When Should the Georgia Game Be On The Backburner?

Never is correct, but the game should be strongly considered to be moved to the beginning of the year. Pressure is mounting for a playoff and that playoff will most certainly be based on conference champions first. The big UGA game should go first so that both teams can focus on their conference.

It sounds fun to be able to beat the other when the other is a conference champion contender, but in reality it is of no value in the upcoming playoffs. I really believe that all rivalries will drift forward of the season if that rivalry is not in conference.
 
Don't bring up moving the game to the beginning of the season, I almost got my nuts cut off for thinking it was a good idea.
 
refrigeratormover said:
Don't bring up moving the game to the beginning of the season, I almost got my nuts cut off for thinking it was a good idea.
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Personally I think it's inevitable, there are just too many advantages:
1) Money (less big games early than late). We'd be the primo game instead of a decent game of the weekend.
2) Focus on the conference as I've already said.
3) The damage in losing is much less to both programs; the offseason is better for gnawing at each other and being the first game allows plenty of this. But energy would be refocused on conference play quickly (and a possible rematch always exists).
4) In Tech's case, the ACCCG could be moved up a week and played in Atlanta (this also gives a break before playoffs).
5) The game can compete with the ASC. Screw em.
6) Like it or not, but the game early helps Tech.
 
Concerning playing Georgia first

I've never thought that was a good idea. It's always a nice thing to anticipate at the end and I guess I like it 'cause it's always been like that. But after the Georgia game this year I had second thoughts. We were injured all over the place. We had layed it all out for Georgia. If we had been in the ACC championship game, how would we have fared? Could we have gotten back up mentally and physically for a game a week later? Now let me say I'd rather beat Georgia than win the ACC. But in order to get to finish way up in the ranking -- even number 1! -- we need to win that game. I'm still not sure which I prefer, but I'm giving the idea of opening with them a much better look now.
 
In my opinion the fact that our defense held in the 2nd half and that our offense kept trying like mad to score shows that they cared. When you take that big of a beating in one quarter and keep playing with everything you have and don't give up, that says a lot IMO.
 
refrigeratormover said:
Don't bring up moving the game to the beginning of the season, I almost got my nuts cut off for thinking it was a good idea.
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I thought it was a good idea when Chan was here. But now, I don't want to give UGA a whole preseason to prepare for us. I would like the Tech - UGA game to be the third game of the season.
 
Rodzilla said:
In my opinion the fact that our defense held in the 2nd half and that our offense kept trying like mad to score shows that they cared. When you take that big of a beating in one quarter and keep playing with everything you have and don't give up, that says a lot IMO.
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We played OK in the second half. I think we may have been a little tense in the first half, rather than intense. MJ in particular seemed like he was hyper.
 
refrigeratormover said:
I don't understand why everyone keeps saying the team wasn't ready. I talked to several insiders and they said the players were pumped and excited.

We just played bad and it steamrolled from there.

There is a difference.

In 86 we were fired up about WF and the chance to secure a bowl and we went out and crapped on ourselves. It happens.
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John, have you ever figured out why we ran wide on fourth and one in '86? We could have run straight ahead behind you with a sneak or a tailback and headed to our second bowl in a row.
 
GTLiebs said:
GTMens, it's just that i think that opinion is not something the players should have. You think a player from a 1-11 team with a win over Georgia are going to get into the NFL? Will those players or that team get any respect from anyone else but Georgia Tech fans? That kind of thinking is a fan mentality that could affect the players and I think that's a bad thing. I'm not saying that is the right idea though.
And lonestar, I didn't mean to put it that way. I don't mean treat the Georgia game as any other game but that we shouldn't forgo other games because they aren't the Georgia game. It's just that I feel once a teams' goal stops being to win championships and starts to be beat this one guy they, well, won't be able to win a championship I guess.
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If that statment were remotely true, it might matter. But since it isn't, and won't be while PJ is here, this whole discussion is moot.
 
ncjacket said:
If that statment were remotely true, it might matter. But since it isn't, and won't be while PJ is here, this whole discussion is moot.
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Agree. When has GT ever won a championship w/o beating UGAg?
 
The Georgia game will never be on the backburner. But, we need to learn to put the game behind us, win or lose, and get ready to play well in a bowl game. We did just that against Syracuse, Tulsa, and in the Gator against Notre Dame. We actually played a great first half against WVU, and a decent first half the first time we played LSU. But, we have played a few disastrous games. This year may have been the worst.

I am sure we were fired up to play. But, early in the game the defense looked like it had done no hitting at all and had not seen anything near game speed. Similarly, the offense that was run at great speed and tempo against the U and UGA was so much slower in the bowl game. But, the fumbled punt really got the downward spiral going and we never recovered.
 
Maybe they did look that way, but the fact is they DID hit during bowl practice. We may have been tight or LSU may have been that much quicker.
 
77GTFan said:
John, have you ever figured out why we ran wide on fourth and one in '86? We could have run straight ahead behind you with a sneak or a tailback and headed to our second bowl in a row.
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yeah, that one and the nadlicker game still has me confused. I still have a bitter taste in my mouth because of our dumbass offensive coord.
 
I came to this realization while trying to sleep shortly after looking at something on this website. The reason I made this thread and expressed these odd opinions is that I had bought into all the hype that GT was on the road to greatness and was just as good as the SEC teams and yada yada...

I felt we had played unmotivated because I wanted an excuse for that beating. Honestly though, the team that played in the Peach bowl is the same one that played in all our other games and suffered the same fate of any similar team that is boosted to nosebleed heights after a big win.

This brings up another question then. Anyone think next season will be better than this season or will we be going for par?
 
I dont think it should be on the backburner

But I also don't think we should give UGA the joy of letting them know they mean so much to us.

I guarantee their #1 goal is not to beat Tech. They actually hate Florida more right now. Even still, that's not their #1 goal.

But then again, I'm from the new school of thought. What do I know? ::shrugs::
 
For me the game is always going to be the focal point of the season --unless, as in 1990, we are playing for something bigger.

It also has a lot to do with the two teams, how good/bad they are, if GT has won a couple in a row, etc...

Someone mentioned the UF game being more important to UGA fans than GT --and that may be true right now-- but just watch in the next two years when GT wins the next couple of games. The GT game will be their focal point, just like the UGA game is to us Tech fans now.
 
i_like_money said:
I dont think it should be on the backburner

But I also don't think we should give UGA the joy of letting them know they mean so much to us.

I guarantee their #1 goal is not to beat Tech. They actually hate Florida more right now. Even still, that's not their #1 goal.

But then again, I'm from the new school of thought. What do I know? ::shrugs::
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This is bs. When in Atlanta for the Chicken Bowl, I saw three UGA reactions to the Tech loss. One was "that makes me happy" (at the Hyatt), another was "as long as Tech lost, I'm happy" (ticket salesman at the King Tut exhibit), and the third was "whoever plays Tech is my favorite team" (out front of Mary Mac's Tea Room). Sound familiar? If I wasn't so hungover on the 1st I would have laughed out loud.
 
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