Take It To The House Georgia Tech

by Winfield Featherston on Nov 9, 2011 7:00 PM EST in Georgia Tech Football

So I've been sitting in a room up here in Bloomington, Indiana today, reflecting on the past week and thinking how quickly Thursday night football games sneak up on you. It's early Wednesday morning as my thoughts get put together and my mind is 80% on work 20% football. I am supposed to be counting inventory. As the day moves on, my focus on stock counting has had the potential to deteriorate. By the time this gets published it's about 7pm Wednesday night and I'm high up in the sky heading back to Atlanta.

Hokie fans are starting to talk real big, like yeah, REAL BIG. They want to see their squad slap us straight up first play of the game. Hokie fans are nervous. The expectations are on them, always are. And now they're afraid that Georgia Tech is going to take the rug right out from under them.

Virginia Tech is scared of what they have to face tomorrow night.

There's a big game looming on Thursday. Thursday night yet again. Paul Johnson is 2-1 on Thursday night. 1-2 against the Hokies. The games have surely been close and full of drama but we've seemed to come up short more times than any of us want. They know it is only a matter of time until the Yellow Jackets swoop in and gain control of the Coastal.

I know Virginia still controls the division but I'm overlooking them and I'll be blatant about it. Georgia Tech controls its future Thursday night. If not for the division, for the perception of the success of the season. The Virginia Tech Hokies can be the 8th regular season win where the Yellow Jackets were predicted to be lucky if they got to 7.

The rivalry between Virginia Tech is a good one. There's not a lot of hate but lots of banter. On Thursday, that day there'll be no love. It's time for a beat down. It's time to take over and lay claim.

ESPN saw us pick apart and embarrass Clemson. This is not the time to roll over and pull a Virginia or a Miami. The time for consistency is now. The time for winning is now.

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I've never read shit like that even coming from a UGA fan

looks like I may have found a new favorite team to hate.

Paul Johnson: not giving a crap about what you have to say since 1987.

by GTNate on Nov 9, 2011 7:32 PM EST reply actions

The "UGAg" of Virginia, speaking with the utmost of class...

I just don’t want a win. I want us to slap the shit out of Georgia Tech.

Have you ever slapped someone? Aside from controlling OddJob and knocking around James Bond and company in GoldenEye 007, I haven’t. I’ve punched a few people in my day and gotten into a few scuffles defending myself, but I’ve never slapped another person. Pimps slap, parents slap, Ric Flair slaps; you slap someone to put them in their place. The sting immediately puts the recipient at attention and bluntly delivers the message: know your role.

Now, aside from suggesting counseling for the author of this post on “The Key Play”, all I can do is chuckle.

"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson

by TBuzz on Nov 9, 2011 7:33 PM EST reply actions

They don’t come close to selling out Bobby Dodd Stadium, a venue that’s considered historic only because it’s been standing up in downtown Atlanta for a long time, not because the Bees won an abundance of important football games there

Other than 4 National Championships, and ruining VPI’s national title hopes in 2009…NONE

"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson

by TBuzz on Nov 9, 2011 7:37 PM EST up reply actions

Important football games on Grant Field?

Does he mean like any of these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Dodd_Stadium_at_Historic_Grant_Field#Notable_games

What was happening in Blacksburg through this list’s timespan? What? Losing at football while no one knew there was such a thing as “Virginia Tech Football” until the ’1980’s? Oh ok, then.

by GT_Jason on Nov 9, 2011 8:09 PM EST up reply actions

#AvengeNesbitt

"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson

by TBuzz on Nov 9, 2011 7:46 PM EST up reply actions

BUD FOSTER HAS NO IDEA HOW TO STOP THE TRIPLE OPTION!

this game is gonna be a massacre not in our “friends” from blacksburg favor.

I guess they also forgot that in 08 they won cause of a horrible late hit penalty and cause Nesbitt missed a wide open reciever and then in 2010 they won cause of a broken arm and they still did not convincingly win.

#GiveEmHellTech

This is my Family Tradition

by The_GT_LineageX11 on Nov 9, 2011 7:42 PM EST reply actions

Judging by their blog post

This rivalry is beginning to heat right on up. They seem to really, genuinely believe they deserve more respect and a higher station in the CFB pantheon than we do. To make this “argument” their writer discounted our entire storied history and legacy to say that their higher winning percentage since 2004 is the reason we ought to be put in our place. Um…Hey, VPI (yes that’s your name around here), our “place” will forever be the glorious umbrella under which you see names like Heisman, Alexander and Dodd and words like National Champion.

Things you can never ignore or take away from our legacy:
1916 – Largest margin of victory in the game of American Football EVER
1917 – FIRST SOUTHERN TEAM TO WIN A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
First team in all 4 “major” bowls
We play on the field commissioned by THE John Heisman and built by his loyal students
We play in the OLDEST and WINNINGEST stadium in D1 Football
4 National Titles
21 All-Americans
9th in bowl wins all-time

And for as for the current day:
We just beat the #5 team in the country.
It was the same team that embarrassed you in front of America.
Even before that….we really DO play you close!

Look you in the eye? Please, how ‘bout your rinky-dink program go make us a sandwich…we’re TECH. Georgia Tech. The only real TECH.

One word of advise for tomorrow night? Watch your knees! It’d be a shame if anyone got hurt.

by GT_Jason on Nov 9, 2011 7:45 PM EST reply actions 3 recs

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS by GT GOON SQUAD

This is my Family Tradition

by The_GT_LineageX11 on Nov 9, 2011 7:50 PM EST up reply actions

Oh no! Not another bug spray reference!

How effin’ original…

by jabbajacket on Nov 9, 2011 8:32 PM EST reply actions

Is that the “Pesticide-free” bug spray? Haha…

"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson

by TBuzz on Nov 9, 2011 8:38 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

I was ambivalent about VPI fans before.

After reading that, I now feel sorry for them. If they maintain those delusions they will probably end up committed to a mental institution.

Oh, wait. Maybe they already are.

Let’s ask them about the time they won the Rose Bowl. They may think they did.

by CraigT on Nov 9, 2011 8:39 PM EST reply actions

They leave us no choice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4wtde23qh4&feature=related

by GT_Jason on Nov 9, 2011 8:55 PM EST reply actions 2 recs

Did they get one of them while MATING?

Cruel

You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!

by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Nov 9, 2011 9:03 PM EST up reply actions

That's what we need to do to them.

They want HATE? We know a thing or two about it.

by GT_Jason on Nov 9, 2011 9:15 PM EST up reply actions

Now I want a glass of 101...

by jabbajacket on Nov 9, 2011 9:43 PM EST up reply actions

LIKE

Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John Heisman FromTheRumbleSeat

Twitter, twitter, twitter

by Winfield Featherston on Nov 9, 2011 10:04 PM EST up reply actions

If CFB left VT tomorrow

would their CFB team continue at the highest levels?

Is there a real bedrock level of interest and excellence in a program, or is it no more than a coach/timeframe/luck/championship player(s) that is here and then gone?

I’m not sure about VT without Beamer. They’ve had a hell of a run; from the team nobody heard of, to the team that shocked many, to the team that had Vick, to the team that kept their coaches for years, to a team you really didn’t want to play because of their D and Special Teams. I was impressed in 2007 during “Jersey Gate” how many Hokies traveled to ATL on a Thursday. They were a very coordinated crowd, lots of spirit, knowledgeable about the game (I sat up in the great white North with them).

They remind me somewhat of Free Shoes University. In the mid-70’s it was still considered a Teacher’s College that graduated Burt Reynolds, then along comes Bowden. 20 years later they finish in the top 10 for over a decade-and a lot of controversy layered over the program. Jimbo will continue this trend.

This question has been posed by many CFB writers as a litmus test.

Bama-yes

TxTech w/o Leach-no
aTm – nope

PSU-hopefully yes, we will see

’Da U-all those recruits, all those hookers, all that blow, and still they are on top or below grade every few years – a puzzle.

GT-a whole ’nother can of worms on this question, somehow we survive against the odds.

u(sic)GA-yes

UF-yep, recruiting central
USC-ditto
UTx-ditto

Clemmins – less than 50%

Touchdown Jesus – yep, got NBC snookered

Tigers that say WarEagle – yes (something about the state of Alabama)

Just a thought.

You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!

by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Nov 9, 2011 9:02 PM EST reply actions

Seriously. I always wondered why Auburn does that. Makes absolutely no sense.

by asharp12587 on Nov 10, 2011 12:24 AM EST up reply actions

Auburn's been playing football longer than we have.

And there’s the state of Alabama.

by CraigT on Nov 10, 2011 12:43 AM EST up reply actions

ROOOOLLLLLL TAHHHHHDDDEEEEEE

seriously, only Alabama could actively try to sound stupid and be happy about it.

Paul Johnson: not giving a crap about what you have to say since 1987.

by GTNate on Nov 10, 2011 10:00 AM EST up reply actions

I'm not sure about Florida

They were nothing before Spurrier, and they’d have many decades to do something. They made another good coaching hire, but what if they had kept Zook? The jury’s still out on the new guy.

by CraigT on Nov 10, 2011 12:41 AM EST up reply actions

They'd _had_ many decades to do something.

Before Spurrier, I mean.

by CraigT on Nov 10, 2011 12:42 AM EST up reply actions

Think you need to do some research

UF had quite a bit of history before Spurrier (the coach). No MNC, but no patsie either.

1966: Spurrier wins Heisman and UF beats Tech in Orange Bowl.

The Reaves/Alvarez-led team in 1969 was pretty solid.

Also went 9-1-1 in 1984 & 1985.

Ever heard of Emmitt Smith or Neal Anderson?

by ee8384 on Nov 10, 2011 5:20 AM EST up reply actions

It takes time and consistancy at winning

The ones you say “yes” to the question of how they will do without current coach. Has to do with time and consistent winning. VT has put themselves on the next upper level by being able to say “we have won 10 games a year for 8-10” years in a row. I dont care what conference you play in, you get 10 wins every year for the better part of a decade and people notice and talk good about your program. is it easy? Heck no! But it can be done, Bobby Bowden did it for FSU, and now Beamer has it for VT. Whether its by one coach or by a string of good ones doesn’t matter. but once you make it to that level its easier to maintain.
It is interesting to note that you can slip down just as easily, but the personalities that do that talking will be there holding the door open when you start winning again. See Michigan and currently Tennessee.
I agree that we defy the odds because we are not at that level….yet. I hope CPJ can get us to that level so if/when its his time to go, we have a good reputation to sustain us in the eyes of recruits. Go Jackets…..win the Techmo Bowl!

by Ramblnwrek on Nov 10, 2011 11:47 AM EST up reply actions

I'm ready for some physical, great play from the defense!

And some great play from the offense, with short passes Paul Johnson!

by RamblinWreck7 on Nov 9, 2011 11:47 PM EST reply actions

It appears we are under their skin

They also appear to have a bit of an entitlement mentality. I’m sure they will enjoy it when beamer enters the “post-millennium bobby bowden” phase of his career.

by Joe Hamilton's Chauffeur on Nov 10, 2011 9:04 AM EST via mobile reply actions