College recruiting

By the real OLD GOLD

February 15, 2009 5:16 PM | Link to this

I like the sound of everything I just read. Go Jackets.

By ga_tech_92

February 15, 2009 7:04 PM | Link to this

Go Jackets!

By 4ga

February 15, 2009 7:18 PM | Link to this

Who is he trying to convince me or him???? LSU had far superior talent to Tech and just look what happened. Georgia had 24 players out for the Tech game. He really had a hard time admitting he had a very sub-psr recrutting class. Number 35 I beleive. If Georgia had recruted as poorly as Tech the Georgia fans would be shocked. He is beginning to sound moire and more like a big mouth blow hard. But the proof will be in the pudding.

By ivy

February 15, 2009 7:24 PM | Link to this

We shall see. Hopefully the ACC gets MUCH better, all you here about is how the top players from all over the country want to play in the SEC. GT good luck, Your gonna need it!

By ivy

February 15, 2009 7:27 PM | Link to this

We shall see. Hopefully the ACC gets MUCH better, all you here about is how the top players from all over the country want to play in the SEC. GT good luck, Your gonna need it!

By James

February 15, 2009 7:33 PM | Link to this

What do you mean “hopefully the ACC gets MUCH better?” We have the best conference in the nation! We recruit the best and get the best.

By Sam

February 15, 2009 7:50 PM | Link to this

Now, now James my boy. Watch whatever that is you’re coming under the spell of….It’s making you look like something has taken control of your reasoning ability.

By ivy

February 15, 2009 7:55 PM | Link to this

James, UNC is the ACC’s best team! UNC wouldnt make the Top 5 in the SEC. Dont get me wrong I remember the glory days when FSU, Miami, VT and BC where all National champion caliber programs… UNC? I guess 2009 will tell. Go Tar Heels (what-a-joke)

By Curious football fan

February 15, 2009 7:57 PM | Link to this

Is CPJ for real? He did well his first year, I wonder if he can keep it rolling. He obviously scored well against some teams (i.e., UGA, Miami) but seemed to struggle against other marginal teams and Tech was walked on by an O.K. LSU team. Any one, any one?

By ivy

February 15, 2009 8:02 PM | Link to this

If the ACC Doesnt get there act together they may loose there automatic BCS bid… Oh I guess its just wishfull thinking… LOL

By Dean

February 15, 2009 8:22 PM | Link to this

The people out west want the Mountain West Conference to replace the ACC for the automatic bid in the BCS. Considering the state of the ACC…….I tend to agree.

By Big BCH 99

February 15, 2009 8:30 PM | Link to this

CPJ isn’t gonna recruit the best guys, he’s looking to get the right guys (fit his system, hard working team players).

I like the idea of focusing on in state, there’s plenty of talent in the St. of GA to field a very competitive team. I believe that a team w/ mostly in St. players should be around a top 25 coll. team.

Go Jackets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Body Massage Machine

February 15, 2009 8:47 PM | Link to this

Maybe the Mountain West should replace the SEC, since it massacred a team that was a “powerhouse” in the SEC, the same powerhouse that massacred Georgia.

By Jeff

February 15, 2009 8:53 PM | Link to this

yo u Georgia fans are a joke.All you do is whine and moan about Tech.Do you not have anything better to do than post after something about Tech. Georgia was beaten, BEATEN by Tech withlass talent. Your scared and you see Coach Johnson does not back down from nobody. Also aside from Alabama, Flordia the SEC was a joke. Lets see, Who did Georgia really beat anyway? I like Tech, and the Dogs, but the fans make me sick.

By Ben

February 15, 2009 9:06 PM | Link to this

Nice post Jeff!! Too funny…..makes zero sense and perfect grammar.

By techfowl

February 15, 2009 9:18 PM | Link to this

ACC beat the SEC head to head in games this year. On top of that - one was GT beating UGA and a terrible Clemson team beat SC.

That should be all you really need. But -

Only one team in the SEC has more National Championships than GT or Miami. It’s not UGA.

GT still has more SEC championships than half the SEC right now.

Wake and Duke are our bottom feeders right now and even they beat SEC bowl bound teams this year. Duke beat Vandy and Wake beat Ole Miss at Ole Miss - probably the 3rd best SEC team right now - ahead of UGA who is probably 4th - - yes - seriously.

The National Player of the Year Award is called the Heisman Trophy. The National Coach of the Year is called the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year. Those are GT guys.

If you think the SEC is te best football in the country - you’re probably right most years. Still - the ACC has plenty to hang it’s hat on and is plenty tough.

Not to mention that Auburn and Tennessee are heading one way while FSU, Wake, UNC, NC State, and GT are heading another. You could argue Ole Miss is taking up some slack though.

ACC has set record for most first rounders the last three years, and has mad more draft picks overall the last 3 years. Can’t be too bad.

SEC football is as good as it gets. Still - we have nothing to apologize about. Brag if you want, but don’t get ‘too’ stupid…

By National or Local

February 15, 2009 10:16 PM | Link to this

Recruit Georgia if you want to compete for an ACC title. If you want to compete for a national title, recruit in Texas.

By Technique

February 15, 2009 11:00 PM | Link to this

Hey Curiousfan, CPJ and Tech scored pretty inconsistantly because its a new system. That was our first year. LSU was not just an “ok” team. Their record might not have shown it, but with one QB move, they could have switched their season around. They mistakenly played 2 pro-style QBs and their offense suffered.

By Mister T

February 15, 2009 11:30 PM | Link to this

All of this doubt of CPJ, his system, and the ability of Tech to win, and much less beat uga is very reminiscent of all the talk prior to the season. I would say that it was a pretty successful first campaign.

You would think that the uga fans especially would have learned a little humility. OK, that was a silly statement. They are the most arrogant fans on the face of the Earth…including UF. The difference between UF and uga, UF really is as good as advertised. uga is all bark…or whimpers.

THWg!

By surfrider

February 16, 2009 12:15 AM | Link to this

The strategy sounds good and yes I would like to be strong in state and when we are we’re good. That said in the past academics became an issue as well as maybe not focusing in state but I hope we don’t shut off the rest of the regions. Primarily one day we may need to recruit them and there could be highly ranked players we are missing out on. As for the passing game it use to be they were more suited but maybe now that does’nt apply. So far our academics seem to be holding up with instate players. Some out of state players that did well at Tech and later in the Pros since 1980 are players like Mark Pike (KY), Rick Strom (Pitt), Marco Coleman (Cleve), Willie Clay (Pitt), Rodriguez (NY), Merchant (MJ), and more recents one too many to mention. With approx. 150 instate players going Div 1 there is plenty of talent here to start with.

By techfowl is an idiot

February 16, 2009 1:23 AM | Link to this

Let’s see, where to begin with the correcting of your lies. I mean, “errors.”

The ACC went 6-6 against the SEC this year during the season. The best season the ACC has had in its history, with 9 bowl teams. One of the most disappointing seasons the SEC has had in recent memory. Yet, the ACC could only go .500 against them? BC played in the ACC conf. championship game. Vandy never even sniffed the SEC conf. championship game, yet, they beat BC on a neutral field.

Claiming Miami’s National Championship’s as ACC titles shows your immaturity and lack of football knowledge. That’s just as idiotic as you get.

GT high tailed it to the ACC to avoid the stiff competition in the SEC and as been nothing sort of a failure since. Minus the shared 1990 title that they split with a far better Colorado squad that actually played a true champions schedule, unlike Tech.

The ACC had yet another pitiful year in bowl games. It took a pathetic pairing of Va. Tech against an incredibly overrated Cincy team just to get the ACC to 2-9 mark in BCS games. Even Ohio St. and Oklahoma laugh at that stat—yes—seriously

You know your program is pi$$ poor when you’re stuck talking about trivial historic icons from eras that your grandparents weren’t even born yet.

The ACC has been forced to recruit other programs from other conferences in hopes of making the conference relevant, but even with the additions of BC, Miami and Va. Tech, and you go back to the addition of FSU, the ACC is still a laughing stock.

Prove you belong before you get “too” stupid comparing yourself to a far superior conference.

By THWG

February 16, 2009 1:58 AM | Link to this

If our program is so bad, what does that make UGA’s program? Generally speaking, “pi$$ poor” programs don’t beat “legitimate” contenders (puh-lease) like UGA. Sounds like someone is coming to terms with the fact that their team is on the down and down, and another is on the up and up. GA State starts football next year, so it won’t be too long until UGA is the 3rd best football program in the state. That is, of course, if you don’t count high school teams.

By ccrider

February 16, 2009 2:25 AM | Link to this

TO: tech fowl is an idiot: Just to CORRECT YOU! G.Tech left the SEC to become an independent, like Notre Dame, and they were unable to get top teams to play them. They lost status and money in the attempt and decided to return to a conference, the ACC. CORRECTION #2 You obviously can’t analyze football nor read results. The only undefeated team in 1990 was Georgia Tech at 11-0-1 with the tie against then No. 1 Virginia at Virginia. Colorado lost a game, tied a game and had a game given to them by an official’s mistake that allowed them a 5th down on the final touchdown on the last play of the game. BUT MOST OF ALL, the great Colorado team you speak and Georgia Tech had 1 common opponet and that was Nebraska. Colorado won by 15 points. Tech won by 24 points. GET YOUR FACTS OR DON’T WASTE SERIOUS FANS TIME!

By I wonder...

February 16, 2009 2:30 AM | Link to this

to THWG, Are you expecting to be taken seriously? Oregon State beat USC, Stanford beat USC. Stanford squeaked by USC in an upset win, does that mean Stanford becomes a better program than USC because of ONE game? I don’t care who beats who, you can’t define a program by one game. It says a lot about your standards when a 9-4 season and a 38-3 beatdown still qualifies as being “on the up and up”. I don’t care who you are, NO ONE can honestly say that Tech is a better football program than UGA. Georgia has won BCS games while Tech has NEVER played in one. When is the last time Tech won their conference or 10 games? NOTHING supports the idea that GT is a better program than UGA. Not even a 45-42 win.

Bulldogs >> Jackets

By povox

February 16, 2009 2:49 AM | Link to this

to ccrider: the tie was against UNC at home. I was at the game. We beat #1 UVA on a last second field goal…I believe by Scott Sisson.

Go Jackets! THWG!!!

By I wonder...

February 16, 2009 4:15 AM | Link to this

to THWG, Are you expecting to be taken seriously? Oregon State beat USC, Stanford beat USC. Stanford squeaked by USC in an upset win, does that mean Stanford becomes a better program than USC because of ONE game? I don’t care who beats who, you can’t define a program by one game. It says a lot about your standards when a 9-4 season and a 38-3 beatdown still qualifies as being “on the up and up”. I don’t care who you are, NO ONE can honestly say that Tech is a better football program than UGA. Georgia has won BCS games while Tech has NEVER played in one. When is the last time Tech won their conference or 10 games? NOTHING supports the idea that GT is a better program than UGA. Not even a 45-42 win.

Bulldogs >> Jackets

By jomama

February 16, 2009 7:13 AM | Link to this

Johnson is indeed getting to be a blowhard excuse maker. Over time, even Tech fans will grow weary of a smartass who just doesn’t even try - players will begin to see him for what he is. So he doesn’t want to recruit out of state - who really cares? I think alot of Georgia high school football but if he thinks he can fortify the border from Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Auburn and on and on and on to get his top picks he has another thing to learn. Also, weren’t some of Tech’s greatest players in history from out of state? Who said anything about California? Last I checked they play some pretty darn good football in Louisiana, Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Alabama. Good for everyone else if he is too lazy to check it out.

By techfowl is an idiot

February 16, 2009 8:01 AM | Link to this

To ccrider, they bolted the SEC for the same reasons I stated above. They had an open invite to rejoin the SEC but refused. Nothing changes those facts that I stated. Yes, Parkview would have been undefeated in 1990 with that schedule. Virginia proved to overrated that year finishing the season with 4 losses. Heck, UGA didn’t even have that many losses last year.

Common oppenent? Colorado beat Nebraska in Lincoln during their heyday. One of the most difficult places in the nation to play at the time. What does that tell you? You beat a team that the real champion that year also beat, but in their own stadium. Colorado played T-H-R-E-E conference champions that year, THREE. While Tech played…let’s see…oh that’s right, N-0-N-E.

Colorado lost by one point on the road to Illinois (who finished with the same record as Nebraska) early in the season. While Tech tied a pathetic North Carolina team, that didn’t even make a bowl game, in the second half of the season.

so please, I ask, GET YOUR FACTS OR DON’T WASTE SERIOUS FANS TIME!

By Mister T

February 16, 2009 8:19 AM | Link to this

CCRider…the tie was agains UNC not Virginia. We beat athen #1 rank Virginia team in Virginia.

By growling pups

February 16, 2009 8:31 AM | Link to this

Oh I just love it that:

1) UGA fans are so concerned with GT now that they have to come on to a GT blog and put down Paul Johnson.

2) UGA fans think Johnson is a ‘blowhard excuse maker’ hahaha.

3) Some UGA idiots are still trying to deminish GT’s 1990 national championship. Get over it boys ..we have four, you have one, and ours is more recent. BTW, Colorado did not play the tougher schedule that season —do your research before coming on here and throwing out false statements.

4) UGA had their best team in years last season …GT was rebuilding under a new head coach, learning a completely new offensive system and had a new defensive coordinator …and GT beat UGA 45-42

5) GT will be better in ‘09 and even better in ‘10 …UGA will not be any better than they were in ‘08. UGA fans will get used to losing to GT, probably two -three more in a row in not more.

…anyway, thought I’d throw in that I was in Athens the other day —on campus— walking across the bridge at Sanford Stadium …I looked out onto the field and Roddy Jones was streaking down the sideline headed for another TD! 409 yards rushing against the —ahum— former pre-season #1. What a joke that turned out to be.

By UGA'91

February 16, 2009 8:32 AM | Link to this

Hey Body Massage Machine….With a name like that u must be a Tech fan! I like the idea that a Tech coach is at least attempting to recruit the talent rich state of GA. 150 plus D1 recruits puts us like 4th in the nation for top recruits. But even with the focus on GA I believe that you still will be the sick man of instate D1 football. Last year was a break from the norm. I expect Tech to win a few games (otherwise it’s not a rivalry), however a 1 in every 8 ratio is nothing to brag about. For the sake of the series if Johnson can shorten that to 1 win in every 4th or 5th year and maybe get an appearance in a BCS game (if the ACC doesn’t lose the automatic bid), then Tech fans would consider that a major success. Go Dawgs!!!

By MakeMeLaugh

February 16, 2009 8:39 AM | Link to this

By James

February 15, 2009 7:33 PM | Link to this

What do you mean “hopefully the ACC gets MUCH better?” We have the best conference in the nation! We recruit the best and get the best.

You’re an idiot.

By DawgBite

February 16, 2009 8:50 AM | Link to this

Got rings?

By blackbee

February 16, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this

This is GOOD and Bad! One of Tech’s biggest assets is that Atlanta is so highly regarded nationally in the AFRICAN-AMERICAN community. (Witness to how many Professional athletes live here) so Tech can and needs to recruit Nationally. Floridaa touching state and is full of fast athletes and sends prospects all over the country. Tech needs to do a better job in Florida. I just don’t think with the new staff changes in the SEC which will surely impact recruiting Tech will be strong enough to finish high nationally with the Ga. talent they can get.

By techfoul is an idiot

February 16, 2009 9:02 AM | Link to this

To growling pups,

1.) There’s a HUGE difference between being “concerned” and picking on the weakest kid in class.

2.) A lot of Tech fans think Johnson is a “blowhard excuse maker” hahahahahahhahha

3.) No one is trashing Tech’s shared 1990 title with a better team, just stating facts which you can’t dispute. Colorado played 3 conference champions that year, Tech played ZERO. Colorado played FOUR teams that finished in the top 12. Tech played ONE. Sorry these facts anger you so much.

4.) Best team in years? Is it possible for a Tech fan not to lie on here? Richt had a far better team just the season before. UGA was riddled with injuries this past season, an underclassmen stacked O-line and Tech could still only beat them by a mere FG. Tech is the one who had their best team in years. UGA had their worst defense in years, and still almost manged to win the game.

5.) Tech will yet again not win the ACC, nor their own divsion. Johnson will be fired within 3 years.

I was on Tech campus this past weekend, running away from a sea of Arab women who were trying to attack me since I was the first man to be spotted on that campus since the UGA game of two years ago. While I was running I noticed Jerrard Tarrant following a group of unsuspecting Ga. State girls about 20 yards behind them. I’m just saying….

By Realistic UGA fan

February 16, 2009 9:06 AM | Link to this

First of all as a UGA, I never say, “It’s OK with me if GT wins 1 every 8 years.” That is just not smart. The smart thing for me to realize and face is that Paul Johnson is 1-0 against UGA. And I am not OK with GT winning every game against UGA with Paul Johnson as head coach.

Additionally the recruiting thing is slightly biased. Scout went back and rerated the 2004 and 2005 classes and GT’s were both in the top 15 in the country.

Remember, Cooper Taylor and Vance Walker were both 2 star rated players and both will be in the NFL. This year GT recruited Daniel Drummond, who will probably be in the NFL. Last year Antonia Wilson was a steal at only 2 stars.

Why do fans talk about recruiting when all we care about is who wins? With our fan base, at UGA, we are always going to have highly rated recruiting classes. But how many of those guys: 1) get arrested? 2) Never qualify? 3) Get sent off to Hargrave? 4) Get injured? 5) Flunk out of school? 6) Or were just overhyped because big schools jumped on the offer bandwagon.

I just want to beat GT and Florida. And in 2008 that didn’t happen.

By Alabama Jack

February 16, 2009 9:11 AM | Link to this

Darn. I thought Georgia had 42 to 45 players out of the game with Tech.

By Pavement_head

February 16, 2009 9:11 AM | Link to this

Anyone else find it funny that Johnson didn’t once mention anything about grades, or the most overkilled, and routinely proven-to-be inaccurate Tech fan label of student athletes? Atlanta has one of the worst school systems in the country, but yet it serves as Tech’s “hot bed” for recruiting in all sports.

Talk about a walking contradiction

By REalityYech

February 16, 2009 9:17 AM | Link to this

Jeez guys, im a pathetic loser. I didn’t realize how much i posted both over the weekend, and over Valentine’s Day. Lord knows im not getting any :(

I talk about GT fans getting mad at facts, but in all REALITY i am the one who is just so ticked off that gt beat my beloved dawgs, so now i spend all of my time trying to belittle GT and their fans. I just can’t seem to grasp how pathetic I am :(.

By FormerNavyPlayer

February 16, 2009 9:22 AM | Link to this

Paul Johnson is all about Paul. Tech fans will see through his smoke and mirrors before all is said and done. Paul Johnson will use Tech for his own selfish reasons and then throw you guys into the nearest dumpster with not one 2nd thought.

By UGA'91

February 16, 2009 9:24 AM | Link to this

I think it’s weak when folks pretend they are a fan of one school but their comments state otherwise. “Realistic” come clean, nobody’s gonna get physical with you, represent Tech proudly, no need to hide behind the UGA banner to post what you really feel. If you feel Tech’s former recruiting classes were underrated just say it, don’t act like some concerned UGA fan, only a coward would do that. Go Dawgs!!!

By Walmart UGA Fans of America

February 16, 2009 9:28 AM | Link to this

techfoul is an idiot…please spare us from your moronic drool of UGA obsession. We get it, you have been sitting by your Apple IIe in your parents basement in Loganville waiting on edge with cell phone alerts to tell you when the ajc will post their next GT article so you can be the first “Dawg” to get online and attempt to slay the yellow jacket fan base. Only one problem, your feathery mullett must be reacting with your weak brainwaves in a negative fashion because you keep posting the same garbage. Ease off the gas tiger, and wait patiently for your “stimulus check” so you can make that down payment on that meshed Hershel Walker half-jersey you found on ebay.

By Realistic Tech fan

February 16, 2009 9:29 AM | Link to this

First of all, I’m not going to say that Johnson will be undefeated against UGA. Or that we’ll win the next 10 ACC and National Championships in a row. That’s just not smart. Richt is still 7-1 against my Jackets, and it took Richt 8 years to lose to an ACC team, while Johnson lost to a downed SEC team in year one. This concerns me.

UGA’s recruiting classes are always overrated. I suspect that all the draft “experts” are way off. I don’t think Stafford or Moreno will be drafted before the 3rd round. I may be wrong, but we’ll see.

Now with Johnson at the helm, we’re going to have top 25 recruting classes year in and year out. But how many of these guys are going to 1)rape women 2)get busted in an FBI drug sting 3)Get caught making D’s in classes being taken at State and given passing grades anyway 4)Someone starts investigating Michael Johnson’s “tutor” 5)Get injured 6)Or just overhyped because little schools jumped on the offer bandwagon.

I just want to beat Va. Tech, win the division and beat UGA for two years in a row. My fingers are crossed.

By RealityYech

February 16, 2009 9:36 AM | Link to this

Jeez guys, im a pathetic loser. I didn’t realize how much i posted both over the weekend, and over Valentine’s Day. Lord knows im not getting any :(

I talk about GT fans getting mad at facts, but in all REALITY i am the one who is just so ticked off that gt beat my beloved dawgs, so now i spend all of my time trying to belittle GT and their fans. I just can’t seem to grasp how pathetic I am :(.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

February 16, 2009 9:40 AM | Link to this

Anybody find it funny CPJ didn’t even mention when you are the best program in the State, it only makes sense to focus and recruit that State?

I guess he doesn’t want to gloat about 45-42 and just walk the walk. Leave the loser to talk the talk.

Truly a class act.

By Ugay is overrated

February 16, 2009 9:44 AM | Link to this

techfoul is an idiot, dude you are a moron!! I guess with colorado playing smu,utah st and rice that year, thats makes for a tough schedule?? Whew man, top notch there, and i don’t recall the buffs beating the #1 team in the nation on their homefield 41-38 like tech did to a loaded uva team that year! Better yet, when the hell has ugay ever beat the #1 in the country on the road in its existence?? we also beat clemson who was #9 on the road as well. Gee, two top 10 teams and our only blemish was a tie. colorado had that little thing called a loss you idiot!! If that punt wasn’t called back in the last minute on a terrible call, your beloved buffs would have had 2 losses, and notre dame was a 3 loss team??

Just so you know, you can get off tarrants johnson, the charges were dropped and if you READ, you would have seen where the district atty said ” after a full investigation, he had committed no crime”..COULD THAT BE ANYMORE CLEAR TO YOU! Can you comprehend facts? The man is guilty of nothing and was investigated, so move to something that has some SUBSTANCE, like you guys being overrated! Put down the porn and jerry springer re-runs and make some sense when you post!

When i was in assthens last weekend, i saw rednecks taking over an entire town! I saw football players committing assault and battery, hazing, drinking and driving { which is a very thoughful gesture only to endanger everyone on the road} and uga girls handing out syphilis and gonorrhea at an alarming rate! Keep up the good work up there, you guys have your own society working for you! I saw some lovely doublewide real estate also.. I also stopped by the corrections facility where you guys major in corrections management, and noticed half your football players signed the guest list! At last, i ran into a few former players of your SUPERIOR PROGRAM, and was asked if i wanted to buy some sugar bowl rings, i said naw man, but i did mention EBAY!!

You fleabags think so little of your sugar bowl rings as to put them on ebay, you b*** and whine about tech fans tore up your hedges in assthens, make excuses for every loss?? Could you really be any more of a bunch of rednecks making up for over half the unemployment in this state than you are?? I’m just saying……

By techfoul is an idiot

February 16, 2009 10:09 AM | Link to this

Posting lies about Colorado’s schedule that year only proves my point. Your inferiority to Tech’s joke of a schedule in 1990 says it all. Colorado played the SEC champ and tied. The Pac-10 champ and won. The Southwest (Big 12) champ and won. Tech played no champs that year. Just an overrated UVA team that had more losses than even UGA did last year. Tech tied a lowly NC team that didn’t even make a bowl game. This coming in a year where teams with 5 losses finished in the top 25.

Tech boosters paid off who they had to. Just like that thug Houston who was busted by feds from all the way in California, but a judge said he could play in Tech’s bowl game. Odd local feds couldn’t get him. Hmm….gee…I wonder why that is?

I was hanging out in the GBI office over the weekend and took a glance at their “watch list.” Half of GT’s football roster was on there. Funny Tech athletes don’t waste their times with the misdemeanor stuff, heck no, they go straight for the felonies!! They told me they put a lowjack on Joey Hamilton’s ride secretly to make sure he doesn’t commit another hit and run while drunk and high. The other half of the watch list was all the foreign Tech students who practice making bombs for fun on Friday and Saturday nights. They asked me if I wanted any rings, I said, no why? They said CPJ had made more than he needed last year so he gave them a few for their good work.

That’s sad a team has to make fake rings to celebrate…hmm….what were the rings for again? Oh that’s right, for finally beating a team that owns you for the first time in nearly a decade that you face every year. How more homo can you get?

By Maddog

February 16, 2009 10:34 AM | Link to this

RAMBLE Steve ON Superior, another lame post on class? You’re a one-trick-pony. LMAO!!

I can just hear it now. When gt starts losing prospects it will be “they didn’t have the grades” or they “didn’t have the character” or some other limp excuse.

By WednesdayMornings

February 16, 2009 10:47 AM | Link to this

Bingo Maddog,

Tech fans are the biggest babies and excuse makers in the country. The dozens of kids Johnson had his sights on this past recruiting season that opted for the SEC instead went from HIGH CHARACTER, WELL ROUNDED STUDENT ATHLETES to gangbangin’ thugs in a blink of an eye with the Tech fanbase. Their spin is as predictable as their football team not even being able to win their own weak division in their weak conference.

By RealityYech

February 16, 2009 10:59 AM | Link to this

Jeez guys, im a pathetic loser. I didn’t realize how much i posted both over the weekend, and over Valentine’s Day. Lord knows im not getting any :(

I talk about GT fans getting mad at facts, but in all REALITY i am the one who is just so ticked off that gt beat my beloved dawgs, so now i spend all of my time trying to belittle GT and their fans. I just can’t seem to grasp how pathetic I am :(.

By Too Funny

February 16, 2009 11:08 AM | Link to this

Ha, a dog fan talking about GT and excuses. Wait, how many injuries did you puzzy girls have this year on your team? 57? Your cheerleaders started, right? And no one outside of the uga nation will acknowledge this, RIGHT???? LMAO! Poor ol uga, had 2/3 or the team injured, but no one will give those girls any respect!! Too funny. Christ, you are pathetic.

As far as recruiting, its funny how quickly the tune changed on Jones and Reid to the mutt nation huh? Now they are all “me first athletes” and didn’t have the “drive to wear the g” right? My question is are they going to sew the “g” on the clarke-county jail uniforms this year or not??? That would be appropriate. You are too pathetic kid.

By Not funny actually

February 16, 2009 11:24 AM | Link to this

Too funny,

You’re allowing your anger to cloud your better judgement. You’re confusing stating facts (like UGA had 24 players miss the Tech game)with excuses (like how any kid that doesn’t choose Tech all once stops being a “student athlete” and then is named called and ridiculed).

As a Dawg fan I’m proud of our season last year. No other team in the nation that would have suffered the same injuries would have finished with double digit wins.

Your comments about Reid and Jones are baseless. Reid is the one that said himself he’d have to work harder at UGA to start. And no one has said anything about Jones being a “me first” guy. Just another lying Techie on a blog.

By buster

February 16, 2009 11:24 AM | Link to this

Nice short story on tech recruiting. Mr. Johnson obviously knows how to collect talent.

By Minnesota Jacket

February 16, 2009 11:30 AM | Link to this

Im just surprised at how many Georgia fans still use the excuse of “injuries” and “young offensive line” to talk about their season….Im sorry did ya’ll start 17 underclassmen? You lost an all american tackle GT lost an all american tackle… I mean stop with the injurie excuses and you were young on your offensive line because GT was pretty much the same across the line. Just admit you lost and get on with it. PJ though I love the mindset I do agree though to make sure we still keep our connections with places like Texas and Florida but Im sure you know this and are not stupid. Good luck recruiting for 2010 I all ready like the guys we are looking for in the future! Go Jackets

By Realistic UGA fan

February 16, 2009 11:42 AM | Link to this

Hey Realistic Tech fan much of what you wrote is not truth and sarcastic. What I wrote was absolute truth and how I feel (sincere). I went to the 1980 National Championship and have picture of myself with Herschel Walker. Do you?

UGA does put more players in the NFL than GT, that is a fact. But how many of those players are really impact for us?

Are you not concerned that Paul Johnson is a better coach than Chan Gailey and therefore GT might beat us more with him as head coach at GT? Do you not agree that too many of our recruits never really play in a game for us? What did I write that was worth mocking?

By Too Funny

February 16, 2009 11:45 AM | Link to this

Hmm, actually, how about you look at the classy posts of your mutt brethren here:

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/cfbrecruit/entries/2009/02/15/jarvisjonesun.html

Now who was that article about? LMAO!! Don’t let REALITY get in your way kid.

By ATLDawg

February 16, 2009 12:01 PM | Link to this

“sorry did ya’ll start 17 underclassmen?”

According to the depth chart posted on GeorgiaDogs.com, we started 16, 11 of whom were either freshmen or sophmores. Those numbers could have been higher or lower at various points during the season. And this doesn’t count the scores of underclassmen that saw plenty of action in a reserve role. Georgia fieled a pretty young team in 2008 too. No, I’m not making excuses morons. Somebody asked a question and I’m answering it.

Now comes the part where you can accuse me of making excuses. On top of a relatively young team, Georgia also had to deal with what anyone with a brain would admit is an unusual amount of injuries. 2008 really could have been (and almost was) a complete disaster, but it wasn’t. 10-3 was a good record all things considered. Sure, it was a big disappointment, but not the kind of meltdown that pleny of haters are trying to portray it as. We were overrated. It happens, but rumors of Georgia’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Georgia football isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Good day.

By Goodtimesgone

February 16, 2009 12:10 PM | Link to this

The UGA fans on this blog are truly pathetic. Get a life! You’re embarrassing the UGA alumni.

By Recruitnik

February 16, 2009 12:23 PM | Link to this

Paul Johnson knows what Mark Richt does, that there is plenty of instate talent and even if GT gets the 2nd tier guys they are still getting top ACC players.

By St.Simons

February 16, 2009 12:38 PM | Link to this

I am just the typical Tech fan….I assure you I am very smart and full of wit. Nothing makes me happier then to make fun of “UGA-Y” or “Univeristy of Gay Athletes”. I try to stick to gay jokes as much as possible (for reasons I dont care to discuss today).

This past weekend for V-day (I bet you cant guess what “v” stands for)I made my own 45-42 ring in my garage. It’s just like the one’s the Tech players got. I am so proud of it. I love it. That’s what they taught us in our metallurgy class junior year….how to make commemorative rings for special occasions such as beating UGA-Y. Other things I enjoy….tickle piles and anything the color of brown mustard.

Ta!

By Huh?

February 16, 2009 12:43 PM | Link to this

Paul Johnson is full of crap. Southern Cal is in a whole other universe compared to Georgia Tech so that is an absolutely meaningless comment. He doesn’t care if they are being recruited by Southern Cal because he knows he wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell to sign them if they were. That’s some very convenient logic coach. This guy’s bull** is right up the Tech nerd herd’s alley. They love this stuff. He really tells them what the want to hear and is a good fit for the delusional nerds.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

February 16, 2009 1:33 PM | Link to this

Hey Huh?, you think CPJ has a snowball’s chance in hell of beating UGAg 45-42, with a bunch of freshmen and sophomores?

huh?

By vandy

February 16, 2009 2:02 PM | Link to this

CPJ just released the follwing press statement in reference to in-state recruiting and his focus in the future…..

**”Well I wont back down, no I wont back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I wont back down

Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around And Ill keep this world from draggin me down Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down

Hey baby, there aint no easy way out Hey I will stand my ground And I wont back down.

Well I know whats right, I got just one life In a world that keeps on pushin me around But Ill stand my ground and I wont back down

Hey baby there aint no easy way out Hey I will stand my ground And I wont back down No, I wont back down”**

By Not funny actually

February 16, 2009 2:06 PM | Link to this

Too funny,

Wow, show us a link that doesn’t even work. Typical phaggotjacket!!!

By Huh?

February 16, 2009 2:06 PM | Link to this

Georgia Tech always has a chance to beat UGA, but very rarely does. This game always comes down to one or two crucial plays that usually go Georgia’s way because Georgia has the playmakers. This year they went Tech’s way for once. Congrats. The gap in talent is not nearly as wide as Tech fans would like everyone to believe. This is largely a myth created by Tech fans to justify their pathetic performance in this series. In fact, this can be proven by how Tech fans routinely talk out of both sides of their mouths on this issue. On the one hand, they are always quick to remind Georgia fans that recruiting rankings and the stars by a players name are supposedly meaningless. This is usually their rallying cry in February when they are ravaged with jealousy over Georgia’s recruiting riches. Yet, they also love to claim that they are at a disadvantage because they can’t recruit the type of players that Georgia can. This is usually their rallying cry when they have suffered yet another loss to Georgia. Well Techies, which is it?

By Huh? laid the smack down!!!

February 16, 2009 2:18 PM | Link to this

Huh?,

That’s too much logic for the douchebags from North Ave to comprehend at one time. Take it easy on them.

Let us not forget how the tools routinely brag about their bowl winning percentage and how great they are post season, though for some reason that same “greatness” can’t translate into beating UGA regularly :)

By Blogging to yourself...

February 16, 2009 3:17 PM | Link to this

…is pathetic.

And, it also works both ways with your devastating injuries. You have such great recruiting classes, so you should be able to plug those holes with another 4*, right?

Cut and paste the link then, but you already know that its nothing but a bunch of loudmouth inbred hicks, slamming Jones for not picking the trash school in athens.

By surfrider

February 16, 2009 3:22 PM | Link to this

CPJ has put together two classes ranked approx. 35 or so back to back. Since 2000 we’ve had a few classes in the 30’s and some in the 40’s. Hopefully after the initial year attrition should be better. Let’s don’t forget we lost some 10 plus players to academics in that 2003 year. So solid recruiting like these last three years, low attrition rates and good player development should equate to a pretty good football team. By the way the safety who is coming back to the team was an ESPN rank of 79 out of High School the same ranking as Burnett, Claytor, Morgan, Peters, etc..

By dawgs r pathetic

February 16, 2009 3:38 PM | Link to this

Seriously dawgs fans have got to be the biggest punch of pathetic no-life retards to grace our earth. I think God put them here to remind normal people with any semblance of a life just how lucky we are not to be so pathetic in life as any of these senseless morons. Imagine having the life of reality yech and having nothing to look forward to except putting gay messages on an opposing teams blog at every possible moment in your useless life. Thank God he made me a jacket and not a dawg..

By Owning a fictional business is pathetic

February 16, 2009 3:43 PM | Link to this

Why do Techies keep harping on our “great recruiting” class? Oh that’s right, just like Huh? said. You people are pathetic.

18 season ending injuries. Dozens of temporary injuries that caused key players to miss valuable time, and all a healthy Tech team could do was win by a FG with their 3 best defenders they’ve ever fielded at one time.

Pathetic!!!

By vandy

February 16, 2009 3:46 PM | Link to this

ooooooo….trash school in athens…..good one.

By To the little girl RealityYech

February 16, 2009 3:49 PM | Link to this

A Douchebag’s guide to cool blogging:

2:00pm Monday= Bored at work

8:pm Saturday (Valentine’s Day)= Pathetic, Douchebag Loser

Hope this guide helps

By CircleJerk is my idol

February 16, 2009 4:06 PM | Link to this

Tell us more about your own business and how the 2007 QB recruiting class was better than the 2005!!! LOL!!!!! Can’t stop laughing!!!!!!!!

By Spicy Brown

February 16, 2009 4:31 PM | Link to this

I love brown mustard….so much so I want a jersey of the same color. Anyone know where I can get one?

By Diesel

February 16, 2009 5:13 PM | Link to this

I love UGA fans. If you actually read what some of them write, it will be humorous. They say “You can’t base who’s better by one game, UGA is still better, etc. etc.” And then they turn around and say “LOLZ GAY TECH GOT BEAT 38-3 TO LSU LOLZERS!!!” Ok, UGA fans, read that. Then, read it even slower. Do you understand what is being said? I hope so, for your sake.

UGA is overrated. There is no doubt about it. Even a UGA fan with a brain can realize that. They were pre-season #1 and we see how that happened. They remind me of Clemson. Everyone predicts them to have a great year, and then they dissapoint. Georgia Tech, however, is on the up. They were awful last year, and had a much better season this year. I know, it’s hard for you UGA fans to realize this, but the truth hurts. And oh yeah, Roddy Jones and Jon Dwyer will be back next year.

If you can’t understand what I’m saying, then you need to read it slower and spell out each word. I know, with your “excellent” education, that might be hard for you. Hillbillies.

By Diesel

February 16, 2009 5:16 PM | Link to this

I love UGA fans. If you actually read what some of them write, it will be humorous. They say “You can’t base who’s better by one game, UGA is still better, etc. etc.” And then they turn around and say “LOLZ GAY TECH GOT BEAT 38-3 TO LSU LOLZERS!!!” Ok, UGA fans, read that. Then, read it even slower. Do you understand what is being said? I hope so, for your sake.

UGA is overrated. There is no doubt about it. Even a UGA fan with a brain can realize that. They were pre-season #1 and we see how that happened. They remind me of Clemson. Everyone predicts them to have a great year, and then they dissapoint. Georgia Tech, however, is on the up. They were awful last year, and had a much better season this year. I know, it’s hard for you UGA fans to realize this, but the truth hurts. And oh yeah, Roddy Jones and Jon Dwyer will be back next year.

If you can’t understand what I’m saying, then you need to read it slower and spell out each word. I know, with your “excellent” education, that might be hard for you. Hillbillies.

By Nerds getting scared

February 16, 2009 5:24 PM | Link to this

Gailey wouldn’t have lost to a 5 loss team in the hometown bowl game. Gailey at least won his side of the division and was one score away from winning the ACC. Gailey wouldn’t bully recruits into signing with his team before they’re 100% certain of where they want to be.

It looks like a lot of Techies are waking up and smelling the coffee. Johnson won’t be around long.

By hardly scared

February 16, 2009 6:05 PM | Link to this

Hey nerds getting scared, You only could wish a dumb pathetic redneck bulldawg like yourself, or any of your hillbilly buddies, had enough mind control over people that are immensely more intelligent than you. Then maybe you could convince us to get rid of a coach that is about to own the loser bulldawg nation and their st. richt for the unforseeable future. What is the truth, is that we are about to start on our own streak of consecutive wins against Ugag, that is going to really dwarf the lucky streak that Ugag had when we had a lesser coach. You could only in your dreams wish that Chan would come back and coach here, but instead Johnson will be in your nightmares for many years to come…

It makes me smile just thinking about it…

By vandy

February 16, 2009 6:08 PM | Link to this

Diesel….UGA is overrated? Did you think that up all by yourself? Wow, such in-depth analysis backed up with solid points.

What gave it away? Was it the fact they were preseason ranked #1 and then finished #10 in the coaches? Yep, that’s overrated allright. 10 whole spots.

Good job buddy.

By Marietta Tech Fan

February 16, 2009 6:10 PM | Link to this

So what you saying, “Nerds getting scared” is that you feel like GT had a better chance of beating UGA with Gailey than with Johnson? Gailey only had 1 season where GT won 9 games and Johnson equaled that in his first season while beating our instate (UGA) and out of state rival (Clemson).

So, as a UGA fan, you think Gailey (0-6 vs. UGA) did a better job of defeating UGA than Johnson?

I don’t know what your point is?

By vandy

February 16, 2009 6:15 PM | Link to this

Hey when was the last time GT won a BCS game? Never?

OK then have a nice day!

By BIG bee

February 16, 2009 7:21 PM | Link to this

UGA Fans, way to go. You are starting this year just like you did last year. Meaning how good you are and how much you will beat GT next Nov. Rave on guys, because you will feel so bad again if you loose next year. Notice that I said IF you loose next year? That was for a reason, that being you dont know who wins the game until the game is played. Goooooo Ga. Bloggers, you may fall harder this time than last.

By Maddog

February 16, 2009 7:23 PM | Link to this

This just in from the AJC:

Georgia Tech ranked No. 48, drawing 47,489 per game, down 5.5 percent from 50,280 in 2007.

BIG TIME FOOTBALL???? LMAO!!!

By Reality Check

February 16, 2009 8:01 PM | Link to this

Gosh, some of these Georgia fans are just ridiculous, seriously it’s just honestly ridiculous!!!!

Do you honestly have nothing to do than to hit the refresh button on your internet browser every thirty seconds to find out the latest GT news???

Is this all you care about?? Putting someone else down.

Personally I never have put down UGA, only some of their trashy fans. And I’m going to say their are a few on here that are Tech fans that even make me mad, but on the average you will definitely find more UGA fans crapping on Tech, RealityYech comes to mind.

I swear if someone mentions our stadium again or LSU as Georgia’s cover up….I’m gonna’ flip….and don’t get me started on the SEC.

Please save us the time and please get a life and just provide honest feedback and not dissing words like talking about international students at Tech… and the lack of women. I honestly wish you would come down to our North Ave school and tell that to someone. I would seriously hope that you would get slapped in the face.

Like I said, I think Richt and UGA is a good school, but some of your middle school fans are just annoying.

By 4ga

February 16, 2009 8:09 PM | Link to this

By Joejajacket

February 16, 2009 9:22 PM | Link to this

Can’t read it enough,45-42. Say what you want, it’s 45-42 til you get your butt handed to you again next year by players that you didn’t want. THWG

By Marietta Tech Fan

February 16, 2009 10:15 PM | Link to this

So 4ga: In any way are you trying to imply that UGA sent all of their coaches over to Hill’s highschool and his house to offer him and they really didn’t want him? Offering Hill and going after Hill before Brown would usually hurt their chances with Brown because he would not be “feeling the love.”

I totally missed your point with that statement “Did UGA want Hill?” Depending on what you write that you meant by that…that could be the most homer statement I have heard in 29 years of following football.

That is at least equal to stating that Paul Oliver shut down Calvin Johnson. Or that Moreno is better than Dwyer.

“Did UGA really want Hill?” The AJC could start and write a whole series of articles off this maniac question. I just can’t believe someone could that. 4ga must have some mental issues. How could anyone truly believe UGA would go to all that trouble offering Hill a scholarship and not want him? True dictionary definition of insanity and irrational! I’m shocked not appalled by the lack of intelligence in what 4 ga wrote. I lost alot of respect for UGA’s fan base just for that total homerish thought process. Sick! It’s like a person that can’t see the truth of Jesus. How blinded can you be 4ga?

By Nerds getting scared

February 16, 2009 10:17 PM | Link to this

Stupid little toolbags. Wouldn’t know commonsense if it jumped up and bit them in their fat, wrinklely arses. Johnson won with Gailey’s players incase you failed to notice. Johnson beat the worst UGA defense they’ve had in decades, in some categories ever. Johnson managed to run dozens of kids over to SEC schools. Tech had 3 of the best defensive players they’ve ever had and still had to hold on to win. I want Tech fans to get excited. I want Tech fans to do their usual “we’re going to win the ACC and National Championship next year” bs. Nothing is more fun than laughing at the douchebags faces after kicking your teeth in following the game. It’s even more fun to do it at Sanford Stadium Jr. in Atlanta. And trust me, we’ve had a lot of practice laughing in your faces over the years, unlike you :)

By macrotech

February 17, 2009 1:56 AM | Link to this

4ga, if ANYONE spelled as badly as you do….they’d be as idiotic as you and your inability to reason are!!!!

By jomama

February 17, 2009 10:05 AM | Link to this

In case you termites forgot, the last game out LSU handed your holier than thou PJ his a* in the woodshed. Before you guys start thinking you’ve somehow climbed out of that middle tier, think again. Chan Gailey also won his seven games, but is still a dullard. Suddenly, because of one game (vs. Georgia) you people from Tech think something great has happened? Didn’t your awesome coach have to literally pull one out of his a* to beat Gardner-Webb of all people? Are you kidding? So you beat Jacksonville State, Gardner Webb, a very poor Miami, an even poorer Miss. State. and had to perform a miracle vs. FSU. This guy is somehow Bobby Dodd? Are you kidding? Now he informs the world he isn’t flying anywhere to recruit. Great. Just what you guys needed. Mark it down.His sour disposition will come back to haunt him and all 10,000 fans left at Tech will turn on him quicker than anything when his stupidity is shown again like it was vs. LSU. Yes, you can beat a couple of people you aren’t supposed to who don’t know how to prepare or stop the option. You get in the with the big boys if you ever had the courage to schedule big games - Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, etc and that option will look like a joke.

By RealityYech

February 17, 2009 10:22 AM | Link to this

Hey Reality “Check,”

How is that business working out for ya little buddy? :)

LOL, we come down to your joke of a campus once every two years and yes, we do say that and then some in the faces of all the douchebag Yechies. They either pi$$ themselves or fall over from fear.

The phaggots have the worst fan base in the country. That trash has managed to have the most arrogant tools (the 1 time they win every 8 years) but yet you had a 5% dip in attendance last year. Which happened to be your best season in nearly two decades. Pathetic!!! LOL!!!

By R-Wreck

February 17, 2009 7:27 PM | Link to this

To povox, assuming I read your post correctly, if you were at the “home” game between Tech and UNC in 1990, then you must have been on drugs, because that game was in Chapel Hill, and I WAS there (dammit). That was, as you did correctly say, the one tie on the schedule. Colorado in 1990 “won” two games solely because of inept officiating. To tech foul is an idiot (or whatever the hell his name is), Tech NEVER had an open offer to rejoin the SEC. When Tech did make a move to rejoin the SEC, it was supported by Bear Bryant and negated by Dooley. I guess he was smart enough to know that an SEC Tech team would (as had been the case throughout the 50s) out-recruit, out-coach, and consistently beat the Clark County Chihuahuas. Unfortunately, as an independent or an ACC member, that did not happen (it WILL now). And I base my feelings about the future not on one game in cow-town, but on a season that far exceeded expectations. I might add also that Tech too had a fair share of injured athletes out for that game, so kwitchurwhinin about the sick mutts. FINALLY, since all you UGAG fans take such delight in belittling Tech;s FOURTH National Championship in 1990, may I remind you that in 1980, UGAG had to COME FROM BEHIND in the second half to defeat an inferior Notre Dame team who had had to come from behind JUST TO TIE TECH.

To Hell With Georgia 45-42

By R-Wreck

February 17, 2009 7:41 PM | Link to this

Another thought: If you guys think that recruiting the “best talent” pays off, just ask Paul Hewitt. All that “best talent” that he recruits still doesn’t produce winners. The key to winning consistently is to recruit the best players for the system, something I believe CPJ is doing and will continue to do, and hopefully with great success. I still remember Spurrier at Florida commenting on how UGAG always has such stellar recruiting classes, and yet never beat the Gators. Seems like that is still the case

By RealityYech

February 19, 2009 10:45 AM | Link to this

R-Wreck,

Funny you douchebags talk about officials aiding the real 1990 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in a couple of games, but we don’t hear a peep out of you regarding the UGA/GT games of 1999 and last year. Odd, wouldn’t you say? Another blatant Yechie lie!!! What else is new!!! Yech was more than welcomed back in the SEC. Who are you trying to fool? LOL, yeah, Dooley who owned Yech was scared sh*tless!!! That’s like Richt being frightened with the thought of being forced to play Miss. St. 4 times a year. Get real!! Yech will remain what they are under Johnson. A has-been of a has-been program that will forever be mediocre in a horrible conference. Please, at best Yech had a 16th of the injuries UGA did, and that’s being generous.

The 1980 UGA team played in a real bowl against a real opponent that finished the season ranked in the top 10. The fake champ Yech team played in a bs bowl that doesn’t even exsist anymore against an opponent that barely remained in the top 25.

Hewitt and top classes? He has only recruited slightly better than Felton, which isn’t saying much. Favors is just the latest one and done “student athlete” to use Yech as a pit stop.

You’re an idiot.

By Godana

March 30, 2009 5:22 PM | Link to this

Nice original site. I am from Laos and now teach English, give true I wrote the following sentence: “Jump point before you pop for the airline tickets, have you checked hotel prices.”

:( Thanks in advance. Godana.