HD Rant
by Atlanta's original team on Feb 8, 2010 10:14 AM EST
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A few days ago I read Heather Dinich's post Questions Surround Georgia Tech on the ESPN web site. She was almost predicting Tech was going to have a down year in football due primarily to all of the coaching changes. In the past I have wondered why Tech fans were so hostile to Heather and in my mind found myself defending her. Then she writes this piece. It is not that she may not be right, Tech may indeed have a somewhat down year, it is just that she seemed to be straining for reasons. In the end she almost suggest tension among the coaching staff and a slightly veiled inference that coaches were leaving as a result. I could go on but I would invite others who have not read the article to do so and see what their take is on it.
I still do not hate Heather but for the first time I am seriously starting to doubt her ability to analyze an athletic program. It was as if she was just trying to dream up something to write about. What is your take on this?
http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/9458/questions-surround-georgia-tech
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The rest of the ACC season
by BirdGT on Feb 8, 2010 9:17 AM EST
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Also, I recalculated the home/away wins/losses table to see how GT's remaining schedule fares with the rest of the conference. We still have the 2nd hardest schedule for the remainder of the ACC schedule. UVA took our place as worst schedule remaining after our 19 point Duke crapfest.
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Super Bowl Open Thread!
by BirdGT on Feb 7, 2010 6:00 PM EST
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WOOHOO@!!@!@!@#!@#LASERS#$%@#$%$%& I'd like to see a Philip Wheeler pick 6 or sack. That'd be totally awesome.
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More fun with the 2010 football schedule
by BirdGT on Feb 7, 2010 12:00 PM EST
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Odd segue time... Going back to Yakub's point, we are looking at a tough back end on our 2010 schedule. To illustrate the point, I made a graph showing the 2009 winning percentage of our 2010 schedule opponents.
The navy blocks represent the 2009 I-A winning percentage for each opponent each week of the 2010 season. The gold line is a running sum of the winning percentages from 2009 over the 2010 season. It shows two clear plateaus - an easy start to our 2010 season and a tough finish. It's a mountain to climb, if you will.
I also wanted to look at the schedule a way in which furrer4heisman does every year. He looks at days rest for your team, days rest for your opponent, and your opponents preceding opponent. This can show you roughly how prepared, up or down, and generally beat up a team should be leading up to the GT game.
After looking at it from the Hokie perspective, I like our schedule. We don't take many breaks (like 2009) as we plow from game to game to game, which will probably hurt us along the lines in injuries. But we never have to cool down our offense. Our bye week is even cut short by a Thursday night danceoff in Blacksburg. The climaxing difficulty of the schedule makes each game even more critical as the season progresses. We'll be ranked higher from a soft start so our later, bigger games will have a higher likelihood of national television. It's almost too perfect.
Let me know your thoughts on this fine Sunday afternoon.
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Hewitt defeats Sidney Approval Poll
by BirdGT on Feb 7, 2010 10:00 AM EST
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Sidney Lowe, Dino Gaudio, and Oliver Purnell are the only active ACC coaches with sub-0.500 records against CPH.
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A FTRS Exclusive
by Tedward09 on Feb 6, 2010 8:11 PM EST
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We have learned from multiple sources that Roddy Jones has joined the Georgia Tech baseball team. Roddy began practicing with the team this past week when they opened up pre-season practice.
Some of you may know already, but Roddy was a stud baseball prospect in his high school days. He was a 4 year letter winner in center field and was drafted in the 39th round by the Chicago White Sox. Of course Roddy decided to go to college and play football.
Playing baseball in college has always been a possibility for Roddy, but for whatever reason he hasn't decided to take on 2 sports at Tech until now. The center field position for the Joltin Jackets is pretty much set with Jeff Rowland, who also leads off. The right fielder spot is currently taken by Chase Burnette, but his spot is less secure than Rowland's. So Roddy could fit in out in right.
However, I wouldn't expect him to start any time soon as it'll take awhile for him to get his timing back at the plate. Roddy's speed will add another dimension to our attack. Rowland is really the only threat on the bases, so adding Roddy's speed to the lineup will be a great addition.
More on this story as it develops. Since I can't find any highlights of Roddy's baseball career, here's an oldie but goodie.
Good luck to Roddy on being Tech's newest 2 sport athlete!
THWG
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NC State Open Thread
by BirdGT on Feb 6, 2010 3:00 PM EST
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I work with a gaggle of Wolfpackers. If we don't defeat these turds, I will not be able to show my face at work. Paul, please beat the Sidney Lowe-coached pile of feces like there's no tomorrow.
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Cutcliffe claims Duke an ACC Championship in "5 to 6 years"
by Winfield Featherston on Feb 5, 2010 2:01 PM EST
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"I will not promise you, I guarantee you that these guys win one [ACC Championship] in the next five to six years. Absolutely. One hundred percent guarantee it."
-Coach David Cutcliffe
Are we sure he's not talking about basketball here?
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