Reggie Ball: a Tech Man

Akinji07 said:
That doesn’t sound like recounting memories or appreciating him as a true Tech man when you say things like he was smoking weed and didn’t work hard enough in a thread about appreciating him as a Tech man. It sounds more like ööööting on him with the cover of “I still appreciate him.”
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Cut M39 some slack; he's a Jesus freak. :dunno:
 
The Champ said:
Yea, and the goat wasn’t going to drop a game winner that hit him it the hands. öööö happens. Hindsight is 20/20.
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Hindsite was me being pissed off the very second we called the time out after Reggie ran us down there.
 
stinger78 said:
The fact that Reggie is near the top of so many lists at Tech is testament to the quality of QB he was. He was an intense competitor. Like him or not, he was going to play his heart out every game. In addition, he had to play in the most boring offense imaginable while he was at Tech. He did do some things that were questionable on the field at times, like running out of the EZ against VPI, giving them 2 points and the ball at a critical time. Unfortunately, those are the things we tend to remember. Not the beautiful passes and exciting scrambles. As for UGAg, the only game I drop on him personally was that 2005 game when we drove the length of the field to tie and then, on their 10-yard line, hit the mutt CB right in the numbers with the ball. He won 29 games, though, in a Tech uniform. That should speak loudly enough. What other QB won that many games for Tech? JT5 won 23. Shawn Jones won 31, IIRC, so he may be tops. Joe Ham won 29 as well, IIRC.
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Any guy that’s willing to spill his guys on the field every time he stepped out there is a winner in my book.
 
M39Buzz said:
Thanks for the compliment!! :thumbup: :)

And if any of those things that I said were not true, I apologize.

And I'm surely not perfect. Have plenty of faults of my own. But Thank God for His Forgiveness, Grace and Restoration... for me and for Reggie!
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M39, you're a gem. Don't stop being you. Have an awesome day!
 
daBuzz said:
Actually, my thought was always that he should have played for Paul Johnson. Reggie would have been an absolute beast as a TO QB for Coach Johnson.


My wife & I had flown to Hawaii for a wedding, landing the afternoon of that game. I had already warned her that we were watching the Tech/BYU game when we got there, and I honestly didn't care what we had to do to make that happen.

Long story short, the hotel didn't have it and we eventually found an Applebee's with the game on. We sat at the bar and watched the entire game. When she started complaining in the 2nd half about how long it was taking, I tossed her the keys to the car and said, "Come back and get me then. I'll call when the game is over but I warned you before you booked the flights for today that this was going to happen." Once I said that, she didn't mention leaving until the game was over again.
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That’s a man’s man. Kids, take notes, this is how you avoid having to post a divorce thread on a Georgia Tech football forum years later. When she complains about you watching Tech football, just toss her the keys and tell her to öööö off. öööö yeah!
 
Akinji07 said:
That’s a man’s man. Kids, take notes, this is how you avoid having to post a divorce thread on a Georgia Tech football forum years later. When she complains about you watching Tech football, just toss her the keys and tell her to öööö off. öööö yeah.
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What he didn't mention is that he slept on the couch for the rest of the trip. Ha!
 
JJacket said:
I do have an issue with us calling a pass play on 1st and goal against NC State in 2005. Reggie or PJ would have walked the ball in.

The pass play wasn't Reggie's call and he hit Calvin in the hands with it.
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play happened right in front of us, bounced off CJ into the DB's hands, wrong play call just like the Seahawks vs. Patriots on the goal line - bigger stage of course, but same thing and same result.
 
On the topic of ex-Tech QB's, whatever became of that loser Eddie McAshan?
 
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GEETEELEE said:
Last I heard he was working for Tech, but I don’t recall in what capacity. But while his exit from the team was less than ideal he was not a loser.

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I'd classify anyone a loser who left his teammates high and dry because he wanted more than his allotment of tickets before of all games - Uga. True Techsters would give their right arm for a chance to beat those bastards
 
M39Buzz said:
Wasn't Reggie's first game against Auburn? We won that game - BIG upset - and Reggie made some amazing plays to help us win.

Seems like I remember Coach Chan Gailey saying WTTE "That was the worse thing that could have happened to Reggie." I guess because it caused him to see himself as more mature and a better player than he really was, just starting out as a Freshman(?) QB. He became overconfident and didn't work as hard as he should have to improve himself as a football player. Also, seems like there was an issue with him smoking weed???

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all that RB1 did for GT and appreciate him as true Tech man. Just recounting some of my memories from that time.
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I believe his first game was a road loss to BYU.

What Gailey meant by that quote was that the fans put huge expectations on Reggie that he couldn’t meet.
 
WracerX said:
I believe his first game was a road loss to BYU.

What Gailey meant by that quote was that the fans put huge expectations on Reggie that he couldn’t meet.
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And fans need to remember what happened against UGAg the season before Reggie became QB. He may not have a "W" against them, but damn we played scared in 2002.
 
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