Georgia Tech vs. Virginia: I'm Tired Of Being Sad About A WIN Over Maryland. Bring On The 'Hoos!
by Winfield Featherston on Oct 13, 2011 6:30 AM EDT
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It's Wednesday night. I'm in Bloomington, Indiana. My stomach is full on a pork chop, brussel sprouts, whipped sweet potatoes, a Three Floyds Beer, oh and a bourbon on the rocks. You know what that means? I'm happy and satisfied. Yes, I'm satisfied and after catching up on the articles and comments from yesterday, I feel something attacking my feelings of satisfaction and I won't have it! No sir, I won't! We beat Maryland! Time to move on fools! Hump day is gone and past and now it's time to focus on the future, those Zima-drinking, orange pants wearing, rather be wearing suits Virginia Cavaliers.
During the Paul Johnson era, Georgia Tech has gone 2-1 against Virginia and has outscored the opponent 85-42.
Woo Virginia! Where the fight song requires you to wrap arms with your neighbor and Thomas Jefferson is a stone idol with laser eyes. The land where Georgia Tech couldn't win until Paul Johnson stepped in and took over business. Remember 2009? Jonathan Dwyer sure does:
And that's when Al Groh realized that he couldn't beat Georgia Tech anymore. So he joined Georgia Tech. And then in 2010, Al Groh had the state of Virginia locked up in his defensive vise grip (Hokies, you know Groh had you owned). And now our beloved Yellow Jackets have won two straight against the Wahoos and it's time to take a third, a second in Charlottesville. Oh, as if we needed yet another inspiration to take down the Cavaliers, it's their homecoming. I love being a homecoming spoiler!
Now it's time for all of us to hop back up on the bandwagon and remember that we're 6-0. The first team in 2011 to become bowl eligible. We won while we played like crap. Who does that these days? Last year's team sure didn't. Sure couldn't.
Virginia is coming off a bye week after a disappointing win...against the Idaho Vandals. We're coming off a week were a coach notoriously known for perfection admitted he erred in his preparation. Who do you trust?
Me? II trust the Skipper. And I'm going back and drinking the Kool-Aid because I still can.
Go Jackets!
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I remember when Zima was introduced
It came on the tail of the wine cooler boom, which should have told me something, but, one night at Mexican restaurant in Buckhead (real Buckhead, not the modern expanded Buckhead that runs from Midtown to Lenox, but the real Buckhead that ran from Pharr Road to just a few blocks north of Paces Ferry), I decided to try one. It was nasty. It was like bad imitation Sprite with tasteless beer in it. (That’s exactly what it was, so the taste should have been no surprise.)
Fortunately for the world at large, Zima was finally discontinued. But fear not, Zima fans! It has been replaced by other flavored tasteless beers, like Skyy Blue. The secret to success, it seems, is to license the name of a liquor to place on your flavored tasteless beer.
Since when do they serve Bourbon at Applebee's?
j/k
The Internet does this to people…it creates the monster that anything less than perfection from your team should inspire sadness and discouragement. It’s what happens when you can criticize without some level of accountability.
I’m hoping we get a great showing on the road, and hopefully a springboard into our tough 2nd half schedule…
by TBuzz on Oct 13, 2011 8:56 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Damn it all, and here I was expecting us to beat Alabama in January.
The Church of Paul Johnson - There's not much to it outside of whooping ass and giving haters the finger. To HELL With georgie!
I've seen Bourbon in Applebee's
(It wasn’t my idea to go there.)
I’ve also seen a choice of six different bourbons in a sushi bar.
I live in Kentucky.
I agree with you...
It’s time for us to stop being the unhappiest fans of a 6-0 team around. It’s ridiculous. Some old Tech alum asked me last night if I knew that “we’re not really a 6-0 team.” I told him I did not know that because, in fact, we are a 6-0 team.
One game at a time. We’ve got a huge conference game this Saturday. Let’s win it and move on.
I don't feel that way
I’m absolutely ecstatic that we are 6-0. I’m happy that we can beat bad teams even when we don’t play well. I’m glad that we destroyed the cupcakes like really good teams are supposed to do. However, none of that is going to stop me from noticing, commenting, or criticizing things when the team doesn’t perform close to what is reasonably expected. I haven’t read anyone who thinks we are going to go 0-6, but maybe the mass negativity is on other sites I don’t read?
I can live with the NCST game because that could have been in the 50’s if not for a couple of bad passes and drops. The Maryland game is the concern. My question is which should be considered the norm or expected reality, the performance against UNC, or the performance against Maryland? In 2010 it was the latter of the two and since this team is mostly comprised of players from 2010, it’s not an unreasonable leap to think that we might regress to 2010 if things get difficult for us. I want to believe that the early season success of the team and the individual improvemetn we have seen from the players is the truth of this team’s capability. I don’t see us losing more than two games the rest of the regular season.
For once, I actually have more confidence that this team will continue to improve throughout the season and finish strong.
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