Idiot On The Hive Ready To Drop UGA....

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NO texstinger is pissed at pretty much everything, I don't think it's about Curry.
 
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I think this comment Texstinger is totally out of line. I can assure you if Bill is our next AD what you speak of will not happen.

Are you one of the ones still pissed because he went to Ala.? if so I think it's time to get over it. He made a decision and he took advice from his mentor, end of story.

No need to call the man a numbskull.

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Well said RM. I like Bill Curry and IMO think he would be an excellent representative of GT and everything that GT stands for if he were to be put in that position.

As far as the topic at hand here. Keep the GT/UGA game right where it is.
 
When a game is so special that you mention how much you hate the opposing school in your fight song, I don't see it as a game you should be dropping. I love this game, and even though we have lost multiple years in a row, we are certainly closing the gap. As much as it stings to lose, we are getting there. Dropping this game would be a HUGE mistake in my opinion.

Also, all the complaining about tough schedules doesn't sit well with me either. I really think the tough schedule could be a strong selling point. Games against UGA, Miami, Auburn, Bama, VT, etc will get on tv. Games against no name schools will not. Even if they are more difficult, I would rather put myself on tv making that game winning score, block, interception, etc....
 
I agree about the schedule, but then again if we schedule that way we, as a fan base, need to be realistic in what we expect record wise. No one in America plays that kind of schedule every year. Add ugag and one of TN, AL, AU, etc. to our conference schedule and we'll be one of the toughest every year. That's fine with me. But when we finish 9-3 or 8-4 don't scream for the coach's head because we aren't 11-1.
 
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midatlantech seems to have a tendency to fly off the handle and post some of the more outlandish things you'll find in the Tech community.

I guess coming up short against UGAg, altering the rivalry that we all love - win or lose - was just next in line.
 
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Wrong, Midatlantech can actually think quite clearly, something that is missing with most Tech fans the last many years.

I have posted this same thing for at least five years, going back to our victories over UGA. The two has nothing to do with each other except this one time I happened to post it after the UGA game to hopefully garner more attention: Not more emotion, thoughtful attention (something that based on five childish responses here has proven is obviously not possible).

Those of you who choose to totally ignore what Tech is about can keep banging your head on a wall as much as you want. I am personally trying to find answers to a very very difficult question facing our program for today and tomorrow.

Most Tech fans just can not forget about yesterday. They still think we are the same school that Dodd was at in the 1950's. We are not even close to that school anymore (Sorry for any old timers, but trust me when I say that I am constantly amazed at how many oldtimers are just not that educated compared to todays kids, me included (there's your angle to attack guys)).

So y'all can keep banging your head against the wall and keep bitching when we come up short. I prefer to try and take the resources that we have and utilize, manage, and massage our program right back to the top.

You may think we can beat 4 top ten teams every year and another 5 Top 30 teams. Help yourself to your fantasy. I choose to selectively manage our schedule so that we can win the NC. The ACC alone is now the toughest conference and the division we are in the toughest in the country. Heep on a few more Top Ten teams and see what you get.
 
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Between watching our kids play their hearts out against whoever we're scheduled to play, cheering for them win or lose - or lightening up our schedule and dropping UGA annually - I will take the former all day, every day.

We should play whoever will play us, and play them the best we can. If we are the best team, then so be it. Trying to fix our schedule to grab easy wins and make ourselves look like one of the top teams is ridiculous.
 
I don\'t understand the anger about moving the game

to the beginning of the season.

I just don't get that at all. Blaring rock music goes against 100 years of tradition and BOR isn't against that. The tradition angle is bunk to me. I want what is best for the program. If that means playing tuesday morning at 7, so be it.

I think MAT makes some fine points and rebuttals primarily consisting of namecalling haven't convinced me otherwise.

Ask any team who has moved their game up, despite tradition, and they'll all tell you it has been positive.
 
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Not you, RM. I agree that Curry could be an important agent in reversing the negative "we can't compete" mindset that now permeates our football program.

I can't imagine how that mindset could help us to recruit top notch prospects. IMO, it would hurt our recruiting terribly.

IMO, Curry has the stature to press the admins for making those extra few exceptions to recruit high caliber academic "stretches".

I've heard Curry poke fun at himself and some Tech teammates as being less than geniuses and I firmly believe most kids on the academic fringe are there because of their HS study habits, not because they're dumb. With the right support system, most of those kids can succeed at Tech.

If Curry could come in and clear the path to renewed focus on supporting the SA's once they're in school, IMO, we can compete Big Time in the present environment (esp after passing through the probation period).

Curry could hire the Oregon guy as his "Mr. Inside" to assure strong internal administration while going after great football people to serve as our HC and assistants.

Curry is an honorable Tech man despite his Bama/KY swoons. I'd bet he'll attract support from most old school alumni and former players to stop our present disarray and self doubt.
 
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If you go back and look at when we play UGA during the season it has been the last or next to last since about WWI. That's been going on a long time and why there would be so much resistance.
 
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I agree with you Crew. Moving the game up to the beginning could be the best for our program. I would have never said this a year ago.

I use to believe that winning the Tech/uga game at Thanksgiving was the best thing for recruiting. That thinking is/was flawed. Fact is, we can't recruit the same players uga does. Uga can recruit our prospects though.
Winning the game at the end will help us with some recruits, but not as many as I use to think.

Now that the ACC has 6 inch fangs, we simply don't need to hang on to the coat tails of the sec.
Adding UM, BC and VPI has really opened up recruiting on a national basis for the conference.

I don't think it will happen, and I would hate it at first if it did happen, but it may well be best for Tech to move it to game 1.
The biggest problem would be finding a secondary rival to play at Thanksgiving that isn't already spoken for.

I think its a must for 99% of all Tech fans to have a huge game to look forward to at season's end. If I were the next AD, I wouldn't move the uga game until we had this annual marquis season ender set up.
Personally, I still hold hopes that Tech will be accepted as a national football program. That is where we can recruit effectively. That said, my dream would be to open with uga and to finish with Notre Dame.

I know. That will never happen.
 
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I find it amazingly funny that most of the top teams in the country for the last 50 years all have either spoke of "not making the schedule too difficult" or "making the schedule less difficult" and never "we've go to make it the toughest because we are so manly". The money, prestige, etc. all comes from getting to the BCS, not "manly" schedules.

Your anger is quite apparent, now attempt to grow up a little. My goal is to win the NC. If you'd drop your emotional responses for a moment, you'd see that I actually said to replace UGA with Bama, Tenn, or Auburn. Those are three traditionally better teams than UGA. How exactly is that easier?

I also suggested moving the game forward in order to finish in the ACC. Like it or not, but the ACC is what determines our participation in the BCS or other major bowls.
 
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I just wanted to add to your post that not everyone plays a season ending huge game. For example, Tennessee's season is pretty much determined by November 1st. Penn State used to finish with Pittsburgh but they dropped the game after joining the Big 10. And they finish with nobody important (changes yearly).

I think we as fans gets so accustomed to a certain pattern of games that we become inflexible. But that's how it is in life in general so I knew that generally people would not easily warm up to the idea.

Next year, we'll have a fine team again but once again we have an absolutely murderous schedule. Take a good hard look at our AWAY schedule alone next year. Then add in ND and UM, two top ten teams next year.

The BCS is primarily based on voters again (I never wanted the computers to be diminished in importance, that was an emotional knee kick response). If you looked at Auburn midway through the season, they were ranked ahead of us with the record. If you look at Clemson at the end, they were ranked ahead of us with the same record. Both played easier schedules - we do not garner the respect out of those hard schedules, so why bother? We play plenty of good entertaining opponents.

I want to win NC's. That is the only thing that matters to me. I want to win ACC's. Thirdly I want to beat UGA. UGA is certainly our most emotional rival, but as far as our season goes would rank behind Clemson, VPI, Miami and some would argue UVA (and FSU if we're playing them).
 
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I just wanted to add to your post that not everyone plays a season ending huge game. For example, Tennessee's season is pretty much determined by November 1st.

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Tenn./Vandy may not be a huge game to UT but it is to Vandy every yr. And, regarding this year, UT players will have to live a long time with its Vandy loss.

I see your point, but I think Tech will have to be a consistent player in the national title picture for its fans
to adopt your NFL mentality.

Until we get there (Mr Braine says "don't hold your breath), most
Tech fans like the idea of having a season saver at the end.
I know I do. I believe most other schools do as well.
 
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But Vandy wasn't TN's last game.

I think the point is well made though, there's nothing that says we have to play ugag last. I do understand tradition but playing early would probably make the schedule work better. I doubt we ever change it but the idea isn't bad.
 
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But Vandy wasn't TN's last game.



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Oooops, you're right. I apologize to the loyal Ky. football fans.
 
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RM, no, not true. I am VERY thankful BC left GT for Darwin Holt U. That gave us a chance to hire Ross, which gave us the opportunity to win the NC.

If you remember, Curry said GT "did Ted Rood wrong, and you can quote me." So, given the scenario about ND, Curry would have in fact just allowed TR to come back to his old job like we owed him something. Screw that.

And one of his mentors was also Homer Rice, and HR stated if we ever went to a 12th game, we would add a Southern Conference team because "we owe them a lot." He had proven that he had no problem (maybe it was justified, but not to me) scheduling 2 D1AA teams per year, and that would have been a third. But who really knows.

NCJ, look man, better to have pissed off than never to have, no wait, to be pissed, no. Oh the hell with it.
 
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I have no problem playing a Southern Conference team once every four years so that it doesn't affect our bowl chances. I'd prefer a Southern team that will get excited and bring 15,000 fans though.
 
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You may think we can beat 4 top ten teams every year and another 5 Top 30 teams. Help yourself to your fantasy. I choose to selectively manage our schedule so that we can win the NC. The ACC alone is now the toughest conference and the division we are in the toughest in the country. Heep on a few more Top Ten teams and see what you get.

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So you would adjust our competition with UGA to win the national championship?

Come one. National championships are like lightening striking.

Yes. I want to win another one, and we should strive to play to that level. However, even the football factories do not win national championships year-in and year-out. None of them do, not Oklahoma, not USC, not Nebraska, not Miami, not FSU, not LSU, and not Florida.

Why would we mess up our competition with UGA on an annual basis for a national title that is probably about a once in 10 to 20 year shot?

I am not one for loading up the schedule with every possible tough game, and neither do I want all patsies as the discretionary out-of-conference games.

Also, are you kidding about replacing UGA with Alabama, Auburn, or Tennessee?

Oh well, it's up with the White and Gold.
Down with the Orange and Blue.

If I had a son sir, I'd tell you what he'd do. He would yell "To Hell with Bama" like his daddy used to do.

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The problem is most daddies of GT fans said "To Hell with UGA!" (At least I know that is what my daddy did.)

We actually had a longer continuous annual rivalry with Auburn than UGA when we ended the Auburn series in 1987. The GT-UGA series was suspended for a time due to violence between the fan bases.

Although playing Auburn every now and then as a rotation with other solid out-of-conference opponents is reasonable, I think that change to drop an annual game with Auburn was consistent with our move from the SEC to independent and then to the ACC. However, the UGA game is our in-state rivalry with the only other public or private Div. 1A school in our home state.
 
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