I'm usually not one of those bash-AJC type guys, but I have to pile on with this piece.
First of all, none of it was clearly wrong about anything. That's not the point. He slanted it completely in the favor of "Yeah, GT is the little brother of this state. They have a complete minority complex. Go Dawgs! Wooh wooh wooh!"
In particular, his talk of the BC game especially put Tech in a bad light while he shuffled UGA's obnoxiousness under the floor. While the BC game wasn't Tech's best moment, similar things would happen at just about any heated contest with officiating that horrendous. I've personally seen FAR worse.
And everything else he says portrays Tech as a team about to go off the rails. He mentions everything bad about the season while mentioning none of the good. I admit we could have done better this year, but some teams are doing far worse than 7-4 this year. I'll state it another way; if he took the same approach to UGA, he'd mention their shellacking by Tennessee, that Tebow was injured in the Florida game and that they beat Troy by ten at home.
Finally, Matt also didn't mention the reason we hate UGA: well, because they're our damn rival. I doubt I would find articles in Birmingham's paper about why Alabama hates Auburn, even though Bama has lost five straight. No, controlling your territory comes with college football and there's really no other end to our hate.
By the way, although I just went on a rant, I'm honestly not a guy to get riled about the AJC. I typically don't even open these AJC threads and I' usually just respond by not buying their papers. This time, though, I wanted to make it emphatically clear that this column was wrongly argued and gave the wrong impression about Tech.
