James Johnson responds to booing....

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hiveredtech

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Great line for you morons who had the ingenious quote "we did not boo the players...we boo'ed the coach". The only people that make comments like that never played on a true team (and little league does not count!).

From ESPN.com:
"That really hurt me," said Johnson, the lone bright spot for the Georgia Tech offense with seven catches for 136 yards. "I'm pretty sure it hurt every other player, too."

Link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=273050059

...and this is not a for/against CG post...it is simply about booing at an amateur event someone other than the refs.

A longer quote just hit the AJC:

"I honestly didn't like it," receiver James Johnson said. "Coach Gailey is doing as hard as he can to coach us. Whatever the fans think, it's not all him. I don't know why they just think it's him. It's a team thing. You can't just put it on one person.
"Everybody's trying to win every game. It's not like we're going into the game trying to lose. That kind of hurt. It hurt me, and I'm pretty sure it hurt every other player."

Link:
http://www.ajc.com/gatech/content/sports/gatech/stories/2007/11/02/techfoot_1103.html
 
That statement is ambiguous. It doesn't state whether it refers to the fans leaving early or the booing.

This is the quote in context:

By then, most Georgia Tech fans were already heading for home. Those who remained booed embattled coach Chan Gailey when he was shown on the video board making a public-service announcement during the fourth quarter.
"That really hurt me," said Johnson, the lone bright spot for the Georgia Tech offense with seven catches for 136 yards. "I'm pretty sure it hurt every other player, too."
 
I would have stood out there in front of 50K booing the crap out of me 12 times a year for a free college tuition. Hell I'd do it right now for rent money.
 
GTKyle said:
That statement is ambiguous. It doesn't state whether it refers to the fans leaving early or the booing.

This is the quote in context:

By then, most Georgia Tech fans were already heading for home. Those who remained booed embattled coach Chan Gailey when he was shown on the video board making a public-service announcement during the fourth quarter.
"That really hurt me," said Johnson, the lone bright spot for the Georgia Tech offense with seven catches for 136 yards. "I'm pretty sure it hurt every other player, too."
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WHAAAA????

It is not hard to figure out what he is commenting on at all young man.

Read the paragraph preceding it in the AJC:

The fans' loudest negative reaction occurred during the fourth-quarter announcement on the Bobby Dodd Stadium message board. The Jackets' knew the boos were directed at their coach but took them personally, anyway.
"It's disappointing," quarterback Taylor Bennett said. "It's tough when your fans boo, but that's just the game of football."
 
knoxjacket said:
I would have stood out there in front of 50K booing the crap out of me 12 times a year for a free college tuition. Hell I'd do it right now for rent money.
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But would still choose that school over the school you didn't get booed every game?
 
If our "lone bright spot" concentrated less on the fans and more on the game, maybe we could have come back yesterday.

I don't believe in booing players, but it sounds to me Johnson was referring more to leaving than the booing. If was pretty obvious to the rest of us that Gailey was the one being booed. If James or any of the others felt it was directed towards them, I don't know what to say.
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knoxjacket said:
I would have stood out there in front of 50K booing the crap out of me 12 times a year for a free college tuition. Hell I'd do it right now for rent money.
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knox

These are KIDS that CHOSE GT and could have gone elsewhere. These are not paid adults at an NFL event that after the game have a driver pull up their Benz so they can drive to their 8,000 sf home in North Fulton where their cook has a post-game meal prepared for them.

Our kids hit a community shower, put on a GTAA provide plain GT football t-shirt...and walk back to their dorm room to catch some rest before hitting the training room and study halls the next so they are prepared for class Monday morning with every other normal Georgia Tech student.

As a former GT athlete...I can assure you that they are not standing on the field thinking about how "worth it" their education is when some drunken middle-aged white guy is booing them.
 
LLTW said:
If our "lone bright spot" concentrated less on the fans and more on the game, maybe we could have come back yesterday.​


I don't believe in booing players, but it sounds to me Johnson was referring more to leaving than the booing. If was pretty obvious to the rest of us that Gailey was the one being booed. If James or any of the others felt it was directed towards them, I don't know what to say.​
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again...read the AJC article. It is CLEAR he is not talking about the wimps that left early.

They talk about the booing...Taylor responds to it...then JJ responds to it. I even cut and pasted it in a response above for those who do not read the link.
 
I see what you are talking about hiveredtech.

Like I said, I don't condone booing, but the players need to have thicker skin. Taylor and JJ have no room to talk after their performance yesterday and most of the year. College football is a billion dollar business now... the rules are changing unfortunately.
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LLTW said:
I see what you are talking about hiveredtech.​


Like I said, I don't condone booing, but the players need to have thicker skin. Taylor and JJ have no room to talk after their performance yesterday and most of the year. College football is a billion dollar business now... the rules are changing unfortunately.​
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as I said above...these are kids...many of them teenagers who lead a pretty simple life and grew up in simple surroundings.

We begged them to come to GT...we make tons of posts about excitement of the recruit. We say "Welcome to the Flats!"...."You will look great in White & Gold"...."Be A Jacket". Then we say later we are owed something by them??...bull. They do not owe us jack squat except behaviour on and off the field that is representative of our fine institution.
 
hiveredtech said:
knox

These are KIDS that CHOSE GT and could have gone elsewhere. These are not paid adults at an NFL event that after the game have a driver pull up their Benz so they can drive to their 8,000 sf home in North Fulton where their cook has a post-game meal prepared for them.

Our kids hit a community shower, put on a GTAA provide plain GT football t-shirt...and walk back to their dorm room to catch some rest before hitting the training room and study halls the next so they are prepared for class Monday morning with every other normal Georgia Tech student.

As a former GT athlete...I can assure you that they are not standing on the field thinking about how "worth it" their education is when some drunken middle-aged white guy is booing them.
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Is there a reason we have to bring race into this?
 
hiveredtech said:
WHAAAA????

It is not hard to figure out what he is commenting on at all young man.

Read the paragraph preceding it in the AJC:

The fans' loudest negative reaction occurred during the fourth-quarter announcement on the Bobby Dodd Stadium message board. The Jackets' knew the boos were directed at their coach but took them personally, anyway.
"It's disappointing," quarterback Taylor Bennett said. "It's tough when your fans boo, but that's just the game of football."
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You added the AJC part after I had already commented. Don't patronize me.
 
Given the crap that SEC fans give their coaches and their players I don't see the booing coaches loses recruits argument.

Say what you will but I'm glad to see our fans actually show some passion. It's proof that Gailey ball hasn't totally sucked the life out of our fans.
 
hiveredtech said:
They do not owe us jack squat except behaviour on and off the field that is representative of our fine institution.
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well if that performance is representative of our fine institution then we will continue to struggle. What do u expect after a loss? Booing fans and message boards are a big part of college football.

maybe i'm just an ass, but i was booing JJ in my living room for not making the TD grab from Nesbitt and then again for fumbling. That's just how i roll. I don't dislike the kid, but I'm a passionate dude, I boo and say things when I get upset.

these guys aren't little girls, nor do they need to act like it.

So u think it's okay to cheer them out loud but not boo? that's nuts man, it's all part of it when they put on the jersey.
 
Johnson was referring to the booing, and I have this to say to him: Get your teammates off their asses and make some plays. We may have been booing the coach, but guess why? Because you got dominated in every single aspect of the game, and it has been a recurring theme this season. Maybe what he should have said was "I feel horrible that we let down the fans, and even worse that we, as a team, let down Coach Gailey, the man who does his best to prepare and lead us." Gailey may not be a great coach, but there were a lot of poor individual performances out there.
 
Heard about it all day long. The only thing is it happens everywhere, people boo its what happens in sports. All schools will boo at some point in time. I don't like the booing but its going to happen you just have to deal with it.
 
Does he want us to cheer after our team gets whooped 27-3 and we are now 5-4?
 
demjackets said:
Heard about it all day long. The only thing is it happens everywhere, people boo its what happens in sports. All schools will boo at some point in time. I don't like the booing but its going to happen you just have to deal with it.
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What Chan is going through is small potatoes compared to what I heard at a Florida/Tennessee game a few years back when Zook made one of his typically idiotic coaching decisions right before half which basically gave the game to Tennessee. Those gator fans were ready to run him right out of town and there was little discussion of the players having hurt feelings. Sometimes these boys have to "man up"
 
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