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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Awards Abound for Yellow Jackets…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The entire team received a bid to the Peach Bowl (I refuse to call it the “Chik-fil-A Bowl”.)
Paul Johnson has been named the ACC Coach of the Year. (Was there any doubt?)
Jonathan Dwyer has been named the ACC Player of the Year. (474 yards and 7 TDs in his last four games was the strong showing needed to seal this very warranted recognition, putting Dwyer in the elite company of Joe Hamilton and Calvin Johnson.)
Darryl Richard has been awarded the Tatum Award, given to the top senior student-athlete amongst the ACC’s football players. (Richard was a high school valedictorian and a national finalist for the Franklin D. Watkins Memorial Trophy coming out of highschool, even before his very impressive academic showing at Tech, so this is no surprise.)
Roddy Jones was named the AT&T All-America Player of the Week after receiving over 19,000 text message votes from college football fans all over the country. (He’s still running laps in Sanford Stadium…in case you were wondering…)
And perhaps most impressively…
Michael Johnson has been named to the American Football Coaches Association All American Team at the defensive end position. (Chip Towers didn’t mention this in his article touting Knowshon Moreno’s inclusion on the same list…)
The team’s bowl bid, Johnson’s coaching recognition, and the individual player awards are simply icing on the cake that was a 9-3 season. No matter what happens in the Peach Bowl this has been a great season and sets a high water mark for bigger and better things in the future.
Go Jackets!
45-42!
THWG!
