College recruiting

By jjacket

August 1, 2008 9:13 PM | Link to this

On defense, it seems like they will be using smaller linebackers who will be used more in coverage. Georgia Tech didn’t tell me that, but that’s just the way I saw it.

Is that the crap line that the UT coaches gave you? Smaller linebackers at GT? GT has put some quality LB’s in the NFL. I don’t see us going to 200 pounders at any time in the forseeable future.

By charles

August 1, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this

Oh well, good luck kid. It would have been nice to get him, but we have a lot of young, athletic, and talented LBs already on the team.

By Tech Forever

August 1, 2008 11:33 PM | Link to this

Good….go….see ya!!

Are you kidding me? So you know what GT is going to do on defense with a NEW DC which no one around here has any real experience watching??? Please!!!

Son, tell it like it is. Gartrell fed you that BS about the GT LB “scheme” and that’s fine. I’m sure he’s still fuming after the way RB was treated by the GT fanbase. But please don’t insult our intelligence with that line. As long as Gartrell is at Stephenson, BANK ON IT, Tech will not get another scholarship kid out of that school (I am well aware of our walk-on Freshman OL Michael Johnson out of Stephenson). Or I should correct myself and say if Tech does get one it will be IN SPITE of Gartrell and not with his blessing.

By TECH GRAD 07

August 2, 2008 12:11 AM | Link to this

TECH FOREVER, I totally agree. Instead of sending those Stephenson kids to Tech to get a great education, he would rather advice them to go UGA or UT where they’ll ride the bench for years. Ask his son about that… who rode the pine at UGA all his college career. I graduated from Stone Mountain High and was friends with TJ Gartrell and Lumpkin when they were B—Ball players. It p** me off when they went to Georgia and we ended up getting RB.But o’well.

By AJC HS Freelancer

August 2, 2008 2:08 AM | Link to this

Speaking of Stephenson High linebackers, does anyone know where Marcus Ball is transferring? I believe he asked for a release from his FSU scholarship…

By Paddy

August 2, 2008 6:38 AM | Link to this

Don’t believe M. Ball asked for a transfer. I believe Fl St. asked him to pick a school and transfer to it. It did not go well for him at Fl St.

By eddie

August 2, 2008 6:39 AM | Link to this

Marcus Ball did not ask out of FSU. He was asked to leave. There are many issues with that young man, some that were quite apparent during the recruiting process.

By Ghetto Blaster

August 2, 2008 7:03 AM | Link to this

Me no want to play in the Ghetto

By p

August 2, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

UT has been billing themselves LB U.

UT has 5 LBs in the NFL. GT has 5 LBs in the NFL, what’s the difference?

UGA has 9 LBs in the NFL, Aub has 4, UF has 4.

By NOVAJacket

August 2, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Truth is that including the 2009 class, we have more depth at LB & this young man has a better chance of playing early at UT.

By DecaturTechFan

August 2, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Good Luck, kid. Instead of a MGR job, business ownership, or a high profile sales position, after college you’ll be unloading coke or pepsi trucks with the rest of the SEC football washouts.

By Doug

August 2, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

DecaturTechFan,

Oh, you mean like UT grads Jim Haslam, CEO of Pilot Oil, Min Kao, CEO of Garmin Industries or Charley Ergin, CEO of Dish Networks. Or how about U.S. Senators Bob Corker, Saxby Chambliss, Jim DeMint and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker? Or maybe a lot of the U.S. Astronauts who graduated from the UT Space Institute.

Why would anyone want to play for Tech in front of 25,000 against Wake Forest?

By shame

August 2, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Judging from UT’s recruiting the last couple of years, they need him more than we do. Good luck to you, have fun in the SEC good luck seeing the field.

By son_sir

August 2, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Hopefully Caoch Tuna Gartrell didn’t talk him out of GT after the Reggie Ball saga. Anyway good luck at UT, dog.

By TwoBigTechs

August 2, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

The kid (and let’s remember, they are all still kids) trusts the opinion of his hs coach and parents. We all know why Gartrell hates GT. But his parents also had Tenn at the top of their list. (easier academics? more majors? who know’s?)

Let’s wish him well and move on.

As for Stephenson, some great talent there. They will NEVER win a title with Gartrell at the helm and that’s a shame for those kids but what can you do?

By Books

August 2, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Thornton-Mitchell’s other offers included Stanford, Duke, Mississippi State, Wake Forest and Nebraska, among others.

Stanford, Duke and Wake Forest are well respected academic schools. Congratulate the young man on being considered able to handle the class room/academic load at these schools.

By Mike

August 2, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Good luck to the young man. I am a Tech fan, but Tech fans should not come on here and gripe about a young man’s choice of college. He has to select what he thinks will be best for him in the long run, and we should respect that decision. Don’t be like some Dawg fans who talk trash when a player doesn’t choose UGa.

By Ramblin'Wreck

August 2, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Doug - Let’s not even start comparing prestigous persons. Just in the engineering community alone, GT boasts one of the richest alumi base. UT is a great school, but there’s a reason why GT is one of the best degrees.

By frankly

August 2, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

jjacket got it right. This is the kind of negative recruiting Tennessee/Fulmer is known for.

Sour grapes dont taste good.

By John

August 2, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

This was a nice pick up for Tenn but pales in comparison to the huge announcement in Cola., S.C. yesterday. Damario Jeffery announced he’s a Gamecock for life. Spurrier will sign 7 of 10 best in-state this year. Let him win 8 or more games this year and see what happens. In the words of “Dandy Don” you can turn out the lights. Spurrier will be back on top again and everybody else will be playing for 2nd place in the SEC.

By smaller?

August 2, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Considering our last 4 LB commits from this year and last are all bigger than Thorton, I wouldn’t think that we are going for smaller linebackers, but hey what do I know?

By Sam

August 2, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

By DecaturTechFan

August 2, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Good Luck, kid. Instead of a MGR job, business ownership, or a high profile sales position, after college you’ll be unloading coke or pepsi trucks with the rest of the SEC football washouts.

Yea or he could be like 85% of all Tech grads sitting in some dark little cubicle doing CAD drawings at 12.00 an hour for the next 25 years. You techmites have played that card until you have become nothing but a joke. The money made by North Avenue Trade grads doesn’t touch the money or economic power coming out of a state university. You delusional mites spread that myth to compensate for your own low self esteem. B.J. from Bombay is getting the big bucks in your narrow field now anyway isn’t he?

By George T.

August 2, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

RamblinWreck you need to get real. You morons always talk like Engineering is the only profession in this world. It’s not. Furthermore, engineers are considered the most one demensional people in the business world today and most of them can’t manage their way out of a paper sack. They never see the big picture and that is why most of you wind up in some dreary cubicle drawing one little part of a much bigger puzzle managed by non-engineers. That is fact.

By GTengineer78

August 2, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

My Psychologist wife makes a hell of a lot more money than most of the Engineers I know that graduated from GT.

By Doug

August 2, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

I agree Ramblin ‘Wreck that Tech is certainly a great academic school, but UGA and UF are also. UT is not in that category , but gets closer every year as the effect of our state lottery kicks in.

But to suggest as Decatur did that if you go to UT, UF or UGA you will end up on the loading dock is absurd. By the way, that UT drop-out Bobby Dodd ended up being pretty successful! :-))

By Joe Hamilton

August 2, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

All these fine GT grads are right. Go to GT and be like me.

By Chuck Uga

August 2, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Too bad, because Ga Tech will have more success over the next five seasons than UT. In fact, UT will have a losing season with no bowl in 2009. Recruiting of top tier talent up there has collapsed. Hard to believe T.J. Gartrell’s father would do anything to help Tennessee.

By Bob

August 2, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Tech fans, there is more to life than an engineering degree. I promise. You can do alot of productive and admirable things without one. I know you think that people without engineering degrees are poor, live in trailers, and are generally sub-human, but go easy on us. We are good people. You often get the feeling that non-engineers would be rounded up in to concentration camps if Tech fans ruled the world. Fortunately, engineers rarely have that kind of power. How ironic.

As for Nigel and his selection of Tennessee over Tech, maybe he didn’t want to play for a fan base that rarely shows up for games, whines and cries about everything, and throws things on the field on national television. Of course the fact that Tennessee is a vastly superior football program might have had something to do with it too. Just a thought.

By PeppGT

August 2, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

Bob…

I agree with your first paragraph, but your second paragraph is a crock of sh*t and you know it. Don’t for one second say that UTs fanbase is classier than GTs is. SEC fans are by far the worst fans in college football…they have been historically and they continue to be so today.

By Duke Yellowjacket

August 2, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

That’s the irony in all of this, Books; the fact that the young man has enough on the ball to be offered by elite academic institutions like Stanford, Duke, Georgia Tech and Wake Forest, yet settles for a backwater school like Tennessee. Incomprhensible.

Nigel, some day you’ll recognize that there’s a lot more in life than just football; unfortunately, your current ‘advisors’ apparently don’t recognize that.

Best of luck at UT.

By Typical TEch

August 2, 2008 8:25 PM | Link to this

Arent you tech turds accustomed to losing recruits?

By SayWhat

August 3, 2008 2:27 AM | Link to this

GT fans have embarrassed themselves more times than any school in NCAA history. THrowing seat cushions, throwing fish, throwing whiskey bottles to the point that an opposing coach once returned to the field wearing a helmet. Yeah that’s class by your standards alright. You have the worst fans in college football. You pouty little girls deserve to lose. And you will. Enjoy your permenant status as nothing more than a light warmup scrimmage for that real football team at UGA before their trips to BCS bowl games.

By Tech is a trainwreck

August 3, 2008 2:38 AM | Link to this

REGGIE REGGIE REGGIE……

By gtforever

August 3, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

SayWhat????

You are a TRUE UGA idiot! Everybody knows that UGA fans are the WORST! GET A LIFE!

By JT Wallington

August 4, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

sore losers

By NerdPatrol

August 4, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this

OHHHHHH Class? You mean the nerds all painted in the end zone that hit the passing opposing band with their thundersticks. Throw things at the opposing DRILL TEAM? Oh, that class. I swear to God, I wish, one time, that one of you nerds would throw something at me. Just once. Please. I beg you to give me an excuse.

By idiot

August 4, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this

Nerd patrol,

I’ll hit you in the face with a doggie bone when I see you in Athens this year tough guy. How about that?

By Root_of_This

August 5, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Ohhhh the sound of sour grapes. Such a sweet sound. Were’s the bug spray! :)

By The General Feeling

August 15, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

So UGA has nine LBs in the NFL? With all that talent one would think a NC would come around more often than once every 30 years. Nine? Wow.