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By WreckgoesTHWUGA

January 2, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Georgia and the Southeast are rich in HS football talent, but we need to cast a wide net to get enough academically qualified studs. Maybe lure a few Yankees down here with the warmer climate/academic/urban campus trifecta. Already severely handicapped this season, I think Johnson is wise to focus on local talent, but be ready to broaden the search next year. We can’t afford to “write off” this recruiting season, but expectations should be realistic. Good HC. Good staff. Good grief, let’s get going, Jackets!!!!

By Jack Sprat

January 2, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

If the new staff can’t recruit in state the Institute will never be anything more than an also ran in their conference and in Georgia. Give them a couple of years and see what happens but, I don’t think that the whining Bug fans will be willing to have a little patience and after the first couple of losses next season some will be calling for Johnson’s head and pining for the good old Gailey days. If the roster isn’t at least 60% in state kids it will mean that the Herd will be trying to make it with the left overs from other states who didn’t get recruited by their big home schools and take what they can get. Yes I know, occasionally every school gets a really fine player from out of state who wants to attend a particular school for whatever reason but if you can’t keep the good players at home you are going to have some really tough sledding.

By ramblin'

January 2, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

I think it’s important to get as many quality players from Ga. as possible. They are far more likely to understand the true meaning of “COFHate” than someone from Penn., and all other things being equal, it’s still a game of passion. UF found that out yesterday. LMAO!

By Football Fanatic

January 2, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

Tech’s staff may or may not know UGA, but it is the players that take the field, not the staff. UGA will always have better players and will beat Tech every year.

By casey

January 2, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

The way to build a program is to recruit in state talent. Paul Johnson knows this is the key to a successful program. Players from Georgia know how much the GT UGA rivalry means to the state. Kids from up north or anywhere else for that matter dont know. Also kids from georgia are playing with there family and friends in the stands every game and those family and friends read the paper and blogs. That means there is more on the line for them and they play harder and care about how they do. In state recruiting means everything to a football program. Johnson knows this. Cant wait fot next season!

By techster

January 2, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

After watching Hawaiis chuck and duck offense. I am having nightmares about GT never, if ever winning a bc game. Especially GA. I wonder sometime if they should not have fired the Radkal instead. Where is Bobby Dodd when we need him.

By techsux

January 2, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this

Whatever. Johnson will soon learn that it doesn’t matter, UGA will always get the better players, and he will be gone in 4-5 years.

And I thought your AD said he wouldn’t hire a coach if he was a UGA alum? Maybe a head coach? whatever, bunch of losers!

Nerds!

By ramblin'

January 2, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

Looks like PJ is going to do things his way! And the man understands the game we all love so well. If you score more points, you win. No OC and he calls his own plays, plus two offensive line coaches.

That’s “where it’s at”, in the OL. Tim Tebow found that out yesterday. Heisman in hand and perhaps the greatest athlete in the country could not get the job done. His OL got beat and he just couldn’t do it all by himself.

Perhaps it’s time to call our coach Mr.J. PJ just doesn’t sound right. right.

By Tokyo jacket

January 2, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

I think he kept the best of the staff. I know it didn’t look like it in Boise, but Tenuta would have been a good hold over as well. Jean-Marie, Kelly, and Smith are some of the best young coaches at their positions. They could have left and probably gotten promotions at a “mid major.” They didn’t. I wonder why? Did CPJ sell them that they’ll really be able to make a name for themselves at Tech? These guys ALL got interest from outside. Maybe they know something we don’t.

I love having every coach recruit in state. I look forward to what we can bring in next year. Academic eligibility in state is good this year. It will be helpful for our transitional stage in recruiting. I wonder if we’re moving up on Coley White’s (Pat White’s little brother)radar now?

I saw the rainbows get rocked too. But their problem was defense as much as it was offense. I’m tired of hearing that Johnson’s schemes won’t work at “the BCS level.” Tell that to Rodriguez and Meyer. Their systems are entirely designed around QBs making good, quick decisions and misdirection. One has a national championship and the other has been to what, 3 or 4 BCS bowls? That’s not to say CPJ’s system will work; but don’t say it can’t!

By gtfan

January 2, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

tech has recruited ga in the past and last year well. we have pulled great talent from la and al and in the past a lot of ol from penn. gt’s ad never said he would not hire a ga alum that was some crazy fan as for ga always recruiting better 1/3 of mr recruits never play for ga they funk get arrested or stay drunk or stoned

By ga_tech_92

January 2, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

Yes we should try to get as many good recruits from in state and nearby states as possible. Yes we should go outside the state for studs, as needed. Yes UGA gets better recruits on average; duh it’s a football factory. Yes Coach Paul Johnson is a welcome addition to the Flats, welcome sir! Let’s see if we can’t be more of a pain in UGA’s rear than we have been. Our time is coming to sting those dogs!

By Football Fanatic Is Another UGA IDIOT

January 2, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

What a FINE EXAMPLE of why most of UGA’s students and athletes would NEVER be accepted at GT:

“Tech’s staff may or may not know UGA…”, says Football Fanatic. Only someone with a UGA background would rush to post something anywhere online just to show how STUPID he is!

Hey IDIOT: The story is about Tech’s staff knowing the STATE of GEORGIA, not the U of GA! Get it???

Why don’t you Ball-Lickers just stay on your own blogs, where stupidity runs rampant and is universally accepted as THE NORM?!?!

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

look uga rednecks get a hops team and a baseball program then call us here on the flats and talk smack, gt ownes uga in 2 out of the 3 main sports

By surfrider

January 2, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

Don’t get me wrong since these guys do have a strong regional presence but this is the first thing I’ve heard that may need some direction on. The problem with Tech is it’s academics and can the players meet it. I’m all for recruiting in state if we can get the players but everyone and their brother is recruiting Ga. Tech should be able to improve it’s recruiting in Ga. with this staff but needs to look Nationally. Curry recruited heavily in Ga. if memory is right and we took some players that maybe we should’nt have taken towards the end, and the same with Pepper in his last two years. Granted they were’nt running this offense. Ross and O’leary had the right formula in my opinion, recruit first in Ga/ and area but don’t settle for a B player (who can still walk-on) when we can get an A player from Ohio, Penn, Calif., Texas, New Mexico, anywhere. Attrition kills a GT one of the pluses of Johnson and his background at Navy. Yet, I’m excited about returning some recruiting pluses in Ga. after Ross and O’leary had made some good inroads, and even Pepper early on did great in Ga. recruitingwise. Hey, if they can get someone good in Hawaii all the better but there are plenty of great players in this state as Mark Richt and other schools are showing.

By surfrider

January 2, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

Don’t get me wrong since these guys do have a strong regional presence but this is the first thing I’ve heard that may need some direction on. The problem with Tech is it’s academics and can the players meet it. I’m all for recruiting in state if we can get the players but everyone and their brother is recruiting Ga. Tech should be able to improve it’s recruiting in Ga. with this staff but needs to look Nationally. Curry recruited heavily in Ga. if memory is right and we took some players that maybe we should’nt have taken towards the end, and the same with Pepper in his last two years. Granted they were’nt running this offense. Ross and O’leary had the right formula in my opinion, recruit first in Ga/ and area but don’t settle for a B player (who can still walk-on) when we can get an A player from Ohio, Penn, Calif., Texas, New Mexico, anywhere. Attrition kills a GT one of the pluses of Johnson and his background at Navy. Yet, I’m excited about returning some recruiting pluses in Ga. after Ross and O’leary had made some good inroads, and even Pepper early on did great in Ga. recruitingwise. Hey, if they can get someone good in Hawaii all the better but there are plenty of great players in this state as Mark Richt and other schools are showing.

By RAMBLE ON!

January 2, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

Coach Johnson doesn’t need anyone telling him how and who to recruit. He’ll do fine, and will start beating the fleabags soon and regularly. That’s why the stupid mutts are on here, because they are very worried their Coach Gailey is gone.

Guess what fleabags. Paul Johnson has won more National Championships himself than your beloved football history.

Keeping Giff Smith was HUGE, much bigger than keeping Tenuta.

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this

get a clue uga fans and get 3 more national titles and you will catch up to the jackets. uga losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:24 PM | Link to this

hahahahahaha uga ball lickers yelp you are exactly right they are ball lickers and (rednecks)

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this

you know what uga stands for right?……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..u grad. automatically hahahahahahahahahhahahhaha

By Blackdawg

January 2, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

Did you yellow jackets see my boy Matt Stafford last night. He just makes me feel so…well, funny inside. Can you imagine how much the football team spooned each other last night after beating that pathetic high school team coach by the ex-falcon great JUNE JONES!!! it’s silly thinking about it. It gives me goose bumps?

GOOOO DAWGS SPOON’EM!!!!!!!

By TDone

January 2, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this

To Mr. Jack Sprat, in 2008 when Muttland does not:

1. Get into the BCS title game.

2. Get into a BCS bowl game at all.

3. Does not win the SEC.

4. Does not win the the SEC East.

5. Does not beat Arizona State, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and Georgia Tech.

What will the Bulldung Nation say about Saint Mark then?

Expectations are a blessing and a curse.

You folks have more to worry about than little ole Tech. Just be there when we come to Muttland, Muttlander.

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this

hey rambleon, you know the fleabags are a bunch of rednecks right? i went to the game up in athens last year where we got ripped off by the officials, when they let the uga guy take the ball out from under a gt guy who was down, and run it in for a td, but if that’s the way you gotta win then take it right dawg fans

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this

i am a gt fan guys but we gotta stop recruiting these 2 and 3 star players and go after the 4 and 5 star players, do what you gotta do and get them in here.

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

ohhhh yeah your fleabags looked very good beating a team with the 116 ranked schedule, really impressive

By surfrider

January 2, 2008 7:38 PM | Link to this

I’m excited about Johnson becoming coach but want to remind people it was’nt that Chan was listening and doing what the fans wanted or even O’leary at the end it was the opposite. Fans that have followed Tech for years can help coaches not fall into the same old traps the previous ones have fallen into…starting with academic and attrition problems, then not have an option attack, not being able to throw, etc…no reason to reinvent the wheel. I like what I’m hearing from this straight talking coach and I like this staff I heard today.

By surfrider

January 2, 2008 7:38 PM | Link to this

I’m excited about Johnson becoming coach but want to remind people it was’nt that Chan was listening and doing what the fans wanted or even O’leary at the end it was the opposite. Fans that have followed Tech for years can help coaches not fall into the same old traps the previous ones have fallen into…starting with academic and attrition problems, then not have an option attack, not being able to throw, etc…no reason to reinvent the wheel. I like what I’m hearing from this straight talking coach and I like this staff I heard today.

By gt more national titles then uga

January 2, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this

remember uga fleabags national titles georgia tech-4 and lil ole uga -1 1980 was so memorable for the puppies hahahahahahha

By T

January 2, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

* Sadly, the majority of talented football players in the state of Georgia dont make the grades to be admitted to Tech, UGA doesnt have the same admission constraints. Comparing the two schools in regards to recruiting is an apple and orange comparision. I seriously doubt that many on the Georgia football team could remain eligible to play if attending Tech. Tech doesnt offer many of the gimme majors that UGA or other state schools offer. At Tech you must be a true student-athlete, at UGA … well, just sign up for a course in basketball.*

By Reality

January 2, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this

Before you perpetually underachievers forget, I understand there are still good seats for the upcoming ROADY’S HUMANITARIAN BOWL in “chilly” Boise. Bring on Fresco State for another TWACKING! Go BULLDOGS!

By Ready When You Are

January 2, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

Good thing Coarch Johnson was able to scope out Boise; you know for next year!

By GIT Schedule maker

January 2, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this

Coach Johnson, how many home games should we plan for Boise next year? Thanks.

By Knowledge Man

January 2, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this

I think everyone at Tech knows GEORGIA very well. Go DAWGS!

By G

January 2, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this

Note to “T”. Ah, yes, the tired rant about Tech’s superior academics which is another myth of the LOSER. BTW, how many of those remarkable classes have you paid $40 to watch?

By ray

January 2, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this

Have y’all noticed that the uga fans are getting more and more foul-mouthed,shriller, and full of bragging and bluster? These are sure signs that they are worried about a resurgence of GT under Coach J. I strongly suggest that GT fans simply ignore these silly uga comments. Games will be won on the playing field,not by exchanging insults with immature children.

By Butt-Sniffers 'R Us

January 2, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this

Hey Reality: By perpetually (sic) underachievers you do mean our own UGA Dawgs, right? We were supposed to win the SEC this year, but couldn’t even win our Division. We were supposed to play for the NC, but got leapfrogged by THREE other teams while idle. That’s the textbook definition of underachiever…

By Word on the street

January 2, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this

Tokyo Jacket, the word on the street is that coley white is most likely going to commit to Tech soon after he talks to his brother this weekend. Inside info!

By Darth Visor

January 2, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this

Jack Sprat:

caaaa-rrrr…caaa-rrrr…I AM YOUR DADDY…caaaa-rrrr…caaa-rrrr…YOU MUST BEAT ME TO WIN THE SEC….caaaa-rrrr…caaa-rrrr….

By G Is Another UGA IDIOT

January 2, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

G: You’re just STUPID.

Every student-athlete at GT is REQUIRED to have taken 4 yrs of ADVANCED MATHEMATICS in high school and is REQUIRED to take (and pass) at least 1 yr of CALCULUS upon enrollment at GT. **It is a FACT, not a myth.

How many of The Soulja Boy Dawgs could meet those requirements??? Maybe 1-2%…That’s WHY they play for UGA and not GT. They wouldn’t be ACCEPTED at GT, so they aren’t even PURSUED. Get it yet?

It’s the DIFFERENCE in acceptance standards, where there basically aren’t any at UGA beyond being able to spell your name correctly and run a 4.5/40…And if you can run a 4.3/40, you don’t even have to spell your name correctly…Ahhh, UGA pride. LOL

By MisterT

January 2, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this

I will say it again, Tech doesn’t have to really “win recruiting battles” against uga to be more successful in state. There were 37 local players in the Chick-fil-a Bowl between Clemson & Auburn. We only need to stop the out of stae bleeding. That is not to mention the Bama, FSU, Florida and USC recruits we lose.

Plus stop using the acedemics as a crutch. It should be and I think will be with CPJ, a recruiting tool. Stop selling the athletes short.

It is not only true that the fans will return if Tech starts winning, but so will the recruits. Guys will come to Tech for the opportunity to play sooner, if they feel they have a resonable chance to win as well.

uga fans are right…stop whinning about acedemics. Dr. Rice and Coach Curry started to turn around the Tech program in the early 80’s after a dismal period under Pepper. They embraced the “Total Person Concept” and it was with Curry’s Jr’s and Sr’s that Coach Ross won the 90 NC.

It can be done again. Smart, talented young men will see past the negative recruiting tactics of the neighboring programs. It will take a little time, but it will happen.

I find it really interesting how consumed the uga () are obsessed with telling Tech how bad we are and how it wil never change. Who are they trying to convince?

BTW…Blackdawg, you really need to take the spoon act to the uga blogs. I think you are the perfect anti-yellowblood.

WHAT’S THE GOOD WORD?

By got the hs transcripts

January 2, 2008 9:47 PM | Link to this

Come on T. I have gazed upon some of the high school transcripts of many of your Tech players, football and basketball. Very average grades in some very average high schools, in state and out of state high schools. I see no real evidence in these transcripts of “suped up” math curriculums, either. Not exactly taking Calculus. Quit blaming the loss of in state recruits on grades…That has gone on for too long here at Tech. It does sound like a great excuse, but you have a bunch who are not rocket scientists, either. Tech players once went to class on Saturday mornings and played a football game that afternoon. Bobby Ross put an end to that, and Paul will put an end to the poor in state recruiting efforts.

By yellowblood

January 2, 2008 10:44 PM | Link to this

I don’t think there is anything wrong with our staff’s. I know there’s nothing wrong with the ones I’ve seen at Tickle Piles. They seem straight and strong to me.

By Some People NEVER Get It

January 2, 2008 11:04 PM | Link to this

OK, one more time for the slow crowd: It’s NOT just about high school grades and transcripts…It’s about whether or not the recruit could survive the academic rigors of his Freshman year at GT, which again REQUIRES at least 1 yr of CALCULUS at GT for EVERY STUDENT.

If anyone still thinks that an athlete’s Freshman year at UGA working towards a P.E. Degree is somehow equal (academically) to a GT student-athlete taking a REQUIRED full year of college-level advanced mathematics, then I invite YOU to apply for acceptance at Georgia Tech.

The acceptance standards ARE so different that T is CORRECT…It’s an apples to oranges comparison. In fact, the 2 schools RARELY pursue the same high school recruits…Quite simply because most high school football players are more concerned about playing time and couldn’t care less about calculus. GT Recruiters KNOW this and don’t even waste their time with most of the recruits UGA offers. It’s not an EXCUSE…It’s a FACT.

Sorry UGA fans, but it’s TRUE. GT doesn’t want most of your players because they’d flunk out of Tech in the first year. And sorry Tech fans, but until the Board of Regents loosens the entrance and curriculum requirements at GT (if they ever do), most of those 4 and 5 star recruits won’t be playing at GT.

That doesn’t mean Tech can’t or won’t be competitive or get Blue Chip players at key positions (reference Bobby Ross’s 1990 NC Team…And C Johnson, the highest NFL-drafted player EVER out of any GA school…And T Choice, ACC Rushing Leader 2 years in a row). It DOES mean the coaching staff has to fully prepare and make the most of the players they do have and know how to prepare a competent gameplan before the first snap AND make adjustments during the game. Gailey’s staff was woefully inept at all of the above.

PJ is about to make history at GT. He already has a STRONGER in-state recruiting network than Gailey ever had. He knows how to make the most of limited talent and can routinely BEAT more talented teams with his proven system. The talent he can recruit at GT will make his Navy recruits look like a group of 1 and 2-star guys. Yes…It’s even harder to recruit talented athletes to the service academies than to GT.

And “got the hs transcripts”, show me ONE GT Football Player in the past 50 years who DID NOT take at least ONE YEAR of CALCULUS upon enrollment at GT. You claim to see the inside info. So if you can’t produce this one piece of PROOF, then just STFU!

By GT321

January 2, 2008 11:10 PM | Link to this

right! our new staff will do FINE! UGA fans are just here to talk their sh** as always…thats all they no howda do! I strongly agree with G is another UGA IDIOT…maybe thats why 1 of there players went ahead to the NFL! What Brown had in 2 years, Choice had in 1! Theres nothing you can really brag about. It’s just all LUCK!! and yes just shows that yall are getting worried that we lost chan! GO JACKETS!! Give Em HELL

By Einstein

January 2, 2008 11:17 PM | Link to this

I find the comments about GIT’s overrated academic superiority to be a gigantic mask for their academic AND athletic inferiority. See you in Boise…NOT. (I’m too intelligent to find myself there.) Have a calculating day. Oh, and the DAWGS are not worried about anything. You’re the ones who have lost 7 in a row. You’re just a schedule flea to flick before proceding to important games.

By Headline Achives

January 2, 2008 11:21 PM | Link to this

Georgia Tech announces Chan Gailey as new football coach. “His experience and contacts in the college and professional ranks highly qualifies him to assume the top job on the Flats. We expect great things from him and he fully understands how important it is ti beat Georgia.” Memories… And now more of the same in 2007….

By Joe

January 2, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this

They might know GA, but none of them are very good coaches…looking more and more like Bill Lewis territory coming up…

By GIT Employment Office

January 2, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

News Release. “We regret to announce that Paul Johnson and his entire coaching staff have failed to pass an elementary CALCULUS exam, which of course, is required of all Tech employees. This is an unfortunate setback in the football program’s return to mediocrity. Film at 11.

By Videoman

January 2, 2008 11:31 PM | Link to this

Do any of you calculus wizards have a copy of the ROADY’S HUMILIATION BOWL game. I enjoyed it so much live, I want to see it again. I’ll give you a copy of the Sugar Bowl in exchange. Call me 555-DAWG.

By Stats Guy

January 2, 2008 11:38 PM | Link to this

BTW, how is the powerful ACC doing in bowl games? Of course Tech lost, but how about the others? FYI, the SEC is 6-2 with one to go. Have a great evening.

By The Count

January 2, 2008 11:43 PM | Link to this

2-4-6-EIGHT, who will we (continue to) humiliate? You nerds, of course.

By UGA Pubic (sic) Relations Dept

January 2, 2008 11:50 PM | Link to this

A frustrated Coach Mark Richt is unable to explain to the Bulldog Nation how an upstart head coach at in-state rival Georgia Tech was able to soundly BEAT UGA between the hedges in the first ever meeting of the coaches. A stuttering Richt, who appeared to have fresh vomit stains on his UGA sweater, quoted former NFL head coach Bum Phillips when asked about Coach Paul Johnson’s victory:

“That Paul Johnson is a fine head coach…He can take hissin and beat yourn and he can take yourn and beat hissin.”

Coach Johnson had only one comment, quoting a line from a Rowdy Roddy Piper movie (They Live):

“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick @ss…And I’m all out of bubble gum.”

How quickly the tides can change in the world of college football rivalries…The ones who are on top are the last to find out.

By quaildawg

January 2, 2008 11:53 PM | Link to this

Thanks to you all for ending my night with great laughs and guffaws at some of these posts. I was really down in the dumps about UGA only getting in the Sugar Bowl and then I was even more down that we won by only 31. Thanks again for ending my night with a smile and reminding me how……………………………….. GREAT IT IS TO BE A GEORGIA BULLDOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS: Don’t be soooo pessimistic. If this football thing doesn’t work out just think about how valuable the piece of real estate Bobby Dodd Stadium is and how it would make a great Service Center site for Dell or another computer company and their CS Reps wouldn’t have to commute to Shrilanka to answer all my tech questions they could just pickup their diploma and headset and their in business. What do you think?!!!!!!!!

By I Got Your Video Right Here!!

January 2, 2008 11:57 PM | Link to this

Hey Videoman: Interested in a trade?

I Tivoed UGA’s HUMILIATION at the hands of Steve Superior this season. I also have this year and last year’s VOLS games…You know, where they wiped the field with Dawg Butts for 60-min. In fact, you can have them all for FREE! Call me at YUC-KFOO!

By AlabamaRamblinwreck

January 3, 2008 12:00 AM | Link to this

By the way UGAYers,

It sure looks like an option offense will work against BCS teams. Look at what West Virginia is doing to Oklahoma tonight!!

I promise you that W.V. does not have the blue chip talent that the Sooners do, but their option scheming is hard to stop. Get ready now. CPJ is coming.

By AlabamaRamblinwreck

January 3, 2008 12:37 AM | Link to this

By the way UGAYers,

It sure looks like an option offense will work against BCS teams. Look at what West Virginia is doing to Oklahoma tonight!!

I promise you that W.V. does not have the blue chip talent that the Sooners do, but their option scheming is hard to stop. Get ready now. CPJ is coming.

By AlabamaRamblinwreck

January 3, 2008 12:37 AM | Link to this

By the way UGAYers,

It sure looks like an option offense will work against BCS teams. Look at what West Virginia is doing to Oklahoma tonight!!

I promise you that W.V. does not have the blue chip talent that the Sooners do, but their option scheming is hard to stop. Get ready now. CPJ is coming.

By Tokyo jacket

January 3, 2008 12:59 AM | Link to this

Word on the Street, thanks for the info. It doesn’t surprise me one bit. Rodriguez just left West by God Virginia and White has no ties.

By Tokyo jacket

January 3, 2008 1:24 AM | Link to this

I hate to be condescending, but some of you are absolute morons, regardless of who you cheer for. Please allow me to elaborate.

First for by GT brethren: 1. UGA fans are not scared of CPJ. They just won their BCS game by like 300 points and arguably should have been in the national championship.

1. Some of us do use academics as a crutch (see David Braine).

2. Calculus has only been required of every student since ~99 or 2000. When I was there, you didn’t have to take calculus if you road the M-train.

3. Stop with all the fantastic insinuations of GT winning the national championship and destroying the Dawgs next year. They’re going to be a good team for at least a couple years. Also, most of my UGA friends are good people. Don’t categorize all UGA fans into the same group as the overzealous Yellowbloods and football fanatic. We’ve all gone to Athens and don’t have any problem talking to their women.

4. Finally, stop talking about all our national championships unless you were actually old enough to see them. Which means unless you were 65 or so, stop talking about the Dodd era. Unless you’re 90, can’t claim those either.

For the idiots who poorly represent red and black:

1. Yes academics are a hell of a lot tougher at GT. My friend summed it up best at my graduation party: “at my party, all my friends were talking about looking for jobs. At yours, your friends are talking about when they’re going to start the jobs they’ve had since last year.”

2. Better watch out, because Tech is actually a decent program. And, whether you like it or not, we’re getting better. If we weren’t a good program, why can’t the other football powerhouses go to bowl games for ten years in a row, regardless of whether or not it’s the toilet bowl.

3. Look at the WVU game. An option attack can win, and win big. I don’t know if Nesbitt can be as good as White. I don’t know if Dwyer and Jones can be as good as Slaton and Devine (but I think so). But, you can bet that we’ll have just as much of a chance running an option attack as anybody else. By the way, Navy’s “poor” passing attack, was near the top in the nation in passer rating the last two years.

4. It might be time for UGA fans to stop talking about your glorious football tradition. Notre Dame, USC, Penn State, Ohio State and Michigan have a glorious football tradition. UGA has Herschell Walker and a good few years recently. It wasn’t so long ago that you ran your coach out of town after a string of losses to an in state rival (if you can’t figure it out, that’s us, GT).

5. Give the nerds thing a rest. It’s old and when you constantly use the same line, it really does make our fans a little closer to right when they call you morons.

6. Congratulations on whipping Hawaii. I hate all teams west of Texas because they play no one and get over ranked because they won 11 games against Lower Southwestern Wichita State and Polytechnical University.

By surfrider

January 3, 2008 1:57 AM | Link to this

Georgia Records of the Last 5 Tech coaches and then one can strategize on recruiting strategies….Gailey 0-6, O’leary 3-4 (almost 5-2), Ross 2-3 (almost 3-2), Curry 2-5, Pepper 2-5 (almost 3-4). Ross and O’leary recruited the best they could in Ga. (did’nt have the contacts that Johnson does at first) but then they went outside the south to get the remaining players before taking a B player who could walk-on and get a free ride the next year. By the way that is what Dodd did is my understanding. P.S. I think w’ere going to be surprised at how good these guys can recruit anywhere.

By surfrider

January 3, 2008 1:58 AM | Link to this

Georgia Records of the Last 5 Tech coaches and then one can strategize on recruiting strategies….Gailey 0-6, O’leary 3-4 (almost 5-2), Ross 2-3 (almost 3-2), Curry 2-5, Pepper 2-5 (almost 3-4). Ross and O’leary recruited the best they could in Ga. (did’nt have the contacts that Johnson does at first) but then they went outside the south to get the remaining players before taking a B player who could walk-on and get a free ride the next year. By the way that is what Dodd did is my understanding. P.S. I think w’ere going to be surprised at how good these guys can recruit anywhere.

By surfrider

January 3, 2008 2:11 AM | Link to this

Yes Curry recruited some good players but for many reasons performance declined from 1986 through 1989. Yes a few holdovers were key to the 1990 Championship team which was full of sophmores and Freshman starts that all the “talking Pundits” said Tech would be the team of the 90’s…Those stars were Shawn Jones (Ga), William Bell (Fl), Mooney (MD), Covington (NY), Rodriguez (NY), Merchant (NJ), Swilling (Ga), Clay (Penn), LB 1 (Ga.), LB 2 (Md), Williams (Ga), Battle (Ga), Rudolph (Ga.), Coleman (OH.)..Most of those guys were sophmores…Many more as well.

By surfrider

January 3, 2008 2:11 AM | Link to this

Yes Curry recruited some good players but for many reasons performance declined from 1986 through 1989. Yes a few holdovers were key to the 1990 Championship team which was full of sophmores and Freshman starts that all the “talking Pundits” said Tech would be the team of the 90’s…Those stars were Shawn Jones (Ga), William Bell (Fl), Mooney (MD), Covington (NY), Rodriguez (NY), Merchant (NJ), Swilling (Ga), Clay (Penn), LB 1 (Ga.), LB 2 (Md), Williams (Ga), Battle (Ga), Rudolph (Ga.), Coleman (OH.)..Most of those guys were sophmores…Many more as well.

By black bee

January 3, 2008 3:35 AM | Link to this

Johnson is right and a little wrong. TECH has to have a presense in its own back yard but Richt and the Dawgs are on a roll weather TECH people like it or not and with the exception of last years TECH class the DAWGS get everyone they want in-state. Then you have to make room for Fla. State, Auburn, Ala, South Carolina and Florida coming in here getting a few players. TECH has to go to national to get the type of player to compete. Plus they would lose one of their best attractions; nationally ATL. is rated a very desired place to live for African-Americans.

By JB

January 3, 2008 7:42 AM | Link to this

Poor Tech. Just when Gomer is fired and a glimmer of hope rises, The Dawgs look to be monsters the next 2-3 year and all the 30,000 or so in the stands at Grant field will say, Gee Whiz, Mr. PJ can’t beat them either.I’ll take our chances on defense not having to worry about a passing game ( navy only passed 11 times a game). Good, fast defensive teams would beat him when he was a Southern. Speed kills. Can’t wait.

By MAKDAWG

January 3, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Hey Techies!! How many Top 25 teams this year ran the triple option?

By MAKDAWG

January 3, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Hey Techies!! How many Top 25 teams this year ran the triple option?

By MAKDAWG

January 3, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Hey Techies!! How many Top 25 teams this year ran the triple option?

By Blackdawg

January 3, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

hey MAKDAWG how many top 25 football teams, have QB’s who spoon each other?

Only us DAWGS!!!!SPOON’EM

By Blackdawg

January 3, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

MAKDAWG Who would you rather spoon Matt Stafford or Mark Richt?

By BuzzGT

January 3, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

UGA fans have a short memory. Seems like a triple option run attack did pretty well against them in the West Virginia game they lost the last time they played in the Sugar Bowl.

By Blackdawg

January 3, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

BuzzGT too many PBR’s, especially after watching the sUGAr Bowl on my 60 inch TV in the double wide.

By Clay

January 3, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

What have we learned?

1) Paul Johnson says he will adapt his offense to Tech’s strengths, then makes it known he’s going Triple Option all the way with the coaches he’s brought in. What else did Johnson not mean when he was hired?

2) Tech fans still think they are only a couple of years away from being able to beat UGA.

3) Tech fans are so jealous of UGA’s success that they resort to sounding like the fools they are. They even forget that WVU only beat UGA by 3 a couple of years ago. Of course, that’s better than Tech has done against UGA in 7 years.

Tech does have one thing in common with UGA right now, though. Both played WAC teams in bowls. That is where the similarities stop. Tech LOST to Fresno State in the Frozen Blue Turf Bowl and UGA waxed the WAC Champion. You do know that Fresno State was the only WAC team to win a bowl game, don’t you? But, that’s what Tech is known for: going to crap bowls out West and then losing the crap bowl out West.

By Bluezilla17

January 3, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

AlabamaRamblinWreck…You have to be joking. WVU happens to have Heisman candidates at quarterback (White), tailback (Slaton), and probably the best fullback in the country (Schmitt). Not to mention Noel Devine is one of the best freshman tailbacks in the nation. Don’t delude yourself to thing that the Jackets’ option attack is going to look anything like WVU’s.

By Clay

January 3, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, can anyone tell me how my friend can get a stuck gerbil out of his anus?

By dawgingatorville

January 3, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

Tech does not have one single National Championship in Football that they do not share. and as for the 5 you claim, 1990 was split and the other 4 are in years that are claimed by as many as 8 different teams. just because back in 1921 or what ever the Macon telegraph said they vote tech the champs does not make you the champ.

By UGAg Hater

January 3, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Like 400lb welfare recipients standing on the roof of their section 8 housing waiting for govermental rescue. The fatherless and academically retarded in Georgia will always get into UGAG if they can play any kind of ball. And why wouldnt they want to take Sociology or Tourism, and be on TV every weekend, with hopes of the NFL? UGAG will always out recruit Tech.

By Color Commentator

January 3, 2008 8:34 PM | Link to this

Well, one thing NEVER changes…Yellow is the color of JEALOUSY…and all you need to do is read these nerdy attempts at intelligent comments.

By NCAA Historian

January 3, 2008 8:39 PM | Link to this

BTW, how in h### did one school wind up the worst color and worst mascot in college sports…YELLOW and an INSECT? Were cream and salamanders already taken? How about chartruse and worms? Pink and rats? Somebody should pay for this perpetual humiliation!

By Rest of the Story

January 3, 2008 8:43 PM | Link to this

And where did Coach Superior and Rocky Stop wind up? Superior was sitting at home and Rocky Stop was playing in a second tier bowl, you know a bowl about three tiers above the Humiliation Bowl you nerds played in. In case you missed it the DAWGS were rolicking in the SUGAR Bowl!!!!!!! Have a nice year.

By Fun, Fun, Fun

January 3, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this

Two things I really enjoy…the DAWGS beating you pretend-einsteins every year and me yanking your chains in these glorious blogs. Thanks Coach Richt and the AJC.

By Whine, Whine, LICK, Whine, Whine

January 3, 2008 10:01 PM | Link to this

Hey Butt-Sniffers:

Terence Moore threw a party for Whiney Dawgs on his blog and all 500 UGAY fans with Internet access came!

Whine, Whine, LICK, Whine, Whine…Some things NEVER CHANGE. Show me a dawg fan and I’ll show you someone whose job description includes the phrase: “must p!ss and moan 24/7!!” LOL

By Balls (Not REGGIE)

January 3, 2008 11:06 PM | Link to this

At least we’ve got something to lick! BTW, camera shots of the Tech student section show a vast sea of nerdy males, with nary a female in sight. Those geeks with wigs don’t count.

By F*** UGAY

January 3, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

NCAA Historian & dawgingatorville just shut the F*******# up GO SUCK A D!C#!! matt stafford aint sh**….every1 gotta have a good game EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE

By XXXX

January 4, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Tech must recruit well in-state. There is too much talent to ignor. When Clemson, Wake,and Virginia pick up fine QB’s such as Whitehurst,Skinner, and Sewell who are all from Atlanta, Tech needs to do better. The key advantage Tech has over UGA is that the kids can play right away at Tech. The DJ Shockley Syndrome at UGA never ceases to amaze me. Many talented kids go to UGA just to sit on the bench. That tells me they lack motivation and that’s why the UGA recruiting process never produces nat champs. No one else seems to get it but I do

By Neurologist

January 4, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Me thinks I struck a nerd nerve!!!

By AAAA

January 4, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

Note to XXXX: You are referencing the loyal and dedicated leader of the 2005 SEC champions and 2005 SEC Player of the Year as unmotivated? And you wonder why no one else gets it, but YOU do… You may want to rethink that statement before putting out for everyone to see how stupid you are! Another logical Tech brain at work!

By College Football Team

January 4, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

On August 30 2008 70,000+ will go to the Georgia Dome for the Alabama-Clemson game & 30,000 will go to Grant Field for the Georgia Tech - Jackson State game. Isn’t that ironic?

By RAD

January 4, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this

17000 top s for the Tech game… We have no fans.

By Blackdogdic

January 4, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this

How many College QB’s dress as Tinky Winky for halloween.

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!…

By The Comparator

January 4, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this

What do Hillary and GIT have in common? They’re both LOSERS.

By shane #1

January 4, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

yes tech should recruit ga first,and remember that ga doesn’t end at the fall line.on another subject,i heard that clemson wants to join the sec.have any of you acc guys heard this?if this is true i’ll bet the old ball coach’s pantys are really in a wad!

By Scoop

January 4, 2008 9:58 PM | Link to this

The SEC doesn’t need or want Tech and we sure as h* don’t want Clempson!

By shane #1

January 4, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this

scoop,don’t kid yourself,clemson has a strong fan base and is a money making program.i have heard that arkansas wants out of the sec and the conference would welcome the clemson fans and,above all,their money!possibly kentucky could be moved to the west to make room.if you haven’t figured it out yet scoop college football isn’t about titles or fans,it’s about the money.sorry to be taking up your space tech fans,just wanted to know if you had heard anything.

By White and Gold

January 5, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

I look forward to another season filled with quality losses.

By jimmy

January 5, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

The person who stated that Tech doesn’t recruit the athletes who end up playing at UGA because of academic requirements is kidding himself. You don’t honestly think that Tech would have taken a Knowshown Moreno if he wanted to go to Tech??? Puh freaking leaz. The fact is that the 4 and 5 star recruits don’t want to go to Tech because they don’t want to lose year after year in an inferior confernce. How is that FACT for ya??

By 1990 Champ

January 5, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this

alot of time and space has been waisted with all of this bickering. Fact is….UGA owns us at the PRESENT moment but things will change. When? Dunno. But we have to be patient. Football Fanactic is an idiot who things his dawgs will always win into the year 3000. Come one. Tech will win again. But words won’t solve the problem. Giving Johnson and his staff time to turn things around and for the players to WIN will. The AJC should avoid waisting space w/ these meaningless blogs that always end up w/ a war of words. Post information and not ask for our opinions, please??!!

And what is up w/ this simulated National Champtionship article?? Who cares? Now that’s a waste of time and space. I applaud the attempt to create user participation content but that’s ridiculus. Georgia wins the AJC online national championship. You think Richt gets a bonus for that one?

By NotAnotherDeludedFan

January 9, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Guys. As long as Mark Richt coaches at UGA, they will own us. The gap is only going to get wider. Face reality Techsters.

By NotAnotherDeludedFan

January 9, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Guys. As long as Mark Richt coaches at UGA, they will own us. The gap is only going to get wider. Face reality Techsters.