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2 More Days To Georgia Tech Football: Intro Video!
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 2, 2010 5:24 PM EDT
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Don't Forget That Tomorrow Is College Colors Day
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 2, 2010 4:00 PM EDT
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Tomorrow is College Colors Day. Don't forget to wear your Georgia Tech gear around the office tomorrow.
There is one rule: Step 1: Wear Apparel Representing your Favorite College on Friday, September 3, 2010.
I will be en route from Toronto on Friday but you can be sure that I packed my Tech polo for the plane ride.
Driving The Ramblin' Reck Down Georgia Tech's Memory Lane
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 2, 2010 12:30 PM EDT
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Georgia Tech Football is two days away and with a new season comes a new Ramblin' Reck Driver and old memories for both me and Bird. Bird rode in 2007 and I had the keys in 2009. Bird and I take a trip down memory lane and talk about the buildup for our very first rideouts.
2007
Bird: The week before my first rideout, we were still assembling the Ramblin' Reck upholstery and roof. The car didn't have any of the classic GT decals on the doors or rumble seat door. The car had just been painted on August 7th and was moved from the body shop to the upholstery shop on August 21st.
Bo Emerson, an AJC beat writer at the time, personally aided me in loading the vehicle into the trailer that would take the car to the upholstery shop. Since there was no seat, I rode a coffee can with a steel chair as the chair back to give me enough leverage to press the clutch and brakes.
From August 21st to September 7th, the upholstery shop began replacing the reupholstered (yet still original) box springs for seats in the front and rumble seats. They also repaired the roof. GT Off Road and GT Motorsports helped me trailer the car back to campus and we unloaded it back into the garage in the early afternoon of September 7th. I had gone to Notre Dame the weekend previous but I don't remember much of the game just a few ridiculous visuals (Touchdown Jesus, First Down Moses, Gold Dome, Jimmy Clausen sucking).
On Gameday, we were still working on the car because it kept shorting the lone fuse every time we turned on the headlights or honked the horn. We went to Wal Mart at 3:00AM because we blew all of our fuses trying to fix it, bought every fuse they had, and came back to campus for about an hour's rest. Winfield and myself loaded the car in the stadium at 7:00AM, slept until kickoff, and I drove onto the field at 2:20 to kickoff without a hitch.
All I remember of the rideout was the Reck Club banner ripping away to a crystal clear blue sky and an ocean of cheering fans. The rideout was pretty breathtaking. The first rideout is still fresh and vivid in my mind.
I-AA Football Opponents at Bobby Dodd Stadium
by BirdGT on Sep 2, 2010 8:00 AM EDT
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Georgia State kicks off their inaugural season next Thursday Night at the Georgia Dome. It'll be the sixteenth I-AA game played in Atlanta since 2000. All other games featuring I-AA squads have been against Tech at Bobby Dodd Stadium or the Atlanta Football Classic.
The average attendance for a Tech home game since 2003 has been 50,131 people (91% capacity). Since 2001, Tech hasn't sold out any of its seven I-AA games with an average attendance of only 44,158 fans (80% capacity). Tech's first I-AA opponent of the 2000's was Citadel in 2001 followed by three games against Samford from 2004-2007. Jacksonville State visited BDS in 2008 and 2009. And Gardner-Webb, of course, was the worst win of the 2000's...
The average score for a I-AA game at Bobby Dodd Stadium since 2001 has been 37 to 10 as Georgia Tech has had relative ease dispatching I-AA's minus Gardner-Webb. The average temperature of I-AA kickoffs has been in the mid 80's so it hasn't been great football weather, which probably attributed to the lull in attendance as well. An average kickoff time of 3PM isn't too bad.
What do you think about I-AA opponents? Do you go to Tech vs. I-AA games? Do you hate early kickoffs or hot August/early September kickoffs? Are you going to the First Georgia State football game of all time?
3 More Days! Anthony Allen Burns The Clemson Tigers Defense
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 1, 2010 5:00 PM EDT
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There's a new B-back in town this year....and his name is Anthony Allen
Crazy Bobby Bowden Stats! Dad Gum!
by BirdGT on Sep 1, 2010 4:00 PM EDT
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Basically, I just wanted to look at all of the current ACC coaches, how old they were, and how long it would take them to reach Bobby Bowden's record 117 career ACC wins. The table below shows a coach's current age (Agei), schools he coached at, years head coaching in the ACC, ACC wins, ACC losses, ACC Win %, and ACC wins per year. The final two columns are the years required to tie Bobby Bowden's record at the coach's current ACC wins/year pace and the age he will be when he reaches that point (AgeF).
CPJ only has 17 and a half seasons to catch Papa Bowden's efforts...
The 2010 Home Opener Depth Chart
by BirdGT on Sep 1, 2010 12:01 PM EDT
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Our average experience on starting offense is 3.6 years in college. Our average experience on the second team offense is 3.3 years in college. That's pretty strong. On defense, our average experience on first team is 3.5 years and second team is 3.4 years. To say we are a veteran squad would be a huge understatement.
For comparison's sake, our first and second offensive line averages 284 pounds and features only one 300 pounder while a passing team like FSU features a line that averages 297 pounds on its first two OL's and has six guys over 300 pounds.
Best and Worst Case Scenarios for Every Team in the ACC
by BirdGT on Sep 1, 2010 8:00 AM EDT
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I have always heard that the best indicator of how good your season will be is typically based on how your previous season went. This is a core philosophy amongst all major football predictions. Drastic change from year to year is a statistical abnormality when compared to gradual change. If you don't believe me, then check out the following chart.
Basically, the chart shows the amount of times since 1985 that teams have improved or decreased their ACC winning percentage by a given percentage. For example, 58 teams since 1985 did not increase or decrease their winning percentage (0% x-axis) while 27 teams decreased their winning percentage by 20-29% (-20% x-axis). I put in the standard deviation lines so we could start getting a bearing on how rare it is to completely "fall off" or pull off a "coaching miracle". In fact, about 85% of all teams fall within a year to year change of -29% to +29% in ACC winning percentage. In modern ACC terms, that's only ~2.3 games better or worse than the previous season record.
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