leave.

By yellowblood

November 15, 2007 2:34 PM | Link to this

Sense so many of Ugay’s fans are on our blog, I wanted to extend an invitation to the Tickle Pile after the game next week. We’ll be at the baseball field 30 minutes after the game, win or lose. We would love to have some of you big, burly, tough DAWGS! I’ll bet you guys are strong!

By Brent

November 15, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

I don’t disagree entirely with OldDawg55, I just hate that so many UGA fans are feeling sorry for us. Let’s put things in perspective. Our attendance woes are only a problem relative to our SEC neighbors. Except for Clemson, FSU, and Va Tech, our attendance beats other ACC schools most years. Right? Second, let’s talk about the SEC. Tech left the SEC around 1960 as a top-tier team to become independent. I love Bobby Dodd, but wasn’t this the biggest mistake in Georgia Tech football history? Granted, we would have had some lean years in a very tough conference, but today we would have much more local fan interest and better attendance if we were playing SEC football in Atlanta on Saturday afternoons.

While it doesn’t help that Tech’s “product” has suffered lately, the problem with attendance is NOT a Georgia Tech problem, per se. Georgia Tech alumni and family show up in large numbers, percentage-wise. The problem is Atlanta, which is filled with fair-weather fans who don’t support their teams like other major-market cities, even when they’re winning. (Think of the Braves over the past several years of their post-season run.) Atlanta has notoriously fickle fans. Even as we attempt to improve marketing to this city, it’s an uphill climb for any team, as everyone knows.

Tech seated 52,000 against Va Tech. That’s 11,000 more seats than we had available just ten years ago! And as I recall we weren’t selling out the much smaller stadium much back then. Objectively we’re doing significantly better.

Finally, I’m ready for a coaching change, too, but programs go through ups and downs. I hate UGA, but—more power to them—they got a really good coach. It might not have turned out that way when they hired him (assistant coaches are a gamble) but it did. We had a better coach before Gailey, and he left. Would we be talking about losing to UGA seven years in O’Leary were still here? No. So we move on, but it’s not the end of the world.

So, UGA fans, spare us your pity. There will come a time in the near future when UGA fans can’t afford to be so magnanimous, and I can’t wait for that day. To hell with Georgia!

By TheItalianDawg

November 15, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

My christmas gift will be 5 years contract extension to Gailey!! and dont worry about filling the seats, the dawg nation will fill it for ya in 10 days. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOHA

By Hire the Ole Ball Coach

November 15, 2007 2:48 PM | Link to this

Tech should have never let Steve Spurrier be hired by South Carolina. He is a former assistant at Tech, and to top it off he knows how to beat the puppies of Athens.

By Cuz

November 15, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

Wake up Tech fans, you have one of the greatest minds in all college football, CHAN.

If it was not for the founding of the Noble and Sacred order of the FANS OF CHAN two years ago, you never would have competed for the ACC Championship last year. We members of the FOC saved you Techies from yourselves.

And now you want to boot CHAN again after losing the best wide reciever in Tech history and the one of the best quarterbacks in UGA history. Sure he could not count to four, but when did that stop you guys from extending a scholarship.

Face it, CHAN is the real deal. Take him to the Varsity, fill him full of hot dogs and leave him alone.

Cuz, Rush Chairman for the FANS OF CHAN.

By Dawgs21

November 15, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

52,000 huh. Good thing those VT fans travel like crazy of it would of been more like 40,000. At least the UGA game will be sold out, with about 70% of the stadium wearing RED. I for one cant wait!!!!

GO DAWGS!!!!!

By ugafan

November 15, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

We will leave as soon as you nerds stop running your pie holes on our blogs and vents, NERDS!!!

By fildawg

November 15, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

I was at the Va Tech game - it wasn’t anywhere close to 52,000.

Gailey’s doing a great job representing Tech. Give him an extension.

and….

GOOOOOO DAWGS!!!

By JCSmalls

November 15, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this

yellowblood You sound pretty tough. Jealousy is a terrible thing my yellowblooded friend……please stop making your fellow Tech fans look stupid.

By gttiger

November 15, 2007 3:18 PM | Link to this

It always amazes me to see how many UGA people read Tech articles and contribute to Tech blogs. They must have a deep desire to support Tech and this is their outlet. To all of the UGA fans that have read this article and contributed to the blog, thank-you and keep supporting the Jackets.

By Junkyarddawgs

November 15, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this

I always find it comical when loser Tech fans ask us to stay off their blogs, but the only reason that Dawg fans like myself bother showing up here is you scumbag Tech fans won’t stay off OUR blogs.

The day I don’t see ONE Tech fan on a Georgia blog, then I will gladly stay out of your little ‘whine fest’.

By the way, add me to the list of UGA fans who really miss Reggie Ball. Thank goodness you still have Chan!!!

By Michael

November 15, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

I love being a Dawg fan, but I can’t read one of these message boards without intense embarrassment. So please, please, if you’re a Dawg (1)learn to spell; (2) show at least a minimal acquaintance with grammar and (3) learn to construct a sentence that’s at least borderline literate. Thank you.

By June Jones

November 15, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

Hey nerds, drop me off your list to coach at the trade institute. No way would I leave tropical Honolulu for drought stricken Atlanta. You bozo’s can’t afford a top notch coach, or rather your so called deep pocket alums aren’t willing to foot the bill for for a name brand coach. Maybe you all could hire the guy from Echols County High School except for the fact that Echols doesn’t field a football team. Atlanta fans are notoriously fair weather fans, especially the ones who pull for NATS.

By yellowblood

November 15, 2007 3:28 PM | Link to this

Dawgs: Please explain how, once again, you guys rerigged the BCS so that you are a BCS “team” without winning your half-conference ? Just how long does college football have to put up with the SEC controlled BCS “system” ?

By tman

November 15, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

As someone who did not attend Tech but supports the program, I hope UGA beats the crap out of us so we can kiss Chan GOODBYE! With that said, I would bet 3/4 of the UGA fan base has no clue what the inside of a classroom looks like. Education for a dawg is graduation from elementary school. That’s were it stops. But it is ok, as long as we can play football. We don’t care. We ken spel woof, woof!

By Calvin Johnson

November 15, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

Hello from Detroit!

Wow, Jon Kitna throws the ball REALLY far and REALLY well.

I really don’t miss Reggie Ball - where is he now - filling up cars for rich UGA executives?

Gosh, I am so glad I was drafted high, despite spending 4 years at a joke of a trade school.

I think I caught something walking around Tech for 4 years. Yuck.

By Jacket

November 15, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

I will agree about one thing with these u(sic)ga fans, Chris Hatcher. If you haven’t got the opportunity to see his team play down at Southern then you’re really missing out. While defense winds championships (compare this years FL with last years NC team), it’s offense that will draw larger fans. Can Chan, hire Hatcher, and tame Tenuta (or recruit some decent DBs).

And to that guy who was talking about admission rates, read on: [text to be linked] (http://admissionsync.com/2006/06/04/acceptance-rates-of-top-universities/)

By easycharlie

November 15, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

Somebody calling him/herself “m” just commented that Gailey was the worst coach in Tech history. Could that be true? Got me to wondering. Tech’s had some good coaches and some lousy coaches, but the WORST? Let’s hear it from the fans: who do you think the worst coach in Tech’s history is? My vote? Bill Curry.

By techwilllose

November 15, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

The bulldogs love Chan. That is reason enough for him to go. A reporter asked Steve Spurrier how he felt about being the most hated coach in the SEC. He said that if the other team likes you, that means that you are losing to them.

By BWA

November 15, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

tman…looks like you don’t know what the inside of a classroom is either….it’s where….not were! Learn to spell!

Remember the old saying…what do tech grads call UGA GRADS???? BOSS!

By BLACKEDOUT

November 15, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this

Please stop crying about UGA fans invading your pathetic blog. If I remember correctly Tech fans were all over the blackout blogs last week talking about how stupid of an idea it was and how gimmicks were not going to make us win. It’s not like you have anything important to talk about anyway. You need Georgia fans so you can complain and make yourselves feel important by insulting our fan base and players. I’m sorry about comparing Bobby Dodd to a highschool stadium, its not. It’s a highschool stadium with the endzones filled in.

By Louisville Dawg

November 15, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

Actually, as a UGA alum and visitor to the last 6 Tech-UGA games in Atlanta, I don’t expect any empty seats Nov. 1. Too many UGA grads/fans are hyped up about this season and are willing to take any extra tix. The true barometer might not be empty seats, but the fact that Dodd Stadium will resemble Saturday’s “Red Out.”

By jabster

November 15, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

Worst Tech Coaches:

  1. B### L####
  2. Bill Felcher
  3. Bill “Chicken” Curry

By godawg

November 15, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

NEWS FLASH TO TECH FANS! This is NOT your blog. This is Mark Bradley’s blog. Your blog is called, oddly enough, the:

TechBlog

Mike Knobler is over there fantasying over playing in the Champ Sports Bowl and only five bugs have posted comment.

This tells me that not only do you not support your team on gameday, you can’t even support a simple blog in a city of 4+ million people. Pathetic.

BTW: Make plans for Boise or San Fransisco. Orlando’s not happening.

By Scooter

November 15, 2007 3:59 PM | Link to this

Pat: You sound like a real marketing genius.

By JCSmalls

November 15, 2007 4:02 PM | Link to this

yellowblood You are right, if UGA wins out and doesn’t make the SEC Championship game they should be left out of the BCS for an ACC at large bid…..say Va Tech? Wait Va Tech got trounced at LSU 48 - 7 this year….or how about Notre Dame….man that was an impressive win for you guys….I think they will be an underdog when they play Duke….nice win!!

By UGAgrad

November 15, 2007 4:08 PM | Link to this

The dawgs are clerely the bestest teem in the USofA and shuld be NUMBER 1 rite now. They are way better then them lsu tiggers. I shore hope tech keep that Gaily as thur coach so’s we’uns can keep on beeting tech. I hate tech. Didnt yall luv it whenever we all shewed up awearin black last week..i think the fans turn arond that game. I know I shore had agood time. I set with a bunch of my old freternity bruthers and we was acheering and throwin up, an drankin some Jack…lordy thet wuz fun. By the way, i am a 1990 uga grad with a deegree in animul husbendry with a minor in english. I tried to walk on at uga. I wuz 5’10 amd wayed 261 but thye said i wuz alittle slow. I dun’t know whur thee got that, since i wuz purty fas when i played gard at Hepzibah high. Gotta sign off now. I need to go huzband a animul.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 15, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

Why are you guys calling this a Tech blog? The main point of the article is Chan the Man and his having to beat Georgia or lose his job.

Brent, I don’t pity your program. I just don’t understand it. How can you have a starting QB that throws 4 TD’s thru 10 games? Seems like at some point you would give the next guy a shot. If for nothing else than to motivate the starter a little more. Nice post, except the hell with UGA, but that is to be expected. UGA is in it for the long haul now. We have been blessed with a fantastic coach. Good luck against the baby blue’s this weekend.

By tman

November 15, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

Hey BMA man…Did you look at my last 2 lines? I wads pronocing like a UGA fan and spelin like one. A degree from Tech worth $$$ more than one from UGA buddy!

By FIRE CHAN!!!!!!!

November 15, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

“What kind of idiot would want to go to a Georgia Tech game as long as Chan GAYley is the coach.”

“Quotes from Chan: 1. If 7-5 is all you want then I’m your man.

  1. I can’t believe it. I thought running it on 3rd and 20 would work for sure.”

By GT80

November 15, 2007 4:14 PM | Link to this

Easy there Charlie. The Worst coach was obviously Bill Lewis.

But about Chan, just like when all of us Tech fans thought Jim Donnan was the best coach ever for UGA and he should be kept on forever in Athens, the fact that so many UGA fans think Chan is a great coach and should be kept on @ Tech, tells you all you need to know.

And hey Mutts, not all of us Tech fans think badly of you. I have several friends that are UGA grads/fans and I actually like many of them. I think your current coach is a prime example of what a college coach should be. Energetic, honest, inovative. Basically, what Chan is not.

By carter

November 15, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

BMA man Your 15 minute break is over. Get back in the kitchen and wash the dishes. After that take dawgs place at the deep fryer!

By georgiagirl49

November 15, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

At least we are going to a bowl this year. Where are you going wxcept the toilet bowl? I have a question? does Ga fans get free pizza and cokes with their tickets

By Wozzo the Wonder Dog

November 15, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

Stated rationale for horrific attendance at Tech games:

Prior to 2006: Lack of Parking

2006: Reggie Ball

2007: Chan Gailey

2008 on: The team sucks.

If you think attendance numbers are bad now look ahead to next year when you will not be able to inflate ticket sales by bundling tickets to games with Notre Dame and UGA. If your athletic director is really tied to the bottom line then there will be a painful awareness of serious ticket sales declines in 2008. Compounding that will be that TV revenues will fall off because the only game on the Tech schedule worth airing is UGA (because of UGA) and any other TV time will be on a Thursday night — which will kill ticket sales and attendance. It looks like a death spiral to me - recruits will know that Bobby Dodd holds at least 40,000 fewer fans on any given game day resulting in better players going elsewhere. Better players going elsewhere results in Tech losing more. Tech losing more results in lower attendance and more difficult recruiting. Also factor in the downward suction of being in the ACC. Miami is 5-5 right now. FSU is a shell of its former self. Wake Forest won the conference last year over I forget which team in a championship game with at least 10,000 empty seats and a final score of something like 6-9. Tech has a string of laughable “bowls”, typically like the Emerald Nut Bowl where elss than 2,000 Tech “fans” go (and then lose to the third best team in the Mountain West Conference).

Tech fans do, of course, have a means of enhancing revenue. If the Tech athletic department would wrap Bobby Dodd’s corpse in copper wire and place large magnets above and below his casket the electric power resulting from the spinning could power Atlanta and provide Tech with a lucrative windfall.

By BLACKEDOUT

November 15, 2007 4:22 PM | Link to this

Thanks UGAgrad for solidifying my point.

By Da Showstopper

November 15, 2007 4:25 PM | Link to this

Georgiagirl, every night???? where does the line start?

By yellowblood

November 15, 2007 4:26 PM | Link to this

Wuzzo: What could you possibly know about electricity. Do you even have it in your trailer ?

By Goldmember

November 15, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

Well stated Olddawg55. Tech has been average to below average for some years. Chan had the talent to do better but has not produced. It will be a red out at BDS, but so what. Until there is a positive change with some motivation on and off the field, there will be no support. Winning will fill the stands. Big Boi my big butt.

By GoldRush

November 15, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

The Chan Gailey Error is drawing to a close. Then Georgia Tech can escape the grips of the Gailey mediocrity and become a respected football program again. To discuss the Georgia Tech football program further with hundreds of fans join us at: http://www.bbuzzoff.com

By The Monk

November 15, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

Here is something that actually would help Tech football in the long run:

I am sure you don’t want to hear it and it is not likely to happen, but how about approaching the SEC and cutting a deal to ship Vandy to the ACC and get Tech back in the SEC? You would lose a little glitz on the basketball side (less than you think), pick up a lot on the football side (more than you think), and none of the other sports would be greatly affected. You would have to endure seeing other teams’ fans in your stadium until your ticket sales pick up (Auburn folks will come - BC fans will not) but the place would probably sell out for every conference game. And really, I think you’d have a lot more fun playing Florida and Tennessee every year (and having a Georgia games that means something in a conference) than playing NC State and Maryland. Just my $.02.

By Cuz

November 15, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

Go Bugs, beat them heels. Play with some pride and you can do it. Get your players to start dancing on the sideline. Run the Deuce until he drops. Just win baby.

Proud to be a member of the FANS OF CHAN

By Cuz

November 15, 2007 5:29 PM | Link to this

Monk, I will see your 2 cents and raise you a free Coke and a slice of pizza. Get Tech and USF in the SEC. Send USF to the west and Tech gets to play slobbernockers in the east.

Go Bugs, Go FOC.

Cuz FOC Rush Chairman

By byteback

November 15, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this

Reading all these posts from UGA fans reminds me of why UGA has the most HATED and DESPISED fanbase in all of college sports…if not ALL sports.

They are truly a disgrace to the State of Georgia. Utterly disgraceful.

By MM

November 15, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this

“I even paid a Clemson fan’s gas money to take them off my hands.”

Paying someone to take your tix…thank you Pat for personifying the stupid UGA fan.

By To MM

November 15, 2007 6:13 PM | Link to this

“Paying someone to take your tix…thank you Pat for personifying the stupid UGA fan.”

I see sarcasm is, as it of has been, lost on the Tech fan.

On the other hand - he clearly could not find any Tech buyers for his Tix.

By Historian

November 15, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

I’m staying out the controversial discussions, but I want to clear up one continuing error. The people that caused the ineligible players during O’leary’s time was the coach. The mistakes were made by those in the AD office that were suppose to know the NCAA rules for eligibility. Also, one of the leading individuals was moved out their position, but never fired by the Administration. The problems were driven by stupid, ignorant people. Call it cheating if you will, but if you start naming names, please use the AD’s name first.

By Historian

November 15, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

I’m staying out the controversial discussions, but I want to clear up one continuing error. The people that caused the ineligible players during O’leary’s time was the coach. The mistakes were made by those in the AD office that were suppose to know the NCAA rules for eligibility. Also, one of the leading individuals was moved out their position, but never fired by the Administration. The problems were driven by stupid, ignorant people. Call it cheating if you will, but if you start naming names, please use the AD’s name first.

By John

November 15, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

Bill Curry was not a bad coach. He took a 1-10 team and turned it into a 9-2 team a few years later.

By HEADbUT

November 15, 2007 6:48 PM | Link to this

Tech will never be able to afford a TOP NOTCH head coach. You better be careful for what you wish for.-Going to bowls games vs 3 win seasons and all recruits backing out and going elsewhere. You could and probably will have things a lot worse in years to come.

By GT88

November 15, 2007 7:31 PM | Link to this

In 1964, Georgia Tech had the second largest stadium in the Southeastern conference. Georgia Tech sold out in the 50’s and 60’s. Why can’t they sell out now? They do not win consistently. Bobby Dodd was a great coach. He was probably the worst AD in history. GT went from the SEC to an independent. In the 1970’s they had few only two 7 win seasons. Bill Curry took them to one bowl game in 7 years. When I was at Tech in 1987 we could not even give tickets away to the Boys Club of Atlanta. It will take at least 10 years of being a Top 10 or Top 20 program to bring the fans back. The 25 to 40 demographic really does not care about GT football. The 40 to 55 demographic does not buy enough GT football tickets. The 55 to Dead demographic are too old to attend GT games. Believe me Rap music will not bring in fans to a college football game. The Falcons tried it in 2003. It was a PR nightmare. What the hell was the promotions department at GT thinking?

By sorry ugay

November 15, 2007 7:31 PM | Link to this

I guess UGay fans forgot that 35-14 BUTT KICKING UT put on them earlier this fall. It’s a shame it will keep you out of your conference champ. game!! NOT! Yea you idiotic, arogant mutts keep off of tech blogs!

By the way Rad, GET RID OF HIM….IT’S GAILEY’S FAULT ALL OF THESE IDIOTS ARE SUCH A PROBLEM!!!!!!

By HEADbUT

November 15, 2007 7:50 PM | Link to this

Tech fans need to calm down - stop whith the name calling and junk.UGA fans are going to be coming to Atlanta in a few weeks and you are going to p** them off havind them ready to slap your GRANNY IN THE MOUTH.Its like Dad coming home when you are in trouble.WHOS YOUR DADDY !!! Go Dawgs

By OLD MAN

November 15, 2007 7:56 PM | Link to this

SOMEBODY WAY UP THE LIST MENTIONED THAT GAILEY SHOULD BE KEPT SO HE COULD DEVELOP THE PLAYERS HE HAS RECRUITED. THAT’S REDICULOUS — NAME ONE PLAYER HE’S DEVELOPED — REMEMBER BENNET IN LAST YEARS BOWL GAME? THAT WAS BEFORE GAILEY “DEVELOPED” HIM INTO THE PITIFUL QB HE IS NOW. AND CALVIN JOHNSON (THE #2 NFL PICK) — HOW MANY TIMES DID HE THROW TO HIM IN THE GEORGIA GAME 7 OR 8.

CHAN IS NOT A COACH OR A MOTIVATOR —MAYBE WE CAN’T DO BETTER AT $1M, BUT WE’D BETTER TRY!!!

By elijah

November 15, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this

I have said about all I want to say. All I know is as long as he is coach I will never go back to Bobby Dodd Stadium. I went to three this year and I was disgusted in two of them. David Braine is alot at fault here. Everyone wanted Gailey gone when Braine extended his contract. That was stupid. I didn’t deserve it with his performance. Braine does all that and then retires. He owes Radovich and apology, and all us fans too. I think they should give my money back from the VT game. Dwyer was running for nearly 7 yards a carry and you take him out again. That was stupid. Then you keep trying to pass when the run was working. Enough is Enough.

By m

November 16, 2007 8:35 AM | Link to this

Another day has come and gone…..and Chan Gailey STILL SUCKS. He should be fired TODAY!

By Obnoxious Georgia Fan

November 16, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

I think this is a perfect place to remind everyone that Oregon’s loss last night makes Georgia’s chances of a BCS bid all the more likely. I’m really sorry Tech fans. My condolences. We’ll send you a postcard from New Orleans. Happy Holidays.

By YellowJacked

November 16, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

Let us pause a moment in the self-flaggelation by Tech fans and give credit to Mark Bradley for his continuing psy-ops campaign to trash Georgia Tech and suck up to his Bulldog readership (?) base. The great irony in this is that so many schools, including for example, the U. of Kentucky (Bradley’s alma mater) would love to trade up to Tech’s athletic program in a HEARTBEAT. UK is a perennial nothing in football (check their conference record since 1960), nothing in baseball, and NOTHING in womens sports. Basketball is IT and now even that is in total meltdown. How about keeping a shred of perspective, Mark? And since we are talking about it, outside of football and women’s gymnastics (woohoo!) UGA’s baskeball, baseball, and track and field have been punching bags over the last 5-10 years in the SEC. Even UGA women’s BB has been eclipsed by a certain school located in Louisiana on the Mississippi River. But to the Cult of the Short, Fat, White Dog, it’s all about football and they love to kick people when they’re down. Maybe Perdue should pray for them. Oh, but he is one of them.

By SugarHillDawg

November 16, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

I know I shouldn’t be on this blog being a Georgia fan BUT……… Think you irate Techmites,who are y’all gonna get that is better? If you find a coach who is, he’s gonna leave for a better job. Man I’m glad I’m NOT a Tech fan!!! Go Dawgs!

By SugarHillDawg

November 16, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

I’ve got it Mark! Get the Tech ticket office to give free tickets to Dragoncon with every football ticket!It would only work for one game though because it only comes around once a year. Here’s a better idea, give a discount coupon for an XBox with every ticket!I’m a GENIUS! See ya at the BEATDOWN Techmites!!!Go DAWGS

By Joe

November 16, 2007 11:52 AM | Link to this

“Gailey has neither lost so badly as to make dismissal obvious…”

What ?????

UGA 51-7 (2002) UGA 34-17 (2003) Clemson 31-7 (2006) Duke 41-17 (2003) UNC 34-13 (2004) Utah 38-10 (2005) VT 51-7 (2005) Clemson 39-3 (2003) BYU 24-13 (2003) Maryland 34-10 (2002) Fresno State 30-21 (2002) BC 24-10 (2007) VT 27-3 (2007)

How much more obvious does it have to get ?

By zeke

November 16, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

It’s so sad that the most significant win in the Tech program’s history was 81 years ago. 222-0

By eaycharlie

November 16, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

The votes are still coming. Tech’s worst coach: Bill Curry: votes for: 3; votes against: 2 Bill Lewis: votes for: none; Votes against: 2 Bill Felcher: votes for: none; votes against: 1 Anybody else? One thing seems clear: If Tech is to get a new coach, his first name shouldn’t be “Bill.” We’ve done pretty good with “Bobby,” i.e., Ross and Dodd. Anybody out there named “Bobby” want to try?

By The Atlanta Bulldog Booster Club

November 16, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

I think Chan is doing a great job and the GT fans should be proud of him. I think Chan deserves a pay raise and also he needs his contract extended. Chan is a great football coach and he is good for the state of Georgia.

By The Cold Hard Truth

November 16, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

The thing is that Tech could just leave the gates into Grant Field open prior to the game without any ticket takers and the stadium would still be half empty, except for the UGA, FSU, or VT games. Why bother even charging admisssion fees if you want to fill up the stadium?

By DA Tech

November 16, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

You know it’s really funny how many folks are calling out the pizza promos and the like at Tech games…did I miss something or does not GA have to give pizza and snacks to their students just to get them to come to a basketball home game in that powerhouse SEC? Give it up. TEch does not have the fan base - you made your point, it’s not a football powerhouse - no one ducks that. And if you think it will be 50% UGA fans there on Thanksgiving weekend you are mistaken. GA tickets were not part of the mini ticket plans this year.

By West Coast GT Fan

November 16, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

If any of you blow hards really want to get Gailey gone, then you should organize a web site where GT ticket holders give their tickets to the fans of the visiting team! For example, a stadium full of baby powder blue this weekend would have him gone by monday! But we all know its easier to b*** here, than take action…..just a bunch of liberals waiting for savior!

By War Eagle

November 16, 2007 1:12 PM | Link to this

Post on Auburn forum says Terry Bowden to Tech if CCG is not retained?? GT alumni, fans and supporters, YOU DON`T WANT TERRY BOWDEN. HE IS PROBABLY BEST ON FIELD COACH at Auburn in years, but he will bring BAGGAGE

By GT76

November 16, 2007 4:25 PM | Link to this

DA Tech, sorry to bust your bubble, but the UGA GT game was part of the three pack because I bought my tickets this way. My other two games were Clemson and Va Tech.

By scooter11

November 16, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

C’mon, yellowjacked: UGA Baseball team a punching bag? Given the fairly recent appearances in the CWS (one via the elimination of a certain local team on its own home field) and a winning record over the same certain local team, what does that make that local team? And you say ‘woohoo’ to any women’s sports when your only NCAA national championship (also fairly recent) is in women’s TENNIS? Talk some more KY smack.

By carolinajacket

November 16, 2007 6:00 PM | Link to this

I remember the days when Bill Fulcher, Pepper Rogers et al were coaches; when I was in school Tech was lucky to get 4 wins. Bill Curry had a no win season if I remember correctly. Many Tech faculty are not going to cut athletes any slack. What makes everyone so sure it is a snap to find athletes willing to come to Tech where academics is a priority when they could just as easily go to a cupcake school and hang out. I respect the athletes who come to Tech, and am appreciative of the fans who stand behind them and their coach. I don’t think criticism of the coach or players benefits them or the program. Unfortunately media crucifying of coaches tends to become a self fulfilling prophecy.

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