... and to the guy that said we shouldn't think about ugay until the game before... tell that to paul johnson... you sound like chan gailey and if i am not mistaken... he was run off
I understand your point but I'm not a coach or a player - I'm not responsible if we lose to them nor do I get any credit if we beat them.
My point is that Tech fans spend way to much mental energy obsessing about UGa during the 50 weeks outside the two-week window before we play them. I wouldn't mind it so much if they were the same way with us. But they aren't.
They don't show up on the first day of spring practice thinking: "We gotta beat Tech this year!" No, they are thinking: "We gotta go undefeated this year!"
When we start thinking about going undefeated instead of winning one game every season, guess what will happen. We'll beat the nadlickers like we own them and go on to bigger and better things like winning a fifth National Championship.
Losing to UGa is never acceptable. But, to me, losing to anybody is never acceptable. The goal every season should be "Lose to No One!" and not "Well, if we only win one game this year I sure do hope its against Uga."
There is a world of difference between wanting to be a winner and wanting to not be a loser.
Besides if Tech were the preseason favorite to win it all and UGa was picked to win 2 games, we wouldn't be discussing them at all which suggests that our priorities each season revolve around how good or how bad UGa is. That just ain't right.
And just to address the comparison to Gailey - and I'm biting my lip as I type this - beating UGa is a lot more important to me than it ever was to him.
He's gone. I'm still here.