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By ArkyTech

January 3, 2007 04:17 PM | Link to this

“This game looks like a silly jump which can lead to little or no lasting good.”

Kinda like your post, Matt?

If you don’t have anything meaningful to say, just don’t say anything until after the game. Or do a “Where are they now in the NBDL” for the Final Four team or something.

By Burdell's Brother

January 3, 2007 04:34 PM | Link to this

All I ask is that no one gets hurt tonight, someone please tell me why Peacock was playing with 2 mintues to go in the last game??????????

By GT

January 3, 2007 04:40 PM | Link to this

I hate having to pay to waltz with the fat lady and I hate worse to pay to watch somebody play something I think I can do better, which doesn’t happen but once or twice a life time. I wonder if there isn’t some recruiting value in it, where the high school player likes the sub par basketball college’s coach, but no way is he going to show up playing in a cracker box gym so the economically challenged coach suggest Georgia Tech or the Tech recruiter likes a kid that is not Tech material and he steers him towards Winston-Salem State. I know in baseball the big league scouts sees a kid that is not going to sign and give Tech a heads up on the recruit hoping to get the same from Tech on recruits that want to take the money.

By OG-T

January 3, 2007 04:45 PM | Link to this

I love to talk GT hoops all day, so the more space you give the team, the better in my opinion.

Keep it up MW.

By GT

January 3, 2007 05:47 PM | Link to this

Is it just me or is everybody a critic now days. It is like mental illness is a required characteristic in this window of time. When I’m on the expressway a big black truck is tattooed on my rearview mirror riding my bumper with black windows that won’t let a pinpoint of daylight out but apparently let’s enough in for the driver to kiss my rear end going 85 mph. I always wonder what fire those geniuses are going to. They stung up a dictator the other night, I’m sure some of the big black trucks were parked in front of VIP parking lot for executions and then the driver gets out wearing a black hood matches the mood of the truck. There was a chop, chop, hurry, hurry in the air as they witnessed the flush and a body swinging back and forth. A few of the fans chanted for their favorite team. I was amazed the blimp hadn’t found the place and wasn’t circling over the rooftop or the “men’s law” ad hadn’t cut away from the action to vote on drinking beer during an execution or better yet free beer night. How do you keep the boys on the farm when they have seen an execution or a reader satisfied on a slow news day. And speaking of black trucks, there may be a few of those dogs down in Tuscaloosa if this new football coach doesn’t figure the equation of six million plus a year equal a national championship. If they ever were going to hang a football coach it would have to be in Alabama.

By GT80

January 3, 2007 05:52 PM | Link to this

The best part of this post is the image of MW with hoodlums. What a scary crowd that would be. Matt, you were really a rebel huh!

Let’s talk about how Chan screwed the opportunity for a really great FB season by sticking with Reggie when obviously, after the Gator, we could at least 10, probably 12 wins if he had started Taylor after the Maryland game (or maybe starting the season). The Gator Bowl shows just what kind of coach Chan is…mediocre, kind of like Reggie.

By DW

January 3, 2007 09:17 PM | Link to this

“Why bother with WSSU? To artificially boost GT’s record! I didn’t go to WSSU, but I went to school in Winston-Salem, and I find this question insulting and arrogant. Other “big” schools schedule games like this, but is there any noise made of it? Only someone with a true disdain for schools like WSSU would ask such a disgusting question.

By Gordon

January 3, 2007 09:53 PM | Link to this

Why can’t we drop one of these blowout games and play Georgia twice? We could play the first game on the Friday night before the football game in the town where that was played, and the second in the other town right before league play. The energy of that game is always high, they are only 70 miles apart so it doesn’t cost much to travel, and it is a good test for both teams. Why not?

By Bear Fan

January 3, 2007 10:45 PM | Link to this

Well Matt,

I guess you got the last laugh? Jim Mora got canned and you still have a job with the AJC. I remember you and him having a little cat fight and you being banished from the Falcons. If we get a new coach for the Coon’s will you be running back to Flowery Branch?

By Matt Winkeljohn

January 4, 2007 01:43 AM | Link to this

Bear fan,

Appreciate your take from the past. Don’t recall your handle, but I don’t memorize them all.

Doubt I’m going back to the Falcons, and, for the sake of edification, I was given a choice after seven years covering the Falcons: stay or move to the NFL beat. I chose, after five days’ deliberation, the NFL job.

That didn’t work out well, and we eliminated the position via staff shrinkage. I ended up covering Tech, the first beat job I ever coveted at Tech, and I couldn’t be happier for reasons that would bore most.

As for Jim Mora, I have no comment. What do you think I am, an idiot?

Matt

By legendary hoopsjonesman

January 4, 2007 05:26 AM | Link to this

keep up the blogging Matt this WSSU piece was perfect for the form— something that’d never go in the paper but for us fanatics who live and breathe Tech hoops, a couple of months a year, more and deeper and more personal coverage is better and keeps us coming back and it is a good way for the AJC to stay au courant

  so keep it up, thanks, and we are lucky to have you on the Tech hoops beat  

  meanwhile what the heck is the deal with Lewis Clinch?        strange and sad whatever the real story is. . .   for the kid's and team's sake, i hope he is back and in sooner than later

By ga_tech_92

January 4, 2007 11:33 AM | Link to this

Matt, thanks for providing another intelligent forum for us.