College recruiting

By isaac

January 16, 2009 11:34 PM | Link to this

Good for chris, he is a smart kid and he will help UGA out. Glad to get him in Red&Black. Go Dawgs

By GT student

January 16, 2009 11:41 PM | Link to this

congrats this kid may be the next myron rolle

By Clint

January 16, 2009 11:52 PM | Link to this

a true student athelete. Nice to read about. Keep us updated on his quest.

By Sonny P.

January 17, 2009 2:08 AM | Link to this

Way to go Chris! You are to join a proud tradition of high academic achievers! No public institution, including Ga Tech, can boast that two Rhodes scholars were enrolled at their university at one time. You will join a proud tradition of athletic prowess and now academic prestige. We love to boast about our well-rounded students: unlike GT graduates, our graduates are intellectually sound, without being socially inept like North Avenue Trade School graduates. Our graduates are indeed future leaders. Glory, Glory to ‘Ole Georgia, and to hell with Georgia Tech.

By Pointless

January 17, 2009 2:09 AM | Link to this

Chris. B is that dude, but y’all knew that.

By Johnny DangerDawg

January 17, 2009 2:16 AM | Link to this

Great to have a class act to follow in this steps of Jon Stinchcomb. When you combine this guy’s discipline with UGA’s strength and conditioning program, you can produce a real juggernaut.

By A True Dawg

January 17, 2009 6:56 AM | Link to this

This is the type of kids we need. Kids who grow up dreaming about wearing the red and black. Kids who will give their all just for the love of the state and the university. Congrats Mr. Burnette.

By hiveredtech

January 17, 2009 7:51 AM | Link to this

I wonder what this smart young man is going to think when he walks into the locker room 12 times each year just to find out another teammate was arreted the night before?

By coffeenothanks

January 17, 2009 7:59 AM | Link to this

Congrats to Troup County High School student- athlete Chris Burnette on his decision to attend UGA. Great to see a student at the All-American game who is really a student. Well done.

By the way, UGA isn’t the only school to have multiple Rhodes scholars, the US Naval Academy had three just in 2005, and West Point had two in one year just recently also..they’re public institutions also.

For all universities, no one tops Harvard or MIT; however, this is about Chris. Great luck at UGA.

From a GA Tech fan.

By GT4Life

January 17, 2009 9:35 AM | Link to this

45-42

By GT4Life

January 17, 2009 9:39 AM | Link to this

45-42

By brick

January 17, 2009 9:52 AM | Link to this

Thanks for becoming a Dawg Chris, if you had chosen the trade school, everytime you went to practice you would wonder if some type of academic fraud was taking place.

By Sautee Dawg

January 17, 2009 10:03 AM | Link to this

Congrats Chris

Not only do you have an impressive GPA but by picking UGA over TECH we see that you have a lot of common sense as well. Congrats again on those grades.

By Mosby

January 17, 2009 10:38 AM | Link to this

Quite impressive, however, a valedictorian going to UGAy is like A-Rod signing up for a tee-ball league…

By okeefe59

January 17, 2009 10:38 AM | Link to this

Congrats Chris. You will be in a league of your own at UGA—a football player that can read and write.

By Body Massage

January 17, 2009 11:10 AM | Link to this

That’s no small feat, getting straight A’s all of those years. Congrats to the kid and congrats to UGA, they definitely need someone who is not jail-bound. I mean that in the best way possible.

By GA Tech Insider

January 17, 2009 11:18 AM | Link to this

Congratulations, Chris. It’s quite an achievement for one to have achieved such excellent grades while still excelling in athletics as well.

You are a fine example of a student athlete and are proof-positive that if someone puts their mind to it, that can achieve just about anything. Best of luck in the future. I know you’ll be successful at UGA as well as beyond, once your collegiate years have concluded.

Well done!

By RealityYech

January 17, 2009 1:12 PM | Link to this

How many valedictorians does Yech have on their football team? Just curious since they ONLY recruit “student athletes.” LOL!!!

If Yech only goes after REAL “student athletes,” then why do they routinely get great basketball recruits who bolt after a year, two, tops?

By JMar

January 17, 2009 1:16 PM | Link to this

Looking longterm, sounds like a kid who is less likely to leave for the NFL if he still doesn’t have his degree. But more than likely, even if he doesn’t redshirt, he’ll be on pace to graduate early.

By Big Dawg

January 17, 2009 1:41 PM | Link to this

hiveredtech and others denegrating both the DAWGs and GT

As a fan of both Georgia and Georgia Tech and having attended and played at Georgia and my grandfather having graduated from Georgia Tech your comments are out of line. If you read this young man’s comments you would have noted he considered GT because it is a fine college, but his heart is with Georgia. We are getting a very intelligent young man whom I suspect could go to any college in the US if he wanted. I for one while being pleased he chose GA would have been just as happy for this young man if he had chosen Tech. So please keep your comments to congratulating this fine young man and off of the unnecessary and absurd comments in some cases about two fine institutions of higher learning that all Georgians should be proud of.

Go Dawgs

By Pi$$onTech

January 17, 2009 1:55 PM | Link to this

Big Dawg,

As noble as your comments are, the only people who take this blog seriously and to heart are those who support the thugs from North Ave. Why don’t you just sit back, relax, and enjoy making fun of the toolbags like the rest of us. Try it, you’ll enjoy it watching them putting their foot in their mouth time and time again :)

By Body Massage

January 17, 2009 2:44 PM | Link to this

Haha, ‘thugs’. Last time I checked these thugs had one of the highest SAT scores in the country compared to other schools. Bring in more of these ‘thugs’!

By TECH WRECKED...AGAIN

January 17, 2009 4:24 PM | Link to this

CONGRATULATIONS CHRIS!!! WELL DONE YOUNG MAN!!!

This is intended for all you techies…the American ones that actually know a little about American football…you know..the fair skinned, pimple popping, geeky a$$ nerds…not the majority of the techies…that being the green card totin short legged little asians rushing along behind their American friends as they yell “wafer me, wafer me” or the future terriorists of middle eastern descent…ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!

I am sick and tired of your sanctimonious holier than thou crap about the arrests and “thugs” in Athens. There have been 11 or 12 arrests of student arrests in the past 12 months…yes. Is that too many…yes! Three were dismissed…one of those was against Triton Sturdivant…also a class valedictorian..who was charged after “touching the stomach of a pregnant woman”. Those charges were dismissed…she droped the charges after an ambulance chasing attorney told her she did not have a case. Another was charged for public intoxication…walking back to his dorm after drinking too much…hard to believe…a college student drinking. Only in Athens right???

One….one UGA football player was charged with a fellony. Michael Lemon…a gifted young athlete whose mother was murdered while he was in college!! He was immediately dismissed from the team.

If you think that the chances of any college student getting arrested for drinking or fighting are not far greater in Athens than Atlanta…where the police are kept more than busy investigating murders, drive by shootings, prostitution, etc, then you are in denial!!!

In the mean time…at GIT in the recent past…you have had a student die of a heroine overdose…a former GIT football player who so well thought of in the GT community that he was hired as a coach to lead and mold the future of young men…arrested for DUI, hit and run, and drug possession!!!

And it has not been too long since you had a football player caught for felony drun possession…NINETY pounds of dope in his trunk…only to take the field again and play..representing your PROUD institute!!! I know the judge ordered that he be reinstated to the team, but he sure as hell didnt order that he PLAY!!!! And you make fun of CMR and his one and two game suspensions for minor infractions!!!

GEEZE!!!!!! Mind your glass house as you toss those stones!!!

By hop

January 17, 2009 4:51 PM | Link to this

ChRIS…What a great high school record,both on the field and especially in the classroom.

it is good to see that more football players are truly becoming student/athletes,but more work needs to be done in ALL schools!

I hope georgia and georgia tech have very successful football seasons next year.

we all have much to cheer about next fall and with the falcons, it should be awesome!

go dawgs!

By Jim

January 17, 2009 4:52 PM | Link to this

Congrats to a Chris Burnette for giving 100% on and off the field more student athletes should loook at him as the standard for what they should strive for.

To the decent GT fans than you for being decent on a page that is not GT driven. I think the fans who honestly care for both of our teams and players on and off the field can agree.

To the rest of you cross eyed.. world of warcraft playing nerds go back to your computer or D&D game enjoy your one time victory and your crappy rings Joe Cox and Co. are preparing as we speak to lay the beatin of your life … stand by, it`s coming.

By Body Massage

January 17, 2009 4:53 PM | Link to this

Haha, ‘thugs’. Last time I checked these thugs had one of the highest SAT scores in the country compared to other schools. Bring in more of these ‘thugs’!

By gt2012

January 17, 2009 6:34 PM | Link to this

Congrats to this kid, it’s obvious that he’ll represent UGA well for many years to come, both on the football field and once he’s graduated and gone into the real world.

Not to digress from being nice towards UGA, but really… the “world of warcraft” and “geeky nerd” comments are overused and becoming increasingly out of place. If you look around that campus, you will see more and more students who look far from the “skinny geeks’ often referred to on these blogs. I myself am not exactly in that stereotype (6’ 3”, 197, athletic), and I would say a huge number of the people I see around me at Tech everyday are more like me than the “skinny geek” or “foreign know-nothing” crowd rumored to heavily populate our campus.

On the contrary, Last time I was at UGA (a campus I happen to love by the way… much more of a college-feel to it than downtown Atlanta), A huge number of students I saw would seem to fit very well into the “average Tech kid” stereotype that has long since been proven wrong… skinny, “nerdy” white kids and indians. So next time you throw the notion out that every student at Tech is a pocket protector-wearing nerd, take a look around your own campus first.

Wow, I just wrote entirely too much on this.

Once again, congratulations Chris- you surely have a bright future ahead of you.

By GetReal

January 17, 2009 8:01 PM | Link to this

I don’t mind the back-and-forth trash talk between Dawgs and the toolsbags. I have more of a problem with the tards that post messages on here as though they’re sending a personal e-mail to the recruits directly. Get real a**wipes!! I doubt these 17/18 year old kids are sitting on home on their computers just dying to find out what creappy 40-60 somethings have to say about them on a blog. Multiply whatever you douchebags were doing at 18 by at least 100% of the amount of fun these guys are doing. Is it making sense now? Good grief man! Get over yourselves.

By taco slammer

January 18, 2009 7:35 AM | Link to this

Congratulations Chris. Welcome to UGA!

By JRL

January 18, 2009 9:15 AM | Link to this

Tech Wrecked Again…….well stated and long overdue.

By Ag Engineer Dawg

January 18, 2009 3:04 PM | Link to this

Congratulations for this young man. I read where he was interested in engineerig. I hope someone close to Chris tells him about the Agricultural Engineering program at UGA. A very good engineering program. We are employed all over the state of Georgia in engineering firms, state governments, and especially at Robins AFB in Warner Robins Georgia. He will not have a problem finding a job with an Ag Engineering degree from UGA.