Tech

By RAMBLE ON!!!

January 26, 2009 9:15 AM | Link to this

Past caring!!!

What DRAD wanted to say but couldn’t is…”I’d love to fire Hewitt and would have done it last year, but Braine and Gailey have tied my hands with these buyout clauses”.

After next year’s debacle, I’ll have room in the budget to do it.

By fromthebleechers

January 26, 2009 9:24 AM | Link to this

The GT problem is coaching. There is plenty of talent there. Don’t listen to Hewitt cry about losing this player or that player. GT has more talent on this team than any other ACC team except Duke, UNC and maybe Wake. The players look clueless most of the time. They can not make free throws. Even have issue with pressured in-bound passes. All boils down to poor coaching. Want to see what real coaching can do? Look at VT, not a single All-American on their team, just hustle and team play.

By Observer

January 26, 2009 9:28 AM | Link to this

I agree that Tech was beaten by a better basketball team but it is still very frustrating to watch Tech play so sloppily. We had another 18 turnovers yesterday. Some turnovers are “takeaways” where the other team executes its defense so well that the turnover can’t be avoided. Those are part of the game and you should expect some of them every game. The others are “giveaways” where your offense is so sloppy in its ball handling that it literally gives the ball to the other team. The “giveaways” are what bothers me and I don’t see any progress being made on this. It is simply the mark of a team that is not well coached on the fundamentals.

On the bright side, the team does look a little bit better at the free throw line.

By Alloftheabove

January 26, 2009 9:28 AM | Link to this

Upset (very)….not caring (still can’t believe I could say this after loving Tech hoops for so long)…playing much better team (yea with a REAL coach who knows how to get the most of his recruits). Tech program is an absolute joke. Don’t want to hear the cockamamie crap about us not having as good players either….uh 2 McDonalds All-Amerians among other 4 and 5 star players. Plain out pathetic basketball and sorry excuse for a “Coach”.

By Echofromthebleechers

January 26, 2009 9:30 AM | Link to this

Great point about VT fromthebleechers!!! D—- right……very good coaching has turned that team around quickly!!!! GT hoops is sad…just flat out sad!

By greenjacket

January 26, 2009 9:34 AM | Link to this

I am way past caring. I still watch and pull for them but I don’t get upset any more. Our guys come into the program with a lot hype and potential, but can’t seem to put things together fundamentally. Is that coaching?? Oliver Purnell and Skinner both seem to get more with less than we do,….Why?

By UGA is so last year

January 26, 2009 9:37 AM | Link to this

After 12 minutes into the second half we had only scored 4 points!!?? Need we say more - Hewitt should be let go now. 4 of 9 seasons below 0.500!!?? Cremins wasn’t even close to this.

By Red GA Dawg

January 26, 2009 9:45 AM | Link to this

The question is will either Tech or UGA win a conference game, the situations are that bad for both programs, I don’t think you could put both teams talent together with either one of these coaches and win games.

No wonder both schools alumni/fans worship the football programs, there is hope and a feeling of underperforming with 9/10 win seasons.

Is it possible for either of the current basketball regimes to become consistent 20 win season programs and make the big dance annually - think not!

By Jeff

January 26, 2009 9:46 AM | Link to this

Haven’t been to game or watched one on televsion for two years now, and I won’t until respectability reappears at GT. And this is after having season tickets for many years. Fire Paul Hewitt and fire him NOW!!! BOOOOOO!

By UGA is so last year

January 26, 2009 9:52 AM | Link to this

I remember, at the start of the year, when our Director of Ticketing was aksed about the fact that we didn’t sell out season tickets - he commented that it was the economy! Ha Ha - like anyone with half a brain believed that crap. Ah….it is Hewitt - not the economy!! Funny how all the other ACC schools sell out day in and day out and load their arenas with 15,000 - 20,000 fans nightly. What denial the GT mgmt are in. Stop being politically correct and speak up and get the job done!

By Scott

January 26, 2009 10:07 AM | Link to this

This team quit with about 10 minutes to go. They were down big and failed to press to get back into it until about 3 minutes to go with the game decided. Hewitt sucks….Period! He should be glad I am not the AD! His stuff would have been packed for him today!

By T-Bone

January 26, 2009 10:30 AM | Link to this

Is this year’s recruiting class secure? If it is, then fire Hewitt now. I really like PH as a person, but he just doesn’t seem to have it as a coach.

By yellowblood

January 26, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

Honestly I’ve given up. Even the most rabid Hewitt supporters must admit that there is a huge problem. We have become a basketball joke and I don’t think we will have any energetic Tickle Piles until baseball season starts.

By BLAZER

January 26, 2009 10:32 AM | Link to this

i hate to repeat this all the time!!

does hewitt know what a ZONE defense is??

if storrs is making over 40% of threes why doesn’t he

shoot more and bench clinch?? can we try playing the

three big men with shumpert and miller or storrs??

try something!!!!!

By 3 Rivers jacket

January 26, 2009 10:32 AM | Link to this

The Jackets are painful to watch but they still overall show hustle. Hewitt deserves another year with the class he has coming in. If no results then he will have to go but stay with him for now. This team can be turned around and even though Favors is one and done the rest ofthe class will get us a good base for years hopefully.

By techbuzz

January 26, 2009 10:40 AM | Link to this

Hewitt can’t coach a lick and must go! Get the cash for a buyout, and get a real coach in here who knows how to recruit and win big games. Get Bobby Cremins back—-he’s better than these sorry coaches on the staff now.

By Dawg Gone

January 26, 2009 10:41 AM | Link to this

Perhaps Tech needs to trade its leader of the Black Coaches Association in for one who leads the Good Coaches Association.

By George P. Burdell

January 26, 2009 10:41 AM | Link to this

The differences between this team and the team that won 7 of its last 9 are huge. That was a young team but even as they went 0-7 you could see them coming together and you could tell they were going to play the second half of the conference schedule much tougher. That team had hustle and tormented the other team with relentless defense. The current version of the Jackets have none of that. I’m a diehard fan and certainly stick with the team through thick and thin, but this team is just plain frustrating to watch. Its not even so much as that they lose, but the way that they go about losing. If I have to watch Clinch take one more rushed shot when no one is in rebounding position, my TV may not survive. Yes they have worked and fixed some problems, but for every problem they solve, they seem to come up with a new one to make sure no net improvement of the team can sneak in there.

To answer your question Ken, I’m past being mad and I just don’t care anymore. That is much worse than being mad. This season is a bust and Hewitt will be around through next year no matter what so there isn’t any sense in wasting energy with anger. I’m grateful I didn’t waste my money on season tickets this year. I really think they are going to have to look at selling alchohol at the games because I don’t know how the few people that do show up can stand to sit there and watch the debacle without a little Beam in the Coke. It takes about six shots before our half court offense actually looks like it makes any sense.

By Tron5000

January 26, 2009 10:50 AM | Link to this

Derrick Favors one-and-done at Georgia Tech

By old nerd

January 26, 2009 10:56 AM | Link to this

i admit that i know very little about basketball but do enjoy watching. two questions present themselves to me:1. since these players must know a great deal about the game, why did they go to school that for several years has looked so confused and bewildered on the court? 2. is there another major conference school that would hire paul hewitt? certainly not an acc school.

By GT73

January 26, 2009 10:58 AM | Link to this

Last in the ACC regarding FT percentage. Last in the ACC regarding turnover percentage. Four of nine (or is it five of nine)seasons below 50% in win/loss ration. Two years consecutive below 50% win/loss ratio. What items could Hewitt be evaluated on that would suggest that he continue to be employed? He has a history of good recruits but failed results.

By rocket23

January 26, 2009 11:08 AM | Link to this

BRING BACK CREMINS….

By UGA is so last year

January 26, 2009 11:09 AM | Link to this

Well said GT73. I am hoping DRAD is only saying the support for Hewitt is there because he plans to let him finish the year then let him go - or ‘let him resign’. If he fears firing him will result in our recruits going elsewhere, so be it. From what I have always heard, Hewitt’s past recruiting classes were supposedly very good - but, look at the results.

Get a new coach in here and let him build the program to where it should be. All the work Bobby Cremins did, taking GT from being one of the worst programs to one of the best, has been totally lost by Hewitt. Now, we will have to start the cycle all over again. A good AD stops this from ever happening in the first place.

By Concerned

January 26, 2009 11:22 AM | Link to this

How many times do we have to say it…GROUNDHOG DAY!!

How many times do we have to see the same thing. 4 losing seasons in 9 years?!?!?!

Do you know how many seasons he has had a winning ACC record? ONE…you have got to be kidding me. How do you keep your job when you have had a winning conference record 1 out of 9 years?

Get rid of him now.

By John Conklin

January 26, 2009 11:31 AM | Link to this

I am not in favor of CPH as coach given the overall trajectory of the program, but would rather see how next season turns out before making any moves. Look at Kentucky and what happened with Gillespie out of the gate.

If its going to take a few years with a new coach, I’d rather gamble on next year at this point.

Also, can we start a blog on potential CPH replacements?

By Tron5000

January 26, 2009 11:39 AM | Link to this

He’s not going anywhere. The incoming class and the commitment by Favors have given Hewitt a pardon for another year. And they better do something big next year, because Favors won’t be around longer than that.

By Garbage

January 26, 2009 11:47 AM | Link to this

Tron5000- that blog is garbage. Not the part about D. Favors, but about Matt Ryan. Is that serious? Chris Redman’s one good game??? How can you extrapolate ONE game? You sir, are a moron. Please tell me that was a joke, and i am too dense, b/c Ryan may have cost them the Cards game, but NO WAY are they even sniffing that game without him. Get real.

By splitatom

January 26, 2009 11:48 AM | Link to this

I sat in the 8th row behind the Tech bench last night and had these observations:

1. In the first half, GT seemed to have the intensity and drive and actually looked competitive.
2. Couldn’t match up with Clemson’s speed in the second. Looked confused.
3. Shot selection was ok but I saw at least 6-8 shots roll around the rim and come out. 1 and done.
4. Clemson’s Oglesby always pushes off prior to attempting a 3-point shot and it was never called.
5. CPH grabbed his head 8 times during the game indicating that he wasn’t happy with the play/effort.
6. Offensive rebounding was nil.
7. Shooting the ball on a break with no one near the basket was stupid.
8. Clemson has ugly cheerleaders.

By Born2Buzz

January 26, 2009 11:54 AM | Link to this

For the first time in years I quite watching the game in the middle of the 2nd half. Just turned it off. Sad.

What I saw when watching was more of the same. Shumpert throwing the ball away. Clinch jacking up 3’s on the fly way early in the possession. Miller making a decent dish to the big man, but then not really knowing what his role is…”am I the point guard and should run the offense or do I give it to Iman to run it?” Peacock making a bad switch on D and losing his man or causing a mismatch for his teammate.

I’m a fairly knowledgeable basketball fan but by no means worthy of being a D1 coach and I can see things that you would think would be obvious problems that coaching should eliminate.

Again…Sad.

By Tron5000

January 26, 2009 11:57 AM | Link to this

Garbage, don’t tell me, tell the site.

But Favors is going to be a monster. The downside of his commitment, like I said previously, is that it likely earned Hewitt one more year. But it sure will be fun to watch Favors for that year down at Cremins Court.

By E

January 26, 2009 11:58 AM | Link to this

I posted after the ugly UGA win, that it would be the last win of the year. I was semi-joking at the time, now I feel like a prophet. With 10 games remaining ( 5 home, 5 away) its very possible. I don’t expect them to win any road games. So that leaves 5 possible chances at a “W”, of those only two look winnable, vs NCSt and vs Maryland. They have no shot vs. WF, Clem or Mia…..spring football practice won’t begin soon enough…..

By GT73

January 26, 2009 11:58 AM | Link to this

Revised: Last in the ACC regarding FT percentage. Last in the ACC regarding turnover percentage. Four of nine (or is it five of nine)seasons below 50% in win/loss ratio. Two years consecutive below 50% win/loss ratio. Eight of nine loosing ACC conference seasons! What items could Hewitt be evaluated on that would suggest that he continue to be employed? He has a history of good recruits but failed results. What else?

By UGA is so last year

January 26, 2009 12:07 PM | Link to this

To think it was only 2 months ago we were all on a high after the UGA football game. Then came the thud of the Bowl game and basketball season. No money coming in for basketball and DRAD must be besides himself because I doubt donations are high either. I’m sure after the UGA win he thought they would increase. So he should be feeling the pressure to increase revenue and it won’t happen with Hewitt. I am calling his bluff and will assume DRAD will fire him at year’s end. And to the people who would love to see Favors play for one year at GT - you are all sad. You need to look at the big picture (long term) - not the short term (one year). This program is expired and needs to be resurrected. One player - one year won’t cut it.

By yurtle_the_turtle

January 26, 2009 12:22 PM | Link to this

Okay team, I’ve said this before. I don’t even care anymore. I watched a bit yesterday and actually turned it off to read. I’d much rather read a book about Networking than watch this accident called GT Basketball. DRAD had better do something soon. CPH is a joke.

By Tron5000

January 26, 2009 12:24 PM | Link to this

UGA, a year of Favors will help GT in the long term. If they can make a deep run in the tournament with him (a la Carmelo Anthony and Syracuse in 2003), increase their exposure on national television and place Favors in the NBA as a top-5 pick, that should help attract other top-tier players. Now, whether Hewitt can win with those players is another matter entirely.

But if you can find good players to complement the stars, you can build a team that will have success even when the stars jump to the NBA. Just look at how Florida has done since losing Horford, Brewer and Noah following the 2007 Championship. 21-10 last season, 17-3 so far this year.

By old gold engineer

January 26, 2009 12:28 PM | Link to this

Thank you George P. Burdell @ 10:41 am for explaining to me why GT basketball doesn’t make sense. If I watch another game this season, I might have to try the “six shot” trick or maybe the “six pack” trick.
Looks like to me that the bottom line is GT can not score enough. Is there a stat in basketball that tracks points per possession? I would guess our team would rank very low compared to the rest of the conference. But, hey, we’ve had this problem for years.

By SouthBendJacket

January 26, 2009 12:32 PM | Link to this

NEWS FLASH: our young players are not as talented as advertised. Those who disagree, please pay more attention during the games. I don’t know how Shumpert was an all-American. Does he have talent…yes. Does he know how to use it…no. Look at the way he plays! I watched him yesterday. He plays very little defense until he knows he can make a big play…like his one block. He always tries to do too much with the basketball. Look at the number of turnovers he has. Where was Lawal last night? Neither of our big men did anything last night. They got the ball plenty, but couldn’t do anything with it! When Zach Peacock is the go-to guy, we are in trouble. Don’t get me wrong, I like Peacock and respect what he does, but his talent level is not great and he has had to work tremendously hard to get there. Stop drinking the Kool-aid and believing these guys are great…they aren’t. Part of the problem may be Hewitt (first time I’ve said that), but the other part is leadership on the court. Can anyone tell me who the on-court leader is? Don’t think you can.
Hopefully, even though this recruit is a one-and-done kid, maybe he’ll at least be a floor general!

By CC

January 26, 2009 12:44 PM | Link to this

We have players unable to handle the ball, who try to drive through traffic resulting in the expected turnover. They can’t create plays designed to give someone an open shot.

So what, someone tell me, is having Favors going to do for the team next year.? I say, it won’t be what some are purporting it will be. College ball is not high school ball, where the average TEAM is made up of a lot of street playing kids, some good to excellent - but most not. Without a team around him he’ll be taken down by the ACC in a way he’s never experienced.

Since the NBA will not draft a player out of high school, Favors took the most sensible route for him — get a program (any program) to sponsor his audition.

But I question his maturity and intelligence: Why Tech? Oh…. Maybe I just answered my own question. Then he’ll fit in just fine.

By Tron5000

January 26, 2009 12:45 PM | Link to this

SouthBendJacket, I saw Favors play against Mary Persons on Friday. He was not a vocal leader, but he plays hard on every possession, defending from the post out to the 3-point line and pressing on several defensive series.

The dude is an absolute freak. He blocks shots without jumping. And he doesn’t merely swat them. He basically reaches up and just takes the ball away, and that starts a lot of fast breaks. If Tech can put some guys on the court to run with Favors (he’s as athletic a high-school player as I’ve seen since D. Howard), they’ll hurt some people.

By Clemsonjoe

January 26, 2009 12:55 PM | Link to this

splitatom

LOL.

By Tron5000

January 26, 2009 12:57 PM | Link to this

CC, he picked Tech for several reasons. Hewitt has a track record of getting guys into the NBA, Favors said he liked Tech’s player-development program, and he’ll be close to home. All of his friends and family will be able to come see him play and he can go home for a nice meal whenever he likes. Don’t question the kid’s intelligence and maturity; he has his head on his shoulders.

Not to mention, Tech has been Derrick’s favorite team since he was in 7th grade. And as early as 9th grade he was telling those in his inner circle that Tech was on the list of schools he wanted to attend.

Tech also has 2 other highly-rated recruits and 2 more above-average players coming in with Favors. The ACC will not be taking him down. He will be a force, I can promise you.

By Matt274

January 26, 2009 1:05 PM | Link to this

I watched the second half run and was infuriated by the Jacket’s unwillingness to push back against all of the contact and fouling (not called unless blood drawn) by Clemson. They spent most of the time whining and rolling around on the ground. Hewitt should have called a timeout and told them to make the officials call fouls. You might ask - How do you get the officials to call fouls? - Easy - punch or cheap shot the other team and watch the game spin out of control on both sides (not just in Clemson’s favor). This would cause the officials to “take control of the game”. This would take toughness that the Jackets seem to lack. When officials are allowing a pressing team to drape themselves all over the other team you have to make them call the foul.

By SouthBendJacket

January 26, 2009 1:52 PM | Link to this

Thank you Tron5000. Even though you said he isn’t vocal, at least he could be a leader by his actions. We don’t even have that this year!

By gtg861a

January 26, 2009 1:55 PM | Link to this

Coach PH should had give everyone a role. 2 PG on the team, only start one. When both Shumpert and Miller on the sametime. They are both confused. Start one and let one get off the bench, everntually they will play the same minute. Clinch should not be a starter.

By carolina jacket

January 26, 2009 2:00 PM | Link to this

For to long Hewitt has settled for signing over hyped state of Georgia players who look dominate against inferior HS talent but are quickly shown to have very limited skill sets when compared to national recruits. Favors may be the real deal, but when his one and done is over, we will get to see if the rest of the GA HS talent in the recruiting class repeats the Lewis Clinch story. Too bad all the ACC schools are not located in GA, we might could compete if they all tried to win the state of Georgia recruiting battle.

One would hope player development would overcome the limitations, but that doesn’t exist in our program. Name a player that has actually blossomed under Hewitt’s program in the past 4 years. They come in and frequently regress. Were Crittendon and Young ready for the NBA or did they conclude another year under Hewitt wouldn’t improve their chances?

There are two kinds or recruiting and Hewitt is even worse at recruiting assistant coaches. Check the playing histories of the assistant coaches and you will find there isn’t one who could play dead in a cowboy movie - much less groom a post player.

By jack

January 26, 2009 2:05 PM | Link to this

Your folks need to give this a rest. What you have been seeing is what you are going to get the rest of this season. I said before the ACC season began that we might not even scrartch. Begins to look more and more that this may happen. Even as poorly as we have been playing I think we will win one or two games in the league. Hewitt needs to be gone.

By UGA is so last year

January 26, 2009 2:30 PM | Link to this

For all intensive purposes I need a mani-pedi

By Tron5000

January 26, 2009 2:38 PM | Link to this

Don’t you mean “intents and purposes”? Just asking…

By noddy dred

January 26, 2009 2:43 PM | Link to this

COME BE APART OF THE BEST SUPERBOWL PARTY IN ATLEAST 11 YEARS WHEN THE 2 LIVE STEWS HOST THEIR 1ST ANNUAL STEWPERBOWL PARTY AT THE LUCKY LOUNGE. JOIN ME, THE STEWS, AND A SLEW OF CELEBRITIES FEB. 1, STEWPERBOWL SUNDAY. TELL’EM NODDY SENT YOU.

By noddy dred

January 26, 2009 2:43 PM | Link to this

COME BE APART OF THE BEST SUPERBOWL PARTY IN ATLEAST 11 YEARS WHEN THE 2 LIVE STEWS HOST THEIR 1ST ANNUAL STEWPERBOWL PARTY AT THE LUCKY LOUNGE. JOIN ME, THE STEWS, AND A SLEW OF CELEBRITIES FEB. 1, STEWPERBOWL SUNDAY. TELL’EM NODDY SENT YOU.

By Jimmy Carter

January 26, 2009 4:30 PM | Link to this

Well, I’d like to say I’m committed to the Jackets no matter what, but I just can’t. I’m ambivalent at best.

By Mowreck

January 26, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

Don’t think you will see much of Mo Miller next year, the point guard coming in is gonna make everyone much, much better. That is what GT has been missing since Jarrod left for the NBA. A REAL POINT GUARD. Why do you think all of Cremins teams were good? He always recruited the BEST point guard and I don’t have to name all of the guards he had here … most of you watch them play.

By the point guard is ???

January 26, 2009 4:44 PM | Link to this

This is something that needs to be settled soon…Shumpert is not a point guard. Watching him try is painful. Get the team back to the position they were recruited to play. (I know why he is in the position….but it did not work…let Mo run the team)

The thing that really looked bad last night…watching that bald headed guard dribble into the paint…pass to the tall guy…clempzon dunk…happened way too many times.

Did like one in-bound play that resulted in a basket!

By Mike

January 26, 2009 4:55 PM | Link to this

Past caring….

THWG,

Mike in Virginia GT, ‘69

By Noddy Dred's Buddy

January 26, 2009 5:05 PM | Link to this

ONE MORE THING NODDY FORGOT:

IF YOU’RE COMING TO THE SUPER BOWL PARTY…YOU BETTER LIKE HIP HOP CAUSE THAT IS ALL WE WILL BE PLAYING. TONS AND TONS OF R&B AND HIP HOP. ALL NIGHT LONG WITH DJ BORING. THE MOST PREDICTABLE DJ EVER. WILL HE PLAY A HIP HOP SONG NEXT??….THE ANSWER - YES!!! SO IF YOU LOVE HIP HOP AND ONLY HIP HOP COME TO THE SUPER BOWL PARTY!

By Wreck Horn Goes THWUGA

January 26, 2009 5:36 PM | Link to this

NO, WE’RE NOT SURPRISED. IT HAS BEEN 8 YEARS OF MEDIOCRITY IN THE ACC UNDER HEWITT. (YES, EVEN IN 2004 WE WERE ONLY 9-7, HIS BEST ACC SEASON.) EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY KNOWS THAT HEWITT’S TIME IS UP, EXCEPT HE AND D-RAD. THIS IS MUCH WORSE THAN THE APATHY WITH GAILEY LAST YEAR.

By wRECKit

January 26, 2009 5:53 PM | Link to this

As for Basketball, I (and it seems many others) won’t spend another cent or another second on watching or supporting a Hewitt-coached team. Now, onto Noddy Dred and the 2 LIVE STEWS party…. As much as I enjoyed watching Ryan play for Tech, they have the most obnoxious and (embarrassing to Tech) amateurish sports talk show on radio. I’d rather (gag) listen to Bucky on the other station (he doesnt bark nearly as much). Who wants to hear a couple of ill-informed ex-jocks (bros or not) talk about politics, culture, sports, or anything else they know nothing about? 790 is not worthy of Tech, and the Stews are not even worthy of 790.

By EngineeredDawg

January 26, 2009 5:58 PM | Link to this

CPH must go. The program is at its lowest point since long before Cremins. We just want to be respectable, we know we probably can’t get another Cremins. But CPH has more in common with Bill Lewis.

As for the STUPOR-BOWL PARTY….Enough said. I am sick of the woofing, the racism, and the repetitive ignorance of the BRAIN-DEAD STEWS.

By GD Burdell

January 26, 2009 6:05 PM | Link to this

It was no secret why Tech hired CPH in the first place, but it still seemed to be a good risk as he was a star on the rise, though he’d really only had one good season at Sienna. Likewise, it is now no secret why Tech won’t fire him despite the worst record in the conference over the past four years and only one winning record in the conference ever (9-7, at that). It was brave to hire him, and cowardly not to fire him….it has nothing to do with money.

By GT

January 26, 2009 6:47 PM | Link to this

Sure makes winter a lot longer when you can’t watch basketball. It will make me appreciate a good team after watching what we put on a court. I use to think it was a ACC right to come out with a hot team like the SEC do in football. There are teams in Texas that play better basketball than we do and that is no joke.

By bill

January 26, 2009 7:07 PM | Link to this

I have been supportive of Hewitt and will stick by him through next year. As I have said since the Jacksonville game, it will be a long season. This shouldn’t shock anyone. The talent level is down. As far the point, Shumpert should be off guard, but I’m afriaid it seems Miller may not be able to cut it for more than 15 minutes a game. But Udofia will change this next year. He starts and will be the PG Tech fans are expecting. He’s very good, better than the players we are counting on right now. This team is an abomination as I have said for months. I am sure Tech will be very good next year…just hope for continued improvement from Storrs, Sheehan and Shumpert this horrible season.

By P. Duddy

January 26, 2009 7:30 PM | Link to this

I’m glad to read that a few others recognize that the Two Live Stews are perhaps the biggest racists on the radio right now.

By Jacketman

January 26, 2009 7:39 PM | Link to this

Maybe Rad cannot fire Hewitt. Maybe the contract situation prevents that. Each game we are having more and more empty seats. People are becoming more and more discouraged with the direction of the program. Clearly it is not successful and all indications are that more recruits will not solve the problem.

If Hewitt must stay, maybe RAD should hire good coaches under him to keep the program from deteriorating more than it already has. If Hewitt does not like it, he can resign.

By Rob

January 26, 2009 8:29 PM | Link to this

Hewitt needs to go…he has ruined the program.

By BravesFan79

January 26, 2009 9:31 PM | Link to this

Whites need to wake up to the REAL problem of racism in this country….. ….and its not white people!

80% of the interracial crime in this country is black on white!!

What do the anchorwoman that was raped and killed, the UNC student body leader, and the college couple that was raped, and brutally murdered last year… have in common!?? ALL were black racist crimes against whites that were NEVER investigated as “racist” Why? because according to the govt and media….. minorities CANNOT be racist!!

Where was the NAACP and southern poverty center when these atrocities happened?? Oyea…. they were in Oakland defending some scumbag bangbanger that (over 14 arrests and out on parole) was accidently killed by a cop………. and they were in Texas defending the “jenna 6” you know the poor poor descriminated against black youths that stomped on a already unconsious white dudes head in texas.

WHITE PEOPLE WAKE UP!!

By BravesFan79

January 26, 2009 9:35 PM | Link to this

yes 2 stews…. wed LOVE to attend your party where perhaps we can meet a dumb liberal biach that has caught AIDS or something after sleeping with blacks.

Funny how the media NEVER talks about how blacks are spreading HIV thru AL, Ga, Mississippi, and SC faster than anywere else in the country. The fastest rising group?
Straight….. black ….college age males!

By Behind Enemy Lines

January 26, 2009 9:39 PM | Link to this

Until Hewitt is gone the program is pretty much dead, and it’s hard to work up much interest in a corpse.

By Jimmy

January 26, 2009 10:00 PM | Link to this

BravesFan,

Youre a funny guy. Always talking about “blacks racist this” “blacks racist that.” If I didnt know anybetter, i’d say you just don’t like blacks. Yet you sure do love you some NCAA basketball dontcha? Guess what race dominates that, bruddah?

By razorjacket

January 26, 2009 10:35 PM | Link to this

We do have something to hang our hat on. This can be a memorable season. GT will be the Detroit Lions of the ACC!! And we will never forget, will we, Paul and Dan?!?!

By moboman

January 26, 2009 10:50 PM | Link to this

Carolina jacket, you are right. Why is it that every school we play seems to have better ATHLETES than we do? All of our highly touted recurits always seem to be a step slower, or cant shoot, or not as agile, ETC. Our recruit evaluation is suspect, and that gets back directly to the coach. We seem to get good hs players, but never seem to adequately prepare them for the college level, when all players are a bit better than the HS teams.

By Submariner683

January 27, 2009 1:25 AM | Link to this

I can’t say that Hewitt has ruined the program. Do people not remember Cremins’ last 4-6 years? Absolutely dreadful. Hewitt has done little with the talent he has had over the last 5 years. I’ll give him a break because he hasn’t had the team he was supposed to have every year. Dickey was supposed to play last year, missed the whole season, then doesn’t play this year. Bell is gone for the season. Both of those players would have helped this team out quite a bit. If Crittendon and Young would have returned last year they would have had a much better season.

The only player they have on the floor right now that is the real deal is Lawal. But big men can’t do much without good guard play. That’s why Favors coming next year won’t make a difference if Shumpert and Mo don’t improve and if they have to rely on their freshman PG.

By BravesFan79

January 27, 2009 4:55 AM | Link to this

Jimmy: I like most blacks just fine….mostly women, and men over 40 or so…….. u ever dated 2 black women because they perfered white men? ever gave up your last 4 bucks when you were hungry to instead buy lunch for a homeless black guy u had empathy for at a bus stop?
Ever been carjacked and almost killed while giving a RIDE to 2 black males that ended up being on the run for murder? i outsmarted them….but sadly they probably killed their next (not as streetsmart) victim…..

Well ive done all that, and for the media and blacks to act like “racism” is a white on black problem is about as wrong as it gets! And i learned this firsthand while working the streets….then expanding my knowledge by studying blacks in sweden, england, and south africa.

Hey i dont hate anyone, im just here to tell the truth youd never hear in the liberal news paper that cant even admit “4 black males came into the bar in east atlanta and shot the bartender in the head” Yet they want us to help identify the people….??

the sad part is…. the media has brain washed so many young pple….you now have alot of dumb white liberal women saying “you dont know who the killer was, whites do crimes 2 and are just as violent” YEA RIGHT…..dumb brainwashed liberal……..

Hey im not a racist, im just something that most blacks claim to be… and thats REAL! face it….if i was a black id be called a Uncle Tom like Bill Cosby for telling the Truth………but since im white…. i must be a “racist”……………. God bless anyone thats a REAL man… and takes care of their kids…and dosent have to take advantage of others to get by in life….regardless of race!

By BravesFan79

January 27, 2009 5:18 AM | Link to this

Jimmy: all is takes is belief in someone…… the New England Patriots offensive line believed in sacrificing 40 times for Brains….. and it payed off in superbowls.

Dukes coach believes in the shooting ability and smarts of white players as opposed to the physical skills by blacks….and it payed off by being the top team in the land this week (yes they have a great black player, but hes surrounded by whites)

If coaches would start taking smarts and skills into consideration over 40 times and raw “athleticism”…. then we WOULD see alot more whites in D1 CFootball and College Hoops!
It takes a coach that thinks outside the box tho….. someone like a Mike Krzyzewski……

And Gt will be ALOT better next year. Bell is a quality person and guard, and him and the freshy from Decatur will help greatly.
Lawal and Favors will form one of the BEST frontcourts in the nation! Its all up to guard play how far we go! GO GT!!

By Jim 70

January 27, 2009 8:19 AM | Link to this

Georgia talent ‘over-hyped’? I live in Virginia now, and from where I see it, JC was good, but look at Kwame Brown and Dwight Howard. Yes, Brown wasn’t an instant success with the Wiz, but both were #1 picks out of high school. Derrick would be the same without the new NBA rule. If all great Georgia basketball players and football players went to college in the state of Georgia, both UGA and GT (state and southern) would be top contenders every year.

Yes, CPH has some talent on the team, but not depth. Look at Duke a few years ago - they only had five or six McDonald’s all Americans on the team (plus a bench loaded with super stars) and during every game the announcers kept saying that Duke was down since they did not have any bench support. Gimme a break! Five walk-ons!

Drad needs to see what CPH does with the team next year AND where his recruiting is going. If he takes a year off in recruiting, like he has done in the past, then he finally gets my vote to look for another coach.

By GT66

January 27, 2009 8:48 AM | Link to this

Where the white women at?

By ga_tech_92

January 27, 2009 9:21 AM | Link to this

IF we have a TRUE PG coming in, then that’s ONE step in the right direction. We need THREE TRUE PGs…sometimes they get hurt…sometimes they get tired…sometimes they leave early…this is NOT rocket science…you MUST anticipate this and UNDERSTAND that this position, without a close second, is the KEY to your team. Favors might work hard, so do the rest of the guys on our team, but without DEPTH at TRUE PG (not 2 guards pretending to be tall PGs) he will not get the ball except on misses…which is what we do this year…which is what we did last year…and the year before that…and the year before that…(anyone see a pattern?…of course we all do…thus the ever present comment: “Groundhog Day”)

By GT66

January 27, 2009 9:53 AM | Link to this

Don’t give up. Hewitt wants out so a buy out may not be needed. Just keep up the pressure and it will further encourage him to leave. He cannot coach. There is no worse coach in the ACC. Look at who Wake Forest is able to promote when Skip Prosser sadly died. No one ever heard of him, but he is obviously a very good coach. Dan found Johnson and there are plenty of his quality coaching currently in the NCAA.

By ggodsey

January 27, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this

Good morning toolbags.

By toolbags

January 27, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this

Good Morning ggodsey. Did you ever get RealityYech’s pubic hair untangled from your braces?

By GT

January 27, 2009 11:00 AM | Link to this

There are down seasons, but not like this. A quality program is going to lose some but not all. How many teams are there in the ACC, and we are the worst one? We are the basketball equal of Duke in football except Duke actually won a game. We have resumes that say we are better than this, on paper we are in the middle of the league in talent. Watching them play is like watching keystone cops. They have actually improved the last few games, like a drunk cleaning his house before the authorites come and take his kids. There are still a few bottles in the middle of the floor but we are getting it together. Who are you kidding. You should of shown that improvement coming into the season and not discover you cant’ bring a ball in play until half the season is over. On top of that it will take good coaches about a game to figure what Tech is doing and it will be back to the drawing board to figure out how to start the play, not to mention covering the rest of the court. Obama will find the cure of this economy long before Hewitt finds the secret of teamwork.

By ga_tech_92

January 27, 2009 1:36 PM | Link to this

One thing really baffles me. Paul Hewitt must have had some level of success before being hired by GT. What was it he did that made him look like such a good hire in the first place? If he had success where he came from, what was different? Clearly he can’t coach…so…did he forget how?…are ACC coaches just TOO good for him?…what happened between “Yes, let’s hire Paul Johnson” and “This guy cannot coach!”

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