Tech

By Ogre

November 21, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

N-E-R-D-S!!!
Here We Come!!! HAHAHA!

By JD

November 21, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

I agree for the most part. However, it matters a lot to them too. First, they fire coaches who don’t win it. I think that tells a lot.

The other reason it matters as much to them as it does to us is that they make a point of telling us that UF is their big rival (of course, they also tell us that we have win every now and then for it to be a rivalry so by their own definition UF isn’t their rival). The only reason they do this is to get under our skin and the only reason they want to get under our skin is because we are rivals.

As for the UGA fans, most Tech fans would agree that the overwhelming majority of UGA fans are good people. You just have the drunk, crazy ones that never shut up and try to bait the Tech fans into something. Mostly they’re okay though.

By Chris

November 21, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

I don’t care what you say, this game is HUGE to them too. Just ask Jim Donnan. I’ll never forget driving back home from Athens when we had beaten the dogs for the third year in a row. I was listening to the UGA postgame show (couldn’t pick up 790) and all the “dog nation” was calling in whining. I specifically recall one caller saying “Tech is getting all the recruits we used to, like that kid (Daryl Smith) who intercepted a pass and ran it in for a TD”. I told my friend riding with me (a UGA fan) that that would be it for Donnan. It was. IT MAKES THEIR YEAR TO BEAT US JUST LIKE IT MAKES OURS TO BEAT THEM, DON’T KID YOURSELF AND DON’T LET THEM KID YOU!

By Spike

November 21, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this

Your Tech friend loves “fruit roll ups”? Priceless. I’m not sure I would have told the world that one.

By SunDawg

November 21, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

OF COURSE the Tech game is big for UGA, that’s the in-state rivalry that gives bragging rights where you live. The Florida game is HUGE because it comes with CONFERENCE bragging rights and the WLCP!

Both games are big, both are rivalries, and both make life better when you win them.

By jabster

November 21, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Matt:

I’m not sure why you brought up the BC game. While this never justifies it, lots of schools have had lots of games where trash gets thrown on the field. You make it sound like it had never ever happened in the history of college football before until it happened on The Flats.

And, yes, it WAS just a few fans. Were you actually at the game?

You want to see trash on the field, go back to “Seat Cushion Day” and “Hello Al Button” day.

At least we didn’t have to clean the mess up with water cannons and fire hoses…

By game

November 21, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

Georgia fans don’t consider Tech their rival. The game is a complete no win situation for UGA. If they win, they are a “football school” and it’s no surprise (cue discussions of Tech’s academic superiority). If they lose, it is an embarassment for UGA.

Also, pointing to UGA’s rivalry with Florida does nothing to make the Tech game more important. Tech has lost 13 of 16 against UGA (and those 3 “wins” have been negated for probation reasons). UGA is 2 of 4 against Florida in the past few years. Again, the game only matters when UGA loses.

By Matt Winkeljohn

November 21, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

Jabster,

Yes, I was at the game. You think it’s standard when officials stop a game for fan behavior? Is it standard when the PA announcer has to caution the crowd? Is it standard with one school’s AD contacts the other after the fact to apologize? Is it standard when one school’s president contacts his equal at the other school to apologize?

I didn’t say bad things hadn’t happened in other players. That goes without saying. I pointed out these Tech instances because there are fans who suggest that Georgia’s fans are unruly while acting like all Tech fans are angels. That’s not reality.

Were YOU at the game? A few fans? You mean like three? Or 300? Do you think Dan Radakovich and Wayne Clough would’ve reacted because of the behavior of three fans?

You’re missing the point, which is Tech fans are not angels (and those are two examples). It wouldn’t be right to suggest that Tech hates Georgia because Bulldogs fans are sometimes unruly without acknowledging that Tech fans are as well.

By John

November 21, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

Huh? That’s all I can sy to that article. Obviously, having not gone to Tech, the writer has no clue why we hate Georgia.

By jabster

November 21, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Game:

Those wins against UGA were not “negated”. Look it up. If you want to “negate” them, then you have to negate the 1980 NatChamp because of Jan Kemp.

Besides, those three wins got you rid of Donnan. So quit whining.

By ben

November 21, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

You forgot the part about how UGA has no academic nor behaviour standards, making it much easier to recruit.

By joehamlives

November 21, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

90% of georgia fans are too dumb to actually get in to georgia (yes, that is possible). These fans are also the most outspoken and obnoxious. When uga starts to go on a losing streak, they will just find some other team’s bandwagon to jump on.

By Willis

November 21, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Serious question: What would happen to Tech’s season ticket sales if Georgia cancelled the series? At this moment in Tech’s football history, the program only exists to try to beat Georgia. Tech fans barely support that team as it is.

Georgia fans are tired of being caricatured as academic low-achievers by Tech fans, who, desperate to rationalize their football mediocrity, ignore the facts on many different measures of academic achievement. Rhodes Scholarships, for example.

Yes, Tech is an excellent engineering school. But to listen to the massive inferiority complex that is the Tech “fanbase” tell it, GT students are all brilliant over-achievers and Georgia students are all struggling to get by. It makes for a nice palliative, I’m sure, after yet another loss to UGA on the football field. But that’s about all these cartoon versions of reality can do for Georgia Tech’s wounded pride.

By Joshua Barlowe

November 21, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

Matt - the first comment here pretty much sums up why we hate Georgia. You made a logical and rational case and all they can say is ‘HERE WE COME NERDS!”

That pretty much sums up their deep thoughts on everything pertaining to life.

By CV

November 21, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

The 3 wins against UGA are not negated. That was the original ruling of the NCAA, which Tech appealed and WON. The only resulting punishment was scholarship restrictions, the games counted and are still on record. I love seeing UGA fans make arguments that are wrong… it makes Tech fans look that much smarter.

By A QB

November 21, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

Well I am a Tech fan and when they were not playin eachother I used to pull for Ga. But for some reason over the past couple of years the Ga. fans have just gotten rediculous. I actually heard from a group of Ga. fans last week that they should be ranked number two, they were dead serious. Also over the past couple of years all of a sudden they think they have such great football tradition over Tech. Now they have been the dominant program in the state of Ga. over the past 5 years but come on.

By Not a Georgie

November 21, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

A little touchy John? No, the behavior at the BC game is not standard, but it happens throughout the conferences. As do apologizes by administrators. The difference is Tech is in a large media market that needs to sell papers. Continued printing of the bad behavior at one game does not label a fan base, or is that your agenda? Didn’t the Dawg Nation boo their players and coach earlier this year or last year?

By Chan B. Gone

November 21, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

In reply to “By Game”—

No games were negated by Tech’s Probation. That was rescended. Get the facts straight.

Also, Georgia refuses to count two Tech wins during WWII. How come UGAG played if they weren’t going to count them?

GA people say the game doesn’t mean anything to them? When Tech won eight in a row (which UGAG has NEVER done)the dogs retired Theron Sapp’s jersey for scoring the winning TD in the game that broke the drought.

How important was that?

UGAU will holler acient history! Ga. won a national title in 1980. We won one in 1990. Now, where’s your ancient history?

Speaking of ancient history, most leg humpers think it’s still 1980!

The probelm Tech people have with UGAG fans is their across the board arrogance. They think their “stuff” doesn’t stink! Ever smelled dog squeeze? Be your own judge.

Go Jackets! Go (away) Gailey!

By jabster

November 21, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

Matt:

Yes, I was at the game (season tix, section 203). No, I didn’t like the trash. I also mentioned that I gave no justification for those fans’ actions. All I saw—maybe I missed something—was some trash coming out of the south stands.

MY point was, I have seen a lot worse than a few dozen plastic Coke bottles, etc. thrown on the field, and, to repeat, I am NOT justifying any of this. I’ve seen showers of hundreds of plastic cups at Grant Field and Sanford Stadium and Death Valley. I’ve seen Grant Field spotted with HUNDREDS of yellow gimme items like buttons and seat cushions—as I mentioned, so I got your point about Tech fans. I’ve seen the officials issue warnings and call penalties “against the bench” for THAT kind of stuff, not to mention the announcer saying the same thing.

If your point was to point out that Tech fans have their moments, fine. Point taken. My point is that the BC moment was pretty mild in the grand scheme of things (again, not justifying it).

By meman

November 21, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this

The Hope Scholarship destroyed this game. In the past, UGA would win, and the Tech fanbase would point to “academic standards.” Now that UGA is a Top 50 public institution, thanks to Hope, that argument does not hold too much water anymore.

It used to be a cute “Nerds vs. Jocks” type of game. But now the school’s academic standards are too similar for such a contrast. According to Princetonreview.com, UGA freshman class has an average incoming GPA of 3.76, Tech has an average of 3.70. Again, Tech fans care more about UGA losing then they do about Tech winning.

By mike

November 21, 2007 12:37 PM | Link to this

I’m a UGA alum (I also got accepted to Tech), and a lifelong fan.

I think we should drop the Tech series two out of every four years so that we can play a REAL non-conference opponent that will provide some national notoriety.

UGA’s biggest rivals in order are Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, then Tech.

By gosouthgohard

November 21, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

One reason why it’s hard to be a Tech fan: our hometown newspaper assigns an Ohio State fan to try to explain our fanbase’s feelings. Here’s a suggestion, AJC: try to hire someone who actually has some sort of tie to Georgia Tech to cover the program.

By 79dawg

November 21, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

The game does matter. Even though Georgia has won the majority of games in recent years, the outcome is never a given. It is still the in-state rivalry that gives you bragging rights for the year.

Georgia-Florida is a different rivalry, as are Georgia-Tennessee and Georgia-Auburn. When you play a team every year, and have historically shared somewhat equally in the wins and losses, you have a rivalry.

By GT80

November 21, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

I hate all of you. I hate Chan Gailey. I hate UGA. I hate the Tech fans that stoop to the level of the UGA fans. Now I hate Matt Winklejohn. Just good old fashioned hate.

Just getting in the mood for Saturday. Go Jackets!

By gt76

November 21, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

If plastic coke bottles are considered dangerous, then what are glass whiskey bottles and 20 pound frozen mackerals? We Tech fans have done things like this that are an embarassment and have no place in cheering for the teams. I want to see us beat Georgia every year because I have two sisters who went to UGA, but I don’t want to see us stoop to the level of any no class fans regardless of school affiliation.

By jt

November 21, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

“What would happen to Tech’s season ticket sales if Georgia cancelled the series?”. Maybe a serious question but with a ridiculous answer. The real answer is nothing. It only emphasizes the delusions of grandeur UGA fans have. They think that Tech football only exists to play them. That is hilarious. Equally as hilarious as them thinking they should be ranked #2.

Personally I wish we never played UGA again. I have had soooooo many bad experiences at Tech vs. UGA football games I do not go anymore.

By mr. nice

November 21, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

UGA should not schedule Tech in 2008. Tech is obviously not on the same level with UGA. Maybe Tech should play Fort Valley State and might have a chance of winning.

By John

November 21, 2007 12:56 PM | Link to this

I love all these UGA fans saying the game doesn’t matter. If it doesn’t matter - don’t watch it or don’t actually come to the game Saturday - ah, duh! How ignorant.

Maybe you should read what your coach said yesterday. He said the game is the biggest for UGA every year. Sorry, he mentioned Florida, Tenn, etc but said they don’t compare to playing GT.

If and when we start beating you every year - I’m sure the game will matter to you again. To everyone else, it matters every year - no matter what.

By JD

November 21, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

Sundawg, I think you have it right. I was wrong in that you seem to get the differences in terms of what’s at stake between the Tech game and the UF game. I would actually agree that the UF or Clemson game for us (or any conference game for that matter) matter more to the team’s bowl chances while the Tech game is simply for bragging rights.

Have nice Thanksgiving. Hopefully we’ll get y’all this year (but I doubt it).

By yellowblood

November 21, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

In all honesty, I think we hate UGAY fans because despite our intellectual superiority, they rule this state frustrating us in the process. They seem to have it all except Tickle Piles.

By The Big Bug

November 21, 2007 1:06 PM | Link to this

Yes, Mike, I do believe you are a UGA alum, as in “feminine hygene product”, not as in “Alumnus”.The rest of your blog is BS.

By DawgHouse

November 21, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

DAWGS 51, NERDS 0

By Chan B. Gone

November 21, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

To Mr. Nice:

You say Tech is not on the same level as UGAG? You won by THREE points last year! I say you’re not on the same level as Tenn., which routed the Puppies. Maybe the Vols should drop Ga.!

By JB

November 21, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this

I think the main reason Tech people hate UGA people is a class thing. It’s a state university and every hay seed in the State loves the Dawgs. If you take a close look at the Georgia Grads around and the success of the Lawyers, Veterinarians, Bankers etc., you’ll find that the people picking up your trash are not typical UGA people as you think. I employ over 200 folks, and gee whiz, three are Tech grads ! I know plenty of Tech grad LOSERS.

By jt

November 21, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

Matt: I take your point that Tech fans have misbehaved in the past. What school can say they have perfectly behaved fans.

Between UGA and Tech there is no comparison. From my personal experience, having attended hundreds of Tech games, I have never seen fans as rude and violent as UGA fans. This includes Auburn, Alabama, Clemson, Miami and FSU. UGA wins hands down. I could fill pages with what I have seen. From UGA students pushing around a 75+ year old man to a UGA fan trying yank a girl off a wall by her cast (yes, she had a broken leg). UGA fans have a reputation as being unruly and rude because many, not all, of them are.

By Wes King

November 21, 2007 1:42 PM | Link to this

How boring would college football be if one didn’t have a Rival?

By Coach Richt

November 21, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this

Thanks to all the fans in dawg drool nation for postin on the internets re saturdays game.

We’re lookin forward to woopin up on old man chan and getting lots of celebration penalties. You can count on passionate Mark on Saturday - not that old stooge who yelled at his boys up in nashville for being classless.

I will be a new breed of passionate intesity on Saturday. Instead of passionately kissing my wife like IO did after whipping my fraternal twin Urban, after our win I plan on spending some quality time with UGA VI on the sidelines..you know how we do it in Athens.

Hey - and dawg drool nation - don’t forget to keep wearin black to the games - its so classy - like one big redneck funeral. Shows our unity as much as it shows off our dandruff and sense of style!

Oh and drool nation keep postin about our akedemik pride - I just love that point on hope scholarships. You know, now that I think about it most people these days do get Athens confused with Cambridge. Harvard is the second choice for most of our fine student athletes but you know their Turfgrass Management and Physical Education programs are not nearly as strong as ours. Just to imagine how good we could be if only our darn standards weren’t so high.

Lastly - a heartfelt thanks to all the members of drool nation that graduated more than 20 years ago and make it to every home game. Keep buying all that classy red and black crap and putting it all over your cars, houses, offices, everywhere. Nothings says you’ve arrived in life like pretending ur still in college and not an old fart.

Anyways -its good to member of drool nation these days. Enjoy the run and the win on Saturday. Stay Classy!

Coach Richt

By MisterT

November 21, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this

Matt, When I was at Tech in the early 80’s, the soft drink cups used to come with hard plastic lids. We used to throw them at our own band. The really did stink back then. They are respectable now, save the performance with Big Boi. Rap & marching band…just didn’t work.

We also used to sneak in frisbees. Hey! There’s an idea. Bring frisbees to the game this Saturday. We can try to hit the tuba’s in the red coat band! Just good ole fashoined hate.

I once saw the uga band vandalize the huge blow up Buzz that would stand down in the end zone of the South stand. I doubt the uga president or vince the prince called to apologize for that. And it was done by a official, uniformed member of the uga visiting contingent.

They can say whe they want. We hate them on game day…every game day and they hate us on game day. Any doggie fan that says they pull for Tech when they aren’t playing uga…THEY LIE!

Now unlike in Alabama (they can’t put the Iron Bowl aside, period), I get along fine with my uga friends M-F…we still hate you on Sunday…except at church…no especially at church. You all come in gloating when you win. You all are probably going to hell because of the way you act on Sundays after a win. You should all pray that Tech wins just to help curb the sin of pride. It may be all that saves you.

Then again you would not like Heaven. Pure White and streets paved with GOLD! White and Gold the official colors of Heaven. ;-)

red & black the official colors of hell!

Yeah Liggin, if you are reading this it is who you think it is.

THWG!

By advice

November 21, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this

UGA has won more since 1990, for sure. Far too many. At that point the series was a lot closer than it is now. Sadly, our NC was a loooong time ago, and the “yeah we have more championships” argument is starting to get dusty.

The game is about football. It isn’t academics, basketball, or whatever. Heisman and Dodd coached when my great grandad and grandad were alive. Those days are gone. Probably not coming back with Gailey.

So, Tech fans, here’s my list of do’s and dont’s during the game:

1. Do respect all the fans.
2. Don’t go down the “we’re a basketball school” argument. They’ll point out we’re at a football game.
3. Do yell like hell on defense.
4. Don’t boo Chan or anyone else.
5. Do sing the Ramblin Wreck as loud as you can. And yeall THWG! as though your life depended on it.
6. Don’t try to get into an argument with a drunk UGA fan about academics. They’ll point out it is Saturday, and we’re at a football game, not in class.

I like our odds when we’re 3 point underdogs… so let’s hope for the best.

By ArkyTech

November 21, 2007 1:58 PM | Link to this

That was a weird article. Seems like you’re bummed out to be covering this team. Maybe you’ll get a better assignement next year and we’ll get a beat writer who actually seems to be enjoying what they do.

If UGA doesn’t consider Tech a rival, why are Dawg fans constantly flooding the Tech blogs?

By Will

November 21, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this

I’m a UGA grad and I think this game matters a great deal. Its always a big deal to me and the players. I would like to see the SEC bring in Tech and sack S Carolina. This would bring excitement back to the rivalry, improve SEC academics, improve basketball and get rid of the gamecocks.

By Tracy

November 21, 2007 2:00 PM | Link to this

JB, get over yourself. Thank you for making an example of why Tech fans hate UGA fans. It’s because of plain and simple arrogance.

Hey Matt. I have to say I agree with some of your reasons for hating UGA but it goes much deeper than just that. Most Tech fans have a tie to the school unlike a lot of UGA fans. Our blood, sweat, and tears went into going there or have a family member who went there. We feel indebted to the school. My heart is forever tied there. I love Tech and I love football. I can’t imagine a fall Saturday without it. I hate UGA and I was brought up that way. Not only for the fact that they are rivals, but for the fact that I live with them everyday.

I have so many examples of why I hate UGA fans. I could never list them all here. They taught us to hate them through their treatment of us. Yes a few bad apples ruins the bunch. I’ve sat in the student section and had a UGA fan push Buzz down. I’ve seen twelve year olds harass the student section. I’ve been flipped the bird just for having a Tech shirt on. I’ve been verbally harassed more times than I could count. It goes on and on. I mean when does the bullying stop? They think it’s their God-given right to say and do whatever to Tech fans just because they are UGA fans. And I think it’s funny because they always claim to know more about Tech football than a Tech fan. That’s why I hate UGA. They have some of the most arrogant and obnoxious fans you’ll ever meet. To Hell With Georgia!

By joehamlives

November 21, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

-Your school song is sung to the tune “I’ve been working on the railroad” -Your logo is ripped off from the Packers -Your pharmacy school cheats on its exams -Your coach sports a butt-cut hairstyle and drenches himself in sunless tanner until he is orange

Why don’t you uga fans go listen to some terrible REM albums and tell us about it

By HelluvaEngineer

November 21, 2007 2:08 PM | Link to this

While there are almost surely some really bad Tech fans, I promise you they do not go up to random strangers and start going “buzzz buzzz buzzz” in their ears (even to little children). Wearing my GT sweatshirt last year walking to the stadium, this happened thrice to me. Nothing looks more humiliating than a 40-year-old grown man coming up to you getting in your face and barking like a freaking dog.

The game means much more to UGA than it does to Tech. Why? Because Tech fans do not let football define their lives. They would achieve than live vicariously through others.

Q.E.D.

By Get the Picture

November 21, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this

Loves fruit roll-ups?

I assume this is an adult male?

By 3g-gt

November 21, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

Like a good Tech man, I do “hate” UGA. But U of Miami fans are the most miserable people I’ve ever encountered…

By CW

November 21, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

Matt,

I’ve enjoyed most of your articles in the past year, but I take exception to a couple statements above.

Although you say, “you get it”, the example you use of your Ohio State experience isn’t especially useful for Tech fans as we gear up for the Georgia game.

About the BC game- all the reasonable adults agree that we shouldn’t throw things on the field, but enough already. Fans get unhappy and throw things. Nobody was throwing rocks, batteries etc. Nobody was trying to hurt anyone. I was at the game and what I saw was displeasure at the effort on the field as well as some very shaky referee decisions. Get off it and move on.

Hey, I’ve got an idea. Perhaps you could write an article scouting how our offense matches up against their defense. Maybe we could all discuss how special teams play will affect the outcome?

By JB

November 21, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

Hey Tracy……We HATE you too. And come Saturday night, we’ll have some fun while you blow the ink dry on a contract extension for our b*** Chan. Go draw another building.

By **AC in Boulder**

November 21, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

I grew up in Atlanta and graduated from the university of Georgia. When I was in high school the Tech game was very important, but now it ranks about 3rd or 4th of important games on the schedule. It’s hard to get excited about a football program that doesn’t pose a serious threat ever. After a while you almost pity the school that doesn’t have anything going for it.

By J Dawg

November 21, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this

JT, How can you say…..”Personally I wish we never played UGA again. I have had soooooo many bad experiences at Tech vs. UGA football games I do not go anymore.”

Only a loser would make that statement.

By realyellowblood

November 21, 2007 2:38 PM | Link to this

Lets do cancel the UGA series. I would be just as happy playing Auburn or Tenn as the last game. Sounds good to me. Then play UGA in a bowl game. Dawgs, we can find plenty of teams at your level. Why don’t you water down your schedule even more by adding GA State. Or if you want to get real gutsy play a tough team out of state. You caught Colorado and OK State (both at your home of course) when you were lucky.

By Flag Boy

November 21, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

I hate UGA for making fun of me and my flag!!!

By Flag Boy

November 21, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

I hate UGA for making fun of me and my flag!!!

By realyellowblood

November 21, 2007 2:42 PM | Link to this

Or lets just sign up a 10 year series with Notre Dame. We can sell the place out, get a NATIONAL TV audience every year, and be with a better class of fans.
DRAD, if you ever decide to do anything, make this happen. Thanks for starting this conversation. I had never really thought about it.

By WIshful Thinking

November 21, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

WHY ARE FLEABAGS BLOGGING ON THE TECH BLOG WHEN THE GAME DOES NOT MATTER?

GO JACKETS!

By Buzz

November 21, 2007 2:46 PM | Link to this

I would lik to drop theseries for another reason.It is no fun. As a father of a 14 year old i have let my seats reamin empty for the past 4 home games against UGA. WHY? All the “f” this and “gd” that. Both sets of fans should be ashamed of themselves for what this has become. You couple that with all of teh beer swilling and you have a REALLY great environment for dads bringing kids to the game.

By SunDawg

November 21, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this

JD, I think GT80 has the right attitude, hate everybody and everything to get into the spirit of Saturday’s game! I’m going home now to kick my dogs.

Good luck guys!

By Hines

November 21, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

Buzz, I don’t have children and don’t want them now, but if the biggest thing you have to worry about is your 14 year old getting potty mouth from UGA fans, parenting must be pretty easy.

By GT76#2

November 21, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

Matt Winklejohn, I don’t think you know crap about Georgia Tech people and this rivalry. Kiss our @@@!

By KJ

November 21, 2007 2:58 PM | Link to this

While there are almost surely some really bad Tech fans, I promise you they do not go up to random strangers and start going “buzzz buzzz buzzz” in their ears

No, they just screamed that my friend was a “slut” because she had a red jacket on, or yelled at me to get up and leave because she “didn’t want a UGA fan sitting in front of her” (this was at Sanford, LOL).

This is a pretty pointless exercise, of course the fans of each team are going to notice the other teams fans’ obnoxious behavior. Tech fans don’t berate other Tech fans, same with UGA.

The game means much more to UGA than it does to Tech. Why? Because Tech fans do not let football define their lives. They would achieve than live vicariously through others.

You mean like when Tech fans troll the UGA blogs, and namedrop UT/UF, when they can’t compete themselves? Riiiight…

Q.E.D.

I do not think this word means what you think it means.

By gwj

November 21, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this

I can PROMISE you that the Georgia-Georgia Tech is THE most important game Georgia plays each year. Please don’t underestimate the HATE we have for Tech.

By J Dawg

November 21, 2007 3:05 PM | Link to this

Sounds like quite a few tech folks want to drop the game with UGA. Obviously tech fans are tired of losing. Frankly I’d be embarrassed if UGA fans were calling for the end to any rivalry game. Sometimes good ole fashioned hate just adds to the excitement of the game.

By laine

November 21, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this

at least georgia fans arnt whiners

By Jake Astron

November 21, 2007 3:08 PM | Link to this

To all of you on both sides of the arguement…This is why it is a rivalry. The passion, the emotion, and yes the “Clean old Fashioned Hate”

I have been to many Tech vs UGA games. I am a Tech alum and have many UGA friends. This is my favorite game of the year. And I don’t care what any of you say, you would all miss this Saturday if it weren’t played.

Go Jackets!

By BullDawg Rick

November 21, 2007 3:09 PM | Link to this

Yech grad… Loves fruit roll-ups. My 4 year-old does too!! LOL

Just Danged…

Nuff sed!!!

UGA 37

Yech 17

(PS.. Grant Field will be half filled with the Red & Black!!)

By **AC in Boulder**

November 21, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this

*It’s comical that tech gets fired up (as much as a tech fan can) every year just to be handed yet another loss. I guess they are just gluttons for punishment. *

By GT CIVIL '02

November 21, 2007 3:22 PM | Link to this

To all of the UGA alumni who post “I was accepted to Tech, but…” or post their respective in-coming freshman class’ GPA, it’s not getting into Tech, it’s getting out with a degree in hand. I’ve never meet someone who flunked out UGA and transfers to Tech, but I know plenty who’ve flunked out at Tech, only to transfer to UGA. We may have a better football team than you every once and a while, but you’ve never had a better school than us. Don’t fool yourselves.

By E dawg

November 21, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

It is so simple even a Techy should understand this without using a slide rule. GA TECH FOOTBALL SUCKS. It is like watching paint dry. The coach should be arrested for stealing oxygen and the fans apparently don’t even know how to find the Stadium. TECH SUCKS!!!GO DAWGS!!!!!.

By BulldawgFL

November 21, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

To the Tech fans that said over the past couple of years all of a sudden they think they have such great football tradition over Tech and Now they have been the dominant program in the state of Ga. over the past 5 years and UGA has won more since 1990 - let’s look at the facts. Over the past 50 years (since Theron Sapp broke the drought) UGA has gone 36-14 against Tech. For all you math-nerds, that means you have only won 28% of all of the games played since President Eisenhower’s second term. This series has been imbalanced for many, many years.

By ugagrad04

November 21, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

Hey KJ,

I went to UGA when a bunch of my friends went to Tech. A whole bunch of UGA guys root for tech(including myslef) when they play someone else. Not one of the techies will do that. Oh and then they tell me how much money they will make after we beat them 51-7. (PS Im at UGA law just hoping I can get by when I graduate).

Tech is about maybe(MAYBE) our 4th rival. Good luck with beating us with your lousy QB and offense. On a good note you probably have the best punter in NCAA.

One more thing great showing of fans last week, there may have been 20,000 there, have fun being dwarfed with red and black on Saturday in “your house”

Go dawgs!

By Zeb McCluskey

November 21, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

WOW!! There really is a ton of hate on here! Hey Sundawg, where’s all of our bulldog backup? Cuz,Buck, NAS, Kalimazoo….we need your help. Anyway, tech fans, I agree with you. We’ve got a ton of classless fans that probably never went to UGA or any college for that matter. They’re arrogant,loud mouthed, and drink waaaaaay too much on gameday. Now, that being said, the MAJORITY of our fans are NOT like that. We’re smart, level headed, hard working people who love our team. I work with a lot of tech guys and this, of course, is our favorite time of year. We rib each other during the season, but it’s all in fun. I guess it’s got to do with what level of maturity you’re at. I think what happens is when the bad apples of either side start calling people out and spitting vitrole. Then, as nature would have it, the testosterone takes over and the alpha males come out. If some of you tech people would actually read some of the UGA blogs, you’ll find very loyal and knowledgable folks who won’t spit at you. Any of us will talk civil with you if you’ll bring that type of conversation. Just one more thing….please don’t pi$$ NASCARFAN off. He’ll be on you like a rat on a cheeto. LMAO…..GO DAWGS!

By Holy cow Matt

November 21, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

“Loves fruit roll-ups.”

Ha, ha. Where did that come from?

By AC in Boulder

November 21, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

Tech hates Georgia because we have a far better campus, better school environment, more successful graduates (business owners, ceos of companies, lawyers, etc.), better looking and more socially adept student body year in and year out and then on top of all that the tech/Georgia game is an annual beat down.

By Jackson

November 21, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

“I dont think that bulldog fans are among the most obnoxious in college football.” Are you kidding me????? Having traveled to games in every stadium in the SEC and many other stadiums around the country I can tell you with 100 % fact that this statement is false. Bulldog fans are in fact the most classless, rude fans in college football. It starts with the players, coaches, and goes right on down to the fans. The only classy person in the bulldog program is the head coach Mark Richt. After the Vandy, Florida, And Auburn games this year this could not be more evident. The behavior of the players and the fans is just truly classless and as far as I am concerned UGA is the new MIAMI. It is funny that the article mentions tech fans throwing junk on the field because during the Georgia Auburn game Georgia fans were throwing everything they could get their hands on at the Auburn band. I witnessed this with my own two eyes. Yet AMAZINGLY nothing NOT ONE SINGLE WORD has been written about this. AND YOU F*** IDIOTS WONDER WHY SO MANY PEOPLE HATE THE DAWGS AND THE DAWG NATION. It is the largest group of classless whining group of indivuals in the entire country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Trust me it is not just Tech fans who despises UGA fans,the hate reaches far throughout the country when UGA visits stadiums and opposing fans get to see the lack of class for themselves.

By Steve

November 21, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

Tech has not beaten the Dawgs since 1990. 98,99, and 2000 were forfeited because Tech had to cheat to win, i.e. ineligible players. After UK beats UT, we may have the longest winning streak in football. Go DAWGS!!!

By Hate week

November 21, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

GO DAWGS. Familiarity breeds contempt. We work with (not for) the nerds, we live in the same neighborhoods. Its always nice to win.

Ask any UGA fan and we will say that Tech has a better Basketball program than we do. Why can’t Tech admit that in all meaningful ways we (UGA) have a much more accomplished football program.

By The Truth Hurts

November 21, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

WE HATE THEM BECAUSE WE ARE JEALOUS

We need to put up or shut up!

Go Jackets.

By BuzzFactor

November 21, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

It’s the uneducated bandwagoneers that make UGA fans look bad. It’s not the average fans fault that toothless hillbillies declare themselves Dawg nation. There are lot’s of respectable, smart, normal UGA fans, but unfortunately the squeakiest wheel gets the grease and the Jethros get the attention.

By davidb

November 21, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

It is alot easier to be a Dowg fan. And that is how most UGA fans spell it.

By 4 Time Nat'l Champs

November 21, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

What does a uga grad call a GT grad?….BOSS!!!

By O Dawg

November 21, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

I don’t understand why GT fans are so upset about playing Georgia…. it’s the only time of the year that good looking women visit their campus.

Look at it this way: GT fan can use one hand for their handkerchief when they’re crying about another loss to UGA and the other hand for their Vasoline jars on Saturday night.

By braveswin

November 21, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

The reason tech hates Ga is jealousy.The reason we hate Tech is BECAUSE THEY ARE TECH! No other reason is needed.

By scooter11

November 21, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

Now that the SEC schedule is done and because it’s the next one, this one matters.

By famous_bt8

November 21, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this

FRUIT ROLL UPS!!! Gotta love the subtle jabs at Tech fans from the guy writing the Tech Blog! Dawgs 31-13

By DirtDobber

November 21, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

To All UGAy folks ,

Congrats in advance for Saturday’s gimme game .

You win, GT loses , oh well . Now your prize is that you get to take Chan home with you ! Surprise !!! An thus … GT wins !!!

:)

By 4 Time National Champs

November 21, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

Can someone explain to me what the difference is between a GED and a UGA diploma?

By socaldawg

November 21, 2007 3:55 PM | Link to this

FRUIT ROLL UPS??? Is that what they are calling tickle piles these days?

By RAD

November 21, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

I got it here why Ga Yech hates UGA….

*When your team has lost six straight to Georgia in football, six of the past 10 in men’s basketball, 27 of 29 in women’s basketball and two years ago got gut-punched by the baseball Dogs to be knocked out of the NCAAs — at Tech! — *

See it’s that simple.

By Law Dawg

November 21, 2007 4:00 PM | Link to this

Tracy, You may be a jacket (bug) but your mama’s a DOG!

By BuzzFactor

November 21, 2007 4:01 PM | Link to this

One thing off topic. Bring the rain on Saturday and I like our chances.

By Brian

November 21, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this

You can really see where the writer went to school. What an embarrassing article.

By DawginATL

November 21, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

Growing up in metro Atlanta, I pulled for UGA, but never hated Tech. I always pulled for them when they were playing anyone except UGA. When I accepted an internship in Atlanta my senior year at UGA, part of the program was that I lived in a Tech dorm. When my parents were moving me in, the UGA tag got ripped off the front of their car. My roommates gave me so much grief—it was at that moment that I realized that perhaps the hate IS stronger on the Tech side. I agree with the sentiment that it is a big game for both, but it is not THE game for UGA. It’s just the game you don’t want to lose. On another note, I always laugh when I hear my intelligence insulted because I went to Georgia. The Journalism School was in the top five in the nation while I was there. I totally respect the engineering/biology/etc educations that come from Tech grads and I know it is a great school. But “smarts” doesn’t only come in math and science…thank goodness. There are plenty of successful lawyers, veterinarians, business people, journalists, historians, (the list of non-techie occupations goes on), who will be wearing red on Saturday. I think the “nerd” vs. “jock” jabs are old and outdated. No one deserves to be called a nerd anymore than anyone with a UGA law degree deserves to be called an ignorant fleabag. Both schools make our state proud. Looking forward to Saturday…Go Dawgs!

By KJ

November 21, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this

Haha, Jackson is an AU fan. Better luck next year, chief.

Ask any UGA fan and we will say that Tech has a better Basketball program than we do. Why can’t Tech admit that in all meaningful ways we (UGA) have a much more accomplished football program.

This is a very very good question.

By TechAllTheWay

November 21, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this

It’s a very important game. At least Tech doesn’t offer remedial classes for athletes like UGA does. If a student isn’t eligible to play football unless he takes remedial classes, then he shouldn’t be allowed to play. This is why UGA graduates end up working FOR Tech grads. Academics should come first. And, I agree with whoever said that UGA’s fan base is made up of people who would not be able to get into UGA (or any other school for that matter). I wonder how many of the people who have UGA license plates on the front of their trucks actually graduated from the school. My guess would be slim to none.

By thetooth

November 21, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

Does anyone know who Syed Ahmed is cheering for on Saturday?

By Munson

November 21, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

Read the board here and you will figure out why GA fans hate Tech fans. Tech fans are arrogant beyond belief!

By DawginATL

November 21, 2007 4:20 PM | Link to this

TechAlltheWay— I may have to agree with you on the fanbase. But at the same time, there’s nothing wrong with someone who may not have been able to go to college pulling for any team. There are some diehard Tech fans who are just native Georgians and never had any post-secondary education either. And about the employer thing, unfortunately, many of my friends and I work for GATORS and that is about ten times worse. Trust me on that. ;)

By GT80

November 21, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

Tech all the way. Can you name me the GA grad’s that work under you? You sound stupid just quit, really, you are embarrassing.

By ga student

November 21, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this

I think most Tech fans are failing to recognize the basic component of bandwagon fans. Of course Georgia will always have more ignorant bandwagon fans. A bandwagon fans is someone who has no affiliation to anyone and picks whatever team is the best. In the state of Georgia, that is UGA. Even in their own inbred, uneducated minds, would a bandwagon fan ever be stupid enough to decide to root for TECH? NO! They root for us because we win, our gameday environment is more fun, and our campus is nicer. If Tech started winning on a yearly basis, there would be plenty of bandwagon Jacket fans.

I used to get p** at Tech’s massive “intelligence complex,” but now it’s just white noise. We get it, Tech is a great engineering school. You have to be quite intelligent to go there. Congratulations. Georgia had two Rhodes Scholars out of only 32 nationally. I guess that means they just don’t hand out diplomas in Athens anymore.

ps. Reggie Ball > Taylortubbie Bennett…sad

By A.J. Mealor

November 21, 2007 4:30 PM | Link to this

I’m a huge Georgia fan, my father played there and I went to my first game when I was two. This guy has no idea what he is talking about. This is a HUGE game for Georgia. As one of the players said earlier this week, “Don’t worry about us getting up for Tech. We’re ALWAYS UP for the Tech game.” Trust me this game means just as much to us as it does to Tech. Just look at this board and you will see how much it matters.

Go Dawgs! To Hell With Tech!

By Dawgincartersville

November 21, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

tech hates UGA because of our tradetion of wining. Our football program alone has 6 National Championships not to mention our other sports teams. tech also hates UGA because of our school programs - nationally recognized as the best in the country for state schools and better than some of the iveie league schools. They also hate us becuase our women are the best looking in the country. They really just want to be Dawgs, but they can’t. Go Dawgs

By NASCARfan

November 21, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

Matt, you forget to mention some hilarious things.

1) During the season, Bug fans will hide on our blawg run by Chip and pretend to be Gator fans, or Vol fans, or Auburn fans.

And then they’ll hurl every kind of descriptive adjective at us their little nerd brains can think of.

2) This game is a no win scenerio for us (yes, Bugs, much like the Kobyashi Maru test). If we win, it’s because we’re supposed to and we’re a bunch of dumb rednecks who can’t count to five. If we lose, it’s the most embarassing loss of the season (even more embarassing than losing to Fat Phil by 21) and we’re a bunch of dumb rednecks who can’t count to five.

3) The Bugs and their fans care more about us losing than they do about them winning. How pathetic is that? That’s why they pretend to be fans of other teams, or practice sports bigamy (an ESPN SportsGuy term) to cheer against UGA.

We don’t waste a second more thinking about the Bugs than we have to, unless it’s swatting them down in our blawg. The Bugs are obsessed with every win and loss we get, all season long. And then, in the Spring or Summer they talk trash about how they finally have the team, or recruits, or whatever to beat us, only to be sorely disapointed in November. How pathetic is that?

I mean, there’s a guy, yellowblood, who we can’t get off our blawg. He crowed with the Lamecock fans and the Hillbilly Vol fans about them beating us. And he doesn’t even know how pathetic that makes him. Having to cheer for other teams because his team can’t finish the drill.

Matt… this game is important to us in the Bulldog Nation, you should know that from covering us in the Donnan years. But to us, it’s about our team. For the Bug fans, it’s never about their team winning or losing. It’s always about our team losing.

They’re more obsessed with our team losing than they are about their team winning.

For the last time I ask you, how pathetic a fan base are they?

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

Reasons to hate UGA: Ahh.. Let me count the ways. As a Tech fan, I am not a Tech alum and therefore I am a rare breed. I’m actually a graduate of Georgia Southern and support my Eagles most of all……. Most of the Dawg lovers out there have never entered the door of any college, much less UGA. Some of my closest friends are hardcore Dawgs and many of them are grads of UGA. I respect their support for their school. What gets under my skin is all the bandwagon ‘G’ flyers, who don’t know jack about football, but “love them Dawgs”. These are usually the most vocal and idiotic of the red and black. When UGA loses, these are the ones who find a rock to hide under. When they win, they are the loudest of the loud. I accept the fact, that many of them support UGA because, as they say, “it is our state school”. Not for me ! These folks, for the most part, have not an inkling about the game of football and no appreciation for the history of it. That is, except for the years UGA has a title of some sort to show for it. As my grandfather used to say years ago… “son, Georgia caters to the masses, Georgia Tech caters to the classes”. Some things never change. The great thing is, each team has the same number of players on the field. It doesn’t matter how big your stadium is, how many fans you have, how many tags and flags are on cars and 4x4’s, how many people post on Net blogs, etc. etc. What matters is going out on Saturday afternoon and taking care of business. Tech has the talent to take care of business, if they can block out all the purposeful distraction and focus on the task at hand.

GO JACKETS AND THWG !!!

By 6 straight

November 21, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

Georgia is a powerhouse traditional football program who has won more games and SEC championships than any other SEC team over the past 5 years.

Tech is a middle of the road ACC team whose students are all on the no fly list…

Let’s move on..

34-9 Dawgs…

By programs and fans

November 21, 2007 4:40 PM | Link to this

All time, the programs are ranked 11 and 12 by the college football data warehouse. Again, that is all time. In the “in my lifetime” both have national championships, but UGA clearly has the momentum.

I don’t think anyone could say “in all meaningfull” wasy UGA has a better tradition, because that simply isn’t true. But, in the last two decades since GT’s national championship, yes, UGA has had the better program.

As far as the fans go, Atlanta isn’t a “college town” and the sidewalk fan roots for UGA. Why wouldn’t they? If you move in from out of state it is much more likely your kid goes to UGA than Tech (forget academics - that has nothing to do with it - just consider that there are nearly twice the undergrads at UGA). If you live further than 15 miles from Techwood and North Avenue, clearly you’d be more likely to be a UGA fan. It just sheer numbers.

And UGA under Richt is a lot more attractive for the sidewalk fan than Tech under Gailey.

One question for UGA alums… why boast about the law school? I mean, I’m sure that’s not the best graduate program you can compare to tech, right?

By falcon

November 21, 2007 4:41 PM | Link to this

I hate Georgia Tech. I have hated them for almost 50 years. My Dad has hated Georgia Tech for 70 years. All three of my boys hate Georgia Tech. When I am blessed with grandkids, I feel confident that they too will hate Georgia Tech. I only pull for Georgia Tech one time a year, and that is when they play Notre Dame. Outside of that game, I hope they lose every game.

My Dad hated Bobby Dodd. He said Dodd was scared to join the SEC and play against good teams every week. I love it when we kick the living dog #*&$ out of those Jackets. The more points we score, the better I like it. My wife has some cousins who are Techies. They always dread hearing from me after the game. I always call, even though I know they will not answer the phone. The message I leave them will always consist of a Dawg barking at them. They hate my guts. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Go Dawgs!!! Woof Woof!!!

By GT degree = **BOSS** of uga grads

November 21, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

Hey “Munson”, we’re arrogant beyond belief because we’re better than you! I’m sorry that your second rate education can’t cut it in the real world.What phrase is said most by UGA grads?…. Can I take your order?

By ga student

November 21, 2007 4:43 PM | Link to this

I think what might make Tech hate UGA the most is the face that at about 2:45 on Saturday, “Historic Grant Field at Bobby Dodd Stadium” is going to be filled with about 30,000 Georgia fans. We do owe Tech’s athletic department a debt of gratitude for always hooking us up with the “flex-plan” ticket package. Then again, anytime a big-time program comes into the Joke by Coke, the Techies are always outnumbered.

But hey, you DID beat Notre Dame!

By Coach Richt

November 21, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

Sorry its taken me so long to write again.

This just in..Drool Nation wardrobe policy has been changed. Players requesting the drool nation should all wear rainbow speedos to the game instead of all black. Stand up and show your pride drool nation! Be Heard!

All black looked too much like a redneck funeral.

Coach

By Dog the Gator Hunter

November 21, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

This blog and the comments to it are amusing. Georgia and Georgia Tech fans only think the other school’s fans are obnoxious. Spend some time in Gainesville, Florida on a fall Saturday and tell me if you still think Georgia or Tech fans are obnoxious. Believe me, you will have a whole new perspective after a preteen girl flips you the bird in the presence of her older brother and parents, who look on in amusement. And these were normal looking middle-class people, not stereotypical Gator fans sporting mullets and jean shorts (they exist in droves, and are a whole different story). All because the guy you are attending the game with has an FSU bumper sticker on his car.

That same FSU bumper sticker caused some a-hole with UF stickers on his car to play a dangerous cat-and-mouse blocking game on Highway 441 while driving to the game. And we were only traveling to Gainesville to see Florida play some pushover because we were in the area, got free tickets, and had nothing else to do that day.

I’m a Georgia fan, and know well that some our fans can get a little unruly and out of control at times, especially at the Cocktail Party. But I’m also aware that Bear Bryant once famously had to wear a helmet to leave Grant Field after a game in the 1960s to protect himself against flying whiskey bottles. There’s a picture of it in his autobiography. When it comes to being obnoxious, neither school has cornered the market.

By NASCARfan

November 21, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, I also forgot about the terrorist angle, which would be really funny if it weren’t really scary and true.

It seems that besides letting athletes play who have a bag full of 60lbs of marijuana hiding in their closet, The Georgia Institute of Technology is so hard up for out-of-state funding that they have in the past (I hope no longer currently, but I wouldn’t doubt it) actually taught terrorists at their school!

You know, terrorists that we as a country try not to ever think about anymore just because an attack hasn’t happened in six years. And Tech is educating these guys in engineering (pick a major which can help terrorists kill Americans… nuclear engineering, computer programing, electrical engineering… the list goes on and on) skills they can use to blow us all up!

This is very frightening and really, you have to wonder why terrorists found it so easy to infiltrate Georgia Tech as opposed to MIT or Cal Poly.

So, you can at least say this about UGA… we’re not educating terrorists.

By RAD

November 21, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

Son-sir Jealous you could not get into UGA and had to go Southern. You have eaten way to many nats down there in wonderful Statesboro and it has made you brain turn yellow. To bad you did not study in school so you could get into UGA. Instead you went to GA Southern….. Jealousy will get you nowhere.

By Native Dawg

November 21, 2007 4:52 PM | Link to this

The ones who get on this blog and spit the hate are not true Georgians. If you were, you’d have family and friends that are split (maybe not 50/50 but still split). If you hate the other side so much than you are probably in the process of packing your bags for the holiday and heading back to Ohio, Connecticut or whatever state you fled from to come to the great state of Georgia. Go back to New Jersey and eat some meaty marinara while the true Georgians sit back and eat some tryptophan laden bird. The true rivalry comes from the bantering over Thanksgiving dinner every year. Mono y mono, cuz on cuz. With that said, I can’t wait for my Jacket loving uncle to try and tell me how the boys in ole’ gold are going to attempt to stomp out this years Dawgs. Let the games begin. Run KnoMo Run.

By Tellthetruth

November 21, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this

Georgia fans don’t list Tech as the team they most want to beat each year, but they list Tech as the one game they most do not want to lose. It is important to Georgia fans, but beating Tech doesn’t make the season like beating Florida, no question. And, as for the comparison of fans, there are more Georgia fans; therefore there are more obnoxious Georgia fans, and more loyal fans and more of every other kind of fans.

By Bob

November 21, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this

I guess that if I followed a team like Georgia Tech I would hate the Dawgs too, but the only reason that Georgia Tech football is important to me this week is that it is UGA’s next game.

The biggest game is always, or at least SHOULD be, the next one. But when it comes to rivalries… any SEC opponent would be a bigger rivalry that Ga. Tech.

Even if Tech were to win and I don’t know how, it wouldn’t be as devastating as losses to Tennessee and South Carolina.

By Chan Gailey

November 21, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

I’m not normally one to make predictions but let me just say a few words. While we don’t have Reggie, we do have one of the finest punters in D1 football. You will be seeing a lot of him on Saturday. Tashard will fire up the troops which we plan on posting immediately on You Tube - and our QB1 will provide many, many quality quotes for the media. Why? Because that’s how I run this team - I like to give my inexperienced players the green light to get all the media exposure that they are ill prepared to handle. I let my players do all the talking they want OFF the field - not on it. I hope you are ready to see us rack up some HUGE punting yards on Saturday!

And for added measure - I’ve recorded like 20 more public service announcements on topics ranging from teen pregnancy to wearing your seatbelt while driving which WILL be played continuosly during EVERY GT offensive drive. I hope your ready for the fires of hell I plan to release Tech fans!

Stay Classy!

Coach Gailey

By Exley DAWG

November 21, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this

Hey DAWG fans. I heard Reggie Ball was going to attend the game (upper level of course.) Its a lock!
DAWGS 38 Nerds 10

By Plato

November 21, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

Tech doesn’t hate Georgia. Actually they don’t really care. They all have lifes that revolve around more important issues. UGA, as in insitution, is just a means for controlling the ignorant masses. In this regard, a football victory for UGA helps achieve this goal, i.e., it’s important to appease the peasants. The intellectuals don’t want anarchy. Enjoy your carrot, behave yourself, and you shall have another.

By georgiagirl49

November 21, 2007 5:06 PM | Link to this

We all have bad fans you tech fans dont have many fans so thats the difference. All I am asking for is where do you get the free pizza and coke. Yall are some jealous people. You wouldnt know how to act if you had a Ga girl. Go DAWGS

By NeedMorefans

November 21, 2007 5:14 PM | Link to this

Why does Tech hate uga so much?

Not enough balance between the number uga and tech fans. At least in other states the ratio is much better between opposing schools like Auburn and Alabama. (Go ahead and submit your “Tech’s problem has always been with it’s ratio” jokes now)

In all seriousness what could Tech do about that?

By Rob

November 21, 2007 5:20 PM | Link to this

As a Georgia Fan, I can relate to Tech fans. We’ve been losing to Florida for years. I despise Florida and its fans. Florida doesn’t dislike us in the same way since it’s really no longer a rivalry with them as they’ve beaten us so much. That’s why this year’s win over UF was so big and so special for us. year in and year out… I’m rooting for Tech to take the ACC.. as long as Georgia Beats them. I guess all I’m trying to say is.. I get it.. and I don’t expet Tech fans to apologize for how they feel about Georgia. All that being said.. I hope GT loses this weekend. Go Dawgs!

By DC

November 21, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this

It really does not matter to us as much as it does to you. GT is in the same situation as GA was in 2000. Lame duck coach which the fan base had turned against. Beineg in the SEC we have a few more impt games because of the conference. Why it matters to you more is that you get a chance to beat a SEC team. This year it does mean alot to GT as you could ruin alot for GA and I expect that GA will be looking ahead and worried about KY-TN and screw up. BigGA fan that thinks we are too consumed with the SE championship game to take this one seriously enough……

By source

November 21, 2007 5:31 PM | Link to this

Tech fans:

You have wanted it all YEAR and here it is.

COME GET SOME.

By StraightJacket

November 21, 2007 5:32 PM | Link to this

Matt’s Question: Why do I hate UGA so much?

My Answer: Since my first game in 1977, I’ve had the SAME answer to that question:

The ARROGANCE of the “masses” of their fanbase. That’s why I just can’t stand to be around ‘em.

Ignorance is a secondary reason, but that really only applies to the “masses” of their fanbase; not the actual graduates of the school.

THWUGA!

-SJ

By RAD

November 21, 2007 5:35 PM | Link to this

Lets all end this blog by coming together as one and both sides singing the Ga Tech fight song… We are all Georgia.. so here we go together now….

I’M A RAMBLING WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH AND A HELL OF A FREAKING QUEER!… ..A HELLAVA, HELLAVA, HELLAVA, HELLAVA, HELLAVA FREAKING QUEER! JUST LIKE MY ZIT FACED ROOMATE I TAKE IT IN THE REAR. I’M A RAMBLING WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH AND A HELL OF A FREAKING QUEER!…

In the word’s of Rodney King - Can’t we all just get along..

By Top Dawg

November 21, 2007 5:36 PM | Link to this

I am a UGA fan (and grad). I love the Dawgs, and I have a cousin that went to Tech. (We are considering not letting him come to any more family gatherings.) Most fans from most schools, including UGA, like to blog and boast about how their school is so great, and everyone else’s is terrible. Don’t take it personally. It’s just all in good ‘ol fashion, clean fun (hate).

Go Dawgs!!!

By joehamlives

November 21, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this

Why don’t you uga morons learn how to read a watch so you be on time when you hook up my cable.

By TrueGold

November 21, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

Jesus H. Why is this f%&$ still covering GT athletics? Like we need the view of an OSU fan who knows nothing about this rivilary.

By Mike T.

November 21, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

they also tell us that we have win every now and then for it to be a rivalry so by their own definition UF isn’t their rival).

Georgia leads the series with Florida 47-37-2 also we won this year so I guess thats still makes it a rivalry

Georgia leads the series by about 20 games over Tech and they haven’t won since 1990 and the last games they did win were vacated,so that takes it back to the early nineties.

Whats pathetic about Tech is they laugh and snicker at all the support UGA has around the state. Georgia has more support from people around the state than Tech has on its campus at present. It was sad last year when Tech played Wake Forest in Jax for the ACC CHAMIONSHIP and they could not even fill half the stadium even though JAX is less than 300 miles from Atlanta. Georgia does it regularly every October with many more tickets that could be sold if they were available. Tech fans are no friend to hard working blue collar people,and as far as people who have never been to college you are automatically a social outcast,and there is no way you could ever do any better in life that a single wide trailer. Well here is news for ya.They are alot of people who are doing O.K. without the benefit of an education from Tech or UGA or any other school of higher learning. Many of the so call UGA fan base that the Dawgs enjoy perceive Tech as arrogant and snobs.Georgia is not the only school that enjoys this, Alabama,Florida and others have huge fan bases that welcome and embrace the support. So keep thinking those back alleys of Atlanta is the only place you can get an education and that everyone that doesn’t go there are social lepers.

By bobbylee

November 21, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

When UGA loses, they know it was big.

By Dawwggs rullezzzz

November 21, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this

I reeely want to go to game dis wuheekend but I hear most traffik accident happen 5 milez from your house, so I to scarred to leaf my trailer. But I watch on TV w/ rabit earz. GO DAWGS! WOOF!

THWG!

By DWG

November 21, 2007 5:54 PM | Link to this

Dawwggs rullezzz So live 5 miles from Tech in a trailer?

Ok nough said..

By famous_bt8

November 21, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this

Can we trade our free pizza and coke for a fruit roll up on Saturday?

By cursive

November 21, 2007 5:57 PM | Link to this

The Dawgs definitely don’t want to lose to Yech, but honestly the game falls behind in importance to Tennessee, Florida and Auburn. Tech isn’t one of the “Big Three”. Maybe if Tech school played in a conference that was worth anything they would have someone besides UGA to focus on.

By golden goose

November 21, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this

Once Tech gets a new coach the entire dynamics will change. Having gailey as your coach is like going into war without a commander. The troops are on their own. Join us to discuss Georgia Tech and chan gailey further at: http://www.bbuzzof.com

By fprex

November 21, 2007 5:58 PM | Link to this

I’ll preface this post by saying that I’m a Georgia fan and alum.

Georgia fans will only care about this game if we lose. We get totally pumped up for the UT game, Florida and Auburn.

In terms of excitement, I would list the Tech game as 5th on the annual schedule. (behind Florida, Auburn, UT and South Carolina) Sorry but that’s the truth.

As far as academics are concerned, the Tech fans need to just keep quiet. Rashard Choice was on 680 yesterday morning and butchered some basic term we all use everyday. I can’t remember the exact word but I want to say he pronounced “satisfaction” as “satis-u-fa-cation.” It didn’t go unnoticed, either, as Christopher Rude made a comment shortly thereafter that was hilarious.

Fruit Rollups???? Are you kidding me, Winkie? FRUIT ROLLUPS????? Some of y’all make it too easy to make fun of Tech fans.

As far as being an in-state rival, Tech has so many kids from out of state that it’s tough to see why they would have the hatred for Georgia. The last recruiting class had several in it but I’m not so sure a lot of them are even playing this year.

Tech game. Ho-hum. Sorry guys but that’s the truth.

By Cosmic Cruiser

November 21, 2007 5:59 PM | Link to this

To understand why Tech people hate UGA, you have to be a Tech grad - then there’s no need for an explanation. For someone who did not even attend Tech to try and explain the “hate” is comical and totally pointless. No explanation is needed for those of us who truly understand. Go GT!!!

By Dawg Pound

November 21, 2007 6:02 PM | Link to this

To All: Tech is good engineering school…what else do they have, not a football team, not a basketball team anymore, maybe a baseball team every now an then. They really don’t have much to brag about except engineering. As long as the bridges and buildings don’t start falling down Ga fans just let bump their gums and forget about them. As bankers, lawyers, pharmacist, vets and a number of other professions, just take their money and make more money with it. Then we can continue to donate and support our school finacially and continue to celebrate both success in the class room (see Rhodes Scholars) and on the field.

Bottom line Tech doesn’t matter that much, they can be replaced with either MIT or Michigan. We own them and the money they make goes into the banks and finacial institutions we own or run. GO DAWGS!!!!

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

RAD… Me jealous I “couldn’t get into UGA” ? Son, I was singing The Rambling Wreck and saying To Hell with Georgia before I ever entered kindergarten. And I’ll continue until I’m 6 ft. under.

By uga grads are just as bad

November 21, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this

I used to think it was UGA sidewalk fans that exhibited classess, petty behavior. I still hope all these UGA grads that claim to be enrolled in law school, business, or vet school aren’t in any of those respective colleges. I’d hate to think the future leaders of our state are so pathetic…

By dawgfan

November 21, 2007 6:12 PM | Link to this

I gets so tard of tech fans who act like we dawg fans are less inteligant than they are. I am a uga grad with a degre in english with a miner in animul husbendry, and will put my IQ up aginst any of those techhies. I wuz just tellin my bruther Marcel today, thet these dawgs are goin to whup up on tech so bad we mite have to cancal the siries. I’ll be there in Atlanter saturday awearing my black and rootin for the dawgs. After all, you aint much if yo9u’uns don’t suport yore almer matter. GO DAWGS!

By Dawg Pound

November 21, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this

Five Reasons the Tech game doesn’t matter:

1) The last 50 years have been pretty lopsided.

2) Tech has not won in six years

3) Tech is not a conference game. The SEC is our first goal. By the time we get to them, our season is already decided or out of our hands.

4)Tech is rarely ranked and can rarely help us with a win in the rankings. There are a few years that they are ranked, just not that many.

5) They are not orange…we hate orange. Go Dawgs

By Rhino

November 21, 2007 6:15 PM | Link to this

My son is touring colleges. He has the grades and the SAT to go wherever he wants. We visited Tech and all we heard about was sports. Very little mention of academics. The walking tour consisted of visiting the stadium first, then touring dorms and then to the baseball field. At the informational time in the auditorium the guide only talked about how UGA was just a party school. We noticed there were yellow jacket decals on everything. My son asked why Tech had such an inferiority complex towards UGA. We also went to Clemson for a tour and they talked about academics and campus life. At UGA their tour was all about academics. Something is missing at Tech, reading your comments above sheds some light. Your program doesn’t speak for itself and you have tremendous penis envy of everything that isn’t Tech. There are other schools that are as good or better than Tech and you can’t handle it. UGA’s academics at one time were suspect but no longer. I don’t know where my son will wind up going to school, but I do know that Tech has lost out on one outstanding student.

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 6:16 PM | Link to this

By the way RAD, I believe that the correct spelling is gnats. I can’t believe you forgot your ‘G’. What are you ? Let me guess. PhD in English from UGaG… Just kidding. You’re just like 90% of Dawg fans….uneducated redneck from Hicktown, GA.

By StarTrek4life

November 21, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

I hate UGA because I’m jealous and I wet my pants in social situations.

By Dawg Pound

November 21, 2007 6:23 PM | Link to this

Son Sir

You graduated from Georgia Southern…no wonder you are jealous! Why don’t you jump on the South Carolina or UT bandwagon…oh wait you probably did.

It is o.k. you went to Georgia Southern or 13th grade, you can still get a good job at Hardees or McDonalds. Let me help you start…”let me have an order of fries with that”. Now that wasn’t so bad was it?

By business scool

November 21, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

uh, the tech business school is ranked higher than ugags.

By business school

November 21, 2007 6:32 PM | Link to this

uh, the tech business school is ranked higher than ugags.

By Dawg Pound

November 21, 2007 6:33 PM | Link to this

Son Sir,

You shouldn’t talk about UGA and hick towns if you went to GSU in Statesboro, it makes it seen as if you never left Bullock County.

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

Dawg Pound, You are right about one thing… I jump on South Carolina’s, Tennessee’s, Florida’s, Troy’s, Western Carolina’s, whoever the f%%k your next opponent happens to be. That’s ALWAYS the bandwagon I am on.

By midatlantech

November 21, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

Tech hates UGA for the following reasons: 1) Tech alumni contribute significantly more than UGA. We pay for our stuff and for lots of the rest of the state too. Nobody outside of the state or country has heard of UGA, but look at the regents. It’s loaded with UGA grads instead of Tech. Name another state’s flagship university that is treated so poorly? (Many of us would like to go private by the way.) 2) Journalism, public relations, make-up technology, and communications are all UGA degrees. The media, made of UGA grads, feeds us dogcrap all year long. Every other city paper across the country supports their Div 1 athletics. In Atlanta, the local paper goes out and finds an Ohio State fan that they know they can work in the process. 3) Tech has to act at a higher standard than UGA. Where in your paper does it repeatedly talk about UGA fans that p** off the top of Sanford? Where does it talk about the repeated cheating occurring at UGA over the years? Where does it talk about UGA fans booing their own after a simple loss or two? Where does it attack UGA for the ridiculous records anomaly because of the games PLAYED in 1943,1944? If Tech were to remove all the years that UGA was found to cheat, which is numerous in the last 30 years, your media outlet would attack us unmercilessly. Where’s the equality in it all?

The rivalry was fun in the past, now it is marked by a year long red tickle pile.

By hhj

November 21, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

Does Tech have a “flag” boy this year?

By boots

November 21, 2007 6:41 PM | Link to this

Matt, you forgot to mention that when the Tech fans threw trash on the field, it actually improved that piece of crap stadium they have.

Here is why the game matters to Tech: it let’s them brag about something for a year. This is a big deal to a school that doesn’t have much to brag about. They will actually have two wins against winnnig programs this year.

Here is why it matters to Dawg fans: If we win, we remain in the BCS hunt and in the top 6 or 7 of next week’s poll.

Go Dawgs!

By Dawg Pound

November 21, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

Son Sir

Your vocabulary is so primative: it is now very obvious you never left Bullock County and you can’t think of better words. You have joined the Techies in hope that you might find intelligence.

Here is the remedy for Techies…win and we won’t be able to talk.

By boots

November 21, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this

This is fun… more thoughts.

I have hated Tech since they cheered when Rodney Hampton was hurt. Not because he was carried off the field, but because he was hurt.

Which school is better?

1. Who would you rather go on a blind date with? A UGA co-ed or a Tech student?

2. Who would you rather tailgate with? A Georgia group or a Tech group?

3. Who would you bet $1000 on if you had to pick the winningest program between the two over the next five years? Ten years? Twenty?

4. If it hit the news that a student of a GA university was just arrested on a terrorist plot, which school would you bet he attended?

5. Which University has built this state and the Southeast and which school has more alumni living in a rice hut in Southeast Asia at the moment?

By kool$kat

November 21, 2007 6:52 PM | Link to this

THWG!!!

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 6:53 PM | Link to this

And to all these UGaG folks with the tickle pile comments… Have you taken a trip down Broad St. in Athens lately. There’s more freaks and qu&&rs per capita than in San Francisco. Not to mention all the Gothic weirdos, facial pierced hose suckers, meth/coke lovers, etc. etc. You do have lots of good looking women I’ll admit. In fact, after they graduate, we fill their garters with money over at our neighbor.. The Cheetah. They learn a lot over in Athens.

By Thenwhat?

November 21, 2007 6:57 PM | Link to this

Rhino- As for the tour at Tech, I’ll give you that. It hasn’t been very good since the new AD. But I also know that if he’s looking at Clemson, he doesn’t want to be an engineer bad enough and then it’s probably best he doesn’t go to Tech. The program shouldn’t have to speak for itself as the numbers in rankings will do just fine.

son_sir- How would you feel with Tech replacing Chan with your coach from Georgia Southern, Chris Hatcher? He knows the state, has an exciting offense, and I think would really enjoy coaching against some greats like Beemer, Bowden, and even mister tan man himself CMR.

Oh, and Tech’s defense and special teams will keep it close…17-14 Jackets with a last second field goal from Travis Bell.

THWG!

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 6:57 PM | Link to this

You’re killing yourself DawgPound: The word is primitive. Geez. Also, Bulloch County. Didn’t you even take GA History.

By Chief Osceola

November 21, 2007 6:58 PM | Link to this

I bet to differ with the author. He’s obviously clueless. UGA has some of the most obnoxious fans in the country that happen to mostly be REDNECKS. The only good thing about UGA is the character of Mark Richt. UGA should actually win a national title before they ever talk any smack.

A Seminole sends.

By kool$kat

November 21, 2007 6:59 PM | Link to this

The article that started this blog was stupid. But let me take the opportunity to say again:

THWG!!!

Oh, and MisterT said it best - Heaven will be white with streets of gold…the colors of hell are red and black…lol!

Dawg Pound - even when we win ya’ll won’t shut up. According to many of you ugay fans, this isn’t a big rivialry game anymore…so why are so mahy of you on this blog? Don’t you have something more important to do…like calculate your national championship chances? Like thats going to happen…hahahaha…stupid mutts.

By NASCARfan

November 21, 2007 7:01 PM | Link to this

midatlantatech has no sense of perspective.

He speaks of cheating and points the finger in UGA’s direction.

Sir, before you point out the splinter in someone else’s eye, remove the mote in yours!

Here are some other things that bother me about midatlantech’s rant:

You’re not the flagship university… UGA is. Get over it. You’re the red headed stepchild. It’s your lot in life. You’re not only the second best in the state (third if you count Southern, and in a couple of years, fourth behind State), you’re not even the best engineering school in the country, so you should be used to coming in behind your betters.

Your alumni don’t give more money than ours do; our alumni give far more money. Our athletic department is more in the black than any other athletic department in the country!

Also, Winklejohn has worked for the paper forever. He covered the dawgs and the Falcons before Little Jimmy Mora and Arthur Blank had him removed from the Falcons beat for correctly pointing out that Little Jimmy Mora, the spoiled brat that he is, was acting like an idiot, during one of his insufferable press conferences, so they had him exiled to cover the patheticness that is Bug Sports.

midatlantech, you seriously need to get some perspective in your pathetic, miserable, lame, sex-less little life!

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 7:06 PM | Link to this

You can’t tell me that Tech doesn’t have a better program than UGag. And if I have the choice of dating a Georgia bimbo or a Tech woman, I would rather date the TEch woman because she will know ho w to balance a checkbook and handle a computer better. The brain is the sxeist part of a woman.

By Dawg Pound

November 21, 2007 7:09 PM | Link to this

kool$kat: at least we can calculate our hopes…tech’s are so far fetched Einstein hasn’t come up with the equation yet.

Son Sir: You are jealous…when you have to look for typo’s as a comeback. By the way “super size that order.”

By huh?

November 21, 2007 7:12 PM | Link to this

boots:

Hate the terrorist, but don’t hate their appreciation for a fine education.

And, ugag “built” the southeast? Right. Seriously, that is the single biggest joke I’ve heard on this entire thread

I think your question about the blind date makes some pretty bad assumptions. I’ll let you figure it out. Doubtful you can.

Your last comment is ignorant if not just plain racist.

DP is right: If Tech wins it won’t matter.

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 7:18 PM | Link to this

Thenwhat? : I think Coach Hatcher is not proven as of yet. Don’t get me wrong. He’s does a heck of a job trying to fix the fiasco left by VanGorder. But he needs to prove himself for a few more years at the 1-AA level. I do think Paul Johnson is proven and think his system would fit at Tech. I know what the AJC polls say, but I’m willing to give Chan another year with a victory over UGaG.

By Dawg Pound

November 21, 2007 7:19 PM | Link to this

Son Sir:

Your right about one thing, I can’t tell you UGA has a better program…your to busy with your hate to pay attention to the truth. The truth, for those who will listen UGA does have a better program in both sports and academics.

By Houston Dawg

November 21, 2007 7:22 PM | Link to this

HERE IS THE DIFFERENCE! Tech fans (many) are just as happy when UGA loses as they are when their team wins. Sad. Go Dawgs!

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 7:24 PM | Link to this

DawgPound has stooped to impersonating my posts. A sure sign of losing an argument. So typical when you try to match wits with someone more intellectual. Go back to your pound and eat a turd you fleabag !

By Mike T.

November 21, 2007 7:24 PM | Link to this

By Chief Osceola

I bet to differ with the author. He’s obviously clueless. UGA has some of the most obnoxious fans in the country that happen to mostly be REDNECKS. The only good thing about UGA is the character of Mark Richt. UGA should actually win a national title before they ever talk any smack.

UGA doesn’t have anything on FSU,Chief,I was an usher at Doak Campbell for a dozen or so years and I can attest first hand the Nole fans can be as obnoxious as the best of them.Sorry,but hey.Its great to be a Gator Hater.

By son_sir

November 21, 2007 7:29 PM | Link to this

DawggiePound..I think I’m posting on a Tech blog. I believe it is you who brought your hate over here. Now get your A$$ OUT OF HERE !!

By juat a dawg

November 21, 2007 7:29 PM | Link to this

Let me get this straight Tech students and student athletes are far more intelligent than UGA students and student athletes? You have an offensive guru in Chan Gailey and the smartest football players in Georgia, but you are still unable to beat the so called rednecks from Athens. Hmmm sounds like your not as smart as you think.

By Thenwhat?

November 21, 2007 7:35 PM | Link to this

son_sir- I agree except I’m a huge fan of NAVY and I would like them to keep him. NAVY BEAT ARMY!!!

To UGA fans talking up their school as being the best in the state-

GT Endowment: $1.324 Billion UGA Endowment: $475.6 million

Keep in mind that’s with many more alumni from UGA. You have a nice school (with better food) but it’s no Tech.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone (even you NASCARfan) and GO JACKETS!!!

By Cali Dawg

November 21, 2007 7:58 PM | Link to this

YOu know the Mickey Avalon song “My D*!@”? Your Tech… fruit roll-up.

By boots

November 21, 2007 7:59 PM | Link to this

Ok, huh?, you are correct. My first question assumes there are “women” at Tech, which I doubt. Further, it assumes one would go on a date with any women from Tech, if they exist. The trick answer is, “Who at Tech actually dates? and Why would anyone accept a blind date in with a Tech ‘woman’ in the first place?”

And, yes, in the past 200 years, Georgia grads have had a much more significant impact on the Southeast as opposed to Tech grads. Even in the past 50 years, the UGA alumni have dominated the civic, business, law and fine arts sectors of certainly Georgian society. Tech grads have had a more significant impact on the technology sector in Shang-hi.

Here are a couple of more questions for you:

1. You are going to an interview - if you had to make a guess, from which school did the boss graduate?

2. If you had to take a nice, evening stroll through a campus, which campus would you rather be on alone after dark?

3. Which stadium has more rats and other rodents living in it?

4. Who makes more money - me or you?

By GT GRAD

November 21, 2007 8:00 PM | Link to this

Obviously, Matt just wanted to write something to prompt a grand response.

If everyone was completely honest, any poll would indicate a higher percentage of UGA fans “hate” and think negatively about GT than the other way around. Just read the blogs every now and then……

I attended GT from 85-90 and I just do not understand why so many UGA fans are so “over-the-top” and agressive with thier comments. Sometimes I just want to say Get a life!

By Tech Grad

November 21, 2007 8:00 PM | Link to this

Matt - I am a proud Tech grad, and to be honest, I do not spend much of my time reading your comments. I mistakenly thought that it is intended to be a Tech blog. However, the few times that I have bothered to read it, it is very apparent that you are very pro-Georgia and very anti-Tech. For example, you make a point to criticize Tech fans and say that you do not believe Georgia fans are some of the most obnoxious. I can assure you that experience over several years has been in great contradiction to your comments. If you dislike Tech so much, then please do not pretend to be an impartial party. Just do the honorable thing and start a Georgia blog (that you so obviously love).

By Mike T.

November 21, 2007 8:19 PM | Link to this

I jump on South Carolina’s, Tennessee’s, Florida’s, Troy’s, Western Carolina’s, whoever the f%%k your next opponent happens to be. That’s ALWAYS the bandwagon I am on.

Yeah, Mine favorite two teams are the Dawgs and whoever is playing Tech, unless its the Gators,can’t pull for them,their a rival.(of course we don’t have to worry about that happening now do we?)

By techwreck

November 21, 2007 8:21 PM | Link to this

Matt -

Until you start getting reports about fans urinating off the top levels of Bobby Dodd Stadium onto the streets below, there’s absolutely no form of comparison between the two teams. Stop the hackery and write a real piece - okay?

By realyellowblood

November 21, 2007 8:26 PM | Link to this

FALCON: You tell me all I need to know by your name. If you happen to be a Falcon fan along with being a UGA fan, it is apparent that you pull for more than one shabby establishment.

By StarTrek4life

November 21, 2007 8:48 PM | Link to this

Tech does have the best terrorist training program in the nation.

By Marietta Dawg

November 21, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this

I’m a Tech fan and always have been since I was 6 years old. It would be great for Georgia Tech to have another big championship team like they had in th fifties under Bobby Dodd. My freshmen year at UGA in 1963 left me in awe of the the great Tech program, tradition and overwhelming aura that was Georgia Tech. Of coarse I was a Bulldog fan too but when the last game of the season came around I just could not pull for UGA. Same thing in 1990.

By dadgum

November 21, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this

This game is huge for Uga too. Lose to Tech and they are relegated to say the Music City Bowl where FSU will probably kick their butt. However, win out and they are in the Sugar Bowl. Let’s see Music City vs. Sugar sounds like motivation to me.

Having said that, this game is bigger for more reasons to Tech than uga. 6 years is a long time (an eternity) to lose to your biggest rival. The San Fran Bowl just won’t bring the fans like Charlotte or Nashville. A program on the downside spiral can be righted. Regardless of what uga fans think a good rivalry can only exist when both teams are winning. This rivalry has subsided on a national scale simply because Tech has been average at best for too many years.

While it has not been mentioned here yet, Tech will not be going to the Emerald Bowl under any circumstances. The Emerald doesn’t want Tech and Tech doesn’t want them. It was a nightmare for that Bowl last time for everyone concerned. Look for a big switch among lower tier bowls that the ACC has a tie-in with. The ACC should reconsider their tie-ins with the West Coast Bowls. Bad idea..for all concerned. Yes, Tech has come out to say they want nothing to do with the Emerald Bowl. Beat Georgia, of course, and they won’t go out west. It will be Charlotte or Nashville.

Oh yeah, unless you have forgotten when Tech played in San Fran it was on a field of 99 yards. You can look it up. How embarassing. What a rinky-dink bowl. A great baseball stadium though. If I was Dan Rad I would be on the phone with other bowls orchestrating a switch. Think Don Swofford might take a hint?

One last thing. If Tech loses to UGA Gailey will be let go prior to the bowl game and will not coach. Similar to O’Leary’s situation.

By huh?

November 21, 2007 8:53 PM | Link to this

boots:

1. ugag, of course. i mean, it makes perfect sense that a ugag b-school failure who’s now majoring in phys ed and staying until his 7thh year so he can help earn another top 5 pary school ranking would be interviewing a tech engineer and offering him $20k a year more than the boss makes. right.

2. Tech’s campus. Better hookers. Seriously.

3. Better rats than dog sh17!

4. If you do, congratulate yourself, because you’re above average. You’ve done well.

By ahyes nowisee

November 21, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this

My Daddy raised me to hate Tech & to want to beat them more than any other team. That was when Tech was in the SEC and had a strong team every year. Bobby Dodd thought he could make Tech into another Notre Dame—independent, with a national following. Wrong!! Nowadays, Tech isn’t worthy of good old fashioned hate any more. They’re a weak team in a weak conference. I want to beat them, but I’d much rather beat Auburn or almost any other SEC team.

By Billy

November 21, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this

an email to a fellow dog====>

hey jay,,,,just winding down cooking a few items in getting a head start on tommorrow…..have i told you how much i hate ga tech????they have always,,,since i can remember,,,,told the world that their education is superior that that of ugs’s and that uga is nothing but a bunch of rednecks and stupid thugs…….the usa rhodes scholar report just came out and uga has two with the bugszero……..that is soooo shocking to me b/c tech is sooooo much smarter and polished than uga and at least should have half a dozen rhodes scholars…….tech is and will always be a trade school on the beautiful banks of i-85 and nothing more……and from what i have heard,,,,,biz is outsourcing more engineers from india and pakastan and believe it or not,,,,,overlooking our fine young beautiful minds at tech………maybe jimmy carter (tech alum) can fix that……….oh my,,,,what did i say????might want go another route than carter……ohhh,,, did i mention that it is harder to get into uga than tech….been like that for years…..it was a uga grad that made atlanta the main biz hub for the south and the nation…….his name was herman talmadge (great friend of the family) and not the mit wantabees from north ave……..needless to say,,,,,i loathe the techmites…….. all uga alums feel the same way…….just makes me sick to read these blogs of the dirtdobbers making fun of uga’s academics…….uga is superior in ahtletics and now academics…..jaybird,,,please pray to stop the outsourcing of engineers……we need tech’s board of regents to at least keep em chartered so we can whip up on them in football every year……have a great tanksgiving chambless family!!!! please tell joe i said hello………

By truthteller

November 21, 2007 9:09 PM | Link to this

I see a lot of dawwgie fans here extolling the academic excellence and accomplishments of uga grads, and how they have “led the building of the south”. I challenge any of these people to name three uga grads in the ENTIRE HISTORY of this diploma mill who are famous for their academic accomplishments and/or any significant contribution to the “building of the south”…and by the way, Herschel Walker doesn’t count as an academic. Go ahead and boast about your overrated football team, but don’t kid yourself about your academic excellence.

By S.E. Dawg

November 21, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it just great that everyone doesn’t pull for the same team. Think of how dull that would be. Think about it.

By Gailey Can't Coach

November 21, 2007 10:04 PM | Link to this

Chandler Gailey would get a Standing O BEFORE the game if he just did something like this: Come out in an AJC interview and say,

“You know, we should’ve WON a couple of these games since I’ve been here and I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY how important this game is to our GT Fan Base. We’re packing in our “normally conservative” gameplan and we’re going ALL-OUT in every phase of the game this year to give OUR FANS the W this year. This is our Georgia Bowl and we’re going to be ready this time. We’re going to score FIRST and OFTEN. We’re going to take the Defense behind their line of scrimmage. And we have a couple of tricks up our sleeve on Special Teams just to keep them guessing. This is OUR YEAR to win this game!!”

INSTEAD, Chandler Gailey has this golden opportunity presented to him on RADIO and he basically says, The UGA Game is just like any other game… Listen to this sometimes EDGY exchange for yourself (which was taped right before the VaTech Disaster):

http://www.790thezone.com/vdDynamic/AudioBits/1-audiobit3880.mp3

Interestingly, this is standard, stubborn, I’ll do it my way Chandler Gailey who wouldn’t know HOW to change if he had to. Just before his FIRST GAME as Cowboys Head Coach, it was reported that “He said he was trying to treat his first game as a Cowboys coach just like any other game. Meet the Old Chandler Gailey…Same as the New Chandler Gailey. http://lubbockonline.com/stories/073198/0731980018.shtml

So Matt, I would rationalize Tech Fan behavior by altering your assertion that “Tech hates Georgia” with the more obvious observation that “Tech presently hates Chandler Gailey as head coach MORE than it hates Georgia”.

After all, which is more destructive and repulsive: Your in-state Rival…OR having a head football coach who is 0-5 against your in-state Rival, yet still gets on the airwaves and claims that it’s “just another game”??? Is it any wonder Chandler Gailey has NEVER, and probably never will, beat UGA? [puke! puke!]

By boots

November 21, 2007 10:19 PM | Link to this

Truthteller, this is a softball challenge:

1. Crawford Long - invented anesthesia. Thank him the next time you are under the knife.

2. Zell Miller and pretty almost every major governor & US Senator in the last 200 years. Thank him if anyone you know is attending Tech on the HOPE scholarship.

3. Our two Rhodes Scholars in this year alone. Other schools with two: Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and St Olaf. Only 32 chosen nationally, and I do not believe Tech made the list…

Shall I continue?

By Tech 71

November 21, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this

“the way Georgia fans behave”

Just read the blog. I rest my case.

By minick

November 21, 2007 11:38 PM | Link to this

An Ohio State fan writes the Tech blog. Is that sad or really funny? I think both.

By ProudTechFan

November 22, 2007 12:51 AM | Link to this

I’ve been reading this for a while now, and i wanted to address a few things for my precious UGA fans.

1.First of all you’ve guys have had a pretty good year. i wont take that away from you, but i will remind that we had the same record 9-2 going into Athens last year, we went on to lose the next two games and finish 9-5. you guys can finish with the exact same record with a loss to the Jackets, and that would be considered a pretty unsuccessful season. That is why this game should be important to you. Forget about Kentucky and Tenn, i suggest you handle your business this weekend or the 45-60 min drive back to Athens will be longer than it seems.

2.Stadium size..lol, i dont even know why i feel the need to address this but i constantly see comments about the size of our stadium. People we are in the middle of Down town ATLANTA, thats a major city with other huge venues surrounding it. there isnt a college stadium in this country, that i know of, that is in the middle of the city that seat 90,000- 100,000 people. Athens is a college town, Alabama, UT, LSU are all in collge towns. not to mention we have another major college right next door, technically on the same street.

but i digress

3.Fan Base…UGA will always have a bigger fanbase. its much easier for a kid who lives in Savannah to cheer for the Dawgs, even if you just broke it down to proximity. Last i check the state of UGA is bigger than the city of Atlanta. that mean that even if every one who lived in ATL was a Tech fan, we would still be outnumbered by every other fan in the state. with that said we shouldnt have a problem selling out every game to fill a 65,000 seat stadium. that a problem i havent been able to figure out myself but needs to be corrected.

4.Why I hate UGA…forget who UGA beats or loses to during the season, i could care less. Forget the success of the UGA program over the years, i could care less. forget the name calling, the facts the lies, i could care less. forget the fact that most UGA fans dont even consider this a rivalry because of recent history, i could care less. forget being outnumbered by the UGA fan base, you should be a fan of you team/school of interest, i could care less. you really want to know why i hate UGA, its because i hate losing. you see none of what i mentioned above would get under the skin of Tech fans if we won. its not about ACC or SEC, Richt or Gailey, Red/Black, or Blue/Gold, its about winning. All i want to do is win. yes i am concerned about the ACC and i would love to win a conference championship, but UGA is the one team i get a shot at every year, but cant seem to beat. the venues changes every other year, the player come and go, the coaches move on or move out, but the game never changes. Every year the last game of the season is all that matters, and all that matters to me is winning…

GO JACKETS!!!

By CFB fan

November 22, 2007 1:49 AM | Link to this

1. I live in Atlanta and am a cfb fan. I am unbiased when it comes to GT and UGA . I must say though that these UGA fans do sound kind of full of themselves. All GT needs to do is get a good coach who can relate and teach these kids. Do yall (UGA fans) really think that if GT gets the right coach it will be hard to recruit kids to come play in ATL.

2. If you think about it UGA is kind of lucky that Tech is academically tough and is a technical school, otherwise believe me those athletes in Athens would much rather be in the glamor of Atlanta where there is much more to do and tons more girls and clubs than in Athens at UGA. If a head coach can come to Tech and lock down the ATL area, UGA, Auburn and many more SEC schools will be in much trouble. Remember UGA, most of yall recruits come from within 30 miles of the Tech campus. With the right coach Tech will really give UGA problems.

3.To both Tech and UGA fans: I would really be worried about the notion of Georgia State and Kennesaw State fielding a football team. I guarantee if they become a division 1 football program that will start the demise of even the great University of Georgia and I will put money on that. G State and K State will have the advantages of the Atlanta area like Tech but without the tough academic requirements(they would also have a very sizable fan base). If i was a UGA fan or Tech fan that would be scary to me. And between us if you think GA State and K State won’t have a football program within the next five years you are CRAZY

4.Bottom line, UGA may not be as big as a power in the state 10 years from now so I would bask in the glory while im dominant.

By CFB

November 22, 2007 2:00 AM | Link to this

Ok, I admit it. I am really a tech fan. I sat around for hours coming up with this blog that expands the false and irrelevent premise that Tech is a more difficult school to gain admission. I guess I’m just a d******* tech fan that won’t admit we stole our gay fight song from a small New Jersey technical school.

By DumbassTechie

November 22, 2007 2:05 AM | Link to this

I keep mentioning UGA fans being on my blog because I can’t seem to figure out that websites can link to the same page from different sections of their site. I guess I have to take it back. Our school is not so good after all. I wish I had gotten into MIT or CAL TECH.

By GoldArchie

November 22, 2007 2:56 AM | Link to this

“Coach Richt”, greatest post ever!!!

By CaliDawg

November 22, 2007 3:08 AM | Link to this

Tech fans seem to always bring up the word “class”. How classy is it to drive an automobile all over the field of your opponent, having your three wins taken away for basically cheating, or having the opposing players’ game jerseys suddenly be discovered “missing”? Tech fans, look in the mirror.

By paul and joe

November 22, 2007 3:16 AM | Link to this

We just read a blog that was some what sad! A parent going on about their son visiting Tech. They obviuosly were Georgia fans and seemed very insecure because their kid was not Tech material. Who really cares about their BS or the Dumbass Techie anyway? It used to be fun reading these blogs,yet, the Atlanta Journal is so bias towards UGA and the writers are such jerks, that it makes for boring reading.

By UGA Grad

November 22, 2007 3:27 AM | Link to this

It amazes me how many Techies talk about UGA grads working for them. It sure seems like a huge majority of the bartenders I talk to and tip at the end of the night are Tech Grads (and good people by the way). The babysitter a Vandy grad. Just get over it people, if you’re one who tries to tell the bloggers that you have people working for you…get real. You’re nothing more than the “weekend millionaires” that show up in Vegas in a $200 suit and try to flash cash for a couple days, only to eat off the dollar value menu all week and argue with your friends that you paid more than you should have the last time you split the bill. Are you really that shallow? All that matters at the end of the game and for 365 days is the scoreboard.

By TC

November 22, 2007 3:37 AM | Link to this

Please let me remind everyone that the last three wins by Tech were not vacated and the record has stayed in tact, as in English, the wins still count. Read up on your facts before you start talking trash.

Cali, you’re statements are looking ridiculous. The Ramblin Wreck is considered unclassy? What are you smoking? It’s been a respected tradition for decades. That’s like a Tech fan saying that UGA running around the sidelines and biting at opposing players is unclassy. Give me a break.

Oh and those jerseys that were missing, were never proven to be taken by a Tech person. And it definitely wasn’t an unsportsmanlike penalty encouraged by the coach or had anything to do with the game of football. Keep trying. You’re still losing.

By heeldawg

November 22, 2007 5:32 AM | Link to this

First, to respond to Truthteller, a random selection:

1. Dan Amos, founder and CEO of AFLAC

2. Jim Blanchard, who built Synovus into a $34 billion interstate banking giant

3. Charlayne Hunter-Gault, prizewinning journalist

4. Deborah Norville, prizewinning journalist

5. Lewis Grizzard, late humorist and newspaper columnist

6. Alton Brown, host of the Food Network’s most popular show

7. D.W. Brooks, founder of the poultry giant Gold Kist (which recently merged with Pilgrim’s Pride)

8. Henry W. Grady, the former Atlanta Constitution editor who built the paper into a national institution

9. Julie Bryan Moran, television journalist

10. J.C Lewis, millionaire philanthropist and former mayor of Savannah

11. Jack Leigh, photographer who took the famous “Bird Girl” photo on the cover of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”

12. Fred Newman, Garrison Keillor’s sidekick in A Prairie Home Companion

13. Chip Caray, sports broadcaster

14. Douglas Ivester, former CEO of Coca-Cola

15. Joseph LeConte, geologist and founder of the University of California at Berkeley, and cofounder of the Sierra Club (with John Muir)

16. Crawford Long, M.D., the inventor of anesthesia, as mentioned above

Add to this list virtually every significant politician, lawyer and over half of the physicians in this state and you will begin to get an idea of the relative impact graduates of the University of Georgia has had (and continues to have) on the state we all live in.

“Truthteller,” your arrogance about the relative academic merits of Georgia versus Georgia Tech is the same tired dodge that Tech has always used to explain its lack of production on the gridiron. The fact is that there just isn’t much difference academically between the two institutions. Georgia’s incoming student body has an average SAT of 1242 and an average high school GPA of 3.73. Tech’s average SAT is 1320 (1260 for non-engineering majors) with an average high school GPA of 3.70. Note that Georgia’s student body (33,000 students) is roughly twice the size of Tech’s. Do the math on this (you should be able to handle that if you’re a Tech grad)and you’ll realize that just as many, if not more, smart people attend the University of Georgia than attend Georgia Tech. And the Hope Scholarship (an idea originated by Georgia graduate Zell Miller) insures that more are coming. The 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry went to a recent U.Ga. grad. Two of the 32 Rhodes scholarships awarded in 2007 went to U.Ga students (Tech had zero,again. They’ve had a total of three in the school’s history).

So shut up about the academics. Your argument is not backed up by hard data. And when we talk about football, let’s not get into that “Tech is harder to recruit for because it’s so difficult” crap. Tech recruits the same athletes that Georgia does, and makes the same academic exceptions for those athletes. Realistically, if both schools had to rely on players admitted under the regular admissions standards, the current football teams for both Georgia and Tech would have about ten to fifteen people each. It’s difficult statistically to find people with a 1200+ SAT and a 3.7 GPA who also are either 6’4” and 310 pounds or can run a 4.4 second 40-yard dash. There just aren’t that many folks like that out there (notable exceptions do include Georgia QB Matt Stafford, who made over 1200 on the SAT, and incoming freshman Richard Samuel, the #2 rated athlete in the country, who has a 4.0 GPA and a 1460 SAT). Tech is harder to recruit for because its recent football tradition is not as good as Georgia’s and it plays in a lesser conference. Kids want to play for a winning program, and the Dawgs have been winning for years and have a huge in-state following. It’s that simple.

The game is decided on the field of play. It is not a classroom exercise. So take your B.S. academic argument and shove it. It’s not working anymore (with apologies to David Allen Coe and the late Johnny Paycheck).

And, by the way, anybody who doesn’t think this is a rivalry anymore needs to read this Blog. There’s plenty of “clean, old-fashioned hate” to be spread around.

By Sundawg

November 22, 2007 7:55 AM | Link to this

Damn heeldawg, that’s a pretty impressive list. I’m sure some industrious Tech grad is working on their list.

I tried to calculate the difference in graduates over time to explain the huge ratio difference in fan base, but my head exploded.

Gotta go start on the turkey. To fans of both schools, good luck Saturday. And, of course, Go Dawgs!

By JS

November 22, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

Tech’s program only exists to beat UGA????? Get yourself a couple more national championships bulldogs. Heck, Tech has more SEC championships (including SIAA and SoCon) than UGA and we havn’t been in the conference for 40+ years! Get a life and TO HELL WITH GEORGIA.

By Navigator

November 22, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

In defense of Tech fans concerning their relationship with CGailey, Tech was a favorite of ESPN (Thursday) night . Why? They were an exciting, high scoring offense, that was in every game no matter who they played. Since CGailey (the offensive genius), they aren’t exciting, predictable, and not capable of staying with most good teams. Whether the won lost record is only slightly worse, the product on the field is dull and painful. Just like college coaches seldom do well in the pros, they opposite is also true. The pro coach wants to win by one point, and that’s a victory. In college, the fans want excitement and high scoring. 45-38 wins are great, where 10-9 wins are not acceptable, if that’s all the team can do.

By 2D

November 22, 2007 8:58 AM | Link to this

This Tech fan (and alum) can’t stand Georgia because of how the Georgia program is perceived by both it’s fan base and the local media.

We keep getting told that Georgia is a premier program, when in reality it isn’t a ton better than Tech. Save 3 years with Herschel, UGA was pretty much an 8 win program with a few great and a few losing seasons tossed in, up through the current regime. When compared with programs like Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and Southern Cal, Georgia is a step or two behin. Tech is behind but Georgia is not in the upper echelon.

Still, we are told that Georgia is a heavyweight. Why? Because the legions of Georgia fans, the vast majority of which never went to the University, are ready and willing to drink the Kool-Aid. Georgia is no different than other schools in that respect. I am a Buckeye fan and never attended the University, but I also try to remain objective.

The aforementioned programs are the gold standard. They are the top of the heap. Georgia is great but not excellent. Tech is good but not great.

I carry the sentiment of another earlier post. Ole Miss wanted to go the next level when they canned Cutcliffe and look where it got them. Coach Chan has cleaned up O’Leary’s mess, brought in the type of kids that we as fans can be proud of and won games with limited numbers of players. Unlike many coaches throughout the country, and every coach Tech has ever had, Coach Chan has never had a losing record, in the conference or over all, in six seasons. Tech has won more ACC games over the last six years than any program save FSU.

DRad may make a change. If so, I’m behind him, because I will support Tech no matter who the coach is. Still, I hope that he will have a solid plan in mind. While it’s always a good thing to strive for excellence, we must also temper that drive with good judgement. Again, remember programs like Ole Miss (Cutcliffe for Orgeron), Texas AM (RC Slocum for a slew of bums) and another just up the road in Clemson (Hatfield for Tommy West and now Tommy Bowden). They traded solid, consistent seasons for a series of debacles.

By Carz

November 22, 2007 9:00 AM | Link to this

Do you ever notice that its not Dawg fans talking about “how we won it all in 1980”. Its the opposing fans that are pointing out how long ago the last NC was. Sure, we talk about Herschel. He was out best player ever, or at least in modern history. Still, enough has been accomplished this decade to be proud of the team. If you guys would shut up about 1980, conversations about 1980 would be cut by two thirds.

By Carz

November 22, 2007 9:05 AM | Link to this

Please don’t talk about academics when it comes to football players and basketball players. You know the Tech athletes don’t have the same admissions policies as the general students. Yes, your school is more difficult for the average student, but not the athletes. Listen to Ryan Stewart on 790 the Zone. He went to Tech and he’s as dumb as a fence post. Stephon Marbury? Please.

By kevin

November 22, 2007 9:16 AM | Link to this

The reason Tech hates UGA goes back to common sense. THE NERDS hate the popular cool people. UGA is popular and cool, Tech is nerdy and 2nd tier in their own state. The only time this game matters is when UGA loses. It will never change, that is why Tech hates UGA.

By Carz

November 22, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

Hey 2D. Why do you put all those programs above UGA. Each with one NC in the last decade. Sure thats big, but involves luck. Yes USC has one NC, not two, and a whopping one undefeated season with all of that media hype. Michigan and Ohio State play aboout 2 tough games per year. Georgia would beat both of them right now. They would also beat them most years this decade about 50% of the time. Same with Oklahoma. They play in a crappy conference that most seasons has only Texas to compete with. If UGA makes one play in 2002 against Florida and has the same number of SEC East and SEC titles, we are not having this conversation.(I can’t explain the Florida thing, but UGA has won 2 of the last 4, so maybe its getting better) Oh yeah, most of the big programs have more non-graduates supporting them than graduates. Thats selling, and something that Tech lacks. I don’t hate Tech. I don’t hate Tech. I always cheer for the local boys. No I didn’t go to UGA. I just like the team.

By bobbylee

November 22, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

A UGA fan told me 1/2 the dawg fans hated Florida, 1/2 the dawg fans hate Georgia Tech and 1/2 the dawg fans hate Tennessee. By gawd.

By NerdHerd

November 22, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

I can’t wait until Saturday to see a SEA OF RED in BD stadium. With all the Tech fans selling their tickets it makes another home game for the Dawgs. Gotta love it!

Why is it that there is so much passion from Tech fans on these blogs, but there is a massive sale of their tickets?

By The Essence of Taste and Sophistication

November 22, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

As an incredibly successful and virile businessman who must find a way to divide his Thanksgiving holiday between a wife and two mistresses, I simply don’t have the time to wade through the hundreds of inane posts that have contaminated this blog.

Thus, this opinion may have already been expressed by some loser who is fortunate to share my way of thinking.

However, with all due respect to Mr. Winkeljohn, UGA does have some of the most obnoxious fans in all of college football.

Think about it: the Dawgs haven’t even sniffed a national championship since Herschel Walker played 25 years ago. (You may remember Herschel; he’s the notorious tough guy who likes to threaten 60-some-year-old coaches with bodily harm.)

And yet, to hear UGA fans tell it, they have one of the nation’s elite program.

The thing is, UGA should be a Top 10 team every year. With a great recruiting base, terrific facilities, a rabid (literally) fan base, and millions of dollars in the bank, UGA has assets that only a few programs possess.

So, how many national championships have these assets produced since Herschel took the money and stumbled out of Athens? Zero.

The fact of the matter is this: there’s not another program in the country that’s done less with more than UGA.

Heaven help us if UGA ever wins another national title, because its arrogant and ignorant fan base will never let the rest of us forget about it.

In the meantime, we’ll have to listen them praise “Saint Mark” for his two-bit motivational tactics, which appeal to human beings with extremely limited intellectual capacities.

(P.S. It’s too bad “Saint Mark” didn’t order those black jerseys in time for the Tennessee game.)

(P.P.S. For the record, despite my obvious disdain for all things red and black, I am not a Tech alumnus or fan. Actually, I hold mutiple degrees from Harvard, Yale, and the Larry Flynt Institute for Culinary Skills.)

By Dr Morpheus

November 22, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

What’s with hating UGA because people who never went there behave badly when they win?

By Cuz

November 22, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

Look out here comes the diablolical CHAN. Not since Steve Supperior has such an evil genuis been spawned. He has purposley lost every game to the Dawgs to lull them into complacency. The fiend.

By UGA + GT = LOSERS

November 22, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

Who cares. Both fan bases, small by college football standards, are for the most part dilussional, whinny, obnoxious, oh and did I mention dilussional. Neither will win their own conference division, at least out right, mcuh less their Conference. There are more non-UGA or GT fans in the state than fans of either of these 2 prepatory academies.

By Calvin

November 22, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

If Tech wins Saturday, what you at the AJC will write about is the high number of Georgia fans in the stands.

By Dr Morpheus

November 22, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

Warning to readers: “Essence of taste and sophistication is writing with “tongue-in-cheek.” He does not have two mistresses. Don’t play the fool and get sucked in.

By gtne80

November 22, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

I grew up in Atlanta as a Georgia Tech fan. Many of my friends were UGA fans. While I favored Tech over UGA, my hatred of UGA did not begin until I enrolled at Tech and it has festered and grown ever since.

My resentment took a huge step forward in the early 80’s (the Hershel era). UGA apparel and accessories were available at every retail outlet in Atlanta all the way from the local quick stop to Rich’s. To find a Tech T-shirt or mug I had to go to the GT bookstore. This was in my hometown and the city in which GT exists.

I learned at that time that most UGA fans were people that were drawn to UGA because they were “winners” (in other words “bandwagon” fans). Their allegiance was paper thin, but it didn’t stop them from acting like lifelong fans or alumni. Tech’s fan base is, for the most part, built on people who have attended or (like my parents) who have immediate family members that have attended GT.

Obviously the fact that the rivalry has been lopsided over much of my lifetime just adds to the resentment. Having been heckled on the way back to my car after a UGA-GT game or two by some drunken idiots dressed in red and black didn’t help my feelings toward the “loyal opposition.”

It fuels the fire for the non-affiliated UGA fans that are (as most will admit) the most obnoxious of the “fans” (i.e., the ones that have the big “G” on the tag on the front of their pickup truck and the spit stains down the side).

For the most part, I find that I relate well with UGA fans that are either life-long fans (folks that grew up as UGA fans) or those that actually attended the school.

Let UGA go through a 5-10 year dry spell and see what happens to their fan base.

By Phil

November 22, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Tech…your not man enough to beat Georgia

By heeldawg

November 22, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

“Dilussional?” “Whinny?” “Prepatory?”

Seems like someone could have used an education at either Georgia or Tech.

How are things in Reform School?

By UGAStudent

November 22, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Now for the new official Georgia Tech fight song.

“I’m a ramblin dork from Ga. Tech and a helluva engiNERD. A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva engiNERD. Like all other Tech fans, I’ve never kissed a girl. I’m a ramblin dork from Ga. Tech and a helluva engiNERD.

Oh if I had a daughter sir, I’d send her to UGA. I’d keep her away from Tech, to lower the ratio. And if I had a son sir, I tell you what he’d do. He would play, “DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS” like his daddy used to do.

Oh if I had a barrel of rum, and roofies three thousand pounds. A college girl to give it to, and the clap to spread around. Like all other Tech fans, I stir the roofies clear.

I’m a ramblin, dorky helluva engiNERD!!!”

Do we hate Tech? Absolutely. GO DAWGS!

By UGAStudent

November 22, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

Now for the new official Georgia Tech fight song.

“I’m a ramblin dork from Ga. Tech and a helluva engiNERD. A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva engiNERD. Like all other Tech fans, I’ve never kissed a girl. I’m a ramblin dork from Ga. Tech and a helluva engiNERD.

Oh if I had a daughter sir, I’d send her to UGA. I’d keep her away from Tech, to lower the ratio. And if I had a son sir, I tell you what he’d do. He would play, “DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS” like his daddy used to do.

Oh if I had a barrel of rum, and roofies three thousand pounds. A college girl to give it to, and the clap to spread around. Like all other Tech fans, I stir the roofies clear.

I’m a ramblin, dorky helluva engiNERD!!!”

Do we hate Tech? Absolutely. GO DAWGS!

By UGAStudent

November 22, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

Now for the new official Georgia Tech fight song.

“I’m a ramblin dork from Ga. Tech and a helluva engiNERD. A helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva, helluva engiNERD. Like all other Tech fans, I’ve never kissed a girl. I’m a ramblin dork from Ga. Tech and a helluva engiNERD.

Oh if I had a daughter sir, I’d send her to UGA. I’d keep her away from Tech, to lower the ratio. And if I had a son sir, I tell you what he’d do. He would play, “DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS” like his daddy used to do.

Oh if I had a barrel of rum, and roofies three thousand pounds. A college girl to give it to, and the clap to spread around. Like all other Tech fans, I stir the roofies clear.

I’m a ramblin, dorky helluva engiNERD!!!”

Do we hate Tech? Absolutely. GO DAWGS!

By Pete

November 22, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

In 80,81 and 82 Ga.,with the help of Mr. Walker,was undefeated in the SEC.The 83 team,without Herschel,was an incredible group of overacheivers and still undefeated in the SEC.Auburn came to Athens with probably the best team in the country and barely defeated Ga. in a classic hardfought game.The team was booed by the so called fans.Kinda similar to the reaction after the Tenn. game this year.You dawg fans suck.

By Gailey Can't Coach

November 22, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

Dr Morpheus:

“The Essence of Taste and Sophistication DOES have 2 mistresses: RIGHTY and LEFTY…

By Billy

November 22, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this

Heeldawg,,,

great post….i rest my case…you know,,,read a post from tech guy putting down farmers as they correlate farmers to uga in a degrating way….my granfather was a farmer and started w//two mules with a plow,,,a hundred acres AND attended uga….so did i and the rest of my family….my grandfather ended up owning two plantations and major player in us agriculture…..what chaps my butt is he helped clothe and feed that tech jerk and his family and that is the response we get???

i live in jax,,fl now and my wife (jax native) attended emory on a academic scholorship…..she was//is tech fan mainly b/c she loves football and emory has none sooo she had to pull for some team in atlanta…..for the past two years i have been trying to get her to understand the true meaning why me and the old school uga grads that i know hate the techmites sooo much….i have been letting her read some of blog to get the jest of tech and thier pompass degrating opinions on uga and thier “smartness”…..i think she’s finally getting it…..i do not disrespect tech as a learning institution but loathe them on thier ignorance regarding the intelligence of uga’s school and accomplishments to society or lack there of…..do i think that thier opinions will change???no i don’t…..with me and the uga people i know think that this rivalry goes alot deeper than a football game….yes,,,,there is some good ol fashioned hate with these two and the rivalry is alive and kicking…..heeldawg,,,couldn’t have said it better myself….

Goooo Dawgs and keep up the good work!!!!!

By Gary

November 22, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

Take it from a real dawg fan (one who actually went to and graduated from UGA) the only reason we don’t look at Tech as a big rival like Florida and Auburn is that they aren’t in the same conference so not as much is at stake. That being said, they are our cross-state rival and therefore we compete for many of the same recruits so the game is very important for bragging rights (and lord knows, both sides like to brag like crazy) Despite the rhetoric from each school’s fan base, they’re both great instituitions with great tradition and the game will always be huge no matter how good or bad the respective programs. I understand Tech’s pain with the lack of success recently, but finding a quality coach like Richt isn’t easy, we went through two mediocre head coaches ourselves when Dooley retired. Don’t give up Tech fans. Your day will come, just not this year or next, or at least until Stafford and Knowshon graduate. Sorry, that’s just the way it is. Go Dawgs! Sic ‘em. Woof woof woof!

By Nerd Basher

November 22, 2007 11:28 AM | Link to this

This “rivalry” is a joke. Georgia Tech is a school of one-dimensional, bug-like nerds that are not even worthy of dislike. The 30 seconds that I’m taking to write this has already taken more of my time than any other thought I’ve ever given them. I’m sure the pathetic little Techies hate the Dawgs, as seething jealousy saturates every iota of their being. The Dawgs are everything the Gnats wish they could be; smart, fun, attractive, athletic, popular, etc. The extreme depression caused by the Bugs’ lots in life, especially compared to those of the Dawgs, manifests itself in a severe inferiority complex. Go ahead and deal with it, it won’t change. I’m sorry that we Dawgs make you uncomfortable with yourselves. OK, not really.

By Mike T.

November 22, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this

Heck, Tech has more SEC championships (including SIAA and SoCon) than UGA

Tech doesn’t have twelve SEC Championships,nobody cares about the other.

By Mike T.

November 22, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Tech…your not man enough to beat Georgia

Georgia’s man enough to beat Tech, and anybody else that steps on the field with them.

By TinkyWinky Bennett

November 22, 2007 1:07 PM | Link to this

Fruit Roll-Ups???? Does your GT grad buddy happen to also be “FLAGBOY?!”

hahahahahahahahaha hahahaha hahahaahaha hahahhahaha!

By Akbar Obama Jacket

November 22, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

We a good team. Me like Gailey… I try to sell him oil.

By Eric W

November 22, 2007 2:23 PM | Link to this

All you Techies need to do is accept the fact that we are just better.

Plain and simple - Just Better

You hardly ever win and you always complain. Us that bleed red and black aren’t arrogant or cocky. We just have confidence in our ability to beat you.

We are the Bulldog Nation. We are diehard fans not only on Saturday afternoon but 365 days a year plus one on leap year.

We have to lose once every ten years or so just so you’ll keep playing and think you have a chance.

GO DAWGS!!!

By thegamedaychef

November 22, 2007 2:45 PM | Link to this

I do consider Tech a rivalry, because they are in-state and I lived in the ATL for a couple of years so I remember what it felt like up there.

I usually cheer for Tech, unless they are playing an SEC team. They are a GA school, and I always try to pull for the state. I apologize for any of our fans that act like jack-asses, and I hope that continues to be the exception, not the rule.

I was in ATL for the game a couple of years ago and I had a great time. Thanks to all the Tech fans for their hospitality. Here’s to hoping for a good, safe game this year, and may the best team win.

Cheers everyone. The Gamedaychef

By rob

November 22, 2007 2:52 PM | Link to this

Tech hates Georgia because there are no Tickle Piles in Athens

By Russ

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

When you write the reasons Tech fans hate UGA is b/c of the way UGA’s fans behave proves you have no clue.

The reason they hate UGA is b/c UGA beats them on the feild on a regualar basis. GT takes out their anger on the fans of UGA b/c they can’t do anything else to vent their frustrations.

I have been to the biggest stadiums in the South: LSU, Clemson, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, GT. Atlanta’s own Bobby Dodd stadium is the home of the most rude fans I have ever encountered. GT people hate UGA people like no other. (not the football team, Tech fans cross the line and take their anger out on normal people). If wearing red and puting red and black on your car is your idea of bad behavior you sound like the typical, overly sensative GT fan with low self esteem b/c their school and football team has been 2nd fiddle to UGA since the 1950’s.

I have never been threatened by any teams fans accept at Bobby Dodd stadium. When walking to your dump of a staduim the verbal insults from Tech fans are out of control.

Tech fans have no class nor civility for their own team or coach, much less civility for the visiting team.

It is sad but true, Tech has no class. Every where I travel, except for Bobby Dodd, UGA fans are complimented as being gentlemen.

Tech has alot to learn from UGA. Not only in how to feild a winning football program but also is normal, every day conduct.

By Dawg85

November 22, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this

I’m always amazed when Dawg fans stop claiming Tech as a rival. I think it was a pretty big deal when we beat Tech in 2001 after losing 3 in a row. I hate to lose to Tech— we better be ready this year too. The last few could have gone either way.

By King of Sense

November 22, 2007 4:45 PM | Link to this

I love how GT people say that UGA should be top 10 every year based on recruiting classes. Lets see, every year UGA has a top-10/top-15 type recruiting class, and, lo and behold, they are in the top 10 or at least top 15 every year! Its amazing. Truly incredible. What massive under-achievement. Fire everybody. Seriously.

Tech people are only good at being engineers. Leave everything else to the men, please.

By TiredOfAJCWriters

November 22, 2007 6:58 PM | Link to this

Matt - your writing stinks of an intern from UGA. Regardless of the subject, I wish you would be a true journalist and interview at least one Tech fan if you are going to write a story about them. However, I suppose you are like the rest of the AJC staff who attended UGA and force other citizens of Atlanta to read biased stories on a daily basis. When you do decide to act like a true professional and appropriately rewrite your story - interview some other SEC fans and they’ll give you the same answers Tech fans do.

By Tech sucks

November 22, 2007 7:05 PM | Link to this

I think I remember when retarded tech fans ruined the hedges in Athens after a win. I wanted to kill everyone of you nerds after that.

After this game tech fans should spend more time concentrating on getting a coach that does not suck.

By buckuga

November 22, 2007 7:20 PM | Link to this

I’m 40 years old & Tech has beaten UGA 11 times in my lifetime. They’ve won 3 of the past 16. It’s simply a rivalry in their minds. Remember folks…you can’t spell paTHEtiC without TECH.

By techwreck

November 22, 2007 7:38 PM | Link to this

It’s not a rivalry to U[sic]GA fans, but the majority of the comments here are from U[sic]GA fans. Makes perfect sense to me.

By yellow is the color of...

November 22, 2007 8:30 PM | Link to this

Georgia Tech is recognized for it’s academic reputation and 50 years ago was good in football.

Georgia is also recognized as a good academic school. Just check all the magazines that provide academic ratings and the recent article about UGA being the only school with two Rhodes scholars. After a few underwhelming football years we have again returned to a level of play that is recognized nationally.

Both schools enjoy intelligent and well educated alumni. Both also have to endure stupid fans that discredit both schools.

The difference is that Georgia typically limits their taunts to calling Techies nerds and picking on their recent football woes.

Tech is so obcessed with Georgia that we end their cheer. Their taunts are personal. They call the student, alumni, and extended fanbase stupid and refer to the school as the cesspool of the south.

All the while playing in an outdated stadium with support post in the sight lines and a pit for a urinal under the east stands. During warm days the whole place reeks. It had to be designed in house.

Tech’s taunts are past “good fun” and venture into personal. They resent the fact that most of the state rallys around UGA. But it is their fault. It is hard to jump on the bandwagon when it si filled with classless, rude, arrogant, and fans that totally lacks in humility.

Funny thing is the best person at Tech is their coach and they are chasing him off.

By Joe Bob

November 22, 2007 11:04 PM | Link to this

Hey Billy! Were you an English major at Georgia? ;) I’m glad your wife attended school on an academic “scholorship”. Someone in your family needs to average you out.

By TECH IS BETTER

November 23, 2007 12:55 AM | Link to this

I attended both schools. Bottom line:

UGA was easy.

Tech was very challenging and difficult.

It is like comparing apples and oranges. UGA exists to provide a LIBERAL education and field athletic teams. GT exists to educate the best and brightest in science and technology while having extracurricular activities like intercollegiate athletics. Tech does want to be their best in these extracurricular areas, but they realize their main goal. Most UGA fans don’t know the school is supposed to be about world-class, challenging education.

By AlabamaRamblinwreck

November 23, 2007 1:06 AM | Link to this

RUSS:

I was recently at a Vanderbilt basketball game. While there, I spoke with a lady working the seating, and she said that she also worked the seating at the Music City Bowl.

She said that without a doubt the UGA fans were the worst mannered she ever had to deal with. She stated that even Alabama fans were better mannered that the UGA fans. So, you may want to rethink your negative comments about GT. I had my GT sweatshirt on, and she had nothing but complements about how the GT fans interfaced with her at the basketball game.

By yellow is the color of...

November 23, 2007 1:55 AM | Link to this

While in Jacksonville at the GA/FLA game this year I ran into the Mayor of Jacksonville. He said that last year at the ACC championship game that the Tech fans were pathetic in their support of their team and were arrogant for no reason. He also said that his ex-mother in law lived in Nashville. She worked at the stadium and but she had great ideas on world peace and should be listened to. It seems she had this innate ability to judge people from a three hour ballgame experience.

yellow is the color of whizz

By Reggie Ball

November 23, 2007 2:00 AM | Link to this

Can I play again this year?

By SECfan

November 23, 2007 8:50 AM | Link to this

Tech fans hate UGA for the same reason every other school hates UGA…their antics and lack of class speak for themselves. And now, stand back so the idiots can start screaming that I’m just jealous…

By Real Tech Fan

November 23, 2007 9:05 AM | Link to this

Two years ago in Bobby Dodd, Buzz held up the following signs:

“Avg UGA starting salary: $37K Avg Tech Starting salary: $55K”

“Hey Redneck! It’s spelled D-O-G!”

Talk to me when you get to four national championships, Mr. Football School.

By gtlinz

November 23, 2007 9:11 AM | Link to this

No person in their right mind would be a Tech fan without having gone to the school. The majority of Tech fans love their school and support it. The problem with most Georgia fans is that they are not really Georgia fans - they are Yahoos who have to pick what they percieve to be a winner because their self worth is tied to what they are attached to (in other words - aside from UGA, they are losers). I don’t think GT fans have issues with real UGA fans. It’s the losers who log onto our site to post things. The real comforting fact is that this year they have everything to lose. We are going to a lower tier bowl no matter what. If UGA loses, the BCS party is over. GO JACKETS!

By theedge56

November 23, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

i have witnessed fans of many schools and by far uga fans are the rudest and most obnoxious. There is no need to act the w

By WFC

November 23, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

I’m a long-time (1960) GT fan and went to school there in the late 1960’s. I transfered because I wasn’t cut out to be an engineer. Still love the school, though. Some observations:

1. I don’t hate UGA. I play in a monthly poker game with 11 former high school coaches and friends. Only two of us are Tech fans. However, only one of the nine UGA fans actually attended UGA. Hmmm…. the others attended great little school such as Presbyterian, Emory, Wofford, etc. Most of them became Dawg fans in the glory days of Walker and Dooley… that’s their right of course.

2. I coached in south Georgia in the 1980’s and saw “up close and personal” thousands of Dawg fans who never went to ANY college. That’s OK of course. What wasn’t OK was the throwback racism. I guess that they didn’t notice that Herschel was an African American. What hypocrisy!

3. I have a somewhat unique perspective on the respective student bodies at GT and UGA. I spent the last 16 years of my teaching and coaching career at two fine North Fulton schools, Chattahoochee and Northview. I sent hundreds of fine students to both GT and UGA, many more to UGA of course. Here’s the deal. Not ONE of my former students who went to GT was anything but totally serious about their academic career. The same was true for about 50% of my students who went to UGA (a much larger number.) Lots of guys go to UGA because the football team is good and they like to party. Lots of girls go to party and find a husband who is acceptable to their family. I always find the “lack of women” at GT argument laughable. It’s been my experience that after college, when the somewhat harsh realities of life set in, women’s taste in men tends to change somewhat. The nice thing about female GT grads is that they can support themselves.

GO JACKETS!

By yellow is the color of...

November 23, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

I also grew up in south Georgia and attended a small college that did not have a football team. I love to follow college football and could have easily been a fan of either school.

In fact, the only member of my family that cared for football was a Bobby Dodd and GT fan.

In 1980 my brother and I obtained tickets to see our first college game. It was the Florida game in which Lindsey Scott scored in the last two minutes. After this introduction I found it hard to not root for UGA.

But I had not animosity towards Tech and could have easily supported them as well. The first GA/Tech game I attended was the fog game in the early 80’s. After a Tech win and leaving the stadium I saw Tech frat boys cursing and throwing liquor bottles at Georgia fans. One hit an older lady in front of me.

I endured many Tech attacks through the years and always excused their actions as a few ignorant and rude fans. I even had some Tech fans who sold product to me that I would go to Thursday night games with and tailgate with in Atlanta for the big UGA matchup.

In 2004 we once again were invited to he Tech tailgate. One of their Tech tailgate neighbors kept cursing oru Dawg friends and trying to pick a fight. He said that we had no right to be there and even though hekept bothering us that our redneck fan base would finally start a fight and that we would be forced to leave. Finally after a period of this rude behavior the Tech guy told my wife she had nice breast and that a friend in a 47 jersey was a pollock.

My biggest dissapointment was that my Tech friends excused his behavior by saying he had “probably been mistreated by UGA fans in the past.

My biggest problem with Tech fans today is that their attacks are too personal. Sure UGA fans call them nerds and ridicule their football team. But Tech fans call UGA fans stupid, say we are inbred, and call the University of Georgia the cesspool of the south. These aren’t taunts, they are personal insults.

Even my Grandfather came around before he died. After Dooley beat Dodd in both contest in which they coached he gave Dooley credit for his coaching ability and character. When he passed in 1983 he was a Dawg fan 51 weeks a year. I believe now its 52.

By dadgum

November 23, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

Georgia Tech will win tomorrow. Gailey has always won one game each year that saved his job. I see Georgia having a real tough time scoring points again against Tech and this time 15 points won’t win it. The only way Tech doesn’t win is if they turn the ball over 4 times again. Make it 23-16 Tech with the defense having their best game ever and the seniors going out a winner at last.

Go Jackets! maybe this game will actually become a rivalry again and receive national attention because right now nobody is talking about this game on any talk shows nationally.

By King of Sense

November 23, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

This whole thing has gotten stupid.

Georgia is better at everything (especially football) than Tech. Except producing engineering degrees. Congratulations Tech. You are a fine engineering school.

UGA- 44 GT - 6

-King

By GT5900

November 23, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

A large portion of Georgia fans are dip spitting, trailer trash, beer drinking, no class, rotten teeth, overrated bums. Thats what i think about 40% of them. My wife is a Georgia grad and she is classy and good looking too. Its those redneck losers who make UGA’s fans look so bad. Im not saying Tech doesn’t have some of those but just look at the big picture. Georgia supports their football team very well. Where are those fans when hoops season comes around? They can’t even put people in the upper sections of their crappy arena. I can’t even get a Tech hoops ticket to an ACC game because they are sold out. It is amazing that they support their womens gymnastics team more than their basketball team when basketball bring in the second most revenue next to football. I guess when you are a “football” school nothing else matters. I pull for Tech as a whole no matter if it is golf or football. Good luck to the Tech football team Saturday!

By fan995

November 23, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

Three Points and Two Questions:

1. GT has won twice as many national championships in football as UGA has (4 versus 2)(yes, 4 is twice as many as 2)

2. GT has won a national championship more recently than UGA (yes, 1990 is more recent than 1980)

3. There is a big difference in being a top 50 school and being a top 7 school. What were you before being a top 50 school? The best high school in Georgia?

4. With three times the student body, and many times over the athletic and recruiting budget, isn’t it humiliating that UGA EVER loses to GT??? It’s like the United States losing a war with Canada.

By yellow is the color of...

November 23, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

There is a waiting list for Tech basketball, but you can’t sell out your football games except to your rivals. How full is the McDonalds Boob Dome with Duke, Clemson, and NC fans to create that waiting list.

Keep finishing near the bottom of the ACC as see how your ticket sales go.

By the way, I have a GT friend who drives a beer truck, is potbellied, and dips. Him along with his car parts counter buddy make up 40% of your loyal fan base as well.

Get a life. You don;t have to go to UGA to be a loyal Dawg fan, just smart enough to pick UGA over a mediocre football school.

If Tech stands a chance it is going to be because of your coach and your intelligent fan base is chasing him out of town.

By Gerorgia Academic Prowess

November 23, 2007 3:57 PM | Link to this

UGA academic prowess….riding the coattails of two Rhodes scholars for a year and counting.

By Mack

November 23, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this

two words….REGGIE BALL hahahahaha!

By JD

November 23, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

What’s up with the UGA fans calling us nerds? What are y’all, in the third grade? Oh, sorry, bad question.

By Toad

November 23, 2007 7:38 PM | Link to this

Good comeback JD. Alot of thought must have gone into that.

By ugartist

November 24, 2007 12:44 AM | Link to this

I like Ogre’s comment below me. However i like to use the term “dorkus Malorkus” And we are def. comming! It’s not gonna be pretty boys!

By Mike Billips

November 24, 2007 8:23 AM | Link to this

Hey, the booing at Gailey during the VT game was hugely justified. Not only were the fans cranky after getting stomped in a game where Tech was favored, but Gailey was up on the Jumbotron lecturing us about our ability to hold our liquor (something in which Tech fans hold justifiable pride).

That’s at much of the root of the Gailey dislike. He looks, sounds and acts like your querulous grandmother. Can you imagine George O’Leary recording an anti-drinking ad and seeming sincere about it? He’d do it, but people would laugh and admire his roguishness.

Georgia hates to lose the Tech game way more than they like to win it. Let Tech get on another win streak, and you’ll see how big that game is to them.

By George Fountotos

November 24, 2007 9:31 AM | Link to this

Bees are an endangered species!! LOL

By Michael G.

November 24, 2007 9:41 AM | Link to this

Maybe someone can help me out with this. I’m 31 years old and during my lifetime UGA has lost to Tech only 8 times. Can someone please explain to me why I should not overlook Tech and take them seriously? I mean I only know of UGA victories over Tech, and I do not think of Tech as any kind of rival comparable to Tenn., Auburn, or Fla. I’m of the opinion that you have to show me. Richt has not lost to Tech, Chan has not beaten UGA. Why should I believe that this year should be any different?

By Bleed Red and Black

November 24, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

I really enjoy the bantering on this and the Dawg blog by all the Tech fans who try and berate Georgia fans. First let me make a comment on the article itself. Remember that thing? Georgia fans are no more obnoxious than any other schools fans. We have our A.H.’s just like any other institution of higher learning and we are no more proud of them than you are of your’s. Yes, Tech has it’s very loud share of obnoxious fans who get just as drunk and loud. For that matter so does Florida, Auburn, and Tennessee. We have suffered through enough of them over the years as well. As for this not being a rival. I say BS to anyone who says other wise either Tech or Georgia fan. This is what makes or breaks both systems year and is circled on everyones calender. Don’t worry if some feel that not enough Tech fans wear or display their colors. I see as much or more Black and Gold and that dang flying bug every day as I travel I-75 200 miles each day. No shortage there. I display my Georgia Bulldog win or lose and look forward to every Saturday. I poke fun for about a minute or so at my friends who are fans of the teams we beat as I take the ribbing when we lose. We both just smile in the end and say “Next Year.” Well some do any way. See you in the stands today. I will be one of those “Woof Woof Woofing” as we go out to beat Tech.

By Michael G.

November 24, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this

bleed red and black….sorry but this is not a make or break game for UGA’s season nearly as much as Auburn, Florida or Tennessee is. Those are games that matter. Beating Ga Tech is fun (we do it every year), but it’s not a rival to anyone under the age of 30, simply because we only know of victories in this series.

By UGA97alum

November 24, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

As someone who is from Georgia, and grew up watching both teams (and, by the way, was accepted at both schools with a scholarship), I think that I have a very strong opinion about today. I have always had a healthy respect for Tech (yes, a great academic institution), and its football tradition dating back to John Heisman.
Actually, this game ceased to be a rivalry after Tech left the SEC in 1966. For 30 plus years, this game, along with Alabama and Auburn, was a key game at the end of the year that determined the SEC pecking order. Therefore, some of the sizzle was lost. At the same time, Bobby Dodd retired, and Vince Dooley was rapidly ascending as one of the best coaches in his generation (much as Dodd was). A third factor in the watering down of the rivalry is the simple fact that Tech’s mission as an engineering institution has changed. Academic standards have changed (as have Georgia’s). The student composition has changed quite a bit in the last 40 years, and many recent graduates and current students do not share the same passion for this game (or for ACC or SEC football at all) as their predecessors did. On the other side of the coin, Georgia is still the state’s flagship university…although, to my dismay, most students now come from the Atlanta area, and their families are not from here and don’t have any idea what conditions are like economicaly or politicaly outside of the metro area (hint, these things go hand in hand. I could go on and on, but I won’t. I do hope for a good game today, and I think it will be - “rather beat them than eat” as my dad says. With that said, UGA 21, Tech 17. Tech…please, please, please, BEAT UNC TWICE THIS YEAR!

By VT

November 24, 2007 3:47 PM | Link to this

OH MY GOD! Tech drops a sure TD and then UGA gets LUCKY again w/ that touchback. A dog’s day of luck is setting in. UGA IS LUCKY AS H-LL!! OH MY.

By JS

November 25, 2007 11:50 PM | Link to this

Do I even have to mention the UGA student sitting in front of me at the game who pulled out the hunting knife he brought into the stadium show-off to his friend?

By james

November 26, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

LOL tech actually has fans? learn something new every days.. GOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!! 7 in a rowwwwwwwww

By JS

November 26, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

I also forgot to mention the screw I found propped against my tire after parking next to some completely obnoxious UGA fans before the game. They were yelling (mostly barking) at us when we politely left the parking garage, and returning 20 minutes later to switch coats before the game I see a metal screw stuck under my front tire. Nice. At least some of the UGA fans I met were nice people, but they certainly are drowned out by the knife-carrying, vanalizing, drunk morons. I hope those were not UGA students and were instead just ‘fans’ upset they weren’t smart enough to get into any college.

By GT Fan now a UGA Fan

November 26, 2007 10:18 PM | Link to this

By GT Fan to be UGA Fan

I have been a long term fan since Bobby Dodd was coaching.

Over the decades, Tech has always had excuses as to why it did not have a winning football program. I am tired of waiting and waiting.

I hereby resign my aligence with Tech and I will join the Bulldog Nation because they know how to recruit, play hard and win.

Signed: The Newest Member of the Bulldog Nation……..

By Randy

November 26, 2007 10:43 PM | Link to this

Have any of you guys ever looked at one of the Dawg Blogs? There are just as many idiots ‘jumping in’ that are Tech Students, Alumni and Fans.

I have had two plates stolen and my car ‘keyed’ while attending UGA/GA Tech events on Tech’s campus. (The plates were expensive - who knows, it might have been a Red/Black who took them :-).

It is fair to say that most people in Gold/Black and most people in Red/Black are good people who enjoy the rivalry - but in a good natured way.

Tech has their fair share of morons. Do you have as many? No! But you also have a much smaller base. That isn’t meant as a ‘dig’ - it is just a fact.

There were comments on the radio today about UGA players having to duck objects that flew out of the stands for the first 20 minutes of the game…

Realize that this blog was meant to provoke interest through emotion - so your not going to get too many rational responses.

Bottomline: We could all learn from the players. Most of these guys grew up in this state. Many were team mates or played against each other at rival schools. Some are long time friends! At a minimum, they respect each other…

Good luck with your search to replace Gailey. Not convinced it is the right thing to do. It took him a long time - but he appeared to me that the recruiting ‘turned the corner’ last year. It could take a few years to rebuild that network, unless you grab Johnson out of Navy. With that said, he has been away for 5 years…

See you on the court…