After getting about 3 hours of sleep. I hurt just as more this morning than I did last night. I hurt for the players and staff who gave it their all. I bleed white and gold and I don’t know if I’ll ever get over this. Up 14 with 5:30 left and I just knew it wasn’t over. Way too many chances to go along with way too many blown calls and more. Some things that really irk me still:
- going prevent when we did was horrible coaching. This is a trend with Santucci and even Elko that needs to be fixed. Santucci needs to throw his book on prevent out.
- Key clearly didn’t know the OT rules and I promise you if he’d had known, we would have gone for 2 after the first score.
- Our strength is running the ball and yet the only running attempt we had in any of the 8 OT’s was the play from the 1
- Our OL played great for 3-1/2 quarters but were not good late in 4th and OT
- Missed call after missed call and refs gifted UGa at least 14 points.
- The fumble by Key was clearly targeting. They didn’t even review. It literally met every single line of the definition in the rule book
- I am with Key in that I absolutely hate UGA. Tired of losing. We need a W bad next year.

Combined (NC ST & uga) points per qtr

1st - 7
2nd - 0
3rd - 6
4th - 43

@ibeeballin - thoughts on this? Depth issues? Philosophy change with the late double digit leads?

Just thoughts on areas the team can improve next season.

1. Defensive Depth across the board.
Cornerback, Linebacker, & Rush end should be a priority tho.

2. More explosive plays in the passing game, particularly downfield passing.
Could use some bigger receivers.

3. A bruising physical running back.

4. Pass rush help opposite Romelo.

Vandy already up on the Vols. SC with a bad fumble early.

Gus quit UCF to be OC at FSU? Wow!

This is Alex the Georgia Tech fan talking and not the JOL staff writer.

I wish I had anything positive to say, but I don't. I still can't put a positive spin on it like some of you have, and I'm not sure I ever will be able to. No blame for coaches, players or refs from me, just hurt.

Makes me wonder as a fan if we will ever beat Georgia because if you can't win a game like that last night then we might never be able to. Dominated the game and still lost. Sickening.

I walked around the neighborhood with my dog for about an hour last night and then just sat in the garage for another 30 minutes or so just trying to make sense of what happened in my head. I couldn't. Woke up during the night two or three times just thinking about what if this one play went different or one of the others, but it will do no good. It's like the Falcons' Super Bowl collapse (which this hurts more than for me) where 1,000 things had to go wrong to lose and every single one of them did.

I'm hurting, guys and gals. This one will hurt for a long time. Not sure you ever get over a loss like this.

You may get to see a grown man shed tears on YouTube on our next show. Not joking in the least.

That's all. Everyone try to plug along and have a decent Saturday. I know I will, but it will probably be more misery.

This breaks my heart. Me too. Idk what the kid will do but this is heavy…
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... will be and whether last night's performance moved the needle for any kid we're still after.

Just a tremendous game last night, but a pretty rotten result. Proud to be a jacket, but I'm sick of the moral victories as I am sure the team feels, too.

I've been a GT fan since 1984. That's 40 years. In my lifetime, I've seen 10 wins - 2 under Curry (84 and 85), 2 under Ross (89 and 90), 3 under GOL (98, 99 and 00) and 3 under CPJ (08, 14, and 16).

There are parallels here to the GOL era. It took some very painful and close losses to UGA for GOL to finally get over the hump. I watched Ed Wilder leap into the North endzone for a apparent game winner, only for UGA to score with a minute left in the game with the help of a phantom PI call at Bobby Dodd. And I watched UGA come back from 17 down with Hines Ward quarterbacking, winning with a knuckleball FG kick. It took those shared experiences, bad calls, bad breaks, etc. to galvanize those teams and players. It ultimately led to 3IAR under GOL, and who knows what happens if he doesn't flirt with ND. And by the way, Brent was there for a lot of that period and I'm sure remembers it well.

I think we're absolutely set for a similar run with Brent Key. The era of "We Run This State" is effin over. These Jackets come to play and bring the pain.

Now is NOT the time to quit on the team or the program. The easiest thing in the world to do is to root for the teams on top. It's easy being a Dodgers fan, a Chiefs fan, a UGA fan, a Bama fan, a Duke or Kentucky bball fan, etc. It's not special; it means nothing emotionally because it costs nothing emotionally.

Stop being a bunch of sad sack losers, stop attacking the coaches and players, and open your hearts (and more importantly) and wallets to get this program the infusion it needs so that we can start hammering these jackholes consistently.

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Georgia Tech did not blow this game. The coaches did not make the wrong decisions.

Literally the exact opposite took place. The coaches came up with a gameplan that put our team in a position to win, and the players executed with the best precision they have performed all year.

The coaches put the team in a position to win. With the ball, 3 minutes left, a couple first downs and we kneel it out.

The refs gave the game to Georgia. It’s not a crybaby attitude to acknowledge this truth. It is an obvious fact to all neutral observers. 3 minutes left, the QB gets hit in the head by one of the most dangerous hits in the game, and he drops the football. That’s not on the coaches. That’s not on the players.


If you’re blaming the coaches for this loss, you’re an idiot. If you’re telling GT fans to suck it up and get over it, you’re as big of a piece of shit as the UGA fans on this board.

... "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson once said, "adversity introduces a man to himself." I ****ing hate losing. I hate it. I hate losing even more than I like winning. But it is my hope that CBK is the coach and the man I think he is, and uses this adversity to fuel his program and his desire to beat the smug smile off of Kirby's face. I'm incredibly impressed and proud of how much the overall gap between the two programs has narrowed. I'm not happy with the result. In fact, I'm gutted, but the fight I saw from the kids and coaches last night makes me even more excited about where this program is headed under Brent Key.

dude recovers a ball while down. just amazing

Next year, in the Benz, every single one of us better get every single GT fan we know into seats there. Whether you agree with the decision or not, these players deserve to have a fan base that’s going to show up and be loud and not have this game be a glorified home game for those pieces of crap from Athens. I walked out of that stadium pissed but proud of our team for battling. My son and his friend were spit on and called losers and told to go back to Atlanta by that degenerate fan base. They are learning what COFH is all about and it’s time to give these loser mutts some doses of their own medicine. That is all.

Outside runs all ****ing day. **** you. You bum. **** off.

Give me Weinke.