Tech

By charles

February 4, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

Oh well, GO TECH!

By stings to lose

February 4, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

so slow starting. so determined at the end. Two worlds…what gives?

By wes

February 4, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Having too much rest is a sorry excuse.

It seems like that’s all us Tech fans have been hearing from our football and basketball programs the past 2-3 years.

having said this, Hewitt has obviously turned this group of Jackets around.

I hope Hewitt sticks around for as long as he likes.

By yellarjacket4life

February 4, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

I am not buying the too much rest theory. This team had a chance to go 2 games over .500 overall (which they haven’t done all year) and had a chance to be 4-3 in the conference and tied for 4th place and this is the effort we see AT HOME!!!

Hewitt had 5 full days to prepare for this Maryland team, which by the way has owned us over the last few years (6 in a row I believe). Why is your team “out of it mentally?” These home games are MUST WIN, especially when you have already lost 4 times at home prior to this game. As if losing 6 straight times to the same team is not enough motivation to have your head in the game.

I really like Paul Hewitt, but sometimes I wonder why his teams are not motivated enough to play hard for a full 40 minutes. How can you look so much better defensively the last few games on the road, then come home and look like you have never played ACC caliber defense?

With that said, I must give some credit to D’Andre Bell and Zach Peacock. Those two guys kept us in the game. I really like the way Peacock is coming along and Bell looks like he could possibly fill Mario West’s shoes defensively. Must win the next 2 out of 3. Tough task @Wake, @UCONN, and @Clemson.

By Ross

February 4, 2008 8:27 PM | Link to this

Paul Hewitt is a credit to the school and should be at Tech until he decides to leave. It’s hard to find players who can get it done at a school like Tech. Hewitt manages to do it, again and again, but they leave for the NBA, where they are quickly swallowed by larger fish owing to lack of game experience. Not Hewitt’s fault. A good, honest, hardworking person like Hewitt is worth more than Ws. Tech basketball is almost always entertaining, and sometimes inspiring. I enjoyed the loss to NC more than any game in recent memory. I still think we’ll make the tourney this year.

-drl (class of 85)

By LongBeachJacket

February 4, 2008 10:19 PM | Link to this

This team will continue to fight hard. They cannot afford to start slow against ANY team. All the teams are good…ALL of them left on the schedule.

I hope we can get to 17 wins, but that is going to be very, very hard to do.

NCAA bid would be nice, but it is a reach at this point.

NIT is probably more realistic.

That’s reality as I see it…

Of course I want them to run the table…

GO JACKETS!

By RAMBLE ON!

February 4, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this

How sad and far we’ve fallen, we have folks bloging about how much they enjoyed a loss.

5 days to prepare for a home game we have to win, and we come out flat.

Hewitt is one of the worst coaches in the ACC. Gary Williams owns him. That guy can coach.

By aw

February 5, 2008 3:17 AM | Link to this

Its too bad we didnt get a package deal for a basketball coach at navy.

By aw

February 5, 2008 3:22 AM | Link to this

It istoo bad tech didnt get a package deal for a basketball coach from Navy

By aw

February 5, 2008 3:22 AM | Link to this

It istoo bad tech didnt get a package deal for a basketball coach from Navy

By Coot Jim Bobber

February 5, 2008 6:49 AM | Link to this

Oh wow another Tekkie excuse for losing. We had too much time to rest and prepare!! Yep, makes sense to me, there is no way any school can beat the Jackets except by cheating, biased officiating, and letting us get too much rest. Oops, I almost forgot the calculus, academic torture excuse. And as for the “it’s hard to get players who can make it at Tech” excuse; do the names Kenny Anderson, Stephon Marbury, Chris Bosh, Javaris Crittenden, etc. ring any bells? Those Roads Scholars didn’t seem to have any problem making it into Tech for long enough to jump to the pros after I’m sure they received their advanced degrees in the one or two semesters they were in Atlanta. yep, toomuch rest, them cheating officials, and awesome academics, that’s why we lost ot Maryland. No school ever has better teams or is better prepared, they just cheat. Stinking rotten cheaters don’t even have to take calculus and they rig the schedule so that we have too much off time in order to mess with our timing, and they bring in those officials who all graduated from UGA, Notre Dame, and Auburn, Clemson, and FSU. WE never can get a crew of Tech alumni to work our games and all the other schools have their booster clubs officiating their home and away games. Dirty rotten cheaters, wish they had to take calculus, wish they had to make 72,000 on their SAT’s to get into school like we do here at glorious Tech, wish they all had to have a 12.0 GPA to get into remedial courses like we have to do here at Tech. Wish they all had to rest between game like we do and that would mess up their games like it does here at Tech. Oh well, THWE (To Hell With Everybody) go Jackets.

By WFC

February 5, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

PH has done a good job making this team competitive (Indiana, Kansas, UNC, FSU, Maryland + road wins). The challenge now is to recruit better players who won’t be “one and dones.”

By Ron Jirsa -- forgotten genius

February 5, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

Coot Jim Bobber-

Chris Bosh could have attended Tech even without having basketball skills. And unless I am failing to recognize your efforts to be clever, it’s RHODES, not Roads. Guess you couldn’t get into Tech yourself….

By scooter11

February 5, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

So only Bosh (of the list provided) could have gotten into the Institute without b’ball skills? I had always heard (from Instituters) that athletes were just as bright as the student body and took the same courses. Give us a list of footballers who also could have gotten into the Institute without football skills.

By Paul

February 5, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Guess Vasquez was good enough to take you guys wire to wire…. The way we see it was y’all were lucky to be in the game at the end. Why can’t you just admit we dominated you?

By yellarjacket4life

February 5, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Hey Paul - Congrats to your Maryland team. You guys are playing good basketball right now, but by no means did your team dominate us. If you were going to name someone who played extremely well, then why didn’t you name Osby or even Eric Hayes. Those two guys played very well, but not Vasquez. Bell was all over Vasquez all game. Vasquez had 8 turnovers, which were caused by Bell’s defensive pressure. Vasquez was 5-15 from the floor and 0-5 from the 3 point line. Not to mention, he missed two critical free throws down the stretch, which gave us a chance to tie the game with a three, but Osby intentionally grabbed Causey jersey and didn’t allow us to take a shot to tie. Vasquez is just an average point guard in this league.

By Reasonable fan

February 5, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

I am tired of Tech using the old too tough academically routine. See Duke, N.Carolina, Stanford etc. In fact if todays paper is correct there were 4 players at Tech named to the ACC Academic All Conf team. One majored in History and Society (that must be tough), one majored in building construction (carpentry), and two majored in managment. Not what all the Techsters would have everyone believe. Oh, I forgot, even the history major must have had to take calculus.

By Gordon

February 5, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

I’ve never heard anyone say that most of the athletes could get into Tech if they weren’t athletes. That’s not true at UGA or most D1 schools either. They do have to take the same courses that the regular students take, however, and if they don’t meet minimum standards (2.0 ?) they don’t play. The difference between Tech and UGA isn’t the tough classes, it’s the easy classes. You can’t major in Turfgrass Management at Tech. I’m not making fun of people (athlete or not) who do that at UGA, I’m just saying the option isn’t there at Tech. It isn’t a state university, it is a technical institute, so the curriculum is much narrower.

By GetOverIt

February 5, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Hey guys, remember the last time we had a head b-ball coach and a head f-ball coach with the same first name (Bobby -Cremins and Ross)? Those were pretty good years, especially 1990. Now we have the Paul’s (Hewitt and Johnson). So look out next year!!!!

By GT FAN

February 5, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Matt you got to be joking. Paul Hewett has had 8 years to get it together, enough is enough time to do the same in basketball as football get a new coach. Fire Paul Hewett. The Lady GT Basketball team could give Hewett a run for his money. I still pull for the team but Hewett ? NO!

By yellowblood

February 5, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

I heard someone call out: “Paul, Paul, Oh that feels so good!!” at the Tickle Pile the other night. I never figured out which one they were talking about!

By Bowie

February 5, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Names have nothing to do with it. FIRE HEWETT

By Give it Up Rednecks

February 5, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

So many lies by the rednecks, so little time.

1) Many (probably near 50%) of our football players past and present could have been admitted to Tech without football. The current list probably yields Taylor Bennett, Daryl Richard (3 yr graduate), Travis Bell, Tashard Choice (maybe), Colin Peek, most if not all of the OL, James Johnson, Adamm Oliver, Andrew Smith, etc. etc.

2) History, Technology & Science is not as difficult as Aerospace Engineering. No one claims that. However, it is the equivalent of a History degree at a liberal arts school, which is more difficult than 95% of the majors of football players at UGA (Speech, Agricultural Communication-not kidding, Criminal Justice, Exercise and Sport Science, Furnishings and Interiors, Natural Resources Recreation and Tourism, Turfgrass Management); Clemson (Parks & Rec); etc.

3) By the way, Building Construction is a very legitimate major. Try taking Calculus I and II, Physics, Computer Science, and Structural Analysis. We’re talking about the boss of the boss of a carpenter (they go to trade school). Carpenters don’t go to college, much like farmers, jail guards, fitness instructors, parks and rec employees, landscapers (see above). But without these majors, UGA might not have a football team.

By BobinBuford

February 5, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

GT FAN - It’s HEWITT, not HEWETT. Seems to me that if you are that interested in the program, then you would know how to spell the coach’s name.

yellarjacket - don’t forget the questionable foul called on Lawal at the end of the game after Vasquez missed the free throws. And the charge called against Causey, when a 5’11” 200 lb guard knocked over a 6’8” 250 center. That was one of the great flops of all time - they should have given Osby an acting award for that move. I wanted to ask Gary Williams after the game if he taught

Reasonable: Building construction is not carpentry. It is the science of building better buildings.

At least we do not have any “one and done” players this year.

By BobinBuford

February 5, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

GT FAN - It’s HEWITT, not HEWETT. Seems to me that if you are that interested in the program, then you would know how to spell the coach’s name.

yellarjacket - don’t forget the questionable foul called on Lawal at the end of the game after Vasquez missed the free throws. And the charge called against Causey, when a 5’11” 200 lb guard knocked over a 6’8” 250 center. That was one of the great flops of all time - they should have given Osby an acting award for that move. I wanted to ask Gary Williams after the game if he taught

Reasonable: Building construction is not carpentry. It is the science of building better buildings.

At least we do not have any “one and done” players this year.

By Billy

February 5, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

funny….i am form carpenter and build the buildings and bridges the so-called engineers think up===>i know that the people that actually build the stuff are not worthy of being mentioned with the brilliant folk who draw it up…..i challenge any techster to strap on some tools and participate in the actual blood sweat and tears in the 100+ heat and freezing temps..also,, graduated from uga with major in econ===>dare you to say the economics is not good major @ uga….and to top it all,,,family was once farmers in sowega that graduated from uga===>had a pretty good worksheet as far as assets go….no,,no reason for it but hated the back-stabbing,,egotistical jerks that were in the corporate world….now,,never stereotype techies,,,learned that in grade school….please,,the academic argument is over tech…..maybe in the past but not any more….

By GT FAN

February 5, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

BobinB-I’m sorry, I was calling time out and trying to write at same time. Maybe my spellings as bad as his coaching.

By shane #1

February 5, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

give it up rednecks,i guess your name says it all,that type of elitism is one reason so many people do not like tech.i am fortunate enough to have two tech graduates in my family,both earned their phds from that fine institution,so i know that most tech fans do not share your disdain for people that actually WORK for a living.you think farmers do not go to college,well wake up and join the 21st century.my brother farms 6500 acres in south ga.his son,who is in business with him,graduated from uga with a degree in agricultral finance.their operating expences average over 2 million a year and their capital investments run well up into the millions.btw,they also have four other corperations involved in agribusiness and provide full time jobs for about 100 people.this number is doubled with part time workers during tha various harvest seasons.the rule for modern farming could be stated as follows,go big or go home.in modern agriculture one needs all the education one can get in order to succede.we americans are so spoiled,we don’t think of all the hard work and knowledge that went into allowing us our standard of living.we walk into a supermarket and expect that great array of food to be there for us,never thinking of the people that produce it.meanwhile 80% of the world goes to bed hungry.

By Boot Jim Cobber

February 5, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

BobibBuford, I do believe that I have heard the time honored and ragged whine that you posted, we was robbed, Maryland cheated, the officials were biased and they all graduated from Maryland, the ACC always makes the schedule just to screw Tech. We have never lost at any sport we have just been cheated and robbed, no other team could possibly be as good as the Jackets and they certainly couldn’t play a better game. We was robbed on our own floor. Let us all now go worship at the shrine of “The Church of the Immaculate Calculus” and then retire to enjoy a large helping of self delusional academic superiority to wash down an extra large helping of hubris and self delusional superiority complex. Tech students are the only students who have to go to class and the Tech athletes have to take twice as many classes as athletes at any other school in the nation and calculus is only offered at the Trade School it is too difficult for those cretins at Virginia, UNC, Notre Dame, and Stanford. Our honored Nobel Prize winners in Rockit Science like Ruben Houston, Reggie Ball, Stephon Marbury, and Javaris Crittenton are proof of the Institutes superiority in all things academic and athletic. Everyone loves Tech because we are so humble and fair minded and we was robbed.

By roddy

February 6, 2008 12:11 AM | Link to this

Its now referred to at Paul Ball. It covers two sports and two coaches. If they both win, YA for Paul Ball. IF they lose, we still support Paul Ball. But the next they lose to UGA, we FIRE Paul Ball.

Paul Ball. I’m digging the phrase. It sure beats proving positive vorticity advection and theta e advection during cyclogenesis.

Nerds Rule-

By White and Gold

February 6, 2008 7:41 AM | Link to this

Both gt FB and BB are all about earning quality loses.

By SavTechIE

February 6, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this

TECH spent the first 10 minutes against Maryland wondering, observing, and analyzing why they were favored by 4 against a team that beat UNC. They played the rest of the game even.

By oldgold

February 7, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

This team is clearly on a mission now and its great to see. To win on the road with your big threat, Causey, shut down says that everyone is in on the act. If this team can get to the dance I think you will see a determined effort to advance which last years squad did not have.