You know, once you get past the classlessness, the hypocrisy about drug usage, academics and player ineligibility, as well as the sad attempt to relive the highlights of the series (it doesn’t take long)… there’s still a lot to mock about the Georgia Tech fan base.
One of my favorite pastimes is to watch some of them fire up the ol’ laptops and put those engineering degrees to work by searching for statistical proof that theirs is the superior team. It never gets old, because it never makes too much sense.
Like this dramatic message board announcement: “MYTH: UGA’s schedule is sooo much tougher than ours” that peters out with this conclusion:
So looking back at the totals, you have four games that are even, four with a slight Tech advantage, and two with a slight UGA advantage … and then the Boise game. Other than the Boise game, you could argue that Tech’s schedule was as tough (if not slightly tougher) than Georgia’s…
Sure, you could argue that. You could also argue that if the Spanish didn’t have guns and smallpox, the Aztecs would have kicked their asses back to Europe.
And then there’s this astute comparison of the two defenses (as a general rule of thumb, Tech message board threads which contain “On paper” in the header are usually comedy gold, Jerry):
… Besides, we are about as good as they are there in terms of talent and execution. Lard will only get you so far. And both Ds are just what everyone expected: average. They’re better against the run, we’re better against the pass.
Well, hell, that had me worried a little bit. I was sort of under the impression that Georgia’s defense had been pretty stout this season. Could I be seeing that through red and black colored glasses?
Nah. Average? Georgia ranks 4th nationally in total defense; Tech is currently 43rd. (Hey, that’s only off by a three, no big deal.) Tech isn’t better against the pass, although they’re not bad. Give him credit though – Georgia is better against the run, so he got one out of three right. You can make a good living playing baseball doing that.
Back to the drawing board, fellas. Keep ’em coming.
Your labor is quite impressive Senator, keep’em coming. Thanks
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It seems like a logical, right brained fanbase could figure out what makes its team tick – a gimmick offense that causes the other defense to get off its game. I guess it’s just to painful to admit that if we play our normal game we’re going to beat the ever-loving shit out of them.
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I’ve posted this elsewhere, but since they love stats, here are a few I enjoy…
-Richt has more wins in Atlanta during “Clean Old Fashioned Hate” than the last 7 GT coaches COMBINED.
-In the last decade, GT has been placed on probation more separate times than they have beaten UGA
-Since the Gerald Ford administration, GT has won at UGA in basketball the same number of times Antarctica has hosted the summer Olympics
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Some good stats right there….
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“Only off by a three,” lol. Classic. The math wizards should love that one.
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How many of you have a 6″ statue of Hairy holding a football out below shoulder height with 3 little Gnats below jiggling on springs trying to get it? Whoa! There are a lot of us aren’t there?
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Every year I promise I’m not going to look at the GT message boards during Hate Week . . . and every year I give in. That whole fanbase is such a poster child for little-man syndrome.
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Why would you deny yourself the pleasure?
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It’s only this that can remind us just how much we have to wipe the floor with them. Otherwise it is awfully tempting to forget them because of their utter ineptitude and irrelevance.
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Oh, I dunno. I guess I keep thinking I’ve seen everything from these limpdicks and there’s nothing they could say that would surprise me anymore . . . but there’s always something.
A Tech message-board thread is like a car wreck, or a little kid’s temper tantrum in a toy store, or a Herman Cain soundbite: I know I don’t need to look, it certainly isn’t going to benefit my life in any tangible way if I look, but I’ve still got to see just how bad it is.
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How do i hate tech, let me count the ways. 1. they suck. period 2. the number of bcs bowl wins the acc can claim, that’s right as an aq conf. they have same number of bcs bowls wins as our school. epic fail. 3. they’re classless having an inferiority and superiority complex at all at the same time. 4. they’re weird. as in so weird they couldn’t get laid even if they were a 10 year old in a shower with sandusky. Feel free to add your more i know i’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg.
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I think you covered it pretty well.
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numbers dont lie, nerds, and here’s the number that should have all of you lifting your skirts and running for cover this week: 1-9, as is Mark Richt led teams have beaten your mustard asses 9 our of 10 times.
Apres nous, les deluge, pencil necks. Enjoy Shreveport.
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Albeit that ONE loss was a ring inducing beatdown of microscopic proportions.
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Just another fringe benefit of frequenting this august blogging environment — a smattering of the fairer romance languages tongues to soften our brutish football habits.
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it’s probably just because I dont know advanced GTU literary techniques like rhyming (sic) “cock” with “blog”
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That’s because you don’t pronounce them the way NATsters think:
In Techiestan, The “o” in cock rhymes with the “o” in poke while the “o” in blog rhymes with the “o” in blow. Now read the poem the way a Techie reads. This info was furnished by my nephew who has a degree from No Ave Trade School (NATS).
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Get a load of this. Yesterday after work I check my facebook page, this girl I went to high school with who went to Tech writes: “What’s the good word?” to which several other techies write: “To hell with Georgia” and “Down with the mutts” and such. I decide to troll them a little bit and make a comment to the effect that they better enjoy this week while they can because when the SEC expands we’ll probably drop them off the schedule since the rivalry isn’t really competitive anymore anyway. Now I doubt we ever will drop them, I’m just having a little fun here, so I check again this morning and there is a jacket retort or two mostly trying to live vicariously through Florida. I type a response and then find out I have been locked out from making comments. I just shook my head and laughed, how Tech can you get? They are so insecure and inferior they can’t endure any debate or criticism even the good natured kind.
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Winning on the internet may be the only wins they get in life.
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LOL! +1
Repeating my comment below: Tech owns us in moral victories.
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I hope you don’t mind but I just made that my facebook status.
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Yet as lopsided as the series with UF has been recently, we’ve beaten them far more times in the past 10 years than the NATS’s beaten us.
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3-5 against florida the past 8 years. tech fans would LOVE to be able to stay that about us.
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o and 2-3 the past 5 years. should’ve won last year.
should win next year and bring it to 3-3 the past six years. the tide is quite possibly turning. tech… 1-9 the past decade.
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Hey, but only 1-2 the past three years! The tide may be turning, LOL!
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I also visited teh Hive to read posts on the game and see what the expectations were in Fairyland. Things that struck me after just a few minutes: the nreds don’t know much about football, are as delusional as the Cocks and Bammers, and have a huge “little man” complex. No wonder they don’t have good attendance. If you don’t get the game, are constantly disappointed, and feel the world is against you, why would you spend money to sit in the cold and get drilled?
The one thing absent was a continual call for PJ’s head despite the lack of any encouraging signs of progress. Maybe they just like being stuck in yester-year and going no where. You can almost understand because most mid-majors have accepted their role to win a few games every year, never compete for anything significant while waiting for some minor sport to put them on the front page of the sports section. What is surprising is why they chose someone so unpleasant to bring them mediocrity. PJ is just a person even a mother could not like. And it is questionable if they are the best triple option team in the state, so there are other “options” that don’t make your skin crawl. PJ may be the only coach in the South who makes Little Nick seem like a good guy that you might want to have a beer with.
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Of course they don;t know what they are talking about. Said it before, say it again…Tech people wouldn’t know a football from a vagina since they have never touched either.
I am ready to blow these fuckers apart.
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That would make’em feel touched.
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Tech liked the predictable life of Chan the Man in his heyday, too. Maybe there is comfort in knowing you’ll always be getting your 7 wins per w/o the lofty expectations of contending for much.
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They’re not calling for his head because he beats NC State consistently. And he is truly, absolutely a kindred spirit…think he is the smartest guy in the room while absolutely being the most arrogant no matter the score. Those losers are perfect for each other–AND THEY KNOW IT. 🙂
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It is the most loathsome fan base in sports. Patriots fans are bandwagon jerk offs, Yankees fans are insufferable douchebags, but nothing compares to the unique blend of inferiority ridden overcompensation and whiny twattery that makes up the Georgia Tech fan base. If Tech and Al Qaeda were playing each other, I’m not sure who I would root against.
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Well for starters, go Flying bin Ladens! Beat Tech!
Back to the point, I happen to live about 3 hours from a fanbase every bit as delusional as Tech. And next year they’re joining the SEC. I’m hoping their time apart from Texas will bring the Aggies back to reality a little, but I somehow doubt it.
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Florida fans are the worst. Tech is a very close second.
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Maybe I am wrong, but I don’t think 99% of true Florida fans would celebrate the death of Larry Munson, even though his most famous call came at their expense.
Tech people are in their own stratosphere. That is why I have absolutely no respect for them, their program, their campus, or anything about them. They will remain second rate in their existence for all of eternity. I plan on reminding them of this on Saturday as I do every year win or lose.
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WTF? I thought that GTU and Al Qaeda were one and the same.
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Georgia Tech calls this matchup “The T-Day Game”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Haris_Ahmed
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probably 20 plus years ago, Tech played the Russian National basketball team at Alexander in a season opening exhibition. I went, along with 3 friends. We had seats about 4 rows off one of the baselines. We all wore red, cheered loudly for the Russians, and enjoyed a crushing victory for the Big Red Team, all to the substantial annoyance of the whiny nerds seated around us.
You can look it up.
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This makes me happy. Better Red than dead… or yellow.
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Watch your language, sir, or the Fing Dynasty will recall Gen FU.
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I, too, pulled for Soviet Russia that day. Went with a Tech guy I knew, and he was annoyed with me for wearing red. We didn’t speak much once it got going and he realized I was serious, and not pulling for the nerds.
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81Dog and Dawg Vegas: Heroes of the Dawg Nation.
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+1.
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Well played sir.
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Wilbur Iknew that was u
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That trumps my cheering for ND when they played the NATS in South Bend. That, sir, is just plain awesome. Can hear the cheers now,”Go Big Red-Cock Americanski Insecta in the Assblog!!” Pom-Poms whirling and red flag draped across shoulder and in their faces. Yeah. I can dig that.
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I’m holding all comments regarding tech (save for #beattech) until Saturday afternoon. I expect a close match between two good teams and I don’t want to sully the memory of St. Larry by risking a loss through my own dumbassery.
(Yes, I’m the superstitious type; haven’t washed my gameday undies in three months. Kinda sticky.)
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Turn them inside out! That should get you through the bowls.
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I read the last word as “bowels”. Damn. And gross.
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I would never sit near you again.
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I think you should have said “bowels.”
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Most years I would agree on a good tight game, but something in my gut tells me this one could get out of hand by the 4th quarter. I don’t see the Tech DLine holding in there for a full 60 minutes of merciless pounding. Think back to Auburn, and you have an image of what I see in the waning moments.
Also, with the outside LBers the Dawgs trot onto the field NATS are not getting to the edge.
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I am just thankful the game isn’t played on Thursday Night–Nobody owns Thursdays like Georgia Tech.
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That’s some high quality trolling right there. Well done, sir.
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Georgia Tech delenda est.
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Or, translated for the nerds:
01110011011101111100 010101010101010101010101010010.
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can we sell their students, fans, players, and administrators into slavery?
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Depends on what kind of slavery you have in mind. There are certain “trades” that you could market them for, but I seriously doubt anyone’s buying!
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Senator…part of me wishes we played Tech every week because your best, snarkiest wit is on full parade during GOFHW. Of course, they are an easy target, but that doesn’t make it any less fun. Keep the hits coming!
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Tech OWNS UGA in moral victories!
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You knwo what’s really funny is that scheduling mororn thinks that Kentucky is NOT AS GOOD as KANSAS.
KANSAS. The team whose defense is 120th out of 120, averaging 45+ points against (it was 50 for most of the season), that gave up 70 to Okie State in THE FIRST HALF. The team who has only lately even managed to stay close against ANY BCS conference opponent (and then it has happened only two times).
Kentucky is bad, but Kansas bad? That dude is smokin’ some serious ATL out the ‘hood crack.
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I have to ask why more at Tech aren’t denouncing this crap? Why does the school allow them to use their intellectual property (I.e. – logo)? UGA shut down a fake Grantham account because it wasn’t clear ity was fake.
But, do I really want that to happen? Not really. Watching them make asses out of themselves and laying it out for the world to see is much more satisfying. All that other stuff just tells you what the school and its fans are made of, and it’s not much.
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The “I’m going to beat off while I throw bulldog puppies in a lake and watch them drown” thread was pure comedic genius.
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My Gawd! They admit they can’t get a girl for that!
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There is not, as far as I can tell, a Georgia Tech blog that allows un-moderated comments. A reasonable mind could think they’re afraid of un-controlled discussion.
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They have to work to keep it on the topic of sports and football. Otherwise it veers off to Twilight, WOW and the Renn Fest and such.
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What, no DragonCon?
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Whats the over/under on the number of times CPJ startegically lets us score so he can better position his team to out score us? Resulting in his 3rd straight Moral Victory and another ring?
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LOL! That’s right, I mean if Bobo’s goal is to run more plays, then the brilliant CPJ will show us by allowing us to score in only one play per possession, just so he can get the ball back! That’ll keep UGA off its game. Let’s see Bobo adjust to that! Moooohawhawhaw!
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God what a bunch of whiney ass Nerds. I hope we beat them 1000-0 on Saturday and knock out all 3 QB’s. God I hate them.
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CMR is poised to get his 10th win in 11 games. If this were prison gtu would be our bitch.
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I appreciate and share your sentiment, but I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the prison rape bravado amongst rivals. Maybe it’s just me.
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I haven’t clicked all the links yet so you may have posted this already, but yesterday one of the GT faithful changed Munson’s wikipedia page to say he had committed suicide because of the future loss against GT.
I even have a screen grab. Now, THAT, is classless.
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I certainly hope that someone is passing this sort of thing along to Jarvis Jones.
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Dawgs defense will have the bugs going in reverse all day long. I see something on the order of 34-10.
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If Jarvis reads that, he probably won’t pick them up after smashing them.
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Even dumber, is on one of the threads they have about Munson’s death, they say that Larry’s son is doing commercials for the pink pony. Obviously they do not realize that is one of the regular guys doing the voice. That is just plain stupid.
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You all will work for me, some day!
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Comma splice
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That is all you have to say, huh, George ? That is it? Pathetic.
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My tickets just came through for Saturday! However, the last time I went down to that concrete craphole an usher took $40 apiece to let us in a side door without tickets. If you don’t have a ticket, try it.
Beating the nerds in Sanford rules, but I gotta tell ya, getting yelled at by their frat boys on the way out of beating them at their own tiny house makes their tears taste a little bit sweeter.
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I remember 2007 when we had about 1/3 of the stadium in red.
Their fraternities all blasted Rocky Top after they got their ass handed to them by Stafford and Moreno since TN had barely hung on to beat KY. That was also the game where one of their DL tried to end one of our OL’s career with a dive at his knees about 30 yds downfield.
I hate those self loathing fucks with a passion. There is nothing better than seeing them whine.
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How about Tech being dead last in graduation rates.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-tech/looking-at-georgia-tech-1210059.html
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The nerds have some what of a point about their schedule compared to ours. Just think about it. They have UGA on theirs we have GT on ours.
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