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By Will

November 7, 2005 04:41 PM | Link to this

The Can Chan “fans” cry too much to think about next year. I just hope they’ll shut up after we beat Geogria, but I’m sure they’ll find something to b*** about.

By GT

November 7, 2005 04:49 PM | Link to this

If we beat Georgia I won’t b*** I promise.

By Will

November 7, 2005 04:51 PM | Link to this

Good to here GT, make that promise with your other friends.

By TheTruth

November 7, 2005 05:00 PM | Link to this

After the UGA game…you will all be singing “the B@%$H is Back”.

By WaCoJacket

November 7, 2005 05:33 PM | Link to this

NEXT YEAR… is NEXT YEAR… We’ll do big things this year also. We’ll win 2 of 3 with a good shot at 3 of 3… Miami is the best team left. UVA and UGA are done deals…

UGA is in for a big shock… They suck and they don’t know it yet… but will soon…

By CharterPeachford

November 7, 2005 05:46 PM | Link to this

WaCo, you’re Wakko. Beating Wake Forest is not a reason for all of this blind optimism. If you can’t get help from Charter…get help somewhere.

By KneeJerk

November 7, 2005 06:28 PM | Link to this

Why shouldn’t Tech fell optimistic of winning 2 of 3? What impressive team has UGA beat? Tech is capable of beating UVa and UGA. Miami will be the toughest of the 3, but not impossible.

By CharterPeachford

November 7, 2005 06:36 PM | Link to this

KneeJerk…think about what you just said. You beat Auburn. Good win. The rest of the teams that you beat are bottom feeders. So in that regard you and UGA are about even. VT beat you 51-7. 51-7 KneeJerk.Talent wise you are not in the same hemisphere with UGA and Miami. It is the same pattern at Tech over and over. Win a game or two and all of a sudden the world is your oyster. If Virginia beats you Saturday you’ll be back to firing poor Chan again. Just your normal pattern.

By Bryan G.

November 7, 2005 07:42 PM | Link to this

I hope you guys understand that 1-2 is the best you’re going to finish. And, really, you haven’t beaten UVA in Charlottesville since your boy Calvin was 5. 6-5, another trip to Boise. Get over those beating UGA dreams. You have one player who would start at Georgia. Don’t even pretend like you have better coaches, either.

By Bryan G.

November 7, 2005 07:52 PM | Link to this

that being said…yes, Tech will go as far next year as Chan and Reggie can take them.

By Ramble On

November 7, 2005 08:07 PM | Link to this

CharterPeachford, great name it must have done you wonders after graduating from UGA. Glad to hear you finally got sober, to bad your still as stupid now as you were when you went to UGAg. You and Bryan can go and try and put together how your still going to win the national championship. To bad Auburn is going to remind you how over rated you still are…Bryan, Ruben Houston isn’t on our team anymore so I guess we don’t have any players that could start for UGAg.

By AB

November 7, 2005 08:13 PM | Link to this

Three years ago the Insect Armada sailed into Sanford Stadium talking about how their experienced players would make the difference in the UGA game and got sunk 51-7. When you have experienced average as grits players it usually means that you don’t get embarrassed as badly as you do with inexperienced average as grits players. The Nerd Herd beats two less than average teams in Clemson and Wake and all of a sudden the same “Can Chan” whiners think that the Yeller Jerkits are more than a match for Texas or USC. Get real, you’ll always be the red headed step child in the state of Georgia. For all of you cry babies who keep complaining about the UGA fans that didn’t attend UGA……How many of you are Braves fans and, how many games did you play for the Braves? Don’t give me any more of that elitist crap about about having to go to a school to be a fan. If that were the case the Nerds couldn’t fill up the lower end zone seats at Grant Field with their local fans. You are entitled to be a fan of any team that you like but don’t try to disbar fans of other teams just because they didn’t attend that school. If you get lucky some poor kid might wander in off the street with a free ticket to get the free hot dogs, free cokes, and other trinkets that you have to give away to attract more than a couple of hundred spectators and that poor misguided kid might actually grow up to be a Tech fan, although listening to your so called fans whine about and criticize their own team might drive him away before any permanent psychological damage could be done.

By mem

November 7, 2005 08:19 PM | Link to this

While all these returning players sounds nice in theory, if the QB can’t become more accurate in the passing game, all the time in the world isn’t going to help him. A 50% completion rate can only take you so far, unless you’re Michael Vick, which he clearly isn’t. I don’t mean that to sound negative because I’m pulling for him. But facts are facts, and I’m still seeing too many overthrown balls.

But WaCo said it best… next year is next year. Too much season left this year to start worrying about next!

By mem

November 7, 2005 08:22 PM | Link to this

The return of Tenuta is also huge for next year, and after the season the D is having I find it hard to think someone else won’t grab him this offseason.

By mtraininjax

November 7, 2005 08:23 PM | Link to this

Geez, can’t we focus on this year and wait for next year, NEXT YEAR? What should we start talking Tech baseball now? How about next year’s volleyball team? Mark - don’t fill boosters with dreams of next year. Gailey still has to win anothe game to match his “expectation” from Braine. Let’s see if he can do it!

By GTfan

November 7, 2005 08:26 PM | Link to this

The problem with UGA bandwagon fans is that if you have a pulse you can get into ABAC-North, so there really isn’t any need to be a sidewalk alum.

These people need to take the plunge and get that degree in fingerpainting so they can be official.

By dave

November 7, 2005 08:57 PM | Link to this

well, as a confirmed chan basher i didn’t think 3 for 3 was possible with WF, Clem, and Duke…..(of course, Miami was supposed to be in the mix of these last games…..) now GT seems to be on a roll….who knows?…..i’m still not convinced with VA, GA, MIAMI remaining on the schedule but stranger things have happened and GT seems to have a bit of a spark about it……i still think chan’s offense is something out of the dark ages (though he seems to be mixing things up better recently and getting everyone involved in the play calling) and though personally i hold no ill will for the man i will always believe that GT made the wrong choice in hiring him and holding onto him through all these years of offensive incompetence and 6/7 win seasons……BUT, as I have stated in previous posts, if he holds onto tenuta, hires an offensive coordinator or at least lets someone else call the plays, GT has the talent to succeed…. I do think GT’s recent success has occurred in spite of him….NOW, if chan pulls off the impossible and wins 2 out of 3 (including GA), then maybe, just maybe i’ll change my tune….one can only dream…..go GT

By GT92

November 7, 2005 10:51 PM | Link to this

1) AB, presuming from your comments you are not a UGA graduate. Assuming as much, your comments represent the reason many GT fans don’t really care to have any sidewalk alumni like yourself. All you do is make your team and school look like a bunch of white trash with your idiotic comments. 2) I want GT to go 3 out of 3 in the worst way but I’ll be pleasantly surprised if we beat UVA and give Miami and UGA a good solid game. Lets be realistic.
3) I think 8-4 would be very respectable. One more win this season and we guarantee ourselves a 9th straight winning season. That has not been done since we had 17 straight winning seasons from 1908-1925. And before any UGA sidewalk alumni (read AB) make any ignorant comments, the best UGA ever did was 11 straight from 1978-1988.

By K-Dogg

November 7, 2005 11:26 PM | Link to this

Dave regarding Chan: “I do think GT’s recent success has occurred in spite of him”

Are you serious?? Our QB gets mono and our special teams implodes as we get spanked in Blacksburg…a lesser coached team would have folded then and there, but not the Chan-led Yellow Jackets! We’ve won 3 of our last 4 games. (By the way, that loss to NC State cannot be blamed on Chan! How can you argue with the call? The ball was in the hands of our best player…that is where you want it with the game on the line!) We are one catch away from being 7-1. Do you realize that?? Would you seriously be dogging Chan if we were 7-1? Let me answer that for you…Yes, you probably would. Because nothing but perfection will satisfy a fan like you. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you can get help. There is usually only 1 or 2 teams with perfect records at the end of the year…and even that doesn’t guarantee anything in the BS System. Just ask an Auburn fan.

Seriously Dave, it’s fans like you that just make me sick.

By SteveO

November 7, 2005 11:32 PM | Link to this

WaCo Jacket, Thats funny….”UGA sucks and they don’t know it yet.” I don’t think they suck, but we can beat them. The Sporting News predicted that we would beat them at the beginning of the year. How suprising is it that Ball has only been sacked four times this entire season. Is anyone else suprised by that stat?

By Foot Ball

November 8, 2005 08:33 AM | Link to this

I’m surprised at the low number of sacks. The reverse rollouts help but that also limits where you can pass. You don’t want Ball to throw across the field. I’m not a Ball fan BUT this week was the best I’ve seen him throw down field.

By brock19

November 8, 2005 09:16 AM | Link to this

The bee’s are getting a little too confident. Reggie Ball is a makeshift quarterback in a makeshift program. Tech drop 2 of its last 3 and plays Rutgers in the Meineke Car Bowl. It all depends on how many “hail mary’s” Calvin Johnson catches over the next few weeks. After all that is the bee’s base offense.

By GT75

November 8, 2005 11:09 AM | Link to this

Ramble On, you are a disgrace. You only make yourself seem stupid when you write such vitriol. Get some class before presenting yourself as a Tech fan.

By Will

November 8, 2005 01:00 PM | Link to this

That’s it GT75, go stick up for your boys in Athens. Let me hear ya say “GO DAWGS, SICK’EM!”

By CW

November 8, 2005 01:26 PM | Link to this

I’m guessing the dog fans on our blog have given up hope for the Auburn game this weekend or they’d be on their own blog discussing their QB’s health.

As for our optimism going into the home stretch, I think it is well-earned. Since the 2nd half of the Duke game, the team has performed better. I think we all wish the O would pick up the pace and ST still needs vast improvement, but our D has continued to take over games when needed. We all know that none of our remaining games will be against the likes of Duke or Wake, but if our team continues to improve week-to-week, it is not unreasonable for Tech to win one or two of the next three games and to be competitive in all three.

As for the plight of our coach and his staff, that will likely be decided by how this team responds to the challenges of the next three weeks. No use discussing it until the Sunday after the Georgia game.

By Due West

November 8, 2005 01:32 PM | Link to this

Combined records of opponets and quality wins…

UGA 34-35 (under .500) Quality win was Florida…. Oh I’m sorry… you lost that game… You have NO quality wins.

GT 37-34 Quality win at Auburn

By KneeJerk

November 8, 2005 02:43 PM | Link to this

Exactly Due West. At least we have ONE quality win this year. That’s one more than UGA. Who knows how good UGA is? Nobody knows until they beat a quality opponent. This will be a good weekend of football in Georgia. Should be 2 close games. I hope everybody gets out of this weekend a better feeling for their team (UGA and GT). Also hope for no injuries so we’ll both be at full strength in 2 weeks.

By Bryan G.

November 8, 2005 03:50 PM | Link to this

Does Tech get “quality loss” points for losing to NC State at home…at team that, at the time, hadn’t won an ACC game in about 10 tries.

By wes

November 8, 2005 03:50 PM | Link to this

Is it too late to go back and join the SEC? Tech would definitely have a better shot at winning that conference.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 03:56 PM | Link to this

I respect s@$%sville just like most people, and I’ve been a Tech fan since 5th grade. My wife went to grad school at s@$%sville, and she is not a fan. Which is a good thing. GT wins 2 of 3. They beat UVa this weekend, beat the team from Athens in a close game, and Miami, I feel, will be down to the last second. Maybe a field goal to win, or lose. I like my chances this year. Two streaks end this year: 1) GT wins at UVa for the first time since Bobby Ross & Co. beat them during the National Championship year. 2) GT beats the team from Athens for the first time in a couple of years. (I think it’s been 3 yrs). UGA you better worry about Auburn this weekend. Who has UGA played this year? NOBODY. The big bad SEC is down this year, and I love to hear the b***’.

By KneeJerk

November 8, 2005 04:15 PM | Link to this

No Bryan, that was no quality loss. That was a bad loss. We were supposed to win that game. UGA, however gets a quality loss at UF, because several people expected them to lose. Which would you rather have?

By GT

November 8, 2005 04:21 PM | Link to this

NC State beating FSU made my weekend. Our lost to NC State was not a last second missed pass but a slow witted game plan that got us to the position of having to make a last second pass. I really think if Chan could get a offensive coach with on the field adjustment ability that doesn’t have his quarterback as stiff as it’s head coach, there might be a chance next year. If you ever went to a Bobby Dodd, Bobby Ross or George O’s practice you would notice how loose and how much fun they were having. Just being on the side line watching was fun. They were loose. Dodd use to have ice cream cone bets with his punters that he could out punt them and usually won with the whole team watching. George would tease visiting recruits looking on from the side line about putting them into the practice, with the whole team playing along. Ross would get so excited about a linebackers popping somebody he would hold the entire practice up hugging the guy. These guys loved kids and would have been coaching if they had to pay somebody instead of being paid. You cannot coach scared or stiff, nor can you play that way.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 04:22 PM | Link to this

I agree with KneeJerk. 9 times out of 10 Calvin catches that ball. I played receiver in high school, and having your legs coming out from under you as you try to catch a football, isn’t the easiest thing to do.

By Dr.T

November 8, 2005 04:36 PM | Link to this

You know a program is down when a victory over WF produces all these delusions of grandeur.

By Dr.T

November 8, 2005 04:43 PM | Link to this

What kind of loss was the one in Blacksburg? You know. The 51-7 thing.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 04:47 PM | Link to this

It’s good to see people living in the past. ie- Dr.T

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 04:50 PM | Link to this

Those who forget history are destined to repeat it. Tech is living proof of that.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 04:52 PM | Link to this

So Dr.T, are you saying that I don’t know my histroy?

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 04:59 PM | Link to this

Let’s see. Before the VT game, after a couple of Ws, you Techmites got to thinking you’re good. Gonna beat VT. The result? 51-7. Once again, a couple of wins over perrenial bottom feeders and now you’re gonna beat Virginia, play close with Miami, and beat UGA. Sounds like history repeating itself to me. And Rod, if the shoe fits, wear it.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 05:01 PM | Link to this

How is Tech living proof of history? They lost to what I considered the best team (at the time) in the USA. You really think UGA could have beat Virginia Tech THAT day? Oh wait, of course you’ll say yes, what am I thinking. UGA is the badass of America. I forgot. If we’re going to live in the past Dr. T, GT won the National Title in 1990. Which was 15 yrs ago. When was UGA’s? 1980 which was 25 yrs ago. GT also has one of the best bowl winning percentages, more bowl wins, and MORE NATIONAL TITLES!!! How about that for a history lesson Dr. T.

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 05:04 PM | Link to this

How about this for some history Rod. You won 1/2 NC. Your record against UGA since 1980 is 7 wins and 18 losses. Go back further it gets uglier. Over the last 30 years the mighty Tech is only a few games over .500. That is your history lesson for today.

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 05:06 PM | Link to this

And since we don’t play VT that is a moot point. However, we ‘ll never get beat by anybody by 44 points during the MR eara.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 05:09 PM | Link to this

What ever Dr. T. Why are we living in the past? BIG DEAL what happened back then. How come UGA is 2-14 against Florida the last 16 yrs? OVER, OVER, OVER-RATED. OVER, OVER, OVER-RATED. OVER, OVER, OVER-RATED UGA CAN’T WIN THE BIG GAME!!!! (to the tune of your fight song) SING IT WITH ME DR.T!!!!!

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 05:09 PM | Link to this

More history. Tech has broken several of the longest losing streaks in ACC history. When the mighty NCSU took you down and never forget that the mighty bees broke Dukes 30 game losing streak by losing to them 41-17. Very proud and illustious history the gridiron bees possess.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 05:11 PM | Link to this

Dr. T LEARN TO SPELL…THAT’S THE MR ERA!!!

By Rod

November 8, 2005 05:12 PM | Link to this

Dr. T are you a real Dr.?

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 05:16 PM | Link to this

Yep Rod. They own us. And I know it. It’s almost as bad as your record against Florida State and UGA.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 05:22 PM | Link to this

I know UGA gets the cream of the crop athletes. GT has high academic standards, and most of UGA’s current roster couldn’t get in. Who cares about our record against FSU. They owned us when we palyed them. Big Deal. FSU during the time GT palyed them was the football program to be at. BIG DEAL. WHO CARES ABOUT PAST?CURRENT RECORDS. Any team CAN be beat on any given Saturday.

By GT

November 8, 2005 05:26 PM | Link to this

Dr.T is right but this is the first year anyone dared say the words,”the ACC is the best league in the country”. The last time we played in such company was the SEC in the 60’s and I certainly hope history would repeat a little of that era. For years we washed around as a independent or a ACC member of a basketball conference. The new ACC now has the largest television exposure of any conference in the country, the strongest competition and the most academic of the major league college conferences. We are making history not repeating it, and if we get our house in order we can ride this wave.

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 05:27 PM | Link to this

Rod, just returning the spelling courtesy from several posts ago. Its played…not palyed.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 05:28 PM | Link to this

WELL PUT GT!!!!

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 05:37 PM | Link to this

Yes, the ACC has really upgraded with its new additions and plays some of the most interesting and competitive football in the country. This year it just may be the best. The debate about the relative merits of the SEC and ACC will go on. However, I do think that the SEC is down this year. The total collapse of Rocky Top gives the ACC the edge this year.

By Rod

November 8, 2005 05:40 PM | Link to this

Talk about an over-rated team. The great pumpkin lost it this year. Urban Meyer hasn’t been impressive, in my opinion, except for the UGA win. The COCKS will play Florida down to the wire, and they just might win.

By DrT.

November 8, 2005 05:44 PM | Link to this

Yep, the Ol’ Ball Coach just might take the Urban legend to school.

By retired engineer

November 8, 2005 07:44 PM | Link to this

Talk of history…some of you dog boys probably are too young to remember the 50’s…Tech beat UGly seemingly all the time. Then along came Tarkenton, and we have been…not as dominant. But that is changing this year; Tech wins. It is just history repeating itself! You called it DrT. (I like your perception!)

By Ala. Jim

November 9, 2005 09:56 AM | Link to this

RE, I started at tech in 1951 and graduayed in 1956 (slow learner). Ga. never beat us and Ala. never beat us.

By cavsfan

November 9, 2005 11:25 AM | Link to this

I hope the bees are ready to get stung this weekend. The Cavs are ready for “CJ”. I heard there is going to be bowl reps from the Meineke Bowl* and the Champs Bowl* there to see if they want to invite Tech to play Kansas/Rutgers in their game this year. -not real bowl games. Lets be honest with ourselves Tech hasn’t played in a real bowl game in years. If all these no-name bowl games were around 10 years ago alot of schools could say they have gone to 9 straight. Including Tulsa(a mythical football program) Fresno, and Syracuse.

By GTVegas

November 9, 2005 12:29 PM | Link to this

I am a firm believer that history (especially distant history) has no bearing whatsoever on the present with respect to college football. There is more parity today than there ever was. Just ask FSU about NC State. Talking about Tech not being in the same hemisphere as UGA or Miami above is a big presumption that UGA can be considered in the same hemishpere as Miami. I would rather thing that if you had to divide the teams into “hemispheres” that Tech and UGA would actually reside together considering the current year teams.

And as far as DrT and AB go, just ask youself why they even bother to post on a Tech Blog. If I was a UGA grad (and my wife is) I would be embarassed to have them representing themselves as UGA’s finest. I hope they keep posting. It reinforces many of the stereotypes.

I will say one thing with regards to the Tech/UGA game this year. I hope the UGA players think exactly like some of their fans with comments like “only one Tech player would have a chance of making UGA’s team” and I hope Tech players see that comment, great motivation.

But, like others, it is too early to start talking about next year. I personally believe that Chan will be staying no matter what the record over the next three games. I do wish, however, that he would go out and get an Offensive coordinator and a Special Teams coach.

By retired engineer

November 9, 2005 07:28 PM | Link to this

Hey GTVegas, one of the odd things about getting old is sometimes I can hardly remember where I pooped last but other times have a vivid recollection of things 50/60 years ago…like Tech owning a bunch of dogs!