Tech

By Observer

January 9, 2009 8:08 AM | Link to this

My prediction is that Tech will bring a sloppy, undisciplined, poorly coached team to the floor. They will fall behind early due to lack of aggressive defense. They will rally in the second half on the strength of a full-court press and briefly look like world beaters. Ultimately, their comeback will fall short and they will lose.

Wow, I should just cut and paste that prediction into the rest of the games this season.

By jaxjacket

January 9, 2009 8:19 AM | Link to this

Have to agree with Observer, seems we have seen that scenario a few times before, afraid that with current coaching staff, we are doomed to see it a lot in the future.

By AlabamaRamblinwreck

January 9, 2009 8:26 AM | Link to this

Ditto.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

January 9, 2009 8:27 AM | Link to this

Observer, you forgot missed free throws.

By TechRules

January 9, 2009 9:55 AM | Link to this

Is this an excited and optimistic fan base or what!

By T-Bone

January 9, 2009 10:03 AM | Link to this

I wonder if PH has read Observer and Ramble On!!!. That about sums it up.

The problem is that we have a great recruiting class coming in next year, and it could become stellar if Favors signs. My fear is that it will only make it harder to fire PH.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

January 9, 2009 10:13 AM | Link to this

How about Tommy Amaker from Harvard?

He just spanked B.C. and played in the ACC at Duke.

Then we got Tubby Smith, I bet we could get him, or even Mark Price.

All of these apologist for Hewitt, ask the question who could we get?

I think those are 3 pretty good options.

By yellowblood

January 9, 2009 10:48 AM | Link to this

Stop all the negative. We beat the Mutts and had a great Tickle Pile. Beat Maryland and we can have a repeat performance.

By yellowblood

January 9, 2009 11:07 AM | Link to this

ok guys, i have something to admitt. as you all have probably guessed. no, i’m not a tech fan. i’m a uga loser. and yes, i’m very upset about the loss to tech this year. 45-42 keeps running through my brain. also 67-62 keeps tugging at my heart strings as well recently. i come on your blogs and talk about “tickle piles” and things of that nature because it makes me feel better. my team couldn’t get it done on the field or basketball court this year and the only thing that makes me feel better is trying to come up with tickle pile jokes to get at you people. i wish i could come up with new material but it’s tough these days. with my team being the losers that they are i just can come up with anything good to say about UGAy. staffy hurt my heart really bad cause i hate seeing such a stud leave. and knowshon…well i dont know if you guys know this…. but he hurdled over a CENTRAL MICHIGAN player!!!! it was amazing..and i sided with coach spray tan..uh…i mean coach richt..that clip should have been on sportscenter. anyways, glad i got all that off my big gay chest….now back to thinking about 409 rushing yards and how much i hate willie martinez and more tickle pile jokes to make me feel better about my team being second best in football and basketball…bye fellas

YELLOWBLOOD

By George P. Burdell

January 9, 2009 11:13 AM | Link to this

I predict we will come out flat and have to call a timeout before 18:00 hits the game clock. After that, we’ll muddle along until Maryland goes on a 12-2 run before the 8:00 mark. We’ll continue to muddle through the first half and go to the lockerroom down by 15.

In the second half, the muddling will continue, with a few wideopen dunks made by both teams. We’ll trail by 8 to 14 points until 9 or 10 minutes left. Then, we’ll put on the full court press, get some turnovers and make it a close and exicting finish. We lose 70-65 when Maryland ices it at the line. The box score shows Maryland has its highest percentage 3-point shooting in five years, mostly because Tech never bothered to defend it.

Next day, AJC will report that Tech is still working to find itself on offense and are looking for a consistent 40 minutes of effort. The bright spot will be how Tech closed a double digit deficit over the last 10 minutes and what that might lead to in the future.

Can’t wait to watch tomorrows game.

By John Conklin

January 9, 2009 11:35 AM | Link to this

Nothing left to say - the first four bloggers nailed it.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

January 9, 2009 12:27 PM | Link to this

I just want somebody who looks good in a suit.

By BLAZER

January 9, 2009 1:19 PM | Link to this

PAUL, TAKE OFF THE COAT AND COACH!

FULL COURT PRESSURE AND RUN THEM RAGGED!

By a Real Fan

January 9, 2009 2:00 PM | Link to this

Remember when fans were loyal outside of fair weather? Why is it that we, as a fanbase and alums, think we can get to be a top academic school and Standout Athletic Program year in and year out in both major D1 Sports? We had a bad coach in Chan Gailey - I agree - but Paul Hewitt has done a lot with what he has. He won’t admit it, but our stringent academic reputation makes recruiting hard and since Jarret Jack we haven’t had a returning PG! Mo was - until he got hurt - our first chance to see Hewitt work with an installed offense. How about we look at the record we had, before Mo got hurt, and focus on supporting the team?! Soon we will be able to see the return of Mo and have Clinch back in the line up - then after the season make a judgment on the quality of coaching.. And so help me - if you buy tickets to come to our games and plan on leaving early - sell them to a real fan.. You people leaving hurts us in recruiting and is equally rude AND disrespectful to the players and REAL Fans!

By JacketLady

January 9, 2009 3:05 PM | Link to this

Remember when you couldn’t buy a ticket to a Tech basketball game? Now they offer a package of ACC games only-how fair is that to loyal Jacket fans who buy season tickets to see Arkansas Pine Bluff! How many years has Hewitt been here…9?? It’s been nothing but downhill since the first two years (with Cremin’s guys). No offense, can’t bring the ball inbounds, can’t shoot free throws. I feel for the guys like Lawal with talent who don’t get the opportunity to improve their talent in college. To beat Tech all you have to do is have 3 guys lay back in the post and wait and the other two guys hound the guy with the ball making the 1 or 2 passes until someone gets “antsy” and throws up a poor shot. Then we get to watch Paul get upset on the sidelines and start his constant rotation in and out of replacements. Can’t get a rhythm going? I wonder why?

By RAMBLE ON!!!

January 9, 2009 3:34 PM | Link to this

Real Fan (bravesfan79 I know it’s you), you’ve lost your mind.

Mario West plays for the Hawks…couldn’t even start for Hewitt and barely made the team his Sr. year.

Anthony Marrow is lighting it up in the NBA…didn’t/couldn’t do it here.

Wow, have you been in a coma for the last 5 years?

So it’s the fans fault we’re going to finish last in the ACC this year? I guess that’s why the 2006 team quit, no fan support.

Real fans, who know even a little bit about basketball, get sick to their stomachs watching playground basketball at this level.

At least Chan made it to the post season every year, like Bobby Cremins. (When the field was 48 teams).

By the way, that was a sexual deviate imposter on the last comment who missed having a father figure in it’s life, so sad.

By Rags

January 9, 2009 4:54 PM | Link to this

To Real Fan:

Thanks for a polite post. It’s better than the flamers we sometimes get. But I have to ask, do you disagree with everyone else’s analysis on this blog, or are you ignoring it? Most every comment is not opinion, it is fact, based on a huge body of work by CPH that has been observed by everyone. It is admirable to “focus on supporting the team”, but when the end result is so predictable, and with no hope for improvement in sight, it’s just human nature to focus on the cause of the problem (i.e. the coach) and the result of the problem (i.e. kids who do not know how to play and win basketball games consistently). So - again - are you ignoring the facts, do you disagree with them, or don’t you care that we are poorly coached? If you disagree, let’s blog! Thanks.

By Charlotte Jacket

January 9, 2009 5:15 PM | Link to this

I must admit, I was not happy with CCG, but I wasn’t ready to can him. Having CPJ this season was a great, great thing, and it woke me up a bit.

I saw a post on another article that asked when we’ve beaten a team we were supposed to lose to, and I have lot of examples (Tech almost always plays Dook and UNC tight), but it is frustrating to lose a game like UVa at home because we had the ball in a freshman’s hands with 10 seconds to go (and a timeout remaining). Maybe the clock is running out on CPH.

It occurred to me that CPH might not have used that timeout at the end of UVa because he’s not accustomed to having any at that point. We burn timeouts at the strangest places in the second half.

I’ll be there for Dook. Come out and be loud and obnoxious. It’ll make the Devils feel at home. Southern Hospitality and all.

By Dawgonit

January 9, 2009 9:14 PM | Link to this

It’s funny. After Tech beat UGA, every post in the Tech blog was about Tech winning the ACC and the national championship next year. After the 38-3 beat down to a five loss LSU team (and lets be real, it could have been 50-3), Tech fans switched right to basketball. Well, at least yall got your coach locked up for 7 years.

By Dawgonit

January 9, 2009 9:16 PM | Link to this

Did anybody see that the Dawgs finished in the top 10 again?

By willwc

January 9, 2009 10:08 PM | Link to this

“It’s funny. After Tech beat UGA, every post in the Tech blog was about Tech winning the ACC and the national championship next year. After the 38-3 beat down to a five loss LSU team, Tech fans switched right to basketball.”

Uh, yeah, that’s what happens when football season ends. We switch to watching other sports. We even talk about sports other than football, especially when leaving comments on blog posts that are about sports other than football.

You’re a smart one.

By ............................................BuLLdawg

January 9, 2009 10:11 PM | Link to this

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Georgia Tech Number 22.

UGA Number 13.

Who had the better football season ?

Who, every year, for Eight (8) Consecutive Years and Counting has been ranked worse in the Final AP Polls ?

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By DawgNirvana

January 9, 2009 10:46 PM | Link to this

Now I like to give the Tech brethren as much grief as anyone else and I receive my share from them but I want to go in a different direction today….Why is it the AJC can never give descriptions of the perps when they are anything but white males? Has anyone read about the senseless killing in Cabbagetown? When others ask why they can go to NY and feel safe but not here in Atlanta then maybe we should pull out some demographic statistics. It is not all that hard to understand. What is hard to understand is why we do not demand harsher punishment and less acceptance of the “thug” lifestyle.

By GT

January 9, 2009 11:09 PM | Link to this

You truly wonder if Tech basketball will ever be fun to watch again.

By ............................................BuLLdawg

January 10, 2009 2:46 AM | Link to this

Why is Tech down ?

6 ACC Bowl Losses.

SEC Won 6 Bowl Games.

SEC Won Last 3 BCS National Championship Games in a Row.

Vanderbilt beat what was then Number 24 Boston College, who won the ACC Atlantic Division Title.

LSU killed Georgia Tech 38-3.

SEC 6 Bowl Wins are the Most Bowl Wins by any Conference, again this season.

ACC 6 Bowl Losses, only the Big 10 also had 6 Bowl Losses, and no one worse.

By Clarification

January 10, 2009 8:16 AM | Link to this

Dear, sweet little “Dawgonit”:

If you can read, and have some level of attention span, you’ll realize that this blog is about BASKETBALL. Of course we’re switching to talking about basketball … its basketball season.

Also, please show us the blogs where it was claimed that Tech will win the ACC and the Nat’l Championship?? If I recall, the jist of the Tech blogs after the UGA football game victory was that Tech has turned a corner (beating UGA) and can now focus on winning the ACC Championship (someday) and maybe even winning a Nat’l Championship (for the 5th time, someday). Who said anything about winning it all next year??

Finally, about Tech’s rings: the rings were given to the team by CPH and his staff to commemorate what was, for this team at this time, a very successful season. The players decided (together) to have the score of the Tech-UGA game added to the rings as an additional tidbit of fond memory. Lest any Bulldog fan forget, when UGA broke Tech’s 8-game winning streak in 1956, the UGA player who scored the winning touchdown had his jersey retired. I can’t remember his name because its not worth remembering.

To all Tech fans … GO JACKETS (in Football AND Basketball) !!

To all fans of that “unfortunate other school” from the state of Georgia … go hibernate in your trailers ‘til August and let the civilized people carry on with sustaining the civilization that we regret letting you inhabit.

By ............................................BuLLdawg

January 10, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

The ONLY reason why this blog is about Basketball, is because YOUR SORRY BUTT 3-38 BLOW-OUT BY SEC LSU, who we KILLED at THEIR HOUSE

Making UGA Number 13 and Tech Number 22 for the EIGHTH (8) CONSECUTIVE SEASON AND COUNTING THAT UGA HAD A BETTER SEASON THAN GEORGIA TECH IN FOOTBALL.

That’s every year of the Coach Richt Era.

By Rob

January 10, 2009 9:33 AM | Link to this

I will be amazed if Tech wins more than two ACC games. Unfortunately Hewitt’s contract goes thru the 2010-2011 season.

By Clarification (for you too)

January 10, 2009 10:39 AM | Link to this

Dear, sweet little “…….BuLLdawg”:

Clearly you’re just a child, so I’ll simply repeat my last statement from above:

Of course we’re switching to talking about basketball … its basketball season and this is a Basketball blog.

Go ahead a linger in Football land all you want … GT beat UGA in Football AND Baseketball this year and we’re moving on with our lives and our other sports. Clearly UGA has no ability to do this because Football is all UGA has. I know it pains you to lose to a bunch of nerds who should be studying calculus or at home playing “World of Warcraft” … and the funny thing is we’d probably beat you at that too (not to mention chess, croquet, tiddlywinks, badminton, Dungeons & Dragons, Risk, Monopoly, Candyland, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit … should I go on?).

To all Tech fans … GO JACKETS (in Football AND Basketball) !!

To all fans of that “unfortunate other school” from the state of Georgia … go hibernate in your trailers ‘til August and let the civilized people carry on with sustaining the civilization that we regret letting you inhabit.

By Buzz29

January 10, 2009 2:24 PM | Link to this

Anybody seen Mark Price lately?

By Sautee Dawg

January 10, 2009 3:38 PM | Link to this

Clairification (for you too)

Your post is simply not true, Lost to GT in basketball this year (2009). Havent played football this year (2009) yet. (for you too) Lost to GT in football in (2008) now there’s a different story. get your facts straight.

By UGA is so last year

January 10, 2009 3:40 PM | Link to this

Tech Basketball and Paul Hewitt STINK!!!!

By Jeff

January 10, 2009 4:21 PM | Link to this

Fire Paul Hewitt and fire him NOW! We will never, never be competitive in the ACC with Mr. Hewitt at the helm. He has plenty of time to prove himself. Be gone!

By Jacketman

January 10, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

Paul Hewitt can recruit. Paul Hewitt cannot coach. I would much prefer to see less talented athletes play selfless, team ball than see a bunch of talented athletes play street ball. Check the empty seats out. It is not working. We need a change.

By Bobert the dawg

January 10, 2009 5:46 PM | Link to this

BullDawg- you are pathetic. Seriously. Have fun talking trash when you lost in both football, and basketball. Also, have fun getting your sh!!t pushed in by OK State in the opener next year. Your underachieving team blows. What a disappointing season for the preseason chumps. Your program is an overrated joke. GT is just getting started. With the talent that cmr has, you fools should do much more than get mauled by UF every year, and stomp on Vandys logo. Embarrassing. Also, you are talking trash on a GT blog, on a saturday. Loser.

Side Note: Didn’t ugay beat the chickens this year b/c of a miracle goal line fumble? Those same chickens looked pretty good against IOWA in their bowl game huh? Punk.

PSS. 38-3 sucks, but the 49-10 WHOOPING that uf put on the puppies is certainly MUCH more embarrassing. Have fun spewing your drivel for the next year, b/c all that really matter is 45-42 in YOUR HOUSE.

By Bobert the dawg

January 10, 2009 5:46 PM | Link to this

BullDawg- you are pathetic. Seriously. Have fun talking trash when you lost in both football, and basketball. Also, have fun getting your sh!!t pushed in by OK State in the opener next year. Your underachieving team blows. What a disappointing season for the preseason chumps. Your program is an overrated joke. GT is just getting started. With the talent that cmr has, you fools should do much more than get mauled by UF every year, and stomp on Vandys logo. Embarrassing. Also, you are talking trash on a GT blog, on a saturday. Loser.

Side Note: Didn’t ugay beat the chickens this year b/c of a miracle goal line fumble? Those same chickens looked pretty good against IOWA in their bowl game huh? Punk.

PSS. 38-3 sucks, but the 49-10 WHOOPING that uf put on the puppies is certainly MUCH more embarrassing. Have fun spewing your drivel for the next year, b/c all that really matter is 45-42 in YOUR HOUSE.

By Bobert the dawg

January 10, 2009 5:46 PM | Link to this

BullDawg- you are pathetic. Seriously. Have fun talking trash when you lost in both football, and basketball. Also, have fun getting your sh!!t pushed in by OK State in the opener next year. Your underachieving team blows. What a disappointing season for the preseason chumps. Your program is an overrated joke. GT is just getting started. With the talent that cmr has, you fools should do much more than get mauled by UF every year, and stomp on Vandys logo. Embarrassing. Also, you are talking trash on a GT blog, on a saturday. Loser.

Side Note: Didn’t ugay beat the chickens this year b/c of a miracle goal line fumble? Those same chickens looked pretty good against IOWA in their bowl game huh? Punk.

PSS. 38-3 sucks, but the 49-10 WHOOPING that uf put on the puppies is certainly MUCH more embarrassing. Have fun spewing your drivel for the next year, b/c all that really matter is 45-42 in YOUR HOUSE.

By Cumberland rules

January 10, 2009 7:12 PM | Link to this

Hey Wes Durham. A 68-61 loss is not a “one possesion game.”

Stop sugarcoating and ask an occasional tough question of Hewitt during that award-winning postgame show.

By TonyToneToni

January 10, 2009 11:46 PM | Link to this

BuLLdog…………….it’s good know that the 45-42 score still hurts you over a month later. Thanks for coming around.

By SlimG

January 11, 2009 12:17 AM | Link to this

Prediction Tech and ga both miss the dance Ramble, played much basketball expert?

By ............................................BuLLdawg

January 11, 2009 2:28 AM | Link to this

22 Georgia Tech ends your season at Number 22 in the Final AP Poll.

13 Georgia Bulldogs end our season at Number 13 in the Final AP Poll.

This is the Eighth (8th) Consecutive Season that Georgia Tech football is ranked worse than Georgia Bulldog football in the Final AP Poll.

By ...........................................BuLLdawg

January 11, 2009 2:56 AM | Link to this

Hey guys. Im sorry. Im a complete douche bag, and a compulsive masturbator to boot. I obviously have nothing better to do with my life than get on a gt blog and talk trash. It does make me feel better than even though GT spanked us in our own house, we finished the season with a higher ranking. This of course has NOTHING to do with the fact that we were preseason #1…We earned our ranking. Im a sore loser, and im one of the biggest f@ggots on this blog. Seriously, if I was ever confronted by anyone, I would crap in my pants. I just sit in my dorm room, and spew garbage on this blog because im so depressed. I just finished blowing my load for the fourth time tonight (it took a whole jar of vasoline, and two fingers up my arse, but I finally rubbed another one out). Before my penis chafes too much, im goin to go to bed. But not before I remind you NERDS that we are the better team, even though you beat us in our own house this year…I am now going to go blow my brains out b/c im such a depressed loser. 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42 45-42

By Hey Bulldawg

January 11, 2009 3:05 AM | Link to this

How about next time you go to Inoko Express I meet you there? Out of all of the losers on this blog, i would enjoy beating your arse the most.

By ............................................BuLLdawg

January 11, 2009 6:50 AM | Link to this

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We see it BOTHERS YOU that for the 8th Consecutive Season and COUNTING, Georgia Tech has NOT been ranked ahead of UGA Bulldogs in the Final AP Football Poll.

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By Earth to BuLLdawg

January 11, 2009 10:41 AM | Link to this

We won kid. THATS all that matters. Only a complete loser would take solace in the fact that you ended up ranked higher. Do you also brag that your cousin is hotter than other peoples cousins?? Douche. Whatever helps you get through the day (besides constant masturbation).

By UGA is so last year

January 11, 2009 1:54 PM | Link to this

Dead last in the ACC. Hewitt stinks and should be let go now. Let an asst take over. This team ain’t going to any postseason tourneys anyway. So, no loss!

By ..............................

January 11, 2009 7:57 PM | Link to this

Tech 45 . . dogs 42

almost half a hundred

Thanks for the reminder, buLL.

By ............................................BuLLdawg

January 12, 2009 4:08 AM | Link to this

2008-2009 UGA 13 Tech 22. .

2007-2008 UGA 2 Tech not ranked. .

2006-2007 UGA 23 Tech not ranked. .

2005-2006 UGA 10 Tech not ranked. .

2004-2005 UGA 7 Tech not ranked. .

2003-2004 UGA 7 Tech not ranked. .

2002-2003 UGA 3 Tech not ranked. .

2001-2002 UGA 22 Tech 24.

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Two of the last 8 years (Coach Richt Era), Tech has been ranked. 1 was Number 24 and the other Number 22. Both of those years, UGA has the better football team, had the better season, and didn’t lose to crappy football teams like Tech’s Losses this year to Virginia, North Carolina and LSU - not a 1 of whom are a ranked football team in the only poll that will be published for the 2008-2009 season.

Tech 9-4 against a soft schedule.

UGA 10-3 against the 4th toughest Strength of Schedule in the nation.

You wish that you could disregard your losses to Virginia, North Carolina and LSU along with your loss to Virginia Tech, while UGA only has 3 Losses, all of whom are ranked teams in the Final AP Poll.

This has left the ACC with zero teams ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 14, while The SEC has four (4.)

Clearly Georgia Tech did not have as good a season as UGA.

Yet, all season long the Tech fans came running in here saying that UGA keeps DROPPING IN THE POLLS and Tech kept moving up in the rankings.

Now, however, that the season is over, UGA did not drop so far in the Polls as to determine that Tech had a better season than UGA.

You did NOT.

By Charlotte Jacket

January 12, 2009 7:43 AM | Link to this

Maybe the worst thing about this string of postings is that we’ve let a dawg fan (45-42) pull us off topic. That Maryland loss was infuriating. We led for, what, 38 minutes of the game? And we leave the ball in the hands of a freshman for the critical possession? Again?

2008 Pre-season ranking: - UGA: 1 - Tech: unranked

2008 Final ranking: - UGA: 13 - Tech: 22 (with six, SIX, more wins than the “experts” thought we’d have)

I’m still going to say that we had the better season. The Peach Bowl loss was terrible (I was there, much closer to the action than I’d have preferred), but it doesn’t erase a year where CPJ broke losing streaks to FSU and UGA.

I’m happy to beat UGA in roundball, too, but it won’t mean as much until we do it in Athens. Everybody wins at home in this series.

Come on, Jackets… let’s start winning at home in the ACC!

By Charlotte Jacket

January 12, 2009 7:50 AM | Link to this

I think it was more fun when Dawg fans just complained about CWM and the defense.

Best of luck in the NFL, Stafford and Moreno.

By AGUDAWG

January 12, 2009 8:23 AM | Link to this

Once again BuLLdawg. You show what a huge douchebage loser you are by taking solace in the fact that you lost to GT, but ended up ranked higher. 45-42. Sucks to be you.

GT Preseason- #69 GT Final- #22 (+47 movement)

ugay preseason- #1 ugay Final- #13 (-12 movement)

Have fun with COX next year you douche. You kids will be lucky to even make a bowl.