Ramblin' On

By GT for life

January 1, 2007 09:59 PM | Link to this

Andy mostly agree with you; losing the third time in a row by 3 points is very bitter however. Taylor played incredible today. Pretty mad at Chan to leave him in the closet when Reggie played more than horrible. We had a great offense today, D let us down in the third quarter however. GO JACKETS!

By Clay

January 1, 2007 10:02 PM | Link to this

Awesome game from Taylor and the entire offense. Yeah, Calvin and Tashard both played amazing, but I think that Taylor was the catalyst for the offense in this one. It was awesome to see some passes over the middle and a lot of good decisions. The interception wasn’t his fault, just a bit of miscommunication. Sorry, but this loss has to go on the defense, as much as I hate to say it. We needed to hold them and we didn’t. I think not having Kenny Scott really really hurt us. But not having Ball made it a great game. One last thing, let’s show Calvin we want him to stay. ONE MORE YEAR!!!

By gspjr

January 1, 2007 10:03 PM | Link to this

Yep, great call on the onside kick. Too bad CG had to pick up the idea from Richt. Very original play calling. Oh yeah, where are the Techies crowing about how this was a “good loss” and “something to build on”. Got to give it to Bennett, Choice and CJ though they did play well.

By GreenJacket

January 1, 2007 10:12 PM | Link to this

First of all thought and prayers go out to the Lewis and Russ family. I admire the way he came out and played for his friend. Unbelievable game by Bennett and the entire offensive unit. Disappointed with the defense though WV’s O-line dominated. I would have liked to have seen the defense force White to win through the air instead of never adjusting to the QB designed runs. Bottom line is another year ranked outside the Top 25. Hopefully with the experience coming back next year the close losses will turn into victories.

By gtne80

January 1, 2007 10:28 PM | Link to this

Andy,

If you will read my posts on your previous blog “Enjoy Johnson While You Can,” you will see my conciliatory thoughts. They run very close to yours.

But now I’m going to unleash a side that I rarely show. I try to be civilized and diplomatic in keeping with my education. This time I’m cutting loose.

Gailey stunk this season up. Bennett’s performance shows that Gailey’s player selection and his decision-making on starting personnel is truly suspect. After Ball was injured in midseason his performance began to degrade. His This was obvious to the most casual fan and had to be obvious to Gailey. Instead, he ran Ball out there week after week. He blew a chance to beat UGA with Ball playing like crap. He blew a chance to win the ACC and go to a BCS game with his stubbornness. The academic ineligibility forced his hand or he would doubtless have run Ball out there against WVU.

Yes, I can be disappointed. I am disappointed. UGA comes back in the second half against VT. We blow a big lead in the second half against WVU. I’m TIRED of losing. I’m TIRED of being SECOND CLASS. If this is the best we can do, let’s HANG IT UP! Get rid of the football program. Hell, get rid of the whole stinking Athletic Department. Screw it all!

I don’t think this is the best we can do. Rutgers went 11-2 for goodness sakes!! If Braine was right, if mediocrity is all we can expect, then so be it, let’s get out of the business. If Braine was wrong (and I think he was), then let GET ON WITH IT! GAILEY IS NOT THE ANSWER.

By GJK

January 1, 2007 10:30 PM | Link to this

“To be honest, I’m not overly disappointed in the loss”….are YOU kidding me?

By GT55

January 1, 2007 10:32 PM | Link to this

Bennett and offense played a great game. The D let us down but what a game! Can’t wait till next year.

By The Title Says It All

January 1, 2007 10:38 PM | Link to this

Can’t Be Too Dissapointed In This One… Tech IS Losersville and Gailey is the Mayor.

Run Calvin Run…While You Can!

By Texas Wreck

January 1, 2007 10:41 PM | Link to this

Well, I am impressed that Tech players came out and gave a great effort. I frankly was looking for a Clemson type effort, not what we got. But if you take out the two pud games, we were 7-5 again. We have to do better than that with the talent we have. It is tough to lose 4 games by a total of 13 points, but we did it. Close wins instead of close losses will turn us around. We can only do that by fielding our best players and making them compete for playing time. Handing out starting assignments for life ( like Reggie) is not the way to do it. Finally, did you catch that comment that the announcer made that it was too bad the grades did not come out earlier??? Like freshman year!!!

By gtne80

January 1, 2007 10:44 PM | Link to this

To “The Title Says It All”

It took me 5 paragraphs to say it. You said it much more concisely.

If we “can’t be disappointed” with a loss, then the UGA people are right. We are LOSERVILLE.

However, I don’t think they are right. We need a MAJOR change in attitude. The excuses have to end.

I hope Taz Anderson and some of the influential alumni are stewing on this.

By gtne80

January 1, 2007 10:47 PM | Link to this

Texas Wreck,

I heard the comment. The sad thing is that it was obvious to everyone this side of Chan Gailey.

By Always a Mountaineer

January 1, 2007 10:48 PM | Link to this

GT fans…you have nothing to be ashamed of. Your team played their hearts out and almost pulled the upset. I thought GT was going to blown WVU out of the stadium in the first half. WVU has had its share of ‘almost’ wins. Congrads on a good game, a great team.
Proud to be Mountaineer

By spike

January 1, 2007 10:48 PM | Link to this

Good game Techies. But Andy, how can you not be overly disappointed with blowing an 18 point lead, and Gomer playing Reggie all year when Bennet showed what he can do today? I think you must be the only Techmite who feels that way after that big choke job and the third loss in a row. But, it could of been worse. Had Reggie played and Slaton played the whole game it would have been even uglier. Admit it Andy, they choked.

By Chris

January 1, 2007 10:49 PM | Link to this

Georgia Tech has an up year while Georgia has a down year. AW, Great to be a Georgia Bulldog!!

By Johnson is a Johnson

January 1, 2007 10:53 PM | Link to this

Hey coach. You’re an idiot. I should’ve gone to Georgia. CJ

By jabster

January 1, 2007 10:56 PM | Link to this

I’m not sure if the D was playing bad in the 3rd or was just outsized (reminded me of the Clemson game) and didn’t adjust. Avoid some key stupid mistakes (the botched kickoff return, the INT, the holding call), and we might have won this one.

Might. I went into this game expecting nothing. Bennett put in a top-notch performance and we almost won it out.

It always sucks to lose, but it’s not anywhere near so bad when you turn in a great performance and don’t blow it out your tail like we did offensively against Wake and Georgia (and I’ll throw in UNC to boot).

This wasn’t a half-hearted Emerald Bowl effort. This was the kind of performance we needed down the stretch and a great prelude to next year. If we had played Wake and UGA like that, we would have blown them out. We could have kept Clemson close and maybe even gotten ND.

WVU is a good team and hats off to them.

Now, for the question everyone is asking—why did Reggie play as long as he did? Chan and Reggie both owe the Jacket Nation an apology and Wake and UGA owe them both thank-you notes.

By george

January 1, 2007 10:57 PM | Link to this

Just two days ago Tech fans were bragging about a New Year’s bowl while the Dawgs were in the Chic-fil-a, even though they have played in no name bowls forever. Now the Dawgs finish with a better record than the Jackets and they are not “disappointed with the loss”. At least Reggie was not there to give it away. I guess we now know that the Dawgs are better in a bad year compared to Tech in a good year.

By gtne80

January 1, 2007 10:58 PM | Link to this

You’re right jabster. I want an explanation AND an apology from Chan.

By MikeT

January 1, 2007 11:00 PM | Link to this

I will probably not be able to sleep tonight for all the tech fans dropping their screw-drivers while taking their GT tags off of their cars and making so much noise! It happened the night Tech lost to GEORGIA. Talk about fair-weather fans. The fact that tech lost today just made my weekend! TO HELL WITH TECH and thanks West Virginia!

By GT for life

January 1, 2007 11:02 PM | Link to this

Mutts, wrong blog, still can’t read? Pups lost to WVa with the same result a year ago. Does Sugar Bowl 2005 ring a bell? The ” I should have gone to Georgia, signed CJ” remarks are getting kind of stale, can you do any better? You know a bit more witty or funny, too much to ask?

By Techie

January 1, 2007 11:03 PM | Link to this

I just want the coaching staff to answer to somebody…anybody…

Chan, you arrogant, stubborn, silly man. You have a great team assembled for next year. I can only assume you and the coaching staff will personally lose a game or two due on your playcalling and decision making.

To all “Tech fans”…if you are “satisfied” with this type of 9-win season, you need to think about it hard…what’s satisfying about losing your last three games, all incredibly “winnable”, by 3 points each?

The opportunity for a 10 win season, much less the opportunity for a 12 win season, is extremely rare, and Gailey and Crew, in sticking with Ball, blew it. They blew hard.

By beejeezuz

January 1, 2007 11:03 PM | Link to this

Can we just make it a Mora and Gailey 2-fer on the 1st day of 2007?

By newton

January 1, 2007 11:04 PM | Link to this

I completely agree; chan gailey is not a competent coach. I guarantee that he will call this season a “good one” because he is satisfied with mediocrity. He reminds me of a C student who is determined to “just pass” and languish in mediocrity. How is it that Bennett did not play a single minute when we continually failed to score a touchdown against WF and UGA. I mean Reggie has done nothing for two seasons, and I have seen him have countless chances. But Bennett has not had any. Bill Parcells gave his second string a chance/valuable experience as did mike shanahan. Lastly, maybe we should just hang it all up. I think that if we used the money consumed by the AD for more research/ higher prof salaries to recruit more top-notch professors/students, then the institute would benefit much more then if it was used to pay Gailey or Radovich. At least our professors have higher standards and aspirations than the AD and a much greater probability of success.

By gtne80

January 1, 2007 11:06 PM | Link to this

FU Mike T. Take your UGA tag off your rusted pickup with the tobacco stains down the side and jam it up your &ss you knuckle dragger. My tag stays on the front of my car and my Tech diploma stays on the wall. Oh, and my 6-figure salary keeps going into my bank account. And yes, I would like fries with that order. Go back to your job at the drive through, you cousin marrying trailer dweller!

By Chris

January 1, 2007 11:07 PM | Link to this

Great Tech crowd at the Gator Bowl today….what a joke!!

By jabster

January 1, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this

Hey Bulldog Nation—want your props? Want to know how the Jacket Nation feels about Chan and Reggie? Here you go…

Note to Chan: Please note that Mark Richt was NOT afraid to make upperclassmen—even legacy senior sons of influential alumni—ride the pine when they weren’t performing!

As many Dawg fans have mentioned when criticizing calls to bench Reggie, what kind of message does that send to incoming freshmen? The right one! You perform or we will find someone who will!

By Tabman

January 1, 2007 11:12 PM | Link to this

I know it is never OK to be happy with a loss. BUT, what about next year, I am optimistic for 07. Why oh why was Bennett not given a chance this season. Ball did all he could, then it lies with CG.

What a difference the UGA game did to both programs - sent them in different directions. Now they have a better record and will be in the top 25 and we will be in the others receiving votes.

This was the year to win the ACC and go to a BCS bowl. I hate it when people say the ACC was down this year, but it was probably true. When could the stars align like this again. Geez Wake won the ACC.

— Steaming for 6 months

By ray

January 1, 2007 11:13 PM | Link to this

Once again,failure to make the right adjustments at halftime. Chan is clearly no mental giant when it comes to football.

By gtfan

January 1, 2007 11:14 PM | Link to this

Well.. I’m disappointed but I wasn’t surprised. I expected we’d lose but not this way.

Taylor completely surprised me, he was great although a few of his throws were suspect, they results were great but the decision to throw that direction was questionable at times. Maybe I was just scared watching a, practically, first game starter, make those throws.

CJ was great as usual and Choice was great the first half. I think our D lost a step during the break but you have to give WVU credit, they’ve done it the last two years so it wasn’t a surprise, they played well.

WVU D was getting thru our line a lil too quick for my liking and a couple of calls, both penalties and Chan were the difference makers… but again, it shouldn’t come down to just a couple of calls.

It was nice seeing the ball thrown across the middle, first time all season!

By Nerdboy

January 1, 2007 11:17 PM | Link to this

We’ve got to be disappointed with this loss. If not for some sloppy play and bonehead penalties in the 2nd, we couldve taken this one.

Memo to Chan: New practice drill: catch the ball on a kickoff or get out of the way. I bet Tony Clark doesnt make that mistake again.

For the UGA fans who will inevitably read this blog and post their tech-bashes, congrats on the comeback win against Virginia Thug University. I’m certainly not a Dawg fan, but I’ll take ‘em over VT or the FSU Criminoles any day.

By jabster

January 1, 2007 11:19 PM | Link to this

Tabman—don’t be so down about missing our oppty in the ACC. We have Clemson and VT at home next year, Miami and UVA won’t be any better, Duke will be Duke, and UNC will still not be ready for prime time. We could beat any of those teams—except maybe VT and Clemson—with the performance we turned in today.

Does anyone know who our rotating opponents will be? The only one I would worry about with a Ball-less team is BC.

By Craig

January 1, 2007 11:22 PM | Link to this

Bennett - Calvin equals……LOL

By Sautee Dawg

January 1, 2007 11:23 PM | Link to this

Tech fans should have been in Jacksonville today giving your team some appreciation instead of sitting by the computer waiting for something to blog about. WV fans had you out numbered 10 to 1. If you want your team to know how you feel, then go to the game and show them.

as a Dawg fan i attended the Chic-fil-a bowl and no way could we have come from behind without our fans being there making noise for our team.

How can you Tech fans expect to do better without fan support?

By The Truth Hurts

January 1, 2007 11:27 PM | Link to this

Here come the lame UGH fans crowing about a Chik-Fil-A win in front of a home crowd. Can’t you just feel it coming after a tough Tech loss (does the score sound familiar)?

The point is simple: Tech’s defense, which stopped everybody except Clemson, had the Falcons gameplan today…in other words, watch the QB get the snap, watch the QB run left, watch the QB get the snap, watch the QB run right. It was the Carolina Panthers game all over again. It didn’t look like many adjustments were made to make White become a drop-back passer.

Great game from Bennett, however. And good play-calling, I thought, from Nix. Tech went downfield a lot, which they tried to do at UGH…but Ball couldn’t see over the line. It bodes well for next year.

My last point (and a sidenote): there is no SEC superiority. Nope. I guess we can put that to rest this year. Since Arkansas and Tennessee lost today, the “vaunted” SEC is 4-3 in bowls. If LSU wins and Fla. loses, that’s a 5-4 bowl record.

It shouldn’t be surprising to those people living in reality, however. Boise State is beating Oklahoma soundly right now. Michigan lost, but Penn State and Wisconsin both beat SEC schools. And I hate the Big 10. There really isn’t much difference in terms of talent between conferences as some Southerners would like to think. The ACC was down this year, no doubt. But Miami and FSU carry the standard in terms of success and are allowed some slack. But humility is not something many will witness when SEC fans talk about their conference. It’s certainly good…but not great.

By GAILEY SHOULD BE FIRED!

January 1, 2007 11:29 PM | Link to this

He’s INCOMPETENT! How can you GIVE AWAY another UGAy game and a Conference Championship by leaving Ball in the game when HE’S WORSE THAN NON-PRODUCTIVE — HE SINGLE-HANDEDLY GIVES THE GAME AWAY!

If Bennett wasn’t QUALIFIED TO START those games, then he could’ve AT LEAST PULLED BALL AND PUT BENNETT IN FOR THE WIN! He’s TOO STUBBORN TO COACH AT GT! Lack of FLEXIBILITY to respond to changing game conditions is DEADLY, as we’ve ALL SEEN. Gailey looks like a COMPLETE IDIOT for leaving Bennett on the bench while Ball FLOUNDERED!

THIS GAME WAS LOST BY GAILEY…But he’s too much of a COWARD to admit it. PROOF: Monday AJC, Page D11:

“I’m just not going to make him (Travis Bell) kick a long one. I probably am not going to do that,” Tech coach Chan Gailey said.

So what does he do WITH THE GAME ON THE LINE? Puts Bell out there for a 54 YARD ATTEMPT!!??!?!? There are few PRO KICKERS who can do that consistently! BELL’S A GAMER and has NOTHING to be ashamed of! Gailey should’ve NEVER put him in that position…It’s SUCH AN INCOMPETENT COACHING DECISION that Gailey himself said before the game that HE WOULDN’T DO IT!*…Then HE DOES and THE GAME WAS LOST AT THAT EXACT MOMENT — ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE!

As per usual, NIX releases the floodgates in the first half, secures a nice lead and puts the offense on AUTO-PILOT! IS THERE ANYONE ON THIS COACHING STAFF WHO KNOWS HOW TO MOVE IN FOR THE KILL!??!?!

These AWESOME PLAYERS obviously PLAYED THEIR HEARTS OUT…But Tenuta learned NOTHING from the CLEMSON SHELLACKING. Gailey GOT SCHOOLED AGAIN by a Superior Tactician in Rodriguez…Will it EVER end? NO…Not until Gailey IS GONE!

Bennett’s CLASS, POISE and PERFORMANCE today PROVES Gailey was putting ONE PLAYER (BALL) BEFORE THE ENTIRE TEAM, FANS, ALUMNI and other SUPPORTERS. It’s INEXCUSABLE! Hell, he can’t even stick to what he was quoted as saying in Sat’s paper, but he stuck with BALL while he repeatedly stuck knives in the backs of everyone GT!

Jump in here any Gailey-Huggers if you can find ANYTHING DEFENSIBLE ABOUT HIS COACHING ABILITIES…ANYTHING! He’s recruiting good NOW…

But if you can’t WIN THE BIG GAMES — AND GAILEY CLEARLY CAN’T — then the ENTIRE UNIVERSITY & ITS SUPPORT SYSTEM WILL SUFFER FOR YEARS AND YEARS! I’ve already decide I’LL NEVER ATTEND ANOTHER GAILEY-COACHED GT GAME…Because I simply WON’T SUPPORT someone who shouldn’t be coaching at my Alma Mater.

He’s a LOSER…And a DOUBLE-LOSER if he doesn’t take COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY in tomorrow’s AJC for losing this game with that IDIOTIC 54-yd attempt with 4-5 mins left…What a COMPLETE MORON!

Now THAT’S what you call LETTING LOOSE! Too bad it’s ALL TRUE…What an EERIE PARALLEL to MORA and the Falcons!

By gtne80

January 1, 2007 11:34 PM | Link to this

To Hell with UGA and to hell will the SEC. Year after year they have losing or break-even records in the bowls and meaningful out-of-conference play. Go back and look at the last 5-6 years of the conference records in the bowls. The SEC claims dominance, but doesn’t show up during the bowls (neither does the PAC10 or Big10). They will claim that it’s all in the matchups, but they are FOS.

By Fuzzy Buzzy

January 1, 2007 11:38 PM | Link to this

Hey Stupid UGA fans…….if Chan stole the onside kick play from Richt, then Richt stole it from Navy who did it about 8 hours earlier against BC.

By gtne80

January 1, 2007 11:40 PM | Link to this

To “GAILEY SHOULD BE FIRED”,

Amen and AMEN! THAT IS letting loose.

By Sautee Dawg

January 1, 2007 11:42 PM | Link to this

Truth Hurts.

Home field advantage is exactly what i was refering to. WV had 10 fans to Techs 1. It should have been the other way around. As far as the SEC being superior to any other conference, i don’t think so, however i do think by sending 9 teams to a bowl game says alot about the strength of our conference. While your keeping up with the won lost count of the SEC bowl game results, don’t forget SEC vs ACC 2-0

By WV is a STATE?

January 1, 2007 11:46 PM | Link to this

Sautee Dawg thinks that West Virginia is a REGION in the State of Virginia…At least that’s what they posted on a Dawg Blog! PROOF they don’t teach Geography at UGAy!

By Sautee Dawg

January 1, 2007 11:55 PM | Link to this

To gtne80.

Take your West Virginia spanking and go back to class.

If your ACC conference is so strong why was the highest ranked team in it playing in the {lower tier} Chic-fil-a bowl?

By UGA WRs

January 1, 2007 11:56 PM | Link to this

No CJ dont start wishing you come hear if you did you’d be dropping balls left and rite too

By Daremo

January 2, 2007 12:02 AM | Link to this

Richt is 10-0 against the ACC…I’d call that dominance.

By Night Train

January 2, 2007 12:06 AM | Link to this

Geargia Tech did a nice job in the first half mixing the rush and pass. They executed extremely well. Tech also dealt what should have been a fatal blow starting the third quarter with the successful onsides kick and resulting TD.

The WVU coaching staff did a tremendous job with halftime adjustments by down the Tech running game and pressuring the Tech QB in the second half.

WVU showed alot of heart by coming back after the poor showing in the first half and could have easisly folded after the surprising start of the second half. The support of the WV fans cannot be underestimated as well.

Conclusion: Push on the talent level for each team. Advantage WVU on coaching. Advantage WVU on fan support. Advantage WVU players on heart and knowing how to finish.

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 12:07 AM | Link to this

Because, Sautee Dawg (i.e., d%ck head). the conference/bowl lineups were drawn up years ago when Miami, VT and BC weren’t part of the ACC. You friggin’ UGA knuckle draggers are so predictable it’s funny. Insult the ACC. Make fun of the size of Tech’s stadium. Make fun of our attendance. Ignore the friggin’ obvious. UGA is a lower tier land-grant general curriculum state university. Try reading the US News and World Report ratings some time. You guys SUCK as a big university. Our piddly little specialized inner-city technological institute kicks your a* academically and (with a 3-1 disadvantage in undergrad population) competes athletically. The only thing you have in your favor is your rural GA redneck fan base (mostly made up of cousin marry-ers that never darkened the doors of the cow college). FU!!!!!

By lax55

January 2, 2007 12:08 AM | Link to this

I have been a Tech football fan my whole life, but I attend the University of Georgia. After watching both teams over the past few years, it is clear that Tech has athletes that are equal to, if not better than UGA. The only difference is COACHING!!!! Mark Richt is a fabulous coach, he knows how to finish a game in the second half, unlike Gailey. I don’t know what he says to the players at half time, but they always seem to run out of steam towards the end of the game. His decision making is terrible also. To ask Bell to make a 54 yard FG is ridiculous when we could have had them pinned back deep, and possibly gotten good field position to have a chance to win the game. Tech has the chance to be REALLY good next year, with some good recruits coming in, but it wont matter if Gailey still has the reigns. And all this arguing amongst UGA and Tech fans is unecessary. Not all UGA fans are ignorant rednecks, and not all Tech fans are nerds. Go Jackets!!!

By RW

January 2, 2007 12:11 AM | Link to this

This game turned out to be the worst possible scenario for Chan Gailey. If Bennett had looked a lot worse, and we lost, at least people would stop second guessing him on playing Reggie Ball. (Bennett had a great game, but honestly, how good would it have been if CJ wasn’t there to bail him out a few times?)

Instead, now not only does the best season of the Gailey era end with yet another five-loss record, but now everyone’s going to question leaving Ball in so long when he had Bennett gathering dust on the sidelines.

It’s been frustrating to watch for four straight years having a mobile quarterback, yet refusing to incorporate some sort of option or creative running game to offset the defficiencies of a bad passing, mobile quarterback. If you’re not going to use a running quarterback’s mobility, why not put in someone that can complete even the most basic passes, ie. Bennett?

No creativity, inability to change what isn’t working, and the first chance at a special season ending with three straight losses, including fifth in a row to Georgia and five overall is unacceptable. What can we expect when Tenuta gets a head coaching job, taking away our best coach?

By 4-4 in SEC is MEDIOCRE

January 2, 2007 12:12 AM | Link to this

Richt is 4-4 in SEC…I’d call that AVERAGE.

By Sautee Dawg

January 2, 2007 12:12 AM | Link to this

To Daremo.

waisting your time trying to put up stats for the bugs to read, coach bashing seems to be the topic of the day for them, that is a very interesting stat though with 1/2 of those coming against the gnats. I’d say dominance would be a good way to describe it!!!

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 12:16 AM | Link to this

Sautee Dawg

The waist is the place that your belt goes around. A waste is a futile effort (i.e., trying to educate an ignorant f*cker like you).

By lax55

January 2, 2007 12:27 AM | Link to this

Richt has taken UGA to 3 SEC Championships and ended the season with three wins over ranked teams, that is hardly average buddy.

By ToHellwithTech

January 2, 2007 12:30 AM | Link to this

gtne80, you sound like some bitter, snotty-nosed kid that has been bullied all of his life. If UGA fans frustrate you so badly, why don’t you choose another football team to follow that wins football games. It appears from your childish, ignorant posts that you still may be a child. If so, isn’t it past your bedtime?

By The Truth Hurts

January 2, 2007 12:31 AM | Link to this

In the Peach Bowl, which pits the ACC vs. the SEC, I believe the ACC is leading the series 8-6. If you want to compare the seeds, you’d have to realize that the SEC has historically had more schools in its conference, prior to the expansion with Miami, Va. Tech, and BC.

This particular year, the SEC is 2-0. My point is that the SEC has a built-in advantage when it comes to bowl invitations (Alabama at 6-6?)…most bowls take place in the South, which means fans can drive to the stadium, which means more tickets sold. Voters also tend to reward SEC schools in the polls over other conferences b/c of this same belief among many in the media that the SEC plays better football. It’s simply not true. Even if Boise State is choking away their game tonight, parity reigns supreme.

I’m not down on the SEC. I just think a little perspective is needed in this town about the conference. It’ll never happen, but it’s a nice thought.

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 12:37 AM | Link to this

“To Hell with Tech”

Ha, ha, ha….you call me childish? Read some of your compadre’s posts. BTW, this is a TECH post. Shows just how friggin’ childish and obsessed YOU are you pr*ck! Go to bed. The breakfast shift at Hardee’s is almost ready to begin. I follow Tech because I GRADUATED from there. I have a diploma on my wall that says I have “all rights and privileges” of a graduate of Tech. I figure that includes blogging on a TECH blog. What do you have on the wall pencil d&ck?

By lax55

January 2, 2007 12:42 AM | Link to this

Hey gtne80, as a graduate of Georgia Tech, don’t you have better things to do at one o’clock in the morning, than talking crap on the blogs. Your UGA graduate boss is going to get mad at you. My dad graduated from UGA, and he usually gets mad when his Tech employees stroll in late after sulking their loss all weekend. I didn’t want to get nasty, but your rude comments left me no choice.

By Matt

January 2, 2007 12:52 AM | Link to this

Beating two Techs in one season… T feel like we’re in a Raisin Bran commercial, two scoops of fruit Go Dawgs!!!

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 12:54 AM | Link to this

UGA boss? Obviously, you are NO GT grad. Don’t mistake Ga. State for GT dumbass. I won’t be going in to work tomorrow. As a Tech grad with 26+ years experience in the nuclear industry, I get to choose when I go to work. If you were a “REAL” Tech grad, you wouldn’t be taking up for UGA abusers on a Tech blog. What a poser. Kiss my Atlanta born a*ss.

By mtraininjax

January 2, 2007 12:56 AM | Link to this

What can we expect when Tenuta gets a head coaching job, taking away our best coach?

Attention Tech fans who watched this game on TV instead of in person, Tenuta and his D gave up 313 yards on the ground. They allowed WVU to keep the ball for the remaining 5 minutes of the game AND gave up 21 crucial points in the 3rd quarter.

I think Tenuta is a fine coach, but he should stay and work on his defense a lot more.

By surfrider

January 2, 2007 12:57 AM | Link to this

The question should be why has’nt Bennett been the starter for the last two years? No Qb should have a job with less than 50% completion ratio even if the coaching has been bad which it has until today. We’ve got a potential huge asset at QB with tons of tremendous QB depth for the future. We still need some stoppers on defense t o take control of a game against great offenses like we have experienced the l ast two bowl games. But personally I thought we would loose big in this one due to WV offense. Only Gailey would say that he would not have done anything different this year. Ball would have made a great slot/scat back and punt/kickoff returner.

By lax55

January 2, 2007 01:04 AM | Link to this

Who said i was a Tech grad? I am a UGA STUDENT. And most UGA graduates that I know are ALOT more successful than TECH grads. UGA graduates RUN companies, Tech graduates work in small cubicles all day. And just so you know, UGA is much harder to get into now. The average HS GPA of a UGA student is MUCH higher than a Tech student. Face it, UGA is superior in atheletics and academics. UGA is not the farm school it used to be, Terry College of Business is rated among the best business schools in the nation in the Princeton Review. After every loss, Tech fans resort to making fun of UGA, grow up and take a loss- you should be used to it now. LOSER!!!

By The Truth Hurts

January 2, 2007 01:04 AM | Link to this

Boise State vs. Oklahoma..Game of the Year!!!!

Did that just happen? And a proposal to a cheerleader in a postgame interview??

Too good to be true.

Simply incredible game. Way to go Idaho!!

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 01:06 AM | Link to this

Surfrider, you ask the questions that we should all be asking

“mtraininjax” - great questions. We’ve been dubbing Tenuta as this defensive genius, but where is the defense when we really need them? If I’m not mistaken, we led in the 4th qtr against UGA and WFU. We were up by 18 points early in the second half of this one. Why did we not hold the lead in any of these games? Is Tenuta really the genius?

By UGAyers Have Trouble With MATH (as usual)

January 2, 2007 01:13 AM | Link to this

Richt was 4-4 in the SEC this year, and that’s a .500 winning percentage. It also equals 50%, which is quite simply AVERAGE…It’s the SAME as flipping a coin. Unless of course, you WEIGHT the LOSSES to Vandy and KY more, then it becomes a less than average performance in the SEC this year by Richt and the Dawgs. Numbers don’t LIE, but you have to be able to do the math.

The “awesome UGAy QB” threw 7 TDs and 13 INTs this year…Sorry, but that’s ALSO BELOW AVERAGE. Even Ball’s TD/INT numbers were MUCH BETTER than that!

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 01:19 AM | Link to this

lax55,

Sorry, I misunderstood the phrase “as a Tech graduate” to mean that YOU were a Tech graduate. I should have known better since you are obviously able to operate a computer. Evidently that means you don’t have a degree from Athens complimentary college.

And BTW, I know a lot of High School graduates that run companies and are more successful than UGA graduates. The real story is that GT students are more intelligent than those that at UGA.

WTF does Terry College have to do with this blog? Go back to the UGA knuckle draggers blog you stupid sh*t.

By RW

January 2, 2007 01:20 AM | Link to this

In no way can you blame the Georgia or Wake Forest game on the defense. They shouldn’t have to pitch a shutout just to win. If you look at his body of work with Tech over the last few years, he’s held teams’ offenses with far superior talent in check. If you can barely score ten points a game and turn the ball over at inopportune times, it puts too much stress on the defense, no matter how good they are.

If you were to tell me beforehand that UGA would only score 15, and Wake 9, I’d have expected two wins. Ok, with Ball at QB, maybe just one. Don’t forget, it was Tenuta’s defense that held Notre Dame to it’s lowest point total all year.

By Jet Buzz

January 2, 2007 01:29 AM | Link to this

I applaud Arthur Blank for establishing uncompromising standards for his Atlanta Falcons. Can the GT Nation (and AD) take notice??

By Fierce Dawg

January 2, 2007 01:30 AM | Link to this

gtne, dont kid yourself. most UGA graduates will never work for your engineering a**es. they are all lawyers, doctors, vets, etc, contrary to where you like to believe they work. remember, we own you. you havent beaten us in six years, remember. however, kudos to your 26 years experience in the nuclear industry, very impressive.

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 01:31 AM | Link to this

RW,

You are right. The defense did their job against WFU and UGA. They did NOT however do a stellar job against WVU. South Florida held them to 19 and East Carolina held them to 27!!!! We could have won the game with the defense holding them to 34 (the fumble on kickoff gave them at least 3). However, with an effort CLOSE to what the defense has shown all year, this game wasn’t even CLOSE!!!!

By gtne80 needs anger management

January 2, 2007 01:36 AM | Link to this

gtne80, please stf up. You’re embarrassing our school. Admit it, we faded the last few games so stop ranting you pathetic fool. What in the world are you so sore about? We got beat…suck it up.

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 01:40 AM | Link to this

Fierce Dawg, I will accept your post as an intelligent one. Please address your comments to lax55 also.

You are right, we haven’t beaten UGA in 6 years. We SHOULD have fixed that trend this year, but Chan is too obstinate and stubborn to do what was necessary.

Go back to the beginning of my posts. My contention is that the GT administration and some of our fans are ACCEPTING mediocrity. Actually, I work with some UGA grads and they are some of the best people that I get the chance to work with. They are (as you say) in different fields. We get to joke on a very friendly manner and enjoy the rivalry.

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 01:45 AM | Link to this

Anger management? Just calling it AS IT IS. What have I said that is not true????

Yes. We lost this one. I admit it. WVU had a better team. I never claimed anything differently.

My rants have been against “need a life” UGA p*ssants on OUR blog rubbing in this loss. Go back and check my posts after the UGA loss. I gave them their props.

None of my posts have said ANYTHING derogatory against WVU. Check the record!!!!

By lax55

January 2, 2007 01:47 AM | Link to this

gtne80, Terry College is the business school of UGA, which makes it completely relevant

By MORE PROOF GAILEY SHOULD BE FIRED!

January 2, 2007 01:48 AM | Link to this

You know, it’s ONE THING to be “afraid” to make a QB change because of “Continuity at that position.” It’s another thing to SEE WHAT BENNETT DID TODAY, AND STILL SAY YOU WOULDN’T HAVE CHANGED A THING:

*Tech coach Chan Gailey said Bennett’s play didn’t make him rethink his decision to stand by Ball throughout a season in which Ball completed only 44 percent of his passes.

“I would not have changed anything this year in that respect,” Gailey said.*

ABSOLUTELY UNFREAKIN’ BELIEVABLE! If Ball was still ELIGIBLE next year, Gailey would START HIM IN EVERY GAME!

I think it goes without saying that someone in the Head Coaching position at GT *who REFUSES to admit he even MIGHT HAVE done things differently with the KNOWLEDGE of Bennett’s performance today is, to put it mildly, *EXTREMELY TROUBLING! **

GAILEY IS POISON…He’s an OLD MAN who is INFLEXIBLE. He’s a NICE GUY, but PROVED he couldn’t coach at the NFL level…HOW BAD MUST IT GET FOR GAILEY TO BE PUT OUT TO PASTURE?

He says 4th and 9 would’ve “put too much pressure on Taylor” to make the play…Then he sends Bell out for a 54-yd field goal attempt?!!??!? Like Taylor wasn’t already “handling the pressure” of his 2nd start coming in a BOWL GAME!?! Are you kidding me?

I’m so FREAKIN’ PEEED OFF I COULD SPIT NAILS! Gailey needs to be DRUG-TESTED TOMORROW! Punting on 4th down with NO TIME LEFT to GIVE AWAY the Conference Championship…AND NOW THIS?!!??!?

There have been SEVERAL EXAMPLES of how SUPERIOR COACHING won Bowl Games this year…Sadly, Chan Gailey WILL NEVER BE ONE OF THOSE EXAMPLES…EVER!

GAILEY LOST the final 3 games of this season BECAUSE OF POOR COACHING DECISIONS (leaving Bennett on the bench while Ball gave games away…Sending Bell out for a 54-yd attempt when he just said in Mon’s AJC HE WOULDN’T DO THAT)

HOWEVER, the MOST TROUBLING PART is he says *HE WOULDN’T HAVE CHANGED A THING.* ** Someone needs to PUNCH HIS TICKET for the same ONE-WAY FLIGHT Mora is taking OUT OF ATLANTA…Before it’s TOO LATE!

I can’t BELIEVE he says he wouldn’t do ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY!! The MARK OF A LOSER!

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 01:51 AM | Link to this

lax55, So, one of a 100 majors at UGA has some credibility? How many UGA “student athletes” attend the Terry College?? Best I can see, the majority are PE majors. You are reaching.

By dawgystyle

January 2, 2007 01:53 AM | Link to this

gtne80…assuming everything that you said about is true, you are the most pathetic human being i have ever encountered. if you are truly a 6-figure earning, 26-year veteran of the nuclear industry, why are you on a blog at 1 in the morning calling a college kid a “knuckle dragger?” if you are a 26-year veteran of an industry, i’m guessing you’re near 50. which means that you would have kids, except you went to tech which means you probably have numerous social disorders. buddy, you can out-calculus me all day long, but 6 figures doesn’t mean you aren’t a loser.

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 01:54 AM | Link to this

To “MORE PROOF GAILEY SHOULD BE FIRED!”, all I can say is “EXACTLY”“!!!!!!

By dawgystyle

January 2, 2007 01:55 AM | Link to this

honestly, are you sitting their smirking about busting out the worn-out “i’m your boss” routine. shouldn’t you be spending time with your wife, sleeping, sampling fine wines, or swimming in your bathtub full of 100 dollar bills? no, you aren’t because either you are a liar, and you are in fact 17, or you are, as i said, the most pathetic individual i have ever encountered.

as the college kids are saying these days…

pwn3d

By gtne80

January 2, 2007 02:01 AM | Link to this

dawgstyle….got three of them and a full life…why are YOU on a blog at 2 in the morning? The reason that I’m calling a college kid a “knuckle dragger” is that he’s displaying the behavior that a fellow SEC grad of yours (Forrest Gump) described as “Stupid Is as Stupid Does”.

Because I’m a Tech grad with 26+ years of experience, I get to choose when I go to bed, unlike UGA fans that have to report to their assigned shifts at Hardee’s or McDonald’s. BTW, the breakfast shift starts soon suckers, you better head to bed and get some sleep!!!

By dawgystyle

January 2, 2007 02:09 AM | Link to this

See, that is the classless garbage that gives you no credibility. Let’s see, I think Georgia grad Sonny Perdue gets to CHOOSE when he goes to bed, don’t you? I’m on this blog at 2 in the morning because I’m a college student who’s been out getting drunk all day watching bowl games on TV. That’s what college students do. You, on the other hand, are the father of three socially-doomed children, that are going to view a yellow Lacoste shirt and an internship drawing blueprints in a basement for 60 hours a week is the pinnacle of human achievment. If your kids asked you what you were doing at 2 in the morning, would you be proud to tell them? Would you brag to your wife, about how you “made that UGAy grad feel dumb because you said he worked at hardees?” I doubt it. When I tell my friends that I made some 50-year old “millionaire” sound like a moron, they’ll have a good laugh.

go dawgs

13 of 16 and counting.

By RW

January 2, 2007 02:10 AM | Link to this

More Proof..

Gailey, like any other coach said what he had to say. Of course he’s not going to say he would change the way he handled the quarterback situation. That’s basically admitting he was wrong for four years now. Would it stop people from calling for his firing if he came out right now and said he was wrong for playing Ball? Basically saying “oops, sorry, just wasted the last four years, guys”? That would make him look even worse, so of course he’s not going to admit that publicly.

Can’t believe I just stood up for Gailey…One thing you’ll never hear from a Tech opponent: “We got outcoached today”. He’s not the answer at coach for Tech, but for all his faults, I don’t think you can fault him for saying he wouldn’t have changed quarterbacks.

By Navigator

January 2, 2007 02:26 AM | Link to this

Jacket fans, stop arguing with the UGA guys and get on with the real problem. UGA came back and won their game, and we didn’t. Florida had a similar problem, when they had a coach that couldn’t measure up. They ate a little crow for hiring him, and went out got an outstanding coach. Gailey put one player over what is best for the team. That cannot be allowed, because football is a team sport. You do that and you lose your players, and I think the last three games will do that. Please AD cut your losses and go for a coach that has proved himself a winner, something Gailey has never proven.

By Najeh Davenpoop

January 2, 2007 02:35 AM | Link to this

Any time you blow a double-digit lead and lose a nationally televised game, you have to be disappointed. Sure, there were many positives (we finally played our best QB, Choice and CJ showed why they are elite college players) but ultimately you have to be able to close out games like this one. Defense has been GT’s strength this year, and today they let the team down. Granted, the situations with Kenny Scott and Jamal Lewis probably had something to do with it, but I still would have liked to see them close this one out with a win.

By Gay Pride

January 2, 2007 02:58 AM | Link to this

You boys really played your little asses off in those pretty uniforms, they were so tight.Gosh Calvin i just love to see you jump you big beast you. I cant wait till next year, who cares if we win or lose as long as you boys keep lookin good. I just love my yellow jackets. You guys be sweet and till next time, reggie you promised!

By FIRE GAILEY NOW...He's a COMPLETE MORON!

January 2, 2007 03:13 AM | Link to this

Actually RW, here’s what a MATURE COACH would’ve said,

“Of course I would’ve played Bennett during certain situations if I’d KNOWN he would come out and play like he did today! He was incredible and played like he had started all year!” Notice how that sets up next year with a nice touch?

INSTEAD, his response shows this:

1) He CAN’T EVEN PUBLICLY COMPLIMENT BENNETT on an absolutely OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE when given a direct opportunity to do so.

2) He DOESN’T UNDERSTAND or “CHOOSE TO RECOGNIZE” that he has made SERIOUS COACHING ERRORS when everyone else who follows GT Football can ALREADY SEE THEM with their own eyes.

3) His INABILITY to admit he would’ve done things differently with knowledge he now has quite simply means that in the future, not only will he be UNABLE to recognize his own COACHING ERRORS just after they’ve occurred…But he STILL WILL NOT SEE THEM AS ERRORS even after the season has ended!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!? What kind of “coach” is that?

4) He STILL WOULD NOT have benched Ball during his ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE PERFORMANCES DURING “MUST WIN GAMES” after seeing Bennett perform today. With the GT Family taking mind-numbing HEAD and GUT shots with these 3 losses, ANY PUBLIC INDICATION that things would’ve been done differently TO TRY AND WIN THOSE GAMES is a POSITIVE STEP TOWARD HEALING…

5) He’s SO INFLEXIBLE that NO MATTER WHAT the circumstances may be in future games and NO MATTER WHAT might be on the line…If Gailey “makes his decision and is going to stand by it”, then NO MATTER HOW STUPID it may appear to GT Fans and ALUMS, HE’s STILL GOING TO DO IT…Like he’s a “Man of Principles” or something INSTEAD OF AN ACTIVE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH who makes decisions to MANAGE AND WIN GAMES…Even if it means REVERSING PREVIOUS DECISIONS.

I could go on…But THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS MAN TO HAVE AT THE HELM OF GT FOOTBALL! Can you IMAGINE how frustrated the PLAYERS and COACHES (like Tenuta) must be when they SEE THIS INFLEXIBILITY and DISCONNECT FROM REALITY — FIRST HAND!?!?!?

Coaching is ALL ABOUT DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT WHEN WHAT YOU’RE DOING ISN’T WORKING — And this man DOESN’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT! He’s CLEARLY NOT an Engineer…And he looks to be something on the order of STUPID. You know, in a “backwoods” kind of way.

Can you imagine Lou Holtz or Steve Spurrier or even Pee-Wee Herman saying anything like, “I still would’ve played Reggie Ball every minute that I did this past season after seeing Taylor Bennett’s performance in today’s Bowl Game.” You see how Gailey’s answer makes him look so much MORE STUPID? Because HE SURE DOESN’T…

The REAL PROBLEM isn’t that he was “covering up” so he wouldn’t be admitting he made a mistake…I think he REALLY & TRULY WOULDN’T HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY, even if he would’ve KNOWN that Bennett would perform like he did today.

INCOMPETENCE LIKE THAT IS GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE DISMISSAL with no explanation necessary!! At least that’s how it happens in Corporate America, and 99% of the Universities that field Football Teams in Div 1A.

Gailey’s a NICE GUY…But he’s also a COMPLETE IDIOT! So much so that he’s not even smart enough to understand just how STUPID his coaching errors are, because he STILL DOESN’T THINK HE’S MADE ANY AT ALL!

By John Thompson

January 2, 2007 03:21 AM | Link to this

Special teams lost the game today. The defense did the best they could with the offense that West Virginia runs.
I’m with the people that say fire Chan. It is an absolute tragedy to the players and fans of Georgia Tech to start the most horrible quarterback on the planet in Reggie Ball. Taylor came in and looked magnificent. 20 for 30 for 380+ yards and two touchdowns….are you kidding me?? Calvin Johnson would have one the heisman hands down had Taylor been playing all season. We would have beaten Notre Dame, Georgia, and Wake Forest for sure, probably not Clemson. My God though, how stupid is that coach.

By john

January 2, 2007 05:27 AM | Link to this

Weekly bashing of Tech by ignorant trailer-trash UGAg fans……CHECK

By FlDawg

January 2, 2007 06:18 AM | Link to this

To Tech fans…Gailey’s hard-headed and foolish loyalty to Reggie became so apparent today. With your running back (who you have) and a competent quarterback (who you have but he didn’t play all year) your season would have been magnificent.

I’m a UGA fan, but also a football fan, and the Tech team I saw today was unlike the one I’ve seen the whole season.

Obviously, I don’t contribute to/support Tech, but if I did, I would demand Gailey’s head on a pike.

This is not a UGA cheapshot…but, Gailey is an absolute idiot.

Seeya next year at Grant Field.

By ATC

January 2, 2007 06:23 AM | Link to this

By gspjr

January 1, 2007 10:03 PM | Link to this

Yep, great call on the onside kick. Too bad CG had to pick up the idea from Richt

Maybe the whole Tech team needs to go over to Athens and see if Coach Richt can teach them to finish the drill.

By GT92

January 2, 2007 06:34 AM | Link to this

“I would not have changed anything this year in that respect,” Gailey said.

There is something terribly wrong here. Not only does Chan not sit Reggie for even a series or two during the season, or over the last 2 years for that matter, but now fails to even acknowledge the obvious in even the smallest of ways. If our AD doesn’t have the balls to do the deed now, maybe we should hire Arthur Blank for about 15 minutes.

By Rico

January 2, 2007 06:56 AM | Link to this

..and that’s why Tech is Tech. Because fans are happy with losses and coaches talk about “character and being good men”(Gailey’s comments in the locker room after the loss). People this is not youth league. Coaches are suppose to want wins!! Fans are suppose to want wins!!

Chan is a wonderful man. But, he does not have the “killer instict” needed to win games. That attitude show in his players.

I hate to jump pn the bandwagon…But, we need a coach that want’s and demands to win. Chan must go!

By nwdnanny

January 2, 2007 06:56 AM | Link to this

To gtne80 It’s quite obvious what your degree (if you have one) from Tech is in… Cursing 101. Go find some Prozac and chill before you have a heart attack (hopefully) or stroke. The bottom line is “sour grapes”.

By nwdnanny

January 2, 2007 07:03 AM | Link to this

My gosh, with 26 years of “experience in the nuclear industry” you should be around 45+ years old, and yet you spew off the language of a 18 year old thug. If that’s what a GT diploma amounts too, we can all hope you soak up enough radiation to evaporate you and give us all some relief.

By Vindicated

January 2, 2007 07:04 AM | Link to this

By jabster

January 1, 2007 10:56 PM | Link to this

I’m not sure if the D was playing bad in the 3rd or was just outsized

At the first of the year I was practically lynched on this blog for suggesting that our defense was undersized, undermanned (depth), and that Tenuta’s smoke and mirror compensatory approach would not serve us well when we came up against bigger, stronger, and faster teams late in the year. Clemson’s mammoth offensive line just flattened us like runaway 18 wheelers. With the exception of 1 or 2 players, the same guys were on the field 99% of the time. This obviously contributed to our inability to stop the better teams when the game was on the line late in the season. And it happened again yesterday. How many players does UGA rotate in and out of a game on both sides of the ball. You need a roster to even know who they are theres so damn many of them. Until we develop that kind of depth and get bigger on our defensive front we will see this same result year after year. And then there is Gailey………

By jay

January 2, 2007 07:11 AM | Link to this

Another Tech moral victory. You can’t spell moral victory without L.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

January 2, 2007 07:13 AM | Link to this

I have no dog in this fight because I’m a DAWG. Just an outsiders opinion.I really don’t understand why CG stayed with Ball all year. Reminds me when the Ga. coach went with a QB in his freshman yr. and ran every body else off. If I were a Tech guy, I’d be so mad I’d be spitting nails. Good luck at least until you play us next yr.

By DirtDobber

January 2, 2007 07:16 AM | Link to this

To gtne80

CHILL DUDE !

By m

January 2, 2007 07:18 AM | Link to this

Chan Gailey is the WORST football coach I have ever seen in my entire life…..he has literally taken the fun out of Tech football. He has completely wasted what should have been the best year since 1990. He should be fired immediately.

By DirtDobber

January 2, 2007 07:30 AM | Link to this

Sure I am disappointed over the loss but today’s game was a great game. Don’t think we should ever become complacent even over wins.

Don’t think O coaching changed much but execution was much better. Taylor made mistakes but all-in-all he had a surprisingly good game. Calvin had an excellent game - hope he sticks around but who could blame him if he departs. Not sure what happened to the D today - Tenuta must have been busy reviewing offers.

What I find embarrasing is that WV filled their side plus more. There were pockets of WV fans even on the GT side - it was hard to distinguish the differences because of the colors similarity. GT’s side upper deck was noticeably empty. WV’s upper deck was full. WV had a profound advantage in their fan base which SHOULD NOT BE.

Looking forward to the 2007 season, I JUST HOPE THE FANS WILL COME OUT AND SUPPORT .

Happy New Year all!

By randy

January 2, 2007 07:36 AM | Link to this

lets hear all the yellow jackets cry! you need to pop those pimples and blakheads on your nerd faces this morning!

By Vern

January 2, 2007 07:50 AM | Link to this

I am neither a GA Tech or WV fan. I was at the Gator Bowl and this was a very good game. the WV fans outnumbered Tech fans 2-1….. WV fans wer loud and supportive good or bad. We were on the East side of the field and rarely heard tech fans. I will say the WV fans I sat with were really excited and appreciated good play made by both teams. The weather held off and the Cith of Jacksonville was very welcoming. Have a great New Years.

By GTgrad2

January 2, 2007 07:52 AM | Link to this

Please gtne80! Shut up how about it. You are exactly the kind of alum that gives us all a bad name.

By Joe

January 2, 2007 08:03 AM | Link to this

By nwdnanny

January 2, 2007 07:03 AM | Link to this

My gosh, with 26 years of “experience in the nuclear industry” you should be around 45+ years old, and yet you spew off the language of a 18 year old thug. If that’s what a GT diploma amounts too, we can all hope you soak up enough radiation to evaporate you and give us all some relief.

Put it together and it tells us that gtne80’s 26 years “in the nuclear industry” is as a mess steward in the Navy on that submarine base they have up there.

By Pat P

January 2, 2007 08:06 AM | Link to this

Imagine what the season would have been like if Gailey had not had such a love affair with Reggie Ball………….

Taylor Bennett played a superb game as did both Johnson’s, Choice, etc.!!!!! All we needed was a “little” defense but unfortunately for us, the same defense that showed up for Clemson was at the Gator Bowl today. It is too bad that our “wonderful” defensive coordinator cannot formulate a plan to stop a team with an athletic QB with a mediocre arm (Reggie with real talent). This is the same defensive coordinator that everyone says should be a head coach. For me, I would like to see him do his job as it is or just go away and fail as a head coach! His high risk defense cannot stop a multi-dimensional team……..it does not know how! It lives off high stake gambles and if they are not working, then it is effective!

To the players and team, you did a superb job dealing throughout the year with indecisive coaching for leadership! Maybe Gailey has learned something this time………such as “the right people in the right seat on the bus”……….and this may include a couple of coaches. The question will be if he can mold everyone into a real team and where he cannot, make the difficult decisions that every business person has to make everyday!

By John

January 2, 2007 08:12 AM | Link to this

“To be honest, I’m not overly disappointed in the loss”…… are YOU kidding me? I agree. What a loser you are. You have no idea do you? We suck! This was one of the most embarrassing finishes to a football year I have ever seen. All three losses could have been wins with a coach that knew what he was doing. Bennett should have been starting after the UNC game. With that, we probably win our last 3 games. GAILEY MUST GO Any, even remotely positive comments by you do nothing for our cause!

By jackets fan

January 2, 2007 08:15 AM | Link to this

Three things that costed GT the game: 1)A total non-call on illegal contact against WV on Chris Dunlap’s route that resulted in an interception. There was no guarantee that Dunlap catches that pass if he is not bumped off his route, but he’d have at least been in the area and the INT would have been broken up. 2)Bone head block in the back by Dunlap on Choice’s 1st down run, cost the Jackets critical field position on the eventual FG try. They’d have tied the game for sure or gone ahead if not for that. 3)WTF on Tony Clark’s muffing of the kickoff that led to a short field, plus a shorter field on the 15 yard penalty that came from the scrum for the ball. You watch the replay and Clark is trying to move away from the ball. Ever try picking up the ball? There’s a reason this guy is only on special teams. I see a ball bouncing around, I pick it up or fall on it, he tries to give it the ole, a la Dorn from Major League.

It’s a shame that a bad no-call, a bone head penalty and an inexplicable special teams muff can erase record performances from Bennett, CJ and Choice. But I’m proud of this team for playing so well. Disappointment for losing is not the same thing as disappointment in the level of play. Nobody can be disappointed in how they played. WV is a top tier football program, giving them all they can handle is nothing to be ashamed of.

By John

January 2, 2007 08:27 AM | Link to this

You people with all the positive comments about a team that lost their last three games need to get a life and be quiet. Typical Tech - we’re okay with losses! How will things ever change around here with you people continuing to be okay with our losses??? We need changes and we need them now in our coaching! This essentially was another 7-win Gailey season. The only reason we ended up with 9 is that we played 14 games this year!!!

By GREG

January 2, 2007 08:36 AM | Link to this

LOL!!!!!9-4…..WHERE’S DAVEY AND GLENN!!!!LOL!!!!WHAT HAPPEND TO TECH HAVING A BETTER RECORD??????SLATEN WAS HURT GOING INTO THE GAME AND BASICALLY DIDN’T GO!!!!WHY ARE YALL PROUD OF ANOTHER LOSS!!!!

By 3MileIsland

January 2, 2007 08:38 AM | Link to this

Why didn’t you know that the little incident at Three Mile Island was gtne80’s Senior Project at Tech? I’m guessing for his retirement he’s planning a nice “China Syndrome”. LOL. Even “newclar” engineers apparently can be LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Mr. Burns

January 2, 2007 08:39 AM | Link to this

gtne80 aka “Smithers”, I see that you were up until the wee hours last night blogging away. As a 26-year vet of the nuclear industry you should know the importance of a good nights rest. I’ll expect to see you in my office first thing in the morning, there will be a fresh list of chores for you complete…EXCELLENT!!!

By MutantTechster

January 2, 2007 08:40 AM | Link to this

“Thanks to gtne80’s patented newclar rad treatments I’m the bestest QB tech ever saw.” —RB #1

By HomerTechster

January 2, 2007 08:42 AM | Link to this

“What’s this here button do?” — gtne80 just before 3 mile island

By Blinkythe3eyedfish

January 2, 2007 08:46 AM | Link to this

“Thanks to gtne80’s late night blogs and subsequent sleepless-addled job performance, my brethern are blessed with these wonderful third eyes” —Blinky the 3 eyed mutant fish

By godawg

January 2, 2007 08:46 AM | Link to this

Dooooooouuuuughnutttttttttts! DOH!

By TechsterHulk

January 2, 2007 08:48 AM | Link to this

“I’m huge, green and very mean. Thanks to the gamma leaks caused by gtne80” —THulk

By Jim

January 2, 2007 08:50 AM | Link to this

Dear gtne80: My grandfather used to tell us that a man using profanity to communicate is a man with a limited vocabulary and the inabilty to express his thoughts like a gentleman. Tech lost. Georgia won.

By gtne80progeny

January 2, 2007 08:52 AM | Link to this

“Having all these radioactive mutations isn’t as bad as you think, well except for the inside-out skin thing….” — gtne80’s children

By Randy Rhino

January 2, 2007 09:06 AM | Link to this

Well, thank your previous AD for extending Chan’s contract prior to his exit. I was a Chan supporter prior to this season and even offered some slack after the close loss to ND, however, changes are in order. However, this is not a good year to be firing coaches, thus we need to wait.

Gailey has about 4 years remaining, and making a change at this point will only hurt the program in terms of Calvin and incoming recruits. We have some stellar recruits on both sides of the ball and we need to be relatively patient for now. If Gailey goes, GT needs to take the same approach as Miami and hire internally, thus keeping the players content.

I said before the start of the year I would have moved Reggie to tailback or slot, and moved Taylor into the starting role. Your QB has to be able to see over the line, and Taylor has that ability along with a very nice touch on his passes. Unfortunately, the hard decision could not be made thus the collapse this year.

In terms of the Gator Bowl, no particular play cost us the game. Plenty of blame can go around, but basically WV just outplayed us in the second half, and hats off to the WV coaches to implementing a good offensive scheme and conservative approach towards the end to seal the deal. Our defense gave us alot of wins this year, thus we cannot be too hard on them for the let down in the second half, but it was disappointing to say the least. I suspect John was doing everything he could, but I suspect the blitzing scheme could have been over-engaged.

In terms of offense, the Gator Bowl proved that a pass with the right touch to Calvin allows him to engage into his 43 inch vertical and bring down most catches. The bright spot is that Calvin may stick around for 2007 to allow Taylor to throw to him next year. Who knows what they can do next year in terms of yardage.

Although Heismans are typically awarded to QBs and RBs, I suspect Calvin has a strong inside track if Taylor and Calvin have games in 2007 like they had yesterday. In addition, education is a priority in the Johnson family, thus I suspect Mom and Dad will be pushing Calvin to finish school. His value will only increase with another year of experience.

Hats off to Bulldog nation to taking it to VT in the second half and they deserve credit for that strong win. Credit is due to this team, however, Bulldog nation needs to watch their mouths in terms of bragging rights. Yes, they beat us this year and finished on a high note, but they still have a long ways to go before they catch our 4 National Titles. Bulldog nation only has 1, so the overall score remains: GT 4, UGA 1. (stick around, because the blogs will start flying about imaginery titles from bulldog nation..just watch) It is sore subject in Athens.

Well, time to move onto basketball season, and Mr. West and company. Just remember Jacket Nation: anytime Bulldog nation starts popping off about their football program, just ask them how their basketball program is doing…it will go quiet and fast.

By TechsterDoctor

January 2, 2007 09:08 AM | Link to this

“Frankly I’m amazed he was able to conceive children. Those massive accidental radiation doses he got while half asleep usually lead to sterility”— Doc T the rad man

By Larry

January 2, 2007 09:08 AM | Link to this

By this day next year we will hopefully know the name of Gaileys sucessor !!

By Nat T** 4

January 2, 2007 09:18 AM | Link to this

Popping off? Since we own your a* we’ll do as we please. If you were Florida—not so much lol. Anyway we also have more than one, and not “imaginery” (what-spellcheck not working Genius Macgee?) Plus both GT and UGA’s other titles were before you or I were born, so basically it’s 1/2 for GT and 1 for UGA in actual fanbase experienced terms. Please don’t drag up great great grandpas titles cause UGA can too, and most of the titles from that era are a tad suspect. As far as basketball and baseball, UGA really doesn’t care I will admit. It’s just funny on the years when we beat you because you do. BTW we do have a national baseball title. How bout you? lolololol 0 and 0 as far a basketball titles for either school. So meh.

By daycare worker

January 2, 2007 09:22 AM | Link to this

gtne80 you are nothing but a cry baby. Grow TFU. Your team got spanked. Pull yourself up by the bootstraps and stop using juvenile insults to try and make yourself feel better about the loss.

By WFC

January 2, 2007 09:30 AM | Link to this

I’m so tired of the useless back and forth ragging between GT and UGA “fans. Let’s look at some facts:

1. Did anyone notice the “old school” vs. “new school” observations by the announcers about coaching styles? They hit the nail on the head.

2. DEFENSE: TENUTO IS A GREAT COACH and has some great players. What he does NOT have is depth of talent and this shows up late in tough games. West Virginia exploited GT’s weakness vs. a strong runner between the tackles. I guess they watched the Clemson film. My only complaint with Tenuto is that GT didn’t seem to adjust once it became obvious that Slaton couldn’t go.

3. REGGIE: He would have been a good wing-back but simply didn’t have the emotional make-up to be a good modern QB. We were victims of Chan’s “dance with the one who brung you” mentality here.

4. IF CJ comes back (and don’t underestimate his mom’s influence… she’s a powerful woman), GT has the makings of a good team for 2007. Bennett now has some confidence. Choice is a good, tough back. Tech returns 4 out of 5 offensive linemen and most of the defense. And a good recruiting class offers the hope of some depth.

Come on GT fans. Let’s get behind our team for 2007 and quit jawing with Dawgs.

By phipps

January 2, 2007 09:38 AM | Link to this

WE NEED A GAME DAY COACH! GAILEY IS NOT THE MAN FOR THIS POSITION. CAN WE POSSIBLY HIRE A COACH WHO IS NOT ALREADY OVER THE HILL WHEN HE ARRIVES? I CAN NAME TEN COACHES WHO WOULD NOT HAVE LOST ANY OF TECH’S FINAL THREE GAMES HAD THEY BEEN THE COACH. CAN YOU? CHAN IS A NICE ENOUGH PERSON BUT WE NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN WIN GAMES ON GAME DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By yellowblood

January 2, 2007 09:43 AM | Link to this

The wheels came off at the NC game. Losing to Wake and West VA was not so terrible even though we should have won against Wake. The bad loses were against 2nd rate teams like UNC and GA. Our defense lost the Gator bowl but this was only the second game this year in which they crumbled ( along with Clemson). The ” SEC is GOD” crowd must have sobered up yesterday. Fla will crumble too. Once again the bowls put the SEC in games they couldn’t handle which shows the power of the trailerpark-dishnetwork population.

By Sum Ting Wong

January 2, 2007 09:49 AM | Link to this

The reason so many we Tech students not show up for game is we tought it be on Chinese New Year since most of us from foreign lands. And, who would have thought that crappy team would play in an American New Year’s Day bowl?

By bro

January 2, 2007 09:50 AM | Link to this

The difference between a big time college football fan and a Tech fan - “To be honest, I’m not overly disappointed in the loss.” Are you serious? I’m sure they’re saying the same thing in Oklahoma this morning. The new motto for Tech - “Committment to Mediocrity”

By jabster

January 2, 2007 09:52 AM | Link to this

First of all, no feeding the trolls.

To Vindicated—Size has been an issue in the CG/Tenuta era. Speed can compensate some, but not all the way. When you start going up against the “More biscuits maw” gang, it can get ugly. It happened against Auburn With A Lake and again against WVU.

Depth has been a problem for longer still. That is how we always choked against Half S U, when we still had our starters in and they were rotating fresh horses off the bench, losing the game in the third or fourth quarter. Maybe our improved recruiting will fix that.

Still, if we had had Bennett in in the Wake and UGA games, we would be ACC and State Champs. The only thing Reggie really excels at is kissing Gailey’s backside, and maybe some of his other 2000 parts.

By Matt

January 2, 2007 09:53 AM | Link to this

Georgia Tech=JOKE. I knew you geeks would be claiming a moral victory from this one. That’s what Georgia Tech is all about, moral victories. What a complete sham this “magical” season of yours became. This might be your most talented team of the decade and what did it get you? 9-5 and another loss to Georgia. Kind of poetic justice after all the smack you talked earlier in the year. LOL @ the entire Yellow Jacket nation and their forever mediocre football program.

By Wramblin Wreck 4Evr

January 2, 2007 09:54 AM | Link to this

Andy: I am very pleased that you are not too disappointed in the loss. However, I am very disappointed. Clearly many other fellow-Yellow Jackets are too. This was a huge CHOKE, period, end of story. THIS GAME WAS VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTING! Kudos to WVU — they and the Big East are obviously on the right track while TECH and the morally bankrupt ACC are headed in the wrong direction. Let’s get this thing back on track before it is too late. Happy New Year.

By In Rod We Trust

January 2, 2007 09:55 AM | Link to this

I love it how these blogs always grind down into a GT/UGA “we have more NCs than you do” or “our jobs are better than yours,” hater fest. Classic provincial BS.

The ACC is weak, again, this year - 2 of your bowl winning teams, BTW, were stolen from the Big East - and the SEC, as always, is overrated. (See last year’s Sugar Bowl results, and upcoming pounding of the Gaytors by OSU). Nobody in the South can appreciate or understand that good football is played elsewhere around the country, not just in Dixie. Last night’s Fiesta Bowl was another prime example. Give WVU and the Big East its due credit and move on. Then you (Dawg and Bug fans) can argue about who has the better recruiting class and drives the better car.

PS A big Thank You is owed to the ACC (the “Always Committing Crimes” league) and its commish Swafford for stealing the Criminal Vick Techs, BC and Miami from the Big East 2 years ago. Nice conference championship game in front of about 20,000 fans, and nice additions to your hoops league (VT? Miami?), with the loss of your beloved home and home series’ with every team in the conference. The Big East is stronger now, and the greedy ACC is weaker. Worked out great. Serves you right. A C C you later.

By Sum Ting Wong

January 2, 2007 09:57 AM | Link to this

So many ferrow yerrow jackets carring for new coach, you should hile my cousin, Win Won Soon.

By Jim O

January 2, 2007 09:57 AM | Link to this

The comments about the D losing the game are pretty accurate. Although the offense couldn’t score during the regular season, that is no excuse for the defense not doing the same to the opponents.

Over the past forty years of being a Tech fan, the last 25 have been obvious that we lack a great bench. In more cases than not, GT is in the game the first half, but we don’t have the strengh to substitute late in the game when the starters need a rest. Tenuta does a great job, but he can’t make up for this.

If the good recruiting continues, maybe we can correct this - but our first team can play with anybody in the country. Unfortunately, good schools second teams are about as good as our starters.

By Ramblin' Gamblin'

January 2, 2007 09:58 AM | Link to this

Great start by Taylor!!! You have given us some reasons for optimism. You have to forgive Chan for not being that sharp on the half-time interview - not a position he’s usually in. Had to be surprised by Taylor’s performance - was comfortable in the pocket and found open receivers..often not the first option. Defensive showing was a bit troubling…can see why Tenuta would lose some fire after the anemic and offensive, offensive showings in the prior two games.

With more game expereince Taylor will gain comfort with those late-game situations, the INT was unlucky and the Receivers fault for being pushed off his route..could have also been called interference by a more neutral ref crew. Block to back penalty also helped WV gain the victory.

Why is it that the 10 literate UGA grads with internet access in their trailers all post in the Tech blog?

I can honestly say that I’ve never posted on the dawg site and never will..please get a life folks.

By DantheDawgFan

January 2, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

Tech is sore winners and sore losers. Mostly losers.

I SAY IT’S GREAT, TO BE, A GEORGIA BULLDOG

By Forever_UGA

January 2, 2007 10:09 AM | Link to this

Gave West Virginia all they could handle? Hmmmmm let me take a page out of the Techie blog book just a year ago.WV HANDED YOU YOUR A$$ IN SUGAR BOWL!!! Funny when the shoe’s on the other foot, it doesn’t fit very well, does it? That was all I heard from the Techie faithful(if there is such a thing) last year how WV just took us to the woodshed, and how bad we had gotten beat(3pts??). We fought back being down 28-0 and nearly pulled an upset.Tech was up 28-10 at the half and couldn’t hold WV back. Good luck in being better than 7-5 ever again….. Morons

By Jack

January 2, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

CG IS A LOUSY COACH——THE QUESTION IS DOES THE NEW AD HAVE THE BALLS TO FIRE HIM AND EAT BRAINES STUPID CONTRACT EXTENSION. THE WAY THIS IS HANDLED WILL GIVE EVERYONE A CLUE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF TECH FOOTBALL

By Pat P

January 2, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

Randy, you played while I was at school with you. I agree with your assessment at the beginning of the season as well as now. As I stated in my earlier comments, maybe Chan will learn the lesson that a non-decision is in fact a decision. Am I a fan………never have been but like all of us, if he is willing to grow and learn from is mistakes, then we will see at the beginning of next season. Now is not the time for us to go shopping for a new Head Coach.

Gailey is the product of a poor hiring decision but Dr. Clough. If you have been in business long enough, you have made the mistake of hiring the wrong friend and then trying to figure out what to do with this mistake. Dr. Clough was lucky, Braine left with a “medical” issue before further embarrassment was brought to the university!

I reiterate; I am very proud of the effort the offense gave. There were several things that could have occurred differently in the 3rd Qtr such as off-sides play (WV TD), the fumbled/deflected kick-off and the receiver that was bumped on the interception, but our kids played very well!!!!! I believe that Tenuto was also surprised……so much so that he did not properly prepare the defense!

As far as the comments from the “dawgs” regarding all of this, 1) go and enjoy your own section and 2) it has always amazed me that the “hourly help” of the UGA fan group always wants to jump on the heads of the people that got them there (their boss’)…………I guess it makes them feel important!

By bro

January 2, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

Just so no one thinks I’m a UGA grad I’m not. I’m one of the d**n Yankees. I came down and didn’t go back. I’m just amused that no one at Tech is dissappointed that you blew an 18 point lead while in the process of losing 3 in a year.

By the way - do you know what Tech and UGA grads both say to the Yankee - “Good morning boss.”

By Fred

January 2, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

Gaileys half time speech must have been a real lulu. Luck and academics gave him a shot and he managed to fulb it again. He obvioulsy has no clue as to the depth of talent he has nor what to do with it.

By m

January 2, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Chan Gailey could suck a football through a garden hose. Drad, Please end this nightmare by firing Gailey today.

By the flats

January 2, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

I am with Andy; unfortunately, it has gotten to the point that the hopeful feeling of having passes completed over the middle outweighs the feeling of losing by 3. The D tried hard, but I wonder if,as in the Clemson game, the coaching needs to adjust the blitzing to get more linebacker help on runners. Looking forward to next year!

By T

January 2, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

What a joke! “Can’t be disappointed in this one” ?

This was a microcosm of the Tech season and program! Start strong, get the hopes up of the fans, take a turn and fall to defeat in total disappointment.

Congrats Tech, you got exactly what you are. At least you have a decent qb now though.

By richard

January 2, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

It might have helped to have more Tech fans,in the stands. It sure helps when you need support,there are more fans on this blog than were at the game. I’m a GEORGIA fan and was embarassed at the size of the crowd. I can’t support a team that’s all talk and no walk. Grow up and support your team.

By E-mail Radakovich NOW!

January 2, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

I just e-mailed Dan Radakovich (drad@athletics.gatech.edu) to FIRE CHAN GAILEY…And I don’t normally do this kind of STUFF! He’s an “Outsider”, and if it doesn’t happen NOW, then GT Football will go into a state of Suspended Animation UNTIL IT DOES!

I realize firing a Head Coach after winning a Conference Division Championship would look incredibly stupid to those not involved in GT Football…But GAILEY HAS TO GO before NOBODY shows up in the stands anymore! MINN loses a 31 pt lead and FLUSHES their coach….GT GETS OUTCOACHED in final 3 games before National TV Audiences and GETS FLUSHED TOO! Doesn’t sound so BAD that way…

DENNIS GREEN IS AVAILABLE…If you want an “NFL Experience coach”, then He’s THE MAN! Did you see him EXPLODE after giving up the huge lead against Chicago early in the year?

THAT’s how a Head Coach SHOULD RESPOND when BIG GAMES are HANDED TO THE OPPONENTS…NOT by talking about “Life Lessons” ARE YOU FREAKIN’ KIDDING ME?@!?!??#@

The ONLY Life Lesson I saw following these 3 COACHING DEBACLES to end the season is: Follow a LOSER and you’ll BE a LOSER!

Gailey’s comments following the game mean he’s trying to take it to a “Hol Nutha Level”, namely: ONCE a LOSER, ALWAYS a LOSER!

Nice Hat Trick Chan The Man” to THROW AWAY a SPECIAL SEASON…They only come along every 15-20 years!

By Willie Coyote

January 2, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

Why was #7 trying to kick the football instead of catching it on that kickoff. That was about as terrible a play as I’ve seen in a while.

And yes I know those guys names, I just don’t think they are worth mentioning.

Great game by the offense. It would be funny if the offense complained about the defense the way the defense complained after the Wake Forrest loss.

I’m very disappointed in the loss. I’m very disappointed in all of Tech’s losses this year. They lost to a team with absolutely no defense the other day; I don’t care how high WVA was ranked. That sucked.

By Rhinoizpoop

January 2, 2007 10:49 AM | Link to this

Rhino you were making sense unti you went moron toward the end of your post. Do you realize that we don’t care about all those comic book titles that you claim? Recently, in this state only UGA has won a NC ON THE FIELD. Your 1/2 title (UPI) doesn’t exactly give you any kind of bragging rights. And besides. What is your record againsg UGA over the let’s say last 30 or so years? And basketball. Most of us could care less. Even though we have owned you in that too over the last several years.

By DAWG fan

January 2, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

To all of you bloggers that kept (and keep) coming over to the UGA blog all season, 9-4 is better than 9-5. To all of the ‘other’, respectable TECH fans, a part of me wanted you to win yesterday. At least you look to have a good QB for next season. Maybe things will look up ‘if’ Chan will play the right players.

By Shane

January 2, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

To jabster and anyone else interested…

Here is the 2007 GT Opponents:

at Notre Dame (9/1/2007) Samford Army at Maryland Clemson Boston College at Virginia at Duke UNC at Miami Virginia Tech UGA (11/24/2007)

By tman

January 2, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

The state of Georgia belongs to West Virginia now.

By GT Bill

January 2, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

Just to date myself, I started Tech when the team went to the All American Bowl (GT – 17, Mich ST – 14) and ended my academic torture when the team took the National Championship, half of it anyway.

By all appearances, I should be a Ball supporter. We are both from the same area with similar experiences etc. etc. I overlooked and tried forget some obvious flaws in the program this season thinking this is fresh start. I must remind you that the real definition of crazy is expecting different results with same set of inputs. I really want to pull for my homeboy but I had an epiphany during the Gator Bowl and his name is Taylor Bennett.

Granted Taylor needs a little “season”ing which he would have had if Chan “Stand By Your Man” Gaily would have pulled Ball when he should have. Benching the starter is an effective way to send a message to the starter while seeing what the No. 2 dude can do under pressure. In Georgia’s case this year, the No. 3 guy got a look. I guess what I am saying is that Taylor didn’t get a fair chance this year and I am quite sure that Suggs and Bilbo didn’t get a fair shake either a collegiate career ago.

I just cannot understand why Taylor didn’t get some time when Reggie was obviously struggling this year. I wonder if Reggie is embarrassed with the fact that despite all of the games that he played with Calvin going long, Calvin has a career day with the backup QB.

Regardless, Reggie’s best future is in correcting his academic woes and TAMMY WYNETTE, I mean CHAN HAS TO GO!

Dawgnation won’t and shouldn’t shut up until we make ‘em …but I cannot leave without a parting jab for them: * e•piph•a•ny [i-pif-uh-nee]–noun, plural -nies. 1. (initial capital letter) a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.
2. an appearance or manifestation, esp. of a deity.
3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
4. a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.*

Hint: choose the no. 3 definition for the big word in paragraph 2.

By Sailorjazz

January 2, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this

Georgia Tech and WVU both played sound football and as native West Virginian I am pleased with the outcome of this years Gator Bowl. Both teams missed “key” players but other less known players stepped up and played well. Lets give credit where it’s do and save the finger pointing for some other time.

Go Mountaineers!

By Mullets smell like mold

January 2, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

Want to know why more football fans from the state of Georgia dont attend Tech games, buy Tech gear, support Tech as a institution? This is why “The only thing you have in your favor is your rural GA redneck fan base (mostly made up of cousin marry-ers that never darkened the doors of the cow college). FU!!!!!” Where would you like to locate your school? I am sure we could find the funds to move you there. Change your rheoric and they may come.

By the chief

January 2, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

Taylor and Tishard were great. Calvin, thanks for the memories. Defense, someone didn’t do their homework to coach you for the second half, but you’re still stout. Next year looks ok. Thank you all seniors.

CG, please leave! Asking our special teams to attempt a FG almost ten yards out from our longest this season just shows how incapable you are. Over 5 mins left? Punt it and pin them deep and get the ball back in decent field position with a little time left. Inexplcably dumb!

By Navigator

January 2, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

Sailorjazz, this isn’t the WVA blog, it’s the GT blog. We really don’t care how you feel about your team, and yes we will complain. The coach is a dunce, Tenuta took a vacation, and most important, the defensive team was offensive yesterday. Gailey pulled the plug on the aggressive offensive plan, when it was obvious WVA couldn’t stop Tech. Remember, when you continually start the offensive series off with a run, WVA’s defense had an advantage. This is typical of Gailey, who doesn’t understand that you can’t be a champion unless you think like one. As he has done his whole career, he sat on the lead in fear of losing due to a mistake. That was the reason the offense scored no more points after 35, and not because WVA had amazing defensive play.

By Pitbull

January 2, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

I think the Tech people are beginning to wake up and realize why UGA passed over Chan Gailey after interviewing him, and hired Mark Richt instead. When you guys hired him the next year, we actually were LOL

By yellowblood

January 2, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

TO BRO:

Good morning boss ???   You guys wrecked your own part of the country. Why do you think you'll do any

better here ?
Still looking for that $24.00 per hour union job ? You’re in the wrong place. Try Taiwan. I’ll say “good morning, boss” to any southern UGA man before I’ll say it to you.

By techies can go back to their computers

January 2, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

Sorry, but you techies should stick to what you’re good at; computers and being nerds!

By Richard

January 2, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

How better would the team performance been throughout the seaseon if Chan sat out Reggie for a few snaps to settle him down every now and then.
It’s too bad Reggie is gone. It’s even worse Chan is still staying. He knows how to waste tallented, hard working young football players.

By Mutt Hater

January 2, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

Yo Mutts, get the f*** off our blog! Your players are deserting as fast as they can, cause the DEATH PENALTY is about to be imposed on UGA.

By GTisaJoke

January 2, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Hey mutthater, I know it’s tough losing a game like GT did yesterday, but don’t worry, the short bus will be coming by this Friday to take you back to your fantasy world.

The only team anywhere close to getting the death penalty is Tech, and that would be due to lack of fan support.

By DawgBite

January 2, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

By Mutt Hater

January 2, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

Yo Mutts, get the f* off our blog! Your players are deserting as fast as they can, cause the DEATH PENALTY is about to be imposed on UGA.

Another stupid techmite whining like a little sissy, aren’t you Mutt Hater. Maybe when anything or anybody from the trade school can walk the walk instead of just talk the talk maybe we will leave. As for the players leaving, there are plenty more waiting in the wings. You should be so lucky idiot boy. You saw your future on Saturday night and Monday afternoon. A high powered UGA offense with a perennial great D to go with it. Your future is going to be nothing but continued loses to UGA for God knows how long. You might as well be a man about it. Of course then you would have to take off those little p** yellow panties that you stole from your wife.

By Kenny

January 2, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

(techies can go back to their computers), Can you say Basketball 78-69. Chan has got to go

By FRY

January 2, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

GTNE80 IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! Chan has got to go. We are better than what Gailey wants to be. He put the last have of the season on “automatic pilot” and RB’s ineligibility forced CG to play Taylor - he should have started the UGA game. CHAN HAS TO GO.

By Kenny

January 2, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Pitbull, Gailey turned down UGA. Get your facts straight.

By What Happened?

January 2, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

And so they whine. Don’t have Reggie to kick around for this loss. Funny how UGA finishes with a better record and most likely ranked…again.

By GoldDust

January 2, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Yet another mediocre season by Chan Gailey. What else is new? Join us to discuss Gailey and Tech football at: http://www.bbuzzoff.com

By John

January 2, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

In fact the team didn’t show any character and that comes from a lack of leadership. GAILEY MUST GO! I’m not a GT grad but I’ve lived in this city for 33 years and have a huge emotional investment in rooting for the Yellow Jackets (plus a substantial amount for tickets). If GT wants to gain and maintain fans who aren’t alums, it must do better. Help us out here, GT alummni, use your influence to get rid of this guy!

By DawgBite

January 2, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

By Kenny

January 2, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Pitbull, Gailey turned down UGA. Get your facts straight

Thank God for that! We got ours and you got yours. And ours owns yours so does it really matter? And by the way Kenny. Ours knows how to finish the drill.

By Pat Wallace

January 2, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

GET RID OF CHAN!! I am terribly upset with the 54 yard field goal try. Chan knew we could not make that. Please get him to answer as to why not punt and put pressure on their offense at their 10-yard line. Chan has shown two of the last three years that he does not care about winning bowl games. Before he arrived we had the best win percentage in bowl history with minimum 20 bowls. Get rid of him

By coach

January 2, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

If I won the lottery, I would buy out Chan’s contract and replace him with a real Division I head coach.

Punting to WVA and putting them at their end of field would give a higher probability of winning the game than trying 54 yard field goal.

But, it you are going to take a chance on 4th and 9 from 51 yards out, there is a higher probability of compeleting a pass to Johnson, Johnson, etc. etc. than a field goal. (Maybe he thought Ball was still throwing).

Finally, Gailey’s comments that he would not have done anything different during the past year even after Bennett’s performance in the Gator Bowl is unbeliveable. So, he would still stay with a QB who is hobbling and hurting his team.

I do admire WVA’s Slaton who had the class to tell his coach that he was hurting his team by staying in the game. This tells you something about the WVA coach.

Coaching makes a difference in Division I. Everyone has great players.

By Chan Gailey

January 2, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

LOL, I totally punked you guys by playing Ball for the last 4 years. I can’t believe GT pays me for this.

By NoDawgsHere

January 2, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

OK. So, we came up short. I understand we played a very good team in West Virginia and barely lost. What I can’t understand is why did Chan play Ball (who sucks), for all those games, when you had a stud of a QB in Bennett? Chan you have got to be the worst coach in GT history. Reggie let’s the Ball game away sucks. He was UGA’s best player 3 years in a row!!! There is no way Reggie would have tossed the ball for 300+ yards. He would have thrown at least 3 INT’s and fumbled once. He was the worse QB tech ever had!! But, for some reason Chan started him over and over. Why?? Because your an IDIOT Chan. GT needs to follow the Falcons’ footsteps. Bad QB and bad coach equals bad loses. As for CJ? There is no way he is going to pass up all that money in the NFL for some aweful coach. Calvin you will be missed!! Thank you for 3 wonderful years. Sorry you had to play with Reggie no Balls..

By GTfan

January 2, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

Anyone remember “Reggie at 60% is better than any other option.” - Chan the Genius

By westvirginiawill

January 2, 2007 12:35 PM | Link to this

we got this 38-35 score down to both peach state flunkies…..MOUNTAINEERS rule!!!!!!!

By dawgystyle

January 2, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

Guys, I know I’m a UGA fan, but I’m saying this not trying to talk trash.

You guys were all over how great the offense was doing for the first half of this season. CJ kept having big games, Reggie was minimizing mistakes, and you were winning games. As soon as UGA, and Reggie blew it, you were calling for his head. No one wanted him benched after you trounced Va Tech, no one was calling for Taylor Bennett after you smoked Duke. Pulling a senior QB who had started every game since his freshman year, would have been insane. If Gailey pulls Ball before Tech, and Bennett lays an egg, you guys would still be calling for his his head on a plate. You have to stick with what gets you that far, and unfortunately for you guys, that meant Reggie Ball.

If you want to get all over a coach, get on Patrick Nix for not knowing where the middle of the field is, or that special teams coach who allowed that “onside kick” that got WVU back in the game.

With that being said…Byebye CJ and Go Dawgs…13 of 16 and counting.

By dawgystyle

January 2, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

By before Tech, I mean before UGA…sorry.

By Phildo

January 2, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

What a game by Bennett! A Jim Stevens (remember when he stepped in for McAshan in the Libery Bowl)performance if ever there was one. Start Bennett the whole year instead of the midget and Tech maybe ends up 11-2 instead of 9-4, plus CJ becomes all-world. Chan, you’ve kept Tech marginally respectable in spite of your obsession with Ball. Maybe, now that he’s gone, you can take Tech to a higher level.

By John

January 2, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

Tech coach Chan Gailey said Bennett’s play didn’t make him rethink his decision to stand by Ball throughout a season in which Ball completed only 44 percent of his passes. “I would not have changed anything this year in that respect,” Gailey said.

Would we expect the loser to say anything else??? Bennett should have been starting after (or during) the UNC game. Remember that one? We barely won and our QB was totally inaffective against a super week team. Had he made the switch weeks ago, we probably beat both UGA AND Wake. He is a big jerk that will NEVER admit he is wrong. He should be fired and gone. At any rate, I already sent word to the AD I won’t be renewing my 3 club seats nor the donation that goes with them. I hope others follow suit. They sold out the club seats this year only because of Calvin - and the fact our hideous school apparently sold a ton of them to Notre Dame fans. Boy, for an academic institution, we sure have idiots in our ticket office. I am guessing next season’s advance tickets sells will be low again as usual. That is, unless we sell a ton of them to UGA fans.

By Cal

January 2, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

To the idiot who said that Richt was average this year and that Ball’s numbers were better than Stafford’s. WE BEAT YOU. That means if we were average this year you apparently were below average. GET IT?

By John

January 2, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

UGA people - go blog on your page. Get it?

By bro

January 2, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this

TO Yellowblood - I don’t think you have to worry about saying “good morning boss” to me. Based on your writing skills you wouldn’t be working for me. Now get back to work. The burgers are done on that side.

By Bring Reeves Back!

January 2, 2007 01:01 PM | Link to this

It was a good game but really WHO CARES? it was another Meaningless bowl game. Now if it was the football playoffs or something it would of ment something…but it didnt mean anyhting so who cares?? College football will never change until u pple stop going and supporting these bs bowl games. I mean dont u want tech to win a national title again one day? u really think wed be in the title game even if we went undefeated?? i wish…but no way. Owell on to a REAL sport where the championship is decided by the players….not by some pple taking a vote. GO GT basketball!!
oby tha way….gaily sucks….i mean everyone in the stadium knew we werent getting the ball back aginst notre dame that game and he still punted it.

By rainman

January 2, 2007 01:02 PM | Link to this

The reason to blog is to have interchange of ideas, not to trash talk between teams. UGA had a good season, so did Tech. Can’t we agree to just hate Clemson and Florida??

The juvenile comments about knuckle-dragging pocket protectors, etc. have lost their humor. Get a life.

I am a Tech season seat holder; did not go to Tech; went to a boys school near Decatur. I have two sons at UGA. Congrats to the UGA nation on a great CFA bowl victory over VT, who was on a roll for the last 7.5 games they played. Beamer got out-Beamered!

Some random thoughts:

I like GT football; this has been a good season; it should have been a great season. I totally agree that, by his statements to the press, Chan Gailey has proven that he cannot learn by examining where things went wrong. I think that he thought that admitting that in the press would make him appear weak. Previous bloggers hit the nail on the head: being a quality coach is about flexibility and getting the job done. Since I teach at the state’s medical university, I will use an example in my field of expertise: You can teach anyone how to do a particular surgery in about a week; what you can’t do is teach about what to do when things aren’t going according to plan, or you encounter something you did not plan to find. This is where the rubber meets the road.

The Gator Bowl was a microcosm of the entire season: CG gets a lead, then goes into conservative mode and can’t hold it. Does it not make sense than if you are winning by throwing the ball to CJ, why not continue it?

Of course, when Reggie was on, the right decision was to play him. When he was off, it was not. One stellar performance by Taylor doth not a quality QB make. But it does point out that given the other offensive weapons that we have, would it not have made sense to combine them with a pure pocket passer rather than with a variation of the same offense that WVA used?? I mean, let’s get real, if you have the best receiver in college football, and the best rusher in the ACC, does it not mean you want to use those effectively?? I think the problem is that it was ALL about Reggie. Reggie was not the best QB in football, or the top passer in the ACC, so why was it ALL about him?

I have not noticed anyone willing to ride to Chan’s defense in this one; I wonder why…

I want to go on record that Choice is UNDERRATED, and certainly deserved all-ACC. Ore did not have a good enough year to beat him out; I think his votes came from his previous year’s performance. If I were Chan, I would be much more worried about both CJ and TC both going pro.

From my little contact with the AD’s office so far, I think he is doing exactly what he should be doing, which is examining processes, to see if the Athletic Department is using the correct ones, and not firing people left and right, as many are want to do. But, I think that given the situation at GT, where many did not go to the Gator Bowl in silent protest of CG’s obvious incompetence in the last 3 games, serious thought must be given to make a change at head coach, and let recruiting do what it will. I’d say let Tenuto run with it, and hire a real OC.

I’ll be happy to email Radakovitch my feelings, anyone else?

Mac McWhorter, where are ye?

By Chris

January 2, 2007 01:03 PM | Link to this

How does a blog concerning Ga Tech getting beat by WVA turn into a bunch of Tech fans whining about how there smarter than UGA grads? Tech fans, your pathetic. You say Georgia had a mediocre year but we still beat you. You say that we suck because we always lose to Florida but we still beat you. You say finishing 4-4 in the SEC is average but we still beat you. You say Matt Stafford is average by throwing 7 touchdowns to 13 interceptions but we still beat you. You say we played the meaningless Chick Fila bowl but we still beat you. You say we’re stupid red necks working at McDonalds but we still be you, and my grammar is probably bad as well but we still beat you. So, what does that say about GA TECH. You guys are so smart with your engineering degrees, and you think you know so much, so why in the hell can’t you figure out a way to beat UGA. Your pathetic. We bash your football team for being sorry, and you come back with the statement that all UGA grads are stupid rednecks. Well I’ll take my good looking UGA redneck girls, and my UGA redneck football team over your pathetic excuse for a university anyday. Just remember, that is 6 in a row and 13 of the last 16 games that us stupid ditch diggin rednecks have beat yall. Have another wonderful loser offseason.

By Lynda

January 2, 2007 01:13 PM | Link to this

Is it possible for Chan to become academically ineligible? Wait a minute……after his comment about keeping Reggie in if he had to do it all over again; I think i just answered my own question.

By **GAILEY IS GT HEAD COACH FOR LIFE!**

January 2, 2007 01:14 PM | Link to this

How about that…I actually received an E-MAIL RESPONSE from the GT Athletics Dept that pretty much said:

With his CONTRACT EXTENSION, Chan “the Man” Gailey is the Head Coach of GT Football until the end of the contract period or until he dies…Whichever occurs first.

So buckle up GT FANS…The next few years are going to be INSTANT REPLAYS of this disappointing year…Just like Reggie Ball losing to UGAy in the final minutes every year was like watching instant replays. Only they were YEARS APART!

This is PATHETIC! Anyone who cares about GT Football had better MOBILIZE, because FLUSHING GAILEY is clearly going to take a Grass Roots effort.

The Athletics Department doesn’t know what to do with him…Beyond congratulating him on a great season. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC and DISHEARTENING TO REAL FANS AND ALUMS!

By rainman

January 2, 2007 01:17 PM | Link to this

Chris:

This blog is about Tech and the Gator Bowl, not about GT-UGA. This kind of BS is why I follow GT and not UGA. Unless you have something meaningful to add, go back to your own blog and take “The Man” with you.

By rainman

January 2, 2007 01:27 PM | Link to this

It is not surprising to get this kind of response from the AD office; same kind of response that DB had. I mean, after all, Chan is under contract, and there is not likely enough money to buy out his contract and hire, say Dennis Green (helluva idea BTW). I would suggest that Tech fans show up every game with CAN CHAN banners, then pick a TV game where everyone comes in, sets up their banners saying something like, “I’d be sitting here if Chan were gone” and quietly leaves the stadium.

By ylwjacket

January 2, 2007 01:30 PM | Link to this

The WVU fans were horrible. They learned a new word - the F word, and used it liberally throughout the game. Several of them around us even wore it on their shirts “West F@#$in Virgina” they said.

I physically drew the line when one of them got in the face of one of my kids. Who gets in the face of a 10 year old kid dressed in the opponent’s colors? My wife wanted to leave the stadium before someone got arrested. So what you want to me, but leave the kids alone.

They were not respectful and appreciating, they were frat boys just released from high school, having their first communal drink in public. A few of them actually passed out in their seats in the 4th quarter.

What a disgrace. I hope to God there were no GT fans like that there.

I wonder if bowl games should not sell alcohol at the games. I don’t think most campus stadiums sell it - it seems like bowls shouldn’t either.

As for the game - it was great. Tough loss to be sure, but still a great game between 2 good teams.

By Warren K. Barrett

January 2, 2007 01:30 PM | Link to this

I told you three weeks ago Taylor Bennet would do just fine in the bowl and he would play much better than most expect. You could see at the spring game and any other time he played that he could throw the ball. Now all of those who still feel Threet and Nesbitt will have a chance to start at GT next year as a freshman need to get a life. They won’t even be the back up. They are not ready for D-1 college football. Case closed.

By Wilbur

January 2, 2007 01:32 PM | Link to this

Why are all the Techsters so upset with UGA getting on their blog. Last time I checked, GT fans flooded the UGA blog when we lost to Vandy and Kentucky. So now that the table has turned, take what you had coming to you like a man.

By MoJohnson

January 2, 2007 01:34 PM | Link to this

Put the Gator Bowl in the “To win a game you have to want to win all game long” category. Somewhere in the late 3rd & 4th quarter Tech special teams and defense started to play “not to lose” - bad strategy. Allowing this mentality on the field is a leadership issue and that falls directly on Chan and his staff - period.

Now, in the “you dance with them what brought you” category, honestly, you couldn’t bench Reggie (for his play) at this point no more than Chan will bench Bennett next year when he screws up. Reggie got Tech to the ACC championship - no coach who wants to continue to recruit quality prospects would have done less than what Chan did & said. The shame is that Reggie screwed up late in the season - bad timing for Tech.

P.S. Give Chan one more year and let’s see what happens.

By taylor made

January 2, 2007 01:39 PM | Link to this

we should celebrate having one of the greatest recievers EVER in college football wear at GT uniform. We should celebrate having Choice and Bennett back next year plus a stellar recruiting class. The more UGA b-tches and moans about GT, the more nervous they are getting about our program.

By GREG

January 2, 2007 01:43 PM | Link to this

GEORGIA TECH BUSTED OUT THE BROWN PANTS AGIAN!!!LAYINGS LOGS IN THEM FOR THE 3RD STRAIGHT GAME!!!SORRY TECHIE BOYS BUT I WAS RIGHT AND YALL MORONS WERE WRONG!!!!!LOL!!!!!!AT LEAST YALL STILL HAVE YOUR HUGE STADIUM AND MASSIVE FANBASE!!!LOL!!!!!

By David Lee

January 2, 2007 01:45 PM | Link to this

ylwjacket, you are a girly man who is an embarrassment to your family. Man up pu$$y!

By DirtDobber

January 2, 2007 01:56 PM | Link to this

Good BLOG Rainman.

I will argue regariding this crowd that the biggest challenge for anyone doing almost anything is to keep the main thing the main thing no matter what.
That focus seems to be in short supply on this blog.

As for the UGA presence … what hopeless lives some must lead (and I do not just mean the UGA persons either). You GT “supporters” only aggravate the situation with this continual circle of jawing rebufs that lead nowhere.

Back to the game, back to coaching, back to support, back to reality.

By Mchammer

January 2, 2007 02:01 PM | Link to this

When you all you trade school wannabees finally manage to use all that high powered influence and get Chan canned I humbly suggest that there is a really good coach that told his boss that when the job was done he would be moving on. He presently works in the state of Hawaii. You morons didn’t have the intelligence to hire his boss when he resided in Atlanta and was out of coaching, and are probably way to stupid and arrogant to ever hire a guy that dresses all in black and wears cowboy boots. Tech will never change. And that is why you will always be playing follow the leader behind the whole football universe.

By jabster

January 2, 2007 02:02 PM | Link to this

Reggie should have been riding the pine after halftime in Chapel Hill, because he wasn’t getting the job done against an AWFUL team with a lame-duck coach. It would have been a good time to see what Bennett could do—especially since we had NCSU in the bag and we only had to take one out of two from Carowhina and Puke. Then we could have played Puke, UGA, and Wake accordingly, one at a time, based on Bennett’s performance.

Let’s go back to O’Leary’s 11 or 12 one-game seasons—the starter might change each season, based on performance.

What kind of message does this send to recruits? You better perform—or you will be warming the bench. And if you’re second or third on the depth chart, keep working at it—you might just get your chance to start, and not just by academic attrition and seniority.

I’d be more worried about what blindly standing by your starters says to second-stringers. We need to recruit some depth and we won’t get it if we don’t give second-stringers the opportunities they deserve.

I seem to remember a hoops coach that had this same problem. His name was Cremins. Great coach, great teams, at least until the starters got hurt or fouled out. Then all you had was a bunch of scrubs because recruits soon learned that if you didn’t start for Cremins, you saw no playing time.

Clip and save…

By Pitts Burgh

January 2, 2007 02:23 PM | Link to this

ylwjacket, this is just the state of fandom today. When I left the Ga Dome after the Steelers game in October, I had to walk a gantlet of drunken obscenity-screaming thugs. All of whom I ignored. Even when two of the vermin made actual physical contact by poking me.

alochol + idiots = lethal combination.

By rball

January 2, 2007 02:24 PM | Link to this

What it means to be GT: Finding a way to lose no matter how great an opportunity may be.

By randy

January 2, 2007 02:31 PM | Link to this

look! wv is running for another ist down!

By John

January 2, 2007 02:32 PM | Link to this

I agree jabster. The UNC game should have been the start of a new QB. We all saw this - apparently Chan didn’t!

By G8R H8R

January 2, 2007 02:34 PM | Link to this

Hey where is the WVU guy who couldn’t shut up about hanging half a hundred on Georgia last year. Must of been a Tech fan because the 38-35 final score was exactly the same as the Gator Bowl.

Funny how last year’s Sugar Bowl was perceived as some sort of blowout by so many folks!

And btw Mark Richt is 36-15 vs. the SEC. Not too shabby!!

By Wozzo the Wonder Dog

January 2, 2007 02:36 PM | Link to this

If Tech’s athletic department has pretty much said that Chan is Tech’s coach for life, then I have some low-cost solutions for getting rid of him: Techies should send him lots of home-baked cookies and pies — Use lard and real butter. Have a bucket of fried chicken and an all-the-meats pizza delivered to his office every noon and night. Sneak up behind him often and yell “Boo”. Keep his stress level up by asking him lots of questions like “how will you replace Calvin and Tenuta?” or “who is going to flunk out this season?” or “you’re not ever going to beat UGA, are you?”

If Tech fans want to help run off Chan then they need to get on board — The football team is doing its part by losing the last three games (5 total), getting on probation, and becoming academically ineligible. Don’t claim that you’re helping by staying away from games; you were doing that well before Chan.

By Doug

January 2, 2007 02:38 PM | Link to this

Ahh, you can always tell when Georgia Tech has just lost a game because they get on the blogs complaining about how horrible the other team’s fans were.

I won’t try and make any excuses for WVU’s fans, or for Georgia’s or anybody else, but I will say that the only time I’ve ever had an opposing fan offer to jump my a* with a half-dozen of his buddies was at a UGA-GT game. He was a Techie, so there was no chance in hell it was going to happen, but be that as it may, I’ve been to hostile environments like Jacksonville, Knoxville, and Auburn and never had any actual threats of physical violence aimed my way.

So the message here is put away the fainting couch and quit whining. For every WVU fan who was being a douchebag, there was more than likely a GT fan who was just as bad. You go to enough football games, you learn to live with it.

By DirtDobber

January 2, 2007 02:39 PM | Link to this

I sense a stubborness by the AD to NOT make any changes so I dont expect any change soon.

If Gailey/Nix perform consistently with a duplicate of yesterdays offensive performance through 2007 then I’ll give them all the chances in the world.

While Calvin seemed to collect most of the praises, I thought James Johnson also had a good game.

Defense has always been a given that we now take for granted. Have read many opinions here but still unsure what happened. Wonder what Tenuta is saying.

By Lest ye forget

January 2, 2007 02:49 PM | Link to this

All of you bloggers seem to have missed a few things while watching the Gator Bowl.

1. Yes, Bennett played a good game, but even Pop Warner QBs averaged more than 200 yards passing against WVU.

2. You missed a real show when Steve Slaton pulled up lame. Ask Georgia’s linebackers and DBs from last season, who got a real good look at the back of his jersey. If he had played, add 21 points to WVU’s score.

3. If you want to criticize the GT coaching staff, don’t hammer them for Reggie Ball. Ask them why they didn’t throw the ball to C. Johnson on every play. WVU never stopped them when they did, even with three defenders, but in the second half, they seemed to stop. Truly amazing, and thanks from all of us in West Virginia.

By reality check

January 2, 2007 03:01 PM | Link to this

Wozzo, as a founding member of Fans of Chan I must take issue with your post.

Chan Gailey is the perfect coach for Tech and you need to rethink your position. We need to keep that guy healthy.

By GTDean

January 2, 2007 03:17 PM | Link to this

Gailey is TERRIBLE! Losing by three points in our last three games, inexcusable!!! Mediocrity is our Destination if we don’t get rid of Gomer Gailey!

-the Dean

By Sting' EM

January 2, 2007 03:21 PM | Link to this

I do agree with Lest ye forget on the Slaton comment. It could have been much worse. However, I disgree with the Pop Warner comment. Tech will never be a football powerhouse, becuase we place too much emphasis on academcis.

However, Taylor Bennett did a nice job by setting up, planting and throwing with nice touch.

Stafford is over-rated and had a good game against VT, but VT also lost their key D-back, which allowed Bobo (17 interceptions at UGA) to pick on the rookie. Thus, UGA does not need to take alot away from the VT game either.

We will see how it goes for UGA next year when they open with OSU, who just came off a nice win.

By scooter11

January 2, 2007 03:23 PM | Link to this

Before Taylor Bennett is annointed the saviour, remind yourselves how lucky he was that WVa was only rushing 3 on most obvious passing plays. Won’t be the same during games next year. He will be on his butt more often than not. Tenuta’s defense really wasn’t any better than any of those for the last 3 teams played by the insects.

By jbgldawg

January 2, 2007 03:29 PM | Link to this

To the Techie clamoring for AD Rad to “eat Braine’s contract extension for Gailey”: Shouldn’t be too hard considering EVERY Tech grad is a billionaire. Isn’t that right? EVERY single one of you lords over Georgia grads and makes billions a year, all the while enjoying their hot wives and girlfriends, right? Oh, your lives are sooooo great! You are such a bunch of happy, contented people! You claim every Georgia grad lives in a trailor! And is married to their cousin! How insightful! Enjoy the rest of the day in your cubicle, nerds, and then the rest of the evening sitting in your Saturn or Kia in traffic on the connector. You are miserable, and that’s evident by these bloggings. I, for one, could not think this is funnier! What a bunch of losers…

By Sting' EM

January 2, 2007 03:32 PM | Link to this

Your basic bulldog fan is nothing more than an inbred redbeck from Clark county. They show up barking at their games, because they cannot put a sentence together.

They will never hold a candle to OU, USC, ND, or Miami in terms of titles, and neither can GT, but at least we admit it. GT is always bragging about this being the year, and it never evolves.

When UGA gets some of these teams on their schedule, then they can pop off, otherwise, UGA continues to affirm they are the most obnoxious and dumbest college football fans in D-1 football. Second to none in terms of football ignorance.

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 2, 2007 03:47 PM | Link to this

Not too disappointed? That’s a nice headline. Sounds like a Boise State headline AFTER OK’s last miunte interception for a TD. Instead it is for losing an 18 point lead to a team w/o the #2 rusher in the land. WVU whipped you good didn’t they. They just totally spanked you at your home away from home field. I generally wouldn’t care, but you guys gave us heck this year for losing to KY and Vandy. I must say it was deserved at the time but now we can give it all back to you. See you next year at Chan Field at Bobby Dodd Stadium. You know that is coming nice ring to it, don’t you say. Chan Field @ Bobby Dodd Stadium.

By Don't Coaches BENCH Players Anymore?

January 2, 2007 03:56 PM | Link to this

AMEN Jabster! This weird “Dance with who got you to the dance” mentality is LUDICROUS! Any Head Coach who can’t show ANY NON-PERFORMING PLAYER the pine isn’t a COACH — He’s simply a FIGUREHEAD!

REGGIE BALL owned Chan Gailey — AND STILL DOES! You’d think he has naked pictures of his pet monkey or something! Gailey even seems to RESENT that he was FORCED to start Taylor (for yet ANOTHER Reggie Ball self-induced failure) and that Taylor looked like a SEASONED VETERAN!**

This is like some kind of SURREAL TWILIGHT ZONE — “THE CHAN ZONE” He STILL hasn’t said ANYTHING PUBLICLY praising Bennett for COMING TO HIS RESCUE…Only that he STILL wouldn’t have put Bennett in AT ALL during any of Ball’s Patented Fits of Fury or Tailspins Into DEFEAT!

As a FORMER Gailey Supporter…I can’t BELIEVE this guy STILL wouldn’t have played Bennett after seeing his Monday performance — It DEFIES ALL LOGIC and METAPHYSICAL LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE! I WAS WRONG to give Gailey the benefit of the doubt because he has now LEFT NO DOUBT that he’s COMPLETELY INEPT!

Chan DANCED with Reggie THROUGHOUT another UGAy LOSS to a clearly INFERIOR TEAM…Chan DANCED with Reggie while the EASIEST Conference Championship was put on a SILVER PLATTER for the taking, but then TAKEN by a Superior Coach with yet another INFERIOR TEAM…Chan WOULD’VE DANCED with Reggie on Monday, and we would’ve seen a 38-6 DRUBBING if Reggie wouldn’t have done the ONLY THING that Chan would never do and TOOK HIMSELF OUT of the game before it even started.

I’m LIVID!!!##@##@ As FANS, it makes NO SENSE to show up and support a Train Wreck when you know that’s what will happen…Mark Richt is NO BRILLIANT COACH — But Richt CAN and WILL beat Gailey EVERY TIME because Gailey DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO WIN A “MUST WIN GAME”

THIS IS OUR FATE WITH CHAN GAILEY…SO I GUESS WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT!

By DirtDobber

January 2, 2007 03:56 PM | Link to this

To jbgldawg

We appreciate your concession that GT people are superior in all the ways you suggest but we’re really not THAT great.

In the future, try to put together single coherent thoughts before you graduate to multiple lines of complex thinking. Sorry dude but you just don’t make a lot of sense - never have, never will.

Click the link to Entertainment, then go to the Zoo section to find your BLOG.

By BUZZ

January 2, 2007 03:56 PM | Link to this

I am very disapointed w/ the lost but Taylor & Tashard give me hope for next season. Hey WV fans, how many bowl wins do you have? Your record against TECH is 1-2. You guys are johnny come lately. As for all of these UGAg fans, yall sure are obsessed w/ TECH. Go pop open another can of potted meat an wash it down w/ a nattie light. gtne80 thanks for working the night shift an giving it hell. Good post Rhino. Hope to see the commits sign. Its basketball season now.

By Bobby Buzz

January 2, 2007 03:56 PM | Link to this

We will never reach the top of college football until we make our “Tickle Piles” a bit rougher. I don’t know about the rest of you but I kinda like tough tickle piles:)

By coach

January 2, 2007 03:58 PM | Link to this

I just saw this quote attributed to Chan Gailey:”He did an outstanding job, but he learned something,” Georgia Tech coach Chan Gailey said of Bennett. “He learned that when you’re in the fourth quarter and within three points, you don’t take a chance down there.”

Chan is the head coach. It is his job to talk to this young man and keep him focused, aware and confident. Is he now blaming Bennett for the loss?

For once I would like to see Chan take personal responsibility for something.

By ptcjacket

January 2, 2007 03:58 PM | Link to this

I think the reason WVU fans outnumbered the Tech fans so significantly is that most Tech fans were so utterly disgusted after the UGA game and the ACCCG, and were anticipating more of the same with Reggie at QB. By the time I found out about his academic disqualification, I thought it was too late to secure any tickets.

Also, I’m extremely disappointed at Chan’s decision to go for the long field goal with 5 minutes left. Had we punted, we could have possibly pinned them deep near their goal line again and forced them to punt, thereby getting the ball right back in about the same spot that we had it prior to the field goal attempt. This would have been great field position and we would have had a great chance to move in for a game-tying field goal. I feel bad for Travis Bell being placed in that spot.

Chan is a good man and a good recruiter but I, too, fear that recruiting will eventually suffer due to his poor game management skills.

By reality check

January 2, 2007 04:00 PM | Link to this

Zoo, I think you have something there. Historic Chan Field at Bobby Dodd stadium does sound good, doesn’t it.

It’s past time for Tech fans to show some love for coach Chan.

By jbgldawg

January 2, 2007 04:06 PM | Link to this

DirtDobber: What exactly was unclear about my post? Tech fans hate their lives, are sexually frustrated, and are utter losers. So, to lash out against their failings and short-comings, they falsely accuse every Georgia grad of being a redneck. How’s that? Did I dumb it down enough for you? Do I need to draw you a picture? Ok, how’s this …

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.htmlforumID=8&threadID=183101&messageID=1867664

You people are lower than whale sh%t.

By reality check

January 2, 2007 04:09 PM | Link to this

Sting’Em you ought to be ashamed of yourself for running Tech down the way you do, saying Tech can never be a football powerhouse because of academics. Michigan, Notre Dame, and USC are all harder to get into than Tech and they all qualify as football powerhouses.

Using academics as an excuse is pitiful.

By jim

January 2, 2007 04:19 PM | Link to this

Another reminder of what a Moron Gailey is…

By Wv fan

January 2, 2007 04:27 PM | Link to this

I have to say, Buzz, you take smack talk to a whole new level.

You get beat THEN talk smack? Obviously you are confused.

Let me ‘splain it. The way it works is the team that wins talks smack and the team that loses shuts the F* up.

Obviously Tech fans haven’t been accustomed to winning enough to understand.

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 2, 2007 04:45 PM | Link to this

reality check, I like the addition of Historic to that, nice touch.

ptcjacket,

…..”I thought it was too late to secure any tickets.” That was hilarious. Too late to secure tickets to a Tech game? When would that ever happen. I bet they opened the gates right after kick off. Kind of like at the Oscars where they have seat fillers when people have to go pee.

By dave

January 2, 2007 04:50 PM | Link to this

Chan’s comment in this mornings paper is absolute proof that he may be the most stubborn football coach in the country. His refusal to make QB changes in the Georgia and Wake Forrest games cost Georgia Tech any chance to win those games. Georgia Tech will be exactly what Dave Braine said as long as Chan is the head coach.

By Chan Gailey

January 2, 2007 04:51 PM | Link to this

This is for all of you who sit at your PeeCees and keep rippining on me. I am THE MAN and if I say Reggie will start every game for us next year, then he WILL! I had a dream Sunday night that Travis kicked a 60 yd FG to win the game. So when we had the chance for only a 54 yarder, it was a NO-BRAINER.

I am the Head Coach of GT Footsball until I dead. So Damm The Torpeters! If I want to make no-brainer coaching decisions all season long, I can do it and there’s nuthin you can do about it. So there!

My favorite play is punting on 3rd down with 2 minutes to play when we’re down by 1 or 2 points. Then we gets to hold them and gets the ball back for a field gold before game is over. I show you that play next year and many others you won’t see any other Hed Coacheses use!

You just wait. I here for so long it gonna feel like FOREVER to you! I got all kinds of no-brainer plays to show you non-Chan believers. I pretty sure we can beat Georgia next year. We playin in ATL so I thinks we win this time. We’l see cause you can’t win em all you know. But we might win this year. Not quite sure yet…

By JR Tech Fan

January 2, 2007 05:02 PM | Link to this

www.canchan.com It’s there; take a look, and click on the “AD” link to send an email to Dan Radakovich; Time for a change …..

15 for 51, 4 interceptions, 1 HUGE fumble; 49 starts at QB … in the end, it took academic ineligibility to prove to Chan Gailey that the square peg does not fit in the round hole!

Purported to have a great football mind, how could Chan-the-man not have thought to just try Taylor Bennett at some point during the past two seasons, and definitely over the previous two games!? “He just doesn’t get it” seems to be the frightening reality to his tenure which has been riddled with embarrassing losses & poor decision making. 2002: lost 51-7 to UGA, then 30-21 to Frensno St (minus 9 starters); 2003: Lost at home to Clemson 39-3, won 4 straight appeared to be turning around season then get pummelled by Duke 41-17,and the beginning of Reggie’s 4 pathetic performance vs. UGA; 2004: dramatic last-second win at Clemsom in Calvin’s 1st season, only to be embarrassed the following week at UNC 34-13, and the first of 3 consecutive gift wins for UGA; 2005: UGA again, followed by an arse-kicking at the hands of the 6-5 Utah Utes!
2006: 5 losses … AGAIN!

Stellar coaching Mr. Gailey … where do I sign-up??

By GT Guy

January 2, 2007 05:17 PM | Link to this

As a life long GT fan, I was dissapointed, not in the effort but in the results. I for one expect us to win every time we take the field. We have the talent to compete and win, but lack consistency.

I realize one game does not make a season for Taylor but the tools are there. One can only wonder where we would have been this year if Chan would have developed this kid starting last year.

Where is the accountability for Chan? Sadly nothing will be done.

Tenuta… I thought you were a defensive genuis. You had a month to get ready for WV. They looked like Clemson all over again.

Why in the world do you try a 50+yard field goal when you kicker struggles with a 30 yarder? Fourth and nine with the game on the line and you surrrender. Pathetic.

I hate to see Calvin go, but can you blame him? Not me.

I am no Reggie fan, but he should have never been put in the position Chan put him in. Chan left the kid out there to suffer the wrath of Tech nation and did not even throw him a life line. I am glad that the Reggie era is over and I wish him well.

By DirtDobber

January 2, 2007 05:32 PM | Link to this

to jbgldawg

My how pleasant it always is to chat with you.

I have called no UGA graduate a redneck or any other name that I can recall … ever.

Based on your usual babblings I would guess you are no graduate of any recognized university. Even UGA has standards and you could never get past English 101 with that vocab.

Your discussions are pointless or of multiple points with no common thread. Maybe you should start in single thoughts as suggested and see an improvement can be attained or simply SHUT UP.

Whether you are a redneck or not I do not know or care. You can claim to be a redneck or not - I do not care.

As far as the remainder of your conjecture - you are not even close or close to any GT grad I know. Enjoy your wishful thinking that someone might exist at a lower level than you - we know this is ALL YOU HAVE and we feel sorry for you.

Now break out your insult checklist and let’s go another round - I know you just gotta do it. I suggest you don’t use all those words in each round though because it looks repetitive [like you are using your checklist].

Have a nice day jbgldawg

By TECH MAN

January 2, 2007 05:40 PM | Link to this

Only bad thing about game is Gomer Gailey is still the coach. He’ll have another so-so season, beat a big name team, play UGA, get intimadated by Richt, then go to another “small” bowl, and we’re still stuck with him for 3 more years.

By ron

January 2, 2007 05:40 PM | Link to this

Gailey is the poorest excuse for a coach in recent history….

By jbgldawg

January 2, 2007 05:47 PM | Link to this

Dirt Dobber: It would be helpful if you could at least point out my grammatical errors instead of insinuating that I have terrible syntax with no examples. As far as proving where I went to school, I find it pointless to debate such things on a blog. I could make up wild lies such as I have a masters from Wharton, just like you could claim (falsely) to be a financially successful heterosexual. See? We’re getting nowhere. I have a degree from Georgia, and you are probably not a financially successful heterosexual. Typical Techie. Oh, and I come on here because I find it hilarious that I can get you nerds in such an uproar. hahahahahahah!

By Mark

January 2, 2007 06:04 PM | Link to this

By taylor made

January 2, 2007 01:39 PM | Link to this

The more UGA b-tches and moans about GT, the more nervous they are getting about our program.

ROFL…LMAO! You gotta be kidding! That is absolutely the stupidest thing that I have ever seen posted on any blog!

By jawrjadawg

January 2, 2007 06:09 PM | Link to this

Thank you Chan … You kept us in the game by letting Leon play This Bennett kid looked great and I am glad you saved him for your big bowl game

By Dan

January 2, 2007 06:19 PM | Link to this

taylor made, the only thing about the trade school that we worry about is that idiots like you might be building bridges, skyscrapers, or more of those GT designed tiles that malfunctioned on the Space Shuttle and killed at those Astronauts.

By DirtDobber

January 2, 2007 06:59 PM | Link to this

to jbgldawg

No uproar here.
Glad to see you at least recognize proving something on a blog is pointless. There might be hope for you yet.

I mentioned no grammatical errors or terrible syntax. You just assumed it. My point is purely made on subject matter.

Just try this. Come on - humor me. When someone makes a point and you wish to counter it, address only that point and why it is in error, invalid, or why you might disagree. No one will ever take you seriously if you answer with irrelevant personal attacks or “shot gun” the discussion about everything except the point originally made. This is simply called COMMUNICATION and it is key to success in almost any field.

Happy New Year !

By GTJohn

January 2, 2007 08:12 PM | Link to this

The fact that Chan said he would not change anything after the performance by Bennett, tells me he should be fired. If he is that stupid, he doesn’t deserve to be a coach much less a head coach. How about John Tenuta as head coach????? Chan can go help O’Leary.

By InsectInside

January 2, 2007 09:03 PM | Link to this

Hey “bro”:

The worst thing that ever happened to the South was air conditioning. Without it, you’re still up north.

Randy and rainman: Thanks for some sanity instead of us having to listen to more Tech fans trying to out-bray jackasses.

By GODOGSSICEM

January 2, 2007 09:23 PM | Link to this

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH…NERDS

By BUZZ

January 2, 2007 09:25 PM | Link to this

Wv fan, I can take trash talk to a whole nether level like u wouldn’t bulieve but i’ll behave since we are not face to face. I can talk smack no matter what time of year it is or if GT wins or loses cause i’m buzz mf. I dont like 2 but it seems like everyone wants me to so i give ‘em what they want. As for as me shutting the f up, whatever, its clear u are not used to winning. By the way, yo boy P. White is from down thu road where i’m from, gots to give a local product his props. THWGA & WV!

By GTVegas

January 2, 2007 09:37 PM | Link to this

I did not have high hopes for the second half of the season when Gailey refused to give Bennett a try after Reggie got hurt against Clemson. I still don’t understand how Gailey could think Reggie was “the man” after getting hurt. I really don’t understand why it took Reggie’s inelibility to get Bennett on the field.

Gailey really has no defense for this stuborness. Now, that really doesn’t have much to do with the bowl game other than the fact that Bennett might have been that much better with a little more experience under his belt.

Tech just got outplayed in the second half and shot themselves in the foot a couple times.

“Randy Rhino” above hit the nail on the head. I would love to see either Tenuta or Whisenhunt as head coach sometime in the near future.

Gailey is not the answer, period. Nothing to do now but watch basketball.

By Coach Rod

January 2, 2007 09:41 PM | Link to this

2006-2007 GA State Champs WVU

By Dawg76

January 2, 2007 09:56 PM | Link to this

I see a lot of the Tech faithful call the Dawg fans ignorant rednecks. Well, the Tech fans may be right. However, the ignorant rednecks are right. Georgia Tech football is mediocre at best. Next year the weak ACC will get harder for the Yellow Jackets. Miami, UNC, NC State and Clemson will be better than this year. When Chan Gailey and the Yellow Jackets lose to Duke in Durham next fall, the new AD at Georgia Tech will send Gailey packing. They should rename Grant Field “Loserville City” and elect Chan Gailey the Mayor.

By Chan Chan The Moron Man

January 2, 2007 10:10 PM | Link to this

FROM ABOVE:

I hate to see Calvin go, but can you blame him? Not me.

Where did you get this? I haven’t heard that he decided yet. Some may consider it naive…But I really think if ANY collegiate superstar will return for his Senior year, it’s CJ.

By The Man

January 2, 2007 10:21 PM | Link to this

BUZZ WHO POSTED AT 9:25 IS A FUDGE PACKER!!!

TECH IS LOSERVILLE AND IS FOR QUEERS!!!

I AM THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

By DawgTurd

January 2, 2007 10:22 PM | Link to this

Dawg76 - You’re right… “I see a lot of the Tech faithful call the Dawg fans ignorant rednecks. Well, the Tech fans may be right.”

Dawg76 - You’re right… “Next year the weak ACC will get harder…”

Dawg76 - You’re right, next year you and your fellow leghumpers will still be… “ignorant rednecks” to use your words. You just can’t fix stupid.

UGA = Stupid, always has, always will.

By The Man

January 2, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this

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By ntruroman

January 2, 2007 11:14 PM | Link to this

The kid finally got a chance. Did Calvin help? Yup - just the way Calvin will help every quarterback he ever plays with. But Bennett got the ball where it needed to be - 50+ yards downfield, and high enough so only one man on the gridiron could get to it. That isn’t luck - that’s a gun. He’s a good kid - smart and ready. Too bad it took so long for everyone to get a chance to see his stuff. Stay, Calvin! You’ll lead the nation in catches and yardage and win the Heisman. And Bennett? He’ll just roam around back there in the pocket, picking defenses apart and throwing laserbeams. Is it Fall yet?

By dawgystyle

January 2, 2007 11:19 PM | Link to this

let’s not start handing out heismans after picking apart the 100th ranked pass defense in the country. let’s see bennett stand in there against a good vt, miami, and fsu defense (notice i said good, not the horrible fsu and miami teams of this year), not to mention georgia. don’t worry about qb, tech needs to learn how to grow a pair and win a big game.

By 91Wreck

January 3, 2007 12:23 AM | Link to this

OK fellow Tech fans - please take me to task for what I am about to say – I really don’t care.

Earlier this year I posted that Gailey has the second best winning percentage (behind O’Leary) of any coach since Dodd left. Even with the three losses at the end of the season, that fact hasn’t changed. Is he as good of a coach as O’Leary or Ross? No, he isn’t. But I will take him over Curry or that coach whose name I won’t repeat.

Everyone is gripping because our program is mediocre. Well whoop-tee-do. I was in school during the first two Ross campaigns when we couldn’t win a single game in an ACC conference that was considerably weaker than it is now. His third season was certainly Gailyesque (we upset Clemson that year and then got throttled by Duke). I am sure some of you were calling for his head back then. What a mistake that would have been.

Now let’s take a look at the decision in the Gator Bowl to kick the field goal. Gailey has 25 seconds to make the call. The wind is at his kicker’s back. He is worried that if we don’t make the first down our defense won’t stop them and we won’t get the ball back. Guess what - he was right! Our defense didn’t stop them and we never saw the ball again. All of the Tuesday morning quarterbacks say that we should have gone for it on 4th and 9. Our quarterback is hot right? Wrong. His last six passes - three completions for a whopping 12 yards with one interception. The interception came on the previous series when we had a makeable 40 yard field goal attempt.

Gailey made a desperate decision because the situation called for it. Gailey understood something about the game that the rest of us didn’t. Our lead was always in jeopardy. He understood this enough to call the brilliant on-side kick to start the second half. How many of you would have had the guts to do that?

Next year looks bright. It appears I was wrong about Taylor Bennett’s skill set. He will be a good quarterback. We lose Calvin, but we have some able wide receivers and a good stable of running backs. Most of the offensive line returns. The defense will be above average again next year. I am going to cheer on Tech win or lose. I did it when Bill Le… (crap, I can’t even type out his name) was at Tech and I will cheer them with Gailey at the helm. In the future we may need to make a change, but now is not the time.

Almost every recruit that has verbally committed has said the same thing – Tech felt like home. Have you every thought that Gailey might be a big part of that comfort level? He tells the kids the truth, not what they want to hear. He is an honest and decent man and an above average football coach. Have him fired if you want to, but before you do ask yourself whom you expect to get in his place?

By dawgystyle

January 3, 2007 12:33 AM | Link to this

Wow 91Wreck, couldn’t have said it better myself. Went through the same thing as a Dawg fan actually listening to people call for Richt to go when we were struggling. You guys ever think there’s a reason we sit here on blogs, and these guys get paid big bucks to coach? These guys study hours of film, see these guys in practice countless hours, and have been watching them play since they were in high school. Somehow I think they are slightly more qualified than someone with a blog name “leghumpers work at hardees” or “nerds droool”. If there is a legitimate criticism of Gailey, it’s Tech’s overall inability to win a big game. Three biggest games of the year, three losses. That points as much to leadership amongst the players as it does to coaching.

By James

January 3, 2007 12:51 AM | Link to this

Holy crap. Did you see Bennett play against W. Va? We could’ve massacred UGA, Wake, and ND if we played this way against all of them! He’s the kind of guy who can actually complete a pass 10 yards or 50 yards in front of him, and he was getting it to Calvin! After that, I think Calvin is leaning towards staying. Bennett-CJ all the way to the BCS next year.

By rainman

January 3, 2007 12:58 AM | Link to this

dawgystyle and 91Wreck make good points. The field goal is somewhat debatable. What is not debatable is the decision to punt with 2 minutes left against WF (who BTW gave Louisville a game). I mean what was he thinking?

Chan probably is a great recruiter, but how much of that is just him. Does not our assistants, players adn the Institute play a role? To say nothing of being in the finest city in the Southeast, if not in the country. If you are inflexible on the field and it results in losses, eventually your recruiting will suffer.

I still think Choice is the most underrated back in America.

I still say that Chan’s back-handed praise of Taylor Bennett represents his flawed thinking and ego that cannot be ignored.

I see I attracted the attention of The Man, who has healed his knuckles and entered the frey…

By dawgystyle

January 3, 2007 01:02 AM | Link to this

Haha this is hilarious. AJ Feely dropped 300+ yards on the Falcons last week, I bet he’s a Pro Bowler too. I’m not saying he is or isn’t a good QB, but trust me, don’t start the Bennett for Heisman campaign until he faces a real defense, without the benefit of the best athlete in the country. It’s real nice when throwing the ball in the vicinity of CJ means automatic catch. That is…unless Paul Oliver is on the field.

By Chan Chan The Moron Man

January 3, 2007 02:55 AM | Link to this

91Wreck, You can RELAX because Chan will be YOUR MAN until he DIES! You were “wrong about Bennett’s skill set”? WTF does that mean? Are YOU a GT QB Coach? Are you the GT Head Coach? If not, then it DOESN’T MATTER what you thought or think about his “skill set”…The COACHES all KNEW he would OUTPERFORM Ball on the field and GAILEY left Ball on the Field in MULTIPLE, REPEATED SITUATIONS THAT QUITE SIMPLY MEANT TECH WOULD LOSE INSTEAD OF WIN. That is INDEFENSIBLE!

If the Coaches SOMEHOW had no idea that Bennett was THAT GOOD, then they should STILL BE FIRED…That is just as INDEFENSIBLE!

Incredibly, you have MISSED THE POINT. Nobody GT here is saying “the program is mediocre”…What is being said REPEATEDLY and in a MULTITUDE OF WAYS, and FULLY-SUPPORTED with examples is: CHAN GAILEY IS AN IDIOT!

Good Recruits came to GT BEFORE GAILEY because it’s a DESIRABLE SCHOOL AND PROGRAM…But GAILEY would screw up a WET DREAM because HE’S A COMPLETE MORON ON THE SIDELINES!

Look at how YOU described his latest coaching “GEM” while DEFENDING HIM: He is worried…Gailey made a desperate decision…Our lead was in jeopardy…In the future we may need to make a change.

Attempting a 54-yd field goal was NOT a decision “made in 25 seconds”…The FACT is, Gailey was quoted in Monday’s AJC (page D11) saying this (WORD FOR WORD):

“I’m just not going to make him (Travis Bell) kick a long one. I probably am not going to do that,” Tech coach Chan Gailey said.

He’d already decided BEFORE THE GAME that asking Bell to kick “a long one” was a STUPID THING TO DO…So he gets into a situation where you PUNT, GO FOR IT or do something with an ABSOLUTE ZERO PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS…And he REVERSES his previous decision made when he had DAYS to think it over and WITHOUT QUESTION chooses the WORST option of the 3 available.

GAILEY LOST THE GAME RIGHT THEN AND THERE. Picking up 9 yards was NOT an impossibility…Pinning WV in their end zone and creating a turnover, safety, or just stopping them was NOT an impossibility…Asking Bell to kick a 54 yd FG when his CAREER BEST was 48 yds and this year’s BEST was 47 yds WAS A COMPLETE IMPOSSIBILITY!!!

You can kiss Gailey’s @ss all you want, because there’s certainly plenty of room for you. Letting BALL LOSE TO UGAy AGAIN while Talented Bennett was on the sidelines ran plenty of GT fans away…PUNTING ON 4TH DOWN IN A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WITH NO TIME LEFT ran thousands more off.

And YOU’RE WRONG that dumping him after “the DUKE throttling would have been a big mistake”…BECAUSE WHOEVER would have taken his place WOULD NOT have allowed BALL to remain in games where he was doing MORE HARM THAN GOOD! That means we would have BEAT UGAy at least this year and we would’ve won the CG too.

ANY COACH who says publicly that he WOULD NOT have played Bennett in place of BALL at any point in the season AFTER seeing his Monday performance doesn’t even register on the MEDIOCRITY METER…Because he’s TOO STUPID to be a threat to mediocre coaches.

Dennis Green would be my 1st choice as replacement. The way he responded after the Chicago game was given away is EXACTLY what is needed in a Locker Room following a “game that got away”…Gailey gave his old & tired “Life Lessons” speech…And another game got away…Then “Life Lessons” speech…And another game got away. ARE YOU SEEING A PATTERN HERE YET?

By GT Baby

January 3, 2007 06:09 AM | Link to this

I went to the game in j-ville it was a blast tech played good but the second half kickoff that wv recovered that hit are player costed us badly,bennett played great,choice played great and Cj always plays great.we have a great future with bennett i just hope cj comes back.The atmosphere at the game was awesome Ill be there next year Long live tech fans the future looks great

By GT Baby

January 3, 2007 06:10 AM | Link to this

I went to the game in j-ville it was a blast tech played good but the second half kickoff that wv recovered that hit are player costed us badly,bennett played great,choice played great and Cj always plays great.we have a great future with bennett i just hope cj comes back.The atmosphere at the game was awesome Ill be there next year Long live tech fans the future looks great

One last comment for WV fans..Thanks for the good time you are great fans and good people thanks for the compliments and good luck next year

By DirtDobber

January 3, 2007 07:11 AM | Link to this

Ditto GT Baby.

Someone posted earlier about how bad the WV fans were. My experience was completely different - I thought they were great too. And WV fans were all over the GT side. Walking to and from the parking lot there was no jawing that I heard. Everyone seemed only interested in a good game - and that is what happened .

Other than the drunk GT student near me, the game was almost decent entertainment for my family.

By John

January 3, 2007 08:22 AM | Link to this

I watched the CBS recording of the game and was amused how the 3 commentators were all puzzled at half time about why Chan had been so loyal to Reggie all those weeks. They just didn’t get it. Now, if they don’t get it and we don’t get it - isn’t it time for the coach to be replaced?

By to dog style

January 3, 2007 08:28 AM | Link to this

you dogs are the heis callers… for your boy…the pick queen!

By RocketCityJacket

January 3, 2007 09:48 AM | Link to this

Chan Gailey is a Bill Curry Jr. A nice guy who can’t coach. However, even Bill Curry new how to make adjustments and have a kickoff special team who kept the other team inside the 20 yd line. Under Gailey our special team’s ??? best kickoff play is kicking the ball out of bounds. For most teams that is a penalty. Because the other team usually starts between the 30-45 yd line anyway the onsides kickoff wasn’t much of a gamble. It was one of the few coaching positives during the game. I was at the game and in parking lot W the WVU fans outnumbered Tech fans by at least 20 to 1 if not more. They also badly outnumbered TECH fans at J’ville Landing on New Year’s Eve and at our Hotel. The WVU fans were great fans to tailgate next to and polite after the game, except for one obnoxious fan walking by our tailgate location. Gailey’s not knowing how to adjust and continually pathetic kickoff & kickoff return special teams cost us another game. There is a reason Gailey was fired from Dallas. HE IS A MEDIOCRE COACH AT BEST. I had a GREAT TIME in J’ville at the ACC Championship game and the GATOR BOWL despite both games being ruined by poor game day coaching. Other teams/head coaches that win big games like WVU/Rodriguez know how to make adjustments at halftime. Thanks to Brain Dead we are stuck with a poor to mediocre coach until we fire him and pay him undeserved millions or pay him undeserved millions for the rest of his Brain Dead contract. The TECH players played great and put on a tremendous offensive performance! I look forward to future GATOR BOWLS, hopefully, with a real head coach someday. I will continue to buy season tix in the upper east since being evicted by Brain Dead from the lower east stands where I sat for 13 years previously. At least we have a new AD who hopefully will solve our Head Coaching anomaly.

GO JACKETS!

By 91Wreck

January 3, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

To: By Chan Chan The Moron Man

I haven’t completely missed the point, you have. I could take the time to refute your babblings one point at a time, but I will pick just a few of your “gems”.

When I said I underestimated Bennett’s skill set I meant that I had publicly stated on this blog that Bennett wouldn’t be our quarterback next year because of his lack of speed. I was wrong and I was man enough to admit it.

The coaching staff believed Reggie gave them the best chance to win - they were wrong. But it is down right stupid to say that the coaches knew Taylor Bennett was a better quarterback. This is a guy that didn’t even start in high school until his senior season. Virtually no one recruited him except for us and Boise State. During his first year he couldn’t even hold onto a snap. He has always been a project player at best. He surprised everyone with his performance - you included (if you are man enough to admit it).

But you, oh Tuesday morning quarterback god, have dispensed your wisdom that Bennett is better and everyone knew it but Gailey. Every major college coach and assistant didn’t even believe this guy was worthy of a scholarship, his high school coach didn’t start him until his last year, yet somehow you knew he was the man all along. Please.

Now let’s review your statement that “Picking up 9 yards was NOT impossibility…Pinning WV in their end zone and creating a turnover, safety, or just stopping them was NOT impossibility…”. It was impossibility Sherlock Holmes - we didn’t stop them. They ran out the last 5+ minutes of the game without us ever seeing the ball again. Gailey could see that. Everyone but you apparently saw that. Heck, even Helen Keller could see that one coming. Maybe going for it was the better play, but punting the ball was out of the question.

Now let’s review the option of going for it. Before the field goal decision was made, Bennett had thrown 6 passes with three completions for twelve yards with one interception. Now you want him to throw one pass for 9 yards with the game on the line without our lineman or receivers getting called for another penalty. It might not have been impossible, but it sure didn’t look more likely than a 54 yard field goal with the wind at your back when you know your kicker’s range is at least 48.

Finally, what in the world would make you believe that Dennis Green would ever come to Tech? It didn’t ask what person you would like, I asked what person you think we could get. We’re not getting Dennis Green. We could hire some hotshot young coach like the one at Boise State, but he would be gone in just a few years. Hey, I know, let’s start the coaching carousel like they have done at Bama. That’s what I want for our university. I wonder how long Saban will be there before he moves on to greener pastures and Alabama is once again searching for a new coach.

By Chan Chan The Moron Man

January 3, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

Just to update anyone still coming to this page for the first time:

The GT Athletics Dept. sent me an e-mail response that basically says, “Chan ‘The Man’ Gailey has a CONTRACT EXTENSION that means he IS and WILL BE the Head Coach of GT Football until the contract expires or he expires…Whichever occurs first.”

So there you have it. Dave Braine (who I thought was truly insane) was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. And you might as well get ready for more GUT-WRENCHING LOSSES…Not BLOWOUTS…BUT the kind that leave you DUMBFOUNDED like the final 3 of this season.

We have a MORON on the sidelines WHO KNEW ABSOLUTELY & UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT HE WAS LOSING GAMES THAT GT SHOULD HAVE WON — JUST SO HE COULD KEEP REGGIE BALL ON THE FIELD FOR EVERY SINGLE PLAY OF EVERY SINGLE GAME, DESPITE ON-THE-FIELD PERFORMANCES THAT WOULD WARRANT (at the very least) PULLING HIM FOR A FEW PLAYS SO HE COULD SCREW HIS HEAD BACK ON STRAIGHT…AND GAILEY NEVER, EVER, EVER GAVE TAYLOR BENNETT A SINGLE OPPORTUNITY WHEN BALL WAS INEFFECTIVE! That FAILURE to EVER pull Ball out when GAMES WERE ON THE LINE is simply the mark of an INEFFECTIVE HEAD COACH…HOWEVER, combine this with the FACT THAT HE AND GT COACHES KNEW FULL WELL HOW TALENTED BENNETT IS AND WAS ALL THE TIME, BUT LEFT BALL ON THE FIELD WITHOUT EXCEPTION…PLUS THE “CHAN ZONE” TYPE STATEMENT THAT HE STILL “WOULD NOT HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY IN THAT RESPECT” all year long EVEN AFTER SEEING Bennett’s Other-Worldly Performance in a Bowl Game against a TOP-15 Team…AND THE MAN IS JUST A COMPLETE MORON…There’s no other way to say it and no other conclusion possible.

I thought BALL was responsible for the LOSSES. (And from an on-the-field performance perspective, he was. He just never was that good, but had “flashes of brilliance”) But for Gailey to sit on Bennett WITH WINS or LOSSES clearly hanging in the balance and NOT GIVING BENNETT AN OPPORTUNITY — AT ALL — And you just have to wonder WTF is going on in Gailey’s head while he’s watching Ball IMPLODE from the sidelines. [And as an aside, I wouldn’t be surprised AT ALL (and you heard it here FIRST) if next year (assuming Bennett wins the starting job) when Bennett throws an INT or 2 in a game, to see Gailey PULL HIM OUT OF THE GAME and sit him on the bench! That’s how an UNSTABLE MENTALITY WORKS…I SWEAR Gailey HATES Bennett or something and blames HIM for Ball not being able to play anymore!]

The SCARY PART is: Gailey wasn’t just covering his @ss by saying he wouldn’t have done anything differently…HE REALLY MEANS that there is NO WAY IN HELL HE WOULD’VE put Bennett in for Ball in ANY GAME THIS YEAR when Ball was CLEARLY INEFFECTIVE, OR WORSE. Mountains could crumble and the Earth could split in half and CHAN GAILEY, even AFTER seeing Bennett shoot out the lights in the Gator Bowl, REALLY, TRULY and ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT have substituted for Ball AT ANY TIME and IN ANY GAME

I don’t know if that’s the “I have a long-term contract now” mentality or the “I need a Rubber Room mentality”…But there’s definitely something MENTAL about it. CHAN’S HERE TO STAY…And with him you get: A Coach that will NEVER, EVER, EVER and I mean NEVER WIN “THE BIG GAME”.

While other coaches are busy making adjustments to find what works and what doesn’t (which is what you’re supposed to do of course to MANAGE A GAME FOR A WIN), Gailey is on the sidelines standing like a concrete statue of Robert Conrad saying, “I DARE you to knock this battery off my shoulder!” Then every time the other coach DOES and simply TAKES THE WIN FROM HIM, he blames EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT Chan Gailey for the LOSS. He publicly BLAMED BENNETT for the interception, saying that “he learned a valuable lesson today.” WTF?!??! WTF!?!!? I meant to say, WTF!!?!??!

No wonder Mark Richt says, “I’m a BIG Chan Gailey Fan!”…Wouldn’t you be too if he HANDED you a W every year and then thinks he just coached the BEST game of his life?

Throw in a dose of “Punting on 4th down with no time left to LOSE a CG” and “a 54 yd FG attempt that had NO POSSIBLE CHANCE OF WORKING, that even Gailey said BEFORE THE GAME he wouldn’t do” and it’s like “THE MAN” is actually TRYING TO LOSE GAMES or just can’t handle the PRESSURE OF MAKING PLAY-CALLING DECISIONS TO AT LEAST TRY AND WIN GAMES! He is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the Boise State Coach…

I gotta go…I feel sick again. I don’t like **THE CHAN ZONE”.

By Chan Chan The Moron Man

January 3, 2007 12:07 PM | Link to this

91Wreck: Are you Chan Gailey, JR or do you just LIKE losing games that SHOULD BE WON?

This isn’t High School…It’s DIV 1-A and ANY COACH who has NO IDEA of the quality level of their BACKUP QB has no business coaching.

It’s great to know you’re a Reggie Ball-Hugger too and would’ve coached the season EXACTLY like Gailey…And you’re supposed to be some kind of TALENT EXPERT? Are you kidding?!?

Dennis Green went to ARIZONA didn’t he? The NFL COACH KILLER…And you already KNOW he wouldn’t consider coaching at TECH…Thanks again for your brilliance and inside knowledge.

Just goes to show you that even CHAN GAILEY has a TWIN in this World…You’re just as PSYCHOTIC as THE MAN himself!

By Chan Chan The Moron Man

January 3, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

91Wreck, Since you seem to be obsessed with how the 54-yd attempt was such a BRILLIANT coaching move by THE MAN…Here’s how Travis Bell had prepared for such an event in practice, and how successful he was in the past:

*”Usually in practice, I don’t go back that far. I think a week-and-a-half, two weeks ago, we tried one from 52 where we had Calvin down there trying to jump up and hit it, and I hit it with a couple yards to spare. During *preseason, we did a few 57-yarders, and I hit three or four of those. Who knows? Maybe a little gust of wind might have pushed it another yard or two.”

That’s an incredibly COMPOSED way of saying: “We don’t practice for kicks this far away. Coach told me and the press just this morning that he wouldn’t ask me to kick one that far. But he DID and I did the best I could.

You don’t run 5 miles every week or so in preparation for running a MARATHON. To put the game on the line GAMBLING ON A GUST OF WIND when the kicker WASN’T AT ALL PREPARED to even attempt a 54 yarder…Well I guess that confirms for you that it was another Brilliant Move by THE MAN.

And YOU HAVE NO IDEA what might’ve happened had we went for it OR punted…That’s WHY YOU PLAY TO WIN…Open the 2nd half with an onsides kick, but AFRAID TO GO FOR IT WITH 4th and 9 WITH 5 Minutes to go?I suppose you see CONSISTENCY there too?

You have the RUNNER-UP for the Ray Guy Award, and you don’t ask HIM to pin them in the corner? Another brilliant move by Gailey, huh. Better to TRUST THAT GUST OF WIND than your Punter or QB! Are you kidding me??!??!

Bennett AVERAGED 11.2 yds per ATTEMPT and 17.2 yds per COMPLETION…Choice had 169 yds rushing and EVERY RECEIVER had at least 7.0 yds per reception…But you and Gailey would PUT THE GAME ON THE LINE FOR A “GUST OF WIND”?

You two DESERVE each other…

By 91Wreck

January 3, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

“Chan Chan The Moron Man”

Compare my posts (which contain facts) with your posts (which are the ramblings of an angry man) and tell me which one of us comes off as psychotic.

Speaking of Reggie Ball - I thought week in and week out the kid gave us the best chance to win because he played with such a great intensity. Apparently I was wrong. I have supported him in the past just like I will support Taylor Bennett (or whomever the quarterback will be) in the future.

As far as Chan goes - he has made some stupid decisions this year that cost us a few ballgames. His press conference after the game contained some foolish statements. I want us to win every game and I am extremely dissappointed when we lose. If Tech decides to fire Chan and hire Dennis Green I will support the now coach. Happy now?

By RAD

January 3, 2007 01:00 PM | Link to this

I’M A RAMBLIN WRECK FROM GA TECH AND A HELLUVA FREAKIN QUEEEER! A HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA HELLUVA FREAKIN QUEEEER! JUST LIKE MY TERRORIST ROOMMATE, I TAKE IT UP THE REAR! I’M A RAMBLIN WRECK FROM GA TECH AND A HELLUVA FREAKIN QUEEEEER!!!

Happy New Year! GOOOOO JAAAACCCCCAAAASSSEEETTT

By Dan

January 3, 2007 01:41 PM | Link to this

Will GT please fire Chan and Hire Boise States coach??!?!

About Taylor Bennet: I knew he was going to be stellar, i watched him play the second half of the duke game and I was uber-impressed. His throws we Joe Hamilton accurate (I know this is probably considered blasphemy in the larger part of GT world, but its true) and he’s strong and knows what the heck the pocket is. I knew after watching that half that he was the man that needed to be leading GT down the stretch. Mind you, ever since reggie ball forgot how to count to 4 (which now seems to allude to his academic ineligibilty) i’ve thought he should have been cut. But Bennett proved to my two non-paid fan-only eyes that he was a FAR superior quarterback, I checked the stats, and against Duke, Taylors stats were nearly identical to Reggies and Calvin WAS catching for Reggie but WASNT in the game for Taylor! And Taylors interception would have been easily preventable with Calvin in the game as the ball hit our recievers hands. Hmm, the stats stil back up all the Reggie/GAYley haters out there. And they also back up the Bennett-is-the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread folks too.

Gailey and his coaching staff are soley to blame for this inconsistency. As much as I hate Gailey because of the nail-biting losses we have suffered under him, there are some things that i love about him (recruiting namely; I can’t remember a team as talented as we had this year really). But his illogical (statisticly and observationally) adherence to a Ball-led offense ASTOUND me, it was not only OBVIOUS to me that he should have NOT started Ball, i would have even ACCEPTED losses under a quarterback that showed promise. Look at UGA this year, people were ready to lynch Mark Richt for sitting their beloved Joe T. in favor of a interception-prone Stafford, but he knew the talent that was there and went WITH THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB, and now look how they finished the season: beating 3 ranked teams (including rivals #5 auburn and GT, and the devensive marvel VT), a feat never before accomplished by a UGA team. Now dawg fans are ready to make a Stafford statue, and this is all because Mark Richt is a SKILLED coach who KNOWS his personnel and can make the best decisions about who to put on the field. I’m sorry but no amount of recruiting skill can make up for a lack of personnel assessment. He needs to be fired for these reasons.

People then like to ask, whining, “Who can we replace the great Chan Gailey with???” I’ve got a great submission: CHRIS PETERSEN coach of Boise State. It seems fitting that one of the same men who recruited Bennett would be his new coach. and if anyone wonders why i so whole heartedly endorse Mr. Petersen? DID YOU WATCH THE FIESTA BOWL. Oh, and he’s also undefeated as a head coach.

C’mon GT fire Gailey and pay Petersen WHATEVER you have to to steal him from Boise.

p.s. Gailey has 4 more years on a contract that has a BUYOUT CLAUSE…Brain at least gave the future A.D. some hope by putting that in there.

By 91Wreck

January 3, 2007 01:45 PM | Link to this

“I think a week-and-a-half, two weeks ago, we tried one from 52 where we had Calvin down there trying to jump up and hit it, and I hit it with a couple yards to spare.”

Let’s see now … 52 plus 2 equals 54. Seems like I have heard that 54 yard number from somewhere.

Please continue your cut and paste exercise “Chan the Moron Man”. At least your last post contained some facts (although your facts back up my assertion that the 54 yarder was plausible). You have the last word - I am done for the day.

And while you are responding, please answer this question: did you want Ross fired after his second or even third season, or did you stick with him when everyone else was saying “Ross Must Go”?

By Chan Chan The Moron Man

January 3, 2007 01:54 PM | Link to this

91Wreck, You wouldn’t know a FACT if it hit you in the FACE…We LOST the final 3 games of this season BECAUSE OF POOR COACHING DECISIONS…NOT BECAUSE OUR GUYS WERE MANHANDLED. IT’S A FACT…Everyone in the World knows it, EXCEPT YOU AND YOUR DAD, CHAN…

Half-Time Comments someone mentioned earlier:

**TIM BRANDO: “Spencer, I gotta believe if Chan Gailey really thought Bennett was this good, we would’ve seen him a little earlier in the year.”

SPENCER TILLMAN: “Well, Tony and I were talking…There’s a loyalty there that I’m still not quite sure I understand yet…But I’m not going to try and figure it out right now. We give credit where credit is due, and Taylor Bennett has been an outstanding performer today, 11 for 14….”

TONY BARNHART: “Here’s what you get from Taylor Bennett…You may not get the big plays of Reggie Ball, but with Taylor Bennett, he can manage the game. And guys, I think in this first half he has done a superb job of spreading the ball and getting it to the right people…”**

Now I’m not quite sure what Tony Barnhart considers “big plays of Reggie Ball”…Maybe FUMBLING AWAY THE GAME…THROWING OUT OF BOUNDS ON 4th DOWN…HEAVING THE BALL DOWNFIELD ON 1st DOWN FOR AN INT WITH A MINUTE+ TO PLAY? I’ve seen Reggie Ball make those kind of “Big Plays”…recently.

Bennett, on the other hand, made BIG PLAYS FOR HIS OWN TEAM…What a nice change of pace, and RESULTS from a GT QB!!!

Here’s the BOTTOM LINE 91 Wreck and why YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED like me:

1) Chan and his staff had NO IDEA how good Bennett would perform in a game situation (perhaps because he was NEVER GIVEN A CHANCE TO SHOW IT). The QB Coach and Chan SLEPT THROUGH ANY REPS Bennett took in practices…

2) Chan and his staff KNEW THAT BENNETT WOULD OUTPERFORM BALL ON THE FIELD…And for some “Cosmic Reason only CHAN KNOWS”, he was kept on the bench EVERY TIME Ball FLOUNDERED and a game was hanging in the balance.

THERE SIMPLY ARE NO OTHER POSSIBILITIES. It’s #1 or #2 above. Since you’re the self-proclaimed Talent Scout posting here and you had posted a long time ago JUST HOW BAD BENNETT WAS, maybe you can tell us all which of the above is MORE TRUE in your mind? And how YOU can POSSIBLY DEFEND CHAN GAILEY and his staff in EITHER of the above situations as being COMPETENT COACHES IN DIV 1A?

By 91Wreck

January 3, 2007 02:18 PM | Link to this

One last post because you asked me a question.

I believe your number one statement to be correct. It appears the coaches and just about everyone else (except you oh god of the gridiron) underestimated Bennett’s abilities. I did post my doubts about Bennett’s skills several weeks ago - I have already admitted I was wrong about him even before you brought that up. I am man enough to admit my mistakes.

Now, let’s see if your man enough to answer my question. If you weren’t old enough to remember Ross, simply state that and no response will be needed (it would actually explain quite a few things about the nature of your posts).

By Chan Chan The Moron Man

January 3, 2007 02:49 PM | Link to this

91Wreck…HONESTLY, I had no opinion about ROSS. I was Mgmt Consulting (thank you Ma Tech Degree) then and flying 3k miles a WEEK…Out Monday morn 6am and flying back Fridays 6pm. GT Football was the furthest thing from my mind (sorry for the blasphemy).

HOWEVER, I WAS PRESENT AT THE CITRUS BOWL IN ‘91…A day I’ll remember for the rest of my life. That’s another reason it pains me so when I see the STUPID DECISIONS Gailey makes, with the DOOFUS AWARD of the Year being NEVER, EVER pulling Ball from a Game and putting ANYONE ELSE IN TO TRY AND WIN. For that, Chan OWNS that award FOR LIFE!

Games were LOST that should’ve been WON SOLELY BECAUSE OF THIS LOYALTY to Reggie that nobody else understands…NOBODY! How appropriate that Reggie’s FINAL GIFT TO CHAN to show his appreciation for that loyalty-to-the-death: A FLUNK OUT BEFORE HIS FINAL START, FORCING FORCING FORCING GAILEY TO START BENNETT AND THEN LOOK LIKE THE COMPLETE @SSHOLE THAT HE IS IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ON NATIONAL TV!

For that last BIG PLAY Reggie, you get props from the Angry Alum! Nobody could stab Chan The Man in the back QUITE LIKE YOU REGGIE! Pssst…I’m not sure Chan wants to DANCE WITH YOU ANYMORE…

By jbgldawg

January 3, 2007 02:54 PM | Link to this

whew, this can officially be labeled as a full-fledged meltdown in Nerdsville. Long Live Mayor Chan!

By 91Wreck

January 3, 2007 03:24 PM | Link to this

Fair enough Chan the Moron Man. I too was at the 91 Citrus Bowl and want more than anything to get back to NC game. We’ll just have to agree to disagree on the best course of action to get there. Sorry for the spewing vile in your direction today. You didn’t deserve it. No hard feelings on my end.

Jbgldawg - didn’t your mama ever tell not to get involved in a family fight? Now run back to the UGA blog before we both turn on you and send you away whimpering with your tail tucked between your legs.

By jbgldawg

January 3, 2007 05:41 PM | Link to this

91Wreck: Only a gutless techie would have the sheer cowardice to threaten somebody from behind their keyboard in their cubicle. I was merely commenting on how funny yall’s bitter infighting has gotten. You must admit it’s funny, right? At least a little? Ah, you nerds. Endless entertainment.

By 91Wreck

January 3, 2007 06:25 PM | Link to this

jbgldawg you said: Only a gutless techie would have the sheer cowardice to threaten somebody from behind their keyboard in their cubicle.

Good point - you might be on to something there. However, only a yipping poodle like you would have the sheer cowardice to hurl insults to said Techie from the safety of the computer in their mama’s bedroom. In other words - hello pot, meet kettle.

You also say your entertainment is watching nerds fight with one another. Sounds like you’re the one that needs to take off the pocket protector, get contacts so that you can lose the coke-bottle glasses, and find a non-inflatable girl - quick.

By jbgldawg

January 4, 2007 08:39 AM | Link to this

91Wreck - ooooooohhhhh, I’ve angered the nerd! Everybody take cover! Fingernails and gnashing teeth are everywhere! By the way, I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts the “nerd” you described is what you see in the mirror every morning.

By br

January 4, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

HAHAHA! Andy, you are the biggest wuss! You can’t be too disappointed? Okay, there’s 2 things about that statement that just has me ROFLMFAO. First, YOU LOST! ANY loss should be disappointing, but then again this is Tech we’re talking about. Second, you choked a huge lead to lose this game…that is just pathetic! And you can’t be too disappointed? Wow, it really must suck being a Bug fan! You insects make me laugh…keep ‘em coming!

By toemeetsleather

January 5, 2007 02:46 PM | Link to this

I JUST KNEW CHAN WOULD BE COURTED…WOULD BE A TREMENDOUS LOSS TO THE JACKET NATION!!PLLEEZZ STAY!

By jacketsforpleasestaychan

January 5, 2007 02:48 PM | Link to this

SAY IT AIN’T SO CHAN!!PLEEZ STAY WITH THE ENGINEER NATION!!

By CountryDawg

January 5, 2007 04:21 PM | Link to this

Oh GOD! Maybe Georgia can pitch in a few bucks and get Chan to stay on the Flats. I guess the Dolphins are craving mediocrity with the inability to beat their rivals. Hmm.

By Earl

January 12, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

After watching Mr. Bennett’s great performace,I would like to know why he was on the side lines when Ball was playing so poorly.