Georgia Tech Basketball: Catching Up With The Mulligan Season

by Winfield Featherston on Jan 25, 2012 12:55 PM EST in Georgia Tech Basketball

This year it's easy to put the basketball season out of our minds because it's out of sight. And you know how the old saying goes...Nevertheless we still need to be educated in our athletics programs and knowledge is power.

Here is a summary of the 2011-2012 basketball season. There is probably minimal cohesion to it so think of it as stream of consciousness.

The Yellow Jackets are sitting in the basement, dead last in the ACC. Tech sits at 8-12 overall with a 1-5 record. Ironically, the one win was a road win against the NC State Wolfpack. The only other ACC team with an overall losing record is the Boston College Golden Eagles who are 7-12.

I've been to four games this year and in all the games, we've seen flashes of brilliance, but just like any flash in a pan, it's gone in an instant. There is an odd funk that hangs over the team and it's made up of the combination of no home, small crowd, new coach, no star team leader.

Two players are averaging double-digits this year in Glen Rice Jr and Mfon Udofia. They are both averaging well over 20 minutes per game (29.9 and 30.5 respectively). Defensively, Daniel Miller continues to work on establishing his presence and has recorded 49 blocks this season, enough for about 24th in the nation.

It's a rough year for sure, but I end up coming back for more games at Phillips to watch Georgia Tech play. What makes you keep coming back?

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Ah, Mulligan, my favorite Irishman and golfing companion.

An apt description of this season.

Goal: winning record – doubtful
win ONE ACC Tourney Game – jump up and surprise FSU or UNC – possible
NIT – doubtful

I hate it for the ones who stayed and went through the past few years of MEH, but brighter days are ahead.

Even CBC had a rough couple of years until the groceries started coming in big bags. When we only had Brooke Steppe as anyone who could shoot, at least we went to the games and could feel the building anticipation. Part of which was due to the new power of the ACC, and we were in the clubhouse.

It’ll come. It’ll be glorious.

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

by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 25, 2012 1:27 PM EST reply actions

Goza! Goza! Goza! Goza!

Cremins cut Lee “Sampson Spitter” Goza, but he had to take him back when he couldn’t find another center.

by CraigT on Jan 28, 2012 6:28 PM EST up reply actions

Brooke Steppe

was one of my all time favorite players. Talk about your lunch-pail player. Even when teams knew he was the only one who could score, their triple teams against him were useless as he would crash, grind and barge his way into getting points.

by Atlanta's original team on Jan 25, 2012 4:10 PM EST reply actions

I met Brook Steppe

forever ago when I was in Rockford, Illinois, and he was visiting with the Capital Region whatever in the CBA. After the game I went outside and stopped him as he was getting on the bus.

As we stood in the cold and snow he asked me why the hell I had moved there from Georgia, and I didn’t have a good answer.

I told him that, in spite of the “lethal weapon 3” Final Four run, and that magical team that came right after him, the most exciting Tech game I ever saw was that triple overtime loss to #1 UVA. He fouled out on a charge, and we only lost because Steve Neal threw the ball away.

He remembered the game well, and he seemed pleased that I did, too.

by CraigT on Jan 28, 2012 6:31 PM EST up reply actions

I liked Jay Williams' prediction that Tech is not too far from being ACC elite again...

Because in basketball all it takes is one good class and a coach who can motivate. He can recruit, and he’s in teaching mode right now…

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

by TBuzz on Jan 25, 2012 4:29 PM EST reply actions

and the classroom wont be too shabby either

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

by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 25, 2012 4:42 PM EST up reply actions

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

by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 25, 2012 4:48 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Yeah

That was back when it had gold seats and the big logo. At the bottom of this facebook album there are a few renderings of the new look. Gray seats and a smaller GT logo with no Buzz.

Still, it’s gonna be really nice with a higher percentage of fans closer to the floor and some of the ballin’est concourses in college hoops!

I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.

by GT_Jason on Jan 25, 2012 5:49 PM EST up reply actions