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DEL.ICIO.USLeaky roof, leaky season
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’m not quite sure what to say … a losing record and a leaky roof that causes a “rain out” against a Virginia team that’s actually worse than we are and which provides a good chance at a win to pull to 5-6 in the ACC?
A Tech buddy of mine e-mailed me yesterday and said he was going to bring a ladder and a caulk gun to the next home game. So hopefully someone will be prepared to deal with a leaky roof …
Football recruiting
We’ve gotten three extremely early commitments from future offensive and defensive linemen. John Drew is a 6-3, 295 defensive tackle from Columbus, Emanuel Dieke is a 6-7, 205 defensive end from College Park (think Michael Johnson clone once he puts on weight?), and the previous mentioned JC Lanier is a 6-3, 340 tackle/guard from Twin City, Ga. We’re off to a good start with some very big and very athletic kids who have attended camps on campus at Tech. It looks like this new coaching staff is falling right in line with Giff Smith and our retained guys to really make a splash on the recruiting front. Tech has always been able to recruit skills positions! … but we’ve historically struggled to get the “big uglies” to man the offensive and defensive line. We’ve taken undersized guys like Joe Anoai and grown them into quick/mobile tackles. Plugging Drew and Lanier into the defensive line together would be an instant 600+ pounds of defensive tackle. I like the sound of that.
License plates?
So now the Georgia House of Representatives has voted to stop making out-of-state university mascot tags if neighboring states don’t return the favor? This is ridiculous … especially following so closely on their ill advised and transparent gambit to push for a football playoff system, by passing a resolution that lobbies the NCAA to throw away a BCS system that functioned correctly but didn’t place UGA in the title game.
Make no mistake about this latest resolution…this is all about the Mutts vs the Gators. The UGA disciplies in the state House could care less about Auburn tags, Clemson tags, Florida State tags, or anything else. All they care about is the fact that a smallish number of Florida fans are able to get Gator tags. And to prevent that from happening they are willing to make fans of ALL out of state colleges give up their license plates. That’s right … if you are a fan of ANY school outside of the state boundaries, you may lose your tag if your school’s home state doesn’t allow UGA tags be created and registered there. And alumni clubs trying to get approval and support for new tags will suffer as well.
It’s ridiculous, infantile, and a waste of tax payer money and legislative time. And that’s not even considering the fact that the Georgia House is willing to THROW AWAY extra registration revenue from these specialty tags. They’d rather not see Florida Gator tags than pocket the money from Florida alums.
So now they are wasting tax payer money in an effort to reduce incoming license revenue. A double whammy of sorts.
I tell ya folks … we sho ‘nuff got us some smart politikin’ down hayuh ‘n Georgia … yup …
Go Jackets!
THWG!
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Comments
By TDone
February 23, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this
Chris,
I agree with you on the basketball problems.
I agree with you on the recuiting aspects.
And I especially agree with you as it relates to the Muttland Legislature.
As I learned years ago, prioirities will get you everywhere.
By Stan Nolte
February 24, 2008 5:01 AM | Link to this
Those redneck legislators as well as Sonny Perdue’s Fat A need to be thrown right the hell out**
By Bravesfan79
February 24, 2008 6:04 AM | Link to this
Chris: so your saying just because it wasnt the Jackets that got screwed by the BCS this year its a good system??
You sound about as dumb as Terrance Moore if you think anything but playoffs are acceptable. The BCS has made college football a JOKE of a sport for YEARS!! You seriously think if Tech had won the ACC last year and only lost one game, they wouldn’t of gotten screwed over 2?? JUST like V Tech did?
And UGA, and about 2 or 3 other teams that has JUST as much claim to the title game as Ohio State or LSU did!
Next year GT hoops will be back…got Dickey returning, and a good starting core. The only question will be will we be as deep.
By GT66
February 24, 2008 7:04 AM | Link to this
B Ball team will not be back until we get a coach who will recruit ACC quality white and black players and know how to coach. Our most productive player is a small white kid who was a walk on. Where are the Mark Prices, Matt Harprings, Matt Geigers and the Barry brothers the last 8 years or so. They are still around just look at Duke, Kansas, Vanderbilt, Big Ten schools, etc.
By Hal
February 24, 2008 7:59 AM | Link to this
The original decision to stamp tags for out of state schools is the same mind set that decided to design the our military,s combat helmet that looks like a German army helmet from WWII. If you can get by the fact that both are very emotional, one that giiving haven the most hated rivalries in the south the other the making our army look like the most hated army of all time, to someone it sounded like a good idea.
By GATA
February 24, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
Hilarious. How about an article about Womens Tennis and their loss to UGA yesterday. Or bring up how GT hoops lost to UGA this year also. JOKE
By Gee Tech
February 24, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this
Basketball team will be fine. Mo Miller is coming into form and seems to be a player that will be here for 3 or 4 years. Dickey will be back and Aminu is becoming a more dominant as he is developing faster than previous PF like Smith or Peacock. So we’ll be fine. If you fire Hewitt, then you’ll be stuck w/ mediocre recruits. At least the man can compete w/ the elite for blue chippers. Hewitt needs to shake up his staff a bit to help shore up player development. Remember, his staff is fairly young w/ the departurs of his top 2 in the past couple of years. But Tech hoops will be just fine.
They are competing very well on the road and trust me when I say that the UCONN game was a game that shouldn’t have been scheduled in the middle of a grueling ACC schedule. Miami beat Maryland and Duke in the past week, so our home loss to them doesn’t seem so bad. We are right on the verge. Next year will be just fine.
By Steve
February 24, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this
Love all the hatin you tech geeks talk here about anything relating to the winning team in our state. You know, the team that has beaten tech SEVEN in a row in football, beat them 3 of 4 in basketball, and 7 of 10 in baseball. (we won’t talk about all the other sports we dominate tech in) Just keep hatin, because it lets me know it eats you up to a Georgia emblem. Go Dawgs and THWGT!!
By jacketbacker
February 24, 2008 10:30 PM | Link to this
Hey Steve….I’d rather be a nerd than a retard! Enjoy you’re recent success in sports. It’s all you’ve got. I’ve got three Ugay grads laying pinestraw at my house tomorrow. I’m sure they enjoyed the football season too. I’ll tip them an extra $20 for you.
Keep posting on our blogs. Who is eating who up??…. THWG
By jackoffbacker
February 25, 2008 7:55 AM | Link to this
I bet they’ll also lay some pipe with your wife. Seeing that you nerds never seem to get up for anything. LOL
By Bill Fralic
February 25, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
I was going to nail her but I couldnt find a bag big enough to cover her head.
By HelluvaEngineer
February 25, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
GeeTech -
Aminu has regressed more this year than any player from last year. He has played soft and very very inconsistent. I am actually feeling pretty good about Peacock; he has shown he has a good inside and outside game. He just needs to get a trifle stronger and he is not far away from being probably the best scorer on this team.
This year ha been a complete bust, obviously. However I am excited to see Mo Miller really progress; it will be nice to actually have a solid PG 4 years at Tech. I am feeling good about Peacock returning. I think the key is Aminu. He needs to work his tail off this summer, hopefully next year he will exhibit what he has shown he is capable of last year. Dickey - who knows. Good size, but will he be ready?
Eh, probably another sub-.500 year next year. ugh. Fire Paul Hewitt.
By Pensacola Dog
February 25, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
jacketbacker, I know it galls you that UGA grads run the state of Georgia….but it does take more than the ability to operate a slide ruler to get on in this life.
By Hey Pensacola Dog
February 25, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
Are you actually proud of the job the Ga Legislature is doing? They’ve had a terrible approach to the water crisis (even though uGA really does have a few professors that have excellent ideas how to handle it) They are letting the lottery continue to spend huge amounts on internal “bonuses” instead of sending that money to the schools where it is desperately needed. Economic growth is slow or negative in most areas of the state. The border thing with Tenn. is a joke and now these tags…
how much is enough? I guess as long as the sports team is winning, then no uGa fan, grad can do wrong…
please think about it all again.
By yo
February 25, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
I bet they’ll also lay some pipe with your wife. Seeing that you nerds never seem to get up for anything. LOL
That’s not what your mom said.
By yohoo
February 25, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
My moms dead actually. So nerds are necrophiliacs. That explains a lot.
By wahoo
February 25, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
Hey man if its cold and can’t run away, its a Techies time to play. lmao
By AragornNecromancer
February 25, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
As a 10th level D&D necromancer and Techite nothing is finer than to summon up a nice rotting corpse so I can do the deed. Accept the word of one who knows. Besides actual living women just point at me and laugh ; ;
By I'm Grumpy Cause Your Dopey
February 25, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this
Missing tags are because UGA athletes and ex athletes grads and wanna be’s at the big house could not spell G-A-T-O-R or T-I-G-E-R. They did however know how many points a 3 point FG in basketball was worth. Given the recent move to black jerseys the score was not so high on what color are our home jerseys. PS we know where the pipe gets laid in the big house. What a stupid line of comment on a sports blog!!!!
By ozman
February 25, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
So you know where the pipe is laid in the big house? I’m guessing its first hand knowledge. Always remember Grump your rump is sore cause you dropped the soap. Sports blog? this is a tech blog nothing to do with sports.
By IMGT81
February 25, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
A rained out B-Ball game for a leaky roof is beneath third rate. We appear to have curred the apathy in football perhaps the time is right to cure business as usual in B-Ball.
To the jackals (dawgs) who discuss wives, mothers, daughters and sisters and the deceased behind the cover of a made up name. Raise your level of discussion from under the snakes belly if you can.
By imgt82
February 25, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
Snakes belly? sounds exotic, is that the dance your sister does at the Cheetah? Nahh no good looking women ever associated with a techmite. Lighten up IMG, that stress is going to give you a coronary.
By I'm Grumpy Cause Your Dopey
February 25, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this
I take it ozman your confusion over a sports blog is because you missed both the questions on how many points is a 3 point shot worth and what color are dawgs home jerseys but hey blame the second one on Richt right.
Thanks for proving all the dawg cliches true in one short ignorant email,especially the cliche, it one thing to be silent and thought a fool and another to open your mouth and prove it.
By grumpy
February 25, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
I’ll try not to guess why you open your mouth. I’ll leave that to all our imaginations. Like Seinfeld said “Not that there’s anything wrong with it” Also for this to be a sports blog you must have a sport worthy of blogging. Score 3 points for me!
By oldgold
February 25, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
GT66: Good points. Where are the Mark Prices, Geigers, Harprings ? These guys became elite because they stayed four years. These one-year NBA “scout team” players should be told no. I’d prefer to see a mediocre player who wants a degree than a one-year “student of the game”. Example: The Hawks drafted Marvin Lewis from UNC three years ago after his freshmen year. Does he even play ?
By oldgold
February 25, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
GT66: Good points. Where are the Mark Prices, Geigers, Harprings ? These guys became elite because they stayed four years. These one-year NBA “scout team” players should be told no. I’d prefer to see a mediocre player who wants a degree than a one-year “student of the game”. Example: The Hawks drafted Marvin Lewis from UNC three years ago after his freshmen year. Does he even play ?
By oldgold
February 25, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
GT66: Good points. Where are the Mark Prices, Geigers, Harprings ? These guys became elite because they stayed four years. These one-year NBA “scout team” players should be told no. I’d prefer to see a mediocre player who wants a degree than a one-year “student of the game”. Example: The Hawks drafted Marvin Lewis from UNC three years ago after his freshmen year. Does he even play ?
By oldgold
February 25, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
GT66: Good points. Where are the Mark Prices, Geigers, Harprings ? These guys became elite because they stayed four years. These one-year NBA “scout team” players should be told no. I’d prefer to see a mediocre player who wants a degree than a one-year “student of the game”. Example: The Hawks drafted Marvin Lewis from UNC three years ago after his freshmen year. Does he even play ?
By FM
February 25, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this
Sorry GT66, Hewitt is only recruiting some guys named Iman Shumpert (committed), Antiquan Beckham, Jarvis Jones, and Quasim Pugh. He clearly has not valued ‘diversity’ over the years. Expect more of the same going forward.
Hewitt’s teams have no apparent organization, fundamentals, or plays – just a hope that our athletes can better the other team’s athletes, which we did pretty well one year. I guess we do have a play that is run quite a bit: aimlessly pass the ball around the outside to act like you are patient and ‘running the offense’, then once the play clock has run down, someone go one-on-one or chuck it from behind the arc with a defender’s hand in your face. Thanks, but I’ll pass on watching this brand of basketball – except when it’s the USA ‘Dream Team’ trying it and getting schooled by a bunch of so-called ‘less athletic’ international players that know how to play the game of basketball.
By braveswin
February 25, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this
I was just scanning and thought this was a sports blog for adults.Then I read the “writing”? by chris boggs and was confused.I then started reading the responses and I’m now convinced that most who post here are 13 to 15 yrs old and social infants.This type of bulls%#$ makes me feel embarrassed to be from Georgia.The AJC should pull this and any blog that regresses into petty name-calling.And on this blog it began with an AJC “writer”.
By FM
February 25, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this
Hey braveswin, Seems that your post is nothing more than what you are demanding be censored. Let’s see how many petty names or labels you have used: ‘13 to 15 yrs old’, ‘social infants’, and ‘bulls%#$’. Maybe you should consider offering points or counterpoints related to the article or comments that you disagree with rather than derogatory labels, or pleas to the AJC to pull material that makes you feel embarassed. Boo hoo hoo … grow up (and a set of balls)!
By ozmanhole
February 25, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
did someone say 3 point stance? ooh, now i’m excited. go dawgs!
By muledawg
February 26, 2008 8:44 PM | Link to this
What are disciplies? I guess they don’t teach english at tech.
By yellowblood
March 4, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this
I just wish we could all get along. Tickle Piles are so much more fun without all this angst.
By oldgold
March 16, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this
STEVE: My name has been Steve for 61 years and 75 days. I will now change it. Questions: 1. Will Coach Richt call for a Blackout or a Drunkout in J’ville this year ? 2. Did Stafford recover from his cold ? Inquiring minds want to know. 3. Is it true that Sonny Perdue ordered the Clarke County prison to feed the UGA football inmates 6 meals per day ?
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By Wendy
March 29, 2008 6:15 AM | Link to this
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By Bravesfan79
April 1, 2008 11:18 PM | Link to this
I believe GT Basketball is headed in the right direction. Hewitt is a good coach and with some help on the bench we could really become an elite team again! Here is something i got off of a DUKE fan blog about the Nations Top recruit… Atlanta’s Derrick Favors:
“When I asked Favors of his ascension to the top he said, “It’s just hard work and wanting to win.” When asked what schools were on his short list, he said everybody.
He will confer with his parents and coaches, meaning both his AAU and high school coach. “If I had a dream school, it’s probably (Georgia) Tech,” said Favors.
Favors grew up in Atlanta and many feel it will be hard to get him north of that destination. When talking of Hewitt, Favors said, “He cool.”
I then asked the rising big man about other ACC schools like Duke or UNC and he said, “They’ve already come in … they’ve been in touch.”
When asked who he talked to from UNC, he couldn’t remember. I can’t pronounce the name of the guy from Duke. He was referring to Wojo.’
Now of course Tech and Hewitt being their is up in the air and Georgia doesn’t offer the hype he might desire. So what better time to make a move, or in this case stay in touch and see what he’s thinking”
See this is why its important for us as fans to stand behind the program we all love so much. GT hoops is headed in the right direction people, and im telling everyone…with a junior starting pt guard in Miller, a sophmore Shumpert, junior Lawal, and D Favors as center….this team will be at the top of the ACC in 09!!! You heard it here first….