Here’s how Smart described the momentum that finished out last season and carried into yesterday:
Note where he starts.
Some of you may not think the Tech game matters much anymore, but then, you’re not the Georgia head coach. “We run this state” matters.
Get The Picture 
I think with Kirby, it’s not only “we run this state,” but also “we defend this state.” Personally, it will make me very happy to continue the dominance over Tech, and if Kirby takes great pleasure in it, then Tech is in for a world of hurt.
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I for one very much appreciate Kirby taking Tech seriously. I can’t stand losing to those guys.
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Kirby played against Joe Hamilton and was a part of the Jasper Sanks “fumble” if I’m not mistaken. I imagine he has equal disdain for UF, AU, and the nerds.
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Farmer…Kirby’s senior season was the 1998 season, so he wasn’t playing when the “Jasper Fumble” happened…but he was a Grad Assistant. 😊
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Not only do I hate losing to them, I love beating them like a drum as we did this year.
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I always say that your biggest rival isn’t the team you enjoy beating the most, it’s the team to whom you can’t stand losing the most.
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It’s the way their fans behave. It’s bad everywhere, but GT…you can beat them five years in a row and when they luck into one win, they flaunt it like nothing else. Fishfry has “State Champions” rings made for all the players. At church the next morning, closet nerd fans show up with ugly gold paraphernalia and GT cofffee cups.
Techmites…like termites, are always there in the ground, waiting on the rare moment when they emerge in a short lived swarm. Disgusting pests.
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I compare them to cicada bugs. They come out once every 7-14 years when they luck into a win
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Sounds like an apropos nickname for the yallar jackets.
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11, amirite?
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1 down. 10 to go. 😉
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I predict the next 2 Tech games will be similar beatdowns as last year. Paul Johnson leaves midtown permanently in early December 2019.
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Kirby gets it. Beating Tech never gets old. Never.
And it’s a P5 win to boot. What’s not to like?
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We need to beat them 9 in a row and then drop them as an every year opponent and replace them with a rotation of Georgia State, Georgia Southern and tech. I hate them with a passion but telling them they are irrelevant and equal to the two Group of 5 programs in the state would be a greater insult to them than beating them regularly.
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“Need”? LOL.
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
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No, we NEED to beat them 9 in a row before we drop them. That is one more than the 8 in a row they beat us in the 50s. I know what it means.
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I was referring to the “… and then drop them as an every year opponent” part.
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Ticky-tacky, Senator.
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I’ll go on record in saying I don’t think we’ll be playing Southern again as long as Kirby is coach AND they continue to run that high school offense. There is absolutely no reason to play them other than big brother throwing them a bone. Coaches from the Saban/Smart mold hate having to waste practice time preparing for it and risking unnecessary injury from knee-torpedoing blocking styles. It’s classic not having time for that shit. Kirby has no choice with tech, but I’d bet not scheduling Southern was among the first few dozen requests/demands he had for McGarity.
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That game in 2015… You could tell they thought they had it and they were going to make us wish we just lost to Tech because it was going to be the end-all, be-all of their existence.
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As a dear friend and colleague pointed out to me recently:
“Why settle for 9?”
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Kirby expects to be in championship contention every season. With that view, he gets that a loss at the end of the season to an average ACC team could derail playoff hopes.
They’re in for a hurting so long as Fishfry is roaming the flats.
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Of course you should get up to beat GT, as with all games on your schedule, but that was exactly where the statement jumped the track. We may have played in the three most watched games of the year, but GT is seriously out of place by being included. No one outside of this state, and not even the majority in the state I would guess, watches/cares about that one. That is why it is played at noon on rivalry day, assigned the weak announcing crews, and never mentioned when national talk turns why rivalry week is so important for CFB.
Not even those of you who feel this should continue as an every year home-and-home series for us do so because of the riveting football, or competitive match up consequences. You do it because you still think of the game you grew up with in the 60s and 70s, or you just like another mid-major cupcake. I know you will never change your mind in the last 25 years haven’t, but you have to admit, including that as one of the 3 top TV events of the season is pretty silly.
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That’s not what he said.
It’s the noon-er precisely because we have beaten them 7 out of every 9 since they last outright won the ACC.
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But Auburn isn’t always (ever) the Nooner, despite beating them at about that rate. Why ? because auburn isn’t a crappy program that is uncompetitive in its conference with a painful-to-watch offense. The UGA-Tech rivalry is worse than UT-Vanderbilt… and they aren’t even in our conference.
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You are right, I misread it. It made so little sense, i should have checked again.
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The three games were the SECCG, the Rose Bowl and the NC game. The nerd game wasn’t even close to one of the most watched games.
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Kirby understands that one of the keys to successfully recruiting the State of Georgia is beating Tech.
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