Tech

By GT

January 8, 2009 7:36 AM | Link to this

Tech has maybe the worst team since before Cremins. Even in their win over Georgia they showed they cannot pass, shoot, or handle the ball. At least with Morrison it was a talent problem, this show looks like a bunch of drunks on Saturday night that happen to drop by a YMCA. The free throw situation is unbelievable, you pray they don’t get fouled it is the same as a turnover. Shack would be in the top of this group percentage wise. And throwing the ball into play, is just as painful to watch. Total confusion, even on who is suppose to thrown the ball in, every other time they have to throw it over everybody’s head into the other court losing time to set up the offense, which really doesn’t matter, because their best offense is a replaced shot off a missed shot and rebound. We have a lot of good looking athletes that for some reason just don’t get it. Surely these guys played better in high school than this or how did they get such attention. Cremins’ team in Charleston would wear this team out.. How did we get so bad so quick? I guess you can’t have good football and basketball though in 1990 we had both.

By Who cares...

January 8, 2009 7:50 AM | Link to this

…the Braves finally did the correct thing and let an over the hill guy get paid by someone else to go on the DL. While I admit that Smoltz did a great job when healthy, he is old - if he found someone else to sucker for an exhorbitant payday, then good for him - fortunately it was not the Braves.

My only question is - can we make sure he takes Glavine with him?

By reebok

January 8, 2009 7:59 AM | Link to this

Parity? Or Parody? As in, the ACC sent 10 teams to 2nd & 3rd-tier bowl games and wound up 4-6, which makes us a ‘Parody’ of a good football conference? Just asking.

By Art

January 8, 2009 8:07 AM | Link to this

There’s parity in ACC football alright. They are all pretty close in across the board mediocrity.

By IE'66

January 8, 2009 8:18 AM | Link to this

Party in the ACC? How can you watch this team and think that we should party in the ACC? Just because we beat a worse Georgia team is no reason to be so cocky about our chances in the conference. That’s just being silly. Please focus on real new stories. These internet blog postings are getting weaker and weaker.

By yellowblood

January 8, 2009 10:48 AM | Link to this

The ACC equals parity. Ha! Ha! Our Tickle Piles are better than any other conference and at Tech we have the best of the best.

By Atlanta Jackets

January 8, 2009 12:47 PM | Link to this

Stuff it mutt fans. Josh “the Robot” Nesbitt will destroy you. What’s that Josh? You just scored again on Georgia? LOL.

By old gold engineer

January 8, 2009 12:49 PM | Link to this

IE’66, you scare me, dude.

By big pup

January 8, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this

A Tickle Pile means that people are tickled when opponents pile it on ole UGA.

By Navigator

January 8, 2009 1:53 PM | Link to this

Parity comes with a lot of turnover in head coaches, and the ACC is tops in the country with head coaches with less than 3 years. The upside is that most of the ACC teams now have solid head coaches at all but one team (BC). You’ll see a continual rise in strength over the next couple of years, with 1 or 2 teams successful in BCS bowls (VTech broke the bad record this year). However, where you’ll most of the improvement is the lower rated teams begin to win their bowl games against equal talent. Only Tech failed to either win or have a very close game this year (10 teams went, a record for ACC).

ASIDE: You’re starting to see the same thing happen in the SEC (MState, Tennessee, Arkansas, UMiss, Alabama, Auburn). Of those teams only 2 stepped forward with good years (Alabama, UMiss).

By The Robot Nesbitt

January 8, 2009 2:16 PM | Link to this

Atlanta Jackets, you’re a dork.

By fake yellowblood

January 8, 2009 2:34 PM | Link to this

The world’s best Tickle Pile duo will be broken up forever when Stafford goes to Detroit. Ask Cox. I’m sure he will remember that special moment in ‘Dega forever.

By WPinAZ

January 8, 2009 2:47 PM | Link to this

“GT”……I agree with you 100%. Nuff said. I beleive a new coach would get more mileage out of this team. Either that, or we all have been duped on the talent level of these recruits. I’d hate for that to be true. But the proof is on the court. These guys are awful, and awfully coached. Painful to watch is the correct adjective.

By ?????

January 8, 2009 4:14 PM | Link to this

Yellowblood is a total loser.

By SportsTalk

January 8, 2009 4:26 PM | Link to this

This basketball team really blows my mind. I know we have talent, but why can’t these guys get it together. I have always been a pro Hewitt fan, but I’m starting to wonder if it’s time for a change. I know losing Thaddeus Young and Jarvis Critten after one year really hurt. Throw Andre Bell in that mix and the academic issue with Clinch, can cause problems, but these guys just don’t play hard all the time. Get It Together Jackets - or it could be a long 15 game ACC stretch coming up.

By BILLY JACK

January 8, 2009 5:46 PM | Link to this

IS PARITY THE NEW WORD FOR BELOW AVERAGE?I THOUGHT SO.38-3

By John Conklin

January 8, 2009 6:02 PM | Link to this

Since the NCAA title game run, I can count on one hand the number of “solid” games a tech team has played (just don’t ask me to name them).

A taste of the rest of the sesaon:

-Clinch leaving his feet for a wide open jumper only to instead chuck a pass to a “not-looking” big man

-A hewitt time out right in the middle of a solid run, just to make sure he spoils any momementum

-Inbound plays that require all 94 feet

-FT shooting worse than Alvin Jones on a good day

-One of the rawest inside talents we have had in Gani Lawal mature and then head to the NBA

I’m done - get me anyone but Hewitt.

By UGA is so last year

January 8, 2009 6:13 PM | Link to this

Maybe parity. But where there isn’t parity is at GT. We stink so bad I can’t even smell it anymore. Tickets available for our Duke game!!?? That should send a signal, loud and clear, that Hewitt’s days should be over at GT.

By BravesFan79

January 8, 2009 6:48 PM | Link to this

Hewitt… maybe if he wasnt so obsessed with “the welfare of black coaches and players” then he could actually take the time to COACH!!
Bring back the old assistant coaches!!

By westcoast techie

January 8, 2009 7:07 PM | Link to this

I watched the Duke vs Davidson game last night. Although there were a ton of turnovers by both side, it was a joy to watch great teamwork by both teams. Then you see the helter-skelter type of street ball Hewitt coached teams play and you wonder if it is really the same game. How they help each other out on defense and box out for rebouns is a thing of beauty.

You know coach K will always be at Duke. However, I would love to see that Davidson coach on the Tech sideline. CPH is just not a teacher of fundermentals. Street ball is a perfect description of his coaching style.

By Jacketman

January 8, 2009 7:33 PM | Link to this

Our team consist of good athletes playing inferior street ball and shooting awful free throws. If our coach cannot get his players to play team ball and to make over 50% of their free throws we need a new coach. More good athletes will not be a cure. It could not be any worse. It is time to make a change.

By RDUCK

January 9, 2009 12:31 AM | Link to this

Until CPH realizes that it takes more than a top 5-10 recruiting class to make it deep into March, GT is going to continue to be a mid- level team at best. The 2003 team that went to the finals was a team made up of players with good talent ,good character, and great teamwork. Most 4-5 star recruits are not going to hang around long enough to develop team chemistry. If CPH can’t coach’em up in the 1st year, then it is a waste of time. I think it is time to put CPH on the hot seat and see if he too can get motivated again instead of worrying about the # of african american HC’s there are in the world. Because if he doesn’t, there may be one less.

By GT71

January 9, 2009 6:45 AM | Link to this

BravesFan79 has it right. This obsession with ‘blackness’ is absurd. You win and you coach. You lose and you leave. Simple. No matter the race, manner or appearance, the object is to win and finish the upbringing of the young men on your team - in that order. The color of your skin matters not. When sports becomes a ‘jobs bank’ and leaves the meritocracy behind, sports are in the same fix as our general society - which is going downhill quickly with an increasing delta (that means it’s getting worse faster and faster, UGA readers). Socialism seems to be permeating even sports. Kurt Vonnegut, you got it right.

By DawgNirvana

January 9, 2009 11:39 PM | Link to this

Have to agree with GT71 (except the snide remark concerning UGA readers) about not being a jobs bank for anyone. Listen folks, its called competition….If you are a winner you will be hired and no one will care what color, religious affiliation, etc. Get over the hiring to fill a quota amount (and not just in basketball). Awbarn was vilified for not hiring a black candidate. I would tend to think they would have hired Turner Gill if for one minute they thought he could win the SEC. I have to admit the game between UGA and Tech looked exactly like street ball with no fundamentals….talent can only get you so far….

By wrewckmaniac

January 10, 2009 11:08 AM | Link to this

There’s UNC, Duke,Clemson in one category and then there are 9 other teams trying to find themselves. Its been this way for 5 years. This is not parity

By GT66

January 11, 2009 11:50 AM | Link to this

BravesFan79 and GT71 are right on. However, do not let his attention to black issues (players and coaches) cloud the facts. He is a terrible basketball coach. The comment about the Davidson coach is so true. Other than Steph Curry the other players are not world class yet they battled a terrific Duke team to the end. Obviously the coach makes a huge difference. Their coach is an Irish Yankee ala Cremins and certainly knows how to coach. Dell Curry would not have let his son go somewhere that did not have a great coach. Hewitt needs to be fired immediately.