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I was looking at GT's schedule and they play Mississippi State and Vanderbilt along with the yearly Georgia match-up. I know that MSU and Vandy arent the greatest team but, I think it is a great way for GT to get a strength of schedule advantage.
 
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snake5040 said:
I was looking at GT's schedule and they play Mississippi State and Vanderbilt along with the yearly Georgia match-up. I know that MSU and Vandy arent the greatest team but, I think it is a great way for GT to get a strength of schedule advantage.
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Playing two bad teams from the SEC will not do much for them. Vanderbilt will be back to toilet scrubbing duty next year and MS State........
 
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I feel like I heard they were trying to Schedule more SEC opponents. They are apparently trying to renew old rivalries from their past. I think Auburn and GT used to be rivals. GT posters on here, HELP!?!?!?!
 
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Brewerw said:
I feel like I heard they were trying to Schedule more SEC opponents. They are apparently trying to renew old rivalries from their past. I think Auburn and GT used to be rivals. GT posters on here, HELP!?!?!?!
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GT posters on here?? Are there GT fans anywhere? I've never met any.
 
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notverycrucial said:
GT posters on here?? Are there GT fans anywhere? I've never met any.
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That's because you've never been outside that 2 mile bubble you live in...

Yes GT is trying to schedule more SEC games. GT Tennessee used to be a rivalry. GT Auburn too. They were in the SEC, moron.
 
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GT is my 2nd team.

but if i had to put it in terms of 40-yard dashes, GT is 39 yards behind of UT
 
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Tech is the second-favorite team of everybody who lives in the Atlanta area and is a fan of an SEC school other than Georgia. I'd love to see Tech and UT start playing again. We played them every year when I was growing up in the 70s; I remember trying to get my dad to explain to me why John Ward sometimes called them the Yellow Jackets, sometimes the Engineers, and sometimes the Rambling Wreck. "Why do they have so many mascots, Daddy?"

Besides the nostalgic aspect, it sure seems like playing in Atlanta couldn't hurt from a recruiting standpoint either.
 
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the.one.the.only said:
That's because you've never been outside that 2 mile bubble you live in...

Yes GT is trying to schedule more SEC games. GT Tennessee used to be a rivalry. GT Auburn too. They were in the SEC, moron.
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Spent plenty of time at the ACC tournament this year IN ATLANTA where the host school was GEORGIA TECH. I did see a few Tech fans, but they were from Virginia.

GT is a great program with a decent history, but I'm confident that their fanbase isn't much larger than Vandy or Wake Forest. No big deal.
 
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notverycrucial said:
Spent plenty of time at the ACC tournament this year IN ATLANTA where the host school was GEORGIA TECH. I did see a few Tech fans, but they were from Virginia.

GT is a great program with a decent history, but I'm confident that their fanbase isn't much larger than Vandy or Wake Forest. No big deal.
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For a team that has a pretty good basketball history, Tech students and alumni are about as indifferent to basketball as most SEC teams. I know a bunch of them, and by and large they don't particularly care about basketball at all.

But they care about football. If you think their fanbase is comparable to Wake Forest's, then you're simply wrong.
 
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notverycrucial said:
Spent plenty of time at the ACC tournament this year IN ATLANTA where the host school was GEORGIA TECH. I did see a few Tech fans, but they were from Virginia.

GT is a great program with a decent history, but I'm confident that their fanbase isn't much larger than Vandy or Wake Forest. No big deal.
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Are you out of your freaking mind?? If you were in ATLANTA then you saw more than a few Tech fans just by sheer proximity to the campus. Once again, don't waste everybody's time ranting about subjects completely foreign to you.

Also... I'm as die hard a UT fan as you can get, and I only mildly follow GT football, but their 'decent history' is comparable to the 'decent history' of UT, Bama, PSU, etc. Ever hear of John Heisman? Bobby Dodd? Do you actually know anything about Georgia Tech football or are you seriously basing your 'confidence' on the fact that YOU (one person) saw a 'few' GT fans at the ACC BASKETBALL tournament in which they weren't even supposed to win their first round game? God some people on this board need to take a good hard look at not renewing their internet subscription.
 
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the.one.the.only said:
Are you out of your freaking mind?? If you were in ATLANTA then you saw more than a few Tech fans just by sheer proximity to the campus. Once again, don't waste everybody's time ranting about subjects completely foreign to you.

Also... I'm as die hard a UT fan as you can get, and I only mildly follow GT football, but their 'decent history' is comparable to the 'decent history' of UT, Bama, PSU, etc. Ever hear of John Heisman? Bobby Dodd? Do you actually know anything about Georgia Tech football or are you seriously basing your 'confidence' on the fact that YOU (one person) saw a 'few' GT fans at the ACC BASKETBALL tournament in which they weren't even supposed to win their first round game? God some people on this board need to take a good hard look at not renewing their internet subscription.
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Take a deep breath.... All I'm saying is that GT doesn't have a very large fan base compared to other schools in the ACC or SEC. I'm not dismissing their passion or their history. I know the fans and alumni of GT are passionate, but that doesn't change the fact that their numbers are small.

FWIW, I've got no specific fanbase data to support this claim other than my own observations following sports in and around the ACC for the past 25 years. What are your qualifications?
 
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JZVOL said:
With the type of offense they run, I wouldn't want UT playing GT.
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Memories of the Air Force game keep popping in my head.

Paul Johnson has them going in the right direction... Keep in mind he didn't have any of his own atheletes last year running his offense
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pantone151 said:
Memories of the Air Force game keep popping in my head.

Paul Johnson has them going in the right direction... Keep in mind he didn't have any of his own atheletes last year running his offense
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A lot of people seem to be saying that Johnson will be better off when he has his own recruits. I actually wonder if his most talented teams will be when he still has players from the previous staff. His system isn't exactly the fast track to the NFL - seems like that would be very bad for recruiting.
 
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ukvols said:
A lot of people seem to be saying that Johnson will be better off when he has his own recruits. I actually wonder if his most talented teams will be when he still has players from the previous staff. His system isn't exactly the fast track to the NFL - seems like that would be very bad for recruiting.
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You could argue that against the spread as well, its not a fast track to the nfl either. Its hard to run the tripple option offense with guys who are used to a more traditional style... I think if he gets a good athletic QB and some talented backs, he'll do just fine. He did well at georgia southern, and at navy. Granted the ACC is a little tougher, but I still emphasise the word little
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GT has a huge fan base btw... I live in Ga Atl about 30min away from campus. And they have one of the best backs in the nation IMO Jon Dwyer. GT is a very nice campus but there fan base is not as huge as ala/florida/tenn but bigger then some other schools in the ACC.
 
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pantone151 said:
You could argue that against the spread as well, its not a fast track to the nfl either. Its hard to run the tripple option offense with guys who are used to a more traditional style... I think if he gets a good athletic QB and some talented backs, he'll do just fine. He did well at georgia southern, and at navy. Granted the ACC is a little tougher, but I still emphasise the word little
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He already has a good, athletic QB and some talented backs. Nesbitt is probably one of the more athletic QBs he's ever had in his system.
 
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jonathan dwyer is talented....so talented he will be the first back taken in next years draft
i was originally a tech fan and still am
we have Bama scheduled as a future opponnent along with auburn, and south carolina and ole miss.
we are in talks with UT ive also heard for games after 2020
since we did used to be in the sec rekindling old rivalries is nice, we used to play UT, auburn and UGA out of conference every year but then that became way too hard of a slate of out of conference games along with in conference games
we beat auburn the past 2 times we played them and vandy the past two times all after 2000

i am sad we left the sec, but i think it was because we were sick of playing alabama because they were such a dirty team or something back in the day

auburns out 3rd biggest rival in our history i think
yaaaa
 
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I'm going to GT this fall for grad school, and I am VERY excited about the football program. I am and always will be a Vol, but I will definitely be showing some pride for GT when I get there.

I asked my friends this, and they all have differing opinions, so I'll ask yall. Do you think that Tech can ever win a Championship with the triple option? I want to say no, because teams would figure it out. But i think that it's been a long time since a team has been very successful with it, so they might be able to catch some big schools off guard.
 
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BigHenry07 said:
I'm going to GT this fall for grad school, and I am VERY excited about the football program. I am and always will be a Vol, but I will definitely be showing some pride for GT when I get there.

I asked my friends this, and they all have differing opinions, so I'll ask yall. Do you think that Tech can ever win a Championship with the triple option? I want to say no, because teams would figure it out. But i think that it's been a long time since a team has been very successful with it, so they might be able to catch some big schools off guard.
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I think they COULD win one if they had the right athletes and a great defense. Look at Florida. Early on, people said the spread wouldn't work in the SEC. Once Meyer had his players and some good defenses, they won championships.
 
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Brewerw said:
I feel like I heard they were trying to Schedule more SEC opponents. They are apparently trying to renew old rivalries from their past. I think Auburn and GT used to be rivals. GT posters on here, HELP!?!?!?!
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Tech has 5 SEC titles, and Tech coach Bobby Dodd (the guy the coach of the year award is named after) was the arch nemesis of Bear Bryant. Also was an All American QB for Tennessee, wasn't he?

Our roots are SEC.

We had a home and home set up with Bama, but they dumped it when we hired Paul Johnson. I think we were fine with that because Saban had finally had a good year, so we probably weren't too psyched about playing them either. We were also supposed to have a home and home with Ole Miss, but I think they ran from that recently too, after the 08 season. Officially I think they wanted to "delay the game" a few years, probably hoping we lose our coach by then. I still think we're trying to fill that spot. Yall interested? I'd love to play Tennessee.

Auburn is one of our four biggest historic rivals, but Bama is probably the nastiest old rival. Lot of bad blood in that one, from the Dodd/Bryant stuff, as well as from Curry. Tubberville refused to play us after we spanked them twice this decade. Dunno about the new guy, I suppose we could get in on some Auburn games too. If there's one SEC team I want nothing of, it's LSU. They always seem to have our number.

Regarding our fanbase, well yeah, we're a very small school, and UGA alums outnumber GT alums in our own home town, due to proximity, so that can make it difficult. We love our football though.

Regarding PJ's system not being a fast track to the NFL, I recall Ladanian Tomlinson (option RB from Texas Christian) doing fairly well in the NFL. Jon Dwyer currently at Tech will almost assuredly be a first round pick, quite possibly the #1 overall taken.

Regarding championships ... we gotta reduce the number of 3 turnover games we have per year, and gotta find a kicker. Because we don't have the media support of some other schools, our only path to the NC is to go undefeated, and that can be hard if your offensive system is high risk/high reward. I like our chances at some ACC Championships in the near future, though, and I like our chances against Georgia.
 
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#1 RB...maybe. #1 pick...probably not. And Dodd probably hated the Bear at least partially because he played at Tennessee.
 
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beej67 said:
Tech has 5 SEC titles, and Tech coach Bobby Dodd (the guy the coach of the year award is named after) was the arch nemesis of Bear Bryant. Also was an All American QB for Tennessee, wasn't he?

Our roots are SEC.

We had a home and home set up with Bama, but they dumped it when we hired Paul Johnson. I think we were fine with that because Saban had finally had a good year, so we probably weren't too psyched about playing them either. We were also supposed to have a home and home with Ole Miss, but I think they ran from that recently too, after the 08 season. Officially I think they wanted to "delay the game" a few years, probably hoping we lose our coach by then. I still think we're trying to fill that spot. Yall interested? I'd love to play Tennessee.

Auburn is one of our four biggest historic rivals, but Bama is probably the nastiest old rival. Lot of bad blood in that one, from the Dodd/Bryant stuff, as well as from Curry. Tubberville refused to play us after we spanked them twice this decade. Dunno about the new guy, I suppose we could get in on some Auburn games too. If there's one SEC team I want nothing of, it's LSU. They always seem to have our number.

Regarding our fanbase, well yeah, we're a very small school, and UGA alums outnumber GT alums in our own home town, due to proximity, so that can make it difficult. We love our football though.

Regarding PJ's system not being a fast track to the NFL, I recall Ladanian Tomlinson (option RB from Texas Christian) doing fairly well in the NFL. Jon Dwyer currently at Tech will almost assuredly be a first round pick, quite possibly the #1 overall taken.

Regarding championships ... we gotta reduce the number of 3 turnover games we have per year, and gotta find a kicker. Because we don't have the media support of some other schools, our only path to the NC is to go undefeated, and that can be hard if your offensive system is high risk/high reward. I like our chances at some ACC Championships in the near future, though, and I like our chances against Georgia.
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Thank you! And Dwyer is a hoss.
 
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