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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Jackets don’t give up, but watching is brutal
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’m sitting at my PC with the TV playing the background.
I’m disgusted. No other word will suffice at this point.
Tech has the ball in the shadow of our own goalline and we try to throw our way out of the hole…resulting in a sack and fumble which turns into the go ahead score for UNC.
So then we get the ball back and we drive down the field and we get into scoring range and we start using that direct snap play…bog down…and miss a field goal!
What the heck is our coaching staff thinking? I mean…I can’t make any sense of it.
Why not pound the ball out from under your goalpost and use the nation’s best punter if you get stopped, to clear things out?
We didn’t…and we coughed the ball up and UNC scored and went ahead.
So then we have a great kickoff return and we get into scoring range…and you pull both QBs and start snapping to Choice instead of trying to get in the endzone?
And then Bell shanks the field goal…par for the course…
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Ok…the defense stopped them…we’ll get the ball back.
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Oh my…we’re gonna get another kick.
Stand by while I go rub my daughter’s head for good luck…
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So we’re sitting on the sofa and she’s praying, “Please God let Georgia Tech make the field goal”
We make it…
…a flag?!?!?
You have to be kidding me?
On UNC!
We can’t decline it?
We have to kick again?
The football Gods HATE us.
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Daughter and I are praying again, “Please God let Georgia Tech make the field goal.”
Its up…it looks like crap…but its good! Tech leads!
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UNC is trying a 63 yarder….its partially blocked…Tech wins.
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I’ll be honest…this team is brutal to watch and cheer for…but they don’t give up. They never give up.
More later…its time to go play with the kids and cheer for Kentucky.
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