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Breaking down Georgia Tech and S.C. State
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 3 keys to the game Establish the A-backs. The keys to stopping an option team are to take away the quarterback and B-back. Assuming that S.C. State tries to do that, the A-backs will need to make big plays on the edge. Neither Roddy Jones nor Embry Peeples provided a home-run rushing threat last season. Look for them to break a big play early. Find a wide receiver. Who will provide the downfield threat that Demaryius Thomas was last season? Few remember that Thomas posted relatively modest numbers in 2008 (627 yards receiving), before totaling 1,154 yards last year. Will it be Kevin Cone? Will...
3 hours agoNick Claytor is ready for the season
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — This is from our guest blogger, offensive tackle Nick Claytor, who was recently named a starter for Saturday’s season opener against S.C. State: “Football season is here! After a grueling offseason the wait for kickoff is over. This year’s Yellow Jacket team has much to prove after our bowl loss last year, and the loss of great talent. Coach Johnson has let us know, more than once, that this team has to earn respect every week. With proven leaders in captains Joshua Nesbitt and Brad Jefferson this team is confident and focused. Position battles have been resolved, the depth char...
5 hours agoTickets, O-line and captains….it’s almost game time
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — The season’s kickoff is hours away yet Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson was in mid-season form after Thursday’s practice, the last of significance before the Yellow Jackets play South Carolina State Saturday at 1 p.m. in Bobby Dodd Stadium. That is to say Johnson has sharpened his wit. As one might predict, he did not seem concerned to learn that S.C. State fans have apparently purchased upwards of 9,000 tickets for the game. Overall ticket distribution has been over 48,000. “I guess it looks like they’ll have a good crowd,” Johnson said. “It won’t have any effect on me.” And his team? Johnson:...
21 hours agoEvery ACC team’s hoops schedule
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — BOSTON COLLEGE N12 St. Francis (N.Y.) 7:00 N18 Yale 7:00 N22 Holy Cross 7:00 N25 vs. Texas A&M ESPN2 Noon Old Spice Classic, Orlando, Florida N26 in Old Spice Classic ESPN/U noon/2:30 Old Spice Classic, Orlando, Florida N28 in Old Spice Classic ESPN2/U tba Old Spice Classic, Orlando, Florida D1 Indiana ESPNU 7:15 D4 at Massachusetts tba D8 Providence 7:00 D12 at Maryland FSN 4:00 D19 Bryant 3:00 D22 Bucknell 7:00 D29 at Rhode Island 7:00 J1 at South Carolina ESPNU tba J5 Harvard 7:00 J8 Georgia Tech RSN 4:00 J11 NC State ESPNU 9:00 J15 at Miami ESPNU 6:00 J19 Virginia 7:00 J22 at...
September 2, 2010When will Tech host UNC in hoops?
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Tech’s men’s basketball team will play 15 teams this season that appeared in either the NCAA or NIT tournaments, according to the schedule released on Thursday. Highlights of the schedule include home games against North Carolina (Jan. 16), Wake Forest (Jan. 19), Maryland (Jan. 30) and Clemson (Feb. 5.), as well as a road game against Duke, the defending national champion, on Feb. 20. The Yellow Jackets will also host Virginia Tech, Florida State, Virginia and Miami. In non-conference games, Tech will host Georgia (Dec. 7), Charleston Southern, Fordham, Mercer, Charlotte an...
September 2, 2010Peters only worried about Tech
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Starting defensive end Jason Peters is looking forward to having his family visit this weekend from Baton Rouge, La., after last seeing them when he was home for July 4th. But he said he’ll make no attempt to show off, and that his teammates have that very same marching order. The script: don’t try to be a hero against S.C. State’s over-sized and experienced offensive line. “We’re focusing on what we do because it doesn’t matter what they do,” he said. “I think one of the biggest keys for us, and it doesn’t matter who we play – North Carolina, Miami or South Carolina State – we have to play ou...
September 2, 2010Tech faces “a beast”
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Sophomore Phil Smith, who figures to be part of a three- or four-man rotation at offensive tackle, said he’s spent extra time preparing for S.C. State right end Jayson Ayers. The 6-foot-3, 250-pound fifth-year senior from Clio, S.C. (the same hometown and high school, Marlboro County, as former Tech basketball player Ra’Sean Dickey) was tabbed as the MEAC preseason Defensive Player of the Year (Long was picked as the offensive POY). “Number 92 [Ayers] is a beast,” Smith said. “He’s quick, really strong and he’s got good moves. I’ve been trying to work against our better linemen, our stronger g...
September 2, 2010Quotes from ACC coaches
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — If you have a few hundred minutes, here is a transcript from the ACC coaches’ teleconference, courtesy of the ACC office: Jim Grobe, Wake Forest THE MODERATOR: Thank you and welcome to today’s ACC football teleconference, the first of the 2010 football season. The first ACC football players of the week will be announced Tuesday after the Labor Day Monday games which feature Maryland and Virginia Tech. Thereafter, ACC players of the week will be announced each Monday, usually by 12 noon on those days. With that, we welcome Jim Grobe, head coach at Wake Forest. Just a brief opening s...
September 2, 2010Long impresses Reese
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Dominique Reese is somewhat uniquely qualified to comment on the nature of South Carolina State’s passing attack, which Georgia Tech will try to slow down in Saturday’s season opener. He’s at corner now after playing safety the past couple seasons so he’s studied a few passing attacks from that vantage point, and he was a pretty darned good high school quarterback at Auburn (Ala.) High. Asked about the nature of the Bulldogs’ aerial attack, he does not trot out the standard, “Oh, they do a little bit of everything.” Instead, he leaps to his answer and suggests overwhelming that there is one hi...
September 2, 2010Video: Previewing Tech’s game
Tech Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Behold, the wonder of the internets! My first video! Please ignore my Gollum-like stare. I had to take my glasses off…my precious….
September 1, 2010
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- Singler has arthroscopic knee surgery ACC Now | News & Observer Duke senior forward Kyle Singler, who was named the most outstandidng player of the 2010 Final Four, had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee this afternoon at the Duke University Medical Center, the school announced. Singler is expected to make a full recovery before the start of practice on Oct. 15. “Kyle had some discomfort in his knee following a very busy summer so we elected to go in and clean it up prior to the start of the season,” said Duke associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski. “By all accounts, today’s surgery was a success and Kyle will be back at f...
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- Duke's Singler has arthroscopic knee surgery Above the Rims | Charlotte Observer Duke senior forward Kyle Singler, who was named the most outstandidng player of the 2010 Final Four, had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee this afternoon at the Duke University Medical Center, the school announced.Singler is expected to make a full recovery before the start of practice on Oct. 15.“Kyle had some discomfort in his knee following a very busy summer so we elected to go in and clean it up prior to the start of the season,” said Duke associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski. “By all accounts, today’s surgery was a success and Kyle will be back at full strength before the start o...
- Trustees' chair backs Davis, Baddour Observations from 50-yard Line | Charlotte Observer UNC Board of Trustees chair Bob Winston said he is "extremely saddened and disappointed" with the school's football scandal today, but said he backs coach Butch Davis and athletic director Dick Baddour as the Tar Heels move forward.Twelve UNC players are being held out of Saturday's season opener against LSU, and three more have not made the trip to Atlanta for the game but may be cleared in time to play."I think we have the right guy as our coach," Winston said. "I feel that Butch Davis is going to take a look at what’s happened and will figure the best way to move forward. And I think he is ...
- Former UNC president on football: "Great sadness" Observations from 50-yard Line | Charlotte Observer In the early 1960s, then-UNC President William Friday had to deal with a point-shaving scandal involving basketball players at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State.Now long retired, Friday, 90, has been thinking about those bad old days a good bit lately as he follows the scandal enveloping the football program at Carolina."For people who care about the university, this is a moment of great sadness," Friday said today. "We've gone 50 years without even the remotest allegation of wrongdoing at Chapel Hill.Athletic ethics is an issue dear to Friday's heart. For more than 15 years, he co-chaired the Kn...