Tech

By MoWreck

November 28, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this

If Tech is gonna win this game they had better run the ball more than last week … how many of those LONG passes did we complete? None? Personally, I think the play calling has a lots to do with the confidence level of Reggie Ball. Also, a note to Joe Anoai. NOTHING and I mean NOTHING means more than beating Georgia. I hope all the players didn’t feel that way at Athens last week … could have something to do with why we lost. I hope we haven’t lost that “pride” and “to hell with a ring”.

By POownsCJ

November 28, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

Looking in my crystal ball I see GT’s future:

Blue turf, red faces, 0-6 vs UGA and a QB in rehab with Quincy Carter!

Have fun in Boise. WF will smoke you.

By stinGTime

November 28, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this

Our team can still have a 10 win + season by playing the way we all know they can and have…10 wins…have not seen that lately.

By GT

November 28, 2006 04:46 PM | Link to this

I wonder if Wake will lower itself to talk trash to Reggie. You call the guys in Athens and get the hot buttons and practice them this week and unload when little boy thin skin shows up in Jacksonville. I can remember last year in the Georgia game Reggie was so involved in a discussion after being tackled on the Georgia side of the field he forgot to get back to the huddle to call the next play. I notice Clemson this year got Reggie’s short attention span with a couple of digs too. He is like the bank robber holding off the police in a bank and is shot in a wave of bullets after raising his head to object to words by the police about his mother. Wake is a class place that produces mature people, but you wonder is the going gets tough if they won’t resort to a like trash talking to even the table.

By CW

November 28, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

MoWreck, take a deep breath and count to ten slowly. What would you expect that Tech players to say going into the ACC championship? Do you really want your team saying “our next game isn’t half as important as the game we just lost”?

Anoai played one hell of a game against Georgia and he’s providing some leadership in getting his team focused on the next game. We’re all p** we lost to Georgia, but there isn’t anything that can be done about it now. The players are going to say what they should say, but I think every one of them wanted that win over Georgia a lot worse than any of us in the peanut gallery.

Having said that, I totally agree with you about throwing too many homerun balls. I think Nix and Reggie both get impatient instead of focusing on moving the sticks, eating clock and wearing down the defense. It should be clear to everyone now that our vertical passing game is somewhat limited. Tashard should be getting more screens and outlet passes and Calvin should be incorporated more into the running game. This offense still has great weapons, they just need to be used better.

By Sportsfan

November 28, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this

Does no one else find it trashy to go into the oppenents blog and trash them? Do people have no firends in the real world that they can talk to about this kind of stuff? Are they just that trashy of an individual that their only goal is to upset people? Please, before you start saying stupid stuff in a blog ring that you should not even be in, make a friend, one who is real, and you can talk to outside of the computer. Go Jackets, and 11/12 games of the year, go Dawgs…

By Fred Preddy

November 28, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

When the GT-GA game ended my wife asked me why baseball pitchers, when wild, were taken out. Why, when shooting guards went cold, they were benched. Why field-goal kickers who got the “shanks” went to the dressing room. The next question was too obvious, after all, a football “team” has 45-60 players—-why penalize all when the QB goes in a deep, mental “fog”? She asked, “isn’t that the coach’s job”?

YES, AND HE DOSEN”T HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO HIS JOB. Fred Preddy-IM ‘59 Blowing Rock, NC

By Brian

November 28, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this

Matt, it’s hilarious that the only Wake Forest football player you decided to mention in your blog was their kicker-punter.

By jacketnation

November 28, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this

Reggie Ball has none. He has no Brains either. I don’t expect Tech to beat Wake Forest, because Reggie is terrible in really important games. Chan would not take hime out if he threw 5 interceps in the first half and fumbled 3 times.

Taylor Bennett can throw all the passes, including crossing routes over the middle.

We will lose to Wake because of Reggie Ball(ess).

By MoWreck

November 28, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this

CW, you are right in some of your comments, but I think I read BEFORE the Georgia game about the ACC championnship being more important. My opinion, but I disagree with that. P.S. what happen to the pass to the fullback that was so successful a couple weeks back?

By MoWreck

November 28, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this

One more thing CW, I actually think Ga Tech will whip Wake this Saturday … GO JACKETS!!!

By this is to POownsdog

November 28, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this

When I walk my dog and he finds a pile of crap, he eats it! My question, do all Georgia bulldogs eat crap?

By coach

November 28, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this

The Wake quarterback is one calm, cool and collected redshirt freshman. He is a 6’1” kid that no division I school wanted because of his height. His dad and grandfather are GT alums. His high school coach is a former Bobby Dodd player. Do you think Georgia Tech could have gotten him? Most definitely, but we passed. Now we are going to have our hands full on Saturday. This kid is great. Check his stats.

By Chan the man

November 28, 2006 06:06 PM | Link to this

If Chan Gailey can’t beat Georgia, and he can’t run a team any better than this, why are we holding on to him? As the coach, Chan sees Taylor throw everyday, and watched him perform at Duke. Why then is it such a difficult decision to sub in Taylor for Reggie?

By j

November 28, 2006 07:24 PM | Link to this

Love how Tech and the AD are already assuming they will lose on Sat. Talking about the Gator bowl, wow nothing changed with the new AD. Hey just happy to be here dont expect to win. What a bunch of pansies!

By CW

November 28, 2006 07:25 PM | Link to this

The thing that impresses me the most about Wake is the fact that their starting QB and tailback both went down with season-ending injuries within the first 2 or 3 games and this team never blinked. I did not know that the new QB has such strong ties to Tech. Shame we didn’t get him. I remember Alabama fans saying the same thing watching George Godsey outplay their QB at the time. Godsey’s dad played for Bear Bryant but the Tide didn’t think Godsey would amount to much.

By Pit Bull

November 28, 2006 07:42 PM | Link to this

Just a reminder to all of the GT faithfull that your ex AD signed Chan to an 8 year contract extension just before he chose to take his life into a new direction. Now that is called payback! You have 7 more years of Chan to go.

Now the Gator Bowl is trying to get out of having you come play there if you lose to Wake Forest. That bowl is obviously run by intelligent people that realize that 6 of your wins were over pushovers this year.

If bowl assignments were based on SOS, team play and quality coaching; then Tech folks would be stocking up on more Emerald Nuts this year.

By Steve

November 28, 2006 07:52 PM | Link to this

Mike Shula got fired from Alabama because he lost four straight to Auburn despite the fact that he finished 10-2 in 2005. The Denver Broncos are replacing their ineffective QB in mid season despite having a winning year to date. Denver’s Mike Shanahan is considered an excellent pro coach who can make hard decisions. Is there a message here??????

By Michael Cameron

November 28, 2006 07:53 PM | Link to this

Mr. Preddy – Questioning coach Gailey’s “courage” is not only unnecessary, ugly, almost surely inaccurate, and grossly inappropriate, but constitutes a serious breach of decency. Even worse, you scream your defamation in all caps. I’ve noticed other such misguided and wrong-minded comments from a few bloggers after other columns since the UGA game. You don’t have one scintilla of evidence — not a trace, not a speck — that the Tech coach lacked the guts to make a QB change. I’m virtually certain that absence of “courage” was not, in any fashion or form, the reason he didn’t replace the starting QB who was clearly having a rough go of it. You appear to be guilty of both not-so-good manners and perpetrating an egregious mischaracterization. “Courage,” in all probability, had/has absolutely nothing to do with it; I’ll unhesitatingly give Coach Gailey the classic benefit of the doubt on this matter.

Has it occurred to you that the coach made an executive decision, based upon knowing his personnel better than you and me and other fans, that the incumbent QB, with the skill set he offered, gave Tech a stronger hope of winning the game, his obvious struggles not withstanding, than any other QB standing on the sidelines? You may disagree with the coach’s in-game adjustments, or lack thereof, but to proclaim that he is lacking in ample “courage” to do his job, inferring that he was cowardly, is not only an absurdly unsubstantiated accusation, but downright mean-spirited and borders on slanderous.

I give you credit for including your real name in your post; I always do the same. I just feel that impugning a coach’s level of virility and bravery, which I don’t think come into play even remotely here, is going way too far and is horribly disrespectful and manifestly unwarranted.

By hey, Pitiful Bull

November 28, 2006 07:54 PM | Link to this

What time do the dogs play Sat?

By Pit Bull

November 28, 2006 08:04 PM | Link to this

TO: hey, Pitiful Bull; The Bulldogs played their game last Sat, while your Yellow Maggots were falling on their butts, and not playing. Gee, I guess they were saving all of their energy for big bad Wake Forest.

By David

November 28, 2006 08:11 PM | Link to this

Fans, try this one on. Gailey won’t change quarterbacks, no matter the outcome. If GT bombs the ACC championship game, like the UGA game, the Jackets will be in third tier bowl again. That my friends are the facts!!!

By Green Jacket

November 28, 2006 08:35 PM | Link to this

Tech should have no problem running the ball vs. Wake. Maryland was able to move the ball and score but their ACC worst run defense could not stop Wake’s unusual attack. In other words the Yellow Jackets, as usual, will have to depend on the defense to win. Here’s to hoping the QB won’t lose the game.

By jacketnation

November 28, 2006 09:04 PM | Link to this

Chan would rather lose to Wake than pull his senior QB, Reggie Ball-less. Reggie can’t think straight under pressure. He is not cool calm and collected. Not even after the game when he told the media that the GA game wasn’t so important! That would be like saying Christmas is just another day. Well Christmas is a lot more important that a football game. WE don’t have a Joe Hamilton. He has the athletic ability, however his brain (or lack thereof) gets in the way.

Reggie should have been a safety or maybe a wide out.

I would rather see Taylor at QB, anyone agree?

By Darren

November 29, 2006 12:43 AM | Link to this

I agree it would have been nice to see Taylor play more throughout the season. Like it was said earlier, he can make the throws over the middle and is far more accurate than Ball. Ball has to be the worst 4 year starter in Tech history. Sure he may not have made as many bad decisions this year, but how can a 4 year starter not make open throws. Has anyone noticed his unusual release? He seems to be falling backwards on almost every throw. It is not very often he steps up when he throws the ball.

By surfrider

November 29, 2006 12:59 AM | Link to this

The GA. game should be the biggest on the schedule. Gailey is the only Tech coach to loose 5 straight times to Ga. at the start of his tech coaching career. That says something. Alabama just fired Shula after loosing 4 times to Auburn. Ga. fired Donnan partly for loosing to Tech/O’leary three times in a row. Even Pepper and Bill Curry beat Ga. at least once in their first five years and that was with Dooley as head coach. Wake will be tough. They have beaten some outstanding opponents. If Ball can’t get the team going Gailey needs to go to Bennett early. A Tech team that could pass the ball would be a tech team possibly playing Ohio State.

By jacketnation

November 29, 2006 05:06 AM | Link to this

Gailey doesn’t have the Balls, he only has a Reggie who has none either.

By GoldArchie

November 29, 2006 07:43 AM | Link to this

Enough bashing Chan and Reggie, Chan is giving Tech its best football players in the history of the I. Tech is a very good football team in today’s college football world where almost any Div 1 team can beat any other Div 1 team on any given Saturday. There is only one football team in the nation that shows little weakness, OSU, everyone else is very beatable. Reggie played terrible, I am not going to defend him, I am as frustrated as the next guy, and I would love to see Taylor play more, however to question a coach that has won the ACC Coastal division in just its 2nd year of existence and possibly about to take his team (his first team with all his recruits, something Richt has not even done) to the Orange Bowl for the first time since the Dodd era, is not a bad coach. I know the lose still stings a bit, UGA was more than fortunate to win, they know it, we know it, but Tech will be better the longer Gailey is in town. And all you naysayers who do you think would be a better coach for Tech, that would honestly come here? Shut your pie holes you sound like UGA fans.

By godawg

November 29, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this

After playing two consecutive games there, are ya’ll going to rename the Gator Bowl Grant Field South?

By Athens is a smelly armpit

November 29, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this

Hey Dawgie fans, what time does the SEC championship game kickoff? Are you guys wearing home jersey’s or road white? Oh, sorry, I forgot, UGA lost to Florida and Tennessee (some things never change) as well as Vand-er-bilt and Kent-uck-y. Sorry for the snicker there, how rude of me.

Meanwhile, I’ll be in Jacksonville to watch the 9-3 Jackets face off against the 10-2 Deacons and them move on to Miami for the Orange Bowl …that’s a BCS bowl game by the way. Good luck to you in the Chicken Sandwich Bowl.

By the flats

November 29, 2006 09:54 AM | Link to this

It seems like this is a vocal minority that keeps posting this acidic trash. Most of you would not say this stuff to the player’s or coach’s faces; it’s easy to do anonymously. You should all be behind this team and enjoy the run they are having; it doesn’t come that often for a school that doesn’t get the same calibre of player as the top programs. Heck it was almost all 2* and 3* recruits for GT going up against 4* and 5* players for UGA! I hope it is just a vocal minority doing the trash talking about our own team (it seems like the same people whining over and over again).

By JustMe

November 29, 2006 10:05 AM | Link to this

It’s great to be a jacket! Last night on the sports news, Tech football and basketball was discussed. Tech football and basketball are in the top 25. UGAG teams are no where in the rankings. Gotta love it!!!!

By reality check

November 29, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

I’m a Georgia fan who pulls for Tech when they aren’t playing Georgia.

Tech should beat Wake Forest. Wake’s defense is not nearly as good as Georgia’s and Tech should move the ball offensively.

Tech has an excellent defense that matches up well against Wake’s run oriented offense.

I expect Reggie Ball will have a much better game than he had against Georgia. Everybody is beating him up, but none of the people criticizing him were playing against Georgia’s top 10 defense last week.

By to godoggies

November 29, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this

Unlike uga, Tech will win in Jax.

By Pit Bull

November 29, 2006 10:54 AM | Link to this

Hey Techies, I hear there are still hotel rooms available in Nashville and Charlotte. Better call quick though before they are all gone.

By GT

November 29, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

Georgia is pretty good and has been better the last five years that most SEC teams, proof in the championships. I still think they underachieve and should be in there with Southern Cal, but they have been too good for us and that is enough. We have not even been the best in our conference until this year, which means we are getting better painfully slow but we are getting there. Next years recruiting class is like this year’s team, unexpected. I will be the first to say I can’t figure Chan out or what is happening at Tech, but we have had worse situations even than losing 5 in a row to Georgia. I believe that will come to an end too. If they were beating us by a bundle it would concern me more. This last one was truly a matter of who got lucky more than a dominate butt whipping.

By Georgia>Georgia Tech

November 29, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

I did some brief research and it appears that Georgia Tech football is still a complete and utter joke. But hey, great season guys.

Georgia Tech=JOKE.

By Pit Bull

November 29, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this

I think GT football will become even worse in the near future as Tech is on NCAA probation for playing nonqualifiers over a 7 year period.

The cut in scholorships over the next 3 to 4 years will begin to take their toll and will be felt for about 7 years, ironically the number of years Chan has left on his contract.

By Big Dawg

November 29, 2006 11:11 AM | Link to this

To: jacketnation

Reggie Ball has none. He has no Brains either. I don’t expect Tech to beat Wake Forest, because Reggie is terrible in really important games. Chan would not take hime out if he threw 5 interceps in the first half and fumbled 3 times.

Taylor Bennett can throw all the passes, including crossing routes over the middle.

We will lose to Wake because of Reggie Ball(ess).

Jacketnation you need to stop all this negativity. The Jackets will win Saturday against Wake Forest because they are the better team. Georgia’s defense was 13th nationally before the Tech game and after it had moved back to 8th nationally. I believe if you check Tech’s history even under Ball they have rebounded following a bad game. Besides Tech did play a good game against the Dawgs, if they had been playing a mediocre team instead of a Very Good Overall Team with a Great Defense i.e. Tech, last week GA would have beat them pretty bad. So take heart and get behind the Jackets. Go Jackets kick some Demon Deacon Butt

Go Dawgs

By Jason

November 29, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

Get behind your team Jackets! Enough of this Reggie and Chan bashing. They aren’t going anywhere. We are closing in on one of the best seasons in Tech history. I will be in JAX on Saturday supporting my team.

To the UGA fans on this blog…Get a life! Your season is done and your close win over us last weekend, with our QB turining in his worst performance ever, is nothing to brag about. Unlike you, we have BCS potential.

Go Jackets!

By Jason

November 29, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this

Thanks for the support Big Dawg. You’re excused from my previous UGA fan comments.

By CW

November 29, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

I’m with Flats, enough of trashing the QB and the coach. We all know we should have beaten the dogs, but we didn’t and it is time to move on to the next game.

I fully expect our defense to play with real fire and intensity this week. Wake is a very solid team and we won’t be able to stop them completely, but I think it will be very difficult for them to score more than one or two touchdowns and possibly one or two field goals.

Our special teams have really played much better of late. Both kickoff and punt coverage has improved dramatically and had very solid games against Georgia. Durant Brooks has been awesome all year and Travis Bell seems to have settled down into a consistent groove.

While our vertical passing game has regressed since the Va Tech and Maryland games, our running game has really picked up. I expect Tashard Choice will have yet another excellent game running the football and I hope we see Coach Nix involve him more in the passing game with some screens and swing passes.

I don’t know if Reggie Ball is physically hurt or just struggling for some other reason, but I think he’ll have a better game against Wake than he did in Athens. However, it is up to the coaches to design an offensive game plan that allows him to be successful without asking him to do more than he is capable. Tashard Choice, Calvin Johnson and James Johnson are the featured offensive weapons on this team, in that order. Reggie shouldn’t be asked to have a “great” game in order for Tech to win, he should merely be asked to perform “solidly” in distributing the ball on shorter, higher-percentage routes and only throw deep where clear mis-matches exist.

By JustMe

November 29, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

It’s great to be a jacket. The sports news talking about Tech football and basketball… Tech football and basketball in the top 25 (where is ugag? Nowhere!).

Our AD has a lot to be proud of and so do our atheletes and coaches. Way to go, Tech!!

By FootballFan

November 29, 2006 11:34 AM | Link to this

Pit Bull! It hasn’t bothered them yet. The scholly reduction ends this year and we will have a top 15 class with only 18 ships available. CCG has shown you can take less talent and teach them and coach them up and have a good team even with less ships to give. I’m not sure if your a Jacket fan or someone who pretends to know football!!

Go Jackets!!!

By Big Dawg

November 29, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

Jason no problem as my Grandfather was a Tech graduate and I have always been a Jacket fan as well. I chose to go to Georgia because of the Pre-Med program and to play for Dooley, if Bobby Dodd had still been at Tech I may have went there instead. Anyway I will be in Jacksonville myself Saturday cheering on the Jackets as Coach Tenutu is a very good friend of mine.

By the flats

November 29, 2006 12:22 PM | Link to this

It’s occured to me that people like JacketNation are really just UGA fans trying to stir things up within our TEAM. If people like him actually went to Tech, then we don’t need him on our side; and he sure doesn’t represent the Jacket Nation, most of whom are excited about a great season (and some more to come)!

By Bird

November 29, 2006 12:34 PM | Link to this

Jacketnation, I don’t know how you can criticize Reggie’s fortitude. He has played half the year hurt. He faced the best defence and most likely to hit a QB in the nation last year two or three days after getting out of the hospital. Do you even go to work when you have a headache?

Reggie ball is the truest competitor we’ve had in a long time, maybe even more than Joe. For those of you who all long for the Joe Hamilton days, I do too. But don’t be too enamored with the legend. Joe threw 3 or 4 interceptions against a 3-9 UNC team that ultimately lost the game. That’s why he didn’t win the Heismann. Not a Ron Dayne conspiracy as many of us (including myself) have often stated.

Some of you people really make me sick. I can understand saying that Gailey and Ball have made mistakes. I say it too. But, your personal comments about the coach and players is not only outlandishly false, but it also says something about what kind of person you are. It says you’re probably just a sideliner with no real athletic experience to understand what true competitiveness is. I’d guess that you’re probably overweight and were perhaps the scorekeeper for your highschool basketball team. Your only understanding of competition is when you and all your male friends get together for some kind of video game all nighter.

Please change your name because you don’t represent the Institute very well, and you sure as he!! don’t represent my GT.

By Dave in Tampa

November 29, 2006 12:43 PM | Link to this

I have to agree with some posts. Show some support for Reggie. Two tough games coming up. He did not call all of those long pass plays. I’d look more at your coaches. If they would of had Reggie throw some quick slants and screen passes to Calvin it could have been a long day. Even get some delayed patterns out of the backfield. It was mostly the play calling that failed Reggie. They never gave him much of a chance to get the ball into CJ’s hands.

Back your team gang. They need it more than ever now heading into the ACC CG. Good luck Tech Football team. This Dawg will be pulling for you!

Go Dawgs!

By Bird

November 29, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

JustMe, way to go man. Nice post.

By the way, for anyone who’s seen ANY recruiting news, how can you say we’re going to get worse? We have one of the best recruiting classes ever at GT coming in next year. About 2/3 of our recruits would start for at least one top 25 team as freshmen. But, they won’t have to because we’re not losing too many people. We’re so deep that we may be readshirting a top 25 running back and QB (if not two) next year. What does that have to say about the future of Tech football?

By Georgia>Georgia Tech

November 29, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

LOL @ one of Georgia Tech’s “best seasons ever.”

Georgia 15 Georgia Tech 12

And we weren’t even all that great this year. Georgia Tech=JOKE. ACC=JOKE. Have fun battling big bad Wake Forest for your joke championship. Just remember that its a ticket to getting your a* kicked in a BCS bowl.

Georgia Tech=JOKE.

By James

November 29, 2006 03:35 PM | Link to this

GT,

I agree with you about the trash talking stuff. I don’t like Reggie Ball. But, being disrespectful like they were in Athens is just plain mean. I gerauntee that they weren’t chanting “Joe, Joe, Joe” or “George, George, George” during those days in Athens….

And, we can salvage the UGA loss by winning the ACC championship. Even better if we win the Orange Bowl.

By James

November 29, 2006 03:39 PM | Link to this

“Just remember that its a ticket to getting your a kicked in a BCS bowl.”*

If I remember clearly, we invaded the Orange Bowl last year and beat the #3 team in the nation on their own home turf.

I’m feeling another 14-10 Orange Bowl win coming on!

By Brooks

November 30, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this

Athensisasmellyarmpit, Enjoy your trip to the ACC title game. You might want to make reservations for the same hotel for your return trip to the Gator Bowl. I’ll take 8-4 with a W over the bees any day. Just get ready for the next 2-3 years guy. Enjoy your 6 wins next year. GO DAWGS

By not disappointed

December 1, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this

Go Jackets!!

By Buzz

December 4, 2006 03:31 PM | Link to this

How do I start a Fire Gailey website? Yes Reggie is probably the worst QB in all of collegiate football but the fault needs to be put on Gailey’s shoulders for playing him. Any other head coach, especially D-1, would recognize the fact that Ball is horrible. Tech needs a coach that can make decisions that will put his team into a position to win, it’s that simple.