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By GTfan

November 16, 2005 04:22 PM | Link to this

We’ll be lucky to end up four touchdowns of Miami. Luckily, Dave Braine doesn’t expect us to compete with Miami.

By OddsMaker

November 16, 2005 04:25 PM | Link to this

Canes cover the 18.

By Gumbo

November 16, 2005 05:11 PM | Link to this

Yeah, there will be a bounce. GT will get beat by 60 instead of 35 and no one will care.

If Braine doesn’t care enough to get rid of “the worst coach on college football” according to Sports Illustrated, why should we care?

Time to find another team. When is GSU gonna start playing football?

Gumbo GT ‘84

By Dave Braine

November 16, 2005 05:26 PM | Link to this

I expect us to go out there and lose by 30 points. Do you, fans and financial supporters of this program I reign over, really expect that I would allow us to compete at such a level as Miami? Remember, I’ve got more important things to do besides expect our team to win, like presiding over the first ever NCAA investigation of our program, the first-ever probation, horrendous graduation rates, extending the most vanilla coach in the country for another few years…and, oh yeah, don’t forget Tech’s recent morphing into Georgia, as we disqualify several athletes each year for academic and law enforcement issues.

And please don’t read into the comment I made yesterday about “if we fire our coach, who are we going to get to replace him?” Nothing gives him a vote of confidence like that strong statement.

And please keep writing checks to the program so we can finance the stadium expansion I conned you into building. Five years ago I convinced you we could compete with the top programs and therefore needed to expand our capacity. Even last year I wrote all you season ticket holders and said we wouldn’t accept mediocrity. But, if you listened to me closely yesterday, you know it was all a lie! I’m retiring soon and now I can expose the situation for what it is and leave it in a mess!

And forget about the O’Leary years. The fact that he won roughly 9 games a year for a several year stretch was just a farce. And the fact that he was able to bring in top quality athletes was against my wishes. And the fact that they graduated…wow, that got me steamed. I was glad when he left so we could return to the good ol’ days of mediocrity.

Sincerely,

Dave Braine

By SONICMAN2

November 16, 2005 05:32 PM | Link to this

Gumbo,

Excuse me for missing this, but when did S.I. state that Chan was the worst in college football? I missed that 1 somewhere. Can you proide a link to the story or something. I’d be interested in reading it.

As for the extension, I can see the need for stability, but surely we can do better than how we did this last Sat. vs UVa. Seemed like we werent prepared at all to play them the way UVa came right out and scored 14 points with no problem against our highly touted defense. The next 2 games are scary!

Jon/SM2

By CW

November 16, 2005 06:13 PM | Link to this

This article ran last Summer on SI.com

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/stewart_mandel/06/27/cfb.mailbag/index.html

By David Duncan

November 16, 2005 07:29 PM | Link to this

Is there a football coach in the country that could win consistently at Georgia Tech? O’Leary had some good years, however the football program was on the decline when he left. Bobby Ross had one good year. Since Bobby Dodd retired, their has not been a football coach who has won consistently @ Tech. In spite of all the inconsistencies in Tech’s football program, I would feel better if Tech hired a younger coach such as a Mark Richt type. Could Mark Richt win at Ga Tech? I doubt it. After the drubbing 51-7 by Georgia and VT and the loss to a mediocre NC State team, I thought Chan was finished. Chan will lose again to some team by another lopsided score(either Miami or Georgia). It seems to me that Dave Braine views Tech’s football program as hopeless as demonstrated by giving Chan a 5 year extension.

By SRF

November 16, 2005 08:11 PM | Link to this

Dave Braine is a business genius - look at it from his viewpoint. He has assured 5 more years of mediocrity so that means: 1. No need to worry about students tearing down a goal post. 2. No worries with big crowds on gamedays. 3. He will not be bothered by any NFL scouts wanting to come in and look at players. 4. No need to spend any money on recruiting trips, we will just play whoever stops by. 5. No need to buy new equipment each year, if we play hal-heartedly - the gear lasts twice as long.

This leaves him a ton of money in the athletic budget to redecorate his offcie and plenty of time to go fishin with his good buddy Chan.

By Told You So

November 16, 2005 09:42 PM | Link to this

Well nerds, the chickens have come home to roost and finally the Trade School admits that it is at best a mediocre program. There have been a few freak years of good football at Tech but mostly it has been mediocrity since the program began. Bobby Dodd had several good teams by giving out 50 or 60 scholarships a year, but with scholarship limits that can’t happen again. Time to drop out of the ACC and join one of those valley conferences(Ohio, Missouri, etc.) Your curriculum is limited, your facilities are second rate, your administration doesn’t care. Why should premier athletes want to come to GT? Don’t give me the great education speech, there are lots of schools that offer great educations and compete at the highest level. The academics excuse won’t fly anymore considering the flunk out, drop out, ineligible rates posted over the last 10 years. The Tech program just isn’t as attractive or as competetive as it was back in the 1950’s, which was your last sustained period of competetive football. A couple of good years every decade doesn’t equate to a national power. Mediocrity, thy name is Georgia Tech.

By CD

November 16, 2005 09:49 PM | Link to this

Maybe we are the Nerd Herd, obviously no rational thought or common sense is being used by the decision makers. I think that I’ll just spend my football money on some extra Saturday afternoon tee times.

By Rob

November 17, 2005 07:52 AM | Link to this

Think Gailey is incompetent? He looks like a genius compared to Braine!

By Bobby Dodd

November 17, 2005 09:00 AM | Link to this

All of you are going to have to calm down a bit. Gailey may not be the best coach in college football. Dave Braine statements were ridiculous. However, this is still our football team. If I hear of Tech fans failing to show support for our boys at the U(sic)GA game, I will personally make sure that you spend the rest of your lives being forced to listen to the Best of Larry Munson. Also, for those of you who have criticized Wayne Clough, he is one of the best university presidents in the country. Georgia Tech is consistently a top 5 engineering school and a top 10 public university. For those of you who think he should be giving more to athletics, you should know that research brings home the big money at Tech…not football. In order for football to even be close to bringing in the same kind of money, we would have to win the NC every year and get a lot of help from our ACC brothers. In closing, GET OVER YOUR MELODRAMATIC SELVES! The only way this program will ever be successful is if we stop whining and actually offer a bit of support. Let’s give Chan another chance. Rally behind him…just for once. YOU ARE JUST AS MUCH TO BLAME AS HE IS—INTENSITY COMES FROM THE FANS AS WELL AS THE COACH!

Sincerely,

Bobby Dodd

By GT

November 17, 2005 10:05 AM | Link to this

Somehow this is hooked in with the NCAA investigation and Houston coming back. First of all we are talking about this supidity instead of Houston and secondly how can you punish a school for a violation when the very make up of the school is academics and to hell with a multimillion dollar program. Braine almost has me believing we should enjoy losing. You still got to ask, if this is all we can get out of our engine why play football and waste all that money. Braine will tell me as a fan I just don’t realize what is going on in the football program I’m not smart enough I had an employee try that one on me the other day after I caught him sleeping for a couple of hours on the clock. He told me I just thought I caught him sleeping and besides if I knew anything about his job I would realize sleeping is good….right. Even a dumb fan like me knows when your quarterback throws a ball in the stands on 4th down and very little time on the clock, or after a time out the next play by your offense gets a flag for delay of game or special teams can’t get it straight where to catch the ball and where to let it go and the list goes on….that it’s not the talent level but it’s the coaching level that screws up the team. You know why people hate Steve Spurrier? He makes a liar out of these football experts and for all the money these bums are making someone needs to. If we let Gailey stay lets pay him what he’s worth.

By RamblinWreckCE

November 17, 2005 10:38 AM | Link to this

Bobby,

I have had similar thoughts about the home fans being too quiet—not getting into the game. In essence giving up our home-field advantage.

I have been suprised this year, however, that the fans have been more vocal and supportive during the game. Granted, it may still need to be prompted by the jumbotron, but it’s been better there this year than it has been in quite some time.

This was evident during our stalled comeback in the NCSU game. Typically, when the crowd had been removed from the game per the first half performance of the players and coaches it would never have gotten back into it. However, in this game the feeling of hope in the stands was electric. In the East-West volley of crowd cheers you had the “new school” fans and the “old school” fans trying to out cheer each other like Juniors v. Seniors at a high school pep ralley trying to win the spirit stick.

Every game sense has had moments like that. If qualitative improvements for what is likely a 6-5 team is good enough for Braine, that should be more than enough for you for this year’s effort. Let’s hope it continues next year.

By George P. Purdell

November 17, 2005 12:31 PM | Link to this

Here yee…hear yee….

The fans on the west stands have not been heard from since I think 1957….

The guy at SI is a real genius….Ga Tech ought to hire him to start a “Future Predicting” major. He saw this season coming back in the summer.

The real trouble is we have Big Brother looking over us and it’s better to have someone at the helm under the circumastances rather than go looking for someone in the middle of a thunderstorm.

Chan’s trouble is that on Game Day he is someplace else…he ought to learn to delegate and manage rather than try to fight every battle.

As far as the record goes…8-4 with a Bowl game would make my old bones more than happy…Trouble is you’d better show up wanting to win otherwise someone else will take care of you. Nothing wrong with giving a bigger, deeper opponent a fight….it’s when you roll over and wilt against the ones you should have beatten that gets o’le George wound up. Get my drift?

George P. Purdell…too many majors and graduation dates to keep up with…

By F******U Dave Braine

November 17, 2005 12:31 PM | Link to this

Hey Told You So

You need to go to an elementary school and learn to spell “Competetive”…..Go back to the woods you ignorant moron…….

By jackets fan

November 17, 2005 01:12 PM | Link to this

Funny thing about sports writers, they are more often wrong than right and on the rare occasion when they aren’t wrong they’re damn sure inconsistent. Stewart Mandel is the SI writer who called Gailey the worst head coach. But this guy also had GT in his top ten rankings early in the season after they won 3 games before GT even jumped into the top 20. So either he thought they were succeeding in spite of Gailey or he is a typical sports writer who writes one thing, thinks another and the truth is neither.

If you doubt Georgia Tech’s ability to win this Saturday or next week, then that says more about your support of your team (and your football knowledge) than it does about Coach Gailey and his ability to coach. I support my team and the coach. If you don’t, then you better never sit next to me at the game. Oh wait, you probably aren’t there anyway since you are such a sh*tty fan. TO HELL WITH GEORGIA, AND TO HELL WITH ALL OF YOU IDIOTS!!!

By mtraininjax

November 17, 2005 01:35 PM | Link to this

David Duncan, did Maryland can Friedgen after 1 year of 5-6 after three seasons of 10+ wins? O’Leary showed improvement every year. We won 10 games under him and I am sure that we could win 10 under him now. Programs go through ups and downs, look at ours, at 3 PM we are going to get slapped by the NCAA for playing 17 athletes when they should have sat out. Stuff happens, but when a coach shows improvement, you keep him. Gailey has been 4-4 the last 3 years, if he loses to Miami and UGA, again 6-5, who wants to put up with that?

Is Tech reverting to a basketball school again? Duke gave up on football, UNC is happy with 6-5, are we as fans happy to be a basketball school again?

By gsujacket

November 17, 2005 01:52 PM | Link to this

It is time for Georgia State to start a football program so that there is some competition in this state.

By George in CNY

November 17, 2005 01:59 PM | Link to this

Jackets fan says bring back Faust…He’ll support him to the end…Sure, put on a GT hat and we love you forever….Get real…Chan is about as good as he’ll ever be. On a good year he’ll win 7, exceptional will be marked by 8 wins, and most others 6. The trouble is not how many you win but how many you shouldn’t have lost? How many you loose on poor play calling? How many you loose by not showing up? How many you loose because you were to loose that many after all….The student atheletes put way too much effort into the job of playing a sport. They deserve the best leadership available. They are the ones which the likes of “we can only be so good” Braine and “curb your enthusiasm” Chan cheat. The fans don’t have to show up, the boosters don’t have to send the money. But the players have no choice. They can not say “I don’t like it here” and go elsewhere. The NCAA saw to that. Never mind the win-loss record, just ask yourself what kind of example is the administration sending to all these kids by accepting inept coaching to continue. And by the way…I never got an A in my years at Tech just by showing up…I had to put forth the effort. mediocrity was never rewarded…Must be different for certain football coaches…

By Bill

November 17, 2005 07:50 PM | Link to this

I’m calling on all GT fans and especially the alumni to write or call President G. Wayne Clough and plea for him to step in and fire Braine now. Braine has brought shame and discrace to the Institution! ‘63 graduate

By johnny

November 20, 2005 07:52 PM | Link to this

This was a focused defensive game and the credit for should go to coach tenuta and the defensive stalwarts that pulled it off.It also proves an old addage that tackling and good defense usually wins.I also believe that 10 tope ten or twenty can change on a moments notice. Take for instance ga lost to fla and auburn on consecutive weekends. They were # 4 for awhile.If tech will take the ga game seriously it will be good for the fans.The fact that chan gailey’s extension should help recruiting next yr. Also reggie ball is reading defenses much better. credit gailey for his patience.