James Johnson responds to booing....

Well put, agreed

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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loyalGTfan said:
As a former college athlete I now look at JJ with disgust at the moment... You just got your butt handed to you and you go whine to the media?! You had some good catches, I'll give you that. You also dropped the ball for a score and then fumbled the next time around. Stop complaining. Booing happens, it hurt us to lose just like it hurt you. Fans voiced their displeasure at CCG! Not you!
That being said it happens sometimes... People boo. People get upset... I've been there... Sometimes it was so bad you don't even want to go to class the next day cause you feel every one is judging you on the way.
You deal with it like a man! You don't go complain and whine to the media it makes you look like a crybaby.
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AMEN, I know at least one interception by VT where he just stood there and watched instead of defending the interception. he hasn;t been the same snce he was clocked in the head last year....
 
Hiveredtech, you are a real man and a real GT fan for staying until the bitter end.

Did you also bring hankys and tissues for the boys the next morning? How about some sliced oranges and capri suns after the game?

Really, I appreciate your dedication, but sometimes you need to shut up.
 
hiveredtech said:
"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.

Link:
http://www.ajc.com/gatech/content/sports/gatech/stories/2007/11/02/techfoot_1103.html
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JJ is right in that you can't put all the blame on one person. But Chan Gailey is the captain of the Georgia Tech football ship and as such he is the one person responsible for what happens in the program. He may not be the only one to affect both the losses and wins but ultimately he is the one who must be held accountable for the success or failure of the program.
 
BarrelORum said:
Hiveredtech, you are a real man and a real GT fan for staying until the bitter end.

Did you also bring hankys and tissues for the boys the next morning? How about some sliced oranges and capri suns after the game?

Really, I appreciate your dedication, but sometimes you need to shut up.
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Maybe after the UGA game the whole stadium can meet up at Pizza Hut for an end of the season party! We can give out trophies to everyone!
 
knoxjacket said:
Maybe after the UGA game the whole stadium can meet up at Pizza Hut for an end of the season party! We can give out trophies to everyone!
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Ah --but you don't want to hurt anyones feelings. What if Little Johnny prefers Papa Johns' to Pizza Hut --we don't want to hurt his feelings --we don't want Little Johnny upset.

How about we bring a special Papa John's pizza to Pizza Hut for Little Johnny --maybe that will make everything ok.
 
pocket_watch said:
However, if the majority of fans were like you, Dan couldn't fire The Chancellor.
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Don't see how you drew this conclusion. I have been very clear that I am not commenting publicly one way or the other on the fire/no-fire decision...particularly not until the season is over. You are making assumptions because I am protective of the team.

I am a big believer in sports and in the business world of having to terminate employment. I have done it plenty of times. However, only after clear expectations have been set.

Many of you guys are just too concrete in your thinking.
 
Well, if Gailey is back next year, he better buy some major EAR PLUGS.
 
knoxjacket said:
Anybody else see the irony of ed calling Tech fans wimps while defending people getting their feelings hurt by booing?

If your going to play the hardass move, be consistent.
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LOL I was thinking the same thing.
 
bsakoff said:
LOL I was thinking the same thing.
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Hardly.

We "can't take seeing the loss take place and leave early"...yet the players sit there until the end. They do not 'boo' us or call us out when we do not fill the stadium or get loud enough on 3rd down defensive situations.

If you think that players should be able to get boo'd...then I assume you advocate starting a compensation system for them in addition to tuition.

I also have to wonder where all these passionate GT fans were in the 70's and 80's???...were they not around yet?

We are not going to agree on this...so may as well forget it.
 
Hiveredtech, I'm not disagreeing with you on booing the players, as I agree that is bad form. However, booing at a game liek the VT game was addressed to our coach, and while I don't do it, I totally understand it. It just goes with the territory. If you think that on any campus stadium anywhere in the country, booing can be prevented, that is naive.

However, I have little to no respect for a player who played like complete dog doo sounding off in the papers how much he was "hurt" by the booing. Give me a break.

As for leaving early during a loss, I've done it a bunch. I have had season tickets for over 15 years and although I did not attend the VT game for having been out on a hunting trip, I have left games when we were getting beat badly often, and I'll do it again.

I paid for the tickets. There isn't some written rule that I need to sit there and share the players suffering. They didn't pay for tickets. They get a free scholly to be on the field as that was their agreement they made. I have no such agreeement. I buy season tickets each year and make a pretty hefty donation so I can sit in the chairbacks. There is no agreement that when I pay for the tickets that I automatically get to see a win. Sometimes games are losses and I know that before I make my purchase.

But when a team looks like crap and we start getting our asses kicked, staying to watch it is like the law of diminishing returns. Why do I need to do it? Am I a wimp? Maybe I am. But I also don't go wiping these players noses for them the day after because they feel a little upset that they got booed.

My father would have told me to shut the **** up and go play. In fact my highschool football coach would too. Which tells me all I need to know about our current leadership at head coach.
 
BarrelORum said:
As for leaving early during a loss, I've done it a bunch. I have had season tickets for over 15 years and although I did not attend the VT game for having been out on a hunting trip, I have left games when we were getting beat badly often, and I'll do it again.
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I am glad you are a season ticket holder...that is good. It appears you started buying around 1992 after the national championship. Honestly, would you say that this also could affect your expectation in GT football?

I started going to games in the early 70's (1972)...grew up in Atlanta...and went to the games ever since that year. I have to tell you we were mostly hopeless during that time...going to a bowl in 1978 (Peach) and 1985 (All-American). We made the current Duke team look like All-Americans many years.

That probably causes me to be more gun-shy as to the potential depths the program can hit...as well as the heights (1990).
 
hiveredtech said:
I am glad you are a season ticket holder...that is good. It appears you started buying around 1992 after the national championship. Honestly, would you say that this also could affect your expectation in GT football?

I started going to games in the early 70's (1972)...grew up in Atlanta...and went to the games ever since that year. I have to tell you we were mostly hopeless during that time...going to a bowl in 1978 (Peach) and 1985 (All-American). We made the current Duke team look like All-Americans many years.

That probably causes me to be more gun-shy as to the potential depths the program can hit...as well as the heights (1990).
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hivered, I started going to Tech games in the late 60s before we moved out of town, and then started again when I enrolled in 1975. I understand what you're saying about the hopeless years but you can't let it make you happy with mediocre seasons (not saying that you are). If you're afraid to reach for the heights you will definitely not get there. I think Chan is a fine man and knows football. I just don't think he's a good fit for us after 6+ years of the same old stuff. Hopefully he proves me wrong by winning out and having a great season next year. But I'm not optimistic.
 
hiveredtech said:
I am glad you are a season ticket holder...that is good. It appears you started buying around 1992 after the national championship. Honestly, would you say that this also could affect your expectation in GT football?
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I bought back all my student years to 1991, which was my freshman year at GT, it had nothing to do with winning the NC, as when I bought back my tickets it was 1995, one year being removed from a 1-10 season.


I started going to games in the early 70's (1972)...grew up in Atlanta...and went to the games ever since that year. I have to tell you we were mostly hopeless during that time...going to a bowl in 1978 (Peach) and 1985 (All-American). We made the current Duke team look like All-Americans many years.

That probably causes me to be more gun-shy as to the potential depths the program can hit...as well as the heights (1990).
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There are a ton of fans like you that are gun shy due to past failures our program has had. I would have to say that we are light years removed from that.
 
hiveredtech said:
I have to tell you we were mostly hopeless during that time...going to a bowl in 1978 (Peach) and 1985 (All-American). We made the current Duke team look like All-Americans many years.

That probably causes me to be more gun-shy as to the potential depths the program can hit...as well as the heights (1990).
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Based on an earlier post of yours, I believe we were in school at the same time; at least overlapped some years. I too was a non-football athlete in the early '80s and remember the GTAA being in the old Navy auxillary building, practicing some days in the freshman gym, and dressing under the east stands next to the football team in a rat infested locker room.
Grant Field was falling down (the horseshoe was condemned due to safety hazards), AND, DOUG WEAVER wanted to drop D 1 football!!
Fortunately, Doug Weaver was dropped and Homer entered the picture.

I am sure you remember all of this. My point is, why do you want to dwell in the Dark Ages of Tech's football past?

Today we play in a big but not overpowering conference. Back then, we were still feeling the pain of Dodd's move to independence but playing a virtual SEC schedule that we couldn't compete in, and without any of the $$ benefits.

Wake up Red! Homer Rice saved our butts from doom, and made it possible for Tech to excel again.
No way should we even contemplate settling for anything less.
Be proud to be ticked off with the current situation.
You don't have to boo, as I won't, but you can demand better.
 
Good post PW!

HT, I appreciate how much you are torn up over the loss and how the players are down about the way the season has played out. You are a Tech man. Everybody has a different way of dealing.

My personal Idaho..

I have the "Kurt Cobaine Teen Spirit" award to present to you at the Pizza Hut Team Banquet. It comes with a "Space Technology Comfort Foam Chair Back." The chair back perfect for 2-3 :eek: games in BDS each year.

For the rest of you, please don't give my child any pizza. He is bringing Soy nut butter sandwiches because cheese makes him break out. He was last year's "3rd Improved Born in the Month of August!" We are so proud.
 
ncjacket said:
hivered, I started going to Tech games in the late 60s before we moved out of town, and then started again when I enrolled in 1975. I understand what you're saying about the hopeless years but you can't let it make you happy with mediocre seasons (not saying that you are). If you're afraid to reach for the heights you will definitely not get there. I think Chan is a fine man and knows football. I just don't think he's a good fit for us after 6+ years of the same old stuff. Hopefully he proves me wrong by winning out and having a great season next year. But I'm not optimistic.
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I am not speaking in context of the coach and whethe he should be here or not. He is definitely has us doing the strongest recruiting we ever have...just on-field we have flattened out.
I am talking about our general attitude towards the entire team.
 
pocket_watch said:
Based on an earlier post of yours, I believe we were in school at the same time; at least overlapped some years. I too was a non-football athlete in the early '80s and remember the GTAA being in the old Navy auxillary building, practicing some days in the freshman gym, and dressing under the east stands next to the football team in a rat infested locker room.
Grant Field was falling down (the horseshoe was condemned due to safety hazards), AND, DOUG WEAVER wanted to drop D 1 football!!
Fortunately, Doug Weaver was dropped and Homer entered the picture.

I am sure you remember all of this. My point is, why do you want to dwell in the Dark Ages of Tech's football past?

Today we play in a big but not overpowering conference. Back then, we were still feeling the pain of Dodd's move to independence but playing a virtual SEC schedule that we couldn't compete in, and without any of the $$ benefits.

Wake up Red! Homer Rice saved our butts from doom, and made it possible for Tech to excel again.
No way should we even contemplate settling for anything less.
Be proud to be ticked off with the current situation.
You don't have to boo, as I won't, but you can demand better.
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as I said to someone else...and have posted before...my comments have zero to do with whether our HC should stay or go.
I am simply talking about the general demeanor of many fans towards the team/program.
I am holding out until the end of the season.
 
hiveredtech said:
as I said to someone else...and have posted before...my comments have zero to do with whether our HC should stay or go.
I am simply talking about the general demeanor of many fans towards the team/program.
I am holding out until the end of the season.
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I see your point, but I think you're preaching to the choir for the most part. I make it a point to only boo refs. I can't say I've *never* booed a player, but I can't remember a specific incident where I did (maybe an opposing player a few times). Like I said, I think most agree with you and this thread is going nowhere.
 
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