GT-UVA Hoops Open Thread

by BirdGT on Jan 13, 2010 6:00 PM EST

Go Jackets! We haven't won an ACC Road game since March 8, 2008 against BC. Please end this ridiculous drought.

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for them to be beating us by 5

yet not made a three, I’m assuming we’re giving up easy ones under the net

I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.

by BirdGT on Jan 13, 2010 7:43 PM EST reply actions

Woo! Gametracker!

The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.

by Winfield Featherston on Jan 13, 2010 7:47 PM EST reply actions

Nomination for Worst Game Tracking Moment Ever

First couple days of work in SC, I had to watch the game tracker when we played Fresno in the Human Bowl in December 2007. The Tenuta Bowl, if you will. The game kicked off around 1 or 2 EST. It was a Pontiac terrible game tracking moment.

I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.

by BirdGT on Jan 13, 2010 8:05 PM EST reply actions

2nd Nomination

Vanderbilt 2003. When my GT fandom was taking form as a lowly GT freshman. Watched that terrifying gametracker with only one thought, “We’re gonna lose to VANDY…”

I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.

by BirdGT on Jan 13, 2010 8:30 PM EST up reply actions

GT Basketball vs #3 Kansas 2007

I was interning in Barcelona at the time, and the game was primetime at 9pm EST, which was 3am local time. I tried staying up listening to Wes Durham (“on the ISP Sports Network”) at 790thezone.com. We were not even hanging in there, and about 4:30am I couldn’t help but start dozing off. Only the absolutely obnoxious “790 THE ZONE! WE KNOW WHAT GUYS WANT!!!” radio adverts that were kept 10 decibels above the broadcast kept jolting me awake. (Does anyone remember these? They had so many of them and they were all terrible and utterly annoying.) Anyway, with two minutes to go we were down by 12, and I couldn’t take the whole doze off/ jolt awake loop any more, so I turned it off and got my two hours of sleep.

Next morning, wake up, crawl to work, hit ESPN, and find out that we were down by one with the ball and eight seconds to go when Matt Causey dribbled the ball off of his foot… I’m not sure why I would have wanted to stay awake for that, but I did.

by Portmanteur on Jan 13, 2010 9:26 PM EST up reply actions

Iman's

playing a good game so far.

I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.

by BirdGT on Jan 13, 2010 8:13 PM EST reply actions

derrick

break out game

I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.

by BirdGT on Jan 13, 2010 8:29 PM EST up reply actions

Paul hewitt is terrible.

Does anyone believe we can actually win this game?

by Jeffgt00 on Jan 13, 2010 8:43 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Loss is a good thing

The win over Duke was a mere setback.

Hewitt must go.

One good year is not worth another 7 years of mediocrity (or worse).

by ee8384 on Jan 13, 2010 9:01 PM EST reply actions

It'll never happen.

Hewitt has a super contract. He is with us as long as he wants to be.

by Jeffgt00 on Jan 13, 2010 9:06 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Am sick of the contract excuse

If true, then the Institute needs to figure out how to make him want to leave.

Let’s see:

How about major restrictions on recruiting travel expenses? Cut off his ability to bring in top recruits that he can’t coach anyway.

Lousy food for the team. Get a few of them to quit.

No money for tutors. Flunk a few out.

Restrict access to the press. Limit the amount of air time Hewitt gets.

Let’s see how his ego likes going 4-23 year after year toiling in obscurity.

I’m sure there are other draconian measures the Institute could take while still honoring his Braine-less contract.

by ee8384 on Jan 13, 2010 9:21 PM EST up reply actions

Really?

He’ll (probably) be fired if we don’t make the tournament with this talent (we are ranked based on our potential alone). I’d like to see a new coach next year as much as the next guy, but why cut off our nose to spite the face? How would the program bounce back from that?

by Portmanteur on Jan 13, 2010 9:30 PM EST up reply actions